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00:00:00.000 President Trump goes full Trump.

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00:01:49.000 Alrighty, so we begin with the President of the United States over the weekend.

00:01:52.000 So he spoke at CPAC over the weekend.

00:01:54.000 CPAC is the Conservative Political Action Conference.

00:01:56.000 I spoke there last year.

00:01:57.000 It's a great event.

00:01:58.000 I mean, it's thousands of young people who show up to hear from various members of the conservative movement and the not-so-conservative movement.

00:02:05.000 It always is an interesting mix because there's every year a controversy over sort of who's the leadership of the conservative movement.

00:02:11.000 Well, the last couple of years, the President has shown up And the president is very comfortable at CPAC.

00:02:16.000 What I mean by this is that the president will just freewheel.

00:02:18.000 So he gave the longest speech of his presidency at CPAC.

00:02:22.000 Dude went for two full hours.

00:02:25.000 Two hours at CPAC.

00:02:27.000 And it was the full Trump.

00:02:29.000 I mean, it was every aspect of him.

00:02:31.000 The good, the bad, the ugly, the hilarious.

00:02:35.000 And the more you see of him, the more you realize that he just sucks the oxygen out of the room.

00:02:39.000 It's going to be very difficult for any Democrat to compete just with the amount of attention that President Trump gathers around him.

00:02:45.000 My father made a point one time about Barack Obama.

00:02:47.000 When Obama was early on in his presidency, he said, one of the things about Obama that he's truly great at is making himself ubiquitous.

00:02:54.000 He's on every TV all the time.

00:02:56.000 It feels like he's become a part of our lives.

00:02:58.000 Well, Trump certainly has become part of the American life.

00:03:00.000 Well, does that mean that it guarantees him re-election?

00:03:02.000 Of course not.

00:03:03.000 Nothing guarantees you re-election.

00:03:04.000 But he is so adept at garnering attention to himself that it makes it difficult to think of anyone else in the race.

00:03:12.000 So maybe the idea is that you're going to vote for somebody else as the default.

00:03:16.000 But let's remember, Americans tend to get pretty comfortable with whomever is in office, or at least relatively comfortable with whomever is in office right now.

00:03:23.000 His approval rating's about the same as they were for George W. Bush at this time before his re-election, or Bill Clinton before his re-election, or Ronald Reagan, for that matter, before his re-election.

00:03:33.000 So this idea that he is wildly out of tune with prior winners is simply nonsense.

00:03:38.000 In fact, the only president who had really high re-elect numbers at this point was George H.W.

00:03:42.000 Bush, who then went on to lose.

00:03:44.000 It's important to recognize that the American people generally don't like to change horses in the middle of the stream.

00:03:50.000 They really don't.

00:03:50.000 The last president who was a one-term, like a legit one-term president, who did not win a second term specifically because of a third-party candidate, you know, didn't lose because of Ross Perot or something, was Jimmy Carter, before I was born.

00:04:05.000 So it's been 40 years since the American people had a legit one-term president like Jimmy Carter.

00:04:10.000 That's a long time.

00:04:11.000 The American people, to overcome that burden, the Democrats are going to have to do better.

00:04:16.000 And again, President Trump is adept at seizing the headlines because he is a barrage.

00:04:19.000 I talk with friends in the news business all the time, and one of the things we are constantly noting about President Trump is that a day in Trump time is like a year in regular time.

00:04:27.000 It used to be that when Barack Obama was president, a day was basically half a news cycle.

00:04:33.000 Now, one hour is half a news cycle.

00:04:36.000 The half-life of Trumpism is extraordinarily short.

00:04:39.000 Every two hours there's a new news cycle from the president because he's tweeting something or something is going on or the media are so rabid that they generate a controversy or people reacting to him decide to create a story.

00:04:50.000 Do you remember when Brett Kavanaugh was nominated?

00:04:53.000 You remember that?

00:04:54.000 That was fully, that was like three and a half, four months ago.

00:04:57.000 Okay, that's crazy.

00:05:00.000 That's insane.

00:05:02.000 You remember that Covington High School controversy?

00:05:04.000 That was only about five weeks ago.

00:05:07.000 Six weeks ago.

00:05:08.000 That's how fast time moves in the Trump administration.

00:05:11.000 Or rather, the news cycle moves in the Trump administration.

00:05:12.000 That means the Democrats are dealing with a flurry from Trump every time he is in public.

00:05:18.000 Well, at the CPAC speech, Nick Gillespie makes this point at Reason.com, Trump demonstrated once again that he is just an overwhelming presence in American politics.

00:05:27.000 With some of the good, and some of the bad, and some of the ugly.

00:05:30.000 So here is the President of the United States defending his emergency declaration.

00:05:33.000 Now, it is important to note, while the emergency declaration with regard to immigration is not popular among Americans, it isn't, by and large, he has not lost approval ratings for it.

00:05:43.000 He's actually gained in the approval ratings.

00:05:44.000 Here's the President talking about the emergency declaration.

00:05:47.000 Last month, I declared a national emergency.

00:05:51.000 And a lot of people talk about precedent.

00:05:53.000 Precedent.

00:05:54.000 That if we do this, the Democrats will use national emergency powers for something that we don't want.

00:06:00.000 They're gonna do that anyway, folks.

00:06:02.000 The best way to stop that is to make sure that I win the election.

00:06:05.000 We're very concerned!

00:06:07.000 about setting precedent.

00:06:08.000 I'm very concerned with having murderers and drug traffickers and drugs and drug cartels pouring into our country.

00:06:18.000 That's what I'm concerned about.

00:06:20.000 Now, this is a deeply unconservative argument that President Trump is making right there.

00:06:24.000 This idea, well, I can violate the Constitution.

00:06:26.000 I can violate the balance of powers because eventually Democrats will too.

00:06:29.000 And the best way to prevent Democrats from doing it is to make sure that Republicans keep being reelected.

00:06:34.000 In other words, give the executive branch all the power, and I, Donald Trump, will ensure that that power is used how you like it.

00:06:40.000 Well, that's not how constitutional government is supposed to work, which is why there's a good shot that today the Senate is going to vote down President Trump's national emergency declaration, forcing him to issue the first veto of his presidency.

00:06:52.000 With that said, one of the benefits that President Trump has is that he gets to argue that Democrats are wildly out-of-the-box, uncaring when it comes to the effects of illegal immigration, when it comes to drug smuggling and sex trafficking and crime being brought into the country via the southern border.

00:07:07.000 How are Democrats going to combat this?

00:07:09.000 Are they really going to combat it with the checks and balances argument?

00:07:11.000 Because their own crowd doesn't care about checks and balances.

00:07:13.000 Barack Obama certainly didn't care about checks and balances.

00:07:16.000 And then President Trump, he always mixes the good with the bad.

00:07:18.000 Then he says something about the emergency declaration that I think is deeply unconstitutional and wrong-headed and bad, and if Barack Obama said it, I'd be livid.

00:07:26.000 And then he says, listen, I'll sign an executive order defending the First Amendment on campuses, so here's the good.

00:07:32.000 I'm proud to announce that I will be very soon signing An executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research.

00:07:44.000 If they want our dollars and we give it to them by the billions, they've got to allow people like Hayden and many other great young people and old people to speak free speech.

00:08:02.000 And if they don't, it will be very costly.

00:08:05.000 That'll be signed very soon.

