Liberal MURDERS Teenager For Being 'Republican Extremist,' As Civil War Fear Grows Among Mainstream
Liberal MURDERS Teenager For Being 'Republican Extremist,' As Civil War Fear Grows Among Mainstream. Biden recently smeared Trump supporters as extremists and now a teenager has been murdered for being one.
A man in North Dakota confessed to ramming and killing a teenager with his SUV because he was part of a republican extremist group echoing the unhinged rhetoric of President Joe Biden.
Democrats have increasingly embraced violence be it from BLM or antifa and now we are seeing a dramatic escalation as mainstream personalities from CBS and MSNBC say a civil war is coming.
One outlet says the november midterms could be the catalyst for the second civil war
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Today is September 20th, 2022, and our first story.
An unhinged liberal man.
Rammed.
A teenager.
Killing him.
Because he said he was part of a Republican extremist group.
Fears about civil war are growing, and now even mainstream reporters are writing that we're dangerously close.
In our next story, a Texas sheriff is investigating Ron DeSantis for flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard.
Yeah.
Civil War, I guess.
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Now, let's get into that first story.
A teenager in North Dakota was leaving a street dance party.
He noticed someone was following him.
A 41-year-old man named Shannon Brandt rammed him with his vehicle, running him over and killing him.
He admitted to police the reason he did it was because the teenager was part of a Republican extremist group.
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar at all?
Why, it was only a couple of weeks ago that Joe Biden came out and said, Maggie, extremists are a threat to our democracy.
So here we are.
A teenager.
I don't know anything about this.
Maybe there's some underlying story we don't know of.
There's probably details we have not yet heard.
But it's hard to find any reasonable explanation unless you want to get conspiratorial and start believing in wild speculative theories.
It's hard to understand why a man would murder an 18-year-old Because he was part of a Republican extremist group.
What is a Republican extremist group, anyway?
I mean, he didn't say alt-right.
He didn't say white supremacist.
No, he just killed some kid.
And it makes me worried that we are headed towards civil war.
I've been reading a bit about it.
I am no historian.
Recently, this past weekend, I went down to Winchester, Virginia.
It's not too far away, actually.
And I went to Stonewall Jackson's headquarters.
Now, admittedly, Stonewall Jackson has many headquarters.
Yeah, it was not his home, but he did live there briefly.
It was only a few months, as he planned the defense of the Shenandoah area during the Civil War.
I looked at the writings, I looked at the pictures, and what people believed.
And of course, in the lens of history, we see the South as evil, immoral, and in many ways, yeah.
But slavery was an element of its time and to those people they believed it was just.
I think we look back on that with justifiable disdain and disgust.
But it's also important to realize that there were people in the Civil War who you probably, you know, if you sat down with and discussed on the North or the South, you'd have a conversation with.
And there are certainly people who have deep-seated immoral beliefs, like slavery.
But how would you really know that these people were doing something so dark if you just walked across them in the street?
I guess what I'm trying to say is, No matter how dark and evil you think people are, I believe no one is beyond redemption.
I believe that people continually strive to do better, and that even today, be it this Shannon Brandt, this murderer, if you walked up to him on the street, politics outside of everything, and talked about something like your favorite pizza, you'd probably get along.
And only then, when you learned the truth about who he was, would you realize the deep evil that is harbored within him.
I don't know what else to say, you know.
I think we're headed towards a civil war.
I think this is it.
And I think this shows, well, I'll put it this way.
Bill Burr recently appeared on the Trigonometry podcast where he said, people are not as divided as you think.
You go outside and people aren't fighting.
He's wrong.
He's completely wrong.
He's 100% wrong.
I've heard this sentiment.
I've repeatedly said it is wrong.
During the Civil War in the United States, do you think the people of New York were caning each other?
No, the fighting was between disparate factions who did not live near each other.
During the American Revolution, do you think the American revolutionaries were going to their neighbors in their towns and beating each other?
They were fighting the regulars and, of course, loyalists.
Disparate factions.
And of course, there are people who arbor certain sentiments, even during the Revolutionary War.
But the point is, war is fought where the two factions meet.
Such as in cities, when protesters go to Chick-fil-A.
Or in North Dakota, where some unhinged liberal leftist type runs over an 18-year-old for being a Republican.
Or in his mind, part of an extremist Republican group.
Let's go through this.
Let's go through these stories.
Right now we have more reporters.
CBS.
A CBS reporter saying they fear civil wars on the horizon.
The Bulwark writing how civil war could happen.
Donald Trump's lawyers saying criminal charges may be coming.
And a story like this, which people need to recognize.
Because we want it not to happen.
There's a lot to break down, philosophically and morally.
Let's read the news.
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Here's the story from Inforum.
Driver admitted to intentionally killing teen at North Dakota Street Dance Party after political dispute.
According to court papers, it was not an accident, but apparently a politically motivated attack.
The fatal vehicle-pedestrian incident happened early Sunday morning September 18th in McHenry, North Dakota, about 120 miles northwest of Fargo and 54 miles north of Jamestown.
Prosecutors allege moments before he was killed, 18-year-old Kayla Ellingson called his mom to come rescue him because 41-year-old Shannon Brandt was chasing him in the city of McHenry, where the street dance had just wrapped up.
By the time she could get there, her son was dead.
I remember telling the story during the Black Lives Matter riots.
In, what was it, Provo, Utah.
These extremists ran up to a car that was just driving down the street and they shot the driver.
Just a regular random person.
And you have these people who live under rocks saying it's not happening.
It was Bill Burr who went on Joe Rogan's show and said, Joe, I don't know.
I turn on the TV and they say wear a mask.
I just, whatever, I do it.
I know my Bill Burr sounds kind of like Fauci.
That's what he said.
He says, I don't know.
I just turn on the TV and do what they tell me to do.
And this is the guy who's now come out and said, people aren't divided.
And only a few weeks later, a psychopath killed an 18 year old after he left a dance party.
By the time the mom got there, she found her son dead.
Brandt was officially charged Monday with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a deadly incident.
Quote.
He was the one who called 9-1-1 to report the crash.
Court papers showed Brandt called 9-1-1 around 2.30 a.m.
Sunday and told the dispatcher that he just hit Ellingson, claiming the teen was part of a Republican extremist group and was calling people to come get Brandt after a political argument.
Ellingson's mom told police her son called her just before the crash, asking if she knew Brandt, which she does.
She does not believe her son knew him.
We are still trying to determine what exactly transpired at the time of the crash and prior to that as well.
Police say Brandt was drunk when he hit and killed Ellingson with his SUV in an alleyway.
We do not know of any witnesses.
We are still making attempts to interview potential witnesses from the street dance.
People that were present prior to the crash happening.
A judge ordered Brandt held on $50,000, which he objected, saying he's not a flight risk.
I have a job, a life, a house, and things I don't want to see go by the wayside.
Family that are very important to me.
This is absolutely insane.
He said it was because, right here, the pedestrian was part of a Republican extremist group.
That's what he said.
A political argument.
A Republican extremist group.
Here's a story over at TimCast.com.
Allegedly being part of a Republican extremist group.
Brant called 911 and confessed that he intentionally ran over Ellingson.
He told the police they had gotten to an argument and that the teenager was part of a, quote, Republican extremist group.
Bill Burr shares blunt message about America being divided.
Right now, there is a lot of pessimism in the U.S.
And if you get on Twitter or any other social media platform, you start to think the country is falling apart.
It really seems like we're in a non-stop cycle of negativity.
However, Burr thinks people should go outside, soak up some fresh air, and realize things aren't as bad as you might think.
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And I'm like, bro, I'm up here looking over there.
I just watched a dude run over some kid in an alley.
