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Thumbnail Image Courtesy of: Pool/ Win McNamee/ Getty Images[Music] all right people this is the reuben report direct message and i have to start with some condemnations and some things that i need to disavow we live in a time where you must disavow things and you must do it when other people want you to do it and you must do it immediately and then you must do it repeatedly ad nauseam so i just i scribbled a few things down and i just want to get out there i want to get ahead of things you know what i mean i want to get ahead of the news curve and i want to disavow and condemn a whole bunch of stuff so please just bear with me uh for the beginning here i want to disavow white supremacy okay i'm disavowing completely i want nothing to do with it i also want to disavow black supremacy not good don't want to do it i don't like it okay i also want to disavow asian supremacy okay that we're not gonna be doing that around here okay that's for sure jewish supremacy no good sorry jews not gonna do it all right latino supremacy also not a good one no mas okay we're not gonna do that anymore gay supremacy sorry no we're not doing it i'm disavowing completely trans supremacy no i don't believe in it and i want to be very specific about that when i'm talking about decepticon supremacy so that goes for megatron starstream soundwave shockwave the whole thundercracker the whole crew all right no no we're not gonna do it i wanted this about blind supremacy you see a lot of blind people out there with the stick and they're poking you no no no no no uh deaf supremacy not not gonna do it and i don't know that are we putting subtitles on this because that one might slip through the cracks i also want to disavow tall supremacy because you know these tall people always looking down on everybody and it's just enough of that and of course short supremacy because you know a lot of short people they're always you know they've got a little bit of a a little i'm better than you because i you know sometimes you're looking straight away you don't see what's there and then they think you're better the one thing that i don't want to distance myself from and i want to be very clear about this okay so i've just denounced i've disavowed this is what you got to do it's 20 20. i want to be very clear that i am in no way denouncing um evil alien robot supremacy because uh i for one welcome our new overlords when they come because it can't get crazier all right people there's a lot of crazy stuff happening right now and uh it starts with condemnations and disavowing so we're doing uh we're doing three stories in today's direct message and uh the first story that we're going to talk about obviously is the firestorm over trump either disavowing or not disavowing white supremacy depending on where you fall politically you saw some very different things that happened during the debate the other night i've already gone into this i i discussed that he slightly butchered the answer that's what i said immediately after the debate before i saw the media firestorm uh because he he when he was asked the question by chris wallace about white supremacy because our media is so defunct and d legitimate and everything else he needed to repeat the question like a fifth grader writing an answer on a test he needed to say i donald j trump disavow condemn white supremacy now he's done this a million times before and we're going to get to that in just a second but the way he butchered it when he just said sure it gives room for the media to jump in and of course that's what the media is doing but i thought what i would show you first is uh a clip that is absolutely catching fire on twitter right now and i'm glad that it is uh i tweeted it out it was posted by somebody before me but i tweeted out and it's just catching fire everywhere this is from a debate in 2016. that's four years ago and remember now everyone's saying donald trump refuses to uh condemn and disavow white supremacy uh this is a debate in 2016 and you're not going to believe this guess who the moderator of the debate is chris wallace and guess what the question is will you disavow white supremacy and let's go to the videotape i totally disavow the klud klux klan i totally disavow david duke i've been doing it now for two weeks this is you're probably about the 18th person that's asked me the question it was very clear that question was also talked about in the form of groups groups i want to know which groups are you talking about you have to tell me which groups ultimately he got to the klutluxland which obviously i'm going to disavow and by the way if you look on my twitter account almost immediately after the program they were disavowed again you know it's amazing when i do something on twitter everybody picks it up goes all over the place but when i did this one nobody ever picks it up take a look at my twitter account thank you sir thank you thank you senator rubin are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in kenosha and as we've seen in portland are you prepared to do that okay so we didn't even need to show you his response there i showed it to you the other day you've seen the clip a million times so that is chris wallace the same guy asking the same exact question four years ago he heard trump's answer the media has all heard trump's answer they've heard it repeatedly but they keep running with this nonsense so then today at the white house press briefing press secretary caleb mcardy was asked a question by john roberts about donald trump further disavowing and condemning white supremacy let's take a look let's start off um i'd like to ask you for a definitive and declarative statement without ambiguity or deflection as the person who speaks for the president does the president denounce white supremacism and groups that espouse it in all their forms this has been answered yesterday by the president himself the day before by the president himself on the debate stage the president was asked this he said sure three times yesterday he was point blank blank asked do you uh denounce white supremacy and he said i've always denounced any form of that i can go back and read for you in august 2019 and one voice our nation must condemn racism bigotry and white supremacy in august of 2017. racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the kkk neo-nazis white supremacists and other hate groups i have an entire list of these quotes that i can go through with you he is condemned white's privacy more than any president in modern history just to clear it up this morning can you naming it make a declarative statement that you deny that the president announces i just did uh the president has denounced this repeatedly the president was asked this you're making you're contriving a storyline and a narrative