Rush Limbaugh sets off fireworks when he suggests secession might be inevitable, 106 House Republicans back Texas's election campaign in a 2020 lawsuit, and the media finally pay attention to Hunter Biden. Ben Shapiro explains why the media would have agreed with Rush five seconds ago, and why it would not agree with Donald Trump five seconds after he said that the country is going to fall apart if we don t live in harmony. Ben also explains how the founders understood that in a world where people have vast disagreements, the only way you can have people live together who disagree about these sorts of things is if the government should not be cramming down its particular vision on anybody, and should be limited in its scope to a certain set of ideas. This show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Stop putting your online data at risk! Get protected at Express VPN. Use the promo code SHAPIRO at checkout to get 20% off your first month with discount code SHIPPERS at checkout. Shaving is a great way to get 10% off of your first purchase, plus free shipping on all orders over $99.00. Shaving doesn't have to be a big deal, and you get free shipping and free shipping throughout the rest of the year. If you like what you're getting, you'll get $10 off your purchase when you sign up for ExpressVPN, too! You can get protected by becoming a Shaving Club Member. You won't have access to all of the best deals on the best Shaving deals on Shaving, and Shaving gets 10% all year long, plus a 20% discount, plus they'll get a FREE shipping offer on all Shaving offers throughout the entire year, plus an additional $100,000 of Shaving course, and they get an ad-free version of the site gets you an entire year of the Shaving program, plus you get an entire Shaving promo code, and a free shipping offer, and all they get $5,000 gets you gets $10% off their first month, plus $5 gets $50,000, they get a discount, they'll also get $25, they're also get a VIP access to Shaving starts and they also get an extra VIP discount, and there's an ad discount, too get the whole thing gets you get a $95,000 promo code Shaving4verge gets you a VIP discount. They also get my ad-only version of my SHaving course?
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00:01:18.000I mean, that is like the deal of the century right there.
00:01:52.000Now, this is obviously, obviously true.
00:01:54.000It is obviously true that there is a massive culture gap between the left and the right.
00:01:57.000It is also obviously true that there are many members of the radical left Who have such a bizarre vision of the United States that it is mutually exclusive with traditional visions of how the United States is supposed to work.
00:02:07.000And if you have a country where people have fundamentally different conceptions of words like freedom and justice, where you have completely different notions of what constitutes virtue and vice, It's going to be very difficult for those people to live together.
00:02:20.000The only way that you can have people live together who disagree about these sorts of things is to basically say that the government should not be cramming down its particular vision on anybody.
00:02:58.000The founders recognized that in a world where people have vast disagreements, the only way that you're going to get them to agree to remain in union with one another is if you do not cram down too many things upon them.
00:03:09.000The founders also recognized that there had to be certain baseline levels of agreement on things like virtue and vice.
00:03:15.000And this is why John Adams famously suggested that the Constitution of the United States assumed a population that lived within certain moral bounds and certain moral strictures.
00:03:24.000Because he said, if you have a non-virtuous people, it will rush right through the constitutional boundaries like a whale through the cords of a net.
00:03:32.000And so all of this has been long agreed upon.
00:03:33.000There's nothing controversial about the idea that if we have nothing in common, things are sort of going to fall apart.
00:03:37.000This is something that Rush Limbaugh mentioned yesterday.
00:03:39.000And until five seconds ago, the media would have agreed.
00:03:42.000Until five seconds ago, the media would have said, look at this terrible, terrible country with Donald Trump.
00:04:00.000They suggest that unity is only to be had when their perspective is dominant.
00:04:04.000When they win, then we are supposed to be unified.
00:04:06.000When they lose, then we are supposed to fall apart.
00:04:10.000Now, there are many of us who are pointing out during the first term of Trump that this thing was falling apart, regardless of whether Republicans or Democrats are running the show, because there are fundamental disagreements in the United States over what the United States represents, ought to represent, what our vision ought to be for the future.
00:04:23.000Is it a vision of liberty, or is it a vision of forced equality?
00:04:28.000So Rush mentions this yesterday, and of course the world sets aflame because the idea is that Rush is very bad for saying this.
00:04:34.000Now, they do this every time an election is over and a Democrat appears to have won.
00:04:38.000And back in 2008, after Barack Obama won, Rush said he hoped that Obama failed.
00:04:43.000He didn't mean that he hoped that Barack Obama tried to do good things and failed.
00:04:46.000He said what he meant was, and it was very obvious what he meant at the time, he meant that he hoped that Barack Obama's progressive agenda was a failure because he did not want to see that progressive agenda enacted on the United States, right?
00:04:56.000It was very obvious what he was saying.
00:05:36.000Given up the idea that we are the majority and that all we have to do is find a way to unite and win.
00:05:45.000The media went crazy over this because how dare Rush Limbaugh in a time of glorious democratic victory suggest that the country is kind of falling apart?
00:05:53.000Well, the problem is that one half of the media was doing that.
00:05:55.000And meanwhile, half the left is like, yeah, you know what?
00:05:59.000So Amy Siskind, Who is a liberal commentator, obviously.
00:06:03.000She tweeted out a graphic from circa about 2004 when members of the left were very, very angry about George W. Bush winning reelection.
00:06:12.000And what this graphic was is it showed Alaska in red and most of the Midwest in red, with the exception of like Illinois and Michigan.
00:06:19.000and I believe Wisconsin there, and virtually all of the rest of the country is in red.
00:06:25.000It's like the Northeast and the West Coast and the Midwestern states that voted for John Kerry, and then the rest of the country is red. And the suggestion was that all of the blue states would join with Canada, and all of the red states would become quote unquote Jesusland. It would be the United States of Canada and Jesusland. That was the ridiculous suggestion that was being put forth by folks on the left as early as 2004, which is that these differences are irreconcilable.
00:06:49.000Now, I gotta tell you, the differences of 2004 look pasty in comparison to the differences that we currently hold in the United States.
00:06:56.000We have a huge percentage of the population of the country that apparently believes that the country is systemically racist, and unfixably so.
00:07:02.000I believe that government can solve all of your problems from the top down.
00:07:05.000All that is required is sufficient willpower to do so.
00:07:07.000And I believe the Constitution ought to be put completely aside in order to make all of this happen.
