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00:00:00.000Amy Coney Barrett joins the Supreme Court, Democrats lose their minds, and the media continue to white knight for Joe Biden as we move one week from the 2020 election.
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00:01:54.000Last night, Amy Coney Barrett, she of the Handmaid's Tale, seven kids, Catholic, obviously subservient to men, she joined the Supreme Court.
00:02:05.000The only member of the Republican Party who voted against her was Susan Collins in Maine, who is running a losing race right now to Sarah Gideon in Maine.
00:02:33.000He suggested this was a momentous day for the Constitution of the United States.
00:02:37.000This is a momentous day for America, for the United States Constitution, and for the fair and impartial rule of law.
00:02:47.000The Constitution is the ultimate defense of American liberty.
00:02:54.000The faithful application of the law is the cornerstone of our republic.
00:02:59.000That is why as president, I have no more solemn obligation and no greater honor than to appoint Supreme Court justices.
00:03:08.000And President Trump continued, and he said it was fitting that Amy Coney Barrett would fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat. This, of course, was designed to lead to endless nights of screaming for Democrats who are very, very upset that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who, of course, was on the wild left of the court, who decided that the Constitution was basically to be read like left-wing poetry, that she is going to be supplanted by Amy Coney Barrett, who obviously is a textualist and a constitutionalist and an originalist who believes that laws actually mean what they say and say what they mean. Here is President Trump speaking about Amy Coney Barrett
00:03:38.000and RBG. It is highly fitting that Justice Barrett fills the seat of a true pioneer for women.
00:03:53.000Tonight, Justice Barrett becomes not only the fifth woman to serve on our nation's highest court, Now, of course, you're not seeing a lot of female solidarity.
00:04:11.000From all the same people who said that there's a special place in hell for women who don't stand alongside other women, I'm noticing not a ton of sympathy for Amy Cody Barrett.
00:04:18.000Not a lot of talk about the historic nature of this very historic pic.
00:04:21.000And when it's Kamala Harris, who is picked for vice president because specifically Joe Biden said that he wanted a woman of color for his VP, then it's a very historic, historically big, historic pick.
00:04:31.000Even though we've had a female nominee for the Democratic Party as president, we have had a black president of the United States who is a Democrat.
00:04:38.000But Kamala Harris was the most historic of all historic people because of her historic, historic nature, because she's historic.
00:04:42.000Amy Coney Barrett, however, who is a mother of seven, joining the Supreme Court, that is not historic in any way, nor is that really worthy of note, because obviously she's a conservative, which means she's not a real woman.
00:04:53.000Real women back abortion, according to the left, and if you are not an overt backer of abortion, this means you no longer count in the female brotherhood.
00:05:01.000I will say, the sisterhood, it is pretty amazing that according to the left, What makes you a woman?
00:05:07.000What makes you a woman is being in favor of abortion or also possibly being a man.
00:05:12.000If you're a man and you declare you're a woman, then you're a woman.
00:05:15.000But if you're a woman who is anti-abortion, then you're no longer a woman.
00:05:18.000So the standards, I feel, of femininity have really taken a weird left turn when it comes to the Democratic Party and to the left in the United States, culturally speaking.
00:05:28.000Clarence Thomas swore in Amy Coney Barrett, which of course was a pretty historic moment.
00:05:31.000You have a black justice on the Supreme Court swearing in a female justice on the Supreme Court.
00:05:38.000I mean, for all of those who believe that America is not diverse, that there are no opportunities open to Black Americans or to female Americans, that America is just one big land of glass ceilings, kind of a weird picture.
00:05:48.000Especially because President Trump is the one presiding over it.
00:05:50.000Clarence Thomas, of course, is appointed by a Republican.
00:05:52.000Amy Coney Barrett is appointed by a Republican.
00:05:54.000Here was Clarence Thomas swearing in Amy Coney Barrett.
00:05:57.000Didn't notice any talk about the historic, historic nature of this historic moment.
00:06:00.000Because again, for Democrats, historic is just code for things we like.
00:06:04.000And If it's a thing they don't like, then it just doesn't count.
00:06:08.000But it is kind of historic that you have a black man who is the son of sharecroppers swearing in a Catholic mother of seven.
00:06:14.000That seems like kind of a cool thing, no?
00:06:23.000I, Amy Coney Barrett, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
00:06:45.000that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
00:06:56.000Then she spoke briefly and she pointed out once again that her judicial philosophy suggests that it is not her job to legislate from the bench.
00:07:02.000And once again, a thousand wails were heard across the land where Democrats said, no, no, no.
00:07:07.000The job of the Supreme Court is to do all of our bidding.
00:07:09.000And if the Supreme Court refuses to do our bidding, then we don't want the Supreme Court to exist at all.
00:07:14.000As we will see, this is going to become a major talking point for many Democrats as they talk about packing the Supreme Court.
