Dave Smith critiques the Democratic National Convention's failure to address 2020 riots, noting how corporate media and Joe Biden eventually condemned the violence only after polls shifted. He argues that threats from Donald Trump regarding future unrest if he loses are intimidation tactics that contradict claims of right-wing responsibility, while Democrats like Kamala Harris created an uncontrollable monster by funding bail for rioters. Ultimately, this political miscalculation undermines Democratic support as citizens flee cities, suggesting the party's hubris has backfired significantly. [Automatically generated summary]
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What's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I'm Dave Smith, and I will be flying solo for this episode.
Robbie the Fire Bernstein is losing the war with Optimum, unfortunately.
So he will not be on this episode.
We all thought if something was going to take Robbie the Fire out, it would be COVID or possibly the AIDS, but it turned out to just be his local internet provider.
So it's too bad.
Hopefully, we will, you know, hopefully he'll have a resurgence and be back on the net the next episode.
Anyway, so there's something that I wanted to talk about today that I think is kind of a big deal.
But before we get into that, I did want to quickly mention that I had a debate, an informal debate, with Andy Craig, who is a staff writer at the Cato Institute.
And we did it over on the Lions of Liberty podcast.
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It was a shit show in the most glorious sense of the word.
It got very heated and fairly childish and immature at certain levels, but I think it'll be entertaining.
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And yeah, you can go check it out.
It's going to be out, I believe, next week on the Lions of Liberty podcast.
But if you are a subscriber, a supporter, supporting listener for Lions of Liberty, you can go listen to it right now.
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It was something.
I'll just leave it at that, and you guys can go listen in and make up your own minds about who you think emerged victorious.
Okay, so I thought that this week there was a major, major development in the presidential election.
And it has to do with the stuff that I've been talking about for months now.
And I just thought it was really interesting and worth going over and dissecting a little bit.
So, what happened was Joe Biden came out and gave a speech condemning the riots and the violence sweeping the country.
This was interesting for several reasons.
Obviously, I guess the main thing is that it was not mentioned at the Democratic National Convention.
Now, if you have a full convention with dozens of speakers, including yourself, your vice presidential running mate, the former nominee/slash secretary of state, the last sitting president, the last first lady, the governor of New York, all these huge, high-profile figures.
And this topic does not come up once.
Nobody thinks it's even worthy of mentioning it.
And then the Republicans have a convention where they make this a huge issue.
And then a couple days later, you have to come out and give a speech about this issue.
That, I mean, I don't know what could be a clearer indication in politics that basically all of your data, all of your research was indicating that this is a really big problem for you.
I don't think there's any way to escape that.
I mean, I just think about that.
A topic that wasn't worthy of being mentioned once by anyone, but is worthy of you coming out and giving a full speech about it just a few days later.
Now, that is a devastating sign for the Biden campaign.
And obviously, just inherently by the fact that you have to do that, it shows that they were really concerned about this stuff.
But I think there's a lot of other interesting parts of this and lessons that can be learned from this situation.
It was, you know, only a week ago that the entire corporate press and the Democratic establishment and all of that, their line was that this stuff didn't exist.
Or if it did exist, it was being greatly, you know, overdramatized.
And Trump's trying to scare you.
He's playing into the politics of fear or something like that.
People were ridiculed and smeared for bringing it up.
I have a little bit of experience in that department.
A lot of people didn't want to talk about it.
A lot of people wanted to say that they support the movement Black Lives Matter without explicitly condemning all of this violence related to it.
And that narrative has all completely changed.
And I touched on this on one of the recent podcasts when I mentioned that I thought it was a really big deal that Don Lemon over at CNN all of a sudden said, Hey, I think it's a problem that Democrats are ignoring this.
You know, it's starting to show up in the polls.
And only a couple days later, the nominee himself, Joe Biden, the former vice president, has to go out and condemn this stuff because you know what?
I mean, that's that is without saying it, the Biden campaign agreeing with Don Lemon that yes, in fact, this stuff is starting to show up in the polls.
There's a real lesson for libertarians in here who were either, I was going to say afraid, but perhaps the correct term is, you know, a more generous term would be unwilling to condemn the riots.
Some people, I think, just genuinely didn't agree with condemning the riots.
I think some people just thought, you know, they had their ideological blinders on and they were saying, you know what?
The movement is good.
And any movement that's against police has got to be, you know, we have to be on their side.
Or they think for strategic reasons that you can, you know, if you talk to the Black Lives Matter people, you can pull more votes in that way than if you talk to the people who are upset at the Black Lives Matter movement.