It's happening, bro.
And he's like, are you crazy?
Down here, everything's fine.
He can't see it.
And so he uses his loud voice and tells everyone how fine things are.
Fine.
I get it, man.
We don't want to live in a world of despair.
I don't want to read stories about some psychotic lunatic killing some kid.
I don't want to read stories about some maniac beheading his significant other in the street.
Or a guy in New York, do you see this story?
Bashing, just destroying property with an axe in McDonald's and then they release him without bail.
I don't want to read those stories.
And maybe it's true.
Maybe there is some reality to this.
That we are atop the tower and we see too much.
Maybe that fighting will never come to where we are.
Or maybe it's important to recognize both messages.
I think what Bill Burr is saying is ignorant, but not entirely wrong.
I'm critical of it because he is ignorant.
I think it's fair to say, remain calm, remain steadfast, stand for what you believe in, but prepare.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
So as you have people, perhaps like me, standing on top of the watchtower, looking out, being like, hey guys, this looks serious, you can say, duly noted men, we're not gonna cry, we're not gonna scream, we're gonna make sure we are reasonably protecting ourselves, but we're gonna carry on.
We're gonna keep calm.
And I can respect that.
But what I fear is that messages like this can leave people unprepared at the very least.
He says, if you go on the internet, everybody seems like they're angry.
But if you go outside and walk around, they're not.
It's not like they're just walking around screaming at each other.
Now I get what he's saying.
But you need to understand, liberals aren't going to scream at liberals for the most part, and conservatives aren't going to scream at conservatives for the most part, but what happens when liberals meet Chick-fil-A?
They scream.
So they are!
People on Twitter who are liberals sometimes yell at each other, conservatives sometimes yell at each other, but overwhelmingly you're not seeing on Twitter leftists yelling at leftists.
I know we like to highlight the circular firing squad on the left, but not always.
They're often saying, I agree, I apologize.
So go to New York City and watch them go, oh I didn't realize, sorry about that.
Go to a conservative area.
Say the same thing.
But look where the sides clash.
And then you've got protests.
At the Boston Children's Hospital, billboard Chris.
He wears a billboard.
He opposes transgender sex change surgeries for minors.
And protesters and counter-protesters show up.
Where the ideas clash, people are fighting.
Bill Burr is wrong.
He says, No, I just don't think any of that's real.
It's just not real.
It's not real?
Bill Burr, how about this?
How about this?
It's not real.
On Twitter, you don't die.
On Twitter, they spit on you.
Figuratively.
On Twitter, they call you naughty words.
In real life, these psychopaths kill kids.
That's what's happening.
Republican extremists.
Sound familiar?
Biden warns that American values are under assault by Trump-led extremism.
Trump-led extremism.
We saw this.
We knew it was going to happen.
And Trump is not innocent here either.
There are certainly people on the right.
This is just the course that is before us.
That's why I say civil war.
Not here to say all Republicans are innocent.
No, but there is the exception in the rules.
On the right, you have libertarians, moderates, the politically homeless, along with conservatives.
Certainly, we are upset with psychopaths running people over.
Certainly, we are upset with what happens when people peacefully march the street and Antifa shows up just beating them.
Certainly, we are upset about what happened on January 6th.
So we say no to violence, but Black Lives Matter, the left, embrace it, defend it.
So when Joe Biden comes out and says American veterans are under assault by Trump led extremism, don't be surprised when his stochastic terrorism, as they call it, results in a dead kid.
Man, it's just so brutal.
You know, I see these memes where they say things like, you value guns more than kids.
No, we don't.
We value freedom, individual responsibility, protecting people, but y'all are psychopaths.
Y'all are a cult.
I think Trump's got his weird cult followers.
I think that's not a good thing.
I think there's a lot of bad things about it.
Me, I'm more like Ron DeSantis.
I don't think he's perfect.
And I think either way, you're gonna get more of this hardship.
Because I don't care.
If it's a Trump-supporting kid or a Bernie Sanders-supporting kid.
The last thing I want to read about is some lunatic getting in an SUV and crushing a... He's 18.
He's a young man.
Reading stories like this, man.
It doesn't have to be this way.
But maybe that's just what humans are like.
So they say, so they say, stochastic terrorism that Trump encourages.
When Biden comes out and screams this in this backdrop with this crazy photo, you know, of course, the New York Times won't show the really scary photo with the red and the yelling.
We have this from Mother Jones, how Trump spread incitement of violence throughout the GOP.
This is from the November, December 2022 issue.
Mother Jones just published this and they say, Just hours after the FBI entered Amaro Lago on August 8th to seize classified documents, blah blah blah.
Three days later, an Ohio man named Ricky Schiffer donned tactical gear, armed with an AR-15, went to an FBI field office in Cincinnati.
He tried to breach the facility, I guess with a nail gun, because he believed some stupid conspiracy theories from the internet.
Not conspiracy theories, but misinformation about nail guns.
He couldn't get through the bulletproof glass and fled, fired at them, ultimately died.
Was Schiffer spurred to attack the FBI by statements from Trump and Gosar?
It's hard to know.
And that's no accident.
Schiffer's actions point to a rhetorical method experts call stochastic terrorism, whereby a leader vilifies a person or group in ways likely to instigate random supporters to attack those targets.
You walk around and you see happiness, but you're ignoring the reality because you can't see it.
Even Mother Jones calls this stochastic terrorism.
Not specifically, but that's what it is.
I'm not happy with the guy who went to the FBI field office.
That's terrifying.
That's psychotic.
But what do you think this is?
Is this not the same thing?
This is why I say civil war.
It's not because I'm saying one side is inherently more evil than the other.
I think Democrats are ignorant, and I believe they have their evil.
I believe it's exception versus the rule.
So, you know, it may be, to be fair, there is more evil on one side than the other, but it's not about that.
What I'm saying is that both factions hate each other, and this only goes one direction.
Stochastic terror.
From the Daily Beast, CBS star reporter fears we're on the brink of a civil war.
Holy crap, we are 85% there.
Former Fox News staffer, they say.
In the books written about the plot to steal the 2020 election, and the violent insurrection that followed, it doesn't matter what they say anymore.
Insurrection is meaningless to us, but to them it's gospel.
They say none have led with a 50-year-old high school teacher from Bucks County, blah, blah, blah, afraid of Civil War.
This is not something I've seen in the history of this country except for before the Civil War, said Bob Harvey, the chair of the Bucks County Board of Elections in the pages of Big Truth, the new book from CBS News star Major Garrett, and elections expert David Becker.
And it does scare me.
I'm really worried we're approaching a precipice that's going to be impossible to come back from.
We're already there!
You want to play some games?
How the second war or war could start?
Oh boy, but let's look at this.
He says, what does he say?
Something I've not seen in the history of this country.
The plot to steal the election, the insurrection, blah blah blah.
FBI whistleblower alleges January 6th cases manipulated to create illusion of national crisis.
The at-times distressing book tells the story of how democracy survived an unprecedented assault in 2020, often through the election officials who served as its soldiers, featuring interviews with those in several pivotal states, blah blah blah.
Civil War, he says.
It was almost like the D-Day of elections, he says.
After January 6th, David and I assumed that that would be the ultimate moment in which everyone would have said, this is the abyss, and we will all walk back from this abyss in a bipartisan way.
By the summer, it was clear that wasn't happening.
And there was already a recasting and whitewashing of what January 6th was.
And a concerted effort by some Republicans, oh, here we go.
Unable to accept their own role.
Unable to accept that, from at least where we are, the moderates, who do side with DeSantis and Trump more so than the left, condemn January 6th.
They look to the most extreme and say, they won't condemn it.
It's only going to get worse.
