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Nov. 7, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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The Surprise 2020 Election
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
My name is Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and today is November 5th, Anno Domini 2020, two days after election, and the outcome is still up in the air.
So, Mr. Kersey, you've joined me on this occasion again, and we have to confess that both of us are surprised.
I expected a decisive Biden victory, and as I recall, you were expecting a decisive Trump victory, and neither has happened.
It's all still indecisive.
Well, we're not going to speculate on Any voting irregularities, anything that could be happening in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, that's not what this program is about.
What we're going to talk about is the numbers that do exist.
And yes, I'll admit, when I went to sleep on Wednesday morning at 3am, It looked like we were going to see a repeat of 2016, and then you wake up that next morning and all of a sudden you start to see things flip, and it's been a very strange past few days.
It's been very strange.
You know, as I say, I expected a decisive Biden-Victor Reckon start, and so neither of us have seen things turn out the way we expected, but So far, what we know, and I agree, who knows?
There may have been voting irregularities, there may have been outright fraud, but this is speculation at this point, and I don't want to spend much time on that.
My assumption is that, one way or another, Joe Biden will be president, Kamala Harris will be vice president.
So, we'll see.
But in any case, what we do... I believe Trump is going to win.
You still think you're going to win?
I think Trump is going to win, yes.
Alright, then we will have yet another disagreement to thrash out a week from now.
Hopefully we will be able to thrash it out a week from now.
It would be awful if we could not.
But, I must say, despite the fact that for the last four years we've been told that Joe Biden is a white supremacist, a fascist, just about the worst possible president imaginable, despite the fact that, as Forbes noted, Biden trounces Trump in final tally of major newspaper endorsements 47 to 7, despite the fact that even publications that never endorse candidates, such as Scientific American, New England Journal of Medicine.
Did you know that they endorsed Joe Biden?
I did know that they endorsed Joe Biden.
Everybody and his mother and his dog is telling you, you must not vote for this wicked fascist.
And yet, 69 million people voted for Orange Man Bad.
69 million Americans said, get lost, jerkamo.
I'm going to do what I want, whatever you tell me.
I think you and I are probably two of those I don't.
I know.
Yes, but, and that's six million more than voted for Donald Trump in 2016.
So his vote was up six million now.
There are some very strange things that happened, however.
The one that really has struck me is the number of non-whites who increased their representation for vote
and the fact that the white percentage came down.
This is very surprising, especially white men.
White men have decided to vote.
7% fewer white men voted for Donald Trump than the last time around.
On the other hand, 1.5% more white women voted for him, so we had a bit of an increase in the white women, but then Latino men, 3.5% more than before.
Latino women, another 1%.
Now these may be provisional figures, we'll have to modify them, but it looks as though Donald Trump got only about 57% of the white vote.
Horrible, horrible number.
Yes, yes, he should have done much better.
And as you know, National Review is saying that in this presidential election, Donald Trump got the highest share of non-white voters of any Republican presidential candidate since 1960.
It didn't matter though.
It might not matter.
It might not matter.
In the states where it really matters, where the white vote is now almost Overwhelmed like Georgia.
It's only because he got roughly I'd imagine when it comes when it comes out He probably got close to 80% of the white vote in Georgia.
Just like in Alabama.
Just like in Mississippi Now if the whites if white people voted like they do in Georgia for the Republican Party and say Virginia Oh my gosh, Virginia is solidly red You know, here at American Renaissance, we did a little calculation of the share of the electorate that's white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and other, what percentage of that Trump won, and what share of the Trump vote was these various races.
As it turns out, because there's still 65% of the electorate that is white, With Trump winning 50% of that vote, that accounted for 80.6% of his share.
80%!
81% of the people who voted for Donald Trump.
8 out of 10 people who cast their ballot.
Or who cast their ballot for Trump or white.
That's huge.
That is huge.
Now, who comes in next?
Black people.
Black people.
9 out of 100, 9 out of 100, 9% of Hispanics voted, did I say black people?
9% of Hispanics voted for Trump.
And after that, it was 3% black, well 5% other, we don't know who those people are, and 2% Asian.
So, 2% of Asians?
2% of Asians.
Yes, yes.
So, to clarify that, it's astonishing.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
2% of his supporters were Asians.
Now, if you look at that differently, he won 12% of the black vote.
Perfect.
That's where I was going.
Okay.
12% and 32% of the Hispanic vote, which is better than either of his predecessors, John McCain or Mitt Romney.
He did better with the Hispanics.
I think he did better with blacks than George W. Bush, than McCain, than Mitt Romney.
I mean, but again, if you adjust He got that white up to 60%.
Oh, that would have been crucial.
It would have been crucial.
Now, if we look at the Biden vote, Biden wins 42% of the white vote.
A minority, a distinct minority, but not an embarrassing crushing minority.
But that still accounted for 54% of his total.
More than half the people who voted for Joe Biden were white.
And then of course comes blacks.
They voted 80%, 87% of blacks voted for Joe Biden.
That accounted for one in five, for 20% of his vote, one in five.
And then of course, Hispanics, uh, 66% voted for Joe Biden that accounted for 16.6% of his vote, et cetera.
So, uh, here you get a guy, we talk about this coalition of non-whites and weird whites, uh, still 54% of his supporters were white.
And that was over 70 million people.
These are strange times.
Now, is this article available in this analysis at AmRen.com?
This will be available at AmRen.com.
Okay, good.
So these are interesting numbers.
And these are numbers that the mainstream press has, but they just don't put it together in the same way.
No, because again, it has to be clarified in large parts of the country.
White people are still like places like Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio.
To me, that's one of the reasons why, and again, we're not speculating on voter fraud, voter irregularities, but you look at the way Ohio went so significantly for Donald Trump.
