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00:00:26.000The civilization that built human rights, that built the idea of natural rights, that built You know, the Notre Dame Cathedral that built the great libraries and universities of the West.
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00:04:01.000The global warming that is threatening the planet if we did what needs to be done.
00:04:04.000This is virtue signaling of the highest order because, of course, the entire question when it comes to climate change is what do you do about it?
00:04:10.000Even accepting the IPCC report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, even if you accept those statistics, which, by the way, I do, even if you accept the risk modeling, much of which has been wrong, but some of which has been wrong in the milder direction.
00:04:23.000Some people say climate change has been more extreme than that.
00:04:25.000Even if you accept all that, there are no good solutions on the table.
00:04:56.000So when people talk about climate change, typically what you hear from them over and over and over again is, well, at least we agree on the problem.
00:05:11.000Then it turns into a moral battle about, here are those people who won't even acknowledge the problem.
00:05:16.000They won't even accept that there's a problem.
00:05:19.000And then the folks who are promoting the problem don't actually have to offer a solution.
00:05:23.000This is what the left has done in the United States with the Green New Deal, for example.
00:05:26.000Democrats signing on to a resolution talking about the necessity for a Green New Deal that is non-binding, that has no practical means of execution, that is insane in its actual proposals, if you actually took it seriously, and that got zero votes in the Senate.
00:05:41.000So this has become a point where everybody sort of signs off on the problem, and then if you don't sign off on the problem, you're the bad guy.
00:06:21.000Corey, you are the mayor of Newark, which still has a murder rate in the top 30 in the United States, so far as I'm aware.
00:06:27.000You're the mayor of Newark, which still has an unemployment rate a solid 1.5% higher than the average unemployment rate across the United States.
00:06:34.000And if we're talking About the problems created over the last 40 years.
00:06:37.000And Cory Booker says that he wants to dismantle the system.
00:06:41.000I'm glad to hear that he wants to dismantle welfare, the federally controlled public education system, Medicare, Medicaid, and broadly applied social security, all of which have arisen in the last 50 years in the United States.
00:06:50.000In other words, Cory Booker is doing what politicians very often do.
00:06:53.000He's pointing at a problem, and then he refuses to solve the problem.
00:06:57.000Instead, the virtue is in simply noting the problem.
00:07:11.000Politics is not a place you go where people just grant you sympathy.
00:07:15.000Politics is supposed to be for problem solving.
00:07:17.000So my wife and I, I've talked about this on the show before, My wife and I have a rule.
00:07:21.000It was developed very early on in our marriage when I discovered one of the major differences between men and women is sometimes what women would like from a conversation.
00:07:29.000So my wife would come home and she'd be complaining about work.
00:07:33.000And my first instinct, being a man, because this is a very male approach to issues, was not to offer a sympathetic ear, but to immediately jump to, okay, how do we solve that problem?
00:07:40.000So she would say, I'm having a problem at work.
00:07:42.000And I'd say, well, you should do X, Y, and Z. And she'd be like, well, I don't want to talk about what I should do.
00:07:46.000All I want you to do is know that I have a problem.
00:07:53.000And this happened so often and became such a contentious point that we instituted a rule.
00:07:57.000The rule was I was allowed to ask at the beginning of a conversation whether this was a sympathy conversation or a solutions conversation.
00:08:03.000Was this conversation oriented toward finding an answer?
00:08:06.000Or was this a conversation oriented toward me demonstrating that I love my wife by offering sympathy?
00:08:11.000Well, politics should be about finding solutions.
00:08:13.000It should not be about offering sympathy.
00:08:15.000But politics has become nearly entirely about offering sympathy.
00:08:19.000And so, whichever candidate is most likely to offer you and people like you sympathy is the candidate that you like the most, even if they offer no solutions, even if they leave you bereft of solutions, even if the solutions they implement suck.
00:08:32.000Okay, this is all backdrop to our politics left and right.
00:08:36.000So let's take an example from the right.
00:08:38.000President Trump is prepared to back a budget deal that is garbage.
00:08:41.000Okay, he's about to announce support for a two-year bipartisan budget deal that boosts spending and suspends the debt limit for a full two years.
00:08:47.000Now, I'm old enough to remember when President Trump railed against debt spending.
00:08:52.000He talked about how debt spending was a really bad thing.
00:08:55.000He talked about how deficits were a really bad thing.
00:08:58.000And he talked about correctly the fact that this is intergenerational stealing.
00:09:02.000If you don't like tax increases on you today, why would you assume that your children will love tax increases on them when the bills come due?
00:09:09.000You are doing something that is actually illegal in the United States if a credit card company did it.
00:09:14.000You are doing this when you sign off on these budget deals.
00:09:16.000If you took out a credit card and the credit card had a provision that your children have to pay off the credit card, if you do not pay off the credit card, that would be illegal.
00:09:49.000My generation, I'm a millennial, we have been the victim of baby boomer intergenerational stealing.
00:09:54.000If you look at how social security operates, it used to be that every person on social security was supported by 14 or 15 American taxpayers.
00:10:01.000We are now down to the point where every person on social security is supported by between two and three taxpayers.
00:10:06.000So I basically have an additional member of my family I don't even know and who I get to pay every month.
00:10:40.000Therefore, as a matter of national security, I've signed this omnibus budget bill.
00:10:46.000There are a lot of things that we shouldn't have had in this bill, but we were, in a sense, forced, if we want to build our military, we were forced to have.
