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00:00:00.000Jussie Smollett heads back to Hollywood, the justice system utterly fails underage victims of a major political donor, and voter fraud is a reality.
00:00:16.000We are going to be talking about an actual political beating that happened in Berkeley, and that is being treated by the media as alleged, even though it's on tape, because certain types of crime are important, while other types of crime, not important.
00:00:26.000We'll get to all that in just a second.
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00:01:48.000Apparently, producers of Empire finally have said that his character will be removed from the final two episodes of the latest season of Empire.
00:01:56.000Hilariously, they had not said this as of last night.
00:02:00.000He was actually headed back to the set of Empire in Chicago following his release from police custody on Thursday.
00:02:06.000Smollett was released after posting bail in Chicago after police charged him with staging what was originally reported as a hate crime last month.
00:02:13.000He was originally intended to film throughout the week on the Fox series, His role was dramatically reduced in light of his ongoing legal troubles.
00:02:19.000The fact that he was even allowed to go back to the set is perfectly insane.
00:02:23.000He was involved in the worst race hoax since Tawana Browley in the United States, and the guy was allowed to go back to set?
00:02:33.000Fox has stood behind the actor for the most part, issuing multiple statements backing him as evidence grew that he had staged his own assault.
00:02:40.000Earlier on Thursday, though, the network released a new statement that said in part, How is that even possible?
00:02:54.000How is it possible to have large pockets of support with a company after you basically are caught signing checks to two guys to fake a racial crime?
00:03:05.000There was hope as late as Wednesday he would be able to finish out his work on the series.
00:03:08.000Empire had about an episode and a half of filming to finish its fifth season, or a little more than a week worth of work.
00:03:14.000Apparently, instead, they are finally going to write him out.
00:03:20.000It is just amazing to me, the level to which people will surrender to their own narrative bias.
00:03:26.000To return this guy to sort of civil society, even to consider returning this guy to civil society in the midst of an ongoing legal trial, after presumably expending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a racial hoax, is just insane.
00:03:39.000You know you've done something wrong, you know that you've gone off the rails, when Rahm Emanuel, a lefty of lefties, is very, very upset with you because of your race hoax.
00:03:48.000Here is Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, and you'll recall the chief of staff to Barack Obama talking to Don Lemon, quasi-reporter and friend of Jussie Smollett, last night on CNN.
00:03:58.000Across our city in 77 different neighborhoods, there are people that have signs in their front lawn, on their windows, that say, hate has no home here.
00:04:08.000And to you, Chicago, in that way is not true to who we are as a city.
00:04:12.000Our police officers took this as a very serious hate crime, and they dedicated the resources to deal with it as a hate crime.
00:04:22.000What about the young man who's dealing with his own sexual orientation and is attacked for it in high school or some school, who's now going to doubt whether people are going to believe him?
00:04:32.000You have put all those real stories at risk for your fake story.
00:04:38.000There's a certain irony to Rahm Emanuel suggesting that Jussie Smollett's story did grave damage to the city of Chicago.
00:04:44.000It did, of course, do grave damage to the city of Chicago.
00:04:46.000The widespread perception that Chicago PD are somehow racist, that they were not pursuing the case with alacrity, or that Chicago is home to tremendous amounts of evil MAGA racists who are running around throughout the city trying to string up black people.
00:05:00.000It's funny how so many folks on the left, including Rahm Emanuel, will say, you know, this is a slander on the city of Chicago and a slander on the police department.
00:05:07.000And yet Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, they were constantly slandering a huge swath of Americans as exactly the kind of people that Jussie Smollett was trying to target.
00:05:17.000The entire Jussie Smollett routine was not really targeting the city of Chicago, obviously.
00:05:23.000It was targeting white folks across the United States who may have voted for President Trump.
00:05:27.000That was the goal of Jussie Smollett's routine.
00:05:29.000He knew that folks like Rahm Emanuel, if the crime had been true, he knew that people like Rahm Emanuel would have jumped on board the idea that there were a huge swath of Americans who agreed with the attackers, the fake attackers, of Jussie Smollett.
00:05:41.000So if Rahm Emanuel is very concerned about stories that draw a false conclusion about fellow Americans, then it seems to me that people on the left might want to reconsider how they treat crimes like this in the future.
00:05:52.000Because the fact is, during the Obama administration, Barack Obama was complicit in presenting exactly Exactly the same types of slander about certain parts of America.
00:06:04.000Barack Obama said about Ferguson, Missouri, Michael Brown, you'll recall, was an 18-year-old black man who attacked a police officer.
00:06:10.000He tried to run at a police officer and was shot to death for his trouble after robbing a convenience store and after punching that police officer in the face.
00:06:19.000And that was portrayed by the media as hands up, don't shoot.
00:06:22.000You remember anchors on CNN raising their hands and posing for pictures, hands up, don't shoot.
00:06:27.000And you remember Barack Obama in the aftermath of the acquittal of the officer in that particular case.
00:06:32.000You'll remember the president of the United States getting on TV and expressing his quasi sorrow at the verdict and then suggesting that communities of color don't make these things up.
00:06:52.000If you are upset with Jussie Smollett on the left today because you feel that he slandered the city of Chicago and the Chicago PD and they made it harder for future victims, then you should have been just as upset over the Michael Brown scenario.
00:07:04.000You should have been just as upset over that.
