The Ben Shapiro Show - August 22, 2023


Joe Biden’s Hawaiian Crocodile Tears


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

209.69028

Word Count

9,817

Sentence Count

688

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Joe Biden says he has no idea how many kids are missing in the wildfires that have ravaged the Hawaiian island of Maui, but it's not hard to see why he doesn't have an inkling of empathy. Joe Biden is a very selfish creature. He does not see political power as a way to help the little guy, as he pretends. He sees it as a means to help himself and his family, and the people he is most close to. And if that means denying the family name to a 4-year-old, then he'll do that too. But he's been able to get ahead because of this faux, supposedly roguish charm that Joe Biden once had. But as he gets older, all of the layers of charm are worn away. There's nothing left but a bunch of false old family stories that he trots out in lieu of empathy, and it's ugly. When you see it, it's really ugly. And then you start to get a little sympathy for him, and time and time again, he starts to wear a time and place symbol that says, "I m mourning 7." 7. And then he does something called "shavuosha" which means mourning. in Hebrew, it means seven days of mourning. And it's a very formalized, formalized ritual that works in the Jewish community so we do something called an shiva which means something called seven. a day of mourning for someone who has died. or or a that means . And so on and so on, and so that we can remember them and remember them. And so that they can t be mourned. And that s in the coming days, and can be a day to remember them, the day that they to be . And , let me explain why that s a good day, and how they are mourning I m mourning them, and what s a good day an day, and so forth what s a day and so on such etc. So you can check your calendar, as you will see, and check your calendars, as to see as you can see, so you can mark your calendar (as you will be (check your calendar. )


Transcript

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00:00:11.000 So you can check your calendar, as you will see.
00:00:13.000 Today is August 22nd.
00:00:15.000 The fires in Lahaina that actually wiped out the entire town, it may have killed a thousand people.
00:00:20.000 Those wildfires, well, you know, they happened on August 8th.
00:00:24.000 So it is currently almost two weeks beyond the wildfires.
00:00:27.000 I don't know.
00:00:28.000 I wish I knew the answer.
00:00:29.000 I wish I knew the answer to that.
00:00:30.000 I would be happy to answer that.
00:00:32.000 You have no estimate as to how many children are missing?
00:00:34.000 Nothing?
00:00:34.000 he says he has no idea how many kids actually died in these wildfires in Lahaina. Here he was.
00:00:39.000 I don't know. I wish I knew the answer. Yes you do. How many children are missing?
00:00:46.000 You know. If I knew the answer to that, I would be happy to answer that. You have no
00:00:51.000 estimate as to how many children are missing? Nothing? I guess we can end this right now.
00:00:55.000 This is one of the biggest questions that the people of Lahaina have.
00:01:00.000 But you don't want to answer.
00:01:01.000 It always takes one or two to ruin it for everybody.
00:01:04.000 Well, we could say that about you.
00:01:10.000 No idea how many kids are missing.
00:01:12.000 The president of the United States, though, he was on vacation.
00:01:15.000 He was in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
00:01:16.000 And here's how the rules of politics work, gang.
00:01:19.000 If you're the president, and a major natural disaster happens on your watch, and you are apparently not within eyeshot of the thing, then we say that you don't have empathy and that you are very, very bad.
00:01:28.000 This was true of George W. Bush when it came to Hurricane Katrina.
00:01:31.000 It was true of Ted Cruz when it came to freezing temperatures in Texas.
00:01:34.000 And apparently it is not true if you're a Democrat.
00:01:37.000 If you're a Democrat, you can do whatever the hell you want.
00:01:39.000 So Joe Biden went on vacation to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
00:01:41.000 He was asked specifically about the death toll in Lahaina.
00:01:43.000 And he said no comment.
00:01:45.000 And then he rode around on his bike and he had some ice cream and he sat on the beach for like a week.
00:01:49.000 And then he went to Lake Tahoe in Nevada.
00:01:51.000 And he sat there at the mansion of a major donor.
00:01:55.000 And then he took the trouble to finally fly to Maui.
00:01:58.000 Now you would imagine this is when the famed Joe Biden empathy would make its appearance.
00:02:01.000 See, here's the thing about Joe Biden.
00:02:02.000 He's not empathetic.
00:02:04.000 Joe Biden is a very selfish creature.
00:02:05.000 If you look at Joe Biden's entire life history, what you see is that Joe Biden cares chiefly about himself and also about people in his immediate familial circle.
00:02:13.000 He's always been willing to use his power in order to corruptly enrich all of those people, including himself.
00:02:19.000 He does not see political power as a way to, quote-unquote, help the little guy, as he pretends.
00:02:23.000 He sees it as a way to help him and his family and the people he is most close to.
00:02:27.000 And if that means denying the family name to, like, a four-year-old, he'll do that too.
00:02:30.000 But he's been able to get ahead because the media have been able to shield him based on this faux, supposedly roguish charm that Joe Biden once had.
00:02:38.000 Now, I've never seen it.
00:02:39.000 I don't understand why anyone would find Joe Biden charming.
00:02:42.000 But this was the lie about Joe Biden for four decades when, in reality, he's just layers filled with I mean, that is what Joe Biden is.
00:02:52.000 The problem is that as he gets older, all of the layers of charm are worn away.
00:02:57.000 There's nothing left, except a bunch of false old family stories that he trots out in lieu of empathy.
00:03:04.000 It's really quite ugly.
00:03:05.000 When you see it, it's really ugly.
00:03:06.000 The first time, he went to somebody's house and the person had died, a soldier had died, and he talked about Bo.
00:03:12.000 The first time he did that, he got a little bit of sympathy for him.
00:03:15.000 And then, after he did it, time and time and time again, the sympathy started to wear away.
00:03:20.000 Well, this time, he was visiting Lahaina, and he proceeded to tell a story about how he knows what it is like.
00:03:28.000 to lose a home.
00:03:29.000 He knows what it is like.
00:03:30.000 So first of all, let me just, as I've said before, explain how mourning works.
00:03:35.000 In the Jewish community, we have very formalized rituals for mourning.
00:03:37.000 I'm an Orthodox Jew, so we do something called Shiva.
00:03:39.000 Shiva means seven.
00:03:40.000 Seven days after somebody dies, for that seven days, you literally just bring people food, you do all of the minyanim, all of the Jewish prayers that you have to do are done in the home of the mourners, The mourners don't leave their home for a full week.
00:03:54.000 Everybody just comes and visits them.
00:03:55.000 They talk about the person who died.
00:03:57.000 And the first rule if you are a person who is visiting the house of mourning is keep your mouth shut.
