The Young Turks - TYT Extended Clip - July 17th, 2020

Episode Date: July 18, 2020

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an acrobatic flyer on your tag team and then like the boo, we go around and it just says dirty things and takes off people. We got to find out which one

because honestly, I'll be willing to do both. No, I hear you, but since you grand hurdles, I think you've got to be the acrobatic dude. Oh, plus, since I'm 250 pounds, I couldn't do it with my life depending on it. So I got to be the trash. I'm glad you brought it up because, sorry to begin this way. First off, hello, looking at the church, power, power, power, power. But I keep meaning to tease John about this because we talk about a damage port,

J.R. Wednesday's damage report. And how I have significantly lost weight in quarantine and lockdown, Even as things have lightened up, and we'll be getting outside, no, I'm under 200 pounds consistently, and I have no idea what happens. Wow. Okay. Soon I'll be doing. Trust me. I'm not eating. Trust me. I have not been eating carrots and vegetables every day. So that has not been left. All right. All right. Let me do some programming notes before we get started.

So tonight, COVID room is back, including with JR and Brad Ehrlich. But we've got two producers on. You want to meet our producers? kind of awesome. So Asher and Ashwarya for the first time ever on air. Whoa, what is this? So Twitch.tv slash TYT. That's tonight at 9 o'clock Eastern. Twitch.tv slash TYT. So check that out. Fun for everybody. And then Brent's also got movie night tomorrow night on Twitch. That's at 8 o'clock Eastern. And there's a poll, by the way, if you want to help him pick out which movie, t.wit.com slash polls slash movie night. So that's tomorrow night at 8 o'clock Eastern. Check that out. You got election. You got roadhouse banglish and dirty dancing.

Either way, no one will put Brett in a corner. So Twitch.tv slash TYT. All right. Now, the last programming known, and I love this one. We're doing Hero Day on next Tuesday, okay? July 21st, it's gonna start at 7.30 p.m. Eastern. You got the main show before, you got the, and a live post game for everybody. And then afterwards, you've got old school. So it's a mega, mega, mega day. So what does hero day mean? It's not hero ball where you hug up everything.

It's hero day where you explain who your heroes are in your personal life. Who's been a hero to you? So there's going to be some surprises and drums there. We actually asked you guys the same question, our members and stuff. We'll share that as well. I think you guys are going to love that show. So make sure you catch that. All right, let's get to start on today's show. J.R. Jackson, what's up first? Oh, I'm glad you asked, Jake. Because we have a brewing situation going on in Georgia between governor and mayor of the night. So as chronic cases continue to rise in Georgia, Governor Brian

Kim. He's escalated his battle with Atlanta's mayor, Keish the Lans Bottoms. He's suing the city and the mayor. He just started this whole thing yesterday on Thursday. So it also comes after Lance Bottoms introduced a mandatory mask ordinance that makes not wearing a mask within Atlanta city limits punishable by a fine and up to six months in January. So Brian Kipp decided to go and block that and create like a statewide mandate to not force people to wear masks, but a lot them kind of figured on their own. So he had a series of tweets to explain himself. He started off by saying, someone pointed out and said, this lawsuit is on behalf of the Atlanta business owners and they're hardworking in place, struggling to survive during these difficult times.

They're going to say, these men and women are doing their very best, put food on the table for their families while local, elect officials shut of businesses and undermine economic book. You see where he's going with this. The third call was just like sending in the Georgia Guard to protect these living our capital city from crime of violence, I refuse to sit back and watch as disastrous policies threaten the lives and livelihoods of our citizens. And lastly, we will stop, we will fight to stop these reckless actions and put people over pandemic policies. So, of course, the mayor of the Atlanta, she responded.

I keep each of the last bottom, which is followed. Also on Twitter, she responds by saying 3,1004 Georgians have died, and I and my family are amongst the 106,000 of tests positive COVID-19. Meanwhile, I've been sued by Governor Kemp for a mask mandate. A better use of taxpayer money would be to expand testing and contact tracing. So we'll see where this all falls out and see where people fall in. But before we get to more of the things that Kemp had to say to say about it, and also Bottoms had to say about it because they continued to skewed on to television.

