The New York Times' newest editorial hire has a controversial history, a woman writes about why she wishes she had aborted her Down Syndrome child, and Barack Obama stabs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez directly between the shoulder blades.
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00:01:47.000Okay, so, in breaking news, the New York Times has decided that they are going to hire a woman named Sarah Zhang to join their editorial board.
00:01:58.000Now, why is this relevant to your life?
00:02:00.000The reason this is relevant to your life is because Zhang previously wrote for a publication called The Verge and authored The Internet of Garbage, which is a book about online harassment and free speech.
00:02:09.000The problem for Sarah Zhang is that people actually went through her old tweets, and some of the things that she has tweeted in the past are not particularly great.
00:02:15.000She has tweeted things like this, quote,
00:02:17.000Dumbass effing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.
00:02:24.000Not supremely long ago, but a few years ago.
00:02:27.000Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?
00:02:51.000You can threaten anyone on the internet except cops.
00:02:54.000I just realized, these are all old tweets of hers, and she was hired.
00:02:56.000I'm sure the New York Times, if they didn't do a background check on the person they hired over at the New York Times, then they were entirely remiss.
00:03:02.000They say, I just realized why I can't stand watching Breaking Bad or Battlestar Galactica.
00:03:06.000The premise of both is just white people being miserable.
00:03:09.000And she also tweeted, white people have stopped breeding.
00:03:14.000So she seems like a real delight, this Sarah Zhang person.
00:03:18.000I have been told that she is basically one of the more brilliant people out there and that these tweets are not indicative of her prior work, which I'm willing to hear.
00:03:28.000But by the rules of the left, this person should now be excised from polite society because that's how the rules work on the left, right?
00:03:33.000The way that this works is that if they unearth an old tweet, if somebody unearths an old tweet that nobody likes, then we finish your career.
00:03:39.000We yell at you and we scream at you until you stop being able to write for a major publication like the New York Times.
00:03:44.000Now, should she apologize for those tweets?
00:03:48.000Is it indicative of the mentality of the New York Times they think it is appropriate to hire somebody like this?
00:03:53.000It is indicative of that mentality because the fact is that if anybody who is white wrote this about anybody of any other race, Sarah Chung is Asian, if somebody who's white wrote this about a black
00:04:24.000The way this works on Twitter is that if we find something we don't like about you in your past, then we absolutely destroy your career.
00:04:31.000Again, it is indicative of the New York Times' belief system that they are pretty much fine with going after, with their columnist saying stuff like this.
00:04:40.000Because again, if this were anybody on the other side of the aisle, you can bet money.
00:05:07.000But it is, again, telling that the same folks on the left who suggest that you are out of the realm of polite discourse, so long as they deem it so, are perfectly willing to welcome into the realm of polite discourse people like Sarah Zhang, who I assume is not even remotely as bad as people like Al Sharpton, who has been legitimately a race-baiting
00:05:35.000I was talking with a friend of mine earlier today who happens to be on the left.
00:05:40.000She's a liberal and she also happens to be black and also happens to be a lesbian.
00:05:44.000So she checks off a lot of the intersectional boxes that a lot of folks on the left really seem to care a lot about.
00:05:49.000We were talking about intersectional politics and she was contending that America is basically run on intersectional politics.
00:05:55.000That identity politics, politics where we care about your race, your sex, your ethnicity, your orientation.
00:06:02.000That these politics have always driven the United States.
00:06:04.000And what I was arguing is one of the problems that we're seeing right now is that if you look at the history of the United States in terms of how intersectional politics has worked, you know, race politics, identity politics, it is fair to say that racial and identity politics have declined markedly since, for example, the 1960s.
00:06:20.000But if you were to create a scale of 1 to 100 of identity politics, what you would probably say is that at the very beginning of the Republic,
00:06:28.000It was at 100 because there were actually black slaves and people arguing that black people ought to be slaves.
00:06:33.000It's about as racist as it could possibly be.
00:06:35.000Then after the Civil War, it drops to about a 70 on the scale of 100 because black people are no longer slaves, but we are going to suggest that they are inferior if you are the dominant American society.
00:06:44.000And you're going to excise Asians, and you're going to excise Latinos, and all the rest of it.
00:06:47.000And then, over the course of the next hundred years, it drops to perhaps 60, all the way up to the end of Jim Crow, and then it plummets precipitously to the point that when I was growing up, and I'm 34 years old, when I was growing up, the worst thing you could call somebody in America was not a racial slur, it was a racist.
