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June 15, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	It's a few years ago only.
	And I concluded that the endgame of the left is chaos.
	Remember that?
	I said it to Candace Owens on her spectacular interview show at PragerU.
	And because she is so deep and bright, she immediately said, that's it.
	That's it.
	As soon as you hear it, you understand it.
	There is no endgame.
	That's why the, what do they call it, the uprights?
	The goalposts are just always moved.
	The endgame is chaos.
	The board of spirit.
	Look at the people in Chaz.
	Mostly guys.
	They have nothing going on.
	I wonder what percentage.
	Are married with children?
	Wouldn't that be an interesting question to find out?
	How many were gainfully employed?
	How many live to play video games?
	This stuff fills them.
	It's a children's act, CHAZ. The CH stands for children.
	And they're acting out.
	It's sort of like an animated video game.
	this Chaz anyway chaos it is Atlanta Journal Constitution.
	That's correct.
	I have AJC. I always have their letters.
	So listen, this is very interesting.
	Protesters set Wendy's on fire.
	Now, I thought you'd get attacked if you call the violent ones protesters.
	Wasn't the whole left thing never conflate the violent ones with the protesters?
	Did you pick up on that?
	You did.
	See?
	You know that part of my challenge every day is to say something that Alan didn't think of.
	I just want you to know that.
	It's good to have challenges for yourself.
	You'll see my column.
	You'll go nuts.
	There will be a lot there.
	You'll go, wow.
	An Atlanta Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks, 27, was fatally shot by police Friday night was set on fire.
	By the way, this is another thing to always understand.
	The passive tense.
	It was set on fire.
	Isn't that amazing?
	The Wendy's just blew up.
	Must have been some faulty electrical wiring at the Wendy's.
	Was set on fire.
	Okay.
	The restaurant caught fire.
	That's the next sentence.
	It caught fire.
	Did you get the language?
	This is all so interesting.
	After protesters, there we go.
	Protesters broke windows at the restaurant and threw fireworks inside.
	Why isn't it rioters?
	If we say protesters busted windows, oh, how dare you?
	Conflating protesters with the rioters.
	And here's a good liberal journal, that's redundant, writing exactly that.
	Protesters blew up the place.
	So I don't understand.
	Is that the new form of protest?
	By the way, What are they protesting against Wendy's?
	What did Wendy's have to do with it?
	Brooks had allegedly fallen asleep in his car.
	By the way, I've always said this, not just about this, the allegedly use.
	The only time they use allegedly is when it hasn't been proven in court.
	They should do it all the time?
	They don't know for a fact half the time that they're reporting something.
	He allegedly fell asleep in his car.
	Was he a half hour in the Wendy's lot?
	How long was he there?
	The drive-thru.
	Yeah.
	Not the lot.
	Yeah.
	What do you do if you are in the Wendy's drive-thru, car in front of you is not moving, the guy's asleep, And there are cars behind you.
	What do you do?
	Well, this is an interesting thing.
	Correct answer.
	Usually you call the police.
	But now we're told that for non-violent things, you call social workers and mental health professionals.
	What would they do?
	Would they wake the gentleman up and say, sir, I'm sorry, you just have to move your car?
	And he goes, F you.
	I'm just making this up.
	I don't know what he said.
	I mean, the police were unbelievably nice to him for 26 minutes.
	Did you know that, folks?
	Didn't seem like racists.
	Anyway, what will the social worker do?
	The unarmed social worker.
	I want you to know I have a PhD in social interaction.
	What is our favorite word about when things intersect?
	Oh, yes.
	I have a master's in intersectional psychology and I minored in gender studies.
	So I'm not going to even imply your gender.
	What is your preferred pronoun?
	Prior to asking you to move, I need to know your preferred pronoun.
	Meanwhile, the man is drunk.
	I'm not your preferred pronoun.
	Registers.
	But anyway, what will they do?
	Okay.
	So, Brooks had allegedly fallen asleep in his car and blocked the restaurant's drive-thru when Atlanta police were called.
	Brooks' shooting led to the resignation earlier today of Atlanta Police Chief Erica Shields.
	Officers confronted Brooks, whose authorities said failed a field sobriety test.
	A struggle broke out as police officers attempted to arrest Brooks.
	By the way, just for the record, how many people did drunk drivers kill a year?
	I don't know the number, but it's a scourge, correct?
	So, you know, just for the record, The man was a danger to others.
	Video posted, this is not to say he deserved to die.
	It is also not to say that these people committed murder.
	I watched the video.
	I watched it three times.
	Three or four times.
	Which is, I'm only telling you that so you'll know the limitations of what I know and the extent.
	To which I know anything.
	They had a fight with him.
	He would not allow them to arrest him.
	And they had a fight, and they could not subdue him.
	They tased him.
	It had no impact.
	I don't understand why it had no impact.
	Doesn't that generally suggest drugs as well?
	I don't know.
	I don't know why a taser wouldn't have an impact on a human being.
	It didn't.
	And in the struggle, he grabbed a taser from one of the policemen, then ran away.
	They chased him.
	They did not shoot him immediately.
	They chased him.
	Then he turned around to use the taser on them, and the next thing I saw, he was down on the ground.
	When I read that he was shot in the back, I can only say, I believe the report.
	I'm only saying that from my vantage point, watching a video, which wasn't done with television cameras on the spot, I am shocked that he was shot in the back.
	It looked to me like he turned around to tase the police and got shot, which is true.
	But apparently, when he failed to tase them or didn't tase them, There, there's no allegedly.
	It's funny.
	They allegedly shot him in the back.
	So the question, it's a very serious question.
	What are the police to do?
	Man is a drunk driver, has fought the police.
	That's a bad thing, by the way, to fight the police.
	Just for the record, I know that...
	It is now widespread not to obey police commands, but society works on that.
	If the police commanded you illegally, you have to make a case for that.
	We will be back.
	We are the answer.
	How can these people out there in the streets not know, according to the CDC, that police killings of blacks have dramatically declined over the last 45 years by almost 75%.
	How can you not know that?
	How can you not know of a peer-reviewed study in a publication put out by the National Association of Sciences In which every single police shooting in the year 2015 was examined, and they could not find any evidence whatsoever of disproportionate deadly force used against blacks.
	And then, of course, there's a smaller study by the Harvard economists I told you about.
	Not only did he not find that they used disproportionate deadly force against blacks, but that they were more hesitant, more reluctant to use deadly force against blacks than against whites.
	More whites are murdered by blacks than blacks are murdered by whites.
	How can you not know that?
	Now again, as I said many times, most murder is same-race murder.
	But to the extent that there are interracial black-white homicides every year, about 750, how can you not know that blacks kill 500 whites, even though blacks are 13% of the population, and whites kill 250 blacks, even though they're around 61% of the population?
	How can you not know that?
	And you're out in the streets making all these assertions?
	What you're doing is making things worse.
	You're creating an image of the police department that's going to make people not want to join it and you're causing the so-called Ferguson effect that Rahm Emanuel talked about where he said the police in Chicago have rolled themselves up into a fetal position for fear of being accused of being racist.
	Well done, Black Lives Matter.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Borka. .
	We've been told for at least six weeks now that the only way that we can Come out of this in any semblance of getting back to normal is this V-shaped recovery.
	We had this precipitous, voluntary, voluntary drop because, as you said, we literally shut down the most powerful economy in the world.
	And as a result, what we need to see is a concordant and analogous, very, very steep recovery.
	Don't the figures today...
	Indicate that that V-shaped recovery.
	You're the expert, Trish, that that V-shaped recovery is, in fact, possible.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I think that's the glimmer of hope, right, that we have right now.
	And let me tell you, if you can pull that off.
	Seb, you give people that economic security again, and wow, I mean, he will be applauded for that.
	If you have the economic security, And the physical security, because don't forget, this is what we're dealing with right now, too.
	You don't have that physical security.
	If you can give those two things to people, I mean, I think that that really affects the middle-of-the-road voter.
	They wanna feel economically and physically secure.
	today was a huge win for the president but more importantly this is a huge win for America.
	Thank you.
	friends.
	Thank you.
	Yes, good.
	This is excellent.
	I have an anonymous policeman calling in.
	The city listed is Anywhere USA. He truly, I assume it's a he, truly wants to be anonymous, and that's fine with me, and is on duty.
	So, officer, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, sir.
	I want to give you a quick...
	You had mentioned something about the Taser.
	Two things.
	It's very common for suspects to be shot in the back because of the reaction time of the police officer or any human being with the stimulus and their reaction time afterward could take a second took to a second and a half before they engage.
	That often leads to the round striking the suspect after he has turned back around in the back of the officers.
	Most likely did not intentionally go to hit him in the back.
	Once they perceived the threat, they engaged.
	The reaction time of the human body is a second to a second and a half.
	That is exactly what I concluded, because what I saw, he was shot while trying to tase the police.
	So what you said makes perfect sense to me.
	Also, the taser was not foolproof.
	If the taser probes are close together, let's say within 2 to 3 inches, it'll only stimulate that muscle 2 to 3 inches.
	If they separate after a distance where they, let's say, hit one on the shoulder and one probe goes into, let's say, the ankle, it will stimulate the muscle group in between there, rendering the suspect hopefully unable to control their movements and freeze for up to 5 seconds.
	Hopefully.
	That's if it goes to the clothing.
	That's if it goes about an inch to an inch and a half deep.
	To go through clothing.
	If you can get that full, what we call a spread, it should stimulate, but often a probe misses, it's stuck in the clothing, and with one probe, all you'll get is a little vibration, and you will not be under the influence of a taser.
	However, if the officer was hit with that, it will go through our vests.
	If we are stimulated with that, we can't control ourselves, we have now brought a gun to the fight, and they can disarm us, and that's also a deadly force scenario.
	Very good.
	This is extremely helpful.
	How far away does it work?
	21 feet.
	Oh, well, the guy in the picture looks like he's 5 feet in front of the officers.
	It just depends on where the probes hit, but the length could be 15 to 21 feet.
	It just depends on the length of the course.
	So what you're telling me is the officers would have had a better chance to successfully tase him had they not been fighting him.
	Well, there is a way to do it.
	You can tase, deploy the taser, let's say, at the lower calf area, and then re-engage the taser, where we call a contact drive stun, and that would engage the distance that you would need to stimulate the body.
	However, we were discussing it this morning.
	There's other ways to skin a cat.
	If they control the legs, that would assist.
	There's, you know, several things that we could do to try and prevent this.
	Obviously, if he complied with the law and complied with the officer's commands, this wouldn't be an issue.
	But obviously, they're trying to apprehend this suspect, overcome resistance, and effect an arrest.
	Okay.
	Now, let me ask you a human question.
	How do you and your fellow officers react to an immediate charge by a DA of murder?