00:08:07.000 OK, well, I'll wait to see what the exact extent of the executive order is.

00:08:10.000 Obviously, you want that to remain within legal boundaries.

00:08:13.000 But the basic idea, which is that college campuses should not be given federal funding if they're not going to protect the First Amendment, that obviously is true.

00:08:20.000 This is the thing with Trump.

00:08:22.000 One two hour speech, one million headlines.

00:08:24.000 Then the president does what the president always does.

00:08:26.000 He went after the media coverage of his inauguration crowd size.

00:08:29.000 He went after the Russia stuff.

00:08:31.000 The president is basically a two hour comedy routine.

00:08:32.000 And I'm not sure the Democrats can keep up with this, frankly.

00:08:37.000 Big inauguration speech.

00:08:41.000 You take a look at those crowds.

00:08:43.000 And I watched one of the evening shows that are ridiculous, how horrible they are, how mean, how horrible.

00:08:50.000 I saw pictures that there were no people.

00:08:54.000 Those pictures were taken hours before.

00:08:56.000 If you say something like, Russia, please, if you can, get us Hillary Clinton's emails.

00:09:04.000 Please, Russia, please.

00:09:07.000 And then that fake CNN and others say, he asked Russia to go get the emails.

00:09:15.000 Horrible.

00:09:16.000 These people are sick, and I'm telling you, they know the game.

00:09:22.000 They know the game, and they play it dirty, dirtier than anybody's ever played the game.

00:09:28.000 Okay, so, listen, again, President Trump is going to have a lot to run against.

00:09:32.000 The fact that the media are constantly supporting his agenda by going over the rails against him.

00:09:37.000 The fact that Democrats are constantly supporting his agenda by inadvertently going too far in the other direction.

00:09:43.000 The fact that the Mueller investigation continues to drag on without any tangible result from it.

00:09:47.000 Here's President Trump going after the Mueller investigation, then ripping on his own Attorney General.

00:09:51.000 And the guy is a walking comedy show.

00:09:54.000 When it comes to American politics, policy, I'm sorry to say, simply does not matter very much.

00:09:58.000 The question is, which person are you more comfortable with at this point?

00:10:02.000 I'm not sure that people haven't grown comfortable to Trump, seriously.

00:10:05.000 Because at the beginning, it was like, oh my God, what is this?

00:10:08.000 In the beginning, he's like, oh god.

00:10:09.000 He's like your drunk uncle at the party.

00:10:11.000 He's knocking over the barbecue, and now the house is on fire.

00:10:14.000 What the hell is going on?

00:10:15.000 But now it's like, okay, well the house is on fire, and we put it out, and he's still kind of stumbling around and drinking, but all right.

00:10:21.000 Everything's okay.

00:10:23.000 The barbecue's kind of tasty.

00:10:25.000 Guess we can live with that.

00:10:25.000 Here's the president going after the Mueller investigation and his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions.

00:10:31.000 Everything with President Trump becomes old news.

00:10:33.000 Sooner or later, everything is baked into the cake.

00:10:34.000 I know.

00:10:35.000 The cake is very large at this point.

00:10:36.000 There's a lot of stuff in there.

00:10:37.000 I know there's rat bones and there's old shoes and stuff, but it's all baked in.

00:10:41.000 We all know what's in the cake.

00:10:43.000 And when it comes to American politics, sometimes the devil you know is worse than the devil is better than the devil that you don't, which we'll see in just a second.

00:10:49.000 But anyway, here's President Trump suggesting that people are trying to tear him down with BS, which to a certain extent is certainly true.

00:10:57.000 We had the greatest election in all fairness.

00:11:00.000 I used to hear Andrew Jackson.

00:11:02.000 This was now greater than the election of Andrew Jackson.

00:11:05.000 People say that.

00:11:06.000 No, people say it.

00:11:06.000 I'm not saying it.

00:11:09.000 This was the equivalent to a greater.

00:11:11.000 Now we have people that lost.

00:11:14.000 And unfortunately, you put the wrong people in a couple of positions.

00:11:19.000 And they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there.

00:11:23.000 And all of a sudden, they're trying to take you out with bulls**t.

00:11:30.000 Do Democrats have a response to this?

00:11:32.000 I mean, seriously, they can try to schoolmarm President Trump.

00:11:34.000 Hillary Clinton tried that in 2016.

00:11:37.000 And schoolmarming him didn't work.

00:11:38.000 You know why?

00:11:39.000 Because people are tired of it.

00:11:41.000 They're just tired of the schoolmarming.

00:11:42.000 You think Kamala Harris' schoolmarming President Trump is really going to do anything?

00:11:45.000 Joe Biden's schoolmarming President Trump is going to do anything?

00:11:48.000 Really?

00:11:49.000 The American people, they know.

00:11:52.000 All right, it's all there.

00:11:53.000 We get it.

00:11:54.000 In a second, I'm going to get to a little bit more of President Trump at TPAC, and then we'll get to why the Democrats best shot there.

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00:13:09.000 Okay, so President Trump, again, the fact is that people have gotten used to President Trump.

00:13:14.000 And normally, normally, I think that President Trump would be unpalatable to the American people.

00:13:19.000 This comedy routine would get old quickly because, while it is true that the American people have gotten used to this, it is also true that if the Democrats We're sane in any way.

00:13:29.000 If they weren't crazy bat bleep loonies, if they didn't push so far to the left that Bernie Sanders were now a mainstream presidential candidate, they'd have a much better shot in this election.

00:13:39.000 I'm not talking about school marmoring.

00:13:40.000 I'm just talking about a return to normalcy.

00:13:42.000 Somebody's standing there going, listen, I know you think this is fun.

00:13:45.000 I know this is all fun and games, but like, come on guys, come on.

00:13:49.000 But they're not going to do that.

00:13:51.000 They're not going to do that.

00:13:52.000 Even though President Trump provides pathways to vulnerability for them.

00:13:55.000 I mean, the fact is he just does.

00:13:57.000 For example, President Trump, last week, I ripped on him for this.

00:14:01.000 The president said that Otto Warmbier, the American citizen who was murdered by the North Korean regime, he said that Otto Warmbier had, that he took Kim Jong-un, the evil dictator, at his word that he didn't know about Otto Warmbier.

00:14:13.000 And then Trump went on at CPAC and he said, listen, the reason that I said all that, I'm in a horrible position.

00:14:18.000 How can a president say this publicly?

00:14:19.000 Like, how is this okay?

00:14:22.000 We got our great people back.

00:14:24.000 We got our great, great people.

00:14:26.000 And that includes our beautiful, beautiful Otto.

00:14:31.000 Otto Warmbier, whose parents I've gotten to know, who's incredible.

00:14:35.000 And I'm in such a horrible position because, in one way, I have to negotiate.

00:14:41.000 In the other way, I love Mr. and Mrs. Warmbier, and I love Otto.

00:14:47.000 And it's a very, very delicate balance.

00:14:51.000 He was a special young man, and to see what happened It was so bad.

00:14:55.000 Okay, it's not actually a delicate balance.

00:14:57.000 You do not have to praise the dictator of an evil country or an evil government.

00:15:02.000 The dictator of an evil government, to be more precise.

00:15:03.000 The country isn't evil.

00:15:04.000 The people are, I'm sure, great.

00:15:05.000 But the government is terrible and evil.

