The Young Turks - Cenk Uygur Tells Tony Perkins EXACTLY Where He's Going

Episode Date: September 4, 2019

Tony Perkins is blaming a lack of morality in America for the Odessa mass shooting. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And, of course, we start with disastrous news. So there was yet another shooting. It's Tuesday. Anyway, not today, not today. Although I'm sure there was one across the country or many across the country, but not a massacre like happened over the weekend. We'll get to that in a second. There's another disaster, and that is Hurricane Dorian.

Absolutely devastated the Bahamas. Barely anything left standing, Donald Trump apparently not even aware of what a hurricane five is, and so Category 5 hurricanes will show you that later. He basked in his ignorance, he is unreal. But meanwhile, a great, great story near the end of the show, near the end of the first two hours at least, about how Donald Trump squeezed in a tax cut for real estate. developers into his tax go plan that was supposed to help the poor, are you going to be shocked when we let you know that it wound up helping the rich?

So that's a devastating story. Because you can't undo it, it's gonna take, you might never be able to undo it. God, it's an absolute highway robbery of the American people every day of the Trump administration. It's grotesque. All right, so lots to get to, we got a big show, oh, we also have old school tonight, so lots for the members as well, t.com slash join. It'll be an original old school, Ben and I back together. It's the first time in a while. All right, Anna, we've got a lot of stories. All right, let's get to it.

After police tried to pull over the suspect for a traffic violation, he opened fire on officers and civilians across Odessa and Midland before he was eventually killed. Seven people were killed in yet another shooting that took place in Texas over the weekend. were plenty of warning signs prior to this shooting. And the shooter in this case is a 36 year old. As you heard in that report, he has been shot dead by police. His name was Seth Ader. And the warning signs included rambling phone calls to the local authorities and also to the FBI.

Ader had been fired by his employer, Journey Oil Field Services, on Saturday before he went on his bloody rampage in the neighboring cities of Odessa and Midland, Texas. He opened fire indiscriminately on the road as a police officer was trying to pull him over for a traffic stop. Now, the police officer was trying to pull him over for a traffic stop was completely unaware that he had just called authorities and left these rambling messages. The cop also didn't know that he had gotten into a verbal altercation with his employer. But yes, he was fired from his trucking job hours before he opened fire. and he left his trucking business before cops could show up. Because after he got into that verbal altercation with his employer, both of them called

the authorities, the authorities showed up and he had already left. And unfortunately, later he opened fire. The victim's ages ranged from 15 to 57. There were dozens more injured. One of the injured individuals was a 17-month-old. Yeah, shrapnel in the chest, her lower lip had shrapnel and was very significantly damaged. Her teeth were knocked out by shrapnel. So thank God she didn't die.

Police officers shot and killed. So if you are one of those guys who goes around saying Blue Lives Matter, your number one priority shouldn't be anything political other than getting guns off the street. Because you know what kills cops? Guns kill cops. So he not only shot and killed a trooper, he also shot and killed two police officers. And of course, there were four other individuals who were shot and killed as a result of this. The next video that we're about to show you is difficult to watch. It's graphic, but it shows you the sheer terror people are dealing with when these mass shootings happen.

And it's important to understand how many people are being terrorized by guns in this country. Take a look. There's a shooting going on in Odessa, Texas. Oh, God, they're shooting right there. Oh, he hits the barrier. The cops just hit the barrier. Get out, get out, get on, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out. Stand still.

He's shooting him, he's shooting him. Oh, he's killed him. He killed him. So there were other videos that were even more gruesome and difficult to watch. There was one featuring a woman who was screaming for her life. She was terrified. This is what the scene is like. This is what Americans are facing on a regular basis in America today because of inaction

by our lawmakers. Yeah. So this guy's mentally disturbed, but almost all the shooters are who you think about is any sane person going to go and shoot random 17 month old babies and police officers and everyone else that they can see. So killed seven, injured 22, of course he's not. mentally well, but neither are any of the other domestic terrorists, et cetera. In his case, he's not a terrorist because he did not seem to have any political or religious

agenda. We have no idea what his politics are. And even if you find out what his politics are, and you know, a white male, uneducated in Texas that has guns what they're likely to be, but it doesn't really matter because it doesn't look like they did it for a political agenda. They did it because he's disturbed and he was mad that he lost his job and that's what what it looks like for the moment being, and authorities have said it's not terrorism. So, but we're all terrorized nonetheless because these happen everywhere.

I mean, Texas now seems to happen once a month, at least in Texas. Guess what they have a lot of in Texas? Oh yeah, guns. Guess what Texas just did. They made gun restrictions actually looser, not tighter. It happened a couple of hours after this particular shooting because the politicians there have no conscience at all, and they lie about what the people of Texas want. I can show you the polling.

