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00:02:01.000Alright, so we begin today with this anonymous op-ed in the New York Times, which is solely designed to lead to a full-on mole hunt inside the White House.
00:02:09.000Basically, there's an op-ed in the New York Times.
00:02:13.000The New York Times did not reveal the name of the person who wrote this op-ed.
00:02:16.000And the essential contention of the op-ed is that President Trump is a crazy person and all the people around him are restraining him from being crazy.
00:03:02.000I mean, this is just virtue signaling of the highest order.
00:03:04.000The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous op-ed essay
00:03:09.000We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration, whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure.
00:03:16.000We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers.
00:03:21.000We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.
00:03:24.000Well, this does raise a weird question.
00:03:26.000Will the New York Times reporters now seek to dig into who actually wrote the anonymous New York Times op-ed?
00:03:32.000They could just like walk down the hall and presumably start grilling their own editors, but that gets real weird.
00:03:39.000President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
00:03:43.000It's not just that the special counsel looms large, or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump's leadership, or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hell-bent on his downfall.
00:03:52.000Which he does not fully grasp is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
00:04:04.000I, QAnon, I, Anonymous, am one of them.
00:04:07.000To be clear, ours is not the popular resistance of the left.
00:04:10.000We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.
00:04:15.000But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.
00:04:21.000Point out here that this editorial has already gone off the rails for a couple of reasons.
00:04:25.000One, if you say that you're part of the resistance to Trump helping him to do the right thing, you just made sure that President Trump is going to go on a mole hunt to oust anyone who is trying to help him do the right thing from your own point of view.
00:04:37.000You've ensured that President Trump is going to go full on
00:04:46.000We're going to separate people into rooms and threaten their families until we find out who is thwarting the president's will.
00:04:51.000Second, those two sentences are in complete contrast with one another.
00:04:54.000One is that they want the administration to succeed and think many of its policies have been great.
00:04:59.000And then there's a sentence that says that they believe their first duty is to the country, and the president continues to act in a manner detrimental to the health of our republic.
00:05:07.000How do you want the administration to succeed if you think the president is acting in a manner detrimental to the health of the republic?
00:05:12.000This is basically justifying everything President Trump ever said about the deep state, but it's actually just the shallow state.
00:05:17.000It's a bunch of people working inside his administration, who presumably he appointed, who are working to thwart his will, and then talking about it in the New York Times.
00:05:25.000The predictable effect of which will be to lower his approval ratings and ensure that he has a tougher time with re-election in 2020.
00:05:30.000So why exactly would you say that you're standing up for the administration?
00:05:35.000If you actually believe that your job in the administration is to help the administration succeed, make sure that President Trump doesn't go off the rails, make his policy better, thwart him when necessary, why would you go talk about it?
00:05:46.000Why would you then go and talk about it?
00:06:08.000This is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses until he's out of office.
00:06:16.000So clearly you don't want the administration to succeed, you want him out of office.
00:06:19.000The root of the problem is the president's amorality.
00:06:21.000Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.
00:06:43.000At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings.
00:06:45.000At worst, he has attacked them outright.
00:06:47.000In addition to his mass marketing of the notion that the press is the enemy of the people, President Trump's impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.
00:06:54.000Don't get me wrong, there are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture.
00:06:59.000Effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military, and more.
00:07:03.000But these successes have come despite, not because of, the president's leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty, and ineffective.
00:07:10.000And it continues along these lines for paragraphs and paragraphs, with the result that they say that there's this anonymous author inside the Trump administration says they have a two-track presidency.
00:07:21.000In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators such as Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied like-minded nations.
00:07:32.000Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.
00:08:17.000Okay, it is not a cabinet-level official.
00:08:19.000It is known with presidential aspirations.
00:08:21.000It's the riskiest political move ever.
00:08:22.000It is not Mike Pence, despite how much the left would love it to be Mike Pence quietly stabbing President Trump between the shoulder blades with his trademark bland smile.
00:08:42.000Half the people in the White House have the title senior official in the White House.
00:08:46.000This is probably some senior official in like John Kelly's team who doesn't like Trump very much and feels like they might feather bed their exit.