00:07:02.000If you want to destroy somebody's life, if you want to make them feel awful, you call them a racist.
00:07:06.000Racist became the slur du jour because everybody understood that racism was a bad.
00:07:11.000Like the idea of talking to people my age and saying to them that certain people are genetically inferior because of the color of their skin, it doesn't even compute.
00:07:17.000It doesn't make any sense to people who are below the age of 40 in the United States because we've grown up in the post-Jim Crow era and we find all of that stuff abhorrent.
00:07:27.000But now, intersectionality is recovering because the argument the left has made is that America was historically based on the notion of white supremacy.
00:07:35.000It was historically based on racism from white people.
00:07:38.000And now, intersectional groups must have their revenge.
00:07:41.000Now we have to have a reverse identity politics where whatever you say about white people is totally okay.
00:07:47.000Racism can only come from dominant groups.
00:07:49.000It can't come from put-upon minority groups.
00:07:51.000This is an argument that's made by a lot of folks on the left.
00:07:54.000A really serious argument made by a lot of folks on the left, that if you see Sarah Zhang, an Asian, saying racist things about white people, it's not actually racist, because Sarah Zhang is an Asian, and Asians have historically been put upon in the United States, even though Asian households have the highest household earning capacity of any households in the United States.
00:08:11.000White Americans, for example, earn 76 cents on every dollar that Asians earn in the United States if you just average out the salaries, but the intersectional idea goes that if you're Asian, you're a member of a minority group, therefore, if you are racist toward a white person, it's not actual racism.
00:08:24.000And white people are saying, wait a second, racism is racism.
00:08:27.000Now listen, I understand that virtually all politics is reactionary.
00:08:31.000I understand that we all react to one another and that there's a desire for turnabout as fair play.
00:08:36.000But if you want to get to a society that actually means something, then we all ought to be stomping against this sort of bigotry, no matter the source.
00:08:44.000The problem is that folks on the left have decided that white bigotry is bad, which is true, but they've decided that non-white bigotry is totally okay because it is non-white bigotry, therefore it is not bigotry because non-white people cannot be bigots.
00:08:56.000That's a very bad thing and it's contributing to a sense of destruction in America's politics in a pretty significant way.
00:09:03.000The intersectional politics that have dominated our proceedings over the last few years are really quite disgusting.
00:09:10.000Now speaking of disgusting, I want to talk about a piece over at the UK Daily Mail because I think it is again indicative of a mentality on the left.
00:09:17.000So we're going to talk about a couple of ideas today about where the left is going.
00:09:21.000So the left is moving in a couple of different directions.
00:09:23.000So, direction number one, the left is moving, is in this intersectional direction where race matters more than anything else, and certain races are more valuable than other races, and we can determine whether your opinion is good or decent or valuable or worth listening to based on the color of your skin or the formation of your bone structure.
00:09:40.000We can tell all of that just by looking at you, whether we ought to give you a listen or not.
00:09:43.000That's point number one in the left's new agenda.
00:09:45.000Point number two in the left's new agenda is that all moral standards are subservient to your suffering.
00:09:51.000That we ought to give you leeway because you've had a hard life.
00:09:55.000This has been part of leftist trope since forever, basically.
00:09:58.000I mean, even if you go back and you listen to West Side Story, the song G Officer Krupke is based on mocking this trope.
00:10:04.000That people who are juvenile delinquents are only juvenile delinquents because they've been put upon.
00:10:08.000In reality, people are juvenile delinquents very often because they make a choice that is a really bad choice and decide to be bad people.
00:10:15.000Well, the left has decided they're going to double down on the idea that you're allowed to do bad things so long as those bad things make you feel good.
00:10:22.000That's what this article is in the UK Daily Mail.
00:10:24.000It's an article by a woman named Julianne Ralph.
00:10:26.000She's a 69-year-old mother of a 47-year-old son.
00:11:30.000Because while I do love my son and am fiercely protective of him, I know our lives would have been happier and far less complicated if he had never been born.
00:11:39.000If he had not been born, I'd probably have gone on to have another baby.
00:11:41.000We would have had a normal family life, and Andrew would have had the comfort rather than the responsibility of a sibling after we're gone.
