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00:00:58.000According to CNBC.com, the jobs market turned in a stellar performance in November, with non-farm payroll surging by 266,000.
00:01:04.000The unemployment rate fell again to 3.5%, which is effectively full employment, according to the Labor Department numbers released this Friday, by the way.
00:01:13.000The number of people who are in the jobs market is now back to pre-recession levels in terms of percentages, which is a great thing.
00:01:18.000These totals easily beat the Wall Street consensus.
00:01:20.000Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for solid job growth of about 187,000.
00:01:25.000They saw the unemployment rate holding steady from October's 3.6%.
00:01:29.000The decline in November's jobless rate came amid a corresponding 0.1 percentage point drop in the labor force participation rates to 63.2%.
00:01:37.000Stocks opened sharply higher in reaction to the better-than-expected report, and bond yields also surged.
00:01:42.000Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, said, bottom line, America is working.
00:02:07.000So this has been an extremely long recovery.
00:02:10.000Part of the reason for that is because it was a very slow recovery at the beginning under Barack Obama, who obviously constricted the ability of that recovery to grow.
00:02:18.000So you've had this long, slow climb as opposed to the explosive growth that you've sometimes seen in the aftermath of other recessions.
00:02:25.000With that said, These are very, very good numbers.
00:02:27.000The jobs growth, again, was the best since January.
00:02:30.000While hopes were already up, much of that was based on the return of GM workers following a lengthy strike.
00:02:35.000That dynamic did indeed boost employment in motor vehicles and parts by 41,300, part of an overall 54,000 gain in manufacturing.
00:02:42.000So manufacturing is doing quite well right now.
00:02:46.000People are out and they're buying and they're getting ready for Christmas.
00:02:48.000The job gains were spread among a multitude of sectors.
00:02:51.000Healthcare added 45,000 positions after contributing just 12,000 in October.
00:02:55.000It's always funny how whenever we discuss the government takeover of healthcare, very few people actually discuss what happens to the millions of healthcare workers who are in the healthcare sector that is much derided and put upon.
00:03:05.000Like what happens to all those health insurance workers?
00:03:07.000Do they just magically pick up jobs at the government?
00:03:11.000Leisure and hospitality increased by 45,000.
00:03:14.000Professional and business services rose by 31,000.
00:03:16.000The two sectors, respectively, are up 219,000 and 278,000 over the past 12 months, which Wage gains were also a touch better than expectations.
00:03:26.000Average hourly earnings rose by 3.1% from a year ago, which is a very solid statistic.
00:03:30.000The average work week held steady at 34.4 hours.
00:03:33.000So all this talk that you hear from Democrats about people are having to work two jobs to make ends meet.
00:03:38.000Well, if they were, then the average work week would not be 34.4 hours.
00:03:42.000And the fact is, Americans are working less for more.
00:03:44.000They're working less for more pay than they were 30, 40 years ago.
00:03:47.000Economists have been looking for wage gains of 3%, a separate gauge of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and the underemployed declined as well, falling to 6.9%, one-tenth of a percentage point below October.
00:03:59.000Also, There are retroactive revisions on the economy.
00:04:02.000September's estimate went up 13,000 to 193,000 jobs gained.
00:04:04.000The initial October account increased by 28,000 to 156,000 jobs gained.
00:04:47.000US economy only needs to create about 107,000 jobs a month to keep that unemployment rate steady, according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve.
00:04:53.000Today's job report, more than any other report in recent months, squashed any lingering concerns about an imminent recession in the United States economy, said Gad Levinon, head of the conference board's Labor Market Institute.
00:05:03.000Employment growth also shows no signs of slowing further, despite the historically low unemployment rate.
00:05:08.000Now, there are sort of shadows of some bad news here.
00:05:12.000So, for example, retail companies only added a couple thousand net hires as gains in general merchandise of $22,000 and motor and vehicle parts dealers of $8,000 were offset by an $18,000 loss in clothing and clothing accessories.
00:05:24.000In other words, online businesses are really having a serious impact on the retail sector.
00:05:29.000The recession fears that have been surging seem to be waning just a little bit.
00:05:34.000Now, how much of this is due to the Fed loosening rates?
00:05:38.000I mean, the Fed continues to loosen rates in the midst of a very solid economy.
00:05:44.000But this is obviously very good news for the President of the United States.
