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00:01:51.000All right, we'll begin today with Time Magazine, which has now announced its Person of the Year.
00:01:56.000And predictably enough, in a time when the media really loves them some media, The persons of the year are all journalists because there's nothing that really attracts Americans to journalists as much as journalists patting themselves on the back.
00:02:10.000The journalists have actually run out of enough hands to pat themselves on the back.
00:02:14.000They call them the guardians and the war on truth.
00:02:17.000Obviously, President Trump being the war on truth and these people being the guardians of the truth.
00:02:22.000Because if there's one group of people You can trust to tell you the truth without partisan rancor or fear.
00:02:29.000It's those journalists, all those journalists who agree on everything.
00:02:32.000Those are the people who we should certainly trust with all of your fact-based needs.
00:02:37.000So there are a bunch of different folks who are photographed for the cover of Time Magazine.
00:02:42.000Jamal Khashoggi was made the Person of the Year on the cover of Time Magazine.
00:02:45.000Jamal Khashoggi, you'll recall, was the Saudi citizen who was here on a visa and then he went to Turkey and went to the Saudi consulate for a marriage document and was promptly murdered by the members of the Saudi consulate and then chopped up and sent in a bag back to Saudi Arabia.
00:03:04.000It was very bad for the Trump administration, which of course has been very close with the Saudi Arabian government, particularly the new leader of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman.
00:03:14.000That's the reason the Time Magazine selected Jamal Khashoggi, who in reality was, in fact, pretty radical on politics.
00:03:20.000He had a long time history of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:03:23.000He was very much in favor of more radical Islam in the Middle East, not less radical Islam in the Middle East.
00:03:30.000But since he was murdered for being a journalist, he is the Time Magazine Person of the Year because people are trying to basically draw a parallel between President Trump's dislike for the media and violence against journalists.
00:03:41.000So much so that they're honoring the folks over at the Capital Gazette, which was a newspaper, you'll remember, that was attacked in Virginia.
00:03:47.000Now, it turns out that the Capital Gazette was not, in fact, attacked by a Trump supporter.
00:03:51.000It was not attacked by somebody who hated the media because President Trump was not fond of the media.
00:03:55.000It was attacked by somebody who had a personal vendetta with the paper.
00:03:58.000So why exactly are they on the cover of Time Magazine?
00:04:01.000Because Time has to draw a false line suggesting that journalists all over the world are under assault specifically because of President Trump.
00:04:08.000It's not as though we've had, you know, evil, murderous governments that have been cracking down on journalists for legitimately all of human history.
00:04:15.000It's that now we have President Trump in the White House and things have magically changed.
00:04:19.000I do appreciate how there are no journalists who are actually from Turkey who are interviewed for these Time Magazine articles.
00:04:24.000Turkey, of course, is the country behind all of the revelations about Jamal Khashoggi.
00:04:28.000Turkey has arrested Literally hundreds of thousands of dissidents over the past several years as it moves from democracy into dictatorship.
00:04:35.000Time magazine has nothing to say about that.
00:04:37.000Jamal Khashoggi, however, is obviously worry number one.
00:04:40.000Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about the Jamal Khashoggi case, but again, this is the media trying to play itself up.
00:04:48.000Well, Maria Ressa, who is an editor, I believe, in Russia, who was indicted, and Wallone and Kal Suu, who are reporters who were convicted.
00:04:55.000So the idea is that there is a war on truth, but lumping in the folks over at the Capital Gazette with folks who have been targeted by foreign dictatorships seems like a very bizarre thing for Time to Do, except that All these journalists want to see themselves as firefighters who are running to put out the fire of the Trump administration.
00:05:30.000It's just another indicator that our journalist class is wildly disconnected from the needs and the wants of the American people.
00:05:37.000Now, speaking of folks who are completely disconnected from the needs and wants of the American people, yet continue to gain credibility every day with that left-wing press, the Women's March has now been revealed for what it is, which was an intersectional scam that was at least One foot in anti-Semitism at all times.
00:05:52.000So the Women's March, you remember, they were nearly made the Person of the Year last year by Time Magazine because this was the upswelling of women ever.
00:05:59.000It was a new movement, a new movement of women everywhere that never materialized into anything concrete except for an angry march.
00:06:07.000And was led by deplorables, actual deplorables, like Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour.
00:06:12.000And that was an article over at Tablet Magazine talking about how deeply rooted the antisemitism was in the Women's March.
00:06:18.000It says, on November 12, 2016, a group of seven women held a meeting in New York.