Those are the same type of people who live in Wisconsin, the same type of people who live in Michigan, the same type of people who live in Pennsylvania.
So that's why You have to ask yourself, you know... What happened?
What happened?
Another... I'm going to put you on the spot here.
What's so strange about Minnesota?
Why did Minnesota were not for Evan... Evan, what was the name you were in in 2016?
It's full of Scandinavians.
That's its problem.
Scandinavians are cuckoo white people, at least when they come to the United States, and a lot of them stay behind.
They might be even more cuckoo over there.
I don't have answers to these questions.
Why did he lose 7% on white men?
I don't have a good answer to that question.
Why did white women go up?
Why did the white woman vote for Donald Trump go up?
I just don't understand.
I confess I do not understand.
My answer for white men is because in 2016 Hillary was such an awful candidate.
Had Hillary not been the candidate in 2016, I don't think Donald Trump wins.
You could be right about that.
I think it's as simple as that.
I think that people looked at Hillary and they saw somebody who was Here's one last thought on 2016 versus 2020.
Social media was so different in those two time periods.
Every little thing that Hillary did when she was in that famous scene where she was kind of dragged to the car.
Do you remember that?
She passed out.
You know, people were seeing all this because he didn't have such mass censorship with Joe Biden.
Well, but see with Joe Biden, all this talk about he's losing his marbles, he's going to be a cat's paw for Kamala Harris, he's this doddering old geezer.
But it is true.
People do not have a visceral hatred for Joe Biden the way many did for Hillary Clinton.
So that could certainly explain part of it.
Deep down, I think not even women, in their heart of hearts, want to be ruled by a female president.
So, it's possible too that white women didn't like her either.
But again, why would white women increase their vote for Donald Trump this time around over the previous time?
Especially after they've been criticized over and over and over.
All of these hopped up white people and all these hopped up non-white people tell them, you were the reason Donald Trump is in power.
I did expect white women to go down in their support for Donald Trump.
Now, it's true, the figures I'm looking at now, they're right after the polls, and they can be modified.
They usually tweak the figures and get them more accurate in a month or two from now, but I doubt they'll change very much.
Well, I've seen polls that suggest the college-educated white voters versus non-college-educated.
There's a major discrepancy.
Yes, there is.
You know, you can, what's that acronym?
Awful, affluent, white, female, whatever.
I don't like that term.
I think that's goofy.
The point is this, you know, in a lot of ways Donald Trump wasn't the greatest candidate.
I might be putting that lightly.
However, 69 million people still voted for him.
He could theoretically still win this.
Yes, he could.
Don't rule that out.
Yeah, and I think the real point is, you know, this might have been the last election where Georgia's in play for Republicans.
It's going the same way as California, Arizona.
This might be the last election where Arizona's in play.
This might have been the last election Unless there's major changes where Texas is in play.
Yes, Texas actually eked out by more than I expected.
I agree, I agree.
And they say some of those border counties that are almost 100% Hispanic They voted far more.
The Hispanics didn't give him a majority in those border counties, but they gave him more, considerably more votes this time around than last time around.
And I think there is, once again, just as there are some women voters in the United States who really don't want to have a woman president, I think there's some number of Hispanics right on the border there who don't want their amigos and their amigas coming across the border, going on welfare, making a mess of things.
Well, I'd also speculate That they also are turning against the Black Lives Matter insanity.
I think as the Democrats become more and more aggressive in this policy and their views and their ideology that Black Lives Matter, Black First, Black Fist, Black whatever, Blackity, Black, Black, Black.
That is going to alienate a lot of people.
Hey, look at Florida.
Including a certain number of blacks, probably.
I think so too, but look at Florida.
Look at how well Donald Trump did in some of the heavily Hispanic areas of Florida.
Again, we're talking about numbers... Much better than four years ago.
We are, but we're talking about numbers you have to put in perspective.
As you noted, there are a lot more white people out there in these states, and he dropped Dropping white people, that's a surprise.
Now, some people are saying, oh, this means the end of identity politics.
White people dropped Donald Trump and the blacks and Hispanics decided to love him.
Keep dreaming.
Keep dreaming.
Just keep dreaming, fellas.
Now, we also did an interesting calculation, and this will be in the article that will be forthcoming about the voting, the racial voting percentages, but What would be the smallest percentage of whites a Democrat could win and still get a majority of the popular vote?
In other words, if a Democrat won every last non-white vote, that would give him 35% of the vote right there.
He would still need 23% of the white vote to get a majority.
So, you can't completely count out the white man because he's still a majority by a long shot.
Another way to put this is, if a Republican Were to get 77% of the white vote, he would have a majority without a single non-white vote.
Isn't that an interesting way to look at it?
If you get 77% of the white vote, and it doesn't make a blind bit of difference what the Hispanics and the Asians and the Blacks vote.
You know, this is the kind of data, obviously, that Conservatism Inc.
won't want to look at.
Because it basically makes all the buckets of bills they've published year after year after year after year about going after that elusive Non-Asian minority or Hispanic or whatever vote you want to talk about.
They keep dreaming.
It's feckless.
It's serpuffless.
They keep dreaming.
Now, I understand Charles Blow had some mild, well, mildly surprising things, even for Charles Blow.
He's, of course, this Black New York Times columnist that you seem to follow assiduously.
I had to read maybe one or two columns by him to realize he's a fellow I don't need to pay attention to.
But what were his commentaries?
Well, again, Charles Blow, we've talked about him before previously on episodes of this podcast.
He's got that smug photo of him, kind of smiling as if he knows that, you know, if you want a vision of the future, it's a Blackfoot firmly stomping on the face of white America.
Oh, come on.
I'm joking.
He just looks like he ate a good steak dinner.
You know what, there you go.
The title was Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy.