00:07:06.000You should have been just as upset over other issues that were happening like that during the Obama administration.
00:07:10.000People were not, because President Obama decided to back the play.
00:07:13.000In this particular case, it blew back on the city of Chicago.
00:07:16.000So now the left realizes that this sort of thing is bad.
00:07:18.000When it blows back on the state of Missouri, or the city of Ferguson, then it's a completely different story.
00:07:49.000Well, that's because President Trump didn't claim falsely that he was beaten half to death and then called racial slurs by people he had hired.
00:07:56.000That's why President Trump isn't in jail.
00:07:59.000Hewley and his hat don't seem to understand that.
00:08:01.000You know, it's interesting when you use hatred and bigotry and lying for your own self as in, and you're a young black kid, a young gay black kid, you get indicted.
00:08:09.000If you do it when you're an old white guy, you become president.
00:08:12.000And I think there are enough monsters out there for real that we don't have to make any up.
00:08:17.000White supremacist has never, they're at a historical high.
00:08:21.000It's interesting that the president would focus more on the kid that orchestrated a fake attack, but not the man, white supremacist, who was orchestrating an actual attack.
00:09:11.000The reason Jussie Smollett is going to jail is because he actually took up police resources by reporting a fake hate crime.
00:09:17.000If Jussie Smollett had just gone out there and preached about how America is racist, and how white people, broadly speaking, are racist, he'd be on the cover of Time Magazine next week.
00:09:26.000He'd be getting multi-million dollar deals like Colin Kaepernick.
00:09:32.000Hewley continues to suggest that white supremacism is at an all-time high in the United States, you know how ignorant you have to be of American history to believe that?
00:09:40.000You're truly ignorant of American history.
00:09:44.000We had a literal war in this country where half a million people died, because it seems like probably when there were actual slaves being held in the United States, probably then is when white supremacy was at its height.
00:09:55.000If I had to guess, I'd probably peg it right then.
00:09:58.000And then you know when it was also really high?
00:09:59.000It was also really high when we had a legal system of discrimination against black people that was promoted throughout the South and enshrined in law up until the mid-60s.
00:10:06.000That seems like a time when white supremacism was at its all-time high.
00:10:10.000You know when it's not at its all-time high?
00:10:12.000In a country that three years ago a black man was President of the United States, the Attorney General of the United States was a black man, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State Susan Rice, was a woman of color.
00:10:25.000The attempt to paint America as deeply racist in spite of Jussie Smollett is amazing.
00:10:30.000The real point here is the one that Matt Walsh, a columnist over at Daily Wire, made yesterday, which is that the supply of racism of the United States is being exceeded by demand.
00:10:40.000There is too much demand for racism and not enough supply.
00:10:42.000So now we have to get mad over silly things or we have to make up race hoaxes.
00:10:46.000We have to find every instance of quasi or fake racism we can in order to promote the idea that America is still a terrible, awful, no good, very bad place.
00:10:59.000I mean, that really is the theme for Jussie Smollett, right?
00:11:01.000All Jussie Smollett had to do if he wanted to be the leader on hate crimes against black folks is find a black gay person who was victimized in a hate crime and promote their story.
00:11:17.000And by the way, again, there's still people going to defend Jussie Smollett because they are going to make the claim that Jussie Smollett is indicative of a broader problem, even if his story is fake.
00:11:25.000The story is fake, but the moral is real.
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00:12:45.000Alright, so there's still people who are in fact race hoax specialists, or at least racialists, who make bank off this stuff.
00:12:52.000Who refused to acknowledge that Jussie Smollett even did anything wrong.
00:12:55.000One of those people is Auntie Maxine, who has been promoted as a champion of the downtrodden among the Democratic Party, especially now because she's very anti-Trump.
00:13:04.000She said yesterday she still doesn't believe the Chicago PD.
00:13:08.000How do we make sense of Justice Smollett?
00:13:10.000How do we make sense of the situation?
00:13:12.000I don't think we can, at this point, make sense of it.
00:13:15.000There's still some questions that we have, some answers that have to be given.
00:13:20.000He's a friend, and so I believed him when I heard about it.
00:13:26.000I still don't know all of the details.
00:13:28.000I'm waiting for the final results of all of this.
00:13:31.000If, in fact, it's a hoax, of course I would be disappointed.
00:13:34.000Oh, if it's a hoax, you'd be disappointed.
00:13:52.000Kamala Harris is doing a little bit of the same routine.
00:13:54.000So you'll recall that Kamala Harris first said that this was a modern-day lynching.
00:13:57.000And then you'll recall that Kamala Harris said that she was going to wait for all the facts to come out while pretending that she didn't actually know what the facts were.
00:14:06.000It says, like most of you, I've seen the reports about Jussie Smollett, and I'm sad, frustrated, and disappointed.
00:14:11.000When anyone makes false claims to police, it not only diverts resources away from serious investigations, but it makes it more difficult for other victims of crime to come forward.
00:14:20.000At the same time, we must speak the truth.
00:14:22.000Hate crimes are on the rise in America.
00:14:24.000Just last year, the FBI released statistics that revealed a 17% increase in the number of hate crimes in America.
00:14:30.000Part of the tragedy of the situation is that it distracts from that truth and has been seized by some who would like to dismiss and downplay the very real problems that we must address.
