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00:00:18.000We're actually going to answer that last question.
00:00:19.000Or at least the Washington Post is going to try to, because the media are our guardians and our firefighters.
00:00:25.000Everything's going swell in America, guys.
00:00:27.000So, let's just jump right into the news.
00:00:29.000Apparently, the key yield curve has now inverted to the worst level since 2007, so that's some good news to brighten up your morning and your afternoon.
00:00:36.00030-year rate has now dropped under 2%, according to CNBC.
00:00:40.000Long-term Treasury rates added to their month-long slide on Tuesday, aggravating a key yield curve inversion and sending the 10-year yield to its lowest level against the 2-year rate since 2007.
00:00:49.000In other words, everybody in the world is buying long-term bonds.
00:00:52.000They're trying to store their money in long-term bonds because they do not have a lot of faith in the short-term economy.
00:00:56.000The yield on the benchmark 2-year Treasury note, more sensitive to changes in Federal Reserve policy, fell to 1.526%, which is 5 basis points above the 10-year note's rate of 1.476% after closing inverted On Monday, before August, the last inversion of this part of the yield curve was the one that began in December 2005, two years before the financial crisis and the subsequent recession.
00:01:17.000So there's pretty solid information now that sometime in the next couple of years, the economy is going to slow substantially and maybe dump into recession.
00:01:26.000Now, the Federal Reserve has been pressured, obviously, by President Trump in heavy ways to pump up the inflationary policy at the Fed.
00:01:33.000That, of course, is a bad idea as a general rule.
00:01:47.000They should not be in favor of any of this because when the Federal Reserve messes around with the interest rates, there is the significant possibility that you are creating a bubble that will then burst.
00:01:56.000It is also true that the Federal Reserve was supposed to be apolitical.
00:01:59.000Their goal is to be a backstop in case of emergency.
00:02:02.000It was supposed to be a 2007-2008 recession.
00:02:05.000The Federal Reserve steps in to cut interest rates and jog spending, for example.
00:02:09.000It was not supposed to be that a politician needs a lift, and so the Federal Reserve cuts rates.
00:02:14.000In fact, the Federal Reserve was supposed to be the responsible actor here.
00:02:17.000And the fact that President Trump is calling on the Federal Reserve not to be responsible in order to pump up the economy in advance of the election is not a particularly good thing.
00:02:25.000And if a Democrat were doing this, Republicans would rightly be outraged.
00:02:28.000Now, does that mean that the Federal Reserve should be acting politically?
00:02:32.000The theme of today's show is going to be the failure of our institutions and the fact that everyone is losing faith in our institutions and for good reason.
00:02:39.000The politicization of our institutions in every single possible way is devastating to America's social fabric, to our trust in each other.
00:02:48.000If you cannot trust that our institutions are going to run like they are supposed to run, then it's going to be very difficult to explain why we should have delegated power to those institutions in the first place.
00:02:57.000Maybe it leads to a libertarian moment.
00:02:59.000Alternatively, maybe it leads to tribal warfare politics in which you don't care about the institutions themselves and maintaining the integrity of the institutions themselves.
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00:04:40.000Okay, so, with the economic backdrop that we currently have, as the backdrop, there's a report from the New York Times that should undercut your faith in institutions.
00:04:51.000If the Federal Reserve is supposed to be an impartial broker, if the Federal Reserve is supposed to be an institution that stands apart from the hurly-gurly of everyday politics, well then, this should be a disquieting story.
00:05:03.000According to the New York Times, The Fed could hit back at Trump, a former top official suggests.
00:05:09.000According to Gianna Smialek reporting for the New York Times, a former top Federal Reserve official implied that the central bank should consider allowing President Trump's trade war to hurt his 2020 election chances, an assertion that drew a firestorm of criticism and rare pushback from the Fed itself.
00:05:24.000William Dudley is former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is now a research scholar at Princeton University, and he said in a Bloomberg opinion piece that President Trump's re-election arguably presents a threat to the U.S.
00:05:36.000Dudley added that if the goal of monetary policy is to achieve the best long-term economic outcome, then Fed officials should consider how their decisions will affect the political outcome in 2020.
00:05:45.000That's an astonishing statement from the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
00:05:49.000He's openly stating now that the officials at the Federal Reserve should be attempting to tip the election to a Democrat in order to help the economy.
00:05:58.000Does that give you faith in the Federal Reserve?
00:06:00.000Similarly, should it give you faith in the Federal Reserve if the Federal Reserve chairman were just taking orders from the President of the United States?
00:06:06.000Would that make you feel secure about the safety and security of America's economy?
00:06:10.000This is a particularly controversial statement, says the New York Times, coming from an official who ranked among the Fed's most powerful policymakers as recently as 2018.