00:07:19.000Here is Amy Coney Barrett, Explaining what used to not have to be explained, which is that the job of a judge is not to actually make the law, but to interpret the law as written.
00:07:27.000Honestly, this is like having a plumber speak about how the job of a plumber is not to create wholly new plumbing systems in a house, generally, right?
00:08:42.000And it is important to recapitulate what Democrats have done about judges over the years, because they're now claiming that this was unprecedented, as we will see.
00:08:49.000Democrats violated every single norm about judges and then they are upset when they have to live by the new norms they created.
00:08:54.000Democrats decided that it was worthwhile to bork Robert Bork, going after him on the basis of judicial philosophy and suggesting that because he believed that it was his job to interpret the law rather than make the law, this meant that he was a racist, sexist bigot.
00:09:21.000They decided they were going to filibuster Miguel Estrada back when George W. Bush was president.
00:09:24.000Then they decided to kill the judicial filibuster.
00:09:27.000They killed the filibuster with regard to judges in 2013 because Harry Reid didn't like that Republicans were now using a tool that he had created, along with other Democrats, in order to stop Bush judges from getting appointed.
00:09:37.000So Republicans started using that tool, so he killed the judicial filibuster.
00:09:41.000And then Republicans finally just rammed through judges on the basis of all of these various heresies by Democrats.
00:09:49.000Also worth noting in that little litany right there, the Democrats also decided to falsely allege that a Supreme Court judicial nominee for the Republicans was a gang rapist.
00:09:57.000That one happened in the last couple of years.
00:09:59.000So here's Mitch McConnell saying, you guys violate every norm.
00:10:01.000And then you're surprised when we use the baseline democratic process in order to confirm a judge just like every other judge has ever been confirmed in American history.
00:11:33.000Today, President Donald Trump delivered on one of the central promises he made to the American people, to nominate principled constitutionalists to the U.S.
00:11:45.000Today, the Republican majority in the United States Senate delivered on one of the principal promises we made to the American people, to confirm principled constitutionalists to the U.S.
00:12:07.000The fact that Trump has now put in three Supreme Court justices is a very good thing.
00:12:12.000And the fact that those Supreme Court justices could provide a bulwark against the predations on the Constitution that the left is about to perform, that is certainly a very good thing.
00:12:21.000One of the actual side results of this is that if John Roberts sides with the court's liberals, let's say that John Roberts decides to side with Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
00:12:30.000And so you have a 5-4 majority for the so-called conservative justices.
00:12:34.000Well, guess who gets to assign the opinions then?
00:12:36.000Clarence Thomas, because Clarence Thomas is the most senior associate justice on the originalist side of the aisle.
00:12:42.000So this does radically shift the court.
00:12:44.000It does make a difference in how the court makes decisions.
00:12:46.000And this is scaring the living hell out of Democrats, because Democrats have always seen the court as either a green light for all of their most bizarre policy preferences, or as actively fomenting left-wing change they cannot get done via the legislature.
00:13:00.000They've either seen the court as a place where They can rewrite the law post-facto in order to justify what they would like to do, a la Obamacare, or they've seen the court as an obvious progressive tool of social change, as in Obergefell, pushing forward same-sex marriage, even though the state legislatures have not gone along with same-sex marriage yet.
00:13:19.000And if the court is taken away from them, well, then they will take the ball and go home.
00:13:23.000They're now talking about blowing up the court, which is no shock at all.
00:13:26.000What they are most afraid of, of course, is that the court will rule along textualist lines.
00:13:30.000This scares the living daylights out of them.
00:13:33.000And they become very clear about this.
00:13:35.000Ed Markey, who is the senator from Massachusetts and a crazy socialist Bernie Sanders type, he gave a speech yesterday in which he said that originalism is just discrimination.
00:13:45.000Now, originalism, for those who don't know anything about judicial philosophy, originalism is the very simple proposition that the Constitution of the United States is to be read as it was written.
00:13:52.000That it doesn't magically change over time.
00:13:54.000When the Constitution of the United States says that you have a right to keep and bear arms, for example, what that phrase means, keep and bear arms, meant what it meant when it was written.
00:14:02.000That it didn't magically transmute into what Ed Markey would like it to say.
00:14:06.000That when the Constitution of the United States protects freedom of the press, it means what it meant at the time.
00:14:11.000That when the amendments of the Constitution are interpreted, they mean what they said.
00:14:16.000That the amendment that allows women to vote allows women to vote.
00:14:18.000That the amendment that preserves equal rights for black Americans preserves equal rights for black Americans, right?
00:14:24.000These are amendments to the Constitution and they are to be interpreted as written, just like every other law is meant to be interpreted as written.
00:14:31.000It is so weird that folks on the left believe that judges really are just supposed to be the great moral arbiters of our time, even though they are not elected, even though they are life tenured.
