The overweening arrogance of Barack Obama cursed his party for the last eight years, and led to the rise of Donald Trump. After spending a decade decrying Americans as racists and bigots, Obama has been replaced by a man who tells Americans they don t need to be ashamed of disagreeing with Obama. Obama, more than any other single personality except for Hillary Clinton, felt the wrath of the voters on November 9th. But there is good news: according to Obama, the election was not about him. He explained on a conference call with other Democrats yesterday, "Let me tell you something: We got more done than any administration in the last who knows how many decades. ... We got a lot of stuff done, and the only reason Americans don't bow to his superior wisdom is because we have been dramatically misinformed." If only the great sage of our age had the time to speak to Americans personally, he would have won. But that's the wonderful thing about being a narcissist like Obama. If something wonderful happens, it's not Obama's fault. It's everybody else's fault, and so they don't bother to change their behavior because they think their losses are just because of Republican malfeasance and cruelty. Well, thank God for that. the more they insist they're impeccable, the more the Democrats double down on their losing strategy. The more they double down, the bigger they double their efforts to prove that they're the only ones who can be faulted. . Ben Shapiro's new advertisers are S-E-S-OOSO is S-A-COSO, and this is a commercial-free, commercial free streaming service that does commercial free, all-inclusive of everything you need to know about comedy and all-of-that-not-but-the-fact that you can watch comedy and other stuff on your favorite streaming service. You get two free months of Comedy Plus, and you get two months of the service without commercials without commercials. You can use promo code "Crisosociety" and get two-and-a-half months of COSO without commercials, and a $3.99 a month, plus a free month of your choice of your choosing without commercials! We're good to go for a whole bunch of stuff like that. We're gonna use it all the way more than $3,000, and we'll be giving you a little comedy and a whole lot more.
00:00:00.000The overweening arrogance of Barack Obama cursed his party for the last eight years and led to the rise of Donald Trump.
00:00:05.000After spending nearly a decade acting as a political celebrity, Obama has now been replaced by an actual political celebrity.
00:00:11.000After spending a decade decrying Americans as racists and bigots, Obama has been replaced by a man who tells Americans they don't need to be ashamed of disagreeing with Obama.
00:00:19.000Obama, more than any other single personality except for Hillary Clinton, felt the wrath of the voters on November 9th.
00:00:24.000But there is good news, according to Obama.
00:00:48.000This morning, Obama added there is a mismatch between frustration and anger because people seem to think I did a pretty good job.
00:00:55.000This has been a running theme with Obama.
00:00:57.000The only reason Americans don't bow to his superior wisdom is we have been dramatically misinformed.
00:01:02.000If only the great sage of our age had the time to speak to Americans personally, you know, between the rounds of golf and the Kimmel appearances, he would have won!
00:01:11.000After all, he's really, really popular.
00:01:13.000So clearly, this had nothing to do with him.
00:01:15.000Now, if that sounds like a switch, that's because it is.
00:01:17.000Obama spent most of his campaign explaining his legacy was inextricably intertwined with Hillary Clinton's election.
00:01:24.000In a video he cut just weeks before the election, he said, quote,
00:01:34.000Obama even called it a personal insult to his legacy if black voters didn't show up to vote for Hillary.
00:01:39.000But that's the wonderful thing about being a narcissist like President Obama.
00:01:43.000If something wonderful happens, it's solely due to you.
00:01:45.000Just remember Obama's self-glorifying announcement about the killing of Bin Laden when it sounded like Obama rappelled down from a helicopter and put two in Bin Laden's face.
00:01:52.000If something terrible happens, however, it's not Obama's fault.
00:02:29.000We'll get to the update from DePaul University.
00:02:31.000The reason that I'm broadcasting from this hotel room, as you can see, this beautiful, luxurious hotel room and not our normal studios with the western barn wall in the background, is because I am broadcasting from Chicago, where Rahm Emanuel will be bursting down the door at any moment to drag me away.
00:02:48.000But before we get to all of the content that we have for you, and there's plenty, first I have to give a shout out to our new advertisers over at CISO.
00:04:13.000The Young America's Foundation chapter here invited me.
00:04:15.000They also invited Christina Hoff Summers, who's a wonderful theorist about feminism, to speak tonight.
00:04:20.000When they found out that I was coming, they immediately threatened to cancel the entire event if I were to speak.
00:04:25.000To which I said, OK, fine, I'll just come and I'll sit in the audience.
00:04:28.000And if I have a question that lasts half an hour, then that'll be OK.