Some people who have historically been oppressed will stand with their oppressors.
And he just pointed out... I'll just read a couple quick lines from him.
This came out, he put this up on November 4th at... so election night at 6.30 p.m.
Eastern.
On November 4th?
That'd be the day after election night.
Oh, you're right, you're right, you're right.
So after some results come in... Yeah, today is... remember, remember the 5th of November.
Yes.
Gunpowder treason and plot.
He wrote this.
It's obscene that the POTUS race is too close to call at the time this column is published.
After all that Donald Trump has done, all the misery he has caused, all the racism he has aroused,
all the immigrant families he has destroyed, all the people who have left this life because of this
mismanagement of a pandemic, still roughly half the country, half the country, voted to extend
this horror show. Let me be pacific and explicit here.
White. Yes, not pacific. Let me be specific.
Let me be specific. Specificity. Let me be specific and explicit here.
White people, both men and women, were the only group in which a majority voted for Trump, according to exit polls.
To be exact, nearly 3 out of every 5 white voters in America are Trump voters.
A quick little thought here.
Does he just want white people not to be able to vote?
Well, that would solve the problem.
Yeah, just disenfranchise them all.
Going back to Charles Blow.
Here we go.
Quote, it is so unsettling to consider that many of our fellow countrymen and women are either racists or accommodate racists or acquiesce to racists.
See, that's the only way he can see it.
That's the only way he can possibly see it.
A vote for Trump is a vote for white supremacy.
And this guy is a regular editorial writer for the New York Times.
Here's where it ends, and we won't read too much about Mr. Blow's bloviating, but I'll keep quoting here.
But that's only part of what was shocking to me about the exit polls.
All that said, I am still stunned.
The next paragraph has a title, Racial Minorities.
Here we go.
A larger percentage of every racial minority voted for Trump this year than in 2016.
Among Blacks and Hispanics, this percentage grew among both men and women, although men were more likely to vote for Trump than women.
The fascinating story and movement are in the Black vote.
Black people vote overwhelmingly for a Democrat candidate.
Black women vote more reliably Democratic than Black men.
Only 3 or 4% of Black women voted for the Republican candidate in 2008, 2012, or 2016.
2008, 2012, or 2016.
However, Donald Trump doubled this number this year, winning 8% of black women's votes.
Oh, he is just shocked.
He doesn't know what to do.
This has tied Charles Blow into multiple granny knots.
He doesn't know how to handle this.
But as you say, he sees it strictly in racial terms.
Exactly.
And the fact is, though, if Essentially, the same percentage of whites have voted for the Republican candidates last three, four elections.
And this time, all these white people are white supremacists.
What about the last time?
What about the time they voted for John McCain or Mitt Romney?
Were they white supremacists then?
This guy, this guy is, you know, people say that people like us are obsessed with race.
We see things far more clearly in a far more nuanced way than this guy.
Well, I mean, we're not ideologues in the sense that everything has to be looked at, is this good for blacks exclusively?
I think you and I look at things as, is this going to be good for our posterity?
I think, I think that's the difference between, between people who look at social policies for the standpoint of how is this going to impact me today and maybe for a few, for a few years, we look at the life as how is this going to impact our children's children?
Well, yes, but back to sort of the general picture.
I was afraid that there was going to be a massive blue wave, as they call it.
I was afraid the Democrats were going to do very, very well, a decisive victory, pick up seats in the Senate, maybe take control of the Senate, pick up seats in the House.
None of this happened.
They've got maybe one extra seat in the Senate, and looks like it's the Republicans who are picking up seats in the House.
So, the fact that the Democrats did not have a massive comeback is, to me, very, very encouraging.
Because what that means, in my mind, is even if candidate Trump loses, Trumpism has not been discredited.
Even if he's out of the White House, his appeal and its appeal despite all of these personality defects that I despise as much as any Democrat, despite this personality that many people find repulsive, the things that he stands for are not going to go away unless Republicans are even stupider than I thought.
Well, if he loses, you can never underestimate the stupidity of what Sam Francis correctly called the stupid party.
I mean, again, why is every elected Republican not out there right now?
Galvanizing the so-called base.
Galvanize their supporters.
69 million people voted for Donald Trump, and we're seeing those votes potentially disenfranchised in four or five states.
But the point is about Trump, you're right.
The problem is you have a few people, DeSantis in Florida, who I think carries the Trump banner, I think.
Most importantly, there's a person whose show on cable television is getting close to 8 million viewers right now a night.
Right, right.
Do I need to mention his name?
Oh, go ahead and mention it.
We have foreign viewers, you know.
So, Tucker Carlson's show right now, he's been... Tucker Carlson has been a more articulate spokesperson.
Spokesman?
What am I saying spokesperson for?
We're an old-fashioned show here.
We don't need these gender neutral terms.
The point is this.
Tucker Carlson has been a more You've been brainwashed.
and adherent to what you call Trumpism, and even Donald Trump.
You just said spokesperson again.
I did.
That's okay.
Spokesman.
That's okay.
I've been browbeaten by wokeism.
You've been brainwashed.
You've been brainwashed.
He is the man who I think will be, if or if Trump loses or wins,
he's the person.
Mr. Kersey, you and I have been far more articulate
and persuasive spokesmen for what Donald Trump presumably stands for
than he has himself.
I would be the first to concede that he is one of the most mumbling... Well, I take that back.
When he's in front of a campaign crowd, he has a certain, I don't know, wily charisma and he can really get things going, but he doesn't seem to be able to explain something in a systematic and careful way.
What I would have loved for him to explain, and it wouldn't have taken him more than three minutes, at a campaign rally or during one of the debates, explain why this whole idea that the police are racist, that all these racists... It's nonsense!
Only about five statistics.
