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Jan. 20, 2022 - Louder with Crowder
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The Party Switch IS NOT REAL! Democrats Are LIARS and I'll Prove It! | Louder with Crowder
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🎵 Outro Music 🎵 🎵 Outro Music 🎵
Are you ready, kids?
Don't touch me now!
I can't hear you!
I need to go!
Who lives in a swamp right under D.C.?
Brian Kravitz!
Who sniffs your aunt's head and won't let her flee?
Kirsten Kravitz!
Who touches your mom and gropes all the kids?
Brian Kravitz!
Be sure not to tell your dad what I did!
Brian Kravitz!
Horny?
Biden, Grumman! Biden, Grumman! Biden, Grumman! Biden, Grumman!
You're a stranger in a ballroom, that's what I know!
You're a stranger in a ballroom, I got the ballroom!
I was feeling it.
Wow.
Yeah, that was good.
Is that a record?
Thanks for going wow.
I haven't seen that much slurping in all my years.
I said that out of the gate, Dave.
We've got to be careful because we're dealing with Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd today.
YouTube saying, give me a reason!
You mean those racist Democrats who maybe changed?
Those slurpers?
Yeah, one of them.
Dave's here, so we've got to be careful with this one.
It was a good slur.
Yeah, thank you.
Party switch!
We're going to be talking about that today.
That's a big thing because we're talking about the voting rights now.
I know what you're thinking.
Voting rights?
Black people can't vote?
No, no, no.
You're thinking anyone can't vote?
No, no, no.
That's not it.
So this is something that's been one of the most requested segments, and I guess we've touched on it before, but we haven't done the deep dive, as the youngins say.
You know, I don't know.
What you kids do.
Look, with your Lizzo's and your Etunes, this is real life.
This is no family matters.
So we are going to be talking about the party switch today, because voting rights is a big deal right now.
And you know, there was a Civil Rights Act that actually took place that really did matter.
At one point, and really did have to do with voting rights.
And we're going to go back through the records, and it's probably not what you think it was.
And then we're also going to go back through history, basically Abraham Lincoln through today, to address this issue of the party switch.
People use it.
It's lazy.
It's incorrect.
All references available at ladderwithcrowder.com every day.
And my question to you is, did you ever believe it?
Out there.
You guys can comment below.
That's the best way to anger the YouTube sun gods.
Did you believe before this, before you see the segment, so comment now and then comment below your own comment if your mind has changed.
We were talking about that, talking about Biden's speech yesterday.
Oh boy.
Talking about, what else are we talking about?
One of the longest speeches in history for a president.
Really?
For a press conference.
What felt that way.
Most of it was um.
Bumbling through.
Yes.
Well he was using his Asian dialect.
So before we get to, oh by the way I should tell you, we're going to be here next week.
Dave is going to fill in host one day.
I'm not letting him know to keep him on his toes.
We're gonna do that super video on Wikipedia.
We've got some tricks up our sleeve.
Some things that we've already tested.
Beta tested?
No, actually tested.
So hope you enjoy it, Wikipedia.
Next Thursday, that's going to be up.
And if you don't see this show on YouTube, You can just tune in at Rumble Mug Club weekdays, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.
Eastern.
10 a.m.
Eastern.
Don't let them cut us off.
All right.
Gerald A., how are you, sir?
I am doing well.
How are you?
You know, I didn't sleep for a few days.
People say that like three hours over the course of like three, four days.
So I took someone to help me sleep last night.
Obviously completely over the counter.
Yes.
And I don't know which is worse because then you wake up and you feel even more tired than if you just hadn't slept.
You do.
Yeah.
Why do you always say that clowns will eat you if you can't sleep?
I see that on your social.
I had one bad experience in college.
Did a clown try to eat you in your sleep?
Well, in a manner of speaking.
And we have, of course, he's here.
You know him.
You love him.
He'll be filling hosting next week.
But he'll be at the Funny Stop in Cuyahoga Falls.
Don't forget that.
Cuyahoga, it's in Cleveland.
Okay, First Nations name falls January 20th or 29th.
Dave Landau, how are you, sir?
Good, ahoy!
Yeah?
Ahoy, ahoy, I'm fine.
You should say ahoy first and then, you know, I say how are you and then... Okay, let's try it again.
Okay.
Dave Landau, First Nations, Two-Spirit Falls, how are you?
Ahoy, how about you?
We'll work on it.
Was that wrong?
I think you need to take more of that medicine.
Yeah, I think you need to take more of that medicine.
Isn't it funny how we use the term medicine now?
When we were kids, you thought medicine was something good for you.
No.
And then you realize just what doctors prescribe.
Oh, there's just everything.
Yeah.
It's just, this is medicine.
When you're a kid, you think, like, Robitussin?
Yeah.
And then you wake up, you're an adult, and you're like, yeah, this is medicine.
What is it?
Nine milligrams of Xanax.
That's really what it is, yeah.
I tell you, whatever I take, I just wake up and the tears don't stop.
Just wake up screaming right around 2.30.
That's because you wake up and you're still Dave Landau.
Yeah, it's true.
I wake up and there's just, I can't take back what I've done.
No, you wake up in a puddle of your own filth going, yeah, it seems about right.
There's one hell of an ad for Valium.
I don't even use sheets.
What's the point?
Just to take them off and clean them every night?
Okay, Fuller.
Before we move on to anything else, this Oklahoma pastor, Tulsa pastor, Michael Todd.
What did I say?
No, no, no.
I almost wanted to do like an air quotes pastor.
Okay, all right.
I thought you were correcting me.
No, you're fine.
I said pastor!
You did, yes.
No, he thinks he's a... let me try.
Pastor.
Oh, there you go, yeah.
Doesn't know when to use the air quotes.
Yeah.
Or as he calls them, a reminder of how to tie his shoes.
Yes.
And he still doesn't get it.
I don't do that one.
Notice his Velcro?
So Tulsa pastor Michael Todd spit on one of his parishioners to demonstrate how to live like Jesus Christ.
Changing something and you don't see it clearly yet.
What?
Oh my gosh.
Is this Malcolm and Eddie?
Oh my gosh.
Oh, no.
No, no, no, sir.
Wow.
He hawked it.
No, that was from the diaphragm.
That was... Most people... That's a COVID baptism.
...would not face Jesus anymore.
No.
You're not Jesus.
And Jesus didn't spit on... What most people would do?
It's turn?
If there is a man behind you spitting in his hand, you run.
I might get nasty.
Yeah, good. Turn away. That's the right thing.
Get Lizzo.
Oh my god! Get Lizzo in between you two.
If there is a man behind you spitting in his hand, you run.
Oh, gosh.
I might get nasty.
Because I don't know how to quit you.
Oh no.
Now I do have COVID.
COVID.
You totally missed that.
Look how that looks like sunblock!
And see the responses of the people.
What did he swallow?
A vat of zinc oxide before he did that?
At least be hydrated.
Now do the air quotes make sense?
Now look at the camera and say bang brothers.
This is to be like Jesus?
I think it says that somewhere in Matthew.
The most un-Jesus-like thing I've ever seen.
I'm a little pissed off.
Drop your cloak and take up our sword?
No!
Alright, you know what Jesus did?
He spit into the mud, he did something on his hand, and he made a blind man see!
I don't think that's what happened here.
You just made that guy have to wear an eyepatch for the rest of his life.
You probably infected him with something, potentially.
Yes, of course he did.
Come on!
Well, everybody who saw wished they were blind.
Do you think that guy had an earpiece where he could pick someone out of the crowd who he didn't like?
That was his brother?
Hold on a second, hold on a second.
There are three possible scenarios here.