00:11:47.000Instead, Steven, who struggles to speak and function in the modern world, has brought a great deal of stress and heartache into our lives, and this is why I want to speak in support of the 92% of women who choose to abort their babies after discovering they have Down syndrome.
00:11:59.000Okay, so the second point in the Democratic platform, first point is intersectionality.
00:12:03.000Second point is this idea that subjective pain allows you to perform objectively sinful activities.
00:12:09.000We'll talk about that in just a second.
00:12:10.000First, let's talk about your impending doom.
00:13:24.000So, if you're somebody who's had to suffer with having to deal with a Down syndrome child, you should go out there and you should talk openly about the fact that you wish you'd killed that person before birth.
00:13:34.000Now, never mind that's deeply immoral.
00:13:36.000Never mind that having children is always a sacrifice.
00:13:40.000In my case, it's also a joy because I, thank God, have two healthy children, even though, you know, there are hard times, including, you know, we've had to have open-heart surgery on our daughter.
00:13:49.000That doesn't mean that pain is a good excuse for obliterating another human life.
00:13:54.000How many people who are 60 years old have an 80 year old parent who is suffering in the throes of dementia?
00:14:01.000Does that mean that it's moral to stick a pin in their arm?
00:14:03.000Stick a needle in their arm and just put them down?
00:14:08.000When somebody is causing you insane amounts of pain, is it okay to go murder them?
00:14:11.000When that person is causing you grief and pain and difficulty, is it okay for you to actually go and kill that person?
00:14:15.000Of course the answer is no, but in the democratic agenda, it really is that our level of sympathy is supposed to trump objective morality and the value of human life.
00:14:25.000So that's prong number two in the democratic platform.
00:14:27.000All of this is is peculiarly self-centered.
00:14:30.000That if you're a particular race, you get to be as vengeful as you want about another race, so long as you're not white.
00:14:34.000And that if you are suffering from anything in your life, you get to obliterate that thing, so long as Democrats say it's okay for you to obliterate that thing.
00:14:41.000And that brings us to the third prong of the Democratic platform, and that is the economic plan.
00:14:46.000The economic plan, of course, is Democratic Socialism.
00:14:48.000So let's talk about Democratic Socialism.
00:14:50.000Obviously, this is rising inside the Democratic Party.
00:14:52.000There's this great battle going on right now inside the Democratic Party for the future of that party.
00:14:59.000They're sort of the gradualists, and then there are the extremists.
00:15:01.000The gradualists are people like Barack Obama, believe it or not, and Hillary Clinton.
00:15:05.000People who believe that you can't go full-scale socialist without alienating the American people and disrupting the system.
00:15:10.000So you have to take it one step at a time.
00:15:11.000We'll move toward more and more socialism, more and more restributionism, in short order.
00:15:16.000And then there are the people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:15:54.000I'm confident that together, we'll strengthen the country we love by restoring opportunity, repairing our alliances, and standing in the world, and upholding our fundamental commitment to justice, fairness, responsibility, and the rule of law.
00:16:09.000Well, he endorsed Gavin Newsom in California, who is, to put it kindly, a poop tornado.
00:16:14.000Jared Palos in Colorado, Stacey Abrams in Georgia, J.B.
00:16:17.000Pritzker in Illinois, and Richard Cordray in Ohio.
00:16:20.000He also endorsed a bunch of people in the House, but he did not endorse Beto O'Rourke in Texas, for example.
00:16:25.000He also did not endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:16:28.000Now, the reason that he didn't endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is because he doesn't want to endorse the most radical candidates he can find.
00:16:34.000He doesn't want to give that side of the party impetus running up to the 2020 election.
00:16:38.000Obama's a smart enough politician to know that if Democrats want to win in 2020, they have to present a candidate who is not seen as too extreme by the American people.
00:16:46.000The Democratic Party, however, is running full scale toward embrace of democratic socialism.
00:16:50.000So, obviously, they've decided to make their face Ms.
00:16:52.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who, by the way, it's really bizarre that she's being treated as this rising star in the Democratic Party.
00:16:59.000She ousted Joe Crowley, who is a Democrat in her district and was this sort of well-known 10-term Democrat in New York.
00:17:07.000The district is 50% Latino or 50% Hispanic.
00:17:26.000And this makes her the new face of the Democratic Party because she's 29 years old and because she's kind of pretty and because she has a certain level of charisma and enthusiasm even though she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about.
00:17:36.000But the problem is that the democratic platform of democratic socialism is too extreme for the American people as well it should be.