	There's no due process.
	Absolutely wrong.
	Everybody gets their day in court, even including police officers, who by the U.S. Supreme Court has said, rapidly evolving, intense, uncertain scenarios...
	The officers cannot be judged on 20-20 hindsight.
	We have to look at another officer's, a reasonable officer's standard of training.
	If another officer with the same training experience would have come to the same conclusions, that's what the U.S. Supreme Court is going off of.
	And by doing this, because you can always hindsight it, and that's Graham v.
	versus Connors, the law for that purpose is that you can't hindsight everything.
	You're going to have to say, what did the officer know at the time he was trying to affect this arrest?
	I don't know where you are because you didn't want to tell me what city, and I respect that.
	Do you feel respected in your community or do you feel isolated?
	In my particular community, we're in the greater Los Angeles area.
	In my particular community, we get hugs, waves.
	Our citizens have been extremely pleasant with us.
	And it's a racial divided community, divided meaning multiple races in it.
	And everybody has been very, very respectful.
	We had a lady come over when we were trying to protect the Costco, and she got out of the car in tears, crying and hugging us, saying, we all need you, we love you.
	And we feel the same way with our citizens.
	You hugged during COVID? I hug too.
	I'm totally being absurd because we're living in an absurd time.
	I'm very happy to hear that.
	You see, I thought I would hear, oh, you're calling from Jackson, Mississippi.
	But if you're calling from L.A., so...
	That you've identified.
	I'm very happy to hear...
	Greater Los Angeles area, yes, sir.
	Yes, all right, fine.
	Greater Los Angeles area.
	I'm very happy to hear that you feel that from the citizens.
	This is very important to me.
	Again, I'm not a statistical analysis of everything that's going on to give a concrete, but from what I feel on duty and from what we feel in the area, outside of people come in there to create problems, but the citizens who live in the area, They need us, they love us, and we need them.
	And we find a very, very good rapport with our citizens.
	And it's unfortunate to see these political people that have no stick in the game, have never worked out black and white, and they say, well, this is a murder.
	I don't know how you get a premeditated issue of a murder charge.
	No, it's absurd.
	They overcharge, then they're not convicted, and then we get more riots.
	Absolutely.
	That's the way it works, yes.
	And if you put multiple people in our scenario where you talk about reaction times, and if you point a fake pistol at somebody, the officer's going to have to react based on their training experience if they're in fear for their safety.
	And if you point a weapon that can't actually do damage...
	No, you made a very important point.
	If he successfully tased the officers, he can get their gun.
	Absolutely.
	You know, the citizen has no right to refuse a lawful command.
	That's right, exactly.
	They spoke to him for 26 minutes.
	They were like his therapists.
	Right.
	All right, my friend.
	And we do the best we can.
	You certainly do.
	Thank you so much for calling.
	Boy, I was pleasantly surprised to hear greater Los Angeles area.
	It'll be interesting to see the election.
	I'll tell you this, if a vote for the Democrats is a vote for chaos, and I have even less respect for the notion, oh, I can't vote for Trump.
	Of course, I'm opposed to all of this.
	I can't vote for Trump.
	Trump is not the issue.
	America is the issue.
	Grow up.
	You don't like Trump?
	Fine.
	Get a Trump doll and punch it every day.
	And then vote accordingly in the sense of according to what is better for America, not what makes you feel wonderful and moral.
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	This is Albert Moeller for townhall.com.
	A chilling headline ran over Easter weekend from CNN. Louisville police officers to record license plate numbers of Easter weekend churchgoers.
	Over the course of this pandemic, I've argued that churches should follow generally applicable shelter-in-place orders, that these orders and guidelines do not violate religious liberty, Indeed, we ought to comply with him out of love of neighbor.
	But if policies single out churches and religious groups, it becomes an entirely different issue, an unconstitutional violation of religious liberty.
	Over the course of the last several weeks, some government officials have crossed the line.
	In the case of Louisville, it took a restraining order from United States District Court Judge Justin Walker to curtail Louisville Mayor Greg Fisher's attempt to prevent even drive-in church gatherings.
	The judge said, quote, the mayor's decision is stunning and it is beyond all reason unconstitutional.
	Consider this.
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	This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	A call is going out now for the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department.
	The president of the city council said this when asked about what to do in the case of a break-in.
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
	And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality.
	There's no doubt that our cities and communities need restoration, including greater peaceful engagement between police and citizens.
	Yet the idea that wanting protection is privilege is not sound.
	In fact, it's absurd and won't restore anything.
	Police who act unjustly are accountable to the rule of law and must be.
	But there is no need to qualify what a society without police will look like.
	More harm will surely be done.
	May coming days bring greater safety and meaningful restoration.
	I'm Owen Strand.
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	I'm talking about the Atlanta issue.
	I don't think it's worthy of riots.
	I don't believe that the man was shot because he was black.
	They spent 26 minutes talking kindly to the man.
	You can see it on video.
	He was drunk.
	His car, the police were called because his car, he fell asleep in the drive-thru lane at a Wendy's.
	I mean, I know it's obviously insignificant compared to a death, but still, I'm just curious.
	What did the people do?
	Oh, I guess somebody must have told the last person, back out.
	I guess that's the way to do it.
	They all had to back out of the drive-thru.
	When I mentioned Wendy's was burned down, by the way, they seem to have a suspect.
	They don't have her.
	She's highly masked.
	Did you see that?
	Did you read that?
	Yeah, I read that.
	I even saw a picture, but there's just a slight bit of skin that you can see of the face.
	I don't know how.
	They put up a reward for her.
	Females have been a very high percentage of the protesters.
	I'd love to know what percentage they are.
	Identify the violence with the males and the protests with the females.
	Could be truly wrong.
	Video posted on social media showed Brooks on the ground wrestling with two white Atlanta police officers in the parking lot.
	Officers attempted to use a taser on Brooks, as you just heard in my discussion with the officer who called in.
	Who was able to wrestle a stun gun away and flee as officers gave chase.
	Now, this is odd.
	Okay, fine.
	Shots are heard but not seen in the video.
	Restaurant surveillance video released late Saturday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation shows Brooks running away.
	He then turns and appears to fire the taser at the pursuing officers before shots are heard.
	That's the issue.
	They didn't shoot him running away.
	They shot him because he turned around to tase them.
	In addition to the Wendy's fire, protesters, notice that?
	It's now protesters.
	And this whole time, the left was blaming non-leftists for saying that protesters destroyed all of these businesses.
	No, no, don't call them protesters.
	They're rioters.
	But this is the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
	In addition to the Wendy's fire, protesters walked onto the highway earlier in the evening stopping traffic.
	I'm just curious, do right-wingers ever stop traffic?
	Can you remember a time when they did?
	Does it ever occur to those of you who are open-minded and not on the right that all these things happen from the left?
	Because there's an arrogance on the left that a right-winger, in most cases, can't even identify with.
	We are right, so we can stop you from traveling.
	Get it?
	Because we are right.
	The sanctimoniousness of the left is only exceeded by its mendacity.
	Troopers warned them that they were violating the law.
	The demonstrators locked arms.
	You have three minutes to disperse, a trooper said.
	Organizers encouraged people to leave, but not many did.
	So what do you do with all these people who lock arms and stop traffic on a highway?
	Hmm?
	I would like to have a demonstration.
	I would like to stop traffic in L.A. on the Santa Monica Freeway because there's no prayer in school.
	I feel as strongly about that Supreme Court decision as leftists feel about their causes.
	I think it was the beginning of the downfall of the dissent, let's put it that way.
	I'm not yet ready to say downfall of the United States.
	That it's illegal to rule the Supreme Court.
	That's why, believe me, you have to understand, this is not new.
	That was 1962. The descent of the United States started almost immediately after World War II. I was taught by left-wing teachers.
	Every one of my teachers was a leftist.
	A teacher in Jewish day school, in social studies as it was called then.
	They called them Lefty Morose.
	Yeah, that was his nickname.
	That was high school in a Jewish day school.
	Orthodox Jewish day school.
	By the way, my column tomorrow is on Jewish and Christian schools.
	If they get this wrong, you shouldn't send your child, if you're a religious Christian or Jew, to a school that adopts the America stinks and all whites are racist curriculum.
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	This is a good country.
	This is a good and decent land.
	And I believe that with all of my heart.
	That doesn't mean we can't do a lot better.
	But it doesn't mean that a sizable percentage of America is bad.
	Evidently, former Vice President Joe Biden and the Democrat presidential nominee thinks a pretty sizable portion of America is bad.
	He had a town hall yesterday, another one of these virtual town halls.
	It feels like every time Biden goes off script, he gets in trouble.
	Do you believe that up to 15% of Americans are bad people?
	Is that your view of the nation?
	If we're going to start categorizing what percentage is good, what percentage is bad, I don't know, that doesn't seem like a winning campaign strategy to me.
	Here was Joe Biden yesterday.
	He was with actor Don Cheadle in a virtual town hall.
	Do we really think this is as good as we can be as a nation?
	I don't think the vast majority of people think that.
	There are probably anywhere from 10 to 15% of the people out there that are just not very good people.
	But that's not who we are.
	The vast majority of people are decent.
	We have to appeal to that and we have to unite people.
	Bring them together.
	That's a heck of a way to unite, Mr. Biden.
	That up to 15% of Americans are not very good people.
	What a unifying message.
	I guess that goes on a campaign slogan.
	15% of Americans are bad?
	Wow.
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	The Answer The Answer This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	A call is going out now for the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department.
	The president of the city council said this when asked about what to do in the case of a break-in.
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
	And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality.
	Where calling the police may mean more harm is done.
	There's no doubt that our cities and communities need restoration, including greater peaceful engagement between police and citizens.
	Yet the idea that wanting protection is privilege is not sound.
	In fact, it's absurd and won't be sound.
	Thank you.
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	So I discussed Atlanta, and I will not repeat.
	Maybe I'll summarize a little later.
	I will note this, though.
	This is from Yahoo News.
	Stacey Abrams on the shooting.
	There is a legitimacy to this outrage.
	This is a woman that Joe Biden is thinking of as...
	Vice presidential nominee.
	She's a phony hysteric.
	That's all she is.
	Oh, I was cheated of the election.
	I mean, the woman is a crank.
	It's frightening to think that this is what the Democrats have come to in thinking about vice presidential material.
	On the other hand, it's frightening to think about what they're thinking about for presidential material.
	But there's something even more frightening.
	It's the party itself.
	It's no longer liberal.
	Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Sunday that the fatal Atlanta police shooting of Rayshard Brooks showed the quote legitimacy unquote of the outrage being expressed by widespread protests across the country.
	What I would say is, this is a quote from her, there is a legitimacy to this anger.
	There is a legitimacy to this outrage.
