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00:00:04.000A Democratic Senate hopeful implodes on launch, and Trump's Labor Secretary battles allegations of a sweetheart deal with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
00:00:40.000It is not a coincidence that gold prices have been rising steadily since the tanker bombings and Iran continues to create chaos in the Middle East.
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00:01:50.000Okay, so we begin today with the mother of all catfights.
00:01:55.000I know we're not supposed to say catfight.
00:01:56.000We were informed by AOC that if two women have a fight over nearly nothing, that you are supposed to not call this a catfight because it is sexist in some way.
00:02:05.000Sure, even though the term catfighting has been used to apply to men, even though the term catfighting has been part of the lexicon for a very long time, now it is called catfighting if two women have an incredibly petty and public feud, which is exactly what AOC and Nancy Pelosi are having right now because they don't actually disagree all that much on policy.
00:02:22.000Nancy Pelosi just sort of hides the ball a little bit more.
00:02:25.000The difference between Nancy Pelosi and AOC is that Nancy Pelosi is a smart person, and AOC is not a smart person.
00:02:30.000Nancy Pelosi does not have the right principles, but She is a battle-hardened veteran of the congressional wars.
00:02:37.000She knows how to publicly face the policies that she is putting forward.
00:02:41.000She's much cleverer than AOC, which is why she's the Speaker of the House.
00:02:44.000And AOC is the representative of one of the bluest districts in America after winning a primary against another Democrat.
00:02:52.000So the notion that AOC is any sort of real leadership challenger for Nancy Pelosi, at least in terms of skill set, is a complete fiction.
00:02:59.000And it's a fiction promoted by the media.
00:03:01.000And what's amazing and ironic and delicious about all of this is that Nancy Pelosi made this happen.
00:03:07.000So AOC started to get media attention.
00:03:09.000And Nancy Pelosi basically had two choices.
00:03:32.000Because on the one hand, she's patting AOC on the head, telling AOC that AOC is brilliant and wise and wonderful and energetic.
00:03:39.000And on the other hand, she was saying, quite publicly, that she thinks AOC is basically an idiot, that her policies make no sense, and that she has no constituency.
00:03:46.000Well, that's not going to make AOC particularly happy.
00:03:48.000So this is actually Nancy Pelosi's fault.
00:03:50.000Because what she should have been doing was downplaying these jokers from the start.
00:04:11.000And Nancy Pelosi was trying to channel that energy.
00:04:13.000Nancy Pelosi wanted the best of both worlds.
00:04:15.000She wanted to be able to utilize the cocaine-like power of identity politics that is now bubbling up from the base of the Democratic Party.
00:04:24.000She wanted to harness it, and then she wanted to use it in her own particular way.
00:04:29.000But you didn't want any of the after effects of all of that.
00:04:32.000The Republican Party, by the way, has found out the same thing.
00:04:34.000In the 2016 primaries, every single candidate tried to do this with Donald Trump.
00:04:39.000Every single candidate tried to use Donald Trump.
00:04:41.000They tried to say, okay, well, Donald Trump, you know, I may disagree with Donald Trump, but his folks are really energetic, and he's bringing a new, interesting energy to the Republican Party primaries.
00:04:51.000And they figured, okay, eventually he would fade, and they'd pick up his support, and then they would just move on with that sort of cocaine, Energy power that Trump was bringing to the table in 2016.
00:05:00.000Well, by the time they realized that Trump's base was sticking with him, by the time they realized that Trump was a legitimate player, it was too late for them to do anything.
00:05:08.000Now, where Pelosi has an advantage is that AOC does not have a national crowd.
00:05:13.000For all of the talk about AOC being this tremendously powerful political player, she is not.
00:05:17.000But she certainly perceives herself that way, and she's utterly unhinged.
00:05:21.000She's utterly unhinged when it comes to her practice of politics.
00:05:26.000So, we sort of have to reverse and explain what Nancy Pelosi was doing here.
00:05:30.000So, again, Nancy Pelosi spent her early days posing with AOC on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
00:05:36.000I'm talking about how these new freshman women, they were just bringing this new wonderful zeitgeist and energy to Congress and they have such great new ideas.
00:05:44.000And then she'd go out publicly and she would say stuff like this.
00:05:48.000- When we won this election, it wasn't in districts like mine or Alexandria's, however, she's a wonderful member of Congress, I think all of our colleagues will attest, but those are districts that are solidly democratic.
00:06:04.000This glass of water would win with a D next to its name in those districts.
00:06:09.000And not to diminish the exuberance and the personality and the rest of Alexandria and the other members.
00:06:38.000Suggested the Green Dream or whatever they call it.
00:06:40.000Nobody knows what it is, but they're for it, right?
00:06:42.000She referred to the Green New Deal, which was AOC's chief policy priority, involving the murder of millions of farting cows and the grounding of all airplanes, as quote, one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive.
00:06:53.000And she sort of shuffled it off to the side, because it received zero votes in the Senate.
00:06:57.000And then she was asked about AOC's wing, and she got kind of upset about it, and she said, listen, AOC's wing is like five people.
00:07:04.000She likes to minimize the conflicts within her caucus between the moderates and the progressives.
00:07:11.000You have these wings, AOC and her group on one side.
00:07:21.000Okay, so there's Nancy Pelosi again dismissing AOC, and then just a few days ago, she did an interview with the New York Times with Maureen Dowd over at the New York Times, and she said, all these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world, but they don't have any following.
00:08:36.000So Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday she had, quote, no regrets about a comment published over the weekend that seemed to dismiss the influence of some of her highest profile freshmen, including AOC, and privately urged those Democrats to train their fire on Republicans, not on their own colleagues.
00:08:50.000Pelosi said, I have no regrets about anything.
00:08:52.000In fact, she got a neck tattoo that said no regerts.
00:08:55.000Pelosi suggested to Maureen Dowd, of course, that the so-called squad had a limited following inside the House.
00:09:00.000I saw somebody online referred to AOC and her followers as Sandinistas, which I kind of love.