Brother in the Lord, brother brother, or is it his actual brother?
His actual brother.
Okay, like blood.
Actually there's four.
Well I guess, yeah.
This isn't the Ilan Omar hierarchy of brothers.
Wow, that was gross.
I would never let my brother do that.
No, I can't imagine.
That's very gross.
It's theater in church.
Sometimes that's fine, but in this case he was trying to make a point.
Like, oh, you see how you're reacting?
That's how people reacted when Jesus did this.
And I'm like, not quite, because a guy could see.
They're like, whoa!
He can see!
Yeah, yeah.
All this guy has is spit in his eyes.
Curing the curse of blindness is not a mundane detail, Michael!
That is how you let a hoe know she's your property without tattoo money.
We backhanded him afterwards.
Oh, good.
He slapped the spit off of me.
I gotta keep my Jesus hands strong.
That's what I do.
When Jesus slapped Mary Magdalene, he said, bitch, I need quarters.
What is this, Pastor Cat Williams come out?
Yes.
Did you not see the clip?
And Jesus said, y'all motherfuckers ain't got no foot, so I'm gonna kick you in the face!
Mm-hmm, pass that plate around.
Don't ask no questions.
This is not Jesus.
No.
He ain't did that.
Look, look, I know you're waiting, the horses and everything, but can you just make like a guest appearance and just say that you're not with him?
He's kind of like, I've been making a guest appearance for three years, none of you seem to care.
I know you said nobody knows the time, but I mean, it looks right to me.
Yeah, this seems very apocalyptic.
Well, one could hope.
Yeah, he's probably just going to wait.
I'm going to wait until everything's better just because you guys have been such jerks.
Yeah, yeah.
We're like, can you send another flood?
No, no, no.
It's going to get worse.
That guy tried to start one.
You can't put two of everything on the boat now?
Have you seen your diet?
Can we just leave mosquitoes off this time?
And spiders.
All right, well, moving on into former Vice President Joe Biden.
So he held his second ever press conference yesterday.
I just can't believe that guy's claiming that that is Christlike.
It's not.
No.
He should spit in mud if he's trying to like give the correct presentation but don't do it.
They said in Mission Control they think he also spit mud too but I mean like there was...
He was hanging off his brother.
He hawked.
You know what he was doing.
He was grabbing some of the back snot.
Everybody in here who's a guy has hawked a loogie to see how far you can spit.
You gotta give it some weight.
And that's what he did to his brother.
I mean, maybe if his brother was way younger and he was a priest.
Actually, sorry, Mission Control, they were talking about Jesus.
Jesus, that's what I said.
Jesus spit into the mud and made a thing.
Researchers, you should make sure you delineate.
Make sure if you're referring to actual Jesus versus crazy pastor.
I can't tell the difference.
It's weird.
Well, you know, Jesus, when he returns, he's going to be that hobo peeing down an elevator shaft.
At least if you hear the hobo tell it.
Or Joan Osborn.
They rejected him at that time, too.
That's always what they try and say.
They try and say, you know, Jesus, if he were around today, you would have thought he was crazy because of his radical views.
No, that's not true at all.
That's not true at all.
He was entirely lucid.
If you listen to him, he was logical.
He spoke sometimes in parables, which were actually pretty simple, maybe reductive to use the term for all the leftists who like to use the term nuance to make it sound like they have a political science degree, which you probably do.
It's a useless degree.
It is.
The issue here is no, no one would think he was crazy.
He'd probably just have a show on this network.
He probably would.
There we go.
Till he starts spitting on people.
Oh my gosh, that is just... I'm sorry, we have to go to Biden, but... They totally have to watch that clip before being on air.
I didn't see him.
I didn't see the pate that he made and showered his brother.
And when the Lord said, you, brother, papier-mâché's your cheek, offer to him your other cheek.
Take that, take that pacemaker, my fucking hat.
Did his brother lose a bet?
Remind me on Mug Club, and it's my favorite day of the week, it's Chat Thursday, where we take all of your chats, to tell a story about how I used the power of the church to almost choke my brother to death.
Really?
Very similar scenario.
I've got a loogie story, we'll throw that one in.
Except my brother was spitting.
I hope they have different dads.
I really do.
I mean, if they're full-blood related, that's just... There's a good shot.
So, yesterday, you know what I'm saying, cuz?
Gotta stay on YouTube, baby.
Biden held the second ever press conference since being in office.
It was not good, which brings us to this week in Biden.
If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
Um, the, uh, uh, uh, Alison Harris, please.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn't passed, do you still believe the upcoming election will be fairly conducted and its results will be legitimate?
Well, it all depends on whether or not we're able to make The case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election.
Remember how we thought not that many people were going to show up to vote in the middle of a pandemic?
We had the highest voter turnout in the history of the United States of America.
Russia will be held accountable if it invades, and it depends on what it does.
It's one thing if it's a minor incursion, and then we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, etc.
Now, whether or not I think that How can I say this in a public forum?
I think that he... Look, I didn't overpromise, but I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen.
If you have a problem, figure it out whether you're for me or Trump, and you ain't black.
I think, therefore, I am retarded.
I don't know how that was that long with him flying off the cuff like that.
Yeah, just rattling off.
He's like Robin Williams, Stream of Consciousness.
I think, therefore I'm retarded.
Ooh, this is intense.
Allison, Allison Harris, Kamala Harris, sleeping with Willie Brown.
What?
Oh, look, big penis.
Oh, man.
I found my way to the oval.
Oh, look, hot lady in a mask.
What if she took off that mask and actually her face looked like a mask?
Half moon.
Oh, that'd be intense.
My pants are wet.
By the way, I know we like making fun of Joe Biden, but he did something really bad there, and he's like, you know... That's right, he swirled himself, ho ho.
Looked around the room like he was about to tell a black joke?
Yes, he looked around and he said, hey look, there's a southern pastor.
I'm a southern pastor, this is how I do it.
Then he said, ho ho, I swirled myself.
I pooped.
I pooped.
I know people use spit, but I'm going to use something else.
Free wishes.
How do I say this terrible thing in a public forum?
I just said that out loud.
Ho ho, ho ho.
Rubble rubble.
Wait until I do my gay voice and Arnold impression.
I do it every single time.
Stream of consciousness.
Ho ho.
Alright, sorry.
Go ahead.
No, it's really bad because he said Russia.
Well, it depends on, you know, if it's like a minor incursion or something.
We have to argue about this and Russia's like...
Oh, we can do a minor incursion.
By the way, you know who had a problem with this?
The President of Ukraine.
He actually tweeted out about this, and I think we have that, if you could bring that up in just a second.
He actually was like, look, there are no... Wait, the sitting President of the Ukraine is still allowed on Twitter?
He is.
I know that sounds like it's not allowed.
If you can bring it up, it's in the Honor Channel.
He basically is saying, like, there are no minor incursions.
There are no minor, like, fatalities.
There are no minor people losing lives and grieving over it.
There's no minor countries.
And by the way, he's like, this is from somebody who is not a minor country.
Like, come on.
How in the world can you say that that kind of thing is okay?
Yeah.
Right?
Being able to invade in a minor way.
Yeah.
You know, if we have to start, you know, fighting about, they're already fighting.
Yes.
It's like a guy punching you in the face repeatedly and you're like, so you what?
You want to fight?
What are you saying?
We punched you.
And then the fight was over and you just kept hitting him.
Yeah, but it was a minor punch.
Skittles.
Oh my gosh.
This is scary.
It really is scary.
I can't even read the name Allison and I do this for a living.
What?
Tons of living.
I have to remember the names of the songs.
Huh?
How do I say this?
You know I'm gonna call on you.