asking you to put it he said to rest i just did i read you all of the quotes and if you need to see them in writing i will put them in an email paula so haley can you right now denounce white supremacy white supremacy the kkk and hate groups in all forms he signed a resolution to that effect uh the president just last week perhaps you all weren't covering it but just last week expressed his desire to see the kkk prosecuted as domestic terrorist this president uh had advocated for the death penalty for a white supremacist the first federal execution in 17 years his record on this is unmistakable and it's shameful that the media all right so i think by watching that unedited clip because i show you unedited things even though again i'm not a journalist i wish somebody i wish we had journalists i'd find something else to do um in that unedited clip it's pretty unambiguous that the man is condemning the kkk and has done it in the past david duke and has done it in the past white supremacy she even mentions that he wants to prosecute uh these groups as domestic terrorists um she answers the question repeatedly and clearly now john uh what john fox it's not john fox john roberts john fox he's on fox uh john roberts i i usually think is a pretty decent reporter from what i can tell so i don't know what he's going for there um but what they're really trying to do and and then of course you know these clips are being spread all over if i said kaylee doesn't condem white supremacy dances around question blah blah she's literally reading statement after statement of what the guy has said over years but you know the media the media is just dead and the usual suspects tweeted out as if he didn't condemn white supremacy i had to tweet david frum today because of his nonsense and then uh one of these guys this guy aaron something at fox i try not to make it about the people um but it's like you're a journalist at vox and he tweets out the clip and again it's the implication no she's dancing around it she didn't say he's against white supremacy or anything like that it's in the freaking clip this is what gaslighting is and i think what what trump is realizing and i'm glad to see so much pushback against it today um is that gaslighting in effect is when you know you've done something and your opponents do the complete reverse they do something so over the top that you just have to keep dancing for them while the house burned down around you and i think trump fully understands that this is the way the media plays and has played for a long time and i think what he's doing is mapping a path basically for other people in this case mostly conservatives or right-leaning people to not back down to the nonsense and not back down to the mob you're seeing the mob you're this is when you talk about cancel culture and the mob and everything else you're seeing it in action right now what are all these people that are telling you that trump won't denounce white supremacy and everything else and i played the clip from charlottesville the other day where he absolutely denounces the neo-nazis and the kkk and even uh i just tweeted out this morning bernie sanders has a tweet from yesterday where he uses the very fine people on both sides hoax now for some reason twitter doesn't put a oh this is factually untrue when bernie sanders does it so we know that there's a that there's a political leaning and that's a whole bigger conversation related to big tech and everything else but what trump is doing is basically mapping people and he's showing you know the mob is going to come for you if you if you say something that is true and you have a track record of saying it and everything else they'll still come for you never bend the knee so i'm glad to see so many people have just absolutely had it and and the media is burning down their old hat their own house is this what you guys want to do is this what you guys want to do i did it the other day but here i'll talk directly to you here i'm going to do a joe biden joe biden like looking in the camera and i'm talking to you the american people i find it very creepy actually um i'll talk to you directly jake tapper and brian stelter and wolf blitzer and don lemon and whoever else guys play the clip of trump and the very fine hoax thing and show that that is a hoax show that that's a hoax and i'll give you credit gladly give you credit most people will give you credit the problem is the media is in the tank so far for the democrats and they've dug it so deep and they never looked back they never looked back when trump became president all they had to do was say hey maybe we did a little something wrong here maybe we were a little too biased and people were voting against it i actually think what's happening right now in a weird way it's like yesterday a lot of people were saying oh you know trump either lost the debate or certainly wasn't at his best and the fact that biden's head didn't explode biden did okay i actually think the narrative is shifting now where it's like they went in so deep on this nonsense about trump not disavowing white supremacy that it's fueling it's fueling the trump people right now i feel like they're being a little a little braver and a little more out there and and the media is just completely losing control and again i know i've said this a million times so i'll make it quick but this is why i did that video the day after the election sitting in my backyard we didn't have we didn't even have a studio and i did this video saying if you keep calling him a nazi you're going to regret it because you're going to paint yourself into a corner and when it turns out that he's not a nazi you can't turn around and say that the nazi ain't that bad so this is just an extension of everything but i i want to say one other thing about chris wallace look i don't like attacking hosts and moderators i know that as an interviewer you're going to make some mistakes you're not going to ask a follow-up question here someone might be able to get some misinformation in and you might miss it sometimes somebody says so many things at once that you can only pick one thing like i'm not going to pretend i'm perfect i don't think larry king would pretend that he was perfect i don't think johnny carson would say that he was perfect there's no perfect way of being an interviewer i don't think barbara walters would say she was perfect and there's also no perfect way of being a moderator however for chris wallace to ask virtually the same exact question four years later knowing that he knew the answer like if if he felt if he really really felt that he had to ask trump about white supremacy even though it's not white supremacists that are burning down buildings you know west hollywood here which is the gayest place on earth they've got a rainbow crosswalk okay all the gay