00:04:02.000 You don't go and talk about all of your personal experiences because that's awful and selfish.
00:04:05.000 It's actually not empathetic.
00:04:06.000 If you walk into the house of somebody who has died and you start talking about how you know exactly what it's like, how they feel because you also had somebody who died.
00:04:13.000 That is an incredibly arrogant and selfish thing to do.
00:04:15.000 It's like the first rule of visiting a house in mourning.
00:04:18.000 Literally the first rule.
00:04:19.000 Joe Biden breaks that rule.
00:04:20.000 He does it early, he does it often, and then not only does he break the rule, he does it with stories that aren't even related.
00:04:26.000 So, he visits Lahaina, and people had their relatives burned to a crisp in Lahaina.
00:04:32.000 People literally, like, the worst wildfire disaster in modern American history, by a long shot.
00:04:38.000 And Joe Biden's first response is, what if I tell a story about how my house burned down?
00:04:41.000 Now, to understand this story in proper context, what you have to understand is his house didn't burn down.
00:04:46.000 In fact, Joe Biden He's told this story before, and this story is false.
00:04:51.000 What actually happened is that one time there was a small kitchen fire caused by a lightning strike in his home.
00:04:58.000 It was under control in 20 minutes.
00:05:00.000 His house didn't burn down.
00:05:01.000 Nobody was hurt.
00:05:02.000 Nobody died.
00:05:03.000 But to Joe Biden, empathy means pretending that he cares about you while talking about himself.
00:05:08.000 That is the nature of who Joe Biden is.
00:05:09.000 So here was Joe Biden in Lahaina yesterday.
00:05:12.000 I don't want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it's like to lose a home.
00:05:21.000 Years ago, now 15 years ago, I was in Washington doing Meet the Press.
00:05:27.000 It was a sunny Sunday, and lightning struck at home on a little lake that's outside of our home, not a lake, a big pond, and hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating duct, the air conditioning duct.
00:05:45.000 Just like this?
00:05:45.000 To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette, and my cat.
00:05:56.000 But all kidding aside, I watched the firefighters, the way they responded.
00:06:02.000 You know, there's an old expression.
00:06:06.000 I grew up right across the street from a fire hall in Claremont, Delaware.
00:06:11.000 The hell's wrong with this guy?
00:06:12.000 Seriously, what the hell's wrong with him?
00:06:13.000 I mean, aside from his senility.
00:06:15.000 What is wrong with him as a human being?
00:06:16.000 This is not the first time he's trotted this out in the middle of talking about fires.
00:06:20.000 He apparently did it in 2013 also.
00:06:24.000 He also did it apparently in 2022 when he was talking about another wildfire.
00:06:31.000 He's constantly trotting out this story.
00:06:33.000 Okay, a few weeks back, my family, there's a lot of lightning here in the state of Florida, some lightning got grounded near our house and it set a small fire outside of our kitchen.
00:06:42.000 This is a true story.
00:06:44.000 And then it was put out and the firefighters came.
00:06:47.000 We left our house for like an hour.
00:06:48.000 We came back.
00:06:49.000 How's that relevant to Lahaina?
00:06:50.000 It's not.
00:06:51.000 It's not relevant at all because you know what didn't happen?
00:06:53.000 Anything tragic or horrifying.
00:06:57.000 It's not like good story, dude.
00:06:58.000 It's like, what is wrong with you?
00:06:59.000 What is wrong with you?
00:07:01.000 And the reality is that old age strips away all the pretensions.
00:07:05.000 Joe Biden cares about Joe Biden.
00:07:07.000 Everything is refracted through the prism of Joe Biden.
00:07:09.000 He's a person who owns only one surface and it is a mirror, apparently.
00:07:14.000 Because all he cares about is how it affects him, how it affects his family, and what does he have to do so he can go back to vacation to Lake Tahoe?
00:07:20.000 Let's be real about this.
00:07:21.000 What does he really have to do?
00:07:23.000 It's an amazing, amazing clip.
00:07:24.000 And the fact that, like, imagine for a second, I know we play this game all the time, but it's true because the media are corrupt.
00:07:30.000 Imagine if Donald Trump had gone to the site of a wildfire that killed a thousand people, maybe, and talked about how one time he almost lost his car because there was a small kitchen fire in his home.
00:07:42.000 Can you imagine?
00:07:43.000 Now, Joe Biden has done this repeatedly, like over and over and over.
00:07:46.000 And everybody in the media keeps trying to treat him as empathetic old Uncle Joe.
00:07:49.000 He's not empathetic.
00:07:50.000 He's never been empathetic.
00:07:51.000 Joe Biden has always and forever and will forever be about Joe Biden, which is why he has used his personal power for the corrupt purpose of enriching his own family.
00:07:58.000 That is who he is.
00:08:01.000 I mean, beyond that, obviously the guy is ailing.
00:08:03.000 We'll get to that momentarily.
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00:09:11.000 Joe Biden also, you know, obviously is no longer with us.
00:09:14.000 This clip is pretty insane.
00:09:16.000 Here's Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz.
00:09:17.000 He's standing next to Joe Biden as Joe Biden concludes his speech.
00:09:20.000 Joe Biden doesn't know where he is.
00:09:21.000 Joe Biden looks as though he's about to keel over.
00:09:24.000 Here is Brian Schatz gently trying to guide the elderly gentleman away from the podium while offering him water.
00:09:29.000 He is a very kind gentleman.
00:09:39.000 Look at this.
00:09:42.000 My goodness, my goodness.
00:09:44.000 What a country we've created for ourselves.
00:09:46.000 Man, we make great political choices in this country.
00:09:48.000 We really, really do.
00:09:50.000 Well, meanwhile, the Democrats and the media, they have found their angle on the Hawaii wildfire.
00:09:55.000 It is not the incompetence of all the local officials.
00:09:57.000 They're Democrats.
00:09:58.000 We can't talk about their wild incompetence.
00:10:00.000 This, by the way, is true every time there's a natural disaster that strikes a left-wing area of the country.
00:10:04.000 If Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans and the mayor there is just absolutely, if it's Ray Nagin and he's the worst mayor in modern American history, And 10,000 people die because he's a crappy mayor.
00:10:14.000 And the governor is also a Democrat.
00:10:17.000 Well, then you blame the president of the United States and FEMA, obviously.
00:10:20.000 If you are a governor in a northeastern state and a hurricane wipes through your state and floods the place, then you blame climate change.
00:10:28.000 And if you're in Hawaii, you don't blame the emergency management chief who apparently did not sound emergency sirens as wildfires neared Lahaina.
00:10:37.000 We don't blame him.
