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00:00:00.000President Trump's approval ratings jump, migrants approach the southern border, and the left goes ballistic over the Department of Education's approach to sex and gender.
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00:02:02.000Well, what's really happening here is that the Democratic mask is off and Democrats are garbage at everything.
00:02:07.000Basically, when President Trump is the second thing in the news, that is a very good thing for Republicans.
00:02:11.000When he is the first thing in the news, it's a problem.
00:02:14.000So when Democrats spend weeks demonstrating they don't care about due process and that they will railroad a guy simply for political reasons, very good for Republicans.
00:02:22.000When the lead headline is the leading 2020 contender for the Democrats setting herself on fire over a DNA sample, that's really good for Republicans.
00:02:31.000When the lead headline is Democrats approaching Ted Cruz in a restaurant and screaming at him and his wife.
00:03:36.000So here is what the latest polls show.
00:03:37.000According to the Wall Street Journal, voter interest in the midterm elections has surged to records within both parties, helping to drive up President Trump's approval rating while maintaining the Democrats' lead as the party most preferred to lead Congress, according to a new Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll.
00:03:52.000The findings point to an energized electorate buffeted by dynamics that bring great uncertainty to the outcome of an election just two weeks away.
00:03:59.000And what the polls kind of show is that everything is narrowing.
00:04:02.000Nearly two-thirds of registered voters show a high level of interest in the election.
00:04:05.000That is the highest ever recorded in a midterm election since the Journal-NBC poll began asking the question in 2006.
00:04:12.000Now, the reason for that is because largely of the Democrats.
00:04:16.000The Democrats were always going to be energized to vote against President Trump.
00:04:19.000But now Republicans are really mobilized to vote against the Democrats.
00:04:23.000I know that my interest in voting peaked significantly thanks to the Democrats' behavior during the Brett Kavanaugh saga.
00:04:29.000And I know that most other Republicans feel the same.
00:04:32.000The once large gap between Republican voters and Democrats voters' interest in the election has now been closed.
00:04:37.00068% of Republican voters and 72% of Democrats
00:04:41.000Say they are very interested in the election.
00:04:43.000That is the highest recorded for either party by the survey in a midterm election.
00:04:47.000Also, President Trump's job approval rating has jumped to 47% according to the Wall Street Journal and NBC News poll.
00:04:54.000That is the highest mark he has ever had in office.
00:04:57.000In that poll, he is now higher than President Obama's average poll approval rating before the 2010 elections.
00:05:02.000Now, it is worth noting that President Obama got skunked in the 2010 elections.
00:05:06.000But with that said, President Trump has gained significant approval, only 49% disapproving.
00:05:10.000So that's about as close to parity as Trump is ever going to get.
00:05:13.000He's never going to be a 55% president.
00:05:27.000That's when 44% approved and 52% disapproved of his performance.
00:05:31.000And then Democrats decided it would be a great idea to shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly with an AR-15.
00:05:36.000And now President Trump has soared in the approval ratings.
00:05:39.000Democrats still do lead on the question of which party should control Congress.
00:05:43.000Among poll respondents identified as likely voters, 50% prefer Democrats, 41% prefer Republicans, which is about the same as it was in last month's poll.
00:05:53.000But the blue wave is now running into a riptide of uncertainty, according to certain pollsters, although Democrats are preferred in the national poll overall.
00:06:21.000Not quite as much, or at least Republicans are just as fired up as Democrats are in Ohio.
00:06:24.000In last month's poll, this is an amazing thing, in last month's poll, Democrats led by 13 percentage points among registered voters and six points among likely voters.
00:06:33.000Interest in the election has jumped among many groups that tend to favor Democrats, Latinos, African-Americans, young people.
00:06:38.000More than two-thirds of black voters showed high interest in the election.
00:06:41.000That's up from 57% in the average of polls taken from January through September.
00:06:47.000But you're also seeing a massive increase, a massive increase among white voters, among Republican voters, among older voters.
00:07:09.000It's not that men love Republicans and love President Trump because they hate women or anything like that.
00:07:14.000It's that President Trump is uniquely off-putting to many women, particularly suburban moms, and the Democrats are supremely off-putting to men.
00:07:23.000And this is why you're seeing the polls close.
00:07:25.000The gender gap that has actually opened up wide in the last month is not between women and kind of the normal electorate.
00:07:31.000It's between men and the normal electorate.