If he held them in his head and explained them in a consecutive manner he could explain that this idea that the police are out there systematically massacring black people because they're black is hogwash.
He never did it.
I'm not sure he could do it.
Maybe he could if you repeat it and you've got him to practice 25 times.
You know the one footnote from this whole Trump the first four years is that purported The fight that he had with Ann Coulter in the Oval Office, where Ann Coulter just said, you've got to go with the working class.
You've got to go with immigration.
They apparently were just shouting at each other and yelling at each other.
And we know that what Steve Bannon pointed out was that right when Trump got in during the transition, they embraced the GOP establishment.
And they tried to run a GOP establishment campaign with an occasional wink at populism, an occasional wink at nationalism.
But the fact remains that, yes, as you say, he had this marriage of convenience, if need be, perhaps of conviction, with traditional Republicanism.
He went full out trying to get rid of Obamacare.
He passed that tax cut that any Republican would have loved.
The question is, are Republicans so stupid That even if Donald Trump is no longer in the White House, they will go back to this free trade, low taxes, to heck with the white working class attitude they've had in the past.
And to me, that's an absolute open question.
I like to think that that won't happen, but again, Republicans are reliably stupider than I expected.
So we'll have to see.
Now, the other question in my mind is, what's the effect going to be on censorship, on big tech clamping down?
There are some people who think that, okay, if Donald Trump is out of the White House, and that is my prediction.
That is my considered prediction, and I hope I'm wrong.
That's my considered prediction.
If he's out of the White House, will the big tech people and all of the lefties say, okay, we can relax a little bit.
We can let these people hoop and holler a little bit and maybe even let Jared Taylor back on
YouTube for a little while. No, I don't think that's going to happen. Okay, sorry.
That was such a good laugh. Yes. No, I think what they will think is, wow, we just dodged a bullet.
This was too close for comfort.
We have to make sure that every dissident is silenced to the absolute possible extent we can and make sure that something like this never, ever happens again.
That's my suspicion.
B-I-N-G-O.
I think the first thing that will happen, it will be ceremonial.
Is that Donald Trump will be booted off of Twitter?
I think that would be a good thing, because then you'd have to go someplace else.
Now see, I think that would be the lefties overplaying their hands.
Why would they boot him off just because he's no longer president?
I guess they're saying, okay, we kept you on, you swine, you racist, only because you're president.
Now you're not, poof, off you go.
But that would be such a high-handed thing.
And if he went to Parler, for example, that would boost Parler by another... Well, he should have gone long ago.
He should have gone to Parler or to Gab and took his six billion... I totally disagree with that.
Twitter is synonymous with that form of communication, just as Facebook.
There's no way you're going to compete with Facebook.
There's no way you're going You're going to compete with Google and YouTube.
How many followers does Donald Trump have?
6 million?
7 million?
Oh gosh, no.
60 million?
I can't remember.
It's a huge number.
88.3 million.
Oh boy, oh boy.
Off by an order of magnitude.
88.3 million followers.
If he had a year and a half ago, two years ago, if he had dumped Twitter and gone to
some other platform, a large, large number of the people who follow him do follow him
for professional reasons.
They would think, oh, I'd never go to something other than Twitter, but they'd have to go.
They'd have to go.
That would have been probably a far better thing in practical terms than this executive
order he finally came out about Section 230.
That's all going to go, that's all going to just turn into dust if he's out of the White House.
Yeah, the one thing that I wish he had done, and again we're just Monday morning quarterbacking now, it's all the people who were so instrumental in 2016 happening.
I guess since we're not on YouTube anymore we can mention names like Alex Jones, Gavin McGinnis, you could even say Ianopoulos.
There are so many people who were Who appears to just have vanished is Stefan Molyneux.
There's a guy who got kicked off of Twitter, and I haven't heard his name at all.
Well, YouTube was where he was most influential.
I think he had 800,000 followers?
Ah, he lost his, yeah, there was a lot of... His YouTube channel.
That's right.
Poof!
Disappeared.
And he used to be written about by the mainstream media, but now they no longer have that platform, they ignore him.
No, all of this has been very powerful.
How much that would have affected the electoral outcome, I can't say, but it certainly cannot have helped Donald Trump to have all these people who were supporting him, perhaps for reasons that he wouldn't want to be associated with, silenced.
But anyway, as far as other votes, I thought it was quite fascinating the measure, the ballot measure in California.
To restore racial preferences.
It failed.
Back in 1996, Proposition 209, that was passed by the voters.
It prohibited state discrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, all that good stuff.
And it passed handily.
And it was shepherded by a fellow named Ward Connolly.
He was a black guy who'd been one of the University of California Board of Regents.
A very solid guy who believes in meritocracy.
He was very important getting that thing passed in 1996.
They called him out of retirement to shepherd the fight against the new version, which is California Proposition 209.
Now, no, I'm sorry, the new one was going to be called Proposition 16.
It was supposed to repeal Proposition 209.
The usual suspects, all of these rich champagne drinking Democrats, they put together a 31 million dollar fund to support this thing.
31 million dollars for a proposition.
That's an enormous amount of money.
That is.
And I don't know the figure for the campaign against it.
It probably wasn't even more than one or two million.
If that.
But still, 56% of Californians voted against it and 44% in favor.
And once again, now this is an interesting thing too, I could not find the racial breakdown of how this vote panned out.
But compared to projections, this was not at all what they expected.
The projections said that this is going to pass.
And once again, you have a majority of non-whites, and it would not have been surprising if Hispanics had overwhelmingly voted for dog biscuits for Hispanics!
But they didn't!
And 56% voted against.
Of course, the vote against was really spearheaded by the Asians, because they know that they're the ones who are going to take it on the chin if you start letting people just decide, okay, I just want more black people today in my university.
I want more black people in my college.