00:15:08.000 The fact is that he praised Kim Jong-un.

00:15:10.000 He did not have to do that.

00:15:11.000 It was so bad that even John Bolton had to come out and condemn President Trump's view.

00:15:15.000 He said, listen, that's Trump's view.

00:15:16.000 That's not my view.

00:15:17.000 This is the Secretary.

00:15:18.000 This is the National Security Advisor, John Bolton.

00:15:21.000 The President made it very clear he considers what happened to Otto Warmbier an act of brutality that's completely unacceptable to the American side.

00:15:30.000 I've heard him before the summit itself, before the press conference, talk about how deeply he cared about Otto Warmbier and his family.

00:15:40.000 The fact is the best thing North Korea could do right now would be to give us a full accounting of what happened.

00:15:46.000 Uh, and who was responsible for it.

00:15:48.000 Do you take Kim Jong-un at his word?

00:15:50.000 The president takes him at his word.

00:15:51.000 No, I know he does, but what about you?

00:15:53.000 My opinion doesn't matter.

00:15:54.000 Uh, my opinion is that I'm the national... You're the national security advisor to the president.

00:15:57.000 Right, I'm not... And your opinion matters quite a bit.

00:15:59.000 I am not the national security decision maker.

00:16:01.000 That's his view.

00:16:02.000 OK, well, again, this is bad stuff.

00:16:04.000 Now, here's the point.

00:16:05.000 That is bad stuff.

00:16:06.000 But Democrats are not positioned to take advantage because the 2020 Democrats are so unbelievably radical, so unbelievably radical that Bernie Sanders may not be radical enough for them.

00:16:16.000 So Bernie Sanders is trying to reintroduce himself to the Democratic Party right now.

00:16:20.000 And yeah, that means that we have to play the Bernie Sanders music, of course, because, I mean, come on.

00:16:26.000 So Bernie Sanders gave a big speech over the weekend.

00:16:29.000 And that speech was supposed to reintroduce him to the Democratic public.

00:16:31.000 He's speaking in Brooklyn, New York.

00:16:33.000 And the idea here was going to be that he is going to reintroduce himself as the new face of the Democratic Party, make himself more personal to the Democratic Party.

00:16:41.000 The problem is that Bernie Sanders is a kook.

00:16:44.000 He has always been a kook.

00:16:45.000 And now Bernie Sanders is trying to play up his Jewish background in order to claim that he has some sort of intersectional appeal.

00:16:52.000 Number one, that ain't going to play with the Democratic Party.

00:16:54.000 The Democratic Party does not care about Jewish intersectionality.

00:16:57.000 They do not care about the experience of Jews.

00:16:58.000 They do not care about anti-Semitism within their own party, as we'll get to in just a second.

00:17:02.000 Second of all, Bernie Sanders does not have a credible leg to stand on when he talks about his Jewish background.

00:17:08.000 The guy is radically anti-religious.

00:17:09.000 He's radically anti-Israel.

00:17:10.000 He has no relationship with Judaism.

00:17:12.000 He is an atheist socialist.

00:17:14.000 The fact that he is ethnically Jewish cuts no ice with me.

00:17:18.000 I don't care about ethnic Judaism.

00:17:19.000 I care about actual practicing Judaism.

00:17:21.000 I care about religious Judaism.

00:17:23.000 I care about Jewish principles.

00:17:24.000 Bernie Sanders is in line with virtually none of them.

00:17:27.000 And yet, when he tries to reintroduce himself to the Democratic Party, that's what he has to rely on because his socialism isn't enough these days.

00:17:33.000 So he drags out Sean King.

00:17:35.000 Sean King, you'll recall, is a columnist for the New York Daily News.

00:17:38.000 He's a race baiter, par excellence.

00:17:40.000 There have been accusations that he's not actually black.

00:17:42.000 His birth certificate lists his birth father as a white guy.

00:17:46.000 He says that his mom had an affair and he's actually black.

00:17:48.000 Not of high relevance, but he is now a spokesperson for the Bernie Sanders campaign, basically.

00:17:54.000 And he gets up there in the middle of a Democratic Party meltdown over anti-Semitism and says, you know, Bernie Sanders grew up in the family of Holocaust, where everyone's extended family was killed in the Holocaust.

00:18:05.000 Yeah, welcome to being a Jew.

00:18:06.000 Okay, pretty much everybody's extended family was killed in the Holocaust.

00:18:10.000 Half of world jewelry was exterminated during the Holocaust.

00:18:12.000 Doesn't give you a case for being president.

00:18:14.000 Bernie Sanders was born right here in Brooklyn, the same year the Holocaust began.

00:18:22.000 The next year, when Bernie was just a baby boy, his uncles Jacob and Abraham, his aunt Shana, her son Leopold, were all killed in the Holocaust in Poland.

00:18:33.000 And to come of age in that time, in that space, it gave Bernie a deep sense of right and wrong.

00:18:40.000 Okay, so let me get this straight.

00:18:41.000 Because he was born the same year that the Holocaust began, he has a deep sense of right and wrong?

00:18:48.000 This is their case?

00:18:49.000 This is going to be the case that Bernie Sanders, a full-on socialist who rooted for the USSR and Cuba and was rooting for Venezuela, that guy, he got a deep sense of right and wrong because he had extended relatives who were killed in the Holocaust, just like every other Jew on planet Earth of Ashkenazi descent.

00:19:05.000 Seriously?

00:19:06.000 And then Bernie tried to double down on this.

00:19:07.000 He says, you know, I know where I came from.

00:19:10.000 He tries to describe his childhood and make himself a man of the people, even though he's been living off the public dole for legitimately decades at this point.

00:19:17.000 I am not going to tell you that I grew up in a home of desperate poverty.

00:19:23.000 That would not be true.

00:19:24.000 But what I will tell you is that coming from a lower middle class family, I will never forget about how money or really lack of money was always a point of stress in our family.

00:19:42.000 My experience as a child Living in a family that struggled economically powerfully influenced my life and my values.

00:19:54.000 I know where I came from!

00:19:56.000 Okay, where you came from is the greatest country in the history of the world where a useless old man like you can run for president on the basis of accomplishing nothing over the course of your life and then you can rip on it.

00:20:07.000 Is that really gonna counter President Trump?

00:20:09.000 Is that a counter to President Trump?

00:20:10.000 When President Trump stands up there at CPAC and he says, socialism is not our future, and then Bernie Sanders says, I grew up lower middle income in the United States and this is supposed to be a story of victimhood?

00:20:20.000 You're standing on a presidential stage, never having legitimately earned a dollar or created a job?

00:20:26.000 And we're supposed to hear from you?

00:20:28.000 That you're the guy who should run everything?

00:20:30.000 Like that's the guy who they're gonna juxtapose?

00:20:32.000 And let's not forget, Bernie Sanders is a frontrunner right now.

00:20:35.000 He is.

00:20:36.000 His support is significantly more durable than Joe Biden's.

00:20:38.000 The best day Joe Biden's going to have of this campaign is the first day, unless Barack Obama endorses him.

00:20:43.000 The best day Joe Biden has in this campaign is the day he announces.

00:20:46.000 From there, it is all downhill.

00:20:47.000 Bernie Sanders has the most durable base of anyone in the Democratic Party, and he is an octogenarian socialist with a boring background.

