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00:01:54.000Aftermath of what was a wild and bizarre Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
00:02:02.000This, of course, would be Brett Kavanaugh.
00:02:04.000Brett Kavanaugh is about as mainstream establishment a textualist judge as can be.
00:02:09.000He gave no controversial answers, but that did not stop Democrats from grandstanding because we now live in a world where signaling to your base that you are deeply
00:02:18.000Deeply upset about things is the way to win political races.
00:02:21.000Whether you're Donald Trump in the 2016 primaries, or whether you're Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primaries, the way that you get your base excited is by showing them that you are very upset and you are crusading for truth!
00:02:32.000It doesn't matter if you're actually making up the truth.
00:03:03.000He was making friends with Shmuley Boteach.
00:03:05.000He was a guy who was going to be the new wave of politics in the country, you know, post-partisan, beyond all of this back and forth, left and right.
00:03:11.000And then he realized that the best way to elevate himself inside the Democratic Party was to act like a loon bag.
00:03:16.000And so he's decided to go full loony and he did that during the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:03:20.000So you recall a couple of days ago when he suggested that he was Spartacus, which was real weird.
00:03:26.000It was real weird because, number one, he is not, in fact, Spartacus.
00:03:29.000Number two, he doesn't understand the plot of Spartacus.
00:03:31.000And number three, he didn't actually violate the law, but here was Cory Booker basically daring people on the Senate Judiciary Committee to oust him from the Senate for violation of the rules.
00:03:41.000I saw the Washington Free Beacon did a mash-up of Cory Booker talking about how he had violated the rules with George Costanza from Seinfeld talking about how he was the bad man.
00:04:38.000One is that he violated the Senate rules.
00:04:40.000Two are that the documents that he actually released were somehow damaging to Brett Kavanaugh.
00:04:45.000Not a single thing he said there is true.
00:04:47.000Including that this is an I am Spartacus moment.
00:04:50.000Now, I've already said this morning on Twitter, I took a Twitter poll as to what President Trump should call him in the inevitable tweet, right?
00:04:54.000There will be a tweet from President Trump about Cory Booker.
00:04:57.000I am pushing all of my friends at the White House to get the President to nickname him Fartacus.
00:05:01.000I just think that the alternatives are Crying Cory.
00:05:06.000There are a few possibilities, but I think Fartacus is clearly the best, and I'll be very disappointed in the President if he goes with Crying somebody else, because he's already done Crying for, I think, a couple of other
00:05:14.000Folks, he needs to get more creative with the insults.
00:05:16.000In any case, it turns out none of this is true.
00:05:18.000So Cory Booker releases these documents.
00:05:21.000Number one, he didn't actually release the documents.
00:05:23.000They were released earlier that morning.
00:05:25.000So he didn't violate any of Senate rule, which he knew when he said this.
00:06:04.000What's hilarious about this is even members of the left-wing media who are prepared to praise Cory Booker, who are prepared to treat him as Spartacus rather than Fartacus, even those members of the media,
00:06:17.000Had to actually ask him some tough questions, and Cory Booker had no answer.
00:06:21.000So Anderson Cooper, who is predisposed to sort of like this kind of drama, he starts asking Cory Booker questions, and watch as Cory Booker's eyes roll up into the back of his head and he starts murmuring in tongues.
00:07:49.000She also doesn't know what she's talking about.
00:07:51.000So she had an entire exchange with Judge Kavanaugh in which she accused Judge Kavanaugh of talking about the Mueller investigation with members of President Trump's law firm over at Kasowitz.
00:08:00.000Well, a couple of facts that are worthwhile noting.
00:08:02.000Number one, Kasowitz gave disproportionately to a particular California Senate candidate by the name of Kamala Harris in the last election cycle.
00:08:11.000I do love the fact that Kamala Harris is suggesting that Kavanaugh knew somebody at Kasowitz and talked about the Mueller investigation without any evidence that ever happened.
00:08:21.000Kasowitz then came out, the law firm came out, they said, yeah, by the way, no, that never happened.
00:09:36.000Just asked Kamala Harris about Kasowitz's denial, because Kasowitz came forward, and Mark Kasowitz, who runs the firm, he says, um, no one here talked to Kavanaugh about any of this stuff, so this is just made up.
00:09:46.000So Manu Raju tweets, just asked Kamala Harris about Kasowitz's denial that no one at firm talked to Kavanaugh about Mueller probe.