00:10:55.000There are some things that we should have in the bill.
00:10:59.000But I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again.
00:11:07.000The White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reached a tentative two-year budget deal Monday.
00:11:11.000They would raise spending limits by $320 billion and suspend the federal debt ceiling until after the 2020 presidential election.
00:11:18.000The agreement, which still must be passed by Congress, probably would prevent a debt ceiling crisis later this year, but also would continue Washington's borrowing binge for at least two years.
00:11:27.000President Trump tweeted on Monday, I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on a two-year budget and debt ceiling with no poison pills.
00:11:40.000This was a real compromise to give another big victory to our great military and vets.
00:11:44.000Listen, I understand the problem of not funding our military, but we did have a unified Republican Congress until about seven months ago.
00:11:54.000The deal was met with fierce resistance from some prominent Republicans who said it would add too much to the debt, a backlash that will force congressional leaders to work hard this week to ensure they have enough votes for passage.
00:12:05.000They should not have enough votes for passage because, again, we are raising debt on future generations and Republicans are complicit in this as much as Democrats.
00:12:11.000Barack Obama blew out the national debt.
00:12:14.000Okay, George W. Bush contributed to the national debt.
00:12:16.000Barack Obama then proceeded to blow out the national debt, almost doubling it in his time in office.
00:12:21.000He's raking up a trillion dollar deficit pretty much every year.
00:12:27.000Donald Trump enters office, and now that's the new normal, and so he just keeps spending at that rate.
00:12:32.000The agreement could spark concerns from House liberals because of concessions made to the Trump administration.
00:12:36.000The agreement marks a significant retreat for the White House, which insisted just a few months ago it would force Congress to cut spending on a variety of programs to enact fiscal discipline.
00:12:44.000Instead, the White House agreed to raise spending for most agencies, particularly the Pentagon.
00:12:48.000So I say you're not allowed to propose problems without solutions.
00:13:43.000The letter from the future to the American people looks something like, we're now in a debt crisis because you selfish bastards wouldn't actually cut back your Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, or restructure them so they're workable.
00:13:54.000That's what the letter from the future looks like, and that's exactly what's going to happen.
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00:16:38.000A projected decline in defense spending.
00:16:40.000And none of that is true, which means that we will be at a 100% debt-to-GDP ratio probably by 2024-2025 at the latest.
00:16:49.000Rothman says Americans know a debt crisis is coming and they don't care.
00:16:53.000In 2005, George W. Bush outlined a major initiative to reform Social Security that would introduce secured individual investments into the system, stabilizing the program, rendering it financially sustainable.
00:17:03.000In 2012, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan recommended gradually raising the retirement age for younger workers and slowing the growth in benefits for Americans with higher incomes.
00:17:20.000Everybody bitches about the problem, and nobody has any solutions.
00:17:23.000And if you do provide a solution, then you're immediately ruled out of order.
00:17:27.000Because your solutions, as it turns out, very often stink, as we will see from the Democrats.
00:17:33.000So the national debt crisis is not going to stop.
00:17:35.000And it didn't stop just because the name on the Oval Office changed from Obama to Trump.
00:17:40.000I was carping about the national debt.
00:17:42.000I'm old enough to remember when there was a thing called the Tea Party.
00:17:44.000And the Tea Party complained that we were spending out of control, that we couldn't afford things like Obamacare, that we couldn't afford TARP, that we couldn't afford all of Obama's spending initiatives, cash for clunkers, and all the rest.
00:18:31.000One is people who want to carp about the problem but not solve it.
00:18:35.000And then there are people who want to carp about the wrong problem and then solve it in the wrong fashion.
00:18:40.000So this would bring us to the problem that we have seen of criminal justice reform.
00:18:45.000Now, I'm very much in favor of some of the provisions of criminal justice reform, the so-called First Step Act, the bipartisan bill passed by President Trump.
00:18:53.000Okay, the first step acted a couple of things that are good.
00:18:55.000It moved prisoners closer to their hometowns, so presumably family could visit them, made family reunification easier in the aftermath of prison.
00:19:04.000But it also did some stuff I don't like.
00:19:08.000It made it easier for people to let other people out of prison.
00:19:13.000Well, naturally, this means that some criminals are getting out of prison.
00:19:16.000We should note here that the recidivism rate for American prisoners is extraordinarily high, somewhere between 60 and 80%.
00:19:23.000Now Fox News is reporting that more than 100 violent criminals have been released under the First Step Act, and the data were first obtained exclusively by Tucker Carlson Tonight.
00:19:31.000They seemingly contradicted lawmakers' promises that legislation would affect only prisoners sentenced for minor drug-related offenses.
00:19:39.000Of the 2,243 inmates released under the First Step Act, only 960 were incarcerated for drug-related offenses.
00:19:46.000496 were imprisoned for weapons and explosives related crimes.
00:19:50.000So people who had guns when they weren't supposed to or explosives.
00:20:14.000In all, 2,023 of the inmates were male, only 211 were female, and about half of the inmates were black, while about half were white.
00:20:23.000So about 1,000 of the inmates were black, about 1,100 were white, which reflects the general Sort of breakdown of America's federal prison population, which is heavily minority.
00:20:37.000And this, of course, was the driving force where people complaining that America's quote-unquote mass incarceration system was targeting blacks and Hispanics and that this is all about drug crime.
00:20:46.000But as it turns out, it wasn't all about drug crime.
00:20:49.000A lot of these people are being released from prison after committing non-drug related offenses.