00:04:31.000But they said, no, we can't even allow you to sit in the audience now.
00:04:35.000So now they are actually threatening that if I step on campus, this is the latest, they are threatening that if I set foot on campus, they will arrest me, is my understanding of the situation.
00:04:44.000Although I would like clarification from the local police department that will be forced to take me to the lockup.
00:05:17.000The left is truly an astonishing display of hypocrisy and fascism.
00:05:37.000Meanwhile, the left continues to demonstrate just why they lost and why they deserve to lose morally.
00:05:43.000The left always deserves to lose morally, but the real reason I think that they lost in this election cycle is people just got pissed off at the left.
00:06:04.000We're streaming live at Room 311 in Hawaii, downtown Cedar Rapids.
00:06:29.000We got the po-po wearing the black thing on her bed.
00:06:33.000I guess she's sorry a couple of cops got whacked in Des Moines, but she doesn't give a s*** about the man who's in critical care at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics with a bullet in his neck and one of her vicious thug brothers in blue.
00:07:30.000This is sort of reminiscent of that woman who livestreamed her conversation with an Uber driver where she lectured an Uber driver about cultural appropriation because he had a hula dancer on his dashboard.
00:07:41.000The more the left exposes itself, this is the beautiful thing about social media, it's why we're going to have lots of cameras there tonight.
00:07:46.000The beautiful thing about all of this is that the more the left exposes itself, the more they demonstrate just why Americans should not trust them with anything under any circumstances.
00:07:54.000And I may not like the form that the backlash took in the form of Donald Trump, but the backlash itself is wildly justified, and the left deserves everything they get from all of this.
00:08:02.000Meanwhile, the left continues to double down.
00:08:04.000Most Americans are not in favor of illegal immigration.
00:08:08.000Most Americans are not cool with illegal immigration.
00:08:10.000We may say that people who have illegally immigrated a long time ago and have proved that they just want to be here to work, that those people, maybe we should provide them a pathway to legalization, but the vast majority of people believe that criminally legal aliens, particularly, should immediately be deported, and people who are living off the public dollar should also be deported, because they didn't follow the rules, because we do have rules, and because any country has the right to uphold its borders and determine
00:08:34.000Who's coming in and who is going out and whether those people deserve to be here or not.
00:08:38.000That's not stopping the left from doubling down on their full embrace of illegal immigration.
00:08:43.000Rahm Emanuel, who's the mayor of Chicago, again, a city where I am presumably banned from speaking on campus, enforced by local law enforcement under the control, I guess, of Chicago PD or in association with Chicago PD.
00:10:09.000City Councilor Tito Jackson is worried that undocumented residents will be afraid to go to the police for help, or even send their kids to school.
00:10:18.000The police department, if you call them and you need help, they will help you.
00:10:22.000And they're not going to turn you into the feds.
00:10:25.000Mayor Walsh is also staying the course, saying in a statement,
00:10:35.000Okay, so they're saying that they're not going to change policy there either.
00:10:39.000I mean, the Democrats are wedded to illegal immigration.
00:10:42.000They hope to eventually give a lot of illegal immigrants the right to vote, and then they can change the demographic of the voting population in the country.
00:10:53.000My wife had legal status in the United States for many, many years.
00:10:56.000She had a green card, but she wasn't actually given citizenship until, I think it was five years ago, six years ago.
00:11:02.000There are lots of millions of people living in the United States legally who don't have the right to vote, so it is worthwhile making that distinction.
00:11:09.000But what all these folks are saying is we're not going to help out the feds now.
00:11:13.000I think that it is worthwhile noting that the left now is in love with federalism.
00:11:19.000Right, so it used to be, I'm old enough to remember, when the state of Arizona, under Jan Brewer, Governor Jan Brewer, they were in favor of what they called Senate Bill 1070.
00:11:27.000And Senate Bill 1070 said to the feds, okay, look, when we arrest people, we're going to take down their illegal immigration data, and then we are going to hand them over to federal law enforcement.
00:11:35.000And Barack Obama sued the state of Arizona, saying, stop enforcing federal law.
00:11:39.000It's our job not to enforce federal law.
00:11:42.000And so federalism was bad from Barack Obama's perspective.
00:11:45.000Federalism is constantly bad from President Obama's perspective.
00:12:24.000I just find it hilarious that the left is suddenly in love with federalism again after spending an enormous amount of time saying that federalism is the end of the world and the worst thing that ever happened to anybody.
00:12:33.000That I do find amusing and kind of incredible.