00:07:13.000But to pretend that it is not the left's fevered hatred for folks on the right that has really driven so much of the sort of secession talk is to ignore who is in control of the institutions of culture.
00:07:25.000We know who's in control of the institutions of culture.
00:07:27.000We know who's in control in Hollywood.
00:07:29.000We know that in Hollywood, it is people on the left who are in control, and they wish to purvey a particular view of the world.
00:07:33.000And they wish for you to buy this particular view of the world, and if you do not, then you are going to be castigated in Hollywood as a backward redneck.
00:07:42.000We know that the folks who are in charge of the media have one particular view of themselves and their own viewpoint, and they believe they are objectively right.
00:07:48.000And if you disagree with them, you are objectively wrong.
00:07:50.000And therefore, you ought to be cast out of the bounds of polite society.
00:07:53.000The folks in the university system have created their own little religion of wokeism, where you cannot work.
00:07:58.000You cannot work unless you believe in the fundamental tenets of quote-unquote social justice warrior nonsense.
00:08:04.000The social justice movement is predicated on a certain level of post-modernist philosophy that suggests there is no such thing as objective truth or objective right, but there is such a thing as objective identity, and we can base our viewpoint on whether your objective identity Meaning your race, or your ethnicity, or your sexuality, whether these things are victimized in the United States.
00:08:24.000And if you don't abide by that particular viewpoint, well then, you'll be thrown out of the academy.
00:08:29.000The institutions are controlled by the left.
00:08:31.000The only way that the right has fought back, really, has been in the world of politics, winning the occasional vote.
00:08:36.000Winning the House in 2010, winning the Senate in 2014, winning the presidency in 2016.
00:08:42.000So occasionally the right fights back, but they don't fight back in the realm of culture.
00:08:45.000And as long as the culture continues to polarize, so long as you turn on the TV and all you get is one side of the political aisle railing at you day in and day out, it's going to feel more and more as though we're going to have to pull apart.
00:09:00.000So to pretend that we would have unity but for people like Rush Limbaugh or people on the right is to really suggest that we would have unity if you would just agree with us.
00:09:10.000Now listen, I don't think folks on the left have to agree with me in order for us to have a baseline level of unity so we can move forward as a country.
00:09:15.000I think we can disagree on tax rights.
00:09:18.000I think we can disagree on certain social issues.
00:09:21.000And I think that that's Totally within the bounds of us still being the American family.
00:09:25.000I think once you get to the point where you believe the Constitution ought to be overthrown in favor of an administrative state ruled from above by unelected officials who can interfere in every area of individual rights, well, now you're talking about something different.
00:09:38.000And to sort of gloss over these philosophical differences, simply because you think Joe Biden was elected, demonstrates the agenda of so many in the media making an issue over what Rush said yesterday.
00:09:48.000In a second, we'll get to Barack Obama, who, again, has been pasting over these issues.
00:09:51.000Barack Obama is a seminal figure in the tearing apart of the country.
00:09:54.000And if you want to watch gaslighting in real time, all you have to do is watch Barack Obama's book tour, because the media have declared that he is, in fact, a unifying figure.
00:10:00.000Again, anytime a Democrat wins, according to the media, that means he's a unifying figure.
00:10:04.000Anytime a Republican wins, that means the country is on the brink of falling apart.
00:10:08.000For me, the question is not who wins and who loses elections.
00:10:12.000The question is what values are being promulgated and how much do those values cast an entire other side of the political aisle out of the family of Americans.
00:10:20.000Wish everybody else out into the cornfield.
00:10:42.000So what you do is you take the waffle batter, you pour it in, then you put in your stuffing, then you pour in more waffle batter, and then You just close the machine.
00:10:50.000After it bakes a little bit, you flip it over.
00:11:44.000Barack Obama is a good indicator of where the media stand on this whole should America fall apart or not thing.
00:11:49.000So Barack Obama was great at one thing, and that was lying about his actual philosophy.
00:11:55.000So what he did, over and over and over, is he suggested that he liked the Declaration and he liked the Constitution, he just didn't like anything about the Declaration and the Constitution.
00:12:03.000Like, the Declaration and Constitution signify who we are, and then he would immediately cut back directly against the philosophy of the Declaration and the Constitution.
00:12:11.000He would suggest that we're not black Americans and white Americans, we're all Americans, and then he would say that Cambridge police officers acted stupidly, and that America had racism in its DNA, and all the rest of the sort of stuff.
00:12:20.000So Barack Obama is a very, very divisive guy.
00:12:22.000The media continued to try to paint him as a unifying figure, because again, in the view of the media, their view is unifying, any other view is divisive.
00:12:29.000So here's Barack Obama the other night suggesting that the only reason conservatives didn't love him was Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
00:12:37.000I ended up getting enormous support in these pretty conservative, rural, largely white communities when I was a senator.
00:12:45.000And that success was repeated when I Ran for president in the first race in Iowa.
00:12:52.000By my second year in office, I'm not sure if I could make that same connection because now those same people Are filtering me through Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and an entire conservative media infrastructure that was characterizing me in a way that suggested I looked down on those folks or I had nothing in common with them.
00:13:27.000No, the big problem is that conservative media was telling the truth about Barack Obama, and he didn't like that.
00:13:30.000He liked it better when the media were simply lying about Barack Obama and his agenda.
00:13:35.000And when people talk about the separation of the country, you have to understand that the media acting as a filter for Democrats may help the Democrats win, but it is not going to unify the country in any serious way.
00:13:46.000It's just a way of pasting over serious differences in the body politic in order to achieve leftist victory.
00:13:51.000That is what the media are doing every single day.
00:13:53.000And by the way, the members of the media, if they were forced to the choice right now, they don't disagree with Amy Siskind.
00:13:58.000They look at red states with absolute scorn.
00:14:00.000They look at people who live in the red states with absolute scorn.
00:14:03.000I went to law school with a lot of these folks.
00:14:05.000They look at the people who don't live in the big cities and they look at them like they are hicks and like they are rednecks.
00:14:10.000They look at religious people in particular as though they are stupid and backward.
00:14:13.000They believe that their sort of secular worldview ought to take dominance and predominance over religious worldviews.