00:20:54.000And we're starting to see the effect of liberal governance when it comes to crime.
00:20:58.000I would not be surprised over the past few years we've seen, in 2014, 2015 particularly, we saw the so-called Ferguson effect, rising murder rates in cities around the country.
00:21:07.000That seems to have leveled off in 2017, 2018.
00:21:10.000Would not be surprised to see crime rates start to go up again as America takes a more liberal position when it comes to fighting crime.
00:21:17.000An anecdotal example comes courtesy of Seattle.
00:21:21.000Jason Rantz, my friend over at MyNorthwest.com, and he's hosted for me before.
00:21:27.000He says a prolific Seattle offender with over 70 criminal convictions allegedly attacked another victim, this time a toddler in a stroller.
00:21:33.000It's the same offender Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes has fought to keep out of jail.
00:21:37.000The latest incident happened in downtown Seattle on July 20th.
00:21:40.000Francisco Calderon, a homeless man, entered multiple businesses along the 500 block of Pine Street, causing disturbances and trying to start fights.
00:21:49.000According to witness accounts outlined in a police report, Calderon grabbed a cup of coffee from a random passerby and threw it in the face of a random toddler.
00:21:56.000The child's father struck Khal Daron roughly six times, knocking him to the ground when police arrived.
00:22:00.000He was arrested for assault three of a child.
00:22:02.000The child was rushed inside the nearby gap by his mom, where he was cleaned and treated in the store's bathroom.
00:22:07.000The officer on scene said the temperature of the coffee was unclear.
00:22:10.000It was unknown if there was any biohazard component.
00:22:12.000The kid was not physically injured or appeared not to be, but was not communicative and appeared to be staring off into space, possibly in shock.
00:22:18.000When questioned by police, Calderon said he tripped, spilling the coffee, but apparently multiple witnesses say this was not true.
00:22:24.000This is close to Calderon's 100th run-in with law enforcement.
00:22:28.000As Rant says, he's a criminal who shouldn't be on our streets, but in Seattle, we don't punish criminals because social justice.
00:22:33.000The same thing, by the way, happens in Los Angeles, where crime rates are undoubtedly rising, despite the attempts of the mayor's office to try and hide all of that.
00:22:40.000When you mislabel the problem as a problem of discrimination rather than a problem of crime, you end up with bad policy.
00:22:47.000And some of that bad policy involves reversing good policy, namely punishment of criminals.
00:22:52.000In just a second, we're going to get to people making new promises.
00:22:56.000New promises that are completely unfulfillable.
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00:24:44.000Okay, so, meanwhile, while we are labeling problems and missolving them, or labeling problems and not solving them at all, Democrats are setting a new agenda, and the new agenda is making radical promises that no one is ever going to keep.
00:24:57.000And that agenda is being set by the most radical members of the Democratic Party, unfortunately.
00:25:01.000It's funny, when you talk to Democratic legislators, when they're off the record, they'll acknowledge that there is room for compromise.
00:25:06.000They'll acknowledge there are solutions that might be able to be reached.
00:25:09.000But when they go out in public, the first thing that they do, I mean, I know Democratic legislators who do this, I've talked with them, but unfortunately, and this happens on the right too, it's not unique to the left, Unfortunately, when you get out in public, then it becomes more about posturing than it is about anything else.
00:25:22.000And so you see Democrats throwing out radical agenda items that make no sense at all.
00:25:30.000And starting civil wars inside the Democratic Party, it's bad for the Democratic Party for them to be impractical.
00:25:34.000New York Times' Thomas Friedman, who's wrong about pretty much everything, is right about this.
00:25:38.000He says, if the Democrats fight amongst themselves because the radicals are fighting the moderates, nothing gets done and you're not going to have a unified agenda if you're facing up against Trump.
00:25:47.000I think there's just a lot of people out there who really want someone to keep it, I think, basically simple.
00:25:54.000And to me, the simplest democratic message is, I think, national unity.
00:25:58.000I think there are a lot of people around the country, Anderson, yearning for someone who's going to pull the country together.
00:26:04.000I think there's a lot of people who feel like we're heading for civil war, a kind of political civil war.
00:26:09.000So I think there's a huge yearning for that.
00:26:12.000OK, so I think that he is actually right here, but the Democrats are not going to go for it, because for the Democrats, they don't actually have a unifying national agenda.
00:26:19.000So it becomes about what kind of promises you can make, what kind of problems you can identify.
00:26:26.000And the Democratic Party knows that if you're going to go to a place where the problems are misidentified and no solutions are available, you go to the squad.
00:26:33.000Those are the people you go to when it's time to come up with solutions that are completely unworkable and stupid, when it comes to labeling problems that don't exist, when it comes to exacerbating problems that do exist.
00:27:46.000I mean, last last week, she's such a thought leader that she proposed an openly anti-Semitic pro-BDS resolution labeled anti-Semitic by Nancy Pelosi a month earlier at AIPAC.
00:27:55.000Not a Democrat said a word because this is how things work now.
00:27:57.000So here is Ilhan Omar creating what can only be described as a mad lib of Democratic policies.
00:28:03.000So when I say a Mad Lib, I mean that you can, I'll read you the sentence that she writes and then I will put it in Mad Lib form and you'll realize that this is basically how Democrats are now doing policy.
00:28:12.000She says, no one should fear receiving medical care because they are undocumented.
00:28:15.000We must ensure that all people in our country have access to reproductive health care.
00:29:41.000Artificially boosting wages means that you're artificially boosting prices.
