DURING HIS WEEKEND CAMPAIGN RALLY, DONALD TRUMP MADE KIND OF
A WEIRD REFERENCE TO A SWEDISH INCIDENT FROM THE PREVIOUS
NIGHT.
SO I WILL CONVENE MY TOP GENERALS AND GIVE THEM A SIMPLE
INSTRUCTION -- THEY WILL HAVE 30 DAYS TO SUBMIT TO THE OVAL
OFFICE A PLAN FOR SOUNDLY AND QUICKLY DEFEATING ISIS.
HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE, WE'VE GOT TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY SAFE.
YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING, WE'VE GOT TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY
SAFE.
YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN GERMANY, YOU LOOK
AT WHAT'S HAPPENING LAST NIGHT IN SWEDEN -- SWEDEN.
WOULD
BELIEVE THIS?
SWEDEN.
THEY TOOK IN LARGE NUMBERS, THEY ARE
HAVING PROBLEMS LIKE THEY NEVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE.
YOU LOOK AT
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN BRUSSELS, YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING ALL
OVER THE WORLD, TAKE A LOOK AT NICE.
I WILL GIVE HIM CREDIT, BECAUSE MOST OF THOSE
REFERENCES HE MADE WERE TO REAL EVENTS THAT HAPPENED.
THAT IS TRUE.
GOOD JOB THERE.
VERY QUICKLY ASIDE, I LIKE THE DEHUMANIZING
USE OF, THEY TOOK IN LARGE NUMBERS.
OF WHAT?
OF REFUGEES.
DON'T SAY THAT, JUST SAY LARGE NUMBERS.
THEY PACK THINGS IN
THERE.
HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO DEHUMANIZE THEM, REFUGEE HAS
BECOME LIKE A FOUR LETTER WORD IN AMERICA AT LEAST, SO CALLING
THEM REFUGEES WOULDN'T CHANGE ANYONE ELSE'S OPINION OF WHAT'S
GOING ON IN THE COUNTRY AND WHETHER IT'S A GOOD IDEA FOR
OTHER COUNTRIES TO TAKE IN LARGE NUMBERS OF REFUGEES.
PEOPLE
OBVIOUSLY HAVE MADE UP THEIR MIND, A LOT OF WHICH -- FOR MANY
OF WHICH -- MADE UP THEIR MIND BASED ON FALSE INFORMATION THAT
YOU WILL GET TO THAT.
INITIALLY PEOPLE WONDERING WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT, IT
TURNS OUT THERE WERE PEOPLE IN SWEDEN, THEY READ THE NEWS AND
THEY DIDN'T HEAR ABOUT ANY TERROR ATTACK TO BE THROWN ONTO
A LIST OF OTHER ATTACKS, PEOPLE HAD FUN ONLINE, SOMEONE SAID
THIS --
GLAD TO HEAR THAT BISCUIT WAS RESCUED -- GOOD HORSE.
THEN WE
HAD THIS NEXT ONE, IKEA'S RESPONSE, IT WAS GOOD FOR
BUSINESS -- AND EVENTUALLY WE FIGURED OUT WHAT THE HELL HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT.
HE SAID THIS --
WHICH, I'M GOING TO GIVE HIM A LITTLE BIT OF CREDIT, THEY DID
ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THAT.
AND THE WAY HE FRAMED IT WAS VAGUE
ENOUGH THAT HE MIGHT NOT HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS A TERROR ATTACK.
HE MIGHT NOT HAVE.
I COULD GO HARD AND SAY HE LISTED IT WAS
NICE AND BRUSSELS AND ALL OF THAT, CLEARLY TALKING ABOUT
TERROR ATTACKS, BUT LET'S GIVE THEM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
HE GOES ON TO SAY --
AND BY THE WAY, THAT WAS IT.
"NOT."
HE DIDN'T EXPLAIN HIMSELF
FORGIVE STATISTICS OR FACTS, HE JUST ENDED IT WITH "NOT."
IT
WOULD BE LIKE SOMEONE ARGUING, I DON'T KNOW, THAT SOMEONE IS
UNQUALIFIED FOR A JOB, AND THAT PERSON RESPONDING BACK WITH, YES
I AM.
UNQUALIFIED FOR THE JOB.
BUT, LIKE, WHY?
THIS STORY
SHOULD ALARM EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY, NOT BECAUSE IT'S A
MISSTEP --
I DON'T CARE TOO MUCH ABOUT THAT.
