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00:00:17.000We're going to get through all of it in just an hour.
00:00:20.000I mean, we're really going to pump through this stuff in far less than an hour.
00:00:23.000Actually, we begin today with the most important story of the day.
00:00:26.000And that, of course, is CNN's Chris Cuomo gets into an altercation with a heckler.
00:00:31.000As somebody who has had hecklers in public before, let me say that how you handle hecklers is kind of important part of your job as a public figure.
00:00:39.000Now, I have been rarely confronted by people while I am with my family, but there are jerks out there who will do this.
00:00:45.000There are people who will come up to you and say something nasty when you are with your family, and generally the best tactic is to basically push them off and let them go.
00:00:53.000I don't mean physically push them off, just kind of like back off, say what you're going to say, man, and then just take off.
00:00:57.000And that's not a sign of weakness, that's a sign of being smart, because getting into an altercation likely ends with cell phone video of the altercation at the least, and a lawsuit at the most.
00:01:07.000I mean, this happened to me, like, I don't know, a couple of weeks ago.
00:01:10.000We were out in public somewhere, and some woman came up to me while I was with my kids, and they're five and three, and my wife was somewhere else, I think she was going to the restroom or something, and I'm holding my five-year-old in one hand, my three-year-old in the other hand, and some woman comes up to me to explain that I'm a white supremacist.
00:01:23.000I was like, well, you know, we'll have to agree to disagree, have a nice day, and off she went.
00:01:27.000Well, that is not exactly how things went with Chris Cuomo.
00:01:34.000People who come up to you in public, I don't care what your politics, they come up to you in public, they come up to Ted Cruz, they come up to me, they come to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, they come up to Chris Cuomo.
00:01:42.000If you go up to Chris Cuomo and you start calling him names in public when he's with his family, you're a jerk.
00:01:47.000It is one thing to make him make fun of him on a show like this because that's the nature of the game.
00:01:52.000That's the nature of political entertainment.
00:02:02.000Now, somebody went up to Chris Cuomo in a public place and started calling him by a name that we on the right frequently use for Chris Cuomo, Fredo.
00:02:10.000And the reason people call him Fredo is not because he's Italian.
00:02:12.000The reason that people call him Fredo is because that's a reference to the dumb brother from The Godfather, obviously.
00:02:17.000The implication being that his brother is the smarter brother.
00:02:20.000I've been saying for a long time that there's an open competition between Chris Cuomo and his brother Andrew as to which is the dumber Cuomo brother.
00:03:52.000If this were somebody on the right shouting at a protester and threatening to throw them down the effing stairs, it would be yet another in the line of data points proposed by the media that the right is too violent.
00:04:44.000It has always been something you say about a dummy.
00:04:46.000If you think somebody's a dummy, then you say that they are Fredo.
00:04:49.000If they're the weaker, younger brother.
00:04:51.000Everyone flashes to the scene from the godfather of John Cazale saying, I'm not dumb, I'm smart!
00:04:57.000Somebody who really has an outsized opinion of their own intelligence and is insistent that they can handle things, but they're absolutely incompetent and cannot handle things.
00:05:05.000That is what the term Fredo has come to mean.
00:05:07.000And to be fair, I really don't think that when it pertains to CNN, Chris Cuomo probably isn't Fredo.
00:05:27.000Jeffrey Epstein is Frank Pantangeli, opening his veins in the bath.
00:05:31.000And then you've got Chris Cuomo, who is very upset that somebody called him Fredo.
00:05:35.000The whole thing is rid- I don't know what black hole we entered to end up in this parallel universe, but it was the most fun of the black holes, probably.
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00:06:53.000If you couldn't actually hear the audio, this guy walks up to Cuomo, he calls him Fredo, and Cuomo says, no punk-ass bitches from the right call me Fredo.
00:08:24.000You know how I know that it's not an ethnic slur?
00:08:26.000I have a few ways I know it's not an ethnic slur.
00:08:28.000Way number one, I know it's not an ethnic slur.
00:08:30.000Like, you would assume that if it were a terrible, terrible ethnic slur, Then, if somebody used it, like, in front of Chris Cuomo, probably, but not about Chris Cuomo, he would stop them, right?
00:08:38.000If somebody used the N-word in front of you, you would stop them, you'd say, it's not appropriate, stop using that sort of language around me, right?
00:08:44.000What if somebody used it in front of you on national TV?
00:09:07.000This is an entitled, rich, spoiled little brat whose only call to fame is being his daddy's son who hasn't built anything of his own, who hasn't done anything of his own, who is somehow trying to hang on to the fame of his father in order to have some level of relevancy.
