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00:00:12.000Okay, so I do want to get to everything Bush-related.
00:00:19.000I also want to get to Elizabeth Warren, who even the New York Times is now acknowledging sort of blew herself up at the behest of President Trump.
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00:01:52.000So when George W. Bush spoke, for example, it was incredibly moving.
00:01:56.000That, however, was not the main headline that came out because that was never going to be the main headline that came out.
00:02:01.000Whenever there's a political gathering, let's face it, Okay, when there's a memorial like this, we all get together for five minutes and we pretend that we still have something in common.
00:02:10.000And it's just like a family reunion at Christmas or at Hanukkah or at Thanksgiving.
00:02:14.000You all get together and go, oh, remember we're all family.
00:02:16.000And by halfway through the meal, everybody's throwing food at each other and trying to club each other with the empty bottle of Martinelli's.
00:02:24.000Yesterday at the National Cathedral, the good part was everything that genuine friends and family of George H. W. Bush had to say.
00:02:30.000Here was George W. Bush talking about his father.
00:02:32.000Ed taught us that public service is noble and necessary, that one can serve with integrity and hold true to the important values like faith and family.
00:02:45.000He strongly believed that it was important to give back to the community and country in which one lived.
00:02:52.000He recognized that serving others enriched the giver's soul.
00:02:57.000To us, his was the brightest of a thousand points of light.
00:03:03.000And George W. Bush talked movingly about his own relationship with his father, all of which was good and decent.
00:03:10.000And then John Meacham, who's a historian, got up and talked about how George H.W.
00:03:14.000Bush was a 20th century founding father, and here's what he had to say.
00:03:18.000George Herbert Walker Bush was America's last great soldier statesman.
00:03:30.000He governed with virtues that most closely resemble those of Washington and of Adams, of TR and of FDR, of Truman and of Eisenhower, of men who believed in causes larger than themselves.
00:03:50.000Okay, well, the truth is that George H.W.
00:04:22.000The reality is that when John Meacham says he was the last soldier statesman, remember John McCain ran for the presidency in 2008 on a similar war heroism record, on a similarly moderate record as a legislator, and he lost to Barack Obama, a wild leftist.
00:04:38.000In 2012, a classy, middle-of-the-road guy who probably in temperament most resembled George H.W.
00:04:49.000Bush, that soldier statesman, lost to a probable rapist.
00:04:56.000So George H.W., the American people decided they weren't interested in the soldier-statesman model, and perhaps that's because we actually have had a breakdown in the social fabric.
00:05:06.000Bush represented, there's been a lot of talk about him representing higher ideals, but the truth is I think what he mostly represented is he reflected the fact that we used to have a commonality of interest.
00:05:16.000And look at the institutions to which George H. W. Bush belonged.
00:05:19.000He was a belonger to the military, obviously.
00:05:39.000That was a unifying factor in his life.
00:05:41.000All of the sort of soft things in the background, all of these soft things in the background that allow us to be a country together, those are what have faded.
00:05:49.000And that's what we're really mourning when we mourn George H.W.
00:05:52.000Bush's legacy and his passing, is what exactly happened to that background?
00:05:58.000What happened to the social fabric that was always the background for the tapestry that was going to be the American story?
00:06:06.000And the reason I say that's what's missing is when Meacham says that George H.W.
00:06:09.000Bush reminds us of George Washington, I think that's because George H.W.
00:06:12.000Bush reminds us of a time when Americans had a lot more in common than they do now.
00:06:16.000Now, what's weird about that is that we should have more in common now than we did then.
00:06:19.000Obviously, racial conflict in the United States is, thank God, on a downward spiral and has been for decades.
00:06:26.000Prosperity in the United States continues to rise.
00:06:29.000There are a lot of reasons why we should be unified, but we are not, in fact, unified.
00:06:33.000And this goes back all the way to George Washington's farewell address.
00:06:37.000He wrote a 32-page address to the people of America in which he warned against the spirit of faction.
00:06:42.000He said that that spirit agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection, it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
00:07:00.000He talks about the divisions, the things that divide us.
00:07:02.000But what is it that will unify us, said George Washington?
00:07:05.000He said, in vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
00:07:25.000Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?
00:07:34.000And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
00:07:39.000Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
00:07:50.000It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
00:07:55.000The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
00:07:59.000Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric.
00:08:06.000The foundation of the fabric has been shaken.