00:10:02.000She had no evidence whatsoever that Kasowitz had talked to Kavanaugh about any of this stuff.
00:10:07.000She has no evidence that Kavanaugh has done anything inappropriate with regard to conversations about the Mueller investigation or anything like that.
00:10:14.000She just runs around asking questions that are designed to grandstand for the public.
00:10:18.000The funniest thing about all of this is, you know who's actually winning the battle among Democrats for 2020 based on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing?
00:12:03.000If we're going to go down this path, let's go all the way.
00:12:08.000The American people ought to feel the consequences of the decisions that they've made politically for the last several years.
00:12:14.000And I think what we really deserve, it's not what the country needs, but it's what the country deserves, is an Avenatti versus Trump 2020 race.
00:12:21.000And I'm telling you, Avenatti will crush—he's a better debater.
00:12:24.000He's a better debater than Kamala Harris and Cory Booker.
00:12:29.000And he'll be able to stand there and say, these characters, these clowns, they couldn't even do a Senate Judiciary hearing.
00:12:33.000I am going after the President of the United States via my brave feminist client, Stormy Daniels, famous for her role in The Witches of Brestwick.
00:12:45.000Okay, we're going to get to some more from the Senate Judiciary hearings, because it got even better in a couple of ways.
00:12:50.000But first, let's talk about your underwear.
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00:14:15.000Because if you take these three fingers, that looks like W. And if you take the circle and then you add a line to the bottom, it looks like power.
00:14:23.000But everybody on the left decided that this was a secret white supremacist decoder ring symbol.
00:14:30.000And that if you open a Cracker Jack box and got precisely the proper ring and you oriented it correctly, then you could read between the lines of everything Brett Kavanaugh had ever said.
00:16:46.000And sometimes it's good stuff, and sometimes it's bad stuff.
00:16:48.000But none of that stuff has anything to do with the policy.
00:16:50.000Because when it comes to implementing, most of the people around him make the policy.
00:16:54.000Trump reads the first sentence of the actual policy, and then he signs it.
00:16:59.000Just like you sign the form so you can go to the trampoline park with your kids without actually reading the details that say you sold your first child into slavery.
00:17:17.000They don't have any sort of deep meaning.
00:17:19.000The president doesn't have the power under our system to be Mussolini.
00:17:23.000I don't think President Trump really wants to be Mussolini.
00:17:25.000I think he just likes the kind of cheering throngs of people around him because he seeks approval.
00:17:30.000But that means that you have to enjoy what President Trump does for what it is, which is basically a giant Gallagher routine where he takes a watermelon and smashes it on stage and hits the people in the front row.
00:17:41.000So here was President Trump yesterday talking about the failing New York Times.
00:17:46.000And he says that they ought to investigate themselves, which is a weird suggestion, since I don't know why they would.
00:17:52.000They're a private company, but sure, why the hell not?
00:18:18.000You gotta just, you gotta revel in the fact that the man mispronounced the word anonymous twice in seven seconds, and then basically just said, Anonymous.
00:18:36.000Solid stuff from the president right there.
00:18:38.000And then the president also continued, this would be clip six, talking about, he tweeted this out, he asked if the New York Times would investigate itself.
00:18:48.000He says, are the investigative journalists of the New York Times going to investigate themselves?
00:18:59.000Okay, so what's so funny about this whole controversy over the anonymous op-ed that hit the pages of the New York Times a couple of days ago, and oh my goodness, the accusations that there are people who sit around President Trump, and they steer him, and they make sure he doesn't go off the rails, and they're the steady state
00:19:19.000I read that again last night because I honestly am having a tough time understanding why this is a big deal or why people didn't know this.
00:19:26.000Of course, there are people around the President of the United States who are working to thwart his worst instincts.
00:19:30.000Have you ever had a boss who is not a bad boss, but just kind of crazy?
00:21:31.000Because Brett Kavanaugh is going to kill the Constitution.
00:21:33.000So he moved away from voting Republican is going to kill democracy and now he's on Brett Kavanaugh is going to kill the Constitution, which is weird because it's a document and you can't kill it because it's a document.
00:23:06.000As I say, Brett Kavanaugh apparently is going to end the Constitution.
00:23:10.000This coming from Paul Krugman, a guy who thinks that the Constitution is basically a defunct document we shouldn't be paying attention to anyway.
00:23:16.000But the levels of panic that are evident in a time where there really ought not be panic.
00:24:36.000At a fundamental level, the attempt to jam Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court closely resembles the way Republicans passed a tax cut last year.
