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00:01:36.000But the fact remains that Joe Biden has been sliding and he has been sliding quite badly.
00:01:40.000Now, the great hope for Biden is that he does well among Nevada Hispanic Democratic voters.
00:01:44.000There's a new Telemundo poll out of Nevada Democratic Hispanic voters.
00:01:48.000It's got Biden at 34, Bernie at 31, and then Buttigieg, Warren, and Klobuchar all in single digits.
00:01:53.000So way the hell ahead Biden and Bernie.
00:01:55.000Bernie showing strong in Hispanic Nevada caucuses.
00:01:59.000Also, presumably Bernie is rising in a lot of the minority polls in places like South Carolina, which brings us to the national polls.
00:02:06.000So there is a new national poll out and the national poll shows that Bernie Sanders is up double digits, up double digits over the rest of the field.
00:02:15.000And bad news for Joe Biden, who has been collapsing nationally in front of Bernie Sanders.
00:02:20.000In second place, according to this new national poll, believe it or not, is Michael Bloomberg.
00:03:14.000And then the brand new NPR PBS Marist poll has Sanders way the hell out ahead in front of Joe Biden at 15, Bloomberg at 19, Warren at 12, Buttigieg at 8.
00:03:22.000Okay, so Buttigieg is a non-factor nationally.
00:03:27.000Basically, this is now a three-person race.
00:03:29.000This is Bloomberg, Biden, and Sanders.
00:03:31.000And the question is going to be whether Biden completely fades in Nevada and falls apart, and then Bloomberg supplants him on Super Tuesday, because if Biden does not win South Carolina, he is toast.
00:03:41.000You cannot keep finishing second as the former vice president of the United States, with heavy support going in, leading every national poll, and leading in a lot of the polling in Iowa and New Hampshire, and then show as weak as Biden has done on the actual ground, and hope to continue in this race.
00:03:55.000Not while Michael Bloomberg is out there spending hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising.
00:03:58.000We'll get to Michael Bloomberg in just a minute here.
00:04:01.000But there's another thing about this poll that is telling, and it's not just Biden's slide, which has been ongoing for a while.
00:04:06.000It's not just Bloomberg's rise, which has also been ongoing for a while.
00:04:09.000Mike Bloomberg, I mean, if you watch Hulu, if you watch any, if you watch YouTube, if you watch any place that allows ads, you're very, very likely to see a Michael Bloomberg ad.
00:04:17.000I believe I have personally seen three or four Michael Bloomberg ads at this point.
00:04:21.000From any other candidate, it's just been Michael Bloomberg ads.
00:04:24.000The man is spending an enormous amount of money and he is getting tremendous earned media as well because of this media rise that he has seen in terms of the polling.
00:04:34.000But the big story in that NPR-PBS-Marist poll is Bernie showing above 30.
00:04:38.000That is a major thing because one of the sort of presuppositions was that Bernie would not be able to consolidate support such that he gets to 50% in any of these primaries.
00:04:48.000Remember, the Democratic Party primaries are proportional in representation, not like the Republicans.
00:04:54.000So if Bernie wins 25 and Bloomberg wins 23 in a state, well, that means that they're basically going to split the delegates evenly.
00:05:02.000That's a big problem for Bernie if he wishes to win the nomination on the first ballot.
00:05:07.000Now, it's my belief that if Bernie walks into the nominating convention with the most delegates, even if he does not have a majority, if he has a plurality of the delegates, it's going to be very difficult for the Democratic Party higher echelon not to give Bernie the nomination because his people are also the most likely to walk away from the convention and simply say, we're not going to vote for whomever the alternative Democratic nominee is.
00:05:27.000With that said, Bernie starting to pick up some of these consolidating votes, Bernie up at 31%.
00:05:32.000That means that Biden plus Bloomberg, which is the quote-unquote moderate wing of the party, they're only polling in that NPR-PBS Marist poll at a combined 34%.
00:05:42.000Bernie is at 31, which demonstrates a fair bit of durability for the Bernie Sanders campaign, which has got to be scaring the living hell out of the Democratic Party upper echelon.
00:05:54.000Because again, they look at Bernie and they say, there's no way that this guy can win a national election.
00:06:01.000I mean, his campaign, for all the talk about how his campaign is drawing these huge crowds, and it is.
00:06:04.000He was in Tacoma, Washington yesterday.
00:06:06.000He drew 17,000 people to see an old commie talk to them about nostrums from the 1930s.
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00:09:50.000Apparently, according to Greg Schultz, Biden's campaign manager, he convened a conference call with supporters on Friday afternoon to outline a path forward following two bruising losses in Iowa and New Hampshire.