YEAH -- THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE NOW HAVE YOUR AVERAGE
FOX NEWS VIEWER WHO IS SEVERELY MISINFORMED RUNNING THE COUNTRY.
FOX NEWS IS PROPAGANDA, WE ALL KNOW IT IS.
IT WOULD BE CRAZY IF
PEOPLE WATCHING FOX NEWS WOULDN'T CONFESS THAT IT'S
PROPAGANDA.
THEY'VE LIED ABOUT 70 STORIES, IN FACT THEY'VE LIED
ABOUT SO MONEY STORIES THEY HAD TO GO BACK AND MAKE SERIOUS
CORRECTIONS, ONE OF WHICH WAS A STORY ABOUT FOOD STAMPS THAT
ABBY HUNTSMAN HOSTED, THERE WAS ANOTHER STORY THEY HAD TO
RETRACT, IT WAS A BIG PUBLIC DEBACLE, AND SO AGAIN WE HAVE A
REGULAR TRUMP NEWS VIEWER RUNNING THE COUNTRY BASED
ON THE MISINFORMATION THEY SEE ON FOX NEWS.
EXACTLY.
AND WE READ A COUPLE OF TWEETS BECAUSE IT'S FUNNY
THAT HE MENTIONED SWEDEN, THIS FITS INTO A PATTERN FROM HIS
ADMINISTRATION WHERE CONWAY TALKS ABOUT BOWLING GREEN AND
SPICER TALKS ABOUT ATLANTA WHEN HE SAYS HE CLEARLY MEANT
ORLANDO, I DON'T THINK THEY ARE CLOSE, BUT I DON'T CARE ABOUT
THAT VERY MUCH, BUT I CARE ABOUT THE SUBSTANCE.
BECAUSE IT TURNS
OUT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING WHERE TUCKER CARLSON
WAS SPEAKING WITH THE DOCUMENTARIAN, TO GIVE HIM MORE
CREDIT THAN HE DESERVES, A GUY WHO MADE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE
SUPPOSEDLY SHARP RISE IN CRIME IN SWEDEN BECAUSE OF RECENT
IMMIGRANTS, SPECIFICALLY MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS.
SO AT THE END OF THE
DAY JUST SAYING TRUMP WAS WRONG AND THERE WASN'T A TERROR ATTACK
IN SWEDEN COULD LEAD PEOPLE WITH THE BELIEF THAT THERE WAS NOT A
TERROR ATTACK BUT THERE IS CRIME GOING ON, AND WE WILL TURN TO
THAT BECAUSE THAT'S NOT ACTUALLY THE CASE.
A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL
FROM SWEDEN SAYS THIS --
WHAT THEY ARE GETTING INTO THERE IS THE ACTUAL CRIME
STATISTICS, WHICH YOU WOULD THINK YOU WOULD CARE ABOUT IF
YOU WERE GOING TO DISCUSS THIS, BUT IT TURNS OUT THE
DOCUMENTARIAN RELIED ON TESTIMONY FROM A COUPLE OF COPS,
AND WE WILL TURN TO WHY THAT IS PROBLEMATIC, AND TUCKER CARLSON
DIDN'T LOOK INTO THE NUMBERS, HE JUST ACCEPTED AT FACE VALUE WHAT
THIS RIGHT-WING PROVOCATEUR MAKING THIS DOCUMENTARY WAS
SAYING.
THEY HAD QUOTES FROM THE COPS, IT SEEMED LIKE THEY WERE
SAYING THERE WAS A LOT OF CRIME BECAUSE OF IMMIGRANTS, BUT WHEN
YOU REACH OUT TO THE COPS THEY SAY --
ONE OF THE COPS WHO WAS INTERVIEWED FOR THE DOCUMENTARY
SAID --
SO THE DOCUMENTARIAN TAKES THEIR ANSWERS TO ONE QUESTION,
LINKS THEM UP WITH OTHER QUESTIONS, TO GIVE YOU A FALSE
IMPRESSION OF WHAT IS GOING ON WITH SWEDEN.
A REGULAR FOX WHO
SEES THAT, OKAY, THEY ARE WRONG ABOUT SWEDEN, THEY MISINFORM
PEOPLE IN THEIR WORKPLACE OR SOMETHING, BUT AS YOU SAID IT IS
A PROBLEM WHEN THE PRESIDENT HAS NO HIGHER STANDARDS THAN THAT.