Meanwhile, here I sit saying January 6th was bad.
The people who are violent should be prosecuted.
They say, oh, we don't care about you.
You don't fill our gullet full of hate.
So we'll ignore you or lie about you.
I got an email from the Washington Post.
They said, we're putting together a list of people who said Biden didn't win fairly, and you're one of those names.
Care to comment?
And I said, when did I say Biden didn't win fairly?
Pretty sure that I get ragged on all the time by Trump supporters for saying that Biden won because people hate Trump.
And they responded with, well, you said there was fraud in the past.
And I said, I don't know to which tweet you're referring to in what I've referenced.
Because I've repeatedly said Biden won.
And that Trump supporters were too blind to realize that the enthusiasm against Trump was greater than the enthusiasm for Trump.
And that predicted a lot.
And so you know what they did?
This Washington Post reporter sent me a list of tweets and said, here you go.
Here are some tweets that you've said mentioning fraud.
Do you stand by these?
I understand you now say Biden won fairly.
The tweets they sent me, one of them was like, go fund me accused of fraud.
Elizabeth Holmes has been convicted of fraud.
And I was like, Some of these tweets were even me saying, I've never said widespread fraud resulted in this, that, or otherwise.
I think Biden won.
And I'm like, why are you sending me a list of tweets where I actually say Biden won fairly?
It's because the media had what they want to write already, did no research, and then try and then wanted to instigate, like, they knew they wanted to accuse me of being an election denier.
They didn't do any research.
Then when I said, if you want me to comment, you've got to be specific, they had nothing to cite because it's a fake news story.
This is why I think it's inevitable.
Even someone like me can come out and say, prosecute the January 6th violent offenders, and Joe Biden won, and they go, nah, nah, you're an election denier.
They want the conflict or crisis, or at the very least, they don't care that they're continually shoveling us in that direction.
Me?
I try to say, please no, please stop, please don't do this.
But it's impossible.
When the corporate press just lies and lies and lies, then maybe that's where we're going.
I wonder the bulwark, how could the Second Civil War start?
Interesting.
They say, during the 2020 campaign, National Democrats were bracing for a tidal wave that might eject them from control of the U.S.
This in a state where blah, blah, blah.
They say, in Texas, a law passed that no restrictions on mail-in ballot access, blah, blah, blah.
Of course, their perspective is all, we should remove security efforts from our elections.
In such an environment, many were worried about armed poll watchers, inflamed passions, and even possible violence.
In Texas, voters saw unusually long lines in voting precincts, etc., etc.
Before the March 1, 2022 primary, voters in predominantly Democratic counties like Harris, Travis, and Bexar were seeing requests for mail-in ballots rejected at historically high rates.
All right.
Let's move on and say, how does it begin?
Imagine a polling station in Texas on Election Day 2022.
The location doesn't matter.
Neither does the underlying dispute.
What matters is a person came to the polls purportedly on the hunt for voter fraud.
States like Texas had given poll watchers more latitude to move around polling places.
A discussion escalated into confrontation, perhaps about the proper place to stand inside the polling precinct in relation to others, or about how to properly mark the ballot or use the ballot machine.
I don't disagree with this assessment.
After 2020, you have many people, a majority of Republicans, who believe the election was stolen.
Do you think they'll just sit there?
It's gonna get bad.
Someone's gonna come in, and they're gonna say, that is not acceptable.
There's gonna be a fight.
What happens?
The police come?
They'll have to shut down the polling place.
The polling pla- wha- I don't know, man.
They say, tragically, things spun out of control.
The person feared fraud was afoot and meant to stop it by any means.
It first came through a raised voice, then physical intervention, and ultimately through a brandished weapon.
Tensions and shouts ensued, followed by a scuffle.
One shot rang out and a poll worker lay bleeding on the floor of a gymnasium.
The polling place was a high school.
As the blood pooled, the victim passed away.
Simultaneously, a friend of the victim hit send on a video taken of the conflict and its horrible aftermath.
The video, as these things do, flew faster than news coverage and became a national sensation.
Raw emotions frayed further.
I'll edit this.
As the video goes viral, people on the right say, this person was attempting to pass fraudulent ballots.
The people on the left say, a crazed Trump supporter just killed a poll worker.
And there will be no truth There will be no truth but perspective.
The right will say it's true.
The left will say it's true.
And so be it.
As election day played out in Texas, Democrats believed they were seeing some of their worst fears realized.
The perception of long lines and disproportionate damage done to minority voters sparked genuine anguish and rage, now a death.
I read a story once.
About... It was a tragedy.
Two guys were driving.
A guy was driving his car and got rear-ended.
Rightfully, he was pissed off.
He got rear-ended by a guy who clearly wasn't paying attention.
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The guy who was hit.
He's open carrying.
He gets out of the car.
The guy who hit him immediately gets out of the car.
The guy who got hit starts yelling.
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The man in front, he sees armed, and he says, hey, hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down there, buddy!
Puts his hands on his hip, back up, back up!
The angry man, we'll call him Man A, who got rear-ended, sees the man putting his hand towards his gun, and he quickly grabs his gun and pulls it out, low-ready.
The man, who I'll call Man B, who did the rear-ending, sees the guy draw his weapon, and so he pulls it out as well.
As soon as he does, the man in front aims his weapon and says, put it down!
Don't do it!
They both shot each other.
It's a crazy story.
Maybe it's apocryphal, maybe it's a legend, but I mean, it's reasonable.
I read this on, I can't remember where, it was a long time ago.
I wasn't reading activist information, I was just reading a story.
And I thought about it, and I'm like, it sounds reasonable.
Like, I'm not saying- Like, it sounds feasible, I should say.
Not reasonable, it's completely unreasonable.
But you have a guy who gets hit, rightfully he's angry, jumps out of his car, and then this guy gets out, sees the guy's armed, and puts his hands at his hip and his hand up, which is a reasonable thing to do, like, hey, hey, buddy, don't do anything, I'm armed.
But the guy saw his hand move towards his gun, and assumed he was reaching for it.
So he pulled his out.
And that quickly just spiraled out of control.
Things like that can happen.
Think about that in the context of the election.
What the bulwark is saying, as much as I'm not a fan of them, they're not wrong.
Someone in Texas, they're gonna be armed.
Not supposed to be armed near a polling place, but people are gonna be outside.
Someone's gonna escalate.
We just saw a man run over and kill a kid.
That's not even an election!
What do you think's gonna happen when you've got Antifa and right-wing groups near polling places screaming, They're gonna say.
The death video, as they say, went viral, but not benignly so.
It did not lead to more violence, but in the hours after it appeared, more people began taking weapons to polling places.
There were standoffs, there were fistfights, police and sheriff's departments nationwide were deployed.
They say, or perhaps, no such incident occurred.
Maybe none was necessary to push the nation to the edge.
In the months leading up to the November election, Trump and the circle of grifters surrounding him continued to push and profit from the big lie.
It's funny, because these people live in only one world.
The big lie.
Despite me saying, insistently, that Joe Biden legitimately won.
Now what I mean by that is, sure, the rules were changed.
There were court cases unrelated to fraud, challenging the constitutionality of mail-in voting and ballot boxes.
What I mean to say is, I don't think they fabricated ballots and shipped them in in the dead of night.
I think that's stupid.
Certainly, it's within the realm of physical reality, but not probability.
I think what actually happened is that Trump supporters underestimated the amount of hatred, they underestimated that the whole year had been shut down by a pandemic, they underestimated the media blamed Trump every step of the way, and that regular people who normally don't pay attention saw nothing but Trump misleading the country.
And so they voted against them.
Not to mention, I think there was ballot harvesting.
I think they weren't doing signature verification to the same degree they had normally done.