00:10:00.000The campaign, Mr. Schultz made clear on the call, was banking on finishing in at least second place in the upcoming Nevada caucuses, a contest that will offer the first major test of Biden's assertion he can uniquely assemble a diverse coalition.
00:10:10.000Left unsaid, Nevada will also show whether Biden, the former VP, can revive his campaign after his first two finishes, since his national poll numbers plummeting, put his donors on edge and jeopardize his standing even in his perceived firewall state of South Carolina.
00:10:22.000Schultz said first would be wonderful, but us getting a second place, I think, does the work we need to do to win South Carolina.
00:10:27.000We win South Carolina, we're going to have ended the first four contests likely with a delegate advantage.
00:10:31.000He says, I think the Democratic Party will sigh a collective sigh of relief.
00:10:35.000When he finished second or better in Nevada.
00:10:37.000These caucuses are happening on Saturday.
00:10:39.000There is a debate before that and the big story debate is not going to be Joe Biden.
00:10:43.000According to Megan Jones, political strategist in the state who worked for the exorable Harry Reid.
00:10:48.000She says, Biden's ground game has been here a while, had staff here for a long time.
00:10:52.000Similar to Iowa, they took things for granted that he was the frontrunner.
00:10:55.000They've been quickly making up for lost time because they know now it's a make or break situation.
00:11:00.000Apparently Biden's campaign has redeployed staff from later voting Super Tuesday states to lend extra manpower in Nevada.
00:11:06.000He does need a strong showing in Nevada or he is finished.
00:11:09.000And you can see the Democratic columnist freaking out because they understand now.
00:11:13.000That Joe Biden may have actually prevented a better moderate from changing the race.
00:11:19.000David Leonhardt, who used to be a reporter over the New York Times, now just writes these bad opinion columns.
00:11:23.000He has a piece today titled, Did Biden Scare Off Our Next President?
00:11:26.000He says, Imagine the race if other Democrats had not overreacted.
00:11:30.000He says, last year, a different version of the scenario happened that was in 2016, right?
00:11:35.000In 2016, everybody stayed out because they thought Hillary would get the nomination.
00:11:37.000He said, last year, a different version of this scenario happened, this time in the moderate wing of the Democratic Party.
00:11:42.000Mitch Landrieu, Deval Patrick, Michael Bloomberg skipped the race, at least initially.
00:11:45.000Much as Clinton had scared off potential candidates in 2016, Biden did so in 2020.
00:11:50.000By now, the lesson from this history should be plain.
00:11:52.000If you want to be president, and you have an opportunity to run, you shouldn't let another candidate keep you from running in the primaries.
00:11:58.000But the current campaign mired in uncertainty.
00:12:00.000I think some Democrats and pundits are missing this lesson.
00:12:02.000Instead, it's become common to talk about the damage that Biden supposedly did to this field.
00:12:07.000He says the early voting suggests this analysis is more wrong than right.
00:12:22.000Meanwhile, you have Eugene Robinson over at the Washington Post similarly complaining that the Democrats are attacking each other and finishing themselves off early.
00:12:29.000He says somebody eventually is going to win the Democratic nomination if the candidates are sincere when they say this is the most important election of our lifetimes and ousting Trump must be a top priority.
00:12:38.000How does it make sense to generate so much fodder for Trump campaign ads in the fall?
00:12:42.000So he's freaking out because the Democrats are all attacking each other and ruining each other.
00:12:46.000Now the real reason Democrats are attacking each other and ruining each other is because Bernie Sanders is a bleep show of a candidate.
00:13:07.000For an octogenarian communist who's been useless for six decades living off the government teat, that's a pretty solid shot at being President of the United States.
00:13:15.000But the chaos in the Sanders campaign and at his events, none of this shows particularly well on TV.
00:13:23.000So, for example, there was a brawl that broke out at a Bernie Sanders rally in Colorado.
00:13:27.000According to CBS Local, a fight broke out in the middle of the Bernie Sanders rally on Sunday evening at the Colorado Convention Center.
00:13:33.000The Democratic presidential candidate rallied thousands of supporters in Denver in a campaign stop before the March 3rd Colorado primary.
00:13:40.000CBS 4's news camera was capturing video of the event when two men began fighting.
00:13:43.000Apparently they pushed through a metal barrier and they grappled with each other.
00:13:46.000One man knocked the other down onto the ground after lifting him up.
00:13:48.000It was good times at this Bernie Sanders rally.
00:13:51.000Eventually it was broken up, but here's a little bit of that video.
00:13:58.000So that's good stuff happening at the Bernie Sanders rally.
00:14:03.000Meanwhile, at another Bernie Sanders rally, topless protesters who were Bernie supporters showed up at Bernie's rally.