bars outside it it couldn't get gay you could put glitter in a you put a lot of glitter all over the place okay and and it wouldn't be gayer there is a lot of glitter over there um the streets are lined with glitter um it's the gayest place on earth and many of the buildings are still locked down and they're locked down the storefronts are still locked down and they've all got the signs blm and we're for peace and justice and diversity and all this stuff and it's like they're not locked down because they think their windows are going to be broken by white supremacists where are the white supremacists running around breaking windows and stopping people on the street and burning down buildings i don't know where they are could someone point to where they are someone could point it please uh let me know um they're they're doing it because they're afraid of antifa they're afraid of blm it's a protection racket it's basically the mafia you put up our sign or we're gonna burn your store down okay so everybody's got this whole thing backwards and i thought that intersectionality meant that you're supposed to be four gays so why did they shut down basically the gayest place on earth i mean it's all have some water i don't i don't have any water where's my water for god sakes um anyway it's just it's just a whole bunch of crazy nonsense but what i am enthused about is that we've got a chance to fight back that's what the online world is you know these people like to pretend they're the rebel resistance and actually they're the death star they're the big governmental machine that always wants more power and wants to control how people think and live right what did why do they want the death star they wanted the death star so that every planet this is what uh grand muff tarkin says at the beginning of star wars they want the death star because they know the planets will all fall in line because if you've got a big gun that can blow up the planet well then you're going to do what they want and in many ways that is now the goal of the left that they want the government to do everything the government's evil and also give it more money and give it more power like that's what they were doing with the death star so that the planets in this case the states or individual people can't make decisions for themselves because that thing will be so powerful um i'll say one other thing about about this and when i said that joe biden keeps turning to the camera and talking to you like that i was thinking i meant to mention it yesterday i was thinking as i was watching the debate like i don't want a politician that says he can solve all of my problems if trump was telling me i could he could solve all my problems or biden or anyone else it's like that line that way of thinking that politicians or the government can solve all of your problems they can't solve all of my problems i actually can't imagine a problem that i could have uh well i cannot i can't imagine if if my house was on fire then i would want the fire department to do something and i do think that's a role for the government or if uh someone was attacking me on the street that is role for the police and that's the government but there's very few things where you're like oh i wish the government was here you know like no they're not very good at things and and that's okay by the way and that's that's actually what our founders were warning us again so this thing about the government's going to do all the things the government's going to save you from the environment in 12 years the government is going to demand that you drive an electric car the government is going to do all these things no it's not going to be i'd also like to condemn all of the people and disavow all of the people that think the government can do everything because it just can't all right i think you i think you got the point on that one people uh let's move on to the second story this is just well it's just an extension of everything like we're just living in this time of what ben shapiro talks about in in his new book uh we're living in a time of disintegration like all of the norms seem to be crumbling and and for if you're looking at it through the lens of an election well then do you think that biden is going to accelerate or slow down or reverse the disintegration or do you think the trump's going to do that and i think i think most people think well trump's trying to at least restore something and and buy it and whatever it is so speaking of disintegration the new ap style book guidelines are now recommending that journalists journalists use the word unrest instead of riot because riot is too politically charged so the ap style book for those of you that don't know this is a book that the ap puts out i think basically every year they update it with a few things i have one around here somewhere i think we've got one in my in my uh draw over there and basically they tell you that the types of in effect how you should go about being a good journalist and a good writer and where you should put commas and parentheses and all of these things okay so it's a guide for how to do basic journalism uh basic writing you can think about it that way okay um on a lot of the stuff is stuff you learn in seventh grade but then you know there's some deeper stuff in that obviously uh but now they're recommending that we use the word unrest instead of riot and they put out a twitter thread and let's throw to it i'll read it to you uh this is uh the new guidance on ap style book online use care in deciding which term best applies a riot is a wild or violent disturbance of the piece involving a group of people the term riot suggests uncontrolled chaos and pandemonium i'll editorialize for just a moment there that does kind of sound like what we've seen in kenosha and what we've seen in portland or what we've seen in seattle and what we've seen in new york and what we've seen in los angeles and what we've seen pretty much everywhere and why is that because it is as they say uncontrolled chaos and pandemonium when you see milestone cocktails being thrown at police officers and people being hit over the head and you know assaulting people that are trying to sit at restaurants that sounds like uncontrolled chaos to me and also pandemonium the tweet thread goes on focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching police brutality or for racial justice going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s unrest is a vaguer milder and less emotional term for a condition of angry discontent and protest verging on revolt so we'll go back to camera for a sec you see what they did there they went they started going from we use words because words have of actual definition in fact to now but there's a feeling we have about why people do certain things so now we have to change words