	A man was murdered because he was asleep in a drive-thru.
	Do you understand?
	What a demagogue?
	She's a liar.
	The woman's a liar.
	I very rarely say that about people.
	You've really got to qualify.
	She's a liar.
	She lies all the time.
	So you say Trump lies all the time.
	There's no comparison.
	Trump generally distorts when he lies about trivial matters.
	He speaks in a...
	Give me, let me put it this way, give me a lie of Trump as consequential as this lie.
	That's the way I would put it.
	I don't say he never lies, but consequences matter.
	If I exaggerate the number of people at an event that I'm at, it's not the same thing as saying to the country as a black woman who's considered Vice presidential material, a man was murdered because he was asleep in a drive-thru.
	That is a total lie.
	There's no truth to it.
	He was murdered because he tried to tase the police after he fought two of them.
	Because he wouldn't allow himself to be handcuffed.
	That's why.
	So I have a question.
	When a person like Stacey Abrams makes a comment like that, does she know she's lying?
	And I believe she does.
	Sometimes I think the left believes their lies.
	Sometimes I think they don't.
	I think she knows she's lying.
	What she says is, to her mind, it doesn't matter.
	What matters is, I need to make the charge as effective as possible.
	Right?
	If she said the truth, Ah, he was murdered while trying to tase police.
	That doesn't sound quite as awful, does it?
	as he was murdered because he was asleep in a drive-through.
	I don't know if it's laziness on my part because I'm very self-critical.
	And I always feel that I have a lazy streak.
	I do so much.
	But if I were less...
	I don't know if I were less lazy.
	I'm not sure it would be possible.
	I would like to tweet out every left-wing lie that I come across.
	But I'm...
	Anyway, I don't.
	But this would be the first...
	This would be example A. I just needed you to know that.
	And then this.
	From Yahoo News, the same as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, protesters gathered at the Wendy's on Saturday night and the fast food restaurant was set on fire.
	Isn't that something?
	It is truly, it's all of a passive tense.
	I thought they set it on fire.
	What do you mean it was set on fire?
	That is like saying John Wilkes Booth showed up at the theater and the president got shot.
	Most people would say John Wilkes Booth shot the president.
	And notice they use protesters, not rioters.
	So the left has now invited us to call all the people who smash windows and loot protesters.
	That's what they're using for the Wendy's fire.
	Yeah.
	Oh, Abrams told late-night host...
	Stephen Colbert last week.
	It's so interesting what's happened to late-night TV. It's just been ruined.
	Yeah, enjoy your evening before you go to bed.
	Listen to Stacey Abrams.
	Listen to this comment.
	They're hysterics.
	There will be no vice president.
	There will be no president.
	If our democracy crumbles under the inefficiencies and the inequities that we see happening, what do they mean?
	What does she mean?
	Okay.
	All right, my friends.
	I want to talk to you about the National Football Leftists, a.k.a.
	National Football League.
	I don't know what's going to happen when football starts, America and the flag.
	And not to mention, if you don't believe the lie that America is racist, the greatest lie, as I have said for years in the modern times, there are racists in America, but America is not racist.
	There are anti-Semites in America.
	America is not anti-Semitic.
	Get the difference?
	I know that this goes over the head of most people on the left.
	Who monitor my show.
	But nevertheless, most of you do follow it.
	President Trump says he won't watch NFL, the U.S. national soccer team, if there's kneeling during anthem.
	Bravo to the President.
	USA Today.
	President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to once again criticize the idea of kneeling during the national anthem.
	In a series of tweets and retweets, Trump implied he would not be watching United States national soccer games or NFL games if there's kneeling during the anthem.
	Quote tweeting a story reporting Representative Matt Getz's thoughts on U.S. soccer's recent repeal of a rule that required national team players to stand for the anthem, Trump wrote, I won't be watching much anymore.
	He followed that up with a quote tweet of Representative Jim Jordan on a similar story, adding, and it looks like the NFL is heading in that direction.
	But not with me watching.
	Now, I would tell you I'm not going to watch, but that doesn't mean anything, because I don't watch it anyway, so I admit that.
	But I certainly wouldn't watch now.
	Let me make a point clear that I have made in the past.
	The current jargon, current rhetoric, I forget jargon, the current rhetoric is, this is not disrespect to the flag.
	My silence is a result of an incapacity to find the words, because absurdity, logical absurdity, doesn't quite match the comment. . doesn't quite match the comment. .
	Everyone is asked to stand for the national anthem.
	You kneel, but you're not respecting the national anthem and the flag.
	How am I supposed to believe such crap?
	It is so amazing to me.
	The lies that permeate our society and are taken as truths.
	The number of football players like Drew Brees who bought this argument.
	By the way, I feel sorry for Drew Brees.
	He makes a statement, right?
	One day, this was two weeks ago.
	It's disrespectful to the national anthem and the flag.
	He's bombarded with hatred or anger or sorrow or tears from...
	The next day changes.
	He completely changes.
	His wife changes.
	They get death threats.
	I got more on this coming up.
	Why did you choose the national anthem to kneel if you're not disrespecting it?
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	What happens if there's a criminal out there with a gun and starts shooting people in the Who's going to respond if there's no police force?
	Look, it is our top priority to keep every single member of our community safe.
	And if you look back at the last 150 years of our police department, it is becoming increasingly clear that that model of policing isn't working.
	So we need to invite in our whole community.
	The nine members of the city council that came from every corner of our city to stand together to make this commitment.
	We don't have all the answers.
	And what we committed to was a community process to help reimagine public safety.
	Let's stop for a second.
	This is just babble.
	This is just incoherent babble.
	I have been to Minnesota and to Minneapolis scores of time.
	It's just nuts.
	I don't know how Minneapolis elected a nutty city council that made this nutty person their city council president.
	But the idea that after 150 years, the Minnesota Police Department has to be defunded, that's nuts.
	This is the Democratic Party.
	This is Lisa Bender, Democrat, Minnesota Democrat Farm Labor Party, cut number 18. Do you understand that the word dismantle or police free also makes some people nervous?
	For instance, what if in the middle of the night?
	My home is broken into.
	Who do I call?
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
	And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the party may mean...
	It's insane!
	Stop!
	The Democratic Party is insane!
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	If you actually care about black lives, you have an obligation to distance yourself from Black Lives Matter, the organization, the hashtag movement, whatever it is.
	I want to get that out up front.
	But Horace, how have you been processing this?
	So, our group, Project 21, was actually formed in the wake of the Rodney King riots.
	And several of us, I'm a founding member of the organization, but several of us were watching CNN and hearing this idea that it is the normal and legitimate way that black Americans express their frustrations.
	With Civic Life, that they run into the nearest Best Buy and grab as many DVD players as they can.
	And we knew, I knew this, my associates that I grew up with, and it turns out people from all walks of life knew that this is so far from reality.
	And we decided to form an organization that would say, we're black Americans.
	And we want people to understand that this universal vision or perspective that's being put forward on the mainstream media about who black Americans are doesn't represent or reflect the reality.
	And we are going to start having people that will appear on the news, appear in print, appear on the radio waves, saying, hey, wait a second.
	There's a different perspective.
	When Martin Luther King said that people would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, we were astonished to hear that what people were saying is okay to say.
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	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	Hmm.
	Mmmmm.
	Thank you.
	USA Today!
	Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield says he absolutely will kneel during National Anthem this year.
	Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield said in an Instagram post Saturday that he will be kneeling during the National Anthem this season.
	Mayfield pledged the support and the push to end police brutality of African Americans.
	They write it.
	It's not in quotes or anything.
	It's just, it's a given.
	Police brutality, they never provide any facts or data, statistics to back up the charge.
	Is there ever police brutality against black Americans?
	Of course there is.
	Are American police brutal against blacks?
	No.
	Are some?
	Yes.
	The Atlanta example, by the way, an example of police brutality.
	Did you see that they spent 26 minutes talking to the guy?
	That he resisted arrest and started fighting the police and then tried to tase them?
	That's police brutality against blacks, I'm sure.
	That's what Stacey Abrams said.
	A professional liar, that woman.
	Mayfield pledged his support.
	An Instagram user who goes by OhioG1 posted a message to Mayfield on a video on his page that said, please tell Browns fans you're not going to be kneeling this season.
	Mayfield responded, at OhioG1, pull your head out.
	That's a beautiful way to talk to a fan.
	The contempt these people have?
	I guess he's got the contempt virus as well as the...
	Anti-racism hysteria.
	Why would a Cleveland Brown fan...
	I mean, it's not like the Browns don't have dedicated fans.
	There's probably no more dedicated fans.
	It's the Lake Chicago Cubs fans.
	Why would you go to a game or watch a game on TV? I mean, this is a time.
	You're not asked to storm Normandy Beach.
	You're asked not to watch an NFL game.
	Isn't that amazing?
	There isn't one...
	Maybe it's not possible.
	Maybe it's not possible for a player to say, you know, I think any instance of police brutality based on racism is evil.
	I love my fellow players, guys on my team, but I also love the flag.
	And I am going to stay standing.
	Can you say that?
	I guess not.
	Look, courage, I don't expect courage from football players any more than I expect courage from doctors or any other group.
	Courage is the rarest of the human traits.
	But to say this to a fan?
	Pull your head out?
	Isn't that astonishing?
	It's a classy guy, this Baker Mayfield.
	Mayfield posted a follow-up statement on his Instagram story.
	Everybody so upset about my comment doesn't understand the reason behind kneeling in the first place.
	We don't?
	What are we?
	Everyone who differs with you is a moron?
	We don't know why you're doing it?
	Gee, why is he doing it?
	His chiropractor said don't stand?
	I have the utmost respect for our military cops and people that serve our country.
	He capitalizes our.
	It's about equality and everybody being treated the same before because we are all human.
	Okay.
	It's been ignored for too long and that is my fault as well for not becoming more educated and staying silent.
	You're educated on this issue?
	Mr. Mayfield?
	You are educated on this issue?
	How many unarmed blacks were killed last year by police in the United States?
	How many unarmed whites were?
	You're educated.
	You know nothing about this issue.
	You bent to the hysteria of our time.
	To the hate America hysteria.
	Created by the left, not by blacks.
	Houston Texans defensive end.
	Also from USA Today.
	Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt sent a tweet Saturday that seemingly expressed support for NFL players who take a knee to protest police brutality after Texans coach Bill O'Brien said Friday that he would take a knee, the coach.
	That's Houston, right?
	Well, you guys in Houston?
	Don't watch the games.
	Let them know.
	First of all, to begin with, the whole point of sports is to enable everybody to enjoy the game.
	If it is now a time to not stand for the flag because of your cause, then it's the end of sports as we know it.
	Anyway, I tell you folks, you've got to have a little dignity.