So, that was a surprise to some.
There were also local ballot measures in counties in Virginia.
Six counties.
Were you aware of this?
They had referendums on their ballot allowing citizens to decide whether the Confederate monuments would be relocated.
In all six, the Confederate monument was outside the county courthouse.
They'd been there, in most cases, for at least 100 years, and every single one of those ballot measures said, keep them where they are.
No, again, I mean...
You give people a choice, you give people a chance to express themselves in a civilized way.
If they get to be pulled down by violent mobs or by aspiring up-and-coming mayors like the mayor of Richmond, yes, it will be done in a grandstanding manner to have celebratory crowds come out and cheer the bringing down of the Stonewall Jackson monument there on Monument Avenue and then of course what we've seen all throughout North Carolina and Georgia when they go at night.
I mean we saw of course this started with Mayor Landrieu in New Orleans back when they took the Robert E. Lee statue down and then when the mayor in Baltimore in the middle of the night She took down that glorious statue of Lee and Jackson, which is one of my favorites.
I actually, I saw that a number of times.
Baltimore's one of my favorite cities.
And, you know, I mean, that's one of the reasons why I do still hold that hope that we do see Donald Trump win, because I think that he will be emboldened to start fighting again and to start embracing a lot of populism after we see every aspect of American society, the elites, big tech, the deep state, whatever you want to call that.
Everything aligned against him and yet 69 million people, Mr. Taylor, still voted for Donald Trump.
That is an encouraging thought.
It is a remarkable thing.
It's a remarkable thing.
That means 69 million people.
That is, you know, not quite a majority of the voting population, but a lot, a very large number, are not taking orders from the head table.
And the orders from the head table were very explicit, very repeated, and very loud.
And in the privacy of the voting booth, even if they were not prepared to say this to pollster, What all these people did was vote Trump.
Now, I think also these results, once again, show that these polls cannot be trusted.
No.
They cannot be trusted.
The only poll that matters, the one that's on election day.
So, in the future, when we see things that don't appear to be going our way, at least if there's a case in which it is likely that someone will be afraid of some kind of moral opprobrium, if he says what he wants to do, then you just cannot trust the polls.
So, the Confederate monuments are moving.
Now, the Mississippi State flag, as you know, they had this terrible thing.
They used to have it in the canton in the upper left corner.
They had the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag.
This is no, no, no, no, no good.
But whenever they gave the voters a chance to talk about it, they said, yeah, we keep it the way it is.
Exactly.
And you can't let the voters choose.
So what the Republican state legislature did, they said, well, we're going to have a contest for a new design.
And we'll have people vote on the new design.
But we won't let you vote for the current design.
This is a Republican idea of democracy.
The people might make the wrong decision.
So, we might end up with this goofy flag with a flower in it.
Is it Magnolia or Cottonwood?
It's a Magnolia.
No, it's not.
No, no, no, no, no.
Perish the thought.
With a black hand reaching for it, yes.
No, no, we're not going to have that.
Magnolia flower.
So, but now, they did do the politically correct thing in Rhode Island, because as you will recall, when Rhode Island was established as a state in 1790, its name was the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
This is a mouthful, and I confess I don't know the history of what Providence Plantations was, but I imagine that was the area around Providence, Rhode Island.
So the two came together and got this nine-jointed name.
But, of course, these days the word plantation evokes images of slavery.
That's no good.
Can't have that.
So there was a referendum to shorten the official name.
And it was to shorten it just to the state of Rhode Island.
And this was approved on November, on Election Day.
It got 53% of the vote.
Now, it's interesting to me that they attempted this same name change 10 years ago, in 2010.
On that occasion, they got only 22% of the voters in favor of it.
But that's more than doubled now.
53% now say that Providence Plantations, even though the plantations were not known for slavery in any way, the whole idea of plantation is just unacceptable, so the name had to change.
So there you go.
Voters are generally conservative, but in this case, they were browbeaten and they were brainwashed.
They cannot live with Providence Plantations anymore.
Well, I mean, again, we don't have master bedrooms anymore.
Realtors are beginning to find new ways to describe Master bathrooms, master anything in the house because of the connotation.
So, you know, it's... We can't talk about a black mark on his record.
No, no, that's no good.
Black ice is no longer good.
You know, the only thing you can say is that... And again, most people are confused because You know, black is, of course, synonymous with something bad, but if you're financially in the black, that's a good thing.
So, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point somebody thinks that that's inconvenient.
Oh, in the black, yes.
Well, whatever we do traditionally is going to be held against us, if there's some possible way to do it.
And now, I thought it was interesting also, there were polls about the likelihood of violence on Election Day.
There were, yeah.
And, this was interesting, according to one well-conducted poll, 77% of Americans worried that violence will break out in the coming days because of the election.
77%!
I mean, I was one of them, I confess.
Well, didn't violence break out?
Wasn't some proud boy stabbed in D.C.
or something?
Some woman who was accompanied by Proud Boys.
Yes, this is a Trump supporter.
Apparently, she was trying to thwart a mugging.
So, it's not entirely clear whether she was stabbed because she was a Trump supporter.
But, yes, in Washington, D.C., there were, well, it was all quite amusing what happened there.
They had about 150 people prancing through the city, all dressed in black, wearing helmets, saying, fuck Biden, fuck Trump, burn down the electorate.
This is the new face of democracy, don't you know?
And a number of them had to be arrested.
So yes, it was an exciting evening, but not quite on the scale that I expected.
Of course, stores were boarded up in New York, in D.C., in many other cities, and the National Guard was called out in 16 states.
Were you aware of that?
They were ready to roll.
Many of them were dressed in civilian clothes at the time, but I'll list the states where the National Guard was actually in action.
That was Alabama and Arizona.
Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Washington State, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
In Wyoming?