00:14:21.000They are some of the least tolerant people I know.
00:14:23.000And I have lived in blue areas my entire life until the last two months.
00:14:31.000And I can tell you that the notion that folks like Barack Obama do not look down on the so-called backward rednecks in the middle of the country is a lie.
00:14:41.000They believe those people's values are wrong.
00:14:43.000This is why Hillary Clinton said that people in America were going to have to change their own religious values in order to get in touch with the times.
00:14:50.000You think that doesn't pull apart the country?
00:14:57.000If we wish to share a country, we are going to have to accept that there are limits to how much you get to interfere in somebody else's life.
00:15:04.000And what this means is we ought to want to maintain a principle, which is that states ought not interfere with other states.
00:15:10.000If you actually want to share a country, maybe you don't want to share a country.
00:15:12.000Maybe you want the country to fall apart if you're on the left.
00:15:14.000Or maybe you're on the right and you say, OK, well, you know what?
00:15:23.000OK, well, if that's your proposal, then make a proposal.
00:15:25.000But if you believe that the country ought to stick together or if you believe that there is a silent majority that has been forced into silence, then one thing that you should definitely want to make sure of is that the folks in California and New York don't get to run things in Texas.
00:15:37.000You want to make sure that the federal government doesn't get to dictate procedure in terms of law with regard to Texas or Mississippi or Florida or Alabama or Missouri or any other red state, right?
00:15:47.000You want to make sure that the federal government actually makes room for differences of opinion.
00:15:54.000The world of law is not the same as the world of culture or even the world of sort of political thinking.
00:15:59.000The world of law establishes supposedly neutral principles.
00:16:02.000Once those principles have been established, they are very difficult to disestablish.
00:16:05.000Once you maximize power in the federal government, it is very difficult to then dissolve power in the federal government.
00:16:11.000So if you make a rule, for example, that benefits people on the right at one time, at the level of the federal government, And then the left takes over that federal government, then those same powers are going to be available to people on the left.
00:16:22.000And this is something that the right should have been aware of for quite a while, which is that if the right bought into the notion of bigger government in order to promulgate their agenda, the left eventually takes over all those instruments and then uses those instruments against precisely the people who wanted those instruments of power put into place in the first place, which is why the right has traditionally been a small government party in the United States.
00:16:40.000It's why conservatives in the United States have typically wanted the government out of your business.
00:16:44.000It's why there is this sort of right libertarian alliance.
00:16:47.000Because the right in the United States has understood that power is a double-edged sword.
00:16:51.000Right now, you may be wielding it, but sooner or later, somebody's gonna grab that sword from the other side and they're gonna use it against you.
00:16:56.000I bring this up in the context of this current Texas Supreme Court case with regard to the 2020 election.
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00:18:26.000Okay, so this brings us to this Texas Supreme Court case.
00:18:29.000So Texas filed a case with the Supreme Court.
00:18:33.000They were trying to elevate the case directly to the Supreme Court.
00:18:35.000So the Constitution of the United States provides that the Supreme Court has direct jurisdiction over controversies between the state.
00:18:43.000So that means that it doesn't have to go through the appellate procedure. It goes all the way up to the Supreme Court. Now there is a debate inside sort of original circles as to whether the Supreme Court has to take up that case or whether the Supreme Court can reject that case.
00:18:56.000So really what is going up to the Supreme Court right now is a petition that the Supreme Court will allow Texas to bring this case.
00:19:03.00017 other states have now signed on to this case as well.
00:19:06.000And the case essentially amounts to Texas and a bunch of other red states, 16 other red states, who are filing a lawsuit alleging that a series of swing states did not properly implement election law inside their own borders.
00:19:18.000And therefore, these 17 Republican states were disadvantaged in the electoral college.
00:19:23.000And therefore, the federal government should step in and basically rewrite all of the election rules in these particular states.
00:20:12.000The Supreme Court has crafted out of whole cloth this bizarre position that there is such a thing as substantive due process, which, if you think about that phrase for a second, it makes no sense at all, because process and substance are not the same thing.
00:20:24.000There's the substance, and then there's the process that you use when you apply it to the substance, right?
00:20:28.000A substance of a crime would be like murder.
00:20:30.000The process would be how you adjudicate whether somebody has committed murder or not.
00:20:34.000Substantive due process is basically the Supreme Court deciding it's not fair.
00:20:38.000So under the rubric of substantive due process, for example, The Supreme Court ruled that abortion was a right.
00:20:44.000So substantive due process has long been a bugaboo in right-wing legal circles.
00:20:48.000The Texas case relies on substantive due process.
00:20:50.000It makes the claim that this is not fair because Texas has certain voting procedures and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania violated their own voting procedures and therefore that's not fair.
00:20:58.000Okay, the reason that they're making that claim, of course, is because presumably they think that if the electors in those various states are not selected on the basis of the popular vote in those states, but by the state legislatures, all of which are red, then presumably they will vote for Trump and it will shift the outcome of the election.
00:21:13.000Now, Texas, in the case, doesn't say that.
00:21:16.000They say, no, no, no, we're just concerned about the state of the law here.
00:21:19.000But that seems rather dicey, considering that they didn't file this lawsuit until the last five minutes, right?
00:21:24.000If they were really that concerned about the state of play in these various states with regard to internal election law, they theoretically should have filed the lawsuit long before.
00:21:33.000They should have filed the lawsuit when Pennsylvania first redid its mail-in balloting initiative back in 2019, when a Republican legislature voted for universal mail-in balloting in 2019 before the pandemic, by the way.
00:21:43.000Now, there are certainly Constitutional concerns on the state constitutional level in a large variety of these states, Pennsylvania being the most obvious.
00:21:52.000In Pennsylvania, it is true that the state constitution suggests that you require a constitutional amendment in order to radically redo its voting laws the way that they were done in 2019.
00:22:03.000Should that be elevated to the Supreme Court?
00:22:05.000Typically, the Supreme Court says, listen, the federal government has nothing to do with internal deliberations with regard to the creation of electors in a presidential election.
00:22:15.000Now, what the Texas case is claiming is that the Constitution of the United States says that state legislatures shall determine the method of how electors are selected.