	Any player on the Texans or on the Browns or any other team who thinks all whites are racist, why would you cheer for that person?
	You think I'm scum.
	God bless you.
	I can't wait to cheer for you.
	Racists are scum.
	Okay?
	So what if they just said that?
	You know what?
	All whites are scum.
	Okay?
	Would you still cheer?
	Or do you don't think racist is on the level of scum?
	After Texans coach Bill O'Brien said Friday he would take a knee with players during the National Anthem, Watt was mentioned in a tweet from a fan that said, pretty sure you won't see J.J. Watt taking a knee.
	Watt responded with a quote telling the fan not to speak for him and saying, If you still think it's about disrespecting the flag or our military, you clearly haven't been listening.
	It's interesting.
	There's no argument that it's disrespectful to the flag.
	What if the entire stadium sat?
	Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for our national anthem.
	And nobody rose.
	That's not disrespectful to the national anthem and the flag?
	This is the lie.
	See, the left lies, and then this is a case where they believe their lie.
	Stacey Abrams doesn't believe her lies, but this guy, I do believe he believes his lie.
	Oh, oh, it has nothing to do with the flag.
	Then why are you not standing for the flag if it has nothing to do with the flag?
	I'm supposed to enter Orwell 1984 in doublespeak?
	The whole thing's about the flag.
	I know the cause.
	I understand.
	But you've chosen not to stand for the flag.
	Your cause is more important than standing for the flag.
	So you're disrespecting the flag.
	I'm allowed to know that.
	I don't think that.
	I don't feel that.
	I don't believe that.
	I know that.
	That you deny it to yourself on the Texans or the Browns or the 49ers or the Giants or whatever team is you have decided to drink the Kool-Aid.
	That's all it means.
	So you have less respect if you would say, yes, that flag represents racism to me.
	At least you're honest.
	Oh, I love the flag.
	I just won't stand with an entire stadium for it.
	Oh, but I love the flag.
	Oh, why would you think otherwise?
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief...
	America has been doing some soul-searching lately.
	Perhaps you noticed.
	We're examining what's right with America and what can be made better.
	No other country does this kind of introspection better than us.
	Some of what we've found we don't like and will change.
	Every life has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
	That includes our law enforcement as well as every skin color.
	We've been through this before in America.
	We always came out stronger.
	We will this time too.
	Our hosts will make sure of that.
	We are the answer.
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	What happens if there's a criminal out there with a gun and starts shooting people?
	Who's going to respond if there's no police force?
	Look, it is our top priority to keep every single member of our community safe.
	And if you look back at the last 150 years of our police department, it is becoming increasingly clear that that model of policing isn't working.
	So we need to invite in our whole community.
	The nine members of the City Council that came from every corner of our city to stand together to make this commitment, we don't have all the answers.
	And what we committed to was a community process to help reimagine public safety.
	All right, stop for a second.
	This is just babble.
	This is just incoherent babble.
	I have been to Minnesota and to Minneapolis scores of times.
	It's just nuts.
	I don't know how Minneapolis elected a nutty city council that made this nutty person their city council president.
	But the idea that after 150 years, the Minnesota Police Department has to be defunded, that's nuts.
	This is the Democratic Party.
	This is Lisa Bender, Democrat, Minnesota Democrat Farm Labor Party, cut number 18. Do you understand that the word dismantle or police free also makes some people nervous?
	For instance, what if in the middle of the night?
	My home is broken into.
	Who do I call?
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
	And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the party may mean...
	Stop!
	It's insane!
	The Democratic Party is insane!
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	If you actually care about black lives, you have an obligation to distance yourself from Black Lives Matter, the organization, the hashtag movement, whatever it is.
	I want to get that out up front.
	But Horace, how have you been processing this?
	So, our group, Project 21, was actually formed in the wake of the Rodney King riots.
	And several of us, I'm a founding member of the organization, but several of us were watching CNN and hearing this idea that it is the normal and legitimate way that black Americans express their frustrations.
	With Civic Life, that they run into the nearest Best Buy and grab as many DVD players as they can.
	And we knew, I knew this, my associates that I grew up with, and it turns out people from all walks of life knew that this is so far from reality.
	And we decided to form an organization that would say, we're black Americans.
	And we want people to understand that this universal vision or perspective that's being put forward on the mainstream media about who black Americans are doesn't represent or reflect the reality.
	And we are going to start having people that will appear on the news, appear in print, appear on the radio waves, saying, hey, wait a second.
	There's a different perspective.
	When Martin Luther King said that people would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, we were astonished to hear that what people were saying is okay to say.
	All right, everybody.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	I'm a man who has traveled the world, and one of the only people I know to have gone to this country.
	If he has, in fact, gone there, that's why I'm having him on Apple.
	Ami Horowitz, who makes these fantastic videos all over the world.
	Now, Ami, have you actually entered Chaz?
	I entered, I brought my passport, and went through the border, got into Chaz, did my thing, took off.
	So, yes, I entered the Republic of Chaz, now known as CHOP. When they realized the name Chaz was so stupid, It sounded like a, like a, you know, sweet jazz coming at you.
	But they changed it to chop.
	It sounds more, it sounds rougher and tougher.
	C-H-O-P? Yes.
	It's now called chop?
	Chop.
	Is that the fastest change of a country's name in history?
	Uh, yeah.
	I think it took a long time to go to Burma, to Myanmar, like it took centuries.
	This is remarkable.
	So you went to Chaz slash Chop.
	Is it now, in all seriousness, can anybody enter?
	Yeah.
	So anybody can walk in.
	There's no, there's this notion of doing ID checks.
	That doesn't really exist.
	Look, the truth is, is that the veneer of this place, and we'll call it Chaz, because the funnier name sounds funnier on the radio, but the veneer of this place is, in fact, One of like a carnival party atmosphere, right?
	There's free food and there's kids and there's, you know, people walking around and having a good time and blowing bubbles.
	When you walk in, it does seem like a street fair.
	To be honest, that is what it looks like.
	But like anything on the left, if you begin to just scratch the veneer a little bit, the ugliness starts to come out, which is obviously what I do for a living.
	That's how I make my bones.
	And that's what I did.
	Scratch the veneer.
	And you then saw the ugliness starting to come out.
	Go ahead.
	So, I'll give you a couple examples.
	So, first of all, just in terms of like, again, people say that it's a violent place.
	It really wasn't violent, although obviously a lot of violence had emanated from there from before.
	But we were there, and within, I would say, about 10 minutes, two people came up to me armed with rifles and kind of Fully kitted out in like military gear, came up to us and said, hey, it sounds like you're causing trouble here.
	And I said, no, no, we're not causing trouble.
	We're just asking some basic questions.
	And I said, we're not leaving here.
	They got flustered thinking that we'd walk away when two very armed people came up to us and they let us continue.
	So that was our first idea that this was not quite what it seems on the surface.
	And look, at the end of the day, when you start asking people the right questions, the radicalism of what they stand for begins to come out.
	And that was very, very clear.
	We actually were lucky enough to, because we were harassed by one of the leaders, one of the founders of this new republic, this woman named Jayden.
	And we ended up talking to her for about 30 minutes.
	And again, the radicalism...
	Of what these guys stand for began to come out.
	I mean, I don't know if anybody read kind of what they're looking for, but they're talking about, okay, obviously we're talking about the abolition of police, and by the way, it breaks your heart to look at a police station there to protect this neighborhood that is defaced and vandalized, and the police had to leave because the mayor has no backbone, and she forced the police to leave this area, to leave the people who live in this area, who, by the way, are living kind of in fear.
	At best, annoyance, if not fear, because there was a bunch of damage done in this area.
	And to see this police station just in shambles, it breaks your heart.
	So obviously they want to abolish the police.
	Not defund, abolish.
	But she was telling me they want to get rid of the criminal justice system writ large.
	They want no more courts.
	I mean, it's obviously non-serious.
	But it's so radical, yet at the left, Embraces these people.
	Mainstream left embraces these people.
	They're in the court system.
	The judges.
	They want to release every person of color from jail.
	This is what they want to do.
	It's fully unserious, but what's so hard and saddening about this and so dangerous is that this is a major Black Lives Matter movement, right, who's getting a ton of attention, yet the mainstream media and the Democratic leadership Embrace these people.
	It's bizarre, and it just boggles my mind.
	Well, there's an article in the New York Times about abolish jails.
	They didn't say abolish courts, but abolish jails.
	This is mainstream, is exactly right.
	I'll be back in a moment.
	The only person I know, I mean, I've been to 130 countries, but I have not been to Chaz now, a.k.a.
	Chop, or Chop, a.k.a.
	Chaz.
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	Reviewzone.com This is Owen Strand for Townhall.com A call is going out now for the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department.
	The president of the city council said this when asked about what to do in the case of a break-in.
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
	And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege.
	Because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality.
	There's no doubt that our cities and communities need restoration, including greater peaceful engagement between police and citizens.
	Yet the idea that wanting protection is privilege is not sound.
	In fact, it's absurd and won't restore anything.
	Police who act unjustly are accountable to the rule of law and must be.
	But there is no need to qualify what a society without police will look like.
	More harm will surely be done.
	May coming days bring greater safety.
	And meaningful restoration.
	I'm Owen Strand.
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	The five minute campaign strategy as of today.
	Would it be spend all your time, resources, energy and policy on PA in Wisconsin?
	Well, it's not going to be that simple because the Democrats are going to be attempting to go after Arizona.
	They've signaled that.
	If they win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona, Biden's president of the United States, they're going to go after Florida because it's perennially close.
	They're going to have to make a decision about North Carolina.
	Are they going to go there?
	They're thinking they want to try and do Georgia, but they may not have the resources.
	So the problem is you can't just simply say, okay, I'm going to put all my chips on Wisconsin and Pennsylvania because they're going to have to be playing defense in these other states.
	The advantage that Trump has is that he's got more resources and he's got a bigger, better digital infrastructure, which will matter a lot.
	So, you know, he's going to be able to play in all those states.
	He can play in three Great Lakes states.
	He can play in Iowa.
	He can play in North Carolina.
	He can play in Florida.
	He can play in Arizona.
	But I'm not yet certain that the Biden campaign is going to have the resources to compete in all of those states.
	I mean, Florida is a $50 million to $70 million proposition.
	North Carolina is a $35 to $50 million proposition.
	We haven't talked about Ohio.
	Isn't that interesting how little we talk about Ohio this election?
	My home state has gained its confidence under Michael DeMine.
	My home state is solid red.
	You had to worry about it in your elections, but we've got that locked up now.
	Yeah, I think that's right.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.
	Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.
	Bye. Bye.
	Ami Horowitz, who makes these remarkable videos, is in Seattle, and he crossed the border into the Chas, known now as Chop.
