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00:02:06.000Because it's finally when the American people get to see what all of the people on the coast truly think of them.
00:02:12.000And as I say, I don't think that everybody on the coast really thinks the way the people at the Oscars think, but enough of them do.
00:02:19.000And it is amusing, I will say, to watch the Oscars outwoke themselves.
00:02:24.000Basically, the Oscars writ large are the story that I talked about on the show last week.
00:02:28.000There's a show I talked about on the show last week where a bunch of liberal white women were hiring a couple of women of color to lecture them about how unwoke they were.
00:02:34.000They were paying them like $2,500 a session in order to have malice struggle sessions where they confessed How secretly racist they were and how they were insensitive and couldn't identify microaggressions and all of this.
00:02:44.000And the real reason you do that is so that then you can go tell all of your left-leaning friends that you are the kind of person who is so woke that you paid $2,500 to a lady to explain to you how you are not woke enough.
00:03:09.000Okay, so the upper class, posh, white, kind of looking down your nose at black people, in that black people are only there to alleviate your sense of guilt.
00:03:18.000And the way that you alleviate your sense of guilt is by hiring black people to tell you that you're actually guilty.
00:03:30.000Nothing more woke than a bunch of incredibly, incredibly rich people who go out there and use their richness to push for socialism.
00:03:39.000Nothing says that you are woke, quite like not giving up any of your money, like still taking millions and millions of dollars to do these movies, but then complaining about class conflict.
00:03:47.000And this is one way at least to see the win for Parasite, which again, I've only watched about half of Parasite at this point, and seems like a fine movie, like really, but it is a class conflict parable.
00:03:57.000And folks in Hollywood love this kind of stuff.
00:03:59.000You have to understand that the Oscars really operate more like the viewer function on Rotten Tomatoes.
00:04:05.000On Rotten Tomatoes, when they rate movies, there are two ratings.
00:04:08.000There's the critics' ratings, and then there's the audience rating.
00:04:11.000And the audience rating is usually, how does this film fulfill expectations?
00:04:14.000How does this film make me feel about me?
00:04:17.000And the same thing is true, to a certain extent, with the critics.
00:04:18.000How does this film make me feel about me?
00:04:20.000Which is why my rule on Rotten Tomatoes, if it's above 90%, there's a really good chance that the movie's terrible.
00:04:25.000And if it's below 60%, there's a really good chance that the movie's terrible.
00:04:28.000Well, in Hollywood, the question for the Oscars is always, how does this film make me feel about me?
00:04:32.000And that's why you see films like Birdman, which no one saw, and of the people who saw it, few liked.
00:04:38.000It's how that movie ends up winning Best Picture, because people in Hollywood are obsessed with themselves.
00:04:42.000It's how the movie Moonlight wins an Oscar.
00:04:44.000Not because it was the best movie that year, it wasn't, but because it made people in Hollywood feel really good about themselves to reward a movie that was about a black gay kid.
00:04:54.000So, for Parasite, the question is why would Parasite win?
00:04:57.000And sure, it's a fine movie, but there were a bunch of really good movies made last year, including 1917, which is going to go down in five years as one of the better war films ever made.
00:05:05.000Ford vs. Ferrari, which is going to be a basic cable classic.
00:05:09.000Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is Tarantino's best film.
00:05:11.000In ten years, people are not going to remember Parasite.
00:05:13.000In ten years, people aren't going to remember a lot of the other films that were made this year.
00:05:16.000The reason that Hollywood rewarded this is for two reasons.
00:05:19.000One, they get to now claim that they are woke because they're awarded a class conflict script.
00:05:23.000And two, because they now get to claim they are woke because they're awarded a foreign film.
00:05:27.000And this was the only way of avoiding the innate conflict of having mainly white films nominated.
00:05:32.000This is all we heard about in the run-up to the Oscars, is how white the Oscars were.
00:05:38.000And so give it to a South Korean film, and then you don't have to worry about being accused of racism anymore.
00:05:43.000Now, hilariously enough, those same white people who voted for Parasite will be very much in favor of South Koreans being barred from Harvard so long as it means that affirmative action can apply to people of other races.