00:10:38.000 We don't blame any of the people who are in charge of water management and conservation in Hawaii.
00:10:42.000 We don't blame any of the public officials who left a bunch of dry grass out there to burn at extraordinary heat and speed.
00:10:50.000 We don't blame any of those people.
00:10:51.000 Of course we blame climate change.
00:10:52.000 Now, the reality is, in virtually all of these circumstances, when it comes to wildfires, when it comes to hurricanes, when it comes to virtually any natural disaster, There are two issues.
00:11:02.000 One is the actual natural disaster, the size and scope of it.
00:11:05.000 And the other is how the public officials built the place.
00:11:08.000 How public officials exacerbated or mitigated the problem.
00:11:12.000 This is true pretty much everywhere.
00:11:14.000 This is why an earthquake of five magnitude will hit Iran and 10,000 people will die, but an earthquake of five magnitude will hit California and nobody will die because the buildings in California are built better than the buildings in Iran.
00:11:25.000 So public officials actually matter an awful lot in terms of the regulations, in terms of the response.
00:11:29.000 All that stuff matters extraordinarily when it comes to particularly natural disasters.
00:11:34.000 Like this is the one thing they have to be pretty good at.
00:11:37.000 In Hawaii, they were really bad at it, which is why a thousand people died.
00:11:40.000 The chief, Herman Andaya, submitted his resignation citing health reasons, according to county officials.
00:11:45.000 A day earlier at a news conference, Andaya defended the decision not to activate the sirens, saying the outdoor alarms are used primarily for tsunamis and would not have helped people because people are trained to seek higher ground when they hear the siren.
00:11:56.000 Well, I mean, everybody would have at least looked around and gone, oh crap, a giant fire coming down the hill.
00:12:03.000 So, his resignation was accepted.
00:12:05.000 Again, this follows hard on the fact that we now know that the water was not released into the area until too late.
00:12:12.000 But, as we say, when it comes to media narrative, somebody else has to be blamed.
00:12:16.000 It can't be the local Democratic officials.
00:12:18.000 That cannot be allowed.
00:12:18.000 And it can't be the president for a lackluster response or no comment while he sits on Rehoboth Beach.
00:12:23.000 It can't be that.
00:12:25.000 It must be climate change.
00:12:26.000 So, this is the narrative they're going to go with.
00:12:28.000 Hawaii Governor Josh Green, who is the governor of the state where this occurred, he says climate change is the real problem here.
00:12:34.000 When you're talking about global warming, are you saying that climate change amplified the cost of human error?
00:12:44.000 Yes, it did.
00:12:45.000 There's always going to be incredible things that people do to save lives from the firefighters, from citizens, and there's always going to be decisions that are made that I'm sure aren't perfect in the moment.
00:13:01.000 But when you have fire that moved more than a mile a minute, And what happened, I'm told by some of the survivors, they were at the initial fire.
00:13:10.000 It was put out sometime late in the afternoon in Lahaina.
00:13:13.000 And then the firefighters had to go to three other fires that had started because of the conditions.
00:13:19.000 When they left, the fire stirred up again.
00:13:22.000 And then when the storm winds from Dora, which were that strong, swept it out, it just destroyed everything.
00:13:32.000 It was the climate change, you see.
00:13:33.000 It was all about the climate change.
00:13:34.000 You can expect the Earth gradually warming over the course of the next hundred years or so.
00:13:37.000 Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz, he did the same exact stuff.
00:13:39.000 This is the new normal.
00:13:40.000 The new normal is a thousand people dying in Lahaina, apparently.
00:13:44.000 Senator, what do you think the most important specific lessons are that can be learned from this to make sure a tragedy of this level does not happen again?
00:13:57.000 Well, I think we all have to understand that severe weather events are going to get more frequent and more severe.
00:14:06.000 Hawaii is a place that has experienced volcanic eruptions and tsunamis and hurricanes and tropical storms, and we've had a few wildfires, but nothing This is the new normal, guys.
00:14:18.000 It's just cities getting flattened by wildfires.
00:14:22.000 And I just think this is the new normal for not just the state of Hawaii,
00:14:26.000 but for the whole planet, for the whole country. So.
00:14:28.000 This is the new normal, guys. It's just cities getting flattened by wildfires. Jay Inslee,
00:14:34.000 the governor of Washington, who's been big on the carbon limitation bandwagon for years now, he did the exact same
00:14:39.000 thing. He said, well, the big issue is we need to decarbonize. Yeah, you need to
00:14:43.000 stop driving that car of yours is the real. There's a giant wildfire that killed a thousand
00:14:46.000 people in a high note because you have been using your car too much, guys, your fault. Because the
00:14:52.000 fact of the matter is there's a beast at our door and that's the beast of climate change.
00:14:58.000 It seems like the whole world is on fire.
00:14:59.000 We need to defend ourselves from climate change.
00:15:02.000 We need to decarbonize our economy so these fires don't ravage us.
00:15:07.000 There's not enough fire trucks in the world to protect us if we don't stop climate change.
00:15:14.000 Oh.
00:15:14.000 It's all climate change.
00:15:16.000 Okay, there's only one problem.
00:15:17.000 It's not climate change.
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00:16:23.000 Okay, so.
00:16:25.000 Is climate change causing all of this?
00:16:26.000 The answer is no.
00:16:27.000 It is not.
00:16:27.000 You know who says that?
00:16:29.000 The Washington Post.
00:16:30.000 Even the Washington Post is like, no, this is actually not climate change.
00:16:35.000 Jeff Masters, meteorologist for Yale Climate Connection says, if you add together a whole bunch of influences, that's how you get a disaster.
00:16:40.000 No one thing makes it happen.
00:16:42.000 The links between human-caused climate change and fires are well established because global warming means plants can more easily dry out.
00:16:48.000 But there's one other issue, which is that in Hawaii, it's also meant more rain.
00:16:54.000 One of the things that's happened is increased humidity in Hawaii.
00:16:59.000 Some immediate analysis of the winds observed in Hawaii have found Dora's presence may have only increased the gust speed by about five miles per hour, which is not sufficient to explain what exactly happened here.
00:17:08.000 The hurricane and its intensity were certainly not the main effect fueling the fires.
00:17:13.000 As for the drought conditions that covered more than a third of Maui County, where the most destructive fires burn, there's no direct sign they're a product of climate change, said Abby Frazier, an affiliate faculty member at University of Hawaii.
00:17:22.000 While there's a long-term trend of declining precipitation in Hawaii, there isn't enough evidence to suggest this is the product of anything besides normal climate patterns and fluctuations in the Pacific, she said.
