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REBUTTAL: Jon Stewart is WRONG about Gun Violence
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Welcome to Louder With Crowder's 9th Annual Cultural Appropriation Month, where we introduce you to all the great and wondrous cultures our planet has to offer.
Because to appropriate is to appreciate.
This week, join us as we travel back in time to a point in history of this, our great land.
A time where grown men dance to call in the rain.
Where adults have zero tolerance for fire water and a propensity for scalping which has nothing to do with ticket sales.
A land where casinos dot the landscape.
It will blow sky high.
There's going to be a lot of embarrassed and a lot of red faces.
Like the mighty buffalo of yore.
Tatumka.
The Tiger of the Clawsland!
Buffalo.
You're a strange animal, I've got to follow.
That's right.
We're time-traveling to America before it was America.
A place the natives simply called...
hiii-yai-yai-yai hiiiiiiii-yai-yai-yai
hiiii-yai-yai-yai HEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR
RRAAAARRRRR RAAAAARRRRRRRRRR
hiiii-yai-yai-yai I was about to sign a sign cause i love reverb
spew we replicate the purple
but i just don't How?
How am I supposed to do this show?
You can't even see the knife.
It's important.
It's there.
By the way, I didn't know we had that animation of the cupboard opening.
We made it work, yeah.
All right.
So silly.
Welcome to... You know, I need to put on my headphones.
Sorry, it's just a little bit hard to... You see it?
All right.
They worked so hard on this that I didn't want to...
Oh, I have an earring.
Oh, which side?
See how that works on the headphones.
Is that a real thing?
I don't think in Native America it wasn't.
No, I don't think in Native America.
If it's on the wrong side.
There's were clip-ons.
I got pierced for this.
I method acted.
Just like, uh, just like Daniel Day-Lewis.
Yeah.
Last of the douchebags.
Oh, come on.
All right, so it's Cultural Appropriation Month, as you well know, and we'll be checking out your costumes a little bit later.
Sir, I'm a little bit winded.
We were rushing quite a bit here to get these things done.
It's time for some fast facts that you may not know.
And... banned.
laughter Because to appropriate is to appreciate.
Key fact number one, Native American casinos are a $40 billion per year industry.
Wow.
Uh, fast fact number two, hey, do you remember this famous crying Indian- are we allowed to- we're gonna say Indian.
Do you remember this famous crying Indian ad from that anti-pollution PSA?
Some people have a deep, abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country.
And some people don't.
People start pollution.
People can stop it.
Well, it turns out his name is Esper Oscar Decordi, and he's actually Italian.
Like Chris Columbus!
He does not look native.
I got your trash right here!
Forget about it!
Is that what they call it?
Spaghetti Western?
Yes!
Hi-ya-ya-ya!
Come on.
So, also, you may not notice, there are more Lakota today than ever.
180,000, which is nine times more than there happened to be in the 18th century, which means that the white man is not very good at genocide.
If it's a genocide, we screwed up.
Imagine the Holocaust with six million more Jews than before you started.
So, that's been the Fast Facts.
♪ Send in your costumes.
The winner of the costume contest will win a lock of Gerald's back hair.
You can post it on X or, of course, on Mug Club.
You have to be holding your mug with your best Native American costume or motif, I guess, because to appropriate is to appreciate.
Use the hashtag LWCNativeContest.
OK, we have a lot to get to today.
You guys asked and you will receive at some point.
I'm going to put on a jacket.
I feel so naked at some point.
Chat likes it.
I was naked last week!
I know, but you didn't see everything.
I like that you refused to wear sunscreen for the last two weeks just to prepare for this role.
Yes, exactly.
I found out this morning that the Indian in the cupboard wore a loincloth.
I only found out this morning.
I thought I was wearing a full on... yeah, that's the Indian in the Cupboard.
Not even a great film.
Pretty creepy.
Alright, bring us the rundown.
John Stewart tried to make the claim that crime is down in major cities across the United States and the reason for gun crime, the reason for violent crime in big blue cities is actually because of Republicans and their gun laws.
We're going to be debunking that point by point.
Also, Native Americans?
Spoke a lot of different languages, but it's also been a thing now where they're dubbing the white man's films into native languages, so we'll show you some of that.
And a big story.
We had a little bit of a disagreement here in Louisiana.
They just required the Ten Commandments to be displayed out in front of a school, and a lot of people are upset.
A class.
Sorry.
Classroom.
Class.
Not a school.
A class.
But that's typically where classes take place.
In schools.
You can correct me on anything you want today, because I feel like I have no leg to stand on.
I have very little confidence in my authoritative stature.
So, at some point today, if it hasn't already happened, and it probably has, if you are watching on YouTube and you see this...
Head on over to Rumble.
It's a show, weekdays, 10 a.m.
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There's no reason to miss it.
It's going on even if you don't see it on YouTube.
And the question of the day is, what is your favorite Native American, Indian, indigenous, two-spirited contribution to society?
Can't be the wheel!
Or horseback riding.
And let's see what everyone is wearing.
Captain Morgan, number two, how are you sir?
It's a little touchy here.
It's true.
I don't know if they teach that in school, that we learned the fine art of scalping from the natives.
Okay.
We practice on potatoes first.
It only stinks for the forever part of my life.
It'll grow back.
The scalping, actually, that the Europeans did, it was a matter of, instead of collecting heads, like dog tags, take a scalp back to say, these are how many people we've killed.
Native Americans would do it to women and children alive, depending on the tribe.
So a little bit different.
Well, I mean, we've come a long way since foreskins were used for, you know, that.
Well, you can't do it today.
What if you fight a bunch of Jews?
That's true.
And in third chair... Oh, it's a different song.
He's going to be at the Summit Comedy Club in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Well, this weekend.
Yeah, and go to jfirestein.com to see all of his dates.
Mr. Fo- Okay, who are you wearing?
I am- I think it's pretty obvious.
I'm Chief Cherokee.
Well, we have to bring down his lower third because- Bring down the lower third, yeah.
There's trademark infringement.
I'm the Chief Cherokee.
Well, we get under the- There we go.
Yeah.
Yeah, look at me.
I'm from the land of Mopar.
We fight four by four.
That's how we fight in my country.
Yes, you do.
And I can get you a great deal on Wrangler.
Yes, you can.
And you fight on all terrain.
Look at this.
These are my brights, and then I got my daytime running lights.
Wow!
Oh, look at that!
Oh, those are strobing.
Hey, you're excited.
Yeah, that's going to give me a seizure.
I'll turn it off.
That could be fun, though.
A seizure?
Yeah, it could be fun.
Maybe I could get out of this.
This is what I'll do when I want to talk.
A little inside joke.
I'm not gonna honor it.
Nope.
I wouldn't expect you to.
Just strobing.
And Josh, what are you drinking?
Oh, sorry.
It's fire water, of course.
I hope that's okay.
This is a family show, so can, uh... Toolman, can you confiscate the bottle, please?
Just grab that bottle, because... No, it's not a... Yeah, let's not do that.