00:20:55.000 So boring that he has to actually go back to extended relatives killed in the Holocaust and growing up lower middle income in Brooklyn, just like half of Jews in America.

00:21:04.000 Like really?

00:21:06.000 And then he says that his program is going to be guaranteeing health care as a right.

00:21:10.000 He says at this rally he's going to guarantee health care as a right.

00:21:12.000 But then he lets the ball, he sort of lets the cat out of the bag as we'll see what he means by that in an interview that happened last night.

00:21:20.000 So here he is at the rally talking about health care as a right.

00:21:22.000 Today we launch our fight for a political revolution.

00:21:30.000 And we say to the private health insurance companies, whether you like it or not, the United States is going to join every other major country on earth and guarantee healthcare to all people has a right.

00:21:49.000 Yeah, except then he explained exactly what he means by that.

00:21:52.000 He said, oh yeah, what I mean by that is the complete elimination of private health care insurance.

00:21:56.000 Whoops!

00:21:57.000 Your question in terms of health care, we're already paying for it.

00:22:00.000 We're paying twice as much as the Canadians.

00:22:02.000 So what the criticism of Bernie Sanders is, he's gonna raise your taxes.

00:22:06.000 Well, I may.

00:22:07.000 That's right.

00:22:08.000 But you know what I'm doing?

00:22:09.000 I'm doing away with all of your private health insurance premiums.

00:22:13.000 Alright, I don't know how you guys work or where you get your healthcare from.

00:22:16.000 Somebody's paying for it.

00:22:17.000 Somebody's paying Blue Cross or UnitedHealth.

00:22:18.000 Alright, that's gone.

00:22:19.000 I'm paying it for myself, yeah.

00:22:20.000 You're paying it for yourself.

00:22:22.000 If you're an average family of four in this country, you're paying $28,000 a year.

00:22:26.000 And that cost is going to go up.

00:22:27.000 So we can't afford the present system.

00:22:29.000 So we're going to get rid of 177 million, million health care plans in the United States because Bernie Sanders says so.

00:22:35.000 And his case is that he had extended relatives who died in the Holocaust and grew up lower middle income in Brooklyn before sponging off the taxpayer for decades at a time.

00:22:43.000 Yeah, President Trump might be OK.

00:22:45.000 He might be OK.

00:22:45.000 We'll explain why he might be even more OK, because Bernie Sanders isn't even radical enough for the Democratic base.

00:22:50.000 This is the problem.

00:22:51.000 Bernie Sanders may be the best they have to capture the Democratic mind at this point, but he is not the Democratic base.

00:22:56.000 I'll explain in just a second.

00:22:58.000 First, let's talk about Congress.

00:23:00.000 In a second, we're going to talk about the fresh faces in Congress and why these folks cannot be trusted with power.

00:23:05.000 But here's the problem.

00:23:07.000 As power accretes to the federal government, whether we're talking about the legislature or the executive branch, as we talk about the perversion of the constitutional structure of checks and balances, regardless of who is in office, we're going to need to shore up the constitution that has been undermined.

00:23:21.000 Over the last century, the rise of administrative government has radically restructured how American government has worked and was supposed to work.

00:23:28.000 It was never supposed to be this way.

00:23:29.000 We weren't supposed to have armies of regulators trying to Take control of every aspect of your life.

00:23:34.000 We weren't supposed to have a legislature that was constantly accreting power to itself and a Supreme Court that was constantly saying that was totally fine.

00:23:41.000 This is why I'm a big believer in calling a convention of states where we, the people, can propose amendments.

00:23:45.000 Amendments that could force term limits on Congress, for example, or make them balance the budget.

00:23:49.000 We'd consider all of these amendments.

00:23:51.000 And I know people are worried about a runaway convention.

00:23:53.000 Here's the thing.

00:23:54.000 A vast majority of states, like 38 states, still have to actually Go with whatever amendment is proposed.

00:23:59.000 It's not like somebody's going to make an amendment to abolish private profit in the United States and that's going to go fine.

00:24:03.000 That's just not how this thing works.

00:24:05.000 Calling a convention of states may be the only way to get the job done.

00:24:08.000 There are already 3.8 million people with us on this more every day.

00:24:10.000 Join me and my friend Mark Meckler.

00:24:12.000 Go to conventionofstates.com slash ben.

00:24:14.000 Go sign the petition today.

00:24:15.000 That is conventionofstates.com slash ben.

00:24:18.000 And getting familiar with the Constitution and then seeing what we can do to re-strike the original bargain would be a worthwhile thing.

00:24:24.000 Conventionofstates.com slash Ben to join us.

00:24:26.000 Go check it out right now.

00:24:27.000 Okay, so as I say, Bernie Sanders is extraordinarily radical and he's not even radical enough for the Democratic base.

00:24:33.000 This is why, unfortunately, I feel like constitutional concerns have gone by the wayside.

00:24:38.000 And we let off with President Trump talking about his emergency declaration.

00:24:42.000 And he says, listen, You know, I know that I may be violating the Constitution here, but if you're worried that I'm setting a precedent, well, Democrats are going to do it anyway because they have no limits.

00:24:51.000 When you look at the Democratic Party, it's hard not to feel The same sort of Flight 93 urgency that was expressed by Michael Anton in this famous piece for the Claremont Review of Books back in 2016.

00:25:02.000 He suggested basically the country is going to crash anyway.

00:25:04.000 You got to vote for Trump because you got to try to storm the cockpit.

00:25:07.000 The metaphor didn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.

00:25:09.000 But if you look at the Democratic Party right now, it does feel like this is a party that is determined to drive America into the ground, that this is a party that does not care about constitutional limits or even, frankly, the limits of decency.

00:25:22.000 Bernie Sanders is not intersectional enough for them.

00:25:24.000 He's too socialist and not intersectional enough.

00:25:26.000 So, for example, CNN's Bakari Sellers, he came out on CNN last night.

00:25:30.000 He said, listen, I know Bernie marched with Martin Luther King, right?

00:25:32.000 This is one of the good part of Bernie's records.

00:25:34.000 But he says that's not enough.

00:25:36.000 Bernie isn't intersectional enough.

00:25:37.000 He was criticized last time for not connecting effectively with the African-American community.

00:25:44.000 Is this part of what he needs to do to get the nomination?

00:25:46.000 I know you're not necessarily rooting for him to get the nomination.

00:25:48.000 I think that Bernie Sanders has a long way to go, and there's a certain part of me that believes that ship has already sailed.

00:25:54.000 I mean, it's not the fact that Bernie Sanders marched with Dr. King in the 60s.

00:25:57.000 I think that was one of the first things that he said.

00:25:59.000 The question was, where have you been and what have you done since then?

00:26:02.000 Where has your activism been since the 60s?

00:26:05.000 OK, well, here's the problem for this.

00:26:08.000 Bakari Sellers does speak the language of the base, meaning he is talking to the Democratic base.

00:26:12.000 But the Democratic base is not the entire voting population of the United States, nor is it even the voting population of the Democratic Party.

00:26:19.000 There's a poll out of South Carolina today.

00:26:20.000 Here's what it shows.

00:26:21.000 It shows that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are the only two candidates to reach double digits in the Democratic primary.

00:26:26.000 Biden has 37 percent of the vote right now in South Carolina, followed by Bernie with 21 percent of the vote.

00:26:31.000 Kamala Harris comes in third with nine percent of the vote.