00:09:06.000Pelosi said, Pelosi defended those comments after leaving a closed-door caucus meeting, according to the Washington Post, where she delivered a stern warning to her party's left to keep their criticism of fellow Democrats to themselves.
00:09:21.000She noted it was the party's more moderate members who delivered control of the House to Democrats.
00:09:26.000And asked lawmakers to be respectful of that.
00:09:28.000She said a majority is a fragile thing.
00:09:30.000She said that people like AOC should show some level of respect and sensitivity to more moderate colleagues.
00:09:36.000She said, you make me the target, but don't make our moderates the target in all of this because we have important fish to fry.
00:09:41.000Well, that's not stopping AOC because she is not going to be quieted by this elder stateswoman.
00:09:49.000It's basically Lucille Bluth here trying to hold back the passions of Buster It's pretty fantastic.
00:09:57.000In other recent tweets, the legislative mastermind Saikat Chakrabarti, who may or may not be involved in some campaign finance issues with AOC, that is AOC's chief of staff, criticized Pelosi and moderate Democrats via Twitter.
00:10:12.000He said, all these articles want to claim what a legislative mastermind Pelosi is, but I'm seeing way more strategic smarts from the four freshman members.
00:10:18.000Pelosi is just mad she got outmaneuvered by the Republicans.
00:10:22.000But that's not really where the baseline of this is.
00:10:26.000The baseline of this is that AOC is now calling Pelosi a racist, and that is just phenomenal because Pelosi deserves it.
00:10:34.000So the new rule, as my business partner Jeremy Boring, now verified on Twitter, points out, He points out that racism is basically the all-purpose term for I disagree with somebody to my left.
00:10:46.000So Donald Trump is a racist because he disagrees with Nancy Pelosi, and now Nancy Pelosi is a racist because she disagrees with AOC.
00:10:52.000But AOC told the New Yorker Radio Hour, quote, I think sometimes people think we have a relationship.
00:11:03.000And then she suggested to the Washington Post that Pelosi was a racist, quote, When these comments first started, I kind of thought she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm's distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood.
00:11:14.000But the persistent singling out, it got to the point where it was just outright disrespectful.
00:11:18.000The explicit singling out of a newly elected women of color.
00:11:37.000That Nancy Pelosi, who's openly explaining why she's got a problem with AOC, and she keeps telling AOC and these freshman members, stop talking about primarying our members, stop tweeting about fellow Democrats, it's obnoxious, it's bad for us, it undercuts our legislative agenda, and AOC's like, you're just saying that because you hate me because you're a racist.
00:12:23.000It was supposed to be used against people on the right.
00:12:25.000And now, because it has infused every vein in the Democratic body politic, it's gonna be used against anyone you disagree with, including Nancy Pelosi, who's sitting there going, what the hell?
00:12:36.000I shepherded Obamacare and ran Congress for this?
00:12:39.000For this pipsqueak to come and call me a racist because I think that she's incompetent?
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00:14:25.000She posed on this cover of Rolling Stone with AOC and with Rashida Tlaib and with Ilhan Omar, and now That three-person caucus is turning on Nancy Pelosi and now categorizing her with whom?
00:14:40.000That's the other person that Ilhan Omar is going after today.
00:14:42.000Ilhan Omar is suggesting that Tucker Carlson is a racist because he said our immigration system is broken if it's bringing in people like Ilhan Omar who have such a negative view of the country.
00:14:51.000So I guess Nancy Pelosi is now part of the Tucker Carlson crew.
00:14:54.000Amazing how as the Overton window shifts left, Nancy Pelosi is going to end up being like the co-host of the show by the time the left is done.
00:15:07.000She's feeling very sad for herself despite the fact that she's insanely prominent based on having won a primary in the bluest district in America.
00:15:14.000She's insanely prominent based on the fact that she's passed zero legislation or even really been involved in zero serious pieces of legislative movement.
00:15:23.000Yeah, she's incredibly famous and well-known because she is very good at the Twitter clapbacks, or at least her ghostwriters are.
00:15:31.000AOC is, and she's feeling very whiny about herself.
00:15:35.000She's complaining now that the Democrats are keeping her too busy.
00:15:37.000She says, they're trying to just give me busy work so that I don't make trouble.
00:15:42.000She's like a third grader who's upset that the teacher has put her in the corner and given her the Bart Simpson project of writing over and over on a piece of paper, I will not criticize other moderate Democrats.
00:15:54.000So here's AOC complaining that she's so busy, they're keeping me busy so that I can't do the important stuff, you know, like talk about farting cows and all.
00:16:01.000I think that ultimately I'm fine with the decision, especially given the committee assignments that I was ultimately given, which were very intense and very rigorous.
00:16:09.000I was assigned to two of some of the busiest committees and four subcommittees, so my hands are full.
00:16:16.000And sometimes I wonder if they're trying to keep me busy.
00:16:55.000AOC is the teenager, Nancy Pelosi is the mom, and Nancy Pelosi keeps screaming for AOC to turn down the music, and AOC is turning up the music and doing whatever she wants in that bedroom of hers.
00:17:05.000And not only that, she's then coming downstairs and calling mom the B word.
00:17:13.000Now, this does have some broader ramifications because AOC does actually represent the loudest wing of the party, even though that wing of the party is minority of the party.
00:17:21.000So AOC is not merely restricting her criticism to other congressional candidates.
00:17:27.000So she said in the last couple of days, she was slamming Joe Biden, suggesting that the debate raised questions about his capacity.
00:17:35.000Joe Biden, his performance on the stage kind of raised some questions with respect to that.
00:17:43.000But I don't want to say just because someone is 79, they can't or shouldn't run for president.
00:17:51.000I don't want to use those proxies, a number as a proxy for capacity.
00:17:56.000I think you have to assess a person's capacity kind of on a case by case basis.
00:18:02.000Okay, well now AOC, by the way, not only is she ripping Biden, she's back, like in the last few minutes, to ripping Pelosi.