REASONABLY ACCEPTS WHAT THIS GUY SAYS ON TUCKER CARLSON AND
IMMEDIATELY INTEGRATES IT IN HIS STUMP SPEECHES WITHOUT ANY
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH OR VERIFICATION.
IT'S MIRACULOUS HOW MUCH TIME TRUMP SPENT ON TWO DIFFERENT
THINGS -- THING NUMBER ONE IS HOW MUCH CABLE NEWS HE WATCHES,
IT'S NOT JUST FOX NEWS, HE WATCHES MSNBC AND CNN AS WELL,
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HIS PREFERRED NETWORK IS, IT'S THE ONE HE
APPLAUDED WHILE HE WAS, YOU KNOW, SPEAKING PUBLICLY ABOUT
ALL THESE NEWS SHOWS, HE'S LIKE FOX NEWS IS GREAT AND EVERYTHING
ELSE SUCKS -- THAT SHOULD WORRY YOU -- BUT THE SECOND THING HE
SPENT A LOT OF TIME DOING IS VACATIONING IN MAR-A-LAGO EVERY
WEEKEND.
AT WHAT POINT DOES HE SIT DOWN AND THINK ABOUT
POLICIES THAT WOULD BENEFIT THE SAME SOCIOECONOMICALLY
DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM?
I DON'T KNOW.
BUT THIS
OBSESSION WITH CABLE NEWS SHOULD WORRY YOU BECAUSE HE WILL CRAFT
HIS POLICIES BASED ON WHAT HE SEES, AND RIGHT NOW THERE IS A
LOT OF PROPAGANDA BEING SPEWED BY HOSTS ON FOX NEWS, HE
SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, AND IF YOU
LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, IF YOU JUST SPEND FIVE MINUTES AND DO A
QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH AND LOOK AT ALL THE CHARTS AND GRAPHS
RELATED TO THE CRIME RATES IN SWEDEN, YOU WILL SEE THAT IT IS
MISINFORMATION TIMES 100.
LET'S GET TO THAT.
QUEST WE WILL SAVE
THEM THAT GOOGLING, BECAUSE IT'S ONE THING TO SHOW THAT THE COPS
WERE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT, FOX NEWS ON THEIR FRONT PAGE AT A
SWEDISH COP THAT AGREES WITH THE DOCUMENTARY, BUT AT THE END OF
THE DAY IF ONE COP AGREES OR TWO FEEL THEY WERE LIED TO, REALITY
IS NOT UP TO THEM.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY FIND OUT WHAT THE CRIME
RATES ARE.
SO LET'S BRING UP THE FIRST CHART, BOTH OF THESE
CHARTS HAVE BEEN COMPILED BY VOX USING PUBLICLY AVAILABLE
INFORMATION FROM SWEDEN, THAT SHOWS GOING BACK TO 2005 THE
AMOUNT OF IMMIGRATION PER YEAR OVER A DECADE LONG PERIOD,
THAT'S A GOOD AMOUNT OF IMMIGRATION GOING ON, IN FACT
IT'S RISING AS WE GET CLOSER TO RECENT YEARS.
AND YOU WOULD
EXPECT, WELL, IF WE ARE INTEGRATING MORE AND MORE
IMMIGRANTS AND THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME, MAN, THAT
CRIME MUST BE POPPING RECENTLY.
LET'S BRING UP A BREAKDOWN OF
DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF CRIMES.
YOU SEE THAT SOME OF THEM IN
FACT ARE DOWN FROM 2005, ALL THE REST, MAY BE SLIGHT VARIATIONS
OF LESS THAN HALF A PERCENTAGE POINT PER YEAR, BUT LARGELY
STAGNANT, IF NOT LOWER.
INCLUDING, BY THE WAY, THE AREA OF CRIME THEY ALWAYS TALK
ABOUT, SEXUAL CRIMES.
RAPES.
THEY LOVE TO TALK ABOUT RAPE, DON'T LIKE TO TALK STATISTICS.
LET ME ELABORATE FURTHER, THEY DO LOVE TO TALK A LOT ABOUT HOW
THESE REFUGEES ARE COMING INTO THE COUNTRY AND SEXUALLY
ASSAULTING AND RAPING THESE WOMEN.
FIRST OF ALL, IN SWEDEN
THE INCIDENTS OF RAPE ARE REALLY HIGH, OR THEY SEEM HIGH,
COMPARED TO OTHER COUNTRIES, BECAUSE IN SWEDEN THEY ACTUALLY
TAKE RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERIOUSLY, SO THEY HAVE A WIDER
DEFINITION OF WHAT CONSTITUTES RAPE.
