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May 28, 2020 - Louder with Crowder

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#679 #BlackLivesMatter BURNS MINNEAPOLIS! | Dinesh D'Souza Guests | Louder with Crowder

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	We want to build a much better, believable people.
	And we must do it non-fatal.
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	Now it's time for new believable people.
	And we must do it.
	If we don't control insiders, this will be over and over.
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	To halt the spread of lies.
	And we must do it.
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	To halt the spread of lies And aid
	America first!
	America first!
	Non-fatal.
	We want to build a much better, believable people.
	And we must do it non-fatal.
	Communication very much higher.
	America First!
	To lead it by an inning.
	Insiders fighting for insiders.
	Time to stop.
	Insiders fighting for insiders.
	More of.
	Insiders fighting for insiders.
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	Thanks for watching.
	Hey, show's coming up in a minute, but you know that, especially if you're a member of Mug Club at lightoffcredit.com slash Mug Club.
	That's the only way that any of this content is available, and I want to let you know that we had to pre-tape some things today.
	Eh, some elements, because my wife is in the emergency room.
	Probably fine.
	Not COVID-related.
	Actually could be serious.
	So, prayers are appreciated.
	I've seen some comments on Twitter.
	We will be talking about Donald Trump's executive order in the last segment, and next Monday, Good Morning Mug Club is going to be my half-Asian lawyer, ins and outs of this executive order.
	That's all we're gonna do.
	For you.
	Enjoy the show.
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	Uh-huh.
	♪ Papa!
	Matt!
	No!
	Help me!
	♪ Oh, no!
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	Louder with Crowder Studios.
	Protected exclusively by Walther.
	And Betty!
	Samson, I just don't understand why you won't tell me what would make you as weak as any other man.
	What?
	What?
	I repeat, what?
	Is that a... Of course not!
	Why would I tell you that?
	Oh, you don't trust me?
	Is that it?
	Is that a serious question?
	Is that a serious question?
	Of course I don't trust you!
	The last time we went out for Drink Tuesday and Happy Hour, You said, hey, what would make you as weak as any other man?
	I said, oh, I don't know.
	We had a couple of daiquiris in it.
	Oh, you know what?
	If I wake up tied in fresh ropes, lo and behold, the very next morning, tied with fresh ropes!
	They still smell like new ropes!
	That was a sex thing, Samson.
	Oh, it was a sex thing, was it?
	Was it a sex thing?
	Because I don't remember any sex!
	As part of that thing.
	But while we're on the subject, next time, what would make you as weak as any other man?
	Why don't you trust me?
	And I tell you, you know, if someone were to tie my hair in a weave, I would lose all my power and I'd wake up like this!
	Who would love the new look?
	Who would love this new look?
	Who, my boy George?
	No one likes this look.
	Simpson, I just need you to trust me.
	Oh, you need me to trust you.
	Okay, now we're at the point where we talk about your needs.
	Forget about my needs at all.
	The strongest man in the world who's actually tasked with ensuring the bloodline of the Lord's people effectively.
	Do you have any idea how hard it is?
	To kill over a dozen people with the jawbone of a donkey?
	No, do you know how hard it is to actually get a jawbone off a donkey?
	It isn't gonna work if you don't trust me!
	Okay.
	Box, boundaries, no boundaries.
	We need to work on this together, we're a team.
	We are not each other's enemy.
	My hair, okay?
	That's the source of all my power.
	You want me to trust you?
	There it is.
	I'm being vulnerable instead of angry because anger is not an emotion, it simply masks the real emotion, we know that.
	that my hair were cut, I'd be as weak as any other man.
	Shit.
	["The Star-Spangled Banner"]
	["The Star-Spangled Banner"]
	Bye.
	Hey, glad to be with ya!
	You know what that is?
	That's because I'm inspired.
	I just recently, I swear, there's a silver lining with all this COVID and businesses shutting down.
	There is still, in Texas, a Jazzercize studio open.
	Really?
	Oh, wow.
	I saw it in a strip mall.
	You thought it was Spirit Fingers.
	No, it's still there.
	So good on you, Jazzercize.
	And I know that many of you are asking what the Samson sketch is.
	Any enhancements?
	Pure Crowder.
	And it doesn't happen by accident, Cuomo!
	Right?
	We have that in common.
	Dinesh D'Souza is going to be on the show today, which I very much enjoy him as a guest.
	My half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richmond, is here.
	Quarter Black Garrick, how are you, sir?
	I'm very disappointed in my community.
	Don't like leading it with this!
	No context yet!
	Just right to the register of the video!
	I gotta get it off my chest!
	Inappropriate.
	I wish we didn't do this live to tape.
	And Gerald A. is here.
	What's the wine of the day?
	Wine of the day is Dow Reserve Cab.
	Giant etched bottle.
	Oh, Dow Reserve.
	By the way, rallying.
	I see what you did there.
	It's a horrible start to the show.
	Question of the day.
	Does it seem that Governor... We're going to be talking obviously about what's going on in Minneapolis.
	We don't have all the info yet.
	But I also want to talk about Gretchen Whitmer.
	And if you think she's going to be the next AOC.
	Also, if you believe that she is actually evil.
	Spoiler alert.
	Yeah.
	But first, this is hopefully what happens when Joe Biden debates Donald Trump.
	Or stop work on Rose and Bridget.
	So, what does a human cost?
	Now, I don't know if everyone can play that again.
	Can you guys hear that?
	Listen, you gotta listen.
	Or stop work on Rose and Bridget.
	So, what does a human cost?
	Yeah!
	Listen to that again.
	Everyone listen to that again.
	This is not edited from what I hear.
	It came from the Daily Caller, so you know it's good.
	Or stop work on Rose and Bridget.
	So, what does a human cost?
	Did that really happen?
	Stay in the vase and get an exhaust fan!
	Oh my goodness.
	The guy on the other split-screen was like, hmm.
	What was that?
	I told you.
	I didn't think it was real, but then I looked at that guy's face and he heard it.
	Yeah, he heard it.
	He could be the leader of the free world.
	I told you, I don't think Joe Biden is going to debate Donald Trump in person.
	Maybe on Skype, because he can have a directional lavalier mic, but he can't do a debate just for the walk.
	You never know when you're going to get the walk-in farts.
	We did leave the show off with farts.
	I know we're going to be talking about Minneapolis and all this cruelty and all this division, so we figured that we would just sort of pave the way a little bit, throw you off the scent with Joe Biden farting.
	Leading the news...
	He's a Peruvian mayor, by the way.
	He was caught breaking curfew to go drinking curfew with the COVID.
	To avoid arrest, he actually jumped into a coffin.
	He jumped into a coffin and he pretended to be dead from the coronavirus.
	Wow.
	I like this guy.
	It didn't work.
	It's creative, to be clear.
	It's very creative, though.
	Sir, we saw you.
	Yeah, and this is why I have very little respect for Peru.
	That's ethnocentric!
	Okay, so it should be noted that he did though allegedly find some inspiration from a retro, and they're doing this a lot with films, a retroactively COVID-sensitive friendly re-edit of My Girl.
	Let us pray in silence.
	Wanna go tree climbing, Thomas J?
	His face hurts.
	And where is his glasses?
	He can't see without his glasses.
	Put his glasses on!
	Put on his glasses!
	By the way, the death certificate reads COVID.
	Oh, yeah.
	Even with the stings.
	You would think it was the bee stings.
	No.
	Turns out he's just a centiphile.
	No, no.
	The bees have the COVID.
	The bees have the COVID.
	They did.
	They spread it that way.
	Just like that crappy film with Mark Wahlberg.
	What was it called?
	It was the bees and the wind?
	I don't know.
	Oh, yeah.
	Happening.
	Happening.
	I blocked that out.
	You should.
	It's really bad.
	Turning to science, because we are the party of science now.
	Oh yeah, of course.
	By the way, that is absolutely true.
	There is no way, May 28th, 2020, anyone can argue for the draconian lockdowns that we have seen in this country based on science or data.
	That's it!
	You guys are, that's it.
	You're done.
	It's done.
	Yours is based on emotion.
	People who say we need to ease into reopening and do it in a responsible way.
	That's the party.
	That's the ideology of science.
	That's it.
	You're done.
	Everyone loves the winner.
	That's us.
	No one likes the loser.
	That's you.
	Turning to science.
	I'm glad you defined that.
	Some women, you know, they're still whining about this.
	Ah!
	Texas is real!
	Ah!
	Shut up!
	I know.
	Just shut up.
	I'm so done with it all.
	Am I angry?
	Yes.
	A little bit.
	So in science, some women now, they're actually using virtual reality headsets to make the process of birthing their baby more bearable.
	Yeah.
	Coincidentally, Gerald's wife does the same thing during sex.
	Yes.
	Wow.
	It hurts.
	Wow.
	It's almost like I'm not here.
	Oh.
	Nope.
	You know guys, jokes are supposed to be not that true.
	I was told it would enhance the experience.
	By the way, it is not true.
	I will say this.
	The only reason we rag on Joe is because he can take it.
	He actually is very smart.
	He's got a nice big penis.
	I wouldn't say nice.
	It's not fake news.
	I was editorializing a little bit, but it's a judgment call and I made it.
	I respect that.
	Hey, whose name is...
	That would be you.
	I can add nice as a descriptor to Gerald's rotund penis.
	You're nice for doing it.
	What can I say?
	You're a good guy.
	This is the moment when we get labeled as fake news.
	Ten Pinocchios.
	They're gonna be like, see Pinocchio?
	See Gerald?
	Not the same size.
	I think it was labeled fake news when his wife said, don't worry, happens to lots of guys.
	I don't like the direction of my life right now.
	Finally, we do have some sad news to get to.
	And I say sad.
	It's really not that sad.
	Because people right now are thinking, sad?
	I don't know what's happening in Minneapolis.
	No, no, it's not that.
	Don't worry.
	It's very silly.
	That's later.
	It's a silly place.
	An alligator, rumored to have belonged to Adolf Hitler, has died.
	This comes from the Associated Press.
	The zoo noted that animals are not involved in war and politics, and it is absurd to blame them for human sins.
	Tell that to Adolf Gator!
	Wow.
	Evil.
	The dimensions are perfect for the art band.
	And this is the thing, too.
	A lot of people don't realize this, though.
	A lot of the Nazis' pets, and there's a lineage of them.
	Some of them went to Argentina.
	That's weird.
	I don't know where else.
	It's just Argentina.
	But it's been an ongoing problem.
	I had no idea.
	And I want to be clear, what we're about to talk about, I don't want to condone it or support them in any way.
	I think the Nazi pets, they need to be eradicated.
	Eradicated, though?
	Yeah.
	How does the shoe feel on the other talon?
	You are the ones.
	To whom we're going to issue a final... Because they're anti-Semitic.
	There has been a pandemic of anti-Semitic Nazi pets that have gone out and created a whole new genetic lineage, and it's a problem.
