The New Hampshire primaries are here, and the first few votes are being cast in Dixville Notch, a tiny little place in New Hampshire where they vote really early. As old audio of Bloomberg emerges on Stop and Frisk, and we discuss whether the nuclear family was a mistake. Ben Shapiro talks about the collapse of Joe Biden's fortunes in the polls, and why Bloomberg's rise in polls may not be so surprising, and whether the Bloomberg-Ruffet tweet about stop and frisk should be seen as a red flag for the rest of the Democratic primary field, and if so, what effect it will have on the other candidates who have been rising in polls in recent days. Ben also talks about why Bernie Sanders is doing much better than he has been in recent polls and why this is a disaster for Joe Biden, and what it means for his chances of winning the nomination. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Your data is your business, your data is protected, your business protected, and your business is protected at Express VPN. Use the promo code: PGPodcasts to receive 20% off your first month with discount code "ExpressVPN" at checkout. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to express.vpn.me/OurAdvertisers and receive 10% off the entire month of your purchase when you sign up for VIP access to our VIP membership offer, use discount code: VIP VIPREVIEW. We are working with ExpressVPN and VaynerMedia. Our ad-free version of the Audible now has a mobile version of The Daily Mail, and Vimeo is available for $99. Vimeo, Vimeo.com/Vaynermedia. You can get 20% OFF your ad-only version of VIPREALER? and VYNER Media is giving you access to all of our best listening and social media and podcasting, too! . VYORTERO VIRTUE, VYDERO VIRAL MEDIA FREE PRODUCING, VOTING ONLY, FREE PRICING, FREE TRAINING, PODCAST ONLY, VIRTUAL PROMOTIONAL PRODCASTING AND PROMO, AND FREE PROOF SUPPORTING VIPREPORT AND SUPPORTING ONLY $10/APPARITION v=VYORO VOTE ON VYARD?
00:00:00.000The New Hampshire primaries are here, Michael Bloomberg meets Ruff Road as old audio of him emerges on Stop and Frisk, and we discuss whether the nuclear family was mistake.
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00:00:22.000Well today, New Hampshire primaries, and the voting has already started.
00:00:25.000In Dixville Notch, which is of course this tiny little place in New Hampshire where they vote really early, the first few voters voted surprisingly for Michael Bloomberg.
00:00:33.000Bloomberg's getting some write-in votes, which demonstrates that there is real disquiet.
00:00:36.000I mean, it doesn't demonstrate that much because it's like three voters, but What it does demonstrate is that there is some pretty significant disquiet inside the Democratic Party about exactly who ought to be its nominee.
00:00:45.000A lot of people very, very nervous about Bernie Sanders, as well they should be, because the new national polling has Bernie Sanders on top, not because he has really gained a lot of ground, but because Joe Biden is absolutely collapsing in on himself like a dying star.
00:00:57.000I mean, the man is turning into a polling black hole.
00:00:59.000There are two separate national polls out, and Joe Biden has collapsed in both of them.
00:01:04.000There's a Quinnipiac poll that came out yesterday.
00:01:06.000It showed Bernie Sanders up at 25%, which is not Honestly, like a huge jump for him.
00:01:10.000Normally, he's somewhere between 20 and 23, so it's like a slight increase for him.
00:01:13.000But Joe Biden, who normally runs in the low 30s or high 20s, is all the way down at 17% in that Quinnipiac poll, with Michael Bloomberg polling at 15%.
00:01:24.000Elizabeth Warren at 14, Pete Buttigieg at 10, Amy Klobuchar at 4.
00:01:27.000Okay, and when you break that down by white and black voters, Sanders is actually leading among white voters 22-16 over Elizabeth Warren.
00:01:34.000Among black voters, Biden is still in the lead with 27%, but that's not going to be enough to carry him over the top.
00:01:39.000That gap between him and the rest of the field has been shrinking steadily.
00:01:42.000In second place with black voters in that Quinnipiac poll is Michael Bloomberg.
00:01:46.000Now as we'll get to, that may not last long.
00:01:48.000Depending on the impact of some new audio that's come out about Michael Bloomberg talking about his stop-and-frisk policies in New York, and largely defending the fact that the impact of the stop-and-frisk policies just really kind of disproportionately, depends on how you measure the proportionality, fell largely, let's say, on minority people in New York City.
00:02:06.000We'll get to audio of Bloomberg talking about that, which is creating a stir today.
00:02:11.000Bernie Sanders is running in third place, only eight percentage points back among black voters.
00:02:15.000In that Quinnipiac polls, those are good numbers for Bernie Sanders and horrible, horrible numbers for Joe Biden.
00:02:21.000And that's not the only poll that's horrible for Biden today.
00:02:25.000The previous poll from Monmouth was January 16th through 20th.
00:02:29.000Bernie Sanders has gained only about three points, about 26%.
00:02:32.000Joe Biden has collapsed 14 points in that poll nationally.
00:02:37.000He's now collapsed in most of the polls down to second place, which is a disaster for him because again, his entire pitch was electability.
00:02:43.000Joe Biden's entire spiel here was, I'm the person who is most electable.
00:02:48.000You have to put me up in a general election because I'm going to win.
00:02:50.000The problem is people, when they hear electable, believe that electable is a quality that translates from the primaries to the general.
00:03:11.000So if you say, I'm super electable, guys, I'm the most electable, and then you start losing elections, it's very difficult to recover from that and look like Captain Electability when it comes to a general election.
00:03:22.000So the overall perception of electability in a general is indeed affected, even though it shouldn't be, by lack of electability in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire, where Biden is completely falling down on the job.
00:03:32.000In that Monmouth poll, by the way, a couple of the candidates who have been rising, Bloomberg is up to 11% in that poll.
00:03:40.000Elizabeth Warren has been dropping steadily as well.
00:03:42.000It would not be a grand surprise to see Elizabeth Warren drop into third or even fourth place.
00:03:47.000Amy Klobuchar has been getting some early support.
00:03:49.000As well, she should because she is the most electable Democrat who is not Joe Biden in a general election in all of this.
00:03:56.000And by the way, that is pretty much what this Quinnipiac poll shows.
00:03:59.000The Quinnipiac poll shows that there is that everybody basically beats Trump on a national level.
00:04:04.000But again, the Quinnipiac poll is taken nationally.
00:04:06.000It's not taken in these various states.
00:04:08.000The favorability rating is where all of these Democrats are in serious trouble, okay?
00:04:12.000Because right now, the presumption is that a lot of these Democrats are going to outperform expectations because Trump is so unpopular, but the favorability ratings for a lot of these Democrats are really bad.
00:04:21.000So let's go back to the Quinnipiac poll for a second.
00:04:23.000So it says that Michael Bloomberg would beat Trump 51 to 42, that Sanders would beat Trump 51 to 43, that Biden would beat Trump 50 to 43, which again, kills Biden's electability argument, because if Sanders is polling better against Trump than Biden is, then what exactly is Biden's argument?