00:05:48.000Almost 160 million people employed in the United States.
00:05:51.000This is the 24th record breaker for President Trump, according to CNS News.
00:05:56.000The unemployment rate, as I say, is now at a 50-year low.
00:05:59.000The civilian non-institutional population in the United States is 260 million.
00:06:03.000That includes all people 16 and older who don't live in an institution like prison, nursing home, long-term care facility.
00:06:09.000164 million of those people are participating in the labor force, meaning that they either had a job Or actively seeking one during the last month.
00:06:15.000So we've got a labor force participation rate of 63.2%.
00:06:19.000The labor force participation rate has never been higher than 67.3%, which was a level last achieved in 2000.
00:06:25.000The Trump era high was set last month at 63.3%.
00:06:29.000Economists say that a lot of retiring baby boomers are accounting for some of the decline since the turn of the century.
00:06:36.000I mean, the numbers are just astonishing.
00:06:37.000The November unemployment rates among adult men are 3.2%.
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00:08:58.000Okay, so, as I say, President Trump should be running away with this thing.
00:09:01.000But according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, he is not.
00:09:05.000If you look at the national numbers, the fact is that Trump's national numbers are not particularly good.
00:09:10.000The general election polls show him trailing pretty much everyone and by fairly significant numbers.
00:09:14.000The last polls that I've seen were from last, maybe about two weeks ago, week and a half ago from SurveyUSA.
00:09:22.000That poll showed Biden leading Trump by 13 points, Sanders leading Trump by 12, Warren leading him by 7, Buttigieg by 7, even Kamala Harris was leading him by 5.
00:10:02.000Right now he's running extremely competitive in exactly those battleground states that he was extremely competitive in last time.
00:10:08.000And not a single battleground state in the United States is worse off economically than when Trump took office, which is a hell of a strong pitch.
00:10:16.000It means that if the election becomes a referendum on Trump's personality, he's in trouble.
00:10:19.000But if the referendum is on anything else, if it's on the economy, and if it's on the Democrats, the Democrats are in serious, serious trouble.
00:10:25.000It is why virtually every election's sort of statistical analysis shows that if Trump were generic Republican, he would be up 10 points right now.
00:10:33.000He'd be in the mid-50s with these economic numbers.
00:10:54.000All of that is also predicated on him having no opponent.
00:10:57.000And the Democrats, they've got some personality flaws.
00:10:59.000They've got some personality problems.
00:11:01.000And never were those on better display than yesterday.
00:11:05.000Now, as I've been saying for a long time, the best option for the Democrats, and I don't mean to strategize in favor of people who I hope lose, but Joe Biden is the best option for the Democrats.
00:11:14.000He's the best option for the Democrats for a simple reason.
00:11:31.000And so people don't have strong opinions about them.
00:11:33.000That's sort of how people feel about Joe Biden generally.
00:11:35.000It's all baked into the cake in the same way that it's baked into the cake for Trump.
00:11:39.000Also, he doesn't seem as scary as the other candidates.
00:11:42.000Trump, his re-election is going to be based largely on him pointing at people like Sanders and Warren and saying, listen, we have the best economy in American history going right now.
00:11:51.000You want to turn that over to these kooks?
00:11:53.000You want, like, I don't care what you think of me.
00:11:55.000You really want Elizabeth Warren in charge of this economy?
00:11:58.000You want to take this economy and you want to just trash it?
00:12:16.000He doesn't seem to have these same sort of radical ideas.
00:12:19.000He doesn't seem like he's going to be particularly effective as president.
00:12:21.000I mean, the man's a near octogenarian.
00:12:23.000And so the fact that he is unscary is exactly what cuts in his favor.
00:12:28.000There's only one problem for Joe Biden, which is that he happens to be Joe Biden.
00:12:31.000His best option would be to play dead right now.
00:12:34.000Really, I mean, I understand he has to win primaries and all of that, but the fact is that the Democratic population sort of feels the same way about this that my analysis suggests that most Americans feel about this, which is why Joe Biden continues to lead in the race, even though he can no longer speak English.
00:12:48.000Between Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, I am not sure.
00:12:52.000I mean, we definitely have to establish English as a national language, I think, just so our politicians speak it.
00:12:57.000Because as we will see, none of these people speak English, and I'll be honest with you, I'm very much looking forward to a debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:13:06.000Mainly because it's going to be a debate between the Swedish chef from the Muppets and Chewbacca.