00:14:40.000If you really believe that, we should just have an aristocracy.
00:14:42.000We should just have a moral aristocracy unanswerable to the people, because these are obviously the best qualified and most moral among us.
00:14:48.000So here is Ed Markey suggesting originalism is merely discrimination.
00:15:40.000There's nothing in the Constitution that forbids trans people from serving in the military.
00:15:44.000If you want same-sex marriage, all you have to do is pass a law.
00:15:46.000There's not a single Supreme Court justice who has ever suggested, right, left, or center, that the Constitution forbids same-sex marriage.
00:15:54.000The Constitution does not forbid same-sex marriage.
00:15:56.000The Constitution may not have mandated same-sex marriage, but there is a difference between the Constitution mandating something and the Constitution forbidding something, and this broad gray area in American life where the Constitution is silent and does not speak, and where things are left to the purview of the state and local authorities.
00:16:10.000So what Ed Markey is trying to say is that if you are a judge and you don't do what Ed Markey likes, it's because you're a bad person, you see.
00:16:18.000This is the same disgusting argument you hear with regard to free speech.
00:16:21.000So if I say that I'm pro-free speech, and I'm in favor of people being able to speak freely without punishment, then this is like the argument that says, if you're pro-free speech, this means you're in favor of people shouting the N-word.
00:16:30.000No, I'm very much against people shouting the N-word.
00:16:45.000Okay, but this is the argument that says if government allows you to do a thing, or if the Constitution allows you to do a thing, therefore the Constitution must be bad.
00:16:53.000So if the Constitution was written at a time when same-sex marriage was not legal, this means that faithfully interpreting the Constitution makes you an emissary of all those ideologies.
00:17:03.000Whereas if you were really, truly good, what you would do is you would just discard the Constitution and do whatever you wanted, what you knew to be right in your own heart.
00:17:23.000But again, if you view the court as your personal Preserve, a place to ram through your personal policy agenda.
00:17:28.000You get quite mad when it turns out that the court is not going to do any of that.
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00:18:46.000OK, so Democrats absolutely lose it because they don't believe in the traditional vision of the courts.
00:18:51.000They don't believe in Federalist 78, where Alexander Hamilton called the Supreme Court the least dangerous branch, where he declared the judiciary has neither force nor will.
00:18:59.000And that if it were disposed to start exercising its will instead of simple judgment, it would lose its reason for being.
00:19:05.000They just disagree with Alexander Hamilton.
00:19:07.000They think that the court should basically just be another Democratic super legislature.
00:19:11.000And so now they are very, very, very upset.
00:19:13.000And they are suggesting that this thing is illegitimate.
00:19:45.000The idea is Amy Coney Barrett is bad because she's not giving Democrats what they want.
00:19:49.000And it's not that she's not going to faithfully interpret the law.
00:19:51.000It's that if she faithfully interprets the law, they might not get what they want.
00:19:55.000This is why Democrats are going nuts today.
00:19:58.000Democrats are going nuts, similarly speaking, over a 5-3 vote along ideological lines last night.
00:20:05.000There's a case called Democratic National Committee vs. Wisconsin State Legislature.
00:20:09.000The Wisconsin State Democratic National Committee had been pushing to allow mail-in ballots to be counted if they arrived as much as six days after the polls closed on Election Day.
00:20:17.000A lower court had shot down that plan.
00:20:19.000Justice Roberts joined the four conservative justices in refusing to overturn their decision.
00:20:24.000The lower court's ruling will now stand.
00:20:26.000The late ballots will not be accepted.
00:20:27.000So Wisconsin cannot count mail ballots that arrive well after the polls close, which makes perfect sense because obviously it's going to be difficult to tell who is voting after Election Day and who is not.
00:20:39.000Again, they see this as a political move.
00:20:41.000According to Ian Millhiser, who is one of the idiots over at Vox.com, he says, what is surprising is two concurring opinions by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, each of which takes aim at one of the most foundational principles of American constitutional law, the rule that the Supreme Court of the United States has the final word on questions of federal law, but the highest court in each state has the final word on questions of state law.
00:21:01.000This division of power is implicit in our very system of government.
00:21:04.000So they're saying the Supreme Court should just overrule the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
00:22:02.000But again, scare the living hell out of Americans to justify everything you're about to do is the name of the game.
00:22:08.000Okay, understand that this is where this is going.
00:22:11.000In order to get what they want, Democrats are now basically suggesting that the other side is engaged in radical evil, and this now justifies what we're about to do.
00:22:20.000If we pack the court, well, that was your fault.
00:22:22.000If we decide that we are going to get rid of the Senate filibuster altogether, well, that's your fault, guys.
00:22:33.000It was Democrats who violated every prevailing norm for generations in order to get judges they want and to reject justices they didn't like.
00:22:40.000But now their claim is that Republicans have violated the final norm and therefore all norms go away.