00:17:42.000But now it's being treated as mainstream.
00:17:43.000And so there's a bevy of articles over the past several weeks about democratic socialism, its rise, why this is the future of the Democratic Party.
00:17:50.000And there's a lot of talk in 2016 about how Trumpism was taking over the Republican Party.
00:17:54.000And there were a lot of attempts to say what Trumpism was.
00:18:00.000Was Trumpism about subsidies to blue-collar white areas?
00:18:03.000Was Trumpism about protectionism and closing the border?
00:18:06.000It turns out that Trumpism was basically just about Trump, right?
00:18:08.000Trumpism was about people liked that President Trump is a puncher, people like the President Trump is aggressive.
00:18:13.000There's a wide variety of perspectives about his policies, but there's not a lot of variety about people in the Republican Party liking Trump personally, which is why he has such diehard loyalty among his base.
00:18:26.000But for the Democrats, there really is an ideological takeover of this party that has happened since 2010.
00:18:31.000The Republican Party has not moved in ideology since 2010, which is why Trump is now implementing policies that would be exactly the same in a Rubio administration, or a Cruz administration, or even a Jeb Bush administration, except for maybe on immigration.
00:18:42.000But when it comes to the Democratic Party, their actual policies have moved hardcore to the left.
00:18:47.000This is what Obama is recognizing, is that the Democratic Party has moved to the left.
00:18:50.000So again, their new three prongs are intersectionality, complete subjectivism when it comes to personal activity, even activity that affects others, and finally, and most importantly, an embrace of democratic socialism.
00:19:02.000And this embrace of democratic socialism is the one that's going to absolutely destroy them.
00:19:05.000Intersectionality alienates the middle of the country.
00:19:09.000The subjectivity alienates religious voters, and democratic socialism alienates anyone with half a brain.
00:19:16.000Because democratic socialism does not, in fact, work.
00:19:18.000Now, in a second, I want to go through some of the myths that surround democratic socialism, because there's this new kind of narrative that's being put out by a bunch of folks on the left, that democratic socialism is different than socialism, that we ought to take it very seriously, that if you look at the United States, what really is missing is this sense of redistributionist justice, this social justice that we need to bring about.
00:19:39.000We need to rectify income inequality by moving toward a more equitably distributed resource base.
00:20:10.000So democratic socialism is the idea that it's going to be socialism, but we're going to vote for it, and therefore it's not really socialism.
00:20:18.000Well, that's not what socialism means.
00:20:19.000Socialism is just about the idea, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need, as ensured by nationalization and centralization of government resources and nationalization of industry.
00:20:33.000Socialist economies abolish private property and nationalize industry in order to redistribute.
00:20:36.000It's important to differentiate these two things.
00:20:39.000So, for example, if you have a socialist welfare policy that takes money from some and gives to others, that is a socialist welfare policy.
00:20:46.000It does not mean you live in a socialist country.
00:20:48.000The United States is a capitalist country with socialist programs, right?
00:20:52.000So Medicare is a socialist program of redistribution.
00:20:54.000Social Security is a socialist program of redistribution.
00:20:57.000We lie about it and we say that it's you putting the money in and getting it back out, but it's actually a socialist redistribution program.
00:21:02.000Socialist redistribution programs are socialist.
00:21:05.000It doesn't make the entire country a socialist country.
00:21:08.000It makes it a capitalist country with a solid welfare base.
00:21:11.000Which is still not ideal, but we have to be clear about what we are talking about.
00:21:14.000Nationalized healthcare is socialized medicine, but Canada is not a socialist country.
00:21:19.000Canada is in fact a capitalist country with socialized medicine.
00:21:22.000It's an important distinction, we need to be clear about that.
00:21:24.000And when democratic socialists say that democratic socialism is different from socialism,
00:21:46.000Well, what you're going to do is you're going to go out and you're going to vote for the government to take over those industries and basically regulate them into the dust.
00:21:54.000Just because you voted for the use of force doesn't mean that the use of force is not being applied.
00:21:58.000If Colton and I decide that we want to rob somebody else in this room until we vote on it, then, yeah, you.
00:22:03.000If we decide that we're going to rob this young lady right here, then that's still theft, right?
00:22:09.000Even if we vote on it, that's use of force and that's theft, because I assume she's not going to willingly give me her wallet, and she shouldn't, because it's not my money.