00:04:37.000Klobuchar would defeat Trump 49-43, Warren 48-44, Buttigieg 47-43.
00:04:42.000Now, in reality, Trump, who's an incumbent president, is not going to finish at 42-43%.
00:04:47.000He was polling at 42-43% in the last election cycle, and he ended up winning 46% of the vote.
00:04:52.000He's now the incumbent president with a strong economy.
00:04:54.000Chances are he ends up closer to 48 or 49% of the vote.
00:04:58.000But, here's the real problem for Democrats.
00:05:00.000In that Quinnipiac poll, Elizabeth Warren has a negative favorability rating.
00:05:23.000Sanders has a 44% favorability rating.
00:05:27.000Buttigieg has a positive favorability rating, but only 36% of people say they're positive about him because 31% haven't heard enough about him.
00:05:34.000And Klobuchar has 32% positive, 44% have not heard enough about her.
00:05:39.000President Trump, even in this Quinnipiac poll, it shows that President Trump is at the highest point of his presidency in the Q poll in terms of favorability.
00:05:47.000He's at 43% favorable, which again is very competitive with all these other Democrats.
00:05:50.000The only Democrat who's ahead of him, and this is within the margin of error, is Sanders at 44%.
00:05:54.000Everybody else is well behind President Trump.
00:05:57.000And he scores high marks on his handling of the economy.
00:06:00.00054% of voters, even in this Quinnipiac poll, approve of his handling of the economy.
00:06:05.000Independence approved 59% to 37% so Trump is in very strong shape heading into this election cycle.
00:06:12.000The Democrats are collapsing and Joe Biden in particular is completely collapsing and so everybody is looking for an alternative.
00:06:17.000The alternative for the moment was supposed to be Pete Buttigieg.
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00:08:20.000Okay, so, with Joe Biden collapsing into the mud, I mean, absolutely collapsing, this means that his last gasp is Nevada.
00:08:27.000He's not even gonna make it to South Carolina.
00:08:28.000He'll stick around till South Carolina, just for the craps and giggles of it, right?
00:08:32.000I mean, he has to, because his entire pitch is that he's gonna win a disproportionate share of black voters.
00:08:37.000Well, he's collapsing in the black vote, right?
00:08:39.000Michael Bloomberg is chipping away at that, which is unbelievable because, again, Michael Bloomberg is widely perceived by the radical left on Twitter to be a racist.
00:08:46.000I mean, Bloomberg is racist is trending today.
00:08:48.000The reason that Bloomberg is racist is trending today is because there's audio that came out of Michael Bloomberg in 2015 at the Aspen Institute talking specifically about stop and frisk policy.
00:08:57.000Now, one of the things that I think is necessary to understand what Bloomberg is saying here He's being accused of racism because he's saying that Stop and Frisk disproportionately affected black and Hispanic communities in New York City.
00:09:10.000In order to determine whether that's true, whether it's disproportionately affecting black and Hispanic communities, the question is, what proportionality are you using?
00:09:18.000We're just going to analyze the content of what he's saying, and then we'll get to the affect of what he's saying.
00:09:22.000Because the affect of what he's saying is obviously very bad.
00:09:23.000He articulates this in the worst possible way.
00:09:26.000In order to understand, and I've talked about this on the program before, whether stop-and-frisk policy was disproportionately affecting minorities, the question is, what are you comparing it to?
00:09:34.000Are you comparing the number of people stopped and frisked in a particular community to the general population demographic of a community, or are you comparing it to crime rates?
00:09:44.000And that makes a huge difference, right?
00:09:45.000Because if you were to say, if I was just going to tell you 50% of the people in prison in the United States for murder are black, Which is about correct.
00:09:52.000It's somewhere between 45 and 50% last I checked.
00:09:55.000You would immediately say, well, that's disproportionate.
00:09:57.000That's a disproportionate number because 13% of Americans are black people.
00:10:01.000So if 50% of the people in jail for murder are black, that must mean that something disproportionate is happening.
00:10:08.000Except that murder is a specific crime that is reported basically 100% of the time.
00:10:14.000And so the question is not the population of murderers Who are black compared to the population of blacks who are American, right?
00:10:22.000The question is the population of murderers who are black compared to the number of murder suspects who are black, right?
00:10:27.000In other words, was there a white suspect and they just went and arrested a black guy and threw him in jail.
00:10:30.000So the same thing is true of stop and frisk.
00:10:32.000If you actually want to talk about the proportionality of how many people were stopped and frisked by race, then you have to compare that to the reported crime rates.
00:10:38.000You can't compare that to the demographics.
00:10:42.000To take a quick example, heavy percentage of the population of New York City is Jewish.
00:10:45.000The crime rate in the Jewish community in New York City is extraordinarily low.
00:10:49.000Are we really going to suggest that the proportionality of people stopped and frisked has to be done not on the basis of crime reports or crime areas, but has to be done on the basis of sheer population?
00:11:00.000I mean, that's not what the police are there to do.
00:11:01.000So if you actually want to establish disproportionality, what you would have to do is demonstrate that the police are over-profiling, right?
00:11:08.000They are over-stopping and frisking Black and Hispanic people in comparison to the crime rate in New York City among Black and Hispanic people.
00:11:14.000So that is why all of the talk about stop and frisk disproportionately affecting black and hispanic people.
00:11:19.000It depends on what you are using as your numerator.
00:11:23.000It depends what you are using as your numerator.
00:11:24.000Are you using the demographic profile generally of New York or the criminal profile of New York, which is a different profile?
00:11:31.000The same thing would hold true if I were to say to you, 99% of people in jail for violent crimes are men.
00:11:36.000Well, it's disproportionate in the sense that only 50% of the population of the United States, like every place else, is male.
00:11:42.000But it's not disproportionate in the sense that virtually all violent crime in the United States is committed by men.
00:11:46.000So, again, the same thing holds with stop-and-frisk.
00:11:49.000I'm just gonna give you a few statistics here, so you understand why stop-and-frisk policy is not inherently racist, despite the fact that a heavy percentage of the people who are stopped and frisked, and really a stop-question-and-frisk is the actual Supreme Court-approved policy.
00:12:00.000It's not that the police were supposed to be able to just walk up to people and then pat them down.
00:12:04.000It's supposed to be that you have a reasonable suspicion that the person is carrying a gun or carrying a banned knife.
00:12:09.000By the way, if you've ever worked with police officers, I mean, I work with security all the time, right?
00:12:13.000I've been in rooms where the police who are working with me, where the officers who are working with me can spot a gun on somebody's hip, or they can spot a knife on somebody's hip, and they can do so with extraordinary accuracy.
00:12:23.000I mean, when you see people walking around a certain way for a long enough time, then you actually get pretty good at telling when they are carrying a foreign object on their body.
00:12:29.000In any case, Here are some of the statistics in New York City that Bloomberg is going to be talking about here.
00:12:34.000Okay, so this is according to Heather McDonald.
00:12:37.000She says, who is killing and shooting black crime victims?