00:18:08.000So, she was just asked by Manu Raju, who's a reporter over at CNN, if she stands by her comment that Pelosi singles out women of color, quote, Well, I think it's really just pointing out a pattern, right?
00:18:18.000It's singling out four individuals and knowing the media environment we're operating in, knowing the amount of death threats we get, knowing the amount of concentration of attention.
00:18:30.000Okay, so, here's why this is so radically enjoyable.
00:18:33.000Ilhan Omar, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, they've been using this crap against everybody who disagrees with them for months at this point.
00:18:40.000If you disagree with them, it's because you want them to receive death threats, or you want them to, God forbid, be killed, or something terrible like that.
00:18:47.000It can't just be you think they're idiots who say stupid and terrible things all the time that they all It can't be that.
00:18:52.000Virtually all of those members have been openly associated with vicious anti-Semites, that their proposal ideas are about as relevant as an ejector seat on a helicopter.
00:19:18.000And it demonstrates how empty and stupid this charge was in the first place.
00:19:21.000Does anybody with a shred of rationality actually believe that Nancy Pelosi wants AOC to receive death threats because AOC is a powerful woman of color?
00:19:31.000And if you do believe that, how gullible and dumb are you?
00:19:34.000If you really believe that Nancy Pelosi is now the emissary of the old white establishment because she's an old white lady, if you really believe that that's what she is, that's what she represents, man, you guys, this is crazy towns and it is wonderful.
00:20:05.000Because you're gonna have to pick either Nancy Pelosi, the old white lady who is apparently cracking down on women of color, or AOC, the brash newcomer who's labeling one of the most impactful lawmakers of the last 50 years a vicious racist for disagreeing with her dumb policies and bad ideas.
00:20:24.000What's amazing about this even more than just the inherent wonder of the battle between AOC and Pelosi, and AOC's playing the same game that Kamala Harris plays about Joe Biden.
00:20:34.000She was asked if she thinks Pelosi is a racist.
00:20:53.000Ayanna Pressley, who, as I've said, is the Ringo Starr of this this Beatles of stupidity in the House Democratic Caucus.
00:21:00.000She is apparently the least stupid of these folks because she says, I'm not jumping into this thing, but AOC is going to jump into it.
00:21:06.000This has some actual impact beyond just the congressional delegation for the Democrats.
00:21:11.000Namely, Democratic candidates all over the country have no idea how they are supposed to campaign.
00:21:16.000They have no clue how they are supposed to campaign.
00:21:18.000Take, for example, Democrat Amy McGrath.
00:21:20.000So Amy McGrath, is the brand new Senate candidate facing down cocaine Mitch.
00:21:25.000And she's going to take on Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.
00:21:28.000And she's hoping she can convince Kentuckians who voted for Trump and has pledged to drain the swamp that Republican Mitch McConnell is the biggest swamp dweller in Washington.
00:21:36.000This is according to the Courier-Journal in Kentucky.
00:21:40.000She said, I fully recognize how difficult this race will be and the history behind folks who have gone up against Senator McConnell.
00:21:46.000And then she said that if President Trump has good ideas, then she will back those good ideas.
00:21:51.000She said, a lot of Kentuckians voted for Donald Trump because he wasn't part of that political establishment on either side.
00:22:02.000And in the middle of this interview that she was doing, she made a very interesting statement about Justice Kavanaugh.
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00:23:26.000As I say, this Democratic Senate candidate is trying to read the tea leaves in Kentucky, which is a state that Donald Trump won by 30 points.
00:23:32.000And she's trying to figure out, how do I run?
00:23:34.000Can I run as a moderate and maybe win?
00:23:38.000Or do I have to please the AOC wing of the base?
00:23:41.000And this creates an enormous amount of confusion.
00:23:44.000So, Amy McGrath, who is this candidate running against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, she was asked about Justice Kavanaugh.
00:23:51.000I didn't listen to all of the hearings.
00:23:52.000I don't think there was anything, and I'm not a lawyer or a senator on the Judiciary Committee, so I don't know the criteria, but I was very concerned about Judge Kavanaugh when I felt like there were far-right stances that he had.
00:24:02.000However, there was nothing in his record that I think would disqualify him in any way.
00:24:06.000And the fact is, when you have a president in the Senate, this is our system, and so I don't think there was anything that would have disqualified him in my mind.
00:24:13.000And then she was asked by the Courier-Journal, did the Democrats treat him unfairly with the accusations that were against him waiting until the last minute, as some have said, to try and delay the hearings?
00:24:21.000McGrath said the Supreme Court nominees are a lifetime appointment.
00:24:23.000I don't fault anyone for bringing up things that could give folks pause about the character of someone getting a lifetime appointment.
00:24:29.000And then she said that she thought that Christine Blasey Ford's accusations against Justice Kavanaugh were credible.
00:24:35.000She said, I think it's credible, but given the amount of time that lapsed in between and from a judicial standpoint, I don't think it would really disqualify him.
00:24:41.000And she said, yeah, I think I probably would have voted for Brett Kavanaugh, which is the correct answer in Kentucky.
00:24:47.000In Kentucky, if you're a Democrat, that is the correct answer, because if you looked at the polls, you know what was wildly unpopular among Americans?
00:24:53.000The attempt by Democrats to deprive Kavanaugh of due process based on an evidenceless allegation by one person brought at the last minute by Democratic partisans.
00:25:02.000But Amy McGrath is now caught up in this maelstrom inside the Democratic Party of, are you with AOC?
00:25:10.000Or are you with the people who actually want to win?
00:25:12.000So then Amy McGrath did what is called the rare political double flip-flop, as Comfortably Smug put it on Twitter.
00:25:21.000I mean, the Russian judges gave it a 10.
00:25:23.000Amy McGrath tweeted out, So she said, yeah, I would have voted for him.
00:25:26.000And then she says, no, I wouldn't have voted for him.
00:25:27.000So she said, Yeah, I would have voted for him.
00:25:35.000And then she says, No, I wouldn't have voted for him.