In Wyoming, yes.
Now, many of them were going to be in civilian clothes and they were going to do such things as handle cyber security.
Or sort of walk around polling stations in civilian clothes.
Now, what the National Guard is supposed to do for cyber security, that beats me.
But that's one of the things they were charted out to do.
But the point is, in all those states, they were ready to swing into action to control unrest, as we call it, if that had been necessary.
Now, in the case of Oregon, Governor Kate Brown declared a state of emergency for the Portland area.
No surprise there.
And the President, as you may know, has broad discretion to declare an insurrection.
And there were many lefties who were thinking that if it looked like he was going to be losing, he was going to declare an insurrection and that means he could take control of the National Guard and also deploy the Army and the Marines.
But obviously that has not happened, and I don't think it will happen.
But yes, in Portland though, I was very surprised to hear that as Black Lives Matter demonstrators continued, there were still windows to smash in downtown Portland!
I thought they'd smashed them all!
I thought anything that was unsmashed had been boarded over.
But yes, on election night, they were down there smashing windows.
And some of them got arrested.
And yes, in DC, this idea of fuck Trump, fuck Biden.
Oh, and another one of their slogans was no more presidents.
What do they want?
They probably just want from each according to his ability, each according to his need.
And then one had a sign that said, burn down the American plantation.
And the usual, all cops are bastards, etc, etc, etc.
So, there was a little bit of excitement, but not what I expected.
I suppose part of it has to do with the indecisiveness of it all.
And now I don't know what will happen if a large number of Trump supporters are convinced that their man was diddled out of an election.
We'll see.
If the evidence of some kind of large-scale voter fraud is high and convincing, Then who knows what will happen.
But my assumption is, if there is firm evidence of voter fraud, then Trump and his lawyers will do something about it.
Exactly.
And I think that's the case in Michigan.
I think we've seen Project Veritas come out with a lot of compelling video.
Again, it's one of those situations where I think back to 2018.
I've got family in Orange County.
I remember they were all excited about, they thought that the Republicans were going to keep almost all the House seats in Orange County.
And then it turns out, almost like a week later, you start to see those seats flip because of this ballot harvesting stuff.
And I gotta be blunt, I don't really know much about, I don't get it.
It doesn't make any sense.
I think that an election should be held one day.
There shouldn't be absentee voting.
I'm sorry.
It should be simple.
You show up at a poll, you show your voter ID card, as we have to do in the state that I live in, you have to prove who you are, you're with a valid driver's license, and guess what?
That's how you get to vote.
You know, I'm generally sympathetic to that view, but what if you are a 95-year-old in a nursing home, and you are all there mentally, Uh, just because you can't get in down to the polling station doesn't mean you can't vote.
There are some tricky exceptions here, but by and large, by and large, yes, I agree with you.
It should be a simple straightforward procedure and the fact is states are set up so that they can handle a whole lot of people showing up on a one particular day count the votes. Exactly. That's the easiest and best way
to do it. Instead of all this having to paw through all these mailed-in ballots, they have the
right signature, they have the wrong signature, or they posted the right day, or if they're not posted the
right day, if they showed up on time, it's a nightmare. And that's why we have this circus. And
that's why, of course...
Don't denigrate circuses.
Circuses are fun.
You like to go to the circus and see clowns and see the elephants, although Ringling Brothers is closed.
But you don't want to go to the circus and that be your choice of candidates, which is the way it feels.
And all the world is staring at us with drop-jawed amazement.
Here we is this allegedly industrially advanced society and we can't seem to get an election straight.
But another somewhat election-related item here, and then we'll probably move on to other items.
There's a lefty filmmaker who has been a committed Democrat by the name of Namrata Singh Gurjal.
As you can imagine, this is a person of subcontinental Indian origin.
She was doing a documentary about illegal immigrants, illegal immigration.
Her original intention and expectation was to do a documentary on how brutal American policies are.
Well, as she looked into how it actually works, and she looked into the people who are actually coming across the border, she said the following.
Because of this film, I've decided not to vote for Joe Biden this year and the Democrats' terrible policies on illegal immigration.
I'm going to vote for President Trump.
This is this Indian who's been a registered Democrat all her life.
She discovered that many immigrants, or would-want-to-be immigrants, are paying as much as $80,000 to get to the U.S.-Mexico border, and so she says, you've got to have that kind of money just to get this far.
The truly impoverished in any of these countries never makes it to our borders.
And she has apparently, she's got clips of coyotes who are playing videos in the Democratic presidential debate about medical care for illegal immigrants.
Really?
Yes!
Apparently that's what, you know, if you're a coyote, you want to drum up business, you want to tell people it's El Dorado.
In a lot of ways, it is.
It is.
It is.
And especially when during the debates, every single one of those 10 candidates during the Democratic primaries were asked, would you give free medicine to illegal immigrants?
Everyone raised their hands, including Joe Biden.
Now, I expected Donald Trump to make a big to-do about that.
Why didn't his campaign ads say, this guy wants to spend your hard-earned tax dollars giving heart transplants and giving dialysis to illegal immigrants?
But anyway, why didn't you say a lot of things?
But the point is, this woman says that this kind of thing is how the coyotes drum up business.
Not surprising.
And she adds, every time my party, and she's talking about the Democrats, every time my party unfortunately comes up with something like, let's give coronavirus help to illegal immigrants, People look at that and say, wow, that's where I want to be.
And why wouldn't they?
So, at least there's one convert.
I'm going to put you on the spot for one second.
You asked why didn't President Trump do that video with all the Democrats in the primary debate raising their hands.
Again, they did not have staffed people who wanted to run that type of campaign.
It wasn't the populist campaign.
You had Karl Rove.
Who was one of the people who was pushing, he was the architect of this.