00:10:10.000I come on in here, and I'll rumble, look like I slept underneath an embankment, look like I went under the freeway, and I roll on in here all looking weird, come out of the show, get in that seat, roll around, and start calling people Fredo using ethnic slurs.
00:10:25.000Like, that one time I went to an Italian restaurant and I ordered some fettuccine alfredo.
00:10:32.000Like inviting the son, Fredo-like son, of the president to a meeting to give him dirt on his father's opponent in a way that a child would accept that.
00:10:42.000Anyone else would say, wait a minute, I'm not going to a meeting with the Russians.
00:11:22.000However, I would not expect the left to extend the same courtesy to anybody on the right.
00:11:27.000I remember when Tucker Carlson was confronted at a restaurant in front of his kid and people on the left lost it.
00:11:32.000How could Tucker Carlson be such an unhinged maniac going crazy in a restaurant?
00:11:37.000So, I wouldn't expect the same courtesy from those on the left, mainly because people on the left very often don't see people on the right as human beings.
00:11:43.000Like, I think Chris Cuomo is wrong about a lot of things.
00:11:45.000I don't think he's very good at his job.
00:11:47.000But he's a human being, and so I understand him having a human reaction.
00:11:50.000For a lot of folks on the left, people on the right are simply not human.
00:11:52.000And so, if Tucker Carlson gets confronted at a restaurant, and then gets in somebody's face, that's because Tucker Carlson is a monster.
00:11:59.000Because, it doesn't matter what the beginning of the sentence is, the end is always, Tucker Carlson is a monster, if you are somebody on the left.
00:12:06.000Nonetheless, The equation of Fredo with the N-word is quite astonishing.
00:12:12.000And frankly, I don't know how Chris Cuomo was able to get away with comparing everything he doesn't like to the N-word.
00:12:18.000If somebody on the right did this, you would assume that this amounted to a tremendous racial insensitivity.
00:12:22.000If you just kept saying that X, Y, or Z was the equivalent of the N-word on the right, they would say, well, you don't understand the N-word, you don't understand the context, you don't understand its place in American life.
00:12:32.000There's no real equivalent to the N-word.
00:12:36.000And if somebody on the right did this, if somebody, um, if somebody came up to me and, and used the, the, the very oft-used sort of alt-right rhetoric against, somebody come up to me and they're like, oh, you're short, you're 5'4".
00:13:08.000CNN was like, yes, Fredo is an ethnic slur, not an ethnic slur.
00:13:12.000Here is just a few months ago, Chris Cuomo declaring that if you use the term fake news, fake news is like the N-word for members of the media, which makes perfect sense because members of the media have been ganged up on, lynched, hanged for centuries in America, enslaved, treated like second-class citizens, subjected to Jim Crow.
00:13:30.000Oh wait, none of that has happened to journalists.
00:13:33.000Here's Chris Cuomo saying a dumb thing about the N-word. - I see being called fake news as the equivalent of the N-word for journalists, the equivalent of calling an Italian any of the ugly words that people have for that ethnicity.
00:13:50.000That's what fake news is to a journalist.
00:13:53.000It is an ugly insult and you better be right if you're going to charge a journalist with lying on purpose.
00:14:03.000For Chris Cuomo, everything apparently that offends him is like the N-word.
00:14:07.000By the way, I just wanted to put it out there.
00:14:08.000If Fredo is an ethnic slur for Italians, a few others we should be careful of, Frodo is apparently an ethnic slur for Hobbits, and Greedo is actually an ethnic slur for Rodian bounty hunters.
00:14:21.000So we should be very careful about the kind of verbiage that we use.
00:15:31.000If you can't appreciate the fact that a CNN anchor who calls Trump a white supremacist on a fairly regular basis is likening Fredo, the young, stupid brother from The Godfather, to the N-word, and that Donald Trump is then jumping in to be like, that's right, Fredo.
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00:18:56.000I mean, whatever, man, is, I think, the reaction of most Americans at this point.
00:19:00.000Did we think that we were actually getting George Washington when you elected the guy from The Apprentice who is mostly famous for saying that he fired people?
00:19:07.000Like, what did you think that you were getting when you elected the guy who was revealed on tape three weeks before the election talking about how often you like to grab women by the genitals?
00:19:20.000Now, to get serious for just a brief moment, I will note that there is something that is going on in our country that actually is Dangerous, but it's not dangerous in the sense that, like, Trump is responsible for it or Trump is responsible for all of the stupidities of people going out and confronting people in public.