00:26:03.000But the underlying theme here is the one that's important because this is the argument Democrats are going to make as they violate every norm and destroy every aspect of institutional government in the United States.
00:26:13.000That is, Republicans are so violative of norms.
00:26:57.000And that relates to the nine district courts.
00:27:00.000Maybe we need more district courts as well.
00:27:04.000Oh, so maybe we should just add more courts for everybody.
00:27:07.000Okay, so we're just gonna violate all of the norms naturally.
00:27:10.000My favorite is that in order to cast this as unprecedented, Chuck Schumer just keeps using the same line over and over.
00:27:15.000So back in 2017, he declared that when the Trump tax cuts went through, it was one of the darkest days in American history.
00:27:19.000Well, apparently yesterday was also one of the darkest days in American history.
00:27:22.000Now, there've been a lot of dark days in American history.
00:27:24.000Like there was that time that FDR interned 100,000 Japanese Americans.
00:27:28.000There was that time when, for a hundred years, Jim Crow ruled in the South.
00:27:32.000There was that time when lynching was fairly commonplace across the South.
00:27:36.000There was that time when slaves were held.
00:27:38.000Americans were held in bondage in the United States.
00:27:40.000I feel like there were some dark days in American history.
00:27:42.000Like, if I were just going to look at, like, darkest days in American history and list them off, you know, like, I don't know, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the killing of JFK.
00:27:49.000Like, there are a fair number of bad things that have happened in American history.
00:27:53.000I don't think confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett makes the top Any.
00:27:57.000I'm pretty sure that that one's not on the list, but according to Chuck Schumer, two of the darkest days in American history were the Trump tax cuts and Amy Coney Barrett joining the Supreme Court.
00:28:07.000I feel like the word darkest does not mean what you think it means.
00:28:14.000Here's Chuck Schumer saying a silly thing.
00:28:19.000My deepest, greatest, and most abiding sadness tonight is for the American people and what this nomination will mean for their lives, their freedoms, their fundamental rights. Monday, October 26th, 2020, it will go down as one of the darkest days in the 231 year history of the
00:28:57.000Okay, but again, the goal here is to proclaim that this is wildly out of bounds, that the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett is so wildly out of bounds that everything has to be broken.
00:29:05.000Every breaking of every norm is now absolutely justified.
00:29:09.000So in order to ratchet that up, you have to ratchet up the hysteria.
00:29:11.000So for example, Chris Hayes on MSNBC, he suggested that Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation led to the deaths of 100,000 Americans.
00:29:59.000So now we're just going to grind it into sand.
00:30:02.000So Ezra Klein has a piece over at Vox.com.
00:30:05.000Ezra Klein has decided that America's constitutional structures are bad and of no consequence.
00:30:10.000And the reason they're bad and of no consequence is because they're not perfectly democratic.
00:30:13.000This is the same case that idiot Jamal Bowie at the New York Times has made, which is that we should get rid of all constitutional checks and balances, that we should just have a pure majoritarian mob rule in the United States because all of these other tools of American democracy and American republicanism, all they do is somehow dampen the will of the people.
00:30:31.000All they do is hamper the ability of the will of the people to be spoken thoroughly and effectuated properly.
00:30:36.000So Ezra Klein writes back in September, Mitch McConnell is changing the Democratic Party.
00:30:41.000He says Senate Democrats are learning from Mitch McConnell.
00:30:44.000He will go down as one of the most consequential Senate leaders in history, said Ezra Klein.
00:30:47.000His legacy isn't defined by bills passed or pacts struck.
00:30:50.000McConnell's legislative record in terms of both his accomplishments and those he shepherded through as leader is meager.
00:30:57.000He failed to repeal Obamacare, shrink or restructure entitlements, or pass infrastructure or immigration reform.
00:31:02.000Historians will not linger long over the laws McConnell passed.
00:31:05.000As McConnell himself has said, his most consequential decision was an act of negation, blocking Merrick Garland from being appointed to the Supreme Court.
00:31:12.000McConnell's legacy, rather, will be transforming the United States Senate into a different institution, reflecting a different era in American politics.
00:31:18.000Historically, the Senate has been an institution unto itself, built around norms of restraint and civility, run according to informal understandings and esoteric rituals designed around the interests of individuals rather than the stratagems of parties.
00:31:30.000This is the Senate McConnell claim to revere, naming Henry Clay, the so-called Great Compromiser, as his model and promising a restoration of old traditions.
00:31:38.000This is the Senate McConnell has eviscerated through his own actions and those he has provoked in the Democrats.
00:31:42.000Ah, you see, you see, when Democrats do things that violate norms, it's all because McConnell's mean, you see.
00:31:47.000See, this is it's the same excuse my kids use when my daughter wallops my four-year-old son.
00:31:53.000She always says, well, he started it, right?