00:06:25.000But they were brought together by what felt like the shared vision of an emerging mission.
00:06:29.000There were effectively two different cohorts that day.
00:06:30.000The first one included Breanne Butler, Karen Waltuck, Vanessa Rubel, and Marilyn Folger, a fashion designer-turned-entrepreneur with a sideline in activist politics who had assumed the nom-de-guerre Bob Bland.
00:06:40.000These four were new acquaintances who had connected in the days since Donald Trump's election through political networking on social media.
00:06:46.000Most of them had filtered through the Pantsuit Nation Facebook group, sounds like a party, where a woman in Hawaii named Teresa Shook had days before floated the idea of a female-centered march to protest the incoming administration.
00:06:59.000native who founded OK Africa, a digital media platform dedicated to new African music, culture, and politics, reached out to a man she knew named Michael Skolnick.
00:07:06.000The subject of a New York Times profile the previous year as an influencer at the nexus of social activism and celebrity, Skolnick held a powerful, though not easily defined, role in the world of high-profile activist politics.
00:07:17.000It's very rare to have one person who everyone respects in entertainment or in politics or among the grassroots," said Van Jones in 2015.
00:07:22.000But to have one person who's respected by all three?
00:07:25.000That isn't anyone but Michael Skolnick.
00:07:27.000When Rubel relayed her concern that the nascent women's movement had to substantively include women of color, Skolnick told her he had just the women for her to meet, Carmen Perez and Tamika Mallory.
00:07:36.000They're recommendations that Skolnick could vouch for personally.
00:07:39.000In effect, he was connecting Rubel to the leadership committee of his own nonprofit, a group called The Gathering for Justice.
00:07:44.000Linda Sarsour, another colleague from the Gathering for Justice Network, was not present for the initial meetings, but soon joined the Women's March as co-chair a short time later.
00:07:53.000In advance of the meeting, Bland suggested they convene in Chelsea Market, an upscale food court in Manhattan.
00:07:58.000When the day arrived, women managed to find each other, but soon realized there was nowhere in the hectic maze-like mall of vendors quiet enough to sit and talk.
00:08:05.000Eventually, they were treated to the rooftop of a nearby hotel, where, less than a week after the idea for the match sprouted, the seven women got acquainted.
00:08:13.000According to several sources, it was there, in the first hours of the first meeting of what would become the Women's March, that something happened that was so shameful to many of those who witnessed it, they chose to bury it like a family secret.
00:08:25.000Almost two years would pass before anyone present would speak about it.
00:08:29.000It was there that, as the women were opening up about their backgrounds and personal investments in creating a resistant movement to Trump, Perez and Mallory allegedly first asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people, and even, according to a close second-hand source, claimed that the Jews were proven to have been the leaders of the American slave trade.
00:08:51.000These are canards popularized by The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, a book published by Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, the Bible of the New Antisemitism, according to Henry Louis Gates, who noted in 1992, among significant sectors of the black community, this brief has become a credo of a new philosophy of black self-affirmation.
00:09:09.000To this day, Mallory and Bland deny any such statements were ever uttered either at the first meeting or at Mallory's apartment.
00:09:15.000There was a particular conversation about how white women had censored themselves and also around the dynamics of racial justice and why it was essential that racial justice be a part of the women's right conversation, remembered Bland, but she and Mallory insisted it never had anything to do with the Jews.
00:09:30.000None of the other women in attendance would speak openly to Tablet about the meeting, but multiple sources with knowledge of what happened confirmed the story.
00:09:36.000Following an initial 30-minute phone call last week with Women's March co-chairs Tamika Mallory and Bob Land, Tablet submitted a detailed list of follow-up questions to the group by email and received a written response.
00:09:46.000Answers from both exchanges are quoted at length in this article.
00:09:49.000As the fame grew of the Women's March, so did questions about the Women's March origin story, including, at first privately, within the inner circles of the organizations, questions pertaining to the possible anti-Jewish statement made at that very first meeting.
00:10:01.000And obviously all of the leaders of the very first meeting, or many of them, shut up about this, but it didn't stop the news from getting out.
00:10:08.000So anti-Semitism was on the table from day one at the Women's March, and no one cared.
00:10:14.000Because intersectionality does not care about Jews.
00:10:16.000Intersectionality is just about the intersectional interests of a group of people So long as that group of people does not include Jews or white people.
00:10:25.000As long as that is the case, it is fine to move forward with a march that is openly associated with anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan.