00:07:33.000Men are now favoring Republicans in heavy numbers.
00:07:35.000This poll found Democrats with a lopsided advantage among female voters.
00:07:38.000For the second month in a row, women in the survey say they prefer a Democrat-controlled Congress by 25 percentage points, 57 to 32, which is a massive gap.
00:07:47.000Male voters, however, want Republicans to lead Congress by a 14-point margin, 52% Republican, 38% Democrats.
00:07:55.000And competitive swing districts are mostly in suburban areas.
00:07:58.000Urban voters favor a Democratic-controlled Congress by a 36% margin.
00:08:02.000Rural voters favor the GOP by 31 points.
00:08:05.000Among suburban residents, the parties are virtually tied.
00:09:09.000It is not good for the country, and it is certainly not good for the Democratic Party, which seems to be embracing it in a way the Republican Party is not.
00:09:15.000Now, Nancy Pelosi was also confronted over the weekend, and protesters shouted at her.
00:09:19.000The difference is, high-level Republicans condemned that.
00:09:22.000High-level Democrats are not doing a great job of condemning what's going on here.
00:09:25.000Look at these protesters confront Cocaine Mitch and Elaine Chao.
00:09:28.000They're eating at a restaurant, and, I mean, frankly, they're just lucky that Cocaine Mitch didn't go ballistic on them and tell them to say hello to his little friend.
00:09:36.000I don't know why you'd want to go up against Cocaine Mitch and Elaine Chao.
00:09:39.000They will claw out your eyes and feed you to the ravens.
00:09:41.000But this is what these protesters decided to do.
00:09:57.000Okay, the way that you know this is Kentucky is the protesters show up and they start shouting at cocaine Mitch and all the patrons are like, get the hell out of here.
00:10:47.000They're trying to say that he's sort of like Barack Obama, except without half the charm or the racial appeal.
00:10:53.000But they're still trying to manufacture this kind of quasi-enthusiasm for Beto O'Rourke.
00:10:59.000There was a report from ABC News that really fawned over him last night.
00:11:02.000But the best stuff, the best stuff from these campaigns, and it was true for President Trump, and it's the thing I despise most about politics generally.
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00:13:09.000When I say folks have made fools of themselves for Beto O'Rourke, I remember back in 2008 when the Democrats actually had small children sing hymns to President Obama, then candidate Obama.
00:13:20.000Now Democrats have gone even beyond that.
00:14:16.000It's like all a bunch of old white people who can barely move.
00:14:18.000It looks like workout night at the local old age home.
00:14:21.000I mean, it looks like it does when you actually go down to the YMCA and you see the people who are 60 in the water doing physical therapy, except they're doing BETO for Senate.
00:14:30.000So that was strong, but that was not the strongest entry in the Beto worship hymnal.
00:14:35.000And the strongest entry comes courtesy of some crazy ladies who decided to cut the weirdest video I've seen in this election cycle.
00:16:09.000This is not actually a parody of Beto supporters from what I understand.
00:16:11.000So good stuff there from the Beto supporters, really demonstrating that they don't care too much about a guy driving over a median line, being super drunk and crashing into a truck and then fleeing.
00:16:21.000And also, I mean, I can see why they don't care that much about drunkenness, considering you would have to be drunk to think that was a good idea.
00:16:37.000My the woman who I've chosen to catcall on a routine basis, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the future congresswoman from Brooklyn.
00:16:46.000Over the weekend, again, you wonder why folks in the United States are not taking Democrats maybe as seriously as they should, because they don't deserve to be taken seriously.
00:16:54.000Here is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over the weekend saying that we should fight global warming the same way we fought the Nazis.
00:17:01.000Well, I don't see really how bombing the Germans is going to help, but
00:17:07.000I mean, I'm willing to try if she is, I guess.
00:17:13.000Here is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggesting that I guess we're supposed to, I don't know, invade Normandy to stop global warming or something?
00:17:22.000Here she is, the most intelligent advocate for her position the left can present these days, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:17:47.000When we talk about existential threats, we can stop her because it's very difficult to hear.
00:17:50.000Because when we talk about existential threats, the last time we had a really major existential threat to the country was around World War II.
00:18:39.000And what we did was we chose to mobilize our entire economy and industrialize our entire economy, and we put hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people to work in defending our shores and defending this country.