00:12:39.000Overwhelmingly not whites, not the police, but tragically other blacks.
00:12:42.000The high black homicide victimization rate is a function of the black homicide commission rate.
00:12:46.000Blacks commit homicide nationally at seven times the rate of whites and most Hispanics combined.
00:12:51.000Black males between the age of 14 and 17 Commit homicide of 10 times the rate of white and most Hispanic males between the ages of 14 and 17.
00:12:59.000Officer-involved shootings are not responsible for the black homicide victimization rate either.
00:13:03.000In fact, a greater percentage of white and Hispanic homicide victims are killed by a police officer than black homicide victims.
00:13:09.000In 2015, 12% of all whites and Hispanics who died of homicide were killed by cop, compared with 4% of black homicide victims who were killed by cop.
00:13:16.000Nor is white violence responsible for the black victimization rate.
00:13:21.000Between 2012 and 2015, there were 631,830 violent interracial victimizations excluding homicide between blacks and whites.
00:13:29.000Blacks committed 85.5% of those violent victimizations, or 540,360 felonious assaults on whites, while whites committed 14.4% of those violent victimizations, or 91,470 felonious assaults on blacks.
00:13:43.000These national disparities are repeated locally.
00:13:45.000In New York City, for example, blacks, 23% of the population, committed 71% of all gun violence in 2016.
00:13:53.000Whites, who had 34% of the population, are the city's largest racial group, committed less than 2% of all shootings.
00:13:59.000Okay, so to go back to the proportionality argument that I am making here, if you were to compare the population of New York City, you would say, okay, well, 34% of the population is white, 34% of the people who are pulled over in stop-and-frisk should be white.
00:14:13.000Except that's stupid because whites Constitute 2% of all the shootings.
00:14:16.000So why would you frisk 34% of the people 34% of the time when it's really 2% of the crime?
00:14:22.000Why would you frisk them 34% of the time?
00:14:26.000These identifications, says Heather McDonald, are provided by the victims of and witnesses to those shootings, overwhelmingly minorities themselves.
00:14:32.000A black New Yorker is thus 50 times more likely to commit a shooting than a white New Yorker.
00:14:35.000In Chicago, blacks and whites are each a little under a third of the city's population.
00:14:39.000Blacks commit 80% of all shootings, whites a little over 1%, making blacks in the Windy City 80 times more likely to commit a shooting than whites.
00:14:45.000In Oakland, blacks committed 83% of homicides, attempted homicides, robberies, assaults with firearms, and assaults with weapons other than firearms in 2013, even though they constitute only 28% of Oakland's population.
00:14:56.000Whites were 1% of robbery suspects, 1% of firearm assault suspects, and an even lower percent of homicide suspects, even though they make up about 34% of the city's population.
00:15:04.000In Pittsburgh, 82% of known homicide suspects were black in 2015, even though the Pittsburgh population is just 26% black.
00:15:10.000Louis, Nearly 100% of homicide suspects were black through December 22, 2017, though the population is 47% white and 47% black.
00:15:20.000And as Heather McDonald points out, the vast majority of black residents in high-crime areas and elsewhere are law-abiding and hardworking, and they deserve the same freedom from fear as residents of safer neighborhoods, and they beg for more proactive police enforcement, as reporters from the Baltimore Sun and Washington Post both discovered when covering the aftermath of the Freddie Gray riots.
00:15:39.000The racist case here would be that blacks are inherently more inclined to commit crime.
00:15:42.000No one is making that case because it's absurd and ridiculous on its face.
00:15:45.000The question is whether it is racist if you apply a stop-and-frisk policy that hits on a population level disproportionately particular groups, but on a crime level hits exactly proportionally Those particular groups, whether that is racist.
00:15:58.000OK, that is the backdrop to Michael Bloomberg's commentary.
00:16:01.000So we're going to get to what Michael Bloomberg actually said that has him trending as hashtag Bloomberg is racist in just one second, despite the fact that under Bloomberg's tutelage of the city, like really the one bright spot of his mayoralty was the continuing drop in crime rates in New York City that started under Rudy Giuliani and then continued on through Michael Bloomberg, largely because of policies like broken windows policing and stop and frisk policies that were taking place in New York City.
00:16:24.000Proactive policing, putting cops on street corners that were known to be high crime.
00:16:29.000The use of measures like ComStat in order to determine high crime areas and then target those exact precincts.
00:16:36.000All of that is really Bloomberg's major achievement.
00:16:38.000He's had to run against that because he's afraid of being labeled racist by the media.
00:16:41.000It's not going to save him one iota because as it turns out, he has said stuff defending his own record before.
00:16:45.000We're gonna get to that in just one second.
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00:18:09.000Okay, so back to stop and frisk policies and proactive policing.
00:18:13.000So the fact is, in the United States, crime rates between 1960 and 1994 spiked dramatically in major cities across the country.
00:18:21.000In the early 1990s, a lot of cities began to use proactive policing in order to lower crime rates.
00:18:26.000And the United States underwent one of the greatest crime transformations in history.
00:18:30.000We lowered our murder rate dramatically in major cities across the country.
00:18:33.000Okay, and that was because of proactive policing and broken windows policing and ComStat and yes policies like stop, question, and frisk.
00:18:40.000And these were applied in bipartisan fashion.
00:18:41.000Mayor Giuliani became Mayor Giuliani because David Dinkins wasn't going to do any of this stuff.
00:18:46.000Mayor Richard Reardon in LA became Mayor Richard Reardon because Democrats in LA were not doing this sort of stuff.
00:18:53.000The attempt to clean up crime was one of the major American success stories between 1994 and 2015 when there was sort of a reverse effect after some of the Ferguson riots and the so-called Ferguson effect where police started backing off out of fear that they were going to ruin their lives and careers if they engaged in proactive policing.
00:19:08.000Well, this was a bipartisan coalition that favored lowering crime and that bipartisan coalition included a lot of black legislators and a lot of black city council members who are sick of watching High crime neighborhoods affecting black people who are living in those high crime neighborhoods.
00:19:23.000Okay, so that's the backdrop to all of this.
00:19:24.000So Michael Bloomberg's great success story in New York City, really, is that he was able to continue lowering crime.
00:19:29.000And that's the only reason he can run for president.
00:19:31.000If he had not lowered crime, he'd be like Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had a complete failure of a campaign.
00:19:35.000Mayor Bloomberg's basic pitch is, I made the city of New York safer.
00:19:40.000I helped continue the transformation of Times Square from what was a squalid cesspool Into a pretty nice place to be.
00:19:46.000You can take your kids, you can walk around, it's kind of like Disneyland.
00:19:51.000But he's had to run directly away from that pitch because he's running directly into the teeth of a bunch of the woke warriors who suggest that proactive policing is inherently racist.
00:20:00.000Now, the piece of audio you're about to hear, we don't hear the beginning of the audio.
00:20:03.000The reason I think this is kind of important, honestly, is because you don't know, it was a Q&A session, you don't know what question he was asked.