00:19:38.000In fact, I think that the left is actually more responsible than the right for stuff like this because the left cheers it on.
00:19:43.000I mean, within the last week, the left was cheering on a sitting congressperson doxing Trump donors.
00:19:50.000Within the last week, the left is calling for open boycotts of companies that have stockholders who donated to President Trump.
00:19:55.000There were full editorials in the Washington Post talking about why Sarah Huckabee Sanders should be hounded out of a restaurant.
00:20:00.000We've seen videos of Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk from TPUSA being harassed outside a restaurant, and that was not a national story.
00:20:08.000So, this sort of stuff has been going on for quite a while.
00:20:35.000I remember at the beginnings of the internet, the very... Let me take you in the Wayback Machine, small children, and I'll take you back to the origins of the internet.
00:20:41.000When you sat next to your AOL dial-up and you listened to the horrible sounds, the horrible grating sounds that connected you online, and then, if you were like 12 or 13, you found chat rooms with people who went to school and who were your age, and you would chat about movies or you'd chat about sports.
00:20:57.000And online was just kind of like a thing that you did for maybe half an hour a day.
00:21:01.000And then you went outside and you played with your friends.
00:21:03.000And now online has taken over everybody's life.
00:21:05.000And so, predictably speaking, people are taking the online world, in which they are now spending more time than they are the real world, and they are taking the ethics of the online world and they are now applying it to the real world.
00:21:17.000In the most extreme cases, you're seeing this in the most evil ways with places like 8chan, where people create an alternative reality for themselves, and then they go out into real reality and carry out their sick fantasies in public.
00:21:28.000Well, you see this on a smaller scale when you go to a college campus and people are mobbed, or when you're out in public and people harass you and then tape it because they want to show all their friends that they are virtuous Folks who are standing up to the modern-day evil that is the right wing, or the modern-day evil that is Chris Cuomo.
00:21:47.000I think that we're not focusing enough on the kid here who is a jerk.
00:21:50.000We're focusing on Cuomo because Cuomo is, in fact, adult.
00:21:52.000But the person who went up to Cuomo and called him Fredo in public is a jerk.
00:21:57.000And I think that that is becoming more common on both right and left.
00:22:00.000And a lot of that has to do with lack of militating social institutions.
00:22:03.000It has to do with the fact that we are engaged too much online.
00:22:05.000They get our validation from how many clicks and likes we get on places like Twitter and Facebook.
00:22:11.000And what that means is also that stuff that people said 10, 15 years ago in jest because it was just a thing you did for fun online.
00:22:17.000Now people are going back and they're applying the new Internet ethics, which is that the real world is the online world.
00:22:23.000And they are applying it to 15-year-old statements, which is why you see people digging up old statements by comedians on Twitter and then treating it as though they said it in public in real life in front of a crowd of a thousand people. - No.
00:22:34.000We treat online like the real world, and we treat the real world like online now.
00:22:38.000It used to be that there was much more of a division between the two, and this is going to lead to more and more dangerous confrontations.
00:22:43.000Now this, this confrontation with Cuomo wasn't dangerous.
00:22:46.000This was a guy who was just being a jerk, and Cuomo backed him off, and Cuomo was really aggressive with him.
00:22:51.000And again, not something I would do, not something I think is particularly smart, and if somebody on the right had done it, the media would be up in arms.
00:22:57.000Plus, Chris Cuomo's adult if he thinks that Fredo is a slur on the order of the n-word, or a slur at all, frankly.
00:23:03.000But, As far as the behavior of people in public, it is getting worse.
00:23:10.000Because people want to take the spoils of what they do in real life, and then they want to go back to the video game that is the online world, and brag to all their friends that they have racked up virtue coins.
00:23:19.000It's like out there in the real world.
00:23:20.000Remember the old Mario Brothers game where Mario is running through the landscape picking up coins?
00:23:25.000And every time he picks up a coin, he moves closer to another life.
00:23:29.000That is what we do in the real world now.
00:23:30.000We rack up points in the real world by taking tape of stuff that happens and then putting it online for the likes and the clicks and the fake social acceptance that comes along with it.
00:23:39.000And that, I do think, is actually kind of dangerous.
00:23:43.000In one second, I want to get to some real news of the day beyond the fact that the President of the United States tweeted out that Chris Cuomo is Fredo, which is just, I got to admit, hilarious.
00:23:53.000We'll get to more of that in just one second.