Okay, come on.
Joe, you're singing again.
Joe.
Joe.
Somebody.
Yeah.
What happened to normal names?
Like Ruthie and Gutrude.
Yeah.
And all the girls that were around when I was young.
Somebody tackle him.
I know a lady.
Oh God.
I know a lady.
Ethel.
No.
We used to go to the restroom at Amy's time.
No, no, no.
Amy, you're what you want to be.
Beatrice.
I once had my way with a Beatrice in the pool.
We're going to have to clean that up.
It's consensual.
I mean, it was 1950s consensual.
No means yes.
Come on.
It's what I wanted.
Amy Schumer, before we move on here, we have a long segment today on the switching of the parties.
Amy Schumer, Let me be clear about something here, okay?
I have never once, because sometimes people say, why do you think I'm fat?
We've never once just found someone and said, ha ha ha, you're fat.
It doesn't exist.
It's people who demand that you declare them beautiful.
Brave, beautiful, healthy.
That's the issue.
We're telling young people that all of this is good, and it's not.
If I see people who are overweight at the gym, it almost brings a tear to my eye.
I want to see people taking that first step.
Putting in the work.
You know who had a little bit of a weight problem?
Me!
Well, it was post-surgery.
And when you were younger.
But, uh, when I was younger, and that's why I got a gym membership.
Wow, I think he was referring to younger, and you just crapped all over him.
Did you see the... Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was trying to say, like, you know who had a weight problem?
Me, when I was, like, 14, and Jill was like, NO!
You do now!
They were fat only six months ago, man!
Yeah.
It's not seven foot two.
We all can't just eat everything all day, Gerald.
Stephen in July, he had some juicy tits.
All right.
They were floppy.
I watched him run.
The legend of Stephen's tits!
Come on!
Have some.
All right.
Amy Schumer showed off her stunning new body on Instagram, saying, I feel good finally.
Well, she feels pretty.
Note, she didn't say witty.
Did you know she was just in a movie called I Feel Pretty a couple years ago?
I feel pretty, oh so pretty.
I feel pretty, not witty and fat.
I feel good, finally.
It's been a journey.
Never thought I would do anything but talk to me after your uterus doesn't contract for 2.5 years and you turn 40.
But here's the thing, you will actually be shocked by the before and after picture.
So good results.
So I want to give her credit.
Here's the before picture.
Here's the after picture.
So she just turned around.
Is that what happened here?
She turned around to avoid the pastor's spit.
Don't turn around now!
Don't turn around now!
Come get your blessing!
He'd have to do something.
Come on, get your blessing!
Go ahead.
I'm not blind, I can see!
I'm about to bless you up and that's my... I don't need it, I can see!
I'm blind!
I know the miracle!
I'm good!
Come on, get your wafer up here!
Take my body, my blood, and my spit.
That's right!
That's right!
This spit gon' turn into gold up in the...
Reach back!
Way back!
Come on, getcha Jesus!
I'm sorry, that was actually wrong.
Here's the correct before and after.
Yeah.
It's not a joke.
It's not a joke.
Whatever.
Put a stripe down that suit.
A shark will think she's a hostess Twinkie.
I appreciate the effort, but I just don't.
Which one's the black one with the white swirl?
Which one's the black patient?
It's a Twinkie.
Not Twinkie.
Twinkie's the white one.
What's it called?
Oh, you mean the, uh... Swiss roll?
Ding-dong.
Swiss rolls.
What do you mean the ho-ho?
You're talking ho-ho.
Ho-ho!
No, I think you got it right.
The ding-dong.
I think it's the ding-dong.
There's a ding-dong which is like a hockey puck.
Yeah, also Michelle Obama's dream.
Also known as King Don.
It's like pick one, hostess.
Yeah, for crying out loud.
Ding Dong is way funnier as a kid, so why weren't we making fun of those?
I never made fun of those.
Well, that's because of how you were raised.
Were you guys making fun of them?
You were eating so many Ding Dongs it didn't make a difference.
That's it.
That's it.
That's the Swiss roll?
Yeah, if you could just put that down, put that down, Amy Schumer, just down that bathing suit.
He's like the black one with the creamy inside?
My neighbor Kevin?
Alright, before we move on to the party switch, which I'm looking forward to getting into, this is while we're talking about very scary things, Amy Schumer.
The new Scream, released this weekend actually, just had 30.6 million dollars, had a pretty, had a pretty, dare I say, dare I say a frightening success.
Oh lord.
Scream at the box office had a frightening success.
It was spookily successful.
A lot of talking in the theater.
Yes, a lot of speaking in the theater.
But it depends on the neighborhood.
Did you get spit on by your pastor before going into the theater?
You're talking.
Don't miss your spit.
It is absolutely horrifying!
Thank you for bringing your baby to an R-rated film.
Yes.
Thank you for using machete as your most fitting babysitter!
You've run this theater as the delinquent circus monkey you are far long enough!
All right.
Yes.
I don't care.
All right.
So it was very successful scream.
And I like horror films.
But we all know there's obviously it's tough when you watch a horror film.
Yeah, something about them, especially the slasher films that just scream a perfect example seem a little unrealistic.
And I think they could they could be made they could be improved.
I think so.
Ahoy hoy.
You hung up on me.
Because you were being weird.
What's that noise?
Popcorn.
You're making popcorn?
Uh huh.
I only eat popcorn at the movies.
Well, I'm about to watch a video.
Really? What?
Uh, some scary movie.
Do you like scary movies?
Uh huh.
What's your favorite scary movie?
Ooh, um, I guess...
Oh, and Inconvenient Truth.
Ooh, that is a good one.
playing with Kelsey Grammer.
Ooh, that is a good one.
True. I'm getting off track.
What's your name?
Why do you want to know my name?
Because...
I want to know who I'm looking at.
Listen, asshole.
No, you listen, Casey, you little bitch.
If you hang up on me again, I'll gut you like a fish.
Understand?
How do you know my name?
I'm coming in.
D'awww.
Owie.
Who's the b***h now?
BANG!
Horror movies don't work with a Walther.
Your popcorn's burning, bitch!
Stop speaking in the theater!
Sounds like we just winged him.
Yeah.
You know?
I don't know.
He's still there.
Oh, he's still there.
He might come back.
I hear there's gonna be a sequel.
There could be a sequel.
Turn that around very quickly with the scream release.
By the way, you guys can go to waltherarms.com.
Yeah.
And you can't purchase the firearms, obviously, online.
You have to go to your local dealer, your local certified dealer.
But you can shop for parts, optics, lights.
Look, they have the balls to sponsor this show.
I know there are a lot of firearm choices that you have out there.
This is what I carry.
I trust my life with it.
They're fantastic.
And I'm not going to do a lot of selling you on it.
Just Google Walther PPQ Review.
Google Walther PDP Review.
Just Google.
Bing.
Use that little bent back paper clipper, that purple bonzo buddy.
I don't care.
And try and find something negative.
Yeah.
They just don't have the same kind of scope for advertising like other people.
It's one of the best kept secrets in the firearm industry. I love them. They're
fantastic. Good people over there.
Go try it. That's what we want you to do. Just try it. That's all you need to do. Try it side by side.
Go to a gun range. Try the Walther. Okay. Also hit the notification bell right now. If you're
watching right now, hit that notification bell. I realized that Tim the Toolman has short, shorter
arms because he has to reach for the thing and he's like...
Like a T-Rex.
Spit on them.
T-Rex looks more like a giant turkey.
Have you seen this?
Velociraptor.
They keep changing the dinosaurs.
Yeah, they're saying that they're all filled with feathers.
Nobody would have been afraid of Jurassic Park.
