We’re kinda cooked

Asmongold TV| 00:26:25|May 4, 2026
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Discusses how a small group is responsible for a large share of Oakland homicides and critiques progressive city leadership and policy that keep perceived criminals on the streets.

Asmongold TV fans witness a sprawling, messy rant touching crime, politics, immigration, and social clashes, with wild anecdotes and provocative takes across Oakland, schools, protests, and media narratives.

Summary

In this installment from Asmongold TV, the host stitches together a barrage of hot-button topics—from Oakland’s gang dynamics to school conflicts over curriculum and classroom behavior. The video shifts rapidly between crime, politics, and media culture, weaving in personal stories and press clips to illustrate how polarized debates unfold in real life. The speaker cites Oakland’s crime data and references “the usual suspects” to argue for drastic, punitive approaches, then pivots to personal anecdotes about education and gender politics to critique what he sees as progressive policies. Throughout, the tone remains combative and confrontational, leaning on provocative soundbites and debunkable anecdotes to challenge mainstream narratives. Clips about May Day protests, ICE, sanctuary policies, and political campaigning illustrate the broader theme: the intensifying struggle over who gets heard and how policies are framed in the public square. The overall mood is frenetic, opinionated, and unapologetically provocative, with warning signals about how violence and rhetoric intertwine in contemporary political discourse. Asmongold, never shy about challenging prevailing viewpoints, threads these moments into a stream-of-consciousness style that’s as much about performance as persuasion.

Key Takeaways

  • Oakland crime discussion cites a controversial statistic: approximately 50 violent groups with 1,000–1,200 members were responsible for up to 85% of the city’s homicides, representing about 0.3% of the population.
  • The host challenges progressive policing approaches by suggesting draconian removal of perceived bad actors, contrasting with real-world limits on what can be done.
  • Anecdotes about education and gender policy illustrate a skepticism toward progressive social agendas and a belief that policy can be shaped by personal, rather than institutional, experiences.
  • Protest and political activism are framed as tightly linked to funding, media narratives, and donor influences, including references to “dark money.”
  • The segment includes a broader discussion of violence, punishment, and policy—arguing that some listeners see threats and harassment as leverage in political battles.
  • The conversation pivots to the tension between free expression and consequences, including discussions of vetting public figures and the impact of online rhetoric on real-world actions.
  • Overall, the video showcases a polarized, performance-driven dialogue where controversial takes aim to jolt viewers into rethinking dominant narratives.

Who Is This For?

Essential viewing for listeners who crave blunt, provocative takes on crime, immigration, and culture wars, especially fans of Asmongold’s unapologetic, debate-heavy style. It’s a ride through heated opinions that resonates with viewers who distrust mainstream media framing and prefer raw, unfiltered commentary.

Notable Quotes

"Approximately 50 violent groups or gangs in Oakland with an active membership between 1,000 and 1,200 people represented just 0.3% of the population but were responsible for up to 85% of the city’s homicides."
Cited statistic used to argue for drastic policy responses.
"Oakland could make crime vanish by making these people vanish into a prison or whatever."
Provocative, straw-man level claim used to critique progressive policy directions.
"$600 groups including the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Code Pink — that’s billions in the form of ‘dark money.’"
Reference to funding sources and perceived influence in protests.
"There are some things I said online last week... I do not advocate for violence. I condemn it."
A defense of past remarks amid a broader discussion of threats vs. rhetoric.
"Do you believe in providing some level of force equal to that of someone who’s doing that force? I don’t believe in eye for an eye."
Explores whether retaliation is ever justified and how to respond to aggression.