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00:25:04.000OK, so on to the 2020 race where the Democratic Party has basically settled in.
00:25:10.000On its narrative, its narrative is that Donald Trump is fighting terrible, terrible culture wars and that the culture wars are in fact Donald Trump's fault.
00:25:17.000The culture wars did not predate Trump.
00:25:19.000The culture wars came along with Trump.
00:25:21.000The world began spinning when Donald Trump announced when he came down that escalator.
00:25:27.000Trump was not a symptom of a broken political system.
00:25:30.000Trump was not a symptom of culture civil wars that we've been fighting in this country for a decade, mainly during the Obama administration, thanks to polarization along economic and racial lines.
00:25:40.000No, Donald Trump was the initiator of all of this.
00:25:44.000And this is the narrative Democrats are going to run with, because they have to run with that narrative.
00:25:47.000Remember, if they acknowledge the truth, which is that a lot of this polarization started really under George W. Bush, And then exacerbated radically under Barack Obama and now has exacerbated again under Donald Trump.
00:25:59.000If they were to acknowledge that, then it would make them have to abandon their main point in this election cycle, which is the return to normalcy point.
00:26:08.000Joe Biden is running as a return to normalcy candidate.
00:26:10.000He's running as the guy who's going to restore some sense of calm and order to the United States.
00:26:14.000But if people correctly recollect back just Four years ago, when Barack Obama was in power, and Ferguson was rioting and burning, and Baltimore was rioting and burning, and we were seeing police officers gunned down in the streets of Dallas.
00:26:27.000If we all recollect back then, then the Return to Normalcy campaign doesn't have quite the same feel, does it?
00:26:36.000And they're messed up in different ways now, but they were messed up before Trump ever got on the scene.
00:26:39.000So this means the Democrats and the media have to put out there the line that the culture wars we are currently experiencing are solely due to the peckish temperament and bizarre character of President Trump, as opposed to underlying issues.
00:26:53.000That the country has been facing for quite a while here and that burst out really into the open in extraordinarily ugly ways during the Obama administration and now continuing on into the Trump administration.
00:27:03.000Now, the reason Democrats have to run on the culture war kind of stuff is because if they run on policy, they're going to get skunked.
00:27:10.000Most people are not interested in Kamala Harris nationalizing their health care.
00:27:15.000Kamala Harris went to an old age home in Iowa.
00:27:17.000One of the bizarre things about how American campaigns are run is that you end up with tape of Kamala Harris at an old age home in Iowa, at a retirement home in Iowa.
00:27:26.000First of all, all those people were like 17 when she incarcerated them.
00:27:55.000Well, we're going to pay for it, because right now, let me tell you something, we're all paying for health care for everyone, and it's in an emergency room.
00:28:02.000No, ma'am, you need to leave our health care system alone.
00:28:27.000It's not nice to jail them, and it's also not nice to lie to them.
00:28:32.000So she gets wrecked by this old, again, Democratic policy, not popular.
00:28:36.000Joe Biden, meanwhile, trying to trot out another creative policy, by which we mean an old policy that accomplished nothing.
00:28:42.000He had an editorial in the Washington Post yesterday, in which, in the New York Times rather, in which he argued in favor of an assault weapons ban again.
00:28:50.000Doesn't matter that it didn't work between 94 and 2004.
00:28:53.000Biden wrote, many police departments have reported an increase in criminals.
00:28:58.000Multiple analyses of the data around mass shootings provide evidence that from 1994 to 2004, the years when assault weapons and high capacity magazines were banned, there were fewer mass shootings, fewer deaths, fewer families needlessly destroyed.
00:29:13.000Robert Verbruggen, writing for the National Review, he points out that the studies that Biden links to really one study are very, very flawed.
00:29:22.000He He says, first, a quick bit of history.
00:29:24.000The US had a ban on assault weapons, semi-automatic guns with certain combinations of tactical cosmetic features, including pistol grips and folding stocks from 1994 to 2004.
00:29:32.000The existing guns were not confiscated.
00:29:37.000The same law banned high capacity magazines, setting the threshold at 10 rounds, which is actually below the standard capacity of many modern handguns.
00:29:44.000After the ban was allowed to expire, experts were more or less unanimous that it hadn't had a strong effect on overall homicide.
00:29:50.000Certainly, there are fewer of the banned items in circulation, but the law's definition of assault weapon focused on features that don't really affect a gun's lethality.
00:29:58.000Few murders are committed with long guns of any kind to say nothing of assault weapons in particular.