00:08:54.000And that's really what the motive here is.
00:08:55.000The motive here is that it will be revealed.
00:08:57.000Okay, within a week we'll know who this person is.
00:08:59.000And this person, because it's not going to stay secret, and this person is going to come out to great applause from the left
00:09:05.000This was a person who was trying to thwart Trump.
00:10:14.000But then if you look at the policy of the administration, it is not what he says.
00:10:18.000The policy of the administration is very harsh on Russia.
00:10:21.000It's quite obvious that this administration involves the president saying a lot of stuff, being hands-off, delegating power to a lot of folks, and when people say it's a constitutional crisis to have people around the president thwarting his will, I'm not even sure what that means.
00:10:35.000It's not as though they are hiding him in a closet, preventing him from doing things he wants to do.
00:10:39.000They understand that the president forgets about things and doesn't care that much about other things, and that if they just don't put something on his desk, he's unlikely to ever remember it again, so they just don't put it on his desk.
00:10:48.000Like, is the president's will what he wants to do in the moment?
00:10:51.000Or is the president's will what he cares about over the long haul?
00:10:54.000Because this sort of manipulation does happen at a much lower level in other administrations.
00:10:58.000There are people who are slow walking policy all the time.
00:11:09.000Is that you thwarting the will of your company?
00:11:12.000Or is that you using your independent judgment to try and make the company better because maybe your boss is about to make a rash decision?
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00:13:49.000Okay, and the truth is, he's not wrong about it being gutless.
00:13:51.000Like, if the person actually wants to take a stand against the administration publicly, quit.
00:13:56.000Quit and talk about how terrible it was.
00:13:58.000Or, alternatively, if you actually want to work inside the administration and make it a better place, shut your face.
00:14:03.000Why are you going to the New York Times to brag about how you anonymously are helping the administration from the inside, except to provide yourself cover later?
00:14:10.000This is very obviously self-interested.
00:14:12.000Do you really think anybody at the New York Times would have printed an anonymous op-ed from somebody inside the Obama administration making the same claims?
00:14:20.000Because printing anonymous op-eds is kind of frowned upon.
00:14:24.000It's kind of frowned upon for pretty good reason, which is that there's no way to vet the claims of the person who's actually making those claims.
00:14:30.000Like, we don't know who the senior official is.
00:14:32.000It could be some low-level person who's met Trump once.
00:14:34.000There are hundreds of people working in the White House.
00:16:16.000If you wanted to react in, you know, the fashion that is most likely to put this to bed, what you would say is, ah, there they are talking again.
00:16:24.000Ah, of course the New York Times is going to print this sort of stuff.
00:16:26.000Not, not, they should turn over this bastard to me so I can blow a hole in him with this drill.
00:16:31.000I'll just take this, this, I have a screwdriver right here.
00:16:34.000I will stab him in the face 100 times.
00:16:36.000I will shoot him on Fifth Avenue and I will lose no support.
00:16:40.000At this point, you have to laugh so you don't cry because it is pretty wild stuff.
00:16:45.000But it is also true that this op-ed does no good.
00:16:49.000It is actually deeply counterproductive because all it does in the end is drive President Trump to throw out anyone who may be actually trying to curb those worst excesses.
00:16:57.000And now we get to spend months trying to
00:17:02.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of stupidity, awfulness, counterproductive nonsense, we need to stop these judicial hearings.
00:17:14.000These judicial hearings are a waste of time.
00:17:16.000These Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are just a place for prospective presidential candidates to grandstand.
00:17:22.000Now, Brett Kavanaugh is doing, you know, a fine job at what his job is here in these judicial hearings, which is to obfuscate how he feels on every particular issue.
00:17:30.000The way this works, thanks to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when she was questioned about specific cases, she said, I'm not going to answer any questions about prospective cases or cases in the past.
00:17:39.000I'm going to sit here and look at you weird.
00:17:41.000And that was basically how every... That's now how we do judicial hearings.
00:17:45.000People ask questions that are designed to elicit a response from the cheering throng on either side of the aisle, and then the judge sits there, and the judge basically stares weirdly at them.