00:18:47.000We have to do the same thing in order to get us to 100% renewable energy, and that's just the truth of it.
00:18:52.000So we need to draft every male of military age, have them live in barracks for four years, ship them overseas, put women in the factories, and ration the butter.
00:19:31.000Even I, a libertarian on immigration, believe that we ought to have actual borders in the United States, meaning defensible borders.
00:19:37.000You don't just get to cross our borders because you want to cross our borders.
00:19:40.000A country without borders is not actually a country.
00:19:44.000This caravan issue is a serious issue.
00:19:46.000This is according to the Associated Press this morning.
00:20:08.000Listen, I have sympathy for folks who want to escape crappy places to come for a better life.
00:20:12.000That doesn't mean the United States has an obligation to take in anyone who wants to get in without any sort of vetting procedures or determination as to whether this person is going to help the country or not.
00:20:36.000We live in a different time than we did in 1907 when there was no vast welfare state for people to take advantage of, when the structure of the economy was substantially different.
00:20:45.000Again, I'm for free movement of labor, but you have to control your borders.
00:20:49.000She says, My goal is to find work for a better future for my daughters.
00:22:09.000And more importantly, you can make sure who it is at your front door before you open up.
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00:22:34.000So, President Trump has responded to this growing caravan of migrants that have left Latin America and are moving up through Mexico, Latin and Central America, and moving up through Mexico.
00:22:44.000He has responded, I think, properly by pointing out a couple of things.
00:22:50.000Two, the countries that are allowing them to do this are doing so with the intent of creating a pressure situation on our southern border.
00:22:56.000Why should we continue funding governments that are going to continue creating those situations?
00:23:00.000If the Honduran government is going to allow folks to simply walk over the border to Mexico with the intent of going to the United States, why exactly would we be funding that government?
00:23:09.000Same thing is true of the Mexican government.
00:23:11.000Same thing is true of the Salvadorian government.
00:23:13.000There is no reason for us to back governments that are going to create pressures on our southern border without actively working with us on the immigration issue.
00:24:06.000Maybe those are the laws he wants changed, but it is true that the Democratic Party has been using the immigration issue as a club against Republicans, suggesting that Republicans don't care about Latino folks because they want to defend America's borders.
00:24:18.000That argument isn't working very well, specifically because a lot of Latinos in the United States are also interested in living in a country with borders.
00:24:24.000They're not interested in living in a country where anyone can go and come as they see fit.
00:24:29.000One of the great lies of the media is that everyone agrees with an open borders agenda.
00:24:33.000Virtually no one in the United States actually agrees with an open borders agenda.
00:24:38.000And it's pretty obvious that there's an actual agenda to this caravan.
00:24:42.000Not only is it organized, it's organized for the cameras.
00:24:44.000The AP reports, hundreds of migrants applied for refugee status in Mexico in the southern city of Ciudad Hidalgo.
00:24:50.000By Sunday evening, the Interior Department reported it had received more than 1,000 requests, but most of them were not doing this.
00:24:56.000A far bigger group forded the Suchiat River from Guatemala to the Mexican side individually and dozens at a time and resumed the trek at first light, marching 10 abreast on the highway.
00:25:09.000Well, we don't have to let those people cross the border.
00:25:12.000Presumably some of those folks are from Mexico.
00:25:14.000They're not necessarily from countries to the south of Mexico.
00:25:16.000Their destination on Sunday was the city of Tapachula in the Chiapas state.
00:25:18.000Under a blazing sun, small groups of 20 to 30 paused to rest in the shade of trees on the side of the road.
00:25:36.000By afternoon, the caravan had evolved into long lines of walkers straggling for miles.
00:25:40.000Basically, what this looks very much like is the Middle Eastern migration that has swamped a lot of Europe.
00:25:47.000That's what this looks like, just visually.
00:25:49.000Now, the numbers are not the same, obviously, as you're seeing from immigration from North Africa and the Middle East into islands off the coast of Italy.
00:26:00.000It's a group of folks who are trying to escape a worse life and simply cross the border illegally into the United States.
00:26:05.000Again, the United States is a sovereign nation.
00:26:07.000We can't afford to simply take in everybody that we would want to take in.
00:26:11.000Out of economic necessity or out of some sort of sympathy for the folks crossing the border.
00:26:18.000You cannot have a country that is the strongest economy on planet Earth taking in thousands and thousands of people illegally without vetting them and without any sort of skill set.