00:30:03.000Recently, though, some have claimed that the law reduced mass shootings in particular, which account for a tiny fraction of overall homicides, but commands an incredibly disproportionate amount of public attention.
00:30:13.000What seems to be true is that the Banyers were relatively peaceful on this front, despite covering the rash of school shootings that included Columbine.
00:30:19.000However, the three most important facts about mass shootings are one, they have historically been incredibly rare, with entire years passing without one sometimes.
00:30:26.000B, they aren't contagious, with high-profile incidents inspiring copycats and competitors.
00:30:31.000And C, they are incredibly variable in the number of fatalities, from a low bound of wherever the researcher chooses to set it.
00:30:37.000The study Biden cites uses four, not including the perpetrator, all the way up to 58 in Las Vegas.
00:30:42.000Trying to detect a pattern in data like this, then attributing the pattern to a single law change that covered the entire country for a 10-year period is madness.
00:30:51.000Some charts from the study show the core problem here.
00:30:53.000The total count of mass shooting fatalities by year shows that these things go in spurts.
00:30:59.000And recent years in particular have been horrible, but that doesn't show that the assault weapons ban mattered.
00:31:04.000And because the fact is that, again, what it shows is that there was a these kind of space between 1998 and 2001.
00:31:12.000And then there was a space between 2010 that is really radically increased.
00:31:17.000So this sort of data does not support Joe Biden's argument.
00:33:36.000First, Gang, we are in the homestretch.
00:33:38.000There are just a handful of days left to purchase tickets to our backstage live show, a special one-night-only event on August 21st at the fantastic Terrace Theater in Long Beach, California.
00:34:41.000So as I say, with the Democrats failing on policy, this leaves them with their backup plan.
00:34:51.000Their backup plan is that Donald Trump is the most divisive force in the history of the country and that Donald Trump must be stopped.
00:34:57.000And to that end, the Democrats are ratcheting up divisive rhetoric.
00:35:01.000They're ratcheting up the sort of rhetoric that actually does increase the chances of violence and does lead to greater opposition between Americans of different political views.
00:35:09.000See, when you call Trump a Nazi, you are calling his supporters Nazis.
00:35:13.000When you say that Trump is a white supremacist, you are suggesting that his supporters are racist, or at the very least, ambivalent or uncaring about racism.
00:35:22.000And yet, this has become the Democratic talking point du jour.
00:35:25.000Here is Kamala Harris, who can't explain to an old woman why she won't steal her health insurance, but also will say that Donald Trump is responsible for the El Paso Walmart shooting.
00:35:33.000I will tell you, this stuff is not new in our country.
00:35:37.000It certainly predates the election of Donald Trump, but it has also increased under Donald Trump.
00:35:43.000And, you know, he's been fueling the flames of hate.
00:35:48.000And, you know, I've said recently, you know, on the issue of El Paso, you know, no, when people ask me, is he responsible for those killings?
00:35:57.000Well, no, I mean, he obviously didn't pull the trigger, but he's sure been tweeting out the ammunition.
00:36:02.000Oh, wow, he's tweeting out the ammunition.
00:36:04.000So when Barack Obama ripped into police officers routinely across the country, suggested they were racist, and then an evil member of Black Lives Matter decided to shoot up Dallas police officers, he didn't pull the trigger.
00:36:17.000Again, this is a talking point that actually is in and of itself dangerous.
00:36:22.000Crediting your political opponents with violence is a dangerous thing to do, and yet you are seeing folks on the left do it.
00:36:28.000And the language of the left, not the entire left, but the radical left, right, certain members of the left, the language that is accepted in high-ranking circles in the left is extraordinary.
00:36:55.000So, over the weekend, there's a guest on MSNBC named Eli Mistel, who is an editor at Above the Law, and he literally said that Trump supporters who are white should be destroyed.
00:37:05.000How is that going to make the country better?
00:37:08.000Is that a culture war leveraged by Trump supporters, or is this a comment that contributes to the flames?
00:37:13.000Is this throwing gasoline on the flames that already exist?
00:38:24.000Okay, so the evidence here is that because he used the word colored, which is a very old-fashioned, out-of-date word for black people, then he must be a racist.
00:38:32.000So he says, you guys keep calling me a racist, so I'm gonna vote for Trump.
00:38:35.000And they're like, well, that's because you're a racist.
00:38:39.000I'm sure that... Do you want to win that guy's vote or no?
00:38:41.000So according to Eli Mistal, probably that guy has to be destroyed because he may have shared his dorm with a black guy and he may not be a racist.