00:17:31.000 Precipitation patterns that are heavily influenced by El Nino, which returned in June, and by a longer-term pattern known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
00:17:38.000 El Nino is known for bringing drier winters, but its arrival doesn't explain the current conditions, said Fraser.
00:17:43.000 In the summer, it can bring more precipitation than normal.
00:17:47.000 So natural variability is just really strong in Hawaii.
00:17:51.000 So what exactly caused it?
00:17:52.000 Well, I mean, part of it is the fire-prone grasses and invasive species that have been brought onto the island in order to allow for grazing.
00:18:00.000 Some of it is failures of local public officials.
00:18:03.000 But here is the beauty.
00:18:04.000 When you're a Democratic local official, you can always have the media available to explain away your problems by blaming, you know, the Earth.
00:18:11.000 What a wonderful, what a wonderful privilege to be a Democrat.
00:18:13.000 It's the sun.
00:18:15.000 It's the Earth.
00:18:16.000 It's carbon.
00:18:17.000 It's life, man.
00:18:18.000 It's not you sucking at your job.
00:18:20.000 Ever, ever, ever.
00:18:21.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of people who are sucking at their job, the President of the United States continues to preside over an economy that is really, really on the verge of something quite bad.
00:18:30.000 Treasury yields continue to climb, meaning the price of bonds is going down.
00:18:34.000 That's how you end up with a higher treasury yield, right?
00:18:36.000 Because the way that a yield works is that it is the difference between the facial price of the bond and the return on the bond.
00:18:42.000 So that means that people are still investing in the stock market, but it's kind of weird because the so-called inverted yield curve continues to predominate.
00:18:51.000 The 10-year yield closed at 4.339%, above the nearly 16-year high it set last Thursday.
00:18:57.000 Rising yields have weighed on stocks, with all three major indices logging losses last week.
00:19:03.000 The route in bonds has been led by longer-term treasuries.
00:19:05.000 In other words, people are not trusting that the government may be able to pay back those bonds, or they are very doubtful about the state of the long-term economy.
00:19:16.000 Meanwhile, car prices are about to take a nosedive.
00:19:19.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, five years ago, there were a dozen models of new cars selling for less than $20,000.
00:19:22.000 In 2023, there was only one.
00:19:26.000 For the average American, paying off a new car at current prices demands 42 weeks of income.
00:19:30.000 And so you're about to see the prices nosedive when it comes to cars.
00:19:33.000 You're also seeing hiring slow down pretty significantly.
00:19:37.000 Pay for new hires is declining significantly.
00:19:40.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, pay for new hires is starting to shrivel after years of hefty salary bumps requiring workers to reset while financial gains to expect from switching to a new job.
00:19:49.000 Again, the red lights are all blinking at this point.
00:19:53.000 The only question is when the economy is going to tip.
00:19:57.000 You have to feel, if you watch the economy on a daily basis, that what goes up must come down.
00:20:02.000 And the effects of an inflationary economy and a stagnating economy with little innovation, with little investment, Those wages are going to come due pretty fast right here.
00:20:12.000 Which means, as I've said 1,000 times, Joe Biden is a very, very vulnerable incumbent.
00:20:17.000 He's not with us.
00:20:17.000 He's unempathetic.
00:20:18.000 He's a nasty, corrupt person.
00:20:20.000 And he's presiding over a bad economy.
00:20:22.000 What does that mean?
00:20:23.000 Well, we'll find out what Republicans do this week when they have their first debate.
00:20:26.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.
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00:21:31.000 So, the big Republican debate is supposed to happen on Wednesday.
00:21:35.000 By polling data, Americans, particularly Republicans, would love Trump to participate in the debate.
00:21:40.000 He's not going to.
00:21:42.000 According to the latest polling data, some 73% of Americans in the Republican Party would like to see Trump join the debate.
00:21:51.000 27% agreed with Trump that he should sit it out.
00:21:55.000 But only 9% of voters said they would like Trump's opponents to place an emphasis on making the case against Donald Trump.
00:22:00.000 So very few people are going to be watching that debate hoping that somebody attacks Donald Trump.
00:22:04.000 That basically is going to be Chris Christie's job, right?
00:22:07.000 This is his designated lane in the Republican primary, whatever that exists.
00:22:10.000 Now, he is showing in polls in New Hampshire, by the way.
00:22:13.000 Now, Christie is running very weak in Iowa.
00:22:16.000 But right now, according to the latest poll I've seen from New Hampshire, he's showing at 14% in New Hampshire, which is his best poll showing yet.
00:22:22.000 Christie, for his part, is attacking Trump with alacrity, suggesting that Trump is a coward.
00:22:26.000 He's a coward.
00:22:28.000 There's no other conclusion to come to that he's both afraid of me and he's afraid of defending his record.
00:22:34.000 And if I had his record, I'd be nervous about showing up, too.
00:22:37.000 I mean, let's face it, guys.
00:22:39.000 By Wednesday, he's going to be out on bail in four different jurisdictions.
00:22:44.000 That really?
00:22:45.000 When are we going to stop thinking that's normal?
00:22:47.000 What if we allow our country to understand again that nominating someone who's out on bail in four jurisdictions is not a winning formula?
00:22:57.000 Okay, so, Christie presumably will make that case at the debate.
00:23:03.000 And it'll be interesting to see how people on the stage respond to all that.
00:23:05.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are just rooting for casualties on the stage, according to the New York Times.
00:23:09.000 After a year of fretting about President Biden's political standing and their electoral chances in 2024, Democrats are at a moment of high confidence.
00:23:16.000 As Republicans prepare for their first presidential debate on Wednesday, they'll be watching with bated breath in the hopes that the Republican candidates embrace the likely-to-be-absent Donald J. Trump, defend him over his four criminal indictments, endorse national restrictions on abortion, and call for cuts to Social Security and Medicare in Democrats' dream scenario.
00:23:31.000 Even without Trump on stage, Democrats see the Republican White House hopefuls as avatars for what they describe as a party enthrall to its extreme elements.
00:23:39.000 Nobody is rooting for the debate to go off the rails more than Democrats praying for Mr. Biden's re-election.
00:23:43.000 Well, because they are rooting for casualties, it is worthwhile noting how many of them are pushing rivals to Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida.
00:23:48.000 The polls right now show that DeSantis is trailing Trump by a lot.
00:23:49.000 continue to double down on a six week abortion ban, that'd be wonderful.
00:23:52.000 Thank you for doing this.
00:23:53.000 Well, because they are rooting for casualties, it is worthwhile noting how many of them
00:23:57.000 are pushing rivals to governor Ron DeSantis in Florida.