00:29:44.000It also means that you're artificially lowering the number of hours that people can work.
00:29:48.000Minimum wage is a bad idea, but it is a particularly bad idea when you randomly pick a number out of the air and then decide that this is what the minimum wage should be.
00:31:22.000The folks in Congress who are calling for $15 minimum wage have no employees paid for by them.
00:31:28.000All of their employees are paid for by the American taxpayer, which means future taxpayers, really.
00:31:33.000And yet they're gonna stand on their high horse and tell people sit on their high horse and tell people what exactly minimum wage should be again.
00:31:39.000Identifying a problem that people aren't making enough money and providing no solution other than something that is completely unworkable and stupid.
00:31:47.000This is the new Democratic Party of your making.
00:31:50.000And this is why Donald Trump, despite all of his foibles, despite all the things that he tweets, despite the fact that he pursues policy sometimes that I don't like, is in a strong position going into 2020.
00:32:01.000It is because for whatever his problems, at least he's provided some solutions.
00:32:06.000The Democrats are out there providing pretty much no solutions at this point.
00:32:10.000Their agenda is supposedly to make the country better by just not being Trump.
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00:34:49.000Okay, so the democratic solutions are apparently, according to the squad, who are now the ideological thought leaders, taxpayer funded abortion for illegal immigrants, $20 minimum wage.
00:35:05.000And according to Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, the illustrious, the brilliant, the thought leader, everyone here in the United States illegally should be allowed to stay.
00:35:15.000And everyone around the planet who wants to cross into our country should be allowed to come.
00:35:20.000So apparently the United States, first of all, I don't know why this isn't imperialist, Like really, she's worried about colonialism and imperialism?
00:35:26.000How about making everyone on earth an American citizen?
00:36:02.000It's the freedom to be, really, is what we're talking about.
00:36:06.000And I think that all people should be free to be here and in our communities.
00:36:13.000Because I think that when you start viewing human beings as intrinsically valuable, Okay, then she should open her front door and feel increasingly blessed that random people walk in and eat her cookies.
00:36:36.000By the way, it's not just the AOC squad.
00:36:38.000It's also the Democratic leading lights.
00:36:40.000It's Elizabeth Warren, who, by the way, is beloved by all of the intelligentsia in the Democratic Party because, of course, she is a smart lady because she taught at Harvard Law.
00:36:47.000But that's not stopping her from proposing radical solutions that are not going to be implemented.
00:36:52.000She says, we're all going to transition to government-run health care, depriving 155 million Americans of their private health insurance.
00:37:11.000The fact that the AARP is doing a forum where everybody nods and laughs when she talks about government-run health care for everyone, you know who benefits a lot from private health insurance?
00:37:20.000Older folks who are buying supplemental insurance, even if they have Medicare, and older folks who have private insurance, who, by the way, represent an enormous health care burden on the United States Medicare system.
00:37:30.000Here she is saying, well, put everybody on Medicare, but don't worry, it won't hurt the old people somehow.
00:37:34.000Here is here is Elizabeth Warren saying nonsense.
00:37:36.000Your Medicare for all proposal would eliminate private insurance, correct?
00:37:45.000What it does is it transitions people to more complete insurance coverage, more complete healthcare coverage at a lower cost, which I think is what we all want.
00:37:56.000Everyone gets covered, but we do it at the lowest possible cost.
00:38:01.000It's about healthcare from our babies to our seniors so that no one has to go bankrupt over a medical problem.
00:38:11.000The Democrats have nothing, and their radical agenda is alienating Americans.
00:38:15.000And here is how you know that this is going to be a very competitive election in 2020.
00:38:18.000Because the Democrats, by ignoring all the issues, by bringing up problems that don't exist in order to address, in order to avoid problems that do exist, By providing no solutions?
00:38:28.000If Donald Trump could just control himself, he would win this thing in a walk.
00:38:31.000There's a new Gallup poll out just now, and it is a question as to what is the most important problem facing the country today?
00:38:37.000What's the most important question facing the country today?
00:38:44.000Number one, the vast majority of those people, I would assume, are people who are not in favor of open borders.
00:38:50.000And the Democrats preaching open borders and taxpayer-funded abortions for illegal immigrants, that is not going to help them.
00:38:56.000Number two is the government and poor leadership.
00:38:58.000And this is where if President Trump would shut his pie hole, he would be in pretty good position come 2020, because that's a lot of Democrats who, again, don't have real policy solutions, but are angry at President Trump.
00:39:09.000Only 7% say race relations and racism.
00:39:11.000So the media's key focus, race relations and racism.
00:39:15.000Only 7% of Americans say that is their top problem in the United States, which, by the way, is a lot less than minority population of the United States, right?
00:39:24.000I mean, 10% of the American population Only 7% of Americans saying that race relations are the number one problem in America, which is correct.
00:39:33.000They are not the number one problem in America.
00:40:28.000And again, it's why the best thing Trump could do is make his personality secondary to the actual policy he is pursuing.
00:40:35.000Even if I don't like some of the policy that he is pursuing.
00:40:38.000Okay, meanwhile, across the pond in Britain, the big story is that Boris Johnson has become the next Prime Minister of Britain.
00:40:46.000According to the Washington Post, Boris Johnson handily won the race to lead the Conservative Party on Tuesday and will be Britain's next Prime Minister within a day.
00:40:53.000Now, Johnson has been perceived as sort of the Trump of Britain.