00:13:11.000And nobody's going to know what's being said, but it's going to be really amusing.
00:13:14.000It's just going to be Donald Trump going, and Joe Biden going, It'll be great.
00:13:55.000Shows why free speech is important in a free society, how it's being threatened, and what we can do to fight back.
00:14:00.000It also takes you behind the scenes on a couple of my speeches.
00:14:02.000Takes you behind the scenes of my 2017 Berkeley speech where the university had to spend $600,000 on security because Antifa decided to show up and make trouble outside.
00:14:18.000It also features a bunch of other voices that you love.
00:14:20.000People like Jordan Peterson and Brett Weinstein.
00:14:23.000Even Cornel West and Obama and Van Jones show up.
00:14:25.000It's a film you should take your liberal friends to go see because if we can't agree that free speech is important, we can't agree on anything.
00:14:40.000As I say, Joe Biden is the safest pick for the Democrats.
00:14:45.000And, you know, even his sort of shortcomings, I don't think actually cut against him.
00:14:50.000I will say that, I mean, he's old and he's slow, but he's angry and militant.
00:14:56.000Yesterday, it's the perfect encapsulation of what our elections have become.
00:15:02.000A bunch of silent generation people yelling at each other and challenging each other to feats of manhood.
00:15:09.000So Joe Biden, gets into it with this portly gentleman who apparently is an Elizabeth Warren supporter shows up at one of his events in Iowa and this portly Elizabeth Warren supporter questions Joe Biden about his son Hunter Biden and suggests that Joe Biden is corrupt because Joe Biden didn't do anything to stop Hunter Biden from taking jobs using his father's name even though Hunter Biden it turns out is a is a useless ne'er-do-well who simply cashes in on the fact that his daddy is very famous.
00:15:36.000So Joe Biden got very angry about this and proceeds to call the man a fat old and stupid Which is no way to go through life.
00:15:42.000Here's Joe Biden being Joe Biden, man.
00:15:46.000You're selling access to the president just like he is.
00:16:10.000You think I thought you said I was old for you?
00:16:13.000he called the man fat right in the middle of the thing look fat look fat by the way he was this close saying fat so is he not right he was this far away he was gonna give him a peloton bike look fat It's so good.
00:16:50.000Not like how he had challenged him to a push-up contest earlier.
00:16:52.000By the way, if this old dude had gotten in a push-up contest with Joe Biden and defeated him, it would have ended Joe Biden's campaign on the spot.
00:16:59.000It would have been unbelievably great.
00:17:01.000So, tip, if you are a Trump fan who wants to make Joe Biden's candidacy obsolete, somehow tempt Joe Biden into a push-up contest and then do it with him.
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00:19:06.000Between the fact that it is getting dark early, which means you go home and you just want to eat dinner, and then you want to have a second dinner.
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00:19:29.000Everybody who ever talks about diets talks about how diets are a bad idea because when you get into a diet, it's very easy to fall out of that diet.
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00:21:28.000By the way, I love that this guy has a sense of humor about Joe Biden saying like, OK, well, yeah, Joe Biden got militant, but at least he's alive.
00:22:28.000Yesterday, the best thing Joe Biden did was call that dude a fatso.
00:22:31.000And the worst thing he did was release this stupid ad suggesting that voters give a damn what Emmanuel Macron thinks of Donald Trump.
00:22:41.000So Biden releases this ad because Trump was at NATO and some of the other leaders were talking bleep about Trump behind his back.
00:22:48.000And Biden releases this ad talking about how Donald Trump is not respected by world leaders because that's exactly what a voter in Ohio cares about, right?
00:22:56.000In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, like, oh my God, if Justin Trudeau doesn't like President Trump, what are we going to do?
00:23:12.000My administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.
00:23:19.000Didn't expect that reaction, but that's okay.
00:23:21.000If we give Donald Trump four more years, we'll have a great deal of difficulty if ever being able to recover America's standing in the world and our capacity to bring nations together.
00:23:33.000Okay, so then he says, we need a leader.
00:23:35.000So the Pod Save America bros were loving this, right?
00:23:38.000The Pod Save America bros were like, oh, what a great ad from Joe Biden.
00:24:11.000Because originally, there were like a couple of people who laughed, and then Trump said, I wasn't expecting that, and then there was a big laugh at what Trump said.