that's very very dangerous the twitter thread goes on protest and demonstration refer to specific actions such as march-ins sit-ins rallies or other actions meant to register dissent they can be legal or illegal organized or spontaneous peaceful or violent and involve any number of people so what they just said there that's a lot of double speak right there protest and demonstration can be peaceful or violent well protest can be peaceful demonstration can be peaceful but once it's violent that would be what you call a riot i don't mean to be a stickler for the english language but you know come with me on this adventure and then finally revolt and uprising both suggest a broader political dimension or civil upheavals a sustained period of protest or unrest against powerful groups or governing system well that seems like what we've got now and they're doing it with riots now i mentioned this story because on at some level you're probably listening to me and you're going well what difference does it make what the ap style book says now as i always use quotes when i talk about journalists um i think probably the rest of you understand why this is important first off there's almost no journalistic standards anymore so this book is trying to give some journalistic standards they should also try giving some journalistic standards related to anonymous sources but that's a whole other story um what you're seeing here though is that when they're trying to change the language they're trying to confuse our ability to have a common conversation once when one person sees a city burning down and molotov cocktails and windows being broken and people being attacked and random people being shot and and insurgent antifa groups creating their own set of laws in chop in in seattle uh the average person would say that is violent that is a riot that is uh untenable for a civil society but they would rather you call it unrest because somehow beneath the exterior of the violence beneath it is good people these are good people and they're fighting for good things so we don't want to say they're rioters it's just unrest and this is a manipulation so that so that people will watch the same thing and depending on what your political affiliation is or where your political leanings are you won't be able to have a conversation with someone because you're going to say you're going to watch and go that was a riot and they're going to go no it's just unrest and then you're going to fight each other out and it'll most likely end in a riot this is a problem this is a real problem okay and i don't know if you've ever heard of this but there was a book by a guy named george orwell it was written about gosh probably about 70 years ago something like that around 1950 maybe um and george orwell in 1984 many of you of course know in 1984 one of the things he talked about was newspeak okay and i wanna i wanna actually read to you what newspeak is in this dystopian society that he believed would occur in 1984 maybe it took a little bit longer than george orwell thought but newspeak this is the wikipedia definition of newspeak although wikipedia has got a little news speak in and of itself the political purpose of newspeak is to eliminate the expression of the shades of meaning inherent to ambiguity and nuance from old speak standard english in order to reduce the language's function of communication by way of simplistic concepts of simple construction pleasure verse pain happiness verse sadness good think verse crime think the last one of these which linguistically reinforces the state's dominance of the people of oceania so that's that that's the uh where they live is oceana that's the country that they live in um if you haven't seen 1984 i mean there's a movie hopefully you've read it but if you haven't done either one of those and you don't have much time uh i did a video with michael knowles uh for the prageru book club where we dissect 1984 and in effect we end up just talking about current events because there are so many phrases from 1984 and so much of the landscape politically that george orwell talks about is happening now this is it what once was science fiction is now reality words are changing in front of us and what they're also doing is these are the same people who will say violence is not violent meaning if you burn down a building that's not violence because you there's insurance and no human no person was hurt directly right so that's not violence but they'll also tell you that words are violent so that if you misgender someone that's violence yet if they call someone else a nazi that doesn't count as that kind of word violence none of it makes sense and none of it makes sense by design and and i think the more you understand that the more you can make sense of the world and actually that does bring me to an interesting point which is i was on twitter this morning and i was thinking you know and i tweeted something out about this it seemed crazier than usual like things do seem crazier than usual and it's it's partly because of what i just talked about where we're all seeing different versions of reality and as i've been saying there's a war on reality that's what's happening right now um but the people that are making sense to me right now are the people that are honestly looking at the world as it is not as they want it to be but if you only look at the world as you want it to be you will be endlessly miserable because guess what you don't own the world buddy you can work to make it better but you don't own it uh speaking of working to make it better i got one other story that i'm gonna do relatively quickly uh coinbase ceo his name is brian armstrong uh he issued an interesting statement uh and it's got a lot of people pissed off and then the the former ceo of twitter got involved i'll get to that in a second but he just poured gasoline on the whole thing so brian armstrong said that basically he wanted to get in effect what he wants to do is get social justice out of his company i don't know where he stands politically but he understands that once you let these ideas in and then everyone's fighting about everything that you're going to go off mission right and i've talked about this a bunch and peter bogosian who's a friend who i've had on the show many times he talks about this if you let social justice into an organization whether you think it's good or bad or indifferent once you have people focusing on how many black people should we have and how many asian people should we have and how many gay people should we have you've already directed resources away from the goal which should be to make a better product or sell more stuff or whatever it is you know have a better hotel whatever business you're in you've directed resources to things that are in many ways uh contrary to what the original business motivation is okay so

