Cities across America force law-abiding citizens into curfew as rioters and looters burn and smash.

Protesters watch their cause undermined by violent hangers-on, and Democrats in the media keep feeding the flames.

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Well, visit ExpressVPN.com slash Ben to stay anonymous. So I leave for three days and you burn down

the country. That's how this works. I mean, I had a Jewish holiday on Friday and then a Jewish

holiday on Saturday and I come back on Saturday night and half the country is in flames.

And let me just make this clear right at the very top. If you're a rioter, if you are a looter, you're a human scum. You're doing nothing positive for society. What you're acting on is not quote unquote justified anger. You're a piece of crap. You're a piece of crap. And you should be arrested. You should be prosecuted. Business owners should defend their businesses. This is sheer unbelievable garbage and the failure of government to perform its single function, which is to protect the law abiding. That failure of government is catastrophic. I'm talking from local governments to state governments to the federal government, the lack of ability of the government to do the one thing it is supposed to do, right? This government that's supposed to provide you everything that you could possibly need, provide you privileges from the top. Instead, it can't even protect you in your own

cities, this government. The government is designed to protect life and liberty. In the case of

George Floyd, they did neither. And then they allowed rioters to run roughshod throughout the country.

We had most every major American city last night under curfew. L.A. County, which is 10 million people, went into curfew yesterday at 6 o'clock p.m. Santa Monica went into curfew at 4 o'clock p.m. This is not a free country. So I have some good news. Here's the good news. Apparently COVID-19 is over. Apparently it's over, because what I saw

over the weekend and Saturday night and Sunday, what I saw was tens of thousands of people in the

streets and nobody giving a good, gosh darn because bottom line is they were doing something that

the media agreed with. And so there are three things that we need to talk about today. One is

the legitimate cause of fighting police brutality.

The second is the illegitimate argument that America is endemically racist, systematically

racist, racist at every level, and that America must apologize for its very being, that

America must be remade from bottom to top and top to bottom. And then there is the third argument that some are making,

which is the people who riot and loot are somehow an outgrowth of justified anger.

That somehow going and smashing a store window makes you some sort of hero in this society.

It's bullshit.

It's bullshit.

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