00:08:07.000When we look at the tributes to George H.W.
00:08:21.000And then we made moves to try and include more people in that social fabric.
00:08:24.000But at the same time, we decided it was necessary to shred the social fabric in the name of inclusion.
00:08:29.000And what that means is that we are now included in a group in which we have no commonality.
00:08:33.000And that's what we are all reminded of.
00:08:34.000And when I look at the lineup of presidents who are sitting there, President Trump, who is, for all of the policies that I like about President Trump, a divisive figure.
00:08:42.000Barack Obama, who is a radical, radical leftist with a corrupt history in Chicago.
00:08:46.000Bill Clinton, who is a corrupt politician through and through.
00:08:49.000And his wife, Hillary Clinton, who ran for president, being a very corrupt politician.
00:08:53.000And what we are looking at is a country that really has less and less in common these days.
00:09:00.000Well, that has led Ross Douthat over at the New York Times to write a piece talking about why we miss the Wasps.
00:09:06.000And what he's specifically talking about is what exactly is it about George H.W.
00:09:12.000He says, has many wellsprings, admiration for the World War II generation and its dying breed of warrior politicians, the usual belated media affection for moderate Republicans, the contrast between the elder Bush's foreign policy successes and the failures of his son, and the contrast between any honorable politician and the current occupants of the Oval Office.
00:09:31.000But two of the more critical takes on Bush nostalgia got closer to the heart of what was being mourned in distant hindsight with his death.
00:09:36.000Writing in The Atlantic, Peter Beinart, who is just an awful human being, described the elder Bush as the last president deemed legitimate by both of our country's warring tribes before the age of presidential sex scandals, plurality winning and popular vote losing chief executives and white resentment of the first black president.
00:09:51.000All Also in the Atlantic, Franklin Ford described the subtext of Bush nostalgia as a fondness for a bygone institution known as the establishment, hardened in the cold of New England boarding schools, acculturated by the late night rituals of skull and bones, sent off to the world with a sense of noblesse oblige.
00:10:06.000So Douthat says, I think you can usefully combine these takes and describe Bush nostalgia as a longing for something America used to have and doesn't really anymore.
00:10:13.000A ruling class that was widely, not universally, but more widely than today, deemed legitimate and that inspired various kinds of trust, intergenerational, institutional, conspicuously absent in our society today.
00:10:23.000Put simply, Americans miss Bush because we miss the wasps, because we feel at some level that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.
00:10:34.000Now, I have my disagreements with this, because if you look at the presidents who we've admired the most, people like Harry Truman, to take a particular example, he was a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, but he was certainly not upper crust.
00:10:46.000And this feeling like, this noblesse oblige feeling that Dowd had us talking about, that this was our group of rulers who we were going to pick from among them, Yeah, I think that has its discontents and certainly it has its downsides as well.
00:11:00.000I don't think that we miss the ruling class.
00:11:02.000I think that we miss the idea that the ruling class in the United States, this sort of aristocratic caste at the top of society, that they actually still had a lot in common with us.
00:11:14.000What's weird is that as the people who we vote for become more like us, we seem to have less in common with the people we vote for.
00:11:22.000And I think that's just because, as a country, as a whole, we have less in common with the people around us.
00:11:32.000We resent people who make a lot of money.
00:11:34.000We resent people who are at the top of the so-called meritocracy.
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00:13:42.000Here's what Douthat writes in contravention of this idea.
00:13:45.000He says, If some of the elderbush's mourners wish we still had a wasp establishment, their desire probably reflects a belated realization that certain of the old establishment's vices were inherent to any elite, that meritocracy creates its own forms of exclusion, and that the wasps had virtues that their successors have failed to inherit or revive.
00:14:01.000Those virtues included a spirit of noblesse oblige and personal austerity and piety that went beyond the thank you notes and boat shoes and prep school chapel going.
00:14:08.000A spirit that trained the most privileged children for service, not just success, that sent men like Bush into combat alongside the sons of farmers and mechanics in the same way that it sent missionaries and diplomats abroad in the service of their churches and their countries.
00:14:20.000So, he sort of chalks this up to WASP habits.
00:14:24.000What I would say is that these used to be much more universal values, and they also applied to the people who ruled the country.
00:14:29.000And now they're not universal values, and they apply to no one.
00:14:31.000And so, our last several presidents have had significant moral failings.