00:31:55.000So the rule here is that if Democrats violate every single norm from here on out, it's all because Mitch McConnell, evil cocaine Mitch, started all of this.
00:32:03.000He's a vessel for the currents and forces of his time, says Ezra Klein.
00:32:06.000What sets him apart is his fulsome embrace of those forces, his willingness to cut through the cant and pretense of American politics, to stand athwart polarization, yelling faster.
00:32:14.000Oh, it's McConnell who made polarization happen faster.
00:32:17.000Wasn't Harry Reid, after all, who destroyed the judicial filibuster?
00:32:21.000It wasn't the Democrats who decided they were going to filibuster judges in the first place.
00:32:33.000It's a short line from there to Ian Millhiser, idiot, Vox.com, writing how an anti-democratic constitution gave us Amy Coney Barrett.
00:32:40.000It's time to blow up the Constitution, you see.
00:32:42.000Because it turns out that the Constitution of the United States allows senators who are not elected by population, you see.
00:32:48.000It allows senators from sparsely populated states to select Supreme Court justices, and that's bad.
00:32:55.000So that means it's time for the Senate to go.
00:32:57.000According to Ian Millhiser, while pro-Barrett senators control a majority of the Senate, they represent nowhere near a majority of the entire nation.
00:33:04.000Indeed, the senators who voted against Barrett represent 13,500,000 more people than the senators who voted for her.
00:33:09.000I delivered this figure using 2019 census estimates of each state's population.
00:33:15.000You can check my work using this spreadsheet.
00:33:16.000Okay, first of all, your work is stupid because it turns out that the senators who represent those states don't represent 100% of the population of those states.
00:33:23.000So if somebody won a 51-49 election, counting that entire state population as one party or the other party is idiotic.
00:33:29.000But beyond that, Even if that were not true, even if you are going to count it the way Milhiser is, that is the purpose of the United States Senate.
00:33:36.000It was designed to create a check and balance against overweening federal power done from the most populous centers of the United States.
00:33:44.000But according to Ian Milhiser, it is time for the Senate of the United States to go.
00:33:48.000According to Amy, according to the illustrious AOC, sorry, the Honorable Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D, dancing.
00:33:58.000According to the Honorable Alexandria Cortez, it's time to pack the courts.
00:34:07.000Because Mitch McConnell has created this bad, very bad, terrible world for us.
00:34:12.000And as it turns out, this argument the Democrats are putting forth, which is that we can do whatever we want because Republicans started it, It now applies to everything, up to and including riots.
00:34:21.000As we will see, there were big riots in Philadelphia last night.
00:34:24.000Deadly riots in Philadelphia last night.
00:34:27.000But don't worry, the only way to stop those riots is to elect Democrats because, of course, those are somehow Trump's fault.
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00:36:11.000Okay, we're gonna get to more of this in just one second.
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00:36:35.000The other suggests that American culture is reliant on entrepreneurialism and tolerance for other people's freedoms.
00:36:40.000One philosophy suggests that American history is evil, the other that American history is good.
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00:38:26.000All right. So again, the argument from the left is everything is justified because Trump is bad and Republicans are bad. And so everything is justified.
00:38:39.000And this extends to the realm of rioting.
00:39:02.000So overnight, there were multiple reports in Philadelphia that 30 police officers had been injured in riots following a fatal police shooting.
00:39:09.000Police responded to a domestic call just before 4 p.m.
00:40:26.000The guy was approaching them with a knife.
00:40:27.000We have now reached the point where the shooting doesn't even have to be remotely unjustifiable to justify rioting in our streets because America is so obscenely racist apparently.
00:40:36.000Apparently a police sergeant was run over by a truck.
00:40:39.000So you got a lot of delightful people engaging in this sort of violence.
00:40:43.000All I can hope is that rural Pennsylvania shows up in droves, in droves, to elect Donald Trump to prevent this sort of stuff from being okayed by city authorities.
00:40:54.000According to the police department, at least 12 Philly police officers were hospitalized with various injuries.
00:40:58.000One of them was a 56-year-old female sergeant.
00:41:02.000She was a 56-year-old female sergeant.
00:41:04.000Okay, where's the defend all women crowd?
00:41:07.00056-year-old female sergeant hit by a black Pick up truck in stable condition with a broken leg.
00:41:12.000Other officers were injured and bricks were thrown at them.
00:41:20.000If you hate all this, if you hate wokeness, if you hate the woke left and the radical left, the only way to stop all of this The only way to stop all of this is to vote for Joe Biden.
00:42:36.000And nobody seems to ask a follow-up question?
00:42:38.000We'll get one million questions from our compliant media about Donald Trump and white supremacists, even though Trump has condemned white supremacists at this point.
00:42:51.000But Joe Biden still has not achieved the signal moral feat of condemning Antifa, a group that goes around firing laser pointers at federal officers' eyes.