00:10:58.000These are folks who have repeatedly, repeatedly defended association with the most open anti-Semite in America, a man who calls Jews termites, Louis Farrakhan.
00:11:06.000Did anybody in the media have anything to say about this?
00:11:09.000And when they were asked about it, did they immediately move to defense?
00:11:12.000If you go and look at, like, the Jewish Forward, which is not even a Jewish newspaper, it's a leftist newspaper masquerading as a Jewish newspaper, that outlet has sought to defend people like Linda Sarsour from charges of anti-Semitism, despite the fact that Linda Sarsour is an actual anti-Semite who is associated not only with boycott, divestment, and sanctions from Israel, but also with actual terrorists.
00:11:33.000In other words, the left is fine with discrimination against particular groups, so long as those particular groups are not members of the intersectional coalition, or as long as they are low-ranking members who are willing to accept their subservience in all of this.
00:11:48.000In just a second, I'm going to show you how this has infused so much of the mainstream left that it's quite insane.
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00:13:05.000Well, the intersectional coalition doesn't accept everyone.
00:13:08.000It doesn't accept people if you are from particular races that are not intersectional enough, that have not suffered enough in American society.
00:13:15.000If you are a member of one of these intersectional groups, you can be as racist as you want to be, so long as you're being racist against the group of victimizers.
00:13:23.000Today's example comes courtesy of Vice.
00:13:25.000So Vice, one of the dumbest outlets on the internet, there are many of them, but Vice likes to feature stories, intersectional, woke, social justice warrior stories, you know, the important stories about how people of color fight back against the predominantly white superstructure in the United States.
00:13:42.000So Vice, We're on a full story on HBO because, again, there's no bias in the media, folks.
00:13:47.000HBO only does, you know, Pod Save America, live shows and Vice News Tonight.
00:13:57.000In any case, Vice News Tonight on HBO did a full segment about A group of women of color.
00:14:04.000It was called what it's like to take a vacation away from white people, which, again, you know, I I'm always loathe to do these sort of reverse the race and then check it, but reverse the race and then check it.
00:14:15.000Is that what it's like to take a vacation away from black people and see how that goes for you in the public discourse?
00:14:20.000Here is a little bit of vice celebrating a bunch of women of color escaping the white people, the bad, bad white people.
00:15:18.000So, it's not exactly the most segregated area on planet Earth, but apparently it is fine for people to segregate themselves into communities of various colors, so long as those members are members of the intersectional coalition.
00:15:33.000Otherwise, they'll call you parochial, right?
00:15:35.000If you live in a Jewish community, then you're parochial.
00:15:37.000If you live in a gated community that, not through any attempt to exclude people of other races, just happens to be predominantly white, then you are obviously involved in a form of segregation.
00:15:46.000But if you specifically go to a women-of-color retreat to avoid the whites, to avoid the bad white folks, then, of course, you are doing just fine.
00:15:56.000The radicalism of the left on full display.
00:16:03.000The left's intersectional ideals, in which they get to discard any semblance of normalcy and decency in favor of the most woke standards of social justice, it's getting ever more extreme.
00:16:17.000Last week we saw that Kevin Hart, the comedian, was basically banned from hosting the Oscars because 10 years ago he made a joke about how he didn't want his son to be gay.
00:16:26.000Which, I have to say, I don't see why that's such a terrible joke.
00:16:31.000Like, do you want your child to be gay?
00:16:34.000Like, if your child ends up being gay, maybe it's not a big deal to you, but it seems to me that if you would opt, in the best of all possible worlds, for your child to be straight, and you know, be able to get married to a person of the opposite sex and have natural-born children, and raise that family in a traditional way, I don't see why that is terrible.
00:16:55.000I'm not even talking about government crackdowns against gay folks or discriminating against gay folks or anything like that, but I would prefer that my children be straight.
00:17:03.000I don't see why that should be a controversial statement.
00:17:05.000In any case, Kevin Hart was ripped up and down for this statement saying that he wanted his own children to be straight.
00:17:12.000By the way, if everyone did not want their own children to be straight, and all of their children, in fact, were not straight, it would be very difficult to create a new generation of humans.
00:17:24.000He apologized and then he was and then he stepped down from the Oscars.
00:17:29.000That did not stop Brandi Miller of Huffington Post from suggesting that Kevin Hart needs to go further.
00:17:34.000She says, apparently being Kevin Hart means never having to say you're sorry.
00:17:37.000Just weeks after vehemently defending the controversial Cowboys and Indians themed birthday party he threw for his one year old son on Thanksgiving Day, no less.