00:24:17.000Okay, but they actually cut the big laugh in front of Trump's laugh line.
00:27:39.000So, in any case, is any of this a true threat to Trump?
00:27:42.000I think the problem for the Democrats is Not as much as they would like.
00:27:48.000I mean, like, I think Joe Biden has a shot against Trump.
00:27:50.000You look at the polls and it's hard to say he doesn't have a shot against Trump.
00:27:52.000But by the same token, is he exciting?
00:27:56.000Like, the good news for him is he's boring and he's non-threatening.
00:27:58.000The bad news for him is that he excites nobody.
00:28:00.000So you're just going to have to hope that the Democratic base hates Trump so much that they show up to vote for Biden.
00:28:05.000Democrats kind of counted on that in 2016.
00:28:06.000It didn't work out terrifically well for them.
00:28:09.000It may not work out that well for them in the aftermath of impeachment if impeachment ends up just kind of dying a quiet death.
00:28:14.000Then you could see some pretty, some pretty disillusioned Democratic supporters.
00:28:18.000And if all of these woke candidates, these progressive candidates drop out, you could see exactly the Bernie effect in 2016.
00:28:23.000There were a lot of Bernie Sanders voters who did not show up to the polls to vote for Hillary Clinton last time around.
00:28:29.000Now I will note that again, this race is becoming fun because everybody is going wild and crazy.
00:28:34.000There's a Buttigieg event in the last couple of days.
00:28:36.000A couple of black folks in South Bend, Indiana decided to put together an event in favor of Pete Buttigieg, and a white, probably a boomer, decides to get up and lecture the Black Lives Matter protesters.
00:28:49.000Well, he's a Black Lives Matter protester.
00:28:50.000He decides to get up and lecture the black supporters of Pete Buttigieg.
00:28:54.000That's not the part that I'm pointing to here.
00:28:56.000If we're talking about fun in American politics, I'm talking about the lady in the front row, who you will see or hear here, getting up and waving her cane at this guy, trying to smack him with the cane.
00:30:07.000But we can always count on the youth of our country to save us, right?
00:30:10.000Because it's not like we would use children as props or anything.
00:30:13.000Speaking of using children as props and Pete Buttigieg, so last night Pete Buttigieg held an event and a seven-year-old girl got up and asked Pete Buttigieg about My Body, My Choice.
00:30:23.000Really, because that's not, now this puts out this video of course, because nothing is more charming than small children You believe in a woman's right to choose about her own body?
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00:34:53.000I know a lot of folks who are just like Pete Buttigieg.
00:34:55.000When I was at Harvard Law School, there were 20, I would say 50% of the class was like Pete Buttigieg, meaning highly intelligent people who went into consulting, sort of down the line liberals in terms of government spending, but not overtly and deeply anti-capitalism, not explicitly anti the American system.
00:35:14.000They weren't people trying to tear down free markets from the inside out.
00:35:17.000They just sort of wanted to curb the reach of free markets.
00:35:21.000That's sort of where Pete Buttigieg used to be.
00:35:23.000And it's where, in his better moments, he sort of lives.
00:35:27.000But this is where the New York Times hates him, because the left has moved left.
00:35:30.000Pete Buttigieg, as of 2011, was not this.
00:35:33.000And when he was working at McKinsey, which again is a very, very famous consulting company, McKinsey does business management, and they do it for a lot of clients that sort of toe-tag liberals don't necessarily like.
00:35:45.000So the New York Times is angry at him.
00:35:47.000They say Pete Buttigieg worked nearly three years for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
00:35:51.000He has presented that experience as a kind of capitalist credential, distinguishing him from some rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination.
00:35:57.000They'll try the socialist thing, Buttigieg told an Iowa audience in September.
00:36:00.000He said, but the thing is, I got started in the private sector.
00:36:03.000The thing is, says the New York Times, Buttigieg has said precious little about his time at McKinsey.
00:36:07.000He's not named the clients for whom he worked, nor said much about what he did.
00:36:10.000He says his lips are sealed by an NDA he signed when he left the firm in 2010, and that he has asked the company to release him from the agreement, and has not yet agreed to do so.
00:36:20.000Buttigieg owes voters a more complete account of his time at the company.