00:06:19.000It also comes at a sensitive moment for the Fed, which has been under attack from Mr. Trump and trying to assert its independence from the White House and politics in general.
00:06:26.000Michelle Smith, a Fed spokeswoman, said when asked about the column, quote, But this is the problem with how the Federal Reserve operates as a general rule.
00:06:32.000by its congressional mandate to maintain price stability and maximum employment.
00:06:36.000Political considerations play absolutely no role.
00:06:39.000But this is the problem with how the Federal Reserve operates as a general rule.
00:06:43.000The fact is that the Federal Reserve is constantly attempting to tip balances for or against particular executive policies pursued by presidents of both parties.
00:06:52.000Really what the Federal Reserve should be there to do is to set a low steady interest rate.
00:06:57.000Milton Friedman suggested the Federal Reserve should set a low steady interest rate and that there should be basically they should aim for maybe a 2% inflation rate every year to jog the economy to keep people spending.
00:07:09.000But they should not be inflating the currency wildly or deflating the currency wildly.
00:07:13.000And they should be there in case of some sort of catastrophic collapse.
00:07:16.000This is the sort of Chicago School of Economics view in order to ensure that currency doesn't just disappear from the marketplace.
00:07:22.000The Austrian School of Economics would go even further.
00:07:26.000They'd say there should be no Federal Reserve.
00:07:27.000You should just peg the price of the dollar to the price of gold and be done with it.
00:07:31.000There shouldn't be any government agency that is involved creating this sort of moral hazard that the Federal Reserve is going to fix all problems with the economy.
00:07:37.000Regardless, both the Chicago School of Economics and the Austrian School of Economics would suggest that the politicization of the Fed, which did happen under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, That the politicization of the Fed, the executive branch ordering the Fed what to do, or conversely, the Fed acting as an independent political agent to militate against a president of a particular party, that is going to undermine your faith in Republican institutions.
00:08:00.000And we are watching this happen day in and day out.
00:08:04.000Faith in each of our institutions, it's seemingly one by one, Is crumbling.
00:08:08.000Now, what that would theoretically suggest is that what we need is for the constitutional system of checks and balances to kick in.
00:08:15.000What we need right now is if you don't have faith in any one branch of the government, then you should have faith that the entire government is going to gridlock itself.
00:08:22.000That you're not going to... Sure, we don't trust the executive branch if you're a Democrat right now.
00:08:27.000Well, that's what the legislature is for.
00:08:28.000And you don't trust the legislature if you're a Republican?
00:08:30.000Well, that's what the executive branch is for.
00:08:33.000That's what the legislature and the executive branch are for.
00:08:36.000You don't trust the federal government in general?
00:08:37.000That's what the state governments are for.
00:08:39.000The entire system of checks and balances imposed by the founders assumed an endemic level of mistrust in our institutions.
00:08:45.000So this is where the Constitution really should become valuable.
00:08:48.000Unfortunately, There are a lot of folks on both sides of the aisle, but particularly the left these days, who are pushing against those checks and balances at the same time we're losing faith in the institutions.
00:08:57.000So the institutions no longer have our faith, and now they want to get rid of the checks and balances.
00:09:01.000So if you don't trust the institutions, and you don't like the checks and balances, what you're really arguing for is taking control of the institutions so you can use them on behalf of your own favored policies.
00:09:12.000Well, that is very dangerous in Republic.
00:09:17.000That turns government into the Joker's game in the Dark Knight, splitting a pool queue in two and throwing it out there and saying, OK, whoever controls the pool queue gets to be employed here.
00:09:28.000It turns it into a tribal fight, war by other means, as I suggested earlier this week.
00:09:33.000And pushing this are the folks in the far left.
00:09:35.000So Jamel Bui, who is not a very good columnist over at the New York Times, he, I enjoy some of his work.
00:09:41.000I will say that I don't think that he thinks through a lot of his own ideas.
00:09:45.000He has an opinion piece in the New York Times suggesting that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez understands democracy better than Republicans do, which is false.
00:09:52.000AOC understands literally nothing except for using Instagram better than Republicans do, and maybe dancing on rooftops, but that is a matter of opinion.
00:10:01.000Bowie says, spend enough time talking politics on the Internet or in any other public forum, and you'll run into this standard reply to anyone who wants more democracy in American government.
00:10:13.000You saw it over the weekends, says Jamel Bowie, in an exchange between Representatives AOC and Dan Crenshaw of Texas, friends at Ben Shapiro Show.
00:10:20.000In a brief series of tweets, Ocasio-Cortez made the case against the Electoral College and argued for a national popular vote to choose the president.
00:10:26.000She said every vote should be equal in America, no matter who you are or where you come from, The right thing to do is establish a popular vote and GOP will do everything they can to fight it.