00:14:36.000And the one who's probably the best man among them, George W. Bush, was excoriated as warmonger by everybody else.
00:14:42.000Well, none of this really... all the feel-goodism didn't really hold up to scrutiny for very long because, as it turns out, we are still an extraordinarily divided nation.
00:14:52.000And, as you know, I'm not ripping on displays of patriotic unity.
00:14:57.000I think that sometimes those are necessary.
00:14:59.000But it is hard not to look at the display Yesterday, in which you had President Trump sitting next to Melania, sitting next to the Obamas.
00:15:07.000The Obamas despise the Trumps, and probably vice versa.
00:15:10.000And then you have the Obamas sitting next to the Clintons.
00:15:12.000The Obamas despise the Clintons, and the Clintons despise the Trumps.
00:15:19.000Maybe we as a country have lost something, right?
00:15:21.000And that's not a rip on Trump specifically, or even Obama specifically, or even Clinton specifically, although I have serious problems with all of the aforementioned.
00:15:28.000It does raise questions as to what we as a country have in common when our leadership has virtually nothing in common with each other.
00:15:34.000And you can see that in some of the video from yesterday.
00:15:38.000Some of the video from yesterday that was going viral was Hillary Clinton purportedly snubbing the Trumps, and I can see the media trying to gin this up.
00:15:44.000I am unclear as to whether Hillary Clinton is actually spurning Melania Trump here.
00:15:49.000It would not be supremely surprising if she were, but I think it's a tape that can be read both ways.
00:15:53.000What certainly cannot be read both ways is the media coverage of it.
00:15:55.000So here's what it looked like when Donald Trump and Melania Trump sat down next to the Obamas and the Clintons.
00:16:04.000So what you will see is Melania and Trump, they're shaking hands with people, and Trump reaches over, he shakes hands with Michelle Obama, and then the Clintons sort of look away from him.
00:16:14.000President Trump shaking the hands of the Obamas.
00:16:16.000The Clintons did not acknowledge President Trump.
00:16:20.000So, obviously the media very into the idea that all these people hate each other, because the truth is, we all know, deep down, they really do hate each other.
00:16:27.000But, you know what the media hates most of all?
00:16:28.000What the media hates most of all are the Trumps.
00:16:33.000Now, Trump's behavior at the funeral was nothing, right?
00:16:35.000I mean, like, he didn't do anything wrong at this memorial service.
00:16:38.000Trump's behavior at the memorial service was perfectly normal.
00:16:40.000That didn't stop the media from losing its ever-loving mind over his presence at the funeral.
00:16:44.000What I love is all of the people in the media saying, well, Trump ripped on George W. Bush, and he ripped on Jeb Bush, and he was mean to them, so he shouldn't have shown up.
00:17:57.000He says that Trump should not have even shown up to the funeral after talking smack about George W. Bush.
00:18:03.000Again, the great meeting of the mental luminaries Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo on CNN discuss.
00:18:09.000I don't think that's respect for the human being.
00:18:12.000If you talk smack about them, if you say the nastiest things about them, if you treat them as subhuman, and then you want to show up at their funeral?
00:19:00.000He served one term, and then he lost because a third-party candidate won 19% of the vote.
00:19:05.000But apparently, you know, every opportunity to use George H. Bush to contrast to Trump, as opposed to contrasting what the country was in 1990, And maybe before, with the spirit of America now.
00:19:18.000I don't think they would be writing the same thing about Barack Obama, who militarized the executive branch against his political enemies.
00:19:44.000That wasn't the only article on the front page of the Washington Post website.
00:19:48.000They had another article that said, This one from Philip Rucker.
00:19:55.000From the moment he crossed the transept of the soaring Washington National Cathedral, tore off his overcoat, and took his seat in the front pew, President Trump was an outsider.
00:20:03.000When the others sang an opening hymn, his mouth did not move.
00:20:05.000When the others read the Apostles' Creed, he stood stoically.
00:20:08.000And when one eulogist after another testified to George H.W.
00:20:10.000Bush's integrity and character and honesty and bravery and compassion, Trump sat and listened, often with his lips pursed and his arms crossed over his chest.
00:20:18.000So now we're doing body language breakdowns of President Trump at a funeral for national unity.
00:20:44.000You know, and he's not schtuping everything in sight with or without consent.
00:20:48.000We're supposed to pretend that that is just a sign of decency now?