00:26:34.000 Cory Booker has six percent.

00:26:36.000 Beto O'Rourke, Elizabeth Warren both receive five.

00:26:38.000 Elizabeth Warren is toast.

00:26:39.000 She is done.

00:26:40.000 She is not a competitor in this race.

00:26:42.000 Kamala Harris, though, is charting really low among black voters.

00:26:45.000 And that's what's so fascinating about this.

00:26:47.000 Among African-American Democratic primary voters, Biden has 43% of the vote.

00:26:51.000 Sanders has 15% of the vote.

00:26:53.000 Harris has hit nine.

00:26:55.000 So for all the talk about how intersectionality is going to rule the future, the reality is it's a minority, even in the Democratic Party, probably, but it is a minority that is now running the party.

00:27:05.000 The folks who care so much about race and sex and the intersection thereof, those people run the heart of the Democratic Party, but the Democratic Party is not relegated to just those people.

00:27:18.000 On the issue of reparations for African Americans, 31% of respondents among Democrats agree with the policy, 46% disagree.

00:27:26.000 That issue is not helping Kamala Harris with South Carolina Democratic primary voters, according to the poll.

00:27:32.000 79% of them support reparations, but they are breaking for Joe Biden nearly 4 to 1.

00:27:37.000 By the way, President Trump has a positive approval rating of 50% in the state.

00:27:42.000 So, in any case, this is sort of the point.

00:27:44.000 As the Democratic Party moves ever further to the left, President Trump's chances get even better.

00:27:48.000 As I've said for a long time, if President Trump can just let the Democrats go crazy and continue to go crazy, and not go crazy himself, he may be in good shape.

00:27:56.000 And good news for him, the Democrats appear to be going fully crazy.

00:27:58.000 They're now eating their own.

00:27:59.000 So, Ilhan Omar continues to be a fresh face of the Democratic Party.

00:28:03.000 Incredibly fresh as well as face.

00:28:05.000 I mean, on the cover of Rolling Stone with Nancy Pelosi, who also is a fresh face.

00:28:09.000 Meaning that she's had a chemical peel in the last 30 days.

00:28:11.000 In any case, Ilhan Omar will not stop with the anti-Semitism.

00:28:15.000 I mean, legitimately will not stop.

00:28:17.000 Can't stop, won't stop.

00:28:19.000 Turn down for what?

00:28:21.000 I mean, it's incredible.

00:28:23.000 She's made three openly anti-Semitic public statements in the last month and a half and has apologized twice, not for this latest one.

00:28:32.000 And she's being celebrated by the Democratic Party so fearful of ticking off their intersectional base.

00:28:37.000 How do you think this is going to play with the broader American public?

00:28:40.000 I don't think it's going to play all that well.

00:28:42.000 So over the weekend, Ilhan Omar, so Nita Lowey tweeted out this.

00:28:45.000 Nita Lowey is a Democratic congressperson from New York.

00:28:50.000 And here is sort of what happened.

00:28:52.000 First, a couple of things.

00:28:54.000 Ilhan Omar last week suggested once again that Jews in America and American Israel supporters were demonstrating dual loyalty.

00:29:01.000 Loyalty to Israel as well as loyalty to America.

00:29:03.000 And that if the two came into conflict, it was really going to be loyalty to Israel that won out.

00:29:08.000 And then in West Virginia, some idiots at the West Virginia GOP, wanting Ilhan Omar to hold their beer apparently, They tweeted out or they put up a poster that had a picture of 9-11 and it said, never forget, you said.

00:29:22.000 And then underneath, it was a picture of Ilhan Omar saying, you forgot, as though Ilhan Omar is somehow a member of Al Qaeda.

00:29:29.000 Ilhan Omar is terrible in a lot of ways.

00:29:31.000 She is not a member of Al Qaeda.

00:29:32.000 That's absurd.

00:29:33.000 It's absurd.

00:29:34.000 And indeed, it is, quote unquote, Islamophobic.

00:29:37.000 It's Islamophobic in the sense that not every Muslim is a member of Al-Qaeda.

00:29:41.000 Now, that doesn't mean that Ilhan Omar is any great sheikh.

00:29:43.000 She's not.

00:29:44.000 She's joked about Al-Qaeda before.

00:29:45.000 She has essentially expressed sympathy for other terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:29:51.000 But, is she responsible for it?

00:29:53.000 Of course she is not.

00:29:54.000 But, when she's called on her own, but the amount of, inside the Democratic Party, it turned into, well, you know, this Islamophobia against Ilhan Omar is truly terrible.

00:30:04.000 But we're just going to ignore the whole anti-Semitic thing.

00:30:06.000 We're going to ignore the fact that she's an anti-Semite.

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00:32:24.000 So as I say, the Democratic Party is moving so far to the left, at least the leadership is, or the perception that the intersectional base is the coalition that is going to win the future.

00:32:39.000 That perception is so strong that it is leading them directly over a cliff like Lemmings.

00:32:43.000 So, as I mentioned, Ilhan Omar has gotten all sorts of attention because she's a Muslim congressperson from Minnesota who also happens to be a blatant anti-Semite.

00:32:50.000 Again, she has said anti-Semitic things repeatedly.

00:32:52.000 She's not the only one.

00:32:53.000 Rashida Tlaib from Michigan has done the same thing.

00:32:56.000 Well, last week, she said in a public statement I mean, in front of a major crowd at a bookstore in Washington, D.C., she went out there and she suggested that American Jews have dual loyalty to Israel.

00:33:07.000 Nita Lowey, who is an American Jew and a Democrat, tweeted this out.

00:33:10.000 She said, Gross Islamophobic stereotypes, like those about Ilhan Omar recently featured on posters in West Virginia, are offensive and have no place in political discourse.

00:33:18.000 Anti-Semitic tropes that accuse Jews of dual loyalty are equally painful and must also be roundly condemned.

00:33:24.000 Lawmakers must be able to debate without prejudice or bigotry.

00:33:26.000 I am saddened that Representative Omar continues to mischaracterize support for Israel.

00:33:30.000 I urge her to retract this statement and engage in further dialogue with the Jewish community on why these comments are so hurtful.

00:33:36.000 And this has been the typical tactic from folks on the left.

00:33:39.000 Really, the typical tactic is, we are so sad that she would do this.

00:33:43.000 It's so sad.

00:33:44.000 And you get the same thing from Debbie Wasserman Schultz, another Jewish congressperson, this one from Florida.

00:33:48.000 Florida says, sadly, misunderstandings over anti-Semitic, hurtful comments continue, as does hateful Islamophobic rhetoric.

00:33:54.000 Dialogue leads to understanding.

00:33:56.000 Ilhan Omar's repeated misunderstandings would seem to require dialogue to avoid repetitive harm.

00:34:00.000 Communication is the key to understanding.

00:34:02.000 I hope you will agree and will engage so tensions do not worsen.

00:34:05.000 Again, it's the entire Democratic Party tut-tutting Ilhan Omar's anti-Semitism.

00:34:08.000 She is not hiding the ball, guys.

00:34:11.000 She's saying it straight out over and over and over again.

00:34:15.000 And all of you folks in the Democratic Party in leadership positions are sitting there going, well, I guess she just doesn't understand.

00:34:21.000 She just must not understand what she's doing.

00:34:22.000 This is soft bigotry of low expectations crap.

