Nov. 18, 2016 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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3501 Donald Trump: U.S. Election Aftermath | Diamond and Silk
Diamond and Silk join Stefan Molyneux to discuss the aftermath of the U.S. Presidential election, President-Elect Donald Trump and what the future holds for the United States of America.For more from Diamond and Silk, please go to: http://www.DiamondandSilk.com and http://www.youtube.com/theviewersviewFreedomain Radio is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by signing up for a monthly subscription or making a one time donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate
Stefan Molyneux from Freedom, Maine Radio, back with the good friends Diamond and Silk.
Now, you've probably heard of these ladies if you've had anything to do with politics or Trump or enthusiasm over the past year, year and a half.
They are the hosts of The Viewer's View.
You can find them at diamondandsilk.com or you can follow them at youtube.com slash The Viewer's View.
We'll put the links to those below.
So, ladies, what's new?
What's been happening?
Anything new in your world these days?
Well, if you hadn't heard, you know Donald Trump is now the 45th President of the United States.
That's right.
So we are very excited, happy, and just beyond ourselves.
We don't know.
It's crazy.
What was your experience on election night?
Were you going in kind of certain?
Were you going in kind of I mean, where were you at?
We were certain.
First of all, we were in New York because we were attending the Trump's victory party there in New York.
And I got this overwhelmed fitty, this giddiness that I just couldn't contain myself like Christmas was coming.
So we get to the victory party and I'm telling you everybody, the adrenaline was hot and we just knew he was going to win it.
We knew it.
And he won it.
We didn't waver.
We never backed out.
We knew he was going to be the 45th president of the United States.
And he won it by a landslide.
Yes.
He won it and we love it.
And he turned so many states from blue to red.
Oh my God.
It was just amazing.
My big joke of the night was that America was so embarrassed about Hillary Clinton.
It was literally turning red right before our eyes.
I'm just incredibly happy that I can still continue to go and visit Florida, which I like to do as a Canadian once in a while to get my tan on.
But the fact that I can go back to Florida is a great relief for me because I'd have had a big tough time forgiving the state if it had gone the other way.
The American people spoke.
That's right, the American people spoke.
That's what we were so excited about.
And when we saw that night that Hillary Clinton didn't come out, we knew she was embarrassed.
There was this thing that she did when her campaign, she acted like she had a sense of entitlement, like this was going to be given to her.
And I think that the people saw right through her.
And then the mere fact that she used her campaign to smash and smear Donald Trump.
And tie him to derogatory things and names.
People were outraged about it.
And guess what?
Donald Trump supporters got out and they voted for him.
And that's how he won it.
That's exactly how he won it.
Now, why do you think this didn't work?
You know, all of this, this racism and sexism and phobia this and horrible person that.
These attacks have been going on, you know, since I was knee high to a grasshopper, as the saying goes.
Why do you think they didn't land and take root in the way that they used to this time?
Because first of all, you had diamond and silk, two black women, calling them out on it.
And then the next thing is, you're not going to be able to get us and the world to believe that this man is a racist when he's been in the public eye for 30 and 40 years.
I was never called that.
You see what I'm saying?
So we didn't believe anything.
And all of our supporters and all of our fans, we told them, don't believe nothing that the media is pushing.
And I will always say this here.
They don't stop losers, but they will stop a winner.
When you see the media trying to take somebody down like that...
trying to assassinate their character, that's because he's winning, baby.
That's right.
And I told him, y'all get out and y'all go vote.
And we also told him, don't focus on the polls, focus on the goals.
That's right.
They did not expect the silent majority to awaken.
That's right.
And every time they tried to take and chop us down, we went further in the grassroot.
We talked to people.
I congregated with people and people were enthused about Donald Trump.
Because if you notice, they didn't have us in the mainstream media.
They took Diamond and Silk out of the mainstream media because I think we may have had the power to sway From what I heard.
That's right.
So what we did, we went out and we talked to people.
To people.