00:20:52.000The Washington Post continues, Wednesday's state funeral was carefully orchestrated to be about one man and his milestones, Bush the father, the friend, the war hero, but inevitably became about Trump too.
00:21:01.000For it was impossible to pay tribute to the 41st president without drawing implicit contrast with the 45th.
00:21:05.000I've been saying this for days, that the reason the media are doing a lot of the over-the-top hagiography of George H.W.
00:21:11.000Bush is specifically in order to tear down President Trump.
00:21:13.000That was pretty obvious from the outset.
00:21:16.000Look, again, you can look at George H.W.
00:21:18.000Bush and miss maybe a time when Americans valued statesmanship, but let's not pretend that the end of statesmanship began with President Trump because that is a bunch of nonsense and we all know it.
00:21:29.000In a second, I want to talk a little bit about George H.W.
00:21:31.000Bush's sort of reaction to President Trump.
00:21:34.000And I also want to talk about the Democrats preparing for 2020.
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00:22:50.000Well, all this morning for George H.W.
00:22:52.000Bush goes on, and while we contrast the era of George H.W.
00:22:55.000Bush and maybe the social fabric of George H.W.
00:22:58.000Bush with today's social fabric, it is important to note, as I said yesterday, that George H.W.
00:23:04.000Bush and the establishment Republicans' disdain for people who are not of the elite did breed a backlash.
00:23:10.000So here's what Rod Douthat is right over at the New York Times.
00:23:13.000When he says that there's a nostalgia for a sort of aristocracy in the United States, let's not pretend that that did not create a backlash.
00:23:28.000These were not people who shared values.
00:23:30.000These were not people who shared a vision for the country.
00:23:32.000And if they embraced each other because they felt that they had something else in common, I'm wondering what exactly that was.
00:23:38.000I always felt like a fan of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, and you're rooting for your team to beat the other team, and then you find out that the players in the offseason are best friends and go fishing together, and you think to yourself, wait a second.
00:23:52.000Aren't they supposed to, you know, be fighting against each other?
00:23:55.000That doesn't mean they should be beating each other's brains in, but the sort of warmth that Bush showed toward the Clintons, the Bush family showed toward the Clintons, was always off-putting to a lot of people who felt like this was more of an evidence of an inborn elite who had decided to associate with each other than people who were really unified with the American people per se.
00:24:14.000So when Maureen Dowd says that George H.W.
00:24:17.000Bush cursed about Trump and threw his shoe at the TV whenever he appeared, You know, that creates a rather large backlash against exactly the sort of aristocracy that Ross Dude had us talking about.
00:24:53.000Now, again, we are going to have to rebuild the social fabric from the ground up, but that's not going to happen anytime soon, not with the politics that we currently have.
00:25:00.000The latest evidence of this comes courtesy of Elizabeth Warren, so this is just too funny.
00:25:05.000Do you remember a few weeks back, this is mid-October, Elizabeth Warren decided that it was imperative that she release a DNA test to demonstrate her Native American bona fides, because many people had said, Lady, you are whiter than the backside of this sheet of paper right here.
00:25:19.000I mean, you are as white as the driven snow.
00:25:48.000Well, now it turns out, That we won the argument, right?
00:25:51.000Those of us who actually have any tenuous relationship with reality, we won this particular argument because now the New York Times is reporting that one-time Democratic 2020 presidential frontrunner, Senator Elizabeth Warren, has fallen on hard times politically.
00:26:10.000Warren released the test results and drew hostile reactions from prominent tribal leaders, the lingering cloud over her likely presidential campaign has only darkened.
00:26:19.000Conservatives have continued to ridicule her.
00:26:22.000Warren's presidential ambitions, she has yet to allay criticism from grassroots progressive groups.
00:26:27.000Liberal political operatives and other potential 2020 allies who complain that she put too much emphasis on the controversial field of racial science, and in doing so, played into Mr. Trump's hands.
00:26:37.000So, she tried to break into the intersectional group by releasing a DNA test, and everybody was like, no lady, you're white.
00:26:44.000So it's really fun to watch all of these upper-crust white candidates try to break into the intersectional battleground that the Democratic Party has become.
00:26:52.000On the one hand, you have somebody like Kirsten Gillibrand, another rich white lady, who tweets out, And we're just getting started.
00:26:57.000intersectional, powered by our belief in one another.