00:17:44.000The comedian is at the center of yet another controversy that he refused to apologize for.
00:17:48.000I love this, that now he has to defend the controversial Cowboys and Indians themed birthday party.
00:17:54.000Like, did the Cowboys run down the Indians and then slaughter them?
00:17:57.000Or did the party involve them being shepherded into reservations as everybody cheered?
00:18:01.000If not, then it was probably just cops and robbers, or Cowboys and Indians, and a group of two kids who were shooting each other with Nerf guns.
00:18:13.000This week, the homophobic tweets from the early 2000s surfaced, wherein Hart belittles LGBTQ people through uses of words and phrases like the F-word, no homo, or using gay as a derogatory term.
00:18:24.000This homophobia was not reserved to his Twitter account.
00:18:26.000In his 2010 special, Seriously Funny, in talking about raising his son, Hart said, one of my biggest fears is my son growing up and being gay.
00:19:01.000I would prefer that my kid, that my son be straight and marry a woman.
00:19:05.000I don't know why this preference is such a terrible thing.
00:19:09.000Again, but you have to I guess now be completely indifferent as to whether your child is straight or gay.
00:19:14.000You have to be completely indifferent as to whether your child has to undergo the severe strains that are put upon people by homosexual tendencies or by living in a society that is not as tolerant in certain areas of homosexuality or by the fact that you're not going to be able to Genetically produce the next generation outside of in vitro fertilization or any of the other pressures that come along with being gay.
00:19:35.000If you want your child, if you hope that your child doesn't have to undergo that, then this makes you a very bad person.
00:19:58.000I have many preferences as to whether my child gets married or is living with somebody.
00:20:03.000I have preferences as to whether my child is promiscuous or only has sex with the person they marry.
00:20:07.000I have lots of preferences on this because I'm a parent and I'm allowed to have preferences and that's okay and that's good.
00:20:13.000And speaking of this, the left has basically decided that it is very bad for parents ever to have preferences about anything surrounding their kids and so Kevin Hart must be made to apologize.
00:20:21.000It is deeply important that Kevin Hart apologize for this and then presumably come out and say that he prefers that his kid be gay.
00:20:27.000Or that he's completely indifferent as to whether his kid is homosexual or heterosexual.
00:20:44.000And hopefully those standards are ones that are productive to society and healthy for your children.
00:20:49.000A society that prevents parents from inculcating standards in their own children is a society that is going to need a hell of a lot of psychotherapists in the very, very near future.
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00:23:00.000As I say, the left has doubled down on their perception that parents should have no standards for their children when it comes to crucial areas of life, like sex.
00:23:09.000So Kevin Hart is very bad because he says that he wants his child to be straight, which there are any number of good reasons why you would want your child to be straight.
00:23:18.000Plenty of them that have nothing to do with discriminating against gay folks.
00:23:21.000If you have a preference for a straight lifestyle over a gay lifestyle, that it does not make you a discriminatory bad person.
00:23:26.000It makes you a person who has a standard of behavior for your children.
00:23:31.000But we're not allowed to have standards of behavior for our children.
00:23:33.000Because that would be you imposing your desires upon your child, and we can't do that.
00:23:37.000Children must run free, like Rousseau's Emile.
00:23:41.000They must run free across the plains, learning from the woodchucks, learning from the bees and the birds and the monkeys and the beavers.
00:23:49.000They must learn from falling down how to get up.
00:23:53.000Now, if you're a parent, and I know there are a lot of parents in the audience right now who are listening to this going, uh, that's the dumbest crap I ever heard in my life.
00:24:12.000Day after day, he finds the most dangerous thing that he can do, and then he does it.
00:24:16.000He climbs to the top of the couch, and then he tries to jump off the top of the couch.
00:24:19.000He is all of about two feet tall, and he tries to jump from a three foot height, because he is not a smart human.
00:24:24.000He's smart for two and a half years old, meaning he can identify the entire alphabet.
00:24:28.000But he is not capable of making wise decisions.
00:24:31.000Yesterday the nanny came running in because he was my son was crying I was trying to get out for work and he was crying just bloody murder and I came out and I said what happened and the nanny said he was trying to plug in the hairdryer and He's crying and crying crying and I looked at him and I said if you do that then you could get burned There's electricity in there and he looked at his hand and he said get a boo-boo and I said right you'd get a boo-boo He said fire on my hand.
00:24:58.000I said right fire on your hand and he said fun Hey, that's what kids are.