They pulled out all the stops, but it was done through procedure.
You can't tell me.
You could say, that's illegitimate.
It's like, the votes were from real people.
Okay, fraud exists.
I believe there was a lot of fraud, but not enough to have altered the election.
Because when I talked to these people, there were like 700 votes, and I was like, that wouldn't change anything!
There were questions that never got answered.
I think that's fair to point out.
But I think too many people just couldn't believe that they would lose.
I certainly thought Trump was going to do very well.
And then I saw a skateboarder post a video about how he voted by mail, and I said, that's it.
That's it.
At any rate, they say, Texas, as it turns out, was the fulcrum in the House of Representatives.
Republicans, blah, blah, blah.
Here we go.
Here we go.
You know, you get the point.
They say something interesting.
People are on edge.
Look at this.
Donald Trump's lawyers acknowledge the possibility of criminal charges against the ex-president and his aides in a new court filing.
Trump gets arrested.
I think the midterm elections are going to be terrifying.
We're already hearing they're saying that the results won't be told on election night.
This is dangerous.
I repeatedly called for a clean election in 2020.
That means you need to investigate and have a proper inquiry as to the claims made about voter fraud and impropriety.
They didn't do it.
The lawsuits, which were not about fraud, like in Texas, were thrown out.
That terrifies me.
Because that meant the next election that came through, people would not believe them.
They would have no confidence.
Now you're telling me that during the midterms, you're not going to give us the results on election night?
The Constitution prescribes one day for the election.
So what's going to happen?
The overwhelming majority of Trump supporters and Republicans who question the 2020 election, yeah, they're going to be watching this.
And when they see there's no legitimate results, there's no final results, they're going to say no.
And then what happens, I don't know.
But I think things are going to start breaking down, especially after the midterms.
I think the bulwark makes a good point.
Why would we not see some kind of escalation?
Why would we not see Republicans outside of every polling place keeping an eye out for vans at 3 in the morning?
There were a lot of accusations made about ballots coming in at 3 in the morning.
Why would we not see, this time around, Trump supporters and conservatives en masse at every polling station camping throughout the night?
People are probably already talking about doing it.
Making sure no vehicles are coming in.
And then what happens?
There was a video.
Ah, this really frustrates me.
Of a van pulling up to a location where they're counting ballots.
And then they bring in some boxes.
And then everyone's like, they're shipping in ballots!
It would turn out to be like burgers.
It was like ham sandwiches.
Because people were working throughout the night and they brought in food.
And there were a lot of people who thought it was like ballots or something.
What happens when a catering truck pulls up for a couple dozen poll workers And there's gonna be Republican poll workers.
What happens when the van pulls up and people say, they're doing it again!
And then there's Antifa there.
And then what happens when they fight?
And they smash one of the things open.
And then, lo and beyond, they find a bunch of sandwiches.
What then?
You know, I worry about where things are going.
And this stuff breaks my heart.
I couldn't believe it when I saw this story.
I mean, the reality is I could believe it, but I was just pissed off.
That's what I want to say.
It's just some kid, man.
Why would you kill him?
Killed him?
Look, when it came to Aaron Danielson in Portland, we knew that there were Trump supporters marching in, and the Antifa guy hunted him down, and we were mad about that.
It was unjustified.
We knew it was political.
We knew that Antifa, this BLM guy, hunted down Aaron Danielson and killed him.
Two to the chest.
We got one.
Bang, bang.
It's insane.
This?
As bad as that was, this is just some kid?
Man.
Trump said dark days.
Dark days indeed.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 8pm tonight over at youtube.com slash timcast IRL.
Thanks for hanging out.
And I'll see you all then.
And in a single masterstroke, Ron DeSantis has sent ripples and shockwaves through the liberal elite communities.
Texas Sheriff investigating DeSantis' role in flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard.
The Sheriff's move follows requests from Democrats for the DOJ to investigate DeSantis over the flights.
They're screaming, they're crying, they're saying, he's human trafficking!
The funny thing is, Joe Biden was doing it long before DeSantis was.
And the logic from Ron DeSantis' team is actually sound and reasonable.
These are sanctuary districts that have been set up to accommodate these individuals, and he's sending them to the places where the resources are most readily available.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the liberal elites are recoiling in horror as, it appears, it has begun again.
Judd Legum says one of the planes used in DeSantis' Martha's Vineyard stunt is currently scheduled to travel tomorrow from San Antonio to Florida to a small airport near Biden's house in Delaware.
I'd like to extend an applause to Ron DeSantis, and I would just like to jump over very quickly.
The story from CNN.
Ron DeSantis gets standing ovation from GOP voters after flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard.
I'd like to add to this.
I would encourage everybody to applaud for Governor Ron DeSantis.
A masterstroke.
Genius.
And you can see just how they're losing their minds.
Now, we have here the itinerary for a flight that will likely be going to Joe Biden's home.
I'm going to show you the map travel itinerary, but first, a word from our good friend Dave Smith.
And we mean that one literally.
Sometimes we're facetious.
I want you to explain why this is so important.
Dave Smith nailed it when he said, The Martha's Vineyard thing might be the best and clearest example of what so many of us have been talking about for years.
The progressive elites advocate for policies that they never have to suffer the consequences of.
And that one time they do, it ends quickly.
They are against building a wall, but they live in gated communities.
They are for gun control, but they have armed security.
They destroy public education, but send their kids to elite private schools.
They support mask mandates, but only their servants wear them at their parties.
There are too many examples like this to list them off.
And it's not just that they advocate for these policies, but that they demonize in the most vicious ways anyone who dare oppose them.
This is why the elites are so rightfully hated in our society.
Ah, yes, yes, yes, indeed.
And let me elaborate, good Sir Dave Smith.
They're against building a wall, but they live in gated communities.
Yes.
They're against building a wall, and this is because they are wealthy and can afford to spend $50,000 to $100,000 to put a wall around their property.
They're for gun control, but they have armed security.
That's right.
They have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars per year for armed guards.
They don't want you armed.
It puts them at risk.
So here's how it works.
They make it so it's very, very difficult to have a gun, so only the ultra-wealthy can afford people who have the time to pass those checks and get licensed to carry a gun, and then you don't get to.
They destroy public education, but send their kids to elite private schools because they can afford it.
They support mask mandates for you, but I don't have to wear it.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me explain with the mask mandates thing.
You know private planes, you don't gotta wear a mask, right?
And let me explain, because a lot of people probably understand this.
You can get a single-engine Cessna or small aircraft for, you know, depending on how old it is.
Could even be $20,000 to upwards of, well, you know, private planes go for millions.
But you don't have to be ultra-wealthy.
You could be someone who is making, let's say you make $300,000 a year.
$300,000 a year.
Just a humble $300,000.
At that rate, you can easily afford a private plane, which will allow
you to fly around at your own discretion and leisure.
And then you get a pilot's license, or you hire someone to do it.
You hire someone short-term.
It is not the wealthiest that are avoiding the mask mandates.
It's just them putting it on you.
Because if you're making a small amount, or you're flying for business reasons, you don't have the ability to control this.
But I gotta be honest, you know, I'm looking at these small personal planes, and I'm like, there's no point in flying commercial if you can afford to spend a couple hundred bucks a month to get a loan for a small private plane, and then get a license to fly it yourself.
It's way cheaper across the board than even flying commercial, and then you don't gotta wear a mask.
But anyway, I bring you now to the tweet of Judd LeGum.
He's freaking out, because we got this tweet.
Showing, well it's kind of hard to see the way the site is set up.
Flight history for Ultimate Air Shuttle Flight UE-11.
Starting in Longview to San Antonio, to Crestview, to Georgetown, to Teterboro.