	And in Vegas, there's actually betting on what the name will be next week.
	Yes, I've submitted my recommendations.
	Did you make a video?
	No, we shot it.
	We haven't edited it.
	We're going to try to turn this video around by the end of the day today.
	Okay, good.
	Let me know, obviously.
	I want to see it immediately.
	But I'm so excited that I have actually been to a country you haven't been to.
	I can't believe it.
	I've been working my whole life toward this moment.
	Yes, that's right.
	And you didn't even have to leave the continental United States to do it.
	So you cheated.
	You sort of cheated, I just want to say.
	I would count it as half a country.
	I argue that point, but okay.
	Hey, have you been to Kazakhstan?
	No.
	Ah, ha ha!
	I got another one.
	You crack me up.
	When was your last cigar?
	Uh, three days ago.
	See, you should be embarrassed.
	Well, yeah.
	Did you smoke one in Chaz?
	Are they smoking cigars in Chaz?
	No.
	You think you're allowed to smoke a cigar in the country of Chaz?
	You've got to be kidding me.
	That's capital punishment.
	No, you're right.
	That was stupid.
	So let me understand something.
	These are serious questions.
	What do they do for hygiene?
	No, look.
	These people, a lot of them filter in and out.
	So I think a lot of them take...
	But there's always a presence there.
	So if you go any time at night, there's always somebody there.
	But my feeling is...
	Because, again, it is a porous situation.
	It's not like...
	You really can't go in and out, so people are filtering in and out.
	If it's porous and they depend entirely on things outside of CHAZ, what is their point?
	Their point is simple.
	Their point is there needs to be not a fundamental change in America.
	They're way beyond fundamental change.
	They're way beyond reimagining America.
	In their words, and again, I can't stress this enough, right?
	I cannot stress.
	How much an error people are when they separate the protesters from the rioters?
	Well, they don't anymore.
	Actually, as I read to the audience earlier, my listeners, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Yahoo News said protesters burn down Wendy's in Atlanta.
	They no longer make a distinction.
	Go ahead.
	Great.
	Literally almost every person I spoke to, And this is in Minneapolis, in New York, and now in Seattle.
	I spent a lot of time with the protesters in different parts of the country.
	And almost without exception, they all defend and justify the violence.
	They are two sides of the same coin.
	I cannot stress them up.
	So what the people in CHAZ want to do is they want to literally burn down America.
	Jayden, the woman I was talking to, is one of the main organizers of the BLM movement in Seattle and of CHAZ. She was clear as day.
	She wasn't trying to hide the ball.
	She was saying the quiet stuff out loud.
	They want the destruction of America.
	And then once America is destroyed, then it can be rebuilt in their own leftist, anarcho-communist vision.
	And there's been this ally, again, you know, we've talked about it before, how Antifa and BLM have kind of...
	I've been working together because they have the same goals.
	They essentially have the same goals and they're working together on this.
	I also want to point out, again, the anti-Semitism of the BLM movement.
	The anti-Semitism of the people that I spoke to there and the anti-Semitism of the movement itself.
	You know, BLM, you would think that their sole focus would be on the situation, the brutality of their view that the white people are putting upon The black person.
	You would think that would be their sole purpose.
	Yet, in BLM's charter, in one of their main issues they talk about, they talk about nothing else outside of the black movement in America except for the genocide being committed on the Palestinians by Israel.
	They decided to take this precious space, their precious focus on the play of the black person in America and decided, you know what?
	We hate Israel and the Jews so much.
	We're going to take this time and put a highlight on the only Jewish state in the country.
	And when I pointed that out to people, the protesters, again, New York, New York, Seattle, you get a consistent message.
	Yes, Israel is one of the great dangers of the world.
	The one Jewish state that's trying to defend itself is one of the great dangers of the world.
	And they were quick to point out, you know, Ben and Jerry's was there, and they're giving out ice cream.
	Because a lot of people are there giving out free stuff, because obviously they don't have the self-supporting economic system yet.
	They were quick to point out, oh, we're glad Ben and Jerry's here, but they're two Jewish guys from Israel.
	That's what people told me on camera.
	So, yeah, there's a real undercurrent of anti-Semitism, and I want to tell our Jewish friends, because there are a lot of Jewish people who are there at this thing, and I want to point out to them, I know where your heart is, and I get where you're coming from, but you have to understand there is a real ugliness in the Black Lives Matter movement that you're going to, at some point, you're going to have to reckon with, because it's there and it's dangerous.
	I think it's very important what you're noting.
	I just, in the little time we have left, I want to try to get an idea of who is in CHAZ. So, are they almost all under 40?
	No, it's a pretty wide mix of people.
	I would say it's majority white.
	I would say it was 75% white, red over black.
	And it was actually a very interesting split between the people and the demographics there.
	The split is this.
	You ask white people, hey, how do you like the atmosphere?
	Oh, we love it.
	It's great.
	Our kids are here.
	We'll get ice cream.
	It's a carnival-type atmosphere.
	When you ask a lot of the black people the same question, their answer is very different.
	They don't like the atmosphere.
	They don't like the fact it's a carnival atmosphere where people are having fun because they're dealing with very serious issues.
	And there's a real...
	You can tell there's a tension there between the white leftists who are trying to take this over And try to make it about what they want to make it about.
	And what is the ratio male?
	What's the male-female ratio?
	I would say 60-40 male.
	Not a different amount of females.
	All right, my friend.
	Thank you for your report.
	I'm Ian Horowitz.
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	Is it of importance to us in interpreting the events of the last two plus weeks that we are seeing all of this happen predominantly in hardcore Democrat-run cities, generations?
	Gianna?
	You know what's interesting about that is that Democrats won't even take credit for the fact that a lot of their policies have caused this to happen.
	You think about Somebody like Joe Biden who goes into a George Floyd funeral with a video message talking about racial reconciliation and healing.
	Meanwhile, he's a big part of the reason why we have so much division in this country today.
	You think about the 94 crime bill.
	If we're going to talk about liberal cities, you can't forget about my hometown of Chicago where you got a mayor there who provided or rather asked for 375 National Guardsmen.
	In the city of Chicago and put them all in the downtown area.
	Meanwhile, the poor black areas on the south side and west sides are left to fend for themselves.
	You're talking about minority-owned businesses ruined, which they don't have money to come back.
	Some of these folks don't even have insurance.
	And that's across all American spectrums, whether you be white, black or indifferent.
	We just lived through COVID.
	And now you got these liberals who policies have created a huge mess from a financial tax purpose, a tax basis.
	And now you're disenfranchising poor people more by way of your policies, even through protests and looting.
	This is unimaginable.
	Who would have thought that this is where we would be in 2020?
	But if anybody is really listening and watching what's going on, this should be the best reason not to vote for liberals.
	In any capacity, that's any office, whether it be President, Senate, House, State Senate, State House, Mayor, any office, you shouldn't be voting for Democrats.
	And that's what I've taken away from this time.
	My guest is Jason Riley.
	He is the board member of the Wall Street Journal, also senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
	Jason, what do you think are the remaining barriers for people to escape poverty, black people?
	The remaining barriers are largely government-created barriers, denying kids the ability to choose the schools they want to attend, or at least their parents choosing the schools that they want their children to attend when black aspiring entrepreneurs.
	Want to start a business in a neighborhood?
	There are plenty of barriers there.
	So I think they're largely government barriers.
	I mean, you mentioned the title of one of my books, Please Stop Helping Us.
	I don't think there's a government solution out there that's going to save black America.
	I think it's mostly about black America or about government getting out of the way You know minimum wage loss that price blacks out of work and so forth Well, you know The lifetime of study and observation of life in the world Led me the years ago to tell you everything the left touches it destroys guys.
	Thank you.
	And I think more and more of you are aware that there was no hyperbole involved at all.
	All we need to do is awaken liberals to the fact that the left is their enemy, not conservatives.
	That is the single greatest project we have to engage in.
	Republicans have to make clear that the Democrats will ruin this country because they have turned left.
	They are no longer liberal.
	There was a call earlier.
	I was going to take it.
	I understand why people don't stay on for whatever reason.
	Why do I always give the police the benefit of the doubt was what the caller summary said.
	I wanted to know on what grounds he had said that.
	I don't give anyone the benefit of the doubt.
	I give facts the benefit of the doubt.
	The fact that I don't get hysterical and believe that there is widespread police, racist brutality, It's a gigantic lie based on nothing, based on emotion.
	And it is statistically minuscule.
	Every study I have seen, Harvard, University of Maryland, Michigan State, said that to their shock, it turned out that police disproportionately Had shot whites to death.
	Disproportionately.
	By the way, I'm not the first to point out if killing a lot of certain group makes you anti that group, then the police are clearly man-haters.
	Is that not correct?
	Why don't we charge the police with hating men?
	50% of those they kill should be male and 50% should be female.
	Now why don't you charge them with anti-male hatred?
	Hmm?
	Because you know that the vast majority of the violent criminals that they come in contact with are male.
	Well, a disproportionate number of those they come into contact with are black.
	I give truth the benefit of the doubt, not police.
	Yes, indeed, my friends.
	Okay.
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	This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	A call is going out now for the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department.
	The President of the City Council said this when asked about what to do in the case of a break-in.
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors, and I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege, because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality, where I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that There's no doubt that our cities and communities need restoration, including greater peaceful engagement between police and citizens.
	Yet the idea that wanting protection is privilege is not sound.
	In fact, it's absurd and won't restore anything.
	Police who act unjustly are accountable to the rule of law and must be.
	But there is no need to qualify what a society without police will look like.
	More harm will surely be done.
	May coming days bring greater safety and meaningful restoration.
	I'm Owen Strand.
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	Would it be spend all your time, resources, energy, and policy on PA in Wisconsin?
	Well, it's not going to be that simple because the Democrats are going to be attempting to You know, go after Arizona.
	They've signaled that.
	If they went Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona, he's Biden's president of the United States.
	They're going to go after Florida because it's perennially close.
	They're going to have to make a decision about North Carolina.
	Are they going to go there?
	They're thinking they want to try and do Georgia, but they may not have the resources.
	So the problem is you can't just simply say, okay, I'm going to put all my chips on.
	You know, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, because they're going to have to be playing defense in these other states.
	The advantage that Trump has is that he's got more resources, and he's got a bigger, better digital infrastructure, which will matter a lot.
	So, you know, he's going to be able to play in all those states.
	He can play in three Great Lakes states.
	He can play in Iowa.
	He can play in North Carolina.
	He can play in Florida.
	He can play in Arizona.
	But I'm not yet certain that they...
	That the Biden campaign is going to have the resources to compete in all of those states.
	I mean, Florida is a $50 to $70 million proposition.
	And North Carolina is a $35 to $50 million proposition.