Questions This Video Answers

  • How does Oakland crime data supposedly support calls for harsher policing?
  • What is black-and-white about sanctuary policies and how do critics frame them?
  • What does the video say about dark money and protest funding?
  • How does the host connect gender politics in schools to broader political debates?
  • What are common rebuttals to violent rhetoric in online political discourse?
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Full Transcript
By the way, remember what I've always said. Approximately 50 violent groups or gangs in Oakland with an active membership between 1,00 and,200 people, which represented just.3% of the population, were responsible for up to 85% of the city's homicides. How about that? The Yes, the usual suspects. Exactly. It's 3%. Just get rid of them. I know. This is what we have to deal with. This is it. Isn't it insane? Oakland has population of 450,000 people. It's a blessed geographic location is almost nowhere. Allow year- round temperatures around the low 70s. Notoriously a crimeridden hell hole. 90% of crime is committed by about 1,200 90,200 people causing all the problems. Can you get rid of them? No. No. Can't do that. And yeah, Oakland could make crime vanish by making these people vanish into a prison or whatever. Instead, Oakland elects progressive mayors and prosecutors who keep these people on the streets, keep encampments in the parks, and provide no remedy from rampant property crime disorder, and keep spending hundreds of thousands of public dollars in social services and criminal justice expenditures every year for these individuals who are nothing but detrimental and will never be anything else. Man, they [ __ ] up Oatland. Cali is doomed. Yeah, I guess so. And I Oakland's always had this issue in gang related problems and it always will until somebody wants to solve it. My son, six years old, was prohibited from sitting next to his friend on the school bus because a parent objected to my perspectives on book challenges. My older son's history teacher allowed students to label him a Nazi file simply for his interest in history and participation in ROC. She later nominated my son as the most likely to become a dictator and had his classmates vote on it and try to force him to the front of the class to receive the certificate which he rightly refused. All because of his conservative values. What is Oh, she's got the paper. Would I? Oh my god. Conservative values. It's hard to It's hard to read perspectives. Thank you. Uh man, that is crazy. Arrest the [ __ ] teacher. Isn't that's insane? I know. School B. Well, that's what they'll do. That is it. It's what they'll do. I told y'all this shit's happening. I did. I told y'all this shit's happening. And uh the teachers are the problem, bro. They are a big [ __ ] problem. And uh yeah, it's a huge huge problem. Look at this. Well, I used to believe I was old reparations due to slavery. I believe that I couldn't be racist towards white people because I didn't have systemic power. Um I believed in Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, all that stuff. Uh, I believed in transgenderism, feminism, pretty much everything that was blackwards. And now, you say blackwards. Yeah, that was actually a 40ian. That's a crazy word. That blackwards. Wow. But yeah, backwards. And uh, now I'm pretty much the opposite of everything. I'm not for the feminism. I'm not for the stuff. I'm not for black lives matter or reparations. What happened? Um, well, I had a situation back in Chicago where I moved in an apartment and they originally told me I'd be assigned a roommate of the same gender to share a bathroom. They actually ended up and you know where this is going. Everybody knows signing me a transgender as a roommate. And I only found out it was a transgender because the toilet seat was being left up consistently. And when I reached out to my black housing manager, she told me they weren't allowed to discriminate and I could move down the hallway to another room if I had a problem. And when she used the word discriminate, it made me think about politics. So, I started looking up just what in politics made it legal for a man to be in a woman's space. And all of a sudden, I'm seeing all the evil racist Republican white people are the ones with common sense who don't want this weirdness going on. So, I found myself um voting for Trump. And uh you became a wife at 23. I did. after being a feminist her whole life. Did Okay, man. How about that? That's crazy. And so, uh, Yep. There you go. She learned respectable. Yeah. She just looked into it like, "Wait a minute. Huh? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, who what what was all this? She escaped." I know. You're going to have a lot of instances of this happening. You are. And, uh, hopefully there are even more of it. I think so. But, uh, we'll see what happens. What is this actually saved? Yeah. Did you spell and pronounce your name for me? Yeah, it's Christina with a c. Uh, and then Mayoney. M A I M O N E. You have your face covered. Mhm. Is there a reason for that? Yes, because there's been a lot of really um fascist responses to protesting under this administration and we don't uh really know who's going to show up or what's going to happen. So, it's a it's just a protective measure. Yeah. You just gave your name out. She just she literally just gave her name out. It's just so embarrassing. Oh, here we Leftist Mayday ICE protesters took over a Home Depot. Why would you go to a Home Depot? Anti- ice activist. Take a look. They've taken over the checkout uh counters here at this Home Depot here in Westlake. We want to bring you in just a little closer. We're not uh going inside the store, but you can see that uh there signs that say ice out of the Home Depot. They've essentially uh stopped business here. And I want to bring in Priscilla. We were just speaking here with Priscilla. You're with uh Democratic Socialist of Los Angeles. Priscilla, tell us Democratic Socialists of Los Angeles. Oh boy. You guys are doing here. Yeah, we are on International Workers Day halting for a moment a piece of profit um that in the end will not affect the pockets of this billionaire's uh profit that he's making. Um and we're asking for them to end collaboration with ICE. Uh this city is of migrants and we are asking for them to stop allowing ICE in here um and snatching day laborers um from their parking lots and inside their stores. And Priscilla, we know that uh through all of the immigration enforcement that started back in June of last year that Home Depot have been a target for uh that immigration enforcement. They say fish where the fish are. I know that you want more rights for day laborers. Can you talk some specifics what you'd like to see? Well, and for with a collaboration to ICE. Um, obviously for what we're aiming for in the long run is amnesty. Yeah. You want to bring a bunch of these people over there and ethnically replace the people that are there. That's what you want to do. It's obvious. It's why they say it. And uh Yeah. Why is she Why is she hysterical? Because that's what all these people are. They're crazy. And uh these people do this. Yes. Day laborers equal slaves. Exactly. And uh Home Depot doesn't want ice either. They want cheap labor. Yeah. Well, Home Depot, The thing is Home Depot's just selling the wood. They don't have anything to do with this. They're like, "What the [ __ ] We just sell wood, guys. We just sell wood and nails." All right. So, whoever the [ __ ] like, "Y'all want to come in? It's not our problem. Amnesty is not a fix." Well, for them it is. It's definitely a fix for them because that's what their goal is. Absolutely. 100%. What's Democrats pan for migrants overrun the country? Democrats will be eaten alive by them. Well, I think that they they view that it's going to be on their side, right? Obviously. Oh, here we go. And we got another one. I'm running for United States Congress in Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District. I'm showing up every day and at every event that I possibly can for you because I love the people of District 8. I want to be clear about a couple things. There are some things I said online last week. Um, when I referenced a post from Monaco Brewing Company, I did so to stand up for Kirk's First Amendment rights. Um, I do not advocate for violence. Yeah, I condemn it. But I don't think that I was entirely in the wrong by saying I'll feel some relief when this president's term is over. I wasn't wishing for his death. No, I was wishing for him to be gone. There's a big difference. I am one of the only candidates that I've seen advocating for his impeachment on a consistent basis. I want him gone. Had to took to Tik Tok to walk back his campaign's post depicting him shooting President Trump at a gun range. You have to go after these people. You do. Like, you've got one right here. Like, you've got to start packing these people up one at a time every single day. Going through it every single time. Yeah. You got to do it. Take this person to jail. Yep. Jail time. Exactly. The fact that we putting up with this is just insane. It is crazy why people put up with this [ __ ] It's so annoying to me, too. It's obvious they're mentally unfed. I mean, you do something like that, it's beyond mentally unfit. It's that you you're [ __ ] threatening to shoot the president, right? Kathy Griffin got cancelceled for [ __ ] like this. I don't want people cancelled. I want put in jail. Our research shows that um there's some 600 groups including the People's Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the Answer Coalition, and of course, our perennial favorite, Code Pink, which is upset about absolutely everything. And as Rachel Mo mentioned a minute ago, um these people, they don't know what they're talking about, but they do know that they got, you know, $75 in cash probably, uh to to come out and hold a sign, and they're doing a good job of it, even though they don't really know what the sign says or what it means. Um we're looking at, you know, uh literally in the billions in terms of the amount of money that gets spent like this. And it's, you know, you hear the left talk about dark money a lot in politics. Well, this is the darkest