00:10:36.000Crenshaw, who has sparred with AOC before, jumped in with a response.
00:10:40.000Abolishing the electoral college means that politicians will only campaign in and listen to urban areas.
00:10:44.000That is not a representative democracy.
00:10:47.000He said, we live in a republic, which means 51% of the population doesn't get to boss around the other 49%.
00:10:53.000And then Jamel Bowie suggests that the crux of Crenshaw's argument, we live in a republic, is wrong.
00:10:58.000He says he doesn't say not a democracy, but it's implied by the next clause where he rejects majority rule.
00:11:03.000You can fill in the blanks of the argument from there.
00:11:05.000The founding fathers built a government to stymie the tyranny of the majority.
00:11:08.000They contrasted their republic with democracy, which they condemned as dangerous and unstable.
00:11:12.000As John Adams wrote in an 1814 letter to the Virginia politician John Taylor, democracy never lasts long.
00:11:18.000It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
00:11:20.000There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
00:11:23.000But there's a problem, says Jamal Bowie.
00:11:24.000For the founders, democracy did not mean majority rule in a system of representation.
00:11:29.000The men who led the revolution and devised the Constitution were immersed in classical literature and political theory.
00:11:34.000Ancient Greece, in particular, was a cautionary tale.
00:11:36.000When James Madison critiqued democracy in Federalist No.
00:11:39.00010, he meant the Athenian sort, a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.
00:11:47.000He says, in more modern terms, the Founders feared direct democracy and accounted for its dangers with a system of representative democracy.
00:11:53.000Yes, this republic had counter-majoritarian aspects, but it was not designed for minority rule.
00:11:59.000Nobody suggested that it was designed for minority rule, but if Jamal Bowie is truly suggesting that the Founders were big fans of pure majoritarianism, he hasn't read the entirety of the Federalist Papers.
00:12:07.000I'm sorry, Federalist 10 isn't the only Federalist Paper.
00:12:14.000The Federalist Papers make quite clear that the Founders were very much afraid of faction.
00:12:18.000They were afraid of the power of a majority to overrun the rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.
00:12:26.000It's amazing to see, but we completely missed the point like this is virtually everything was geared toward producing representative majorities that could govern on behalf of the country to diminish faction in favor of consensus.
00:12:36.000And in the case of the Electoral College, the point wasn't to stymie majorities, but to provide a way to find a competent and popular chief executive in a large nation of parochial states.
00:12:46.000Well, it was to form a an Electoral College majority out of a plurality was probably one of the purposes.
00:12:53.000So it was to turn a minority into a majority in some cases.
00:12:57.000And when it comes to producing representative majority, overwhelming majorities, the founders were very much in favor of.
00:13:03.00051% to 49%, they were very much not in favor of.
00:13:08.000But again, this is Jamal Bowie stumping against institutions of our government that were designed to curb our lack of faith in the institutions themselves, right?
00:13:15.000So now he wants to get rid of the checks and balances.
00:13:18.000Because AOC's argument could be made on exactly the same basis for getting rid of the United States Senate.
00:13:22.000After all, the United States Senate gives the exact same number of representatives to Montana, which has like 10 people, as it does to California, which has 50 million people.
00:13:30.000So why shouldn't you make the same argument about getting rid of the Senate of the United States?
00:13:34.000As it turns out, this isn't the only attack on institutions that our media are pushing.
00:13:39.000They're also pushing attacks on our very system of immigration, on borders at all.
00:13:46.000First, let's talk about the uncertainty that we are seeing right now, springing from the Federal Reserve, springing from international currency markets.
00:13:53.000Do you feel uneasy with the fact that policymakers across the world are now relying on central banks to prop up their economies with inflation and deflation and raising interest rates and lowering interest rates.
00:14:03.000Maybe you're interested in investing in currency that is not dependent on the vacillation of central bankers who are now dependent on the political whim of their masters in governments all over the world.
00:14:13.000Well, this may be one reason that you want to seriously consider including some cryptocurrency in your portfolio.
00:14:20.000Cryptocurrency is basically the digital equivalent of gold.
00:14:23.000What it is, is a currency that is protected by blockchain.
00:15:21.000It is not just an attempt to undermine institutions like the Electoral College or the United States Senate.
00:15:26.000More and more Democrats are suggesting the Senate is not representative because obviously it's not.
00:15:30.000It wasn't created to be representative.
00:15:32.000It was created to require the manufacture of large-scale majorities, near super majorities in many cases, in order for the government to get anything done.
00:15:40.000Specifically because the founders feared that the institutions would not be faithfully executed.
00:15:46.000The solution for a lot of folks on the left and some people on the right, too, is that we should just overrun all those checks and balances.
00:15:52.000And really, we should have an effective government that gets things done the way I want them done.
