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00:02:16.000I want to talk about a broad issue that is now happening in American politics and that is a sudden lack of interest in or enthusiasm for capitalism.
00:02:26.000The greatest system of markets ever devised by mankind.
00:02:31.000Free markets which have raised half the globe from abject poverty in the last 30 years alone.
00:02:35.000Free markets which have created the kind of prosperity in which you get to sit there and enjoy entertaining shows every single night from people like me just by sitting there.
00:02:47.000Just imagine a world 150 years ago where most people's homes were lit not by electricity, but by candlelight, where heat was not a thing, where people died when it was cold outside and died when it was super hot outside, when disease was rampant, when entertainment mainly consisted, if you were lucky, if you were lucky, of reading around a fire, but very often consisted of less than that.
00:03:09.000I mean, the reality is that your life now is so unthinkably great in terms of material prosperity that if somebody were dropped into 2018 from 1870, they would literally not know what had happened.
00:03:23.000They would think that they were on an alien planet inhabited by a species similar to the one that they knew back home, but in an area of complete
00:04:07.000It's from April of this year, but Teen Vogue tweeted it out again yesterday.
00:04:11.000It should be noted, Teen Vogue is supported by ad dollars.
00:04:14.000And they make all of their money by running stories about the latest products that you can buy.
00:04:19.000But they ran a piece called, What Capitalism Is and How It Affects People.
00:04:23.000And the tweet from Teen Vogue was, Why Capitalism Needs to End.
00:04:28.000Okay, Kim Kelly wrote this at Teen Vokes.
00:04:30.000They're trying to teach teenage girls this.
00:04:47.000Throughout history, other countries have embraced other systems like socialism or communism.
00:04:51.000So it's important to explore what capitalism actually is.
00:04:55.000CNN recently reported that 66% of people between the ages of 21 and 32 have nothing saved for retirement.
00:05:01.000However, according to Salon, the reason many millennials haven't been investing in mutual funds or building up their own financial nest eggs isn't because they're too broke or that they lack personal responsibility.
00:05:10.000It's because they think our current economic system, capitalism, will cease to exist by the time they are in their 60s.
00:05:16.000In other words, they think that somebody else is going to come along and pay their bills.
00:05:19.000Bernie Sanders is going to come out of the sky and pay their bills.
00:05:22.000Capitalism has become markedly less popular among the younger generations, with the Washington Post noting in April 2016 that in one survey, a majority of young adults aged 18 to 29 said they rejected it outright.
00:05:34.000And this article goes on to try to explain where capitalism comes from.
00:05:38.000They say that capitalism is evil because individual capitalists are typically wealthy people who have a large amount of capital invested in business.
00:05:54.000Anybody who is involved in the free market is a capitalist.
00:05:56.000You don't actually have to be the person who is hiring somebody else in order to be a capitalist.
00:06:01.000As long as you are investing your capital even in buying products, that makes you a capitalist.
00:06:06.000But she continues, these are the people who benefit from the system of capitalism by making increased profits and thereby adding to their wealth.
00:06:12.000A capitalist nation is dominated by the free market, which is an economic system in which both prices and production are dictated by corporations and private companies in competition with one another.
00:06:23.000Capitalism is a free market system in which prices are dictated by what competitors are willing to sell and what, more importantly, consumers are willing to buy.
00:06:31.000If you're in a business where no one wants your product, you don't get to set the price where you want to set it.
00:06:35.000If I could, I would sell this podcast for a million dollars per listener.
00:06:39.000I cannot, because the market does not bear that price.
00:06:41.000The same thing is true in your business as well.
00:06:44.000But these basic misunderstandings about the free market lead to the idea that the free market is somehow oligarchic, when in reality, the free market is the most democratic system of property ownership ever devised by humankind.
00:06:56.000It says that you are the owner of your own labor and your own time.
00:06:59.000It says that you are the owner of the product of your own hands.
00:07:02.000But according to Kim Kelly at Teen Vogue, our great economic, clear thinking source, she says, All of which is true.
00:07:10.000Generally these tend to be toward the right of the political spectrum.