00:05:53.000See, if you're South Korean, you're only a member of a minority group for certain purposes, but not other purposes.
00:05:56.000But in any case, This may be too deep a read.
00:05:59.000Let's go into what exactly happened at the Oscars last night.
00:06:02.000So as I say, this Oscars, as most Oscars have turned into, was the equivalent of a bunch of liberal white ladies hiring a couple of women of color in order to inform them how racist they are.
00:06:14.000Who has, you know, she's a talented lady, but she's basically made a living the past few years kind of social justice warrior-ing a little bit.
00:06:21.000And she starts off the Oscars by lecturing Americans about how the Academy is anti-queer and anti-black because she is queer and black and that's why she's special, as opposed to she's talented so she's special.
00:06:33.000She's talented because she's queer and black, which is weird because neither of those are talents.
00:07:00.000First of all, I don't know what happened.
00:07:01.000If she was attacked by a florist shop, but she's walking around wearing a big old cape that's made of flowers and talking about, let's talk about all the women who made great films this year.
00:07:12.000And the idea is that everybody is horrible for not nominating these women for best director.
00:07:16.000OK, the films that were supposed to be nominated for best film this year or best director for these women.
00:07:21.000Almost universally, we're not incredibly good films.
00:07:24.000And I haven't seen Little Women, which apparently should have picked up every Oscar that was ever made.
00:07:27.000Like, including all, retroactively, every Oscar that has been made since the beginning of time, because it was made by Greta Gerwig.
00:07:32.000And we know Greta Gerwig was put upon because she was nominated for Lady Bird two years ago.
00:07:35.000But in any case, Janelle Monáe then starts going down the front row to all of these rich white people and trying to hijack them into proclaiming their wokeness with her.
00:08:03.000And she's walking around with the microphone, trying to cudgel them into being part of a really, really awkward looking, looking at Tom Hanks being like, okay, am I supposed to bob my head here?
00:08:22.000And that was just the beginning, guys.
00:08:24.000By the way, if you ever want to see awkward white people, if you ever want to see awkward white people, I will say that the Oscars are a great place to see awkward white people.
00:08:31.000Eminem, who is another white person, Eminem apparently rapped at the Oscars last night.
00:08:35.000The cutaways to the audience are just gold.
00:08:38.000They're just gold because nobody in the audience knows what the hell is going on.
00:08:42.000Eminem is up on stage yelling and rapping and cursing and everybody in the audience is super confused and it's just fantastic.
00:08:49.000You know, let's show some of the video of this.
00:09:31.000He somehow sneaks this into a joke about Frozen 2.
00:09:34.000Again, all of this is gonna make Trump president again.
00:09:36.000You have to understand that for most people who see any clip from this show, what they're going to feel is an overwhelming sense of irritation at these annoying, extraordinarily wealthy, Jackasses who pose as our moral superiors while doing nothing actually morally superior.
00:09:52.000And the ways that they pose as our moral superiors are by either paying homage to the woke culture, like by bobbing their heads to Janelle Monae doing her routine, or By getting up there and claiming that everyone else is an idiot.
00:10:03.000So Josh Gad does this routine about climate change.
00:10:06.000Again, one of the great irritants about the climate change talk is nobody ever talks about solutions when it comes to climate change.
00:10:10.000It all becomes virtue signaling about how wonderful they are for believing in climate change in the first place.
00:10:14.000So Josh Gad did that routine, trying to, of course, to ride half the country in the middle of this.
00:10:20.000As Mindy noted, animated movies are loved everywhere.
00:10:23.000In fact, Frozen 2, or as climate change deniers call it, not Frozen 2, has been dubbed in 45 different languages, which means I now have 44 blood rivals around the world.
00:10:35.000These dubbed versions provide kids and adults everywhere their own special connection to the story and its characters, which means there are so many great versions of Elsa.
00:10:45.000For instance, Canadian Elsa is basically the same, but with healthcare.
00:10:56.000It's really great to see how in touch they are.
00:10:57.000We'll get to more of the Oscars in a second.
00:10:59.000And again, this is important because the culture wars are an inherent part of our culture, more and more so.