00:25:03.000So this idea that you are not supposed to set limits on your children or guide them through the most perilous parts of life, the areas of gender and sexual identity and orientation.
00:25:17.000And society has done an incredibly poor job of teaching our kids anything with regard to sexual morality or values or the sort of or the sort of limits you have to place on your own sexuality in order to be happy.
00:25:28.000And we all place limits on our sexuality in order to be happy.
00:25:31.000It is a big limit on your sexuality that you place on yourself in order to be happy and to commit and to lead a life that is deeper and more meaningful.
00:25:40.000And to not want to give that to your child is incredibly stupid.
00:25:44.000Also, I will point out that I think the premise of the anti-Kevin Hart argument is that you have no say in whether your kid ends up straight or gay because biologically your kid is just going to be what your kid is going to be.
00:25:54.000Now, I'm not somebody who believes there is no biological influence on sexual orientation.
00:25:57.000I believe that there are a lot of people who are biologically driven toward certain sexual attractions.
00:26:02.000But that doesn't mean that environment doesn't actually do anything.
00:26:05.000In fact, in twin studies, where the DNA is exactly identical, in twin studies, In 50% of cases, only 50% of cases, are both twins gay.
00:26:14.000At least 50% of cases, one twin will be gay and one will be straight, which suggests that environment has something to do with something, or that epigenetics has something to do with something, but it isn't just pure biology.
00:26:23.000In any case, the left basically suggests that your kid is biologically driven to be what your kid will be.
00:26:29.000In the words of that great philosopher, Lady Gaga, you're on the right track, baby.
00:27:15.000Not telling your child whether they are a boy or a girl and letting your one-year-old choose whether they are a boy or a girl is a recipe for psychological fail.
00:27:23.000It is a recipe for your child being a screwed-up human being.
00:27:27.000Limits are what creates good children.
00:27:30.000We have known this for thousands of years.
00:27:33.000Every psychologist worth their salt will tell you that providing no limits and no guidance for your child is the way to have a screwed up kid.
00:27:40.000But this is now being celebrated by our media because the final essence of the intersectional coalition is that everybody must be celebrated for biology but not decision-making.
00:27:51.000That we can't guide people's decision-making in any way as parents and that it would be discriminatory to do so.
00:27:56.000So here's a little bit of this idiotic video that has been making the rounds.
00:28:00.000Always the question is a boy or a girl.
00:28:02.000And so often we will say to people, we don't know yet.
00:28:34.000I mean, it really is evil to use your child as a political prop like this, to pretend that gender and biology are completely separate, which is just scientific.
00:28:44.000And this is the logical outcome of the caving of science to political correctness.
00:28:48.000And you've seen it in the scientific psychological community, where people like the American Association of University Professors are now engaging with this garbage, this absolute tripe.
00:29:14.000When it comes to sexual orientation and sexual behavior, that is entirely biological.
00:29:18.000But whether you're a boy or a girl is not biological, those are all social constructions.
00:29:22.000This makes no sense whatsoever on any level, but this is what we're going to push, because in the end, what a lot of folks on the radical left really want is to reduce the amount of influence that a long history of successful civilization has on children.
00:30:12.000They don't know anything about boys or girls.
00:30:16.000They are what they are, and then your goal is to channel them in the proper direction so they can lead a happy and fruitful life, not so they can live with psychological dissonance and suffering, which, by the way, if you are a transgender person, if you suffer from gender identity disorder, the chances that you're going to suffer from psychological dissonance and suffering are extraordinarily high.
00:30:35.000Why you would want to thrust your child into that sort of gender confusion is absolutely beyond me.
00:30:39.000It's not only beyond me, I think that it's beyond anyone of any rational bent or can't.
00:30:44.000Okay, in just a second, I want to get to the breakdown in Europe, because I think that all of this ties together in the breakdown of fundamental Western civilized values and the lack of a shared philosophical intellectual values history is leading people toward a fracturing Whether it comes to parenting or whether it comes to politics, we'll get to that in just one second.
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00:33:40.000Basically, Brexit, which was the attempt by the British public to break away from the European Union, At least with regard to the regulatory structure.
00:33:48.000Most people in Britain seem to want to keep the trade structures with Europe, but they don't want the free travel.
00:33:53.000They don't want people being able to just come in and live in the United Kingdom without any sort of immigration restrictions in the UK.
00:34:00.000They don't want the EU regulators cramming down one-size-fits-all over regulations and burdens on the UK.