00:07:19.000And then she says, how does capitalism impact people?
00:07:21.000Well, it depends on whether you're a worker or a boss.
00:07:24.000If you own a company or employ the workers, capitalism may make sense.
00:07:28.000But if you are not, then it's bad for you.
00:07:41.000Well, anti-capitalists view capitalism as inhuman, anti-democratic, unsustainable, deeply exploitative, and say it must be dismantled.
00:07:48.000They see it as inherently at odds with democracy because of how capitalist bosses hold power over workers in the workplace and the fact that the more capital one accrues, the more power they have.
00:07:58.000Richer people do not have more power over other individual human beings than poorer people do because they can't compel you to do anything.
00:08:05.000It's when regulatory capture takes place that they have more power.
00:08:08.000Power is not just... Power is not just being rich.
00:08:12.000Power is, are you pointing a gun at somebody?
00:08:14.000Power does issue from the muzzle of a gun.
00:08:17.000It does not issue simply by basis of being rich.
00:08:21.000How many times has a rich person asked you to do something just in your life and you've said no?
00:09:12.000He believes that progressive economics ought to be wedded to the Gospels.
00:09:16.000And therefore, he has constantly talked about the shortcomings of free markets as though the alternative government-controlled distribution of resources is going to be superior, even though it has not been.
00:09:28.000And even the supposedly socialist countries that folks on the left like to talk about, the Nordic countries, Norway and Denmark and all the Scandinavian countries,
00:09:38.000Those are all capitalist countries with socialist redistribution systems piled on top of them.
00:09:42.000The question for those countries is how long you can keep piling elephants on top of stilts and hope that the stilts continue to support that weight.
00:09:50.000The stilts are capitalism, the elephants are socialism.
00:09:53.000It is not that the entire system is socialism.
00:09:55.000But the Pope meeting with Michael Moore is pretty indicative of where we are.
00:09:59.000And then we have a much ballyhooed proposal from Kamala Harris, the senator from California, who is just awful.
00:10:35.000One that would, instead of slashing rates on high-income households and corporations, push huge credits out to middle-income and poor families.
00:10:43.000The Lift the Middle Class Act would provide monthly cash payments of up to $500 to lower-income families, on top of the tax credits and public benefits they already receive.
00:10:52.000Last year, Congress gave a trillion dollars in tax breaks to corporations.
00:10:55.000Harris told me that money should have gone to American taxpayers who need it instead of handing it over to corporations and the top 1%.
00:11:04.000Now, the fact is that the people at the bottom of the spectrum, the people at the bottom of the spectrum, are not actually paying any tax right now.
00:11:14.000The people who are paying all of the taxes, and I mean literally all of the taxes in the United States, all of the net taxes in the United States, are the wealthy in the United States.
00:11:42.000They heavily tax people at the bottom of the lower end of the economic spectrum as well, because you have to pay for stuff.
00:11:48.000But Democrats don't want to pay for stuff.
00:11:49.000And as we'll see as we examine Kamala Harris's supposed tax plan, she's not talking about paying for stuff.
00:11:55.000Instead what she's talking about is essentially forcing Republicans to raise taxes on the wealthy or forcing us to take out inordinate amounts of debt that will inevitably have to be paid for either through inflation
00:12:08.000Or through higher taxes, not just on people who are rich, but on everyone.
00:12:13.000Okay, we'll talk about all of that in just one second.
00:12:15.000But first, let's talk about your Second Amendment rights.
00:12:18.000So, there's a reason that the Founders felt the Second Amendment was the most important amendment because it protected all the other amendments.
00:12:23.000And you want to exercise those Second Amendment rights.
00:13:19.000So Kamala Harris is basically suggesting that this is a tax plan to sign checks to people who don't actually pay taxes.
00:13:24.000This is the great lie that Democrats and the media are constantly telling about things like the Trump tax cut.
00:13:30.000When they suggest that it's skewed toward the wealthy, the only reason tax cuts are skewed toward the wealthy is because the wealthy are the only people paying taxes in the United States.