00:14:41.000So the real problem is not really Jussie Smollett.
00:14:44.000The real problem is people seizing and pouncing like a tiger on Jussie Smollett.
00:14:51.000You know, the real good news here, I guess, is that he raised awareness.
00:14:54.000In the end, he raised awareness of hate crimes.
00:14:56.000That's the real thing that we should be very excited about.
00:15:00.000Zerlina Maxwell, another commentator doing this Jussie Smollett defense routine, pretty amazing over on MSNBC, she says, listen, we should react to Jussie Smollett with empathy.
00:15:09.000You know, empathy for the guy who is willing to falsely testify that people who did not commit a crime committed a crime and send them to jail, presumably for the rest of their lives.
00:16:21.000Somebody who is willing to testify falsely so that other people go to jail, that makes you a bad human being.
00:16:27.000Jussie Smollett did something deeply evil here, and to pretend that empathy should be on the table is bizarre at best, and obviously malicious at worst, because you're actually promoting a narrative, not a truth.
00:16:38.000And meanwhile, there was an actual political crime, a politically driven assault that happened at Berkeley.
00:16:46.000And police at Berkeley were called to a student plaza on Tuesday after reports that a representative of the Conservative Leadership Institute was physically assaulted by a man on the campus.
00:16:55.000Well, we actually have tape of it and here is what it sounded like.
00:17:24.000The student maintained control of the camera, so we have a good shot of the guy's face.
00:17:30.000I mean, just sh** delivered a short right to his eye.
00:17:32.000And this guy should be arrested, and obviously he will be arrested.
00:17:36.000He's now on camera, so the chances that he doesn't end up spending some time in jail, pretty low.
00:17:41.000The Daily Californian was the first outlet to report the incident, which the student-run paper says took place in the Upper Sproul Plaza.
00:17:47.000Citing a campus police alert that went out Wednesday, the paper reports that the alleged victim, a male Leadership Institute representative, had been tabling for Turning Point USA, that's Charlie Kirk's group, on Tuesday afternoon, about 3.29 p.m., When two males approach the table.
00:18:02.000The victim told police he and the two men became embroiled in a verbal altercation, at which point he began filming the escalating exchange with his phone.
00:18:08.000One of the two alleged attackers reportedly slapped the phone out of the activist's hand and then overturned the table the group was using to recruit.
00:18:15.000While he and the suspect struggled for the phone, the suspect punched the victim several times, causing injury to the victim's eye and nose.
00:18:21.000By the time the police arrived, the suspect had already left the scene.
00:18:24.000A student who witnessed the attack filmed the second part of the altercation on his phone.
00:18:30.000Charlie Kirk, the head of TPUSA, tweeted out the footage, wrote, That, of course, is 100% true.
00:18:40.000The College Fix has also published additional footage filmed by a conservative activist that includes the assaulter threatening, So, the student paper has reported in an update that UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ said in a statement the campus condemns all forms of harassment and violence and that the university does not have any information about whether the student, the suspect is a student at the university.
00:19:02.000He is wearing a backpack and he appears to be college age.
00:19:05.000The student who reportedly filmed the incident Apparently told Breitbart News that the altercation appears to have begun over an argument about a TPUSA sign that warned hate crime hoaxes hurt real victims, which was a reference to Jussie Smollett.
00:19:17.000And then apparently he began filming after the suspect flipped over the table.
00:19:29.000When they headlined Jussie Smollett, it was Jussie Smollett assaulted.
00:19:32.000You be the, you be the judge as to whether the media would be covering this differently if this had been an Obama supporter punched by a Trump supporter.
00:19:39.000I have a feeling the answer would be yes.
00:19:42.000And meanwhile, in a horrifying story, this is from the Washington Post, A judge has now ruled that prosecutorial deal between Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta and Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers was absolutely corrupt, which is 100% true.
00:19:57.000We covered this a few months ago on the podcast.
00:20:00.000A judge ruled Thursday that federal prosecutors, including the future Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, violated the law when they did not tell victims the government had struck a deal not to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein.
00:20:10.000A politically connected billionaire accused of molesting dozens of young girls.
00:20:13.000You'll recall Jeffrey Epstein from having an island, it was basically sex slave island.
00:20:18.000He had a bunch of underage young girls there and he was flying his friends down there.
00:20:22.000And his friends ranged in politics from Bill Clinton to, I believe he was friendly with Trump, I think.
00:20:27.000I know that he was friendly with Alan Dershowitz.
00:20:30.000The ruling was a stinging rebuke for prosecutors and how they behaved in a grim high-profile case that has drawn increased scrutiny in recent months.
00:20:36.000A Miami Herald investigation last year highlighted the allegations and Acosta's role in cutting a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein, while a Justice Department office said it is exploring whether the federal prosecutors who reached the deal committed professional misconduct.
00:20:50.000District Judge Kenneth Marrow was blunt, ruling that prosecutors had acted improperly in reaching the agreement with Epstein, which stopped federal action in exchange for him pleading guilty to a state charge without telling the victims.
00:21:04.000He was basically kidnapping young girls off the street, bringing them home, and then sexually abusing them.
00:21:10.000And then he was releasing them because he was extraordinarily wealthy and because he gave lots of money to politicians.
00:21:15.000The presumption is that this had an impact on how his prosecution went.
00:21:19.000The judge wrote that he was not ruling the decision not to prosecute was improper.