00:25:38.000And then she continues and tweets out, I know I disappointed many today with my initial answer on how I would have voted on Brett Kavanaugh.
00:25:45.000I will make mistakes and always own up to them.
00:25:47.000The priority is defeating Mitch McConnell.
00:25:48.000Now, she had originally before that interview in the Courier Journal said she wouldn't have voted for Kavanaugh.
00:25:53.000So she said, no, I won't vote for him.
00:25:57.000And this is all coming because Democrats don't know how to read their own party base at this point.
00:26:02.000One of the things that's been happening is that the political parties in the United States, and Donald Trump is excellent proof of this, the political parties in the United States no longer know how to read their own base.
00:26:12.000They don't know how to read the people they represent.
00:26:14.000Because here's the truth about American politics.
00:26:18.000There are those of us who spend our days and nights thinking about this sort of stuff.
00:26:21.000And we try to create intellectual frameworks for how people are going to vote.
00:26:25.000We try to create these sort of philosophies that we believe people should vote based upon.
00:26:34.000They don't try to create kind of general philosophies that they think people are aspiring to.
00:26:39.000They instead try to create party platforms that are basically an agglomeration of issues that they think are popular enough with a particular group of people that they can win a majority.
00:26:47.000This is what Democrats are trying to do right now by pandering to every group under the sun.
00:26:51.000It's what Republicans have done in the past by putting together this weird amalgamation of everything from some tariffs and no tariffs to We're kind of socially liberal.
00:27:00.000It's been very unclear on what the overall philosophy actually has been.
00:27:04.000Now, the truth is that voters are neither of these things.
00:27:07.000Voters, number one, generally don't vote based on an overarching philosophy.
00:27:11.000And number two, don't vote based on an agglomeration of policy positions.
00:27:15.000Voters vote based on personality and comfort level.
00:27:20.000In general, sort of feeling about the country and the narrative surrounding the country.
00:27:25.000And that's why everything has become a culture war in politics.
00:27:28.000But the parties have been unable to capture the nature of those culture wars.
00:27:32.000It's why Donald Trump has continued to be effective.
00:27:34.000The reason Trump is effective is because he's a culture warrior.
00:27:36.000By the way, this is also why Obama was effective.
00:27:39.000In 2008, he ran effectively as a culture warrior against divisiveness.
00:27:43.000The irony, of course, is that he then reversed himself and proved to be an extraordinarily divisive president.
00:27:48.000Donald Trump looked at the divisions in the country and he said these divisions are very real and one side is being ignored and I'm going to tell those folks that they are being ignored and they're being left behind.
00:28:01.000It was an emotional pitch and it was properly It was properly aimed and directed at the right number of voters.
00:28:07.000But the parties are not able to do that because the parties, of course, have candidates all over the country who have local constituencies.
00:28:13.000And so you end up with this weird attempt to create national parties from local constituencies that differ widely.
00:28:20.000Amy McGrath's state is not going to look anything like AOC's district.
00:28:25.000And yet, Amy McGrath requires the support of people like AOC in order to go forward.
00:28:29.000And this creates an unbridgeable divide.
00:28:31.000You're seeing this play out in the Democratic primaries right now.
00:28:34.000Who exactly is representative of the Democratic base?
00:28:37.000Is it Joe Biden, who represents a plurality of Democrats?
00:28:40.000Or is it Kamala Harris, who represents a smaller minority of Democrats, but a more passionate minority of Democrats, perhaps?
00:28:47.000All of this leads to tremendous confusion inside the party system, and it's why the party system is starting to break down.
00:28:53.000And that's going to be bad, particularly for the parties that are unable to hold together any semblance of unity.
00:29:00.000Right now, that looks a lot more like the Democrats than it does like the Republicans.
00:29:03.000It's also why it would really behoove President Trump to stop being so divisive inside his own caucus by saying dumb things.
00:29:10.000What I mean by that is that President Trump today started tweeting out dumb things again.
00:29:23.000And instead, he's out there tweeting weird crap And giving people a level of disquiet with his presidency that is unwarranted by his record.
00:29:33.000Today he got on Twitter and he just started tweeting out random nonsense.
00:29:36.000I mean, I don't know if he was just bored today or what.
00:29:40.000But he started tweeting out... Here's what the president tweeted.
00:29:45.000He tweeted out, A big subject today at the White House Social Media Summit will be the tremendous dishonesty, bias, discrimination, and suppression practiced by certain companies.
00:29:53.000We will not let them get away with it much longer.
00:29:54.000The fake news media will also be there, but for a limited period.
00:29:57.000The fake news is not as important or as powerful as social media.
00:30:02.000They've lost tremendous credibility since that day in November 2016 that I came down the escalator with the person who is to become your future First Lady.
00:30:12.000Anyway, he says, when I ultimately leave office in six years or maybe 10 or 14, just kidding.
00:30:20.000They will quickly go out of business for lack of credibility or approval from the public.
00:30:24.000That's why they will all be endorsing me at some point, one way or the other.
00:30:27.000Could you imagine having sleepy Joe Biden or Alfred E. Newman, I assume that's Pete Buttigieg, or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas, 1,000 over 24th?
00:30:38.000As your president, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true stable genius, capital S, capital G, Sorry to say that even social media would be driven out of business along with, and finally, the fake news media.
00:31:26.000Trump put out a tweet with an ad created by somebody else about his leadership in his presidency.
00:31:32.000And the ad is well produced if the president was George W. Bush, because what the ad was, was this very soothing music talking about President Trump has stood strong and unwavering in the storm.
00:31:43.000President Trump is a man who has deep abiding character, And he sticks with his principles.
00:31:47.000And he calls all of this just a start.
00:31:50.000It looks like a typical presidential candidate.
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00:33:53.000OK, in just a second, we'll get to the latest on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, plus the president of the United States preparing later today.
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00:34:04.000We'll explain whether this is a good idea or whether this is a bad idea, whether it's a constitutional crisis.