Let's not do that.
Oh, that's the good stuff.
Okay, alright.
That's a problem.
Your people have a problem, Josh.
Yes.
Thank you, Toolman.
Appreciate you doing your job.
Bummer, dude.
What the heck is that?
Oh, I forgot.
It's Pocahonting.
Huh?
It came with the studio.
It's going to go away.
It came with the studio?
It came with the studio, yeah.
Where did we get the studio from?
Sometimes these otherworldly entities, they attach themselves to objects.
I think it's the difference between a poltergeist versus a demonic possession.
Was it the cigarette that did it?
I don't know, and I'm surprised because- A poltergeist?
Pocahontas.
I gotta put my headphones in.
She was also a Christian, which people don't talk about Pocahontas.
Yeah, she converted.
Yeah, and she was converting other people, and they're like, hey, don't push your religion on me, pal.
I don't need your spaghetti monster in the sky.
Yeah, all of a sudden, she used to be painting with colors of the wind, and now that that bitch found Jesus, nothing's good enough for her!
Don't forget where you came from, and that's scalping and no wheels!
Alright.
Before we move on, actually, we wanted to show a clip today because it's Cultural Appropriation Month.
We start with a throwback clip from 2007's, uh, what is it?
Bury My Heart.
At Wounded Knee.
At Wounded Knee.
Good clip.
And what would you say to the Mormons and others who believe that their God has given to them Indian lands in the West?
I would say they should listen to Achan Tronca.
No matter what your legends say, you didn't sprout from the plains like the spring grasses.
And you didn't coalesce out of the ether.
You came out of the Minnesota woodlands, armed to the teeth, and set upon your fellow man.
You massacred the Kiowa, the Omaha, the Ponca, the Oto, and the Pawnee without mercy.
And yet you claim the Black Hills is a private preserve bequeathed to you by the Great Spirit.
And who gave us the guns and powder to kill our enemies?
And who traded weapons to the Chippewa and others who drove us from our home?
Chief Sitting Bull, the proposition that you were a peaceable people before the appearance of the white man is the most fanciful legend of all.
You were killing each other for hundreds of moons before the first white stepped foot on this continent.
You conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and their lands, just as we have now conquered you for no less noble a cause.
This is your story of my people!
This is the truth, not legend!
It also makes it really hard when only one of those parties can grow facial hair.
That's true.
You look pretty smooth over there.
That's pretty impressive, actually.
Yeah.
Great swimmers, they say.
Yep.
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Okay, so let's move on here.
You know, many of you know that films are dubbed.
I was raised in Canada, French Canada, where half of the films at the local cineplex, they were in French, and it was silly, and I had to make a choice, and if I missed one, tickets were sold out.
Ah, jeez, I gotta go see Fast and Furious with a Parisian accent.
I'm kidding, I never saw Fast and Furious.
I did see I Spy in French, though.
That was painful.
That sounds bad.
Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy.
So we're used to films being dubbed in foreign languages.
Ready?
Was that German?
The new Death Star will be closed as planned.
Hahahahaha!
Was that German?
It's fitting.
I'm not getting any sleep, Bobby.
Where are you from?
America.
That's right.
Then why do you smoke so much like a European Nazi?
There's nothing to say.
He's just a guy I work with.
I'm gonna say got no change and today's a cookie lover. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm a sassy cookie stupid. So there is he could
I mean to have any quality?
I can on fire so long again, but it's a good thing. He's not even wearing a gown again.
No, he's not.
Come on!
Was that Hebrew?
The last one?
It sounded something, you know, Middle Eastern.
You can give him tonsils in the mouth.
I don't know.
So we can see them, you know.
Dialing?
I don't know what you say with tonsils.
So, I don't know if you know this, but when people talk about cultural appropriation, you can also find films now that have been dubbed in native languages.
Yeah.
Like Finding Nemo in Navajo.
That's a good one.
Really?
Star Wars in Ojibwe.
I have yet to see it, but it's in my queue.
What is that language?
Prey, which is the Predator prequel, you know, and that's the one where Arnold and Carl Weathers, they couldn't take him out with submachine guns or actually like rocket launchers, but this girl with a spear.
Oh yeah.
Apparently that's the Achilles heel of Predator.
You can watch Prey in Comanche.
Still sucks.
So they've been dubbing them, and I don't know where, at a certain point, when, I don't really care, people can dub it whatever they want, but when people bitch about constant appropriation, eh, okay, this is kind of a white thing.
I don't really know, before we get to the idea of these films, which are distinctly American, you know, the idea of moving pictures also kind of came from the white man.
Were several steps removed.
But the Lakota tribe even got in on the action and they've even gone as far as dubbing Pulp Fiction.
LAKOTA!
MOTHERF**KER DO YOU SPEAK IT?!
No one does.
Even the Lakota don't speak it today.
Very few of them.
But the Lakota did do a better job on dubbing the Avengers.
Here you go.
What they have, it's priceless, it's invaluable.
Their language.
When I started talking with Disney and that was our thing, was by natives, for natives.
meaning from the production work to the translations to everything else behind it.
Well that's going to sell really well with the only 2,000 native Lakota speakers.
2,000!
2,000 people!
I'm sure they're all well aware of the ancient folklore of the Viking Lakota.
Yes, exactly.
Like, oh, Black Widow!
Yes, we've told many a legend of her tits.
They taped them down!
This is bullshit!
Why would you do that?
What did they do?
They gave her a metal plate or something like that?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I didn't... Willing to bet that even the 2,000 people who speak Lakota also speak English!
Probably.
I mean, weird they didn't.
They have their own little one tribe that's kind of just... For me, it's Lakota only.
Well, how'd you learn how to... I can only say this phrase.
I just... I feel like they have bigger problems to focus on.
What?
Instead of... Lakota, instead of movie dubbing.
Oh, don't you go on with your rampant alcoholism bullshit again, Gerald.
Well, that and wearing Levi's and, you know, having a bad- THE WHITE MAN MAKES ME WEAR THESE!
They don't.
I mean, there's just probably like one Marvel fan who's a Lakota guy who's like, we have to do this in our own language.
You don't.
Plus, I can't watch it because I don't have the streaming package with Sprint.
Yeah, I want to see the sales numbers on that stuff.
Yeah, ten.
It's not about how many.
Yes, it is.
The Lakota people were the original holders of the Infinity Stones.
Back before that prick Thanos appropriated it.
Oh yeah, don't get me started on Thanos' first Thanksgiving.
That's why it's called Thanksgiving.
Oh yeah, don't get me started on Thanos' first Thanksgiving.
He won it in one of those slot machines.
That's why it's called Thanksgiving.
Yes.
Thanos.
He brought balance to the new world.
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Okay.
Really quickly, we need to, like, do the costume.
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, I forgot.
Cherokee, Scout Pilgrim, and then we have Toolman.
What are you?
I'm Windex.
Careful, you'll make me, you'll make my mouth water.
And I can't see Billy the Kid.
Before Orbit there was Clean Mouth and Windex.