00:27:10.000But in any case, Warren went even further in an attempt to prove she could compete with all the other minority candidates.
00:27:15.000She didn't just pay tribute to intersectionality.
00:27:17.000She tried to become part of the intersectional coalition, and she looked really bad doing it, and now the New York Times is recognizing this.
00:27:23.000So, how's the Democratic Party breaking down for 2020?
00:27:26.000Well, they've got the intersectional radicals, then they've got the establishmentarians, and then they have the Bernie Sanders radicals.
00:27:33.000And this means that if you had to name the people who are the top candidates right now, it would be from the establishment Joe Biden, from the intersectional side Kamala Harris, and from the Sanders bro flavor of the month, that'd be Beto O'Rourke.
00:27:44.000So those would be your top three candidates if you had to handicap this race right now.
00:27:47.000All three of them Are increasingly radical and Elizabeth Warren was not radical enough.
00:27:51.000She tried to break from the Sanders, bro.
00:27:55.000Take, for example, the issue of intersectionality.
00:27:57.000the intersectional area of the party and she failed dramatically because as it turns out, there are serious gaps between these three sections of the party if you are a Democrat.
00:28:05.000And these gaps are only going to get larger as the Democratic Party becomes more and more radical on a wide variety of issues.
00:28:11.000Take, for example, the issue of intersectionality.
00:28:14.000So intersectionality now demands that we ignore anti-Semitism in favor of more put upon intersectional groups, right?
00:28:25.000That intersectionality, for those who don't know, is a theory that says that everybody's experience is defined by their group identity.
00:28:30.000So if you're a black person, you have a different experience in America than a white person.
00:28:34.000If you're a black woman, you're a member of two intersectional groups, and those overlapping experiences, those intersecting experiences, define your life in America.
00:28:41.000And we can determine how seriously to take your opinion, or how victimized you have been, which are flip sides of the same coin in leftism.
00:28:48.000Well, when it comes to this intersectional hierarchy, we rank various groups by level of victimization in American society.
00:28:57.000Jews, because they're economically successful in the United States, rank very low on the intersectional hierarchy.
00:29:02.000So the left has decided that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem.
00:29:05.000They're not going to focus in on serious anti-Semitism.
00:29:08.000Unless they can shout about anti-semitism in order to bash President Trump like they did after the Pittsburgh white supremacist shooting.
00:29:15.000Thus, you now have several members of the Democratic caucus who have come out in favor of the openly anti-semitic proposal to boycott, divest, and sanction the state of Israel for building extra bathrooms in East Jerusalem.
00:29:25.000And they're still willing to hobnob with folks like Mark Lamont Hill.
00:29:27.000Mark Lamont Hill recently fired from CNN after going to the UN and shouting the Hamas slogan from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free.
00:29:35.000Well, it turns out that just a few months ago, nobody cared about this, back a few months ago, September 2018, Marc Lamont Hill suggested that the Jews were poisoning the water of the Palestinians.
00:29:48.000For those who don't know any Jewish history, back during the Crusades, there were suggestions, lies, back in the 11th and 12th centuries, there were lies that Jews had been poisoning the wells of Christians in order to kill them.
00:30:01.000How can you romanticize nonviolence when you have a state that is at all moments waging war against you, against your bodies, poisoning your water, limiting your access to water, locking up your children, killing you?
00:30:14.000How can you romanticize nonviolence when you have a state that is at all moments waging war against you, against your bodies, poisoning your water, limiting your access to water, locking up your children, killing you?
00:30:34.000And on the intersectionality side of the Democratic Party, it gets even more radical when we get to gender.
00:30:39.000And then wait till we get to sort of the Bernie Sanders side of the party, which is becoming more radical as well.
00:30:44.000So for all the Democrats who think they're going to just walk over President Trump in 2020, all I would say is look to your own house first, guys.
00:30:50.000We'll get to all that in just a second.
00:30:51.000First, let's talk about your Second Amendment rights.
00:30:54.000You're a gun lover and you're running out of time.
00:33:31.000Speaking, by the way, of the intersectional left, it'll be amazing to watch as the bad behavior of particular candidates who please the intersectional left are completely overlooked.
00:33:40.000So I will take, for example, Kamala Harris, who I mentioned before as a possible tier one candidate for the Democrats in 2020.
00:33:58.000She Does not do anything of note except for tell lies about Brett Kavanaugh apparently in judicial hearings, but this has made her a frontrunner because something.