00:13:39.000People at the lower end of the economic spectrum are not paying income taxes.
00:14:24.000Her proposal joins a growing number of aggressive plans coming from Democrats concerned with economic stagnation, competing to win over younger and more progressive voters, and emboldened by the success of President Trump.
00:14:34.000They differ in their mechanisms, costs, and effects, but all point to the same Robin Hood goal, not just raising taxes on the rich, but shunting vastly more money to the working classes and the poor.
00:14:44.000In Harris's case, that means something like $200 billion a year more.
00:14:49.000Now, again, it is important to notice that in the United States, the amount of benefits that are being received by people at the low end of the economic spectrum, it's tens of thousands of dollars in very many cases.
00:15:01.000I mean, there have been a lot of studies that have been done on this particular issue, benefits received by people who are lower income in the United States.
00:15:13.000The folks who receive benefits, 49% of the population as of 2011 lived in a household where at least one member received a direct benefit from the federal government.
00:15:23.000The number of households receiving government benefits has steadily risen over time.
00:15:28.000And those benefits are almost entirely going to people who are in the lower half of the economic spectrum.
00:15:35.000So those are the entitlements that include things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, children's health insurance, food stamps, school lunch programs, the earned income tax credits.
00:15:43.000In 2010, the Tax Foundation found that 60% of Americans were receiving more in government benefits than they paid in taxes.
00:15:51.000So, again, the folks who are receiving the government benefits are now the people that Harris basically wants to give more government benefits to.
00:15:58.000Now, I'll explain in one second why this is a bad idea.
00:16:01.000To continue with Harris's tax plan, she's offering as much as $3,000 a year for a single person or $6,000 a year for a married couple on top of existing tax and transfer programs dispersed either as a lump-sum tax refund or as monthly payment.
00:16:15.000As many as 80 million Americans would benefit.
00:16:17.000So who is going to pay for all of this?
00:16:22.000They say that this is going to jog the economy because if you give a bunch of money to people at the bottom end of the economic spectrum, this is what creates economic growth.
00:16:31.000What jogs economic growth is the creation of new products and services that create new jobs and that also allow people to buy cooler stuff.
00:16:39.000Socialism is about freezing the economy in place and redistributing all the pie that's in the room.
00:16:46.000Capitalism is about expanding the size of the pie.
00:16:49.000Now, that doesn't mean that everybody is going to get an equal distribution of the pie, but it does mean that you're going to be able to generate new and better types of pie, bigger pie, everything that makes pie awesome.
00:16:59.000Otherwise, you can just freeze it and distribute it until there's no pie left.
00:17:24.000A federal cost is you spending my money, not you telling me I get to keep my own money.
00:17:29.000It is not a cost to let someone keep their own money.
00:17:33.000The way that this is measured is insane.
00:17:35.000Suggesting the Affordable Care Act, which is a government expenditure based on tax receipts, is the same thing as cutting tax receipts by saying that people can keep their own money is a slight of hand, a fiscal slight of hand.
00:17:46.000The Brown legislation would cost $1.4 trillion over a decade.
00:17:50.000The Harris legislation would come in at something like $200 billion per year, which means $2 trillion over the course of a decade.
00:17:57.000Harris has proposed repealing the Trump tax cuts to pay for her bill, but that is not even going to come close to covering the kind of cost she's talking about.
00:18:03.000And they're talking about universal health care, and they're talking about free child welfare, and they are talking about free child care, and they are talking about free college tuition.
00:18:12.000None of this stuff is going to get paid for.
00:18:15.000So why is there all this enthusiasm for this sort of stuff in a time when we have, as of yesterday, 7 million unfilled jobs in the United States, a 4% unemployment rate, and a historically booming economy?
00:18:27.000Why are we talking about undermining the pillars of capitalism?
00:18:31.000Because we have shifted our mindset in the United States.
00:18:34.000And this is really what I want to talk about today.
00:18:36.000We have shifted our mindset when it comes to what our lives should be like.
00:18:41.000We believe we are guaranteed things here in the United States.