00:24:02.000 The polls right now show that DeSantis is trailing Trump by a lot.
00:24:07.000 There is some evidence that in Iowa, there's life left in DeSantis.
00:24:12.000 According to the latest polling data in Iowa, the Trump campaign is doing slightly worse in Iowa
00:24:21.000 than theoretically they should be.
00:24:22.000 Jay Ann Selzer, the famed Iowa pollster who put out some new numbers in Iowa, it shows that Trump right now is at 43%.
00:24:29.000 Meanwhile, DeSantis is at 19%.
00:24:35.000 Selzer says that the findings indicate the race is closer than it may first seem.
00:24:38.000 That's because in the Iowa caucuses, a voter's second place choice matters.
00:24:41.000 So let's say that you are Ron DeSantis, you're the first choice of 19% of the people, and then you vote for Tim Scott, and Tim Scott is not one of the top two.
00:24:49.000 And that means that you are going to now get a boost, right?
00:24:51.000 Because let's say that you chose Tim Scott and then DeSantis, and then Scott's vote gets tossed out, it's ranked choice voting, and then that second choice vote goes to DeSantis.
00:24:58.000 So theoretically, DeSantis could be the winner in Iowa.
00:25:02.000 The Des Moines Register notes 63% of likely GOP caucus goers say they support Trump as their first or second choice.
00:25:07.000 That footprint is on par with 61% who say the same for DeSantis.
00:25:12.000 Also, half of Republicans in that Iowa poll are saying their minds are not yet made up.
00:25:16.000 So, what do the media have an interest in?
00:25:17.000 They have an interest in fragmenting the field, obviously.
00:25:19.000 The more the field is fragmented, if they believe that Trump is the best person for them to run against, which seems pretty evident, then their interest is in propping up other people who are not DeSantis.
00:25:28.000 Well, right now, the candidate of the moment who is not DeSantis is Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:25:32.000 This presumably is why Kevin Madden, no friend to Republicans, he's a former senior advisor to Mitt Romney, who appears on MSNBC regularly, he says that Vivek is the person with the highest potential on the stage on Wednesday.
00:25:47.000 Who are you watching, Kevin?
00:25:48.000 I mean, you have a fine-tuned eye to all these different candidates and who has potential people aren't paying attention to.
00:25:53.000 You know, I think the greatest potential for this debate comes from Vivek Ramaswamy because if you look at his rapid-fire approach and you look at how he really crystallizes his message in all of his cable TV interviews, at the end of the day these debates are television performances.
00:26:10.000 And so his ability to really crystallize his message and deliver that message and make people think, wow, this is a fighter.
00:26:16.000 This is somebody who is going to take the fight to the Democrats and the perceived excesses of the left as hard as anybody up there.
00:26:24.000 That, I think, probably has the greatest potential for tomorrow night.
00:26:29.000 And meanwhile, David Axelrod is also propping up Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:26:33.000 Let's be real about this.
00:26:34.000 Vivek is not going to be president of the United States this election cycle.
00:26:38.000 In fact, there's an article out today suggesting that Vivek basically ran in order to act as a stalking horse for Trump.
00:26:45.000 This is according to a report from ABC News.
00:26:49.000 Ramaswamy, two donors, pitched himself as a candidate who could make serious waves in the Republican primary meeting.
00:26:53.000 When met with some skepticism, Ramaswamy argued his candidacy could also dissuade Governor Sanchez from entering the race.
00:26:58.000 In the lead up to his announcement, Ramaswamy would tell several other conservative activists he believed that if he ran, it could stop DeSantis from running or impact his viability as a candidate if he did enter the race.
00:27:10.000 It is worth noting that if Vivek really were gaining in the polls, like against Donald Trump, you'd imagine Donald Trump would have nicknamed him already, right?
00:27:15.000 Donald Trump has never been shy about going after people he considers to be rivals.
00:27:19.000 Instead, all he has is warm words for Vivek.
00:27:22.000 So do Democrats.
00:27:23.000 Which, again, I know Vivek.
00:27:25.000 I'm friends with Vivek.
00:27:26.000 Very nice guy.
00:27:27.000 Has a lot of interesting ideas.
00:27:28.000 But it says something when David Axelrod is praising you to the skies.
00:27:32.000 Interesting thing about that to me was the reference to Ramaswamy, who started off as an unknown and has proven himself to be a much more effective culture warrior than DeSantis himself.
00:27:45.000 And, you know, going after the woke and so on.
00:27:50.000 He's just been much more compelling at it.
00:27:54.000 Yeah, just again, Democrats are propping up the vague.
00:27:59.000 Meanwhile, by the way, the vague is, you know, he's stepped on his toes a few times here, but it's not getting the sort of national attention that his positive spin is getting right now.
00:28:10.000 For example, the Washington Examiner has an entire article about the vague's flip flops on a wide variety of issues.
00:28:16.000 According to the writer Gabe Kaminsky, he says Ramaswamy, an ex-pharmaceutical executive who rose to prominence following the publication of his 2021 book Woke Inc.
00:28:24.000 Inside Corporate America's Social Justice, is pulling in third place in the GOP primary behind DeSantis, who himself is clocking in at double digits behind former President Donald Trump.
00:28:34.000 Ramaswamy has sought to position himself as an outsider, but the reality is that, again, he has been on all sides of a variety of issues.
00:28:45.000 The Republican told the New York Post in mid-August he'd be open to evaluating pardons for members of the Biden family in the interest of moving the nation forward if you're elected president.
00:28:52.000 And then he declared, no, I don't have any plans to pardon Hunter Biden.
00:28:54.000 It's planted trash.
00:28:55.000 When you strike the swamp, the swamp strikes back.
00:28:57.000 When Fox News ran a story two days later in August with the headline, Ramaswamy breaks with GOP on decriminalization of hard drugs, quote, I'm in that direction.
00:29:05.000 Or he said, quote, I think in the long run, I'm talking about over the long run period of time, decriminalization seriously is an important part of the long run solution here.
00:29:11.000 Ramaswamy also labeled that planted trash.
00:29:16.000 Again, he has flip-flopped on foreign policy.
00:29:19.000 Two months ago, he denied to the Washington Free Beacon he was open to ending military financial support to Israel after the outlet cited footage from the campaign trail where he reportedly expressed a contrary view.
00:29:29.000 And then he said that it was false reporting in June.
00:29:32.000 And then it was reported that it was a misunderstanding.
00:29:34.000 And then he told the outlet on Saturday that he now supports phasing out most aid to Israel by 2028.
00:29:41.000 He has said that he is open to basically moving microchip production out of Taiwan, semiconductor independence.