00:24:43.000You mean like with a majority vote of the Senate?
00:25:00.000The Ginsburg rule, which was named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is that judges who are being asked questions about current cases, future cases, past cases, should not give answers.
00:25:10.000So this is just Paul Krugman being an ignoramus.
00:25:56.000He won the election because nobody voted for Hillary Clinton, and you dolts decided to nominate the least likable human being in the history of planet Earth.
00:26:04.000A woman with the charisma of a speed bump and all of the joy of a dying squirrel.
00:26:09.000A woman who couldn't even be bothered to get on a plane to Wisconsin because she was too busy hanging out with Lena Dunham, that potato of a human.
00:26:28.000Judge Kavanaugh is, when I think of a risk-taker, I think of a Brett Kavanaugh, a Catholic, who coaches his girls' basketball team and has spent 20 years being one of the preeminent lawyers in Washington, D.C.
00:26:41.000I think of that guy and I think, yeah, that's a risk-taker right there.
00:26:44.000There's a guy who's going to conduct himself as a radical in every possible way.
00:26:48.000He says, after all, what do we know about Kavanaugh?
00:26:50.000There's a lot we don't, thanks to the unprecedented way Republicans in the Trump administration are stonewalling on thousands of pages of his record.
00:26:56.000He has turned over more documents than any candidate in the history of the Supreme Court.
00:26:59.000He has turned over hundreds of thousands of pages of documents that Democrats don't care about at all.
00:27:04.000But Krugman finishes, let me make a last-minute appeal to Republican senators who care about America's future if there are any left.
00:27:55.000So just to square these two editorials, you have Paul Krugman claiming that Kavanaugh is a radical who's going to use the Constitution as a baton.
00:28:03.000And you have Erwin Chemerinsky insisting that the Constitution is a living document that can be twisted any which way by anybody who's on the court.
00:28:37.000I've suggested that as much as I dislike Alex Jones, and I know, I know, there are a lot of people, you know how much email I get from folks who think that Alex Jones is on the level?
00:28:46.000Who think that Alex Jones is actually some sort of genius who has decoded the conspiratorial nature of American life between selling male supplement ads?
00:28:58.000Okay, he's been banned now by Twitter.
00:29:01.000According to CNBC, the ban appears to be related to a heated exchange between Jones and CNN reporter Wednesday, which Jones live-streamed on the Twitter-owned video service Periscope.
00:29:10.000Jones ranted at the reporter, as well as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, following back-to-back congressional hearings where Dorsey addressed online election meddling, as well as accusations of political bias and conservative censorship on the platform.
00:29:36.000The other is that Louis Farrakhan is still on there.
00:29:38.000One of the big problems with all these social media companies that are now banning people is that they still have not set an actual standard for what counts as something that is worthwhile banning.
00:29:47.000They still have not clarified any of this stuff, and that continues to be a serious problem for social media companies.
00:29:53.000There's a reason that the left is wildly mistrusted by the right when it comes to how they are running these social media companies.
00:29:59.000Okay, after this, I'm going to discuss with you just a delicious story about a new socialist face for the Democrats, who it turns out is just a crazy person, but they're still pumping anyway.
00:30:09.000But first, let's talk a little bit about your investment.
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00:32:14.000She calls herself a Democratic Socialist, just like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:32:17.000She's running for New York's 18th State Senate District as part of Brooklyn, containing neighborhoods ranging from Williamsburg to Cypress Hills.
00:32:25.000She's receiving a lot of attention because she's part of this new wave of democratic socialists and all the rest.
00:32:44.000What makes her have a Jewish background?
00:32:46.000Supposedly, her dad once said that maybe he comes from a Murano family.
00:32:49.000Her brother says, I don't know what the heck she's talking about.
00:32:51.000She's basically making this up so that she can claim she's Jewish, which makes an excuse for her being wildly anti-Israel.
00:32:57.000Anti-Israel Jews like to talk about their level of Judaism or their Jewish ethnicity specifically because they don't care about Judaism and it gives them cover to be as anti-Zionist and anti-Israel as they want to be.
00:33:08.000Jews who actually care about Judaism are never anti-Israel.
00:33:13.000There's not a single Jew who seriously cares about Judaism who is anti-Israel.
00:33:17.000If there are, you're talking about, like, extraordinarily fringe folks.
00:33:21.000You're talking about, like, Nitori Carto, which has eight members, and you always see them being photographed by the New York Times as though they're representatives of some sort of major Hasidic sect.