00:22:26.000So the state legislature could delegate that to the population, the state legislature could pass laws regarding how people are to vote, but it has to come from the state legislature is the claim that Texas is making.
00:22:36.000Now, that claim is fairly plausible on its face.
00:22:39.000The problem is that in law, you have to show a discrete, particular injury.
00:22:43.000Okay, you have to have what is called standing.
00:22:45.000So, as I pointed out on the show yesterday, if producer Colton gets hit by a car, I can't sue the guy who hit Colton with the car on Colton's behalf.
00:22:56.000I can't sue because I don't have standing.
00:22:58.000Okay, so for Texas to claim that it has standing to challenge the internal laws of a place like Pennsylvania with regard to its voting, It sounds good on the surface if you want the election to change, but it is actually a very, very bad legal principle.
00:23:09.000The reason it is a bad legal principle is now you have opened the door.
00:23:12.000This is what I mean when I say you do not want to appeal to the federal government as your solution to all problems, because once the federal government has a particular power, it's going to use it against you.
00:23:22.000If, let's say, the Supreme Court were to take up the Texas challenge and say, you know what?
00:23:26.000Texas was disadvantaged and affected because Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Georgia, their election laws were poorly drawn and didn't actually prove fraud, by the way.
00:23:36.000Nothing in the Texas lawsuit actually alleges fraud or voter irregularity actually happened.
00:23:40.000It just says that the procedures used here violated the state constitutions within those states.
00:23:45.000Let's say that the Supreme Court went along with that argument.
00:23:48.000Saying that Texas has standing to sue because Texas is part of the Electoral College and therefore they're disadvantaged if Pennsylvania screws up its own voting.
00:23:57.000The problem with that is that you now end up in the position where any state could sue any other state for a law implemented in that second state As long as it had an indirect effect on the first state.
00:24:08.000So, for example, California could sue Alabama on the basis of Alabama's abortion laws by claiming that, listen, if people in Alabama can't get abortions, you know, they're flying into California in order to do that.
00:24:18.000And that means that Alabama's abortion laws, they affect us.
00:24:21.000And there's a right to privacy under the Constitution of the United States under Roe versus Wade.
00:24:26.000And therefore, California would have standing to sue.
00:24:31.000If you want the country to hold together, you do not want there to have to be uniform laws across the entire country on a wide variety of issues in which states can sue each other to provide for that uniformity.
00:24:40.000Then you do basically have a bare majoritarian cram down, right, effectuated by the Supreme Court.
00:24:46.000Okay, so you can think that some of the claims made in the Texas lawsuit are legit, but they don't have standing.
00:24:51.000To provide them standing would be a constitutional error of pretty extreme magnitude.
00:24:56.000And not only that, even if they were granted standing to judge that Texas could change election law inside Wisconsin or inside Pennsylvania, that is a sword you do not want to grant the Supreme Court.
00:25:08.000That is just not something you want the Supreme Court involved in.
00:25:11.000Right now, there are a majority of Republican appointees on that bench.
00:25:14.000Okay, in 10, 15 years, that probably is not going to be the case, or at least there's a shot it won't be the case.
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00:26:29.000Okay, so that state action that Texas is taking is an attempt to move beyond what is the norm in terms of interstate relations and to actually maximize the power of the federal government to control what happens within states.
00:26:43.000This is something Republicans should not be in favor of.
00:26:45.000Remember, Democrats are openly proposing the rewriting of the Voting Rights Act to allow federal preclearance of gerrymandering and redistricting in Republican states.
00:26:53.000They want to take control from the top down.
00:26:56.000And now they wouldn't even have to do that via the legislature.
00:26:58.000Now they could just do it through the Supreme Court.
00:27:00.000California could say, listen, We have a certain number of Congress people, because we draw our districts properly.
00:27:05.000But, you know, down in Georgia, they don't draw their districts properly.
00:27:08.000And so we are suing in the Supreme Court, saying that our congressional delegation has been watered down by the Georgia congressional delegation, and therefore the Supreme Court is going to have to re-gerrymander Georgia.
00:27:21.000Do you want the Supreme Court, at the behest of California, re-gerrymandering, redistricting Republican states?
00:27:27.000One of the great glories of the American system is that you have delegated powers.
00:27:30.000Actually, honestly, one of the guarantees against widespread voter fraud, and I mean like national voter fraud, is the fact you do not have a centralized voting system in the United States.
00:27:39.000A centralized voting system makes it more likely, not less likely, that there's going to be voter fraud.
00:27:44.000In fact, inside states, one of the best guarantees against voter fraud and voter irregularities is the fact that the system itself is decentralized down to the county and precinct level.
00:27:52.000And so, again, I can agree with a lot of the feelings about how the election rules were done in Pennsylvania.
00:27:58.000The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, for example, randomly suggesting that you can count ballots after the day of the election is crazy.
00:28:07.000The original decision by a Republican legislature in Pennsylvania to go along with universal mail-in balloting is idiotic.
00:28:14.000There are serious problems in these electoral strategies, and they do provide for the possibility of fraud.
00:28:17.000And it is true that Democrats are pushing procedures like getting rid of voter ID in a variety of states that would make it easier to commit voter fraud.
00:28:25.000However, to set up the generalized legal principle, which is what Supreme Court cases are about, the generalized legal principle that a state can sue another state for law applied inside that second state that doesn't really affect the first state directly is just a disaster.
00:28:38.000It opens a can of worms in serious, serious fashion.
00:28:42.000Well, nonetheless, about 106 Republican congresspeople have jumped into this race.
00:28:47.000By the way, I'm noticing that folks on the left are suddenly respecting federalism again.
00:28:51.000Again, this is one of these beautiful things that the left does.
00:29:31.000So pay no attention to the ridiculous spinning of the left, because for the left, Institutions are merely an element of power, right?
00:29:38.000They just grab power and they use it whenever they can.
00:29:41.000And I understand the backlash to that on the right, which is, okay, fine.
00:29:43.000So we'll grab the institutions and we'll use the power when we have the power.
00:29:46.000We won't worry about the institution of neutral principles.
00:29:49.000The problem is that it is much easier to move under the guise of already established neutral principles than it is to violate the neutral principles.
00:29:58.000Institutional checks and balances and institutional norms still do exist.