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00:35:31.000All righty, so the big story of yesterday, aside from the AOC-Nancy Pelosi smash up, which was just wonderful.
00:35:46.000Aside from that, it was Alex Acosta, the Secretary of Labor, defending himself from allegations that he cut a sweetheart deal with alleged pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who's apparently engaged in high level sex trafficking of minors.
00:35:58.000And there are all sorts of questions that are still out there about Jeffrey Epstein.
00:36:01.000Like, how did this guy make so much money?
00:36:04.000Apparently, there's no record of him being like this wonderful investment specialist.
00:36:08.000So how did he make his billions of dollars buying private islands and all this?
00:36:13.000How did he get away with this for so long?
00:36:15.000Why was it that Cyrus Vance, the DA over in Manhattan, why did he try to keep Epstein from being registered as a top-level sex offender once Epstein moved full-time to New York?
00:36:28.000Why exactly was he not required to check in with the NYPD every 90 days as he would be as a high-level sex offender?
00:36:35.000He never checked in at all over an eight-year span.
00:36:37.000How was he able to get away with that?
00:36:41.000Jim Garrity over at National Review has a good rundown on some of these questions.
00:36:44.000He says, how did Jeffrey Epstein make that fortune?
00:36:46.000One claim, a massive Ponzi scheme, but wouldn't that bring the securities folks down on his head?
00:36:51.000Could Epstein really have been connected to some sort of intelligence service?
00:36:54.000There were reports yesterday that maybe the reason Epstein was left alone is because he was connected with the intelligence services and doing work for them.
00:37:01.000When asked about this, Alex Acosta offered a weird, vague, contradictory, meandering answer.
00:37:06.000If Epstein was working for some sort of spy agency, which one?
00:37:14.000There's an allegation that maybe the way he made his money is from blackmail.
00:37:17.000Maybe the way that he made his money is he was trafficking all these underage women, underage girls as young as 14, 13 years old, having them in compromising positions with older men who are very powerful and then blackmailing those guys for cash.
00:37:32.000After Epstein, as I say, was handed that level three sex offender status, he was required to check in with the NYPD.
00:37:47.000Apparently, a seasoned sex crimes prosecutor from Vance's office argued forcefully in court that Epstein should not be registered that way in New York as a sex offender in New York.
00:37:56.000The judge said, I have to tell you this, I'm a little overwhelmed.
00:37:58.000I've never seen a prosecutor's office do anything like this.
00:38:01.000How is it that his private island off St.
00:38:03.000Thomas got the nickname pedophile island?
00:38:05.000And how did that not exactly get the authorities snooping around?
00:38:09.000Bill Clinton's public statements about his interactions with Epstein, those are wildly inaccurate.
00:38:14.000They are contradicted by contemporaneous media accounts as well as FAA flight logs.
00:38:20.000Also, apparently, President Trump, it was quoted in a recent Vanity Fair article, there was an article about Trump and David Pecker of National Enquirer, in which Trump apparently told Pecker that the pictures of Clinton that Epstein had from his island were worse.
00:39:11.000And then on the other hand, you have a woman named Kimberly Melman Roscoe writing for USA Today, who is a an expert witness on sex trafficking.
00:39:18.000And she says, I've seen deals like this before.
00:39:19.000So how out of the ordinary is all of this?
00:39:23.000All of this is is deeply troubling and upsetting, of course, and the fact that And the fact that, you know, all the facts are going to come out means there will be, as I've been saying for days, a lot more shoes to drop.
00:39:35.000Okay, meanwhile, the other big news of the day is that President Trump is about to take executive action on a census citizenship question that is supposed to happen at like 2 o'clock today Pacific time, 5 o'clock p.m.
00:39:49.000And according to Margaret Talev, reporting for Bloomberg, President Trump will announce executive action on the 2020 U.S.
00:39:55.000Census on Thursday, pursuing his fight to include a citizenship question in the decennial population count, despite being rebuffed by the Supreme Court.
00:40:03.000The executive action is expected to be announced at a news conference, according to three people familiar with Trump's plan.
00:40:09.000They indicated it may not be an executive order.
00:40:11.000It may instead be the far vaguer executive action.
00:40:14.000An executive order has at least some precedent in American law.
00:40:16.000Typically, executive orders Trump announced that he announced the news conference in a tweet talking about the social media summit.
00:40:22.000In executive action, it's unclear what exactly that constitutes, and it has a far murkier status in American constitutional law because it's kind of made up is the truth.
00:40:30.000Trump announced that he would be previewing.
00:40:34.000He announced the news conference in a tweet talking about the social media summit.
00:40:38.000He said, at the conclusion of the social media summit, we will all go to the beautiful Rose Garden for a news conference on the census and citizenship.
00:40:45.000So there are a couple of theories about exactly what Trump is going to do later this afternoon.
00:40:50.000Obviously, the Supreme Court has denounced the census question, saying that it was pretextual, the rationale provided by the Trump administration.
00:40:59.000The idea of the Supreme Court is now going to look at the relevant and correct provided rationales for asking something as simple as, are you a citizen on the census?
00:41:08.000And then they're going to say, the real reason you're doing this is because you're racist.
00:41:12.000And so we're not going to allow you to do it.
00:41:14.000That is far beyond the boundaries of what the judiciary should be allowed to do or is allowed to do under their constitutionally delegated status.
00:41:22.000This leaves Trump with a couple of possible options.
00:41:25.000One of those options is more controversial and one of those options is less controversial.
00:41:29.000The option that is less controversial The option that is less controversial is the option that basically President Trump invokes a specific provision of the Constitution and says, I have a constitutional duty to ask this question.
00:41:43.000Josh Hammer, editor at large over here at Daily Wire, he points out that there is a provision of the Constitution in the 14th amendment section 2 text that says this when the right to vote is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state being 21 years of age and citizens of the united states or in any way abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crime the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state
00:42:14.000The 14th Amendment basically says that if a state abridges the right to vote, it was written to stop southern states from stopping black people from voting, that the federal government could then abridge the voting power of that state.