They want background checks, but they won't get them and they won't get a lot of the things that they want because our politicians are the most corrupt in the world. So there's going to be a shooting in your neck of the woods. I tell you all the time, get ready for it, don't be surprised, don't be, just be calm and never ever vote for a politician that takes money from the NRA. I'll get to that more with that in a second. So I just want to note that Texas is one of the states that has the loosest gun restrictions. Texas is not a point of contact state for the national instant criminal background check system,

otherwise known as NICS. And it also doesn't require private sellers to conduct a criminal background check prior to selling a weapon to an individual in the state. So they do have very loose laws. We've already heard from a number of lawmakers, including the governor of Texas, that they don't plan on doing anything about passing gun legislation to prevent this type of behavior in the future. One other thing that we know is that the shooter in this case used an AR-style weapon, a military-style weapon, and he had a criminal record, and apparently he passed some sort

of background check before, but when it came to getting this AR or military-style weapon, he did not go through a background check. are saying that they don't know the details of how he obtained the weapon yet, so we're going to hold until we get the details on that. But again, there were a number of warning signs when it came to this guy. So for instance, he was arrested for evading arrest and criminal trespass back in 2001 and received a form of probation after pleading guilty to both misdemeanor charges. There were no open warrants for his arrest.

But those are not issues when it comes to passing a background check. He would have still passed a background check even with those criminal issues. Also, there were a number of neighbors who said, look, he would just randomly open fire in his own backyard and kill rabbits and other animals, you know, and terrify us. They were scared of him. And they also said that he was difficult to deal with. At one point, he showed up to a neighbor's house because she had used the wrong trash can and he had a rifle with him, which of course is very threatening.

And she called the cops, but the cops never showed up because. they live in a rural area and it's difficult to find the location on GPS. And Texan with a gun threatening you is Tuesday. So they're like, what are we supposed to show up for? Oh, I got to wait for it until he murders a whole bunch of you. Then I'll show up. And so, look, this guy is significantly unhinged. But as I was reading the details of how he used to harass people at work and in his

neighborhood, I thought, you know, every one of us knows people that are anywhere from slightly unhinged to significantly unhinged, and you know, guys who are weird, guys who are mildly threatening, and you're not sure that they could be more. Now, you all know that in your personal lives, and if you don't live in America, you certainly know that everywhere else in the world, too, because it's a human trait. Except if you don't live outside of America, this is what's weird about us. We arm every one of those people. Fine, think about the strangest person you know, or the strangest three people you know. In America, they almost certainly have a gun.

And there's an excellent chance they'll use it the next time they're a little off. Now, in the old days when people that you knew were a little unhinged, what would they do? They'd yell at Thanksgiving and they'd make a mess and they'd walk out and it'd be annoying and weird and you'd talk about it for a while. Now, since everyone is armed in that second, no, he's going to murder all of you. And he's going to go out and shoot some cops and shoot some babies and welcome to America. filled to the rim with insanity. So how do you want to fix it? I'm gonna keep on saying this and whether people listen to it is up to them.

But I want everybody to sign this petition. And most importantly, I want you to live this petition. So you can find your local congressman, you're a US senator, your local politicians. Really easy Google search, okay? I don't need you to write anything to them. If you want to, great. If you want to sign this petition, great. If you don't want to sign the petition, great.

But what I do need you to do is to never, ever vote for a politician that gets money from the NRA. If you do, then you're signing up for the massacres. Don't complain, don't be surprised when it's in your neighborhood, or if it kills someone you love. Because you signed up for it. If you don't want to sign up for it, never, ever vote for it, never vote for a politician that takes money from the NRA. So here, I'll give you the exact petition. It's at t.t.com slash never NRA. You could use hashtag never NRA.

This just says easily, I pledge to never vote for a politician who takes money from the NRA, any gun manufacturer or their lobbyists, both directly or indirectly through a pack. And so you look, we got a TYT army, it's an army of democracy. They'll probably come up with a list eventually of politicians that take this money and you could look it up, et cetera. But you could pretty much assume almost every single person in the politician at the national level for the Republican Party, they're all corrupt, they all take NRA money. Now, one more thing about that, if it turns out they don't take the NRA money from now on,

but they still vote the same way because they really can't read a poll and they're really stupid and they go, oh, 97% of Americans want a federal background check. Now I'm gonna vote for the 3% that don't want one. Okay, that's their, hey, it's a free country, they can do that, and you can vote for them all day long if you want. But we need to know that it's an honest vote because they care about the Second Amendment or their voters. Until they stop taking the NRA money, you'd be an idiot to believe them.

No, the correct answer is they're all corrupt, they all take legalized bribes from the NRA, that's why they don't do anything about the massacres, period. Any other reporter who tells you otherwise is an idiot and doesn't know anything about politics. It is corruption 101. You wanna know why the massacres are happening? Because of our politicians and because of guns. Full stop.

So let's move on to the politicians and their reaction to the shooting that took place over the weekend. So following the shooting that occurred in Odessa, Texas, Donald Trump is arguing that, hey, you know what, there's really nothing that we can do, and there's nothing that you should expect from us. Now, Trump has gone back and forth when it comes to possible gun legislation, but it seems like after the last shooting in El Paso, Texas, the NRA had a firm talking to with Trump. And he's now decided that background checks just don't make sense.

Here he is. Another very sick person, so I just want to thank everybody involved. And always you say, as bad as it was, it could have been worse. I've been speaking to a lot of senators. We've been speaking to a lot of House members, a lot of Republicans, a lot of Democrats, and people want to do something. So we're going to see this really hasn't changed anything. We're doing a package.