00:30:02.000And the more of those that are blown up, the easier it's going to be for future people to grab hold of sort of this empty area and then use it in their own favor.
00:30:10.000So, 106 House Republicans have now signed on to this lawsuit.
00:30:16.000According to Yahoo.com, on Tuesday, Texas's Attorney General filed a lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to overturn the election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, alleging that the states improperly manipulated voting rules.
00:30:31.000Seventeen red states have since filed in support of the suit, even though Texas and several other states had implemented the same mail-in and early voting rules by the same methods.
00:30:38.000In a further paradox, 106 GOP House members also joined Texas's suit as amici curiae, despite the fact many of them had been re-elected on the same exact ballots.
00:30:45.000In other words, they were coming from states.
00:30:47.000They're challenging the electoral methods used in the same states where they were elected, which obviously is sort of a weird oddity.
00:30:54.000Not every congressional Republican is on board with the Texas suit.
00:30:57.000Senator Ben Sasse suggested that Texas' Attorney General was begging for a pardon and filed a PR stunt rather than a lawsuit.
00:31:04.000Now, I'm not going to suggest that that's the case.
00:31:05.000Maybe it's perfectly genuine on the part of Ken Paxton, who is the Texas AG.
00:31:08.000I'm just saying that the principle that would be established by the case itself is not a particularly good principle.
00:31:15.000What is irritating in the extreme is, again, many things can be true at once.
00:31:19.000One can be that I think that this lawsuit is badly predicated.
00:31:22.000I think that it sets a bad principle going forward, legally speaking.
00:31:25.000I think that if you were going to prove voter fraud, you do it the way that Georgia is talking about doing it.
00:31:29.000You do it the way that the Georgia GOP is talking about doing it.
00:31:32.000You file actual suits that demonstrate actual voter fraud.
00:31:50.000It can also be true that there's real suspicion in states like Georgia that irregularity happened.
00:31:56.000There's also truth to the idea that the voting rules in these states are garbage and that we shouldn't have had mass mail-in voting this year.
00:32:03.000Somehow, Israel was able to carry out 97 elections in the last year.
00:32:06.000I mean, really, they have an election like every 12 hours in Israel now.
00:32:10.000They carried them all out in person, effectively, and it was fine.
00:32:14.000And it turns out that we had mass voting at the beginning of November, and that did not cause a mass spike in COVID cases.
00:32:20.000So the notion that we had to do universal mail-in balloting is really, really stupid and really, really silly.
00:32:26.000It can also be true that the media's overwrought reaction to the Texas lawsuit is irritating and stupid.
00:32:32.000And that the same people who are complaining about the threat to democracy are fine with threatening democracy when it suits their purposes.
00:32:37.000And this is why nobody has any trust in the other side.
00:32:39.000You want to talk about the country splitting apart?
00:32:40.000There are two ways that the country could split apart.
00:32:42.000One is that people just keep wrestling over the institutions of power so as to cram down their own particular view on everybody else.
00:32:52.000The other is that there is such loss of faith in the other side That everybody assumes that everybody has bad intentions, which leads to the first eventuality, right?
00:33:01.000If you believe the other side has bad intentions and they're going to grab the government gun and point it at you, you are more likely to want to grab that gun first, right?
00:33:07.000Then it's a, then it's a use the government gun or be killed by the government gun situation.
00:33:12.000And this is why so many Republicans have reacted to Democrats threatening democracy over and over and over by saying, okay, well, you know what?
00:33:19.000We're not going to be the ones standing in the breach here.
00:33:22.000So it is somewhat irritating when we hear all of these folks on the left suddenly decrying the challenges to elections and the complaints about voter fraud and voter irregularity and voting procedure when literally two months ago, this is all they were talking about.
00:33:36.000Donald Trump and Louis DeJoy, the head of the post office, the postmaster general is going to remove mailboxes.
00:33:41.000Donald Trump is engaging in voter suppression.
00:33:43.000We had record voting this year, by the way.
00:33:46.000Okay, and then as soon as the election's over, it's like, oh no, it's clean.
00:33:50.000This sort of gaslighting leads to the lack of trust, which leads to the belief that people will game the system, that they will engage in voter fraud, that they will try to grab that government gun and use it against you.
00:34:00.000And so when you have Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC saying, people are dying while they file this Texas lawsuit.
00:34:05.000I don't remember Mika Brzezinski being quite so upset when people were literally dying as there were mass protests in the streets over the bullcrap notion that America is systemically racist.
00:34:13.000This kind of gaslighting from the media does have a real downstream effect on how people think about the institutions of government.
00:34:18.000And it actually leads to the centralization of government paradoxically.
00:34:21.000Instead of people saying, I disagree with you, you disagree with me.
00:34:23.000So maybe the federal government should be less powerful.
00:36:07.000It's growing because we don't trust each other, and we don't trust each other mainly because one side of the political aisle decided a very long time ago that people on the other side of the political aisle were elementally evil and needed to be curbed by the power of the federal government.
00:36:20.000And the blowback you get is going to be on the institutional level, and it is bad.
00:36:25.000I think that the institutions of the United States ought to be preserved.
00:36:28.000If the right is attacking them, I think that's bad.
00:36:29.000If the left is attacking them, I think that's bad.
00:36:32.000But I think that is a natural outgrowth of an entire political strategy, militarized and weaponized by the left, to castigate one entire side of the political aisle.
00:36:41.000Indeed, the side of the political aisle that traditionally has sided with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as racist, sexist, bigoted homophobes who need to be curbed by the power of the federal government.
00:36:49.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to be getting to the Biden team, because Joe Biden, I get the feeling that Joe Biden kind of just wants to sit there.
00:36:58.000Like, that's actually what he wants his presidency to be, is just him sitting there.
00:37:02.000Indeed, he's selected president by the Electoral College December 14th.
00:37:05.000I have a feeling that Joe Biden really just kind of wants to not do anything.
00:37:09.000He's so happy to be there because he spent his entire life trying to get there that he is sort of cracking back against the more radical members of his coalition.
00:37:18.000But I don't think he's going to be able to hold back those tidewaters.
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00:38:37.000Alrighty, in just one second, we're going to get to Joe Biden supposedly attempting to hold back those tidewaters and failing, it seems.