00:43:02.000Yasha Monks says parts of the left now seek far-reaching censorship in social media, advocate for employees to be fired for expressing conservative opinions, and are openly hostile to free speech.
00:43:11.000The likely future mayor of Portland, Oregon has appeared to glorify mass murderers such as Che Guevara and Mao Zedong on the campaign trail.
00:43:18.000But the fact is that Trump presents a much greater danger to key constitutional values and does more than anyone else to lend apparent credibility to extreme forms of protest, as well as an unremittingly negative appraisal of America.
00:43:29.000Voting for Trump to stem the rising tide of liberalism is about as pure an example of cutting off your nose to spite your face as political life can afford.
00:43:36.000Ah, you see, this is all Trump's fault.
00:43:37.000Because the liberals were not in charge until Donald Trump came to office, which neglects the fact that, once again, for the millionth time, the world did not begin spinning when Donald Trump became president.
00:43:47.000Illiberalism on the left was very much a thing while Barack Obama was president of the United States.
00:43:53.000It rose dramatically in the aftermath of Hillary Clinton's loss.
00:43:57.000There were riots in the streets while Barack Obama was president of the United States and Barack Obama was tut-tutting violence against police officers.
00:44:04.000Violence against police officers is bad.
00:44:23.000As most Americans at all attentive to politics can recite a long list of Trump's verbal attacks on democracy, Trump has called for both Hillary Clinton, his competitor in 2016, and Joe Biden, his current adversary, to be locked up.
00:44:33.000He claims the 2016 election was marred by fraud, even though he won, and now refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose.
00:45:02.000We are well aware, but I'm not going to treat every Trump pronouncement as serious when he is an utterly unserious person in his pronouncements.
00:45:09.000Okay, but according to Yasha Monk, he says, apologists who say Trump barks much louder than he bites make an important point.
00:45:15.000While Trump's Twitter feed would make any dictator proud, the actions of his government have been less nakedly autocratic.
00:45:20.000Trump has not tried to imprison Biden or shut down the New York Times.
00:45:24.000And although he has repeatedly denounced the judiciary, he has mostly proved willing to be bound by their rulings.
00:45:29.000Yes, but if Trump's words are worse than his actions, his actions have still been outrageous.
00:45:34.000Trump has repeatedly interfered in the process of awarding federal contracts and approving corporate mergers to punish companies that have dared to criticize him.
00:46:27.000If you're going to claim that Donald Trump is a unique threat to liberty that is not posed by the Democratic Party, you can't keep saying things where I can say Barack Obama did the same thing.
00:46:34.000You have to create a point of differentiation.
00:46:38.000Barack Obama fired a prosecutor, an independent prosecutor, who was investigating his friend Kevin Johnson, then the mayor of Sacramento, for corruption.
00:46:47.000And Barack Obama was no wilting lily when it came to using the powers of government in corrupt ways.
00:46:53.000He has invoked a fake national emergency to redirect federal funds toward a political pet project wall at the southern border, as opposed to Barack Obama, who literally just rewrote immigration law himself.
00:47:03.000He has used the resources of his office to boost companies of friends and allies, has channeled significant sums of money into his own properties.
00:47:09.000Okay, that last one about the Secret Service spending money at his hotels.
00:47:17.000Is it perfectly within the line of swamp creature crap that presidents and politicians have done for a long time?
00:47:23.000Again, I don't see how that is any more yucky, really, than Joe Biden engaging in a process whereby his son and his brothers are enriched with use of his personal name while he is vice president of the United States.
00:47:38.000These attacks on America's constitutional traditions don't mean Trump is about to pronounce himself emperor for life, nor do they mean he will manage to stay in office if he loses the upcoming election, but they should make removing him from office the top priority for any voter who is genuinely concerned about the rise of illiberal forces.
00:47:52.000Okay, well, now you're going to have to explain why I shouldn't be worried about the rise of illiberal forces when the left that pats them on the head is in power.
00:48:00.000Many of the most worrying tendencies, says Yasha Monk on the left, stem from two intellectual mistakes.
00:48:03.000The first is to focus so tightly on the country's flaws that its strengths become invisible and its institutions dispensable.
00:48:09.000The second is to believe the right poses such an imminent danger, any form of resistance against it is justifiable, even if it involves violence.
00:48:15.000Trump disagrees with both of these mistakes, but because he is genuinely dangerous and extraordinarily polarizing, he makes it harder for establishment institutions to hold their ground against these fallacies.
00:48:24.000Ah, you see, because Trump is so unique, Democrats have lost their minds.
00:48:27.000So get rid of Trump and Democrats will immediately snap back to being Clintonian liberals.
00:48:31.000Okay, this neglects the entire history of the Democratic Party from Barack Obama on.
00:48:36.000They stopped being Clintonian liberals a long time ago.