	Which brings us to this week's 7 Plus 1.
	You forgot Stefan in the chamber!
	I always forget.
	That's what gets you, is the one in the chamber.
	This week is 7 Plus 1 of history's most notorious anti-Semitic animals.
	Yeah.
	Serious business.
	We're steering right into it, folks.
	It's an educational show, really.
	It is, yes.
	Nature Channel and us.
	Again, it's been a problem.
	It's a pandemic, not a fan.
	We are all condemning these animals with a long and storied history of track record of being anti-Semitic.
	Number seven, Joseph Gobbles.
	That one's been a real problem.
	Oh, wow.
	Nazi Turkey.
	Persuasive.
	I wonder how the jacket's taken on.
	Evil.
	Number six.
	That's the fashion question?
	So inquisitive.
	I don't know that she was anti-Semitic so much as she was an accessory.
	Number six of our 7 plus 1 most anti-Semitic animals was, of course, Ava Brown Bear.
	So that was a big one.
	We'll never know if she was in that bunker.
	Bill, half-Asian Bill Richman, give us number five.
	Number five of our 7 plus 1 most anti-Semitic animals.
	The Ku Klux Klan.
	And if you look out, they really fly in Vs.
	Wow.
	So it creates a headwind to protect the other hoods from flying off.
	Yeah.
	If it was chickens, it would be the clu-cluck-cluck-cluck.
	Yes, just the clu-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck.
	And they would become President Pro Temporum of the Senate.
	Of course.
	A little bit of a Robert Byrd joke.
	It's a genre.
	Number four, and these ones, because now they've actually migrated from Asia, you know, you've heard about this, the Japanese killer hornets?
	Yeah.
	Now, this is a problem that we have.
	Number four, the Zyklon Bs.
	So that's a real... Dang.
	Deadly.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	And number three, you know what?
	I don't want you guys to have this kind of heat.
	I'll just read these.
	I said, you guys are going to take one.
	I don't want to.
	I don't want to read it up around there.
	I'll read it.
	I don't care.
	Oh, well, this one was, this was a performing artist.
	This person went viral, actually, this animal.
	And a lot of people didn't really understand what was being subliminally pushed there.
	So you can read us number four.
	Number three, you mean?
	Oh, number three, yeah.
	Swastikats.
	Swastikats.
	Yeah, that was, that was a good one.
	It was.
	Wow.
	You're staying on brand.
	Very smart, this show.
	Very smart.
	I mean, no, that cat is very smart.
	Because he could have been more on the nose.
	But instead, he just directed people to one of the most notorious antisemites of our time in Wagner, who also happened to be musically very gifted.
	But disgusting.
	Separate the art from the artist.
	You attract more Aryans with honey than vinegar.
	Number 2 in our 7 plus 1.
	Most anti-Semitic animals throughout history, and this, you know, some of them they travel in, you have the Ku Klux Klan, they travel in packs.
	Right.
	And then sometimes you just have, you have your lone wolves, which are, or lone wolf I should say, plural, lone wolf.
	Lone wolf, it's a problem as well, so who can forget, you remember, the infamous storm front anteater.
	So that's just, but he acts, he acts alone.
	See this?
	That means not welcome.
	Is that a polar bear?
	I have no idea.
	It's an anteater!
	Get your... you don't know.
	They eat them before they can grow old.
	Look, if anyone knows their animals here, it's me, alright?
	Yes, very bizarre animals.
	You just proved it.
	And the number one most anti-Semitic animal that we could think of, of course, was the Gestapopotamus.
	So that one was pretty...
	That was very accurate.
	It looks like we hired a hippopotamus.
	That's like Archduke Ferdinand.
	Why is he wearing that, like, spiked helmet?
	It's like the wrong war.
	Well, look.
	At a certain point, you're running out of ideas.
	And our plus one most anti-Semitic animals of all time is actually Congresswoman Ilhan Otter.
	By the way, I know people are going to get upset and say, well, why could you make light?
	How could you make light of the Nazis?
	Do you understand that we're making fun of Nazis?
	Do you think the SS would be flattered?
	It's not always the work of the Juden, okay?
	Hitler, sometimes it's just the work of incredibly immature hosts who are tired of covering COVID.
	And so we figure we would throw a little salt in your wounds because we're not Nazi fans.
	Not at all.
	Rub it in the neck.
	Rub it right in.
	How mad do you think they were, the remaining Nazis, when they saw the land speed records?
	Just being obliterated?
	It's like, really?
	Because the top 20 fastest people ever disagree.
	You're not even close.
	You're not even on the same track.
	You're still warming up behind the blocks.
	My point is, there's a strong argument that Germans are an inferior race.
	Who's the winner of our trivia contest from last week?
	The winner is, off the hook, I'm not going to say that username.
	We're going to get right past that.
	If you answer correctly, Steven Crowder's a piece of shit.
	Oh, from the answer from last week.
	He says that, you give him a gift.
	I don't know if I would call that correct.
	Correct, yeah.
	Correct.
	A little bit.
	Accurate.
	Maybe give it context.
	What was the question?
	I don't know what the question is.
	I feel like we should be including the questions.
	I don't know.
	You know what's funny?
	There was no question.
	I don't want this to be on the next Vox Highlight Reel.
	Look, even his own sidekicks are calling him a piece of shit.
	Alright, let's move on here to the Black Lives Matter burning down all of Minneapolis here for people who, and it's still unfolding as this goes on today, so I want to be very clear, and we're going to get hopefully in the close to Donald Trump's executive order with social media.
	Fairness.
	What does that mean?
	It's gonna be so fair.
	Hey, excuse me.
	You don't know fair.
	I would never call myself the most fair.
	People call me Fair Trump.
	That's what they say.
	They call Trump Tower Fair Towers.
	Do you know what they call my steaks?
	I don't know.
	FAIR STEAKS.
	MEDIUM FAIR.
	So.
	This is what sort of obviously spurred on the rioting, looting, and destroying your own neighborhood.
	productive is was this and I want to warn you it's obviously very disturbing
	and we're going to talk about this incident with the cop first that led to
	this right because I think that's important so if you have children right
	now this isn't a trigger warning it's an actual warning the following clip you
	don't see anyone obviously die in this clip but it does give you an idea as to
	why people are mad what I can't breathe off of it. I'm going to kill you.
	I'm going to kill me right here.
	I don't want to do a Covington Kids thing.
	We don't have all of the facts, to be clear.
	Now, there very well may be a justifiable reason for the police officer to have handcuffed him and put him on the ground first.
	But that is irrelevant to what I think is totally unacceptable, in that when the guy passed out, he kept his knee on the guy's neck.
	That's probably something on which you're not going to change my mind if a police officer's job is to de-escalate and keep people safe.
	We don't have all the information, but what we do see, there's no acceptable justification for keeping your knee on someone's cervical spine After they're no longer moving, and they are handcuffed.
	That's the most important part.
	It's like, if you watch the entire video that Ms.
	Fraser, the lady who took that video, who's now being harassed online, by the way, but, you know, the video itself goes on for more, I think it's a minute and a half, where he clearly passes out in the first 30 seconds of the video.
	Yeah, he went limp.
	I mean, if anything, but, like, look at the cop, right?
	Like, look at his hand.
	His hand is just, like, in his jacket, like he's about to sidle up and ask you for your phone number at a bar.
	I mean, he's clearly casual about it.
	What bars are you going to?
	People reaching your jacket?
	No, no, they put their hands in their pocket and they walk over and they're like, hey.
	That's what that guy looks like.
	If you really play your cards right, you might get a Kirby.
	Oh my gosh.
	That's Bill's bar, not mine.
	That's his bar.
	Right, my bar, yeah, I know.
	There's no reason for, I mean, especially when somebody is handcuffed like that.
	And I know police officers hear all the time, oh I can't breathe, I have to use the restroom, the cuffs are too tight.
	Like I understand they hear that stuff all the time.
	That does not excuse what we just saw there.
	There was no threat to those officers.
	And I will say this, just like obviously you cannot, you can't tar all black people by the actions of these horrible people.
	Now granted that's more than one lone cop, you're talking about hundreds if not thousands and then tens of thousands of people on black Twitter, which is an interesting subculture right now.
	I hate to say it, unfortunately breeds more racists when they're encouraging looting.
	But again, we don't have all the facts.
	It could not be less relevant as to why people are upset.
	And I think that the cop is wrong in that.
	And he was fired.
	We don't know what the charges will be.
	It's not like a Darren Wilson scenario where Mike Brown was reaching for his gun and was
	punching him actively.
	And there was an altercation.
	It's not even like what was it?
	Aubrey?
	Aubrey, that just happened, where the guy wasn't under control.
	He reached for the guy's gun, right?
	And then the guy shot the gun.
	So there's two people panicking.
	This is something that I want to make.
	This is why I'm against female police officers.
	Let me explain here.
	What you are seeing is panic.
	What I want and what we need with police officers, and some do meet these qualifications, but
	not all of them do, I want them to be as powerful as humanly possible so that we can see some
	bridled strength.
	And a lot of people, they believe these myths, these lies, like, oh, Navy SEALs or Army Rangers
	or cops, they can kill you right away.
	Well, first off, we don't want someone whose only option is to kill you, and most of them
	can't.
	Police officers get a seminar once a year.
	The Hodge twins, they never fired their sidearm when they were in the Marines.
	Jocko Willink has talked about this.
	He wants to train up police officers so that they can actually control people and be adept in combat.
	Because people often see strength as bullying.
	No, bridled power is how you avoid panic.
	And let's remove intent from it.
	People get killed from panic all the time.
	It happens all the time.
	People can't control themselves.
	They're not experienced, and so they panic.
	A good example would be how many people here have been bitten by dogs?
	I'm willing to bet that it's most likely a small dog.
	I was bitten on the face by a small dog.
	Betty, if she does that, she's on the nightly news, and she's helicopter flown into the euthanizing whatever place.
	The euthanasia clinic.
	It's a volcano.
	No one gives her a chance.
	It's a volcano.
	But the point is, big dogs don't tend to.
	Because Betty understands that she does have power.
	It's bridled strength.
	She's been trained.
	But a small Yorkshire Terrier, what happens?
	They're small and they bite.
	You obviously played football at Notre Dame, right?
	So you went there.
	You had played high school your whole life.
	You went to obviously one of the top schools in the country.
	When you were on the field, did you panic and not know what to do?
	No.
	No, because you were experienced.
	Your first football game, did you panic?
	Yeah, of course.
	Do you panic every time you go into a courtroom?
	Nope.
	Exactly.
	That's the point.
	But how do you expect officers who aren't regularly engaging in combat and aren't entirely sure that they can control the situation, how do you expect them to not panic?
	Let's use a very specific example there.
	Let's say Muhammad Ali.
	We can use Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, take your pick.