00:18:43.000We believe that we are guaranteed a solid level of living because we live here.
00:18:46.000You hear this from Bernie Sanders all the time.
00:18:48.000In the richest country in the world, should we really have people who do not have enough money to buy all the pudding that they could possibly want?
00:18:57.000You hear that from Bernie Sanders all the time.
00:18:59.000The assumption there being, you were born here, you deserve stuff.
00:19:03.000You were born here, therefore America's rich, therefore you get stuff.
00:19:07.000A baseline assumption that you are entitled to things.
00:19:10.000Here is what you are entitled to in a free country.
00:19:23.000The American dream is people who are coming from across the sea to a place they did not know, to an environment they were not used to, and building lives for their families and creating prosperity from the ground up.
00:19:36.000The American story is people crossing the Appalachians into wilderness they did not know, places that had not been mapped.
00:19:43.000Going to areas where they had no allies, setting down roots and trying to build towns and civilizations.
00:19:50.000The American story is poor folks who have an idea and go find funding for that idea and then build that idea into some of the great companies in American history.
00:20:11.000That's why we need a virtuous citizenry where we take care of each other.
00:20:14.000But the American dream has shifted now.
00:20:16.000And what we're told by the left is that the American dream is going unfulfilled if you do not have a certain standard of living provided to you by others.
00:20:24.000I'll give you a couple examples of how the American mindset has changed in just a second and why it's really dangerous and what it has to say about the future of the country.
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00:22:16.000How many Americans today would actually do that?
00:22:19.000How many Americans today, if they made the money, would walk back into the welfare office and turn the money back over to the welfare office?
00:22:26.000I think the answer is pretty close to zero.
00:22:28.000I think most Americans don't have any sense of shame or guilt about taking money from other folks.
00:22:33.000They don't have any sense that if they could prevent it, it would be better for them not to take that money.
00:22:39.000I think people feel in the United States that they are entitled to money because the government is nameless and faceless.
00:22:44.000See, here's one of the nice things about charity, as opposed to the way that it works on the governmental level.
00:22:48.000The government makes it seem as though the government is handing you the money.
00:22:51.000The government has no money of its own.
00:22:53.000The government is taking from me and giving to you, or taking from you and giving to me, or taking from the future and giving it to us now.
00:23:00.000The government is not a repository of magical money trees.
00:23:05.000But the government presents you with the idea that there is.
00:23:08.000So, when the government signs you a check, you don't have to feel guilty about anything.
00:23:11.000It's just receiving free money, after all.
00:23:14.000However, when it comes to charity, and there are folks in my community, my Jewish community, who receive charity, they feel terrible about it.
00:24:09.000Example number two, there's a lot of talk these days
00:24:13.000And by the way, this exists as well in places like Norway.
00:24:18.000So Norway, which is prized, loved by folks on the American left, they ignore the fact that Norway actually has become a place where the work ethic is starting to collapse.
00:24:29.000The Economist wrote in 2015, Norwegians have coined a verb to NAV, meaning to get money from NAV, the state's benefit agency.
00:24:37.000You actually see this happening where people
00:24:40.000Believe that they are entitled to things.
00:24:41.000The very fact that we call these benefits entitlements as opposed to benefits is suggestive of this fact.
00:26:01.000But Americans don't feel that way anymore.
00:26:03.000Americans feel like they're entitled to a job in their hometown where they grew up, at the factory where their parents worked.
00:26:08.000That is not the way that human beings have worked for literally all of human history.
00:26:16.000And yet now, we believe that in order to facilitate people being able to stay where they were originally based, we have to shift the way that the free market works.
00:27:29.000We are going to make sure that you are swabbed in the warm blanket of government benefits.
00:27:33.000We are going to ensure that you never have to get out there and fly.
00:27:36.000Again, this is not coming from a place of no sympathy.
00:27:38.000This is coming from a place of, you can't enervate your children, you can't enervate your communities, and you can't enervate your country on the basis of empathy alone.
00:27:46.000And that is the best case interpretation of what exactly Democrats are doing here.
00:27:49.000The worst case interpretation is something much more cynical.