00:14:11.000So two women took off their shirts and shockingly, they still weren't the biggest boobs on the stage because Bernie was up there.
00:14:16.000In any case, here was Bernie Sanders being interrupted by topless women who were shouting about animal rights while pouring liquid upon themselves.
00:14:25.000I'm here to ask you to stop propping up the dairy industry and to stop propping up animal agriculture.
00:14:31.000I believe in And there are the topless women showing up right there.
00:15:33.000I mean, this is just insulting bullcrap.
00:15:35.000And I really had to stop myself there.
00:15:37.000Bernie released an ad in which he says he is proud to be Jewish.
00:15:40.000And then he juxtaposes this with Charlottesville.
00:15:43.000Okay, Bernie trying to play on his ethnically Jewish roots while being a lifelong agnostic who recently has suggested that he has found religion again.
00:15:51.000Meanwhile, surrounding himself with blatant, vicious anti-Semites who campaigned for him like Ilhan Omar and Linda Sarsour and Rashida Tlaib.
00:16:01.000I don't want to hear about Bernie being proud to be Jewish unless I'm also going to hear about Noam Chomsky being proud to be Jewish.
00:16:07.000It turns out there are a lot of Jews, people who are ethnically Jewish, who don't give two craps about Judaism, who are perfectly willing to put the state of Israel in a dangerous international position and to support anti-Semitism around the world so long as it services the broader goals.
00:16:34.000My father's family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust.
00:16:39.000I I know about what crazy and radical and extremist politics mean.
00:16:45.000I learned that lesson as a tiny, tiny child when my mother would take me shopping and we would see people working in stores who had numbers on their arms because they were in Hitler's concentration camp.
00:16:57.000I am very proud of being Jewish and that is an essential part of who I am as a human being.
00:17:02.000What we are seeing right now, we're seeing it in America and we're seeing it all over the world.
00:17:10.000Weird, Bernie, then why are you campaigning with open anti-Semites?
00:17:13.000Any time you'd like to disassociate from Linda Sarsour and Jeremy Corbyn and all of the rest of the anti-Semitic left, any time you want to do that, I'm perfectly willing to hear it.
00:17:26.000My favorite part of that is where they're showing video of the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust, and he says that he understands the dangers of vicious radical politics.
00:17:45.000By the way, Soviets, not famous for their wonderful treatment of the Jews.
00:17:49.000I remember Bernie being a loud and proud supporter of Jewish Immigration from the Soviet Union, which was a major cause, by the way, in the 1970s and early 1980s.
00:17:58.000And this kind of stuff is ridiculous, which is why Bernie will indeed be vulnerable to Trump.
00:18:04.000And you're seeing some of the ads taken out against Bernie.
00:18:06.000We'll get to those in just one second.
00:18:07.000First, let us talk about the bad experiences that you have had.
00:19:26.000All of this has prompted people in the rest of the Democratic Party to attack Bernie as being too radical.
00:19:33.000And to attack Bernie supporters, because remember, back in 2016 there were a lot of accusations that the Bernie bros were toxic, that they were awful online, which they are, and that they are radical and insane.
00:19:42.000So Michael Bloomberg cut an ad against Bernie Sanders questioning the Bernie bros and their sort of treatment of the various other candidates online and saying, if you think that Bernie is the guy who's going to bring the party together, you're insane.
00:19:56.000Yelling at all the other candidates from Bernie supporters.
00:20:02.000Are you being harassed by a Bernie bro or a Bernie bot?
00:20:25.000I mean, inside the Democratic Party, Bernie's people are known as the most vicious, the least tolerant, the most willing to attack other people, the roughest people online.
00:20:34.000So Bloomberg going after that and saying, listen, if you want a unity candidate, it ain't Bernie Sanders.
00:21:15.000One, Hillary was the last Democrat to unify the party.
00:21:18.000She did it in 2016 and she won the popular vote.
00:21:21.000She lost the Electoral College, but she won the popular vote.
00:21:23.000Two, there are a lot of Democrats who believe that she was legitimately elected and who have been fulminating against the Electoral College ever since and who are fascinated with the idea of Hillary Clinton revenge voting.
00:21:33.000If Hillary's on the ballot, they get to go vote for Hillary in order to push back against Trump.
00:21:39.000Also, Trump would then make the entire candidate about Hillary, not about Bloomberg.
00:21:44.000Which Bloomberg would be fine with, because Hillary's the VP candidate.
00:21:47.000It would be this weird spectacle of the president in one party attacking the VP candidate in the other party, as opposed to the guy at the top of the ticket.