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00:12:23.000Okay, Brad Pitt also got up at the Oscars and decided that he was going to jump into the political act.
00:12:28.000I definitely trust the judgment of somebody Thank you to the Academy for this honor of honors.
00:12:32.000Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie, because that's definitely showing some good life judgment there.
00:12:37.000Anyway, here is Brad Pitt explaining his perspective on the impeachment hearings, which is something you definitely needed to hear based on the fact that he was once in seven years in Tibet and therefore knows all about politics or something.
00:13:41.000Natalie Portman, who is wealthy beyond wealthy.
00:13:44.000Natalie Portman, who's been given at least one Oscar for Black Swan.
00:13:48.000So she herself has been heavily rewarded despite, in my opinion, being a wildly overrated actress.
00:13:52.000In any case, She shows up on the red carpet wearing a cape, but it's not just any cape.
00:13:58.000It's a cape that is embroidered with female directors.
00:14:01.000The names of female directors who are not nominated and therefore are greatly put upon despite the fact that they earn millions of dollars to direct apparently mediocre films.
00:14:08.000I mean, seriously, the names of the directors that are on there, on her cape, they include the director of Hustlers.
00:14:15.000Really, does anyone think that Hustlers deserved a Best Director nom this year?
00:14:18.000Like, does anyone think that Hustlers really, really required a Best Director nomination this year?
00:14:24.000One of the directors is the director of the Mr. Rogers film.
00:14:28.000Does anyone think that the Mr. Rogers film deserved a Best Director nomination this year?
00:14:32.000Does anyone think that Greta Gerwig desperately needed a Best Director nomination after winning a Best Director nomination for Lady Bird?
00:14:38.000And what exactly are we talking about here?
00:14:40.000The bottom line is that according to Hollywood, this makes Natalie Portman not have to worry about the fact that she is wealthy and that she has a really easy life.
00:14:48.000She is now part of the victimized, right?
00:14:50.000She's part of the coalition of the dispossessed.
00:14:53.000And so the question becomes, dispossessed by whom?
00:14:55.000So people do this routine, dispossessed by the Academy, because the Academy is the font of all evil.
00:15:14.000And the first step towards solving a problem is admitting you have a problem and bringing forth people like Natalie Portman, a true victim in American society.
00:15:22.000When I think victim, I think Natalie Portman, don't you?
00:15:25.000I feel really, really terrible for Natalie Portman.
00:15:27.000It's, it's, and I feel terrible for all those directors who are given millions and millions of dollars to play with to make really, really kind of mediocre films.
00:17:57.000Now listen, if you want to make the case against factory farming, make the case against factory farming, but we artificially inseminate these cows, and then we take her milk, and we use it in our coffee, we use it in our cereal, Yes, we do.
00:18:36.000And just like a lot of people, Go to church to be lectured by their pastor about all the sins that they've committed the prior weeks that they don't commit those sins again.
00:18:45.000It's the one time they go to church every year.
00:18:47.000And at that church, they are lectured about their insufficient wokeness.
00:18:50.000And if they wish to avoid anti-woke hell, then they will have to pay homage and they will have to do confession with Joaquin Phoenix, which is a really weird type of confession.
00:18:58.000So good stuff over at the Oscars, as per the usual, really in touch with the feelings of most Americans.
00:19:03.000I think that these people really have a bead on what Americans are feeling.
00:19:07.000And honestly, I was feeling a little optimistic this year because there were some actual movies that people saw this year, and none of them won any awards.
00:19:12.000I mean, the ones that actually won awards, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood got completely skunked.
00:19:16.000Joker won a couple of awards, but Parasite waltzed away with a bunch of these awards, a movie that no American has really ever seen.
00:19:22.000And again, a class warfare film that would have pleased Bernie Sanders if the rest of the film holds up the way that it's holding up so far, and now we're in.
00:19:29.000In any case, we'll get to the actual 2020 Democratic race, and I'll explain in just a second why these culture wars actually matter.
00:19:34.000Because whenever we sound off about this kind of stuff, people on the left are like, how dare you!
00:19:42.000Because the reason you do this is because you want attention.