We traveled.
Talked to people doing the grassroots work.
Yes.
And those people got out and vote.
They got out and vote.
And those people wasn't polled.
That's right.
They forgot about the silent majority, baby.
That's right.
Well, this is the fascinating thing is that I think this is the first election where, you know, people like us who would not really be on television in any particular way Have a voice, have a capacity to be seen, and it kind of breaks the narrative.
I know I've had people call in, I do a sort of weekly, twice a week call-in show, and people are calling in, and some black people are calling in, Hispanic people are calling in and saying, I really wasn't sure I was allowed to be pro-Donald Trump, you know, and then they see people like you out there, and it's like, okay, so at least there's permission to explore it without feeling like I'm being some traitor to some ideology or something.
So I think you kind of give people permission to explore the man's policies, and then they sort of find things that they like.
Absolutely.
And that's why I will tell you now that he's one.
You have protesters out in the streets that probably didn't vote, didn't exercise their right to vote, now they're upset.
Or couldn't vote because it was illegal.
Illegal or children or teenagers that are not old enough to vote.
Now they're all upset because Donald Trump won.
And what I say to those people is give Donald Trump a chance.
That's right.
Donald Trump is an outsider and baby he's gonna come in and clean up this inside of us.
Give him a chance.
You know, that's what I say.
And we also let people know that your voice is your, your vote is your voice and your voice is your power.
Utilize your power.
Stop allowing people to silence you because of the choices you choose to make or the decision you choose to make.
Stop allowing people to do that.
And then labels.
We taught people, stop allowing people to label you as a minority so that you can start opening up your eyes and realize you're part of the majority.
When people label you as the minority, then you start thinking of yourself as less than.
But when we started educating people and let them know, no, you're part of the majority, you're part of the process, stop allowing people to separate and divide you by race, creed, or color and realize that there's only one race and that's the human race.
That's right.
Now, you guys were at the rallies, and I didn't have the chance for a variety of reasons to be able to get.
Now, for those who weren't at the rallies, I know like a million people went to these rallies over the last year and a half.
What was it like?
Because you guys were like front and center.
You were up there on the stage.
What was it like being at these rallies?
I mean, the energy must have been staggering.
Yes.
Yes.
It was amazing.
I mean, there was a phenomenon going on that people just didn't...
I don't think the media tapped into it.
They didn't want anybody to know about it.
But there was this thing going on where he just had supporters.
He had supporters.
Every rally was packed.
Diamond and Silk would come out on the stage and do their thing and shut the house down.
I mean, motivating.
These people were excited.
They were excited.
You know what?
You have to be enthused about who you're voting for.
That's right.
And Donald Trump supporters were enthused about him.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, she couldn't get a whole bunch of people enthused about her.
That was another reason how she lost that.
That's right.
That's right.
Yeah, so what do you think happened to her campaign?
I mean, she seemed to be a lot of, like, not there.
Like, she wasn't talking to reporters.
She wasn't doing interviews.
I think that these scandals that just, like, everywhere Clinton goes, there's, like, this dark bird that follows behind them, slowly crapping on everybody's perceptions of them.
What do you think fundamentally?
I mean, Donald Trump ran a great campaign.
I don't think Hillary Clinton ran a particularly good campaign.
What will you think are the major things that undid her opportunities?
Yeah.
Well, first of all, she thought she had a sense of entitlement.
People don't like that.
The next thing is she tried to really take down, she tried to assassinate someone's character.
And people didn't like that.
That's right.
She acted like she owned the black vote.
She owned black people.
People didn't like that.
So black people did not get out and vote for her like they did Obama.
And she also thought that she can hide under a rock and run down the clock.
That's right.
That's what she thought she could do.
That's right.
Because she knew that there was so much corruption against her to be out in the public eye, she would have to answer questions.
So that's why she went into a lot of hiding and then she would stick her head out from under the rock every now and then And throw a stone, throw a racial stone, because she know that will stir up division and controversy.
