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n? Now of course the big risk is that once it's even allowed that you could call domestic people terrorists the moment you allow that you're open to abuse because then there might be some future group that's not so bad that gets declared terrorist organization because it's politically expedient. So you can see it would be opening Pandora's box. But we also might not have any choice. In other words…

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actively encouraging it I would say.

Yeah Larry Elder has been one of the probably one of the only honest voices in this whole situation because he's a Black man and he's a conservative so he's capable. You know he's got this sort of a safe position where he can say things that are true. I think we've come to the point that the only people who can tell the truth in public are Black conservatives. Think about that. That'll blow your mind when you think about it a little longer. The only people who are allowed even allowed to tell the truth in public are Black conservatives because they can say things white conservatives can't say and the other side is just lying. So how about that?

All right let me just check my notes and see if I missed anything exciting. And we've got police shootings in Las Vegas. Doc DJ Dr Funk Juice reminds me he's a Vegas resident that police were actually targeted last night. Police were targeted and shot last night. Now how much longer are we willing to go?

Oh yeah Jesse Lee Peterson is another truth-teller. Very very interesting man. Very interesting man. Jesse Lee Peterson is one of the most interesting people. I spent a little time with him. He did an interview when I was on a book tour and there is something about that guy that is really, I don't know he's got that X factor. He's just got something going on. I love that guy. Yeah Candace Owens can tell the truth although she gets a lot of social blowback from it.

All right somebody says good to know because I'm a Black conservative and you can tell the truth. Clinton is in court today for what? Scott can you find the laws on shooting terrorists? Well I don't think we're going to see any laws that would allow domestic terrorists to be shot. I think you can rule that out.

Estimate is that eight to ten innocent people are dead from the riots. That's the small number. I think that's worth reporting but the big number is what the economic devastation will do. So I'm going to be advocating that we see those numbers just in the interest of knowing the whole story. Yeah we want to know the whole story. We want to know how many Black people Antifa has killed.

Now I was thinking that maybe the only, if you try to game this out and think what is the, how do you get past this? My best guess is like the coronavirus there are some things where the energy itself just dissipates after a time. So it could be that after a certain amount of destruction the energy just dissipates. That would be cool. But there are certainly smart people such as Rudy Giuliani and people who understand crime and criminal minds and that sort of thing who say that as long as the criminals keep getting away with it, the looting in particular, especially the gang looting which is what makes it safe, they lose in such large numbers that the police wisely just step back because there's nothing you can do. They're so outnumbered and you don't want people to get hurt over merchandise. So the looters have come up with a business model that we don't have any response to because if you don't actually kill them why would they stop? Because you can't arrest them and even if you arrested a few so many would not be arrested it would still be a good risk reward. So right now the business model of the looters is the superior business model. They just come in large numbers. They use social media. They get some stuff. They go home. There's no real risk to them except of course the total destruction of the economy which will catch up to them eventually but the police don't have a response to that.

So if you're trying to say all right so where does this go? One way is that police get better tools you know and maybe they prevent things early and they just figure out to be more clever and more effective. That's certainly some of that will happen meaning that there's no doubt that the police will become more effective and will bring in new tools. We don't know what they are yet but we don't know if they'll be effective I suppose. That doesn't work. Suppose the business model of the looters just is so good that it goes from store to store to store and it's just every night and once they've robbed your town they just pick a new town until all the towns are robbed to nothing. What would stop them? Because it's working. As long as it works why would you stop doing it? People do things that work.

The only thing I can think of and now imagine, imagine if they started shooting people or you know getting tough on protesters. Eventually a Black person would be killed by a policeman. What happens if one Black person no matter what they were doing no matter the situation if one Black person gets killed by one police officer even justified? What's going to happen? The whole cities will just go up in flames. Now you could argue that it shouldn't and blah blah blah but it would you know it would. So I got a feeling that the only way this ends is by taking out Antifa in whatever way that can happen. So Antifa is the weak link meaning that the Black people are not going to support Antifa. Why would they? Because Antifa is literally killing them by tens of thousands right now. You know it'll take a while for the deaths but what they're doing guarantees the deaths of tens of thousands of African Americans. So I would think the Black community would be perfectly happy if the government just went tough on Antifa because that would take enough of the energy out of the situation that maybe that makes your other tools more effective. But you gotta remove energy from the situation and that's the weakest link. So I would say Antifa is a weak link. You gotta go after that hard and then see if you have enough tools to deal with whatever's left.

All right let's see. Legally can the FBI treat the Antifa like the Unabomber, McVeigh or serial killers? I would think so. I would think so yeah. Difference being the immediacy of the actual crime.

Why are there George Floyd inspired protests in Europe? I'm a bit baffled. Somebody says well let me explain that to you. It's not about George Floyd. It's really not. And the European protest proved that. Now which is not to say that there aren't lots of protesters who are there for that explicit reason George Floyd. There are plenty of them but that's not what's causing the problem. It's not the genuine good intention people who want to protest against discrimination and racism. They're not the problem. You know we could have them marching all day long. I'll march with them. It's the looters and the Antifa of course. So Europe has plenty of potential looters. Plenty of potential Antifa. They had their own lockdown. They've got lots of young people. If you've got lots of young people with too much energy especially males they need to go break stuff. Unfortunately if we could be sexist for a moment young males every type nothing racist here but young males of every type everywhere in the world if they don't have anything productive to do like go to work or go to war they're gonna break stuff. It's built into the model. They don't have any, there's just too much energy there and it's not always productive energy.

So somebody says restitution. I don't know what that means but I can tell you that reparations is over as a topic. You know I had been supportive of reparations as at least a conversation. You know my idea of it was not to give cash payments in any way but maybe target improving education in some way as the form of reparations. In other words giving African Americans some kind of advantage for funding you know some kind of college experience as sort of a reparations. Now I'm not saying that was a good idea. I was just sort of trying to brainstorm to find if there was anything any weird combination of ideas that would get something like reparations but would not be odious to the political right. I never came up with one. Certainly I never got close but I was willing to embarrass myself by that conversation here again. Lack of ego is useful because it's a conversation that you get in a lot of trouble. You get a lot into trouble telling conservatives they should at least engage in the conversation of reparations. That's not a comfortable place to be but of course I don't care.

However as I promised you yesterday if there was another night of looting because the protesters are so uncaring, the protesters are so uncaring that they would create a situation that guarantees this death and looting, I said that I would abandon the African-American community in terms of helping. So today that goes into effect. So I would say that the first thing is reparations are off the table. These are the reparations. Let me say that again. This is the reparations. The cost, the economic cost of this will be far greater than whatever checks could ever be written for reparations. All right I mean I would look to an economist to actually do me the math but I think we just had the reparations. These are the repa

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rations because it's so expensive to build back these businesses and recover that I would imagine we're talking something in the trillion dollar range just from these riots. Probably trillion. And I can't imagine that reparations would have ever reached a trillion dollars. So somebody said Larry Elder can help with that. There's nothing to help with. Reparations are done. Reparations are a histor…

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