And we'll see how it comes about it's coming about right now. And a lot of people are talking about it. You know, a lot of different things. We're looking at a lot of different bills, ideas, concepts. I will say that for the most part, sadly, if you look at the last four or five going back, even five or six or seven years, for the most part, as strong as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it. There's just a straight out lie.

It's just a complete and utter lie. We all know that there are significant loopholes when it comes to obtaining a weapon without a background check. You can go to a gun show and just purchase it from the back of someone's truck. The way Dylan Roof was able to get a gun was the FBI and how the FBI only has three days to return with an answer about whether or not someone can obtain a gun. And if they don't respond within three days, well, then a gun seller can go ahead and sell the gun.

Well, stop. No problem with that. We don't even have to go back in the past. This guy seems to have gotten his weapon without a background check. It wouldn't have helped. It wouldn't have helped. Well, it couldn't hurt. If he had a background check, he could have been stopped.

And we don't, the cops are saying, and even the governor is a Republican jerk who doesn't mind any of these massacres because he keeps taking money and abating and abetting them. which we'll get to in a second, even he says, well, it looks like he evaded a background check. Yeah, because you don't have him at private gun shows. You have giant, massive loopholes. And so Trump's like, oh, it wouldn't have helped at all. No, it would have 100% help in this particular case, let alone other cases. That's what it looks like based on the initial reporting.

And I find Trump now physically repulsive. Agreed. Just even looking at him, you know, they call it a word salad. In his case, it's like a word would vomit. Just a bunch of words that make no sense next to one another. This buffoon is our president. It's a national and international embarrassment every single day. We're working on it.

We're working on a package. What package? You're not working on anything. The only package they're going to bring back is the same thing they did in Florida. More guns instead of less guns, because they're all corrupt. Because they all take money from the NRA. But he said earlier, God, if you're a Trump supporter, you're so pathetic. You're the most pathetic person there is, because he's actually, that buffoon is someone

you look up to. Oh, mom it is. Okay? So he said earlier, oh, we're gonna do background checks after the last shooting. Then Wayne Lapeer grabbed him by the ear and said, hey, listen, you stupid idiot, I own you. I gave you $30 million in the last election. And they did that, and already you have 70 million to Republicans overall and 30 million to Trump in 2016.

And after he grabbed Trump by the year, like Vlad does, Trump was like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and like the moron that he is, and like he does with Putin, he came out in public and admitted it. He said, oh, I just talked to the NRA and they're very big supporters of mine, so I don't want to do background checks anymore. Yep, saying the quiet parts out loud, always. Because he's so unbelievably stupid. If you follow him, you're so sad, if you look up to him, I don't want to know you.

All right, so I'm gonna repeat at tyt.com slash, NRA. If you should never ever vote and you should pledge to never vote for anyone who takes NRA money. It isn't about the votes. If they don't take the bribes and then they vote against gun control anyway, okay, it's a free country. But at least we need to know that you're not corrupt.

And everybody who takes gun money is of course corrupt. They didn't give $70 million for their health or for charity. Look, anyone who doesn't understand that is trying really hard. not to understand that, because you'd have to be mentally deficient not to understand that. That's $70 million in legalized bribes. If you're a reporter saying that that did not affect their votes, well, you're doing political correctness. Well, I'm not going to say the thing that is super duper obvious to the whole goddamn

country because the Republicans would be mad at me. So I am not going to be factually correct. I'm going to be politically correct and say, I can't tell why the shootings are happening. I can't tell if the NRA money is affecting these corrupt, goddamn politicians. And you can't tell you're an idiot, you should stop being a reporter. Look, why do you think everyone freaked out at Joaquin Castro when he shared information about business owners in the state of Texas donating money to, you know, Donald Trump, to individuals who have absolutely no interest in protecting constituents from these mass

shootings? They freaked out because it opens eyes. It lets people know why it is that our lawmakers value. these loose gun laws over the lives of actual Americans. Hey, idiot reporters, you know what the source of the power of the politicians is? The money, how stupid are you? You should write it in every goddamn article. It's the money, it's the donors.

93% of Americans have figured it out and 93% of journalists haven't. 93% of Americans say the politicians are controlled by their donors and not by their voters. How many times we have to scream how obvious it is. But every reporter in the country is like, I can't tell, I can't tell. In fact, they'll rage at people like Bernie Sanders. On behalf of Hillary Clinton, I remember Anderson Cooper saying, in a debate, are you saying that the donor money might have affected her votes? God damn right, we're saying that.

And if you're not saying that, you're not a real reporter. You're a schmuck who wants to just have a job. It's not even that, like what is it? I know you get paid millions of dollars on television, but most of you don't even get paid that much. You just bought into a stupid idea of, I need access to politicians, I need to kiss politicians' ass. No, they take the money, they're corrupt, the country hates politicians.

Why do you think they hate them? Because they take money and we get killed. It's not that complicated. So let's go to Greg Abbott's son of a bitch pretending to care about the people of Texas. Well first, he started off with a tweet and I'm going to share that with you. He said, not only did the Odessa gunmen have a criminal history, he also previously failed a gun purchase background check in Texas, and he didn't go through a background check for the gun he used in Odessa, we must keep guns out of criminals' hands.

