This is a HeadGum podcast. I don't know what to think I don't know what to say

and that's all right

yeah that's okay

I don't know anything.

Hello, everybody. Hello, everybody.

Welcome to factually, I'm Adam Conover, and look, we're going to do it.

We're going to keep talking about what's going on in the world today. I don't think there's anything else I would rather be talking about. I hope there's nothing else you'd rather be listening to. All right, so let's talk about this in this moment of mass protest

about police abuse it's easy to lay all your blame on one bad orange man right I

mean I've been watching some late night comedy the last week. I like to keep up on my industry

And the focus has been overwhelmingly on Trump and I get why it's easy to make fun and to write jokes about this want to be authoritarian who's clearing peaceful protests with tear gas so he can have a photo up holding up a prop Bible.

I mean did you see that?

What? What? What, what, what, that's, that's, that's,

you know, God? What do you do with that Bible, man? See,

look, jokes write themselves. But focusing so much on Trump is also missing the point.

Because no matter how much MS NBC watching Blue State boomers want hating

Trump to be all that's ever asked of them politically, these protests are not actually

about Trump. They're about our abusive racist police state. And the truth is that so, so, so many of the policies that have created and

perpetuated this machinery of racist violence were and are set at the

local level. The discriminatory militarized policing regimes being

protested in major cities across the country and the world have been

implemented and supported by Democratic mayors and city council members.

Minneapolis, New York City, and Los Angeles

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