00:16:04.000Okay, but now you've got the New York Times stumping not just against the Electoral College or the Senate, you've got them stumping against the very idea of borders.
00:16:12.000So the New York Times editorial board, their wonderful editorial board, they have an editorial today called, The Immigration System is a Mess.
00:16:23.000They say it has been an eventful few weeks in President Trump's ever-escalating crusade to restrict immigration.
00:16:28.000On August 12th, his administration announced a rule change making it more difficult for poor immigrants to obtain green cards by giving officials more leeway in assessing who is likely to become a public charge, meaning someone who relies on public services.
00:16:41.000If you immigrate here and we think that you're going to be on welfare, you shouldn't be immigrating here.
00:16:44.000On August 21st, it introduced a new rule jettisoning the existing 20-day limit on holding migrant children in detention.
00:16:50.000That was designed specifically so that we didn't have to separate children from parents and also so that we did not have to release parents into the interior of the United States where they show up for one court hearing and then receive a provisional green card and overstay that green card and become permanent illegal residents of the United States.
00:17:05.000The next day, according to the New York Times, The president reasserted his interest in abolishing birthright citizenship, the constitutional guarantee that anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen.
00:17:17.000They say, whatever its long-term implications, the president's obsession with what he has termed an immigrant invasion is already undermining the functioning of his administration and the safety of the nation.
00:17:26.000The Boston Globe reported last week a mass diversion of immigration officers from New England to the southwest border will bring to a stop the processing of nearly all 40,000 asylum requests pending in New England.
00:17:37.000Similarly, back in March, senior staff members at U.S.
00:17:39.000Citizenship and Immigration Services We're told that by year's end, the agency would shut down its international division, which assists overseas applicants applying to immigrate to the United States to redirect resources to the border crisis, as if the legal immigration system needed additional stressors.
00:17:55.000Okay, so now you're just objecting to Trump redirecting resources so that we can enforce our southern border.
00:18:00.000I don't see you calling on Democrats to provide additional funding so we can continue doing all of these things while ensuring safety and security at our southern border.
00:18:09.000What the New York Times wants is catch and release.
00:18:12.000What the New York Times wants is catch and release.
00:18:15.000They do not want people who have entered the United States illegally deported, and they also don't want people who are entering the United States, possibly illegally, before their asylum claims can be adjudicated, detained.
00:18:26.000They simply want an open border where people can walk across, disappear into the interior, and stay forever.
00:18:30.000That is pretty much the only way to read this editorial.
00:18:34.000They say the White House appears ambivalent about the threat of white supremacism.
00:18:39.000Earlier this month, CNN reported that for more than a year, the White House rebuffed efforts by Homeland Security to make domestic terrorism a strategic priority.
00:18:46.000So now they're suggesting that Trump is ignoring white nationalism in favor of immigration policy.
00:18:51.000But our federal government spends $4 trillion a year.
00:18:54.000It seems to me they should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:18:57.000And if we are talking about long term effects on the United States, yes, white nationalism is evil.
00:19:06.000It is also a minute number of people in absolute terms who are providing an outsized threat as opposed to, you know, if you are if you're just talking about things that will affect the country on a broad level for decades to come.
00:19:18.000Millions of people entering the country illegally without any check and balance is going to provide a pretty significant change to the country.
00:19:24.000Now, obviously that change is going to come with good.
00:19:33.000But to suggest that the federal government should spend all of its priority money on fighting white nationalism and none on the border is insane.
00:19:43.000The New York Times, though, again, stumping against the institution of having a border that every president brings into office a particular set of principles and priorities.
00:19:50.000But when those biases start undercutting the government's ability to pursue smart policies or even carry out basic duties, a responsible leader must think less about his personal prerogatives and more about the nation's overall security.
00:20:02.000Again, I don't see the New York Times ever covering it when an illegal immigrant who has committed a crime goes on to commit more crimes.
00:20:08.000The fact is, there are significant downsides associated with not knowing who comes into the country.
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00:22:12.000A media that covers the covers the people in power without fear or favor.
00:22:17.000I've got some bad news for you, folks.
00:22:19.000It turns out that our media are not doing any of that.
00:22:22.000It turns out that our media are one-sided, that our media have been kissing the asses of Democrats for literally my entire lifetime and probably before, while simultaneously reporting the flimsiest speculative evidence.
00:22:36.000Today's example comes courtesy of Lawrence O'Donnell.
00:22:39.000So Lawrence O'Donnell was on MSNBC last night and he was with Rachel Maddow, who is happy to engage in conspiracy theories, particularly about Russia.
00:22:48.000And O'Donnell simply dumped out there this idea that he has a source inside Deutsche Bank that said that President Trump's loans were underwritten by Russian billionaires Again, this is now trending on Twitter, right?