What's your thoughts question? Yeah. So I think Mayor Bottoms is absolutely right about the timing of this too. She points out that there's several Georgia's cities had already done a mask mandate, and Kemp had not said anything about it. But when she did one in Atlanta, and then President Trump was at the airport, and she mentioned that he was not wearing a mask, all of a sudden, Trump and Kemp caught feelings. And they should be more worried about people catching the disease, but they caught their feelings

and they were like, oh yeah, go let's go after her, okay? And so I don't know if Trump asked Kemp personally to do it or Kemp being the lapdog that he is. I thought, this will please the boss. And so it's a layout for them going after the black female mayor of a predominantly black city in Georgia saying that you should follow science and protect people's lives. They're like, we're against everything you just said. So they go after her and say they're going to sue. Is it a waste of time and money?

Of course, tremendous waste of fact fair money. So look, we just broke the record yesterday. I think we had, what, 77,000 cases, the most we've ever had in America and we're leading the world. So the most anybody's ever had in coronavirus cases and jackasses like Kemp are still going around saying, no, freedom, dude. We need freedom to catch the coronavirus and break even more records and get even more people killed. Yeah, let's hear more of what he had to say today at a press conference because I've listened to it countless times. I'm trying to figure out the logic

behind this thought process. This is what he had to say. Now, I know that many well-intentioned and well-informed Georgians want a mask mandate. And while we all agree that wearing a mask is effective. I'm confident that Georgians don't need a mandate to do the right thing. Instead of issuing mandates that are confusing and unenforceable, I'm asking all local leaders to enforce the current executive order. Enforce the rules that we have put in place to keep employees and customers safe at local businesses. Enforce the provisions that ensure folks are staying six feet apart at large gatherings. Enforce measures to protect the medically fragile. and use your bully pulpit, your social media challenge, and your connections with the local media to help build support for wearing a mask when needed.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, so tell me if I'm losing my mind, but he says there are unenforceable rules that the land of the mayor wants to put in the place. Literally, the next sentence begins with, let's go with enforceable restrictions on the people like distancing, make sure you do, there was like, three or four parts, makes you do this right, makes you do that right. He goes through all of these restrict, and he said, enforce it. Enforce, enforce, enforce, but I don't want to enforce the mask mandate. Why are you enforcing other things when you can't enforce that, but it's unenforceable? I'm not sure why. Maybe there is a reason.

Tell me, this one mandate is not enforceable, but the ones that are put in my executive work are harmful, forcible. Why? Yeah, there's that plus none of this makes anything. It's to keep people safe, right? So we do a lot of things to keep people safe, including having cops and having laws. So under his logic, couldn't we say, look, we don't need a mandate on this. You know, the good people in Georgia, no, not to mug each other. So we don't need a law saying don't mug each other or don't punch each other in the face. We'll just

be trusted the good people in Georgia will just naturally do it. Except when you trust that people not punch each other in the face, you know what happens? People punch each other in the face. And so there's muggings, there's a reason why we have laws. And it is to keep us safe. Now, is there an epidemic of face punching going on? No. Is there an epidemic of an actual disease going around killing tens of hundreds of thousands of people and Americans? Yeah, there is. So over 140,000 Americans are dead. Could you imagine if there was anything, any crime that killed 140,000 Americans and that you could prevent that crime with something as simple as mandating a mass when you're out in public?

Well, imagine if you, like there's, okay, there's the terrorists are on the loose. And if these unbelievably effective terrorists have killed 140,000 Americans, how many 9-11s is that? I got, it's hard to do the math on that one, okay? That's nearly, what, 50 9-11s? And so, but hey guys, good news, the terrorist bullets and bombs are stopped by a face mass. Who would say, nah, don't wear him, freedom. Yeah.

We have a direct thing. Every time this is something new, right? People are uncomfortable with the newness of it. So we've had other things that come upon us that we've discovered to these Americans or kids people in general with negligence and all that. And then there's things put in place like seatbox. I know that's the most basic example that everyone's giving. But okay, so when cell phones were bigger and now everyone has a smartphone,

everyone wants to text, everyone wants to check their Instagram, everyone wants to tweet while they're driving. You know what? There's these, they're specifically in California. I haven't been to many other states, but I've seen them actually enforce it, but I've seen it here, where there's cell phone loss. It's on your freeway. It's on the digital markers on your freeway. It says, put it down your cell phone.

Cell phones get a cell phone in hand is a punishable ticket. Now, that's a rule. People still have their cell phones in their hands when they're driving because we've seen that some people have been killed and have killed others from driving with their cell phones. It is a law. Why every night up in arms about how dare you can tell me not to put myself one in my hand while I'm driving? Yeah, sure, some people died, but every time I've done it, I've not killed anyone yet. It's a new thing. You've got to get used to it.

I'm sorry. No, that's a great analogy, JR. And you could make the same exact argument. A freedom. I've got a freedom to text in the middle of the road, man. And good people in Georgia know that we don't need a mandate for that. And that's an issue that has not killed 140,000 Americans. So none of this makes any sense.