00:20:10.000So the way that the audio sounds, it's like he's volunteering that they were targeting black people.
00:20:14.000Maybe that's what he said, and if he did say that, then he is expressing this all wrong, right?
00:20:20.000If he was asked, which I have a feeling he was, why stop-and-frisk disproportionately affected black and Hispanic people, and he gave this answer, and the answer might be rough, but the answer is also based in fact, which is that the crime rates in the black and Hispanic community in New York City are dramatically higher than the crime rates in other areas of New York City.
00:20:38.000And this is why the police are in those areas, and this is why the arrest rates are disproportionate to population statistics.
00:20:42.000Okay, so here's what Bloomberg had to say at the Aspen Institute.
00:20:45.000It's got Bloomberg is racist trending, and we'll see if this has any impact on the race.
00:20:48.000I'm kind of doubtful that it does, honestly.
00:20:50.000Like, I'm kind of doubtful that you're going to see Bloomberg's support in the black community completely collapse in the same way that Trump's support in the Hispanic community did not completely collapse despite the fact that he was saying all of these kind of ridiculous and egregious things about immigration generally and about Mexicans and all this stuff because most people of Mexican descent who live in the country Who support Trump are not off put by the fact that Trump speaks in harsh language about illegal immigration.
00:21:18.000I think that the amount of black support.
00:21:22.000for letting people out of prison who have committed crimes is way lower than the mainstream media would have you believe.
00:21:27.000I think the vast majority, I mean, I don't think, I know, the vast majority of black Americans are law-abiding people who want to live in safe communities.
00:21:34.000And so when they are told that the police are supposed to be out of their communities, the police are inherently bad and all of this, I don't think most black Americans believe that, which is why Joe Biden, who said a lot of similar things to what you're going to hear Bloomberg say right here, his support has not cratered with black Americans either.
00:22:32.000So, the minute-long excerpt, Bloomberg says, 95% of your murders, murderers and murder victims, fit one M.O.
00:22:38.000You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all of the cops.
00:22:42.000Right, so this is why whether he was asked about the racial disproportion is sort of relevant to how he's answering.
00:22:46.000If he's defending the policy on the basis that it is disproportionate to the general demographic, then that's a problem.
00:22:52.000If he's defending the supposed disproportion on the basis of crime statistics, then he's saying it in rough fashion.
00:22:58.000What he's saying is basically correct, right?
00:23:00.000What he's saying is basically true on a factual level, which is that disproportionately the vast majority of crime victims From murder to violent crime to robbery in the city of New York are minorities.
00:23:10.000And the disproportionate number of perpetrators and suspects are members of these communities too.
00:23:15.000So who do you think that active policing is going to end up hitting more often?
00:23:19.000And this is also true for marijuana statistics.
00:23:22.000If you have more cops in high crime areas, and those high crime areas are disproportionately minority, then presumably, disproportionately, people who are smoking pot in front of the cops in those areas are going to be the ones who are arrested.
00:23:32.000When people say, why aren't the cops hanging out around Wall Street?
00:23:34.000Because there ain't street crime around Wall Street.
00:24:08.000You want to spend the money to put a lot of cops on the street.
00:24:10.000Put those cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods.
00:24:14.000Okay, well, that's awkwardly put, but that is true, which is that the crime is disproportionately in areas that have a disproportionate number of minorities.
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00:26:05.000Okay, so a second comment from Michael Bloomberg has materialized as well.
00:26:09.000Both of these are trending on Twitter because the way this works is that Michael Bloomberg's, again, his only pitch for being president of the United States is that he was a half-decent mayor of New York City.
00:26:18.000That involved lowering the crime rates.
00:26:19.000But in the Democratic Party, you're not supposed to run on lowering crime rates.
00:26:24.000And that means that you're supposed to run on the basic presupposition that if a disproportionate number to the demographic population of blacks and Hispanics are arrested, that must reflect criminal justice racism as opposed to disproportionate crimes taking place They just keep saying, oh, it's a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group.
00:26:49.000That may be, but it's not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the murder.
00:26:56.000In that case, incidentally, I think we disproportionately stop whites too much.
00:27:07.000What he just said on a factual basis is 100% true.
00:27:10.000On the basis of crime statistics, if you were just to compare crime reports to numbers of stops and frisks, what you see is that black and Hispanic suspects are being pulled over less frequently than they are charged in terms of the general crime statistics.
00:27:25.000So Bloomberg's getting ripped up and down, and presumably Bloomberg is going to come out and apologize.
00:27:28.000Now, if he had any stones, Bloomberg would say, listen, My policies helped save literally thousands of black and Hispanic lives in New York City.
00:27:37.000If you want to lower crime rates, and that disproportionately affects people who are living in minority communities, which are high crime areas.
00:27:42.000If you want to increase the economic growth in those areas, you need more policing, not less.
00:27:47.000And this is why I've been very much questioning the criminal justice reform proposals of the Trump administration.
00:27:52.000I'm not sure that letting more criminals out onto the streets is a solution to the investment and growth problems in minority areas of the country.
00:28:00.000The going concern has been that there are too many black men in prison, that if they go back, they're going to...
00:28:04.000Go back to their kids, they're going to go back to their girlfriends or spouses, they're going to form nuclear families, they're going to be part of the rebuilding of the social fabric in these areas.
00:28:12.000That may be true for some, but a lot of these people are going to be recidivists, and then they're going to increase the crime rates in these particular communities.
00:28:17.000The fact is, one of the great miraculous stories of the last half century in the United States is the lowering crime rate between 1994 and 2015.
00:28:23.000To blow that on the basis of political correctness seems weird to me.
00:28:27.000Highly damaging to minority Americans.
00:28:30.000But again, the media drive this stuff by suggesting that Stop and Frisk itself was inherently racist, as opposed to a reaction to the fact that there were high crime rates in New York City.
00:28:44.000Openly says here that the problem of high crimes is largely relegated to big cities and unfortunately is Identifiable in minority communities particularly that a disproportionate number of gun suspects in New York City Like and he says like every other major city is happening among young minority males Okay, and then his proposal is to disarm all Americans.
00:29:05.000So I'm gonna need him to explain that one.
00:29:06.000I'm gonna, really, I need him to square that circle for me, because remember, he's one of the big gun control pushers, nationally.
00:29:12.000His suggestion is that everyone should have their gun taken away from them.
00:29:14.000Well, if you are in favor of targeted crime in things like stop and frisk, then why are you also in favor of broad crime policies that would remove guns from presumably tens of millions of law-abiding Americans who have nothing to do with elevated rates of crime in places like New York City?
00:29:27.000And by the way, if you look at state crime rates, they're disproportionately located in major cities.
00:29:32.000Okay, so we're gonna get to more of this in just a second, because is it possible that this is the end of sort of the Bloomberg hope?
00:29:38.000And if so, who does that leave standing?
00:29:40.000If Bloomberg starts to collapse and Biden is collapsing, well, that leaves really two, right?