00:48:39.000Bernie Sanders was nearly their nominee in 2020.
00:48:42.000This is not the party of Bill Clinton.
00:48:44.000If Bill Clinton ran on his 1992 platform right now, he'd probably be running as a Republican.
00:48:49.000Hey, this is not a party of liberalism.
00:49:04.000He was a left-wing member of the Senate before he was vice president.
00:49:06.000As vice president, he was extremely left-wing, and he showed no, like, seriously, no compunction about going along with Barack Obama's various excesses.
00:49:16.000But the basic idea here is that if you worry about liberalism on the left, then you should vote for Joe Biden.
00:49:22.000Yashamonk concludes, according to commentators such as Shapiro, progressives already hold power in universities and the mainstream media in Hollywood and Silicon Valley. If they also capture Congress in the White House, they would gain virtually unified control of American politics and culture. But fears of a Biden presidency leading to a woke takeover misunderstand the way public opinion moves in America.
00:49:39.000Because Trump's ample failings have given the most misguided claims of the far left a superficial veneer of plausibility, Trump himself has been the far left's biggest ally.
00:49:47.000So in other words, Trump drove the left crazy, so get rid of Trump and they will stop being crazy.
00:49:50.000I don't believe this for one heartbeat.
00:49:53.000It preceded Trump, it will go on after Trump.
00:49:55.000And if you believe that Kamala Harris and the illustrious, honorable Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D. Jeremy Corbyn, That she is going to just go away.
00:50:06.000That the Democratic Party is going to go back to being a mainstream liberal party.
00:50:13.000And by the way, I'm not willing to bet on the good graces of strangers, okay?
00:50:15.000I'm not Blanche Dubois, politically speaking.
00:50:17.000I'm not going to sit around going, I rely on the kindness of strangers as the Democratic Party runs roughshod through the political system.
00:50:23.000Not when they are openly threatening to do all this stuff.
00:50:27.000That's not a thing that's going to happen.
00:50:29.000The moderate Democratic Party is gone.
00:50:31.000Barack Obama being portrayed as a moderate within his own party is evidence that the moderate Democratic Party is completely gone.
00:50:37.000Once you suggest that Donald Trump is responsible for every evil, conservatives are responsible for every evil, And that all you have to do is hand them power?
00:50:45.000There's been no sister soldier speech from Joe Biden anywhere in here, and it's not coming, because it's no longer inside the Democratic Party.
00:50:52.000Okay, meanwhile, the lie continues that COVID is all Donald Trump's fault, that if it had been for, if it had not been for Donald Trump, many hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive.
00:51:04.000And it is amazing how openly political and nakedly political this particular narrative has become.
00:51:10.000So Donald Trump, his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, said over the weekend that we are not going to control the pandemic.
00:51:52.000And we have new treatments that are coming online.
00:51:55.000We have antibodies that are coming online, antibody treatments, therapeutics that are coming online.
00:51:58.000We'll have a vaccine by the end of the year.
00:51:59.000But this ain't gonna stop anytime soon.
00:52:02.000This was treated by the media as throwing up a white flag.
00:52:04.000They said, oh, you're throwing up a white flag against the virus.
00:52:06.000So, okay, so let me just get this straight.
00:52:08.000If you say the same thing that Joe Biden said, which is hundreds of thousands of people will die by the end of the year, and you're a Democrat, this is you telling hard truths to the American people.
00:52:14.000If you're Mark Meadows and you say we can't control the spread of the virus because it is a contagious disease, then this is you throwing up the white flag.
00:52:21.000Donald Trump went after Joe Biden yesterday.
00:52:24.000He said, you know, you keep saying that I'm waving the white flag on COVID.
00:52:27.000Joe Biden has waved the white flag on life.
00:52:43.000He's a pathetic candidate, I will tell you that.
00:52:48.000Okay, well, he is not wrong about that.
00:52:50.000If there's ever been, honestly, if Joe Biden goes on to win, at that point, you do have to suggest that fate has chosen Joe Biden, because seriously, the economy is going great guns up until the pandemic.
00:53:00.000The pandemic hits, and not only does it destroy the economy in the United States, not only does it throw the Trump administration into even further levels of confusion, it also allows Joe Biden to run an entire campaign doing zero things and welding himself physically to a couch.
00:53:22.000Joe Biden has not moved from within a 30-foot radius of his sofa for like six months.
00:53:29.000And if he wins, that is solely due to the COVID pandemic.
00:53:32.000So, I mean, Trump is not wrong about all of this.
00:53:34.000But again, the myth-making for the Democratic Party is that if it were not for the evil Trump administration, all problems would have been solved.
00:53:40.000So Hillary is back, which is just what we all needed.
00:53:42.000I think what America needed was more Hillary Clinton.