00:22:16.000Okay, so, the idea that democratic socialism is not force is, of course, very silly,
00:22:21.000And socialism always tends to degrade into force because what happens if the people don't want socialism?
00:22:25.000What happens if the people vote against democratic socialism?
00:22:28.000What happens if they vote against industrialization, nationalization of industry, and quote-unquote democratization of industry?
00:22:37.000Well, if they vote against that stuff, then it must be because they are emissaries of the evil capitalist system that bred them, and so we must gulag them.
00:22:43.000We must send them out for re-education to the gulags, or we must liquidate the dissenters.
00:22:48.000Third myth that is pervaded by these pushers of democratic socialism is that socialism is fairer.
00:22:56.000Yeah, I'm going to talk about that in just a second.
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00:24:27.000Fairness rests on the basic idea that you get what you deserve.
00:24:30.000This is why, it's really fascinating, there are all these social science studies that demonstrate that people will go out of their way, they will harm themselves in order to punish people who they feel are cheating.
00:24:39.000So if you play, there are all these really interesting studies where
00:24:43.000They'll put a group of people in the room and you have a choice as to whether you want to sacrifice some of your own money to punish somebody else in the room or whether you want to keep your own money or whether you want to grab somebody else's money.
00:24:53.000And people who grab other people's money
00:24:55.000Are immediately hit with people who will spend their own money in order to punish those people.
00:24:58.000Human beings have an innate sense that it is wrong to take other people's money without proper justification and without any right to that money.
00:25:06.000Socialism seeks to destroy consequences for actions.
00:25:09.000Charity is based on the idea that we ought to help people in need.
00:25:12.000Socialism is based on the principle that need creates additional rights.
00:26:28.000Once you get to know the real me, you'll understand that I pay for the best dinners in town.
00:26:32.000If you believe that guy, you're an idiot.
00:26:33.000And if you believe socialists who say that USSR, Venezuela, and Cuba are not socialists, you are also, similarly, an idiot.
00:26:39.000And the fact is that all of these countries are stated Marxist countries, they all ended the same way, because when you take socialism to its ultimate extreme, which is nationalization of all industry, and shutdowns of private industry, through use of government force, you end up in a pretty awful place, pretty quickly.
00:26:53.000Which brings us to the fifth claim that democratic socialists make.
00:26:56.000And this is the claim that they are using most often right now.
00:27:00.000That is the claim that socialism is what makes Nordic countries awesome.
00:27:03.000So what they will say, you'll hear Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren all say that when they say socialism, what they really mean is Norway.
00:27:10.000They don't mean Venezuela, they mean Norway.
00:27:12.000They don't mean Cuba, they mean Denmark.
00:27:29.000Denmark is a freer economy than the United States.
00:27:31.000It has higher tax rates, that's the redistributionist part, but in terms of business regulation, in terms of capacity to attract foreign investment with free markets,
00:27:40.000Denmark is significantly more free than the United States.
00:27:43.000In fact, in 2015, Denmark's Prime Minister explained, quote,
00:28:24.000Socialism simply takes all that wealth and redistributes it, shutting down industry in the process.
00:28:29.000And here's the proof that all of these countries were doing well long before they had socialism.
00:28:34.000The proof is that, by statistics, this is the case.
00:28:37.000Number one, by statistics, this is the case.
00:28:39.000Number two, if you take all these people from Denmark, from Norway, from Sweden, and you actually transplant them to the United States, they have higher incomes in the United States than they do in all of these other places.
00:28:47.000They actually earn more, and they do better economically.
00:28:49.000So the idea that socialism is what creates awesomeness in these cultures is not right.
00:28:53.000Okay, culture created awesomeness in these cultures and then socialism was a follow-on that has actually tamped down the economy in these various countries.
00:29:00.000When you take that culture and you transplant it to a free country like the United States where tax rates are lower, then all these cultures thrive in the United States as well.
00:29:08.000Now, Nordic countries do have high levels of social services because they charge exorbitant taxes.
00:29:12.000Denmark has a 60.3% tax rate plus a 25% national sales tax.
00:29:16.000Which is why everything costs an arm and a leg in Denmark.
00:29:18.000Between 2007 and 2015, not surprisingly, Denmark experienced a 5.5% decline in real GDP.
00:29:26.000Which is comparable to the decline in growth in Spain, which essentially went bankrupt during the same period.