You know, for whatever reason, there were a lot of libertarians who not only didn't want to criticize the riots, but actually got very upset with people who were criticizing the riots.
And it should show you something when you had this as a major feature in the Republican convention.
Now, if it was just that, right?
Like if the Democrats weren't criticizing it and the Republicans were, I suppose you could make an argument that, well, I just think, you know, the Democrats, the Republicans are playing to their base and the Democrats are playing to their base.
And it's not clear that one is a better strategy than the other.
But the fact that the Democrats had to cave on it and come out and condemn the riots pretty much shows you that actually it's a winning issue to be against the riots.
Now, obviously, it's also the right thing to do.
And as I've been saying for months, I don't really even understand how this is a difficult sell for libertarians.
Like, if you're a libertarian, you are against initiating violence against peaceful people, which is what's happening in major cities across the country.
It's not like one or two or three cities.
It's like almost all of them across the country as major, you know, like large numbers, thousands of businesses looted.
Dozens of people have been either murdered or seriously injured.
Hundreds of people have been assaulted.
This is all over the place.
And, you know, the corporate press game plan, which essentially for months was to pretend this wasn't happening, to just pretend it doesn't exist.
Well, unfortunately, even with their attempted clampdowns on the internet, we still do have this thing called the internet.
And it's just impossible these days for them to play this game.
That's also really fascinating in itself.
Like you, they're really, it's one of the biggest themes of the last like five years of American politics.
That's really just, it's unbelievable to watch.
It's kind of shocking to me.
But it's the establishment's inability to adapt to the new situation that they find themselves in.
It's like they had this game plan, and this game plan has worked for 60 years.
So what are we not going to do this?
You know, like you could imagine if there was a football team that's won like 15 games in a row and they're on the verge of having a perfect season and they've been running the same offense every single game and it's just, it always wins.
And then all of a sudden someone's throwing a whole new defense at you.
And you could kind of understand where they'd be like, oh, listen, we're going to stick with this offense because we're 15 and 0 with this offense.
But they seem to have a really tough time realizing, oh, no, the defense is different right now.
This is, they're running different, you know, like patterns on us here.
And this offense is not going to work against that.
I really can't believe that the corporate press did not recognize earlier that they wouldn't be able to pretend this didn't exist.
And I guess eventually they did realize like, oh, well, we've thrown seven interceptions in a row.
We better change up our offense.
But look, man, this is something I've been saying for a long time.
You guys who listen to this show, I've been saying this a lot for the last few months, that it's just gotta be.
And I guess maybe even I questioned this at some point, but I was like, it's gotta be that normal people will reject this.
Like even like your left of center kind of people, they're not gonna be okay with just watching pure unadulterated destruction.
What normal person would be okay with this?
The only people that will be okay with this are like really nutty ideological left-wingers.
I don't understand who else would, or perhaps some really crazy ideological right-wingers because they'll see that the left is going to overplay its hand and lose support or something like that.
But it's got to be a tiny percentage of the population.
And you see all of these indications that, you know, like, okay, so there's been a lot that's been posted about how you can look all this stuff up.
But so in New York City, in my hometown, it's like impossible for people to get moving trucks.
Now, we don't have exact numbers right now on how many people have moved out of the city, but you cannot get a moving truck right now in New York City.
There was a videotaped the other day of the U-Haul, like rental station or whatever, where you get a U-Haul, and it's a line like wrapped around the block because people already can't get moving trucks.
So now they're going to just get U-Hauls.
And now you're having trouble getting a U-Haul.
People are fleeing the cities.
They're getting out of there.
Now, who's fleeing New York City?
I mean, okay, you could say it's the Republicans, but how many fucking Republicans are there really in New York City?
If you see people fleeing out of a, you know, overwhelming majority blue city, I mean, the whole state is blue because of New York City.
If you took New York City away, New York's a red state.
So there's so much blue that they make the whole state blue.
So, I mean, this is like a really heavily Democrat-leaning city, as most cities are, but particularly New York.
Republicans don't even, you know, New York isn't even on the dream list of states that we could flip.
And that's all because of New York City.
All right.
So when you see people fleeing like that, I think it's reasonable to say there's probably a few Democrats in there who are fleeing as well, right?
It can't just be the Republicans, or at least it's very unlikely that it's just the Republicans who are fleeing.
No, there's a lot of Democrats leaving as well.
So if Democrats are so bothered by a situation that they have to leave, they have to flee their home, you'd imagine that the riots aren't going to be very popular with them.
Seems like a fairly reasonable assumption to me.