	So those, you know, you start...
	And we haven't talked about Ohio.
	Isn't that interesting how...
	Little we talk about Ohio this election.
	My home state has gained its confidence under Michael DeMine.
	My home state is solid red.
	You had to worry about it in your election, but we've got that locked up now.
	Yeah, I think that's right.
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	.
	Thank you.
	For folks like you and me, this was a moment ago, especially for you.
	You lived through this.
	You were an adult.
	This was your friend.
	This was a student.
	And the parallels with what are happening in this country today are so striking.
	I mean, we could have talked about this book just because it's the 50th anniversary and it's a good book and it's interesting and, you know, you and I have met.
	But, I mean, the parallels to what is happening right now in this country are just crazy similar.
	And so I do want to talk about that.
	Now, look, there's a lot of young people listening to this program who don't have a clue what was going on around that time.
	So frame it for us.
	In this novel, Hippies, which is based on...
	Real-life events, obviously.
	You just told us two of your friends were killed.
	Students were killed.
	I mean, I still can't get my head around this.
	All right, it was...
	No, it's a frame for people who don't know anything about Kent State or whatever.
	Right, well, back then, in 1969, 1970, it was all about the Vietnam War.
	And the attitude of the country was changing.
	Like our bus baby boomers, when we were graduating, like when I was graduating from high school in 67, you were expected to go to Vietnam and defend a country, like our parents did, the World War II generation.
	And we were all for it.
	But then people started realizing this war was not a good war.
	There was no sense to it.
	That kids were getting killed at the same rate as World War II, and nothing was happening.
	I mean, Vietnam was no threat to the United States like the Germans with their A-bombs and their army.
	Vietnam didn't even have a Navy or an Air Force or anything, you know.
	And my friends were coming back.
	They went to Vietnam, and they came back and were telling horror stories.
	And so the whole mood of the country was changing.
	So the students started protesting.
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	.
	I want to share with you Rainer Jackson's comments because this came from the White House where the president is sort of in his way on a listening tour.
	You know, I know that the rap against Donald Trump is that he doesn't listen to anybody.
	And that, of course, is a lot of hogwash.
	He does listen.
	He ultimately...
	He makes decisions based on his gut, on his instincts, on what got him to the White House in the first place.
	But quite frankly, anybody who's been around him recognizes he does spend a lot of time listening to advisors, listening to people who are willing to bend his ear.
	So here's Rainer Jackson.
	What I'd like to say to you, Mr. President, is kind of off the beaten path.
	I'd like to say to all the media assembled here that I wish they would quit lying about what you've done specifically for the black community.
	So you got radical liberal journalists like Joy Reid from MSNBC, Don Lemon from CNN, Roland Martin, who are putting more poison into the black community than any drug dealer, who are killing more black folks than any white.
	Hello, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	Let me go to Europe for a moment.
	And my unofficial, he doesn't even know it.
	He is an unofficial European correspondent of the Dennis Prager Show.
	Matt Ridley, are you prepared to accept that title?
	I'm deeply honored, Dennis.
	That's extraordinary.
	I had no idea what you would say.
	I could have imagined you're saying, let me think about it.
	What's the pay?
	Well, I thought I used the word honorary.
	Okay, you did.
	No, no, now that I think of it, I didn't.
	No, no, that was misleading.
	The pay is that I will...
	I'll send it in, boys.
	No, here it is.
	I have the pay, now that I think of it, because I find that an appropriate question.
	And the pay is that I will regularly mention your superb book, which is just cut out.
	How Innovation Works, Why It Flourishes in Freedom.
	Matt Ridley, it is up at DennisPrager.com.
	He is also a New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist.
	And freedom is everything.
	Freedom, I'm talking to you again because I so appreciate your insights.
	I just want to stress something that I'm sure, well, I shouldn't say I'm sure you'll agree with because I don't want to put pressure on you to agree with it, but I have told my listeners for some time now that liberty is a value, not a primary human instinct.
	The primary human instinct is to be taken care of.
	Liberty is a value.
	How do you react to that?
	That's really interesting.
	The way I react to it is by saying, does that help explain why it's surprisingly hard to get people worked up about liberty, certainly these days?
	That's right.
	People say, well, no, security is more important or something like that.
	I mean, when you think of the struggles that our ancestors in Western Europe and North America, but also the ancestors of everybody around the world, had to gain freedom.
	To establish the principle that a person should be allowed to do what they want as long as they don't harm other people.
	And that was the great rallying cry of the liberal movement throughout the 18th and 19th centuries and so on.
	I find it amazing that today when you say, I think freedom's a good idea, some people say, well, you know, you can't be too careful.
	I'm not sure that's a good idea at all.
	So, it doesn't seem to come completely naturally.
	I mean, people do, you're right, seem to put security first and freedom second, and they have to learn the benefits of freedom, perhaps.
	So, in light of that, I'm curious, because you had a lockdown, or have one in the UK, as we do in the US. Do you think that 50 or 75 years ago, With the same virus going around, people would have accepted a complete cessation of labor and of even leaving their house as they have now?
	Well, I think 75 years ago, we're talking World War II, and this country, particularly the UK, more than the US, did have most of its freedoms temporarily extinguished.
	You were told what to do.
	You were told...
	That you couldn't walk the streets at night.
	You were told you couldn't use it.
	You know, there was a man who came around to check whether there was a chink of light available through your windows that might help the bombers.
	You know, food was rationed, all that kind of thing.
	So I think, actually, we've been through spells like this before, and we came out the other side of them.
	But it took us quite a long time in this country to say, you know what, now that peace has arrived, we don't need all those restrictions.
	I mean, the UK kept food rationing going for eight years after the war.
	And the argument was that food was still scarce and you wanted to make sure everybody had access to it.
	But the reason food was scarce was because they were rationing it.
	I mean, you know, it was a circular argument.
	And the Germans...
	Abandoned food rationing something like five years earlier than the UK, and it worked beautifully.
	So we finally got the message, and then we did it.
	The history of liberty in this country is patchy.
	Every now and then we give up on it, and we have to rediscover its virtues and its benefits.
	And there was eventually in the 1950s a strong movement to say, can we get rid of all these beetles and bossy boots who tell us what we can and can't do?
	And we did rediscover our instinctive like of freedom.
	But you're right that, you know, telling people they have to go inside their own home and stay there, I'm not sure people would have put up with that in many eras in the past.
	I don't think Americans would have, you know, in 1969...
	The flu, called the Hong Kong flu then, killed in America 100,000 people, which would be equivalent today to about 160,000 people.
	Nothing was stopped, and that was exactly the time of Woodstock, where hundreds of thousands of young people had no social distancing.
	The whole point was not to be distant from the other person.
	And what, in your opinion, is different?
	Why this now and not then?
	I think people have been so conditioned to pessimistic prognostications, you know, so the possibility that the world is disastrous and disasters are just around the corner, from the climate stuff to pretty well everything else.
	We're constantly told the world is coming to an end.
	That people are prepared to buy a scare more than they would in the past.
	I think it's amplified by the media, for which bad news is the only kind of news that they want to spread.
	And we've seen in the last few months that it's very easy to scare people.
	It's not nearly as easy to unscare them.
	I think you're right that there are people out there who are saying enough is enough, let's go back to normal life.
	But there aren't as many as I would expect and as I would like to see.
	Back in 1969, you were expected to take some casualties.
	There were risks in life.
	People still accepted that.
	That's correct.
	And I think that's what's really changed, is that people now expect zero risk.
	That's it.
	That's right.
	The change is what we call a sea change.
	Is Britain still in lockdown?
	Britain is in partial lockdown.
	Most shops opened today.
	A lot of schools have started again, but a lot haven't.
	And the reason they haven't, get this, is because the teaching unions are insisting That they want 100% safety before they prepare to go back and teach children.
	100%.
	Even though the risk is...
	Well, that's basically what they're arguing.
	Right.
	It's a monstrous situation, actually.
	It's really shocking.
	They won't have school for a year.
	There's no possibility of such a level of safety.
	It's a virus.
	That's right.
	Yes.
	But to the best of my knowledge, we don't...
	I read somewhere, we don't even have knowledge of...
	Children passing the virus on to adults.
	Correct.
	I believe there's not a single case yet proven of a child giving it to an adult.
	There probably are some cases.
	Right, but it happens in the regular flu, which kills 100,000 people.
	Right, right.
	And teachers are going to be more at risk in the staff room talking to other teachers than they are in the classroom talking to kids.
	I'm sure they'll talk to other teachers.
	With very serious masks on.
	Exactly.
	But, you know, I mean, a lot of travel is still interfered with.
	I was hoping to come to the U.S. in a few weeks' time, but the U.S. won't let me in at present.
	Travelers from the U.K. and Europe are banned from arriving in the U.S. unless they have American passports or certain kinds of visas, which I don't have.
	Well, what about vice versa?
	Can we go to Britain?
	You can, but you would have to isolate for two weeks on arrival.
	So for all intents and purposes, you can't.
	Exactly.
	When will that change?
	Well, that's only just come in.
	That's only a week old, that policy.
	It really is a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
	Now, I'm someone who thought that some of this lockdown was necessary at the start.
	I was reading the statistics and how rapidly the virus was spreading.
	We now know that the rate of spread had started to drop before the lockdown started, that the compulsory lockdown added almost nothing.
	What we needed to do was wash our hands, not shake hands, not go to large gatherings, stay a reasonable distance away from people, and if you felt sick, stay well away from people.
	That's voluntary stuff.
	That's all we needed to do.
	And that's roughly what Sweden did.
	Instead of having 90,000 deaths as the model forecast, they've had about 5,000 deaths.
	I will be back with Matt Ridley.
	His book is up at DennisPrager.com, How Innovation Works and Why It Flourishes in Freedom.
	This is Owen Strand for Townhall.com.
	A call is going out now for the dismantling of the Minneapolis Police Department.
	The president of the city council said this when asked about what to do in the case of a break-in.
	Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors.
	And I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.
	There's no doubt that our cities and communities need restoration, including greater peaceful engagement between police and citizens.
	Yet the idea that wanting protection is privilege is not sound.
	In fact, it's absurd and won't restore anything.
	Police who act unjustly are accountable to the rule of law and must be.
	But there is no need to qualify what a society without police will look like.
	More harm will surely be done.
	May coming days bring greater safety and meaningful restoration.
	I'm Owen Strand.
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	The five-minute campaign strategy as of today.
	Would it be spend all your time, resources, energy, and policy on PA in Wisconsin?
	Well, it's not going to be that simple because the Democrats are going to be attempting to You know, go after Arizona.
	They've signaled that.
	If they win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona, he's Biden's president of the United States.
	They're going to go after Florida because it's perennially close.
	They're going to have to make a decision about North Carolina.