00:34:09.000But the Brexit referendum that happened a couple of years ago, during the 2016 election actually, the Brexit referendum has still not been carried out because it is unclear how exactly it will be carried out.
00:34:20.000There's what they call hard Brexit, which is we just cut off trade relationships, we cut off immigration, we cut off everything, and then we renegotiate everything, and the EU has said we're not going to do that, and so this would damage the economy.
00:34:30.000Then there's soft Brexit, which is we keep some of the trade stuff, but this leads to some complications because obviously the United Kingdom is also comprised of A bunch of different sort of areas, all of which have different trade relationships with the EU, or at least right now they have a unified trade relationship with the EU.
00:34:45.000But this specifically becomes a problem in Ireland, where the actual island of Ireland is divided in half.
00:34:52.000You have Northern Ireland, which is still part of the United Kingdom, and then you have Ireland-Ireland, which is a separate independent nation and has a relationship with the EU.
00:35:01.000Would you actually have that become... It's operated kind of as a single country in many ways, but if that happened, would it break it in half?
00:35:08.000So there are all these complicating factors with regard to Brexit, and this has resulted in some of the great video of all time.
00:35:15.000So a Labour Member of Parliament was kicked out of the House of Commons yesterday for picking up the ceremonial mace after the Brexit deal vote was delayed.
00:35:24.000After a government whip shouted tomorrow in regard to the debate and vote, meaning it will be held on an unspecified future date, jeers rang through the house.
00:35:30.000Lloyd Russell Moyle then went over to the silver gilt mace, picked it up, and walked away.
00:35:34.000As he went away, he was stopped by two female sergeants-at-arms staff.
00:35:39.000He put up no resistance as he was stopped.
00:35:40.000So here's a little bit of what it looked like when this Labour MP decided to steal the silver gilt mace.
00:35:44.000It's a lot shorter than that movie with Nicolas Cage where they steal the Declaration of Independence.
00:36:30.000And they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say, and they say,
00:36:59.000That was before London ran up against the bureaucracy of the would-be European super-state based in Brussels and before it was led, if that's the right word, by Tory Prime Minister Theresa May.
00:37:07.000Presiding over a divided party, facing a pro-Remain British establishment and negotiating with a hostile EU, May never had an easy task.
00:37:13.000She has nonetheless not only failed to rise to the occasion but has been crushed by it.
00:37:17.000May has just pulled her Brexit deal from a parliamentary vote that she was going to lose in an embarrassing drubbing that might have loosed her increasingly precarious grip on power if May and the Conservative Party were to drop in Britain.
00:37:27.000The people who could take over are Jeremy Corbyn, that absolute whack job anti-Semite, and the Labour Party.
00:37:32.000She has negotiated abysmally, giving away leverage right at the start when she had prematurely invoked Article 50, beginning the process of Britain's departure with no realistic fallback plan if talks with the EU failed.
00:37:43.000She ends it up with an agreement that would effectively leave Britain within most EU rules, with no means of influencing them anymore.
00:37:48.000The London Spe- Because once you remove yourself from the EU, you can't vote on the EU rules anymore.
00:37:52.000So, if you remain in the EU, For all intents and purposes, with regard to these regulations, but you can't vote on them, then you are now being... It's no taxation, it's no regulation without representation, but this would be representation... It would be regulation without representation.
00:38:07.000Now humiliated and her credibility in shreds, May says she is going to go back to the EU to get more reassurances when the EU has said it isn't conceding anything else of consequence.
00:38:21.000Will the EU ever relinquish a nation-state once it has hooks in it?
00:38:24.000Its officials have treated the Brexit negotiations as an opportunity to teach anyone hoping to follow Britain out of the EU a lesson.
00:38:31.000Don't dare to try to take back the full measure of your sovereignty, lest we make it as miserable for you as possible.
00:38:36.000When in the past, countries in Europe have voted the wrong way on fundamental EU questions, as Ireland, France and the Netherlands did over the years, they were ignored or made to vote again until they got the right answer.
00:38:45.000Britain may yet suffer the same pitiful fate.
00:38:47.000So it is unclear how Brexit resolves itself.
00:38:50.000Suffice it to say that chaos is breaking out in Britain over Brexit and has been going on continuously for a couple years as the EU tries to remain in charge of Britain's regulatory structure.
00:39:01.000Meanwhile, over in France, things are falling apart as well.
00:39:04.000Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, who is going to lead the new wave of French, French dignitaries into the future.
00:39:11.000It's going to be France in the future because Emmanuel Macron is young.