00:21:23.000He was simply ruling that under the facts of this case, there was a violation of the victim's rights under the CVRA, which is the Crime Victims Rights Act, which entitles victims to know about significant events in their cases.
00:21:33.000Prosecutors did not give victims a chance to affect prosecutorial decisions and did not accurately tell them about what was happening.
00:21:40.000Prosecutors instead sought to conceal the existence of the deal cut with Epstein and mislead the victims to believe that federal prosecution was still a possibility.
00:21:48.000Mera wrote, while the government spent untold hours negotiating the terms and implications of the non-prosecution agreement with Epstein's attorney, scant information was shared with the victims.
00:21:59.000The case remains in active litigation.
00:22:01.000It has referred further questions to the Justice Department.
00:22:03.000Attorney's Office in Southern District of Florida declined to comment on the ruling.
00:22:08.000The allegations against Epstein and the fact that he had reached a deal had been publicly known.
00:22:12.000They came up during Acosta's 2017 confirmation hearings to lead the Labor Department.
00:22:16.000The case surged back into the public eye in November, when the Herald published its investigation, reporting it had identified approximately 80 women who said they had been sexually abused by Epstein between 2001 and 2006, and then how Epstein had struck a deal that effectively ended an FBI probe.
00:22:32.000The Justice Department revealed earlier this month it had opened an investigation into how prosecutors handled the Epstein case, though the probe is likely to be of limited impact.
00:22:41.000Epstein is one of the worst people walking this earth.
00:22:45.000And the fact that he was politically connected, I can't imagine that had nothing to do with the agreement that was cut here.
00:22:51.000I imagine there were probably powerful people who were sounding off to the prosecution office about letting Epstein go.
00:22:57.000When people talk about injustices in the criminal justice system, I think it has very little to do with race.
00:23:01.000I think it has a lot to do with the amount of power that you wield.
00:23:04.000And if you're Jeffrey Epstein, and you're paying off politicians, and those politicians can call up their political friends, sometimes deals get cut that way, and that is really bad.
00:23:13.000There's a reason that it's good to be a celebrity in a criminal justice case.
00:23:17.000I mean, we'll see what happens with Jussie Smollett, by the way.
00:23:20.000There was a report yesterday that it is likely that the prosecution will cut a deal with Smollett so he does no jail time, which would be fully insane.
00:23:27.000At least on the state level, we'll see what the feds do.
00:23:29.000Bottom line here is that if Acosta cut this deal for any corrupt reason at all, not only should he not be Labor Secretary, he should probably do jail time.
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00:25:11.000Alrighty, meanwhile, a new election has been ordered in North Carolina.
00:25:15.000According to the New York Times, North Carolina officials on Thursday ordered a new contest in the 9th Congressional District after the Republican candidate, confronted by evidence that his campaign had financed an illegal voter turnout effort, called for a new election.
00:25:27.000The unanimous ruling by the five-member Board of Elections was a startling and, for Republicans, embarrassing conclusion to a case that has convulsed North Carolina since November, and it followed testimony that outlined how a political operative had orchestrated an absentee ballot scheme to try to sway the race in favor of Mark Harris, the Republican candidate.
00:25:44.000It is now the single undecided House contest in last year's midterms.
00:25:48.000Robert Cordell, the state's board chairman, cited the corruption absolute mess with the absentee ballots when he called for a new election.
00:25:55.000Harris had a 905-vote lead over his Democratic opponent, Dan McCready, but his success in Bladen County, where he won 61% of absentee ballots, even though Republicans were there accounted for just 19% of them, alarmed regulators.
00:26:08.000When he finally took the stand on Thursday morning, Mr. Harris denied knowing of any wrongdoing in the voter turnout effort led by L. McCray Dallas Jr., a veteran political operative known as a local guru of elections.
00:26:19.000But in a series of questions, Harris stumbled and appeared to mislead the board.
00:26:22.000When he returned to the crowded courtroom after lunch recess, he asked whether he could read a statement.
00:26:27.000He explained that recent medical issues, including two strokes, had impaired his abilities and recall, and then he asked for a new election.
00:26:37.000Now, the entire article talks about this voter operations guy, McCray Dallas.
00:26:43.000And it talks about his history in the district, but it does not actually talk until very late about his longtime history working for Democrats.
00:26:53.000In fact, if you search the piece for references to Democrat, there is no, there's one reference, one reference to his shadowy work for Democratic and Republican politicians.
00:27:04.000But that is not how New York Times reporter Patrick Healy talked about this on CNN.
00:27:09.000Here's Patrick Healy, the politics editor for the New York Times, saying Republicans are engaging in voter fraud.
00:27:14.000For years, President Trump and Republicans have tried to create this image that Democrats were stealing elections.
00:27:54.000Also true, this guy has been working for politicians of both parties And mostly the Democratic Party over the course of his career.
00:28:01.000According to the News Observer in North Carolina, Dallas had long voted in Democratic primaries, but became a registered Republican after the 2016 general election.
00:28:09.000In 2012, he was paid for get-out-the-vote efforts for competing Democratic candidates in a state house race.
00:28:16.000You think maybe a voter fraud guru may have committed voter fraud on behalf of Democrats historically, but nobody cared because it was Democrats doing it in a Democratic primary?