It's all political. The Republicans in an insane attempt to prove how tough they are. It reminds me honestly like really uneducated people in any country. But I remember what had happened. And I'll throw Turkish people under a bus here. But if you fill in the blank on any country here, but when AIDS first came around, they did a lot of public service announcements in Turkey telling folks, hey, don't have unprotected sex. And some of the uneducated folks in Turkey were like, no, AIDS doesn't cut us. Okay. What that means is like, no, no, we're so tough that AIDS will not penetrate us. That's insane, of course. That's not how science works. And that's, these are, we're led by Turkish villagers here going. Oh no, coronavirus doesn't cut us, man. We don't need no stinking mask. Meanwhile, we're leading the world in coronavirus deaths, you morons.

So now look, this election, and now all elections going forward, is really a matter of smart people versus stupid people. And if you're in the Republican Party and you think that you're tougher than coronavirus and you don't need masks, you are a stupid person. You are, you're literally stupid. And so if you want to vote for Republicans who want to get people kids, because they don't want to do the simplest protection of society and want to get tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people killed. You're a stupid person, and you're killing us all. Even if you want to be greedy, yeah, even if you want to be greedy and go with the economy, which means the economy can actually get we started sooner if we hunker down like we should have in the beginning. And don't we have to do, then you have a chance to go.

I want to skip to the second of the next three graphics really fast about more of Trump's suit, Because this is not Trump, Kemp's saying, his lawsuit, or his, his humility stealing out with the Atlanta mayor. He said, I'm sorry, the suit also opposes more than just the mask words. It also challenges Bottoms call to limit public gatherings to 10 people. So right now, Bottoms is calling for that, rather than the 50 that can prefer. So he wants the amount of people that can be around him to be 50 instead of the 10. He also says that the city has not been enforcing his limit. He says Bottoms doesn't have the authority to order the city of the city to revert to phase one guidelines, which is closing restaurant dining rooms and there's people to stay home, except when it's essential, as we were doing it at the beginning.

So he's just upset that these things from the court are not under his rule. That's not what I said. You say 10? Okay, fine, I'll say 50. Okay, if you're a public official, a governor of a big state, and you don't give anybody a reason why 50 makes more sense when there's been reasons why 10 is the number. There's some reasons why zero was the number of course. Why 50 now? I'd be willing to listen to you because you know what I like to do?

I like to hang around people. Not that I would do it, but if people want to actually get out and give people a reason to do it, why can't it be a complete sentence? There's never a complete thought. It's just, I want us to be in 50. Why? Why 50? Why that number? Why not 55?

Why not 40? It's an odd thing, which doesn't give me much confidence in their reasoning behind their reviews. Yeah, so JR, finally, that's exactly what I'm worried about. Look, we all want the economy to reopen. I'm driving through LA and every day I go out there, there's another store closed. You know, look, there's the ones that are closed temporarily, you can tell. But no, they put up signs gone out of business, okay? And we might go another six months on this.

The economic devastation is going to be horrific. And us progressives are going to care about it a lot more than conservatives. And we're going to be worried about the business owners, the business employees, and how are they, how in the world are they going to survive? So if you, like, reopening those businesses is a priority for all of us. And there is some legitimate debate about how to reopen them. But there is no legitimate debate about whether to wear masks or not. And if you don't wear the mask, as J.R. pointed out, it's going to take longer to reopen

those businesses. It's a lose lose. That's why I'm telling you, it's not a, this one, look, there's a ton of confusion over these many months about how coronavirus works, works, what were the right things to do, et cetera. A lot of that has been settled because some countries handled those so well, Taiwan, New Zealand, Germany, etc. And so we have a model for what works, and if Brent, if you have the, you know, the chart of Europe versus US, throw that up there. And we have a model of what doesn't work. Our model does not work, right?

But there's one thing that is crystal clear in every model. Wear the goddamn mass. If you don't wear the mask, deaths, cases and deaths spike when they don't need to spike. Look at it. Europe did the right things. They're in blue. They go up, they go down. America did the wrong things.

We go up and then we go up. And all four countries leading in coronavirus cases are led by right-wing authoritarian nationalist leaders who do not believe in science. U.S. is number one, Brazil's number two with Bolsonaro. He even got COVID himself. And then you got Modi in India and you got Putin in Russia. All four big nationalists, we don't need the world, we don't need no stake in science and all that.