	If some guy in the street throws a punch at them, now, could they hurt him?
	Sure.
	But they could just as easily avoid the punch and keep themselves safe.
	The danger is a lack of options.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And that's what I see there, is a cop who's trained poorly, a lack of options, and very well could be a dick.
	But we don't know.
	Well, I mean, that's the question.
	When you look at him, he doesn't look like he's struggling.
	He doesn't look like there's... And the officer, right?
	The officer, you know, I'm not saying that he wasn't confused about what to do, or... I mean, clearly he was confused.
	Either he was intending to cause this kind of pain and result, or he just didn't care about whether the result was happening.
	Or, like we've seen a lot of times, they don't know what to do.
	He goes from zero to shooting, right?
	Or here, it's not even bothering to check the person you're kneeling on to figure out if it's necessary or not necessary.
	Because a whole minute goes by where the guy's passed out, and yet the officer's not checking.
	I don't personally think that it's a matter of whether you have a woman or a man as a cop, because there are weak men who will panic.
	Like in this example, you just gotta have proper training.
	Yeah, but that being said, I mean, if you look at the strongest women in the military right now, they still have to do a dead hang instead of pull-ups, because there's a difference in strength.
	They don't have to.
	They are allowed to.
	You should just make it equal.
	Most women have to.
	Most women couldn't do the pull-ups.
	But that's what I'm saying, most women don't, so you just make the test equal.
	Yes, oh yes, exactly.
	I'm saying if you can meet the test and the qualifications, then part of that test should be combat.
	Part of that test should be subduing an unwilling opponent, or you don't get to be a cop!
	Yeah, exactly.
	You need to have the confidence to be able to do this.
	And it seems like this, the cop is probably used to kneeling on suspects back when they're on the ground.
	It's a great way to pin them down and to keep them from moving.
	But the guy's already handcuffed.
	Yeah.
	This is what you do when you're trying to control a suspect.
	I don't know that there, and maybe cops out there that can, I don't know that you're in much danger when somebody is lying flat on their stomach with handcuffs on.
	Right.
	Especially when you're in close proximity with four other officers.
	Exactly.
	Or three other officers, whatever the total was.
	Like it just seems like a, just a gross negligence.
	Can I just jump in real quick with a point?
	I did not realize this because I read many, many articles about it and then watched some of the videos this morning, is that actually one of the officers that was there is Asian.
	He's clearly very East Asian.
	I know.
	And yet all the articles say four white cops were fired for... It's easier to say that.
	There's definitely something going on here where it hasn't been accurately told yet because we don't know everything.
	But you are right.
	And I was disappointed.
	Asian cop?
	Could have used a dim mock.
	Pass out!
	No one gets hurt!
	No need danger!
	So, this of course led to obviously the natural response which has been taking place.
	Burning s*** down in your own neighborhood.
	Here you go.
	Dang.
	It's a COVID suit.
	Apparently she couldn't loot Bed Bath & Beyond.
	Lamps.
	Alright.
	Let him know!
	Let him know!
	Yeah!
	I think they hear you now.
	At first they thought you were an incompetent hooligan with no respect for individual rights but you've corrected me sir.
	It's disappointing.
	Did we splice in some photos of Beirut?
	And by the way, that was going on for a while and it only got worse from there.
	life into pieces this is my last resort who have known the carriers of justice would be one Papa Roach
	worse atrocities um
	And by the way, I don't understand.
	This has happened in Ferguson and Baltimore.
	You know who's hurt the most?
	Black people.
	If you're going to do this, and you're wrong, and you're racist, and you hate all that, go burn down a yacht club for crying out loud.
	At least that makes sense.
	You don't destroy your own house and burn down businesses that employ black people.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They employ black people.
	What about all the black people that just lost their jobs?
	I burned down Target because I feel like I got a Target on my back my entire life so you can know the pain that I feel.
	What?
	There was a lady in there.
	Oh, now I'm going to O'Reilly.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh, fuck you!
	Also has an auto zone on his back too. Yeah, auto zone.
	Yeah.
	Mobs, I guess, don't travel well. I guess that's why they just, wherever they form,
	they just destroy.
	And by the way, does anyone else notice, I know I'm going to sound conspiratorial,
	but right before 2016, the election, that's when Black Lives Matter came up to the agenda.
	We had Baltimore. Then it kind of, remember we were talking about this a few weeks ago,
	like it kind of disappeared.
	Yeah.
	Right back. We went from impeachment, right? Russia collusion to impeachment,
	and that was failed. Then we had to keep COVID as the biggest pandemic our globe has ever seen.
	Yeah.
	Until now, and this will probably also be included into election.
	It is remarkable to me that it always seems to come up coming into election.
	And I just want to know, how does this help anybody? And something I want to be clear about.
	out. Cut.
	To the black community, okay?
	And I know I can't talk to the black community because I'm white, but you know what?
	Okay, this is just me as an ignorant white guy.
	There needs to be some condemnation here.
	Let's compare, by the way, the reaction that we've all had here with the police officer, white or not, where we said, that's wrong.
	And I also would encourage you right now, everyone watching, go to the big conservative websites.
	Take your pick.
	Go to Conservative Reddit.
	Go to Breitbart.
	Go to Huffington Post.
	Go to The Right Scoop.
	Go to Hot Air.
	Take your pick and read the write-ups.
	And see if you find them condemning that police officer.
	I haven't read one that has not.
	Now, go to black Twitter.
	Yourself.
	There are tens of thousands of people saying, this is what you get.
	This is- Actively calling for- And when they ask for white people to condemn shooters who happen to be white, who, by the way, aren't doing it in the name of whiteness, we love them, sure.
	No problem, we can condemn them.
	These people right now, and these people, I mean the people who are burning things down and starting the hashtag AllLivesMatter slash Black Twitter, they are hijacking your entire race of people.
	We need to see condemnation from leaders in the black community.
	I've been watching CNN all day, and they're going, well, of course, we want it to be peaceful, but this is why.
	No, there is no but, this is why.
	I mean, we got checkmarks calling for this, encouraging this, saying this is a good thing, like it's altruistic or it's righteous.
	This is not good.
	This doesn't fix anything.
	It just destroys their own stuff.
	I say, don't give them federal funding to fix the city.
	Just leave it.
	Let it be that way.
	But where am I gonna get my alternator?
	I done burned down O'Reilly's, you saw that sh**?
	People not getting funding because some people made a problem.
	That's like saying, well, if you have a certain number of murders in your city, we're not going to fix your highways.
	Why should other taxpayers pay for their city to be fixed?
	Because it's not the rest of the people that did it.
	I'm saying that city let this happen.
	They let it happen so they shouldn't get fixed.
	Well, why do you think the city let it happen?
	What do you mean, how did the city let it happen?
	How did the city let it happen?
	You're talking to a lawyer.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Ask him to do math and when his brain short circuits, move on.
	That's true.
	Oh, yeah, I cannot do nails.
	But my point is that I think that, you know, the intent of your statement, though, I think is very important, which is that we need to- Hold on!
	Hold on!
	It's gotta be fun.
	How does that feel?
	Can you hear me?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	I want to make sure, is my message getting across?
	I picked up the message.
	I get it.
	Hey Toshiba.
	I get it.
	Just want to make sure that we're being productive.
	Go ahead, continue what you're arguing.
	So the point that you're making is, someone, who are we going to punish here, right?
	And we need to punish the people who are actually doing wrong.
	And to the extent that there was folks who were letting that happen, police officers.
	And it's true that there's probably a lot of people outside of the community that came in, because that happens all the time during riots.
	They'll come out, come into the place that Right.
	So ultimately the question is like, okay, so in the same way that we think reparations are wrong because you're punishing people who didn't actually commit the wrong, I do think punishing the rest of the city because, you know, let's say 5,000 people were participating in that riots, right?
	How about this?
	I think maybe you're miscommunicating here.
	No state funding at all to that city or federal.
	If the city, the municipality, wants to spend it, sure.
	If the taxpayers say we want to fix our city, sure.
	But the rest of the people in the state shouldn't.
	I can see that.
	Did this happen yesterday or the day before?
	It was yesterday.
	Were you cryogenically frozen?
	I couldn't remember if it was the day before.
	Did they wheel you out from next to Walt Disney?
	Pretty much.
	So the cops have been fired, so immediate action was taken.
	For justice to take place, you have to investigate, you have to charge people, you have to go through a process.
	We haven't even gotten to day two yet to be done, right?
	So I don't think that protesting like this and rioting and burning things down is ever a productive thing to do.
	But if you're ever going to do it, I don't ever approve of it.
	No one here supports rioting, but I feel like we're going around in circles.
	No, I'm not going around in circles.
	What I'm saying is, when the O.J.
	verdict came out, they were protesting the end result of justice not happening in their... Sorry, not O.J., but when Rodney King was beaten.
	Thank you.
	They were protesting that.
	Nothing has happened yet.
	Right.
	Nothing.
	Like, this could be taken care of.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Well, no, they're saying it's too late because someone was killed, and I understand that, but if we're talking about a system that is stacked against you, you do need to let the system work.
	Right.
	And see what happens.
	I understand that point, but they would say, well, one life lost is one life too many.
	And we agree.
	But that doesn't mean that the entire system is racist.
	You could have one racist cop.
	All right, well, we'll keep following this.
	And I just really hope this doesn't end up into a Baltimore and Ferguson.
	I really do.
	And you know what?
	Black Twitter, Black Twitter, and this is, we've talked, you've spent some time there on Black Twitter.
	I mean, you've spent a quarter of your time on Black Twitter.
	Here's what I hate.
	This right now will breed more racism, guys.
	It breeds more racism.
	You are perpetuating, you, meaning you, not all black people, in case you're gonna try and hang me on that, and I don't really give a rat's ass at this point, you people who are doing this and looting right now and burning down Target to a crisp, you are going to create more racists.
	You are perpetuating a negative stereotype that the people you hate might use to commit you, to treat you in a subhumane way, to commit acts of crime against you. Do you understand that? Black
	Twitter, when you go, this is what you get, you're breeding more racists. And you
	know what else you're breeding? You're breeding more division in your own
	community because you're burning down your own sh**. So black people who own that auto zone
	are people who live in your neighborhood. I saw that white lady stealing lamps.
	Good. She loves the people.
	She's not racist. We'll give her that. She's willing to participate. Those people
	are going to be fed up with you if you start burning down their stuff.
	This is what happens.
	The hate breeds more hate, right?
	What happens is, oh my gosh, this cop committed a horrible act, as far as we know thus far.
	Then, what happens is someone commits another act of violence against somebody who had nothing to do with that cop.
	And that person goes, what the hell?
	Then they bring out their gun to make sure that their business, their place of work, is no longer attacked.
	And guess what?
	They shoot someone else.
	Then that person's family... And then it ends up being West Side Story with Natalie Wood on a boat with Robert Wagner.