They're not filled with feathers.
It's not covered.
You're right.
They're not feathered down dinosaurs.
It looks like a bird.
Kid my dinosaur.
Kid my dinosaur.
If it's not the most comfortable dino you've ever slept on, then this election's been a fraud.
I was high on crackled cocaine when I thought of stuffed dinosaur pillows.
They're turning the dinosaurs gay, Steven.
They're turning them gay.
They're absolutely turning the dinosaurs gay.
They're making dinosaur-humanoid hybrids.
I just saw a man... Look, look.
I know everyone's going to say that you're crazy.
I was hurting my knees when I was about to pay my drug dealer with my mouth.
Oh, we switched to Alex Jones.
There was a man slash velociraptor walking down Guadalupe.
I just saw him.
It's your dinosaur knee pillow for when you're out of cash.
A lot of respect for Mike Lindell.
The guy got overdrug.
I miss Mike.
I like Mike.
When people always hold it against someone for the rest of their life, they used to do that with George W. Bush.
Say, oh yeah, well you did cocaine.
Like, yeah, how'd you figure out?
You listened to him?
I did cocaine this morning.
I thought I got a second chance.
Is that not right?
So did babies in the 1920s when they had a cough.
That's what they used to do.
Or there was Bayer's heroin.
Hey, don't forget Coca-Cola.
Ask your doctor about heroin.
My baby, I think, has acid reflux.
Oh, well, better do heroin.
Yes, and to really seal it in, be sure to coat his gums with whiskey from the bottle.
Yes.
Ask your doctor about Wild Turkey 101.
Your baby will sleep sound.
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9 out of 10 doctors recommend them.
And your lice-ridden, stupid flapper hair.
Yes, absolutely.
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Every day.
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Good for the eyes.
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Be sure to cover yourself in suntan lotion so you get more sun when you're outside.
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Staring at the sun may result in gulag.
So, also, here's something that's pretty big right now.
I don't know if you guys knew this.
Support for the Republican Party, the GOP, just skyrocketed.
Really?
This is huge.
Over the last year, the party preference shifted among Americans.
I think this is the biggest shift, largest, it's a 14 point swing.
It's the largest in Gallup's history.
Wow.
Ever.
In Gallup's history.
In a one year period of time.
So, Q1 2021, 40% of voters favored Republicans compared to 49% favoring Democrats.
Okay.
Now it's switched.
That's Q1, Q4, same year, 47% favoring Republicans and 42.
That's a 14-point swing within a year.
Looks like it's gonna be a good year!
Yeah.
I love midterms, baby!
And what are you gonna say now?
What are you gonna be like, well, Rasterson's done, but okay, how about Gallup?
Well, they're not legitimate.
Snope says maybe.
Unconfirmed.
Well, hopefully we'll have record turnout during a pandemic.
Yes, that's a miracle.
It turns out when you mail ballots out to everybody, they come back.
I remember y'all thought people wouldn't come out and vote.
Pandemic, record number.
Even Joe Louis voted.
Yeah, great.
Frazier.
Marciano.
Literally, hundreds of my dead friends.
I was surprised.
I said, who's that?
Jack Dempsey voted twice.
Yeah, crazy.
I just want to be clear.
Jack LaLanne, four times.
So did his juicer.
I just want to be clear, Biden did say that we might have reason not to trust the 2022 election results.
Well, if he loses.
Well, no, no, no, but I just, I thought that you couldn't say that.
No, you're not allowed to say that.
You would get banned, and so I'm assuming that Joe Biden is now banned from any social media or media in general.
Inspiring an insurrection.
Right.
Well, I would assume you would take the second sitting president off of Twitter, right?
Yes, I would think.
Kamala should leave.
I'm just making sure.
Not so much sitting as lying.
Or even one of them.
Yeah, she's really the first female president, huh?
Mm-hmm.
Chair needs to go back.
Or will be.
Well, might be.
Yeah.
I don't know how to say that.
I don't know how to say it right either.
How do I say it on a public platform?
You don't need to say it because former Vice President Joe Biden said, oh, President Harris.
I'm doing better than everybody thought.
I'm still alive.
At least he hasn't said it dozens of times.
If your defense, former vice president, your strongest defense is from the publicly assigned defending attorney in My Cousin Vinny, I'm doing better!
What is it you're wearing?
The jury... Allison!
All right.
So let's get into this, the party switch myth, because right now the Voting Rights... Is it called the Voting Rights Act, the Voting Rights Bill?
I think it's officially titled the Voting Rights Act.
I think it's Act.
Because they wanted to sort of dovetail in behind the Civil Rights Act.
Yeah, it's got titling.
They think so little of African Americans, they thought they could trick them with a title.
I thought we had this in like 57 and 64.
Isn't there a Civil Rights Act?
Yeah.
Isn't there a Civil Rights Act II back in the Habit?
Well, it was gonna happen, but the lead was getting too old for this shit.
Lethal Weapon 4 should never have been made.
It's a classic.
They added Chris Rock and Jet Li.
I mean, it comes with its perks.
Okay, so while we're on the subject of this, this is something that you're told quite a bit, okay?
And this is something that is one of the most pervasive myths that the left has used.
And they've used it successfully because it's just sort of gone unchallenged.
And I think this is what happens.
The reason that it goes unchallenged is because often people are afraid of having to defend the character of individuals who've played a role in their party.
You sort of see this, for example, with President Trump, where people would say, well, you know, he
sent out mean... I've always been very clear about the problems that I have with him, but I didn't feel the need
to say it every single time that he did something good.
Republicans are afraid because of the character assassination, and this is what they do when they say, look,
there was a party switch, and they go, well, okay, I guess, you know, Trump-Thurman did some bad stuff, so let's just
get off of that, because they have a bunch of strategists telling them that it's a losing play, and it's just
incorrect, it's very easy to refute, and I'm going to do it here in about, let's call it 20 minutes tops.
Okay.
Okay.
And references are available at latosecretary.com.
I just wish that Republicans grew a spine.
A little bit.
Yeah.
Maybe they need some good old pastor spit.
Rub it along the back.
I don't think it grows a spine.
Yeah, rub it on your lower back.
I don't know.
Don't spoil it.
All right.
Let's go with it.
So this is what you hear from the left, not from me, that the party switched after the civil rights movement, or during.
Everyone knows that the parties flipped during the Civil Rights Movement.
We do not.
It's common knowledge, I mean how did the country go from looking like this to looking like this?
So this is the situation we're starting with, Democrats in blue, Republicans in red.
This is what the country looked like at the end of Reconstruction, Republicans were dominant in the North and West, and Democrats in the South.
Lincoln was a Republican, and the states which formed the Confederacy were mostly Democrats.
Whenever they start with everybody knows… Right.
Right, it's nobody knows, the bullshit you spew, this is not correct.
Everybody knows!
Really?
What do you mean you want them to believe that?
Okay.
So, they show you a map.
Right.
Good.
Dora the Explorer.
You watched it.
Good for you.
Who is this guy?
Saddam's son?
Yeah, that was Qusay knowing better.
I thought so.
I don't know if it was Qusay.
No, Qusay works for Vox.
So, not only is it incorrect, Republicans, let's start with this, they were the ones who supported both Civil Rights Act.
Civil Rights Act, sorry.
The Civil Rights Act of 57, okay?
It was the House voted yeah, Republicans, 84%, Democrats, 51%.
Senate voted yeah, Republicans, 93%, Democrats, 59%.
Democrats 51%.
Senate voted yes.
Republicans 93%.
Democrats 59%.
In 1964, the 64 Civil Rights Act.
House voted yes.
Okay.
Republicans 78.