00:33:49.000That doesn't stop Vox.com, the repository for all stupidity on the internet, from writing a piece called, Julia Salazar, the socialist politician accused of lying about her past, explained.
00:33:58.000And then they claim that it's basically a he said, she said situation.
00:34:01.000The only problem being that she is a liar and the people who are actually
00:34:05.000Making the opposite claims, have no interest in lying because they're members of her own family.
00:34:09.000So she basically makes all this stuff up.
00:34:11.000Democrats continue to push her anyway.
00:34:47.000Okay, so not only that, the tablet has done a bunch of reporting on this, and they point to a mysterious shift in Salah's self-conception occurring in 2013, a few months after a trip to Israel.
00:34:58.000By September of 2013, she said she kept kosher at her apartment.
00:35:02.000She says that she formally converted to Judaism, except that she doesn't remember when.
00:35:06.000She says she took a b'nai mitzvah course that, if completed, would amount to a conversion, which, of course, that's insane.
00:35:12.000Okay, just as somebody who knows a little bit about the Judaism,
00:35:15.000You don't go to a bat mitzvah course and become a Jew.
00:35:55.000Suggesting that she was arrested in 2011 on suspicion of criminal use of personal information.
00:36:00.000Police reports describe Julia Salazar attempting to impersonate Kai Hernandez, a family friend and then wife of baseball star Keith Hernandez.
00:36:08.000So now we actually get into Mets baseball to explain Julia Salazar.
00:36:12.000Apparently, Kai Hernandez said she recognized Salazar as a voice on the phone and subsequently filed a police report because what happened is that she was attempting to access the bank account of Kai Hernandez, a family friend and then wife of baseball star Keith Hernandez.
00:36:25.000The incident is chronicled in police reports, court records and audio files, all of which have been obtained by tablet.
00:36:31.000After learning all this about her, actually, I think she's a pretty good candidate for Congress.
00:36:44.000I just recently started a job as a salesperson at a call center.
00:36:46.000My dilemma is that it pays very well for the experience I currently have and where I'm at in college.
00:36:50.000However, I do feel my supervisors want me to be as deceptive and dishonest just enough in order to legally get by in order to sell as much as possible.
00:36:57.000I don't exactly feel comfortable with this, although I can't find another job that pays even close to it.
00:37:01.000Any recommendations on what I should do?
00:37:03.000Yeah, don't push stuff that you don't believe in.
00:37:06.000I mean, we have a lot of people who want to advertise on the program.
00:37:09.000We only have advertisers on the program that I have personally tried or that people on my staff have personally tried because I'm not going to advertise products that I think are BS.
00:37:19.000We'll turn down products in the future.
00:37:21.000If you feel immoral doing what you're doing, no amount of money is going to make you feel any better about that, so I would suggest that you take a lower-paying job, take a couple of jobs.
00:37:29.000Your ethics are worth a little more than that.
00:38:53.000And presumably they'll say, well, you're using words, and we talk with each other, and I know what you're saying because I know what words mean.
00:40:20.000It's where you have a company that's just so good at what it does that it's created a monopoly in the market.
00:40:24.000Monopolies, natural monopolies, do not tend to last very long because usually there are competitors that find something new or there's a whole new branch of sort of invention that makes this particular company obsolete.
00:40:37.000This idea that somebody has a monopoly now, that means they'll have a monopoly in a hundred years, that's just not the way things work and it never has been the way things work when you have a free market economy.
00:40:44.000Diana says, what did the Dailyware crew put in your confetti this past week?
00:41:34.000Well, there's an ongoing controversy over whether Marxism, the terminology of Marxism applies to areas of Western civilization in which the basis for an economy is actually capitalist.
00:41:44.000So the most modern examples being used now are places like Denmark or Sweden or the Nordic countries.
00:41:50.000The left used to admire the USSR and Cuba and Venezuela, and then it turns out all those places are absolute crap holes.
00:41:55.000So now they've decided that instead it applies to all these Nordic countries that are really capitalist with a bunch of redistributionist superstructure placed on top.
00:42:04.000Now, I don't think that's what Marxism describes.
00:42:06.000If you read the Communist Manifesto, it talks about full nationalization of resources.
00:42:10.000It talks about the workers actually taking over all of the companies.
00:42:13.000And that's not what's happening in the vast majority of these Nordic countries.
00:42:16.000Even in places with high rates of nationalization, places like Norway, those companies are run in state-sponsored capitalist fashion.