	My point is, it doesn't end well.
	We should know better than this!
	And you can say that's racism!
	Yes, it's racist to say, hey, don't abuse black people when you're a police officer, don't kill black people, and black people don't burn down your own stuff.
	Please, black people in this community who are doing it, and white people don't burn down your own stuff.
	Well, you know what the story is now?
	The story is now the looting, right?
	That's what you're seeing on all of these things.
	You just distracted from the problem that we all needed to focus on by doing this.
	Twitter completely forgot about his name.
	Yeah.
	What's his name?
	You can't see it.
	It's all just riot, riot, riot, riot.
	Everybody forgot about it.
	So much misinformation.
	All right, speaking of things I don't like, I wanted to talk about this Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
	Why'd I have this here?
	I just cut my finger from breaking the Toshiba.
	Did you?
	At least it should have broken a gateway.
	Is that still a thing?
	No, hopefully not.
	Dude, you're getting a paper cut.
	That was a Dell genre slogan humor.
	That guy ended up going to jail.
	So Governor Whitmer, I want to know Your opinion on Governor Gretchen Whitmer, because I will say this, I can't stand her.
	I think she's the next AOC.
	She's just a different coat of paint.
	A little older.
	She is absolutely the worst governor in the country.
	Very dangerous.
	Very wrong.
	And I would say evil.
	And I mean that because she's actually stated motivations here.
	I'm not falsely attributing motivations.
	She has stated motivations, which to me are so disturbing.
	It's almost like she's saying she's the female social justice warrior version of Donald Trump in that she says the inside parts out loud.
	You're like, no, abortions are safe, legal, and rare.
	Up to nine months, always!
	You're like, oh my god, you're not supposed to be saying this.
	Is that because I'm a woman?
	No, it's because we hate you.
	Let's go through the reasons why Governor Whitmer is the worst governor in the country, and I want everyone else to know, because she's obviously auditioning for VP right now.
	She doesn't want to politicize the issue, she's making her decisions based on science, and Joe Biden, pick me, pick me, pick me!
	Let's go through abortion first, again to go through the radical agenda that we see from Governor Gretchen Whitmer, my home state, which I don't even recognize anymore.
	She actually thinks that abortion is what makes America great.
	She has that hat right there, that abortion is what makes America great.
	And if this were a gaffe that were made by Donald Trump on the other side of the coin, she said that abortions actually had to continue under lockdown because they were, she said, life-sustaining.
	A woman's health care, her whole future, her ability to decide if and when she starts a family is not an election.
	It is a fundamental to her life.
	It is life-sustaining.
	I didn't know that Axelrod's face could be worse without a mustache.
	Like after Star Jones lost weight, you're like, oh, good for him.
	I was getting mad when we played that, because we always have a watermark.
	We try and give credit when we run clips.
	I'm like, guys, a watermark.
	Oh, the whole screen is a watermark.
	It just says the Axe Files.
	Life-sustaining.
	So keep in mind, this is why it matters.
	Context matters, kind of like the tweet questions.
	Let's fix that going forward.
	ELECTIVE PROCEDURES WEREN'T ALLOWED IN HOSPITALS.
	Elective procedures, well she wanted abortions to be provided at will up until birth period,
	pretty much that's her world view, I don't know the exact regulations in Michigan.
	Elective procedures included things like knee replacements, hip replacements, serious
	reconstructive surgery on your joints and ligaments. Those were elective, but abortion is life sustaining.
	Which is, to be clear, she actually plays this game as governor.
	It's called the antonym game, where she says something and she means the exact opposite.
	Life-sustaining means murder a baby against the will.
	I was trying to be more clever by saying antonyms.
	But that ship has sailed along with seven plus one anti-semitic animals.
	Billy, are you doing me again?
	Are you trying to take my job?
	I thought you were really right there.
	I will say, I don't use this word that often, but I think she's a fascist bitch.
	And I mean that.
	Not everyone, just her.
	Because before we get to the lockdowns, she outright tried to ban all vaping, by the way, in her state until a judge suspended the order.
	It went to a higher court, and now I think she wants to bring it to a Supreme Court.
	Really?
	Like, that's the hill you want to die on?
	And by the way, she still wants tobacco-flavored vapes to be available because people don't like them.
	And tobacco is a flavor, by the way.
	They're not extracting it from a leaf of tobacco.
	They're just putting in old sock juice so that it tastes disgusting, and she doesn't want the gummy flavor to be out there because she knows people will enjoy it.
	I was in Michigan, and gas stations had these empty shelves.
	I said, what used to be there?
	They said, oh, those were our vapes, but the governor said, so we can't have it now.
	I said, so what happened?
	They said, people just buy cigarettes.
	We go backwards in here.
	So one of the justices actually wrote one of the opinions that she was like, I have to write this.
	She was like, I have no idea how the judge has tried to link vaping to COVID, but she did.
	She did in her report saying, you know, she's trying to tie it to COVID-19, you know, preparedness and taking care of that long before COVID.
	And now she's trying to tie in.
	It's like climate change.
	It's like, wait, you were trying to study the mating patterns of the Ku Klux Klan and you got no grant.
	And they go, no, we're trying to study the Ku Klux Klan mating patterns in relation to COVID.
	The justice actually wrote, you see this with her, if you give her an inch, she is going to try and take a mile and try to push her policies no matter what she has to do to cover it.
	And I've read polls that try to say she has a 70-something percent approval rating.
	Almost no governors have a 70% approval rating.
	Just the smokers, the vapers alone, would bring your average down.
	And the barbers now.
	Isn't this something where we can find common ground?
	Libertarians, people who don't even necessarily use nicotine products or vapes because you believe that people should be able to put in their own body whatever they want.
	And the left because you guys love your drugs.
	Shouldn't we all be able to find some kind of common ground here?
	Oh, a governor shouldn't be able to ban vaping.
	And by the way, there is a relation to nicotine and COVID.
	They're conducting a clinical trial because it seems to actually drastically reduce your chances of having severe COVID.
	Oh, really?
	We're not supposed to talk about it because it'll be fact-checked on YouTube.
	But no, what happens is it actually down-regulates the, I think, ACE2 receptor.
	So it happened in China.
	You know, it happened in China.
	That's why our deaths are so low.
	It's all the smoking.
	They went to zero.
	It's the highest percentage of smokers, I think, in China and the world.
	They're one of them.
	I think it might be Okinawa.
	We could have to ask our resident Okinawan.
	So they noticed that it's like something like 30-40% of Chinese people smoke, but it was like a very small number of COVID patients who smoked.
	We're not saying smoke cigarettes!
	asymptomatic. So then they said, let's find another population that smokes a
	whole lot, France. And when they saw people who smoke, again, far lower than
	the population, and now they're actually conducting a clinical trial or I think
	it's a trial, not even a study on nicotine's effect on COVID affecting
	those receptors in your lungs. And by the way, they always say, by the way,
	don't smoke. We're not saying smoke cigarettes. Separate nicotine from
	cigarettes.
	Right.
	We can do it with pot.
	People tell you that it cures everything from SARS to AIDS.
	Can we admit that people have smoked for a long time because there's some kind of a benefit?
	And if we can remove nicotine from inhaling tar into your lungs, maybe it's something to study?
	Anyway, I got off on a tangent.
	I think it's just the natural social distancing caused by people who smell like shit after smoking.
	Nobody wants to be around you.
	That's true.
	I do smoke cigars.
	A couple of years ago, your dad and I were walking up and we saw some people smoking.
	He goes, You guys are still smoking?
	Really?
	Man, I thought that was done!
	Joke's on you, Governor Ban Vaping, so... Now it's back to Chesterfields, brah!
	Wow.
	I didn't know people still smoked anymore.
	I didn't know Chesterfield was still a thing.
	Ask Ronald Reagan.
	He did their ads.
	So, here's another thing.
	We're talking about the draconian measures that have been taken.
	The lockdown orders.
	And they're worse than you think in Michigan.
	I even just found this out because of a brilliant researcher, Reg, the beast.
	I can't take credit for this.
	She had, obviously, to start with, the most strict lockdown orders in the entire nation, banning the selling of furniture, paint, garden plants.
	Here you go.
	Big box stores will also have to close areas of the store that are dedicated to things like carpet or flooring, furniture, garden centers, plant nurseries, or paint.
	Now, Trippie, some think that she has an axe to grind because Ren-A-Center was after her lucky charms!
	And apparently she only has Guess Who characters from the board game signed by her.
	Is your character crazy?
	No, just unsightly.
	It gets worse.
	And by the way, don't worry, you can still buy liquor and weed in Michigan.
	That was never in danger.
	But forget trying to get a fern.
	I know, right?
	A lot of people even made the point, like, what if you grow your own food?
	Right?
	What if you're somebody who sustains yourself?
	You can't go buy the stuff that you need for it.
	What if you have a child and you need to buy a car seat?
	You couldn't buy the car seat at the time.
	Toss some cannabis his way.
	He's not going to know the difference.
	The hell does he care?
	He's going to give him the munchies.
	What are you talking about?
	I don't know.
	They always have the munchies!
	I don't think that's the most negative effect we're concerned with if you're actually administering cannabis to a baby.
	No, no, no, no, that's not what I... I didn't mean for the baby!
	That's an alternative eating pattern!
	I thought you meant for the person growing their own food.
	I'm like, they don't have to be hungry, what's the matter with you?
	By the way, I don't care if people want to grow their own cannabis in Michigan, it's legal, and people want to... fine!
	But don't tell people they can't go to... whatever, I was about to say Bureau Angle, which is a Canadian... Nobody's gonna know.
	Johnny Boy Dave knows what I'm talking about.
	Every now and then I reference things, and I'm like, oh, this is America!
	That's right.
	But no, you're absolutely right.
	So here's something else that's important.
	Everyone's a hypocrite, but this is a different level, where she banned, obviously, travel to second residences.
	And to keep in mind context for people who don't understand Michigan, you have people who don't make a lot of money, people who make middle class, upper middle class income, sometimes less, because they have basically shacks, cottages, that have been passed down for generations in their family.
	And people don't believe it because it's like the Mediterranean being on Lake Michigan in summer.
	It's so beautiful, right?
	But this is a culture of Michigan.
	A huge portion, I think more than anywhere else in the country, they have second homes.
	And so she suspended travel for folks to their second homes, right?
	Didn't apply to people who are outside of the state.
	That's loophole!
	Thank you, Delta.
	So, her husband, though, traveled to their vacation home, 150 miles away, to support... And here's the... She said to rake leaves, and he actually used his... He said, do you know who I am?
	When he was trying to get his boat taken off the dock over there in, I believe, Elk Rapids.
	And he said, well, we can't take your boat off the dock because of the governor's orders there, and, you know, it's Memorial Day.
	He was like, I'm the governor's husband.
	Like, oh, well then, you're a big, fat p***y, and of course I'm not taking your boat out.