00:29:32.000The natural result was the election of a center-right coalition in Denmark.
00:29:35.000Sweden, another supposed socialist paradise, grew because of capitalism.
00:29:39.000According to an economic scholar named Nima Zananjanji, who is from Norway, between 1870 and 1936, Sweden enjoyed the highest growth rate in the industrialized world.
00:29:47.000Between 1936 and 2008, the growth rate dropped to 13th out of 28 industrialized nations.
00:29:52.000Between 1975 and the mid-1990s, Sweden dropped from being the 4th richest nation in the world to the 13th richest nation in the world.
00:29:58.000And that is a direct result of restrictions on the economy and redistributionist programs.
00:30:02.000Norway, which is the left favorite country these days, they moved on from Denmark and Sweden because both of those places have elected right-wing governments now.
00:30:09.000Norway is propped up by an enormous, enormous oil find off their coast.
00:30:15.000And even their nationalized oil companies, which are now used to prop up their social welfare programs, those companies run along private lines in that the government basically is a major stockholder in these companies.
00:30:26.000But it's not just government appointees who run the companies.
00:30:29.000It's people who are supposed to run these along profit lines.
00:30:31.000The government is not actually allowed to intervene in policy in serious ways in the Norwegian oil industry.
00:30:37.000It's also worth noting that in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the top 10% of wealth owners hold between 65 and 69% of all wealth in those countries.
00:30:43.000That's actually not that much lower than in the United States.
00:30:50.000All of these countries were significantly more robust economically before they started with their socialist nonsense.
00:30:57.000And the idea that high life expectancy in Scandinavia is an outgrowth of socialism is not true.
00:31:02.000In 1960, Norway had the highest life expectancy in the OECD, followed by Sweden, Iceland, and Denmark.
00:31:08.000By 2005, the gap between Scandinavian countries and the UK and the US had actually shrunk considerably.
00:31:13.000That's after the implementation of socialism in a lot of these countries.
00:31:17.000Also worth noting, you can't just take the socialist programs of Norway, which may work for a country of 5.3 million people, and apply them to the United States, where there is not the same level of cultural cohesion, cultural homogeneity, and a history of exactly that sort of cohesion and homogeneity.
00:31:33.000The population of LA County alone is double the population of Norway.
00:31:36.000You can't just take a program that works for five people and apply it to five million and expect it to work exactly the same way.
00:31:41.000Okay, in just a second, I'm going to get to the last couple of myths about democratic socialism being pushed by the left.
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00:33:03.000And one of the reasons that the health insurance system sucks in the United States is because of employer-based insurance programs, which were crammed down by the government in the 1950s.
00:33:11.000Basically, in the 1950s, we had wage controls.
00:33:14.000And in order to edge around those wage controls to give people raises, companies started paying for their employees' health insurance.
00:33:20.000But there's no reason that your health insurance should be tied to your job.
00:33:23.000Really, you should just be paying for your health insurance yourself.
00:33:25.000That's what happens in Switzerland, which is probably the world's most successful healthcare system.
00:33:29.000The way that Switzerland works is that you are mandated, just like Obamacare, you are mandated on an individual level to buy your health insurance, but there's no employer-based insurance in Switzerland.
00:33:38.000They penalize you pretty heavily if you don't buy health insurance.
00:33:40.000If you don't buy health insurance and then you get sick, and then you go in for care, then they will force you not only to pay a surcharge of like 50% on your health insurance bill, they will also back charge you for all the health insurance you should have been paying for the last several years.
00:33:53.000Switzerland has a very, very robust program in force to force people to buy their own health insurance.
00:34:00.000It is also worth noting that all of these other countries that supposedly have wonderful health care systems have their drawbacks as well.
00:34:07.000Canada, of course, has very long wait lines.
00:34:11.000In Australia, a large percentage of the population buy supplemental health insurance on the private market.
00:34:15.000So it's not just a matter of a universal health care system in Australia.
00:34:18.000And they are facing some significant financial issues because of the aging of the population.
00:34:23.000When people talk socialized medicine as the be-all end-all, they're also forgetting that virtually all medical advances in the industrialized world are coming out of the United States.
00:34:31.000is responsible for 44% of all new molecular entities, which would be the drugs that you actually take, and that those numbers would be a lot higher if not for government regulation from the FDA.
00:34:41.000We also drive medical innovation in other countries.