00:28:24.000News reports indicate he has been doing campaign work at least as far back as 2006.
00:28:28.000He told the News Reporter of Whiteville in a 2010 article that he worked on then-District Attorney Rex Gore's campaign that year.
00:28:35.000In 2010, Dallas worked for the man Gore defeated, Harold Butch Pope, a Whiteville attorney.
00:28:39.000During that campaign, Pope and Dallas had to respond to concerns about Dallas' criminal record.
00:28:44.000In 1992, Dallas was convicted of felony insurance fraud after he and his wife were accused of taking out an insurance policy on a dead man and collecting nearly $165,000 from his death.
00:28:55.000And he was being hired by Democrats four years after that.
00:28:58.000He served more than six months of a two-year prison sentence after repeating the plot of double indemnity.
00:29:04.000Pope knocked out Gore in the Democratic primary, then lost the election to John David, who remains the district attorney for Blayden, Brunswick, and Columbus counties.
00:29:11.000Pope said when he ran for the office, two or three people called and told him he needed Dallas working for him in Blayden County.
00:29:17.000Someone told me McCray Dallas is the guru of Blayden County.
00:29:21.000So, the guy who is responsible for the voter fraud is McCray Dallas, fellow.
00:29:25.000He basically was gathering absentee ballots, and then he was throwing out the ones that he didn't like, and he was keeping the ones that he did like.
00:29:33.000That was essentially what happened here.
00:29:34.000And this is why ballot gathering is a bad process.
00:29:37.000Absentee ballots should not be allowed unless you're a member of the military.
00:29:42.000Absentee ballots, early voting, it should only be allowed if you're a member of the military.
00:29:45.000This idea that we need to maximize the number of people voting early and then we need to allow various political parties to go out and vote gather is extraordinarily dangerous.
00:30:11.000You know it's bad when everyone does it.
00:30:14.000Maybe we should change the system so it is not as easy to commit voter fraud.
00:30:18.000Take, for example, my state, California.
00:30:20.000The San Diego Union Tribune has a piece back from December.
00:30:24.000It says this, in the wake of last month's blue wave that wrested control of the House from Republicans and transferred it to the Democratic Party, some members of the GOP are complaining about the results and the practice of so-called ballot harvesting in California.
00:30:37.000House Speaker Paul Ryan, who's then the House Speaker, said last week that California defies logic and he can't begin to understand what ballot harvesting is.
00:30:46.000It's political jargon for a practice in which organized workers or volunteers collect absentee ballots from certain voters and drop them off at a polling place or election office.
00:30:54.000Coined by California Republicans, the term carries a negative connotation to suggest improprieties and even election fraud.
00:31:02.000In 2016, Jerry Brown signed into law a change to section 3017 of the election code that allows any person to collect a mail-in ballot from voters and turn in the mail ballot to a polling place or the registrar's office.
00:31:13.000Prior law restricted the practice to just relatives or those living in the same household as the voter.
00:31:18.000So in other words, Jerry Brown made voter fraud easier.
00:31:20.000Because now, you can have somebody just coming to your door and saying, listen, I've been assigned by whomever.
00:31:27.000I've been assigned by the Elections Oversight Committee.
00:31:37.000I'll take it down to the mailbox for you.
00:31:40.000I'm not sure that the actual law requires you to say if you are working for one of the parties.
00:31:47.000The legislation says that a vote by a mail voter who is unable to return the ballot may designate any person to return the ballot to the elections official from whom it came or to the precinct board at a polling place within the jurisdiction.
00:32:00.000So, in other words, the actual process that McCrae Dallas used, which is he would go around, gather a bunch of ballots, throw out the ones he didn't like, keep the ones he did like, that process is very much on the table in places like California and was just made easier by the former governor of California, Jerry Brown.
00:32:14.000It used to be you could only give it to your brother, sister, your wife, your kids, take the ballot down to the mailbox and drop it off.
00:32:20.000Now, it's if I come to your door and I sign a piece of paper saying I gave you my ballot, then I can hand it to Rando.
00:32:27.000And who the hell knows what Rando is doing with those ballots?
00:32:30.000So, this is where I have a real problem with all the talk about voter fraud.
00:32:33.000If you are only concerned about voter fraud when it happens on one side of the aisle, you are not really concerned about voter fraud.
00:32:38.000If you are only upset about voter fraud because of what just happened in North Carolina's 9th District, but you don't care that the guy responsible for the voter fraud was active in elections for legitimately four election cycles before that, and you don't care that the exact methodology he used is still open to abuse in states like California, Then you don't get to claim that you really care about voter fraud.
00:32:59.000All you care about is blaming Republicans.
00:33:01.000That's why that politics editor from the New York Times is doing a grave disservice to the actual issue.
00:33:07.000The San Diego Union-Tribune says there have been no credible reports of ballot harvesting being employed illegally or systematically to amount to election fraud.
00:33:14.000Secretary of State Alex Padilla was quoted saying the laws don't benefit one party over another.
00:33:19.000Oh, well, we're not going to find out about that until it's found out about.
00:33:43.000I love that Dollar Shave Club has everything I need to look, feel, and smell my best.
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00:35:29.000This week's shout-out goes to Cameron.
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00:37:55.000Because it is suggesting that the vast majority of disparities in mobility in today's American society are due to an event that ended 150 years ago.