	The guy actually said something, I think on Facebook or something like that.
	He said, actually, that puts you to the back of the line.
	Yeah, puts you to the back of the queue.
	I'm sorry, your Boston Whaler seems to have a hole in it!
	Look at that right there!
	How unfortunate.
	What are you doing to my boat?
	I'm making it look mean by doing that.
	But here's the thing.
	She said, and she actually did say, she said, my husband did go up, and it was after the order had been lifted, but people were still strongly discouraged from traveling.
	She said, my husband did go up just to rake leaves.
	It's spring in Michigan.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	So you were going to send your husband by himself, even though, and I can't confirm this, there were multiple cars that were there at the house, at the cottage.
	He went up there by himself to rake, for an entire weekend, to rake leaves?
	First off, I'm willing to assume that you have help who rakes your leaves.
	Second, maybe I would buy the excuse that your husband just was trying to get away from you.
	And third, there is no third.
	Maybe your husband was just trying to get away from you.
	I just figured that out as I was talking.
	He needed a little space.
	He's really the victim here.
	Yes.
	He had a whole plan.
	He was going to go up there.
	He was going to rake some leaves, take the boat out, and drown himself.
	And here we are stopping his plan.
	He just can't get away.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the guy's embarrassed.
	He's also not very resourceful, because if he really wanted to drown himself, just walk into the lake and don't stop.
	No, he had to get back to the leaves.
	Very important.
	Not the leaves, the buds, because it's spring.
	If I don't get those buds, then Gretchen's going to beat me.
	Regardless, is that supposed to be a prank?
	That's sex hammocks.
	No fun when I'm not willing.
	Doesn't she know, by God.
	First the boat, now this.
	And here's the thing.
	She responded, by the way.
	And this is something to me that is so disturbing and why I want everyone... Please, if I've done nothing, share this.
	Share this with everyone in Michigan.
	Everyone needs to know how awful this human being is.
	She responded to the criticism.
	Didn't say that it wasn't correct, by the way, by playing the victim.
	Effectively cancelling my own daughter's prom and graduation ceremony.
	But it gets worse.
	My family has had men with automatic rifles standing in view of our front window outside of our home.
	We have read the vile things people have said and written in response to my stay-at-home safety order.
	My daughters have seen the likeness of their mother hung from a noose in effigy.
	We have weathered demonstrations that were egged on or participated in by some city Republican leaders.
	I think the signer is from Twilight, the movie.
	Even my neighbors have been terrorized as they tried to enjoy their Memorial Day weekend up in Antrim County.
	Your houndstooth jacket is terrorizing me.
	Despite the fact that I was 200 miles away.
	By the way, he did the hung in Effigy.
	When you sign, do you have to wince?
	You really gotta get into it. Oh my gosh.
	Well, you even brought this up.
	The rule that she had, so you could drive from Chicago and go up to your lake house somewhere, right?
	And get around that.
	The point that I was making earlier about the gardening stuff too, and this, it's all of these unintended consequences.
	She has no idea how these rules are actually going to affect people, but it's like, ah, this sounds like a good idea.
	Let's do that.
	And then, well, crap, now I want to go up to my house.
	And it affects, when you couldn't go out on a boat with a motor, it affects people in fishing towns who are hundreds of miles away from her where they don't have a single active K.
	Right, and this is exactly why we push back on stuff like this, because government tends to screw things up when they do things like this.
	Don't interfere in people's lives as much as possible.
	That is your job.
	It's a general rule.
	She wants us to believe that a woman living in an ivory tower as tall as hers has to rake leaves.
	No, her husband has to rake leaves.
	That's his punishment.
	Fairly certain he lives in the tower, too.
	I don't think he's very tall, but neither is she.
	Either way, someone's wearing stilts.
	That hammock's not going to swing itself.
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	Here's the one that's most disturbing to me.
	Fast fact for you.
	We all know about the New York nursing homes, right?
	What happened there, which affects the entire country's death toll, by the way.
	Yes.
	Okay, another disturbing video.
	If you have children, right, take them out here.
	This is, if you don't remember this, the man beating... Just cover their eyes, don't take them out.
	Yeah, don't take them out like Whitmer does with her husband.
	This is the man who was beating an old person in an old folks home in Michigan, in case you forgot the clip.
	...
	Okay. Alright, that's enough.
	Horrible, right?
	And by the way, thank God, not all geriatric white people are going down, burning down the local YMCA.
	They are, they just haven't gotten there yet.
	It takes a little while.
	I'm glad they caught that guy, by the way.
	They make their voices heard, slowly, but eventually.
	I know some people may be going, why was that guy there in the first place?
	That was the question.
	Why was he there?
	And the guy had mental health issues.
	Well, here's why he was there.
	And I think we're going to see a trend, which I'll get to in a second.
	He was there because of Whitmer's orders.
	This was a governor's order.
	He tested positive for COVID, and he was sent there to quarantine.
	Wow.
	Now, I want to be clear.
	She just actually renewed on May 13th.
	So she renewed her order, by the way, since we've seen these results from New York, and we know how catastrophic they are.
	She renewed the order on May 15th, but it's worse than New York, forcing nursing homes to house COVID-positive patients.
	Now, here's the thing.
	In New York, we were taking old people who left the old folks home, went to a hospital, were sick, and sending them back in like a buzzsaw, which is terrible.
	But in this case, you're taking new people who aren't old, who have no business being in an old folks home to begin with, a nursing home, and sending them in just using the nursing homes as a quarantine.
	It's worse than New York, and there's no way to actually find the numbers right now on deaths in nursing homes.
	I've been trying to find them.
	You absolutely cannot find them right now.
	The home, the infection rates, the death rates in nursing homes.
	Think about that for a second.
	That guy was there only, he was beating the crap out of that old guy only because he tested positive for COVID.
	The governor decided that the best idea was to send young people with coronavirus into old folks' homes.
	How much you want to bet they're cooking the books right now, and that's why we don't have the death rates?
	That is just, I mean, I did not realize that that's why he was there.
	I thought he worked for the old folks' home or something like that.
	Yeah, that's not a rumor.
	Maybe he tested positive or something.
	He wasn't an employee.
	Yeah, no.
	How would he make it through the screening process?
	What would you say is your biggest shortcoming?
	Sometimes I beat the shit out of old people.
	Welcome aboard!
	Thanks for coming.
	But listen, that's my truth.
	But I bring y'all jello, right?
	It evens out.
	Well, the old folks home were given kind of, you know, they were given five grand every time that they took somebody in for this, right?
	So you gave them a financial incentive to be able to do this.
	And also they didn't do any inspections.
	fingers. I'm a moron. Go ahead. They didn't do inspections at the nursing homes to see if they
	were even capable of taking care of people. I think at the time that we had this article,
	there were somewhere like 10 or 15 percent of the nursing homes had even been visited to see
	if they were doing a good job. They are not geared up for this. Hospitals are. There's only so much
	bandwidth that you have. And because of the politicization that's taken place around COVID
	and coronavirus, despite the people trying to say, you're the folks who are anti-science. No,
	no, no, no, no. We all knew no one had any problem with acknowledging and accepting that we needed
	to protect the most vulnerable among us, namely old people and people who are already sick.
	But because you wanted to...
	you control everyone else through fear. You ignored the one place where everyone would
	find common ground. I bet if you were to poll Americans and say, hey, should we send criminals,
	felons into old folks' homes if they test positive, people would say, probably not.
	No.
	Probably not. That's probably not a good idea. And this is absolutely remarkable to me. And
	I think this is something that we're going to find. And we do have to go to Dinesh D'Souza
	in a second. There's no rhyme or reason.
	Right now, a lot of us are trying to figure out.
	We've said you cannot say that opening up states has helped with coronavirus.
	Right.
	But you definitively cannot say that lockdowns have helped.
	So you go, hold on a second.
	Florida's doing, and New York's doing badly, and then Texas is doing well.
	You go, hold on.
	It doesn't seem like lockdowns have that much of an effect.
	Why are certain states doing better than others?
	And it doesn't seem like urban areas are the only factor here, because Texas has a lot of big cities.
	Here's what I think we're going to find out.
	Now that we see what's happened with Cuomo, and once we get the accurate, and there should be an investigation, by the way, into these death rates and these death numbers in Michigan with old folks' homes.
	I think what you're going to see is go, oh, history.
	We'll look back on this and go, that's because of horrible actions from individual governors.
	I think the delineating factor here is that one state said you have to take sick patients into the old folks' home.
	Another state said you have to take not even old folks who are sick into the old folks' home.
	And Texas said, you know what?
	Wash your hands and be responsible.
	Yeah.
	And Florida went to the marketplace.
	Unreasonably.
	So it's remarkable to me.
	that no one is talking about this because we should be trying to find solutions at this point.
	We should be trying to look at the data and the people who accuse us of being the party of anti-science, well, Governor Whitmer, if you're science, why don't you release the data?
	Why don't you give us the numbers so we can make an educated decision?
	Ooh, I understand you're too busy helping your husband rake leaves and breaking out the paddle, demanding that he say, thank you, ma'am, can I have another?
	She's AOC with another coat of paint.
	This is what happens, by the way, when you have a professional victim become governor.
	This is the scary part.
	Imagine that person with the authority to be president.
	Can you think of how scary that would be?
	Why did you blow up Canada?
	And I've gotten so much haters for having done that.
	Who's going to care about Saskatchewan?
	Someone sent me a mean letter that my daughter had to read.
	We don't care!
	How about you address the point?
	How about you address the science?
	How about you address the data?
	How about you look out for the freedoms and liberties that are That are constitutionally insured to your citizens in the state of Michigan.
	And I haven't said this about many people.
	Didn't say it about Barack Obama.
	Didn't say it about Hillary Clinton.
	I think Barack Obama was wrong.
	I think Hillary Clinton's an opportunist.
	I don't think she actually believes anything.
	I think Nancy Pelosi is evil.
	And I think Whitmer.
	Yeah.
	With a smile.
	I really do. I really do. When she's talking about, when you hear her talk about abortion,
	when you hear her flagrantly disregard people's rights and brag about it,
	with a smile, with a smile and condemn people who want to live in a free country
	and recognize the America they grew up in and she condemns them and says, well, you know what?
	If you do that, there's a lockdown's only going to be longer.
	You think you're a mom and if your son mouths back, you're going to give him another whack with the spoon?
	You don't have the authority to do that.
	But this is exactly what happens when you have professional victims, the social justice warrior feminists left who get any kind of power.
	How would I characterize, if I had to, Mrs. Whitmer?
	If you can't say it better than Jack Nicholson, then I'm just going to let him say it.
	I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
	Okay, well there you go, and we're gonna be back with Dinesh D'Souza after this.
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	Dinesh D'Souza, f***ing him.
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	Who's a very dad-like figure?
	Truly, yeah.
	If your dad were very much a shit-disturber, in the best of ways.