00:36:23.000Voters seeking an alternative to Trump should demand that candidates not only reject Trump's positions, but also his behavior, including his refusal to share information about his health and his business dealings.
00:36:32.000This standard requires Buttigieg to talk about his time at McKinsey.
00:36:36.000It similarly requires Biden and Bernie Sanders to stop dragging their feet and release their health records to the public.
00:36:42.000The obligation to provide more information ultimately falls on Buttigieg.
00:36:45.000He must find a way to give voters more complete accounting of his time at the company.
00:36:48.000This is a coordinated hit, by the way.
00:36:49.000The Huffington Post has a similarly large article about Buttigieg and Buttigieg's unwillingness to turn over all the information about McKinsey.
00:36:59.000Buttigieg, for his part, says, I didn't do anything when I was at McKinsey.
00:37:10.000Would they be clients that Elizabeth Warren would be happy with?
00:37:12.000By the way, Elizabeth Warren is leading this charge.
00:37:14.000She's basically using the editors over at the New York Times and the Huffington Post as meat puppets at this point.
00:37:20.000She criticizes Buttigieg for not being transparent enough about McKinsey, and then they immediately start parroting that message.
00:37:24.000Here's Buttigieg saying, nothing to see here, nothing to see here, just move along, move along, these are not the droids you're looking for.
00:37:32.000It mostly consisted of preparing spreadsheets and PowerPoints, but I would be happy to be able to share more about the consulting work that I did.
00:37:40.000Can I ask, is there anybody that you regret representing?
00:39:13.000Led by Elizabeth Warren, presidential candidates and liberal economists are pushing an unorthodox pro-growth argument for raising taxes on the rich.
00:39:20.000Now, if you're making the Keynesian argument that if you take money from rich people, give it to poor people, and the poor people are more likely to spend, and that spending creates a multiplier effect in the economy, and this is going to lead to bottom-up growth, that's an argument that's been tried.
00:39:55.000Warren has ever proposed so many new taxes and spending programs and leaned so heavily into the argument that they would be, in economist parlance, pro-growth.
00:40:04.000According to the New York Times, that argument tries to reframe a classic debate about the economic pie in the United States by suggesting there is no trade-off between increasing the size of the pie and dividing the slices more equitably among all Americans.
00:40:16.000And this article actually suggests, on the basis of no evidence, none, that if you just take money away from rich people and you give it to other people, it does not matter how they spend the money, the mere taking away of the money is what is going to actually create the growth.
00:40:35.000As I say, the other argument, the sort of redistributionist argument, the bottom-up demand side argument, which is a bad economic argument.
00:40:42.000There's a supply side and demand side argument about economics.
00:40:44.000The supply side says that what creates economic growth is entrepreneurs creating new products you didn't even know that you wanted.
00:40:50.000And then, you want that product, and so you have to trade your labor for that product.
00:40:56.000That is the supply side economic argument.
00:40:58.000The demand side economic argument is if people who are lower down have more money, they spend more money on hamburgers and McDonald's has more jobs.
00:41:05.000It's not a particularly good argument.
00:41:07.000It tends to stagnate the economy rather than creating exactly the sort of new products and services and competition that you want.
00:41:13.000But now there's a new argument being made that Democrats are making that it does not matter how you spend the money at all.
00:41:32.000Noah Roffman has a great piece at Commentary Magazine talking about how confiscating wealth is the point.
00:41:41.000For the Democrats, it is not about how the wealth is spent or creating the wealth.
00:41:44.000It is the attempt to steal the wealth that is the point.
00:41:50.000Noah Rothman quotes the New York Times.
00:41:52.000Generations of economists across much of the ideological spectrum have long held that higher taxes reduce investment, slowing economic growth.
00:41:58.000Warren and other leading Democrats say the opposite.
00:42:02.000Rothman points out it doesn't take long before it becomes clear that progressives have not come to overturn the accumulated wisdom of many lifetimes of study and application.
00:42:10.000The financial ramifications associated with expropriating private property are a secondary concern.
00:42:15.000The confiscation of wealth alone is the point of the progressive enterprise.
00:42:20.000The Times observes, some liberal economists go further and say that simply taxing the rich would help growth no matter what the government did with the money.
00:42:27.000Okay, that's, again, based on nothing.
00:42:31.000Trump would run against this and win 100 times out of 100 times.