dark money there. Well, where's the money? If it's so dark, then why don't you just figure out where it's from? There is. Um, and the result of it winds up with you wind up with literally thousands of protests all around. It's crazy how much money is being spent on astrourfing this resistance. It's insane. Soros. Well, I mean, again, like why the thing, why why even put up with that? Why would you let somebody do that? Just shine a light on it. Yeah. Say what it is. The country on the same day. And you wonder why when you wake up in the morning, it's like, well, I never heard anything about that because you're not the target. Uh they know how to target people. When you walk down the street and they say, hey, do you have with a clipboard and they say, do you have time for such and such rights? And then they get your email address. They're they're not looking to convert you or convince you of anything. They're looking to get the email address of like-minded people so that they can organize these things. Okay. So then the Mayday strong demands tax the rich so our families not their fortunes come first. No ICE, no war, no private army serving authoritarian power. Don't know what that is. Expand democracy. Hands off our vote. Expand democracy. expand democracy probably means something like letting illegal aliens vote or people that aren't citizens. That's kind of what I would assume. So, uh, they don't have kids, so what families? I think some of them do, right? And oh, this is So, they arrested James Comey for posting the 8647 thing. And, uh, apparently there's a lot more. Well, part of what the government would have to prove is intent. James Comey deleted the post the same day and he wrote, quote, I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me, but I oppose violence of any kind, so I took the post down. How do you prove intent, Mr. Blanchin? Mr. Comey himself said he didn't understand that. How do you prove intent when he said he didn't do it? People would look at that and think about violence. You prove intent like like you always prove intent. You prove intent with witnesses. You prove intent with documents, with materials. So So again, this is not just about a single Instagram post. This is about a body of evidence that the grand jury collected over the series of about 11 months. That evidence was presented to the grand jury. And it's not the government. It's not the Department of Justice. It's not Todd Blanch that returned an indictment against James Comey. It's a grand jury part of the judicial process. and that that this process has to be allowed to play out. It's not fair to to Mr. Comey. It's certainly not fair to the prosecutors for us to to be airing your view or my view of this indictment. It's it's something that will presented in court at the at the at the time set by the judge. Well, let's delve a little deeper. Conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley said, quote, "This indictment is facially unconstitutional absent some unknown new facts." are they? Well, don't the new facts make it probably constitutional? That's like saying that this would be illegal except for the fact that it's a police officer doing it like Yeah. So, this looks bad because I don't know every saying this looks bad because I don't know everything about it. Like, really? Oh my god. Are you in fact saying that there are facts beyond this Instagram post that clearly establish an intent to threaten the president's life? I've said repeatedly that this was an investigation that lasted 11 months. If the only facts that existed was the posting of the Instagram, obviously that wouldn't have taken 11 months. And so when Mr. Turley talks about whether it's facially unconstitutional absent unknown facts or circumstances, we will necessarily have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt at trial every element of this crime, which we're prepared to do. Can you Man, I got to tell you, I'm liking this guy. I am. I like this guy. He's actually doing [ __ ] [ __ ] finally we have somebody who's act waste of resources. It's not because it sets an example. Uh the goal is to scare everybody else who says this kind of stuff so they don't think that it's okay to say it. That's the reason why. So just I mean the process is the punishment. The fact that you're dragging him through all these legal loopholes, he has to go to court. He's being embarrassed constantly. They're going to subpoena more of his information and then make that public. I mean, this guy's going to be totally [ __ ] after this. He is. And and even if even if he doesn't go to jail, even if he's innocent, he's going to be [ __ ] So that's and and that that's the goal that so it's not a waste of resources when you look at the resources that you're not going to have to spend going after everybody else. That's it. And uh yeah, the reason why he's trying to be violent 86 and alive, which isn't a threat directly. It's a small incitement here, but it's only if it's politically judged. Well, hopefully they do politically judge it because I think that's clearly what the reason is. Cincinnati, Ohio liberal judge removed from office