00:27:52.000The purposeful enervation of an entire sector of the population specifically to gain votes and thereby political power.
00:28:00.000And after you look at towns like Detroit, it's hard to imagine that's not what's been going on there for decades.
00:28:04.000Because the failure of this sort of thinking is evident in major cities and counties across the United States.
00:28:13.000If you actually want to reinvigorate the American spirit, we're going to have to teach people the same lesson that God taught Abraham at the very beginning of the Bible.
00:28:23.000Get up, leave the home that you were born in, and go to a place you do not know.
00:28:37.000It's why cultures become better, because they experience and bounce off of other cultures.
00:28:42.000This notion that we can hunker down now because we've reached paradise and all we have to do is hunker down and live and redistribute what's in our backpacks.
00:28:51.000This is not the way any of this works.
00:28:53.000Okay, so in just a second, I want to talk about this fascinating article in the New York Times about why scientists are now attempting to avoid actual research out of fear of the alt-right.
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00:31:21.000So there's a fascinating article in the New York Times I want to talk about because it speaks to the lack of objectivity when it comes to the intersection with politics.
00:31:32.000The article from the New York Times is titled, Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed, which is a weird title.
00:31:42.000Nowhere on the agenda of the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics being held in San Diego this week is a topic plaguing many of its members, the recurring appropriation of the field's research in the name of white supremacy.
00:31:54.000Sticking your neck out on political issues is difficult, said Jennifer Wagner, a bioethicist and president of the group's Social Issues Committee, who had sought to convene a panel on the racist misuse of genetics and found little traction.
00:32:05.000But the specter of the field's ignominious past, which includes support for the American eugenics movement, looms large for many geneticists in light of today's white identity politics.
00:32:13.000They also worry about how new tools that are allowing them to home in on the genetic basis of hot-button traits like intelligence will be misconstrued to fit racist ideologies.
00:32:22.000This is an argument that I have on a pretty frequent basis with a friend of mine, Jane Koston, over at Vox.
00:32:29.000And I think rightly has great sensitivity.
00:32:32.000I think everybody should have great sensitivity, but I think Jane would suggest that her background contributes to the sensitivity with regard to the racist past of the United States and the racist association between politics and bad science.
00:32:47.000And so this has led to some serious conversations between the two of us about political correctness, about whether, in fact, there's an appropriate time to talk about IQ, for example, or standardized testing, for example, or about natural differences between men and women.
00:33:01.000Like, when can you talk about biology without being condemned as a sexist or racist?
00:33:04.000These are real issues that we have to discuss and take on head-on.
00:33:07.000Unfortunately, the scientific community has decided to quash a lot of actual science because they are afraid that people who are racist are going to take that science out of context and then use that to club into submission a minority group.
00:33:18.000And that's basically what this New York Times article is about.
00:33:20.000It says, In recent months, some scientists have spotted distortions of their own academic papers in far-right internet forums.
00:33:26.000Others have fielded confused queries about claims of white superiority wrapped in the jargon of human genetics.
00:33:31.000Misconceptions about how genes factor into America's stark racial disparities have surfaced in the nation's increasingly heated arguments over school achievement gaps, immigration, and policing.
00:33:40.000Instead of long-discounted proxies like skull circumference and family pedigrees, according to experts who track the far right, today's proponents of racial hierarchy are making their case by misinterpreting research on the human genome itself.
00:33:52.000And in debates that have been largely limited to ivory tower forums, the scientists whose job it is to mine humanity's genetic variations for the collective good are grappling with how to respond.
00:34:01.000Now, here's the real way to respond to all of this.
00:34:03.000Put out the science, and then defend the science.
00:34:06.000That's the way to respond to all of this.
00:34:07.000Instead, the scientists, afraid that their science is going to be misappropriated, misinterpreted, or used for bad reasons, they have decided that they are going to simply quash all of this discussion internally.
00:34:19.000John Novembri is a University of Chicago evolutionary biologist.