And look, 69 million people voted for this version of Donald Trump compared to 63 in 2016.
I mean, I think most people already knew what they were getting.
They didn't need the bombastic ads.
Would it have done well in some of these states?
Who knows?
You know, had President Trump not attacked John McCain the way he did, would that have not turned off the GOP and some of the GOP hardliners who still Love, McCain in Arizona.
The thing about it is, I can think of practically no Republicans who would have been opposed to a campaign out of that kind, and my guess, it would have reminded a certain number of Democrats what they are really voting for.
So, I don't know.
But I didn't hear a peep about that.
Not one peep.
And we should have been hearing bellowing about it.
But anyway, another bit of non-campaign news.
I understand that ESPN is shutting jobs.
Regale us with this heartbreak story of people getting pink slips.
We know all about ESPN.
I know you don't, Mr. Taylor.
You've got that great Ivy League education.
The only type of sport you want to do is go jogging or lift some weights.
That's a cooking journal, right?
Yeah, exactly.
ESPN obviously has gone all in on wokeism, on Black Lives Matter.
You know, one of my favorite writers and personalities is Clay Travis.
He wrote a book called Republicans Buy Sneakers Too.
He attacks the wokeness of ESPN and he was much delighted to note that, well, they just had somewhat of an exodus.
And it wasn't an exodus on the free will of the employees.
ESPN has had to cut 500 jobs.
They try and claim that it's due to The COVID-19 eroding revenues, which, again, we talk about.
People are at home.
Shouldn't they be watching TV?
You know, when you're stuck at home, what are you doing?
Are you playing Parcheesi or are you watching TV?
Come on.
Well, you could argue that all of those live sports events that they would have been watching were cancelled.
But they had baseball, basketball came back.
The NBA basically is subsidized by ESPN and ABC.
It's one of the few channels outside of I think TNT that even airs the National Basketball Associating Games.
If you remember a couple weeks ago we noted that they had the lowest rating finals I think in 40 years at a time again when everybody is at home.
So ESPN is slashing 500 jobs as cost pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic are accelerating.
The sports media companies move into streaming, so their profits are down.
And again, they're trying to shift the blame.
The cuts include 300 layoffs.
There are another 200 open positions that are going to be eliminated.
So again, this is the quote from From Jimmy Pataro, who's the president of the Walt Disney-owned unit, ESPN.
Again, Walt Disney, that's a massive corporation.
They're realizing that they've got this albatross that's starting to sink their corporate profits.
They've got to cut massive amounts of jobs.
And here's what he said, quote, prior to the pandemic, we had been deeply engaged in strategizing how to best position ESPN for future success amidst tremendous disruption and how fans consume sports.
The pandemic's significant impact on our business clearly accelerated those forward-looking decisions."
Again, cord cutting's happening, Mr. Taylor.
I don't think you have cable?
I do not.
Okay.
A lot of Americans across the country are beginning to realize, why am I paying for all these channels I don't watch?
I can get Hulu, I can get Netflix, Amazon Prime, and then I can add on a package.
That's where television and entertainment and consumption of content is headed.
ESPN, at the same time, they're getting paid I think they were making seven to eight dollars per each individual's cable bill per month.
That was going toward the big channels.
Now, what's going to be fascinating with all this cord cutting as we celebrate ESPN, which is completely dedicated to the most horrific forms of wokeism and anti-white attacks.
I mean, forcing everyone to kneel down.
I think they fired Kurt Schilling because he liked Trump.
You know, basically anybody who Says anything that goes off of the script, you become a pariah.
What's fascinating though about all this cord cutting, what's going to happen to these channels like BET that do rely on all these cables?
They're getting a little bit of revenue and then at what point does corporate America realize, why are we investing and advertising on these when the number of eyeballs and we look at the ratings, they're all dropping.
And so that's one of the great aspects about Sort of this stratification of entertainment and where things are headed.
You will be surprised to know that I actually am aware of the fact that BET stands for Black Entertainment Television.
Now you're telling me that it's making no money and might go toes up?
Well no, but they are reliant on cable bills.
As cord cutting continues to happen and accelerate, they're going to see revenue decrease and they too are going to have to make Let's face it, that's the future.
I think you're a Netflix subscriber.
I am.
So, think about it this way.
That destroyed Blockbuster.
For decades, Blockbuster was a huge company.
Netflix comes along, everyone's like, oh no, it's going to be fine.
The streaming services now are just ravaging the traditional form of cannibalism.
Yes, we celebrate ESPN.
They have a lot of smart people working there.
Unfortunately, those people are all woke.
They're going to find ways to stay afloat.
But the great thing is, it is going to impact people because, guess what?
More and more people are tuning out sports.
And that is a white pill in itself.
Yes, I agree.
I agree.
Now, I'm not the one who invented this little rhyme, but the idea of get woke, go broke, I hope that gets increasingly widespread.
Well, we must talk about a European story here, and that is the Muslim attack in Vienna.
I believe that all of our listeners are probably aware of the fact that there was an assault by a 22-year-old Allahu Akbar type.
His name was Fejjuzani Kujtim, a 20-year-old.
He was born in Austria.
Just another one of these cases of a non-European born in Europe who becomes radicalized, becomes thoroughgoing, violent Muslim.
In fact, he had been sent to prison in 2019, April 25th, for 22 months because he wanted to go to Syria to join ISIS.
Well, during his period of enforced leisure, he went through one of these de-radicalization programs,
and he apparently passed with flying colors.
The people who think that they have tricked these saber-wielding Muslims into becoming good little Non-radicals.
He fooled them and so he went out and he had a rifle and he shot four people dead and killed another 22.
So, as one of the officials said, the terrorist managed to deceive the judicial system's de-radicalization program.
And that's how he got out early.