00:39:36.000Well, I'm old enough to remember in 2012 when Barack Obama was suggesting that Mitt Romney was a racist who hated women, and Joe Biden was out there suggesting that Mitt Romney, the most milquetoast human ever to walk the earth, wanted to put black people back in chains.
00:39:55.000But listen to the way the Washington Post handles this.
00:39:57.000Again, it's the Washington Post's unwillingness to recognize that the left is a side in the culture war.
00:40:03.000See, if you're on the left, you can't even acknowledge that you're a side.
00:40:06.000And there's this weird phenomenon where you don't think you have an accent.
00:40:09.000And there are lots of accents around America.
00:40:12.000I don't think I have an accent, right?
00:40:13.000I think that I sound like how people normally speak English.
00:40:17.000If I speak to somebody from New York, they can't hear very often they have a New York accent.
00:40:21.000Somebody from the South believes they have no accent, I have an accent.
00:40:24.000British people speaking English don't understand they have a British accent.
00:40:27.000When you're in the accent, you don't understand that you're speaking with an accent, typically speaking.
00:40:32.000It's only when you start trying to speak with somebody else's accent that you realize that maybe you have an accent of your own.
00:40:37.000Well, the same thing is true in politics right now.
00:40:40.000People fail to recognize that they have a political bent.
00:40:43.000And so if you're on the left, And Donald Trump is saying stuff you think I'm just a fair-minded individual who has not taken part in the culture wars.
00:41:08.000Dan Quayle had the Hollywood portrayal of an unwed single mother named Murphy Brown.
00:41:12.000For President Trump, it's paper straws.
00:41:14.000The latest addition to an ever-growing list of cultural flashpoints his campaign is seeking to highlight as part of a base-focused re-election effort.
00:41:20.000Remember that time that Barack Obama flashed a rainbow flag on the White House after Obergefell?
00:41:54.000As cities and coffee chains across the country have adopted policies aimed at limiting environmental damage, the president's campaign has targeted what he calls liberal paper straws.
00:42:02.000It's selling a Trump-branded plastic version as a fundraising tool.
00:42:06.000So I love that it is not considered political to ban straws in restaurants.
00:42:09.000It is considered political to oppose a ban on straws at restaurants.
00:42:12.000By the way, paper straws suck radically.
00:42:19.000If you want to talk about banning the plastic cups at Starbucks, I promise you those cups have more plastic in them than the straws do.
00:42:27.000The ban on straws ticks people off because it feels like virtue signaling that has no real impact on the environment.
00:42:32.000And Trump is not wrong to pick on that because that's kind of what it is for a lot of folks.
00:42:36.000Pointing to the runaway success of the straws, which have earned the campaign more than $670,000 in a month, Communications Director Tim Murtaugh said they represent Trump's ability to make a political point using a cultural issue everyday voters can relate to.
00:42:50.000But again, Trump isn't the only one who is good at this.
00:42:54.000The Washington Post, though, says Trump is deliberately amplifying public tensions by seizing on divisive topics to energize his base, according to campaign aides and White House advisers.
00:43:03.000I thought this was just called politics, but listen to this take.
00:43:07.000I mean, you want a hot take from the Washington Post?
00:43:09.000As Democrats debate policy, Trump has sought to force his potential rivals to defend the most far-reaching cultural ideas circulating within their party.
00:43:18.000Oh, is it debating policy when AOC released a frequently asked questions calling for a ban on cows and air travel?
00:43:26.000Is it really debating policy when Kamala Harris suggests that Trump is responsible for a mass shooting in El Paso?
00:43:31.000Or is that more like her just actually looking for a cultural flashpoint?
00:43:34.000The blindness of the media to their own bias is one of the reasons why people don't trust the media and why people think that Chris Cuomo is a Fredo.
00:43:44.000It's why people, let's be real about this.
00:43:45.000People on the right think the entire media is Fredo.
00:43:48.000They think the entire media is a bunch of weaklings masquerading as smart people who believe they are brilliant, brighter than you, but in fact are taking waitresses two at a time and bankrupting casinos.
00:44:00.000That's what most Americans think of the media at this point.
00:44:04.000Okay, meanwhile, we gotta run through some other news here.
00:44:06.000So it turns out that Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself with a prison bedsheet.
00:44:09.000How the dude ended up with a bedsheet after being on suicide watch is insane.
00:44:14.000Apparently his lawyers wanted him off suicide watch, which makes it sound premeditated, the suicide.