00:12:36.000So they will continue to push forward though with this radical left agenda.
00:12:39.000I don't know if they assume that they're just going to come back next time and sweep to victory because people were asleep during this election cycle on their side or whether they think that the demographics are moving in their favor, but they're clearly doubling down on everything that they already think about how elections work.
00:12:53.000They're clearly already doubling down on everything they already think about politics, which is a pretty amazing thing.
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00:13:44.000Okay, President Obama, he too is doubling down.
00:13:47.000The doubling down never stops with President Obama.
00:13:49.000Again, the nice thing about Obama being a textbook narcissist, one of the wonderful things about him being a textbook narcissist,
00:13:55.000Is he has never done anything wrong ever.
00:13:57.000So he was asked yesterday by NBC's Chris Jansing about whether he feels any responsibility at all for the election of Donald Trump.
00:15:08.000I still don't feel responsible for what the president-elect says or does.
00:15:14.000But I do feel a responsibility as President of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition, and I present to him, as well as the American people, my best thinking, my best ideas about how you move the country forward.
00:15:32.000To speak out with respect to areas where I think the Republican Party is wrong, but
00:15:54.000Do you feel any responsibility for Trump being elected?
00:16:15.000I don't care what the American people have to say.
00:16:17.000If only I had spoken more clearly to them.
00:16:18.000If only they were wise enough to understand little old me, everything would have been fine.
00:16:24.000Obama did try to give his explanation of what happened in this election.
00:16:27.000He said, people are obviously disaffected, but he doesn't explain why they're disaffected.
00:16:31.000In this situation, we're turning over a country that has challenges, has problems, and obviously, there are people out there who are feeling deeply disaffected.
00:16:42.000Otherwise, we wouldn't have had the results that we had in the election.
00:16:46.000On the other hand, if you look at the basic indicators of where the country is right now, the unemployment rate is as low as it's been in eight, nine years.
00:17:03.000Incomes and wages have both gone up over the last year faster than they have in a decade or two.
00:17:58.000If they only understood how grand and glorious Obama's been, if only he had, let's say, a compliant media to repeat 24-7 how wonderful Obama is, or if only he had a bunch of Hollywood celebrities to talk about constantly what a wonderful man he is, or if only he had the UN to talk about how wonderful he is, or if only he'd won a Nobel Prize.
00:18:15.000Oh wait, he had all of those things and he's still lost?
00:18:18.000Yeah, maybe because people are disaffected for a reason.
00:18:20.000It's this sort of blindness that leads to catastrophic electoral losses.
00:18:25.000Again, Obama's narcissism led them down the primrose path here.
00:18:28.000Obama insisted that the Obama coalition, which kept alienating lower class, lower income white voters, the same coalition that alienated a bunch of people in the middle of the country who were sick of watching Obama hobnob with Jimmy Fallon,
00:18:43.000He keeps saying those people are just dumb.
00:20:05.000When people say that they are just pragmatists, that they just look at the facts in front of them and they can make a decision about the best policy, that is never true.
00:20:12.000That is never true, because how you see the facts is shaped by your worldview.
00:20:16.000If you see man as inherently good, that's going to change how you see the facts.
00:20:20.000If you see man as capable of both good and evil, that changes the facts.
00:20:25.000If you see freedom as inherently dangerous, that changes how you look at the facts.
00:20:29.000If you see freedom as the highest purpose of mankind, then that changes how you see the facts.
00:20:46.000It tends toward the idea that all policy can be decided just by the great god-kings of wisdom who sit on high and rule us.
00:20:53.000And I think that there is some truth to that about Trump.
00:20:56.000If you look at the people historically in America who have called themselves pragmatists, Woodrow Wilson was probably the first president to call himself openly a pragmatist.
00:21:05.000My job is to get the experts in a position to make great decisions to help you, the people.
00:21:09.000And of course, he ended up exponentially growing government because either the experts are capable of running your life or you're capable of running your life, but not both.
00:21:16.000And he thinks that, you know, Woodrow Wilson thought the experts were capable.
00:21:19.000Barack Obama coming into office, he kept describing himself as a pragmatist.
00:21:23.000But it turns out that in order to be a governmental pragmatist, you actually have to believe deep down that government has the power to change things for the better.
00:21:48.000Okay, that's a pragmatist philosophy, but it's not pragmatism driving that.
00:21:52.000It's a basic idea that the government is bad at things.
00:21:55.000You can be pragmatist on the other side and say, well, the government obviously isn't doing enough on the drug war, so we need to pour money into it.