00:19:45.000You're all the 15-year-old girl who gets her hair put up in some sort of mohawk, and gets a giant nose ring, gets those earrings that, like, stretch out your earlobe, and then you walk around like, why are you looking at me?
00:20:10.000You look like a bunch of woke morons who have no actual relationship.
00:20:13.000Like, is there a single impoverished person in America who feels better off today because of what was done at the Oscars last night?
00:20:21.000Whose pocketbook got thicker last night?
00:20:24.000Is there a single woman in America who's struggling to make ends meet who is like, yes, slay Queen because female directors weren't winning Oscar noms this year.
00:20:43.000Except for the Oscar voters who feel really good about themselves because, again, they get to participate in this religious ceremony once a year.
00:20:48.000We'll get to more of this in one second.
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00:22:48.000We actually had a full-on communist tribute last night.
00:22:50.000The producers of Best Documentary got up there and actually cited Karl Marx on the stage, which is really rich because, again, these people are all really rich.
00:22:57.000Here are some of the people who made the Best Documentary feature, literally quoting Karl Marx.
00:23:03.000Working people have it harder and harder these days.
00:23:08.000And we believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite.
00:23:40.000And they used to be fairly pro-America, and now they've become the repository of all things woke.
00:23:45.000And all of the sort of normal people in Hollywood have been cowed into silence.
00:23:49.000Everybody in Hollywood is now Tom Hanks with regard to Janelle Monáe, just sitting there trying to bop along with the beat, not understanding what the hell is going on.
00:23:56.000And that's what's happening in the Democratic Party too, where Bernie Sanders has the mic.
00:24:01.000Where the woke left of the party has the mic.
00:24:04.000And now they are attempting to cudgel everyone else into silence with the accusation that if you do not go along with their extraordinarily far-left agenda, then therefore, you are part of the problem.
00:24:15.000You're an accessory to the crime after the fact.
00:24:18.000And this is the fight that's going on inside the Democratic Party.
00:24:20.000It's part of the fight that's going on inside the country at large right now is that there is a small contingent of people in the United States who believe that the United States is responsible for nearly every evil in American society and world society.
00:24:31.000A contingent of people who believe that Americans are sinners, brutal, egregious sinners against the environment, against minorities, against poor people.
00:24:39.000And that if you disagree with that, you better keep your mouth shut.
00:24:42.000That was the Oscars, and that's the impression that I think a lot of Americans are getting of the Oscars, and that's why they're like, okay, screw this.
00:25:03.000All these people will go home to their underpaid nannies from foreign countries, who they're making movies about their victimization, and who they thrust their kids off upon.
00:25:12.000They'll go back home to those people, and then they will treat them like dirt.
00:25:15.000Because the truth is that the upper-class villains in Parasite are more like the people in Hollywood than the lower-class heroes of Parasite.
00:25:25.000Okay, so meanwhile, over in the 2020 Democratic race, as I say, the Oscars are sort of a very microcosmic version of the 2020 Democratic race.
00:25:34.000And you can see all of the socialism versus non-socialism breaking out into the open.
00:25:38.000All the candidates are now going after each other brutally.
00:25:42.000Then the most humorous moment over the weekend.
00:25:43.000So the Democrats had this final debate before New Hampshire.
00:25:46.000New Hampshire is stacking up like another Bernie Sanders win, although Pete Buttigieg has made some significant gains, really at the expense of Joe Biden.
00:25:53.000According to the latest polling data from New Hampshire, Sanders remains up, and he remains up fairly significantly, but the real story is not where Sanders is, it's where Biden is.
00:26:01.000Biden has dropped almost down into single digits, according to the latest polling average.
00:26:05.000The latest polling average has Bernie Sanders at 28.5, Pete Buttigieg at 22, Elizabeth Warren at 12, Biden at 11, and Klobuchar at 11.
00:26:13.000He has nearly dropped into fifth place in New Hampshire, according to the polling average.
00:26:16.000This is somebody who's running second or first in many of the polls just six weeks ago.
00:26:22.000Buttigieg has picked up some of that support.
00:26:24.000Sanders is riding exactly where Sanders has been riding the whole time.