00:21:55.000So for all the talk about how this is somehow dumb, excuse me, it is not dumb in the slightest.
00:22:07.000The tweet continued, It's also a smart move because Hillary Clinton is much more likely to lend her support to a candidate early on than is Barack Obama.
00:22:24.000So one of the big problems for Joe Biden is that Barack Obama has basically been absent.
00:22:28.000Remember early on in this campaign, Biden said, Yeah, I asked Joe, I asked Barack not to get involved because I wanted to do this on my own.
00:23:00.000Which is weird, because Bernie isn't really a Democrat either, right?
00:23:03.000I mean, the guy's still a registered Independent in the state of Vermont.
00:23:06.000But with all of that said, him kind of looking for this unity mantle, as Biden appears to be collapsing into dust, is fairly smart.
00:23:16.000Jason Schechter, the campaign's communication director, said, we are focused on the primary in the debate, not VP speculation, which is not a denial.
00:23:32.000No one cares about VP candidates except the people who are excited by the VP candidate.
00:23:36.000Attacking VP candidates is not particularly useful.
00:23:39.000Okay, in a second we're going to get to Michael Bloomberg, who, as I say, is jumping in the polls and who is also prepping to enter the debate stage for the first time.
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00:25:08.000Okay, so speaking of Bloomberg and all the rest of this, so Bloomberg, has now qualified for the upcoming Democratic presidential debates.
00:25:15.000According to the Associated Press, it marks the first time he will stand alongside the rivals he has so far avoided by bypassing the early voting states and using his personal fortune to define himself through TV ads.
00:25:27.000There's a new NPR-PBS Marist poll published Tuesday that shows Bloomberg with 19% support nationally in the Democratic nominating process.
00:25:35.000It's a dangerous move for him to be on stage because obviously he's going to be the target of all the attacks, But that also makes him the center of attention.
00:25:43.000And that's not terrible for Bloomberg.
00:27:23.000By Bloomberg on the left side of the party and the other quote-unquote moderates are afraid that Bloomberg is going to crowd them out.
00:27:30.000And so they have been dropping every piece of oppo they can find on Michael Bloomberg.
00:27:35.000Some of these pieces of oppo are damaging to Bloomberg.
00:27:37.000Some of these pieces of oppo are not quite as damaging to Bloomberg.
00:27:40.000It is telling which ones the Democrats think are damaging and which ones they think are not damaging.
00:27:45.000So there are a bunch of clips of Bloomberg that are now going around.
00:27:49.000And again, it is kind of impressive to see how the Democrats rank which ones are damaging to Bloomberg versus which ones are not.
00:27:54.000So let's take one that I think would be damaging to Bloomberg, but actually nobody seems to be playing with.
00:28:00.000So just a couple of years ago, Bloomberg was talking about open borders.
00:28:04.000Now, normally this would be like a Bernie home run, right?
00:28:07.000Bernie would just say, listen, we can't have open borders.
00:28:09.000We can't have people swamping our borders because I want a socialist America.
00:28:12.000And in order to have a socialist America, we have to take care of the people who are here.
00:28:17.000That's actually kind of a Trumpian approach.
00:28:19.000Bernie has now revised that, and he says he wants to get rid of ICE and Border Patrol, according to AOC.
00:28:24.000But Bloomberg, back in 2016, was making the case for open borders.
00:28:27.000Now, normally, this would be a pretty damning indictment in a primary, you would think, but in the Democratic Party, this stuff is considered non-controversial.
00:28:34.000Then we'll get to the stuff considered controversial.
00:30:41.000Okay, we'll get to more of the oppo dropping on Michael Bloomberg in just one second.
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00:32:19.000One, there are all these old clips that are now popping up of Michael Bloomberg.
00:32:23.000As a general rule, I don't think that old clips tend to hurt candidates as much as they used to.
00:32:28.000Because the fact is that Donald Trump got hit with every old clip he had said, and it didn't matter one iota.
00:32:32.000If people believe they know you, then they are not going to change their mind about you because of an old clip.
00:32:37.000That's just the way that this works, right?
00:32:39.000You can uncover everything Bernie ever said, his people will still say they love him, doesn't matter what you say about him.
00:32:44.000They're doing the same thing about Bloomberg.
00:32:45.000Now, Bloomberg may be uniquely susceptible to this in the sense that he has morphed over time, and he seems Completely chameleonic in terms of his politics.
00:32:53.000He will take all of the things that he did ten years ago, brag about them for eight years, and then in the last two years decide that he's going to throw them under the bus like his stop and frisk stuff.
00:33:01.000But some of the clips that are now coming out from him, there's no question that Bernie is emptying the vault.