00:29:44.000Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, because everybody is sort of starting to wake up to the fact that Bernie Sanders is going to be a disaster for their party, like really a disaster.
00:29:52.000Also, Bernie is, you know, he's kind of fibbing now, right?
00:29:56.000Like Bernie said he was gonna release his medical records, and now he's saying, well, not so fast.
00:29:59.000I don't need to release my medical records.
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00:33:35.000So Michael Bloomberg supposedly going to take a serious hit for this audio.
00:33:39.000We will see whether that is just in the Twitter universe or whether that's in the real world because there's this massive divide between the Twitterati and the real world.
00:33:46.000The Twitterati will provide you with your base.
00:33:47.000They'll provide you with your core, right?
00:33:51.000But are they really enough to drive you over the top?
00:33:54.000Now, I don't want to say that Twitter doesn't matter because Joe Biden basically said Twitter didn't matter and now Joe Biden Like both physically and also his campaign are sort of a smoldering wreck.
00:34:03.000But the fact is that Twitter is not real life.
00:34:07.000And so if Michael Bloomberg is going to collapse on the basis of this, we'll see.
00:34:10.000We'll see whether these comments actually make a difference.
00:34:12.000I'm pretty sure that everybody knew that Michael Bloomberg was the stop and frisk guy.
00:34:15.000The bigger problem for Michael Bloomberg is inauthenticity.
00:34:18.000If you campaigned on stop-and-frisk for years, and defended stop-and-frisk for years, and then five minutes ago, you decided to run as a Democrat for the presidential nomination, and then repudiated your own legacy, that's a problem.
00:34:28.000He has never repudiated any form of his own legacy.
00:34:31.000Instead, he just says, but he's never repudiated anything he's ever said in the 60s and 70s.
00:34:36.000Joe Biden has spent half this campaign repudiating his own support for a 1994 crime bill, which contributed to, again, that lowered crime rate.
00:34:43.000None of these Democrats actually have the stones to just stand on their own record and say, yeah, I did that, and it may be unpopular now, but it was the right thing to do because it lowered crime rates and saved a lot of lives, specifically in minority communities.
00:34:54.000Bernie Sanders has never had to repudiate anything, because when you are radical and pure, you never have to repudiate anything you've ever said.
00:35:02.000You'll see folks on the left very often.
00:35:03.000There'll be somebody on the right who says something, and it is racially tinged or racist, and people on the left will say, well, why didn't you oust this person earlier?
00:35:09.000And we'll be like, well, yeah, we did.
00:35:42.000Like, the last time I can remember it happening was Cynthia McKinney when she was saying openly anti-Semitic things back in, like, 2003.
00:35:47.000And if Cynthia McKinney were around today, she would be part of the squad.
00:35:50.000Because what she was saying in 2003 is identical to the stuff that Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib say today and are honored for inside the Democratic Party.
00:35:58.000So, again, it is pretty incredible that all of the Democrats who have accomplished things, like Michael Bloomberg, are going to have to repudiate their own policies unless you're a useless communist like Bernie Sanders, in which case you repudiate nothing, and then you get to run as the authentic candidate.
00:36:13.000And they're saying the quiet part out loud.
00:36:14.000Cynthia Nixon, who's a very wealthy actress from Sex and the City, and then she ran for governor against Andrew Cuomo and got absolutely smoked.
00:36:21.000Cynthia Nixon was rallying for Sanders.
00:36:35.000What you get in the United States is not crumbs.
00:36:38.000What you get in the United States is a share of the greatest experiment in human history and also the greatest prosperity in human history.
00:36:43.000Like, where are these crumbs of which you speak, Cynthia Nixon, who's worth millions of dollars?
00:37:48.000Like, if you didn't create... You know, it's so funny.
00:37:51.000The folks on the left will say things like, Jeff Bezos, you didn't build that because there are roads, man, because there are roads.
00:37:57.000And it's like, well, OK, if we were going to just price in to Jeff Bezos' wealth, the value of roads that are publicly owned, would that represent like 1% of the value of Amazon?
00:38:09.000Right, or would that represent, like, not all that much value at all compared to the vast majority of the brand building that Amazon has done?
00:38:15.000Or is it really the infrastructure that's responsible for that?
00:38:17.000Because if that's the case, then why doesn't Amazon exist in Estonia?
00:39:07.000who are capitalists, tend to talk about the sacrifices that you make in order to engage in transactions.
00:39:15.000They tend to talk about the amount of work they do.
00:39:16.000When was the last time you heard a socialist talk about the amount of work they do, as opposed to what they demand for the work?
00:39:23.000Well, you can make a demand, but that demand should not be backed by a government gun.
00:39:27.000In any case, Bernie Sanders, he is now reversing himself on his medical records on Sunday.
00:39:33.000Sanders reversed his position on medical records, saying he would not release comprehensive medical records about his health, reneging on a promise he made in September that he would absolutely release his medical records before the Democratic primary season began.
00:39:42.000This is according to Hank Barian over at Daily Wire.
00:39:45.000Speaking on Sunday's Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd pointed out to Sanders what he had said in September before he had a heart attack in early October.
00:40:24.000No other candidate's doing four or five events running around the country.
00:40:27.000And Todd said, right, like you've proven your mettle, but you have reporters that are concerned about your age.
00:40:32.000And Sandra said, I mean, you can start releasing medical records and it never ends.
00:40:36.000We have released a substantive part, all of our backgrounds.
00:40:38.000We have doctors, cardiologists confirming I am in good health.
00:40:41.000Yahoo News notes that Sanders released three brief letters from doctors in December that declared he was in good health currently, but he has not released his full medical records.
00:40:49.000Which, again, he's not going to release those full medical records because that's the thing about heart attacks, guys.
00:40:54.000You look like you're really vital until the moment you have a heart attack, and then you don't look quite so vital, right?
00:40:57.000Sanders looked vital before the heart attack, then he had a heart attack.
00:41:00.000It would be good to know whether that heart attack is going to reoccur.
00:41:03.000Being in good medical health at this point does not suggest that you're going to be in good medical health two minutes from now if you don't release those medical records, but Bernie's not going to release that because he thinks he's going to win based on hiding that stuff.
00:41:14.000Also, The Democratic Party is getting more and more nervous about mobilizing behind Bernie Sanders.
00:41:19.000Dave Weigel, who's a Bernie kind of acolyte and fan, right?
00:41:22.000He has a piece today titled, Sanders may be on the verge of another New Hampshire win.
00:41:25.000Democrats aren't ready to get behind him.
00:41:27.000This is according to the Washington Post.
00:41:30.000He says that in the contest final hour, Sanders has minimized his own criticism of the party, pitching his campaign as a chance for the state to get things right and pick an electable candidate who will supercharge voter enthusiasm.
00:41:40.000But Sanders had already won New Hampshire once by a 21-point landslide.
00:41:43.000Unlikely to beat him here, rival candidates and skeptical voters are still asking whether Sanders and his movement could be trusted to win a general election.
00:41:50.000And you can see that people are very nervous about this.