00:42:27.000Congressional reapportionment would take place wherein there would be a two variable formula and each variable would require citizenship data.
00:42:35.000So in other words, in order to make possible the implementation of this clause, you do have to have an accurate count of the number of people in the country legally in a particular district.
00:43:02.000What is the Supreme Court going to say?
00:43:03.000We will not allow you to ask a question that you are constitutionally mandated to ask so that you can actually fulfill the obligations of Amendment 14?
00:43:12.000That is the less controversial way of doing it.
00:43:14.000The more controversial way of doing it is Trump just says, screw you to the Supreme Court and goes ahead and puts a censorship question on there.
00:43:20.000Doesn't offer any rationale and says, listen, we have the power under the Census Act.
00:43:23.000If Congress wants to deprive us of that power, it can do so at any time, but we are not bound by extraordinary judicial decisions.
00:43:31.000Now, on the one hand, I like the first move because it is indeed less controversial legally and it's a pretty obvious out.
00:43:38.000On the other hand, I have long been an advocate of the notion of departmentalism.
00:43:44.000Departmentalism is the basic idea that the Supreme Court does not get to tell all of the other branches that its interpretation of the Constitution is paramount.
00:43:51.000There's a difference, in other words, between judicial review and judicial supremacy.
00:43:54.000So judicial review is the idea that the Supreme Court and the judiciary of the United States has the ability to decide whether it will apply a law that is in conflict with the Constitution of the United States.
00:44:05.000But that is not judicial supremacy, meaning that the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution itself is not paramount.
00:44:29.000Let's say that there is a piece of legislation that the Supreme Court found to be unconstitutional.
00:44:35.000Well, then the judiciary of the United States would simply refuse to apply that law at all.
00:44:40.000It would become inoperative in the judicial system.
00:44:44.000And what would happen if the other branches decided that, let's say, the executive branch wanted to go ahead with something like the census question?
00:44:50.000Well, then it falls to Congress, doesn't it?
00:45:02.000The Marbury v. Madison decision, which has been, there's a solid case to be made, it has been misread for years to suggest judicial supremacy rather than judicial review.
00:45:11.000The Marbury vs. Madison decision is a very untenable decision legally.
00:45:15.000That is not just my opinion, that's the opinion of folks like Alexander Bickel, former Yale law professor who wrote a very famous book called The Least Dangerous Branch.
00:45:22.000It's the opinion of University of Minnesota law professor Michael Stokes Paulson.
00:45:27.000Judge Lorne and Hand were the most famous Jurists of the 20th century made the same point.
00:45:32.000Marbury v. Madison is a very, very weak decision.
00:45:34.000And the idea that the judiciary is paramount and has the sole authority to decide the role of the Constitution in American life is obviously not supported by either law or theory.
00:45:47.000When you read the Federalist Papers, even folks who believe that Federalist 78 by Alexander Hamilton backs the notion of judicial supremacy ignore the part where Hamilton specifically says, if the judiciary starts to Use will instead of power, it would obviate the need for a separate branch called the judiciary.
00:46:03.000They would then become a dictatorship.
00:46:05.000So judicial review, departmentalism, in which basically each department gets to decide which, how the constitution is to be interpreted.
00:46:14.000And then there's interplay between the various branches of government.
00:46:17.000That seems more like the checks and balances the founders had in mind than the artificially created power of judicial supremacy, which really didn't come into full fledge Until, like, the Dred Scott decision, the worst decision in the history of the United States.
00:46:30.000So, we'll talk, I'm sure, a little bit more about this a little bit later when we find out exactly what President Trump is doing here.
00:46:36.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:46:38.000So, speaking of checks and balances, the basis for checks and balances in American legal theory comes largely courtesy of Baron de Montesquieu.
00:46:47.000You've all heard Montesquieu's name, if you've had any level of familiarity with founding-era ideology.
00:46:52.000Montesquieu was the philosopher who was cited most often in founding-era papers in founding era documents.
00:46:58.000Monski, of course, a French philosopher.
00:47:00.000He wrote a book called The Spirit of the Laws.
00:47:04.000There's a very good Cambridge edition that cleans it up just a little bit, or translates it at least in the clearest possible way.
00:47:11.000And Montesquieu's two basic contributions to American philosophy are the idea of political liberty, meaning that government is there to provide a sort of safe backdrop for you to exercise your liberty, but liberty is not you get to do whatever you want.
00:47:25.000Liberty has to be circumscribed by your ability to harm somebody else.
00:47:29.000And also the idea of checks and balances.
00:47:31.000So checks and balances come directly from Montesquieu.
00:47:33.000Montesquieu talks specifically about the need for power to balance power and ambition to balance ambition.
00:47:39.000Half of the Federalist Papers is straight Montesquieu.
00:47:45.000It's sort of the first comparative political work.
00:47:47.000So he tries to compare the various legal systems of everything from China to India to France to Britain and tries to figure out what is the best system.
00:47:55.000He talks about what he terms sort of the tripartite distinction in governments between despotism monarchy and republicanism he talks about sort of the motivating factors behind each he says the monarchy is driven by a sense of honor that despotism is driven by power and that republicanism is driven by a sense of virtue uh and there's a lot there it's well it's well worth the read i'm using it heavily i'm writing another book right now all about rights and duties and uh montesquieu comes into play
00:48:23.000so give that a read if you're interested in founding era philosophy okay time for some things that i hate Oh.
00:48:32.000Okay, so, thing that I hate, number one.
00:48:35.000One of the things that you are starting to see in American life is the decline of religion, but religion itself is not declining.
00:48:41.000It is just being supplanted by either a sort of atavistic, narcissistic Weird self-focus, or it's being supplanted with political religion.
00:49:03.000Sins that can never be expiated, by the way.
00:49:05.000If you ever commit a sin under the system of leftism, it can never be wiped away unless you do full penance.
00:49:11.000And even then, we will still hold the sin over your head if you become politically unavailable or you do something that crosses the party line, then you will be, the sin will be brought back up and used against you.