00:23:03.000Because Lawrence O'Donnell said he has a one source, a secret source, who says that Trump has Russian cosigners.
00:23:11.000Now, I'm just going to point out a quick double standard here.
00:23:14.000Years back, I think it was 2012, I was working at Breitbart News, and I reported a story where I had a source, and the source suggested that Chuck Hagel, then the nominee for Secretary of Defense under Barack Obama, had spoken to a group called Friends of Hamas.
00:23:47.000Not only has it lent an enormous amount of credibility, it's now trending on Twitter as an absolute fact that this happened.
00:23:54.000Here's Lawrence O'Donnell doing exactly what I was excoriated in 2012 for doing properly, but doing it and not only that, being feeded for it.
00:24:01.000Here's Lawrence O'Donnell just kind of spilling out nonsense.
00:24:05.000This single source close to Deutsche Bank has told me that Donald Trump's loan documents there show that he has co-signers.
00:24:15.000That's how he was able to obtain those loans.
00:24:18.000And that the co-signers are Russian oligarchs.
00:24:48.000I mean, this is being widely reported now.
00:24:50.000There is no other evidence to suggest this is true other than Lawrence O'Donnell's word based on a single source supposedly placed inside Deutsche Bank, who somehow has gotten hold of Donald Trump's loan documents.
00:25:52.000It's a holiday treat for Trump, right?
00:25:54.000Last month, Barr booked President Trump's D.C.
00:25:56.000hotel for a 200-person holiday party in December that is likely to deliver Trump's business more than $30,000 in revenue.
00:26:03.000Barr signed a contract, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Post, for a family holiday party in the hotel presidential ballroom December 8th.
00:26:10.000The party will feature a buffet and a four-hour open bar for about 200 people.
00:26:14.000Okay, then, here is the actual crux of the story.
00:27:48.000Man, we should totally trust our media.
00:27:50.000Okay, then the Washington Post had a piece yesterday.
00:27:52.000They ran an op-ed yesterday that is just disastrously stupid.
00:27:56.000The piece was by a woman named Marissa Brostoff, Okay, and it was all about how the pro-life movement is truly white supremacist, which is just absolute sheer garbage.
00:28:21.000I mean, if you were talking about the pro-life movement being white supremacist, presumably they'd be very much in favor of the continued access of minority people to Planned Parenthood.
00:28:30.000Because Planned Parenthood disproportionately performs abortions on ethnic minorities.
00:28:35.000Pro-life people have been fighting against the eugenicist movement for literally the entirety of the pro-life movement.
00:28:42.000Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist and the founder of Planned Parenthood.
00:28:57.000As border controls tighten, the links between pro-natalism and nativism have once again become visible.
00:29:02.000Inspired by Steve King's admiring remark about Gert Wilders, who's a politician in the Netherlands, Isla Stewart, creator of a popular white nationalist blog called Wife With a Purpose, issued a white baby challenge that went viral in alt-right circles.
00:29:15.000The mother of six asks audience members to have as many white babies as I have contributed.
00:29:19.000Hey, that part is idiotic, but here is where it gets crazy.
00:29:22.000Meanwhile, as replacement discourse enters the conservative mainstream, talk of birth rates comes along with it.
00:29:28.000Our people aren't having enough children to replace themselves.
00:30:24.000Another example of insane media bias today.
00:30:28.000There's a piece in the Washington Post, the Washington Post really covering itself in glory today.
00:30:32.000There's a piece in the Washington Post called, A Harvard Freshman Says He Was Denied Entry to the U.S.
00:30:37.000Over Social Media Posts Made by His Friends.
00:30:41.000It's by Deanna Paul and Susan Svrgluga.
00:30:44.000Ismail B. Ajaoui touched down at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday night, prepared to begin his freshman year at Harvard University.
00:30:51.000The 17-year-old Palestinian student never left the airport.
00:31:03.000According to a statement by Ajaoui, an immigration officer claimed, she found people posting political points of view that oppose the U.S., though she discovered nothing Ajaoui had posted himself.
00:31:12.000Ajawi wrote, After the five hours ended, she called me into a room and she started screaming at me.
00:31:16.000She said she found people posting political points of view that opposed the U.S.
00:31:21.000I responded, I have no business with such posts and I didn't like, share or comment on them and told her I shouldn't be held responsible for what others post.
00:31:28.000Then the Crimson reported, Ajawi's visa was revoked and he returned to Lebanon.
00:31:32.000Ajawi did not return any messages from the post seeking comment.
00:31:36.000The Harvard spokesman, Jonathan Swain, said in an emailed statement that the university is working closely with the family and appropriate authorities to resolve the matter.