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00:40:21.000Meanwhile Joe Biden trying to hold back the tidewaters here and failing with regard to So I think that Joe Biden basically just wants to sit around.
00:41:19.000Joe Biden is so senile at this point, apparently, that he's just like, he's like, I have friends and those friends, look, look, Dennis, have you ever met a man in the military?
00:41:36.000According to the Washington Post, however, the choices provided a fuller picture of the type of government Biden is building, one that relies heavily on officials who have spent decades in public service and has several historic firsts among the nominations.
00:41:46.000God, the media are just, their tongues are so far.
00:41:50.000Okay, I mean, it's just, it's horrifying.
00:41:53.000But it's had less space for rising Democratic stars and representatives of the party's liberal wing.
00:41:58.000This is prompting opposition, not just from Republicans, but also from some of the Democrats and liberals who kept Biden united during the general election campaign.
00:42:05.000And here is where it's gonna break out into the open.
00:42:25.000Like, inside of nine months, they went from zero to 100, and now hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine for a contagious, deadly disease are going to be rolled out over the course of the coming months.
00:42:45.000Now, I know that we use singular and plural Alternatively, these days, I know that you are allowed, as an individual human, to say that your pronouns are they and them, which is insane in and of itself.
00:42:57.000But apparently, also, person of the year now means people of the year, because they didn't just feature Joe Biden on the cover of Time.
00:43:02.000They featured Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:43:04.000Kamala Harris' only accomplishment was getting her ass so kicked during the primaries that she dropped off before California could even vote, and then being the right race and the right gender.
00:43:12.000Those were her great accomplishments in this race.
00:43:15.000Really, because if she were not black and she were not a woman, there's no way in hell that Joe Biden would have selected her.
00:44:19.000Because Biden seems to still be, in some ways, an institutionalist.
00:44:23.000I say in some ways, because he's not overall an institutionalist.
00:44:26.000But he's making enemies among the progressive left in his own party.
00:44:28.000Listen, you gotta give credit where credit is due.
00:44:30.000When Joe Biden said, like Joe Biden said, in this sort of stealth phone call that he was doing with community activists and all this, he said in the phone call a couple of things that are actually worthy of note.
00:44:40.000One, he took the Abigail Spanberger, moderate congresswoman from Virginia, Democrat position, that they shouldn't defund the police because defund the police is a phrase being used to beat up Democrats, which obviously is true.
00:44:50.000He said we might lose that Georgia Senate race if we keep saying that over and over.
00:44:54.000So Joe Biden cracking back against the hard left inside his own administration.
00:45:00.000I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that because they've already labeled us as being defund the police.
00:45:12.000Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you will occur.
00:45:21.000Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country saying that we're talking about defunding the police.
00:45:58.000He said, I don't have unilateral power to suspend immigration law.
00:46:00.000Then he went ahead and did it because, of course, Democrats very often are just violating the institutional precepts they already know they don't want to abide by, right?
00:46:08.000They say that they like those institutions.
00:46:10.000Then if they have to break them, then they break them.
00:46:16.000I have serious doubts that Joe Biden is going to be the great bulwark here.
00:46:19.000According to the New York Times today, Joe Biden is facing pressure from congressional Democrats to cancel student loan debt on a vast scale quickly and by executive action, a campaign that will be one of the first tests of his relationship with the liberal wing of his party.
00:46:30.000Biden has endorsed canceling $10,000 in federal student debt per borrower through legislation and insisted that chipping away at the $1.7 trillion in loan debt held by more than 43 million borrowers is integral to his economic plan.
00:46:41.000But Democratic leaders, backed by the party's left flank, are pressing for up to 50 grand of debt relief per borrower executed day one of his presidency.
00:46:48.000More than 200 organizations, of course, including the disreputable American Federation of Teachers as well as the NAACP, have joined the push.
00:46:56.000There are a lot of people who came out to vote in this election who frankly did their last shot at seeing whether the government can really work for them, said Representative Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington, chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
00:47:07.000If we don't deliver quick relief, it's going to be very difficult to get them back.
00:47:11.000So Joe Biden has said that he does not want to do this.
00:47:14.000He wants to do this through legislation.
00:47:15.000Now, this is why I think that secretly, if you're Joe Biden, you gotta be praying that the Democrats lose the Georgia Senate races.
00:47:21.000Seriously, because then you get to claim that you were doing your best, but that you didn't get anything done.
00:47:26.000The economy does really well because you can't wreck the economy with a Democratic majority in the Senate pushing a bunch of stupid crap.
00:47:31.000And then you get to claim that you, to your progressive base, you were doing the best you could, but Mitch McConnell was standing in the way.
00:47:36.000And also, you get all the benefits of Republican governance with none of the cost.
00:47:41.000If you're Joe Biden, that's what you're hoping for.
00:47:42.000I don't think that he is going to be that bulwark.
00:47:44.000I don't think that Joe Biden is going to be the bulwark of normalcy and institutional fealty.
00:47:49.000I think the chances that if Democrats were to gain the Senate in Georgia, they nuke the filibuster are 100%, which is why Republicans should go out and they should vote in Georgia en masse.
00:47:58.000And by the way, the data suggests that that's what Republicans are doing.
00:48:00.000They're not being dissuaded by Lin Wood and other grifters.
00:48:04.000As soon as you say that you should not vote for Republicans in a Georgia Senate election and let Raphael Warnock become a member of the Senate because you're angry about Georgia's election procedures, you've now joined a grift, okay?
00:48:58.000So the New York Times says investigation of Joe Biden's son is likely to hang over Biden as he takes office.
00:49:03.000Why wouldn't it have been nice if the investigation of Joe Biden's son Had actually been covered, you know, before the election?
00:49:10.000Wouldn't that have been a nice, good thing?
00:49:12.000Well, now the New York Times is covering it because the election's over, gang.
00:49:15.000As I pointed out yesterday, your media are just the PR wing for the Democratic Party.
00:49:18.000Now it is safe to talk about the fact that Hunter Biden is corrupt as the day is long, and was trafficking in daddy's name, and everybody knew about this for years, including Joe Biden.