	Absolutely.
	So, I've known him for a long time.
	He's been on the show quite a bit.
	You guys know him.
	You love him.
	Always a controversial... I don't want to say always a controversial figure, actually, because I used to read his books when I was younger.
	My family, particularly my wife's Parents made her read the books.
	They made her read all conservative books.
	I chose to read Dinesh D'Souza.
	And only recently did he become controversial to people, even though he's somewhat professorial.
	He's not a bombastic guy.
	He's a nice guy.
	And perfect diction.
	You know him.
	Spoiler alert.
	It is at Dinesh D'Souza, where you can follow him.
	And he has a new book coming out, available, I believe, June 2nd, United States of Socialism.
	Mr. D'Souza, how are you, sir?
	Hey, great to be on the show.
	I agree with you.
	I'm an apostle of moderation, but one who's living in immoderate times.
	Oh, there you go.
	You look angry.
	You were just so happy off air, and you got your... Is that salmon colored, that shirt?
	What is that?
	Is that salmon?
	Well, you know, now that we're all kind of schlepping at home, I think you'll see a little more casual look than you normally see.
	Okay.
	I'll try to be no less philosophical, though, and serious in context.
	I don't know if I would have taken Aristotle as seriously in a Tommy Hilfiger pink polo, but it works for you.
	It works for you.
	First off, you have the book, obviously, United States of Socialism.
	That'll be available June 2nd.
	I wanted to talk with you about something specific, Dinesh, because obviously, you know, you had your house arrest ankle bracelet situation.
	We're very glad that you were pardoned.
	But now with Mike Flynn and everything going on, I think some Americans may be in the dark a little bit as to how these wings of, whether it's the FBI, DOJ can be politicized and used as a tool, you know, political weapon.
	What did you experience with that?
	And do you think that it plays into it all?
	You know, Mike Flynn, it was, it's where you sort of a shot across the bow being the first major name that I remember being pardoned by Donald Trump.
	Well, I'll just give you an idea of how it went down in my own case.
	I was literally in Central Park reading a book when a friend of mine called and said that they had been contacted by the FBI and that the FBI was I didn't have a criminal attorney.
	I called a film attorney.
	that they thought that they might be trying to come after me or arrest me.
	So I, you know, I didn't have a criminal attorney. I called a film attorney.
	I don't imagine you had a criminal attorney because you were reading a book in Central Park.
	I was reading a book in Central Park and the only lawyer I dealt with was the lawyer who basically does legal work for
	our films.
	So I contacted him in Los Angeles, and he goes, Dinesh, this is quite serious.
	Hold on.
	I'll bring on my partner, who's the former district attorney for Los Angeles.
	And so that guy comes on, and he reads me the riot act.
	He says, basically, put down your book.
	Go to your apartment, take all valuable papers that you have in your apartment, all your financial papers, anything to do with your work, your computer, any books that you think are important, and move them into storage immediately and hide the key.
	Because if you are subject to an FBI raid, they will clean out your apartment.
	They will put everything in boxes.
	You might not see it again for months.
	If you have ongoing work, it's going to be seriously disrupted.
	And so I, you know, was sort of taken... I had a kind of cold shock when this occurred.
	And so I went and did those things.
	And that was the start of my dealings with the United States government.
	The case that came to be known as United States of America vs. Dinesh D'Souza.
	Yes, that's a very... it almost seems like a parody title.
	Like, the man, he just won't stop reading his books.
	Central Park?
	Sometimes Thompson Square Park?
	It never ends!
	By the way, book is euphemism for crack.
	We need to be very clear with the audience here, just so we... so I'm not investigated.
	You know, I gotta tell you that I think that phrase, United States of America versus Dinesh D'Souza, is more chilling when you're an immigrant, because you don't feel like you have roots in this country, you don't have family here.
	So this idea that you have the full force of the United States government arrayed against you is kind of terrifying.
	As it turned out, there were at least a half dozen FBI agents assigned to my case.
	Literally, one guy was going through all my bank statements.
	Another guy was going through all my tax returns.
	A third guy was reading all my books!
	That's the guy I feel really sorry for, but the idea was...
	They were trying to see if I had basically made some cavalier statements about campaign finance reform so they could then say to the judge, this guy violated the law because he doesn't even have any respect for the law.
	So, you know, the whole idea that you've got this little army of paid stooges being directed by someone, and that's really what worried me from the beginning.
	Who is giving the order here?
	Who's behind this?
	Well, that's my question to you, based on, you know, sort of Flynn, and I want to get your thoughts on quote-unquote Obamagate, and if you think that this could in any way be related to that, or if we're going to see anything maybe in some sort of discovery here that they could be connected, because it does seem like political opposition to Barack Obama were targeted systematically, and now seeing what happened with Flynn, I think it's a good time for Americans to pay attention, because it could happen to anyone, including Oh, sure.
	I mean, my case, looking back on it, was a kind of a miniature preview of what was to come on a much bigger scale.
	And in fact, when I had a meeting last November, my family did with Trump, he literally said, he goes, Dinesh, what they did to you, they're trying to do now to me.
	So he saw it as an enlarged replica of a sort of deep state political hit.
	So, in my case, the frontman was this Indian guy.
	I kind of refer to him on Twitter as Indian Headwaiter, Preet Bharara, the former head of the Southern District of New York.
	But Bharara's a stooge.
	He's basically angling for Eric Holder's job.
	And he was taking direction from the Holder Justice Department.
	Holder, of course, being Obama's self-confessed wingman.
	So, you know, it's kind of funny because I speak on campus these days and people go, well, Dinesh, you know, you keep saying that Obama was mad because you made a stupid movie.
	What makes you think the President of the United States even saw your dumb movie?
	And I'm like, well, the reason I think that is that right after the movie came out, it was being vilified every single day on a website that happened to be called barackobama.com.
	And that's where I got the weird idea that maybe when Barack Obama wasn't entirely happy with the movie.
	Dead giveaway.
	Dead giveaway.
	Yeah, and this is scary because I think a lot of people don't necessarily look at this as, you know, holistically, and that this is sort of the endgame and byproduct of socialism.
	And we sort of see it, and this transitions into, you know, the coronavirus, COVID-19, where it's the same idea, right?
	Targeting voices of dissent, in your case, finding something that you can pin on them, or with Mike Flynn, Getting them to lie, putting pressure on them by threatening their family.
	We have the same thing now with people being intimidated into silence with executive orders, intense lockdown measures.
	I mean, Whitmer we just talked about.
	Oh my gosh, I don't want to talk about it anymore.
	Let me ask you, I know you've talked about, I think you've used the term sort of sneak peek, this is a sneak peek at socialism, COVID-19.
	Do you think that there's a motive to intentionally use this to sort of implement an expanded government through panic?
	Well, yes.
	Now, remember, for Marx, he didn't think socialism needed a panic.
	He didn't think it needed even tactics.
	Marx didn't even try to organize the working class because he thought that the socialist revolution would come automatically, that the working class would become so impoverished and immiserated, to use his term, that it would revolt.
	Now, that's never happened from Marx's time to now anywhere in the world.
	Well, it kind of did, in that the middle working class in America did revolt and elect Trump, so went the other direction, but yes.
	That's exactly right.
	Today a working class guy is more likely to be found in a Trump rally.
	So the leftists figure out that they can't count on that proletariat.
	They need new proletariats.
	And so I think this is part of the reason why our socialism today is a marriage of socialism and identity politics, because there is genuine racial grievance.
	So you try to get a racial proletariat, and then you try to get the women, you try to get the gays and transgenders, you try to get the illegals.
	So the Democrats here are trying to cobble together a kind of multifarious coalition of presumed victim groups to produce their democratic majority.
	That's why socialism has taken on a kind of new face in the United States.
	I also think that's why you can't just refute it by saying it didn't work before, so it won't work now.
	Right.
	Because we're dealing with, in some ways, a new type of socialism.
	Yeah, I think that's a good point.
	And I also think it's tough to say, well, it didn't work then.
	People go, well, Marx.
	Or they go, well, Lenin.
	Then they point to Denmark, who, by the way, they tell Bernie Sanders stuff, saying, for socialists, if you are not socialist, but they point to any sort of, you know, Scandinavian socialist countries.
	And we've talked about that quite a bit.
	I think the laziest argument and I appreciate you pointing that out, would just be to
	say, well Karl Marx was crazy.
	Sure, but there are other examples of socialism, like sometimes people even point to Canada,
	where I'm from, despite the fact that the healthcare system is broken.
	So there are multiple examples of socialism, and that's what you see people sort of saying
	right in the media here on the left.
	Like, well, people want to say it's socialism, but roads aren't socialism, firefighters aren't
	socialism.
	So they're trying to incorporate a little bit of a new brand.
	How would you define the current brand of socialism?
	And I know, listen, we're staying on socialism because that's obviously your book, United States of Socialism, but how would you say it differs today versus how people might define it in their mind?
	Well, I think that the left is trying to point to the successful model of Scandinavia, but their actual model is far closer to Venezuela.
	To take a single example, Venezuela has identity socialism the same way that we do.
	They've outlawed Columbus Day.
	Hugo Chavez, the former ruler of Venezuela, was an indigenous guy and he demonized the white people of Venezuela.
	He drove out a lot of the foreign companies and foreign businesses because he claimed that they represented white supremacy.
	Now, by the way, none of this occurs in Scandinavia.
	You can't go to Scandinavia where every third guy is named Sven and go, you know, that guy's a rich guy.
	We got to get rid of that Sven.
	No, he's Sven too.
	He's part of the Nordic population.
	So Scandinavian socialism is all about we're all in the same boat.
	You don't have this demonization of the rich.
	Columbus Day is perfectly fine.
	Their only complaint is that Columbus wasn't named Sven.
	So what I'm getting at is that the left doesn't want to go there.
	The Scandinavians also, by the way, they don't kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.
	They're pretty socialist in wealth distribution, but they're not socialist in wealth creation.
	And the proof of that is that they have corporate tax rates no higher than those in America.
	They have no minimum wage, by and large.
	They have no wealth tax.
	They have no inheritance tax.
	Only one Scandinavian country tried Universal Basic Income Finland and they got rid of it.
	The Scandinavians do not impose the financial transaction fees that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have talked about imposing on Wall Street.
	So the truth of it is that the left, and they know this deep down, they don't actually want to use the Scandinavian model.
	Their model is actually the Caracas model.
	I think that's a very good point, one that we've talked about in the show quite a bit, and something that really surprised me in researching the Scandinavian models is when you take Swedes and you take them out of Sweden, so Swedish-Americans or Danish-Americans, they actually have a life quality when you include, you know, average income, their quality of life regarding health and longevity, it's 50-something percent higher.