00:39:14.000He's like 39 years old and he was fresh faced and he was brilliant and he was a, he was into globalization and he was a sophisticate.
00:39:22.000Well, now it turns out a bunch of rioters took over Paris and he's basically bowing to their every request.
00:39:27.000It turns out that not only do the French surrender to the Germans every, every few decades, they now surrender to their own citizens who protest in the streets rather than merely arresting them.
00:39:36.000Macron actually came out and begged for the rioters to give him another chance with regard to the economic anger that has broken out.
00:40:09.000So now it's I feel the anger and France is going to cave to all these protesters again.
00:40:14.000Here is the problem when you have people who promise you over and over and over that they will spend until the end of time and then the money runs out or they have to raise taxes on people.
00:40:28.000Folks like to say that Macron is fighting back populism.
00:40:30.000What they mean by that is the populism of the right.
00:40:33.000Macron is fighting back against the populism of the right that suggests that there should be no immigration into France, for example, and that social welfare spending should be increased on the people who already live there.
00:40:44.000It's sort of a far-right European nationalism, populist style.
00:40:48.000And he's fighting back against the immigration side of that, but he's never fought back against the spending side of it.
00:40:52.000Macron has never been one to really talk about how he's going to ratchet down the social spending or restructure that social spending to make it sustainable into the future.
00:41:00.000He, like everybody else in Europe, has been promising his citizens for years that they were going to get all the things that they were promised without any sort of repercussions.
00:41:10.000And there are repercussions to spending this much money.
00:41:12.000Now, maybe it can work for certain periods of time in, for example, the Nordic states.
00:41:15.000But what it takes for those social spending standards to work in the Nordic states are exorbitantly high taxes.
00:41:22.000In Denmark, they have an enormous social welfare state.
00:41:24.000People in the United States on the left, they love it.
00:41:26.000What they won't tell you is that the top tax bracket in Norway, or in Denmark rather, is 60%, and it starts applying at like $60,000.
00:41:34.000Imagine that everyone in the United States who made $60,000 or more, which is pretty much everyone in the United States who is middle class or above, that all those people were paying 60% of their income to the federal government, and then paying a 25% sales tax, which is the VAT tax in Denmark.
00:41:49.000It takes a lot of money to run all this stuff.
00:41:53.000They've been saying, we won't raise taxes on you, but we'll continue to spend.
00:41:55.000And we've been doing the same thing in the United States, except to a lesser extent, we spend an exorbitant amount of money, which is why we have a 92% debt to GDP ratio in the United States, and it's going to get worse.
00:42:26.000The problem in the United States is that we do not have our spending under control.
00:42:29.000And Europe is finding this out the hard way.
00:42:32.000And maybe you can sustain with all of these problems if you have a strong social fabric.
00:42:37.000In a lot of these Nordic countries, the social fabric is incredibly strong.
00:42:40.000These are homogenous countries with long histories of people who have lived together with one another and shared values and shared family ties.
00:42:48.000But that's not true in a multi-ethnic democracy where the ties that bind us are largely ties of success because the ties of philosophy were forcibly expelled decades ago by the philosophical left, which says we have nothing in common except we share a country together.
00:43:03.000And that's what's leading to a lot of the breakdowns in Europe.
00:43:07.000It's leading to the political breakdown in the United States.
00:43:09.000We don't have the social fabric to withstand economic uncertainty and troubled economic times, which is why we should be a lot more worried about the future of the economy in the United States than we even were a few decades ago.
00:43:18.000In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, people went back to church.
00:43:22.000Churchgoing actually went up in the 1930s.
00:43:24.000The crime rates in the 1930s did not escalate dramatically.
00:43:29.000And they didn't escalate dramatically, in part, because there were so many people who were still part of a social fabric.
00:43:38.000So we are riding the wave of economic growth that has been continuous, largely, for the last several decades.
00:43:44.000If that ever should peter out, things are going to get very ugly very quickly.
00:43:47.000And that's why we better rebuild that social fabric and why we must look to economic reform if we want to see a continued growth rate without the social collapse that we are now seeing in France.
00:43:56.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I like and then a thing that I hate.
00:44:53.000Because I just like that America is full of people with crazy opinions.
00:44:56.000You know, I'm one of these people who thinks that no matter how crazy your opinion is, you should get to express it, even if you're a kook who believes that the moon landing never actually happened, or if you're a kook who believes that vaccines actually cause autism, which is based on scientific nonsense and gobbledygook.