00:40:59.000He has pretty sterling intellectual credentials, says Boris Johnson.
00:41:02.000He tends to act like a buffoon for fun because it's good for his image and he understands that being straight-laced and uptight, like Theresa May, that that is not actually going to help you when it comes to British politics.
00:41:13.000So he's this sort of cartoonish character who happens to be a pretty solid knife fighter when it comes to British politics.
00:41:18.000I spoke with Daniel Hanan, who is the UK representative to the European Parliament.
00:41:23.000We did a Sunday special a couple of weeks ago.
00:41:26.000He said that Boris is one of the smartest people he knows.
00:41:28.000According to the Washington Post, Johnson, a bombastic Latin-quoting Oxford classicist, not quite Trumpy, with a mop of intentionally must yellow hair, made his name as an over-the-top journalist in Brussels, and then as London mayor, and galvanized the successful Brexit campaign in 2016.
00:41:43.000He'll walk through the black enameled doors of 10 Downing Street on Wednesday, fulfilling what his biographers describe as his relentless, blonde ambition, To follow his hero, Winston Churchill, into the top spot.
00:41:54.000Johnson captured about 92,000 votes inside the Conservative Party to Jeremy Hunt, the current Foreign Secretary, who's at 47,000.
00:42:02.000A dominant victory, showing Tories want a leader who promises above all else to deliver Brexit.
00:42:07.000President Trump, of course, is rooting for Johnson.
00:42:09.000He tweeted, congratulations to Boris Johnson on becoming the new Prime Minister of the UK.
00:42:15.000Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also congratulated Johnson.
00:42:19.000He tweeted, Iran's Nazi confrontation.
00:42:21.000We have 1500 miles of Persian Gulf coastline.
00:42:24.000These are our waters and we will protect them.
00:42:27.000So there's an ongoing standoff right now between the Iranian government and the government in London.
00:42:32.000The handoff will be very quick, and then the question will be exactly how Johnson gets Brexit done, because Brexit was voted for two years ago.
00:42:40.000Basically, according to current law, by October 31st, if there is no deal on Brexit, then no-deal Brexit happens, which means that Britain just leaves the EU without any negotiated deal with the EU.
00:42:50.000The problem for Theresa May is she didn't want any of that to happen.
00:42:54.000The EU holds a lot of leverage over Britain in terms of trade.
00:42:58.000They've been threatening Britain not to leave the EU.
00:43:00.000They've been trying to overrule the will of the people.
00:43:02.000Which, of course, explains exactly why Brits voted for Brexit in the first place.
00:43:07.000They voted for Brexit because they said the EU is trying to control our lives with their onerous regulations.
00:43:12.000And we don't trust the EU to handle things like immigration.
00:43:14.000We don't trust the EU to handle things like trade agreements as a bloc with other countries.
00:43:19.000We've created internal freedom to trade, but then you've got the EU that is actually setting barriers to our trade with, for example, the United States.
00:43:29.000And the EU says, you say that we're too controlling?
00:43:32.000Well, if you leave, we're going to hurt you.
00:43:34.000The EU is pretty abusive, obviously, toward member states that do not wish to accede to all of their demands.
00:43:40.000So Boris Johnson has on the table no-deal Brexit, which would go forward October 31st.
00:43:44.000He has vowed if there is no deal by October 31st, that is exactly what will happen.
00:43:48.000The market's dropped slightly on this news, but basically this is already all priced in.
00:43:52.000Would it be the end of the world, a no-deal Brexit?
00:43:54.000No, it wouldn't, because the fact is that the UK is still an economic powerhouse with regard to the EU, and people inside the EU are still going to want British products, and vice versa.
00:44:04.000So there will be agreements between the UK and the EU.
00:44:07.000The UK is not going to be frozen out by the EU.
00:44:10.000One of the lies that has been told by the media is that the folks who are in favor of Brexit are in favor of high tariffs against the EU.
00:44:29.000Writing in Monday's Telegraph, Johnson said it's time the country recovered some of its Kansu spirit.
00:44:33.000He said that if the Americans could land men on the moon 50 years ago using hand-knit bits of computer code, then 21st century Britain could imagine a way to provide for frictionless trade.
00:44:42.000Across the Northern Irish border, which has been one of the stumbling blocks of the Brexit deal.
00:44:46.000The reason that's part of the stumbling block is because the nation of Ireland is divided, the island of Ireland is divided, and part of the country It's actually two separate countries, technically speaking, thanks to the Irish peace deal.
00:45:01.000Part of the country is still part of the UK, part is independent.
00:45:03.000And there are no barriers in terms of crossing that border.
00:45:08.000That could change if Brexit goes forward, because then you would need barriers to monitor one country that is part of the EU and one that is part of the UK.
00:45:17.000Tony Blair is telling the BBC that these things are technically different when it comes to how to do all of this.
00:45:25.000The European's top Brexit negotiator, Michael Barnier, said that his side looked forward to working constructively with Johnson.
00:45:31.000Barnier said the EU was prepared for some compromise, ready to rework the Declaration on Future Relations.
00:45:36.000In all likelihood, whenever people kick a deal down the road, worse does usually come to worse.
00:45:41.000I'm predicting that there will be a no-deal Brexit.
00:45:44.000And if that happens, then that happens.
00:45:46.000And I don't think that the fallout is going to be nearly as bad as folks think that the fallout is going to be.
00:45:51.000The Washington Post, of course, predicting that Boris Johnson becoming prime minister is then going to fall apart on him as No Deal Brexit goes forward.