00:41:52.000Gavin Newsom, the garbage governor of California, he says he's nervous about pretty much all the Democrats.
00:41:56.000He says that we're all anxious about Sanders and Bloomberg and Warren and all these people as well they should be.
00:42:02.000Talking to all the governors the last 48 hours, there's deep anxiety that we're not publicly communicating around what is potentially emerging as a Bernie Sanders ascendancy with the Elizabeth Warren wing of the party and the prospects, as you were mentioning in the last segment, that Bloomberg moves into that and you're in a place of civil war.
00:43:51.000Okay, well, good luck with this, because this is exactly what Hillary Clinton said, and then nobody showed up, because it turns out nobody's enthused about what you guys are pitching.
00:43:59.000Here's Trump yesterday at a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, drawing bigger crowds than any of the Democrats who are actually running for a nomination right now.
00:44:05.000Here is Trump saying, yeah, our enthusiasm is way bigger than the Democratic enthusiasm right now.
00:44:10.000You know, they always talk about the Democrats.
00:44:49.000He says, with essentially no pretense about why he was doing it, the president brazenly retaliated Friday against two witnesses who gave truthful testimony in the House's impeachment inquiry.
00:44:57.000He fired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a U.S.
00:44:59.000ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, and he also fired a third man, Lieutenant Colonel Yevgeny Vindman, merely for being the brother of the first.
00:45:05.000This is part of, by the way, of a broader cut down in federal staffing, so it's not wholly true that this was just about going after these people.
00:45:12.000Trump essentially admitted his retaliatory motive on Saturday when he tweeted that he sacked Vindman in part for having reported content of my perfect calls incorrectly.
00:45:20.000If this were a criminal investigation and Alexander Vindman and Sondland had given their testimony to a grand jury, this Friday night massacre could have been a crime.
00:45:26.000At the very least, it ought to be impeachable.
00:45:28.000If Richard Nixon was to be impeached for authorizing hush money for witnesses, Yeah, good luck with this.
00:45:35.000Is this a move that Trump should have made?
00:45:36.000for complying with subpoenas and giving truthful testimony about presidential misconduct should make for a high crime or misdemeanor as well.
00:45:52.000But for Trump, the rip on Vindman is that Vindman was deliberately misinterpreting what he was saying because he doesn't like Trump personally and didn't like his Ukraine policy that it had nothing to do with Trump actually committing a crime per se.
00:46:04.000Okay, so George Conway saying let's impeach him again.
00:46:48.000If the Democrats had any brains at all, they would be taking a second look at Amy Klobuchar.
00:46:51.000She's the only candidate who has won in a purple state and won repeatedly.
00:46:55.000And when Elizabeth Warren was saying, I've won a Senate seat in Massachusetts.
00:46:58.000Yeah, you could slap a blue D on a bag of dog crap in Massachusetts and it would win a Senate seat.
00:47:03.000And they effectively do that every six years in Massachusetts.
00:47:06.000But in Minnesota, you actually have to be pretty good at politics.
00:47:08.000Klobuchar happens to be a talented politician with actually a pretty stellar intellectual background.
00:47:12.000And this is not coming from somebody who agrees with Klobuchar a lot.
00:47:14.000Like, I disagree with her tremendously.
00:47:16.000But the Democrats are fools not to be looking seriously at Klobuchar and instead be looking at, like, Pete Buttigieg, who's the mayor of seven people.
00:47:24.000And whose father was a Gramsci scholar.
00:47:28.000Antonio Gramsci was one of the founders of the Marxist movement in Italy in 1918-1919.
00:47:33.000And his dad, so Buttigieg's dad was like the guy on Gramsci.
00:48:26.000If there are mathematical rounding errors, why can't those be adjusted?
00:48:32.000Because these sheets are signed not only by the precinct chair and the precinct secretary, they're also signed by campaign representatives.
00:48:44.000And so for us, they are the official record of what took place in the room.
00:48:49.000Even he is realizing that this is like a disaster area.
00:49:09.000Meanwhile, by the way, as I say, Elizabeth Warren may be done after this, which consolidates some of the vote for Bernie.
00:49:15.000Presumably some of the Warren voters move over to Bernie, but many of those Warren voters could theoretically move over to Klobuchar.
00:49:20.000And there are reports that Democrats are depressed.
00:49:23.000Really, there is serious depression setting in for Democrats because they are looking at this field, and this field is a bag of nothing.
00:49:30.000I mean, Michael Tamasky has a piece over at the Daily Beast today called, They're voting in New Hampshire, but this Democrat just wants to jump off a bridge.
00:49:40.000This Democrat just wants to jump off a bridge.
00:49:56.000Yet the party lacks the stones to tell these self-important second-tier states to go stuff it.
00:50:00.000The candidates don't look like winners.
00:50:01.000The party looks like it might be headed toward a face-off between a billionaire and a man who wants to ban billionaires, neither of them really Democrats, and Donald Trump is gonna be reelected.
00:50:09.000That is a hell of a take from one of your fans, Democratic Party.
00:50:32.000So there's an article by Kate Wagner in the New Republic, and she's very, very upset about a new order, a proposed executive order titled, Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again.
00:50:42.000The order essentially forces a rewrite of the 1962 Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture, which mandated that an official architectural style must be avoided for federal buildings, and that new buildings should be exemplary of the time in which they are built.
00:50:54.000Right, so this means that you have ugly-ass buildings all over Washington, D.C., because the 1960s and 1970s were the home of what were called the Brutalist architecture.
00:51:02.000Now, that name is pretty descriptive, Brutalism.
00:52:01.000Now, listen, I'm no interior decorator, but let me just say that if you were going to build something for all time, not just for the Whim of the moment.
00:52:08.000And you're putting carpets down your den.
00:52:10.000You don't get the green shag carpet from the 1970s.
00:52:12.000That thing's going to be obsolete inside of seven years.
00:52:14.000What instead you do is you tend to build in time-tested and honored tradition.
00:52:18.000And this is true for great cities all over the world.
00:52:20.000Great cities all over the world are built in particular style.
00:52:22.000If you were to build brutalist architecture in the center of Paris, it would mar the landscape, obviously.
00:52:27.000In Jerusalem, you must, by law, build things from Jerusalem stone so that all of the city is of a piece.
00:52:33.000Right, so the new executive order was to suggest that we stop building crap like that and instead we build some of these classical buildings, right, which are much better looking.
00:52:40.000They are much nicer looking, they're more beautiful, they stand the test of time.
00:52:43.000Nobody goes and gawks at the front of the FBI building.
00:53:07.000The proposition put forth by this new executive order, which is spearheaded by the National Civic Arts Society, a conservative non-profit, would essentially scrap the old guidelines in favor of a mandate that establishes a classical style inspired by Greek and Roman architecture as the default.
00:53:19.000The American Institute of Architects swiftly published vehement denunciations of the plan on the grounds it would stifle architecture and violate the free thought and artistic expression that are essential to a democracy.