Buffalo Bill.
Look to the camera when you say it, Billy.
Buffalo Bill.
Oh wow.
I dress like me.
What are you?
You should be the change that you wish to see in the world, Stephen.
Wrong Indian, dude!
It's feather, not dot, bro.
We need a better production spreadsheet.
Yeah.
Yeah, that one took the longest, too.
Like, what are you doing?
Hey chat, hope it was worth it!
Um, please!
I'm gonna need to put a shirt on before I do the Jon Stewart rebuttal, because he's probably going to come back at us, and then the first thing he'll point to is my nips, and you know, rightfully so.
Alright.
Well, your attention is just drawn to them.
It's like, whoa, let me shine a light on those things.
Are you trying to turn it on?
You should always buy Japanese, I always say.
There it is.
The Navajo build the finest kit cars this country has to offer.
By the way, we did put a jacket on your chair so that at some point you can wear it, but then you have to stand up and, you know.
Yeah, I know, and I know you're going to go to the long shot.
Thank God I didn't wear the thong and the loincloth.
Well, it was just the loincloth.
No, it wasn't.
You brought the thong for me.
No, I did not bring it.
It wasn't a thong.
I specifically know it was a G-string.
It was, yes.
The European man hammock is yours, sir.
I was like, wait, what's that for?
They're like, well, so you don't fall out of the loincloth.
I'm like, what's the loincloth for?
They go, you don't know you're wearing a loincloth?
I said, I don't think I am.
I don't think I am today.
Because I know how memes work.
So.
Don't you want to feel the wind?
Like this?
How many of these do you have?
I got a bunch of things.
How long has he been waiting for this?
They got stuff.
He brought a lot of physical gags.
Yeah, yeah he did.
Alright, I appreciate it.
Oh look, the last buffalo!
We just throw it off a cliff.
We've got food for one night!
It was the white man who told us to hunt an entire herd off a cliff without refrigeration.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
That's how I argue.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
It's sharpened on the bottom, too, so watch out.
I wonder if that works if you're with a woman who's arguing, like, why did you come back to the teepee?
So, hey, hey, hey, hey.
She's like, now I gotta do it too, huh?
Now it's raining?
God dang it!
Every time I have an argument, you bring the rain!
Oh, it's romantic.
Don't spoil it.
We can have makeup, hi-ya-ya.
I think they invented karate, you know?
Sometimes you wanna make hi-ya-ya to each other, but sometimes you just wanna hi-ya-ya.
When a young bravo sees a nice young lady he goes hi-ya-ya.
Did you just invent a tribe?
A young bravo?
Yes.
I think a bravo is like a young male warrior.
I think it's called a brave, but hey, that's just me.
Well, that's Mexican.
You're all brave for taking part in this.
It's all the same.
Oh my gosh.
It's all the same, the natives.
Let's just be honest, there were aqueducts in Rome and here they didn't use the wheel.
That's just absolutely true.
Well now they have wheels in their houses.
Sorry!
Hey!
It's the white man's fault that our land looks like every episode of Cops.
Take those wheels off and put it on cinder blocks, as it should have been by nature.
Yes!
Does this thing have... Wheels!
Rum!
Okay, let's talk about the Ten Commandments.
Alright, how banned are we now?
Uh, I don't know.
We must have hit the YouTube Dump button I don't know how many times at this point.
Tim, you can take your thing off if you need.
You're hitting stuff left and right.
No one hit the YouTube Dump button?
Is it too noisy?
Someone's getting FIRED!
FIRED!
You're getting laid off!
You're getting laid off.
Alright.
It looks like you're flexing your pecs when you do that.
Hey look buddy, my eyes are up here, alright?
They don't work.
I don't care!
I'll look where I want, you're not the boss of me!
Wait, is that my face on a sex doll over there?
The teepee?
What the hell?
Hey, have you ever seen Mexicans sell cars?
Wednesday, Louisiana became the first state to require the Ten Commandments and that they be displayed there in some public classrooms.
Louisiana is the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.
He's against at least one of the commandments.
Governor Jeff Landry signed the bill into law today.
The legislation, written by Republicans, mandates that every public classroom, from kindergarten
to college, must have a poster-sized display of the commandments in a, quote, large, easily
readable font.
All right.
Now, before we get to your opinions, and I would love to hear your opinion below, we're
going to get into this idea of separation of church and state and the misinterpretations
therein.
We all know that regardless of civil discourse that can take place between people on the
right, ranging from libertarian to mostly conservative, we're pretty close on a lot
We know beyond any shadow of a doubt that the left is, of course, predictably bitching.
Opponents say it's unconstitutional, that it's an egregious melding of church and state.
The ACLU says it is suing the state of Louisiana over its new law requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in public schools.
We are the most divided country since the Civil War.
Do we really now want to divide between religions?
This is Judeo-Christian.
It's not Muslim.
It's not Hindu.
It's not Buddhist.
It establishes a religion.
Why does that man look like he's just changed at a golf locker?
What kind of accent is that?
Shuffleboard's next on his calendar.
school. One of the dumbest waste of time I've ever seen in my life.
Why does that man look like he's just changed at a golf locker? What kind of
accent is that? Shuffleboard's next on his shoulder. That's the biggest waste of time I've ever had in my life.
Tinker, Mammy, Idle, don't waste my time.
It's like a character in an Adam Sandler movie.
It's just like a waterboy coach or something.
I can't take this country seriously anymore.
Just look at my champion sweatshirt and my baseball cap and face it looks like death.
So, here's the thing.
I understand where people are coming from, and people will point to separation of church and state, separation of church and state.
Grab a constitution, find it.
I know what you're talking about when you're talking about the First Amendment, right?
And a lot of people just reference the First Amendment as freedom of speech, but that is where And we see this idea, which is very important, of prohibiting some kind of a state-sponsored or mandated church.
The First Amendment was designed to keep the government out of the church-running business, like the Church of England, which they fled.
Or, of course, the California Church of Fatter Gay Saints.
That's one to...
That's what you do with our land?
It used to be such a pretty clear country.
It did.
And then this.
We used to scalp them.
So, the idea of separation of church and state is not to prevent people from being religious, and it's not to even prevent the idea of Judeo-Christian values, as we well know, from being the backbone of the laws that we have.
That's how our laws were created.
Citizens cannot be compelled to religion, okay?
But people's personal faith are actually necessary.
They're fundamental to how we will create laws, because that happens everywhere.
Our Founding Fathers understood that your fundamental principles are going to be reflected in the laws of your country.
And I know what you're going to say, oh yeah, Benjamin Franklin, they were deists.
Let's look at the Founding Fathers here.
And we have all references available at lateralistcredit.com.
Benjamin Franklin, okay, the deist, as most people would say, wasn't a Christian.
He was the one who recommended prayer during the opening Constitutional Convention.
He said, wait a second, shouldn't we pray?
Shouldn't we do that?
Thomas Jefferson, the other deist that people point to, not really a Christian like you modern-day fundamentalists, you would consider him a right-wing radical Christian if you actually knew what he stood for.