00:31:44.000Michael McCarthy is a spokesman for CBP, for Customs and Border Protection.
00:31:49.000He said the department is responsible for ensuring the safety and admissibility of the goods and people entering the U.S.
00:31:54.000Applicants must demonstrate they are admissible into the U.S.
00:31:57.000This individual is deemed inadmissible based on information discovered during the CBC-CBP inspection.
00:32:03.000And the State Department says visa records are kept confidential under American law, so we can't discuss the details of individual cases.
00:32:08.000So, in other words, this story is solely based on a Facebook account by a person who will not return phone calls from The Washington Post, who has not turned over his social media accounts to The Washington Post, and whose story cannot be verified or disproved by CBP by law.
00:32:22.000But apparently this is indicative of the Trump administration's xenophobia.
00:32:31.000Because I'm sure that a person barred from the United States and barred from their spot at Harvard because CBP found something in their profile, I'm sure they would never ever fib to the media or on Facebook.
00:32:41.000Now maybe the story went down exactly the way he said, but certainly this story does not provide sufficient evidence that this should be reported.
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00:34:04.000So it's not just that the media have undermined institutional credibility in themselves, which they have in radical fashion, and the polls show it.
00:34:20.000It's not just that we have no real institutional trust in the DOJ or the Federal Reserve.
00:34:26.000It's not just that we've lost trust in the system of checks and balances that keeps all of these institutions in check.
00:34:33.000Now we are undermining trust in the most basic social institutions.
00:34:37.000I'm talking about the institution of family.
00:34:40.000I'm talking about institutions that aren't even institutions.
00:34:42.000They're just presuppositions of a civil society like language, right?
00:34:46.000Like using terms in common, like logic.
00:34:48.000You cannot have a functional republic or even a functional democracy if we are not speaking the same language.
00:34:54.000We have basically devolved into a Tower of Babel scenario.
00:34:58.000So, the left decided that we were all going to move in one universal direction.
00:35:02.000It turns out that human beings have different priorities.
00:35:05.000And so, instead of us all speaking the same language to build something in common, good or bad, we have now been devolved into this insane, this bizarre, chaotic Treatment of language and logic that means that we can never have a conversation with each other again.
00:35:21.000Let me give you an example of how we can never have a conversation again.
00:35:24.000This was a piece published on the front page of the Washington Post yesterday.
00:35:28.000The piece was titled, To some, this queer couple looks straight.
00:35:48.000Person feels uncomfortable is not a story.
00:35:51.000No media outlet worth their salt would run a story with that headline.
00:35:54.000Person feels uncomfortable with self-definition.
00:35:57.000Welcome to the world where lots of people feel that way.
00:36:00.000No, this article is about how society is cruel and mean because it will not use a constantly shifting standard for sex and gender that makes everybody feel comfortable in their own skin.
00:36:11.000That's what this article is truly about.
00:36:12.000What you're about to hear is an insane level of manipulation of language that makes no logical sense.
00:36:19.000There's no common standard, no logical sense, no internal structure.
00:36:22.000And yet, if you don't buy into the idea that words can randomly change, chimerical shapeshifters, they can just move around, then that's because you are bad.
00:36:31.000So now we're undermining human language.
00:36:34.000It's not just enough to undermine the Federal Reserve or undermine the media.
00:36:38.000Now the media are busily undermining basic human language, ability to communicate with each other.
00:36:44.000Because after you read this piece, you'll be so confused you never want to read another piece.
00:36:48.000When Kate Murray and Andy Arnold first started dating in their early 20s, they were part of a tight-knit group of lesbian friends in the district.
00:36:54.000The couple and their friends hung out almost every weekend, organizing potluck dinners and frequenting ladies' nights at local gay bars.
00:37:01.000Then, about two years ago, Andy came out as a transgender man.
00:37:05.000And as he transitioned with Kate's support, the couple suddenly felt they no longer belonged in the women-centric spaces they were used to.
00:37:11.000They tried testing out a new group of friends, a blank slate, a group in which Andy wouldn't have to talk about his trans identity, he said.
00:37:25.000She wanted to express her queer identity, she said, but how could she do that without making Andy uncomfortable?
00:37:30.000Okay, so we have two conflicts of vision here.
00:37:34.000And the one vision, you have a lesbian who wants to be known as a lesbian because she feels like it's a part of her identity to be a lesbian.
00:37:42.000So that would seem to fit the criteria.
00:37:44.000On the other hand, we have a society in the media that suggests that if a biological woman has surgeries and hormone treatments and believes that she is a man, that she is now a man, which means that the formerly lesbian woman is actually straight because she is a lesbian.
00:37:59.000She's a woman who is dating a man, right?
00:38:01.000So by biological definition, Kate is right.