00:49:24.000Political religion has become the way that we do our politics right now, which is why you see such near religious feeling about politics.
00:49:32.000You're starting to see people who don't actually have church communities and don't talk with their friends and don't talk with their neighbors.
00:49:39.000And they're supplanting this with a sense of religious virtue when it comes to an undoubted religious virtue when it comes to their own politics.
00:49:46.000So if you disagree with prevailing views about how climate change should be dealt with, namely with vast transnational regulation, if you oppose that, then you are a denier.
00:49:56.000I mean, this is religious type language.
00:49:58.000You are then a denier even if you accept that climate change is happening just like the IPCC says it is.
00:50:03.000If you disagree with the left's prevailing wisdom about income inequality, then you have sinned, and you are in all likelihood a plutocrat and a white supremacist.
00:50:12.000If you are somebody who believes that the chief method of escaping poverty in the United States is not railing against phantom institutional racism, and when I say phantom, I don't mean that racism doesn't exist in American society.
00:50:24.000I'm saying that institutional racism, meaning laws on the books, Things you can point out where you say this institution is acting in this racist manner specifically designed to harm this class of people.
00:50:36.000You supplant that for if you say that is less effective as a strategy it is first of all not true and second of all it is less effective as a strategy than encouraging people to make proper individual decisions.
00:50:48.000If you say that you have violated the left's sense of political sin.
00:50:52.000So there is this political religion out there and leftism feels it in abundance, which is why you see from the left the sort of Megan Rapinoe attitude, which is, I'm not going to talk to anybody who disagrees with me.
00:51:01.000They are sinners and they must be cast into the hell flames.
00:51:12.000One, to put an organized principle on all of life, to look at the patterns around us in the world, and try to discern those patterns, and try to figure out what exactly is going on around us.
00:51:24.000And that leads, in some cases, to the idea of a unifying creator who created a natural plan.
00:51:29.000This is how you get to the idea of natural law.
00:51:31.000You can also get to the idea that there is some phantom hand of economics that stands behind everything.
00:51:36.000So that instinct, that is a religious instinct to try and put an order on everything.
00:51:40.000It also happens to lead to beliefs about science.
00:51:42.000So it's a good instinct, but it has to be channeled in the proper direction.
00:51:46.000And then there is the other aspect of religious thought, which is the need for Believe in something beyond that which we can see.
00:51:54.000They need to believe something, because here's the problem.
00:51:57.000You have that religious instinct to put a pattern on everything, but there are a lot of things that don't fit the pattern.
00:52:01.000So where exactly do you put those things?
00:52:03.000Well, in the religious, kind of traditionally Judeo-Christian worldview, you say, listen, God has a plan, I have a plan, my plan is not God's plan, God's plan is beyond me.
00:52:11.000But then there's still the need for mysticism for people who don't believe.
00:52:15.000In the Judeo-Christian system or in a monotheistic system at all.
00:52:18.000And so they find that need for a mystical outreach to something beyond them.
00:52:22.000Something beyond their own flesh and bones.
00:52:24.000And they find this in some of the weirdest places.
00:52:26.000Lately, they've been seeking it in everything from kind of self-help gurus to healing crystals.
00:52:31.000There's an article in the LA Times today called, How Millennials Replaced Religion with Astrology and Crystals.
00:52:37.000This makes sense, by the way, because again, the religious instinct, in some ways, that first religious instinct to put order on chaos, It's very similar to the scientific instinct.
00:52:46.000And so science and religion don't have to be in conflict.
00:52:49.000In fact, I make the case in my book The Right Side of History that Judeo-Christian religion combined with Greek teleology actually led to the rise of Western science.
00:52:59.000And that, in fact, you could combine Greek teleology with other monotheistic religions and probably create Science, that would be just as good if you could maintain that balance.
00:53:08.000But when you get away from the idea of a god who stands behind an ordered universe, then you throw away science too.
00:53:16.000Once you get to the universe is chaotic and you just sort of worship at the altar of the chaos, you get back to astrology and crystals.
00:53:23.000So here's what the LA Times says, quote, I love myself.
00:53:26.000It was an unseasonably chilly night for June in Los Angeles.
00:53:29.000About three dozen people, mostly women in their 20s and 30s, were spending their Friday evening lying on yoga mats on the back patio of a shop a few blocks from Hollywood Forever Cemetery and the Paramount Pictures lot.
00:53:39.000Attendees had been invited to bring whatever they needed to make the space cozy.
00:53:55.000Most days, Lilia works with individual clients.
00:53:58.000In the evenings, she teaches classes or puts on events such as the Solstice Gathering.
00:54:02.000She first got into breathwork four years ago and started taking classes to become a teacher six months later.
00:54:06.000If you've never done it before, it's a mix of breathing exercises and guided meditations meant to relax you and help connect with your inner thoughts, a cross between the last 10 minutes of a yoga class and a therapy session that takes place entirely in your head.
00:54:18.000She's one of a growing number of young people, largely millennials, though the trend extends to younger Gen Xers, now cresting 40, And down to Gen Z, the oldest of whom are freshly minted college grads.
00:54:29.000You would think that they would say, embracing crap like tarot, astrology, energy healing, and crystals.
00:54:32.000like tarot, like tarot, tarot, astrology, astrology, meditation, energy healing, and crystals.
00:54:40.000Now, the LA Times is a journalistic outlet.
00:54:42.000You would think that they would say embracing crap like tarot, astrology, energy healing, and crystals.
00:54:48.000Meditation is an actual, like, there's some scientific proof that meditation helps relax you, but energy healing, crystals, tarot, astrology, all this is garbage.
00:54:56.000And no, they don't particularly care if you think it's woo-woo or weird.
00:55:00.000Most millennials claim not to take any of it too seriously themselves.
00:55:12.000The cause behind the spiritual shift is a combination of factors.
00:55:15.000In more than a dozen interviews for this story, with people ranging in age from 18 to their early 40s, a common theme emerged.