So there are so many things in this tweet, let's keep it up because I want to address it point by point. Not only did the Odessa gunman have a criminal history, he also previously failed a gun purchase background check in Texas. That is not true. In fact, he did have a criminal history, and the Washington Post reports that would not have prevented him from legally purchasing firearms in Texas. So just to reiterate what his crime was, he was arrested for evading arrest and criminal

trespass in 2001 and received a form of probation after pleading guilty to both misdemeanor charges. Again, that would not have prevented him from purchasing a firearm in Texas. Secondly, he says, he didn't go through a background check for the gun he used in Odessa. Yeah, that's the point. That's the point. That's the point that we've been trying to make, right?

There should be a background check for everyone who is seeking to purchase a gun. Now he got his hands on an AR-15 style weapon without having to go through a background check. So we need to figure out why that is. And the state of Texas is called a non-contact state, point of contact state, meaning that they do not require federal background checks. They do not communicate with federal authorities when it comes to background checks. So it's really easy to purchase a gun in Texas by skirting any of the federal background check laws.

These politicians are such slime. Yeah, they are slim. And Greg Abbott is among the worst of the worst. So he comes out and says, oh yeah, like as if he cares about background checks, looks like he didn't go through a background check. Well, what have you been doing? You've been voting against them your whole life? You've been arguing against them your whole life.

And Texas has some of the loosest gun restrictions. And you just made them looser, just on Sunday. And then the son of a bitch turns around and pretends, oh, my God, I'm so outraged. It seems like you didn't go through a background check. That's because of you, Greg Abbott. That's because you took money from the NRA. You put it into your pocket. You put it in your campaign.

Then you thought, well, how can I kiss your ass, NRA? I don't care how many massacres there are. Southern Los Springs, Santa Fe High School, El Paso, Odessa, Midland, doesn't care. Greg Abbott's never cared. The only thing he cares about is a check. Cassius from the NRA. And he ends that tweet with, we must keep guns out of criminals' hands. So what is your solution?

What is the solution to keep guns out of criminals' hands? Now, the argument that you hear from these pro-gun right-wingers is, well, if you pass laws, the criminals aren't going to follow the law and they're going to get their hands on the guns anyway. But for the people who buy that incredibly dumb argument, couldn't you extend that to anything else, we shouldn't have any laws because there are naturally going to be some people who break the law anyway. So let's not have any laws, let's have complete lawlessness, let's allow people to drink

and drive, let's not have any laws on the books for that. I got one better, I got one better, Anna. Why do you need rules on abortion? People will get around them anyway. Exactly. Regulations never work. They never work. When it comes to guns, you say they never, ever, ever work, they're going to do it anyway.

Why not on abortion? So which one is it? Do regulations and laws work or don't they work? Make up your goddamn mind. Okay, I'm gonna give you more Greg Abbott. So he says in a quote here, I am heartbroken by the crying of the people in the state of Texas, lie. I'm tired of the dying of the people of Texas, lie.

No, as long as he keeps cashing those NRA checks, thrilled, couldn't care less. He says the status quo in Texas is unacceptable and action is needed. What action? You're gonna put more guns in Texas, you dummy? Well, he's not a dummy, to be fair. He's a perfectly intelligent person who's just grotesquely corrupt. And as long as he keeps getting paid, couldn't care less about the massacres of his people in Texas. So let's go to the next video.

Here's Greg Abbott elaborating on his thoughts regarding gun laws. What do you say to people who look at that and wonder if Texas is going to the wrong direction to stop a more shooting? Well, for example, one of the laws that went into effect, and some deal with issues like this, and that is laws that ensure that school marshals, more school marshals will be able to have guns to keep school safer. So some of these laws were enacted for the purpose of making our community safer. More guns. That's the solution. Let's flood the country.

Let's flood the state with more guns. Let's put more armed individuals on school campuses. That's the solution that Greg Abbott has. has. Is it any surprise that someone who takes NRA money has the one and only solution of pumping more guns into the public? Come on. Well, you know, people who take checks to sell their bodies are called prostitutes. I think we've got to come up with a new term because selling your body, you know, you can make an argument. A lot of people do that in a lot of different ways. And I don't see anything wrong with that. Selling your soul, on the other hand, that's a different

matter. I don't know what level of prostitute that makes you. But whatever level it is, that's definitely the level of Greg Abbott and Donald Trump are in. So I'm actually going to skip ahead and go to video B3 because I think it's important to show this. One of the victims in this shooting, and luckily this victim survived but has some serious injuries, was a 17-month-old baby. And the mother of that child wrote a letter, which Abbott is about to read in this next clip. Take a look. Some of you know that one of the victims is a 17-month-old child. And moments before coming in here, I received a text from the mother. She said, quote,

thank you all for praying. This is all of our worst nightmare. But thank God she's alive and relatively well. She goes on to say that toddlers are funny. because they can get shot, but still want to run around and play. She says that we are thanking God for that. Her mouth is pretty bad, but will heal and can be fixed. Thankfully, it doesn't seem like her jaw was hit, just lip, teeth, and tongue. She is having surgery tomorrow to remove the shrapnel from her chest and to fix her lip and mouth and to get a better look at her tongue.