00:34:09.000She's so high on the intersectionality scale that she can get away with ignoring the fact that a longtime top staffer of hers just had to pay out $400,000 in a harassment and retaliation settlement.
00:34:23.000Senator Kamala Harris resigned on Wednesday after the Sacramento Bee inquired about a $400,000 harassment and retaliation settlement resulting from his time working for Harris at the California Department of Justice.
00:34:34.000Larry Wallace, who served as the director of the Division of Law Enforcement under then Attorney General Harris, was accused by his former executive assistant in December 2016 of gender harassment and other demeaning behavior, including frequently asking her to crawl under his desk to change the paper in his printer.
00:34:50.000The lawsuit was filed December 30th, 2016, when Harris was still Attorney General, but prepping to be sworn in as the Democratic Senator.
00:34:56.000It was settled less than five months later, in May 17, by Xavier Becerra, who was appointed to replace her as Attorney General.
00:35:03.000By that time, Wallace had transitioned to work for Harris as a senior advisor in her Sacramento office.
00:35:09.000We are unaware of this issue and take accusations of harassment extremely seriously.
00:35:12.000This evening, Mr. Wallace offered his resignation to the Senator, and she accepted it.
00:35:16.000Harris spokeswoman Lily Adams wrote in an email, I love this.
00:35:19.000Harris, who said she will decide over the holidays whether to run for president in 2020, has been a prominent figure in the MeToo movement.
00:35:26.000So in other words, she knew this for years and she didn't care for years until the Sacramento Bee asked her about it.
00:35:39.000There's no way they're gonna let Kamala Harris go down on something like this.
00:35:43.000The same thing is true of folks on the left who are... I mean, it's not just her.
00:35:48.000There's a story out of New Jersey today that's astonishing about the New Jersey governor, Governor Murphy.
00:35:55.000Governor Murphy is a new Democratic hero, Governor Murphy, but...
00:36:00.000It's okay, because he's a Democratic hero, for him to have overlooked allegations of sexual assault in his administration.
00:36:08.000This is according to Andrew Seidman over at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
00:36:14.000An official in the Murphy administration described in harrowing terms Tuesday how high-ranking members of Governor Murphy's campaign and staff, including the governor himself, failed to act when she tried to alert them about a campaign aide who she says raped her.
00:36:26.000I had access to people in the highest positions of power in the state of New Jersey.
00:36:30.000Katie Brennan, Chief of Staff for the State's Housing Agency, testified during a legislative hearing.
00:36:34.000At each turn, my pleas for help went unanswered.
00:36:36.000Somehow, it wasn't a priority to address my sexual assault and working with my rapist until it impacted them.
00:36:54.000Okay, the current senator from the state of New Jersey was embroiled in sexual allegations about underage prostitutes in Puerto Rico, or in the Dominican Republic, rather, and is still doing just fine.
00:37:04.000So New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will survive all of this and continue to be a Democratic star because Democratic priorities trump all else.
00:37:11.000So the intersectional nonsense that the Democratic Party continues to embrace will continue to unfold before us in real time, ignoring all of the downsides.
00:37:19.000Speaking of intersectional nonsense today, the American Association of University Professors, which is this highfalutin group of university professors, they've decided that there are not two sexes.
00:37:29.000They're no longer two sexes, so intersectionality, picking up steam as we go on.
00:37:34.000It's not just intersectionality, intersectional wings of the Democratic Party that are moving far to the left.
00:37:40.000It is the economic wings of the Democratic Party that are also moving increasingly far to the left.
00:37:45.000Their latest bugaboo, the thing that they are going to use to scare everybody into giving them control of the economy, Global warming is going to be the tool that they use for global redistributionism.
00:38:02.000Despite the fact, by the way, that the United States is the number one carbon emissions reducer this year on planet Earth, and the fact that global carbon emissions continue to increase thanks to countries that are signatories to the Paris Accords.
00:38:15.000This is according to the Washington Post today.
00:38:17.000Global emissions of carbon dioxide are reaching the highest levels on record, scientists projected on Wednesday in the latest evidence of the chasm between international goals for combating climate change and what countries are doing.
00:38:27.000Between 2014 and 2016, emissions remained largely flat, leading to hopes that the world was beginning to turn a corner.
00:38:33.000Those hopes appear to have been dashed.
00:38:35.000In 2017, global emissions grew 1.6 percent.