00:44:18.000And you take the guy off suicide, his lawyers go, you know, he's not gonna commit suicide, it'll be fine.
00:44:29.000According to the New York Post, Epstein was found hanging in his lower Manhattan jail cell with a bed sheet wrapped around his neck, secured to the top of a bunk bed.
00:44:39.000Because they removed the person who was in the cell with him.
00:44:41.000All of which is going to make people somewhat suspicious.
00:44:44.000He apparently killed himself by kneeling toward the floor and then strangling himself with the makeshift noose, which is a pretty terrible way to go.
00:44:52.000He was taken to an infirmary inside the lockup, and then he was pronounced dead.
00:44:56.000So with him, presumably, will die some of his secrets.
00:44:59.000There was an article, I believe it was in the New York Times yesterday, from a columnist who said he met with Epstein off the record, and then now has printed a story about how Epstein knew all these famous people and had dirt on them.
00:45:11.000You know, off the record, I understand you want to keep your journalistic ethics, but when you're talking to a convicted pedophile, I feel like most people are going to be okay with you spilling on who he may have mentioned.
00:45:22.000There are a bunch of security lapses at the jail, according to the Daily Mail.
00:45:26.000The 66-year-old was found alone and unresponsive in his cell.
00:45:30.000His defense attorney has since faulted jail officials.
00:45:33.000Apparently, last year, a prison guard at the jail pled guilty to taking more than $25,000 in cash bribes to smuggle cell phones, alcohol, and food to a wealthy Turkish gold trader.
00:45:43.000Between 2016 and 2017, he also received thousands of dollars in payments from another inmate, which were given to him by the prisoner's relatives and a paralegal representing him.
00:45:52.000He was sentenced in January to three years in prison by a judge who called the crime an assault on our entire system of justice.
00:45:59.000So, this guy was not the person who was guarding Epstein.
00:46:01.000Suffice it to say that corruption in prisons is indeed a thing.
00:46:06.000So, there are open questions about exactly what went wrong here.
00:46:10.000Also, Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book is now in the possession of federal authorities.
00:46:15.000He apparently listed 301 British associates, over a thousand associates generally.
00:46:19.000Now, just because you're in somebody's phone doesn't mean that you were benefiting from their sex trafficking, but this dude did travel in powerful circles.
00:46:26.000The FBI apparently raided so-called Pedophile Island yesterday, so we'll find out what exactly they found on Pedophile Island.
00:46:34.000In other news, I'm going to give you the update on the situation in Hong Kong, which continues to get more and more tense.
00:46:40.000Why President Trump has not spoken out about this, but about Chris Cuomo is beyond me.
00:46:44.000The president of the United States ought to ignore the Fredo stuff and focus in on, you know, the millions of protesters in the streets who may be about to be mowed down by the Chinese government.
00:46:55.000Wouldn't this be a time, as I said yesterday on my radio show, would this not be a time for the president of the United States to ratchet up the pressure on China?
00:47:01.000He's in the middle of a trade war with them.
00:47:02.000Wouldn't this be a great time to explain to the American people that the reason that we have to take harsh measures against China is because they are insanely aggressive with people they've already made agreements with, including the people of Hong Kong, not to violate their sovereignty.
00:47:17.000And now they're about to run tanks in there.
00:47:20.000Apparently, the trucks and the tanks are massing at the border.
00:47:23.000The Hong Kong protesters completely at the mercy of the Chinese government at this point.
00:47:27.000According to the Washington Post, anti-government protesters brought chaos to Hong Kong's airport for a second consecutive day on Tuesday.
00:47:34.000They forced airlines to suspend check-in for departing flights as demonstrators extended their standoff with authorities who have been unable to quell months of dissent.
00:47:42.000After mass cancellations the previous evening, flights had been gradually returning to normal throughout Tuesday, even as thousands of black-clad demonstrators returned to occupy the terminal with placards denouncing police brutality and calling for freedom for Hong Kong.
00:47:55.000By the way, they were waving the American flag.
00:47:58.000For all of those people in America who think that America's flag is not a symbol of freedom around the world, look at the flag that the folks in Hong Kong were waving.
00:48:13.000Donald Trump needs to speak out now about what China needs to do with these protesters, and that is leave them alone and deal with them as the sovereign people they are.
00:48:25.000We've all blinded ourselves to that fact because they produce cheap goods for us.
00:48:30.000But that has nothing to do with the amount of tyranny they steep on their own people.
00:48:34.000In fact, there's a case to be made that opening China back in the 1970s, while necessary in order to counterbalance the Soviet Union, we were trying to split Mao from the Stalinists over in Russia, Well, it may have been a temporary expedient.