00:33:12.000He was hit with one, two, three, four, five clips that are apparently supposed to be super damaging to him over the weekend.
00:33:18.000Clip number one, Bloomberg was apparently lamenting job prospects for black and hispanic youths and he was talking about why black and hispanic youths, this is an interview from I think 2011, he was talking about why black and hispanic youths are having a tough time in the job market.
00:33:31.000There's this enormous cohort of black and Latino males aged, let's say, 16 to 25 that don't have jobs, don't have any prospects, don't know how to find jobs, don't know what their skill sets are, don't know how to behave in the workplace where they have to work collaboratively and collectively.
00:33:52.000Okay, so that last line where he says they don't know how to behave in the workplace has been taken as, well, this means that he's being a racist.
00:33:58.000Well, he didn't say all Latino kids don't know how to behave in the workplace.
00:34:01.000That's not what he's saying right there.
00:34:02.000I mean, it's amazing that I've now become like the person who tries to contextualize what Bloomberg is saying, but I feel like so many of these oppo hits lately Are really out of context.
00:34:10.000What Bloomberg is saying there, if he were saying all Latino kids don't know how to act in the workplace, that's ridiculous.
00:34:17.000What he's saying is there's a cohort of young people, 16 to 25, who have high rates of unemployment because they don't have the right education, because they don't know how to behave in the workplace and don't make good employees because they don't know that, because of lack of education, because they're maybe not fathers in the home.
00:34:33.000Okay, that seems fairly uncontroversial, but this has become a big talking point today.
00:34:37.000So that was clip number one, is they're trying to paint Bloomberg as a racist.
00:34:40.000That's not working particularly well, at least in the polls thus far.
00:34:43.000Remember, they tried this the other day over his stop-and-frisk comments, where he was talking about stop-and-frisk in New York City, and I said I was doubtful that that was going to have a major impact.
00:34:52.000They're going after Bloomberg for saying that cuts to Medicare are a thing that must be a part of deficit reduction.
00:34:57.000Now, again, I don't think this is going to have any significant impact because, frankly, it's perfectly reasonable.
00:35:02.000Of course, cuts to Medicare and Social Security are going to happen or you're going to have to dramatically escalate taxes within the next five to ten years.
00:35:08.000What Bloomberg is saying here is not super controversial and, again, who exactly is going to get off the Bloomberg train at this point against Bernie Sanders?
00:35:16.000If this is aimed at old people and saying to old people that Bernie's going to take better care of you than Michael Bloomberg will, Old people don't like Bernie.
00:35:30.000So I don't think that earlier attack is going to play.
00:35:32.000I don't think this attack is going to play either.
00:35:34.000Here is Bloomberg talking about deficit reduction.
00:35:36.000Keep in mind, no program to reduce the deficit makes any sense whatsoever unless you address the issue of entitlements, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, interest payment on the debt which you can't touch, and defense spending.
00:35:51.000Everything else is tiny compared to that.
00:36:14.000Then, there's the attack on Bloomberg, because there's a clip of Bloomberg talking about the treatment of cancer when you're 95 years old, and the suggestion is that he wants old people to die.
00:36:21.000He's talking with apparently a bunch of Orthodox Jews in this particular clip.
00:36:25.000Here's Bloomberg talking about government-based treatment of older people.
00:36:31.000At the rate we're going, healthcare is going to bankrupt us.
00:36:34.000So not only do we have a problem, it's going to bankrupt us.
00:36:37.000And we've got to sit here and say which things we're going to do and which things we're not.
00:37:00.000Okay, Bloomberg is getting hit over this, the suggestion that we should be dumping out resources on somebody who is 95 years old if it's government-run healthcare.
00:37:07.000One, in a government-run healthcare system, Bloomberg is exactly right.
00:37:10.000In a non-government-run healthcare system, if you're 95 and you wish to shell out for prostate cancer, first of all, let me be clear about this.
00:37:16.000You know how many doctors would recommend prostate surgery for a 95-year-old?
00:37:22.000OK, really, if you're 95 years old and you get prostate cancer, this is really this example is typically used by doctors as a case where you would say the treatment is worse than the is worse than the no treatment, right?
00:37:33.000Because prostate cancer is typically slow moving.
00:37:36.000It could take five to 10 years to kill you.
00:37:37.000You're 95 already, so you've passed life expectancy already.
00:37:41.000That means that the chances of you dying on the operating table When you're 95 years old are much higher than the chances of you just spending the next five years and of gradually dying of prostate cancer but being okay for maybe three of those five years.
00:37:54.000That is, that's like typical medical example.
00:37:56.000Trying to trot that out as an example of Michael Bloomberg being unkind to seniors.