Right.
Another thing is she spent a lot of money on these negative asses.
Donald Trump didn't do that.
I mean, he just did that.
That was appalling.
People got tired of seeing that.
That's right.
And they started looking, wait a minute.
Maybe we should vote for him just for the heck of it because why are you all trying to stop him?
That's right.
You got what I'm saying?
I think a lot of this she did to herself.
And then the last two weeks of her campaign, when she brought Obama out and both of them started bashing Donald J. Trump, that brought it home.
He's going to win this.
He's going to win this for the fact of that.
When you have a sitting president...
Out campaigning for a crook.
That's right.
Somebody that has risked our national security.
Somebody that has fallen a ton of money through that Clinton Foundation and that's against the law.
That's right.
Oh, you out campaigning for her?
That's right.
Because of your legacy, people were outraged about it.
Outraged about it.
They got out and they voted for Donald Trump.
And another thing, Hillary Clinton wanted to continue on with the same legacy of Obama.
Yes.
We're already $20 trillion plus in debt.
So for her to continue on, that's going to make us deeper in debt.
We wanted to go back, go differently, make a different move, turn a different corner, and that's why we voted for Donald Trump.
And another thing about Hillary Clinton, she was not thinking about the working class.
That's right.
The middle class.
She even said, I'm going to tax The middle class.
I'm going to put a lot of coal miners out of business.
These people want to work.
These people want to thrive.
These people want to come up.
And the one thing we told people, if you vote for Hillary Clinton, hey, you are an accessory to her criminality.
That's right.
Because she has did things that if we do them, or if JoJo down the street do them, we're going to go to jail for the rest of our lives.
You're going to jail.
We didn't like that.
Well, and this is the remarkable thing.
I think it seemed to me that Americans are really, really tired of all of these endless wars, overseas adventures that seem to just produce a lot of coffins, a lot of problems, and a lot of blowback.
And it seemed shocking to me that fewer people were talking about what a warmonger Hillary Clinton was.
I mean, she's threatening Russia.
She's threatening Iran.
She's threatening in Syria, this no-fly zone.
You're going to have to start shooting down Russian airplanes, and you think that's going to end well?
I mean, I really think it was a choice between Donald Trump and World War III, and I'm shocked at how many people didn't see that.
Well, I think people did catch on to it.
You know, first of all, Trump is going to be the president for the United States, not for the world.
That's one thing.
And then we have to start getting along with people so that we can create something called peace.
But if under Hillary Clinton, it would have been World War III. We would have probably went to war.
We would have been going to war with Russia.
And she would have turned this country into a third world country.
That's right.
That was her plan.
That's right.
Well, that's with the immigration, right?
So...
What are you most looking forward to come January?
You're going to pop your champagne New Year's Eve.
You're going to look forward to the Trump administration.
What are the top things that you're hoping he's going to get done that you're going to be most excited about?
Well, you know, I like the fact that he's going to secure our border, build the wall.
Okay, I like that.
And then start renegotiating these trade deals.
Yes.
To get our good jobs back over here so people can thrive.
That's right.
So they're making more than $15 an hour so that they can have a 401k plan, save, feed their families, and thrive again.
That's what I hope.
Exactly.
And then Obamacare.
Restructure Obamacare so it can work for all of us.
Right.
And that it will not allow people to...
Because it's mandated for the employers to have to put it on the employees.
It needs to be restructured.
Right.
One thing about that Obamacare is that what bothers people is, you know, if you're getting it for free, it's all game gravy.
Right.
But when you have the middle class paying for the people that's getting it for free, and then the middle class is being charged now Double and triple amount.
So you want them to pay $1,000 a month for insurance, but also pay taxes to make sure that, bam, the people that's getting it for free gets it for free.
That's unfair.
You cannot just ride off the backs of the middle class because what you're going to create is nothing but a poor class.
Exactly.
That Obamacare needs to be restructured.
If it's not repealed and replaced, I know that Donald Trump said he want to keep some things in it.