	Are they going to go there?
	They're thinking they want to try and do Georgia, but they may not have the resources.
	So the problem is you can't just simply say, okay, I'm going to put all my chips on.
	You know, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, because they're going to have to be playing defense in these other states.
	The advantage that Trump has is that he's got more resources, and he's got a bigger, better digital infrastructure, which will matter a lot.
	So, you know, he's going to be able to play in all those states.
	He can play in three Great Lakes states.
	He can play in Iowa.
	He can play in North Carolina.
	He can play in Florida.
	He can play in Arizona.
	But I'm not yet certain that they...
	That the Biden campaign is going to have the resources to compete in all of those states.
	I mean, Florida is a $50 to $70 million proposition.
	And North Carolina is a $35 to $50 million proposition.
	So those, you know, you start...
	And we haven't talked about Ohio.
	Isn't that interesting how...
	Little we talk about Ohio this election.
	My home state has gained its confidence under Michael DeMine.
	My home state is solid red.
	You had to worry about it in your elections, but we've got that locked up now.
	Yeah, I think that's right.
	We're still standing because we believe in the bonds that bring us together.
	We believe in freedom and liberty and we believe that after all we've been through, nothing can defeat us.
	So let's cheer as America gets ready to rebuild and remake our lives bigger, stronger, better than ever before.
	Keep it here to find out how we are the answer.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show.
	For folks like you and me, this was a moment ago, especially for you.
	You lived through this.
	You were an adult.
	This was your friend.
	This was a student.
	And the parallels with what are happening in this country today are so striking.
	I mean, we could have talked about this book just because it's the 50th anniversary and it's a good book and it's interesting.
	You know, you and I have met.
	But I mean, the parallels to what is happening right now in this country are just crazy similar.
	And so I do want to talk about that.
	Now, look, there's a lot of young people listening to this.
	All right, everybody.
	a A European correspondent of the Dennis Prager Show, Matt Ridley.
	He writes as interestingly as he speaks, which is a big compliment.
	A lot of authors don't know how to speak, which is not an insult at all.
	It's like saying a lot of composers don't know how to sing.
	I mean, they're different arts.
	But he obviously has mastered both.
	His book is How Innovation Works and Why It Flourishes in Freedom.
	I love freedom.
	I love it.
	I subscribe to give me liberty or give me death.
	Deeply.
	That's why I don't walk around in fear.
	And I wanted to ask you about the economy of Britain.
	Has it been shattered?
	Yes.
	We are facing a big economic hole as a result of this pandemic.
	We were in pretty good shape before it.
	We had very low unemployment, a relatively dynamic tech economy going, etc.
	We are facing millions unemployed, and we don't even know the extent of it yet.
	By one estimate, just this week, the GDP has already fallen by 20%.
	That's one-fifth, which takes us back about 20 years in terms of the size of the economy.
	The only way we're going to get back to giving people full employment, good jobs, growth and prosperity is to unleash the entrepreneurs of this country.
	And there are plenty ready to be unleashed.
	We're not going to get back that way by spending a bit more government money here and there.
	Yes, we've got to look after people who are in trouble, but we've also got to strip away the red tape, the regulations, the bureaucracy that has prevented entrepreneurs from creating businesses and employing people and starting jobs.
	That's the message I keep trying to give to our government.
	I'm not sure it's getting through yet.
	Boris Johnson's instincts are the right one.
	Right ones, but he's surrounded by an enormous bureaucracy of people who like to do things slowly and do things carefully, and that isn't what we need right now.
	We need someone who gets the point of liberating and unleashing the animal spirits of the British entrepreneur.
	Boris Johnson was opposed to the lockdown at the beginning.
	His instinct, just like Trump.
	Also, that was his instinct.
	But what would have happened here, I'm sure would have happened there, every death would have been called the Johnson death.
	That's part of the problem, is that the politicians are taking the blame, and there was a significant scandal in this country, which was very similar to what happened in New York, which was that a lot of the deaths occurred in hospitals and care homes.
	And they occurred because the virus got into the care homes and hospitals and the people in them were not only not given sufficient personal protective equipment, but they were not tested enough.
	And they were also encouraged to return patients from hospitals to care homes to make room for the expected arrival of sick people with COVID-19.
	What that did was it seeded the virus into the care homes.
	23,000 people were discharged from hospitals in the UK into care homes.
	And I know one which absolutely adamantly refused to take a hospital patient on the grounds that although they had a vacancy, they did not want to take the risk.
	And they were absolutely right.
	Now, that's a scandal.
	That's right.
	But to blame that on the politicians rather than the bureaucracy that took that decision seems to me wrong.
	Right, right.
	Now, look, in one case, the case of Andrew Cuomo of New York State, I do believe that one can blame.
	He actually made an edict that you had to take the, you could not, quote, discriminate, unquote, against COVID-19 patients and accepting them into elderly care homes.
	Really?
	Yes, I know, I know.
	Your reaction is perfect.
	Really?
	That's exactly right.
	It's uncanny.
	But my only point was, am I right?
	Boris Johnson's original instinct was not to have a lockdown.
	Yeah, no.
	Boris Johnson wanted to do as much as possible voluntarily, and then around the middle of March, a proposal was, sorry, a forecast was produced by Imperial College London based on a model.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, I think it was half a million for the UK, and it's going to be two million in the US. So let me ask you a question.
	Forgive me.
	Is the UK printing money like we are?
	Yeah, I think so.
	I can't remember now.
	But yeah, quantitative easing.
	Yeah, there was some extra done of that, and that will add to...
	Well, in some ways I hope it feeds through into inflation because that will be a way of getting the debt down eventually, but it'll be very brutal if it does for a lot of people.
	Yes.
	One final question.
	Do you call yourself a conservative?
	I don't mean by party, I mean philosophically.
	Okay, yeah, no, I'm a conservative with a big C, but no, I don't call myself a conservative philosophically.
	I call myself a classical liberal or a libertarian.
	I'm someone who just thinks that the more free we make people and the less we wrap them up in bureaucracy, the better off they'll be.
	That doesn't really, because I'm very in favor of innovation and change and that kind of thing, so I'm not a conservative in the sense of not wanting the world to change.
	I want the world to change a lot.
	Right.
	But right now, and you're totally free to differ with me.
	I always tell that to guests.
	But right now, I don't see very big difference between a classical liberal and a conservative, at least not in America.
	That's right.
	I mean, I think there's no doubt that if you are on the side of liberty, if your instinct is people should be as free as possible to make their own mistakes and to make their own opportunities, then you are more at home in the Conservative Party in the UK than in any other party.
	The paternalist, everybody-must-do-what-they're-told instinct is much stronger in the Labour Party and the so-called Liberal Party.
	Are the Ridleys of the UK increasing or decreasing?
	Yeah, I thought you meant, am I having lots of babies?
	No, no, that's very funny.
	When I asked it, I thought, is he taking me literally?
	Are the Ridley thinking types increasing?
	You know what it's like.
	The media makes out that what everybody wants is more spending, more taxing for five years, or four years.
	And every four years, you get a glimpse of what the public really thinks.
	And in December, we had an election.
	And in that election, Boris Johnson said, I want to liberate people to do what they want.
	I want to unleash Britain's potential.
	I want to leave the European Union.
	I want to free us up.
	And he got a huge landslide victory.
	Matt Ridley, it is a joy to talk to you, which is the only reason I keep talking to you.
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	I return momentarily.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berger.
	Is it of importance to us in interpreting the events of the last two plus weeks that we are seeing all of this happen predominantly in hardcore Democrat-run cities?
	Gianna?
	You know what's interesting about that is that Democrats won't even take credit for the fact that a lot of their policies have caused this to happen.
	Somebody like Joe Biden who goes into a George Floyd funeral with a video message talking about racial reconciliation and healing.
	Meanwhile, he's a big part of the reason why we have so much division in this country today.
	You think about the 94 crime bill.
	If we're going to talk about liberal cities, you can't forget about my hometown of Chicago where you got a mayor there who provided or rather asked for 375 National Guardsmen.
	In the city of Chicago and put them all in the downtown area.
	Meanwhile, the poor black areas on the south side and west sides are left to fend for themselves.
	You're talking about minority-owned businesses ruined, which they don't have money to come back.
	Some of these folks don't even have insurance.
	And that's across all American spectrums, whether you be white, black or indifferent.
	We just lived through COVID.
	And now you got these liberals who policies have created a huge mess from a financial tax purpose, a tax basis.
	And now you're disenfranchising poor people more by way of your policies, even through protests and looting.
	This is unimaginable.
	Who would have thought that this is where we would be in 2020?
	But if anybody is really listening and watching what's going on, this should be the best reason not to vote for liberals.
	In any capacity, that's any office, whether it be President, Senate, House, State Senate, State House, Mayor, any office, you shouldn't be voting for Democrats.
	And that's what I've taken away from this time. - Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show. - My guest is Jason Riley.
	He is the board member of the Wall Street Journal, also senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
	Jason, what do you think are the remaining barriers for people to escape poverty, black people?
	The remaining barriers are largely government-created barriers, denying kids the ability to choose the schools they want to attend, or at least their parents choosing the schools that they want their children to attend when black aspiring entrepreneurs.
	Want to start a business in the neighborhood.
	There are plenty of barriers there.
	So I think they're largely government barriers.
	I mean, you mentioned the title of one of my books, Please Stop Helping Us.
	I don't think there's a government solution out there that's going to save black America.
	I think it's mostly about black American or about government getting out of the way, you know, minimum wage loss at price, black, federal work, and so forth.
	You know all these arguments, but that's not how the other side measures barriers.
	They look at disparate outcomes.
	Racially disparate outcomes, and wherever they see them, they assume something nefarious is going on.
	You know, I read an article in the LA Times recently talking about police.
	You know, 900 killings in LA by police since 2000, and then they tell you 80% were black.
	They tell you the percentage of the black population in L.A., and they go, draw your own conclusions.
	We know, you know, it's not that simple, just telling us what the percentage of the population is, and then the percentage of blacks involved.
	And with police, what we want to know, what are the crime rights based on neighborhoods and zip codes and race and ethnicity and so forth.
	You must factor that in.
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	Okay, my friends, I'm Dennis Prager, 1-8 Prager 776. COVID, most of it hysteria, and then the country is racist lie.
	This is beyond hysteria.
	It's both hysteria and a lie.
	We are living a lie.
	It's an astonishing thing.
	The data on everything so undermine this left-wing lie, and yet people just accept it.
	The police are racist.
	The police are brutal against blacks.
	I don't mean that it never happens.
	They're saying it's a constant.
	What is it?
	Systemic.
	That's their favorite word.
	We have systemic racism.
	The system is racist.
	Every white is racist.
	And vast numbers of whites buy this.