00:54:04.000Kara Swisher interviewed Hillary Clinton, and Hillary Clinton said that she was born to ha- The saddest thing about her not being elected president is she was born to handle the pandemic.
00:54:12.000I'm sure that Hillary Clinton was born to handle the pandemic.
00:55:17.000The good news is that for Democrats, basically they just say, all the things that we would have done normally would have handled the pandemic.
00:55:23.000So Jane Fonda, Who is, of course, one of our nation's illustrious minds.
00:55:28.000Jane Fonda, who when she was not climbing aboard a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun and doing propaganda work on behalf of an evil regime.
00:55:39.000She was doing her workout tapes and tightening the buns of millions of women across America.
00:55:45.000Now she's interviewing Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who is most famous for playing silly video games online while lots of people watch.
00:55:53.000And the illustrious— I keep doing this over and over and over.
00:56:17.000One of my favorite things about democratic policies is that you ask them, okay, how would you have done this differently?
00:56:21.000And they're like, all the things I normally do would have done it differently.
00:56:24.000Like Hillary Clinton, just by being Hillary Clinton would have solved the pandemic.
00:56:27.000According to AOC, the Green New Deal solves all of the things.
00:56:30.000Here is AOC, the Honorable Congresswoman, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D, Rolling Stone cover.
00:56:40.000Do you think that had there been a Green New Deal in place in January 2020, COVID-19 would have been much easier to contain and our healthcare system would have been much more resilient?
00:56:51.000You know, I absolutely think so, for a lot of reasons.
00:56:53.000One is that if we had passed a Green New Deal by January of this year, that would mean that we had a political establishment that respects science, that is willing to mobilize and make major investments to protect the American people.
00:59:07.000By the way, the same thing does not apply to the Steele dossier.
00:59:09.000If you search Steele dossier, there's no fact check suggesting anything about the Steele dossier, even though that thing is a piece of Russian disinformation.
00:59:17.000So that was one just note on fact-checking.
00:59:20.000The fact-check organizations that are being used to launder left-wing values into social media, YouTube, Google, Facebook, Twitter, they're all using these left-wing fact-check organizations to push propaganda.
00:59:30.000They say, well, if the fact-checker says it's not a fact, we obviously can't push it.
00:59:34.000OK, who fact checks the fact checkers?
00:59:36.000The answer is nobody, because the left will not allow that.
00:59:40.000They just call it a fact check when it really is just a left wing opinion piece.
00:59:43.000My favorite example of this, though, was not the YouTube thing.
00:59:45.000It was a a fantastic fact check yesterday from Meg Kelly at the Washington Post.
01:01:05.000So she knows that he has gaffed and that he has said George W. Bush.
01:01:08.000Okay, she mouths it in the middle of the clip.
01:01:11.000Here is the Washington Post fact check.
01:01:13.000No, Biden did not confuse George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
01:01:17.000The video clip that Republican National Committee Rapid Response Director Steve Guest tweeted late Sunday night seemed to be the stuff of opposition researchers' dreams.
01:01:24.000Just 27 seconds long, it appeared to show Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden criticized former President George W. Bush as the person he is running against.
01:01:32.000The snippet seemed to be evidence of a nasty theory the Trump campaign has been pushing for months.
01:01:41.000The I Will Vote concert was hosted by comedian George Lopez and political commentator Ana Navarro.
01:01:45.000The segment begins with what looks like a fancy Zoom call.
01:01:48.000Navarro and Lopez are each in a separate frame, as are the Bidens and a sign language interpreter.
01:01:52.000Lopez asked Biden why undecided Americans should vote and vote for him.
01:01:56.000As Biden begins his answer, the frames of Navarro and Lopez are dropped from the screen.
01:01:59.000And then there's the long quote from Joe Biden.
01:02:02.000Then he stutters, four more years of George.
01:02:04.000George, he are going to find ourselves in a position where if Trump gets elected, we are going to be going to be in a different world.
01:02:11.000Or was it, four more years, George, George, we, it's hard to tell.
01:02:15.000Okay, this is the Washington Post Fact Checker.
01:02:17.000By the way, seeming to make fun of Joe Biden's stuttering, which is kind of gross, right?
01:02:22.000With his caption, guest answers an unspoken question of just who is George, suggesting that Biden confused Trump with former president George W. Bush.
01:02:31.000But viewers have no idea that Biden could have been referring to George Lopez, who had originally asked the question.
01:02:36.000Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said, he was addressing George Lopez, the interviewer, as is a common practice.
01:03:25.000Joe Biden's been doing this for years.
01:03:26.000But it's a Washington Post fact check now.
01:03:28.000So if I say this, then maybe YouTube will slap a fact check on me for playing you the entire clip and then explaining to you the entire context.
01:03:38.000The use by the media of these fake fact checkers in order to stop anybody from disseminating in a different point of view is truly ugly and it is just left-wing white knighting.