And next thing you know, in a worldwide pandemic, it turns out. You need the world and you need science. Science is real, but we have Neanderthals like Kemp who are actively suing and wasting taxpayer money to go in the wrong direction. You vote for that, there's just no excuse for you. So okay, you want to get people killed, have at it, Ha'Has, we're in a democracy. We're gonna vote another direction and hope to God we win, otherwise there could be another other 140,000 dead.

We just got to make it to November. Yeah, all right, we got to take a break. Let's take a quick break. When we come back, among the stories we got for you is more White House drama. Now, this time, Trump versus his own defense secretary, why are they potentially going to war, if you will? We'll be right. We need to talk about a relatively new show called Un-Fing the Republic or UNFTR.

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Aspiration.com slash t.t. Aspiration.com slash t. All right, the infamous Mr. Joyboy writes in, these are our members. Remember the stats for every white death. There are two black or Latino deaths. Kemp is calculating them by losing a few 90 year old whites, which they would lose in short order anyway. They force a loss of two prime age opposition voters, less possibly. possibly extending their business model, i.e. the southern strategy for another 10 to 15 years past its natural lifespan. Worse holders of power since bullwhip days. I had not considered that. And that is a level of depravity previously unimaginable. But now that you said it,

I was like, damn it, the Republican Party is not above it. There is some chance that if they haven't done so so far, they're gonna have a meeting and say, remember, blacks and Latinos are getting it more and they're dying more. It's not impossible. So all right. Yeah, I hear you. I'm going to draw the line at if it's financially beneficial, then they don't get that right.

Yes, they really don't care about much of anyone I expect themselves, especially folks they shut to the side. But if it helps them financially and increase that, that I think can make no system. system. It's hard for me to put that on them, that battle. Yeah, I hear you. I hear you, Jared. And I'm not sure that they're there yet. And and I think they care about the stock market more than they care about any life, white, black, or Latino, right? Absolutely. Yeah, but just like it happened with Oxycontin, the minute that you

start having more white people die than minorities, like in the case of Oxi, you had more white people getting locked up than black people. All of a sudden, they're like, wait, did you know This war on drugs is a terrible idea. Because you know coronavirus kills people? So we'll see. Anyway, Mel Anna Ted Afropuffs, I think that's my best guess that your username writes in. It's my birthday wish come true.

I literally spent the whole day saying that a power panel with Jenkins J.R. would make for the best birthday gift ever. Thanks for making my quarantine birthday a lot more tolerable. Well, well, I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I get a call like that. You know what happens? Every time I call my mother, she lives down in San Diego, every time I call her,

she says, I was just thinking about you, Jay. I was just about to call you. I was just about to call you. Come on, boy. I love the idea of you telling your mom, come on, bro. I was interviewing Aryan Foster last night on our Twitch channel. between me and me and Yugar. That's the show we do Thursday at 8 o'clock. And he says something that I just want to keep saying all the time now. I might be unbearable with it. And I'm not

sure I can say it. We'll love to talk about it off here. But so of course I can say it. Anyway, he says fam about everything. He's like, that's the point, fam. And I was like, God, I love that. I want to use that from now on. That's how I got, brother, I got it from Desmond on Lost. I love the way he said, he's with his Australian accent. He said, yeah, that's a good point. Brother. So that's right. So Harry Fonsor might get me to start saying fam. Well, the thing is, we already know you've done this throughout the year. So I'm absolutely not surprised. So it's a good one of our members. All right. It's a really good point by Chris, one of our members. He says, can't stop thinking about how one idiot nearly 20 years ago try to light his

shoes on fire and failed to kill anyone, yet we still have to remove our shoes anytime we go to the airport. But we're in a massive stop of pandemic that's already killed 130,000 Americans is tyranny. No, Chris, that's such a great point. Forget it. I'm never taking my shoes off again at an airport. No. Freedom. Freedom. What are you talking about? I'm not going to live with those stupid mandates. And that one is actually maniacally stupid, right? No one's ever died from shoes on an airplane, ever, ever. Number of deaths, zero. Coronavirus case tests across the world is over half a million. Imagine if shoe bombers killed half a million people across the world. So, God, I love our members.

Yeah, these are good points. I'm just surprised that thing that you have to stand in, they're standing in the middle of at the airport and do this, that it doesn't detect anything in your shoes. But it definitely takes something in the rest of your body. Yeah. All right. YouTube super chat, last couple of ones real quick here. Zero writes in, JRS connection is lagging.