00:55:20.000They were raised with one set of religious beliefs, Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, but as they became adults, they felt that faith didn't completely represent who they were or what they believed.
00:55:28.000I'll tell you what the common thread there is.
00:55:30.000Probably they grew up in not particularly religious households, Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, for sure Jewish.
00:55:41.000They grew up in reformed Jewish households, maybe conservative Jewish households, likely reconstructionist Jewish households.
00:55:46.000In other words, households that didn't actually explain...
00:55:49.000What Judaism was, what its standards were, what the spirituality of Judaism is, that had watered down religion to the point where it was basically a soft form of spirituality anyway, and then they just went and searched for another soft form of spirituality that didn't come along with the judgmentalism.
00:56:03.000That is really what people are going for.
00:56:05.000And you're seeing this is spanning the oceans as well.
00:56:07.000There's a report today from the UK that says that less than 1% of young people identify as Church of England in the UK, which was the official Church of England, Only 1% of people aged 18-24 identify as Church of England according to the British Social Attitude Survey for 2018.
00:56:24.000Even among over 75, the most religious age group, only 1 in 3 people describe themselves as Church of England.
00:56:33.00052% of the public now say they do not belong to any religion.
00:56:36.000It was 31% in 1983 when the survey began tracking religious belief.
00:56:42.000The number of people identifying as Christian has now fallen from 66% to 38% in Britain.
00:56:46.000Now there are a lot of people who say, who cares?
00:56:50.000The reason that it's a big deal is because, again, there is a human instinct for religious belief, and it is going to be filled by something, whether it is a religious following of a political figure, which is what you are increasingly seeing, whether it is religious following of a political ideal, the substitution of the environment for God, for example, the substitution of particular ideas of equality for ideas of an ordered universe.
00:57:15.000So there was a point in human history when religion was politics.
00:57:19.000When rulership was done via theocracy, and when most of the wars that we had were internecine religious wars, when it was Protestant vs. Catholic, and Catholic vs. Muslim, and Muslim and Catholic vs. Jew.
00:57:35.000Religious warfare is the worst kind of warfare because there is literally no way to have a conversation.
00:57:39.000You cannot have a conversation with somebody when your belief is that they are going directly to hell, and you're going directly to heaven, and that is the subject of the conversation.
00:57:47.000You can't have conversations that way.
00:57:49.000Religious conflict is religious warfare.
00:57:52.000But when politics falls back into the realm of religion, undoubted religious belief systems, you're going to end up with exactly that same sort of conflict again.
00:58:01.000So we moved away from religious conflict and toward political conflict.
00:58:04.000And political conflict was us having secular arguments with one another about right and wrong.
00:58:10.000A lot of those arguments were rooted in the Judeo-Christian value system.
00:58:14.000But those arguments taking place in that common framework of a value system rather than a specific doctrinal belief system, that led to the rise of small-r republicanism and elections and the idea that, sure, we can agree to disagree.
00:58:29.000And now what we are seeing is as that religious instinct wanes, as people no longer fulfill that religious instinct by going to church or by going to synagogue, instead they're fulfilling it with politics itself.
00:58:38.000So we took politics and we removed religion from it.
00:58:42.000Except for sort of the over-lasting morality of religion.
00:58:45.000And now, politics is becoming religion.
00:59:16.000As religion declines, religion is one of those areas where people find commonality in diversity.
00:59:23.000You can have a diverse group of people if they are all oriented toward the same thing.
00:59:26.000So Robert Putnam, sociologist over at Harvard University, he talks about the fact that ethnic diversity is not necessarily strengthening to a community.
00:59:34.000In fact, he uses the sort of throwaway line, but it's not really throwaway, it's sociology.
00:59:39.000He uses the survey line, the database line, that as ethnic diversity increases in a community, the only two things that increase are protest marches and television watching.
00:59:48.000But he says that what can unify a community is a central sense of identity, a sense that we are all oriented in the same direction, that we are all praying to the same God, for example, that we are all going to the same church.
00:59:58.000So diversity is enriching and is good when you share a set of common values.
01:00:34.000Only if it turns out that the nationalism itself is a vessel that is filled with a philosophy, a philosophy rooted in exactly the Judeo-Christian value systems that are now being thrown away.
01:00:43.000So I'm not sure empty nationalism does the trick.
01:01:22.000I mean, this is what my book, The Right Side of History, is all about.
01:01:25.000So, and then finally, there's a third factor.
01:01:28.000As you throw away religion, as I mentioned earlier, as you throw away the idea of an ordered universe, where the human mind is capable of understanding things around it, these are religious principles.
01:01:37.000These are principles that you cannot suss out.
01:01:48.000Once you get rid of those fundamental principles, you end up back in this bizarre, paganistic world where everything is defined by you, yourself.
01:01:55.000The only perception that matters is your subjective perception.
01:01:58.000And so, if you believe in healing crystals, then healing crystals are true.
01:02:00.000If you believe in energy healing, then energy healing is true.
01:02:04.000Science, which is an objective standard, which puts, again, a framework of logic on the universe, that no longer matters because we've thrown away the framework of logic.
01:02:12.000Why should the universe operate by laws or rules?
01:02:18.000We're playing with fire here, and we are in the middle of one of the great experiments in human history, and that experiment is whether you can take the moral and philosophic basis of the richest, most powerful, most progressive system in world history, throw away the basis, and keep the rest.
01:02:36.000I am very doubtful that that is going to be the case as we move forward in time.
01:02:40.000Alrighty, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content, and then we will be back here tomorrow as well.
01:03:16.000Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, Beto O'Rourke went and met with some refugees and immigrants and he proceeded to trash America, America's racist, horrible country, so on and so forth.
01:03:28.000Also, AOC, speaking of great people, AOC basically implies that Nancy Pelosi is racist, which It's kind of hilarious, but also disgusting, and we'll talk about that.
01:03:40.000Finally, I want to discuss the very common modern practice of filming troubled people in the midst of mental breakdowns so that we can laugh at them online.