00:34:25.000 She's an intelligent woman.

00:34:26.000 She's a sitting Congress member.

00:34:28.000 The idea that Ilhan Omar doesn't know what she's saying is absurd.

00:34:31.000 She knows precisely what she's saying because she keeps saying it over and over.

00:34:35.000 And then she doesn't apologize for it.

00:34:36.000 She apologizes that you felt bad because of what she said.

00:34:38.000 So she responds to Nita Lowey, a Democratic Congresswoman inside her own party, and she says, Our democracy is built on debate, Congresswoman.

00:34:47.000 I should not be expected to have allegiance or pledge to support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on committee.

00:34:53.000 The people of the 5th elected me to serve their interests.

00:34:55.000 I am sure we agree on that.

00:34:57.000 That is legitimately her suggesting that everyone who supports Israel has allegiance or pledges support to Israel.

00:35:04.000 No one is expecting her to pledge her allegiance to Israel.

00:35:07.000 No one is expecting her to even support Israel.

00:35:08.000 There are plenty of Democrats who do not.

00:35:11.000 Bernie Sanders is one of them.

00:35:12.000 But the people who come out in the Democratic Party and suggest that everyone who supports Israel has allegiance to Israel, that is an absurd, absurd anti-Semitic contention.

00:35:22.000 She engages in it, like, every five minutes.

00:35:24.000 And the entire Democratic Party infrastructure just tut-tuts it.

00:35:27.000 They just go, oh, well, you know, who cares?

00:35:29.000 Now what's hilarious about this is AOC, as ever, Leroy Jenkins-ing every issue.

00:35:35.000 So everybody in the Democratic Party is like, oh, I guess she just misunderstood.

00:35:38.000 It's a misunderstanding, guys.

00:35:40.000 I mean, come on.

00:35:41.000 You can't expect Ilhan Omar to, you know, know things.

00:35:43.000 So AOC then tweets out and tacitly admits that Ilhan Omar engages in anti-Semitism.

00:35:48.000 She says, I'm pretty heartbroken.

00:35:50.000 There isn't more denunciation of this outward and blatant expression of bigotry and Islamophobia by a state party.

00:35:55.000 First of all, I have not seen a major Republican who has not condemned that West Virginia poster.

00:36:00.000 It's a poster.

00:36:01.000 She's a sitting congresswoman, Ilhan Omar.

00:36:03.000 The amount of outrage should not be, should not be equal.

00:36:06.000 In any case, AOC then continues, very fresh, very faced.

00:36:10.000 In my opinion, those who stood up against anti-Semitism a few weeks ago should also be calling out the Islamophobia here too.

00:36:16.000 Isn't she tacitly admitting that Ilhan Omar engaged in anti-Semitism?

00:36:20.000 And yet she continues to support every aspect of Ilhan Omar.

00:36:24.000 Everything about Ilhan Omar is worthy of her support.

00:36:27.000 And then people wonder why so many people are polarized and voting for President Trump and thinking about voting for President Trump.

00:36:34.000 You want to make the choice binary.

00:36:35.000 Democrats are making it real easy to make the choice binary.

00:36:38.000 Here's what President Trump wants out of this election.

00:36:39.000 He wants the same thing that he got in the last election.

00:36:41.000 He wants people to look at the Democrats and say, I cannot pull the lever ever for those people.

00:36:46.000 At least I'm used to President Trump at this point.

00:36:47.000 I'll pull the lever for him.

00:36:48.000 At least he isn't engaging in outright anti-Semitic defense at this point.

00:36:53.000 Democrats are.

00:36:55.000 At least he is not pushing and stumping for the destruction of all private health care insurance.

00:37:01.000 At least he's not advocating for open socialism and the destruction of cars and planes.

00:37:06.000 At least he's not doing those things.

00:37:08.000 Democrats are making it real easy for President Trump.

00:37:11.000 They really are.

00:37:12.000 And it's amazing to watch them do it.

00:37:13.000 Seriously.

00:37:13.000 I mean, again, the fact that Bernie Sanders is considered a mainstream presidential candidate is more of a joke than Donald Trump winning in 2016.

00:37:20.000 It is.

00:37:22.000 From any objective point of view.

00:37:24.000 The worst you can say about Donald Trump is that he's an ignoramus who doesn't understand politics very well and doesn't have deeply rooted principles.

00:37:31.000 At least he understands enough to know socialism is bad.

00:37:34.000 At least he understands enough to know that nationalization of massive industries and destruction of 177 million health care plans would be a bad idea.

00:37:43.000 At least he knows that.

00:37:45.000 My goodness.

00:37:48.000 It really is astonishing.

00:37:49.000 Okay, so meanwhile, AOC has gotten herself in hot water.

00:37:52.000 How's she gotten herself in hot water?

00:37:54.000 Well, according to the New York Post, apparently AOC is another one of these do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do leftists when it comes to environmentalism.

00:38:01.000 A freshman representative, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, wants to save the planet with her Green New Deal, but she keeps tripping over her own giant carbon footprint.

00:38:08.000 We're like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change, the progressive darling said in January, speaking of herself and her fellow millennials.

00:38:15.000 And like, this is the war.

00:38:16.000 This is our World War II.

00:38:18.000 Last week, she ratcheted up the rhetoric.

00:38:19.000 She said, it is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult due to climate change.

00:38:25.000 And she asked whether it was still okay to have children, because again, she is not a smart human.

00:38:30.000 And then the New York Post said, the guiding principle of her eco-vision is to bring about a full transition of fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases within 10 years.

00:38:37.000 To achieve this, the Green New Deal fact sheet says, the nation, this is the fact sheet she put out, the frequently asked questions, the nation must totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, building charging stations everywhere, building out high-speed rail, creating affordable public transit available to all with the goal to replace every combustion engine vehicle.

00:38:57.000 But the woman who boasts of a razor-sharp BS detector Seems to have trouble sniffing out her own.

00:39:01.000 Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez's campaign heavily relied on those combustion engine cars, even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst campaign office.

00:39:13.000 She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno, and other car services federal filings show.

00:39:18.000 By the way, she also blamed those car services for bankrupting taxi drivers.

00:39:22.000 The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone.

00:39:25.000 In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $30,000 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals, even though her Queens headquarters was a one-minute walk to the 7 train.

00:39:35.000 The campaign shelled out only about $8,000 on 52 MetroCard transactions.

00:39:40.000 Everyone, top to bottom, used MetroCards.

00:39:42.000 Ocasio-Cortez's spokesperson, Corbin Trent, told the Post.

00:39:45.000 By comparison, her fellow freshman, Max Rose, listed only 329 transactions for car services, totaling $6,000.

00:39:51.000 In a district with limited transit options and a $17 Verrazano Bridge toll, Rose spent only $732 more than AOC on gas and tolls, an indicator of personal car usage.

00:40:02.000 So she's been Very friendly to embrace airplanes and cars as well.

00:40:06.000 We'll get to more of that in just a second.

00:40:08.000 So it turns out, according to the New York Post, that AOC's campaign embraced the friendly skies, logging 66 airline transactions costing $25,000 during campaign season.

00:40:17.000 The Democratic firebrand or her staff took Amtrak far less, only 18 times, despite high-speed rail being the cornerstone of her Save the World strategy.

00:40:25.000 So this long piece talks about her travel habits and she's very, very upset about this.