00:49:27.000So the New York Times says the newly disclosed federal tax investigation into his son will test President-elect Joseph R. Biden's stated commitment to independent law enforcement while leaving him in a no-win situation that could prove distracting at best and politically and legally perilous at worst.
00:49:41.000Unless President Trump's Justice Department clears Hunter Biden of wrongdoing before leaving office, the new president will confront the prospect of his own newly installed administration deciding how or whether to proceed with an inquiry that could expose his son to criminal prosecution.
00:49:53.000Already, some Republicans are demanding a special counsel be appointed to insulate the case from political influence, which would be the gift that keeps on giving.
00:50:00.000I have a feeling that that will happen before the end of the Trump administration, if indeed it comes to an end on January 20th.
00:50:06.000I have a feeling that a special counsel will be appointed so that Joe Biden can't simply come in and quash the case against his son.
00:50:12.000And by the way, anybody who suspects that Joe Biden wouldn't do that, that he is just, he's so institutionally loyal, that he'd be like, yeah, just go ahead with your prosecution there of Hunter.
00:50:20.000I'm sure that's exactly what would happen with Joe Biden.
00:50:23.000On a campaign trail, meanwhile, Biden excoriated Trump's efforts to use the FBI and DOJ to go after his enemies.
00:50:28.000But the reality is, of course, that the FBI and the DOJ acted independently of Trump, so much so that the DOJ did not announce the investigation until now.
00:50:40.000The DOJ had suggested it was a covert investigation, which is kind of crazy considering that there was already news of this investigation floating around in October.
00:50:49.000There are rumors that this investigation was floating around in October, and the FBI and DOJ just refused to confirm it because they didn't want to get involved in the election, which is crazy because that's called getting involved in the election.
00:50:58.000But in any case, the FBI and DOJ are indeed investigating Hunter Biden, and now we are allowed to cover it.
00:51:05.000Meanwhile, Team Biden is running from this.
00:51:07.000So Joe Biden was asked specifically about Hunter Biden, and the reporter who asked was immediately shooed out of the room the other day.
00:52:18.000Oh yeah, it turns out that he's been under federal investigation since 2018, which is why it is so rich.
00:52:23.000I just have to point out, our esteemed journalistic colleagues over at CNN, it is so rich and wonderful that Kate Baldwin of CNN, one of their anchors, she put on a sweater on Air Thursday.
00:52:37.000It said on it, in pink writing, facts first, Because now we are just in the position of posturing.
00:52:43.000Journalists are in the position of posturing as though this is what they do.
00:52:46.000If you have to say that as a journalist you're facts first, that means that everybody suspects that you're not.
00:52:50.000It also happens to be particularly rich, not just that you wore this obnoxious sweater, which is a sweater designed to say, I am better than you.
00:52:57.000It's really a sweater designed to alienate everybody.
00:52:59.000But also that this was immediately put online for sale by Lingua Franca for $380.
00:53:08.000So, if you too wish to mirror the journalistic priorities of CNN, then you can buy a $380 sweater in the middle of an economic downturn and a pandemic, so that you can look like Kate Baldwin on CNN, talking about facts first on a network that routinely ignores facts.
00:53:27.000And then they put up, did Lingua Franca, a little poem.
00:53:31.000It's almost like a haiku of stupidity over at Lingua Franca.
00:53:33.000said smoke with true red embroidery 100% cashmere hand-stitched in New York City facts are facts they aren't colored by emotion or bias they're indisputable there is no alternative to a fact facts explain things what they are How they happen.
00:53:50.000Once facts are established, opinions can be formed.
00:53:52.000And while opinions matter, they don't change facts.
00:53:54.000We stand with our friends at CNN who start with the facts first.
00:53:59.000Also, you're gonna need to allow 2-3 weeks for the embroidery plus shipping time 1-3 days.
00:54:03.000$380 so that you too can look like a reporter on a garbage news network that promulgates opinion as fact and then pretends that they are facts first.
00:54:14.000And what a mockery they continue to be.
00:54:16.000Okay, now, I would be remiss if I did not mention that there is some good news in the country.
00:54:27.000The NIH director announced that Americans may start receiving vaccinations on Monday for COVID-19.
00:54:32.000The FDA is supposed to approve this thing over the weekend.
00:54:35.000The tranching is supposed to start with people in nursing homes, as it should.
00:54:38.000It's also going to start with frontline healthcare workers, as it should, because you don't want healthcare workers in hospitals getting infected and then infecting other people in the hospital who do not have coronavirus.
00:54:48.000This should be tranched out according to health condition, right?
00:54:50.000It should start with people, not even by age, but by pre-existing health condition, and then tranched out over the course of the next few months.
00:54:56.000This is all happening under the Trump administration.
00:54:58.000Joe Biden deserves zero credit for this.
00:56:05.000The real blame here is Mitch McConnell, is the Republicans, is the president, is a party that does not want to help people, that is working on one side to actually make sure the pandemic kills as many people as possible.
00:56:18.000That seems to be the logical consequence of their policy.
00:56:21.000And then to make sure that all the people who managed to survive it, despite their policy, suffer economically and beyond.
00:56:28.000Solid analysis there from Anand Giridharadas, who is a commentator for MSNBC, that their goal is to kill as many people as possible.
00:56:36.000Really, really good stuff, which is presumably why the Trump administration has developed the fastest vaccine in the history of humanity, and hundreds of millions of doses will be put out there within the next couple of months.
00:56:45.000By the way, speaking of news that the media Largely downplayed.
00:56:49.000Yet another peace deal was signed in the Middle East yesterday.
00:56:51.000Full normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco.
00:56:54.000This makes the fourth country to sign normalization of relations with Israel over the course of the last six months alone.
00:57:00.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel and Morocco agreed to normalize relations, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Thursday, marking another advance in U.S.
00:57:08.000efforts to strengthen ties between once hostile nations in the region.
00:57:10.000This is the Wall Street Journal reporting.
00:57:12.000The U.S.-brokered deal was the fourth in four months between Israel and Arab countries that have refused to recognize the nation since it was created in 1948.
00:57:18.000Netanyahu said this will be a very warm peace, adding that Israel and Morocco would quickly set up liaison offices and introduce direct flights between the two countries.