	Really?
	Ask these people.
	You're racist?
	I've been a friend of yours for 20 years.
	I don't recall racist comments from you or racist behavior.
	Please tell me about the racism in you that I'm not aware of.
	Racism is an evil thing.
	What if it were said every non-Jew is an anti-Semite?
	Would you, a non-Jew, would you accept that?
	Or would you think, I don't know, I really, I don't.
	I don't really hate Jews.
	but but maybe maybe they're right truck drivers say this is a I don't know what CDL life is, but I assume it has to do with the trucking industry.
	But I don't know.
	Truck drivers say they won't deliver to cities with defunded police departments.
	I hope that's true.
	I'm giving you this report.
	I don't know how widespread this is.
	Cities across the country are discussing defunding or disbanding their police departments.
	Truck drivers are voicing concerns of safety.
	77% of truck drivers say they will refuse to deliver freight to cities with defunded police departments.
	Let me as well answer, and I am Mr. I'm not afraid of anything.
	I mean, I'm not afraid of anything.
	I would not swim with alligators, but I just...
	I don't walk around in fear.
	I thought there was hysteria over COVID, hysteria over everything.
	It's all we live in is hysteria.
	However, I will not take a speech in the city that has defunded its police.
	I'll just announce that right now.
	It's an absurd risk to take.
	There are no policemen in your city, and I'm just going to visit?
	Doesn't make sense to me.
	I don't know why anybody would.
	I'm sorry?
	Oh, commercial driver's license.
	So I was right.
	It's a trucking website.
	Truck driving is historically ranked as one of the most dangerous jobs in the country.
	In 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported truck driving as the most deadly job in the country.
	That's very interesting.
	Well, would you pick up...
	So we asked drivers on the app, CDL Life.
	Would you pick up slash deliver to cities with defunded or disbanded police departments?
	As of June 13, 2020, we've had over 1,283 respondents.
	79% say they will refuse loads to city with disbanded or defunded police departments.
	That's exactly right.
	Here are some of their responses.
	If something was to happen to you, and you have to take matters into your own hands, and then you risk being prosecuted for protecting yourself.
	That's exactly right.
	So, absolutely.
	So, Minneapolis, good luck.
	They unanimously voted there.
	I tell you, it's an amazing thing to me.
	I've been to Minneapolis probably 20 times.
	I did not know how radical Minneapolis was.
	This is...
	I have a lot of listeners there.
	I mean, my God, I love your orchestra.
	And, you know, I've been with your fantastic first trumpet.
	I spoke at your hall.
	I didn't know about this.
	I mean, unanimous?
	Your city council voted unanimously not to have a police force?
	Okay.
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	live from the relief factor pain-free studio trending now on the Larry Oller Show what do you make of what's going on in our streets these protests these riots
	Well, you know, unfortunately, the things that were done to that poor individual, you know, Mr. Floyd, are things that should not be done to an animal.
	And that's enough to Enrage anyone so I understand the rage But unfortunately there are others who are hiding behind peaceful protesters who are not peaceful people at all and I think that that dishonors the man who died it also dishonors dr. Martin Luther King who was an advocate for nonviolent protests and was able to bring about the greatest I
	don't know of any situation where violent, destructive protests have been helpful.
	Dr. Carson, even Mr. Floyd's brother has made a statement and has said that my brother would not have been happy about this and before George...
	Floyd died, Dr. Carson.
	He had a Facebook post where he was talking about black-on-black crime and how hideous he thought it was and that we need to get our arms around that.
	And the black community really needs to start talking about that issue because, you know, how many young black men are killed every weekend in Chicago?
	But because it's black-on-black crime, eh, we don't care about that.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	subscribe on youtube today trending now on america first with sebastian This is the state of play, and what is the response from the left?
	Mr. Mayor, please listen to Governor Jay Inslee of Washington State, where some of the worst violence is occurring on...
	His responsibility, or lack thereof, to the people of his state.
	They call the Capitol Hill autonomous zone.
	What's your thought about the fact that the protesters have taken that over and not allowing people to come and go freely?
	Well, that's news to me, so I'll have to reserve any comment about it.
	I have not heard anything about that from any credible source.
	Not that you're not credible, it's just like, before I... It spells an opinion I should know of which I speak.
	Should a governor be laughing about losing control of the streets of one of his cities, Mr. Matt?
	Well, I'm not surprised, Sebastian.
	Are you?
	I'm not, but what does this mean for the people living in Seattle in Washington State?
	Well, I mean, I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope that the American people... I hope that the American people...
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	Oh, no.
	This happens too often.
	There was a black Republican calling.
	Sir, if you could get in again.
	I think it was in Sacramento.
	That was my next choice.
	I don't blame him for hanging up.
	He was on a long time.
	Look, it's impossible to take all the good calls.
	What am I going to do?
	It's like you can't read all the good books.
	It's very frustrating.
	Last hour, I talked about the NFL. Tell me, I might as well apply it to the NBA. I don't see any difference.
	But I think they've killed it.
	The radicals have killed it.
	I don't know why people think, these athletes think, they can call people scum and then have them come to the game or watch it on TV and cheer them.
	It's an amazing phenomenon.
	All whites are racist.
	Now pay a lot of money to see me play basketball or football or whatever the sport.
	Watch me not stand for the national anthem and honor me for that.
	It reminds me, I actually saw on video white, young white people kissing Black people's shoes.
	I give you my word, as a means of atonement, it's on the internet.
	There's a pathology in this country that leftism is pathologic.
	It's the greatest lie in modern history that the U.S. is a racist country.
	It's the least racist, multi-ethnic country.
	Just for the record, ladies and gentlemen, once again, I periodically remind you, That six times as many blacks came to America from Africa, have come to America from Africa voluntarily as immigrants than came involuntarily as slaves.
	300,000 versus 2 million.
	You want the data?
	I'll put it up.
	I'll put it up.
	I'll get it for you.
	This is not esoteric.
	Henry Louis Gates, the great black historian at Harvard, this is the database that he uses.
	306,000 slaves came to the United States in total.
	NPR gave the 2 million figure.
	Others have given other figures that are higher.
	So tell me something.
	All these Africans who come to the United States, and millions more who want to come, They didn't get the message that this is a systemically racist country?
	I'll do anything to go to America so a policeman can beat me?
	Kill me?
	You're living a gigantic lie because the left is built on lies.
	It always has been.
	You vote Democrat, you're voting for a lie.
	So you'll say, oh, you vote for Trump, you're voting for a liar.
	Okay.
	But the left is systemic lying.
	Okay?
	To use their term.
	Trump has done a lot of good for this country.
	You're offended or repulsed by his tone, his tweets, his mode of speech.
	Okay?
	So what?
	So what?
	Two of the most powerful words in English language.
	So what?
	So you're going to vote left because you can't stand Trump?
	You can't rise above your own reaction to a man?
	It boggles my mind, actually.
	Okay, let's see here.
	Schenectady, New York.
	I know Schenectady, actually.
	Claude, hello.
	Hi, Ben.
	Thanks for taking that call.
	Yes, sir.
	I have three issues here.
	Number one, Cuomo is not opening up the upstate New York, and there's no spikes whatsoever.
	Okay, that's number one.
	Number two, Como supports these radicals, along with the mayor of Albany.
	She supports these radicals, okay?
	And, you know, if we don't have a police force, this is the only laws we have.
	If they go, we have no law.
	It's lawless.
	Then we're going to get nailed for protecting ourselves?
	I don't think so.
	Well actually, that's the danger.
	I live in California and I have regularly commented on upstate New York.
	Why you have to suffer because of New York City.
	It's beyond belief to me.
	I kept saying, I use Syracuse.
	I know Schenectady because my beloved uncle and aunt lived there their whole lives.
	It's mind-boggling.
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	Freedom is oxygen.
	Like the air we breathe that keeps our lungs full and our hearts beating, the celestial feeling of freedom brings a sense of peace to our souls.
	Freedom must never be taken for granted.
	Securing our freedom...
	Demands a high price, and that price requires hard work and sacrifice.
	Both will bind us all by the value they produce, but only if we are willing to seek new opportunities and new ideas.
	Those who have sacrificed the most, those who have given the last true measure of devotion that derives from the love of faith, family, and the cause of freedom, For all of us to be free and for the betterment of our republic and the free world cannot be allowed to have died in vain.
	Theirs is the ultimate sacrifice and heaven is their reward.
	Our future, the future of our children and grandchildren and the future of our country are at stake.
	God will not give way to the care of the devil.
	Or allow us to be left to the evil vices of those who would steal our freedom in the dark of night.
	He will not.
	Okay, all good.
	My man is there.
	I mean, good.
	Maybe it might turn out to be a poor call.
	But it's the call I wanted.
	Sacramento.
	Steven, hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Thank you so much for taking my call.
	I was able to get back to you.
	You came so close to what I was going to say this morning.
	You all but said it.
	I think from this point on, all athletes in every sport, they all have to take a knee.
	That's right.
	That's correct.
	Or they're ostracized by their own teammates.
	Well, imagine if Drew Brees tried to stand up after what he's got there.
	Well, look at the coaches of Houston and I forgot the other team.
	They've already announced Cleveland.
	The coaches are going to take a knee.
	You know, Dennis, I wouldn't be surprised if Goodell or whatever the name is said that everybody has to.
	No, he won't go that far.
	But for all intents and purposes, he has said it.
	He has condemned the country as racist.
	So, he's called for it.
	Thank you for calling.
	Sports have been ruined by the left.
	Remember, everything they touch, they ruin.
	I don't know why people aren't convinced yet.
	Everything.
	There isn't an exception.
	Leftism is a tsunami of chaos.
	When people are happy, leftists are not.
	People got along.
	Republicans and Democrats would sit in the stands and they would cheer their team.
	Everybody stood for the national anthem.
	So let's screw all that up.
	Let's make a fight.
	Any of you have a relative who is a drama queen?
	Then you know the left.
	The left are drama queens.
	Drama gives their boring, empty lives meaning.
	Now I have meaning.
	I will fight racism in America.
	See?
	That's what it is.
	They don't believe in religion.
	They don't believe in the country.
	No.
	They don't believe in the West.
	They don't believe in liberty.
	So something has to give some ism.
	So anti-racism is their religion.
	It's one form of leftism.
	At times it's feminism.
	At times it's environmentalism.
	Now it's anti-racism.
	I'm very saddened about the sports issue.
	Very saddened.
	I'm saddened about late night TV. That too.
	It used to be non-political.
	There's no such thing on the left.
	Everything is political.
	It's a virus.
	It spreads.
	Very interesting.
	I really, it's a phenomenon.
	The athletes on the field tell the people in the stands, you're all loathsome racists.
	Now please cheer for us.

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