00:17:53.000Well, that's basically what happened yesterday.
00:19:03.000Judge Kavanaugh, when he was working for the Bush administration, was considering a draft opinion piece that supporters of one of Mr. Bush's conservatives' appeals court nominees hoped they could persuade anti-abortion women to submit under their names.
00:19:14.000It stated it is widely accepted by legal scholars across the board that Roe v. Wade and its progeny are the settled law of the land.
00:19:19.000And Kavanaugh proposed deleting that line, writing, I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level, since the court can always overrule its precedent, and three current justices on the court would do so.
00:19:50.000If it did, then Plessy versus Ferguson would still be on the books and people would still be segregating bus cars at the behest of the state.
00:19:57.000But again, Brett Kavanaugh is being run through the ringer specifically for political purposes.
00:20:03.000Here, for example, is Kavanaugh being asked about presidential pardons.
00:20:07.000Again, he's not going to answer this question, but we're going to pretend like these hearings matter.
00:20:11.000The question of self-pardons is something I've never analyzed.
00:20:16.000It's a question that I've not written about.
00:20:19.000It's a question, therefore, that's a hypothetical question that I can't begin to answer in this context as a sitting judge and as a nominee to the Supreme Court.
00:21:26.000Cory fricking Booker just called himself Spartacus at a hearing this morning.
00:21:31.000I'll have to explain why he calls himself Spartacus at a hearing this morning, because he really is astonishing and hilarious, and also he doesn't understand how Spartacus worked.
00:21:38.000Like, Spartacus ended up crucified, so there's that.
00:21:41.000But it's all good times for Cory Booker and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:21:44.000We'll talk about all that in just a second.
00:21:45.000First, let's talk about the fact that time is moving slowly.
00:21:49.000That means you're checking your watch more often.
00:21:50.000And when you check your watch, shouldn't you have something nice like this?
00:21:53.000Shouldn't you have a watch that you like looking at, because it's classy, and it's simple, and it's minimalist, and it looks nice?
00:21:58.000Well, that is where movement comes in.
00:22:01.000We've talked about MVMT before on the program, obviously.
00:22:03.000You know, there are these two college dropouts.
00:22:04.000They started their own watch company, and the company has grown like crazy.
00:22:07.000They've now sold 2 million watches in 160-plus countries, and they continue to revolutionize fashion in the belief that style shouldn't break the bank.
00:22:16.000In the past year, they've not only introduced a bunch of new watch collections for men and women, they've also expanded to sunglasses, fashion for bracelets, for her.
00:23:21.000If you're working for the Bush administration, the Bush administration has the right to say that the legislative branch does not get to see things because that is executive privilege.
00:23:31.000The executive is not subject to the dictates of the legislature.
00:23:34.000So the legislature can't just say, we want every document, everything Bush ever said to all of his advocates, we want all of that in front of us.
00:23:40.000Now, that's not a thing in constitutional jurisprudence.
00:23:43.000So there's basically a deal that was made with the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is they get to see all these Kavanaugh documents on the condition that they are not asked about publicly.
00:23:51.000So it can decide the votes of the people on the committee.
00:23:55.000But it is not meant to undercut the executive power.
00:24:00.000So Cory Booker, being a grandstanding idiot, he decides, you know what?
00:24:53.000But I'll be president because it's weird!
00:24:55.000So here's Cory Booker being all weird.
00:24:58.000I will say that I did willingly violate the chair's rule on the committee confidential process.
00:25:04.000I take full responsibility for violating that, sir.
00:25:07.000And I violate it because I sincerely believe that the public deserves to know this nominee's record, in this particular case, his record on issues of race and the law.
00:25:18.000And I could not understand, and I violated this rule knowingly, why these issues should be withheld from the public.
00:25:26.000Now I appreciate the comments of my colleagues.
00:25:28.000This is about the closest I'll probably ever have in my life to an I Am Spartacus moment.
00:26:00.000Who at one point watched movies in like the 1980s and thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger's performance in Kindergarten Cop was the apotheosis of good acting.
00:26:10.000I was like, you know what I'm going to do?
