When Beto O'Rourke told the world the Democrat playbook hell yes,
we intend to take your AR-15's, your Ak-47's,
I was compelled to go to him because I saw that a disarmed populace.
If the citizenry in America is disarmed,
then we are no longer citizens, we are so subjects.
Here in America we have gourmet treats for puppies.
We have these amazing groomers for dogs.
Well in Venezuela,
they eat the dogs and it started because they don't have firearms.
They do not have a way to protect themselves,
to defend themselves against a tyrannical government.
>> We've got gourmet treats, we've got fancy dog groomers and
we have absolute morons serving in Congress.
What is wrong with you, Lauren Boebert?
The idea that Venezuela ended up having to eat dogs
because they didn't have enough Ak-47's is,
I'll say sort of a hypothesis, technically.
Now, we have ways to interrogate hypotheses.
We can look into your attempting to establish a causal link,
get rid of the guns.
The society falls apart.
But your argument falls apart even faster when you consider that there
are multiple countries in the world that have tons of guns and
don't have governments that function well.
That haven't dealt with things like basic food and that sort of thing.
There's also many societies that don't have many guns at all,
let alone any Ak-47 or AR-15's and they're doing not just as well as us,
but are far happier societies with nary a dog being eaten that you can see.
So Jessica, it's on its face such a stupid argument, but
it's delivered with so much cheap knockoff mean girl confidence that I
think a lot of her followers probably bought it.
You're muted.
>> No, we're here.
Yes, this is a sophisticated political analysis from our friend here.
I think there was some consideration as to how much white suburban voters care about
dogs with this narrative?
Because it doesn't hold up, look at Bolsonaro,
he took a major step to increase people's ability to get guns in Brazil,
terribly authoritarian government there in Brazil.
So just a beautiful counter example.
But also like of course, they're not gonna talk about the widespread violence,
the guerilla-fighting and the arms all throughout Latin America.
That's thanks to us intervention in the 80s, absurd, absolutely absurd.
And of course they're not gonna talk about Bolsonaro either because Tucker Carlson
and the likes of the right love to [INAUDIBLE], he's their guy.
>> 100%.
Yeah, it's just on its face, it's so absurd.
I mean, not only can you look at, let's jump ahead to the last graphic and
you can look at a map of per capita gun ownership.
And we are such a massive outlier, like even the idea that taking away
just the AR-15's and Ak-47's or other similar, semi automatic rifles,
would still result in our country having hundreds of millions of guns.
So, to declare that you're afraid that we're gonna run short on guns,
is such a fake fear to have.
But it also doesn't make sense for the countries that have lots of guns and
the ones that don't that doesn't make any sense.
Even the argument again, like I don't want to reiterate this, but it is really
amazing to hear from these people who say that they support the troops.
Sure, they support the troops and they imply that Joe Bob and
a couple of his drinking buddies could take out the US Military.
It is such a stupid, stupid argument.
And it's sort of intentionally stupid because they want you to believe that
the way you stop authoritarianism, the way you stop an out of control government,
a government existing that doesn't have your best interests in mind,
is to have more guns.
That if the government isn't doing what you want,
the only alternative is to kill it.
She is a part of a government that is not representative.
She wants to be part of a ruling majority with Trump that will not,
then they won't rule in the interests of regular people.
Even regular conservatives.
No, shooting the marines is not how you get representative government.
Replacing Lauren Boebert with someone who's actually gonna represent you,
that's how you get representative government.
And so, it's convenient for them to continually point the finger and
their guns at the Navy and the Air Force and imply that they're
potentially the bad guys when they're actively the bad ones at that point.
>> Absolutely, yeah.
And even Andy Biggs making the case that the reason people in Arizona need assault
weapons, is because there's an invasion over our southern border.
They are so confused about who the bad guy is, but
it doesn't really matter because they're gonna say anything they need
to make people believe these policies are bad ideas.
Because they're getting so much money from the gun lobby.
But then we get into this weird territory where people like Lauren Boebert and and
the far-right, really want people to have guns.
Because if people who agree with their agenda have guns and
Andy Biggs clearly aligns with people like the el paso mass shooter,
who wrote something very similar in his manifesto,
they want their guns to enforce their political agenda, that's very clear.
But then you have the more republican establishment folks,
who are really are just doing it because they're getting money from the gun lobby.
And it's really a tricky situation because you have people who are saying yes,
we absolutely need guns to fight for our freedom and
fight the government, which they actually might do one day.
And then you have these folks who are just in politics, to line their pockets,
essentially, who are in the same party as these people and effectively fighting for
the same thing.
And the far right's chickens are kind of coming home to roost with this because now
these people are latching onto the policy platform, but are fighting for it for
completely different reasons.
And things are getting really out of hand and they're more fractured than ever, but
because these people have popular support, they're going to keep running and winning.
There's a reason both Eriks in this race where Donald Trump has endorsed.
Both Eriks are happy to have that endorsement because they care
about winning, even if they differ slightly and why they're fighting for
the policies, they are.
>> Okay, we're gonna move on to our next segment.
I was just gonna have one more thing.
So, look, if you're familiar with Lauren Barber, you know that she had
one of her more minor scandals was back when she owned her restaurant,
that there was that bout of explosive diarrhea.
And we always assumed that it was caused by them not cooking the meat properly or
her not wiping after coming out of the bathroom.
I don't know, but
now after this, I'm wondering what exactly did cause that explosive diarrhea?
What was in that meat?
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