So yeah, it turns out that it's not some, you know, being upset about watching, you know, murders in the street and old men being soccer kicked while they're on the floor and old women being beat up and, you know, stores being destroyed and all of this shit.
That's not like a far, only a far right winger would have a problem with that.
Normal people have a problem with that.
And okay, like that's probably not the hardest thing to predict.
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But so here's the situation, right?
You have these mass riots around the country.
The corporate press line is they're not happening.
And if you mention it, you're probably a racist or something like that.
They're not happening.
We'll ridicule you, will smear you, will mock you if you say anything about it.
Oh, all of a sudden they are happening.
And all of a sudden, the Republicans fall.
So we'll get to that in a second.
But so now, you know, it's like, so the Republicans steal the, and I mean steal, not in the unfair sense of the word, but they rightfully take this message away from, say, like the Libertarian Party, who doesn't want to say anything about this.
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I think once, I believe the only time they condemned him is when I beat it out of them, and they were like, well, yeah, that goes without saying.
It's like, yeah, well, okay, Libertarian Party, it goes without saying that we're against the riots.
Well, you let the Republicans go up there and say, no, it doesn't go without saying.
We're saying it.
We're against the riots.
And guess what?
Now so are the Democrats and so is the corporate press.
And watch, now the Libertarian Party will hobble along behind them like the fucking followers and be like, yeah, we're also against the riots.
Yeah, seriously, property destruction is wrong.
All these other libertarians now who are giving me a whole bunch of shit, watch, it's not controversial anymore.
They won't have a problem with me saying this on the podcast because now the entire corporate press, Joe Biden and the Republicans, everybody's acknowledging that these are these are bad, which, I mean, you know, like how much courage does it really take to call out fucking senseless murders in the streets?
My God.
Anyway, so just look at the opportunity that libertarians fucking blew there.
Like when these things happen, we have to be the first ones out there.
We have to be the ones with principles and with courage.
And I got to be honest, man, like this really didn't take that much courage.
It just took basic principles.
You know, sometimes people talk about like, you know, the courageous views that can get you in trouble.
And, you know, I appreciate people who take a courageous stand when it's right.
I think those are really, to be honest, the only stands that actually matter.
I mean, if you're taking a stand with something that pretty much everyone else agrees with, then it's meaningless.
You know, it's like, oh, cancer is bad, or we're against racism or whatever, you know, something like that.
It's like, okay, I mean, you might be right and you might make yourself feel better.
Perhaps there could be some value if that it's just assuring someone else that you're a good person and then you hit them with a really controversial, unpleasant truth.
But if that unpleasant truth never comes, then you're just virtue signaling or at least wasting your time.
Um, what matters is when you'll say something that does take some courage and will get you some lumps.
But truthfully speaking, right now, at least, you know, in 2020, it doesn't even really take that much courage to say these things.
I mean, like, yeah, I mean, sure, you're risking getting like kicked off Twitter or something like that, or you're risking getting called mean names.
Um, for some people, I do suppose you're risking losing your job.
And I don't mean to downplay that.
I mean, I know there are people who have been fired for saying politically incorrect things, or you know, more specifically for challenging left-wing orthodoxy, is even really mild things like saying all lives matter.
That woman, right, who got fired, some regular lady got fired for posting that on Facebook, you know.
And that's I'm not downplaying that.
That's fucked up when people, you know, get their, you know, get their livelihoods taken away from them, or when you get kicked off Twitter or things like that.
But really, if you put it in historical context of how risky saying something unpopular is, if you put it in historical context for how risky it really is to stand up against the dominant cultural narrative, it's nothing.
It's nothing.
I mean, it's nothing compared to like, you know, being fucking crucified, quite literally in some situations, being lynched, being, you know, straight, like, you know, I'm just saying in the past, there's been far more courageous people who have been willing to say, you know, really important things and suffer way worse consequences than what this calls for.
But if libertarians aren't willing to take those lumps, if you're not willing to be like, well, I might get kicked off Twitter or I might get called some names by some people online, like if we don't have that amount of courage, then I genuinely think we should just give up and go away.
There's no point in us if we're not willing to take some risky positions.
And this one was so obvious.
And also, on top of it all, it was good politics.
It's not even just that it was the right thing to do.
It was a good strategy.
Like, couldn't you see right away that you're like, yeah, this probably is not going to be very popular the more it continues.
And it took months and months of this stuff.
Look, this shit had already been going on for months and months before the Democratic National Convention.
And they still tried to pretend it wasn't happening.
So that backfired for them in a big way.
And it seems to me there's just no way to cover up the fact that the Democrats botched their convention.