He confirmed freedom of worship, right?
And he had this letter that he wrote, I've talked about this, to the Danbury Baptists, where they were very concerned about a state denomination.
And he sent them a letter saying, no, no, don't worry, the separation of church and state is to guarantee that there is no Church of England.
So you are free to practice any religion and certainly any denomination that you want.
It's not just the Constitution.
It's not just when you look at the Bill of Rights.
There are many, many corroborating auxiliary documents from these people, from their own hands, that clarify and provide context.
And the more you add context, even without it, it's very clear if you read the First Amendment, you add more context, And it only undergirds that.
And this is actually a letter from, let me read a quote from it, the Danbury Baptist from Jefferson, confining myself therefore to the duties of my station which are merely temporal, be assured that your religious rights shall never be infringed by any act of mine and that.
If you look at the Ten Commandments, of course they're reflective of the foundational principles.
You look at the Mayflower Compact, look at the Declaration of Independence, you look at the Constitution.
To act as though they share nothing in common or they weren't the basis of our laws is simply to deny history.
You may not like it, but don't say that historically throughout this country, we have not allowed any displays of religious faith in public places.
It's just not even close to true.
Right.
And the guys who wrote about it, the guys who were basically saying, hey, we're founding a country to make sure that we don't have the same kind of religious persecution that we had in England.
In large part, that's why most people came here early on, they did things that showed
us exactly what they thought and what they meant with what they wrote.
Look at their actions.
Right, right.
And it's not limited to one or two guys that were the early leaders of this country saying,
hey, this is okay.
They issued proclamations for prayer when they wanted to pray about the war.
And then when victorious and battles were won and victories were celebrated, they actually issued Thanksgiving proclamations as well.
It wasn't just for Thanksgiving Day like we know it.
This was all throughout and we're running away from our history.
We are a Christian nation.
We were founded as such.
I don't want a theocracy.
Nobody here is advocating for that.
But to say that you have to disconnect anything religious from government life or from something that is So fundamentally who we are, like you cannot separate our founding from God.
Period.
Can't be done.
Otherwise it doesn't come from anywhere.
Right.
Right?
You would have to completely scrap the entire system.
And you know what?
The fact that it's a Christian nation is wonderful for Jews, Muslims, Buddhists alike.
I don't know if you know this, if you go to Islamic countries, they don't protect non-Muslims.
Right.
You're better off being here, but only under the umbrella of those Judeo-Christian principles.
And how many people in your life Or who you run into, don't have an understanding of this concept, separation of church and state.
Comment below.
I've been talking about it for a very long time, but it seems to keep coming up.
And that's an issue that we can... Steven?
Yes, yes, yes.
Thank you for the coffee.
I already thanked you, Sam.
No, that's the problem.
I've been watching today's program, and I must say, this is quite offensive and disrespectful towards Native American people in this country.
No, no, it's not.
We're appreciating them.
Either way, this is wrong, and I'm going to have to take the coffee back.
Sam?
You're taking that back?
Do you know what that makes you?
What?
An Indian giver, Sam!
That's what it makes you.
Over here we've got a regular sack of ju- sack of ju-wia!
Because you're a girl!
Yes!
Indian giver!
This is not appropriate.
Get out!
All of you, my office after work!
You suck!
Leave the coffee!
Go hang out with Lewis and Dork!
Indian giver!
Yeah, okay.
Alright.
Dude, what am I?
Oh, jeez.
I gotta put the fire water down.
Where did you get another fire water?
Hey, this thing's got cup holders.
Alright, let's just keep going.
Send in your costumes.
Lots of cup holder space, lots of room in the back seat, leg room, but all for the kids.
Send in your costumes and, you know, let's see if you can do any worse than this.
And by that I mean more appreciative than this.
Uh, hey, uh, Yeah.
Captain Morgan, how about right now, really quickly, you plug the merch shop while I put on a shirt.
You're gonna put a jacket on?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
This gimmick has run its course.
We're gonna sell a shirt that's just... Dude, go the long shot!
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That's Buffalo Bill for ya.
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You will not find any of the outfits that we are wearing today there.
You'll find actually really cool merch, so make sure you go support us there.
You got a jacket on now?
Did I cover you long enough?
I looked less silly before.
Hey, can you buy merch?
It's like Steven Seagal banged Lloyd Christmas on the slopes.
It's just a bunch of dudes, no chicks inside.
No bad things.
Your heart attack might be a bad thing.
I want the bunani!
I want the bunani!
It's just a bunch of dudes, no chicks inside.
Hey, careful when you make fun of me, bad things happen.
Nah, no bad things. Your heart attack might be a bad thing.
My cholesterol, yeah.
Little high.
Alright.
I bet you look in there, you see clogged veins.
For people who don't know the reference, that was a...
When Brandon Lee was shot on The Crow, he said, They called me.
They called me.
And they said, Brandon Lee was shot.
He's dead.
And I said, There was a projectile in that gun.
They said, No, we're firing blanks.
I said, People don't die from blanks, brother.
If you check tomorrow, you'll see that there was a projectile in that gun.
They called me the next morning.
They said, You're amazing.
I gotta say, it doesn't really show as well from your camera angle, but from where I'm sitting, even Seagal with that hair, it's perfect!
This is actually very similar to the jacket he wears in Fire Down Below, except his is Argyle, because he's blending in a small town.
He's the worst.
No one will notice.
Yeah, no one will notice.
I'm just one of you with my $200,000 retro truck and Argyle frilly jacket.
I'm just like you, except I'm dangerous.
Hey, are you a fed?
I've never heard that word in my life.
What are you talking about?
Do feds run over puppies with tanks?
Yes!
Yes, I'm very well fed.
Then yes, I am a fed.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Guys, you can't rev me up with Steven Seagal and expect me to not get mad.
I'm here for the ride.
I do want to ask a quick question before we go on to the next story because I don't want to interrupt once we do, but Josh, I know you probably had a little different opinion.
I don't see a problem with the separation of church and state and having Louisiana state say, hey, we're going to have this display in classrooms.
Well, my belief is that in the First Amendment, it says that no law should be made respecting the establishment of a religion.
And the Ten Commandments is one of those things where I could see that not being considered super religious, and I could see it being considered as the basis of our laws, the basis of society, and a law-abiding society, but the first four commandments command you to have only one God.
Right.
And that's where I think that it kind of making it mandatory put in your class.
I don't.
Here's the argument, though.
I don't think that we should be making laws that say you can't put it in your classroom.
Right.
Right.
But but to say that it has to be in every classroom, it feels like it could.
I mean, if I was Jewish, it's the same God there.
But if I was a different religion, right, if I was a different religion and I had to put that in my classroom, I think I would feel a certain way about it.
Yeah.
And so that's where I go with it, where they're making a law where every classroom has to have it.
Seems like that's where you're crossing the line.
Well, actually, I mean, you know, obviously Jews wouldn't have a problem with it.
They're almost the originators of it.