00:26:25.000That does not make for a good economy.
00:26:27.000This is one of the reasons why it's so funny.
00:26:29.000Folks on the left, they love Norway, they love Denmark, they love Sweden.
00:26:32.000The immigration restrictionists have been winning in Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
00:26:36.000You cannot actually have a full-on socialist state in terms of redistribution of wealth when you have an underclass that is coming that does not have a skill set.
00:26:45.000One of the things about the Nordic countries, the Scandinavian countries, is that they've basically banned immigration.
00:26:53.000Well, the United States, the left in the United States wants it both ways.
00:26:56.000They want full-on open immigration at the same time that they want to raise social spending to heights never before seen in human history.
00:27:05.000And that's why President Trump, the Republicans are going to win on this issue.
00:27:09.000Even Lindsey Graham, who's a real dove on immigration, right?
00:27:11.000Lindsey Graham, famously one of the Gang of Eight, along with John McCain, a big fan of immigration reform.
00:27:16.000Even he said, listen, this is not something we can do.
00:27:19.000Nancy Pelosi would welcome these caravans.
00:27:20.000I don't know what happened to Lindsey Graham, whether he bumped his head or something, but Lindsey Graham 2.0, the reset, is really good.
00:27:26.000And here's Lindsey Graham, Senator from South Carolina, saying Nancy Pelosi will welcome these caravans.
00:27:31.000You want to be the country of people that run you up and down the hall and spit on you?
00:27:35.000Or do you want to be a country of Republicans who can actually deliver for working families out there, that will put good judges on the court, that will stand up to the enemies of this country?
00:27:48.000Nancy Pelosi will welcome the caravans here.
00:27:51.000Donald Trump and the rest of us will stop them.
00:27:55.000And that's not out of lack of sympathy.
00:27:57.000That's because a country that has a rule of law must abide by that rule of law.
00:28:01.000Democrats who continue to push this issue are going to lose.
00:28:03.000It's funny, because Democrats are so ensconced in their own bubbles.
00:28:07.000I mean, what polls show is that Democrats have far fewer Republican friends than Republicans have Democrat friends.
00:28:12.000Because Democrats who live in blue areas actually see Republicans as nasty, evil human beings, and so they won't even talk to them.
00:28:18.000They actually believe that it's a mainstream view that people should be able to flood into the country.
00:28:21.000They actually believe that it's a mainstream view that gender and sex are completely separate.
00:28:26.000And not only that, that if a man calls himself a woman, that that man is then a woman.
00:28:31.000The latest evidence of this, I mean, this is an amazing story, is the way the media are covering
00:28:36.000An attempt by the Department of Education to define what Title IX actually says.
00:28:41.000So here's the headline from the New York Times today.
00:28:43.000It says, Now when you read that headline, what does that sound like to you?
00:28:51.000It sounds like the Trump administration is saying there are no such thing as transgender people or people who suffer from gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder.
00:28:59.000That's what it would sound like from that headline.
00:29:03.000No, that's not what's actually happening because that's idiotic.
00:29:06.000Nobody is saying there aren't people who are transgender.
00:29:09.000What the Trump administration is saying is that under the law, laws that have to do with sex discrimination are specifically focused on biological sex.
00:29:17.000They're not focused on you thinking you are a member of a different sex.
00:29:20.000So when the Civil Rights Act was written and it included language about men and women and sex discrimination, it did not mean that it is sex discrimination for you to say that a man who shows up in a classroom, a fifth grade classroom, dressed as a woman
00:29:55.000The media is so dishonest with regard to how they cover transgender issues because they refuse to even acknowledge the fact that there is such a thing as biological sex.
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00:33:25.000Quote, the Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as biological immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth.
00:33:33.000The most drastic move yet in a government-wide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.
00:33:40.000Well, because gender is biological and immutable and it is delivered at birth.
00:33:45.000Now, what the left has said is they've redefined the terms.
00:33:48.000One of the great areas of confusion in the transgender debate is what the hell everyone's talking about.
00:33:54.000Because sometimes when people on the left say gender, what they mean is expressed feminine or masculine qualities, and sometimes what they mean is actual sex.
00:34:01.000And it is impossible to tell which unless they actually specify, and then they shift the definition based on what they want their point to be.
00:34:07.000So if you say, okay, I accept that there's such a thing as an effeminate man, because there are men who are effeminate.