If you have to come out and give a major speech about something that was just as relevant when your convention happened and you didn't mention it, not even one, like they could have saved themselves if Joe Biden and Barack Obama had had at least one throwaway line about like, and also we think they should stop the violence.
Then they could kind of say, well, listen, we addressed that and now I want to expand on that further something, but to just pretend it's not a thing.
And not only that, but they're promoting Black Lives Matter at the Democratic National Convention.
Now, that's, it's a tough thing.
And this is what I was critical of, you know, Jorgensen's Twitter people for.
It's a tough thing to say, I support Black Lives Matter and have it go without saying that you don't mean all of these ugly parts of supporting Black Lives Matter.
You know, like if you, if you say, you know, I support, You know, some like brutal, you know, murderous regime, and people are like, But they're they kill all these people.
And you could say, Oh, no, but I'm not talking about that part.
I'm not talking about the murders.
It's like, well, okay, but I mean, if you're not clear about that, then a lot of people are going to be like, Yeah, well, we kind of are talking about the murders, and you know, you know, like, I don't, I support Adolf Hitler.
You're like, Oh, I just mean the trains or something like that.
Like, it's like, Well, he's kind of known for this other thing, so that's what people are going to talk about.
Now, okay, it's not as bad as that, but it still is a situation where there's a lot of violence and it's unclear.
Now, I also don't think it's fair.
You know, Black Lives Matter is in many ways a decentralized movement.
I mean, that's not to say that there's not some funding coming in, and there's not like you know, who knows what's really going on behind the scenes, and there is a large degree of organization, but it's certainly, and this is the problem I have.
Like, you know, someone like I think Crowder said the other day, at least someone told me he said this, that he said, Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization.
And, you know, maybe is the organization a terrorist organization?
I don't know.
It seems to me like there's a ton of mob violence happening under the name of Black Lives Matter.
There's also a lot more people who just kind of are marching and are against the police brutality and stuff like that.
There's also some hardcore Marxists who are just marching and aren't, you know, throwing bricks through storefront windows.
And, you know, it's impossible to separate these things out.
But if you just say, I support Black Lives Matter, the movement, it's like, okay, well, the guy who just murdered that dude in Portland, he had Black Lives Matter tattooed on his neck, or at least the main suspect in that murder has Black Lives Matter tattooed on his neck.
So are you really going to say he's not a part of the movement?
Like, it gets a little bit difficult to separate these things out.
And it just seems like the obvious move is just to condemn the violence.
The right thing to do.
It's the good strategy.
It's what makes sense.
So, anyway, Biden comes out and he gives this speech.
And it was, you know, he was put in a really tough position.
It almost makes you feel bad for him if he wasn't, you know, just a corrupt, crony, godless, lawless, you know, politician for his whole life.
But he, so he's in this position where he has to come out now, kind of with his tail between his legs and say, ah, you know, I've been thinking about it and the riots are really bad.
And then he has to also somehow not take the blame for that and blame it all on Trump and these right-wingers.
And it's really, it's amazing to watch it happen.
You almost appreciate the chutzpah to even make this argument.
But I suppose poor old senile Joe Biden is left in a position where the people around him have explained he really has no other option.
They've been backed into a corner.
And so this is their only way out of it.
And, you know, to Joe Biden's credit, I suppose, he did about as good as you could do making this ridiculous argument.
It's almost like if I had to come out and admit to you guys that my last five podcasts had been horrible, that I've been wrong about everything I've been saying.
But then at the same time, I was going to tell you that it's socialists' fault.
I know this looks a lot like it's my podcast and I get to decide what I say and it's me sitting in front of the camera, but I'm telling you, it's these left-wingers way over there that are the reason why this is happening.
And this is kind of what it sounds like when Joe Biden's got to come out and explain why there's been violence in these democratic cities with Black Lives Matter activists, but it's really the right-wingers' fault.
It's just quite a dance to watch him attempt.
So, but that is what he said.
That is more or less it.
It's like, okay, so this is the new line.
And this is now permeating the corporate press, of course, because the Democratic Party and the corporate press, they march in tandem.
I don't know if you've noticed this.
You know, if you ever listen to what Nancy Pelosi is saying and what CNN are saying, they are always in the exact same, you know, like they're in the exact same narrative, down to the point.
I think Tucker Carlson's done this a bunch, but down to the point where the exact same phrases are used.
Like they are getting talking points from the same people, or at least the people giving the talking points are agreeing on the same talking points.
And by the way, talking points are given out, like straight up are given out.
I know this from my time in cable news.