00:38:01.000It's kind of ridiculous, but even in the government healthcare context, if you don't, question for Democrats, if you don't like that answer from Michael Bloomberg, if you don't like that answer, may I ask why the hell you're calling for publicly run government healthcare?
00:38:14.000Do you really think there are a lot of government-run healthcare systems that are giving prostate surgeries to 95-year-olds?
00:38:19.000Because private systems, you could, right?
00:38:21.000I mean, if you're 95 and you want to pay for it and you make that call, you can.
00:38:24.000But do you really think that a lot of government-run healthcare systems are not rationing care for older people on behalf of younger people?
00:38:33.000Ezekiel Emanuel, who is Rahm Emanuel's brother and one of the fathers of Obamacare, he literally wrote a piece in the Atlantic titled, Why I Want to Die Before I'm 80.
00:38:41.000Right, and it was, the whole thing was about this.
00:38:43.000It was about how once you hit 80, your health starts to deteriorate.
00:38:46.000Maybe we should just say to people that you've lived a full life, farewell at 80, okay?
00:38:50.000Now life expectancy is like 81 for women in the United States.
00:38:53.000And I know a lot of really healthy old people who are like 80.
00:38:56.000Thank God, you know, both my grandfathers have passed away, but thank God, both my grandmothers are still alive.
00:39:01.000One of them is 90 and one of them is 94, I believe.
00:39:06.000But what Bloomberg's saying there is, again, medically uncontroversial, but this is being trotted out as evidence that Bloomberg doesn't like old people or something.
00:39:13.000Okay, then finally, they get to a clip.
00:39:16.000That they think is super damaging for Bloomberg.
00:39:18.000Both Republicans and Democrats suggesting this is super damaging for Bloomberg because they're saying this is Bloomberg looking down on farmers and industrial workers.
00:39:25.000So I want to play the entire clip because you're getting sort of the 15 second version where he says that farming is about poking holes in the dirt and putting seeds in them or working a lathe if you're an industrial worker.
00:39:38.000Here's the full clip of what Michael Bloomberg is saying and then we can analyze just how bad it is.
00:39:43.000We just, more and more, if you think about it, the agrarian society lasted 3,000 years, and we could teach processes.
00:39:50.000I could teach anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended, to be a farmer.
00:40:21.000Now comes the information economy and the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze and that is a whole degree level Different.
00:40:44.000Okay, so people are saying that this is him ripping on farmers and ripping on industrial workers.
00:40:48.000That is 100% not what he's doing there.
00:40:51.000Like, just to be an honest human being, okay, he is not saying that today's farmers who are working in highly mechanized, in highly regimented industries, that today's agricultural workers, people who are running farms and figuring out not just the crop cycles, but exactly Where's the best place to plant?
00:41:10.000What sort of fertilizer has to be used?
00:41:12.000What sort of chemicals have to be used?
00:41:21.000He literally makes that statement time-bound.
00:41:24.000He literally makes the statement time-bound.
00:41:26.000He's talking about the transferability of people in a new age economy and what kind of education is necessary.
00:41:32.000He's not saying a farmer today can't learn to be somebody who codes tomorrow.
00:41:36.000What he is saying is that it was easier to integrate people into more rudimentary jobs a thousand years ago than it is to integrate people into more sophisticated jobs today.
00:41:44.000By the way, I'm sure that if you asked Bloomberg, would it be easy to take a person who is just, you know, a Jewish guy from Brooklyn, a guy who grew up in Brooklyn, and just make him a farmer tomorrow on a farm, would that be easy?
00:41:58.000His answer would be, no, that's a sophisticated business.
00:42:01.000A sophisticated business, you actually have to sit and you have to learn the business.
00:42:14.000I hate to be the fact checker here, but the fact is he says for 3,000 years, You were either in an agricultural job or you weren't in a job.
00:42:21.000And those jobs were a lot more rudimentary than the jobs now.
00:42:24.000Then he says industrial for 300 years.
00:42:27.000People could get into these sort of rudimentary jobs.
00:42:29.000You're working at a factory and you worked a lathe and you could get a job.
00:42:32.000And so getting in or out of the job wasn't all that difficult.
00:42:34.000Now you have to have years of education in order to educate people for jobs because we live in an information age that applies to industry and agriculture and computers and pharmaceuticals and all the other stuff.
00:42:44.000People are taking this out of context.
00:42:46.000Republicans and Democrats to suggest that he is anti-farmer or something.
00:42:50.000Maybe an effective attack because taking people out of context is very effective, but how have I become the Bloomberg defender here?
00:43:48.000I'm not sure that Bloomberg is all that much stronger than Bernie, but let's even assume that Bloomberg is a stronger candidate in a general election than Bernie.