00:34:42.000The truth is that the American healthcare market, where people are able to charge what these drugs are worth, actually subsidizes the rest of the world.
00:34:49.000When Canada collectively bargains with a drug company to provide them a certain number of drugs, they're able to do that because the United States is paying a higher price.
00:34:57.000Because we are paying a higher price in the private market for all of that.
00:35:01.000So, they're exploiting, all these drug companies are basically exploiting the private market, and then making deals on the back end with all these socialized medicine systems.
00:35:08.000If the United States went socialized medicine, the prices would skyrocket for everyone on drugs, because nobody would be subsidizing this stuff anymore.
00:36:08.000And the fact that it's even being considered by the Democrats demonstrates how far left they have moved right now.
00:36:14.000Now, in just a second, I want to talk about the latest with regard to President Trump and witch hunts and Paul Manafort and all the rest.
00:36:22.000There's a lot to talk about there, but final note when it comes to the Democrats' kind of socialist platform here.
00:36:29.000The final note is that the only thing that will allow Americans to vote for a platform this radical, an intersectionality-based, subjective morality-based, democratic socialism-based platform, is if the Republican Party just sucks at things.
00:36:53.000About the value of serious morality that has consequences for your daily life.
00:36:58.000About the idea of hard work and achievement and meritocracy.
00:37:01.000If we blow that opportunity and hand it over to these idiots, if we blow that opportunity and hand it over to this radical program, that's a referendum on our inability to sell the greatest, honestly, the greatest system that has ever been devised by God or man.
00:37:15.000I mean, it's really an impressive failure on the part of conservatives if they can't sell this stuff.
00:37:21.000The president of the United States is once again going after Jeff Sessions.
00:37:25.000So on Wednesday, he called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end the special counsel inquiry into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
00:37:31.000He issued an unambiguous directive on Twitter to shut down an investigation that even now is scrutinizing his tweets for evidence of obstruction.
00:37:37.000So the left immediately has jumped to, this means that Trump is actually obstructing.
00:37:56.000He's the head of the executive branch.
00:37:57.000He didn't fire him, so this is indeed Trump mouthing off.
00:38:00.000With that said, is it smart for Trump to mouth off on this sort of stuff?
00:38:03.000No, it's not particularly smart of the president to mouth off on this kind of stuff.
00:38:07.000Like, for example, the president didn't just mouth off about the Mueller investigation, he also mouthed off about the Manafort trial.
00:38:13.000So Paul Manafort is his former campaign manager, ran the campaign for something like four months.
00:38:17.000I actually believe that Trump didn't really know who he was, because he was sort of an RNC insider who was appointed by the RNC to help Trump run his campaign, and then he was out as soon as bad stories started to break about Paul Manafort.
00:38:28.000Well, Manafort is now on trial for fraud, and Trump tweeted out that even Alphonse Capone was not treated with the sort of disdain with which they are treating Paul Manafort.
00:38:37.000Why is the president defending Paul Manafort?
00:38:38.000The Manafort trial has nothing to do with Russian collusion.
00:38:41.000The Manafort trial has nothing to do with the 2016 election.
00:38:44.000All of the charges being brought against Paul Manafort pre-exist the election cycle of 2016.
00:38:49.000Why the president wants to jump in here with both feet is absolutely beyond me.
00:38:53.000It doesn't make any sense, except I think he's just so angry at Mueller right now that he is willing to basically rip on anything Team Mueller does, which isn't a particularly good look.
00:39:02.000I'll also say, in Paul Manafort's defense, the prosecution has focused apparently an awful lot on the clothing that he bought with alleged Russian money.
00:39:11.000So, I mean, here's what the prosecution has presented evidence that Paul Manafort spent
00:40:24.000Now, here's the problem with all of this, obviously, for President Trump.
00:40:28.000The more President Trump focuses in on the Mueller investigation, the less we are talking about all of the great messages that conservatism has to provide.
00:40:34.000The less we are talking about the failures of the democratic program.
00:40:37.000The less we are talking about socialism versus capitalism.
00:40:40.000The less we are talking about inalienable rights versus government interventionism.
00:40:44.000If you're not talking about those things, then you are failing to paint the left for what they are.
00:40:48.000If you're talking instead about Robert Mueller is the worst, and Paul Manafort's innocent, it's just a distraction from the program that Republicans can sell right now, a great economy based on increase in capitalistic principles, reduction of regulation, and tax cuts.