00:34:22.000He says, One slide Dr. Novembri has folded into his recent talks depicts a group of white nationalists chugging milk at a 2017 gathering to draw attention to a genetic trait known to be more common in white people than others, the ability to digest lactose as adults.
00:34:43.000It also shows a social media post from an account called Enter the Milk Zone, with a map lifted from a scientific journal article on the trait's evolutionary history.
00:34:51.000In most of the world, the article explains, the gene that allows for the digestion of lactose switches off after childhood.
00:34:57.000But with the arrival of the first cattle herders in Europe some 5,000 years ago, a chance mutation that left it turned on provided enough of a nutritional leg up that nearly all of those who survived eventually carried it.
00:35:07.000And then the post shows a snippet of hate speech urging individuals of African ancestry to leave America, saying if you can't drink milk, you have to go back.
00:35:46.000In a commentary that accompanied the paper in the journal Genetics, Dr. Novembri warned that research is wrapped in numerous caveats that are likely to get lost in translations.
00:35:55.000Because people are flaunting DNA ancestry tests indicating exclusively European heritage.
00:36:01.000But the problem here is that we actually have to look at what science does have to say because it is a confounding factor when you look at attributing racism to America.
00:36:10.000So take, for example, racial disparities in education.
00:36:15.000So there's a lot of talk these days about affirmative action and whether people are performing at certain levels eligible to get them into college.
00:36:23.000And the suggestion is that it is historic American racism that has led to the education gap in America's higher education system.
00:36:31.000Well, an alternative would be that the test scores do not line up equally among various ethnic groups.
00:36:50.000How much of that happens to be environmental?
00:36:52.000We don't actually know the answer to that.
00:36:53.000That's a hotly fraught question in science.
00:36:56.000But suggesting that racism is to blame for everything without looking at other confounding factors, like, for example, test scores, is a mistake and leads us to the wrong outcomes and leads us to the wrong measures to deal with those outcomes.
00:37:09.000Genetics is not the answer to all of these disparities, but neither is racism.
00:37:13.000Now, these are questions we have to be very careful about because obviously you don't want to give material to people who are suggesting that some people are inherently worse, or more evil, or more violent, or stupider because of the color of their skin.
00:37:28.000Genetics doesn't line up that way, but you also have to look at questions of science because you are a scientist.
00:37:35.000So it is fascinating to watch this debate play out in real time.
00:37:41.000So there are doctors who have organized meetings of social scientists to discuss the social implications of the field's newest tools.
00:37:48.000David Nelson, a Baylor College of Medicine geneticist, who's president of the Human Genetics Society, says it will not stay completely quiet on the issue.
00:37:54.000They said there is no genetic evidence to support any racist ideology.
00:37:58.000Which is true, because racism is a moral view, and genetics is a scientific view.
00:38:03.000And scientific racism is the use of science in order to be racist.
00:38:06.000It is not the use of science in order to pursue good ends.
00:38:11.000So, if you're silencing research because you're afraid of how people are going to use that research, then I would suggest that you're misusing science, and we need to have some very hard conversations about actual science, actual problems, and actual solutions, without falling prey to the idea that because bad people are going to misuse the information, we have to quash the information itself.
00:38:27.000OK, now, meanwhile, I have to discuss this, these insane, ridiculous stories today, the couple of insane and ridiculous stories.
00:38:35.000So, number one, Keira Knightley says that she is not going to allow her daughter to watch The Little Mermaid or Cinderella.
00:38:43.000Which makes perfect sense because she played in Pirates of the Caribbean, a woman who had to be saved by a man.
00:38:49.000But here she is talking about she's not going to let her kids watch Disney movies.
00:39:33.000Okay, so Little Mermaid is immoral, but for other reasons.
00:39:35.000Little Mermaid is about a girl who decides to disobey her father, leave her culture, and go gallivanting around, even though she knows that her father is going to be turned into, like, a nematode.
00:39:46.000So that Little Mermaid has some serious problems with it.
00:40:29.000And there are situations in which men need women, also called all of human history, but need each other in different ways.
00:40:35.000One of the great annoyances that I have with some of the modern Disney films is that every single Disney film is now concerned with this idea
00:40:42.000That women are deeply independent and they do not need a man.