And then, uh... Well, Judeo-Christian, yeah, right.
And then even Islam, right?
They claim to obviously respect the prophets of old, the people of the book.
And the people who would be offended by it, you know, really probably wouldn't, because if you look at Hinduism and Buddhism, it's kind of subjective.
I don't imagine that they would have a problem with the Ten Commandments in there.
So, really, we're just dealing with Satanists.
And I say screw them!
Yeah, I mean, I think, and I, I understand it too, but it's, you're not compelling any kind of behavior either, right?
And, and that was the argument used in school prayer, where you're kind of compelling behavior because it was an optional prayer and then people would give, have a problem with it.
But I, I just, I really do think that what we've done is ceded so much ground where it's like, yeah, we're going to have pride flags, we're going to have, you know, this, this kind of cult In our classroom, and we're going to teach our kids all these very terrible cultural things that we disagree with, but we cannot, under any circumstances, acknowledge how this country was founded, at the very least, or that there might be a god.
And I think that is a very, very, yeah, but how do you acknowledge it then?
Right?
I mean, does every, do every one of these people, is the ACLU that's suing Louisiana right now, are they going to stop using currency?
Because it does say, in God we trust, on our currency.
I mean, where is the line for these things?
It just seems like a big show, and I'm like, look, we made a mistake a long time ago.
We made a mistake a long time ago seeding this ground.
Our kids need to know about how this country was founded, what the founders believed, and the divine hand of God that allowed it to be so.
And then they can make a decision on what they believe.
Nobody's saying you have to believe it.
But to not teach it at all is something that I just think is absolutely moronic for the culture that we want.
And look at the results.
Once we pulled God out of the classroom, things were headed in the wrong direction.
They went 10 times faster once we did that.
I just think it's a mistake.
And I understand you want to protect people.
You want to make sure you're not establishing a religion like the Church of England.
We can do both.
You know how I know?
Because the guys that wrote it Did both.
They wrote the protection and then they had actions that said, no, of course that action is not violated.
I understand Josh's position and the issue is we don't treat, for example, progressivism and leftism like the religion that it is.
Correct.
It is secularism and it is effectively a religion based or predicated on the rejection of God.
That's really what we're dealing with right now.
In other words, if you want to say that the idea of teaching children that they can be any gender that they want, or take mind-altering cross-sex hormones at the age of six, that is a religious belief because it's not based in science.
And it's just like Satanism.
And I do mean this, when I say Satanism, by the way, I don't mean... Sorry, one second, I have a hiccup.
Oh, it's the fire water!
It is the fire water.
You want some more?
I got plenty over here.
No!
When I say Satanism, I don't mean that people are drinking children's blood and spirit cooking behind closed doors.
What I mean when I say Satanism, if you look at actual Levain Satanism, they don't even believe in God, right?
They say that if you're going to use this allegory, if you're going to use this fable, then they side with Satan.
Why?
Because they don't want to serve a God who tells you to love your enemies Or who tells you to control your emotions or who tells you to be meek and submissive to God.
They say, hey, that's a God who hates you.
You should do things that bring you pleasure.
That's what Satanism is.
It's a rejection of the ideals of God.
Take away the name Satanism, and that's exactly what there is no men.
There are no men and women.
They're fundamentally interchangeable.
There is no sexual responsibility.
There is no duty to be responsible or accountable for your own life, your own decisions, your own finances.
There is no salvation.
And hey, by the way, you are all perfect and beautiful the way you are.
That is a rejection of every single... well, those ones, I should say, are a rejection of fundamentally godly principles that were the basis of this country, and that's why we are where we are.
So we do have to look at them both and say, let's put these on equal footing.
Leftism, progressivism, is a religion.
Yeah.
They're still making sacrifices.
That's what abortion is.
It's a sacrifice at the altar of self.
Yeah.
Let's be honest.
When you're talking about a party that supports abortion up until and including birth period, and even after birth in some instances like Virginia, or states like California, Colorado, if they had their way, we're no longer talking about a life.
It is human sacrifice at the altar of self.
And I think the reason for this, if people may think it's an overcorrection, and you can comment below, It's necessary at this point, because we've been acting as though all of these other ideals, these values that are corrosive, that have seeped in, that they're not somehow religious because these people claim that they're not religious.
But they are dogmatic, and they do subscribe to a doctrine.
It's the doctrine of me, me, me, me, me.
And, you know, not to be exclusive, but none of those other religions or ideas or tenets of belief had any impact on the founding of this country.
No.
So when you're talking about the founding of this country, I'm sorry but we didn't look to Islam to find out how to arrange society.
We didn't look to Hinduism.
We didn't look to Buddhism or Taoism or any of these other things.
We looked to Christianity and we looked to Judaism when you look at the Old Testament.
We looked to Judeo-Christian principles to found this country.
I do agree, I do agree that we should, you know, we gotta keep reminders of how this country was formed and what the ideas were behind it and all that, but I do think it's important to remember that people were escaping religious persecution.
Right, and there's no persecution by having a person.
And if we're gonna stick to the things that started this country and stuff, yeah, there's some, you know, it's backed up by Christianity, Judeo-Christianity, but it's also, I would support a law or a bill that made the Bill of Rights, or the Declaration of Independence, both of them be put in classrooms.
Yeah.
See, that's a different thing.
I think if you could teach those—I think that's more important, honestly.
I don't— Nobody's teaching these kids these—if you ask any kid what the—if you asked yesterday what the 19th Amendment was to a bunch of—nobody's gonna know.
No, you're right.
You're right.
I would actually agree with that point, that I think that those should be mandatory.
I think the Pledge of Allegiance should, understanding the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, you
know who knows those things?
Usually people who have immigrated to this country legally because they've had to go
through a citizenship test.
You'd be surprised as to what a lot of those people know and hey, that's why they end up
becoming law-abiding citizens, not to be confused with illegal immigrants or El Chapo.
There's a lot of kids that grow up thinking that everything's against them.
That everything's racist, everything's against them.
If you have the Bill of Rights and the Constitution up in the classrooms, every day they can look at it, they get to see it, they get to look for it themselves.
Wow, I guess I can do that.
I can do this, I can do that, I can... Except they have a bunch of public school teachers saying, well you can't because those are written by white men and they actually don't apply to you and it's systemically racist.
You're like, oh, skunked again!
They'll say the same thing about the Ten Commandments.
They'll say the same thing about everything.
They'll say the same thing about someone who happens to have a penis.
Who's a man, by the way.
Well.
Yeah.
Chief Shee-who-was-a-he.
Yes.
I don't know what that means.
Speak when you have no fundamental basis.
So before we get before we get to the arguments in the statistics in which Jon Stewart is completely wrong.
It's also important to look at this through the filter of what is the Second Amendment?
So even if the case could be made and it can't the way that Jon Stewart makes it.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter because do you have the right to defend yourself or do you not?
Well, we have the Second Amendment that says you do.
And we have Supreme Court rulings that say you do.
Now let me be really clear here.
Jon Stewart is one of the best ever at what he does.