Thumbnail Image Courtesy of: Pool/ Win McNamee/ Getty Images[Music] all right people this is the reuben report direct message and i have to start with some condemnations and some things that i need to disavow we live in a time where you must disavow things and you must do it when other people want you to do it and you must do it immediately and then you must do it repeatedly ad nauseam so i just i scribbled a few things down and i just want to get out there i want to get ahead of things you know what i mean i want to get ahead of the news curve and i want to disavow and condemn a whole bunch of stuff so please just bear with me uh for the beginning here i want to disavow white supremacy okay i'm disavowing completely i want nothing to do with it i also want to disavow black supremacy not good don't want to do it i don't like it okay i also want to disavow asian supremacy okay that we're not gonna be doing that around here okay that's for sure jewish supremacy no good sorry jews not gonna do it all right latino supremacy also not a good one no mas okay we're not gonna do that anymore gay supremacy sorry no we're not doing it i'm disavowing completely trans supremacy no i don't believe in it and i want to be very specific about that when i'm talking about decepticon supremacy so that goes for megatron starstream soundwave shockwave the whole thundercracker the whole crew all right no no we're not gonna do it i wanted this about blind supremacy you see a lot of blind people out there with the stick and they're poking you no no no no no uh deaf supremacy not not gonna do it and i don't know that are we putting subtitles on this because that one might slip through the cracks i also want to disavow tall supremacy because you know these tall people always looking down on everybody and it's just enough of that and of course short supremacy because you know a lot of short people they're always you know they've got a little bit of a a little i'm better than you because i you know sometimes you're looking straight away you don't see what's there and then they think you're better the one thing that i don't want to distance myself from and i want to be very clear about this okay so i've just denounced i've disavowed this is what you got to do it's 20 20. i want to be very clear that i am in no way denouncing um evil alien robot supremacy because uh i for one welcome our new overlords when they come because it can't get crazier all right people there's a lot of crazy stuff happening right now and uh it starts with condemnations and disavowing so we're doing uh we're doing three stories in today's direct message and uh the first story that we're going to talk about obviously is the firestorm over trump either disavowing or not disavowing white supremacy depending on where you fall politically you saw some very different things that happened during the debate the other night i've already gone into this i i discussed that he slightly butchered the answer that's what i said immediately after the debate before i saw the media firestorm uh because he he when he was asked the question by chris wallace about white supremacy because our media is so defunct and d legitimate and everything else he needed to repeat the question like a fifth grader writing an answer on a test he needed to say i donald j trump disavow condemn white supremacy now he's done this a million times before and we're going to get to that in just a second but the way he butchered it when he just said sure it gives room for the media to jump in and of course that's what the media is doing but i thought what i would show you first is uh a clip that is absolutely catching fire on twitter right now and i'm glad that it is uh i tweeted it out it was posted by somebody before me but i tweeted out and it's just catching fire everywhere this is from a debate in 2016. that's four years ago and remember now everyone's saying donald trump refuses to uh condemn and disavow white supremacy uh this is a debate in 2016 and you're not going to believe this guess who the moderator of the debate is chris wallace and guess what the question is will you disavow white supremacy and let's go to the videotape i totally disavow the klud klux klan i totally disavow david duke i've been doing it now for two weeks this is you're probably about the 18th person that's asked me the question it was very clear that question was also talked about in the form of groups groups i want to know which groups are you talking about you have to tell me which groups ultimately he got to the klutluxland which obviously i'm going to disavow and by the way if you look on my twitter account almost immediately after the program they were disavowed again you know it's amazing when i do something on twitter everybody picks it up goes all over the place but when i did this one nobody ever picks it up take a look at my twitter account thank you sir thank you thank you senator rubin are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in kenosha and as we've seen in portland are you prepared to do that okay so we didn't even need to show you his response there i showed it to you the other day you've seen the clip a million times so that is chris wallace the same guy asking the same exact question four years ago he heard trump's answer the media has all heard trump's answer they've heard it repeatedly but they keep running with this nonsense so then today at the white house press briefing press secretary caleb mcardy was asked a question by john roberts about donald trump further disavowing and condemning white supremacy let's take a look let's start off um i'd like to ask you for a definitive and declarative statement without ambiguity or deflection as the person who speaks for the president does the president denounce white supremacism and groups that espouse it in all their forms this has been answered yesterday by the president himself the day before by the president himself on the debate stage the president was asked this he said sure three times yesterday he was point blank blank asked do you uh denounce white supremacy and he said i've always denounced any form of that i can go back and read for you in august 2019 and one voice our nation must condemn racism bigotry and white supremacy in august of 2017. racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the kkk neo-nazis white supremacists and other hate groups i have an entire list of these quotes that i can go through with you he is condemned white's privacy more than any president in modern history just to clear it up this morning can you naming it make a declarative statement that you deny that the president announces i just did uh the president has denounced this repeatedly the president was asked this you're making you're contriving a storyline and a narrative asking you to put it he