We know, brother, we're trying to fix it, okay? So, t.com slash go so we can have the funds to have decent connections. We're trying, guys, we're trying to help us out. In fact, let's take a look at the thermometer super quick and then I'll give you the last comment and then we'll get back to the story. 61,036, amazing guys, but you know, like we try to raise 200,000 every month at least in 2020 and then I think we're going to be okay in 2021. I'm hoping I'm crossing our fingers.

Now we're way behind us, it's we're past the halfway mark of the month and it's a 61,000. If you could help out, that would be amazing. Only if you can though, guys. Thank you, t.wirt.com slash go. Last thing, Lama Mama says, love you guys, thanks for all you do. Thanks to TYT, I'm a former uninvolved nonvoter to now an aggressive progressive. Love it, okay? Makes our day every time.

All right, JR, let's do it. Okay, next up. So we saw shocking videos of unmarked and identified federal officers that have been dispatched to Portland, Oregon to simulate fight back, abduct American citizens without any real stated cause. So as those have come to life, even more have been coming out today that show some Portland police officers that are getting in on some of the violence. We're going to go and make sure they make their mark. So in this one video, I just want to make sure you point out, pay attention to the man on the bike. That is the citizen that catches the violence. from these weeks. Let's take that up. Cross the street from the federal courthouse. You're under risk. You're under arrest. You're under arrest. Hold on.

Hold on the side of the north side of town. The street will come south of scene. You'll be of accident of its course. To the north, to see that. So there you see a cyclist riding down in the street. riding down in the middle of the street in the middle of officers doing whatever they're trying to do as far as crowd control there. And he gets tackled, taken down, pummeled, and buried by several cops.

There was another angle to this that I also saw to try to get more context of what exactly happened. Because, of course, you're going to get people to say, the police don't just do things like this for no reason. That was seven to ten seconds of a guy riding down the street. Maybe he did something. Maybe he had something in his backpack. Maybe he just assaulted someone. Maybe they're following him for months. all these things that you made trying to give some reasons why.

I saw an extended version, a version that showed something beforehand of what had happened. I saw it the last minute. What had happened that I saw, in more context, he was riding the opposite direction at first. A cop was standing behind one of those vans, if'd at him, which people who don't know if they know us, he jumped up at him like he's about to do something.

The guy swerves because he was surprised by someone jumping out from the side of the car to jump at him. He was startled, turned around, came back, yell something at the officer that lunged at him. After doing that, they all converged. That's the extended version. Now, if he was biking back and forth all day and kick some cop in the face, I don't know, but I doubt that he was continuing to ride if he had done something like that previous. Yeah, look, nonstopic sex of force. So was there a better way to get that guy off the bike, you know, like you said, Jared, was he committing some sort of federal

crime? I don't know, man. These cops, the idea that they're here to protect and service, hilarious, maybe the rich and the powerful, but not us. Yeah, so as this is happening, some pushback, this is happening from some of the authorities in Oregon. It started at the city level in Portland, the mayor there spoke out. But today, um, Also, the Governor Kate Brown with Oregon, she spoke out as well against the situations happening in the seeming takeover of the city. So she says this political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety. The president is failing to lead this nation. Now he's employing federal officers to patrol the streets of Portland in the blatant use of power by the federal government.

She goes on to say, I told acting secretary Wolf, that the federal government should remove all federal officers from our streets. His response showed me he's on a mission to provoke confrontation for political purposes. Trump is looking for a confrontation in Oregon in the hopes of winning political points in Ohio or Iowa. So that was said by them. And so just for more reminders of who these folks were, some of these unnamed, unmarked, silent soldiers that were taken over the city, they're usually in places where they'll fight drug cartels or they're stationed in Afghanistan. And that's where we've seen some of these instances of swooping in, taking citizens right off. the street and they throw them in the back or then without anyone, never knowing where they're

going, when they're coming back, or if they're coming back. So that's their, that's their MO. That's where they operate. And I think that's the reason why these specific guys were placed in this situation. So more on that approach. There was one of the men, Mark Pettibon, there was one that was abducted by the silent militia group. I'm not sure what to call him. And he had, he told the story. So to the Washington Post, he said, I was, was terrified. It seemed like it was out of a horror, sci-fi, like a Philip K. Dick novel. It was like being preyed upon. So there's the guy that got smashed up and put into a van. You've been on to say, I'm basically tossed into the van, and I had my beanie pulled