sentenced to 6 months in jail, dragged out of the courtroom. Seconds after Judge Patrick Dinkleer affirmed Tracy Hunter's jail sentence, his courtroom erupted in chaos. Three, you are to do six months in the Hamilton County Justice Center. Credit one day. Uh, Mr. and Miss deputies can take her away. A woman who seemed to run to Hunter's defense was quickly taken into custody. Meanwhile, Hunter fell limp in the arms of a deputy who ended up dragging the former juvenile court judge away from her outraged supporters. DRAG HER OUT OF THE COURTROOM. What kind of justice is that? That's the right kind of justice, I'll tell you that. Oh, that's the right kind. I think it should be worse. Only six months. That's it. Only six months. Jesus. So, finally we got these [ __ ] getting arrested. Holy [ __ ] Finally. I'm so glad to see this. And how worth asking such a place and how such absurd views became mainstream. Yeah, even Elon Musk was talking about the archaeologist clip, which I'm very glad to see this. I am. Here we go. Did she get disbarred, though? I don't know. She could have got longer. Yeah, we realized there was a boy on the team. And let me just say this person is 18 years old. So, it it's he's a grown man at this point that was playing on a JV bar JV basketball game with 14 and 15 year olds. So, you got a grown ass man playing with 14year-old girls and he's trying to go into their locker room. So, I uh went up and I talked to the athletic director and I said, "Can you tell me that that's a boy on the team?" And he said, "I'm not going to, you know, say we do not discriminate based on sexual uh identity." And I said, "Well, President Trump just yesterday signed an executive order saying there's no boys or men in women's or girls sports." And he said, "We do not have to follow that. we follow Washington state law and WIAA. So once that happened and I realized that uh Francis was sitting out um it wasn't until towards the end of the game when she there was a lot that went on uh between see this is the this is the part that a lot of people don't understand is that they have this fallacy that they think that if you make a rule and then people don't follow it you like well what do we do now right this is the reason why I am so aggressive with the way that I think that things like this should be approached it's because I recognize that these people only respect that form of aggression that is done to them. That's the reason why the the time that we realized there was this boy on the team and when she was leaving she was so mad. She feel like she had been exposed and um it was just a terrible situation. Uh she walked by and said that you're a man. She was so frustrated in the situation and that is why she has been now uh charged with bullying, harass harassment and intimidation for misgendering this person. It's so easy to solve this problem. It is so easy. I think that I think that people are becoming more willing like I I see a lot of the comments that that I I'm just reading like sentiment. I think that people are becoming a lot more willing to approach things from my perspective. I do I'm very happy to see this. It's going to have it's going to have to be a lot worse, but I'm glad things are moving in that direction. They take awful lot of wood chippers. I wouldn't put anybody in a wood chipper. There's no reason to do that. I think you're too soft sometimes. Uh yeah, I am. Is it I mean there's a toos on Twitch. I can't I mean I there are some things that I can't say what my opinion on it is. I I'll be honest. Like there are a lot of things like that. But what is this? Oh, here we go. immigrant commit a crime, let's say, um in in um in Oregon, um and they're an illegal immigrant and sometimes these crimes are heinous. Um, and in years past under previous administrations, they would call ICE and ask them to deport and they wouldn't. And they would eventually wind up in say like um Washington state of Seattle, another uh sanctuary jurisdiction only to find out that that same criminal illegal uh alien committed another crime there and it was a sanctuary policy that attracted them there. The easiest way to get rid of sanctuary policies is maybe we should start um charging the politicians with crimes that vote for the sanctuary policies and make them accessories to whatever crimes are committed by ill this is the exact thing that I've said. This is the exact thing. illegal immigrants in those jurisdictions because to me they're absolutely complicit uh in the crime because it never should have happened in the first place but for those sanctuary policies but for some um some politician voting u thinking that that's okay. Exactly. Do you believe in providing some level of force equal to that of someone who's doing that force? Just curious at all. I don't believe in eye for an eye. I think that the moment somebody tries to take your eye, you should take everything you can from them. Uh there's no reason to ever try to match force with a person who is trying to enact aggression onto you. Uh the moment that you feel like you're being aggressed on and the moment that you think that there's somebody who's