Let me show you, my friends, here on this beautiful Google Maps.
Let me show you what, uh, oh, can you zoom out?
Seriously, Google?
Alright, here we go.
Here's the plan.
This is the driving directions, because Google can't do private plane directions.
But this is the first airport.
This is GGG.
East Texas Regional Airport.
Just outside, well, I shouldn't say just, it's closer to Shreveport than Dallas.
The plane is going to fly to San Antonio, Atlantic Aviation SKF.
It's then going to land in Florida at Bob Sykes Airport.
This is the itinerary.
It is then going to land at Delaware Coastal Airport, which is, let me see, we have the airport code here is, I believe is GED Georgetown.
Now here's the best part.
Delaware Coastal Airport, Georgetown.
Why, you pop over this road here, Route 9.
Straight over, and you get to a place called Rehoboth Beach.
Now I wonder, what could possibly be at Rehoboth Beach?
Simply put, Joe Biden's house!
Here you go.
From KARE11.
They say President Biden's home offers respite from gilded cage at White House.
He has only visited one since taking office.
President Joe Biden is from Wilmington, Delaware, where he and the First Lady have a home, in addition to a recently purchased beach house in nearby Rehoboth.
Rehoboth.
Am I pronouncing that right?
They say nearby, and I'm like, yeah, you know, nearby, sort of.
I mean, Wilmington's a bit of a drive.
It's not super far away.
But, um, what do you think's gonna happen to the wealthy individuals of Rehoboth when a bunch of migrants descend on their property?
They're going to deport them faster than you can say hypocrite liberal elites.
They'll be shipped off by the National Guard.
And then, interestingly, the plane is then going to be landing at Teterboro.
I wonder.
I don't know how many people can fit on this plane.
But why is it stopping in Florida?
It's going Texas, Florida, Rehoboth, basically Georgetown, and then Teterboro.
Teterboro is the airport for the ultra-wealthy of New York.
When you're flying private to New York City, as they do, you will land likely in Teterboro, just on the other side of the river, in Jersey, because it's easier to travel from there.
And you could fly into other airports, you know, whatever, but Teterboro is the one where it's like all the private planes want to go.
There you go.
Ron DeSantis, I don't know if you're actually intending on doing this, but I really do appreciate it, and he got a standing ovation.
I mean, he shattered fundraising records.
Take a look at this.
DeSantis gets standing ovation.
CNN reports Florida Governor DeSantis speaking in Kansas on Sunday gave every indication he intends to capitalize on the latest wave of attention that has followed from him sending migrants to Massachusetts.
This is a crisis.
It's now getting a little bit more attention, DeSantis said, earning a standing ovation.
The reception DeSantis received in Kansas enforced the perception that last week's ploy accomplished
more than just raising awareness for the border crisis. It also expeditiously thrust the Republican
leader, who's running for re-election this fall, into the national spotlight as he weighs whether
to run for president in 2024. Ah man, I gotta say, you know, I was like, maybe Trump's the guy
because he's gonna fire everybody, but then DeSantis suspended that prosecutor and I was like, that was pretty
good.
And now this move... I gotta say, man, I think DeSantis is the guy for 2024.
I think Trump... Trump made his mistakes.
Trump had his time.
I know a lot of people want Trump.
And I'm not saying I'm like 100% all-in for Ron DeSantis at this point, but I'm leaning towards DeSantis with moves like this.
The dude has showed absolute, just brilliant tact.
Tactfulness, strategy, stratagem.
I think Ron has proven the dude has a plan.
The dude can calculate and he is hitting grand slams.
Now here's where it's important.
Ron DeSantis.
His team has explained, very simply, why they did what they did.
A Texas sheriff is investigating DeSantis' role in flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard, but it's absurd.
They say Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, an elected Democrat, said that while he could not cite specific laws that may have been broken by relocating the migrants, his office will be investigating what he called an abuse of human rights.
You are a psychotic cult scumbag!
These people are genuinely evil.
Dave Smith hit the nail on the head with the hammer.
Ron DeSantis did nothing wrong at all.
And this is just insane.
They are so angered that you would DARE oppose them.
That even in Texas, they will use the weight of criminal law to go after a Florida governor, for which he has no jurisdiction.
Has no jurisdiction here.
Somebody saw fit to come from another state, hunt them down, prey upon them, and then take advantage of their desperate... These people are pure gutter scum.
How in Texas, I don't know, vote these people out.
Just vote them out.
We'll pop over to TimCast.com and grab this article here, which breaks down why Ron DeSantis is correct.
Texas Sheriff Opens Investigation into Migrant Flight to Martha's Vineyard.
Yeah, okay.
Civil War.
I don't know.
Call it whatever you want to call it.
But this is just a whole new level of psychotic and insanity.
You've got people like this.
Clearly, with no right to do so, threatening some kind of criminal prosecution against someone who doesn't even live in their state?
A governor, no less.
Look at this.
The migrants were flown to Massachusetts, blah blah blah.
Yes, Florida can confirm that two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard today were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations.
The governor's communication director, Taryn Fenske, told Fox News last week.
States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration.
Through their designation as sanctuary states and support for the Biden administration's open border policies.
Full stop.
You got two states.
They send their reps to DC.
They all say, hey, we don't want illegal immigration from one state.
Another state says, we're totally fine with it.
We're a sanctuary.
Well, okay, you win this one, guys.
So the state that says we don't want the illegal immigrants saying they voted for it, they want to create sanctuary jurisdictions, we'll send them all your way.
And now they're losing their minds!
Criminal activity!
Rhonda Santos, you are exploiting these people!
Excuse me?
You set up your jurisdiction as sanctuaries for these people.
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Are you saying we shouldn't send them to the sanctuary?
Ron DeSantis should be sending thousands or more, as much as possible, to the sanctuary jurisdictions that have voted to accommodate these individuals.
Because certainly, having them at, what is it, Fort McHenry or whatever?
Having them, uh, or McAllen?
Why did I say McAllen?
I think it's McAllen, Texas.
Having them live under a bridge, in the dirt!
And then Ron DeSantis is like, look, there's a sanctuary jurisdiction, they can probably help you out.
Now, get this.
The National Guard comes into Martha's Vineyard, takes these people, sends them to Cape Cod, where they have accommodation.
Look, they say, on Monday the Sheriff announced a criminal probe.
We are opening a case.
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An investigation with regard to the suspected activities involving the 48 migrants.
From Venezuela, Salazar said during a press conference.
I can imagine that's how he said it.
In a Facebook post with a livestream press conference.
The sheriff said, blah blah, I want to get re-elected, so I'm spitting on the floor and pandering to people to vote for me.
He didn't really say that, I'm giving you my thoughts.
The sheriff claimed the migrants were sent to the elite vacation spot under false pretenses.
And that they were exploited and hoodwinked into making this trip to Florida and then onward to Martha's Vineyard for what I believe to be nothing more than a political posturing to make a point.
DeSantis' office argued that they were not lured and boarded the flight willingly.
Immigrants have been more than willing to leave Bexar County after being abandoned, homeless, and left to fend for themselves.
Florida gave them an opportunity to seek greener pastures and a sanctuary jurisdiction that offered greater resources for them, as we expected.
Unless the MA National Guard has abandoned these individuals, they have been provided accommodations, sustenance, clothing, and more options to succeed following their unfair enticement into the United States.
Unlike the 53 immigrants who died in a truck found abandoned in Bexar County this June.
This sheriff let these migrants die in the back of a truck!
And he is concerned that some are being sent to an island paradise of Martha's Vineyard, where they're being graciously taken care of.
Because they're evil.
They're evil.
They are legitimately scumbag evil people.