00:26:50.000Senator Cornyn actually made a very good point.
00:26:53.000I knowingly violated the rules that were put forth, and I'm told that the committee confidential rules have knowing consequences.
00:27:03.000And so, sir, I come from a long line, as all of us do as Americans, and understand what that kind of civil disobedience is, and I understand the consequences.
00:28:25.000That the government has the power to make a decision about a man's body?
00:28:30.000I'm not thinking of any right now, Senator.
00:28:34.000Okay, what she's trying to go for is, when it comes, I mean, she's obviously phrasing this in the dumbest possible way, so that it looks as though the law is unequal when it comes to abortion.
00:28:42.000Because all we're talking about is a female body, whereas there are no restrictions on what a male can do to his own body.
00:28:48.000Except for we actually do have laws against suicide.
00:28:50.000Like, we can actually put you in jail for, well, not jail, but we can actually forcibly
00:29:31.000She thinks that Brett Kavanaugh has talked to someone from the firm of Kasowitz.
00:29:35.000Kasowitz is a firm that is used by the President of the United States with regard to his defense.
00:29:41.000And so she asks Brett Kavanaugh if he's ever had a conversation with anyone who worked for Kasowitz, which is a firm that legitimately has hundreds and hundreds of lawyers, about the Mueller investigation.
00:29:50.000The implication being that Brett Kavanaugh somehow talked to Trump's lawyers about how he would handle the Mueller investigation, with which he is not involved in any way.
00:30:00.000But she's going to suggest the reason Trump is picking Kavanaugh is because Kavanaugh is somehow going to allow Trump to escape the Mueller investigation.
00:31:32.000Michael Avenatti basically said, this is a big mistake.
00:31:35.000Prosecutors are not supposed to ask questions to which they don't already know the answers.
00:31:39.000So if it turns out that Kamala Harris has nothing here, then she was just grandstanding.
00:31:42.000And speaking of grandstanding, you just heard Cory Booker talking about how he was going to uncover all of the evils of Brett Kavanaugh by revealing all this classified information.
00:31:53.000Well, it turns out that Cory Booker, he played himself.
00:32:02.000There's an email titled Racial Profiling.
00:32:05.000And then, it turns out that in these emails titled Racial Profiling, Brett Kavanaugh openly says that we are not going to allow people to use race or national origin in airport screening and law enforcement generally in the immediate aftermath of 9-11.
00:32:22.000He says, My own view is that, as required by the traditional equal protection standards, we must at least consider how to construct a race-neutral system.
00:32:28.000I can imagine such a system that could be effective, perhaps even more effective than the one based on racial classifications.
00:32:34.000This sort of system would require airlines and governmental authorities to obtain more personal information from the flying public, and there is some resistance to that within the group on the grounds that that would be too burdensome, invasive of privacy, and so forth.
00:32:44.000The people who favor some use of race or national origin obviously do not need to grapple with the interim questions, but the people who generally favor effective security measures that are race-neutral in fact do need to grapple, and grapple now, with the interim question of what to do before a truly effective and comprehensive race-neutral system is developed and implemented.
00:33:01.000So in other words, Cory Booker wanted to show how
00:33:04.000Kavanaugh was a racist and instead showed how Kavanaugh was not, in fact, a racist.
00:33:12.000In just one second, we'll get to more from the Senate Judiciary hearing.
00:33:15.000We'll also get to other hearings that were happening on the Hill yesterday, which were similarly bizarre because we live in a parallel universe in which nothing makes sense anymore.
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00:36:33.000Alex Jones is a crazy person who says crazy things, and then he just sort of randomly takes off his shirt and starts yelling about Satan!
00:36:41.000But Satan just goes wild all the time!
00:36:44.000So he brings that brand to the halls of the Senate and he accosts Marco Rubio about the fact that he's been banned from social media.
00:36:49.000Now, as I say, I oppose Alex Jones' ban from social media unless there's an articulable standard, an articulable standard of why he was banned.
00:36:57.000Was he banned because he threatens violence?
00:38:01.000So first of all, the first rule of engaging with trolls is don't engage with trolls because there's really no way that it works out well.