	I don't know the number, I believe it was 54 percent.
	of a higher quality of life on the index scale for Swedish-Americans than Swedes in Sweden,
	or Danish-Americans than those in Denmark. So that was surprising to me and also brings in
	this important facet of, like you said, if people come in with a culture of hard work,
	with a culture of, you know, industriousness, and then they apply it in the United States,
	then it's an exponential, you know, growth factor.
	Okay, listen, hey, the book is, we're gonna go to a web extended here because he's just a foul-mouthed sailor, Dinesh D'Souza, when we're not on the YouTube and they're gonna ban us any second.
	At Dinesh D'Souza, the book is available, right, Dinesh?
	United States of Socialism, June 2nd, where can people find that?
	Yeah, I mean, an easy way, if you go to my website, just DineshD'Souza.com, it links to all kinds of sites where you can get it from Walmart to Amazon to Barnes & Noble, where you can just get it the normal way through however you buy books.
	It'll be out everywhere next week.
	And if you go look for it on my website, it will reroute you to a scathing critique of Dinesh at BarackObama.com.
	We'll be right back with the web extended for mug club members.
	Ooh, that'll be nice.
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	The thing with the Drowning Dance, it feels like it's past its prime.
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	I had another closed plan for you today, but like I said, some of this is pre-taped because I do have a missus in the emergency room, and hopefully fine.
	We don't know yet, so some of the elements today are more pre-taped than usual.
	Because I am a husband, but this is the current draft of the executive order.
	That we have from Donald Trump on social media right now.
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	We also have some information that is a little bit behind the scenes, so I trust it.
	And I want to be clear about this.
	Monday morning, so good morning, MugClip.
	We are going to do an entire episode with my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman.
	It'll be a Barely Legal with Bill Richman, where we will be going through the ins and outs of this, because he's a lawyer.
	He is.
	And I know I'm not a lawyer, that being said.
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	I know Ben Shapiro has tweeted about this.
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	So for people who don't know about... And I want to be really...
	You know, I'm not one for, even though we do a comedy show and it's entertainment, I don't really think I'm necessarily one for hyperbole, like people are like, our country's gone, Barack Obama.
	No, but I do think that today in 2020, when you look at all of the issues that we run into, whether it's COVID, whether it's the impeachment, whether it's Russia, whether it's, we just talked about today, Twitter and the mob or how they present AOC, it really does come down to the ability of the American public to procure information.
	And I think we were all really excited when new media, it's not really that new right now,
	when new media came out, and I know Joe Rogan talked about this and we've talked about this,
	where the gatekeepers were gone. But now there are new gatekeepers and more gatekeepers than ever.
	Because the gatekeepers aren't just people in a network, but the gatekeepers now can be the town square.
	The gatekeepers have moved to the sidewalk where they're telling you what you can and can't say because a lot of these companies, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, they benefit from the safe harbor protection, basically treated as a public utility.
	It's a little more complicated than that.
	It's like the difference between a website or a magazine or New York Times versus AT&T or Verizon.
	They can't edit what you say on their phone lines, right?
	Because they're a public utility versus a publisher.
	New York Times can tell what you can't write for our paper, so I want to be really clear about that.
	But all the problems that we've talked about, they come back to this.
	They come back to the public being able to get accurate information and there being an even playing field for people regardless of political persuasion.
	And I think we're at a point now where you have not only three companies or four companies, but one company, Alphabet, Google, YouTube, is more powerful as it relates to information than any national government or world governing body.
	You add up, Alphabet, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, far more than any government agency you can ever imagine.
	And this isn't the same kind of argument that liberals have tried to make about guns, and conservatives have said, well, the First Amendment doesn't just apply to the printing press, it applies to your iPhone.
	Because again, these are companies that are benefiting from protections of being politically neutral, as though they are a digital town square.
	And there's been one foot in and one foot out, and we need to settle the guidelines.
	And that's what we've been talking about in this show for a very long time.
	Are you a publisher?
	Are you a platform?
	Pick one.
	We'll be talking next week.
	We have some new info coming from some of these social media companies that have been affecting what we do here.
	So please do subscribe.
	Join Mug Club.
	That's what allows us to continue.
	If you don't want to, obviously you don't have to, but we don't make any money off of YouTube and we're not able to reach some of you now in new ways that we didn't know about before.
	But let me tell you this.
	I think this is pretty good.
	I think this is pretty good from the president.
	I was worried that it could be some kind of an executive order that, you know, would say something along the lines of, you're gonna let me tweet!
	Come on!
	Don't fact check me!
	Just Garbo did it!
	But, instead, I love how you mute your mics in the close, so you chuckle into the darkness.
	Instead, it's something that actually is trying to create a fair and even playing field, and if read The way that it is written right now, and I'm going to read some highlights for you, would apply to both the right and the left.
	Which is what we've always wanted, by the way.
	I don't want a leg up.
	I just want to make sure that our videos, that our tweets, are being shown alongside anybody else, regardless of our politics.
	And I want the same thing for leftists.
	That's why we did our video on Tulsi Gabbard and search results.
	So hopefully we've been consistent.
	So let me read some of this from you.
	This is the Executive Order, right?
	Executive Order CDA 230 is kind of the working title.
	Again, at this point, it's possible that it changes.
	So let me read you some highlights that I see here.
	Well, I guess I should read the first line, which is, by the authority, by the authority vested in me, and I'm not going to do this the whole time, because then it'll lose its impact.
	You've got to set it up, though.
	I've got to set it up.
	OK.
	Listed.
	Excuse me.
	That sets the stage.
	Barley was dead to begin with.
	Very dead.
	He was just, he was so dead.
	That's what they told me.
	He was unbelievably dead.
	By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution of the Laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, 40 U.S.C.
	101 and 12... That's a lot of numbers, folks.
	It is hereby ordered as follows, and there's a lot of information here regarding free speech being the bedrock of American democracy.
	I encourage you to read all of this.
	This, by the way, more than the Green New Deal.
	One topic.
	At least more than five.
	Yeah.
	It's not a new Al Pacino movie and social justice for all.
	This is actually just about one topic, social media, and it's more than the Green New Deal.
	Wow.
	Nuance!
	Do it!
	So much!
	Do it!
	So, here's what stuck out at me, and again, Monday morning, 9 a.m.
	or 10 a.m.
	Eastern.
	We'll be doing an entire episode, Good Morning Mug Club, Barely Legal, with Bill Richmond.
	He's a great lawyer.
	Thank God he's on our side.
	Online platforms, however, are engaging in selective censorship that is hurting our national discourse.
	Tens of thousands of Americans have reported, among other troubling behaviors, online platforms flagging content as inappropriate even though it does not violate any stated terms of service.
	We know exactly what that is.
	The rules were changed because of us on YouTube.
	It was declared!
	And that's so concerning, right, because we've experienced this personally.
	YouTube came out and said we did not violate any rules.
	The media interpreted that as though we had.
	And so then YouTube felt like they had their balls in a vice, and they had to change and create new rules that we may violate, and that's what happened with the Vox Apocalypse.
	This is a weird moment.
	When people look back through history, Vox Apocalypse, people maybe forget, it was entirely because of me dressed as a woman in some videos and making fun of a guy who called himself a lispy queer using his own words.
	That's the reason for these changes.
	I just wanted to tell jokes.
	Even though it does not violate any stated terms of service, making unannounced and unexplained changes to policies that have the effect of disfavoring certain viewpoints and deleting content and entire accounts with no warning, no rationale, and no recourse.
	So this is again, this sort of would talk to the motive of Stopping political bias.
	Later on down here it says, several online platforms are profiting from and promoting the aggression and disinformation spread by foreign governments like China.
	Google for example, which is how you know he was very involved in this, because it's vague.
	Several online platforms, well I don't know, who do you think it is?
	I'm not going to say who it is.
	Who do you think it is?
	China, Google.
	Then it goes right into... Google, for example, created a search engine for the Chinese Communist Party.
	We just talked about that yesterday.
	It's like someone's listening.
	Which blacklisted searches for human rights, hid data unfavorable to the Chinese Communist Party, and tracked users determined appropriate for surveillance.
	Again, this is... we're talking about the rationale behind this bill.
	Stopping a foreign agent From promoting propaganda and American companies that are more powerful than the American government, mind you, being complicit in that.
	That's necessary, in my opinion, legally.
	If we're going to talk about Russia, you've got to be just as concerned about algorithms on YouTube auto-deleting comments that aren't racist.
	These aren't comments that called someone a z*****.
	These were comments that were specifically targeting the Communist Party of China that were automatically deleted.
	Let's be really clear.
	It's not about race.
	It's not about offense.
	It's about the most powerful entities in the history of mankind being complicit with one of the most evil governments throughout the history of mankind.
	It's a necessary order.
	Let me see.
	Let me go through this.
	Sorry.
	A little intense with my wife in the emergency room.
	Section 2.
	Here's it.
	Prominent among those rules is the immunity from liability created by Section 230C of the Communications Decency Act.
	Section 230.
	47 U.S.C.
	230.
	It is a policy of the United States that the scope of immunity should be clarified.
	Now, what does that mean?
	We're talking about safe harbor.
	Again, that goes back to Publisher or platform?
	And what we've talked about when we've had people on this show, we've had lawyers, we've
	had guests that said, all I want them to do is pick a lane.
	Are you a publisher or are you a platform?
	If you say you're a publisher, you have the right to edit whatever you want.
	If you say you're a platform and your currency, by the way, as a platform is your user base
	and it's predicated on the idea of a massive user base of billions of people and the only
	reason they're there is because they feel that it's free and open communication, then
	Then you're not the Washington Post.
	Then you're not louderwithcrowder.com!
	You can't make those decisions for individuals.
	I'm going to keep going here because there's a lot.
	It's a little wordy.
	It reads like a Trump press conference.
	Okay, here's a big one.
	But subsection 230c, number two, qualifies that principle when the provider edits the content provided by others, subparagraph c2, specifically addresses protections from civil liability and clarifies that a provider is protected from liability when it acts in, quote, good faith to restrict access to content that are considered to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, outrageous.
	No.
	A little Johnny Cochran there.
	Excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.
	The provision does not extend to deceptive or pretextual actions restricting online content or actions inconsistent with an online platform's terms of service.
	When an interactive computer service provider removes or restricts access to content and its actions do not meet the criteria of that paragraph, it is engaged in editorial conduct.
	By making itself an editor of content outside of the protections of this subparagraph, we're talking about, again, Safe Harbor, we want to be clear, such a provider forfeits Any protection from being deemed a publisher or speaker which properly applies only to a provider that merely provides a platform for content supplied by others.
	It is the policy of the United States that all departments and agencies should apply Section 230C according to the interpretation set out in this section.
	That's important.
	That's about as important as it gets.
	YouTube, for how many years?
	What content did you create?
	Twitter?
	Facebook?
	I know you've got a couple series now, YouTube, like Scare PewDiePie, which you had to get rid of because he had an offensive Twitchy stream, which we'll get into in a second, it didn't even happen on the platform.