00:34:28.000Here's the problem with defining gender as the expression of effeminacy or masculinity.
00:34:33.000This means that there are literally 6.8 billion genders, 7.3 billion genders.
00:34:38.000However many people there are on the planet, that's how many genders there are because we each have an individual amount of effeminate or masculine characteristics.
00:34:46.000We all have individual amounts of masculinity, of testosterone and estrogen.
00:34:54.000So if you're going to say that there are only that the left is really the one making the case there are only two genders.
00:34:59.000They're saying that if you're a feminine man, you're actually a woman.
00:35:01.000And if you're a masculine woman, you're actually a man.
00:35:03.000If you want to define gender as just expressed characteristics of femininity or masculinity, there are 7.3 billion genders on planet Earth, which means it's meaningless.
00:35:42.000If they simply want to say people should be treated well, I'm with you.
00:35:45.000If they want to say that I have to pretend that a man who says he is a woman is a woman, that Caitlyn Jenner is just as much a woman as my wife, give me a freaking break.
00:35:53.000And everyone with half a brain on planet Earth knows this.
00:35:56.000But here's what the New York Times says.
00:35:58.000First of all, sex assigned at birth is the dumbest term in the world.
00:36:01.000If you want to say gender assigned at birth, at least now you're being consistent with the terminology.
00:36:06.000But even in that sentence, you can see the terminology shifting, right?
00:36:09.000There's gender and then there's sex assigned at birth.
00:37:48.000Okay, what's the bad thing the Trump administration did?
00:37:51.000Now the Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an effort to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans gender discrimination in education programs that will receive government financial assistance, according to a memo obtained by the New York Times.
00:38:05.000The department argues in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective, and administratable.
00:38:18.000The agency's proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals a person is born with, according to a draft reviewed by the Times.
00:38:26.000Any dispute about one's sex would have to be clarified using genetic testing.
00:38:30.000How in the world is that not just basic rationality?
00:38:32.000If you claim you're a woman, I should be able to objectively tell whether you are a woman or not.
00:38:56.000So you wonder why the right doesn't trust the media?
00:38:58.000You wonder why people are resonating to the right?
00:39:00.000It's because the left insists that we absolutely frontally lobotomize ourselves on basic concepts like what is a woman and what is a man?
00:39:08.000And we're supposed to pretend it's a great evil when the Trump administration says gender discrimination means discriminating against women, not discriminating against men who believe they are women.
00:40:17.000And so to redefine, so they're doing a twice switch here.
00:40:21.000They're doing a linguistic and legal twice switch here.
00:40:23.000What they're saying is, number one, that provision of Title IX doesn't refer to sex, it refers to gender.
00:40:30.000And gender is just expressed feminine or masculine characteristics.
00:40:33.000Then they are saying that by gender, we actually mean sex.
00:40:37.000So a woman who says she is a man is actually a man.
00:40:42.000So just to get this straight, Title IX, which was designed to protect women from male discrimination, now is designed to protect men who believe they are women from discrimination on the basis of discrimination against women.
00:41:08.000What this is saying is there needs to be an objective measure of male or female before we can determine whether someone is being discriminated against on the basis of their sex, as opposed to the basis of their behavior.
00:41:17.000Now, you can still outlaw discrimination on the basis of behavior.
00:41:21.000If you really think this is an important thing, why don't you just try to pass a law?
00:41:24.000This is why the left won't actually do what they want to do.
00:41:28.000If the left actually did what they say they want to do, what they would do is they would pass an anti-discrimination law that would say no school can fire any man who shows up dressed as a woman at work.
00:41:48.000But instead, because the left wants to hijack the law, this is what the Obama administration did, they're forcibly rewriting regulations in order to carve the heart out of laws and interpret them in exactly the reverse of what they were meant to be.
00:42:01.000If the left can't win elections, they'll do it through regulation.
00:42:03.000They did the same thing with regard to carbon emissions.
00:42:05.000They tried to use the Clean Air Act in order to regulate carbon emissions.
00:42:08.000There's nothing in the Clean Air Act that suggests carbon emissions can be regulated by the EPA.
00:42:16.000Win an election, and then pass legislation that you think the American people like, and then we can answer as to whether we think you're right or wrong.
00:42:22.000But they don't want to actually do that.
00:42:24.000Instead, they just want to sit outside and shout and scream.