53 migrants died in the back of a truck.
That's the sheriff.
That's him.
That's his jurisdiction.
And what does he do?
A press conference over Ron DeSantis.
Because they don't care about human life.
They care about political power and crushing those who oppose them.
Republican governors in Texas and Arizona have also been sending migrants to liberal strongholds, including D.C., to protest border policies that are overwhelming border states.
It is time to send these people to the sanctuary jurisdictions en masse.
All of them.
Load them up on buses.
Send them straight to these jurisdictions.
They want them there.
They have said, our jurisdiction is a sanctuary.
This is, this is Ron DeSantis saying, while you're here, you face deportation.
But we can send you somewhere where they have vowed to let you live in peace.
And we will send you there.
And that is appropriate.
Of course, the reality is this.
It's exposing.
The liberal elites never actually wanted to care for these migrants.
They were just barfing on the floor and spitting on you.
That's what they're offering up.
You see, when they create sanctuary jurisdictions, they know they don't actually have to abide by them.
They know that they don't actually have an illegal immigration problem.
So what's the point of doing it?
To spit in the face of the voter.
That's it.
They say they will take away your guns, but they will have armed security.
They say we're a sanctuary, but they don't actually have immigration problems the way the border states do, and they want you all in Texas and Florida and New Mexico and Arizona to suffer.
Here's the funny thing.
In El Paso, the Democrats have been sending migrants out because they're dealing with a crisis they can't accommodate, they can't handle.
This is what we have to deal with in this country.
Democrats, in my opinion, are overwhelmingly, not all of them, narcissistic, arrogant, and ignorant.
Republicans also have their fair share.
Don't get me wrong.
But right now, there's a coalition.
You have moderates, independents, traditional liberals, and libertarians, more so in line with conservatives and people like Ron DeSantis.
Because of this, you are getting a right that is actually sane, somewhat knowledgeable, and attempting to be fair and balanced.
Ah, the old fair and balanced.
You see, because of this coalition, you have an eclectic bunch.
We're more likely to know what's happening, we're more likely to look into the news, and the Democratic Party is becoming the party of ignorant psychopaths and narcissists.
They don't know what they're voting for, they don't care, and they just want to win.
They say that this is criminal and it's evil, yet they don't say anything about the 53 migrants who died in the back of a truck.
Where were the cries and screams about that?
Yeah.
You know, it's easy to say there's hypocrisy.
It's easy to scream that the left are hypocrites and all of that stuff.
I think they're just a cult.
And here, and I'll tell you, they like to say that Trump's followers are a cult.
There's a video, there's a photo coming out from the other day of a bunch of people at a Trump rally holding up one finger or something.
And they're like, they're hailing Trump!
They're a cult!
And I'm like, and there's like three, three to five thousand people there.
Out of the 74 million people who voted for Trump, not all of them are gonna go to a Trump rally and raise their finger for Trump.
It's creepy and stupid and I don't know what the point.
You know, hold up your hand and one finger, point to the sky or something, whatever, that's stupid.
I don't care for that.
Here, you can see that we're talking about Ron DeSantis, not Trump.
And I actually lean more towards DeSantis.
Why?
Because Trump has always had his problems.
And I don't care for cult ideology or anything, any nonsense like that.
I care about someone being effective and getting the job done.
On the left, they will spit on the problems they create.
They will lie about other problems.
They'll say, Donald Trump is putting kids in cages!
And then you're like, Barack Obama built those cages.
Yesterday I did a segment talking about how the White House was effectively going rogue.
Defying Joe Biden's policy statements publicly and I pointed out that the White House did also walk back Trump's Statements and they walk back statements of many presidents But this was Joe Biden's hard statement on policy that we would send the military to defend Taiwan Four times and they've walked it back now.
That's different It's an escalation and it's so much so that even the Washington Post acknowledged the White House keeps Cutting off Biden and walking back his statements more so than many other presidents and on more serious issues You see, when you're in a cult, you'll ignore the fact that Barack Obama was the Deporter-in-Chief, that's what they called him, and that he built cages on the southern border, that's what they call him.
They don't complain about that, but Donald Trump wants to increase border security and they say he's Hitler.
It's amazing, the psychotic narcissism of these people.
This dude right here.
Democrat sheriff opening a criminal probe.
Well, hope you're ready, buddy, because apparently we're gearing up for round two.
This is going to be really, really interesting.
This is going to happen today.
Now, maybe it's nothing.
Maybe this guy, maybe Judd LeGum is wrong.
Maybe this plane is just doing normal routes.
I mean, look, just because this plane was used before doesn't mean it'll be used again.
You know, I don't know what the plane's used for.
And it's going to Teterboro.
For all we know, it's going from Texas because there's some Democrat who's stopping in each city to talk with local officials.
For all we know, it's the sheriff.
It's the sheriff himself who wants to investigate what happened at Eden Chartered Plain.
I've got my fingers crossed, however, that this is Ron DeSantis saying outright that we will send more.
Ron, you need to send 300 to Martha's Vineyard.
You need to send as many as possible for two reasons.
They are not being accommodated where they are now.
They're in squalor.
I think it's McAllen, Texas.
Is that where it is?
Where they're living under bridges and stuff like that.
Martha's Vineyard has already proven they can and will properly accommodate these individuals.
Right now, they're in bunk housing in a military base.
They're getting food.
They're being accommodated way better.
We can't stuff these people under a bridge.
We need to send them somewhere more humane, right?
I mean, you could deport them, sure.
That's up to Biden, I guess.
So I have your choice, liberals.
Under a bridge or properly homed in a military base.
And I'm not saying, you know, it's a military base.
It is what it is.
If Ron DeSantis were to send hundreds to Martha's Vineyard, it would send a message and it would better care for these migrants.
I think it's the right move.
But we'll see today if this is actually what's going to happen.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 1 p.m.
on this channel.
Thanks for hanging out and I'll see you all then.
CNN's Don Lemon's face appeared to turn to liquid and melt off as he listens to a royal commentator say, you know what?
There should be reparations and it should be paid for by the African nations that sold their own people into slavery.
And I don't think that's what Don Lemon expected to hear.
He was basically saying this.
Here's the gist of the story.
King Charles is inheriting a vast wealth from the royal family, a billion-dollar estate from the crown, and apparently he doesn't gotta pay taxes on it.
And so Don Lemon's like, well, you know, a lot of people are upset because, you know, there was slavery, and shouldn't they pay reparations?
And this British royal commentator says, yes, but you gotta go to the beginning of the supply chain.
Now, I don't want to recite the entirety of the video for you, so I'll play it.
But Don Lemon, you can see the sort of scowl, sour face as he just like nods along like a bleh.
But I gotta admit, I really don't know how much this dude cares.
He used to be very much, and he still kind of is, this woke pundit, but now they're moving him from his night show to his morning show.
But I think this is an important story, because right now there's another story that's going viral.
It has to do with a movie called The Woman King, which leftists, I believe leftists, are calling for a boycott over, because it's a movie about an African nation that sold people, and not just its own, but its enemies, into slavery to white colonial slave traffickers.
And they tried to downplay it and make it seem like this warlord of a woman opposed slavery when she very much supported it.
So now, simultaneously the left is saying, it's a great film, while the establishment woke left.
And then the anti-establishment woke left, which they sort of have an overlap.
Is like, we should boycott the film!
Going to show.
Get woke, go broke.
There's no solution, there's no answer, but I do want to talk about reparations, and this woman says something interesting, so let's play, and you can hear what she has to say.
You have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism, and they're wondering, you know, $100 billion, $24 billion here and there, $500 million there.
Some people want to be paid back, and members of the public are wondering, why are we suffering when you are You know, you have all of this vast wealth.