If people who are like Democratic strategists or Republican strategists, they will get emails with the talking points.
This is what we are saying.
This you can kind of put it into your own words, but this we want you to repeat verbatim, like shit like that.
That's why the same things are said over and over.
That's why, you know, phrases like the walls are closing in on Trump.
You remember that during the Mueller investigation?
You would hear that all the time in the corporate press.
The walls are closing in on Trump.
They keep saying these things over and over again.
It's like a propaganda technique to get you to fucking.
So anyway, so the Democrats and the corporate press, they're all, you know, with the exception of Fox News and a couple other notable exceptions, but pretty much all of them.
They're all basically now, this is the new talking point: is that there is violence in the streets.
The violence is really horrible, but it's Trump's fault.
It's right-wingers' fault.
This is now.
I got a guess, just like I kind of guessed that these riots wouldn't end up being too popular.
And as I said from the very beginning, if you remember the very, very beginning of the riots, my take was that this will blow the entire anti-cop movement.
And popularity of police, of course, has been going up throughout the country.
So this is, of course, this is in many ways the best thing that could happen for pro-police people.
And I don't think that's good.
So the talking point is now that, yeah, there's all this violence and it's really, really bad, but it's not in, it's not Black Lives Matter and Antifa that's doing it.
It's really kind of these Trump supporters.
And it's the fact that Trump has encouraged violence.
And it's the fact that he's, you know, his supporters are going out there and looking for this conflict.
Now, just like I predicted with the riots, I'll make a prediction about this.
I think it's going to be impossible to make this narrative stick.
It's you're telling, you know, it's don't trust your lying eyes, is more or less what the American people are being told right now.
This is, you know, this is the idea of trying to pin this on right-wingers really happening.
They're actually going through with this.
I mean, Biden gave this whole speech on this.
Joy Reed's been posting a lot about this.
Oh, this one person with far-right ties was really responsible for all the looting.
Meanwhile, I mean, anyone can see the videos for themselves.
You can look at this.
And that's not to say there's not one example here or there of a Trump supporter getting into conflict with somebody, or one example here or there of a guy who has some far-right ties or something.
But come on.
I mean, the vast majority of this has been, you know, if political at all, far-left and for the most part, not even really political, just, you know, kind of opportunistic thugs who are, you know, using the banner of Black Lives Matter, and then the Antifa crowd who are legitimately, you know, like anarcho-communists or whatever.
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So this is what Biden had to try to sell in his speech.
And he said at one point that he, you know, he said something along the lines of he said, you know, they're trying to say I'm a radical socialist who condemns violence in the streets.
You know, and he gave us Joe Biden, like, come on, man, look at me.
Do I look like that?
That's not me.
And it was almost, you know, it's funny because for people who have followed politics for a while, you know, it's like, yeah, no, that is not Joe Biden.
It's true.
That is not Joe Biden at all.
Joe Biden isn't any of those things.
Joe Biden is just, he's just an old senile, corrupt politician.
He's not some radical socialist.
He's not someone who cares about, like, promotes violence in the streets.
I mean, truthfully speaking, Joe Biden was basically throughout his career like a law and order war hawk liberal Republican.
I mean, you know, he was technically a conservative Democrat, but the line between conservative Democrat and liberal Republican is like very, very thin.
I mean, like the difference between Hillary Clinton and John McCain is almost like in terms of subsidiologies, there's almost no difference between them.
That's the thing.
It's like, you know, like the conservative Democrats like Barack Obama and the liberal Republicans like Mitt Romney and all these guys, they're all basically the same.
One little things.
Like maybe one of them wants, you know, a top marginal tax rate of 39% and the other one's like, no, no, no, we need 35%.
And then they fight forever about that.
But that's the range of difference.
It's 4%.
It's like there's, there's nothing major in terms of policy that they disagree on.
Joe Biden was always a tough on crime Democrat.
And I don't know how much of that he actually believed.
I mean, my guess is very little.
I think these, I don't think people like Hillary Clinton or John McCain or Joe Biden or Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, any of these types.
I don't, they're not ideological.
They're power brokers.
They want power, you know, and they want to enrich their friends because that's how you get power and that's how you stay propped up and maintain power.
But they don't, they're not really ideologically left-wing or right-wing.
They will say what they need to say to get elected.
And what happened was basically in this country in the, you know, after the late 60s, when there were riots and there were street violence and all of this, and the Democrats were more or less seen as soft on this stuff.
And Richard Nixon won in 68, running on a law and order campaign.
Ronald Reagan played into this when he won in 1980.
And this was always a Republican selling point.
They were tough on crime.