00:42:48.000Men who believe they are women are not, in fact, women.
00:42:50.000And trying to define gender and sex as the same thing sometimes and define them as completely separate other times leads to linguistic and terminological confusion.
00:43:10.000He's a sociologist at the University of Utah.
00:43:12.000He's found that Americans who have only ever slept with their spouses are the most likely to report being in a very happy marriage.
00:43:17.000Meanwhile, the lowest odds of marital happiness, about 13 percentage points lower than a one-woman partner, belong to women, who have had six to ten sexual partners in their lives.
00:43:25.000For men, there's also a dip in marital satisfaction after one partner, but it's never low as it gets for women.
00:43:33.000Because marriage is a very good institution.
00:43:35.000And it turns out that when you reserve yourself for marriage and you make sex special and connected to a level of emotional and spiritual intimacy, you're likelier to lead a happier life.
00:43:45.000I speak as someone who has led this life.
00:44:02.000Act morally, you will live a happier life.
00:44:04.000Attach yourself to one human being, and recognize that sex is more than just getting your rocks off.
00:44:09.000You will lead a happier life, and by the way, your sex life will be happier too.
00:44:14.000All of this should have been obvious, but we as a civilization have decided to discard the obvious in favor of the attractive, and that, of course, is a huge mistake.
00:44:21.000Okay, time for a couple of things I like, and then some things I hate, and we'll do a Federalist paper.
00:45:36.000Okay, so in any case, one of the books that Drew recommended, and it was a quick and easy read, is the book Submission by Michel Wielbeck, which I'm obviously mispronouncing.
00:45:49.000This book was a massive bestseller in France.
00:46:04.000It's not right-wing for the reason that a lot of people think it is.
00:46:06.000The basic plot line is that the Muslim population in France has grown to such an extent that the Muslim Brotherhood has a party in France that wins 21% of the vote.
00:46:14.000They get into a runoff with the National Front, led by Marine Le Pen, and they form a coalition with the Socialists in order to actually win the presidency of France.
00:46:22.000In the process, they decide to privatize a lot of the education system,
00:46:27.000And create an Islamic education system.
00:46:29.000The main character is a professor in that education system who basically has to decide whether to convert to Islam to maintain his job or not.
00:46:35.000Now, a lot of people have taken this as like, oh, it's an Islamophobic novel.
00:46:38.000It's talking about the evils of Islam.
00:46:40.000Now, it does talk at length about the evils of radical Islam.
00:46:44.000It talks about the fact that Islam is patriarchal and
00:46:48.000Okay's polygamy and is okay with the mistreatment of young women and all of the rest of it.
00:46:53.000But what the book is really about, more than any of that, is the emptiness of the West.
00:46:58.000How the West has completely, completely ripped away the heart of its own content.
00:47:02.000That the original appeal of the West was based on eternal truths and religious values, and those values have been completely subsumed under the rubric of an empty humanism that gives people no reason to actually live with meaning.
00:47:13.000Basically, we've said to ourselves that we can substitute hedonism, sex, a nice happy feeling about others for actual drive toward doing something worthwhile with your life.
00:47:25.000And so the main character in the novel basically goes around in this kind of empty post-Christian Europe, feeling like he's got nothing to keep him going and having promiscuous sex with as many people as he basically wants.
00:47:37.000And eventually he realizes that he's got nothing going for him.
00:47:41.000I don't want to give away the ending of the book.
00:47:42.000Suffice it to say that the book is really more a critique of Western Europe than it is of Islam.
00:47:46.000It's much more of a critique of what the Europeans have done to take away their reason for existing and that this is leading to the complete hollowing out of one of the great civilizations in world history.
00:48:21.000The nonfiction version of this book, not about Islam, but about the emptiness of what's happened in the West, is my book, which is coming out next year.
00:48:41.000Late last week, a couple of actresses decided that fairy tales were bad.
00:48:45.000Kristen Bell was probably, maybe, half-joking.
00:48:48.000But there was this talk by Kristen Bell and Keira Knightley that princesses don't need to be saved, we don't need to read stories to our daughters about princesses being saved.
00:49:35.000The idea that fairy tales are all about female submissiveness and men sexually abusing women is just ridiculous.
00:49:42.000So that didn't stop, of course, Amnesty International from suggesting that Sleeping Beauty and Snow White are completely evil because women have, it's Rapunzel, that's what I thought, that women have fallen into these spells and now they must be awakened with the kiss of true love.