00:38:04.000So if she uses normal definitions of sex, you know, the ones we've been using for all of human history, then Kate is correct.
00:38:10.000But she's also insensitive and cruel because then she'd think like I am, right?
00:38:14.000So instead, the media are purporting to provide this view that Andy is an actual man, which means that Kate is straight.
00:39:53.000You're undercutting both Andy and Kate who'd lead a happy life if you would simultaneously agree that Kate is a lesbian and also that Andy is a man!
00:41:11.000And when a person transitions well in a relationship, it doesn't necessarily change their partner's sexual orientation.
00:41:16.000Just because Kate is no longer dating a woman doesn't mean she is no longer queer.
00:41:21.000Distinguishing between identities in the LGBTQ community has become increasingly complex as more categories for gender identities and sexual orientations have emerged, many of them breaking with traditional binary notions.
00:41:34.000Terms such as pansexual have emerged to describe people who are attracted to frying pans.
00:41:57.000It's just... All of this is insanity, but it doesn't stop there.
00:42:02.000Because all of this is really... In the end, this is designed to reduce all of life into subjectivism.
00:42:08.000It's designed to reduce all of life into subjectivism, once all of life is reduced to subjectivism.
00:42:14.000That the only true happiness can be found within.
00:42:17.000Because reason and logic go out the window.
00:42:19.000Because you really can't control your own behavior.
00:42:21.000Subjectivism is the only thing that counts.
00:42:23.000Well, if the only thing that matters is your subjective pleasure, your subjective self-definition, then you are going to identify as a member of a tribe, with people who think like you.
00:42:32.000And then, politics just becomes a question of tribal warfare.
00:42:34.000How does your tribe gain power over another tribe?
00:42:38.000And that is exactly what politics is becoming because it used to be you could have a conversation with somebody who disagreed.
00:42:43.000Now conversations with people who disagree with you are considered verboten.
00:42:46.000They're considered bad and wrong by the left.
00:42:51.000So, just a few weeks ago, I was in a room with a dude who happens to be, I'm not gonna name him, I'm not gonna name the podcast, happens to be very prominent on an extremely popular left-wing podcast.
00:43:14.000It could show that conversation is still possible.
00:43:16.000And he said to me, your audience would be fine with it.
00:43:18.000I said, I know my audience would be fine with it because my audience doesn't care if I have a conversation with somebody on the other side.
00:43:23.000In fact, when we do my Sunday special every week, I have conversations with people on the other side.
00:43:50.000That's what politics has come down to.
00:43:51.000So why should I trust a political system that allows that guy and his audience to dominate me?
00:43:56.000Why would I possibly be in favor of that?
00:43:58.000And that's what a lot of folks on the radical left would like at this point.
00:44:01.000Not a conversation, not a system of checks and balances that requires a super majority of Americans or a heavy majority of Americans to agree to something to change the system, which seems proper in a diverse republic.
00:44:13.000No, instead what they want is sheer power politics, and they want to indoctrinate your kids into all of this.
00:44:18.000And there's an article at the Huffington Post that I think is pretty telling along these lines.
00:44:47.000It says, My three-year-old has an uncanny ability to bust me on curse words.
00:44:51.000The whole ride home from school, he ignores my questions about his day, dinner preferences, upcoming activities, but then, sure as bleep, What did you say, Mommy?
00:45:18.000Where I feel out of my depth as a parent is the insidious, heavily biased storytelling that I won't always be able to interpret for my son.
00:45:26.000It says not merely that we're going to twist language now, it's that we're going to indoctrinate children in the twisting of language.
00:45:31.000She says, when news stories describe latinx asylum seekers as illegal aliens or refer to African-American protesters seeking social justice as thugs, that becomes the hateful way that kids see latinx and African-American people, perhaps including themselves.
00:45:46.000So just to get this straight, if you illegally immigrate to the United States and you are not properly an asylum seeker, which is the vast majority of people who apply for asylum in the United States, Then it's racist to refer to you as an illegal immigrant.
00:45:58.000And here's the example this woman used.
00:46:08.000She says, I was glued to the TV along with my parents, my brothers, and everyone else I knew.
00:46:12.000The lens for my experience was not the unjust acquittal of the four officers who beat Rodney King.
00:46:16.000No one on the local news was talking about social justice.
00:46:19.000They were talking about looters and violent people burning down our city.
00:46:23.000Yes, because that's what the LA riots were.
00:46:25.000Literally people running out into the street, bashing in-store windows, stealing TVs, and beating the living hell out of truckers who got caught in the middle of the area.
00:46:33.000Korean shop owners were perched out on top of their stores with rifles to protect their own property.
00:47:02.000But apparently, if you called the riots what they were, then this is an element of bigotry and racism.
00:47:08.000So we are devolving into a society where you can't even have a common conversation.