00:45:58.000Ishan Tharoor writing at the Washington Post, he says, After his widely anticipated confirmation in a leadership vote by members of the Conservative Party on Tuesday, Johnson is expected to carry out the ritual visiting of Buckingham Palace on Wednesday before assuming his role as Britain's newest prime minister.
00:46:13.000Johnson's rise to power has long been telegraphed.
00:46:16.000A scion of wealth and privilege, Johnson went to Eton and Oxford before embarking on a controversial career in journalism that would catapult him into politics.
00:46:23.000Now Johnson gets the chance to prove that the manure in Britain smells different.
00:46:27.000He has vowed to push forward Brexit, break free of the tyranny of the EU, and lead a liberated Britain to its former global greatness.
00:46:33.000His supporters are willing to look beyond a cringeworthy record of gaffes, sordid peccadillos, and soft bigotry.
00:46:38.000So they're already trying to portray him as a bigot.
00:46:42.000Most analysts reckon he is in for a rude awakening.
00:46:45.000Because if he goes forward with Brexit, then that will be deeply unpopular.
00:46:49.000But again, I think that is unlikely and I think that the British public is willing to grant him at least a window of opportunity to do all the things that he says that he is going to do.
00:46:59.000So, Boris Johnson in the UK, congratulations on his accession to the prime ministership.
00:47:04.000And I think that a lot of folks across the pond are rooting for Boris Johnson to be successful in negotiating a Brexit deal and providing for more independence from Brussels.
00:47:13.000Alrighty, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:47:16.000So, I stumbled on this singer named Yola.
00:47:56.000Because when she was on fire, she thought to herself, okay, to distract from the pain, I need to think of the worst thing that's happened to me.
00:48:01.000And she thought of her abusive childhood, and she started to laugh because she realized that literally being on fire was not as bad That's her abusive childhood.
00:48:08.000In any case, she is immensely talented.
00:48:10.000Here is a little bit of one of her songs.
00:48:12.000I take a ride out in the country It's all I can do When the Whippoorwill sings A song so blue
00:48:26.000Falling out of love with you Is not an easy thing to do But you don't care about me Baby Running
00:48:55.000here is all I know The country satisfies my soul When I think I'm going Hey I take a ride out in the country She's terrific.
00:49:38.000Now we reach the other side of the ledger.
00:49:40.000So when we talk about artistic failings, I don't know if you have been... I don't know if you have been... What's the opposite of privileged?
00:50:03.000It is just a pastiche of cats singing to you.
00:50:07.000It's by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who is a talented guy, right?
00:50:09.000Phantom of the Opera is a well-crafted piece of musical theater.
00:50:15.000This, Cats, is just, it was always garbage, and the only people who were in the audience for a very long time were blue-haired old ladies who like cats.
00:50:22.000Now they've decided that they're going to make a movie of Cats, and this is some of the creepiest bleep you will ever see in your entire life.
00:50:38.000It is a bunch of people who are dressed up as cats, but they're not dressed up kind of as cats in the kind of furry way that Beto O'Rourke would dress up as a cat.
00:50:46.000No, they're dressed up as cats that are sort of CGI'd a little bit, as though humans were merged with cats.
00:50:53.000It falls directly into the uncanny valley, right?
00:50:56.000The Uncanny Valley is something they say in animation, where the closer you get to portraying a human on screen, the worse it is, because human beings are programmed to be able to see what looks human and what doesn't, and so it just kind of creeps you out.
00:51:06.000Well, this is like that, because they're not cats and they're not human.
00:51:09.000It looks as though Dr. Moreau's lab were real.
00:53:14.000Okay, speaking of horror shows, over in Canada, things have gotten wild.
00:53:18.000There is a case that has made a lot of headlines at the BC Human Rights Tribunal.
00:53:25.000According to the National Post, a B.C.
00:53:28.000Human Rights Tribunal hearing devolved into repeated outbursts and name-calling this week as it considered a transgender woman's complaint that a home-based salon discriminated against her by denying her a Brazilian wax.
00:53:38.000Now, so far, you might think, well, this is bad.
00:53:40.000I mean, here's a transgender woman who presumably has had all the surgeries and doesn't have the male genitalia and wants just her surgically altered female parts to be waxed.
00:53:53.000This is a case about a person named Jessica Yaniv, a man who believes he is a woman, but still has very, very female penis and testicles.
00:54:05.000Jessica Yaniv, the complainant, told the hearing she was entitled to receive the advertised wax service, and that if the tribunal ruled against her, it could lead to a dangerous precedent.
00:54:13.000You cannot choose who your clientele is going to be, she said.
00:54:15.000The she is coming courtesy of the National Post.
00:54:26.000Because buried in paragraph six of this article is the actual news.
00:54:30.000Business owner Marcia da Silva said she was not comfortable carrying out a Brazilian wax on a person with male genitalia, nor did she have the training for it.
00:54:37.000So we went real quick from bake the cake, bigot, to wax my balls, bigot.
00:54:42.000J. Cameron... I'm sorry, no other way to put this, guys.
00:54:46.000J. Cameron, De Silva's lawyer and litigation manager with the Alberta-based Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, told the hearing that a ruling against his client would be tantamount to ordering intimate services against someone's will.
00:55:12.000For too long, women have been mistreated by males.
00:55:14.000And there is a reason why women might be afraid of a random male coming to their house where they perform a service on their intimate areas.
00:55:20.000There might be a reason for that, but I guess the B.C.