00:26:28.000The conventional wisdom was that at some point, Bernie Sanders' support would bleed away.
00:26:33.000To some other candidate who could cross over between the socialist base and the non-socialist base.
00:26:38.000As it turns out, Bernie is absolutely rock solid, and it's Biden's support that has bled away to other candidates, including Pete Buttigieg.
00:26:45.000But what really has happened here is that the Democratic Party is Tom Hanks in that Oscars clip.
00:26:49.000The Democratic Party is sitting there and they don't know what to do as they are lectured on their own lack of wokeness.
00:26:53.000So, at the debate on Friday night, all the Democratic candidates were asked about having a Democratic Socialist at the top of the ticket.
00:27:31.000Literally everyone on the stage, except for Bernie Sanders, has expressed that they are unhappy with the idea of having a Democratic Socialist at the top of the ticket.
00:27:38.000The reason they're not raising their hands is because they're all afraid Bernie's going to win the nomination, and then that's going to be a campaign ad.
00:27:43.000Every single Democrat raising their hand, except for Bernie, talking about how Socialism should not be at the top of the ticket.
00:28:12.000You're going to win in those states in the Midwest.
00:28:14.000It's not... I'm not... I didn't put the label on Bernie.
00:28:17.000Bernie calls himself a Democratic Socialist.
00:28:21.000So you think flat out Democrats can't defeat Trump if they have to defend socialism?
00:28:26.000I think it's going to be incredibly more difficult.
00:28:28.000Okay, Bernie Sanders, for his part, he's saying, on the one hand, he's not really a socialist, on the other hand, Americans love socialism, so Bernie Sanders, over the weekend, he said he was not advocating a U.S.
00:28:37.000government takeover of the healthcare system, so he's gonna have to explain what the hell Medicare for All is.
00:28:40.000I mean, that is literally a government takeover of the U.S.
00:28:43.000healthcare system, but here is Bernie trying to explain why it's not.
00:28:45.000I'm advocating for the empowerment of the U.S.
00:28:49.000government to take over the entire healthcare system.
00:28:52.000This, just optically, looks like the party can't run its own caucus.
00:28:59.000Margaret, that's not a true statement.
00:29:01.000I'm not advocating for the United States government to take over the healthcare system.
00:29:05.000What I am advocating for is an expansion of Medicare.
00:30:46.000Four years ago, when I was here, campaigning, many of the ideas that we talked about, raising the minimum wage to a living wage of 15 bucks an hour, those ideas then were considered radical.
00:31:13.000Every Democrat, except for Amy Klobuchar, kept their hands down when asked if it was a problem to have a socialist at the top of the ticket.
00:31:19.000And virtually every Democrat on that stage has said openly it is a problem to have a socialist at the top of the ticket.
00:31:24.000Pete Buttigieg, who is wildly dishonest, he said it'll be hard to defend socialism.
00:31:29.000He said it's going to be hard to defend socialism.
00:31:30.000He said this over the weekend, but he wouldn't raise his hand on that stage, would he?
00:31:33.000Do you believe that the Democrats can defeat Donald Trump if they have to defend socialism?
00:31:37.000I think it'll be a lot harder, but the bigger concern that I have is further dividing the country.
00:31:44.000You know, when the campaign says that either you're for a revolution or you must be for the status quo, most of us don't see where we fit in that picture.
00:31:54.000So he's ripping on the Bernie Sanders socialism too, but none of them have the stones to actually just say to Bernie, no, this is a bunch of crap, and what you're promoting here is a bunch of garbage.
00:32:02.000And so instead, they've all been hijacked.
00:32:04.000And they're supposed to be grateful for the hijacking, right?
00:32:07.000They're supposed to be grateful to Bernie.
00:32:08.000And it's the Oscars crowd trying to bop along to Janelle Monae.
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00:35:24.000So as you may notice, the Circular Firing Squad has now opened, but not to the extent that anybody's actually going to call out Bernie Sanders on stage for being a socialist.
00:35:38.000You Instead, it is Joe Biden going after Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.
00:35:41.000And you got Pete Buttigieg going after Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, and Amy Klobuchar standing off to the side and going, why not me?