00:38:08.000If you want to say that people who suffered under Jim Crow should get some sort of reparations from the state of Alabama, for example, There's maybe an argument.
00:38:33.000If you are one quarter black, do you get slavery reparations?
00:38:37.000Also, if you are black but not a descendant of a slave, if you're Kamala Harris, and your father is Jamaican, your mom is Indian, do you get slavery reparations?
00:38:45.000Also, shouldn't we make it so that the people who directly benefited from slavery are the ones who foot the bill for it?
00:38:52.000Or are we going to make the people who are descendants of people who died in the Civil War fighting slavery pay for the reparations?
00:38:59.000One of the broad-based accusations when it comes to slavery and Jim Crow is that the entire United States benefited as a whole from slavery and Jim Crow.
00:39:07.000That is obviously and eminently economically untrue.
00:39:10.000There is no fact pattern that suggests whatsoever that the vast majority of white people who are not directly engaged in having slaves on their plantation benefited from slavery.
00:39:19.000In fact, it helped make the southern economy agrarian and backwards.
00:39:22.000The reason that the North overwhelmed the South was sheer industrial power, and a large part of that is because slavery was not allowed in the North.
00:39:28.000Slavery is not actually economically feasible or beneficial.
00:39:33.000It is not feasible or economically beneficial.
00:39:36.000So the entire basis of reparations, which is the United States broad-scale benefited from slavery, and that white people in the United States broad-scale benefited from slavery, that is simply not true.
00:39:46.000And the reason that matters is because, for my family, my great-great grandparents arrived in the United States in like 1907.
00:39:53.000That was a solid 50 years after the end of slavery in the United States.
00:40:20.000The best you could do, if you're just talking about a fairness argument, if you're talking about a simple racial fairness argument, is find the direct descendants of slaves, find the direct descendants of plantation owners, and have the direct descendants of plantation owners turn over a percentage of their wealth to the direct descendants of slaves.
00:40:37.000That's going to be very difficult, and also, it's likely not to be beneficial because there's a very good shot that many of the people who are direct descendants of plantation owners are poorer than the direct descendants of slaves.
00:40:48.000Again, once you are far removed from historical events, making it right through reparations is extraordinarily difficult.
00:40:55.000As I say, I think there, if you, if someone could make a case about Jim Crow, maybe?
00:41:39.000Presumably, that was a large part of what drove the social welfare state.
00:41:42.000I mean, LBJ essentially said that openly, that he saw large swaths of the social welfare state as designed to as designed to address the disparities that existed between black and whites in the United States on economic issues.
00:41:56.000Elizabeth Warren also said she supported reparations for black Americans because she's basically just following around every candidate and shouting, yeah, me too.
00:42:03.000Her campaign is she follows around Kamala Harris until Kamala Harris says something radical.
00:42:08.000And then Elizabeth Warren stands in the background, waves around, yeah, I also agree.
00:42:12.000And then Bernie Sanders emerges from the woodwork, it's like, I think that everything should be free.
00:42:16.000And Elizabeth Warren creeps up behind him, pops up her pen, she goes, yeah, me too.
00:42:19.000That's basically her campaign at this point.
00:42:23.000The Warren campaign declined to give further details on that backing, but it came amid her calls for the federal government to provide special home-buying assistance to residents of communities that were adversely affected by redlining.
00:42:35.000What you're seeing from a lot of Democrats is an attempt to push bad government policy, not direct reparations, actual bad government policy that has resulted in terrible economic woes for the United States on the basis that disparity is discrimination.
00:42:48.000So, too few black families were getting home loans.
00:42:51.000Therefore, why don't we have a subprime mortgage industry backed by the federal government?
00:42:56.000Except for, you know, destroying half the United States economy in 2007-2008.
00:42:59.000Except for that, it'll be totally fine.
00:43:02.000Pursuing bad policy as some form of reparations is not smart, either for black people or for white people.
00:43:08.000And if we are talking about reparations, we have to discuss who gets it, from when, from whom, over what period, and why.
00:43:15.000Okay, you know, let's do a little bit of mailbag here.
00:43:18.000So, John says, what are your thoughts on Andrew Yang's running for president 2020 on the Democratic ticket?
00:43:22.0001,000-month UBI freedom dividend that he proposes can be available for all Americans to either replace or enhance welfare.
00:43:30.000Well, I believe that the only purpose of a universal basic income or a negative income tax, as Milton Friedman suggested, is if you're going to replace the entire welfare structure with it.
00:43:39.000If basically we just sign a check to everybody every month, below a certain income level, and that's it.
00:43:44.000There are no other supplemental programs.
00:43:45.000We don't need 70 different welfare programs.
00:43:50.000We just sign you a check, and now it's your job to do with it what you will.
00:43:53.000The problem I see is that many of the decisions that are being made with money by people who are on welfare are not great decisions in the first place.
00:44:03.000So that is not to suggest they shouldn't have control over their money.
00:44:06.000But if you have control over your money, that means that you also bear the brunt of the decisions that you make with your money.
00:44:11.000It's one of the reasons why, for example, there's been a suggestion by Republicans for health savings accounts when it comes to health care for poor people, because there's a fear that a lot of that money will not be used for health savings.
00:44:21.000Well, all Brahms chamber music is fantastic.
00:45:08.000If you like more dissonant music and more modern music, then Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra is one of my personal favorites.
