News · moment 16 of 25
State of Emergency, Permits, and the Charlottesville Brawl Play-by-Play
from Cheese Plate Time · #58
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5 minNews
More press conference clips are played and dissected, including Trump's claims about anti-fa violence and permits being invalidated by the state of emergency, with jokes about a "race riot and s'mores."
- 44:32Tim notes the reporter asking whether Trump is putting antifa and white supremacists on the same moral plane.
- 44:51Trump had just praised both sides before pivoting to Foxconn to change the subject.
- 45:06Tim plays the part where Trump describes the violence at Charlottesville as vicious and horrible but insists there's another side.
- 45:50Tim admits he can't vouch for the veracity of claims about antifa violence but acknowledges the reports exist.
- 46:18Here's the mechanism: the city of Virginia called a state of emergency, which invalidates all existing permits.
- 46:48Tim riffs on the absurdity of trying to have a race riot with s'mores in Virginia.
- 47:11Marching through a city with torches and Nazi flags shouting while making summer memories for your kids.
- 47:25Michael Rapaport's Instagram post about what would happen if they tried this in Virginia Beach.
- 47:51Tim's point: antifa attacks likely did happen, but the question is whether the media covered them equally.
- 48:16The slippery slope argument: if you tear down every statue of anyone who did anything wrong, eventually you have no country at all.