00:55:22.000court now has to rule on whether a woman does not have a right to be nervous about any of this.
00:55:27.000She has to serve this person because this person says they are a woman.
00:55:30.000So in other words, you should be more afraid of a man who says straight out, I want you to wax my testicles than a man who says he is a woman who says that he wants to have his testicles waxed by you.
00:55:43.000So somehow it is more dangerous For a person who does not believe they are a member of the opposite sex and suffer from the mental disorder known as gender identity disorder, it is more dangerous to serve a male who does not suffer from that disorder than to serve a male who suffers from that disorder and still has all of his parts and is demanding that you service him in your home by waxing his genitals.
00:56:08.000So, Jessica Yaniv was asked about all of this in an interview, and it didn't go all that great for Jessica Yaniv, but it doesn't have to because the social justice warriors will always come out in defense of the stupidest possible solution.
00:56:22.000You do what you want to do, Jessica, and you live your life whatever way you want to live your life.
00:56:26.000But the concern I have is that those women should also be allowed to live their lives the way they want to live their lives.
00:56:30.000But not when they discriminate against the rights of others.
00:56:33.000But they'll argue that they're not discriminating, that they're just saying, I'm sorry, we don't supply a service of a bikini wax or a Brazilian or whatever it happens to be, or the removal of hair from a genitalia, from a man, as far as they're concerned.
00:58:00.000And if Jessica Yaniv went to the doctor for services, the doctor would treat them.
00:58:04.000They would do a prostate exam, for example.
00:58:06.000They would not do an exam for the uterus.
00:58:08.000And if they did, they would be a moron.
00:58:10.000They'd be wasting time and they'd be wasting money.
00:58:12.000But we now live in a world where doctors are expected to do a uterine exam on a biological male.
00:58:18.000I told you about a story in Nature where they suggested that there was a real problem with doctors classifying people by their biological sex.
00:58:41.000There are a few outlying cases where people are so androgynous looking that you don't know.
00:58:46.000There are a few outlying cases where people have had surgeries to appear as a member of the opposite sex.
00:58:51.000And when it comes to some of those cases, when we talk about, for example, bathrooms, then it's less of a problem if a person who looks like a female goes into a female bathroom.
00:58:59.000It is a lot more of a problem because women in that bathroom will not think to be frightened or upset about all of that.
00:59:06.000If a male walks into a female bathroom and females get upset, I think they have every right to do so.
00:59:31.000She, a woman, got into an exchange with a man, Jessica Yeny, in which the activist mocked Shepard from suffering from a uterine condition known as septate uterus.
00:59:42.000In a tweet, she replied to this person, at least I have a uterus, you ugly fat man.
00:59:59.000The suspension came after a jousting match with a notorious trans woman named JY, who has been accused of predatory behavior toward children and making frivolous human rights complaints.
01:00:08.000The post-millennial reached out to Shepard, who said, I got suspended for two tweets, although they didn't tell me exactly which tweets were the problem, so I'm giving my best guess.
01:00:15.000She said she was concerned about her inability to respond to mistruths now that she is banned from the platform.
01:00:30.000Shepard first came to international prominence in late 2017 when she released a recording of being interrogated by staff at Wilfrid Laurier University following a class in which she presented a Jordan Peterson clip in contrast with a pro-transgender video as part of a class exercise.
01:00:44.000For this, she was threatened with having violated Canadian human rights law for having presented the video of Professor Peterson.
01:01:20.000And comparing people to Hitler, doesn't go all that well.
01:01:22.000But Lindsey Shepard ended up filing a $3.6 million defamation lawsuit or a lawsuit against Wilfred Laurier, and then Professor Peterson filed a subsequent defamation lawsuit.
01:01:32.000Shepard is not a controversial voice in a free speech debate.
01:01:37.000She's a left-leaning centrist who supports vegetarianism.
01:01:43.000Here's Lindsay Shepard talking about her ban from Twitter for the great crime of suggesting that a male is a male.
01:01:47.000I was banned from Twitter for responding to a couple of tweets that an individual that I will only refer to as JY made about me.
01:01:59.000on Twitter starts tweeting about how I'm dumb and how I have a loose vagina from pushing out a 10 pound baby.
01:02:08.000So I tweeted back and basically said, if you want to sound like a woman, this is not really the way to do it because this is more of a male way of speaking.
01:02:37.000So this is an exchange where people were being mean to each other.
01:02:40.000And Lindsey Shepard was responding to a person who was criticizing her uterus and her vagina.
01:02:44.000And she was suspended from Twitter, because this is the world we now occupy, in which, if you are a member of a protected class, you can be offensive and terrible as you want to be, and everyone is supposed to respect that.
01:02:54.000Whereas if you are not, then if you respond in kind in any way, then you will be thrown out of polite society or considered cruel and mean and terrible.
01:03:15.000Poop on the streets, affecting Antifa, runs half the city.
01:03:19.000I mean, there's some serious problems in Berkeley, California.
01:03:21.000When I visited Berkeley a couple of years ago, it required 600 police officers and the state-ies in order so that I could give a speech there.
01:03:26.000I mean, they got some problems over in Berkeley.
01:03:28.000But Berkeley is taking on the issues that matter.
01:03:31.000According to the Associated Press, Berkeley, California has adopted an ordinance to replace some terms with gender-neutral words in the city codes.
01:03:39.000The San Francisco Chronicle reports that she and he will be replaced by they, which is going to make things very awkward when it comes to, for example, I don't know, separate funding of sports, for example.