THAT IS ONE THING TO TAKE
INTO CONSIDERATION.
ANOTHER THING TO CONSIDER IS IT IS NOT
REFUGEES COMMITTING THESE CRIMES.
IN FACT SOME OF THE
STUDIES INDICATE THAT ABOUT 1% OF THE CRIME IN SWEDEN CAN BE
TREATED TO REFUGEES.
WHEN IT COMES TO SEXUAL ASSAULT OR RAPE
IT HAS BEEN A PROBLEM IN THE COUNTRY BECAUSE OF THEIR
DEFINITION OF WHAT CONSTITUTES RAPE OR SEXUAL ASSAULT.
THESE
ARE ALL THE NUANCES THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID OF THE OTHERS,
WHO HAVE BEEN MISLED BY THE PROPAGANDA REGARDING REFUGEES,
WILL LOOK INTO BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MIND THAT
THESE ARE DANGEROUS INDIVIDUALS.
BUT THESE ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE
TRYING TO LEAVE THEIR COUNTRY, THE ONLY COUNTRY THEY HAVE EVER
KNOWN, BECAUSE THEY NEED SAFETY.
THEY WANT TO SAVE THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND PROVIDE A
BETTER OPPORTUNITY NOT JUST FOR THEMSELVES BUT FOR THEIR
FAMILY MEMBERS WHO MIGHT GET SLAUGHTERED IN THEIR
WAR-TORN COUNTRY.
EXACTLY.
IN THE MOST RECENT INFORMATION WHICH IS NOT ON THAT
CHART SHOWS THE CRIME RATES ARE ROUGHLY AT 2005 LEVELS.
THAT
COMES AFTER ABOUT A DECADE OF INTEGRATING REFUGEES INTO THEIR
SOCIETY, AND IT SHOWS CRIME NOT ONLY NOT SPIKING BUT EVEN GOING
LOWER, SO AS TRUMP TRIES TO MISLEAD YOU ABOUT THE EFFECT WE
WOULD HAVE IF WE BROUGHT IN MORE IMMIGRANTS, THIS DATA SHOWS WE
MIGHT DO JUST FINE.
BUT HE IS MISLEADING YOU ABOUT THAT, THAT
SHOULD BOTHER YOU.
HE IS ALSO TAKING SWEDEN, WHICH IS A
LONG-STANDING ALLY OF THE UNITED STATES, AND LYING ABOUT THEM AND
THEIR RECORD, MAKING THEM OUT TO BE EFFECTIVELY SOCIETALLY
SUICIDAL, IF YOU WILL, TO PROVE A POINT THAT DIDN'T EVEN NEED
THE INCLUSION.
HE COULD'VE JUST TALKED ABOUT ACTUAL INCIDENTS OF
TERROR LIKE IN NICE AND BRUSSELS.
THERE ARE SO MANY RAMIFICATIONS TO THESE KIND OF
MISSTEPS.
MAKING MISTAKES IS ONE THING, BUT WHAT HE SAID LED TO
OFFICIALS IN SWEDEN, POLITICIANS IN SWEDEN, KIND OF SOURING THEIR
PERSPECTIVE ON THE UNITED STATES, WHICH ISN'T GOOD, YOU
DON'T WANT THAT, AND ALSO AGAIN IT SHAPES POLICY.
IT SHAPES
POLICY HERE, IT MIGHT SHAPE POLICY ABROAD, THE FEAR
MONGERING ABOUT REFUGEES IS CRAZY AND IF YOU CARE ABOUT
FACTS AND ACTUAL INFORMATION THAT'S NOT SKEWED BASED ON
PROPAGANDA, DO THE RESEARCH.
DON'T BELIEVE US IF YOU DON'T
WANT TO, I JUST WANT PEOPLE IN THIS DAY AND AGE WHERE FAKE NEWS
IS AN ISSUE, NOT THE KIND OF FAKE NEWS DONALD TRUMP TALKS
ABOUT --
WHICH WE CALL THE NEWS.
YOU SHOULD BE AN ADVOCATE FOR YOURSELF, ANYTIME YOU HEAR
AN ELECTED OFFICIAL WEATHER IT IS DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN
CLAIMING SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS, LOOK INTO IT YOURSELF AND
SEE WHAT THE REALITY IS.