00:53:29.000Comparisons have already been made to Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin.
00:53:42.000If you actually go and look at the old Soviet architecture, it's really, really horrible looking.
00:53:46.000The abrupt aesthetic reversal heralded by this executive order has some obvious underpinnings, beginning with the fact that the reversion to a mandatory classical style reflects the architectural philosophies of white supremacists online.
00:53:58.000Oh, so it was the 4chan folks who decided that they wanted beautiful buildings.
00:54:03.000Don't diverse people like good-looking buildings?
00:54:06.000It seems pretty obvious to me that that FBI building is a piece of crap.
00:54:08.000It seems pretty obvious to everybody who's ever walked by it, but apparently that makes you a racist.
00:54:12.000This is the inevitable result of an architectural faux-populism that has been sown in the conscience of American architecture since postmodernism.
00:54:19.000The effort to stifle aesthetic expression in public architecture by instating a mandatory style is wrong for all the reasons that the AIA and the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board lay out in opposition.
00:54:28.000The proposal Speaking as an architecture critic, this is insane and borderline totalitarian.
00:54:31.000Because the same people who say that we shouldn't have lobbyists deciding exactly how anything is done in Washington, D.C.
00:54:35.000Artists, architects, engineers, art or architecture critics, members of the building industry, or any other members of the public that are affiliated with any interest group or organization involved in architecture.
00:54:44.000Speaking as an architecture critic, this is insane and borderline totalitarian.
00:54:48.000Weird, because the same people who say that we shouldn't have lobbyists deciding exactly how anything is done in Washington, D.C.
00:54:53.000Say that architecture lobbyists should decide how architecture is done in Washington, D.C.
00:54:57.000Whether we like to admit it or not, says this New Republic columnist, Trump is an architectural president.
00:55:04.000Like all building peddlers, Trump is subjected to the gaze of architecture critics who have occasionally praised his work but have mostly often panned it.
00:55:10.000Though Trump has put up buildings ranging from 19th century retrofits to late modern skyscrapers, his personal style is a combination of 2000s bling and Louis XIV.
00:55:18.000His choice of modernism for the style of the Trump Towers in Chicago and New York can simply be explained away by the fact that modern all-glass buildings, our hegemonic aesthetic signature of corporate capitalism, is the style of big business.
00:55:31.000Most of Trump's architecture is not this stuff.
00:55:35.000But somehow Trump's fascist tendencies lead to a preference for neoclassical architecture?
00:55:42.000Eventually, this columnist admits, neoclassical architecture isn't always a right-wing dog whistle.
00:55:46.000Yeah, because it's almost never a right-wing dog whistle.
00:55:49.000Most architects are required to learn about it in their architectural history classes.
00:55:52.000Many architects train at architecture schools, most notably the University of Notre Dame, that specialize in traditional Western architectural language.
00:55:58.000These architects sometimes go to work on new buildings.
00:56:00.000Many apply their trade in restorations.
00:56:02.000There is beauty and nuance in classical architecture.
00:56:05.000So what exactly are you whining about?
00:56:07.000But apparently, if you don't want those hideous, brutalist buildings, then you're a racist.
00:56:14.000So David Brooks has an extraordinarily long piece in The Atlantic today, talking about the nuclear family and suggesting the nuclear family was a mistake.
00:56:22.000He says, the family structure we've held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many.
00:56:28.000It's time to figure out better ways to live together.
00:56:30.000So David Brooks, as he so often does, strings together a bunch of true statements to come up with a false conclusion.
00:56:35.000This article basically suggests that the concept of the nuclear family is inherently bad.
00:56:42.000That the nuclear family is somehow created at the expense of extended family and community and society building.
00:57:08.000So he comes up with, he critiques The nuclear family existing in isolation without extended family.
00:57:15.000But then his solution is not, okay, well, we need the nuclear family and the extended family.
00:57:19.000His solution is the nuclear family no longer exists, so we have to build these tribal structures around non-nuclear families.
00:57:26.000And he comes up with, like, all the wrong solutions.
00:57:28.000So here's what David Brooks has to say about the nuclear family.
00:57:30.000And this, again, is a failure to recognize that old standards of morality, when it comes to the nuclear family, that you need a mom and a dad and kids, and that you should have grandparents around, and that government structures, by the way, totally undercut that, right?
00:57:44.000What Social Security actually did in many cases was prevent Children from feeling the need to take care of their parents because Social Security was going to do that.
00:57:51.000It used to be 50, 60 years ago before Social Security got enormous, that everybody sort of assumed that when your parents got older, you were going to have to build a mother-in-law unit on your house and then your mother-in-law is going to have to stay there.
00:58:02.000I mean, they were literally called mother-in-law units.
00:58:04.000There was always the assumption that as your parents age, you're going to have to take care of them.
00:58:08.000But government incentives changed that structure.
00:58:10.000In any case, David Brooks, he starts again from the right premises and ends in the wrong place, which is so typical of people who are unwilling to admit that maybe we've gotten a few things wrong over the past 60 years in terms of social policy, particularly with regard to the differences between the sexes and the necessity of having a mother and a father.
00:58:26.000Many of us have somewhere in our family history, dozens of people celebrating Thanksgiving or some other holiday around a makeshift stretch of family tables.
00:58:33.000Siblings, cousin aunts, uncles, great aunts.
00:58:35.000The grandparents are telling old family stories for the 37th time.
00:58:38.000The old sirs start squabbling about whose memory is better after the meal.
00:58:41.000There are piles of plates in the sink.
00:58:42.000Squads of children conspiring mischievously in the basement.
00:58:45.000Groups of young parents huddle in a hallway making plans.
00:58:48.000This particular family is the one depicted in Barry Levinson's 1990 film, Avalon, based on his own childhood in Baltimore.
00:58:54.000As the years go by, in the movie, the extended family plays a smaller and smaller role.
00:58:58.000By the 1960s, there's no extended family at Thanksgiving.
00:59:00.000It's just a young father and mother and their son and daughter eating turkey off trays in front of the TV.
00:59:05.000In the final scene, the main character is living alone in a nursing home, wondering what happened.
00:59:10.000The story of the family, once a dense cluster of many siblings and extended kin, fragmenting into ever smaller and more fragile forms.
00:59:16.000The initial results of that fragmentation, the nuclear family, didn't seem so bad.
00:59:19.000But then, because the nuclear family is so brittle, the fragmentation continued.
00:59:23.000In many sectors of society, nuclear families fragmented into single-parent families, single-parent families into chaotic families, or no families.
00:59:30.000Okay, this is where his narrative goes off the rails.
00:59:32.000So it is true that when you create a family structure, you should do so, and you should look to do so, in places where you have support structures.
00:59:38.000We talk about this on my show all the time, right?
00:59:42.000Well, because today, for example, I have like an errand that I need to run with my daughter.
00:59:46.000I'm working and my wife has an appointment.
00:59:48.000My dad is picking up the slack, right?
00:59:50.000When we have our next baby, which should come sometime in the next few weeks.