This reminds me of course of the British case in 2019 of Usman Khan.
Remember Usman Khan?
He stabbed two people to death in 2019 in central London.
He too He had been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
He was no choir boy.
Was that the bridge attack?
That was the London Bridge attack.
That's correct.
And he had been released in December of December 2018 after having served only half his sentence because he had been put through a program that, and I'm quoting now from the program itself, that seeks to rehabilitate criminals through storytelling and workshops.
Now, if you're a guy who had been sentenced to 16 years in prison for your radical Muslim activity, would you expect to be turned into a good little secular beer-guzzling non-Muslim through storytelling and workshops?
Maybe they're reading Dr. Seuss.
There's some good books there that can turn someone's Muslim frown upside down into a nice secular, like you said.
And you'd be ready to eat green eggs and ham!
On a train, on a plane, on a bus, with no fuss.
Even if you're a Muslim.
Green eggs and hams go right down the trap.
Well, okay, one little last story here.
Woke academics, as usual.
We had one of these gotcha moments when Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law, they had one of these online struggle sessions in which professors, including the school's dean, confessed to being racist.
This was an official declaration.
One of them said that he was a gatekeeper of white supremacy, and that the place was just swelling, marinated in racism.
Well, it's rather serious if the federally funded university is suffering from racism, and so four members of the U.S.
Civil Rights Commission sent a letter to the Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, telling her to investigate North Washington University.
If it's a den of racism, it shouldn't be getting federal funds, as they noted.
The Pritzker School of Law participates in Title IV federal financial aid programs and thus must abide by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that forbids racial discrimination of any kind.
So we have a reprise of what happened earlier with Princeton.
Our well-informed listeners will recall that President Christopher Eisgruber of Princeton, he had published a letter confessing to the ongoing racism and white supremacy at his university under his leadership and Betsy DeVos responded by launching an investigation.
I think this is all wonderful.
Here they get up and they talk about how terribly oppressive and racist their institutions are that they personally Are white supremacists, and that they are propping up white privilege and all these awful things, and let's take them at their word.
If that's the fact, then they need to be investigated.
This is the sort of thing that will no longer happen, of course, if Donald Trump is no longer in the White House.
This kind of thing will come to an end, and at the same time, you'll be back in the business of critical race theory, and it'll be full steam ahead for all of this miserable nonsense.
Now, we have very little time left.
And Harriet Tubman, Mr. Taylor, will be on the $20 bill.
Oh, that's right.
She'll be back.
Harriet will be back.
Well, isn't she famous for having saying, I'll be back?
No?
Somebody else.
All these pop culture illusions are just no good.
Now, you had a heartwarming little story about Mississippi State.
Yeah, you know, I should have thrown it in there when you talked about the state of Mississippi.
But let's just, this is a shot Chaser type story. Okay, so the first this goes back to the
summer the height of the George Floyd stuff one of the sole reasons
Mr. Taylor that Mississippi changed their flag was because and I'm not making this up
Because the star black running back from Michigan for Mississippi State Kylan Hill said that he wouldn't play
Unless Mississippi removed the Confederate battle flag. Oh Oh, you are making this up.
No, I'm not making this up.
This happened over the summer and everybody was excited.
And this was an important reason to change the flag?
This was one of the very important reasons.
They thought that there was going to be a Push back by black players at Ole Miss and Mississippi State the end of the NCAA Said that they would no longer have any tournaments would be held in any part of Mississippi So there was this mass pushback, but the point is he said he tweeted this Kylan Hill He's he was the star running back people thought he was gonna all-american Heisman candidate he said either change the flag
Or, I won't be representing this state anymore.
And I meant that.
I'm tired.
I'm sure that's how it would have sounded.
Don't nominate that.
He probably sounds like an Oxfordian.
And he said, unlike rest, I was born in this state, and I know what the flag means.
Obviously saying that it was hateful.
So he said again, he tweeted out he wasn't going to play for the team for Mississippi State if the Confederate battle emblem didn't come down.
Of course, the growing pushback to change the flag, And again, it just, it happened.
The Republicans controlled the entire state and they capitulated very fast.
As only Republicans know how to do.
Yeah, he started, and again, this guy started his college career at Mississippi State in 2017.
People in the South, they live vicariously through Auburn, Alabama, University of Georgia, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, South Carolina.
You name the school, Clemson, that is their, that's their reason for existing.
Well, Mr. Taylor, guess what happened?
That was the shot.
Yes.
And the chaser.
We know they changed the flag.
We talked about it already.
Yes, they did.
The chaser.
This came out October 20th.
Report Mississippi State running back Kylan Hill to opt out of 2020 season.
The story says this.
Kylan Hill's college career is over.
What?
Mississippi State running back will opt out of the rest of his senior season to begin preparing for the 2020 NFL Draft.
Oh, he's going to go pro.
So he played only a few games, and then he said, you know what, guys?
I'm done.
He gave him the heave-ho.
So he said he wouldn't play if they didn't take the flag down.
Then a lot of the black players from Ole Miss and Mississippi State, they said the same thing.
The pressure became too great because, hey, you know what?
We got to be able to go watch our boys play football on Saturdays.
Wait, wait.
There is a simple solution.
Bring the flag back.
If they're not going to stick to their plan, we shouldn't stick to ours.
I guess that'd be too simple.
That would be too simple.
Oh, dear.
Well, I believe we are sneaking up on the end of our time here, Mr. Kersey, as we always do.
And I must thank our listeners for indulging us in this period of uncertainty in the American election system.
And it's a period of great uncertainty for the United States and, by extension, the world.
But we thank you for your attention.
And it is always an honor for us to spend this time with you, and we look forward to spending an equally informative time with you next week.
And by then, we hope to have a few decisive things to say about an election in the United States.
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