00:29:47.000 He said, after that, our commitments to Taiwan, our commitments to be willing to go to military conflict will change because that's rationally in our self-interest.
00:29:54.000 So again, Vivek is a super smart guy, Vivek, no question.
00:29:59.000 But the notion that he's running a fully consistent campaign, not so much.
00:30:02.000 And of course, he's been flirting a little bit with some interesting theories.
00:30:07.000 Shall we say?
00:30:08.000 So he did an interview with The Atlantic.
00:30:10.000 Now, listen, full credit to Vivek for going into unfriendly media spaces and speaking to people who other candidates will not speak to.
00:30:16.000 I mean, he gets full credit for this.
00:30:18.000 Vivek also did say, apparently, to The Atlantic, he said, quote,
00:30:22.000 I think it's legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents were on the planes that
00:30:25.000 hit the Twin Towers. Maybe the answer is zero. It probably is zero for all I know, right? I have no
00:30:29.000 reason to think there's anything other than zero. But if we're doing a comprehensive assessment of
00:30:32.000 what happened on 9-11, we have a 9-11 commission.
00:30:34.000 Absolutely, that should be an answer. The public knows the answer, too. Well, if we are doing a January 6th
00:30:39.000 commission, absolutely, those should be questions we should get to the bottom of.
00:30:42.000 Here are the people who are armed.
00:30:43.000 Here are the people who are unarmed.
00:30:44.000 What percentage of people who are armed were federal law enforcement officers?
00:30:47.000 I think it was probably high, actually, right?
00:30:48.000 And then he said, I would take the truth on 9-11.
00:30:50.000 I'm not questioning.
00:30:51.000 It's not something I'm staking out anything on.
00:30:53.000 I want the truth about 9-11.
00:30:54.000 Which is, again, very kind of weird take.
00:30:57.000 I don't know what he means by this.
00:31:00.000 In any case, these would be gaffes where if DeSantis said it, it would be a major media story, Vivek is saying it and it's sort of kind of flying under the radar.
00:31:06.000 Because the media have a stake in a very competitive primary that does not include Trump.
00:31:10.000 They have a stake in Trump running at 50% and everyone else being at like 14 or 15%.
00:31:14.000 I am glad to see that in the run-up to the RNC debate, Now, finally, the Fox News has informed the Trump campaign that surrogates for Trump will not be allowed to attend the first Republican debate.
00:31:28.000 The barring of Trump's surrogates, according to the New York Post from Wednesday's debate, comes one day after Trump confirmed he would not participate in the event.
00:31:34.000 The Post has confirmed surrogates for any candidate who did not make the stage will not be allowed at the debate or at least in the spin room.
00:31:39.000 It's not a Trump-specific ban.
00:31:41.000 The ex-commander-in-chief's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., said he'd be attending the showdown as a surrogate for his father.
00:31:45.000 Kimberly Guilfoyle was also expected to show up at the event and run media for the former president.
00:31:50.000 So, too, were Carrie Lake, Byron Donald, Matt Gaetz.
00:31:53.000 They'd all been planning to attend, apparently.
00:31:56.000 Apparently, they're still going to go to the event.
00:31:59.000 They're working on a resolution with Fox News and the RNC to be allowed in the post-debate spin room.
00:32:03.000 But the truth is, they shouldn't be allowed in the spin room, either.
00:32:04.000 I mean, the only people allowed in the spin room should be surrogates for the people who actually did the debate.
00:32:09.000 Pretty obviously.
00:32:10.000 Because otherwise, why would anyone go to a bait?
00:32:11.000 It seems like a mistake to go to any debate.
00:32:14.000 Just don't go to a bait.
00:32:15.000 Send a couple of your surrogates to like rip on everybody in the spin room.
00:32:18.000 That's the easiest way out.
00:32:19.000 So hopefully Fox News and the RNC find some testicles and deny Trump's surrogates the ability to get in the spin room.
00:32:26.000 Because again, the spin room is for the people who play the game.
00:32:30.000 It's very bizarre to have surrogates for a person who is explicitly denying the importance of the debate in the spin room to just crap all over all the other candidates.
00:32:37.000 And meanwhile, speaking of President Trump, he is slated to turn himself in in Fulton County, Georgia on these Fannie Willis RICO charges.
00:32:45.000 He's expected to do that the day after the debate.
00:32:46.000 Again, the timing is impeccable.
00:32:48.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.
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00:34:42.000 Okay, meanwhile, Well, if you're Donald Trump and there's a great way for you to, you know, quash all talk about a debate where you're not going to be, here's a great way.
00:34:50.000 Show up for your arrest in Fulton County, Georgia.
00:34:52.000 So, again, dude has impeccable timing.
00:34:54.000 You have to say that Donald Trump knows how to work a camera.
00:34:56.000 That is for damn sure.
00:34:57.000 So according to CNN, Donald Trump plans to turn himself in and be processed at the Fulton County Jail on Thursday following his agreement earlier Monday to a $200,000 bond and other release conditions.
00:35:07.000 I'll be going to Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday to be arrested, Trump wrote on Truth Social.
00:35:12.000 So apparently, several co-defendants in the Georgia racketeering case have also agreed to the terms of their bond agreements with the DA's office.
00:35:17.000 Trump's lawyers, Jennifer Little, Drew Feining, and Marissa Goldberg, met with the DA's office on Monday before the details of the bond agreement were released.
00:35:24.000 Other Trump lawyers have been working behind the scenes on the approach to the bond.
00:35:27.000 The release conditions outlined in Trump's bond order are more extensive than those laid out in the others approved earlier Monday in the case.
00:35:33.000 According to the judge, quote, the defendant shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him or her to be a co-defendant or witness in this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.
00:35:42.000 The above shall include but are not limited to posts on social media or repost of posts made by another individual on social media.
00:35:47.000 So in other words.
00:35:48.000 If Donald Trump retweets something threatening Rudy Giuliani or ripping on Rudy Giuliani or something, then theoretically they could haul him back to jail.
00:35:56.000 They could say you have violated your bond.
00:35:59.000 So his team is saying this is a violation of free speech.
00:36:01.000 I should be allowed to say basically what I want because your interpretation of intimidation of witness might just be my open and honest take on what's going on with co-defendants.
00:36:09.000 That seems like fairly reasonable actually.
00:36:12.000 This is the highest bond of any of the defendants, which again is sort of strange, given the fact that Donald Trump is the least likely person in human history to abscond from justice.
00:36:21.000 I don't know.
00:36:22.000 I don't even understand the logic that Donald Trump is going to be running away from the country.
00:36:29.000 What is it?