00:59:53.000When that happens, my parents are going to step in and help.
00:59:55.000We deliberately live close to my parents in order to make this happen.
00:59:58.000By the way, with travel now, it is also true.
01:00:01.000That having an extended family that is available to you is much more possible than ever before.
01:00:05.000When my sister, who lives over on the East Coast, has a problem, she calls my parents and my mom gets on the next plane and she's over there and just stays with them to help out.
01:00:12.000Or when my wife has this baby, her parents are going to come down and they're going to help out too.
01:00:16.000Like having extended family available is obviously necessary.
01:00:19.000Not only that, having an extended tribe, and by tribe I don't mean genetically associated, I mean a group of people with whom you have a common interest available is really good.
01:00:28.000Like when my wife has her baby, and this happens with every baby in our Jewish community, whenever somebody has a baby, for the next three weeks every meal is taken care of.
01:00:35.000Like somebody in the family, we actually have like a full schedule online, and we will all claim a meal, and we'll all drop off a meal with the family of the baby that was just born, so that the wife doesn't have to cook, the mom doesn't have to cook.
01:00:45.000For like three weeks to make sure that she's able to take care of the kid, and take care of the dad too, and all of that.
01:00:50.000It is true you need social structures.
01:00:52.000But what's weird about David Brooks' piece is that his argument is that the nuclear family was a myth.
01:00:58.000No, the nuclear family is an inherent part of this.
01:01:00.000The nuclear family exists with the rest of the social structure.
01:01:03.000David Brooks concludes in this piece that basically extended clans fell away, the nuclear family was left, and the nuclear family wasn't strong enough to bear all the pressures that were put on it by outside forces.
01:01:14.000Well, that's sort of true, and it's sort of not, because as David Brooks acknowledges, the nuclear family is still the standard in high-income America.
01:01:20.000Now, he says that's because it's easier to have a nuclear family when you're high-income.
01:02:07.000And if you violate those three things, you're going to be poor, right?
01:02:09.000Or at least there's a better shot that you're going to be poor in the United States by leaps and bounds.
01:02:14.000But Brooke seems to assume that it's harder to form a nuclear family these days, when the truth is, it's actually easier than ever to form a nuclear family these days.
01:03:05.000An extended family is one or more families in a supporting web.
01:03:07.000Your spouse and children come first, but there are also cousins, in-laws, grandparents, a complex web of relationships among say 7, 10, 20 people.
01:03:15.000If a mother dies, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents are there to step in.
01:03:18.000If a relationship between a father and a child ruptures, others can fill the breach.
01:03:21.000Extended families have more people to share the unexpected burdens when a kid gets sick in the middle of the day or when an adult unexpectedly loses a job.
01:03:29.000A detached nuclear family, by contrast, is an intense set of relationships among, say, four people.
01:03:33.000If one relationship breaks, there are no shock absorbers.
01:03:35.000In a nuclear family, the end of the marriage means the end of the family as it was previously understood.
01:03:41.000It is also true that if you want an extended family, you know what's very helpful?
01:03:44.000Having two parents involved in the extended family.
01:03:47.000Even in the stories I'm telling about my own family, my parents are involved, my wife's parents are involved, right?
01:03:51.000We now have two sets of grandparents who are able to pitch in.
01:03:54.000My wife's siblings can come over and babysit.
01:03:57.000My siblings are available if we need help, and I'm available to them.
01:04:01.000In order to build a big web, a network of relationships, you do have to have a nuclear family at the center.
01:04:05.000The reason that I'm pushing this is that the title of this article is that the nuclear family was a mistake.
01:04:11.000No, the death of the extended family was a mistake.
01:04:13.000The nuclear family is a longtime part of human history, and his case that he makes that the nuclear family didn't exist until the 1950s is obviously untrue.
01:04:52.000He ends up suggesting that the cure for lack of fathers in the African-American family, fathers sticking around in the home, is social networks.
01:05:09.000Harvard did a study where it talked about lack of fathers in the black community and it said that a lack of one father in the black community can be replaced as long as the surrounding community has a high percentage of fathers.
01:05:17.000In other words, you do need nuclear families.
01:05:19.000It can't just be a matriarchy taking care of a bunch of kids with no fathers present at all because they've created a social network.
01:05:40.000He says it's no longer relevant because women want to work and because the idea of a nuclear family rests on the fact that women have to stay home.
01:06:09.000He says, Well, again, now he's just talking about the loss of community generally, with which I totally agree, but I don't understand why this is supposed to come at the expense of the nuclear family.
01:06:39.000He says, back in the 17th and 18th centuries when European Protestants came to North America, their relatively individualistic culture existed alongside the Native Americans' very communal culture.
01:06:48.000In his book, Tribes, Sebastian Junger describes what happened next.
01:06:50.000While European settlers kept defecting to go live with Native American families, almost no Native Americans ever defected to go live with European families.
01:06:57.000Europeans occasionally captured Native Americans and forced them to come with them.
01:07:00.000They taught them English and educated them in Western ways, but almost every time they were able, the indigenous Americans fled.
01:07:05.000European settlers were sometimes captured by Native Americans.
01:07:09.000When you read such accounts, you can't help but wonder whether our civilization has somehow made a gigantic mistake.
01:07:14.000It's a very weird example to choose, given the fact that the nuclear family and extended kin were a hallmark of American life for most of American history.
01:08:05.000Again, because you have now said that a kid who is 30 staying with mom and dad is the same as a kid who is 30 married with three kids living within a mile of mom and dad.
01:08:14.000If you're going to create kinship networks, the nuclear family remains at the center of that.
01:08:18.000And then he has this very weird situation where he says African Americans have always relied on extended family more than white Americans do.
01:08:26.000He says, the black extended family survived even under slavery and all the forced family separations that involved.
01:08:31.000Family was essential in the Jim Crow South.
01:08:34.000And then he said, government policy sometimes made it more difficult for this family form to thrive.
01:08:37.000That is also true, but this happened identically at the same time as the death of nuclear family in the black community.
01:08:45.000But you're gonna need a lot of nuclear families to make a network.
01:08:47.000So bottom line here is the nuclear family was not a mistake.
01:08:49.000The nuclear family is, was, and will continue to be since biblical times, the standard for human living.
01:08:55.000The question is whether we can create social fabric, and that requires commonality of interest.
01:08:59.000And this is the thing that Brooks is unwilling to say.
01:09:01.000The bottom line is, all of the areas of American life typically in which nuclear families have formed the core of a broader social network happen inside religious communities.
01:09:10.000And he's unwilling to say that people need to get involved in social networking via common interest again, because the bottom line is, as common interest fragments, And, as nuclear family fragments, there's nothing left to hold us together.
01:09:23.000One, make responsible decisions about your own childbearing and rearing.
01:09:26.000Get married, have babies, and two, you need a social network of common interest, and that involves seriously thinking about your own values and getting involved with others on a social level.
01:09:35.000And yes, that might mean that we might need to go back to church at a higher level.
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