00:42:35.000Which is, again, why Joe Biden continues to lead in this race.
00:42:39.000Meanwhile, I do love the fact that Cory Booker is still standing in the wings shouting at the... Remember me?
00:43:33.000And meanwhile, you can see why Democrats are so reliant on impeachment.
00:43:36.000You can see why they're trying to move forward with this impeachment, even though they don't actually have the evidence for it.
00:43:40.000So Nancy Pelosi is already saying that the House is gonna draft up impeachment charges, and that this thing is going to happen maybe before Christmas.
00:43:47.000There could be a vote before Christmas to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors, then it goes to the Senate.
00:43:51.000Okay, so Nancy Pelosi yesterday went nuts.
00:43:53.000You can see that she feels like she's, the grip is slipping here, right?
00:43:56.000Pelosi, as she walks off stage, has this crazed moment, and it really is a crazed moment.
00:44:01.000And don't give me the, it's sexist to call it crazed, that's absolute bullcrap.
00:44:05.000Okay, Howard Dean had a yell, it ended his presidential campaign.
00:44:08.000So if the idea is that acting crazy is bad for you politically, then that should apply to Nancy Pelosi also.
00:44:15.000And somebody says to her, isn't the real reason that you Democrats are going after- Like, there are people who suggest, including actual Republicans in Congress, that the reason Democrats are going after Trump is because they hate him.
00:44:27.000Fairly good ev- Isn't- Is that why this is happening?
00:44:29.000And Pelosi turns around and says to James Rosen, who works for Sinclair Broadcasting, she turns around and she says to him, I'm a Catholic.
00:45:52.000She said it was disgusting, disgusting to be asked if she hates Trump.
00:45:55.000Because as a good Catholic who supports the idea that men can become women and women men, as a good Catholic who believes that same-sex marriage should be federally mandated, as a good Catholic who believes that abortion should be legal up till point of birth, and maybe beyond, Nancy Pelosi is very offended that you would use the word hate to describe her feelings about President Trump.
00:46:58.000And there's an opinion piece by Karen Tumulty over at the Washington Post defending Nancy Pelosi on this, saying she's such a good Catholic.
00:47:04.000One of the things every Catholic child is taught is that the word hate should never be used in connection with another human being.
00:47:10.000This admonition flows from the expansive Catholic interpretation of the Fifth Commandment.
00:47:14.000In a general audience last year in St.
00:47:16.000Peter's Square, Pope Francis declared that to hate is to murder in your heart.
00:47:21.000And then it talks about Nancy Pelosi's response.
00:47:23.000She has a question, her sincerity, and points out she is broken with Catholic teaching on big issues of doctrine, chief among them abortion.
00:47:23.000Pelosi told the New York Times in 2015.
00:47:28.000The church has their position, we have ours, which is that a woman has free will given to her by God, Pelosi told the New York Times in 2015.
00:47:36.000But those who know her well insist religious belief is at the core of everything Pelosi does.
00:47:40.000There are two pillars in her life in terms of her beliefs.
00:47:43.000Her Catholicism, a very deep faith, and her family.
00:47:46.000Her friend and fellow California Congresswoman, Anna Eshoo, told colleague Paul Kane on Thursday, this is the authentic Nancy.
00:47:53.000No small part of that was the influence of her mother, a daily communicant who at her funeral was referred to as being molded by Regina Cayley, the Easter prayer to Mary.
00:48:02.000My favorite part of this piece, by the way, That is the admission by Karen Tumulty that she actually understands what religious people believe.
00:48:10.000She'll only apply it to Nancy Pelosi, however.
00:48:12.000She says, Disgust to a Catholic is not the same as hatred.
00:48:15.000As Pelosi noted, political differences should be resolved in the 2020 election.
00:48:19.000So the case that is being made here is that Pelosi doesn't hate the president.
00:48:23.000She just has disdain for his activity.
00:48:26.000In other words, she hates the sinner, but not the sin.
00:48:29.000Weird that Karen Tumulty and the rest of the folks in the left-wing press will believe Nancy Pelosi when it comes to President Trump, but they will never believe a religious person when they talk about any amount of sin that a religious person discusses.
00:48:40.000There, it is motivated by animus and hatred and brutality.
00:48:44.000Eric Swalwell, when he's not advocating the nuclear annihilation of gun owners in the United States, is not farting on national TV.