00:36:29.000 What is even happening?
00:36:31.000 It's so funny.
00:36:33.000 And so Donald Trump actually put out what was a very, very funny statement on this.
00:36:40.000 He said, The failed District Attorney of Fulton County, Fannie Willis, insisted on a $200,000 bond from me.
00:36:46.000 I assume, therefore, she thought I was a flight risk.
00:36:47.000 I'd fly far, far away.
00:36:49.000 Maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:36:50.000 Share a gold-domed suite with Vladimir.
00:36:52.000 Never to be seen or heard from again.
00:36:53.000 Would I be able to take my very understated airplane with the gold Trump affixed for all to see?
00:36:58.000 Probably not.
00:36:59.000 I'd be much better offline commercial.
00:37:00.000 I'm sure nobody would recognize me.
00:37:05.000 I will admit, dude's funny.
00:37:06.000 I mean, you gotta say this, Donald Trump is a funny, funny man.
00:37:09.000 That is some funny stuff right there.
00:37:10.000 So, you know, Donald Trump, obviously him showing up in court in Atlanta is going to be the coverage of the day.
00:37:17.000 So it almost doesn't matter what happens in the Republican debate, barring some sort of cataclysmic circumstance.
00:37:21.000 Meanwhile, as we say in the polls, Trump continues to lead by leaps and bounds.
00:37:25.000 The latest South Carolina poll has, from Trafalgar, has Trump up 34 percentage points on the rest of the field.
00:37:31.000 He's still leading by some 20-some percentage points in Iowa.
00:37:34.000 He's still leading the rest of the field in New Hampshire by 20-some percentage points.
00:37:37.000 Dude has a big lead.
00:37:39.000 Now, that's not stopping Trump from attacking other Republicans.
00:37:41.000 I don't even mean like other candidates.
00:37:43.000 I mean just other Republicans generally, right?
00:37:46.000 Right now, he's attacking Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia, which he's tried this before.
00:37:52.000 Kemp got re-elected over Stacey Abrams, the true governor of Georgia.
00:37:57.000 He got reelected over her by crushing her.
00:38:00.000 To Trump's great dismay, by the way, I mean, Trump tried to actually primary Brian Kemp.
00:38:03.000 Well, now he's attacking Brian Kemp for not firing Fannie Willis, which again, like he doesn't have the power to do.
00:38:12.000 He says, Governor Kemp of Georgia is fighting hard against the impeachment of the crooked, incompetent, highly partisan DA of Fulton County, Fannie Willis, who has allowed murder and other violent crime to massively escalate.
00:38:20.000 Crime in Atlanta is worst in nation.
00:38:22.000 She should be impeached for many reasons, not just the witch hunt.
00:38:24.000 I did nothing wrong!
00:38:26.000 Willis should focus on out-of-control murder, not I will get Trump over a perfect phone call.
00:38:30.000 Georgia does not deserve this giant murder wave.
00:38:34.000 Um, so, I don't understand why that's Brian Kemp's fault.
00:38:38.000 There's not even a majority support in the state legislature to impeach Fannie Willis at this point.
00:38:42.000 But, yeah, again, it's free fire in every direction from President Trump, as always.
00:38:47.000 Now, one of the things that the multiple indictments of Trump continue to underscore is that Joe Biden gets away with pretty much anything.
00:38:54.000 Like, anything and everything, all the time.
00:38:57.000 It's pretty incredible.
00:38:58.000 And the media continued to cover him.
00:38:59.000 Bakari Sellers, he says, you know, there's no evidence that Joe had anything to do with Hunter's business.
00:39:05.000 Obviously untrue.
00:39:06.000 How much more evidence do you need?
00:39:08.000 Hunter literally says it.
00:39:10.000 We have a secret email address of Joe's to Hunter on Ukraine Matters.
00:39:13.000 We have partners of Hunter Biden openly testifying that Joe was involved in Hunter's business to the extent that he would stop by meetings and phone into them.
00:39:22.000 I don't understand.
00:39:24.000 What nature of evidence would you require at this point?
00:39:28.000 Democrats are saying if Hunter Biden committed a crime, hold him accountable.
00:39:32.000 But to addiction touches every single family in this country or the overwhelming majority thereof.
00:39:40.000 And this is a very interesting needle that Republicans are trying to thread.
00:39:46.000 By persecuting someone with an addiction.
00:39:48.000 If while having this addiction he committed crimes, then punish him.
00:39:52.000 But there's literally no evidence that this ties back to the President of the United States.
00:39:57.000 And I think that whataboutism is going to fall flat as we head into this election.
00:40:03.000 Persecuting a man with an addiction?
00:40:05.000 Persecuting a man with, like, is it?
00:40:07.000 Did you know that Hunter Biden is a victim?
00:40:09.000 Do you know he's a lifelong victim, Hunter Biden?
00:40:11.000 I mean, sure, every job he's ever held is because his daddy was either a senator or vice president of the United States or president of the United States.
00:40:17.000 Sure, he's made millions of dollars being a useless, derelict, drug addict piece of crap, but he's a victim, guys.
00:40:24.000 He's a drug addict, and we should all feel super duper duper bad for him.
00:40:27.000 It's amazing how the words white privilege that Bakari Sellers is eager to utter under virtually every circumstance.
00:40:33.000 Let's just go absent when we talk about the greatest scion of white privilege in modern American history, Hunter Biden.
00:40:39.000 Meanwhile, by the way, Hunter Biden's legal team is targeting, wait for it, the IRS whistleblowers.
00:40:43.000 Remember the IRS whistleblowers who blew up his sweetheart deal?
00:40:45.000 Well now, apparently, according to the New York Times, while Mr. Biden's legal team agrees that IRS agents affected the deal, his lawyers have contended to the Justice Department that by disclosing details about the investigation to Congress, they broke the law and it should be prosecuted.
00:40:57.000 A team of lawyers for one of the IRS agents said in a statement, it appears that if it weren't for the courageous actions of these whistleblowers, who had nothing to gain and everything to lose, Hunter Biden never would have been charged at all.
00:41:06.000 So Hunter Biden's lawyers, obviously, in revenge, are now attempting to go after the whistleblowers.
00:41:10.000 That's pretty great.
00:41:10.000 Meanwhile, other legal problems surrounding Joe Biden's campaign.
00:41:14.000 According to the Washington Free Beacon and Andrew Kerr, President Joe Biden's favorite super PAC has a $12 million gap in its financial disclosures, according to a Washington Free Beacon investigation, prompting legal experts to call for immediate investigations into the troubling discrepancy.