over my face, so I couldn't see, and they held my hands over my head. So imagine yourself in that situation, right, when you were just off in streets as an American citizen, not breaking me any loss. Blinded by his hat, in an unmarked minivan full of armed people dressed and camouflage and body armor who hadn't identified themselves, Petty Bone said that he was driven around downtown before being unloaded inside a building. He would learn until after his release, it had been inside the federal courthouse. One more part of this, Katie Shep from the Washington Post wrote, and Petty Bone said he still does not know who arrested him or whether what happened to him legally qualifies as an arrest. The officers did not tell him why he had been detained

providing any record of arrest is going to the post. And as far as he knows, he's not been charged with any crimes. So who knows? Maybe at some point something's going to pop up on his record. Maybe when he's applying for a job or trying to get into a federal building, who knows? But they didn't tell him anything, but the idea is to terrorize him long enough to make him think, should I come back out here tomorrow? I don't know what's going to happen. Or maybe his friends sitting. Yeah. All right. So let me give me even more context here. So we We covered this on the show for the last couple of days. Portland has had protests that outlasts a lot of the other cities.

But both their mayor and the governor of Oregon never called for federal help. In fact, they've now made it clear, and you saw them in some of the quotes that you I read, that they are opposed to the federal departments coming in to police the streets. and they think it's actually very dangerous. And I'm gonna get to why it's dangerous in a second. But there's apparently, there's potentially six different federal agencies that have sent some sort of law enforcement to Portland. Now all this is vague on purpose.

The federal government is basically saying, yeah, we're gonna have unmarked cars. A lot of those vans are rented and are not clearly labeled as police, military, or anything else. And they say, well, we have some insignia on our uniforms, but we will not have any names on our uniforms, even though they're supposed to. They say, oh, because we're worried about doxing. So now we have unnamed, unidentified. I don't even know if we should call them cops or military. They're not really either. They're federal officials. Roaming the streets of Portland, against the wishes of the democratically elected mayor and governor of that state. So now, why are they there?

They claim, oh, we're there for federal law enforcement. Which federal laws? Well, there's a federal building there, and sometimes there's graffiti on it. You brought in some sort of SWAT team from the federal level for graffiti? No, no, this is Trump playing politics. Remember he said he was going to show how tough a guy he was? Yeah, I get it. This is what Pinochet did in Chile, where they just snatch up people on the streets.

And they wouldn't say who they were, and they wouldn't say where they were taking them. And they wouldn't be officially arresting them. That's why that pettibone quotes that J.R. read you of a guy who was snatched up from the streets are so important. He's like, I don't even know if I was arrested. They never told me I was arrested. They never told me why they were snatching me up. They didn't know, I didn't know who they were, and then they brought me to a place I didn't know. This is how people in right wing governments in the past have gotten disappeared, okay?

So they haven't done it yet, they haven't disappeared anyone that we know of yet, but they've begun the first part of that. And just like they did in Chile, just like they've done in every authoritarian right wing governments. First they snatch people up and don't torture or kill them. And then when nobody says anything, they're like, well, that was easy. Now let's torture them. Oh, nobody said anything or couldn't say anything. Now let's kill them. I'm not making that up.

That has happened dozens of times in other countries in exactly this fact pattern. So now, other than that, other than the potential authoritarian takeover of our government, why else is it dangerous? Well, the local cops are saying, we're not coordinating. We don't want you here. And by the way, since you've shown up, it's gotten more violent, not less violent. So you drove up the violence. We don't know who you are and we don't want you here. And now you might get into a conflict with local cops.

Oh, for God's sake. This total authoritarian anarchy on purpose. So we can't have this lawlessness. Yeah. And I'm sorry, one last thing about that. So out of the different groups that are involved, the largest one, And it likely the one that's in the military fatigues, the one JR talked about sometimes goes to Afghanistan, et cetera, is from custom and border patrol.

What part of Portland is near the, usually they're in the US-Mexico border? How is Portland anywhere near the US-Mexico border? What customs issues are we talking about here in Portland, Oregon? So no, it's an excuse to start using paramilitary groups unaccountable to Democrat elected officials like mayors and governors. Yeah, I mean, it makes you wonder. I mean, I was thinking this. I feel like I saw a quick little thought about it somewhere that because Trump was

talking about how he wants to start going to these blue cities, to get him out of hand of these situations. And we're going to send people to Portland. We're going to send people like we had to do, send him to Minneapolis, sit them there. It's like he's floating the full approach that you'd like to have in most of these cities. And so let's see how well this works in Portland. And then we can move on and maybe do it in the next one.

Because again, you know, it's a reelection year. And this is a traditional thing. Many times, some presidents are in some trouble. They may start a fight with another country. They may, if there's some kind of conflict already, they may escalate it to make sure that there's, we can't cross. I mean, we can't change horses in midstream of this war way, right? For some reason, Trump's war, he hates America so much. His war has to be on our own country and our own citizens.