I WANT TO EXPAND, ANA POINTED OUT SOME OF THE REASONS THE
SEXUAL ASSAULT RATE IN SWEDEN SEEMS HIGHER, AND BASICALLY WHAT
IT DOES IS, IT IS PUNISHING THEM FOR BEING MORE LIBERAL IN THIS
REGARD.
HERE IS WHAT IT SEEMS HIGHER -- AS YOU POINTED OUT
THEIR DEFINITION IS BROADER, ACTIVITIES LIKE HAVING SEX WITH
SOMEONE WHILE THEY ARE SLEEPING ARE COUNTED AS SEXUAL ASSAULT,
WHEREAS IN MANY COUNTRIES EVEN IN EUROPE IT ISN'T COUNTED AS
THAT, IT MAKES SENSE THAT IT SHOULD BE, AND SO THEIR NUMBERS
ARE MORE ACCURATE.
ALSO THEY COUNT EACH INSTANCE AS A
SEPARATE ATTACK, SO IF SOMEONE WERE TO, SAY, ASSAULT A KID
HUNDREDS OF TIMES, THAT WOULD COUNT AS HUNDREDS OF ATTACKS.
WAS OTHER COUNTRIES IT WOULD COUNT AS ONE THING.
SO THERE
THEY ARE BEING PUNISHED FOR BEING CLOSER TO REALITY.
IT IS
LIKE A BUSINESS THAT CHOSE TO INCLUDE TAX ON THE PRICE, YOU
THINK YOU ARE BEING CHARGED MORE, THAT'S WHY COMPANIES HAVE
TO LIE TO YOU.
COUNTRIES TOO, IT TURNS OUT.
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE YOU WILL HEAR PUBLIC FIGURES, WHETHER IT
IS A LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE PUBLIC FIGURE, ASKING WHY IT IS
THAT SOME MUSLIMS -- MUSLIM EXTREMISTS -- HATE US.
AND
IMMEDIATELY THEY WILL ANSWER THEIR OWN QUESTION AND SAY IT'S
BECAUSE OF OUR FREEDOM.
COUNTRIES LIKE SWEDEN, WHERE THE
QUALITY OF LIFE TYPICALLY DOES BETTER THAN THE QUALITY OF LIFE
HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, STUDY AFTER STUDY, THAT'S THE KIND OF
COUNTRY WHERE WE SHOULD BE APPLAUDING THEIR FREEDOM.
WE ARE
THE COUNTRY THAT IMPRISONS MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN
THE WORLD, WE ARE THE COUNTRY THAT APPARENTLY IS NOW LED BY
PROPAGANDA AS OPPOSED TO REAL INFORMATION, FACTS, WE ARE THE
COUNTRY WHO HAS POLITICIANS THAT PRETEND LIKE THEY CARE ABOUT
ISSUES INVOLVING RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT BUT CONSISTENTLY VOTE
AGAINST LEGISLATION LIKE THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT,
CONSISTENTLY VOTE AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT WOULD DO AWAY
WITH PRISON RAPE OR RAPE IN THE MILITARY -- NO, SWEDEN IS AN
EXAMPLE OF A SOCIETY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS.
SO TO SIT HERE
AND PRETEND AS IF THEY ARE SO WRONG AND CRIME IS TERRIBLE AND
IT'S A HORRIBLE COUNTRY IS JUST SO INCREDIBLY INSULTING BECAUSE
THERE IS A LOT WE CAN LEARN FROM SWEDEN.
IF YOU WERE WATCHING THE SHOW LAST WEEK, ANA DID A STORY ON
THE EFFECT OF LATIN AND SOUTHERN AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS BEING
INTEGRATED INTO THE U.S., AND THE EFFECT ON CRIME, AND AGAIN
IT SHOWED IT DIDN'T CAUSE AN EXPLOSION IN CRIME AND COULD
STIMULATE THE ECONOMY.
AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SWEDEN --
FROM MEXICO AND LATIN AMERICA, DIFFERENT CONTEXTS, DIFFERENT
CULTURES, DIFFERENT HISTORY THAN IN SWEDEN, BUT IN BOTH CASES IT
SHOWS THIS CAN BE DONE WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS FOR THE HOST STATE.
AT SOME POINT MAYBE PEOPLE'S BELIEFS ABOUT THE WORLD AND
IMMIGRANTS SHOULD CHANGE, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS EXTREMELY
SLOW TO HAPPEN.
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