Is there crime in your neighborhood?
All right.
Well, you don't like that, right?
And the Republicans will come in here and we will have the cops, the agents of the state, come and arrest these people.
And that will, you know, take care of your crime problem.
And the Democrats being seen as more, you know, making excuses for criminals and things like this.
Or at least this was how the Republicans would try to sell it.
This was always seen as a political weakness.
And it was, politically speaking.
People don't have a lot of sympathy for violent criminals.
And rightfully so.
And so the Republicans, or excuse me, the Democrats, particularly in the late 80s and in the 90s, really tried to change this image.
And Joe Biden was one of the Democrats, like right at the center of that.
So they went like way hardcore, tough on crime.
And they were like, okay, see, you can't put that soft on crime label on me because look, I'll lock up anybody.
And this is where you get all of these clips, Joe Biden in the 90s, where he's saying these like inflammatory things, like, you know, he's, oh, I wanted the death sentence for anything, you know, short, anything more than jaywalking or like these weird things that, you know, Hillary Clinton's super predators and all these different things that they used to say back then.
They were trying to be so forceful and so aggressive that they could never be labeled with this soft on crime label again.
Oh, you know, it's laughable.
You're going to say I'm soft on crime.
Look at me.
I'm putting everybody in jail.
So, you know, so that was like their strategy.
And it worked fairly well.
Like it got them political power.
And so you can imagine what it's like to be Joe Biden, where you're doing all this stuff and now the winds have changed and woke is the new religion of the land.
And all of a sudden they're like, okay, you know all that shit about the tough on crime stuff that you use to gain power?
Okay, bail on all of it because that's not what people want now and that's not going to help you gain power.
So fuck all of that shit.
You're not tough on crime.
You're tough on cops and very sympathetic to the criminals, you know?
And now this, because of these changes in the culture, and also a lot of it is because crime rates, violent crime rates went way down in the country.
Like through the Clinton administration, through the Bush administration, into Obama, through the Obama administration, all, you know, year after year after year, crime rates went all way, way, way down, way down.
And so when crime is really down, and you know, like New York City, for example, it goes from being a place where like people are getting murdered and stabbed and mugged and all this shit.
And all of a sudden, basically all of that's gone.
Nobody's getting, you know, like, I mean, like, there's still some murders, but it's drastically lower.
You know, I forget the exact note, but it goes from, you know, being like over 2,000 murders to being like 250 murders a year.
You basically, if you're not in like the worst neighborhoods in New York City, murder is like not a thing.
It's just not anywhere near you.
And that's what it's been like for people who have lived in New York City for the last 20 years.
It's really just not like a thing.
If it does happen once in a blue, it's like, what the fuck?
But it's usually nowhere near where you live, unless you're unfortunate enough to live in a few shitty neighborhoods.
But so in that environment, when crime goes way down, and now it's like what the cops are doing is what?
They're like, they're busting a guy for like smoke and weed.
You see him like, maybe they're harassing some skater for like skateboarding on the steps of a federal building or something.
And it's much easier to say.
And then all the rise of all this woke shit.
It's like, yeah, what do we really need these fucking cops harassing people for?
It just becomes much more accepted amongst regular people.
And so the Democrats made this big shift, this big shift, really since the last term in Obama and the first term for Donald Trump, where now it's like the woke shit is what we're talking about.
And we're talking about racial profiling and police brutality and all of these things.
It's not tough on crime anymore.
They're not really concerned with the Republicans giving them the label of soft on crime.
In fact, they'd almost welcome it because then they can just turn it around on you and be like, what are you talking about?
You're racist.
That's why you're with the cops.
So, this to me is like the politics of it all.
But now, things have changed and things have changed because the crime rates are spiking all throughout the country.
And there's violent mobs terrorizing innocent people all over the place and all the stuff that we talked about at the beginning of the podcast.
People are fleeing from their fucking hometowns over this shit.
So, now, Joe Biden, you know, just imagine the people who have to go up to this fucking old man who can barely remember what his speech is.
And they go, All right, you remember how you were this tough on crime guy?
And then we told you to drop all that shit and become the we need police reform guy.
We're going to need you to go back to tough on crime, Joe.
And he's like, Dude, I don't even remember the latest speech you gave me.
Holy shit, I got to learn a different speech now.
Just asking this guy to adapt on his feet is just seems unfair on every level.
But that's what he's trying to do.
And in a way, he can play on that.
And it's what he goes, Do you do you really think I'm a radical socialist who fucking apologizes for violent crime in the street?
And it's like, no, Joe, we don't think you're that.