00:40:45.000It's one of the reasons why Frozen is much more popular with critics than Tangled was, even though Tangled is by far the superior movie.
00:40:51.000Because Tangled is about, yes, an independent young girl, but also about the guy she falls in love with who has to actually perform heroic feats in order to help her.
00:41:38.000They can build things too, but only when they are doing so for the purpose of cultivating a family or cultivating a civilization, which is where women come in, right?
00:41:45.000Women help build civilization by helping to tame men.
00:41:48.000Men help build civilization by being tamed by women.
00:41:51.000And also, I mean, this is what the taming of the shrew is really about.
00:41:53.000And also, and also by basically changing their destructive tendencies toward growth.
00:42:01.000Reinforcing those things is not a terrible thing.
00:42:04.000How many women have watched Cinderella and really been damaged by it?
00:42:28.000She says that Snow White sends kids a bad life lesson.
00:42:31.000She says, every time, she says, every time we close Snow White, I look at my girls and ask, don't you think it's weird that Snow White didn't ask the old witch why she needed to eat the apple or where she got the apple?
00:42:39.000I would say, I would never take food from a stranger, would you?
00:42:41.000My kids are like, no, and I'm like, okay, I'm doing something right.
00:42:44.000Well, you don't actually have to teach your kids that.
00:42:45.000That's sort of the theme of the story, is that Snow White's an idiot.
00:44:08.000Okay, so, we begin today with CNN's Brooke Baldwin.
00:44:11.000You remember that just a week ago, she told Matt Lewis and Mary Catherine Ham that they should not use the word mob on her program to describe Democrats who are actually mobs, because that would be mean, and the only real mobs are Charlottesville mobs.
00:44:21.000Here she is trying to explain herself and failing dramatically.
00:44:25.000And listen, like, I don't want to be the word police, and that was not my intention, but I also believe in calling out talking points, and to hear him bring that up, I had to say something, and honestly, at the end of my day, like, I'm sure you check your Twitter too, and if I have irked the left and the right, then I've done my job.
00:44:46.000OK, so yeah, she doesn't irk the left ever.
00:44:48.000When's the last time you heard the left go, yeah, Brooke Baldwin really irks me.
00:44:51.000So I'm not sure where the irk both left and right comes from.
00:45:47.000The best part of that story was that John Ossoff basically got conned into marrying his girlfriend to run for Congress, like he hadn't married her for six years.
00:45:54.000And then he was like, well, maybe I'll win if I marry her, which got to be flattering to her.
00:46:26.000Jim Messina, former Hillary staffer says, People want to hang out with him.
00:46:42.000So, here's something about people who are authentic and cool.
00:46:46.000I remember when the right tried to do this with Marco Rubio, and I like Senator Rubio, but I remember when they're like, Marco Rubio listens to rap.
00:47:14.000Like, at least when Bill Clinton was trying to be cool, he was playing the saxophone or something, which is something you can do as a middle-aged person and not look ridiculous.
00:47:20.000But if you're 46 years old and you've got your long, wavy hair, man, and you're just riding around on your skateboard, and you're playing air drums to the who?
00:47:28.000Like, the only time you play air drums, if you're an adult human, is when you have children to amuse your kids.
00:47:35.000Like, I airbanned in the car to amuse my four-and-a-half-year-old because she thinks that it's very funny.
00:47:39.000I don't do it in public because I'm so awesome, because I play violin in public.
00:47:55.000Joy Behar also contributing to the media's wonders this week.
00:47:59.000She said that Trump is teaching Americans to be sexist, racist bullies, as opposed to the media,
00:48:03.000Here's Joy Behar screeching at you from The View.
00:48:05.000I know, every time I criticize The View I lower my chances of being on the show, but there's only so much I can do to steer clear of this particular fray.
00:48:22.000This guy is training American kids to disrespect women, say their, call them names, you know, to be racist in many ways, to be bullies, even though his wife says be best and don't bully.
00:48:32.000We're a country full of independent thinkers.