00:48:51.000Eric Swalwell was on MSNBC and he said it's sexist to criticize Nancy Pelosi this way.
00:49:06.000Here's Eric Swalwell complaining that if you thought that that was a wild response by Nancy Pelosi, it's because you hate women or something.
00:50:16.000Yes, I'm sure this is all motivated by concern over the Constitution, and not at all motivated by any level of animus in the hearts of Democrats at all.
00:50:26.000They love Trump, they just hate his sin.
00:50:42.000This is just a wonderful, wonderful story.
00:50:44.000So remember that time that Colin Kaepernick had a tryout and then he decided to be like a complete jerk and not have the NFL tryout, have his own tryout and then release videos about how tough his life was and how people are very mean to him?
00:50:57.000Well, and wear a Kunta Kinte shirt while doing his tryout because he's a victim just like Kunta Kinte, the character of the slave in Roots.
00:51:06.000Well, now it turns out that one of the wide receivers who was actually at his tryout has now signed with the Washington Redskins, which is pretty fantastic.
00:51:13.000So Colin Kaepernick still does not have a job, but the receiver that he used in the tryout does.
00:51:40.000That's one of the reasons I wanted to be part of it.
00:51:42.000Just being a part of history of it, I knew it was going to help me.
00:51:44.000I was going to be in Gadsden running routes anyway.
00:51:46.000Might as well run them in front of some scouts.
00:51:48.000So the great irony, the people who did not sign Colin Kaepernick signed the receiver who caught one of his passes because that person is not an obnoxious jerk.
00:51:58.000So good news for Jordan Veazey and congratulations.
00:52:00.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:52:39.000And I understand that it's his sort of elegiac goodbye to the industry and to this sort of genre, but that doesn't mean it's good, because it's not.
00:53:03.000People are praising the fact that it's basically Goodfellas for the silent generation, right?
00:53:09.000It's Goodfellas, just you move it forward 40 years in time, and instead of Ray Liotta's character going into witness protection, he dies of old age.
00:53:15.000That's pretty much the entirety of it, except without the fun.
00:53:19.000So, here's a little bit of the Irishman, which is receiving all the Critics' Awards, by the way.
00:53:26.000We're all gonna pretend that we like the film, even though nobody has actually made it through the film without falling asleep for at least 45 minutes.
00:54:24.000It's the end of the week, so I'm gonna do what I've been doing most weeks now, do a little bit of Bible talk, so the Jews read a portion from the Bible every week.
00:54:31.000This week's portion comes from the book of Genesis, and it contains one of the great controversies in all of Bible history, the question of whether Jacob stole Esau's birthright and his blessing.
00:54:44.000So, these are, you know, controversial events, even now.
00:54:48.000So, Jacob's controversy begins with the birthright.
00:54:52.000Esau is his brother, the hunter, and he comes back from the field, and he's hungry, and he demands of Jacob, pour into me now some of that very red stuff, for I'm exhausted.
00:55:00.000And Jacob says, sell me, as of this day, your birthright to me.
00:55:03.000And Esau, without hesitating, says, look, I'm gonna die, so of what use to me is a birthright?
00:55:08.000So, people have said for a while, is this Jacob cheating Esau?
00:55:12.000So, people have said for a while, is this Jacob cheating Esau?
00:55:24.000Or is this actually just a fair and square deal?
00:55:27.000Well, the answer is really, you know, we mentioned Keynesian philosophy before.
00:55:34.000John Maynard Keynes famously suggested at one point that in the long run, everybody is dead.
00:55:42.000That you shouldn't think too much about the future because in the long run, everybody is dead.
00:55:46.000So instead, you should deal with the problems that are on the table right now.
00:55:50.000Keynesianism essentially argues that money is better used by poor people than by rich people, which is not particularly good economic sense.
00:55:59.000But he ignores the fact that long-run concerns matter.
00:56:02.000He says, in the long run, we're all dead, which is a deeply immoral principle.
00:56:06.000The progress of mankind is dependent on you making sacrifices on behalf of your children, who make sacrifices on behalf of their children, and thus, for generations, you have a chain of sacrifice.
00:56:14.000Well, in the Bible, Esau is the epitome of a short-term thinker.
00:56:17.000When he says, look, I'm going to die, so what used to be is a birthright, he's not really saying that he's literally going to die of starvation unless he gets some lentil soup.