00:38:08.000Although I will say that if there would be a physical altercation between Alex Jones and Marco Rubio, and Marco Rubio, who's considered beta-cuck number one by the Alex Jones crowd, were to knock Alex Jones and his mega-steroidal coffee crop of garbage, if you were to knock him on his ass,
00:38:29.000I'm not in favor of physical violence.
00:38:51.000Marco Rubio then did an interview in which he said, you know, I know you guys have to cover it, but you guys give these crazy people way too much attention.
00:38:57.000We're making crazy people superstars, so you're gonna get crazier people.
00:39:01.000All the coverage on Alex Jones is designed for that.
00:39:03.000It is also, also true, that the President of the United States happens to be one of the people giving Alex Jones inordinate attention.
00:39:09.000Alex Jones has been known as a crazy person for many, many, many years.
00:39:13.000The President of the United States decided that he was afriendly and therefore he sort of legitimized him.
00:39:18.000In any case, let's talk a little bit more about these tech hearings.
00:39:21.000So these tech hearings, they were demonstrative of the fact that these social media companies really have no clue as to what their actual goal is.
00:39:29.000Is their goal to, quote unquote, better the public discourse?
00:39:32.000Because if their goal is to better the public discourse, then they need to be held accountable for all the material that appears on their pages.
00:39:40.000We can be sued for libel, we can be sued for copyright violation, we can be sued for a variety of causes because we are a private company that is engaged in the business of editorial oversight.
00:39:53.000If you are basically just a platform and you're not involved in editorial oversight like Reddit or 4chan or presumably Facebook, then you can't be sued on the same grounds.
00:40:01.000So an article that we could be sued for, if we post it on Facebook, Facebook could not be sued for.
00:40:05.000But if Facebook is policing everything and deciding what comes down and what stays up, well now they look a lot more like the Daily Wire than they look like the phone line, than they look like just AT&T.
00:40:15.000So if you're a publisher and not a platform, then you have to be held to the same standard, and we have to have an articulable standard so that we know exactly what's going on at your company.
00:40:23.000And that was made pretty clear when Representative Mark Wayne read tweets to the, I guess his name is Mark Wayne Mullen.
00:40:32.000He read tweets to the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about race from Sarah Zhang.
00:40:39.000You remember Sarah Zhang, who's now on the New York Times editorial board because only certain types of racism are okay.
00:40:44.000Here is Representative Mullen grilling Dorsey on why it is that Sarah Zhang is still on the platform, but other people have been banned for similarly racist talk.
00:41:00.000White people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.
00:41:08.000Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like graveling goblins?
00:41:18.000Oh man, it's kind of sick how much I enjoy
00:41:22.000Or how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.
00:41:26.000And you can sort of see the Twitter CEO in the cutaway shot.
00:41:31.000You can see him feeling pretty uncomfortable.
00:41:34.000He should feel pretty uncomfortable because it's ridiculous, frankly, that Twitter and all of these social media companies are run the way they are, where they pretend that they're policing things when they really are only policing one side.
00:41:46.000And that side is really perceived to be sort of the pro-Trump side.
00:41:59.000It's a voiceover from Colin Kaepernick, who obviously is not in uniform since he doesn't play football anymore.
00:42:04.000He stands around and talks about cops being bad from his multi-million dollar mansion, presumably.
00:42:09.000And they juxtapose Colin Kaepernick's heroism with, like, actual heroes in sports.
00:42:15.000I mean, they actually show video of, like, small kids who have
00:42:19.000Who have genetic conditions trying to play sports, and they're comparing that to Colin Kaepernick, whose great sacrifice was kneeling after he'd already become a useless backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers.
00:42:30.000If you're born a refugee, don't let it stop you from playing soccer for the national team at age 16.
00:42:39.000Don't become the best basketball player on the planet.
00:43:14.000You have to sacrifice everything like Colin Kaepernick did by being signed to a multi-million dollar contract and being treated as a civil rights hero despite having lived in a Tony White suburb for most of his upbringing and then playing for millions of dollars badly.
00:43:40.000women's soccer team is an American success story.