Well, I think you're right about reparations in terms of if people want it, though, what they need to do is you always need to go back to the beginning of a supply chain.
Where was the beginning of the supply chain?
That was in Africa.
And when it crossed the entire world, when slavery was taking place, which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery?
The first nation in the world to abolish it, it was started by William Wilberforce, was the British.
In Great Britain, they abolished slavery.
Uh-oh!
Look at his face!
Look at Don Lemon's face!
trying to stop slavery.
Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people.
The African kings were rounding up their own people.
They had them on cages waiting in the beaches.
No one was running into Africa to get them.
And I think you're totally right.
If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages?
Okay, part of me is like, I don't think Don Lemon's actually listening, but there's like a moment where his face does like a scowl.
Maybe that's just me.
Maybe I'm seeing what I want to see, but clearly not what he expected to hear.
Now, let's talk about reparations.
2,000 naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery.
If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of the supply chain and say who is rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages.
Now the best part is, she says we should pay reparations to the families of those men who died on the high seas.
Oh boy, oh boy.
2,000, you say?
I don't disagree.
I would just like to bring you to the American Civil War.
365,000 total deaths.
Man.
And that's the Union side.
It appears, I think, suffered substantially more deaths.
You had 290,000 dead on the Confederate side.
365,000 dead on the Union side.
However, there were more casualties total, which means wounded and captured.
Of the captured on the Confederate side, 436,000.
On the Union side, 181,000.
Very much so, the Union was making its way through the South.
The Jacksons marched to the sea.
Anyway, a lot of really bad stuff happened.
But overall, around a million plus dead.
That's crazy.
You want to talk about reparations, Don Lemon?
You want to talk about this narrative that the Crown should be paying reparations?
I agree with what this woman was saying.
I agree, first and foremost, slavery is abhorrent.
It's wrong.
And I'm glad that we've done away with it.
I think the Civil War is a very contentious issue, historically, because you had a South that, you know, I can understand.
The South was looking at what was going on in the federal government, and they were saying, you're not enforcing your own laws.
You're supposed to have an agreement with us.
There's supposed to be a union, a republic, and there wasn't.
But I'm also kind of like, yeah, but your reason for your complaints are kind of bunk
and nightmarish.
Basically, the South was upset because there was the Fugitive Slave Act, and the North
was not abiding by the federal law.
Federal law stated that if a slave fled to the northern states, to free states, they'd
have to be returned.
And the northern states were like, sure, but then wouldn't do it.
So the South was like, yo, that and a bunch of other reasons.
If you're not abiding by the law we set forth, why should we even be in this union?
So I look at that and I'm like, I get it.
Like, if we as a republic said that, you know, something like, you shouldn't be allowed to abort babies, and then a whole bunch of states kept doing it, you'd be like, okay, why are we even a country if we agree on the law and you won't follow it?
However, there's an issue of morality and values.
Slavery being one of the most disgusting and psychotic things imaginable.
Fortunately, we live in a time where we understand this.
The South being like, our rights are being abused and you won't follow the law.
A law that is really disgusting.
So I gotta tell you, from like a logical legal standpoint, I can certainly understand the argument.
But from a human, moral, and value-based system, it needed to happen.
The South needed to be stopped.
Slavery needed to be ended.
Across the board, we were abolishing it.
So here's where we come to.
People like Don Lemon.
They say people want reparations.
Now, I know he's asking a question.
I'm not going to put the question on him.
People are asking and demanding reparations.
But let me just say this, plain and simple.
2,000, madame.
You say 2,000 men and women died on the high seas and that there should be reparations paid to those families?
What about the 365,000 total dead Union soldiers?
What about the 365,000 total dead Union soldiers?
I'm not going to include the Confederates in that, okay?
And what about the captured?
And the wounded?
If reparations are going to be paid, shouldn't they be paid to the families of those who died and sacrificed themselves to end slavery?
You see, here's the issue, man.
I don't understand this idea that the children of these people, who were never slaves, they're the ancestors of people who were, should receive reparations.
Now, hold on, hold on.
I mean this in terms of, like, direct cash payments, or, you know, like, some kind of benefit, be it, like, tuition or something.
I think we're at the point now where we've made such dramatic changes that probably what we should do is just class-based, which likely would overwhelmingly end up benefiting descendants of slavery, but it would also make sure that no one gets left behind, no matter what your race is.
But if you want to play the reparations game, I'll outright be like, okay, the families of those who died in the Civil War, they should be paid reparations, shouldn't they?
I mean, they gave their lives.
What about their descendants?
Those kids who were orphaned?
They grew up with nothing and squalor.
What about them?
They should get reparations too, right?
They're the ones whose families were sacrificed to end slavery.
Now, in reality, I don't care for any of this historical, sins of the father stuff.
I think it just really comes down to, let's help end poverty.
It's not a simple thing.
And maybe it's never possible, because even right now, I'll tell you this, the funniest thing, I was having bacon and eggs for breakfast, and I sprinkled some black peppercorns all over my delicious eggs.
Black pepper.
Crushed black pepper.
Poor people have crushed black pepper.
It used to be that wars were fought and people died for such a delicious spice.
Now it is ubiquitous.
Because we do end poverty.
What I mean to say is we should work towards lifting up those at the lowest point of our classes in society.
Now, if you think that there's institutional racism and black people are disproportionately negatively impacted, then by targeting the lower classes, your own argument suggests they will be benefited, but we won't leave behind the children of those who were orphaned due to the war or anything like that.
Right?
Right.
So what's the problem?
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the latest controversy.
Here you go.
Viola Davis Responds to Boycott Woman King Controversy.
You're not going to win an argument on Twitter, Davis said.
Here's the story from AV Club.
Over the weekend, despite having no recognizable IP franchise connections or a big fighter jet, the Woman King climbed to the top of the box office with a $19 million opening.
It was an unlikely success that may not be as flashy as Avengers Endgame's $300 million opening.
But it's exciting to have an original action epic at the top of the box office for a change.
One doesn't even need to see another movie before seeing The Woman King.
However, those who read up on the Dahomey Kingdom before the film had some concerns.
The Dahomey Kingdom, which The Woman King tells a mostly fictionalized account of, was involved in the slave trade, and critics of the film online accused its depiction of whitewashing and glorifying slavers.
Speaking with Variety, Davis and her co-star, producing partner and husband Julius Tennant defended the film, first by expressing the futility of arguing with people on social media.
Oh, be quiet!
Hypocrites!
As these leftists accurately point out, the Dami Kingdom were slavers.
They were black colonial slavers.
They expanded, they were empirical, and when they invaded and attacked their neighbors, they would take them and sell them into slavery.
And thus, you get this movie, which apparently has scenes where the main character is like going to the king and being like, slavery is wrong, you shouldn't do it, when in reality this woman was very much like, get more slaves and sell them.
Here we go.
I agree with director Gina Price Bythewoods saying is you're not going to an argument on Twitter, Davis said.
We entered the story where the kingdom was in flux at a crossroads.
They were looking to find some way to keep their civilization and kingdom alive.
It wasn't until the late 1800s that they were decimated.
Okay, Tennant continued by describing the movie as an edutainment, insisting that the production has to entertain people because otherwise that would be a documentary.
If the film didn't entertain, then people wouldn't be in the theaters doing the same thing we saw this weekend.
We didn't want to shy away from the truth.
The history is massive and there are truths on that that are there.
If people want to learn more, they can investigate more.
Ultimately, Davis insists that the movie examines women who were forced into battle or face death.
They were recruited between the ages of 8 and 14.
They were recruited by the king to fight for the kingdom of Dahomey.
They were not allowed to marry or have children.