I think he's progressively gotten more left and I think that he proselytizes a little bit more now.
I think he's far and away funnier than Bill Maher or Trevor Noah.
You can comment below.
I think he's really good at what he does.
I think he's a very smart guy.
This segment, however, is wrong.
And I will tell you exactly why all of it is wrong.
But he wants to make the case, if you haven't gone and watched this, it's been making the rounds, it's gotten millions of plays, that actually crime is down across the country, and certainly in big blue cities, and the crime in big blue cities is actually the result of Republican gun policies.
Here's a montage.
It's one of the right's favorite talking points, not just for Milwaukee, but for all Democratic-run cities.
That those cities are crime-infested shitholes, where life is miserable and everyone hates everybody.
By the way, it does turn out that crime is actually down.
The FBI reporting the nation's violent crime rate has dropped dramatically this year.
Overall violent crime down 15% from last year.
Murders down 26%.
By every national metric, crime is down.
That's so much.
Solid trend.
Now all of this, by the way, is not to say that gun crime does not exist.
Of course it does!
And some cities are worse than others.
But here's the thing.
And I say this with all due respect.
The balls of these right-wing motherfuckers.
Talking about how there's too much gun crime and chaos in our democratic cities.
When Republicans are the ones who've enabled the flood of illegal weaponry into our cities in the first place.
93% of the illegal guns used in crimes in New York City aren't from here!
The guns come from states like Florida, and Georgia, and South Carolina, where the gun laws are lax.
Well, I guess I'll be your right-wing mother f***er, because you're wrong.
And here's the thing, Jon Stewart is very, very smart.
So I don't know if it's people who've gotten him information that he hasn't taken the time to fact-check.
Or I don't know if he knows that these are misleading statistics and by that I mean flat-out incorrect and is simply deciding to use them anyway to score political points.
I'd like to think it's not the latter.
All I know is that it is incorrect and I will provide all references.
Link in the description or ladderwithcreditor.com.
Let's go through it point by point.
Here's a claim that he makes that crime is actually down in major cities.
It's one of the right's favorite talking points, not just for Milwaukee, but for all Democratic-run cities.
It does turn out that crime is actually down.
Okay, here's the truth.
Uh, no.
Crime is up.
When he says crime is down, what he's referring to is this new trend of under-reporting crime.
So I'm going to disabuse you of this notion, the basis of his argument.
So let me give you some information here.
2021.
The FBI started accepting data from only one source.
This was a change of course.
This is not how they did it before.
This will affect crime statistics.
And that source is the National Incident-Based Reporting System, NIBRS, even though it's not even shorter to say.
2022.
Nibbers.
Yes.
2022.
Almost one-third of law enforcement, all law enforcement agencies, don't report any data.
To the N-I-B-R-S.
Then by 2023, still almost one quarter not reporting.
At all.
Now, let me read this for you.
The National Crime Victimization Survey, which interviews citizens directly, they report that only four in ten violent crimes are reported at all.
Only three in ten property crimes are reported.
So, it's like, if you only count the calories you eat while you're sober, fine, but you're still going to end up dying in the street.
Hey man, you don't know that.
Well, I am a car.
I didn't know.
You are.
So probably.
Well, if it's ever clear, you could fuel it.
Hey, ethanol.
Here's another truth.
Okay.
Once we've established they've fundamentally changed their method of reporting and also the why there would matter.
I can't give you that answer definitively.
I can guess as to why they would decide to report it differently when they've had a crime wave the likes of which we haven't seen in many, many, many years and they need to for political expediency reduce it.
Let's just change the reporting mechanisms.
But the truth is crime is up.
And certainly in the context of what Republicans and Donald Trump have been saying.
Murders in big cities are higher, much higher, than pre-COVID levels.
Okay?
Let's look at New York City.
All right?
2017, 292.
That was a 70-year low.
2020, 468.
Let's look at Biden's New York City.
That's Trump beginning to end.
You have 488, 438, and then all of a sudden 386.
But the crime reporting is not the same as it used to be.
And when asked to explain the rising crime, New York City Mayor Eric Adams had this to say.
First woman of color to be the commissioner.
First Spanish-speaking to be the commissioner in the police department.
First Trinidadian to be a deputy mayor.
First Dominican to be a deputy mayor.
First African-American to be the first deputy mayor.
Second African-American to be the chief of staff.
Why?
The first one was by David Dinkins.
When you look at our administration, first Indian-American to be a deputy mayor.
First Filipino-American to be a deputy mayor.
First Korean American to have small business services.
You look at our administration and you will see for yourself,
we got all of this chocolate running the city.
Well, if you say so.
I wouldn't have said it like that.
Is that why they have so much diabetes?
Violent crime is up.
And by the way, you see this same trend across most major cities.
D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, and yes, the one that was mentioned, Milwaukee.
So we have crimes not being reported the same way.
We have an overall trend of certainly before that method of reporting and continuing with that method of reporting.
If you go to pre-COVID levels, we have crime that is up overall.
This is irrefutable.
Here's another truth.
These numbers are actually probably significantly worse.
If you wonder why people are so concerned with violent crime while talking heads, comedians, entertainers, analysts like Jon Stewart and people at CNN don't actually think that people are suffering crime waves, well, that's also because they're experiencing something that you're missing, and a big part of that is that many crimes no longer go prosecuted at all in a lot of these cities.
For example, retail theft.
Right?
In California, $950 or less, it's a misdemeanor.
You have people who are, it's just a revolving door of thieves at Walgreens.
You have entire franchises that have moved out of cities.
In California, things like public urination.
That's not going to be prosecuted anymore.
And by the way, they even have a book about it.
Yeah.
Oh my god!
It's very accurate, too.
We've talked about bail reform.
We've talked about no cash bail.
We've talked about the recidivism.
We've had stories here where people have committed, I believe one of them was 70-something crimes, and they were back out on the streets.
It happens all the time.
So you have crimes that aren't being listed at all as crimes, right?
Or they're not being prosecuted, so these criminals are free to roam in these cities, and then the citizens have to experience it.
You have a new, a very novel reporting system, a new method of reporting that, by the way, is a system that at least a quarter, as far as we know right now, and for those years at least a third of law enforcement agencies don't use, and you still have increased crime across these cities, largely in blue cities, which will bring us to the next point that he makes.
Here's the claim.
Well, even if you maybe believe that the crime is up, gun violence, of course this is the term, gun violence in blue cities is actually the fault of Republicans and Conservatives.
Now all of this, by the way, is not to say that gun crime does not exist.
Of course it does!
And some cities are worse than others.
But here's the thing.
And I say this with all due respect.
The balls of these right-wing motherfuckers.
Talking about how there's too much gun crime and chaos in our democratic cities when Republicans are the ones who've enabled the flood of illegal weaponry into our cities in the first place.
Let me just go to the truth.
And I'll start out with a question.
What about their cities?
This is the easiest way to debunk this, and I know he's a rational person.
You cannot make the argument that in these blue cities, gun crime is up because of the red districts, where they have higher gun ownership, but they don't have crime.