00:41:26.000 Future Forward, which the Biden White House has endorsed as the preeminent super PAC supporting the president's reelection bid, in 2021 claimed it received just $3.4 million in cash from its affiliated dark money group.
00:41:36.000 But that group, non-profit Future Forward USA Action, reported in its 2021 IRS tax return it provided $15.3 million to the Super PAC that year.
00:41:45.000 That's missing $12 million.
00:41:47.000 That should start a federal probe, you would imagine.
00:41:50.000 The group is led by former Obama campaign officials.
00:41:52.000 It has quietly raised nearly $400 million in the past five years to run ads supporting Biden and Democrats in battleground states.
00:42:00.000 So we will see where all of that money went.
00:42:03.000 Again, more corruption associated with the Biden campaign, for sure.
00:42:07.000 And as we say, Joe Biden, an unsympathetic elderly gentleman, following up on the fact that he goes to Hawaii and talks about how one time his kitchen got set on fire and his Corvette almost got burned.
00:42:19.000 Apparently, a Gold Star mom who met President Biden on the Memorial Day following her son's death from the terrorist attack at Kabul Airport, according to Daily Wire, said that Biden responded by suggesting she take a photo with him when she wept during their meeting.
00:42:30.000 That is, um, the most empathetic thing I've ever heard, I think.
00:42:34.000 She said, there's been a lot of grief.
00:42:35.000 There's nothing like watching your child's eye in front of you, in front of the world.
00:42:38.000 She recalled when she met Biden, he said, I can understand if you're angry.
00:42:41.000 I stood face to face with him, eyeball to eyeball, and began to weep.
00:42:43.000 She added, saying, it should never have happened this way.
00:42:46.000 He stood there stoically, she remembered, nothing out of his mouth except, well, would you like to get a photo with me?
00:42:51.000 Apparently, she told Biden the only picture she would take with him is if he stood with her at her son's tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery.
00:42:57.000 Biden said, I can't do that because Secret Service won't let me.
00:43:01.000 Ah, Joe Biden.
00:43:02.000 He is just the best.
00:43:03.000 He is just the best.
00:43:04.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:43:07.000 So, things that I like.
00:43:09.000 So, Richman, north of Richman, has now debuted at number one at the top of the Billboard charts, despite the media's rage over an unknown musician becoming a very, very famous person for writing a song that is very critical of the governmental left.
00:43:24.000 It's doing really, really well.
00:43:26.000 Now, again, it is amazing how everybody's in favor of a rags-to-riches story in music, so long as it's not, you know, an out-of-work minor.
00:43:31.000 If it's an out-of-work minor, like a person who mines the earth, then that person's bad, and we should have no sympathy for this person.
00:43:38.000 According to the New York Times, Richmond, north of Richmond, an independently released track by a little-known performer billed as Oliver Anthony Music, became the number one song in the United States to top hits by superstars like Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, and Olivia Rodrigo.
00:43:50.000 The song was uploaded to YouTube just two weeks ago.
00:43:53.000 It caught fire with conservative commentators, including Matt Walsh and Laura Ingraham, who described it as an authentic expression of working class struggle.
00:43:59.000 Though some critics winced at anti-welfare sentiment that seemed to hark back to the Reagan era.
00:44:03.000 Oh my God, you're not allowed to be anti-welfare, guys.
00:44:05.000 Stop being anti-welfare or we're not going to allow you...
00:44:08.000 A working-class person to have a successful song.
00:44:11.000 You have to be pro-welfare in order for this to work.
00:44:13.000 Or, presumably, you have to cut a song about the magic of transgenderism or something.
00:44:17.000 That is the best way to get a song to hit number one and be feeded by the New York Times at the same time.
00:44:23.000 Rich Men shoots to the top of Billboard's Hot 100 single chart with 17.5 million streams and 147,000 downloads according to Tracking Service Illuminate.
00:44:30.000 After Jason Aldean's Try That in a Small Town, it is the second country song in less than a month to reach number one after stirring political controversy and sparking download sales.
00:44:39.000 It's also the first time that an artist has ever made a debut at number one on the Hot 100 without any prior chart history in any form.
00:44:46.000 So that is, again, it shows that when conservatives and people who are not in the cultural mainstream flex their market power, they are able to make an outsized cultural influence.
00:44:56.000 The song is certainly worth the listen.
00:44:59.000 If you recall back to the early days of Trumpism, it's really kind of fascinating.
00:45:02.000 Think back to like 2015, 2016, when Trump was really gaining a lot of street credence and credibility and he was picking up huge support.
00:45:09.000 There were all these pieces after Trump won in 2017 about like, who are these people who voted for Trump?
00:45:15.000 Reporters from big cities into the wilds of like Iowa to discuss with the regular folk.
00:45:21.000 As though they were Steve Irwin checking out some strange form of kangaroo.
00:45:26.000 What exactly these weirdos thought?
00:45:28.000 And they wanted to know for a moment, for a brief moment in time.
00:45:30.000 This is when books like J.D.
00:45:32.000 Vance's Hillbilly Elegy started making inroads, where people were like, oh, maybe these people think differently than we do.
00:45:37.000 Maybe they have certain moral values that we don't hold.
00:45:39.000 Maybe they are afraid of the peculiar morality that we are bringing to them that suggests that men can be women, women can be men, and that basically individual subjectivism is the height of human experience.
00:45:51.000 And then it all went away.
00:45:53.000 Then it all went away.
00:45:53.000 Within about six months, it was like, no, no, no.
00:45:55.000 Trump won because of Russia.
00:45:56.000 It wasn't because there's any cultural moment that we're missing here.
00:45:59.000 It's because of Russia.
00:46:00.000 Well, every time one of these kind of cultural moments reaches up and grabs the left, they freak out.
00:46:05.000 And instead of trying to understand where's rich men north of Richmond coming from, what does this mean?
00:46:08.000 Instead of that, they just freak out and they're like, oh my God, look at these hicks.
00:46:11.000 These crazy hicks who like stuff like this.
00:46:13.000 How dare they?
00:46:14.000 We must have the absolutely anti-melodic warblings I'm like, Rihanna.
00:46:19.000 We need them.
00:46:21.000 We need people gyrating on a screen.
00:46:22.000 That's the only way that we can have a major hit.
00:46:25.000 If it's just a guy with a banjo playing about how, you know, his life is tough because it turns out too much of his money is being taken away from him, we can't have that.
00:46:32.000 That's super duper bad.
00:46:33.000 So good, once again, for Oliver Anthony.
00:46:35.000 Good for Richmond, north of Richmond.
00:46:37.000 I couldn't be more pleased about that song's continued durability in the marketplace.
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