Well, I want her family to know that they can be assured of those prayers today, tomorrow, and every day. How do you read a text like that and still push for more guns in your state? I just don't understand it, right? That line about babies can get shot and they still want to run around and play. I mean, just think about how innocent, and helpless, these kids are. And this is the environment that people like Greg Abbott and Donald Trump and other right

wingers are exposing them to. They're being put in the most vulnerable position. Their lives are being risked every single day because of what? Because of the greed? Like, even after doing this job for as long as I've been doing it, I'm still baffled by how much greed supersedes human lives for a lot of these politicians. It's more important, like the money, their political careers, it's way more important to them than the lives of even these little kids, 17 month old.

Yeah. No, the politicians that take corporate and lobbyists money, they're the worst of us. The very worst people in society that go, hey, how can I hurt the American people? But as long as I gain power and prestige and money, those are the people who become scumbag politicians who say, yeah, 17 months olds are shot, cops are shot. Don't care, don't care. There's a massacre every other week in Texas, don't care. Where's my area check?

That I care about, that I care deeply about. I want more guns all across Texas. And then Greg Abbott has the audacity to turn around and pretend he's gonna do something. Oh, the status quo cannot stand. You're the one who created the status quo. Craig Abbott is a sick, sick individual. So is Donald Trump. So it was the entire National Republican Party all bathing in NRA money and selling you out and

creating these mass shootings over and over and over again and not doing a goddamn thing about it. That's who they are. And if any Democrat takes NRA money, it should be politically tart and feathered and run out of town. And no one in their right mind should ever vote for a Democrat like that. So it doesn't matter what the party is. What matters is unfortunately, politics has attracted the most soulless people in the country, and they'll sell you out for a buck, and they have in Texas and

all over the country, and they're never going to change until you throw them all out and get uncorrupted, actual representatives that don't take any of this goddamn PAC money, don't take the lobbyist money, then you'll have an honest debate between conservatives and liberals and get honest policy. Until then, politics will be filled with scum of the earth. we come back from the break. We have more on this shooting, including statements from lunatics like Tony Perkins. What are his thoughts on these mass shootings? Why are they happening? Well, of course, he wants to blame godlessness. We'll be back with that and more.

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says, it's good to take a break from the stress of news, but it's good to have you back. Thank you, appreciate it. KT. Nicole 87 says, oh my God, if there were that many warning signs, why didn't the police do something weeks prior? You got to realize something. They're not allowed to because of all the laws that the NRA got passed. Oh, you're highly unstable? Who cares? They can't take your guns.

You're mentally ill, you can't take your guns. A lot of times, probably a criminal record, like the one we, the shooting just happened. Not a lot to take your guns, not a lot to take your guns, everybody's got to have guns, even the most disturbed, most prone to violence people in the country, because the NRA and the gun manufacturers have to make more money. So that's why they couldn't do anything. Here, you could find me a case right now. I can find you 100 cases right now all across the country where you, if I showed you

the fact pattern, you're like, oh my God, take away their guns immediately. And the cops can't do it. Second Amendment, man. We're a regulated militia. No, you're not. You're an idiot. Okay. Anyway, I'm going to go to this one.

Christy Philbin 33 says, I live in Odessa, Texas. I have to say that after living here most of my life, it's not a shock at all. The people in this area are Trump fanatics armed to the teeth and violent. Right after this happened, people grabbed their guns to go out and quote, hunt for the shooter. No thought at all to the danger they would be for others. in the area, just surprised the crazy Trump armed people didn't actually shoot another innocent thinking they might be the guilty shooter. Yep.

Now, if you think the insanity is over, now a lot of you in America might be surprised by this, too, but if you don't live here, you're about to be shocked. Aquilad makes a good point. Lawn darts were banned in 1987 because a child died while playing with them. Let that sink in. Lawn darts. Lawndarts don't kill people, people kill people. Lawndarts are banned.

A lot of times toy guns are banned. Water guns are banned, but real guns are not banned. Yep. Insanity, absolute, utter insanity. When Trump talks about mental illness, he's talking about the whole country. This is your brain on the NRA. That's what it does to you. All right.

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Now, one of those individuals is a well-known right-winger. He's not a politician, but he gets involved in politics quite a bit. Tony Perkins, he's the head of the conservative family research council. Take a look at what he has to say about why mass shootings are happening so often in America. At some point, at some point, we have to realize that we have a, as a nation, we have a problem. And the problem is not the absence of laws, it's an absence of morality. Really, the result of a decades-long march through the institutions of America driving religion and God from the public square. Discussion of the absence of a moral core in our culture today.

I mean, look, we've taught our kids that they are, they come about by chance through primordial slime. surprise that they treat their fellow Americans like dirt. It's time we talk about the result of the left's systematic march through our institutions driving religious expression from the public square. I think we have to go back to the point where we instill in these children, at least give them the opportunity to know that they're created in the image of God, therefore they have inherent value. And as the first president of the United States said, don't think that we can have morality without religion. We've driven religion from our public life and we're shocked that we no longer have morality and we no longer value human

life. Yeah, I can't stomach religion anymore. I mean, look, I haven't, I don't agree with it, obviously, and I think that the right-wing religious leaders in this country, and by the way, to be fair, all across the world, all the right-wing religious leaders, in Islam, in Judaism, in Christianity, and Buddhism, it doesn't matter, they're all right-wing zealots, they all destroy any semblance of decent in their religions. And yeah, I understand this, first of all, the main point of this story is, of course