00:35:46.000I'm the only person here who's won in a purple state.
00:35:50.000That's pretty much how things are going.
00:35:51.000The big story, of course, is the collapse of Joe Biden, who was the wire-to-wire frontrunner in your Democratic race, but is now beginning to fall apart, and he is getting desperate.
00:36:00.000Now, the reason he's falling apart is because, unfortunately for Joe Biden, Joe Biden is Joe Biden, the big headline out of the weekend was Joe Biden calling a skeptical voter a lying dog-faced pony soldier, which is one hell of a diss.
00:36:12.000I mean, spitting hot fire like Eminem up there on that Oscars stage.
00:36:17.000Apparently he's dropped this line before.
00:36:18.000Apparently it's a quote from a John Wayne movie.
00:36:20.000But this is the problem for Joe Biden is every frame of reference he has is from 1962.
00:36:25.000So here is Joe Biden dropping a very, very odd line at a woman in New Hampshire.
00:37:58.000Again, he's just, he's so out of it at this point.
00:38:01.000And is it any wonder he, I mean, Bernie has energy.
00:38:04.000Communism comes with the life altering ability to suck energy from everyone else.
00:38:09.000So he's just been living off everybody else's energy, apparently.
00:38:11.000But the one thing that Biden is saying correctly is that Pete Buttigieg is not a viable candidate for the Democratic nomination, which is pretty much correct.
00:38:19.000I mean, Pete Buttigieg Conventional wisdom says he has very little ground support outside of the early states.
00:38:25.000New Hampshire and Iowa are disproportionately white.
00:38:28.000This is where Pete Buttigieg is likely to have most of his momentum.
00:38:31.000Once you get down south, Pete Buttigieg is in real trouble.
00:38:34.000Biden says Buttigieg has no support in the black community.
00:38:36.000And this, of course, is true by polling data.
00:38:38.000Mayor Pete likes to say the only time Democrats win the presidency is when we nominate someone new.
00:38:57.000And then he put out an ad slamming Mayor Pete.
00:38:59.000He says, listen, while I was vice president of the United States, this dude was having trouble cleaning dog poop off sidewalks in South Bend, Indiana.
00:39:05.000Here's the ad that Biden cut pretty brutal.
00:39:07.000Both Vice President Biden and former Mayor Pete have helped shape our economy.
00:39:12.000Joe Biden helped save the auto industry, which revitalized the economy of the Midwest, and led the passage and implementation of the Recovery Act, saving our economy from a depression.
00:39:23.000Pete Buttigieg revitalized the sidewalks of downtown South Bend by laying out decorative brick.
00:40:12.000Okay, there are actually a couple of real distinctions between Barack Obama as a candidate and Pete Buttigieg.
00:40:16.000Pete Buttigieg is more like John Edwards a little bit than he is like Barack Obama, in the sense that John Edwards was also a, I believe, first-term senator when he was nominated vice president by John Kerry, and then he'd run for vice president when he ran again in 2008.
00:40:29.000Pete Buttigieg is the mayor of a small town in Indiana.
00:40:31.000He's never won more than, I believe, 8,000 votes in his mayoral election.
00:40:35.000And when he ran statewide against Richard Murdoch, he got skunked, like 72% against 28% or something.
00:41:59.000And also, Pete Buttigieg is... I think people are going to get the general impression that he is dishonest, because people try to portray him as though he is a moderate, and he is not actually a moderate.
00:42:08.000Again, Pete Buttigieg was defending late-term abortion again over the weekend.
00:42:11.000I mean, this is the most radical position in the Democratic Party platform.
00:42:13.000He was sitting with NARAL Pro-Choice America, which is the wild anti-life organization.
00:42:20.000And here is Pete Buttigieg explaining again why he's in favor of late-term abortion being available.
00:42:24.000Usually we're talking about cases where, by definition, if it's late-term, a parent, a family, a woman is expecting to carry a pregnancy to term and then gets devastating medical news.
00:42:38.000Something about the life or health of the mother or the fetus that creates an unthinkable decision.
00:42:48.000And in those situations, what we know is that decision will not be made any better medically or morally.