Democrats 69.
We're getting closer.
Senate voted yeah, Republicans 82, Democrats 60.
So a majority of the country, okay, a majority of the representatives of the country supported it, but it was significantly higher.
I think, I mean, you're talking about an average of 20 to 30-something points Republicans supporting the Civil Rights Act back then.
Now we all, I think everyone should know that.
But of course they're going to try and argue it switched since then.
That's the argument that they try and make.
Right.
Yeah.
I don't know if everyone... Did you guys... Did everyone out there... Did you know that?
You can comment below.
I've been indoctrinated with that, yes.
Yeah.
No, no, I'm saying... The other way.
The other way.
Yeah, his point.
And so this is all good for me now.
Okay, good.
I'm actually learning this with everyone else.
Good.
You're a doctor?
Yeah.
Yeah, now...
Not that way.
You can get the model.
He's DeVry.
So here's also something to note.
Only one Democrat politician flipped to Republican during this time period where they talked about how there was a switch.
And we're going to go through this transition, how it's taken place over the course of time, really over the course of 40 years, why it had taken place.
And it's not because people became more racist.
As a matter of fact, it's the opposite.
So sometimes, you know, I see this a lot from the left or people online, you know, who used to get this a lot from the atheist community, right?
There's this correlation doesn't equal causation.
No, I know.
Just apply it here.
So people were racist.
Got it.
And then the map shifted, right?
It shifted to more Republican.
And you're just assuming that's because they became more racist?
Well, why the switch?
Why would they switch from the friendly racist Democrat Party to the unfriendly, always historically, non-racist Republican Party?
You think that's the... Let's just use logic here.
What's the path of least resistance?
That's always what they take in politics.
You think the path of least resistance was changing the entire party?
Yes!
I've got them right where I want them, see?
We'll lay low for 40 years.
So one Democrat switched to Republican during this time period that they talk about.
I want to get this out of the way.
Strom Thurmond.
Great piece of shit.
Yeah.
Right.
Strom Thurmond was a Democrat, okay?
Famously filibustered the 57 Civil Rights Act for 24 hours, 18 minutes.
That's the longest filibuster in history.
In history!
Democrat, just to be clear.
Democrat.
Because a lot of people don't remember the Democrats did the filibustering of the Civil Rights Act.
There's another racist Democrat, Robert Byrd.
He did not switch Republican.
He filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 14 hours, one of the longest ever in history.
He used to be, I think, in the top five until recently, in the last maybe 20 years, and it started to happen more often.
And I'm using this as a specific example because people try and point to Strom Thurmond, say he became Republican, therefore the party switched.
Well, look, far be it for me to defend Strom Thurmond as a perfect individual.
However, you do have to understand that he switched to becoming a Republican.
And once he had become a Republican, after, he was one of the first southern senators
to hire a black aide, to be clear.
And he authorized the Civil Rights Act.
He actually pushed for an MLK Jr.
Jr.
It's important to have that out there.
Junior holiday.
And Joe Biden actually gave the eulogy for him, obviously, when he passed away.
And he said, obviously, he addressed his past.
And then he said, oh, he came over to the good side and did some really good things
that were against what he had done.
Didn't he impregnate the black aide?
Well, I don't know.
Maybe he was going a little too far.
We're not saying that the guy is perfect, but we're saying that the guy did switch.
It does matter.
He's the only example that Democrats point to, and the point is he became a Republican, became less racist.
He was racist when he was a Democrat, though.
Nobody is doubting that.
No one's doubting that he was racist.
Listen to Joe Biden's words here.
He said that he came to the good side later on in life.
Okay, well Joe, what does that mean?
Because he was a Democrat before he came.
The only thing that he'd switched was his party affiliation to Republicans and you're saying that he came to the good side and you are the leader of the party that is supposed to be the friend of African Americans and every minority group in the United States and you're saying this guy's a good guy and he became a Republican to do it!
That's Joe Biden saying it.
He became a good guy, he became a Republican, and then he hired some black aides, he had a change of heart, so all references are available at lottowithcrowder.com.
The point is, you can't have it both ways.
Now contrast that with Robert Byrd, who remained a lifelong Democrat, worked for the Klan, recruited for the Klan, so back then... Retired on Klan dental!
His day job was filibustering the Civil Rights Act, and he moonlighted as a Klan grand dragon wizard, Cyclops.
And then became a greeter.
Yeah, then he became a greeter, because he was too old.
Where do we put Bird?
Just stick him in the foyer.
Make sure you wear your hoods.
Stick him in the Klan foyer.
He came up with hoods for horses, I don't know if you knew that.
Well, here's the thing.
He maybe had a change of heart.
Except, as recently as 2001, he said this, while still a Democrat, on air, live television.
My old mom told me, Robert, You can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.
That's nice.
That's a good start.
We practice that.
There are white niggers.
Woah!
What?
I haven't seen a lot of white niggers in my time.
Circle back!
Woah!
Wow!
He said that on September 10th.
Hard... I'm telling you it was an inside job.
Robert Burr dropped the N-bomb on live television twice, and they had to cover it the next day!
Guys, this is gonna have to be big.
This isn't just, you know, bury a mistress on a Friday.
It's not a minor... He ran back to the house while she's drowning in the lake.
No, not exactly.
Minor.
So again, and I'm not saying that when he was saying that, that means that he was racist, because you need to take it in context, and in context, he was pretty racist.
You think?
And if the wrong two planes went down, he was just a hair's length away from the presidency under Barack Obama as the president pro tempore, I believe.
I heard a white guy say that at an open mic, I'm not even kidding, white n-words, and it was the most uncomfortable I've ever been.
Was it like the crickets in the audience?
Yes!
No, everybody was like, yes, right!
Spit on him!
No, it was completely... No, I was like, this guy's gonna get hurt really bad after this show and I'm gonna watch.
So let's go through, kind of, now that you have these individuals who filibustered the Civil Rights Act, you now have the numbers as to how the Civil Rights Act, well, 5764, came to be.
Let's talk about the switch of Southern Democrats to Republicans.
Well, this is a switch that had taken place over the course of about 40 years, just to be clear.
It happened pretty slowly before the Civil Rights Act.
It was starting, and then you sort of started to see a transition again.
Let's start with this.
Both parties were racist to begin with.
Yeah.
Okay?
At a certain point, both parties... To some degree, right?
To some degree.
And then one pulled away.
One freed the slaves.
I would call that pulling away.
Yeah, that's our closer.
Spoiler alert!
So in 1928, for example, Herbert Hoover was 7,000 votes away in Alabama from winning a majority of former Confederate states.
He also won 47.6% of the South's popular vote.
This is in 1928.
Okay, 1928.
By the way, I'm not saying that he was a great president, just to be clear.
Hoover Towns?
Meh, you know what, that one's on him.
We're not saying that Thurman was an angel either.
They named a vacuum after him, that's how much he sucked.
Don't remind me of President Dyson.
Don't get me swearing and saying the damn either.
By 1942, Southern Democrats were already voting.
With Republicans on non-racial issues.
So let me give you some examples here.
In 1956, Eisenhower, who signed the 57 Civil Rights Act, won a majority of the popular vote in the South.
So this is a change that had been occurring where you could see Republicans becoming increasingly... Here's what happened.
Look, let's look at the... And we'll go back to Abraham Lincoln.
I'm sure you all know this.
He was a Republican.
A lot of people didn't, but you watching right now, listening, this is remedial for you.
If you feel bored by this, understand the chasm that exists between you right now, the viewer, the listener, and people who are at Ivy League universities.
Because most of them, most of them can't tell you to which party Abraham Lincoln belonged.