trying to put you in danger or put you at risk, the goal should not be to get even. It should be to solve the problem, neutralize the threat and that should be the goal. And so like that that that's my you don't mean that. Well, of course I do. I mean that's that's the only way you can approach things like that. That's not how I works. Pull me up. Well, I'm again like why would I pull you up for that? It's just stupid. Oh, here we go. Do we ever think, Chris, do we think about Doge and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that Doge got rid of last year. All of these federal workers still haven't found work. People have lost houses. There should have been more. Should have fired way more people. It didn't fire enough people. People have have had loved ones that have died because they don't have health care. Like even when you think about uh am I a person that believes there need to be border security? 100%. Of course, think about the brutality of how there's no The thing is that this is like he's doing the same thing that other people do. You cause the problem and then you get mad at people for solving it. There's no way that you can remove the amount of illegal aliens that are in the country without using brutal means. There's just not. You're go like if you want mass deportations and you want the illegal aliens removed from the country, you are going to look at a lot of people being dragged out of their houses, violence happening, people getting killed. They're going to get killed. It's going to happen. I can promise you that. And if you can't stomach that, then you don't want mass deportations. You don't You can't say you want mass deportations and then complain about the process of it. of this border policies have gone down. Of course. Of course. But the question is, are you saying that it's justified because of it? No. I'm so like, so you so that's how it's going to be consumed. Like I don't think you're justifying it, but if I was somebody who doesn't know you, I would go, "Oh, he's saying that he deserved this and he made people get this radicalized through his." We have to deal with the reality that some of these policies have hurt people so much that some folks are willing to risk it all. That's exactly right. And that's why you've got to be on top of them even more. Charlemagne's right. He is like there are a lot of people that have lost a lot and they're willing to be more violent and aggressive. That's why we need to have more FBI agents, more control, more of these weirdos that are like making these threats online, these violent mobs, etc. That's the reason why we have to be even more aggressive on them. That's what I think. Well, now now you're justifying it. I'M NOT JUSTIFYING. IT'S JUST A REALITY. But now you're justifying it. It's just a reality that you have to deal with. I am I am I You feel like I'm justifying it, Miles. No, I think you can extrapolate out that like was Osama justifi not justified was like Timothy McVey all all these other like political uh you're making the argument that people make about Bin Laden which is well if America wasn't doing this [ __ ] in the Middle East then bin Laden wouldn't have done it. I'm just saying that is the argument he's totally right. This argument is awful that they would make. I just think that we we would be remiss to not take a step back and not just have conversations about violent rhetoric. Let's talk about violent policies that I wish we could, but we don't have any. People have been watching over the last year and a half and how a lot of people have been hurt by those policies and some of those should be more people are willing to risk it all cuz to your point earlier they don't have nothing else to lose at least in their mind. Sure. Sure. But I guess what I'm saying is we still go it's wrong to do that. It I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying like you still have to deal with the reality. He's right about that. He is. And and that's why we need to re like there are a lot of people that are super angry about this. And if you don't acknowledge that and try to make countermeasures for it, you will have more assassination attempts. You will have more violence, etc. You kind of played hypocrisy for a moment there. You wanted more federal workers fired, but then you want more federal workers. I'm just going to perman ban you. I I I'm I don't even want to engage with that. I both know from knowing people that are crazy that it actually doesn't take that much to get certain crazy people. Can you be driven crazy? Uh you lose your house, your grandma dies because, you know, you couldn't afford healthcare. Your grandma been living here her whole life. she gets deported to some country or your wife or somebody that you love gets deported back to a country you never been to. Can you can you be driven crazy? I think you can be radicalized. For sure. I think there's a lot of proof for that. Sure. You can make that argument against any law in the whole world. You can. It's dumb as [ __ ] bro. Like some of these argument. Yeah. Be a citizen. Exactly.

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