00:45:11.000I think you should be able to express your opinions.
00:45:13.000I'm grateful that I live in a country where people can express stupid opinions like the moon landing was faked and never happened.
00:45:20.000And I wanted to point out that while social media wants to quash, well, I do love that folks on the left who are willing to hear out Steph Curry on the moon landing was faked.
00:45:28.000Some of those same people are the ones who say, well, if you question the reality of man-made climate change destroying the earth, Uh, then you are an anti-science denier.
00:45:38.000Or if you believe that there are biological genders, then you are a science denier as well.
00:46:05.000I guess maybe there'd be a gong or something, which would be kind of great.
00:46:07.000So the thing I hate about this is that instead of Hollywood basically acknowledging, because really they need to acknowledge now, Everyone has bad tweets.
00:46:15.000Every single person in Hollywood has bad tweets.
00:46:18.000There's a tweet that came out from Sarah Silverman in the last week in which she was using gay slurs.
00:46:25.000There are tweets from Chelsea Handler in which she uses gay slurs.
00:46:28.000There's a tweet from Jack Dorsey in which he talks about transvestites.
00:46:32.000Everyone in Hollywood and in social media has tweeted bad stuff.
00:46:36.000And yet, the standard that we have set in Hollywood is that if you're Kevin Hart, then you can no longer work at the Oscars because you once tweeted a thing.
00:46:41.000So, Hollywood, instead of saying, you know what, guys, maybe we better throttle back on the social media puritanism, instead they've decided, you know what, we're not going to have any hosts at all.
00:46:49.000Instead, we'll have, I guess, like a vending machine.
00:46:51.000Somebody just walk up and pop 75 cents in the vending machine, hit the button, and La La Land will come out.
00:46:55.000And then you'll realize after you open up the La La Land bottle that actually it wasn't La La Land, it was Moonlight.
00:47:05.000The Hollywood left is so tied in to its social media crackdowns that they're unwilling even to acknowledge that those social media crackdowns will end with the destruction of everybody in Hollywood.
00:47:14.000I do love that folks in Hollywood are so puritan when it comes to social standards, considering that by and large, the folks in Hollywood are some of the worst living people in America by any sort of traditional standard of virtue.
00:47:37.000The Times of Israel is now reporting that according to the FBI, on Monday, they arrested a guy who is an ISIS sympathizer named Damon Joseph, who planned to carry out a mass shooting during Shabbat services on behalf of the Islamic State in Toledo, Ohio.
00:47:51.000According to the Department of Justice, Damon Joseph was arrested on Friday after purchasing two AR-15 rifles and talking of killing many people, including a rabbi.
00:47:59.000District Court in Toledo said Joseph was inspired by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting attack in October, which killed 11 Jewish worshipers.
00:48:06.000He also said that he was identifying synagogues in the Toledo area to carry out a mass shooting attack in the name of the Islamic State.
00:48:13.000He said, I admire what the guy did with the shooting, actually.
00:48:15.000I can see myself carrying out this type of operation inshallah.
00:48:18.000They wouldn't even expect an attack in my area.
00:48:34.000My theory is that no one cares about this story unless the person happens to be in some tangential way associated with the cause that President Trump pushes.
00:48:43.000It turns out that, as always, anti-Semitism is only a story when folks on the left think it's a story that they can use to club people on the right.
00:48:50.000So when an ISIS sympathizer wants to shoot up a show, then no big deal.
00:48:54.000But when it's a white supremacist who doesn't like immigration, Who shoots up a shul in Pittsburgh, then it's all about Trump, and it's all about, it's all about the evils of the right, just as Time Magazine, again, giving an award, it's Time Magazine People of the Year, to a newspaper that was attacked, even though it had nothing to do with Trump, in order so that they can claim that President Trump's climate of hate is leading to this sort of stuff.
00:49:18.000If a bad thing is only bad according to you because it allows you to target the other side, you're not doing your job as a moral human.
00:49:25.000Bad things are bad, whether or not it helps you politically.
00:49:28.000And the fact that on both right and left, we seem to have forgotten this basic truth that bad things are bad, whether or not it helps or harms you.
00:49:36.000It's pretty amazing and speaks to our loss of basic virtue and basic civility.
00:49:40.000Because the truth is, the only time that people really think about that is when they are at war.
00:49:44.000At war, people tend to think, OK, well, the ends justify the means.
00:49:46.000If you think about that all the time, then you are getting Western civilization wrong.
00:49:51.000And not only that, you're contributing to its breakup.