So, let me give you some stats here.
The gun-friendly states, right, and the suburbs they're in, is the safest areas in America.
So in 2020, 2% of US counties had 56% of all the murders.
Wow, I bet you I can guess them.
And all of the high murder counties have a Democrat mayor.
All of them.
Only one out of the 32 most violent counties voted for Trump.
That's Kern County in California.
And illegal weaponry?
I don't know what he means.
Does he mean magazine capacity?
Does he mean weapons that have been purchased illegally?
In other words, they haven't been purchased in the way that people in these counties, in suburban high gun ownership or rural counties, would purchase their firearms?
Either way, the rate-limiting factor is the criminal who's procuring these guns illegally.
We have counties with far, far more guns than the most violent counties.
They do not have the gun crime.
Only the counties, these major cities where we have seen increased crime, increased violent crime, which are entirely run by Democrats, have seen those problems.
It doesn't hold water.
It is completely illogical.
And here's another truth that's very uncomfortable, okay?
If you take out black firearm deaths, the numbers are dramatically different.
It's not about race, it's about big city culture, and it's about these big city cultures, these metropolitan cultures, by the way, that are run by leftist mayors.
That's what happens.
If you take the average rate of firearm deaths per 100,000, and you look at them by race, we exclude suicide.
We're talking about firearm homicides, violent crimes.
2018 to 2022, Native Americans, about 4.8.
Per 100,000 people.
Asians 0.9.
Whites 2.5.
people. Asians 0.9, whites 2.5, black Americans 23.8. 23.8 even though whites
have the highest rate of gun ownership.
Let's look at those rates.
Asians, 10%.
Hispanic, 20%.
Black, 24%.
Whites, 38%.
38% as far as gun ownership, but only 2.5 when you're talking about the actual firearm deaths per 100,000 people.
It's not even close.
And here's the thing, if we actually want to look at the problem and solve it, there's no running away from these numbers.
All of these cities that have seen these crime waves run by Democrat mayors.
You cannot escape it.
The crime and the people who are most likely the victims of the crime.
Black Americans living in these cities.
Here's another truth.
Okay?
Rural areas, where you have the highest gun ownership, see the lowest gun murders.
Again, when you take out gun suicides, gun deaths in rural areas, they're less than half of urban areas.
They're less than half of urban areas.
More guns in these rural and suburban areas, far more guns, less than half.
of the actual gun deaths.
It's, it's not even close.
If you want to make the, it's the Republicans' fault, okay, well then I guess, how would you solve it?
In other words, if you said, well we're not going to look at black firearm deaths, we're not going to look at the fact that these are run entirely by Democrat mayors, um, the problem is Republicans, right?
The problem is Republicans and where these guns are coming from.
The only way to solve that is to go to the areas that have high gun ownership, where they are not committing crimes, and take away their guns.
There is no solution that couldn't involve that!
Or, maybe we have a problem with these cities.
You starting to get the picture?
And by the way, vehicular homicide in rural areas, I'm giving this one to you, it still is a problem.
At that point, just get on the car.
Yeah, what are you doing?
I mean, I don't even feel bad for him.
I'm on the car side here.
Just crawl up on it.
I mean, obviously I'm on the car side.
Look at me.
You can tell by my turn signals.
You have turn signals?
Yeah, look at that.
Those are hazard lights.
I don't even know how we jerry-rigged that, but it also...
It doesn't work very well.
We need a spring for better.
I think I have those exact same lights and bathtub toys for my kids.
It's a user error.
It's a user error.
It's me.
I've been told I don't know how to press the buttons right.
I'll toss it to you guys, if you think there's anything that I've missed.
Again, I think Jon Stewart is brilliant.
I think he's very funny.
He is wrong, objectively.
It's not even close.
It's not really something that can be up for debate as far as the numbers.
The question becomes why.
You can comment below why you think it is.
I don't know at this point.
He's passionate.
He's a passionate dude and I think he's passionate about it.
I think it blinds him.
Yeah.
Or I think it either blinds him or, you know, he is busy.
He doesn't, it's not his regular show anymore.
He only hosts on Mondays or whatever it is.
So maybe he just comes in, gets what the writers tell him.
He goes, yeah, I agree.
What the, this is the numbers.
This is crazy.
And then just puts out the story cause he is passionate about it.
Yeah.
And I get that.
And also I was, there was two, you said the two counties at the 56% of the murders are the two counties, uh, whatever Chicago's in and, uh, New York 2% of the murders happen.
Or I'm sorry.
What was the static?
Two counties, half the murders?
It wasn't two counties, it was something else.
Go up a little further.
Oh yeah, hold on a second.
Which one are we talking about?
Right there.
2% of the U.S.
counties had 56% of U.S.
murders.
2% of the counties, and these are largely, of course, Democrat major cities.
Oh, 2%, okay.
Now, of course, the 2% of those counties have higher populations because they tend to be urban metropolitan areas.
And a lot of them have no gun laws.
Like Chicago, no guns at all.
New York City, I believe.
There's no guns, right?
There's no handguns, nothing?
But it's not the fault of their... They're never responsible for their own domains, are they?
Right.
It's like, well, no, it's not my fault in this city.
Remember with Chicago?
Barack Obama said, no, they're getting all their guns from Indiana.
Okay.
What's the crime rate in rural Indiana?
I went to the gun show.
There wasn't a gun show loophole.
They kicked me out.
Now, if you mean the gun show loophole was there happened to be some Some gang members in the parking lot with an open trunk?
Sure.
The only solution is to take away your freedoms.
In other words, if you're to point, this is what's so scary about it.
All right, hold on a second.
You screwed up with your cities.
No, no, no.
We didn't.
Well, hold on a second.
When you look at the bail reform, when you look at the no cash bill, when you look at the recidivism rate, when you look at not prosecuting crimes, and you look at, oh, no, no, no, it's the suburbs and it's the rural areas.
They have all the guns and those guns are making it here.
It's like, okay, you're saying that their guns are making it here, but their guns are already I wonder how many of these illegal gun crimes he's talking about are just possession charges.
Right.
Like no one used a gun in a crime.
They just got caught carrying a weapon in a place.
I think that's a huge number of illegal gun crimes in places like New York and Chicago.
These many crimes, people arrested with guns.
Technically, it's a crime, but it's like the immigration thing.
Well, yeah, immigrating illegally is a crime, so that's a crime, but they're also committing other crimes.
Yeah.
Well, we're using the gun homicide rates or gun death rates, and they are higher in big blue cities.
But yes, people can be charged by simply carrying a firearm that would be constitutionally protected with other states who actually value the rule of law in this country.
But the violent crime, that's the big difference.
The violent crime is a plague in these cities.
And I know what people say, well, that's because there are more people.
No, no, we're talking about the rate per 100,000.
Yeah.
But if people are closer together in a big city, okay, then I would also argue back to the first point.
It's the people with the mindset that creates in all blue city and those gun laws for decades that lends itself more to no cash bail and crime.