00:43:42.000These are stories that happen in America, because America is a great country, but we are going to be presented with this theme by a corporation attempting to make money in America off American citizens, that really America is a place that presents nothing but endless obstacles and challenges, and you have to be a self-sacrificial character like Colin Kaepernick to truly sacrifice everything.
00:44:22.000Yeah, you can see this with Game of Thrones, where Game of Thrones started and every two scenes there was some graphic sex scene because it was like, we know, we're pay cable.
00:44:29.000If you want to watch pay cable, at least you'll get some boobies.
00:44:32.000That's really how the programming goes at HBO.
00:44:37.000The series is actually really, really good.
00:44:40.000Here's some of the preview for Rome, which is worth re-watching.
00:44:44.000Especially now, you can get it on Amazon Prime, and that means that if you are apt to do as I am, you can just fast-forward right through those scenes and get to the good stuff, the actual politics.
00:44:57.000Make way for the pro-consul, Gaius Julius Caesar!
00:45:41.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:45:47.000And now every corporation feels the necessity to get involved in politics.
00:45:50.000Levi's is now pledging more than a million dollars to gun control organizations in an effort to curb the gun violence in the, quote, very communities where we live and work.
00:45:58.000One of the reasons why this is happening is because Nielsen numbers show that there are large numbers of people on the left who want their corporations to be socially conscious.
00:46:07.000People on the right, we basically just go and buy what we want.
00:46:16.000There are actual studies that show that people only buy Priuses because they look strange.
00:46:21.000Really, if you go up to San Francisco, there's a study, it's probably five years ago, there's this study and what it showed was that the Toyota Prius, which looks like a weird bubble, it's a very ugly car, and the Honda Hybrid Civic, which looks exactly like a normal car, but gets exactly the same kind of electric gas mileage as the Toyota Prius,
00:48:02.000I don't understand why exactly he would not.
00:48:05.000You know, why he would not be calling for more from the Pope, except that he just doesn't want that controversy.
00:48:10.000If you're, I understand not wanting the controversy, but if you're going to engage with every political controversy under the sun, it seems to me this would be a good place to put a little bit of weight.
00:48:18.000Okay, final thing that I hate, and then we'll do a quick psalm for a little bit of uplift.
00:48:22.000So Beto O'Rourke, who is not in fact Hispanic,
00:49:03.000So here's Beto O'Rourke talking about the National Anthem protests and, of course, coming down on the side of people who protest the National Anthem.
00:49:09.000If this guy wins in Texas, man, the Republicans are in serious trouble.
00:49:13.000But it's hard to think of a major or important or significant change that we've made as a country that wasn't painful, that didn't require these difficult conversations, these unguarded moments with one another that ultimately produced change and progress in the right direction.
00:49:39.000People who are kneeling for the national anthem are generally not interested in a conversation, which is why they are kneeling for the national anthem.
00:49:45.000If they wanted to have an intelligent conversation about police regulations and police implementation of rules, we could have that conversation in an intelligent way.
00:49:52.000Or, theoretically, we could just kneel for the anthem and pretend the entire country is in favor of police malfeasance.
00:50:05.000Lord, oh Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.
00:50:07.000You have set your glory in the heavens.
00:50:08.000Through the praise of children and infants, you have established a stronghold against your enemies to silence the foe and the avenger.
00:50:13.000And this is the part that's, that's, there are a couple of, of what we call Pesukim in, in Judaism, in Hebrew, which means verses.
00:50:20.000When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them?
00:50:27.000You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with honor and glory.
00:50:30.000You have made them rulers over the works of your hands and you put everything under their feet.
00:50:33.000This is why when people say that Judeo-Christian religion is all about kind of crushing mankind in the face of God, that's really not what Judeo-Christian religion is about at all.
00:51:07.000When God suggests that we are a little lower than the angels and that we've been crowned with glory and honor and has made us rulers over the works, that comes with a responsibility.
00:51:16.000It's not just about... I think in Western civilization we've erred too much on the side of man is glorious and therefore he should feel free to do whatever he wants.
00:51:23.000And in guilt cultures, shame cultures, there's a difference.