He'd be like, hey, you guys, now you know, those antifas are coming for us and we've got to vote against them and vote for me. This seems to be the approach of usually horrible presidents are looking to start wars with other countries. He's looking to start it here. And he gets them back in. And it's one last graphic from Fox News where the headline, this was talking about these situations, where this is the DHS accuses Portland officials of enabling the, quote, mob, pulls timeline of damage by, quote, violent anarchists. So they quote the mob and they quote violent anarchists in this headline. And also point out that DHS accuses the mother. This releases Fox News to many of the editorial.

the editorializing of this headline. The DHS said, so we didn't say it. So we're not accusing Portland officials of enabling the mob. We quoted mob because DHS said. We said violent anarchists because DHS said it. And, you know, DHS really is, there's this federal entity,

it's agency that we're supposed to respect and listen to. Who we're going to listen to? DHS or just some random? It's all putting it in the lines to make you not think what's really happening is happening. Yeah.

And last comment We'll give to one of our members on our website, Effectos Rites in, Jank, we were taught what to call these federal paramilitary members in high school, Gestapo. All right, do you want to participate in the program like that person just did, t.com slash join to become a member. We love doing the show together with you guys. We got to fight what's happening in Portland and make sure that that does not happen in America. All right, we'll take a quick break. And when we come And when we come back, we've got a lot more stories for you. At TYT, we frequently talk about all the ways that big tech companies are taking control of our online lives,

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We get the money and you guys don't have to spend another dime. Thank you guys. All right, JR, what's next? Secretary of State Mike Payle, Mike Pompeo. So Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, he gave a speech on Thursday about America's stance on human rights. And during that, he launched into an off the rails attack against the New York Times 1619 project. And for those of you who maybe don't know details about it, the 1619 project is an ongoing initiative from the New York Times Magazine that began in August of 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. So it aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequence of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national merit.

So instead of it being, the main thing we talk about slavery being Abraham Lincoln, he's a hero, and Civil War is the reason why we fought against this indentured servitude or maybe some guys who were underpaid a little bit. It's given the real deal about it and what its effects on our country really have been. been. So, of course, Mike Pompeo could not deal with that. So he went out and spoke against it. He was so proud of the speech that he had against this initially that he even tweeted himself out. He said, hey, look what I did, you guys. I totally came out here. I downplayed slavery in our country. And I said, how great everything always has been. So let's go to a little bit of video of what he really did have to say during that speech. The New York Times, 1619 project. so named for the year that the first slaves were transported to America,

wants you to believe that our country was founded for human bondage. They want you to believe that America's institutions continue to reflect the country's acceptance of slavery at our founding. They want you to believe that Marxist ideology that America is only the oppressors and the oppressed. The Chinese Communist Party must be gleeful when they see the New York Times spout this eye. ideology. Some people have taken these false doctrines to heart. The rioters pulling down statues,

thus see nothing wrong with desecrating monuments to those who fought for our unalienable rights, from our founding to the present day. This is a dark vision of America's birth. I reject it. It's a disturbed reading of our history. It is a slander on our great people. I'm never sure if when Mike Pompeo is trying to speak and he's trying to say something poignant or slow it down, if it's just that he's completely uninterested or he thinks there's a good acting job of like. And sometimes the comments, just speak, bro. We don't believe anything you're saying already. We know that you're out there acting and put your face out there to be another shield for the president.

We know who you really are. Just say it. Just spit it out. It's okay. Because we know that you're going for something horrible in the first place. Anyways, so we can't criticize anything that's happened to our country because we're not the only countries that participate in slavery. They might make you think that our founding fathers were against the rights for all mankind. Well, they specifically consider a certain segment of the population not human.

I think we can talk about that a little bit. But we have this problem with being able to address our history and the negative, nature of our past. Because if that happens, we have communism, we have China celebrating it. You know, China won't celebrate our destruction or they won't celebrate our infighting if we don't do things to attack our own country and have people rise up and go, you're going to stop stepping on me. It's not going to happen anymore. So when you deny your history and what you've always done in this country and how it continues in other forms today, you can have only yourself to blame for setting up that scenario. Okay, that's an eloquent response.

to Pompeo, I was going to go with what my kids normally say. Wait, what? Wait, how do we get to the Chinese communists from slavery? What? What that? Like, that took a turn I didn't expect. I think he was just trying to win racist bingo. Like, oh yeah, black people being enslaved, not that big you deal. Plus, I hate Chinese people and I call him commies. Yes. They go. I win. And so what's he trying to win? He's trying to win Trump's base for next time he runs for office. And next time Trump's winning or running, God forbid winning 2-2-2. So look, there's folks of this country that are uncomfortable with the fact that we had slavery. I hope we're all uncomfortable about it, but you could be in one of two camps.