00:56:25.000He's articulating a basic leftist principle, which is that what matters is my material well-being today.
00:56:30.000It's not about me sacrificing today on behalf of tomorrow.
00:56:33.000And Jacob sees this and he says, okay, well, the birthright matters to me because the birthright is not about what happens to me.
00:56:38.000It's about what happens to my kids and what happens to my kids' kids.
00:56:42.000This is the major difference in the Torah between Esau and Jacob.
00:56:45.000Esau is described as a hunter, and Jacob is described as a wholesome man abiding in tents.
00:56:50.000In other words, Esau lives day-to-day.
00:56:52.000He's about going out and providing the food on the table for today.
00:56:57.000And domestication and cultivation is the essence of civilization, which is why the birthright should descend on the person who is thinking toward the future.
00:57:05.000Joe Biden was asked about his balanced budget amendment back in 1995, which he signed on to.
00:57:09.000And he said, no, we don't need a balanced budget amendment anymore.
00:57:11.000The situation is far too immediate and far too grave.
00:57:13.000Whenever people tell you that the immediate situation is far too grave for you to think about things that are going to happen 10 years down the line, that's a mistake.
00:57:53.000Sharpen your gear, your sword, and your bow.
00:57:55.000Go out into the field and hunt game for me and then make me delicacies such as I love.
00:57:58.000Bring it to me and I'll eat so that my soul may bless you before I die.
00:58:01.000And then obviously Rebecca believes that Esau is a bad guy and Jacob's a good guy.
00:58:07.000So she covers Jacob up with kind of rough "Skins to imitate Esau." She cooks up the gourmet meal for Isaac, just as Isaac had told Esau to do, and then she sends Jacob in to see Isaac, and Isaac immediately recognizes something's up.
00:58:49.000So in other words, Isaac knows something's up.
00:58:52.000And then a few minutes later, Esau shows up, and Isaac doesn't know who he is, but when Esau identifies himself, Isaac suddenly realizes that he's given his blessing to the wrong son.
00:59:01.000First, why did Isaac actually require Esau to go hunting and then cook him a meal?
00:59:03.000all when you had not yet come and i blessed him indeed he shall remain blessed right so he doesn't take back the blessing so why first why did isa isaac actually require esau to go hunting and then cook him a meal it's a weird sort of condition second why didn't jacob just go to his dad and say i deserve the better blessing because i'm a long-term thinker and esau's a short-term thinker The oddest part is that Isaac doesn't reverse the blessing.
00:59:25.000After he's deceived, he doesn't go, oh, I guess that your brother stole the blessing, I'm gonna reverse this thing now.
00:59:31.000Because a blessing given under false pretenses is not effective.
00:59:34.000In the Torah, if you say the blessing for wine over a piece of bread, you haven't actually covered your bases, halachically speaking.
00:59:40.000According to Jewish law, blessings are specific, and they require specific intent.
00:59:44.000So, if Isaac didn't intend to give the blessing to Jacob, then why was the blessing still effective?
00:59:49.000So let's go back to the story for a second.
00:59:50.000Isaac orders Esau to go hunting to cook a meal and prepare it for him.
00:59:53.000That request isn't actually about a meal, right?
00:59:55.000Because Rebecca can cook a meal for him.
00:59:58.000What Isaac is actually doing is asking Esau to prepare the meal because he wants Esau to show him that he can be more than a hunter.
01:00:05.000That he can actually think about the future.
01:00:07.000Cooking a meal at least shows some forethought, right?
01:00:09.000You actually have to cook it, you have to figure out what ingredients you need, you have to prepare it, and then you have to give it away.
01:00:16.000All Esau needs to do is add the element of forward thinking because he's aggressive, right?
01:00:20.000Isaac is thinking about the future of his family and of the Jewish people by extension.
01:00:24.000And so Isaac says to Esau, listen, I know that you're a fighter.
01:00:28.000I know you can protect yourself and defend yourself, but can you think ahead?
01:00:33.000In Isaac's eyes, by contrast, Jacob has a long way to go, right?
01:00:36.000Because Isaac sees Jacob as a forward thinker, but Jacob is always, in the Bible, seen as sort of a weaker character in terms of defending himself, right?
01:01:15.000Because this person has demonstrated both an attention to self-defense, an attention to the immediate, and also an attention to the future.