00:51:06.000So apparently, so my favorite meme that came from this was somebody took the Sleeping Beauty, like the Disney Sleeping Beauty, and showed the prince bending in, leaning in to kiss the princess.
00:51:17.000And then he gets very close, and then he says, wait, she hasn't consented.
00:51:21.000And then the next picture is just of Skeleton Sleeping Beauty, because she's dead.
00:51:26.000The whole point of the fairy tale is that she dies if you don't kiss her.
00:51:29.000So if the question is, can you give someone CPR to wake them up without their consent?
00:51:36.000In life-saving situations, if you, like, was there any guy who actually saw the movie Sleeping Beauty and was like, oh man, now I'm gonna go to parties and rape chicks.
00:51:45.000Was there anyone who watched Snow White and they're like, oh, that was, did you see the hotness of that non-consent with all the dwarves sitting around?
00:52:49.000Okay, Bernie Sanders, the octogenarian crazy loon bag from Vermont, who spent most of his life being completely useless slash counterproductive, and now has emerged to be useless and counterproductive on a national scale.
00:53:02.000You know, and all of us who are parents, I've got four kids, seven grandchildren, the old kids, you know, we try to raise our
00:53:41.000I mean, he is just teaching our children all the wrong things.
00:53:48.000Unlike Bill Clinton, who received oral sex in the Oval Office.
00:53:51.000Unlike Ted Kennedy, who drove a woman into a river and let her die there.
00:54:41.000In this one, Madison continues to discuss separation of powers.
00:54:44.000In Federalist 47, he began that discussion.
00:54:46.000He asks how the branches can protect themselves against usurpations by the other branches of government.
00:54:50.000How can the executive protect itself against the legislature?
00:54:53.000How can the judiciary protect itself against both?
00:54:55.000He points out that he thinks that the real danger is legislative usurpation.
00:55:00.000This just demonstrates that the modern form of government that we have in the United States is very, very far from what we originally had.
00:55:07.000We did not have a regulatory state when the United States was first created.
00:55:10.000Madison was not greatly fearful of the executive branch usurping power or the judicial branch usurping power because he believed the legislature could simply defund the executive branch or restrict the jurisdiction of the judicial branch, both of which it has the power to do.
00:55:23.000But now, in today's government, it seems that in many cases, the legislative branch has become almost a vestigial organ of government, except when it comes to massive spending programs like Obamacare.
00:55:45.000It can, with greater facility, mask, under complicated and indirect measures, the encroachments which it makes on the coordinate departments.
00:55:52.000So in other words, because the legislature has more power, and is given more power under the Constitution, that gives it more ability to usurp power from the other branches.
00:56:00.000He argues that usurpations by the executive and judiciary are unlikely.
00:56:04.000Because he says, as the legislative department alone has access to the pockets of the people, and has in some constitutions full discretion,
00:56:11.000Now, there's one problem with the founding vision for how the government was supposed to balance itself.
00:56:32.000The main problem is the perception by the founders that the big problem was going to be ambition, right?
00:56:38.000What they said is the ambition was going to counteract ambition.
00:56:40.000This is also said in the Federalist Papers that the legislators were going to be ambitious.
00:56:44.000They weren't going to stand for the executive encroaching on their power.
00:56:46.000The executive was going to be ambitious.
00:56:48.000The executive wasn't going to stand for encroachments on his or her power.
00:57:21.000Because if you pass a law that says, I want the executive branch to do good stuff, and then the executive branch gets to fill in all the blanks, and the executive branch fills in bad stuff, you say, hey, that's not what I passed.
00:57:31.000I said I wanted them to do good stuff.
00:57:33.000You see this with environmental legislation.
00:57:35.000Environmental legislation is very often not detailed enough.
00:57:39.000The EPA does tens of thousands of pages of regulations, and then Congress runs against the regulations it gave the EPA the authority to pass.
00:57:46.000The regulatory state completely undercuts the bargain between the branches.
00:57:50.000The same thing is true of the judiciary.
00:57:52.000In other words, what we need is a legislature that attempts to grab back its power, whether we're talking in the context of war powers or in the context of environmental regulation.
00:58:00.000Across the board, the legislature was designed to be the first among equals, not the president and not the judiciary.
00:58:05.000OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with more updates on the migrant caravan and all the rest.