It's okay, we'll go to that later there, Tim, but I know he was getting ready for me to cue it up because I did a video 12 years ago at Berkeley.
Understand that Abraham Lincoln, right, you're talking about he was a Whig at one point, basically, right, the creator effectively, or you would say of the Republican Party.
Certainly a pioneer.
I think that's fair.
Yeah.
Trying to couch my words here to be careful, but you know what?
Abraham Lincoln, noted Republican, freed the slaves.
However, you do have to look at it.
It's sort of like now when people, let's say you're on a road trip, okay?
And the kids say, are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Well, keep in mind at that point when they freed the slaves, right, prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, there was no there yet.
Yeah.
Right?
So in other words, there's no blueprint.
There's no roadmap.
You had an Abraham Lincoln.
So you had a Republican Party from its inception that was really created out of struggle.
It was born in struggle.
And the struggle was, we just cannot reconcile our Constitution and the ownership of human beings.
That's the creation of the Republican Party.
And then you can see why this started changing, why there was an evolution, why the South started changing after, while we're talking about the Civil War.
And you see this party growing and Increasing in influence.
It's tough for us to look back and go, well, now we have racists and non-racists.
Back then, you wouldn't be able to define a racist to anyone!
Okay because that was the baseline.
So hopefully that helps you contextually.
So now what they will tell you is of course this is well this happened and then the party switched and now they kind of shy away from that and another argument is but you know what it doesn't doesn't matter because right now the Democrats are the ones they're the ones championing civil rights.
So checkmate.
The Democratic Party was once the party of white supremacy, supporting slavery and the Ku Klux Klan.
Today's Democratic Party believes that government has an important role to play in society.
It fights against economic inequality.
It advocates policies that battle racial and gender discrimination.
Must you be gay to work for Vox?
Why does it have to be gender?
You're talking about race.
You know, like racial and gender discrimination.
We're piggybacking off that one.
Okay.
What they're doing is they're trying to get these people to vote for them.
Yes, exactly.
It's very hard to see through this tricky, tricky plot.
It's a ruse!
Pretty much.
Okay, so let's be clear.
Democrats have been taking advantage of black people specifically.
Now it's extended to all minorities, but specifically black people since slavery.
Let's go to the people who, their examples, who might have been the strongest champions of civil rights.
LBJ.
The Great Society.
Okay, this is something that a lot of people may not know about.
I did a video on Detroit.
It was my first On Location Super Video, I believe, back in 2009, where we talked about Great Society, we talked about Model Cities Program, talked about Jerome Kavanaugh, first mayor of Detroit, 61, all the way up to today.
Now, the Great Society incentivized and increased the number of single-parent households.
You've heard the term baby mama?
This goes back to great society. There was a financial incentive to not be
married, to not have a father in the household. This created a massive welfare state, kept
people more reliant on government aid, it de-incentivized work, and now of course we take that to
today, where you look at that, okay, this is, let's call that soft bigotry, and we'll get to the
hard bigotry, LBJ, in a second.
Yeah, there's plenty of that.
You thought Robert Byrd was bad.
But the soft bigotry was, hey, you know what?
If you vote for us, we'll give you two checks.
Hey, if you vote for us, we'll give you more, we'll create this massive welfare state.
Hey, you know, but just don't get married.
It's better if you have two single households than having a joint household, and there was an incentive for people, and he sought out cities.
Detroit was also supposed to be sort of coinciding as a model city, the model cities program.
Is Detroit a model city now?
By his standard, yeah.
So you have the soft bigotry.
Well, do we see that today?
Let's look at affirmative action.
We see this with the Democrats today.
That's championing civil rights by saying black people are so incapable of getting into university that we need to create a quota.
And by the way, keep Asians out!
These are the consequences of low expectations, of viewing people simply as votes to be garnered.
It's, hey, we're going to create a welfare state.
That's great.
We'll give people free stuff if we get them to vote for us.
Well, that hurts them.
Hey, affirmative action, universities, and then you see black students dropping out at rates that are exponentially higher than their counterparts.
Why?
Because you've set them up to fail, but you sure get to pat yourself on the back.
What else do we have?
Voter ID.
Well, here's another example.
I can't think of an example.
In my lifetime, that is more of a backhanded insult than saying that black people can't procure identification.
That's the basis of the new Voting Rights Act.
People shouldn't have to have ID.
It hurts minorities.
Can you think of an example of privileged white pricks speaking for black people more clearly than today?
And black people don't agree, just to be clear.
73% do not agree.
It's not even close!
They also have heritage in America that dates back to most Americans when you think about it.
There's no reason they wouldn't have ID.
To treat them like they're a new class when they helped build the country makes absolutely no sense.
Good point.
Were you about to say something there, Joe?
I was about to say, I mean, this with LBJ's incentives, he was basically saying, like, a lot of people see these are perverse incentives that he created.
I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
He was making people dependent.
That was his entire goal.
Because look at the amount of money that you get.
The amount of money that you get is not enough to feel great and live a lavish lifestyle.
enough. It's just enough. You're hungry, you're not starving under LBJ's plan.
That's what he did and you're not so hungry that you're gonna go
out and make a change, you're just comfortable enough in the mess that
you're in to not make a change. Well there have been people, I'm
trying to think, I don't know.
I don't want to misquote anybody, but there were some presidents of sports organizations.
One of them might have been Dana White with the UFC, but this has also been used to be fair.
It's been used to corrupt places like boxing, where they basically underpay fighters, or they end up taking financial advantage of them.
But it's been said, too, that with athletes, and you see this with a lot of athletes,
pragmatically speaking, you have people who've been the heads of sports organizations who have said,
you know, the problem is someone comes in who's really hungry,
coming in from university, they get tens of millions of dollars,
and now they don't care.
And it's hard to incentivize them.
And so a lot of the time, these people want these athletes under their thumb
and pay them enough so that they kind of reap the benefits, but they're still hungry.
I think the old quote is Marvin Hagler, it's hard to get up at 5 in the morning
to go for a run when you're waking up in silk sheets.
And so LBJ understood this, and so did the Democrats, where they were saying, we're going to give you just enough,
but just enough to make it to the next check, and you know where that check is coming from.
By the way, that's how you condition dogs, just to be clear.
This is how you train dogs.
This is how you train a lot of animals, but certainly dogs, if you want to condition them positively, you reward behavior with a treat, but guess what you don't do?
You typically don't do that Right after a meal right you give them a treat you don't
fill them up on a treat because they don't know where the Next treats coming from it's alright you get this now go
over there. Okay sit you get this treat I know it's it's not enough. You're not you're not starving
you have enough, but okay now lay down no No tree. Yeah, here's a check. No wait
This is written down in Proverbs in Scripture.
If a man does not work, he does not eat.
one but just enough. Okay here's a welfare state, okay here are EBT cards, okay this is how it works.
This is how you condition people to become rent control.
Here's eviction moratorium even though I know it's not legal. And by the way this is not a new
theory right this is written down in proverbs in scripture. If a man does not work he does not eat and it
paraphrases basically to say let his belly be his guide.
When he's hungry enough, he'll get up and go work so that he can eat.
That's the kind of motivation we need because we're at our heart.
We're selfish, lazy people.
And if you allow us to live there, it produces nothing good.
I try to give my dogs EBT cards, but they don't work.
Choking hazard.
Is that what it is?
Because they don't even care.
What's the proverb you just said?
If a man does not work, he does not eat, let his belly be his guide.
I think that's all in one.
Steven Seagal has one hell of a guide.
He does, yeah.
I got a guide.
Too many people's bellies are their guides right now.
When I use my belly compass, bad things happen.
And toilets.