00:43:55.000I said earlier in the program that in a general election, I would give 60-40 odds on President Trump beating Bernie Sanders.
00:44:02.000Let's say that those odds are 55-45 for Trump against Michael Bloomberg.
00:44:07.000Okay, that he has slightly better odds of beating Sanders than he does of beating Bloomberg.
00:44:10.000I would still prefer Bloomberg as the Democratic nominee because the downside risk of a Bloomberg presidency is not the same as the downside risk of a Bernie Sanders presidency.
00:44:19.000In fact, the downside risk of a Bloomberg candidacy is not the same as the downside risk of a Sanders candidacy.
00:44:24.000It is not good for America when the Democratic Party is the party of Jeremy Corbyn as opposed to the party... as opposed to the party of Tony Blair.
00:44:32.000It is not good for America when the Democratic Party is the party of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib as opposed to the party of Dianne Feinstein and Scoop Jackson.
00:44:43.000I want a Democratic party that is still bound by the realm of sanity.
00:44:50.000So if you're out there actively rooting for a Bernie Sanders candidacy and you're tearing down Michael Bloomberg dishonestly because that's what you're looking for here, and you're a Democrat and you're doing that, first of all, I would suggest you're acting in bad faith.
00:44:58.000If you're a Republican and you're doing that, I think you're being shortsighted.
00:45:01.000Because here's the thing, we live in a two-party system.
00:45:04.000There's no such thing as eternal dominance for one party.
00:45:07.000The Democrats learned this in 2016 and Republicans learned this all the way back in 2006.
00:45:11.000I remember after 2004 when George W. Bush won re-election and won additional seats in the House and in the Senate.
00:45:17.000I remember I wrote a column in 2005 saying, well, maybe Republicans will never lose again.
00:45:22.000The next year they got swamped in Congress.
00:45:26.000And just because it swings in the right direction for a little while does not mean it's not going to swing equivalently in the wrong direction the other way.
00:45:32.000So you should prefer, as a common sense American, you should prefer a Democratic Party that is not in thrall to an old commie like Bernie Sanders.
00:45:40.000Nonetheless, you're starting to see the Democrats, who are not centrists, mobilizing around Bernie.
00:45:55.000Here's Bill de Blasio going after Michael Bloomberg, saying Bloomberg is the epitome of the power structure.
00:45:59.000First of all, I just want to point something out.
00:46:01.000Whenever you hear communists like Bill de Blasio talk about the quote-unquote epitome of the power structure, Michael Bloomberg built a business.
00:46:08.000He did not grow up worth billions of dollars.
00:46:10.000He built a business that employs tens of thousands of people.
00:46:13.000That is not the epitome of the power structure.
00:46:15.000The epitome of the power structure is being a useless groundhog murderer like Bill de Blasio, and then somehow ending up as mayor of New York, where you horribly run the subway system and ensure that trash is back on the streets.
00:46:27.000That's the epitome of the power structure.
00:46:29.000Being successful in private industry is not the power structure.
00:46:32.000Being in charge of a government that can run the lives of tens of millions of people, that's the power structure.
00:46:37.000Here's Bill de Blasio, however, stumping for Bernie.
00:46:40.000Michael Bloomberg represents the status quo, and it's important to talk about it.
00:46:44.000He is using an inordinate amount of money.
00:46:46.000We've never seen anything like it in the history of the United States.
00:46:49.000But what it is masking is a lifetime of supporting those in power.
00:46:54.000He is the epitome of the power structure in this country.
00:46:58.000And it's important for people to start understanding what he's really about, given that he's spending literally hundreds of millions of dollars to portray only one side of the story.
00:47:06.000Okay, so you've got the Communists in the Democratic Party, the Bill de Blasios, who, again, literally was a Communist, and Bernie Sanders, who literally was a Communist, against Michael Bloomberg.
00:47:15.000And then you've got Joe Biden, and Joe Biden is basically just trying to cling to life at this point.
00:47:19.000He's echoing the same messages, by the way, that Michael Bloomberg is echoing.
00:48:18.000But meanwhile, Donald Trump is out there campaigning, and as long as, here's the thing, as long as Donald Trump Does not defeat Donald Trump, everything's gonna be okay.
00:48:26.000Trump pissed everybody off over the weekend because he went to the Daytona 500 and was given a hero's welcome.
00:50:04.000Special Forces going into Kazakhstan and capturing a communist dictator of Kazakhstan and handing him over to the Russians for imprisonment so that Kazakhstan can become more democratic.
00:50:15.000And then, and then, Harrison Ford getting up as President of the U.S.