There's no escaping it when you have the contrast.
There's no escaping that Detroit is the left.
Period.
Since 1961.
No exceptions.
There's no escaping it.
You've had Detroit.
And you've had other counties.
And every single policy they've wanted to implement, they have.
There's no escaping that Chicago is the left.
There's no escaping it.
There's no escaping that San Francisco is the left.
At a certain point, you do have to deal with it, and you can't just blame the Republican counties and those dumb hicks out there who own all the guns anyway and don't commit the crimes.
It just doesn't work.
I know.
And I think, to go back to an earlier question about why it does, I think it's willful ignorance.
I thought you were going to say Wilford Brimley.
No, not Brimley.
No, absolutely.
The Sugarfoot?
No.
I really do think it's willful ignorance because what they're doing, there's two parts of this that really piss me off.
One, John Oliver, gosh, John Stewart, is making a terrible argument and he knows it.
There is no way to call that illegal weaponry.
Just because you've outlawed guns in New York City doesn't make a gun illegal according to the U.S.
Constitution.
It means that you have laws that are overreaching.
But the second part of all of this is that he's trying to shill for Biden.
He's trying to go, look at the job this administration is doing.
In most of the other examples that I can think of of Donald Trump, where maybe a stat that he has was going down, like a good economic indicator was going up, but they would say still not as good as under Obama.
Still not as high as the previous administration.
What they're doing right now is saying, hey, look, gas prices are going down.
Look, inflation is going down.
Look, these things are all trending in the right direction.
Yeah, but they're still 20, 30, 50% higher than under the previous administration.
Right.
So you're just correcting some of the errors that you have made and you still haven't gotten us back to pre-COVID levels.
That is the kind of reporting that you need.
That is the kind of honest reporting that I think they would go, well, if Donald Trump was in office, he'd go still higher than the previous administration, even though he's making progress.
And do you know why it's the kind of reporting you need?
Because it informs you so you can make decisions for your life.
Where to move, If owning a firearm is more dangerous than being disarmed, for example, when people believe you're in greater danger of having a firearm in your house, you repeat these kinds of talking points.
It affects people's decisions if they believe it.
The problem is it's not true.
Josh?
Yeah?
Again, with the fire water, where are you getting the bottles?
Drive-thru tobacco shop.
Tobacco?
You are loaded.
Knock it off.
We got different rules on the resume!
You know what, Josh?
You want some?
Yes, I do.
Here, I got another bottle right here.
Toss it over.
No, no, no, no, don't toss it over!
Don't, don't, just... I'll simply... Alright.
You can walk around the teepee.
What is this?
Why do I have a giant pencil?
What does this have to do with Native Americans?
Well, it's because it's in your cupboard.
That doesn't look like a pencil.
That's a pencil.
We've got giant cards here.
If you want to play blackjack, I can... I don't even know.
Wait.
Pencils are in the cupboard?
I'm going to get pulled over for having a headlight out.
I better turn both off.
I didn't know that pencils were in the cupboard.
And what's on my back?
There's something in this jacket.
I hope it's not a spider.
Maybe it's a buffalo tooth.
It's definitely a spider.
It's a spider.
By the way, are we doing the costume contest winners here or on Mug Club?
Here, we did them here last.
Okay, we'll do them here.
So, none of this happens without you, our lovely members of... Yeah, you know what?
I am going to try this.
You're going to take a swig?
It's child-proof.
I just give up on it.
Tim's head just gone.
You gotta have the hands of the drunk to open that thing.
Ancient Native Secret, my friend.
Well, Cherokee's pissed.
You gotta walk the Trail of Tears before you can open that thing right there.
You gotta touch your nose and walk the cop line.
Tim's hat looks like an old colonial sailor or something.
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Costume contest winners!
Let's bring in the music of my people and see who's going to win swag bags and DNA samples from Gerald.
Third place!
Who do we have?
We have an honorable mention.
Do you want it at top or bottom?
I can't see them.
Is it honorable mention for third place or is it like a first place?
It would be first place but it's the same gentleman who won last week.
Well then show it.
Now, maybe?
Well, you know what?
Let's show it last, then.
I would imagine it's probably a very good costume.
It is.
And so we'll show it last.
Okay, let's have a drumroll from my people.
In third place, we have... Alright, our third place winner, NickAtNight69!
Just wore his normal outfit and got on a horse.
That's a horrible username!
It's the Burger Chief!
I saw the behind-the-scenes documentary of Nickelodeon and Disney, and the name makes me uncomfortable.
Not good.
Not good.
That guy looked like Flamming Saddles.
That's cool.
Not everything is fodder for comedy, but good!
NakedKnight69, we appreciate it, and we're going to be sent... What does he get?
He gets a shirt.
He gets a shirt.
Alright, in second place, let's get a drumroll.
Alright, second place.
Get to it, Trevor!
Ah, there you go!
Oh, wounded knees!
Alright, this is Gabriela Vigs Vigorito.
Very nice, Gabriela!
Let me guess... Elizabeth Warren, right?
Is that the implication?
The original dreamcatcher!
I'm Native Ameri- I have more Sub-Saharan African in me than she has Native American.
Well, in your posterior.
And she wrote a cookbook, Pow Wow Chow.
Racist bitch.
Let's grab...
Number one.
First place winner of the costume contest.
Alright, and in first place, VBMatthew21.
Oh.
That's awesome.
That's me last Saturday.
And you're going to get an entire swag bag, which will not include fire water because of the liquor laws.
That's true.
I can ship.
Plus, I want it for myself.
Well, there's more for you.
Alright.
Honorable mention goes to, again, last week's winner, John Veitch.
Oh my word!
He nailed it!
Wow!
Well, someone's gonna call PETA.
Shows a lot of trust in horse.
Honestly, he looks pretty badass.
Yeah, that's awesome.
There's something about war paint that makes you, you look at it, you're like, yeah, I want to sculpt you.
I would believe, I would immediately believe that that guy can shoot an arrow right in the horse.
Yeah, I would too.
I would too.
I would also believe that, you know, we could send him some small fox blankets.
Oh, where'd you get those?
Well, it was before germ theory, so, you know, it was a happy accident.
Happy for who?
I don't know.
You know, I'm sure some people were happy.
Also research sent in that for best Steven Seagal impression, Billy the Kid.
Oh!
Oh!
Laughter Alright.
That wig and mustache is going underrated today.
We're going to continue, of course, with Chat Thursday on Mug Club.
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Josh, you're going to be where?
I'm going to be at Summit City Comedy Club in the ancient land of Indiana.
Uh, tomorrow.
Wait, is today Thursday?
Yeah, tomorrow.
Tomorrow's Saturday.
They're the reason for all the crime in Chicago.
They are.
That's what I heard.
And the corn in my belly.
Yeah.
So thank you.
Yep, yep.
The sign says, Indiana, more than just corn.
And on the sign is corn.
Isn't that ridiculous?
In case you didn't know what it was.
We love you, Indiana, but YouTube, piss off.
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