said to rest i just did i read you all of the quotes and if you need to see them in writing i will put them in an email paula so haley can you right now denounce white supremacy white supremacy the kkk and hate groups in all forms he signed a resolution to that effect uh the president just last week perhaps you all weren't covering it but just last week expressed his desire to see the kkk prosecuted as domestic terrorist this president uh had advocated for the death penalty for a white supremacist the first federal execution in 17 years his record on this is unmistakable and it's shameful that the media all right so i think by watching that unedited clip because i show you unedited things even though again i'm not a journalist i wish somebody i wish we had journalists i'd find something else to do um in that unedited clip it's pretty unambiguous that the man is condemning the kkk and has done it in the past david duke and has done it in the past white supremacy she even mentions that he wants to prosecute uh these groups as domestic terrorists um she answers the question repeatedly and clearly now john uh what john fox it's not john fox john roberts john fox he's on fox uh john roberts i i usually think is a pretty decent reporter from what i can tell so i don't know what he's going for there um but what they're really trying to do and and then of course you know these clips are being spread all over if i said kaylee doesn't condem white supremacy dances around question blah blah she's literally reading statement after statement of what the guy has said over years but you know the media the media is just dead and the usual suspects tweeted out as if he didn't condemn white supremacy i had to tweet david frum today because of his nonsense and then uh one of these guys this guy aaron something at fox i try not to make it about the people um but it's like you're a journalist at vox and he tweets out the clip and again it's the implication no she's dancing around it she didn't say he's against white supremacy or anything like that it's in the freaking clip this is what gaslighting is and i think what what trump is realizing and i'm glad to see so much pushback against it today um is that gaslighting in effect is when you know you've done something and your opponents do the complete reverse they do something so over the top that you just have to keep dancing for them while the house burned down around you and i think trump fully understands that this is the way the media plays and has played for a long time and i think what he's doing is mapping a path basically for other people in this case mostly conservatives or right-leaning people to not back down to the nonsense and not back down to the mob you're seeing the mob you're this is when you talk about cancel culture and the mob and everything else you're seeing it in action right now what are all these people that are telling you that trump won't denounce white supremacy and everything else and i played the clip from charlottesville the other day where he absolutely denounces the neo-nazis and the kkk and even uh i just tweeted out this morning bernie sanders has a tweet from yesterday where he uses the very fine people on both sides hoax now for some reason twitter doesn't put a oh this is factually untrue when bernie sanders does it so we know that there's a that there's a political leaning and that's a whole bigger conversation related to big tech and everything else but what trump is doing is basically mapping people and he's showing you know the mob is going to come for you if you if you say something that is true and you have a track record of saying it and everything else they'll still come for you never bend the knee so i'm glad to see so many people have just absolutely had it and and the media is burning down their old hat their own house is this what you guys want to do is this what you guys want to do i did it the other day but here i'll talk directly to you here i'm going to do a joe biden joe biden like looking in the camera and i'm talking to you the american people i find it very creepy actually um i'll talk to you directly jake tapper and brian stelter and wolf blitzer and don lemon and whoever else guys play the clip of trump and the very fine hoax thing and show that that is a hoax show that that's a hoax and i'll give you credit gladly give you credit most people will give you credit the problem is the media is in the tank so far for the democrats and they've dug it so deep and they never looked back they never looked back when trump became president all they had to do was say hey maybe we did a little something wrong here maybe we were a little too biased and people were voting against it i actually think what's happening right now in a weird way it's like yesterday a lot of people were saying oh you know trump either lost the debate or certainly wasn't at his best and the fact that biden's head didn't explode biden did okay i actually think the narrative is shifting now where it's like they went in so deep on this nonsense about trump not disavowing white supremacy that it's fueling it's fueling the trump people right now i feel like they're being a little a little braver and a little more out there and and the media is just completely losing control and again i know i've said this a million times so i'll make it quick but this is why i did that video the day after the election sitting in my backyard we didn't have we didn't even have a studio and i did this video saying if you keep calling him a nazi you're going to regret it because you're going to paint yourself into a corner and when it turns out that he's not a nazi you can't turn around and say that the nazi ain't that bad so this is just an extension of everything but i i want to say one other thing about chris wallace look i don't like attacking hosts and moderators i know that as an interviewer you're going to make some mistakes you're not going to ask a follow-up question here someone might be able to get some misinformation in and you might miss it sometimes somebody says so many things at once that you can only pick one thing like i'm not going to pretend i'm perfect i don't think larry king would pretend that he was perfect i don't think johnny carson would say that he was perfect there's no perfect way of being an interviewer i don't think barbara walters would say she was perfect and there's also no perfect way of being a moderator however for chris wallace to ask virtually the same exact question four years later knowing that he knew the answer like if if he felt if he really really felt that he had to ask trump about white supremacy even though it's not white supremacists that are burning down buildings you know west hollywood here which is the gayest place on earth they've got a rainbow crosswalk okay all the gay bars outside it it couldn't