it's not about religion, of course it's about the guns, of course it's about the NRA. And I agree with him that it is a lack of morality. So the lack of morality in Republican politicians who go, as long as the NRA gives me a check, you can kill anyone you like, I'll keep passing more pro-gun laws. Yeah, that's a deep-seated lack of morality. But what I can't stand anymore is these right-wing pricks moralizing to us when they're the most immoral people on the planet. Let's talk about that for a second because I think it's important to call out the very

people who claim that this country lacks morality when in reality they're the ones who lack any type of human decency whatsoever. So let's talk about the family research council and what it has advocated for throughout the years. Now I remember something that they did back in 2010. We reported it on this show. So in 2010, the Family Research Council paid $25,000 to congressional lobbyists for what they described as Resolution 1064 Ugandan Resolution Pro-Homosexual Promotion in a lobbying disclosure report.

So what was that bill? Among other things, it would have imposed either the death penalty or life imprisonment for sexual relations between persons of the same sex. So this guy obviously doesn't care about human lives because he's making excuses for why people are getting killed here in the United States. He doesn't want to talk about gun control. He wants to talk about how it's just going to happen because we supposedly lack morality. But he doesn't care about human lives.

He's advocating for people to get murdered in Uganda if they have a lifestyle he disagrees with. This guy is evil. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Who's trying to get people killed across the world, okay? So then he says, oh, no, no, no, since I believe some dude 2,000 years ago walked down water and some lady had a virginal birth and some dude was willing to murder his son on behalf

of a sky god, I'm more moral than you. What? Because you believe in nonsense, mythology. Oh no, because I know that Athena came from the rib of Zeus, I am more moral than you. What are you talking about, you moron? No, because you don't believe in science? You think you're more moral than us? morality is about being decent to other human beings.

And there's plenty of that in Christianity. There's plenty of that in Islam and all the other religions, but you ain't it, okay? And all of you right-wing zealots who go around saying, if you don't believe in my mythology, then you are not at all moral. We remove morals from the schools by teaching them science. No, we put in facts and reason and logic, and we took away your moronic support of insane mythology, which you substituted for morality. Instead, you go around trying to kill gay people across the world.

You have all these insane laws that make no sense. They support Donald Trump. I mean, really, you're gonna talk about morality. Morality. Yeah. Porn stars. He's sleeping with porn stars, Tony Perkins. I thought you hated that, adulterous affairs, one marriage after another.

Hey, Tony Perkins, have you ever read the Bible? Have you ever read the Bible? And the Bible says you should not have, you can't get divorced. How come you're not going off on Trump? is you're a hypocrite. The good parts of the Bible, they despise men like you. People who use religion for their own power and greed. You read the sermon on the mountain, you read the good parts of the Bible, and they think

you're the worst of the worst. You have a fate waiting for you. If you believe in that mythology, as bad as you could possibly imagine waiting for you in hell, Tony Perkins. Jesus, you know what he did first? He threw out the money changers. And Tony Perkins is like, where's my money? Gospel, preaching the gospel about money, money, money, money.

Greed is great. We should give everything to the rich and the NRA, yeah, give money to the politicians. Tony Perkins, if there is a hell, you're definitely in it. Definitely. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we have other news including Hurricane Dorian and the damage and destruction it's done to the Bahamas. At TYT, we frequently talk about all the ways that big tech companies are taking control

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I'm an avid Bernie and AOC and the squad fan. There were pugs are so evil. Perkins has clearly never read the Constitution. there are such hypocrites. We shall not establish a religion. Not complicated and not nuanced, very, very straightforward. John Campbell, morality does not come from a fictional big beard in the sky. It comes from basic human decency, ordinary people are basically good, demagogues who misuse

faith for political power are not. Agreed John. Cynthia says, Jenk and Anna, I'm from El Paso, Texas. And I must say that despite all the police presence in Walmart stores, I still don't feel safe anymore. This hard person who came to my city and committed this evil has made us feel unsafe and wary of our surroundings. And now thanks to these NRA leeches, aka politicians, and their new laws it will feel more uncomfortable.

Yes, my city and its citizens are strong, yes, we have come together more than ever, but the wound is still there and it will be for a very long time before we feel safe again. So that's El Paso, but reality is it's everywhere. It is everywhere. You have no idea where the next shooting is going to be. And the one after that, and the one after that, and none of our politicians will ever do a goddamn thing about it. So the massacres continue.

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Yep. All right, let's switch gears. Let's move away from shooting related news today and talk a little bit about other devastating news, Hurricane Dorian. Hurricane Dorian has already claimed the lives of five individuals in the Bahamas. It was a Category 5 storm as it was battering the Bahamas and the death toll is expected to rise as we get more and more reports. It's really a devastating story to say the least, but what's even more devastating is the

type of reaction that we're getting from someone who's supposed to represent us, Donald Trump. Now Donald Trump lashed out at ABC News reporter Jonathan Carl for fact checking him. And would he fact check him on? Well, the statements that he's gonna make in this next clip, take a look. We don't know where it's going to hit, but we have an idea, probably a little bit different than the original course. The original course was dead into Florida. Now it seems to be going up toward South Carolina, toward North Carolina. Georgia's going to be hit.