00:42:23.000I don't think that's sustainable, and I think that absent Norway's awesome oil wealth, they'd be experiencing significant financial difficulties right now at the moment, because that's exactly what happened to Sweden from basically 1970 to the mid-1990s.
00:42:38.000So, no, I do not think that Marxism works as an economic system.
00:42:42.000I think the draw of Marxism, the idea of from each according to his ability, to each according to his need, is a draw toward... It depends who's articulating it.
00:42:52.000If it's somebody who's at the upper end of the economic spectrum, then it's somebody who wants to consider themselves charitable without actually giving charity.
00:42:58.000And if it's somebody at the bottom of the economic spectrum, then very often it's coming from a place of, I want what that other guy has.
00:43:03.000I think Marxism is built on a bunch of lies about the human condition, about human nature.
00:43:07.000I think Marxism makes promises about the transformation of human beings into better human beings.
00:43:12.000If we just change the free market system in which we live, if we just inhibited the freedom of everybody, then we'd all become better human beings.
00:43:55.000Most women are actually interested in dating for marriage.
00:43:58.000Most women think that men are not interested in dating for marriage.
00:44:03.000I really think that the vast majority of women who say that they're interested in dating for fun, it's because many of them have been told by the feminist movement that their lives will be richer if they date for fun.
00:44:51.000But, you know, I take this stuff seriously, and I want to have a good time, obviously, while we're dating.
00:44:56.000But having a good time is not actually the chief purpose of this.
00:44:59.000If I wanted to have a good time, I'd go golfing right now.
00:45:02.000But, you know, if you want to do something meaningful here, let's talk about, first of all, the other answer is go to a church.
00:45:10.000You want to find somebody who wants to date for marriage, go to a church, go to a synagogue, go someplace where people take commitment seriously, and you will find a bevy of people who are interested in dating for marriage.
00:45:18.000Look, it's the norm in the Orthodox community.
00:45:20.000In the Orthodox community, there's no such thing as dating for fun, because you can't have any fun until you're married anyway.
00:46:13.000Jonathan Haidt does a lot of interesting writing.
00:46:15.000I've recommended a lot of these folks' books on the program before, and I think that we'll have to put up—we've been promising for a while that we'll put up a reading list on the website.
00:46:24.000We'll actually have to do that with all of the recommendations, because it's legitimately hundreds of books at this point.
00:46:30.000You and the rest of the Four Horsemen, Clavin, Knowles, and Walsh, keep me going through the work week.
00:46:34.000With all the chaos going on with the Senate hearing on Kavanaugh, what are your thoughts on the movement in some circles of the conservative movement to repeal the 17th Amendment?
00:46:40.000Do you think it would fix a lot of the grandstanding we see now because the Senators would be representing the state and not their constituents?
00:46:48.000Listen, I think that the idea of popularly elected senators is really idiotic.
00:46:52.000I think the goal of the Senate, it's disproportionate in terms of representation, specifically because the states are supposed to be represented, not just the people of the states.
00:47:01.000Now you have the House basically representing the same constituency as the Senate, which defeats the purpose of having a Senate in the first place.
00:47:08.000I don't think that there's a reason why senators should be voted by the same people who vote the members of the House of Representatives.
00:47:55.000I wish I could remember the name of this book.
00:47:57.000It's basically trying to debunk every argument for God's existence.
00:48:00.000And they go through the ontological argument and various other arguments that have been traditionally used.
00:48:05.000I remember reading it and finding it interesting, but not convincing.
00:48:10.000Honestly, I'll have to get back to you on that one, but I do have like a shelf full of atheist books that make exactly these arguments over and over again.
00:48:17.000And there are some pretty well-written ones.
00:48:19.000I remember this one was not in circulation a lot.
00:48:27.000Steven says, if you could get in a time machine and clerk for any U.S.
00:48:29.000Supreme Court justice, who would you pick?
00:48:32.000I would go clerk for Chief Justice John Marshall and I'd reverse Marbury versus Madison.
00:48:39.000I'd sneak in a reversal of Marbury versus Madison, and also then I would work to reverse McCullough versus Maryland.
00:48:44.000There are a couple of bad early decided cases.
00:48:47.000Or, if you're gonna do that, if you're gonna be like the resistance inside the Supreme Court, then I suppose that you would go back and clerk for Justice Taney, and then somehow prevent him from writing Dred Scott.
00:49:13.000So he tweeted out, what was Nike thinking?