So here's also, LBJ, that's the soft racism, and you see it through policy.
And I hate that term, but that's the term that we're sort of using here because it's a term that I know you're probably more familiar with.
It's soft when it's not hard.
Right.
Here's the hard racism from LBJ.
Historians Ronald Kressler and Doris Goodwin, these are all quotes on the record.
These are LBJ quotes.
These Negroes getting pretty uppity these days, and that's a problem for us.
Here's another quote.
Now, we've got to do something about this.
We've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.
And I want to give you another quote because this is something back when, you know, LightOathCreditor.com, and now you can see the references there, but back when we were mainly writing articles before this show was the size that it was, a big part of what we did was writing daily articles.
And it was tough to find a source for this quote from LBJ.
This had been circulating around.
And so we ended up doing a story, I think a long time ago, on Snopes, not fact-checking this horrible quote that you're about to hear from LBJ, not saying it's false, but doing everything in their power to avoid acknowledging that it's true.
Because again, these quotes from these historians that you just heard, no one doubts them.
Okay, who presented these quotes?
These people are legitimate.
You have Robert Kressler, right?
These are the previous quotes.
And Snopes is like, okay, this was said.
Now, Snopes wrote of the following quote as unproven even though the other ones we know are true from the same sources.
Robert Kressler wrote that and I just will it says I'll have them n-words voting Democrat for 200 years.
I would quote accurately but I'm not Robert Byrd so I can't get away with it.
I'm so happy you did.
Now, the Snopes' rationale for fact-checking this quote, to be clear, like, they didn't say it was false.
Right, yeah.
They said they can't prove that it was true.
This is their rationale.
It says, circling back to the quote which we started, it wouldn't have been entirely out of character for LBJ to have said something like, I'll have those n-words voting Democratic for 200 years.
But on balance, we have to question its authenticity.
Now, keep in mind, this is the same Snopes that said Ilhan Omar, uh, did not marry her brother.
Sorry, unproven.
Unproven.
Unproven.
Here's a marriage certificate.
Unproven.
Here's the name.
Unproven.
Here's the honeymoon picture with curly straws.
We don't know.
When it comes to incest, unproven means yes.
Can I paraphrase Snopes?
That sounds like him.
I mean, it seems like something she would do.
I mean, if I'm being honest, but I'm usually not.
I mean, given what he said before, that's not as bad as what he said otherwise, so yeah, it's probably him.
You know, listen, I mean, we can't all be, oh, I forgot you never made a mistake!
Some of us marry our brothers.
Listen, he said for 100 years, Steven, that is a false quote.
Snope said we couldn't prove it true and PolitiFact rated it as, I forgot that you're Mr. Perfect!
What a stupid response.
I mean, come on, it's not like we watched him do it.
I wasn't there.
Like, I will fill out their votes for them for the next two minutes.
It's a different thing.
I only saw them kiss.
They only kissed... Yeah, what about Ilhan Omar and her non-brother's son?
Oh yeah, I have no idea.
Just jumping through a fiery hoop.
What is this, Ferris Bueller when Sloane kisses her father picking him up at the beginning?
He's like, ah!
Ilhan Omar, I'd like to have a couple of words with you by God.
Lincoln... I fat-checked you and then you insult me!
What the hell's the matter with you, Omar?
Anyway, so... Here's another argument that they make that Lincoln would have been a Democrat today, right?
You hear this a lot.
You'll see it at HuffPo.
References available at lateraliscreditor.com.
Of course, I say that this is incorrect, but don't take my word for it.
Party of Abraham Lincoln, don't ever... You know, I say it all the time.
Everyone thinks that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat.
Abraham Lincoln was a great Republican.
Okay, so here's something.
Let me try and simplify this.
Okay.
Do you remember how in the 2008 election, John McCain was trying to distance himself from George W. Bush because he wasn't the best president?
People weren't happy with him, right?
So he was like, hey, we're gonna endorse it.
He was like, that's all right.
So If the party today, the Republican Party today, if you say they switch, this is the premise, we just showed you from Vox and what was it, the one who's Truth Before Whatever It Is, Lookout Truth, the guy that everybody knows, I don't know, another gay guy in a plaid shirt.
So, I don't say that as a pejorative.
No, no, no.
It's descriptive.
Oh, it absolutely is.
If I were to say, look, if I were to say the guy on the other, you'd be like, which clip?
Gay guy plaid shirt.
You'd go, oh, I got it.
You had to include plaid shirt.
Right.
So, if the party switched from Abraham Lincoln, okay, the acknowledgement, right, the premise from the left is Abraham Lincoln, Republican, freed the slaves, but then it switched.
Why would today's racist party be clamoring to continually identify themselves with Abraham Lincoln?
Why would Donald Trump say... In other words, if you believe that Donald Trump is a politician, right, who just wants to say what people want to hear, why is the current Republican assuming that all other current Republicans like the Republican who freed the slaves?
It would be a losing strategy if he was saying it to a room of racists.
It would be booed and jeered.
And Trump does have a point, though, that they often try to claim the left.
A lot of people believe this.
This was, I think, back in 2009.
And just to be clear, I hate the kind of jaywalking gotcha stuff because you can do that with anybody.
However, the context here was, I never planned on doing a video asking the party of Abraham Lincoln.
It came up, this is before the term virtue signaling existed, okay?
It came up because I asked people who their favorite president was, and everyone, well most people, invariably answered Abraham Lincoln.
And so it was a simple follow-up, it was like, okay, to which party do you belong?
And then they couldn't answer.
These are current students at Berkeley, or as the left refers to you, they're best and brightest.
I guess that's kind of a cliched answer, but I'll say Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln?
I'm gonna go ahead and say Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln!
Abraham Lincoln.
Abe Lincoln was easily the most popular.
Naming the party of the old dude with the beard and hat, a little more daunting.
And to what party did Abraham Lincoln belong?
Wig?
Um... Yes, Abe Lincoln was not a wigger.
I'll say... yeah, I'm not sure.
Wigger.
Wigger.
Wigger, yeah.
Um, back then I believe he was a Republican, but that was nominally a Republican.
Well, she's basically right.
Yeah, nominally a Republican.
Yeah.
Wait, hold on a second.
Do you mean, uh, first off, by the way, to be clear, was a Whig and then said, I'm going to create something.
Ah, Republicanism.
What year was that?
09?
Nominally.
It's like, ah, you know, Edison nominally something light bulb.
I don't know.
I bet she's gross now.
Benjamin Franklin nominally likes to fly kites.
Democrats loved slavery so much, they tried to form another country and have that as the platform.
Yeah!
You had to remove their statues!
I mean, do you understand the argument that you're making?
Do you think that just goes away?
Yeah.
No!
They just found a better way to control you.
You should have asked her what nominally means and she'd be like, I don't know.
Well, nominally speaking, nominally means... They said it and I said it.
Something.
And that's about the end of my answer.
I don't know.
Well, I think in that same video, I'm not sure if that's that same video, this is back in 2009.
So I've been doing this, you know, Louder with Crowder, I think started 2009, 2008.
It's been around for a long time.
The quotes in it in a negative way.
Well, I just mean like, because it wasn't this exact show.
Right.
It was, you know, back then there were no podcasts.
Like when we started this podcast, again, there was no there yet, but the Louder with Crowder episodics, these started like in, I want to say 2009, 2008.
You look so young.
Thank you.
I mean now.
Back then you looked pretty bad.
Awkward.
It's just one of life's cruel tricks that you lose your baby fat once you grow your beard but it's immediately gray.
It does go gray pretty fast.
There should be a rule that you shouldn't be able to have gray hair and pimples.
I hate that I lost all that baby fat.