00:38:38.000The rise in 2018 is projected to be 2.7 percent.
00:39:00.000The expected increase is being driven by nearly 5% growth of emissions in China and more than 6% in India.
00:39:06.000As nations continue climate talks in Poland, the message of Wednesday's report was unambiguous.
00:39:10.000When it comes to promises to begin cutting greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change, the world is well off target.
00:39:15.000But this makes Democrats happy because this gives them an excuse, the Bernie bros, it gives them an excuse to push for vast redistribution of wealth.
00:39:23.000And of course, the person leading that charge in terms of vast distribution of wealth, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:39:28.000Now, again, I don't mean to pick on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:39:34.000It is also true that if were Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an actual presidential candidate, there's a good shot that she would wipe out everybody else in the Democratic Party in the primaries.
00:39:56.000If she were old enough to run for president, she would do serious damage on the Democratic side because she spans two of the groups.
00:40:03.000So again, there are three groups in the Democratic Party.
00:40:04.000The establishment, the Bernie bros, and the intersectional group.
00:40:09.000She spans the intersectional group and the Bernie bros.
00:40:12.000And she knows how to pay homage to the Establishment group.
00:40:17.000You have to have two of those groups in order to win a primary.
00:40:19.000There are very few of these candidates who do.
00:40:21.000Well, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, using the climate change issue as a baton to wield against the United States economy, here she is explaining that climate change is going to establish economic justice across the world, meaning redistributionism.
00:40:35.000It's not just possible that we will create jobs and economic activity by transitioning to renewable energy, but it's inevitable that we are going to create jobs.
00:40:46.000It's inevitable that we're going to create industry, and it's inevitable that we can use the transition to 100% renewable energy as the vehicle to truly deliver and establish economic, social, and racial justice in the United States of America.
00:41:01.000I mean, that is sheer nonsense what she is saying there.
00:41:03.000She's saying basically that if you cram down enormous amounts of regulation and destroy the carbon basis for the economy, which is particularly effective for poor people, that this will somehow establish economic and racial justice.
00:41:16.000Massive riots in the streets and the government of France backing off their own carbon tax.
00:41:19.000So, no, none of that is true, but she's saying the stuff that is necessary inside the Democratic Party.
00:41:25.000So, the great hope for the Republicans is not that President Trump somehow pulls a rabbit out of the hat again in 2020.
00:41:30.000The great hope for the Republicans is that the divisions in the Democratic Party continue to widen, the divisions between the intersectional side and the progressive side, and that both of those sides continue to double down on the stupid, that both of those sides continue to grow more and more radical, that the intersectional politics of the left causes them to savage each other, Which intersectionality inherently does.
00:41:51.000And that the progressive side, the Bernie Sanders side, continues to embrace more and more socialistic policies, including massive crackdowns on the U.S.
00:42:43.000But Democrats will continue to promote it because they have lied to their base about the impact of all of their proposed policies.
00:42:50.000Now speaking of liars, this is an amazing story.
00:42:52.000Lena Dunham Who's the creator of Girls and just an awful person.
00:42:57.000She claimed she had inside information in November 2017 exonerating a writer named Murray Miller from claims by actress Aurora Perrineau that he had sexually assaulted her in 2012 when she was 17.
00:43:10.000She said, While our first instinct is to listen to every woman's story, our insider knowledge of Murray's situation makes us confident that, sadly, this accusation is one of the 3% of assault cases that are misreported every year.
00:43:40.000On Wednesday, writing in The Hollywood Reporter, Lena Dunham offered an apology to Perrineau, beginning by celebrating the past year for unprecedented dialogue about issues like wage equality and systematic bias, and most notably, sexually assault and harassment.
00:44:15.000There are a few acts I could ever regret more in this life.
00:44:18.000I did not have the insider information I claimed, but rather blind faith in a story that kept slipping and changing and revealed itself to mean nothing at all.
00:44:26.000So, Lena Dunham lied about having insider information exonerating a friend of hers in the Me Too movement.
00:44:32.000Which, again, goes to show you that so many of these movements can be easily politicized for personal gain.
00:44:45.000The thing that I like today... So I had a plane ride yesterday.
00:44:48.000The thing that I hate is that this plane ride had no internet, but you were able to at least download the United app, and that meant that you could watch a certain number of movies.
