- So this weekend was strange because
you look at the events as they unfolded.
The bombs were their own issue.
That culminated in the guy being arrested
and then you had the series of attacks
that America is now dealing with.
And one of the hardest things to do
for myself as a human and then for myself as a comedian
is to try and provide context and also,
I think some sensitivity when dealing with issues.
So, the bombings are benign for me now
because the person's been caught,
it seems like it's under control.
Nobody was hurt.
You know what I mean?
Thank God.
So that's done on that side.
So I can make jokes about that.
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When it comes to the other issues that we're gonna tackle
in the week and we wanted to look at,
you look at the synagogue shooting that took place
and you look at the other shooting
again by a right wing conspiracy theorist
who wanted to go in and shoot up a black church.
And, again he couldn't get in
because it turns out the door was locked to the church
and unfortunately two young black people lost their lives.
He wanted to kill somebody and he did
and these are all stories that you wanna cover
but you wanna give them the gravitas.
You wanna give them the right feeling.
You wanna give them the right context.
So, a lot of what we were planning to do this week
has been affected by what has happened
and so what we're trying to do now is
provide the context for what those stories mean
and how they affect where the conversation is going
because there were three incidents that took place recently
and I don't think you have to be a rocket scientist
to draw the lines between these people
and the rhetoric that is being parroted by
the president of the United States right now.
You know?
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And understand that we live in a very difficult time
in space where we have to be careful
to not jump and say you made this happen Donald Trump
but we can also live in a space where we say
as humans but as president we would hope
that you would try to avoid or dissuade people
from doing the same things
but if anything it seems like his message
post that has been this is not my fault,
I have nothing to do with any of this
and if anything the media is to blame
because they're the enemy of the people.
They report certain stories that I don't believe are true
and so they're at fault and his message really was
we need to come together under my rules.
That's what he preaches when he preaches unity.
You know what I mean?
Trump's not saying let's come together.
He's like, let's come together in the same way
aliens come to earth and they're like let's come together
as we pillage the entire earth.
That's the way they do it. You know what I mean?
It's like we come in peace but with you it's war.
It's like that type of thing.