The ones who refused the call were beheaded.
Davis doesn't seem too concerned with the criticism.
Early this year, she responded to calls for boycotts.
Don't come see it then!
You're sending a message that black women can't lead a box office globally and that you are supporting the narrative.
Oh, shut up!
Dude, I agree with the left on this one.
You whitewashed slavers.
This is establishment wokeness, okay?
You want to make a movie about colonial slavers?
Make it.
Show it for what it is.
You want to do- This is what they're doing.
It's- Whitewashing is one way to put it.
I guess, you know, they're trying to clean the narrative and make it seem like these people are heroes, but they're not.
All in the name of wokeness.
Don't come see it, but speaking of variety, she focused on positivity she experienced in the audience enjoyment.
I saw a TikTok video today of women in a bathroom of an AMC theater, and I don't think they knew each other.
They were all chanting and ruminating that cannot be quantified by words.
Amazing.
What are the comments?
Here we go, some comments here.
If most of your story has to be fictionalized, maybe you should tell another story.
And how could your film be edutainment if all the history you're educating people about is made up?
Ah, yes, yes, yes.
Edutainment.
People eat up the crown and anything else about the monarchy famously known for slave trading and don't say ish.
Okay, here's the point.
When we talk about the crown, we know that they were engaged in the slave trade.
We talk about it being bad and how it needed to be ended.
And they did end it!
They did.
It's a really interesting argument.
I was reading about the American Revolution.
Thomas Jefferson opposed slavery.
Yet he had slaves.
Seems a bit hypocritical.
Yeah, I can say that.
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wanted to include one complaint, because it lists a bunch of complaints, that the Crown stole people from their homeland and brought them to the U.S.
to have them wage war against the people of the Americas.
It was removed, however, out of fear, that I think it was South Carolina and Georgia.
They would not have joined the fight for independence if that was included.
In fact, Quebec, which also was a colony of the crown, refused to join.
There could have been 14 colonies.
How about that?
And so they said, okay, fine.
They were willing to accept slavery if it meant winning their independence.
I think ultimately it was a bad thing that they, I think Thomas Jefferson should have put it in, because many of these Founding Fathers thought they were going to lose anyway.
But they really needed South Carolina and Georgia, so they said, fine, we'll remove it.
And besides, many of them had slaves.
Not all of them.
Some of the Founding Fathers never had slaves and thought it was terrible.
The UK abolished slavery well before the US did.
And the argument is slavery would have ended in the United States sooner if the US did not declare independence.
Interesting.
But I think that's missing a point.
If the Crown sought to end slavery, As early as it did, the Civil War started in 1861.
I believe the Crown ended slavery in something like 1822 or 1829 or something like that.
If they did, with the U.S.
still being overwhelmingly pro-slavery for the most part, Then it would have just triggered a war for independence.
Maybe it would have avoided the Revolutionary War and avoided the Civil War, but created a sort of merging of the two.
A war for independence in defense of slavery.
But maybe not.
Maybe even as early as then, you would have seen many northern states saying outright, I don't know about that.
And they'd be unwilling to fight.
And thus, only southern states would have actually decided to fight for independence.
I don't know for sure.
I don't know.
I can't tell you.
Everybody wants to speculate as to what would have happened.
But what we're going to get is whitewashed history from Vox.
How the Woman King confronts Africa's role in the slave trade.
Oh, does it?
Blah, blah, blah.
They say Villa Davis stars as the group's general, Naniska, who works to convince the young king, Gezo, to end the kingdom's role in the slave trade.
The film was shot in South Africa from a screenplay by Dennis Stevens.
Blah, blah, blah.
Except that's not true.
That's not what happened.
The individual was very much in favor of it, did not tell them to stop doing it.
It's just ridiculous.
This is an action movie starring black women, set two centuries ago, where men are barely on screen.
What were the biggest challenges?
Ugh, I just, look... Here's my thing.
I don't care.
Have your movie.
Congratulations.
Looks well made.
People seem to like it.
But I just want to point out that you can't win.
The left wants to boycott this because it's showing colonizers who are slavers.
Yeah, okay.
Even though it is black women.
You see, that is corporate wokeism right there.
You've got the anti-establishment woke people who are looking at this and are outright saying like, yo, you're whitewashing slave traders.
And you've got the establishment corporate woke being like, Who cares?
It's a movie of all black women with barely any men.
Amazing, isn't it?
Look, you can't please the left.
So pandering with this get woke, go broke stuff is a waste of time.
Making woke movies in an attempt to placate anybody, it's just not going to happen.
Now, if you want to make a movie starring black women, I don't care.
I say more power to you.
They made $19 million.
Congratulations.
I don't know what the budget was.
I can't imagine it was that much, because... Well, actually, you know, maybe.
They had to make costumes and armor and location and stuff, so...
Maybe, but 19 million's pretty good.
I don't care if you want to have your movie.
I really don't.
But don't give us this pandering, garbage, whitewashing, or however you want to call it, ignoring the history of these people.
Which brings me back to our good friend Don Lemon.
You want to play games, my friend?
Get educated.
His face just looks like a scowl.
Just the whole time.
He's just, you know, just... But she's right.
It is often overlooked.
And Bill Maher recently had a rant talking about this.
It's over here.
I didn't watch the rant, but I've seen some people tweeting about it.
Kanye West said something like, repeal the 13th amendment.
the colonies, the crown, Western nations that ended it.
Sort of. Sort of. You know slavery still exists in America today. And I think it's horrible.
And I will shout out our good friend Kanye West. Big fan. Kanye West said something like,
repeal the 13th amendment.
And everybody lost their minds. They were like, the 13th amendment abolished slavery!
What's wrong with you, Kanye?
Kanye is not wrong.
The 13th Amendment did not abolish slavery.
It set due process standards by which we can continue to engage in slavery.
What we need is an amendment that says never will we allow slavery.
The argument is that if you are found to have broken the law through due process, you can be enslaved.
No.
That should not be tolerated.
We should not have for any reason the legal precedent or justification for enslaving people.
So basically what you get now is prison labor.
They get 10 cents an hour, things like that.
Yeah.
So you have, in California, Inmates being paid something like a dollar an hour or I think might be like 14 bucks an hour to fight wildfires.
Effectively being used as cheap slave labor to risk their lives.
No.
I understand the argument.
They have wronged society and they can pay their debt to society.
Maybe if you want to make the argument that people can opt in if they choose to reduce sentencing, to reduce their sentence, by doing community work, I actually think that's good.
If someone breaks the law in a serious way, they get criminally charged.
I think one thing we can do across the board is house arrest and community service for most crimes, particularly nonviolent ones.
So, let's say you committed fraud.
Serious crime.
Serious felony.
Okay.
How about you have to do community service and house arrest?
Now, we do this a lot for people.
A lot of people get minimum security prisons or house arrest.
I'm saying substantially more.
Instead of locking people in prisons where many of these younger people get hardened, we put them in a house and we say, you can only leave to go to work and then you go to work.
That's it.
For violent crimes, that's when you get locked up.
So I think there's grounds for something like this, but not to make people, you know, just work for the sake of work.
No.
I think that if you're working, benefiting society, you are paying your debt back, and that should reduce your sentence.
So instead of having someone just work in general, you're in jail, now you work.
Now, they do pay them like pennies an hour, dollar an hour, sometimes I think like even $14.
But I'm not a fan of, for the most part, of the state taking someone in and then saying, you have to work for us.
If people choose to do so, they should get reduced sentencing or something like that because you're benefiting society.
But I still think there's problems with how we handle the idea of slavery through due process.
I'm not a fan.
I'm not a fan.
But, uh, we'll throw it back to our good friend Don Lemon.