00:45:16.000There's so much great classical music.
00:45:18.000Everything that Mozart wrote in his late career, I tend to love.
00:45:21.000So I love Don Giovanni, I love the Requiem, at least the parts of it that he wrote.
00:45:26.000He died in the middle of writing his Requiem.
00:45:30.000There's so much great classical music.
00:45:31.000Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, his Scottish Symphony, his Violin Concerto.
00:45:36.000So it really depends on the form of music you're talking about, but that's enough to get you started.
00:45:39.000Also, one of my personal favorites, I've played it on the show before, Ralph Vaughan Williams.
00:45:45.000Fantasia on the Theme by Thomas Tallis is, I think, one of the most spiritual pieces of music ever written.
00:45:49.000Zachary says, "I'm currently dating a girl from Peru "who's blindsided by the fact that she was illegal "due to her parents never informing her until she was 18.
00:45:56.000"We've been fighting to keep her here via a pardon, "and after a year, she only recently has been granted "the permission to get biometrics done.
00:46:19.000You're not saying that she should continue to illegally immigrate.
00:46:22.000You're not saying that she should continue to violate America's laws.
00:46:25.000And presumably, if you married her and she were rejected for immigration status, then you would find another place to live.
00:46:30.000So I don't see a conflict there at all.
00:46:32.000What I do see is a system that is wildly broken when a lot of people who were brought here as children and are net benefits to the United States, it takes forever for them to get citizenship, but we're talking blanket amnesty for people who come across the border now.
00:47:23.000Our immigration system is broken, and this is just another indicator of it.
00:47:28.000Zachary says, a co-worker and I often discuss complex and larger issues about life, the state of the country, etc.
00:47:33.000One thing that has recently come up that we can't seem to figure out is automation and AI.
00:47:36.000Now, I'm not a big fan of UBI, but in 10 or so years, when electric vehicles and self-driving vehicles become more prevalent, retail stores and fast food restaurants become mostly automated, which causes millions of jobs to evaporate, and not all of those people can be retrained to do something else.
00:47:49.000Do you think we will inevitably end up with a UBI, or do you think there's a better solution?
00:47:53.000Well, again, people are asking me to predict the future on these sorts of questions.
00:47:56.000All I can say is that if the future looks like the past, the answer is no.
00:47:59.000If the future looks like the past, then technology will be an aid to the creation of new jobs and new industries.
00:48:04.000And we can look at a number of examples from modern American life.
00:48:08.000First of all, 150 years ago, did we think there'd be a massive trucking industry?
00:48:11.000No, because the car had not yet been invented, so it'd be very difficult to imagine a giant trucking industry.
00:48:16.000Could we imagine an entire social media industry?
00:48:19.000No, the internet was invented like 25, 30 years ago, or at least became widespread at that point.
00:48:25.000We create new jobs and new industries all the time.
00:48:28.000Like the Daily Wire, we're going to have probably, what, 100 employees over the next year?
00:48:34.000None of those jobs exist in the absence of the internet or television.
00:48:39.000How many people are in the entertainment industry today?
00:48:41.000That entertainment industry did not exist.
00:48:43.000In other words, with new technology come new opportunities.
00:48:46.000And the fact is that technology very often is an aid to job creation, not a killer of jobs.
00:48:51.000It kills certain types of jobs always, but it also aids in the creation of new types of jobs, which tend to be, by the way, easier and less backbreaking than the old jobs.
00:48:59.000I always find it kind of weird when people are like, I long for the days when my grandfather worked on a union line at Ford and he could afford a house.
00:49:06.000You know what's probably a really bad job working on a union line at Ford?
00:49:09.000Really, going in at like 8 in the morning, coming home at 5 at night, and all you did was just rivet stuff.
00:49:14.000And maybe your grandfather thought it was a great job at the time, because that was the kind of job that was around at the time.
00:49:20.000But would you rather sit on your fat can in an office, in an air-conditioned office, or would you prefer to be in a hot, sweltering factory riveting stuff 10 hours a day for 35 years?
00:49:32.000I find it kind of, there's a certain level of ingratitude in American life that is really kind of galling to me.
00:49:37.000This ingratitude that suggests that we really have it hard now, it was better how it used to be.
00:49:42.000There are very few aspects of American life that are worse than they used to be, really.
00:49:46.000Maybe some of our moral life, but certainly not much of our economic life.
00:49:49.000Donnie says, can you explain how illegal immigrants cost America money?
00:49:52.000I hear they pay all taxes from some people and just sales tax from others.
00:49:55.000Well, they don't pay Income tax, obviously, because their income is not reportable.
00:50:01.000They are a drain on America's resources in terms of public education if they have kids who become citizens and are not eligible for all sorts of government benefits.
00:50:09.000Also, if you just come here as an illegal immigrant, you are eligible for certain state benefits.
00:50:13.000You're not eligible for any federal benefits, but if you're an illegal immigrant in the state of California, there are certain state benefits that do accrue to you.
00:50:19.000Plus, you can be a drain on our emergency rooms, for example.
00:50:22.000There's a big debate over whether illegal immigration is of net cost or net benefit to the United States.
00:50:27.000The statistics I've seen and tend to believe are the ones that suggest it is a net cost to the United States.
00:51:09.000So, as far as agencies that do this, honestly, there are a lot of Catholic charities that specifically are sort of designed to reach out to folks who are contemplating abortion.