get gay you could put glitter in a you put a lot of glitter all over the place okay and and it wouldn't be gayer there is a lot of glitter over there um the streets are lined with glitter um it's the gayest place on earth and many of the buildings are still locked down and they're locked down the storefronts are still locked down and they've all got the signs blm and we're for peace and justice and diversity and all this stuff and it's like they're not locked down because they think their windows are going to be broken by white supremacists where are the white supremacists running around breaking windows and stopping people on the street and burning down buildings i don't know where they are could someone point to where they are someone could point it please uh let me know um they're they're doing it because they're afraid of antifa they're afraid of blm it's a protection racket it's basically the mafia you put up our sign or we're gonna burn your store down okay so everybody's got this whole thing backwards and i thought that intersectionality meant that you're supposed to be four gays so why did they shut down basically the gayest place on earth i mean it's all have some water i don't i don't have any water where's my water for god sakes um anyway it's just it's just a whole bunch of crazy nonsense but what i am enthused about is that we've got a chance to fight back that's what the online world is you know these people like to pretend they're the rebel resistance and actually they're the death star they're the big governmental machine that always wants more power and wants to control how people think and live right what did why do they want the death star they wanted the death star so that every planet this is what uh grand muff tarkin says at the beginning of star wars they want the death star because they know the planets will all fall in line because if you've got a big gun that can blow up the planet well then you're going to do what they want and in many ways that is now the goal of the left that they want the government to do everything the government's evil and also give it more money and give it more power like that's what they were doing with the death star so that the planets in this case the states or individual people can't make decisions for themselves because that thing will be so powerful um i'll say one other thing about about this and when i said that joe biden keeps turning to the camera and talking to you like that i was thinking i meant to mention it yesterday i was thinking as i was watching the debate like i don't want a politician that says he can solve all of my problems if trump was telling me i could he could solve all my problems or biden or anyone else it's like that line that way of thinking that politicians or the government can solve all of your problems they can't solve all of my problems i actually can't imagine a problem that i could have uh well i cannot i can't imagine if if my house was on fire then i would want the fire department to do something and i do think that's a role for the government or if uh someone was attacking me on the street that is role for the police and that's the government but there's very few things where you're like oh i wish the government was here you know like no they're not very good at things and and that's okay by the way and that's that's actually what our founders were warning us again so this thing about the government's going to do all the things the government's going to save you from the environment in 12 years the government is going to demand that you drive an electric car the government is going to do all these things no it's not going to be i'd also like to condemn all of the people and disavow all of the people that think the government can do everything because it just can't all right i think you i think you got the point on that one people uh let's move on to the second story this is just well it's just an extension of everything like we're just living in this time of what ben shapiro talks about in in his new book uh we're living in a time of disintegration like all of the norms seem to be crumbling and and for if you're looking at it through the lens of an election well then do you think that biden is going to accelerate or slow down or reverse the disintegration or do you think the trump's going to do that and i think i think most people think well trump's trying to at least restore something and and buy it and whatever it is so speaking of disintegration the new ap style book guidelines are now recommending that journalists journalists use the word unrest instead of riot because riot is too politically charged so the ap style book for those of you that don't know this is a book that the ap puts out i think basically every year they update it with a few things i have one around here somewhere i think we've got one in my in my uh draw over there and basically they tell you that the types of in effect how you should go about being a good journalist and a good writer and where you should put commas and parentheses and all of these things okay so it's a guide for how to do basic journalism uh basic writing you can think about it that way okay um on a lot of the stuff is stuff you learn in seventh grade but then you know there's some deeper stuff in that obviously uh but now they're recommending that we use the word unrest instead of riot and they put out a twitter thread and let's throw to it i'll read it to you uh this is uh the new guidance on ap style book online use care in deciding which term best applies a riot is a wild or violent disturbance of the piece involving a group of people the term riot suggests uncontrolled chaos and pandemonium i'll editorialize for just a moment there that does kind of sound like what we've seen in kenosha and what we've seen in portland or what we've seen in seattle and what we've seen in new york and what we've seen in los angeles and what we've seen pretty much everywhere and why is that because it is as they say uncontrolled chaos and pandemonium when you see milestone cocktails being thrown at police officers and people being hit over the head and you know assaulting people that are trying to sit at restaurants that sounds like uncontrolled chaos to me and also pandemonium the tweet thread goes on focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching police brutality or for racial justice going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s unrest is a vaguer milder and less emotional term for a condition of angry discontent and protest verging on revolt so we'll go back to camera for a sec you see what they did there they went they started going from we use words because words have of actual definition in fact to now but there's a feeling we have about why people do certain things so now we have to change words that's very very dangerous