Alabama's going to get a piece of it, it looks like. And it may get a little piece of a great place. It's called Alabama, and Alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more than that it could be. This just came up, unfortunately, it's the size of the storm that we're talking about and so for Alabama, just please be careful also. So on multiple occasions, Trump has claimed that the storm is going to hit Alabama. He was fact-checked by the National Weather Service, which claimed that it will not hit Alabama, not even close.

And ABC News also fact-checked him in this next report. Take a look. He marveled at the size of the hurricane. I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of the category five. I knew it existed, and I've seen some category fours. You don't even see them that much, but the category five is something that I don't know that I've ever even heard the term. In fact, there have been several Category 5 hurricanes since he became president. He also misstated the storm's possible trajectory.

Alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds. Something more than that it could be. So for Alabama, just please be careful also. Not long after that, the National Weather Service corrected the president, saying Alabama will not see any impacts from Dorian. The president, who canceled a trip to Poland in order to monitor the storm, spent much of today at his golf club in Virginia, CNN capturing these images of him playing golf. The White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grishin says that he has been getting updates every hour all day long. presumably David, including while he was playing golf. So that ABC News report led to Trump having a meltdown on Twitter, as one can expect.

I would argue that the part about him playing golf probably got under his skin. But here's what he said of Jonathan Carl on Twitter. He says such a phony hurricane report by lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl of ABC World News. I suggested yesterday at FEMA that along with Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, Even Alabama could possibly come into play, which was true. I'm just going to stop there. It's not true. He was fact-checked by the National Weather Service, which obviously knows more than Trump

about where the hurricane is going, which states are going to be impacted by it. I mean, you don't even have to go to the National Weather Service. Anyone in this country knows more than Donald Trump does. I don't understand why he feels the need to put Alabama residents in a panic when there's absolutely no evidence indicating that that storm is going to hit that state. He's a pathological liar. So the first lie is done for, I think, a couple of reasons. One is just carelessly, it doesn't care.

Just verbal diarrhea, nonstop, right? He might have accidentally put Oregon in there. It doesn't matter. But once he's lied, he's got to stick to it. So you're lightweight reporter, lightweight National Weather Service, lightweight everything. Your readings are bad. It's going to hit Alabama. Loser, idiot.

That's what he is. When you're insecure, when you're insecure, you're not ever able to admit that you've made a mistake. That is honestly a trait that you see in a lot of insecure people. That's who Donald Trump is. He cannot ever admit when he's wrong. And he's wrong here, but he's going to double down. He's wrong every day, 10 times a day. Okay, so then the second part of it, Alabama is a red state.

So he said, you know, the great people like the ones in Alabama. When we thought the hurricane was going to hit Puerto Rico, he said, oh, another one? What is it ever going to end? As if it's Puerto Rico's fault, right? So when it's Puerto Rico, God damn Puerto Rico. Hey, Alabama, be careful. Oh, you're my beloved, beloved white, white, white voters who are Republican. I love you, Alabama.

You're not going to get hit. It doesn't mind. I alone can protect you, okay? Puerto Rico is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water. Yeah, he's gonna protect you. You on the other hand are nowhere near the water, but that's okay, I'm gonna make up things and then pretend that I saved you. How do you save him from a hurricane?

Not only that, I mean, he can't protect anyone. In fact, he's taken money out of, you know, hurricane and extreme weather relief funds and diverted it to border patrol. I mean, he doesn't care about keeping anyone safe, period, including the people of Alabama. Yeah, and so the golf, he criticized Obama a thousand. times over golf. Oh, we have some examples. Okay, go to that, and then wait until you see him this moron on category five hurricanes.

And you, if you're a Trump supporter, you don't want to watch the rest of this video, because you'll feel deep shame and guilt at how stupid you are. I don't know if they're capable of that, but let's go to Graphics 6, please. Because again, he was golfing while news and reports of the hurricane were breaking. And he had a lot of negative things to say about Obama and his golfing habit. Let's go to Graphics 6. President Obama should have gone to Louisiana days ago instead of golfing too little too late. That's a tweet from August of 2016.

This is a while, okay, so now later, fast forward to Trump, he's golfing in the middle of the hurricane. Rick Scott, the former governor of Florida, now the senator from Florida, had to say, no, no, I'm sure that he was getting reports while golfing. Okay, be proud, be really proud. Let's give you more. This is a tweet from May of 2016. While our wonderful president was out playing golf all day, the TSA is falling apart just like our government. Airports a total disaster.

I remember the airports becoming a complete and utter disaster when the government was shut down for 35 days under Trump's watch. But I'll move on. In December of 2011, he tweeted, I play golf to relax. My company is in great shape. Barack Obama plays golf to escape, work while America goes down. the drain. By the way, he had tweeted about Obama playing golf 27 times. And now all he does is play golf.

He broke Obama's record, it shattered it, shattered it. I'm not saying Obama had the record, Eisenhower might have. But what, and by the way, I thought Obama played way way way way too much golf. I can't believe how little the president's work. But then Trump's like, hold my beer, kind of literally, right? Because all I'm gonna do is play golf. And look at that, I mean, that's perfect, to escape work. That's why he does it.