What we think is that you are whatever they tell you to be.
That's what Joe Biden really is.
Really, you're just a shill for the military-industrial complex and credit card companies and big banks or whatever.
You're basically going to come out here and say whatever speech was written for you, whatever your handlers told you you need to say now to try to win this damn presidency.
That's what you look like, not a radical socialist apologizing for crime.
And then he basically said, It's all Trump's fault.
And in what I thought was really, and Democrats, you know, their ability to do this, it really is, it never ceases to amaze me.
But they will, you know, it's like I think Tucker Carlson also said this, or said something along those lines, but it's a really good point.
It's true.
He's like, the fucking like Democrats and the social justice types on the left, they don't lie, like they don't give you like small lies.
They lie like 180 degrees away from what is reality, lies.
Like, it's not like Democrats will punch you in the nose and say, I didn't punch you in the nose.
It's not a lie like that.
Democrats will punch you in the nose and say, you just punched me in the nose.
Like, they'll do something to you and then accuse you of doing the exact thing that they just did with no sense of shame.
Like, it's really unbelievable.
That's why you'll see the same people, you know, people who will support like the book White Fragility will turn around and call you a racist.
It's like, no, you're the racist.
Like, what?
You literally just, you know, white people are evil just by their very whiteness.
And you're like, wait, what?
And then they go, being racist right now.
You're like, I just said what?
Like, no, you're being racist.
Right.
Sure.
You're the racist.
Okay.
So, anyway, so that, like, this is what they do.
And one more to add to the thousands of examples of this is Joe Biden actually said in this speech that Donald Trump didn't have the courage to call out his supporters for their violence in the street.
It was really astounding to watch.
And Joe Biden gave this speech less than a week or a week, maybe a week and a few days after his convention, where he didn't say anything about the violence that had been raging for months, comes out, gives a speech that says, and says, not only is it like, it's not true that I didn't have the courage to call out my supporters who are being violent in the streets.
No, no, no.
Donald Trump doesn't have the courage to call out his violent supporters in the streets.
In fact, he's kind of encouraging it.
By not calling it out, he's kind of complicit in it.
It was like, wow, what a fucking brain fuck.
Like, you almost gotta, you almost gotta respect them in a way because they do.
They like mind fuck you into being like, wait, what?
It's it's such an audacious claim to make that it almost like is confusing to people when they hear that.
Like, wait, that is so, it's not just not true, it's the opposite of truth.
I mean, who could we've all lived through this, right?
There's been violent left-wing riots in the streets, and the media and the Democrats have been silent about this.
So, what's the talking point?
There's been violent right-wing riots in the streets, and Donald Trump's been silent about it.
It's like you can't fucking make this shit up.
This is actually their strategy.
It's something to watch.
And the other thing that Joe Biden said in this speech that I thought was really interesting, and this was not an accident, they actually, the campaign tweeted this out as well as, you know, this was in a pre-written speech.
And Joe Biden said, if Donald Trump gets re-elected, do you really think the violence is going to get any better?
That was his line.
And that is fucking chilling.
Now, by the way, I've talked about this.
I know a lot of other people have talked about this.
That the truth is that if Donald Trump gets re-elected, I'm pretty sure you're going to see mass riots all around this country.
Left-wingers who are unhappy that Donald Trump was elected will be even more unhappy that he's re-elected, and they're going to start fucking breaking shit and fucking people up.
That's going to happen.
I think it's pretty clear.
However, for Joe Biden to actually use that argument in a campaign speech, it feels to me like that's a whole new level of political discourse in America.
Like that's a whole new level that I've never really seen anyone use before.
Now, you could say Donald Trump said the thing about riots in the streets.
If they were to steal the nomination away from him when he was clearly on his way to winning the Republican nomination, I mean, okay, but the major difference there is that it's like there weren't riots going on.
He wasn't saying these riots will get worse.
It was kind of hyperbolic.
And, you know, maybe he thought it was true or maybe not, but he certainly was trying to intimidate the RNC into not pulling any funny business.
But this isn't trying to like, this isn't saying if you try to steal the election from me, there'll be riots in the streets.
This is just saying straight up, if I lose the election, riots that are going on will get much worse.
Like, this is a very thinly veiled threat.
It's, and, and, you know, I, it's, it's not a lie.
I think he's telling the truth, but that's a hell of a campaign message to have.
Vote for me or my people will burn down your fucking country.
Now, here's the situation.
I don't think that's going to be an effective message.
I think that most people, if they look at that and think it through, they're going to go, yeah, well, that contradicts your whole point that these riots are all Trump's fault.