00:50:20.000and making a speech at a dinner where he says, no longer are we going to let pure American realist foreign policy considerations decide what we ought to do.
00:50:28.000When there's a human rights violation, the United States is going to step in and do something about it.
00:50:31.000I mean, he sounds like George W. Bush circa 2002.
00:50:39.000The amazing sort of ambition that the United States had in the aftermath of the Cold War is on full display in Air Force One.
00:50:45.000Also, the villain in this movie is Noam Chomsky.
00:50:47.000So the villain in this movie is a Russian terrorist who wants the reconstitution of the Soviet Union and who is just reading from Howard Zinn.
00:50:55.000There's one point at which he's accused of being a terrorist, because he takes over Air Force One, kills a bunch of civilians, and he says, you call me a terrorist?
00:51:01.000Well, you, the President of the United States, you've killed 100,000 Iraqis over oil, and you call me the terrorist?
00:51:07.000I mean, it's like pure Bernie Sanders.
00:51:08.000There's not a line, I swear, there's not a line that Gary Oldman says is the villain in Air Force One that would not come from a Bernie Sanders rally.
00:51:17.000Except for the whole killing of the hostages thing.
00:52:16.000Don't ask me for something I can't get.
00:52:18.000I have a feeling... I'm joking, but only a little.
00:52:21.000I have a feeling that Bernie watches this and he's rooting for the bad guys.
00:52:26.000I mean, really, like, Gary Oldman is gonna, like, reconstitute the Soviet Union, and he's talking about how evil the United States is and how US interventionism around the world has caused every major crisis.
00:52:36.000And this movie is so overwhelmingly patriotic, I'm not sure it could get made anymore.
00:52:39.000Really, because the perspective that Americans have on America is so jaded and cynical at this point, that I think there are a huge number of Americans who watch this movie, and they would be like, are we even allowed to talk about the country this way anymore?
00:52:51.000Well, you should watch it, because it is fascinating to watch almost as sort of a coated in amber and preserved for history moment in time, what the U.S.
00:53:24.000Remember that time that it was supposed to be an act of terrorism for the Republicans and for conservatives all over Virginia to come to Richmond and in full compliance with the law, open carry?
00:53:35.000It was going to be the end of the world?
00:53:36.000Well, now it turns out that even Democrats in the Virginia Assembly weren't willing to go along with their own plan.
00:53:40.000According to the Washington Post, Democrats who won control of Virginia's legislature on the promise of sweeping gun control lost a battle over assault-style weapons on Monday, handing Governor Ralph Northam a big defeat and giving a rare win to Second Amendment activists in the newly blue capital.
00:53:53.000A Virginia Senate committee killed a bill that would have banned the sale of assault-style weapons and possession of high-capacity magazines.
00:53:59.000It had been a top priority for Northam, a former Army doctor who served in Operation Desert Storms, and often remarks he has seen firsthand what weapons of war do to human beings.
00:54:07.000Love that editorializing there from the Washington Post.
00:54:10.000They don't say it had been a top priority for Governor Ralph Northam, also known as Coon Man from his high school days.
00:54:16.000The bill is part of a package of eight gun control measures, nor them advanced, after a shooter killed 12 people at a Virginia Beach Municipal Building on May 31st.
00:54:23.000Republicans' refusal to act on those bills last summer became a rallying cry for Democrats in November elections.
00:54:28.000They flipped the state House and Senate blue for the first time in a generation.
00:54:31.000Okay, that had very little to do with the... with the...
00:54:34.000Gun control proposals the Democrats were pushing.
00:54:36.000It had a lot more to do with the fact that Republicans just got swamped across the board in November of 2018.
00:54:42.000The House has passed all eight of Northam's bills, but a handful of Democrats in the less liberal Senate have quashed three of them amid fears that the newly empowered party might overplay its hand.
00:54:50.000The same tension has been playing out on other fronts, with the Senate taking a more cautious approach on issues like minimum wage, collective bargaining, and state budgeting.
00:54:57.000Because even the Democrats in Virginia recognize that if they go too radical too fast, it's going to be a disaster for them.
00:55:02.000So, a defeat for Governor Ralph Northam.
00:55:05.000The people of Virginia get to keep their assault weapons and continue to purchase them.
00:55:09.000This is a strong move by the pro-Second Amendment lobby in Virginia and a big loss for Governor Ralph Northam.
00:55:15.000Okay, we would do Things I Hate, but we have run out of time.
00:55:17.000So, instead, come here later today for two additional hours of content.
00:55:21.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
00:55:54.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:55:57.000You know, some people are depressed because the American Republic is collapsing, the end of days is approaching, and the moon has turned to blood.
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