the twitter thread goes on protest and demonstration refer to specific actions such as march-ins sit-ins rallies or other actions meant to register dissent they can be legal or illegal organized or spontaneous peaceful or violent and involve any number of people so what they just said there that's a lot of double speak right there protest and demonstration can be peaceful or violent well protest can be peaceful demonstration can be peaceful but once it's violent that would be what you call a riot i don't mean to be a stickler for the english language but you know come with me on this adventure and then finally revolt and uprising both suggest a broader political dimension or civil upheavals a sustained period of protest or unrest against powerful groups or governing system well that seems like what we've got now and they're doing it with riots now i mentioned this story because on at some level you're probably listening to me and you're going well what difference does it make what the ap style book says now as i always use quotes when i talk about journalists um i think probably the rest of you understand why this is important first off there's almost no journalistic standards anymore so this book is trying to give some journalistic standards they should also try giving some journalistic standards related to anonymous sources but that's a whole other story um what you're seeing here though is that when they're trying to change the language they're trying to confuse our ability to have a common conversation once when one person sees a city burning down and molotov cocktails and windows being broken and people being attacked and random people being shot and and insurgent antifa groups creating their own set of laws in chop in in seattle uh the average person would say that is violent that is a riot that is uh untenable for a civil society but they would rather you call it unrest because somehow beneath the exterior of the violence beneath it is good people these are good people and they're fighting for good things so we don't want to say they're rioters it's just unrest and this is a manipulation so that so that people will watch the same thing and depending on what your political affiliation is or where your political leanings are you won't be able to have a conversation with someone because you're going to say you're going to watch and go that was a riot and they're going to go no it's just unrest and then you're going to fight each other out and it'll most likely end in a riot this is a problem this is a real problem okay and i don't know if you've ever heard of this but there was a book by a guy named george orwell it was written about gosh probably about 70 years ago something like that around 1950 maybe um and george orwell in 1984 many of you of course know in 1984 one of the things he talked about was newspeak okay and i wanna i wanna actually read to you what newspeak is in this dystopian society that he believed would occur in 1984 maybe it took a little bit longer than george orwell thought but newspeak this is the wikipedia definition of newspeak although wikipedia has got a little news speak in and of itself the political purpose of newspeak is to eliminate the expression of the shades of meaning inherent to ambiguity and nuance from old speak standard english in order to reduce the language's function of communication by way of simplistic concepts of simple construction pleasure verse pain happiness verse sadness good think verse crime think the last one of these which linguistically reinforces the state's dominance of the people of oceania so that's that that's the uh where they live is oceana that's the country that they live in um if you haven't seen 1984 i mean there's a movie hopefully you've read it but if you haven't done either one of those and you don't have much time uh i did a video with michael knowles uh for the prageru book club where we dissect 1984 and in effect we end up just talking about current events because there are so many phrases from 1984 and so much of the landscape politically that george orwell talks about is happening now this is it what once was science fiction is now reality words are changing in front of us and what they're also doing is these are the same people who will say violence is not violent meaning if you burn down a building that's not violence because you there's insurance and no human no person was hurt directly right so that's not violence but they'll also tell you that words are violent so that if you misgender someone that's violence yet if they call someone else a nazi that doesn't count as that kind of word violence none of it makes sense and none of it makes sense by design and and i think the more you understand that the more you can make sense of the world and actually that does bring me to an interesting point which is i was on twitter this morning and i was thinking you know and i tweeted something out about this it seemed crazier than usual like things do seem crazier than usual and it's it's partly because of what i just talked about where we're all seeing different versions of reality and as i've been saying there's a war on reality that's what's happening right now um but the people that are making sense to me right now are the people that are honestly looking at the world as it is not as they want it to be but if you only look at the world as you want it to be you will be endlessly miserable because guess what you don't own the world buddy you can work to make it better but you don't own it uh speaking of working to make it better i got one other story that i'm gonna do relatively quickly uh coinbase ceo his name is brian armstrong uh he issued an interesting statement uh and it's got a lot of people pissed off and then the the former ceo of twitter got involved i'll get to that in a second but he just poured gasoline on the whole thing so brian armstrong said that basically he wanted to get in effect what he wants to do is get social justice out of his company i don't know where he stands politically but he understands that once you let these ideas in and then everyone's fighting about everything that you're going to go off mission right and i've talked about this a bunch and peter bogosian who's a friend who i've had on the show many times he talks about this if you let social justice into an organization whether you think it's good or bad or indifferent once you have people focusing on how many black people should we have and how many asian people should we have and how many gay people should we have you've already directed resources away from the goal which should be to make a better product or sell more stuff or whatever it is you know have a better hotel whatever business you're in you've directed resources to things that are in many ways uh contrary to what the original business motivation is okay so