If they're all Trump's fault, why would he want them to continue if he gets re-elected?
I also think that most decent people probably won't be intimidated into not into voting the way they don't want to vote.
That would be my guess.
But, you know, he's probably right.
Power Creates Hubris00:05:13
And that's pretty fucking scary when you think about it.
I just couldn't believe those words actually came out of his mouth.
It wasn't like he implied it or that, you know, kind of like hinted at it.
Like he just came out and said it.
If you elect Donald Trump again, guess what?
The violence is going to get much, much worse.
I think what's going on here, and this is something again that I said months and months ago, I made this comparison between, if you've ever listened to the, there's this tape, this secret recording of John Kerry that got leaked, where John Kerry is basically talking about the rise of ISIS.
And he's just going through it and he's like, yeah, look, like he goes, you know, when we were in the Obama administration, we saw the rise of ISIS coming, but we thought we could control it and we thought we could use it.
So they would go overthrow Assad.
And then these fuckers just went and invaded Iraq.
And it was like, oh my God, this completely got out of our control.
You know, it's just like very frankly talking about it.
And a lot of times this happens in politics where leaders, and it's almost in a weird way, it's the only thing we have going for us.
You know, like this is the only thing.
Oftentimes leaders have so much power that if they were smart with their power, they would never lose it because they're so powerful.
But the human condition is that having this much power kind of creates hubris.
And then they get so fucking cocky and drunk on their power that they overplay their hands and they fuck up and it comes back to bite them.
And that's ultimately how they lose power.
So we are kind of dynamic, but it's part of the human condition.
And so you think because you have so much power, unlike power that me or you will ever have, you have so much power that you're like, I basically can move people around like pawns on a chessboard.
And then you start fucking around with some pawns, but some of these pawns are real dangerous pawns.
And then they don't move exactly the way you want them to.
And they can actually blow up your whole plan.
And that's what happened with ISIS.
They thought they could, oh, well, funded arm ISIS.
It'll be no problem.
They'll overthrow Assad.
And then look at that.
We've got the power dynamic that we want back in the Middle East.
But they didn't do that.
They ended up fucking going in back into Iraq and fucking up our Shiite army there.
And then they seized a whole bunch of weapons we had stockpiled there and started cutting off American journalists' heads and making all these YouTube videos and shit.
And, you know, like it's, it ended up not helping Obama so much.
I think that dynamic is what's been going on with the violence and the riots and all of this shit.
I think the Democrats saw this as something they could control and use, but they created a monster.
Now they can't control it.
And it's not helping them.
And guess what?
They don't take orders from Joe Biden.
It's not like Joe Biden can say, hey, I want you guys to stop rioting and they're going to stop rioting.
They'll do whatever the fuck they want to do.
These people are fucking drunk on breaking store windows and cracking people over the head with like bricks or whatever the fuck they're doing.
They're not going to stop because some old senile man asked them to.
That's not going to happen.
But don't get it twisted.
I mean, the Democrats did, you know, help create this monster.
Kamala Harris posted the bail fund for people arrested in these riots.
Kamala Harris, the VP, she retweeted the fund that you can give money to that all these Hollywood celebrities are giving money to to get the person who just destroyed some business back out on the street to go beat someone up tonight.
They helped create this monster.
But now the monster's gotten out of control.
And now it's starting to hurt them.
And this was not supposed to be the plan.
So now they're going to be like, okay, hey, well, stop now because you're hurting me.
But that's not how it works.
The same way you couldn't just turn around and tell ISIS, actually don't go back in and invade West Iraq.
Please, please don't do that.
Just stay in Syria.
That's not going to happen.
So that leaves us here.
As could have easily been predicted, the riots have backfired on the Democrats.
It's been a huge political victory to Donald Trump.
And in fact, it might be a lifeline for Donald Trump.
It might have made the difference.
If they had just left well enough alone, they probably could have had a better shot at unseating him.
But now I don't think they will.
And libertarians who were afraid to fucking call this shit out, or worse, tried to demonize the people who were calling this shit out.
You got to fucking take a look in the mirror and ask yourself, what it is that we're doing here?
Like, what is the point of us?
And if you can't work up courage to condemn something until after the corporate press and Joe Biden has told you it's all right to do it, then we have very little hope.
So let's sack up and man up and just stick to principles and just tell the truth.
That's always what we've been best at.
So let's continue to do it.
All right.
That's my episode for today.
Thank you guys for listening.
Be back on Friday.
Hopefully, Robbie the Fire Bernstein's here.
No promises.
Hopefully, he can win the next battle in the war against Optimum.