I agree with him.
But restructure that where it works for everybody.
Not just the people that's getting it for free.
But everybody.
Well, that's the thing, right?
So the middle class is like this big giant thing that keeps society stable.
You know, the people who get up, they raise their kids, they pay their taxes...
That's what you kind of need at the center of society.
And there's rich and there's poor and you need to take care of the poor and all of that.
But it seems like over the past, and it's not just been under Obama, it happened under the bushes as well, but like the past 20 or 30 years, it feels like this sand is coming out of the hourglass of the middle class and things get more radicalized when you don't have that sort of central, stable thing.
That's a terrible way of putting it.
You know, the blob called the middle class in the middle of society.
Things get kind of extreme if these guys get eaten away and it seems that's been happening a lot.
Right.
And that's why you had people go vote for Donald J. Trump.
That's right.
Because he's going to bring back the middle class.
He's going to bring that back.
Yeah.
And I'm excited about that.
I'm really excited about that.
And especially with lowering taxes.
You know, Showing his tax plans and how he's going to do this here for all Americans.
Lower the taxes to 15% on businesses.
So businesses, giving them incentives to want to open up businesses so they can hire people to work.
I mean, this is just amazing versus Hillary Clinton wants to tax.
The heck out of businesses and business owners.
And we want companies to stay here in America so people can thrive here.
I like that.
That's right.
And also his tax plan is going to be good for Americans.
Yes.
I mean, I just wish people...
That's why those protesters give him a chance.
That's right.
He also...
I don't know if you know about this, but he also dealt a new deal for...
Black Americans.
That's right.
So they should go to his website and read that.
The things that he want to do for the inner and urban cities.
You never heard Hillary Clinton talking about it.
Though she was at the black church paying for votes with that hot sauce.
That's right.
But she would never walk around in the inner city.
And guess what?
Donald Trump did it and guess what?
When he did that, he said, what the hell do you have to lose?
Give me a chance, baby.
And they want to say he got 8% of the vote, but I heard he got 12% of the black vote.
That's right.
Right, so let's talk a little bit about this, and we'll end up with what needs to be said to the protesters, which I personally wish that Obama and Hillary Clinton were saying at the moment, like, not in my name and disavow and stop doing this crazy stuff.
But what does he have to offer, in particular the black community, that you feel is going to be new and really beneficial for those communities?
Listen, bringing $100 billion into these communities to revamp these communities, fixing it where they will be able to get business loans if they want to become entrepreneurs, Those kind of things, I think, is phenomenal in the community.
Listen, we have to have business.
We cannot walk around in our communities and think that it's okay to see abandoned buildings that used to be businesses.
That is going to depress and oppress a community.
And we want to see people come up.
That.
School choice.
School choice is going to be very important.
So that means if you want to send your children to a charter school, the government don't have nothing to say about that.
You can do that.
Whatever school you want to send your child to.
So I really wish people would...
And with the combination of all of that, that would help with family structure.
That's right.
A family unit.
Bring the family back again.
We need to see that.
Because we see a lot of broken men without homes.
Right.
And you know what?
Donald Trump, he's a father.
Right.
That has raised children.
Right.
And the head, when you see the head, that's his M.O. Yes.
That's going to trickle down to the body of people.
You will now see men wanting to raise their children and want to raise good children and want to be part of the family unit somehow.
Yes.
We got to get that back into our communities, especially the black community.
That's right.
I can't even tell you guys how excited I am about the possibility of school choice.
I mean, for everyone, but in particular the black community, there have been charter schools that have closed the achievement gap between blacks and whites.
Thank you.
you can give power back to minority parents or all parents to guide how their kids' education is going to go, to get rid of the bad teachers and the bad administrators, to have kids excited to go to school and excited to learn.
What a renaissance that could be throughout America, but I think in particular in the poorest communities.
Absolutely.
And that's why don't get afraid.
That's right.
Fear is false expectations appear real.