00:40:30.000 So she tweets back, I also fly and use AC.

00:40:33.000 Living the world as it is isn't an argument against working towards a better future.

00:40:36.000 The Green New Deal is about putting a lot of people to work in developing new technologies, building new infrastructure, and getting us to 100% renewable energy.

00:40:44.000 Well, also, your frequently asked questions specifically talk about getting rid of internal combustion engines and getting rid of airplanes.

00:40:51.000 I mean, I mentioned this when she cut her video last week of her chopping up sweet potatoes while she talked about how the world was a terrible place in her climate-controlled apartment in the heart of the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.

00:41:02.000 She has a very difficult life here in the first world.

00:41:05.000 Now, she's claiming, well, I'm not a hypocrite.

00:41:08.000 You know, everybody has to use this stuff.

00:41:10.000 It's not hypocrisy if everybody is using this stuff.

00:41:13.000 That is not enough for the former head of Greenpeace, the co-founder of Greenpeace.

00:41:18.000 He slammed her.

00:41:18.000 He has a PhD in ecology.

00:41:19.000 His name is Patrick Moore.

00:41:21.000 He said he fired back, the world as it is has the option of taking the subway rather than taxi, the option of Amtrak rather than plane, the option of opening windows rather than AC.

00:41:30.000 You're just a garden variety hypocrite like the others and you have zero expertise at any of the things you pretend to know.

00:41:36.000 He's blasted her before.

00:41:39.000 He called her after she suggested that she was the boss.

00:41:43.000 He said, pompous little twit.

00:41:45.000 You don't have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels or get the food into the cities.

00:41:49.000 Horses?

00:41:49.000 If fossil fuels were banned, every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating.

00:41:54.000 You would bring about mass death.

00:41:57.000 Founder of Greenpeace.

00:41:59.000 Owning AOC with facts and logic.

00:42:00.000 That is not stopping members of the media from coming forth to defend her and the rest of the Fresh Faces.

00:42:05.000 Elizabeth Brunink.

00:42:06.000 Who's the socialist columnist over at the Washington Post?

00:42:09.000 I mean, she legitimately defends socialism.

00:42:11.000 She defended Ilhan Omar's antisemitism this week.

00:42:14.000 She said it's not actual antisemitism to accuse people of dual loyalty.

00:42:17.000 But then she wrote a full piece in The Washington Post in which she suggests that AOC is not, in fact, a hypocrite.

00:42:24.000 We should ignore people who call socialists hypocrites.

00:42:27.000 Now, here's the truth.

00:42:28.000 Socialism always ends with a two-track process.

00:42:30.000 There are the people who run the government, who live lives of extraordinary wealth and privilege.

00:42:35.000 It was always good to be a member of the government in the USSR.

00:42:37.000 Way better than being a member of the proletariat.

00:42:40.000 In Venezuela, if you are a member of the Chavez family or the Maduro family, great place to be.

00:42:45.000 If you're anyone else, you're eating dogs.

00:42:47.000 Socialism tends to end up with a two-track program.

00:42:50.000 But Elizabeth Brooding says we should ignore the fact that AOC is willing to take care of all these advantages because, you know, she's fighting to change the world.

00:42:57.000 This is always the way that folks tend to get off the hook.

00:43:00.000 You know, it's fascinating.

00:43:02.000 When you think of government as God, and when you think that you are God because you are a member of government, the rules don't apply to you.

00:43:08.000 You're like God.

00:43:09.000 You exist outside space and time, and the rules can simply be changed at whim.

00:43:13.000 When you're not a member of government, then personal responsibility falls on you to do the things that you're talking about.

00:43:17.000 So, when I talk about building the social fabric and giving charity, I need to actually work on building the social fabric and giving charity.

00:43:24.000 I can't just say, listen, I'm fighting for those things, but I don't actually have to do those things.

00:43:29.000 I generally am not a fan of the hypocrisy claim.

00:43:32.000 The hypocrisy claim is very often used to tear down the standard itself.

00:43:35.000 So what I mean is, you'll see somebody who says adultery is bad, and then they go and they commit adultery, and people say, well, that person's a hypocrite.

00:43:43.000 Hypocrisy is not failing to live up to your own standards.

00:43:45.000 Hypocrisy is saying that the standard should not apply to me, it should apply to everyone else.

00:43:49.000 Well, that's what AOC is doing.

00:43:51.000 She's saying, That I'm living in the world as it is.

00:43:53.000 Right.

00:43:53.000 So are the rest of us, AOC.

00:43:55.000 So are the rest of us.

00:43:56.000 And yet you're calling on all of us to radically change how we live our lives.

00:43:59.000 And you're not going to worry about it.

00:44:00.000 You're not doing it.

00:44:01.000 Right?

00:44:01.000 That's hypocrisy.

00:44:02.000 Suggesting there's one set of rules for you and one set of rules for the commoners.

00:44:06.000 That is hypocrisy.

00:44:07.000 Failing to live up to your own expectations is not.

00:44:09.000 So if AOC had said, listen, I'm trying.

00:44:11.000 I'm doing my best.

00:44:12.000 I don't always live up to the standard, but that's something we can all work on.

00:44:15.000 That would be a good defense.

00:44:16.000 Not, I live in the world.

00:44:17.000 So do all of us.

00:44:18.000 We're all living here together.

00:44:21.000 But Elizabeth Brudig says we should just ignore all of this.

00:44:22.000 She says, shortly after AOC won a congressional primary, Pictures of her childhood home began appearing on social media.

00:44:30.000 The grainy image of the small blue cottage was evidently swiped from Google Street View and uploaded to Twitter by conservative television host John Cardillo.

00:44:36.000 The tidy little home, Cardillo tweeted, was in fact the Yorktown Heights very nice area home of AOC, a far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she's selling.

00:44:44.000 Cardillo was wrong.

00:44:45.000 Ocasio was born in the Bronx, though her family moved to Yorktown Heights years later in an effort to place her in better public schools.

00:44:51.000 Well, then he wasn't wrong.

00:44:52.000 That's where she lived growing up.

00:44:54.000 And my wife was born in Haifa.

00:44:55.000 She didn't live in Haifa her entire upbringing.

00:44:58.000 Like, that's silly.

00:45:00.000 And then AOC says, as more left flank challengers face off with center left incumbents and more democratic socialists begin looking toward public office, beware.

00:45:07.000 You will all be called champagne socialists or yacht communists, the ritzier and more radical counterparts of limousine liberals.

00:45:13.000 It doesn't matter how comparatively humble your background is or how relatively modest your means in the context of the political class at large.

00:45:19.000 It'll always be news if Bernie Sanders wears a $700 coat or buys a house by a lake because his political position on inequality is so obviously moral that the only way to impeach it is to make him seem dishonest about it.

00:45:30.000 No, it is not obviously moral.

00:45:32.000 It is obviously immoral, which is why he doesn't live up to his own morality.

00:45:35.000 His own standard is bullcrap.

00:45:37.000 Everybody knows it's bullcrap.

00:45:38.000 He knows it's bullcrap.

00:45:39.000 That's why we point out that he lives on a house by the lake.

00:45:42.000 Not to say that owning a house by a lake is inherently bad, but to say that there's nothing wrong with owning a house by the lake, and this moron is out there suggesting that there's something inherently immoral about owning a house by the lake at the same time he owns one.