00:44:56.000While I'd seen a lot of the movies that were there, I had not seen Borg vs. McEnroe.
00:45:46.000when you flick the bullet. - No special villains.
00:45:54.000Just funny, bro. - The only thing standing between Borg and that record is you.
00:46:00.000You and Borg are as different-- - So the movie is really worth watching if you're a tennis fan, if you're a sports fan, And it's good drama.
00:46:15.000Because if he could control himself, he'd really be a bigger star than he is, as opposed to making headlines for whatever is his latest shtick.
00:46:24.000Okay, so time for another thing that I... Let's see, is there anything else that I like today?
00:46:36.000So California is now looking to mandate solar power for new homes.
00:46:40.000According to the Orange County Register, California officially became the first state in the nation on Wednesday to require homes built in 2020 and later be solar powered.
00:46:48.000To a smattering of applause, the California Building Standards Commission voted unanimously to add energy standards approved last May by another panel to the state building code.
00:46:56.000Two commissioners and several public speakers lauded the new code as a historic undertaking and a model for the nation.
00:47:01.000The new provisions are expected to dramatically boost the number of rooftop solar panels in the Golden State.
00:47:06.000Last year, buyers took out permits for more than 115,000 new homes, almost half of them for single-family homes.
00:47:15.000I hate this because, inevitably, this is going to increase real estate prices because now it costs more to build a home.
00:47:21.000When the cost goes up, that cost is passed on to the consumer.
00:47:24.000Or, theoretically, it will be the state of California paying for the subsidy for all of this, which means raising taxes in the state of California yet again.
00:47:30.000The state of California is already running massive, massive, hundreds of billions of dollars of debt, and the idea, trillions of dollars of debt if you count their unfunded liabilities.
00:47:39.000And if you look at all of that combined with the tax rates in California, which are the highest in the nation, Let's just add some more regulation on top of that and increase real estate prices in the middle of a real estate shortage.
00:47:52.000Just genius stuff happening in California every single day.
00:47:56.000When there are no consequences to your activity because people in California vote basically straight-line Democrat no matter what, then you can do presumably whatever you want.
00:48:13.000Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a bevy of allegations now come out against him about sexual harassment and one case sexual assault.
00:48:21.000There was a claim by a woman that way back when they were at University of Texas at Austin together that he sexually assaulted her, that he raped her.
00:48:28.000That allegation came out a couple of years ago and didn't make a lot of waves.
00:48:31.000But now there are a bunch of other women who are coming forward And saying that they have been sexually harassed or abused by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
00:48:40.000Apparently there was an assistant named Ashley Watson who was ecstatic earlier this year when she got a job to be Neil deGrasse Tyson's driver.
00:48:47.000She wanted to be a Hollywood producer and thought the gig with his hit TV show Cosmos could help make her useful industry connections.
00:48:54.000And then she was driving him around at one point and apparently he invited her up to his apartment to unwind over a bottle of wine.
00:49:02.000She felt uncomfortable as he gazed into her eyes and held her wrist to feel her spirit connection.
00:49:09.000They spent two hours together as he made sexual references to song lyrics and described his need for physical release.
00:49:14.000As she was leaving, he took her by the shoulders and said, I want to hug you so bad right now, but I know that if I do, I'll just want more.
00:49:21.000So, she went to the line producer and reported the incident, and she resigned.
00:49:26.000And the line producer said that she should tell everybody she was leaving due to a family emergency.
00:49:34.000And there's a third story, where apparently he was at a party with this woman who had a tattoo of the solar system, which is a weird thing to do, and he asked if he could see Pluto and then tried to look down her shirt, apparently.
00:49:48.000In front of other people, this is the allegation.
00:49:50.000And now there is a fourth allegation of something similar.
00:49:55.000The fourth allegation essentially states that he came on to her at a museum holiday party.
00:50:03.000She says that they were at this museum holiday party and he started hitting on her and he tried to touch her or something.
00:50:09.000In any case, none of this is great stuff for Neil deGrasse Tyson.
00:50:15.000And it just shows you that powerful men in positions of power You know, they really have to... Number one, they should be careful.
00:50:21.000And number three, depending on which side of the political aisle you're on, you can survive any amount of this.
00:50:26.000So, again, if this had been a claim that was made about anybody on the right, I highly doubt that everybody would have been treating the claims with quite such skepticism, considering how they treated unverified and unverifiable claims against Brett Kavanaugh.