My companies are in great shape. You bankrupted six companies, you loser. Maybe you should play a little less golf and then you wouldn't bankrupt as many companies. Anyway, category five, nobody's ever heard of it, right? Well, I've heard of it my whole life. If you've ever watched a weather report about hurricanes, you've heard about the different categories including category five, right? Well, apparently there's one moron who's never heard of it.

And get a load of the different times that he says this. Yeah, so I actually want to go to two different videos. Let's start off with the first one. This is what he has to say about Category 5 hurricanes today. We will work very hard to minimize whatever the effect of what's coming at us. We don't even know what's coming at us. All we know is it's possibly the biggest. I'm not sure.

I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of the Category 5. I knew it existed. And I've seen some Category 4s. You don't even see them that much. But a Category 5 is something that I don't know that I've ever even heard the term other than I know it's there. So he might not have ever heard the term Category 5. That's already deeply, deeply embarrassing. But wait a minute, it's now.

This is not the first hurricane on his watch. Let's see if he's ever heard of Category 5 hurricanes before. They've never seen a category like this coming because it came in really at a 5. It was a Category 5. I never even knew a Category 5 existed. It hit as a five, Category 5 storm, which just literally never happens. It actually touched down as a Category 5. People have never seen anything like that.

This has been a Category 5, which a few people have ever even heard of. A Category 5. Nobody's ever heard of a 5 hitting land. Category 5. Hurricane, Category 5. Never heard about category 5s before. Such a sad narcissist. A lot of those video clips were from 2017.

Yeah, so first of all, if you never heard of a Category 5 in 2017, after having said you've never heard of one, which is already deeply embarrassing, anyway, it's about a thousand times over. By now, you would think you would have heard of a Category 5 when you yourself talked about it. I don't know if, like, people keep asking the question of, is he in mental decline or was he always painfully unintelligent? And my answer is clearly both. Yeah. This is what a very below average mind looks like while deteriorating. So, and the narcissism part comes in and hey, my ignorant ass had never heard of a category five storm.

So I'll assume no one has ever heard of a category five storm. It's amazing. I mean, it makes me think back to when he was trying to fix healthcare in America and he said, who Who would have known that health care is so complicated? No, no, he said, very close, he said, no one knew health care was this complicated. Everyone knew but you, but you. Daily embarrassment. And this is not hyperbole, I mean this, literally the dumbest person elected as president

in the United States. Oh, that's so easy. No, that's not even a question. I mean, he now makes Bush look smart and Bush was a category four, okay? And Trump, I never heard of it before. But it's a category five idiot. And so now that I think though, I honestly believe this, in all my years of covering politics now well over two decades, I have never seen a politician as dumb as Donald Trump elected

at any level. He makes Gohmert look like a PhD. Okay. It's true. So he, and if you look up to him, oh my God, that is so embarrassing and humiliating. One day you'll pretend you never did, and one day you'll pretend it, you didn't vote for them. But we know.

We know. We're in the middle of it now, and you all of you idiot MAGA guys are like, oh no, Trump's really smart. He's so smart, he's such a good business, Maga. And here he is, embarrassing himself and you on a daily basis. Later when you find out, oh no, his mind, his very, very limited mind was already in very significant decline. You'll pretend you knew.

No, I knew, I just, but I hated Latinos and Muslims. But I knew, I knew, did I say that out loud? That's what will happen to you. Yeah, and look, there's the comical angle to it where you see his stupidity and you can't help but laugh how incredibly dumb he is. But at the same time, lives are lost as a result of his stupidity. I mean, this hurricane is no joke. And again, in the Bahamas, it has created complete and utter destruction. You're looking at the Abaco Island, great Abaco Island in Bahamas there.

Five people are already reported dead, an eight year old was reported drowned. And by the way, this is just the beginning. I mean, the death toll is definitely going to-way higher. Yeah. So it's just, it sat as a category five on top of the island for an incredibly long period of time. So, and the funny thing is if Trump was right about how people hadn't heard of category fives, It actually wouldn't be something that he should be saying politically.

Why? Because the storms are getting more intense and why? Climate change. So if it was true that nobody had ever heard of a category five before and now all of a sudden we have category five's, that means you should leap into action and make sure that we're fighting against climate change. Climate change does not create more hurricanes. What it does is it makes the hurricanes far more intense because of the warm ocean water,

which creates more precipitation and more wind. and more sustained and sometimes even slower. So it becomes a category 5 and then sits over land, wiping out everything on the ground. It looks like a nuke hit it. And who's the leader of the most powerful country that, by the way, gets hit with hurricanes all the time? Who's in charge now? A total buffoon that has almost no mind left.

And we're supposed to trust that everything's going to be okay. His own weather service. Service, thank you, National Weather Service. Turns around and says, no, don't believe the president, the president is an idiot. Whatever you do, do not listen to the president. Alabama, you're gonna be fine. Florida, you are not. You need to take action right now.

But turn off Twitter, turn off the TV, don't listen to the president, because the president has lost his goddamn mind. We gotta take a break. But not only is Trump embarrassing us domestically, he's embarrassing us internationally. And he's also sharing classified information via social media. So tell everybody, share the stream right now wherever you're watching and tell everybody to tune in because we're all going to chant all across the country, lock them up, okay, when we return.

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