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So it is true that Antifa is messing up what should have been a very clean and effective Black Lives Matter message because that video made it very possible for Black Lives Matter to really gain a lot in terms of empathy and understanding, political clout, maybe gifts, things changed, maybe get some movement and maybe make a difference. There were all these things that could have easily come out of this and I think Antifa is the one breaking the windows right now.

I've seen a few videos of Black Lives Matter activists yelling at these white Antifa people who are breaking stuff. They're messing up property. And Black Lives Matter, at least the ones on these specific videos, notice it's not like it's capturing everybody's opinion. These are just some individual videos. But anecdotally there are enough Black Lives Matter activists who are saying, "That's not why we're here. We're not here to be looting on camera. That's working against our program."

So because Antifa has somehow sold Black Lives Matter on the idea that they're on the same team. But maybe I don't understand these two organizations well enough and you can correct me about this. So fact check me on this, would you? Now, is it true that Black Lives Matter would like to build something? In other words they'd like to build businesses for the black community. They'd like to build some economic security. They'd like to build better opportunity, build a better life. They'd like to build something specifically, right? I don't see Black Lives Matter saying we want to make somebody else less happy. I think they want to build something for a group. They've got some friction in terms of how society is organized. That's their view. And so they're trying to fix that. All good.

Not only is that all good but everybody on the right and I think everybody on the left would be in favor of that. Why is that not a good thing? Certainly the right is in favor of it. There's nobody on the political right who is not all for the black community building something, even more than ever before. All in favor. It's completely genuine when the president brags about bringing down black unemployment. That's completely real. And I'm not sure that anybody noticed that there's a genuine pride in helping everybody do better. So you've got that.

But then Antifa comes in and they mess up that clean message because the message was so clean this time because of the video. Well, maybe not as clean because there's some new video. We'll talk about that in a minute. But for a while there everybody was on the same team and the black people were trying to build something. I think everybody else was certainly in favor of that. Nobody was against it. Why would you be against it?

And then Antifa comes in and I'm not sure they're trying to build something, are they? They're literally trying to destroy the lower class to get to the upper class to destroy them. Am I wrong about that? That Antifa is actually trying to break the entire system. But since they can't directly get to the elite they're doing it by destroying the foundation, which is the black community for example.

So I'm pretty sure that Antifa is the natural enemy of Black Lives Matter and I don't know that Black Lives Matter has figured it out.

The other thing that's weird, and I mean it's almost so incredible that it's going to come out of my mouth and it won't even sound like it's reality. I'm going to say it anyway. The natural allies of Black Lives Matter are Republicans. Their natural allies. Because the Republicans have a very simple system. I say it all the time. If you follow the Constitution you're cool with us. You follow the law. You work, try to take care of your family. Boom, you're done. You're good. You are a hundred percent everything that Republicans like and respect and they'll help you get a job. They'll help you succeed and they'll like it. They'll not only do it, they'll like it. They'll brag about it. They'll tell their friends they helped you get a job.

So I think there maybe is some turning point happening because I think Black Lives Matter is looking at the people they thought were their allies. But where the black community is trying to build something these supposed allies in Antifa are literally trying to destroy those very things. The exact things that other people want to build because that's how they get the whole system to crumble.

I think unless I'm misunderstanding everybody's objective I think that I'm saying that accurately. So there may be this weird turning point where here's what it would take. If President Trump said tomorrow, look, you tell me what needs to be done. Give me some ideas about this police killing people situation. Just give me some ideas and then see what the federal government could do. Maybe nothing, maybe something. So if the president just said, you know, let me see how I can wade in to be helpful but you have to be specific. Tell me what I could do. Is funding more police body cams because maybe I can do that, right?

So the president has this gigantic opening to be the adult in the room and the one who says there's only one person listening to Black Lives Matter right now and it's me. And here's what I can do for you. Is anybody else offering? Because the black community is saying as clearly as possible, you can even hear from Charlamagne tha God saying it as clearly as possible, that they're gonna go where the deal is best. I mean they're basically declared free agency. They've declared free agency. They've actually said we would be willing to trade parties if you could make us an offer that sounds good.

And I would think that the president could do exactly that. He could make an offer that sounds good. So you may have this weird situation where these protests are going to turn into the black community saying what's the most pragmatic thing we could do? If you just want to be practical and actually just make results, the most practical thing you can do is pair with the Republicans. The Democratic Party in terms of being a victim party is no longer, I don't think, an optimum place for the black voters. Because if victim class is what the Democrats are all about, the trouble is that they have two categories ahead of you if you're black because there are more women than there are black people just in general demographically.

So because women are also a victim class they're always going to be a little bit ahead of any other class just because it's the greatest number of people. And then behind them it seems like just because the trend of politics it seems like the Hispanic vote is more important to the Democrats for the future anyway than the black vote. So if you're a black Democrat your rank just got knocked down to third place.

If you join the Republicans it's a sixty million tie for first place because the Republican point of view is American. Yes it's a tie. It's a tie. You and I are exactly equal. So that's sort of the Republican point of view. It's a lot easier to play by the rules on the right and the people would be more helpful I think as opposed to trying to destroy your black owned business with a Molotov cocktail which I would call not helpful.

Maybe there'll be a realization to that.

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What else we got going on here? I told you that we would eventually see that missing video of George Floyd's tragic ending few minutes. Because remember we weirdly had a video early on in the arrest sequence and we had a video of his final minutes but that whole thing in between was missing. And what did I tell you? I told you that somebody didn't want you to see it. And now we've seen some of it…

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