00:48:35.000OK, number one, I think that the idea of president as moral leader sort of collapsed with Bill Clinton.
00:48:42.000I think that's been true for 20 years.
00:48:43.000If you are looking at the president and saying, I wish my child would act like the president.
00:48:47.000First of all, you should only say that you wish your child would act like a person you think your child should act like, not based on the position.
00:48:52.000It's like saying, I wish that my child would act like the CEO of Exxon.
00:48:56.000Well, it sort of depends on who the CEO of Exxon is.
00:48:58.000If it turns out the CEO of Exxon is a good guy, great.
00:49:00.000If it turns out the CEO of Exxon is a scumbag, then that's probably a bad idea.
00:49:03.000I'm always confused by people should follow the character of the President of the United States.
00:49:13.000But, if you really think that Trump is what's poisoned the well here, you haven't been watching for the past couple of decades in American politics.
00:49:20.000Hey, time for a couple extra things I hate today.
00:49:23.000So, Roseanne without Roseanne, which the ABC launched a show called The Conners because they still had to make money without funny, actually.
00:50:01.000And it's just going to decline from there because it turns out that no one wants to watch Roseanne without Roseanne.
00:50:06.000ABC should have just killed the show, if they really felt the necessity to kill the show.
00:50:11.000Or they should have rehabbed Roseanne.
00:50:13.000Or they should have said, listen, we need to take a break from Roseanne.
00:50:15.000We'll be back in a while after Roseanne has done her required penitence.
00:50:19.000But instead, they're not going to do that.
00:50:21.000They'll just keep plugging along with the show nobody really wants to watch.
00:50:24.000That's not even a story that I hate that much.
00:50:25.000Here's the story I really hate because it's just so idiotic.
00:50:29.000Agence France-Presse is now reporting that rising US star Issa Rae held up her hand up Wednesday to sexualizing men in her hit television series, Insecure, saying it was time for the female gaze to have its day.
00:50:42.000Gaze being like G-A-Z-E, not like the female gaze like Ellen DeGeneres.
00:50:46.000The African-American writer and producer, who first broke through playing herself in the cult YouTube series, Awkward Black Girl, admitted she was all for the camera lingering longer on the glories of the naked male.
00:51:17.000She'll say, why did I even bother with parental control and having you not watch R-rated movies if you grew up to make the things you weren't allowed to watch?
00:51:23.000She said that she's basically making porn.
00:51:26.000What I think is hilarious about this is it's time for women to sexualize men.
00:51:31.000Well, I thought the critique was that men were sexualizing women and that was bad.
00:51:35.000Men shouldn't treat women as pieces of meat.
00:51:37.000So I guess now the reverse is that women should sexualize men and treat them as pieces of meat.
00:52:32.000It's still my favorite social science study ever.
00:52:34.000There's a 1989 study in which these college professors sent an attractive woman into a bar to ask a hundred men whether they wanted to go home with her for the night.
00:53:15.000Okay, it's not going to work out well for you, because it turns out you'll just be used and abused by a bunch of men, and in the end, you are not acting authentically the way that you actually feel about sex.
00:53:23.000You're acting as people are telling you to feel about sex, and that means that you are probably going to feel emotionally empty afterward.
00:53:30.000Now, maybe there are some people who are very into the casual sex, and they like to sexualize men, and everything works out great.
00:53:34.000I'm not talking to you, and I really mean you, like it's one person.
00:53:37.000I'm talking about all the other women on planet Earth who attach emotional intimacy to sex.
00:53:42.000Because there's other studies that demonstrate that women have better sex in emotionally intimate situations.
00:53:46.000Sex with strangers does not work the same way for men and women because this is what evolution teaches us.
00:53:52.000Again, this is not me subjectively trying to promulgate my traditionalist views on sex on women.
00:53:58.000Evolutionary biology is not in favor of women having random promiscuous sex with strangers.
00:54:04.000It leads to the genetic offspring of idiots.
00:54:07.000Really, this is why women are more sexually selective than men.
00:54:10.000And this is true in every sexually dimorphic species, basically.