That's right.
Don't get afraid, baby.
You need to sit back and watch our President Donald Trump work for the American people.
And that includes you if you're black.
That's right.
So, let's hear what you guys have to say to the protesters.
They're not really listening to me very much, but I think that you guys could really give them something to think about because I don't know exactly where it's coming from.
I guess they've been listening to a lot of mainstream media about Donald Trump is some sort of Voldemort evil character or whatever, and they're just freaking out.
But what is it that they need to hear so that they can calm down a little bit, you know, deep breath, assess the situation, be patient, learn the man's policies, I would tell them, when fear comes knocking...
Open the door with faith.
That's right.
Give Donald Trump a chance.
That's right.
He wants to work for you, baby.
Exactly.
Give him a chance.
That's what I would say.
Because you know what?
You cannot stop fear with more fear.
That's right.
We can't be out there arguing with them.
But give him a chance.
When fear comes knocking, open the door with faith.
Give him a chance to work for you.
That's right.
And look at his track record.
Look at Donald Trump's track record.
Look at how he worked for all of us, not just some, but all Americans.
Hard day after day to get to where he's at right now.
And I believe that if he can work that hard to get to this point, imagine what he can do to get to the next four years and then the next four years after that.
Give Donald Trump a chance.
Right now, he's really our only hope.
And another thing, when I see them call him out of history, I'll call him that racist word.
He can't be racist.
He had two black girls that he didn't even know from Adam on his stage gave us his microphone.
He's not racist, baby.
He's a realist.
And he sees the reality of what's going on in America.
He didn't like it.
He's our voice.
He's the voice for the voiceless.
And he's standing up for all of the American people, baby.
And that means black people, you're included, even Hispanic people.
If you are an American, you are included in the process.
Even the protesters in the street.
That's right.
Working for you as well.
That's right.
He's your president, too.
That's right.
I've got to bring a hat next time, ladies, so I can throw it in the air as you testify.
What's it been like for you guys?
I mean, I'm not sure what your history was before I sort of found you through this Donald Trump campaign, but having had a chance to move the needle in a presidential election, damn, that's got to be pretty heady.
I mean, do you feel excited by what's happened to you over the last year, year and a half, where you're going to go?
I mean, it's pretty exciting to watch.
We're very excited.
Yes.
We're humble.
We're very humble.
Yes.
We're very grateful.
Yes.
And I just want to say to everybody, especially all of our fans, you know, we didn't know we were this popular until we really went out and started doing the grassroot work and all of these people.
We love all of you and everybody.
And guess what?
Diamond and Silk, we ain't going nowhere.
We ain't going nowhere.
We just getting started, baby.
That's right.
That's right.
And even to our haters, you know, the haters made us greater.
We love you too, darling.
That's right.
We love you too.
And just to be able to use our voice to be an educational tool to everybody.
Letting them understand the process of everything.
We're all learning and growing together.
That's right.
It is an amazing thing to be able to all collectively do it together because it takes a team to build a dream.
That's right.
I love it still.
Well, I just wanted to mention, since I have been saying this to everyone who I think has been instrumental in helping to save Western civilization, I don't think this election was just about one thing.
To me, it was about everything.
Where are we going to go in the future as a civilization as a whole?
That doesn't just mean America, but Canada, the Western Europe and even Eastern Europe as well.
You guys have done a fantastic and magnificent job of really bringing a message to people.
It would have been hard to bring messages to those people in other formats.
So thank you, thank you, thank you so much for everything that you've done to help out in this particular campaign.
I think it's been magnificent.
You should definitely take a bow.
And I'm not sure I'm ever going to do anything as important in my life again.
although I hope so.
But I just wanted to say congratulations for all of your success.
It has been hugely appreciated and enormously, enormously influential.
Wow.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for even giving us this platform.
Thank you.
We love you all.
Thank you.
All right.
So please remember to go to diamondandsilk.com or youtube.com slash the viewers view.