A baby?
I look like an old baby.
The baby collecting social security, that one.
So I think in that same video where I did a Berkeley series, it might be that one, but you can search, go back through this if you're on YouTube right now.
And by the way, if you're on YouTube, smash that like button right now.
That's also something that helps.
And you can comment below.
We're going to wrap this up and go to Mug Club.
In 2009, also, I was in class, and they didn't have hidden cameras back then.
So I was literally, I mean, with a baseball cap and the equivalent to, you know, four GoPros in it.
It was like a trucker cap.
I'm sitting in there balanced the whole time.
I put, like, you know, one of those picture cameras in a coffee cup that would last about 35 seconds.
But you can see some footage where a teacher is teaching their students at Berkeley.
I'm in the classroom.
This is before hidden camera stuff existed on YouTube.
Teaching them that we, meaning Americans, went into the old world and captured and enslaved people and took them to the new world.
And I asked her just a simple question.
This was in a big class.
And back then I looked young enough.
Right, Dave?
So, I asked a professor, I said, hey, yeah, how many of these slaves in the United States were stolen, you know, captured, versus sold and purchased, sold into slavery from the old world?
She said, that's a very good question.
Teaching the class!
And I don't know the answer to that.
Well, it's, the lowest number you'll see is 80%, and it's as high as 95, depending on the estimates that you use.
What's the name of that guy who did the Beer Summit?
I always forget his name.
The black guy with the crazy hair.
Fred Rogers?
No, the black guy with the crazy hair.
I always forget.
Someone else.
He did the Beer Summit at the White House.
Remember that guy?
Don't.
With the cop.
Clarence Williams III?
He's always sitting there.
My brother on CNN.
That guy.
I always forget his name.
Anyway.
Al Sharpton?
He estimated that it was, I think, 96%.
Oh, I know who you're talking about.
Yeah, I keep forgetting his name.
But the lowest number is 80.
What?
Did it narrow it down?
Did you find it, Tokunawa?
Yeah, Don... Not Don King.
Don Amos?
That's a fight promoter.
What?
I just said black guy.
It autocorrected.
It's like, is it Colonel something?
Uh, not Colonel something.
It's uh, gosh.
Yes, it's Colonel Sanders.
I can't remember his name.
I cannot remember the guy's name.
I'm horrible at names.
I can picture his face in my head.
There was a beer summit with Barack Obama because this guy got, this was kind of the first.
Looks like Clarence Williams III though.
I know he does.
He was the first guy who got arrested by a police officer and everyone made it about race, and so then Barack Obama invited him to the White House, there was a beer summit, and one of them preferred Blue Moon.
I can remember all of these things, and I know that's 100% right, but I can't remember his name.
Isn't that insane?
At least if you meet him, you'll know what drink he wants.
I think it was a white guy who preferred Blue Moon.
He was a Colt 45 man.
Well, I don't blame him.
Anyway, someone will find the name, we'll get it on Mug Club.
But the point is, this was a guy who was like a black liberation theologist.
He's a professor.
Wait, Cornel West?
Cornel West!
See I was like, Colonel Cornel West!
And you type in Clarence Williams and tell me if they don't look the same.
The third.
And I just mean, I don't mean like in a race, they just, some people look like that.
You look like Tom Hanks.
Didn't you go on a show with him one time and he got up in storm?
Was that Cornel West?
No.
No, no.
Coyle West is very highly educated.
Didn't you Skype in with somebody and he said, brother Crowder, and you were like, jokingly said, I am not your brother.
And then this guy, I swear to you, this was, I think up in Michigan, you Skyped into an interview and this guy, Got mad?
Yeah, he got mad.
He looked like Cornel West if it wasn't Cornel West.
I don't remember.
A guy walked off?
Yes!
How can you not remember this?
I don't remember this.
This is hilarious.
We gotta find this at some point.
I think maybe the guy was joking.
Anyway.
I think you're talking about Cornel East.
You had really pissed him off.
He was very seriously angry.
Cornel Eastern Conference.
That's what it was.
Ah, yes.
Okay, different guy.
Cornell. So the point is I remember him estimating Cornell West. I think if you type in this right now
You know, it will take your chest. I want to say that he said
Or he gave an estimate that the amount of slaves who were sold as opposed to captured was 90-something percent
I think he might have said as high as 96 percent Wow, so you guys can find that reference
Well, I'll show it on mug club, but everything else and by the way, this is
This is there will be a bonus to whoever one there in the mission control on mug club who fact-checks everything that
I just said Cornel West was arrested by a police officer, then Barack Obama had them to the White House for a beer summit, one of them preferred Blue Moon, and also find that number of the estimate from Cornel West about how many of them were sold into slavery versus captured.
These are the things that I remember, it's bizarre, and I can't remember a name.
It's like, Tammy!
I'll be sitting there, I'll be like, I remember you went to Heritage Academy High School, you were an honors student, I remember you were in the international program, you did figure skating, I also remember that your hair was blonde, then you dyed it red, I remember that, and then I'll be like, yeah, but what's my name?
Dolores!
I don't know, Mrs. TLC!
Left Eye West.
Let's go back to Lincoln.
He was a firm believer in personal liberty and the Constitution.
Let me read you some quotes.
It's ironic that I'm using Snopes now.
He said, in all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Yeah.
So this is what I want to leave you with.
The shift in the South was something, and it's so funny because I often encourage being reductive.
I encourage you to be able to... There's an old saying, I don't remember who said it, so this is not why I can't remember the name of who said it.
There's an old saying that if you can't explain, if you can't give your pitch, if you can't explain the concept, make your case in 30 seconds or less, you have no business making it.
So I think it's important, I think it's a valuable skill, not to take simple topics and make them complicated, but to take Complicated topics and make them simple.
Why?
I believe that any skill... I think this is the difference between sort of virtue signaling and reading your resume versus an actual skill.
Comparing, for example, trade schools versus a gender studies degree.
How do you say one is a value?
It benefits others.
A useless skill or a useless degree or, in this case, a useless gift where people want to pretend to be, let's say, hyper-intelligent, it's a gift for yourself.
If you can take a simple topic and make it complicated so fewer people understand it and then use the term nuance to cover your tracks, you're not helping anybody.
A valuable skill is somebody really, really smart who's able to take it and boil it down.
So, ironically, as someone who says there's nothing wrong with being reductive, I actually value that skill more than creating something Or making it more complex than it needs to be in this situation.
Look, the transition of the South to Republican took place over a long period of time.
It took place over a long series of issues.
And I encourage you to go check all references again at the website.
The link is in the description.
However, so it is more nuanced.
But to simplify it, Republican Party was created was created to end slavery.
That's a big reason for it.
Not the only reason, but the Republican Party was born out of, okay, inter-term oil conflict.
I sounded like a southerner.
Oil.
Oil.
What do you mean, oil?
It was born out of conflict.
It was born out of struggle.
It was born out of a conscience of, look, we cannot do this.
We can't keep people as property and then talk about property rights and talk about individual rights.
That's how it was created.
That was the reason that it existed, and you look through history, okay, they supported civil rights, you see that?
And then today, you still see Democrats enacting, legislatively, the kind of soft bigotry of low expectations that you saw from LBJ, that you saw a long time ago, and today, you still have Donald Trump, you still have Ron DeSantis, you still have today's Republicans invoking Abraham Lincoln.
So they were anti-slavery, they were anti-racist back then, and the people today still want to have him on their money and get his endorsement.
There's a lot that happened in between.
Just don't buy the premise from the left because if you just fact-check a little bit, just a couple of points, it falls apart.
And by that I mean actually fact-checked, not a Snopes.
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