00:45:54.000 That's the point.

00:45:55.000 But Burdick says the same goes and will continue to go for every other candidate who attempts to advance material equality.

00:46:00.000 This stance is hard to supply a persuasive democratic alternative to, so critics instead claim that its standard bearers don't really mean it.

00:46:06.000 No, we claim that the standard itself is nonsense and no one lives up to it specifically because it's nonsense.

00:46:13.000 That's the point.

00:46:14.000 AOC lives in the world as it is.

00:46:16.000 She expects everyone else not to live in the world as it is.

00:46:20.000 It is not just that she has called for change and innovation and technology.

00:46:23.000 We're all doing that right now.

00:46:25.000 Everyone.

00:46:26.000 Right, left, and center.

00:46:27.000 The difference is that she says that it is immoral for there to be billionaires.

00:46:31.000 She says that it is immoral to live certain lifestyles.

00:46:33.000 So does Sanders.

00:46:35.000 You can't live those lifestyles and then at the same time claim it is immoral to live those lifestyles in the now.

00:46:39.000 That is called a double standard.

00:46:41.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:46:45.000 So things that I like.

00:46:46.000 There is a movie out on Amazon now called Beautiful Boy.

00:46:50.000 It's based on a memoir from a New Yorker writer whose son became addicted to crystal meth.

00:46:56.000 The movie is what's good about the movies that it's really well acted.

00:46:59.000 That's that's the part of the movie that's really great.

00:47:01.000 I won't say that it's deeply emotionally affecting, but it is really well acted.

00:47:04.000 Timothy Chalamet is a terrific actor.

00:47:07.000 He plays the meth addicted son.

00:47:09.000 And you do learn a fair bit about meth addiction, how virulent it is, how terrible it is.

00:47:13.000 Here is a little bit of the preview.

00:47:16.000 So, how you doing?

00:47:17.000 I'm doing great, you know.

00:47:19.000 Just, um... Just doing what needs to be done.

00:47:24.000 What does that mean?

00:47:26.000 I'm sorry, Dad.

00:47:29.000 Why don't we just have lunch and talk?

00:47:31.000 We can do that, right?

00:47:33.000 Please.

00:47:35.000 You think that you have this under control.

00:47:37.000 I understand why I do things.

00:47:38.000 It doesn't make me any different.

00:47:39.000 You're just embarrassed because I was like, you know, I was like this amazing thing, like your special creation or something, and you don't like who I am now.

00:47:46.000 Yeah?

00:47:46.000 Who are you, Nick?

00:47:47.000 This is me, Dad.

00:47:48.000 Here, this is who I am.

00:47:50.000 This is not you.

00:47:51.000 This is not you, Nick.

00:47:52.000 What are you doing, huh?

00:47:53.000 You always gotta be controlling everything all the time.

00:47:56.000 Let me, let me book you a room.

00:47:58.000 No, Dad.

00:47:58.000 At a hotel for a couple of nights.

00:48:00.000 No, Dad.

00:48:00.000 I don't want it to go like this.

00:48:06.000 So the movie is quite good.

00:48:08.000 One of the things that it does show you, and it is true, is that Timothee Chalamet's performance, so much of it is that when you're dealing with folks who are addicted or who have a mental problem, so much of it is an attempt to turn The question back on you, you see in that specific scene, it's a very good scene.

00:48:26.000 One of the things that you see in that scene is Timothy Chalamet's character trying to blame the dad for his own problems.

00:48:33.000 And this, if you want to be successful in life, honestly, forget about addiction for a second, you want to be successful in life generally, the most important thing is to take personal responsibility for your actions.

00:48:43.000 If you actually want to be successful in life, blaming your parents, blaming your upbringing, blaming your environment, none of that avails.

00:48:49.000 Because reality is still reality and good decision-making is going to be rewarded in a far more coherent way than bad decision-making.

00:48:57.000 Trying to blame the world, trying to blame other people doesn't avail you one bit.

00:49:01.000 And I understand that our modern American politics is based on the blame game.

00:49:04.000 It's based on this idea that every problem you experience in your life is due to some unseen impersonal forces that are out there.

00:49:11.000 Again, there are some people who are legitimately victimized by individual people, but if we actually want a country of success, we need a country of successful people.

00:49:18.000 Being a successful person means taking responsibility for your own actions, and that's as true for people who are not addicts as it is true for people who happen to be addicts.

00:49:27.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:49:33.000 So I'm old enough to remember when it was considered very, very bad not to respect the results of an election.

00:49:38.000 Hillary Clinton has been doing that ever since she lost.

00:49:40.000 I was told that if Donald Trump lost in 2016, he was not going to respect the results of the election.

00:49:44.000 I'm being told by people like Michael Cohen that if President Trump doesn't win in 2020, there will be a civil war because Trump will refuse to leave office.

00:49:50.000 Hillary Clinton is still doing this shtick.

00:49:53.000 She's still doing this shtick, but she's doing it about Stacey Abrams.

00:49:55.000 So Stacey Abrams lost her gubernatorial race in Georgia.

00:49:57.000 She lost it fair and square.

00:49:59.000 She did not lose.

00:50:00.000 She lost by something like 50,000 votes.

00:50:02.000 That's not stopping Hillary Clinton from going down to Selma and suggesting that Stacey Abrams really did win.

00:50:08.000 And also, Hillary got back into her southern accent.

00:50:10.000 It's always fun to watch Hillary's modulating accents.

00:50:13.000 She's like the extraordinarily crappy Daniel Day-Lewis of political accents.

00:50:18.000 We're looking toward a new presidential election, thank goodness.

00:50:22.000 But it's not going to make a difference if we don't bring the lawsuits and win them, right?

00:50:28.000 If we don't register everybody the way Stacey Abrams has been doing since 2014.

00:50:34.000 I mean, just think about it.

00:50:35.000 Between 2012, the prior presidential election, where we still had the Voting Rights Act, and 2016, when my name was on the ballot, There were fewer voters registered in Georgia than there had been those prior four years.

00:50:55.000 Okay, she's a delight.

00:50:56.000 I mean, I do love her dropping the Southern accent.

00:50:58.000 By the way, it got even stronger.

00:50:59.000 I mean, here's a clip of her talking again in Selma.

00:51:03.000 I mean, she really is dropping those Gs.

00:51:05.000 She's just leaving those Gs out there on the street for anyone to trip over.

00:51:08.000 It's really unsafe.

00:51:09.000 Reverend Strong, you have been a wonderful host.

00:51:13.000 Thank you so much.

00:51:14.000 It is a great honor to be back among you, especially at this moment that is fraught with peril for our country.

00:51:24.000 And Reverend Green, when those bones get up, and when that spirit is breathed into them, and they start climbing out of that valley, the first place they go is to register to vote.

00:51:40.000 Okay, man, she and Kirsten Gillibrand cut from the exact same cloth.

00:51:43.000 I'd like to see an acting off between Kirsten Gillibrand and Hillary Clinton.

00:51:47.000 Is it?

00:51:47.000 I sometimes wonder if Hillary Clinton and Kirsten Gillibrand are actually the same person just separated by 20 years.

00:51:53.000 I don't know at this point.

00:51:54.000 Okay, in any case, we'll be back here for two hours later today.

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00:52:01.000 You can check in with us during the breaks and I'll answer your questions.

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Everything Is Lit | Ep. 729

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