00:42:56.000because it is being dictated by some government official.
00:42:59.000This is the answer he keeps on giving, and he's basically just allowing late-term abortion to go forward, which is the most radical position in American politics on all of this.
00:43:06.000By the way, while he claims he's anti-socialism, he's also ripping into Bernie for being too rich.
00:43:10.000So again, he's trying to have it both ways.
00:43:12.000Bernie, for his part, did slam Buttigieg.
00:43:15.000He says, listen, this guy keeps claiming that he is some sort of man of the people.
00:43:18.000He's doing wine cave fundraisers among billionaires.
00:43:36.000They legally can do what they want to do because you have a corrupt political system.
00:43:39.000But I would also point out that I'm running against a candidate, Pete Buttigieg, among others, who has raised contributions from more than 40 billionaires, including the CEOs of some of the largest drug companies in America. including the CEOs of some of the largest drug companies Okay, what he's saying right there is true.
00:43:59.000Buttigieg's response is, yeah, well, Bernie has a lake house.
00:44:02.000Which, okay, except that you're supposed to be the man of principle when it comes to these sorts of issues, right?
00:44:08.000Buttigieg is happy to take that money because that's where he's getting the money, right?
00:44:10.000He doesn't have a movement like Bernie.
00:44:12.000He doesn't have any support outside of basically college-educated white people, right?
00:44:16.000That is the center of Pete Buttigieg's support base.
00:44:18.000Middle-class people, lower-class people in terms of income, they are not Pete Buttigieg fans.
00:44:22.000Here is Pete Buttigieg hitting Sanders for being too rich, but this isn't going to play.
00:44:27.000Bernie's pretty rich and I would happily accept a contribution from him.
00:44:30.000Look, this is about making sure we bring everybody into the fight at a moment when we're going to be going up against Donald Trump, who with his allies are raising, I think the other day they raised 25 million bucks in one day.
00:44:46.000I'm not a fan of the current campaign finance system, but I'm also insistent that we've got to go into this with all of the support we can get.
00:44:56.000And here is the problem for the Democrats.
00:44:58.000So here's what the race is coming down to at this point.
00:45:00.000Biden is fading really, really horribly.
00:45:02.000There's a good shot that he finishes fifth in New Hampshire, which is disastrous for him.
00:45:05.000Unless he has expended every iota of cash he has in Nevada, unless he wins Nevada, he is toast.
00:45:10.000And if he loses Nevada, and if Bernie wins Nevada, if Bernie wins Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, Bernie's the nominee.
00:45:15.000If Bernie wins Iowa, New Hampshire, and he finishes second to Biden in Nevada, Then he still has a decent shot at the nomination because again, all of these delegates are proportionately split across the states.
00:45:25.000Meanwhile, one of these quote-unquote moderates is trying to rise up and take the Joe Biden mantle.
00:45:30.000If that's Pete Buttigieg, you really think that Pete Buttigieg is going to out-earn Bernie Sanders with black voters in South Carolina?
00:45:36.000That's not a thing that's going to happen.
00:45:37.000Bernie Sanders has been exposed to those voters for a very long time.
00:45:40.000Pete Buttigieg is widely perceived as an upper-class white person.
00:45:44.000And the fact that he is not rich is mainly a function of the fact that he left McKinsey and decided to go into politics.
00:45:49.000We all know that the minute that Pete Buttigieg leaves politics, he will be extraordinarily wealthy again.
00:45:53.000The chance that Pete Buttigieg is going to be worth not a lot of money at age 60 are zero.
00:45:57.000Pete Buttigieg will be worth a fortune.
00:46:01.000So the Pete Buttigieg replacement of Joe Biden at the top of the sort of moderate wing of the Democratic Party is uncomfortable at best.
00:46:08.000The best replacement for Joe Biden at the top of that Democratic Party sort of moderate wing Would be Amy Klobuchar, but Klobuchar can't buy attention.
00:46:17.000Which is wild, again, because I think that Klobuchar is the most electable of these Democrats.
00:46:21.000If you were going to take any of these Democrats and put them up against Trump, Klobuchar would be the one.
00:47:08.000And Biden was dominating that wing, and he was shutting people out.