00:57:28.000A Moroccan official didn't comment on any agreements to recognize Israel while welcoming Trump's declaration of Rabat sovereignty over Western Sahara, which is a departure from decades-long U.S.
00:57:58.000If there were any justice in the world, Trump would win the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:58:01.000He's made four separate deals in the Middle East, in an area where no one could make a deal other than America surrendering to Iran over the course of the last 20.
00:58:10.000Naturally, the media make Kamala Harris the person of the year, along with Joe Biden, for being a human on the cover of Time magazine.
00:58:17.000Alrighty, so just to finish this week, I thought that I'd bring back a little bit of Bible talk because, you know, I think that there's some important things to be learned from the world's most important document.
00:58:27.000It is, by numbers, the world's most important document.
00:58:29.000Also, fun statistic, the number one most stolen book on planet Earth is the Bible, which sort of defeats the purpose.
00:58:35.000In any case, The portion of the Bible that the Jews read this week is the portion discussing the Joseph story, the beginning of the Joseph story.
00:58:43.000Anyway, you'll remember that Joseph is the son of Jacob.
00:58:46.000Jacob has 12 sons and Joseph is tossed in a pit by his brothers.
00:58:49.000This is the subject of the musical Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.
00:58:52.000Right, that's the, so Joseph gets tossed in a pit, he's eventually sold to a band of traveling Midianites, he ends up in Egypt, where he ends up in jail, eventually, and then ends up becoming essentially second in command to Pharaoh, after which he reunites with his brothers.
00:59:07.000That's sort of the short form of that particular story.
00:59:09.000But there's another story embedded in the Joseph story that's kind of important.
00:59:11.000The reason it's important is because it discusses one of the other brothers.
00:59:16.000So to understand why this brother is important, you have to understand that in subsequent Jewish history, the kingdom of Israel gets divided.
00:59:23.000If you read the Tanakh in Hebrew, the writings and the prophets in English, What you see is in subsequent Jewish history after King David, there's King Solomon.
00:59:33.000Then after King Solomon, the kingdom starts getting divided, right?
00:59:37.000King Solomon has a son, there's a rebellion against his son, and eventually the kingdom of Israel splits up into the kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah, right?
00:59:44.000This is why Jews are called Jews, right?
01:00:27.000And to understand why that is, we have to understand one specific quality of leadership that Judah has, and that makes it possible for the tribe of Judah to sort of be the leading tribe.
01:00:35.000Because the idea in Jewish thought, and also in Christian thought, is that the leadership of Israel will come from the tribe of Judah.
01:00:40.000Okay, so the story of Judah begins basically when Judah decides that he is going to prevent Joseph from dying by selling him into slavery.
01:00:51.000So what happens is that Joseph has all of these dreams.
01:00:53.000And the dreams seem to suggest that he is going to predominate over his brothers.
01:00:56.000And his brothers are like, this is a threat to us.
01:02:06.000And so they all decide that because they're afraid that Reuben is gonna bear the consequences of Joseph being sold into slavery, that they are going to cover this thing up.
01:02:13.000And they take the dream coat, the Technicolor dream coat, and they put blood on it, and then they go back to Jacob and they say, our brother got killed, and Jacob goes into mourning.
01:02:23.000So that is the first instance that we see of Judah, is that Judah is trying to deflect direct blame from his brothers by suggesting that they sell Joseph into slavery.
01:02:34.000Okay, the second thing, that we see about Judah is this really weird story about his daughter-in-law.
01:02:40.000So Judah, like a little bit later, like right after this in the Bible, it says, at about that time that Judah was demoted by his brothers, that he was now looked upon and scorned by his brothers.
01:02:49.000Like his brothers were angry at him for having done all of this.
01:02:52.000So he turned away and he came to an Adulamite man named Hira.
01:02:55.000And Judah saw the daughter of a merchant named Shuah.
01:02:57.000He took her and he had a couple of kids.
01:02:59.000And then one of his kids marries a woman named Tamar.
01:03:27.000Tamar realizes that he has what is called the loverite obligation.
01:03:31.000And so, actually, Judah, somebody from the family has to marry her, so it ought to be Judah.
01:03:35.000So, in this really bizarre situation, she dresses up as a prostitute on the side of the road, and she has sex with Judah, who doesn't recognize her, and she conceives by him.
01:03:46.000And then, later, he hears that she's pregnant.
01:03:49.000And people come to him and he's like, okay, well, ancient times, death penalty for this sort of thing.
01:04:17.000The answer is that Judah, after creating a whole narrative about Joseph, just so he did not have to take responsibility, and Reuben didn't have to take responsibility, and no one would have to take responsibility, Judah changes.
01:04:54.000And this ends up being the seat of the Davidic line.
01:04:57.000The Davidic line doesn't end up getting started in a very honorable fashion.
01:05:00.000It gets started by the daughter-in-law of a man who's supposed to marry her, acting like a prostitute, literally, on the side of a road, in order to get pregnant by him.
01:05:08.000That is not the way that you would... If you were going to write the history of your nation, this is typically not the way you start writing the history of the most prestigious dynasty in your nation, is with this.
01:05:18.000And Judaism is filled with this sort of stuff, which is one of the reasons I love it.
01:05:21.000It's because Judaism and Old Testament religion is filled with these very shaded and contradictory and inhuman stories of people.
01:05:30.000It is not about whitewashing the past.
01:05:31.000It's about acknowledging the sins of the past and recognizing that out of those sins very often comes something good.
01:05:36.000But the thing about Judah that is unique here is, again, the fact that he accepts responsibility for the bad things that he has done.
01:05:42.000And this becomes the common pattern with Judah, to the point that, when later in the story, he faces Joseph, right?
01:07:02.000When you live in a democracy and you select your leaders, it's up to you to determine what qualities you're looking for, one of the top qualities you should be looking for.
01:07:08.000As Harry Truman once said, is the buck stops here.
01:07:11.000If your leaders are not willing to say that the buck stops with them, and if it appears they are trying to always escape responsibility by blaming somebody else, or blaming the American public, or blaming something else, well then, that person probably should not be the leader.
01:07:23.000Now, if you want to hear a different take on the Texas lawsuit than the one you heard on this show, head on over to Michael Knowles' show right now.