One is, bury your head in the sand, pretend it didn't happen, say it's no big deal, let's move on, it was a long time ago, or you could be in the camp of acknowledging it, and for God's sake, like, working to get beyond it. Because unfortunately, this is the heart of our disagreement. We're not beyond it. And Pompeo says, I'm beyond it. I know, dude, because you're white and in power, and it never bothered you. In fact, it gave you a giant leg up.

So it's easy for you to say you're beyond it. But the reality is for 100, I was talking about this on an earlier show. When they talk about the post slavery period, they're not going to be talking about our past. They're going to be talking about now and unfortunately quite a bit into our future. It's taking us about 200 years to get past it. And I wish to God it wasn't. But we had Jim Crow for so long. We had redlining.

We have the police abusing and arresting and killing African Americans at disproportionate rates today. Today. We have out of control racism today. And so some people want to say not just that, hey, ignore it. But honestly, they benefit from it. So if you ignore it, you might not fix it, which then keeps their unfair advantage. And so I just can't stomach these guys anymore. And it comes from the same guys who then turn around and say, no, don't tear down Confederate statues because we have to know our history.

Okay, all right, well, then let's know about slavery. No, no, no, no, I don't want to know about history. I don't know about it, because if we know about it, then the Chinese communist wins. It's the same thing with COVID. No, no, we can't allow the reality of the situation to show up because it'll make us look bad. President Trump has directly said it countless times. We can't actually show what's happening because it'll make us look bad. It'll start comparing to other countries.

The point is to look good, but not doing, not to do good. That is the basis when we've always done things since we've done bad things. Every bad thing we do, say it didn't happen and then move on because we can't let people think we look back. Shall we move on? Yeah, all right. Let's see if we try to squeeze the next story. I'm sure I squeeze this. So moving on.

So a little bit of potential infighting in the White House. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has banned displays of Confederate flags on military installations without explicitly naming the Confederate flag. So let's get into some explanations of how that's going to work. So Esper effectively banned displays of the Confederate battle flag on US military installations saying in a memo Friday with the flag. that the flags we fly must accord with the military imperatives of good order and discipline, treating all of our people with the dignity and respect and rejecting divisive symbols. So the memo doesn't explicitly mention Confederate banners, but it does list the kinds of flags that you can fly on these installations. And the Confederate flag is just not one of those.

So that's kind of the way it's working out. And it's going to potentially cause a collision with the president, who we already know has been upset about potentially renaming some military. some of their, yeah, some of our bases and things like that that were named after some of these Confederate generals and names like that. So we'll see where he falls with the flag being flown in too. So we'll see how tight he can go. So guys, this upcoming election is one of the most important we've ever had in American history. If you watch the Young Church a long time, you've seen me say that that's not the case for most of the elections we've covered and we've covered a lot of elections. This is the big one. Because if Trump,

Trump wins, he gets to say, no, the American people agree with me. The Confederate flag is awesome. The racism and the slavery that it stood for is awesome, and we're not going to rename those bases, and we're going to allow people to fly the Confederate flag on U.S. military bases. Now, I'll do the usual, I'll remind you that the Confederacy went to war with the country of America. So the American military bases being named after our enemies is at a minimum quite ironic.

I don't think we have any military bases named after Osama bin Laden or Hirohito or Goebbels. And all those Confederate generals killed more Americans than all the guys I just named. So it's totally unacceptable. The military and the Secretary of Defense are actually on the right side on this. The Joint Chiefs agrees with the Secretary of Defense, and the military is making a stand for America. They're saying, if we're the United States military, we fly United States flags. We do not fly the flags of our enemies. Unfortunately, Trump does not agree. And part of the reason why they didn't specifically mention Confederate flags in that statement is for fear of invoking

Trump's wrath. But they're on a collision course. And if Trump wins again, he'll definitely fire Esper, he'll fire the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he'll put in complete lackeys. They'll not only fly the Confederate flag, but then Trump will have gained control over the military, and God knows what that means for the next election, if we have one. All right, we have so many more stories for you guys. It's in the post game, including what Mary Trump said about Donald Trump. It gets worse. Oh man. CY.com slash join or hit the join button below on YouTube. We'll see you there in a minute.

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