00:47:11.000And then there was this third wing, and the third wing was Sanders and Warren.
00:47:14.000So the grand assumption is that somebody from that middle wing of the Democratic Party was going to reach out to the intersectional wing or reach out to the socialist wing, and that a crossover candidate from that middle wing was going to have the best shot at winning the Democratic Party nomination.
00:47:26.000Instead, as it turns out, because Biden had really closed the door to so many people in that middle wing because he had been this very weak frontrunner, but he'd been prohibiting anybody from rising.
00:47:35.000As he collapsed, it turns out that people rushed into that middle wing and the only person who is left in that far left wing is Bernie.
00:47:41.000As soon as Elizabeth Warren imploded, then Bernie became the only person left standing in the wing.
00:47:47.000The domination of that wing meant he only had to reach over a little bit into the intersectional wing or the moderate wing and pick up just enough votes to win the nomination.
00:47:53.000So right now, Bernie Sanders is indeed the frontrunner in this race.
00:47:57.000And that's bad news for him because guess what?
00:47:58.000Every bad thing he ever said is going to come up in this election, and he's going to get asked about it, and his answers are insufficient.
00:48:03.000So he was asked by Jake Tapper about his past comments on things like wage caps.
00:48:08.000And Bernie Sanders gets mad about this because he has never been willing to answer questions about all of the dumb things that he has said in the past.
00:48:14.000Early in your political career, way back in 1974, you said that it should be illegal to earn more money than someone could spend in his or her lifetime.
00:48:22.000You proposed a maximum wage cap on the highest earners.
00:48:54.000And the reason it's productive is because he has never disassociated from anything he said back in the 70s.
00:48:58.000I also love the conflict of Bernie Sanders saying, let's talk about my mayor records, my mayor's record back in the 70s, but nothing I said back in the 70s.
00:49:04.000Bottom line right now is that no one appears able to stop Bernie Sanders.
00:49:08.000No one appears able to stop Bernie Sanders because no one has the stones to stand up to Bernie Sanders in the same way that nobody has the stones at the Oscars to just say the best picture should win, and the best director should win, and the best actress should win, and the best actor should win, and we should all stop with this sort of woke scolding.
00:49:49.000There were flashes of strength, flashes where people had some wobbly moments in answering questions.
00:49:56.000But you have to basically close your eyes, see them on a stage with Trump, and say, who really looked like they were going to go mano-a-mano, toe-to-toe?
00:51:24.000It's so bad and so good at the same time.
00:51:26.000All you have to know about this movie is understand that the movie opens with Nicolas Cage, who is a former, basically, Special Forces, Navy SEAL guy.
00:51:37.000He comes home and he's seeing his wife for the first time in years, right?
00:51:42.000He goes to a bar, he wants to dance with her, and three drunk truckers decide to confront him and rip the medals off his shoulder for no reason at all.
00:51:49.000He then gets in a fight with them, right?
00:51:51.000They attack him with a knife, and he kills one of them.
00:51:53.000And then, he is sentenced to ten years in prison for this.
00:51:56.000Because the judge says, in the dialogue, the judge literally says in the dialogue, that the rules do not apply in the same way to people who are in the military, because their hands are like deadly weapons.
00:52:06.000Okay, which, by the way, as a lawyer, that's not a real thing.
00:53:05.000That wasn't the best part of her little Instagram fest over the weekend.
00:53:08.000She also had on her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, to discuss how white people can combat racism, which is just, again, everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party and the Oscars in one little clip here.
00:53:20.000I think one of the effective ways is just to talk and kind of help teach them about why some of the things they believe or say or think are wrong.
00:53:29.000Not necessarily racist, but that they're wrong.
00:53:32.000And that'll sort of like chip away and contribute to some development in this area, but not necessarily take somebody from being a racist to not being a racist in one conversation.
00:53:45.000And it's just always being open to learning about racist things that we may have said or done without judgment and defensiveness.
00:53:55.000And later he's like, oh god, I'm gonna get lectured, aren't I?
00:53:57.000I answered that question wrong and AOC's gonna lecture me about my internalized racism, isn't she?
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