00:49:16.000What they were thinking, pretty much, is that you would tweet out about it.
00:49:19.000I mean, that's really what Nike was thinking when they decided to feature Colin Kaepernick, a loser backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, who's not worked in a couple of years, but who knelt for the national anthem, thereby making him a national hero worth millions of dollars.
00:49:33.000They were thinking that you would tweet about it, and then everybody who hates Trump would go out and buy Nike sneakers, thereby demonstrating once again that capitalism always wins.
00:49:42.000But it is worth noting here that Nike's ratings have indeed plummeted.
00:49:46.000They've been hit with sort of really bad poll numbers.
00:49:50.000There was a report from Morning Consult, they suffered a 34 point drop in favorability overall, including dips in nearly every single demographic since announcing the Kaepernick ad campaign.
00:49:59.000Their favorability dropped to, they were at 69%, a plus 69% favorable impression.
00:50:03.000It has now declined 34 points to plus 35 favorable.
00:50:08.000Among younger generations, Nike users, African-Americans, and other key demographics, Nike's favorability declined rather than improved.
00:50:15.000Before the announcement, 49% of Americans said they were absolutely certain or very likely to buy Nike products.
00:50:47.000I think Kaepernick is the worst example of this group of folks.
00:50:49.000I think there were some members of the NFL who knelt, usually in the aftermath of the Kaepernick stuff, who then went and held meetings with various legislators.
00:51:30.000And the stupidity of featuring this, as though there's some sort of shame to working at a Trader Joe's in order to make ends meet because he used to be a famous actor.
00:52:32.000I think there's something really nice about that.
00:52:34.000I think the idea that acting is only worthwhile if you never have to work at Trader Joe's and we have to shame people for working at Trader Joe's is gross.
00:52:42.000Good for Hollywood for making room for Jeffrey Owens again on the basis of all of this.
00:52:47.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate and then we'll get out of here for the weekend.
00:52:54.000So today's thing I hate, this is California, which is just, this is why if you're a leftist you really should believe in federalism, because federalism allows you to try out the dumbest ideas possible.
00:53:08.000And California is the place where we do all of this.
00:53:13.000California on August 30th voted to force publicly traded companies based in California to have at least one woman on their board by 2019.
00:53:22.000And depending on the size of the company, one to three women by 2021.
00:53:26.000California Senate Bill 826 is sponsored by California State Senator Hannah Beth Jackson, Democrat, now heads to Governor Jerry Brown's desk.
00:53:33.000If it becomes law, this will be the first example of a state-mandated gender quota of its kind in the U.S.
00:53:38.000It's just idiotic in every possible way.
00:53:40.000First of all, you're going to have the government actually setting up quotas?
00:53:43.000This seems to me fully unconstitutional.
00:53:45.000It's a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.
00:53:48.000The notion that you are going to force
00:54:18.000Then you've fulfilled all of the various quotas all at once.
00:54:20.000What does this have to do with making business better?
00:54:22.000The answer is nothing, because here's the reality.
00:54:24.000If I have a publicly traded company, and I have five members of the board, and they tell me I need to bring a woman onto the board, you know what I'm gonna do?
00:54:31.000I'm gonna bring on a woman who's either gonna vote like everybody else on the board, or I'm gonna go outnumber the woman with a bunch of other people who agree with me.
00:54:39.000This doesn't actually have any impact on how the company is run, in other words.
00:54:42.000There are already laws that prevent gender discrimination in hiring and firing.
00:54:46.000The notion that you have to go out of your way to stack the boards with particular affirmative action candidates is really bad for business.
00:55:05.000If ever we decided to go public, if this is the law in the state of California, we will legitimately move the company out of state or at least we'd seriously consider it because the more restrictions you put on publicly traded companies in your state, the more they're going to look other places.
00:55:21.000So, California, once again, virtue signaling instead of thinking about all of this stuff in a serious fashion.
00:55:26.000And again, the number of women who are on corporate boards is already increasing because there are lots of qualified women to be on boards.
00:55:32.000It's just, it's the height of stupidity, but again, California is a place that elected Kamala Harris senator.
00:55:40.000Alrighty, we will be back here next week.
00:55:42.000Now remember, I'm not going to be back here Monday or Tuesday because it is Rosh Hashanah.
00:55:45.000So I'm going to be celebrating my new year and enjoying my time off, but I will be back here Wednesday, which means I am sure that all things will happen Monday and Tuesday and I'll have a lot to talk about.