00:51:18.000Also, there are pro-life pregnancy centers that you should check out because many of those recommend adoption rather than abortion to women.
00:51:25.000Who do you think will sit on the Iron Throne?
00:51:28.000Ah, now you've asked a question I care about.
00:51:29.000So, This is a Game of Thrones question, so if you're not a Game of Thrones fan, it's tough.
00:51:33.000So who do I think will sit on the Iron Throne?
00:51:36.000Here is how I think the last season of Game of Thrones will go.
00:51:38.000I think that Daenerys has been set up for too many seasons as the heroine to actually be the heroine.
00:51:42.000I think that she is going to turn to the dark side, and she will go crazy, like her father did, because everyone else in her family has gone crazy.
00:51:49.000Maybe she'll have a redeeming moment, like a Darth Vader moment, where it seems like she's going crazy, and at the very end, she stops herself.
00:51:55.000But Daenerys is certainly going to die.
00:51:56.000The chances of her surviving the series are zero.
00:51:59.000I'd be willing to put money on this, really.
00:52:01.000I think Jon Snow has already died, so killing him off would be anticlimactic.
00:52:28.000I think Jon is going to have to recede to the West.
00:52:30.000He's been changed too much by his death and his comeback is going to be sort of like Frodo after throwing the ring in the fire.
00:52:35.000I think in the end what happens is that Tyrion ends up leading a council of elders and they form a republic in Westeros, which would just suck, man.
00:52:44.000If we wanted to watch that, then we'd watch House of Cards or we'd watch American politics like as it is now, which is more dramatic and far funnier and crazier than Game of Thrones.
00:52:53.000If it's a Game of Thrones, honestly, all the best candidates have been killed.
00:54:14.000her blowing up the sept after they build up natalie dormer who's one of the better characters on the show and they just kill her off honestly the last season had a lot of flaws and and i i'm hoping they can save things i'm hoping they can save things but they've killed off the vast majority of interesting characters so i i just gave you my rundown on what i think happens to everybody I think Sansa ends up on the council with Tyrion.
00:54:36.000I think that Jon recedes into the West.
00:54:38.000Maybe he goes back and ends up leading the military or something, or he just goes and lives in peace as a farmer.
00:54:45.000I think that Arya ends up regaining her innocence at some point, because they're not going to kill her off.
00:54:51.000She's too young, but they're not going to allow her to retain her cool assassin ways.
00:55:27.000Do you know anything about Cary Grant's political views?
00:55:29.000Do you know anything about Clark Gable's political views?
00:55:32.000Do you know anything about Vivian Leigh's political views?
00:55:34.000Do you know anything about any of the great movie stars' political views, really, unless they were members of the ...of the Soviet bloc and we're prosecuted in Hollywood and then we make a bunch of movies glamorizing them.
00:55:45.000John Wayne is an American icon because he's the most famous actor in Hollywood history, and because he made a lot of fantastic movies, and because the image that Hollywood created of the American cowboy is one of the enduring images of the West.
00:55:59.000Now there are people calling for his name to be taken off the John Wayne Airport in Orange County because of a 1971 Playboy interview that he did, which showed that he was really out of touch.
00:56:13.000I mean, this is of the same ilk as, let's take George Washington's name off of universities and off of states, and let's get rid of Thomas Jefferson.
00:56:20.000Again, the accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, slightly more important than the accomplishments of John Wayne.
00:56:25.000But I'm really tired of this notion that by valorizing certain aspects of people's personas and personalities, that we are therefore green-lighting every aspect of them.
00:56:42.000Or am I saying it's a good thing that he helped establish the United States and oversaw the Constitutional Convention and was a great president?
00:56:48.000When there's a statue of Jefferson, am I really saying I think it was good that he shook Sally Hemings and kept her in a form of sex slavery for years?
00:56:55.000No, I'm not saying any of those things.
00:56:57.000It turns out human beings are complex.
00:56:59.000They have good things, they have bad things, but the part that we build statues to typically is the part of them that is good.
00:57:04.000Now the reason statues should come down is if there is no good, right?
00:57:06.000So if Saddam Hussein There's a statue of Saddam Hussein.
00:57:10.000What is the good thing Saddam Hussein deserves a statue for?
00:57:12.000If I ask you what is the good thing Thomas Jefferson deserves a statue for, or John Wayne, or George Washington, or any of these folks, I think that the answer is pretty obvious.
00:57:22.000This is why I think that the argument over Confederate statues is more of an interesting one than the one over John Wayne.
00:57:28.000You can make the case that Confederate statues should not exist by dint of the fact that there is nothing good that these folks stood for.
00:57:36.000They were literally fighting for slavery.
00:57:37.000I think they should be left up as a monument to America's past.
00:57:42.000I think that not to honor them, but to remind us that people can do evil things.
00:57:48.000And justify it to themselves for decades at a time.
00:57:51.000So I'm not even a fan of tearing down, like, Lenin statues or Saddam Hussein statues.
00:57:55.000I think that stuff should be left up as a monument to human evil.
00:57:58.000But, with that said, the John Wayne airport is not a monument to human evil.
00:58:02.000It's a monument to a guy who was in some of the best movies in American history, it's a monument to the guy from True Grit, and she wore a yellow rose, and like, just...