01:03:49.000Title IX specifically says that you have to have female sports and male sports.
01:03:52.000I guess now you will just have they sports, which means no female will ever compete in a sport.
01:03:55.000Again, if you have government-sponsored sporting leagues, for example.
01:03:58.000The words manpower and manhole will become workforce and maintenance hole.
01:04:04.000Maintenance hole, by the way, sounds awful.
01:04:06.000Just got to tell you, you're not helping yourself.
01:04:51.000Also, it is important to note here that this whole routine where folks are being silenced in their views that men are men and women are women has carried over into the field of science.
01:05:01.000It is so wildly controversial to publish anything that talks about scientific rigor in examination of gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder that scientists are just not doing it anymore.
01:05:18.000Another danger is we don't actually know the consequences of what in the world we are doing.
01:05:23.000The politically correct declare that something is healthy, thus it becomes healthy, and if you study it, then you're a bigot.
01:05:28.000We had this last year with Brown University, where a professor wrote a paper on what was called rapid-onset gender dysphoria, the fact that it was becoming trendy to become transgender in high school, and there was data to back it up, and Brown basically pulled back the paper temporarily and apologized for running an abstract.
01:05:45.000Now there's a report from BBC Newsnight called Transgender Treatment Puberty Blockers Study Under Investigation.
01:05:52.000England's only NHS, National Health Service, youth gender clinic, lowered the age at which it offered children puberty blockers, partly based on a study now being investigated.
01:06:02.000It suggested that puberty blockers didn't do anything bad to kids.
01:06:05.000It turns out it does do bad stuff to kids, but everyone went along with the myth because it was more important to go along with the myth than to tell the truth and protect children.
01:06:14.000If you have a study that is flawed and you push it out there because you have an agenda that is broader than that.
01:06:20.000Then that would be, and it affects children?
01:06:22.000Pretty sure this is almost the essence of evil.
01:06:24.000The study's full findings have not been published.
01:06:26.000Early data showed some taking the drugs reported an increase in thoughts of suicide and self-harm.
01:06:31.000I can't imagine why that would be, that if you take a child who is not hormonally developed, and you start giving them puberty blockers to prevent them from growing in the way that they normally would grow naturally, that this might harm their mental awareness, their mental health.
01:06:46.000In the United States, you can't get an antibiotic prescription at school without parental permission, but you can get an abortion in many cases without parental permission.
01:06:54.000In Britain now, they're saying we should be able to shoot you up with hormones that prevent you from growing, and if you're a girl, will prevent your breasts from growing, and if you're a boy, will prevent you from maturing and body hair growing and your testicles dropping.
01:07:05.000We can give you all of that, and don't worry, it'll be fine.
01:07:22.000Experts on clinical trials have criticized the design of the study, which they say makes it hard to tell if the reported effects were due to puberty blockers or something else.
01:07:29.000But experts said they warranted further investigation.
01:07:32.000Yes, I'm sure that additional depression has more to do with the all-purpose blame machine.
01:07:38.000It has to do with societal intolerance, I'm sure, more than it has to do with physically taking hormones and shooting them into children.
01:07:46.000The Health Research Authority, which ensures that medical studies are ethical and transparent, is now investigating claims brought to them by BBC's Newsnight program about the early findings from the study and the information that is understood to have been shared with patients and parents about the possible effects of puberty-blocking drugs.
01:08:02.000So in other words, the BBC is now trying to stop people from disseminating study information that might dissuade them from hormone-treating their kids.
01:08:09.000When a child in the UK is questioning their gender, they can be referred to the Gender Identity Development Service at Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London and Leeds.
01:08:18.000One treatment on offer is puberty blockers.
01:08:19.000They work on the brain to stop the eventual release of estrogen or testosterone.
01:08:23.000I'm sure that's the only effect on the brain, guys.
01:08:26.000Before 2011, kids would give puberty blockers to children only once they had turned 16.
01:08:31.000But now, they are now doing this for kids who are 11.
01:08:34.000Acknowledging the weak evidence for the drugs, the research team made up of kids and University College Hospital staff set out to evaluate the psychological, social, and physical effects of the blockers on a carefully suggested group of young people.
01:08:46.000Details about the risks, such as potential adverse effects on bone strength, the development of sexual organs, body shape, or final adult height, were provided in a patient's information sheet, but Newsnight found certain information was not included.
01:08:59.000Previous research had suggested all young people who took the blockers went on to take cross-sex hormones, the next stage toward fully transitioning.
01:09:06.000But patients and parents were not told this in the information sheet.
01:09:11.000Michael Biggs, associate professor of sociology at Oxford, said, I don't see that the parents and their children could really have given informed consent given the lack of information that was provided.
01:09:20.000Professor Biggs, who's attracted criticism from some in the transgender community, said they were not given the information they needed in order to take this momentous, life-changing step.
01:09:30.000And this is the way this is going to work from here on out.
01:09:33.000Is that you're going to end up with science being silenced in the name of subjectivism.
01:09:37.000You're going to end up with people's rights being violated in the name of the supposed rights of people to have other services directed at them in the name of their subjective self-identification.
01:09:48.000If we don't even share language anymore, if we don't even share common definitions of male and female anymore, still, none of this makes any sense.
01:09:54.000I'm just going to point out that folks who are pushing the idea that a woman must be forced to wax the genitalia of a man, that these people still have not provided any definition by which Jessica Yaniv is an actual woman.