	You didn't build your sites up by creating content.
	You're not like, even a Netflix.
	You're not like NBC, ABC, or CBS.
	You're not!
	You were like the Church Bulletin.
	People paid a little commission to be on that bulletin, effectively, at that point.
	Or to withdraw from the bulletin.
	You ran some ads on the bulletin.
	You ran some guy selling guitar lessons with a little phone number that you pull off on the bulletin.
	That's important.
	Because now you have to decide.
	Do you want your entire business model, YouTube, to be your original series?
	Good luck.
	Or do you want to continue benefiting from the protections that not everyone, but a lot of you, have exploited?
	Okay.
	And again, that's really, it's clarifying the taking down in good faith and how it's an inconsistent application of the terms of service.
	National Telecommunications and Information Administration, NTIA, shall file a petition for rulemaking with the Federal Communications Commission.
	Communications Commission, that's, I didn't use the plural.
	I was getting into character too much with looting the target.
	Communication Commission!
	What?
	I don't like F. It's just, it's a burden.
	Gotta add S's and I gotta add E-D's to what, what am I retired?
	Um, so sorry.
	So file a petition for rulemaking within the Federal Communications Commission requesting that the FCC expeditiously... Can we get half-Asian bills done?
	Propose regulations to clarify the conditions under which an action restricting access to or availability of material is not taken in good faith.
	Deceptive, pretextual, inconsistent with the provider's terms of service.
	The result of inadequate notice.
	That's important.
	That addresses shadow banning.
	In other words, let's say there's a hypothetical scenario where someone puts out a highlight reel of everything offensive that maybe you said, which I'm so glad that they used up all their powder.
	Should have kept some dry.
	To try and get rid of you, and it's not a violation.
	But then, without properly notifying you, there are changes made to your channel algorithmically.
	Or, for some reason, maybe, let's say Twitter isn't showing your tweets to people in the timeline who've chosen to follow you, despite the fact that that always used to be the case, and they haven't sent you proper notification.
	In other words, if anyone out there is being treated differently on any of these platforms, and it can be verified, and you've not been notified, again, that's a problem.
	I think this is necessary.
	This is another one.
	The head of each executive department and agency shall review its agency's federal spending and advertising and marketing paid to online platforms.
	Ooh, that's a good one.
	Why does that sting so much?
	Because when we're talking about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russiagate, how many Democrats have been running ads on Facebook?
	How many politicians?
	How many people who work in the federal government or the national government on any level?
	How many people are using their gain paid for through your taxpayer dollars or a PAC?
	Which often happens, right?
	How many ads have you seen for Bernie Sanders on Facebook?
	How many ads have you seen for, I don't know, Gretchen Whitmer, Barack Obama?
	In other words, if these platforms want to pick and choose losers politically, guess what?
	No one involved with the United States federal government can be advertising because we can't be giving you money.
	That's not allowed.
	That goes back to propagandist Chinese Communist Party.
	So is Russia the biggest concern?
	Okay, let's make sure there's no Russia.
	And no Biden ads.
	Want to play by those rules?
	I think it's necessary.
	What do we have?
	This page is empty, mostly boring.
	Section 5, State Review of Unfair and Deceptive Practices.
	The Attorney General shall establish a working group regarding the potential enforcement of state statutes that prohibit online platforms from engaging in unfair and deceptive acts and practices.
	I feel like that one's pretty self-explanatory.
	Then this one right here says, uh, monitoring, talking about some issues, uh, item, line items, monitoring or creating watch lists.
	This is something that stuck out to me of users based on their interactions with contents or users and monitoring based on their activity off of the platform.
	Now, I'm not entirely sure.
	But I feel like this is in here, because everything is in here very purposefully, which I'm actually really happy with, because sometimes Donald Trump—I almost said Barack Obama—he shoots from the hip, Donald Trump, and obviously this is something that's been drafted up not just by Donald Trump, but this seems pretty methodical.
	This seems pretty thought out, and I was concerned because we just saw the tweet yesterday, I believe.
	People thought this was being drafted up out of nowhere.
	This is almost a timeline.
	Alex Jones was banned for off-platform statements.
	with social media saying, all right, that's not going to happen anymore. This isn't just
	coming out of thin air. So in this case, a good example would be Alex Jones. Alex Jones was banned
	for off-platform statements. Whether you like them or not, whether you think they're horrible or not,
	he was banned from platforms for things that he said that weren't on that platform.
	In other words, this is included there, and it's not just Alex Jones, this has happened with many people, because we've seen this happen.
	And that's a violation if it's a public utility, if this platform benefits from the Safe Harbor Act.
	That's a violation of the protections from which they benefit.
	One, they did it with Alex Jones.
	One, they've done it with us.
	That, to me, is important and it's powerful.
	And I want to see if there's anything else in here.
	No, there's nothing else in here.
	So, I will say this.
	Not to take any shots at him.
	I love Ben Shapiro.
	I think he's right on a lot.
	And I think he's right in spirit to be apprehensive of this.
	Because we've talked about how I don't want the government to be in charge of what sites can and can't say.
	Because that can change.
	Then it can become President Whitmer, and she can decide what can and can't be said.
	But I do think it's within the role of government to ensure that people are being honest, that they are not engaging in deceptive business practices, and that they are not benefiting from legal protections that they have no right from which to benefit.
	So Ben Shapiro, let me tell you where I think that it's a disagreement, and I think that he's wrong, but I understand the concern and I appreciate it.
	He tweeted out that here's the inevitable effect of destroying 230 of the CDA.
	All comment sections will be taken down.
	No website has the resources to actively edit all comments in order to shield themselves from liability, and no website is willing to leave comments entirely standards-free.
	Then he tweeted, the invitation to redefine unfair business practices to include comment policing based lawsuits will likely not end well for conservatives.
	I see the appeal, but I'm wondering just why conservatives are suddenly so unconcerned about political bias among regulators.
	Because this isn't putting the power in the hands of regulators.
	This is what's concerning.
	Well, not this is what's concerning.
	This is where I think that Ben Shapiro, respectfully, and I know I'm not a lawyer, And I'll be told that, and I want everyone to be respectful.
	And it's not—Ben is just saying this.
	A lot of conservatives are saying this, and I understand the argument because I once felt that way.
	We're not giving undue power into the hands of regulators.
	The power is already there.
	The power is already there with regulators, with our government, to recognize entities as public utilities or platforms, right?
	We already do that.
	Certain entities benefit from safe harbor laws and protections, right?
	That already exists.
	So this isn't giving new sweeping power to the government.
	It's now making these companies who are more powerful than the government pick a lane.
	That's what I see happening.
	If this were saying, and Donald Trump can pick who stays or goes on Twitter or some board that Donald Trump appoints, I'd have a problem.
	That's not what we're seeing here.
	And even more, what I actually find really inspiring here is this, this reads the same for conservatives as it does for liberals.
	Anyone out there who supports freedom of speech, anyone out there who doesn't think that people should be shadowbanned, who doesn't think that offensive speech should be removed just because someone in Silicon Valley, be it Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg or Susan Wojcicki, deeming it offensive, this is a good thing for you.
	I'm more concerned about them having unfettered power, which is what they have right now.
	And the government has this current power.
	It's about exercising it correctly and defining the parameters that have kind of been skirted.
	And how can you argue that they shouldn't?
	When especially recently, let's get rid of ourselves and the Vox Apocalypse and conservatives, they've automatically edited comments critical of the Communist Chinese Party.
	And here's something else where I think it's wrong.
	This is not going to be affecting conservative websites for the same reason that it won't be affecting the New York Times or the Washington Post.
	And it shouldn't, by the way.
	I want conservatives to be very clear on this, because YouTube, Facebook, Twitter—I'm just reading the tweets again here—them policing comments themselves is very different than, say, the New York Times or the Washington Post.
	Or, let me use a closer analogy.
	Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube deleting comments that they deem offensive is very different than a user on that platform deleting comments on their own channel.
	In other words, Karen can delete your COVID data.
	That she doesn't like on her Facebook post.
	Because that's her Facebook page.
	That's why she has a delete button.
	Facebook doesn't, if they're a public form, if they benefit from Safe Harbor, does not have the right to preempt Karen, as bitchy as she may be, does not have the right to preempt her decision to remove something from her personal profile.
	Karen can remove it.
	Facebook can't.
	New York Times can pick who publishes.
	YouTube can't.
	Washington Post can edit the comment section.
	LoudHouseCredit.com can edit the comment section.
	The Blaze can edit the comment section.
	YouTube, provided that it's not violating actual law that we have, active threats of violence, laws that have already been outlined in this piece of legislation for a while, they don't have the authority to do that.
	And again, I want to drive this home.
	New York Times is a publisher.
	Just like an individual on Facebook.
	Facebook itself is not.
	And they benefit from the individual publisher on Facebook.
	The people who use the platforms are the publishers.
	The platforms are designed to court and benefit and monetize publishers.
	They are not supposed to be publishers themselves.
	And that is a really gray territory that's been a huge problem and has made Americans less informed, arguably, than ever before.
	Should they choose to be?
	So I just think, a platform, particularly one that benefits from the safe harbor, right, they necessarily, they need to be precluded.
	I will say this, this is the main, and then I do have to get going, and Monday we're going to do an entire, I guess, deep dive is the term now into this executive order.
	YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, take your pick, whoever, Instagram, if there have been any of these companies that are benefiting from safe harbor protections, they need to be precluded from making editorial decisions. You have to pick one. It's
	that simple. I've said this for a long time. You have to pick one or the other. Pick your rules.
	Just let us know what they are.
	And it seems like the president is hearing us now.
	He's saying you have to pick one or the other.
	And you know what, President Trump?
	If you are looking to reach folks who've been championing this cause for a very long time, the largest show ever in the history of YouTube as far as a conservative program would.
	We'd be happy to welcome you.
	And if not, you know what?
	We'll take Donald Trump Jr.
	as well.
	He's great.
	We love him.
	We'd love to have him on the show.
	I bet you.
	Maybe I'll send him a text with this.
	Tweet.
	I mean, tweet.
	I'm excited.
	I'm excited about this because this puts into legalese what we have been trying to communicate for a very long time and a very real fight that we've had to have here at this show.
	Every, I would say, quarter, we have to entirely reinvent our business model, how we title, how we thumbnail, who we talk to at these platforms to make sure that we're not running afoul, and it just gets to be exhausting.
	Because the rules keep changing, and they're benefiting from a statute that specifically says companies like them cannot keep changing the rules.
	This isn't about changing anything.
	This is about making sure that they don't.
	This isn't about changing the rules of a platform and a publisher.
	It's about making sure that people who benefit from being platforms are playing by those rules, because for a long time they haven't.
	And I think that's a good thing.
	Okay, Monday, we are going to see you with my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman.
	I'll put him in a judge's robe.

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