00:48:46.000It has radically strengthened a Chinese communist regime that seeks to quash its own people.
00:48:54.000If Trump wants the American people to undertake economic sacrifice in the name of fighting Chinese influence, wouldn't this be a great time to speak out?
00:49:02.000When Barack Obama did nothing as Iranian protesters were mowed down in the streets in 2009, those of us on the right were extraordinarily critical, as we should have been.
00:49:51.000And he is also the author of the book, The Only Game in Town, Central Bank's Instability and Avoiding the Next Collapse, It's an easy to read book about economics and about why it is that so many people seem to be reliant on central banks.
00:50:03.000His main thesis is that The American economy, the European economy, the Chinese economy, all of these economies have become more and more reliant on policymaking from institutions that were never meant to make policy.
00:50:13.000The Fed was never meant to control American economic policy.
00:50:17.000Now the markets respond directly to what the Fed is doing after the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
00:50:24.000The Fed exerted more and more influence and power.
00:50:27.000It was supposed to be a temporary expedient.
00:50:29.000Instead, it has become the new normal.
00:50:31.000And that's dangerous, because you can't just inflate and deflate currencies, raise and lower interest rates, and hope to fix economies that way.
00:50:39.000There are underlying structural problems with economies that have to be dealt with, including the fact, by the way, that the United States continues to run up these record deficits.
00:50:47.000Federal spending has set a record through July.
00:50:51.0003.7 trillion dollars have been spent in the first 10 months of fiscal year 2019.
00:50:55.000The government is now running a yearly deficit of 867 billion dollars.
00:51:23.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:51:29.000If you're in the state of California, take your kids out of public school.
00:51:31.000Public schools are garbage, and not only are they garbage, they are run by people who are interested in cramming down a leftward view of the world upon your children.
00:51:42.000According to Adam Credo at the Washington Free Beacon, the state of California has now introduced blatantly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel lessons into its official high school curriculum, drawing outrage and concern in the state's Jewish and pro-Israel communities, according to multiple sources involved in the controversy.
00:51:57.000The California Department of Education is facing backlash after permitting a host of anti-Israel activists to build a statewide educational curriculum that demonizes Israel and is said to be fostering hatred of Jewish and Israeli-American students.
00:52:11.000Apparently, there are a bunch of anti-Semitic courses that are fostering an unsafe environment for Jewish and Israeli-American students, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
00:52:19.000A coalition of 83 pro-Israel organizations, led by the AMCHA initiative, which is a watchdog group, says we are aware that many individuals and groups affiliated with the Jewish community have already written to you about the Education Council's shocking omission of information about American Jews and anti-Semitism, its use of classic anti-Semitic stereotypes, its blatant anti-Israel bias.
00:52:40.000The proposed curriculum is ridiculous.
00:52:43.000It portrays Jews in Israel as, quote, part of interlocking systems of oppression and privilege.
00:52:48.000They endorse the California education system, explicitly endorsing the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions movement that specifically seeks to destroy the state of Israel.
00:52:59.000It was designed by its advocates to do just that.
00:53:02.000The curriculum itself is ridiculous on nearly every level.
00:53:05.000It is not just about antisemitism, but there are insane violations of normalcy and educational realism in this program.
00:53:18.000Here are some of the terms that are used in this Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum now being perpetuated by the California Department of Education.
00:53:39.000Ideological, Institutional, Interpersonal, and Internalized.
00:53:42.000Internalized oppression means that you disagree with the prevailing leftist orthodoxy.
00:53:47.000You're supposed to be taught about patriarchy, sexism, heteropatriarchy, and cisheteropatriarchy, white supremacy, xenophobia, and the ethnic studies course overview only singles out marginalization or discrimination against five groups.
00:54:05.000Latinas, blacks, Asians, Native Americans, and Arab Americans.
00:54:10.000Jews notoriously left out, though they are the number one targets of hate crimes in the United States.
00:54:18.000The particular section of the course overview talking about the oppression of Arab-Americans specifically identifies the country of Israel as, quote, Israel-Palestine.
00:54:28.000It discusses the, quote-unquote, Nakba, which is the supposed dispossession and dispersal of Palestinians from the new state of Israel in the 1948 war.
00:54:38.000The lesson plan includes hip-hop as resistance and contrast Busta Rhymes' song, Arab Money, with Narsi's song, The Real Arab Money.
00:54:46.000And then calls for boycott, divestment, and sanctions.