00:47:13.000Which, of course, undermines the faith in the institutions.
00:47:16.000But then, also, you don't want the institutions of checks and balances to stop you from beating up the other guy.
00:47:22.000So you want to get rid of the checks and balances.
00:47:24.000You want institutions that you can't trust unless you control them.
00:47:26.000This is how you get to tyranny pretty quickly.
00:47:28.000This is how you get to people who don't want to have a conversation with anybody living in the same country with them on the other side, but desperately want to cram down their policy preferences on people on the other side of the aisle.
00:47:42.000This is not going to end well in any way, shape, or form.
00:47:45.000It's going to get worse and worse unless people come back to the table and start having conversations again.
00:47:50.000But I don't think those conversations are possible In our current political climate, that's for damn sure.
00:47:56.000Okay, I'm gonna do a quick thing I like, and then a quick thing that I hate.
00:47:59.000So, a thing that I like, I have to admit, I laughed really hard at this.
00:48:02.000So Bernie Sanders apparently was speaking in Louisville, Kentucky, and he stopped by the Muhammad Ali Museum.
00:48:08.000Ali, of course, the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
00:48:10.000And Bernie Sanders decided that he was going to take a turn on the speed bag.
00:48:14.000Now, As somebody who exercises frequently, I am not a person who is great with the speed bag in the gym.
00:48:21.000You actually have to practice with it.
00:48:22.000Bernie Sanders apparently thought that he could get away with this.
00:48:53.000I would say that Bernie Sanders... You know, that is the only thing he is worse at.
00:48:57.000Then punching a speed bag, apparently, then jabbing at a speed bag, like an octogenarian, because he is one, is his take on China.
00:49:05.000So this transitions into things I hate, but we'll just do it right here.
00:49:07.000Here's Bernie Sanders, yesterday, suggesting that China has done a wonderful job alleviating poverty, as though communism and socialism are responsible for that, and not the market capitalism, the free market capitalism, that the Chinese authoritarian regime has taken part in, at least partially, It was that embrace of open markets and free trade that allowed China to raise a billion people from poverty in 30 years.
00:49:28.000Because before that, China had a different way of alleviating poverty that was kill 40 million people in the Great Leap Forward.
00:49:34.000I think China is a country that is moving unfortunately in a more authoritarian way in a number of directions.
00:49:43.000We would have hoped that they would move toward a democratic, more democratic form of government and moving in the opposite direction.
00:49:50.000But what we have to say about China, in fairness to China and its leadership.
00:49:55.000Because if I'm not mistaken, they have made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization.
00:50:04.000I mean, Bernie Sanders, I do love some communist authoritarianism.
00:50:09.000Again, there's only one problem, which is that the reason that poverty was alleviated in China has nothing to do with the communism and everything to do with embracing free trade.
00:50:17.000That literally everything to do with opening itself up to different markets, and embracing in capitalist commerce.
00:50:24.000It was the emphasis on practicality over communist doctrine.
00:50:28.000Now Xi Jinping is trying to reverse a lot of that stuff.
00:50:31.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:50:32.000So speaking of the media undercutting its own credibility, there is something deeply amusing about Chris Matthews on MSNBC complaining about the dirtbag politics, dirtball politics, of digging up people's old tweets and using them against them.
00:50:47.000I'm pretty sure this is what MSNBC does at the behest of Media Matters on a near daily basis.
00:50:51.000Here's Chris Matthews saying it's just terrible.
00:50:53.000People digging up stuff on journalists.
00:51:20.000Trump allies are out unleashing dogs on journalists now, pulling together oppo research and compiling dossiers of potentially embarrassing social media posts, all in an attempt to try to discredit, intimidate, whatever, chill reporters.
00:51:33.000He wants their media to stop reporting on him objectively, so they're going out after people's families.
00:51:40.000It's exactly what Joe McCarthy did, and we do it also, but it's bad when they do it, and it's really, really good when we do it, because we're speaking truth to power.
00:51:53.000This is very reminiscent of when folks on the left decide to redefine racism.
00:51:58.000So that racism isn't just bigotry against another racial group.
00:53:13.000And I wanna know if you think on September 7th, 1989, my life had no value. - Of course I don't think that.
00:53:23.000And of course I'm glad that you're here.
00:53:26.000But you referenced my answer in Ohio, and it remains the same.
00:53:32.000This is a decision that neither you, nor I, nor the United States government should be making.
00:53:38.000That's a decision for the woman to make.
00:53:41.000So in other words, I'm glad you're here, but also, if your mom had killed you the day before you were born, well, then I guess you wouldn't be here asking me this awkward question, would you?
00:53:52.000By the way, I think what we've all learned from this particular segment is I really need to get up on my drug vernacular because it is not strong.