00:41:03.000But the Republicans aren't making it right now at all, and that is deeply problematic in a number of ways.
00:41:09.000If President Trump wants to have a Republican Congress, he even cares about that, then it is incumbent on him to start talking about the issues that matter in a way that actually gets people jazzed up for the election and isn't just self-serving narcissism, you know, navel-gazing.
00:41:23.000Okay, so let's do a couple of things I like, and then we'll do a couple of things that I hate.
00:41:28.000While I was on the plane, I finally watched the movie Steve Jobs.
00:41:31.000Danny Boyle was the director, and I would say this is a thing I am lukewarm on.
00:41:35.000I wouldn't say this is a thing that I like.
00:41:37.000I will say Michael Fassbender is probably my favorite actor working today, or at least one of the top three.
00:41:42.000It's like Christian Bale, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Fassbender, I think, maybe?
00:43:04.000You see how this reminds you of a friendly face?
00:43:06.000So the entire movie is built basically around three set pieces, where Fassbender plays Jobs at sort of the launch of the original Mac, which is a failure, and then the launch of Next, which is also a failure, and then the launch of the iMac, which was a success in 1998.
00:44:02.000That number is 22% in Europe, 18% in Australia, and 6% in Great Britain.
00:44:07.000In other words, with great wealth comes less religiosity.
00:44:10.000In the United States, we're still a relatively religious country, and 55% of Americans report praying at least once daily.
00:44:16.000Vox.com, of course, thinks this is because we're stupid and backwards, and we're a bunch of bitter clingers who cling to our God and our guns.
00:44:21.000I think this is because America is freaking amazing.
00:44:25.000You know, one of the things that you learn when you study the Bible is that people don't stop worshipping God when bad things happen to them.
00:44:31.000This is one of the great lies of atheism, is that the reason people fall away from God is bad stuff happens to them and they look around at the universe and they say, why would a child suffer?
00:44:57.000Everything is pretty great, and it was created by a bunch of scientists who don't believe in God, so what the hell do I need this whole God thing for?
00:45:03.000The reason that religiosity is important, particularly in an industrialized, civilized society, is because that is what ties us to basic fundamental principles.
00:45:10.000And those basic fundamental principles are, in fact, the lines of thought that undergird Western civilization.
00:45:16.000You would not have that iPhone in your hand were it not for the Bible.
00:45:19.000You would not have that iPhone in your hand were it not for Greek reason combined with a biblical sense of morality because capitalism is based on certain principles.
00:45:27.000Those principles include inalienable rights in you.
00:45:34.000You as an individual are made in God's image and you are more important than any collective that is put together in order to crush your rights on behalf of some sort of communal priority.
00:45:45.000All of that is rooted in a certain fundamental biblical morality that is based, again, on the most important sentence, I think, in human history.
00:45:52.000The most important sentence in human history is not, in my opinion, treat thy neighbor as thyself, or love thy neighbor as thyself.
00:45:58.000It is not, do not unto others what you would have not have them do unto you.
00:46:01.000I think the most important sentence in human history is that man was made in God's image.
00:46:05.000That is the most, in, in, in, male and female, he created them.
00:46:08.000That, that image from Genesis is the most important
00:46:12.000Verse in the history of humanity and it is the beginning of all wisdom and the beginning of all human rights So I'm deeply grateful that America is is still the most religious country.
00:46:21.000It's the reason why we are the world leader Everybody else can basically climb on our backs because the reality is that this country with our backwardness and our religion and our church going Has been driving the global economy for NIA for well over a century for well over a century.
00:46:35.000Okay other things that I hate today, so
00:46:38.000The media are still in full-scale weeping mode for themselves.
00:46:42.000So Jim Acosta is still going on national TV whining about the fact that he went to a Trump rally and people yelled at him.
00:46:47.000Is it good that people yelled at him at a Trump rally?
00:46:50.000I said yesterday, I think it's more like a sporting event to people than it really is.
00:46:53.000Like, I wish I... I would... I hate Jim Acosta.
00:46:56.000The way you can tell this is when the cameras go off, they immediately go up and they want to take pictures with Jim Acosta, right?
00:47:00.000They treat Jim Acosta as though he's the rival sports star on another team.
00:47:04.000So they sort of treat like LeBron James or Laker now.
00:47:07.000Celtics fans treat LeBron James the way that Trump fans treat Jim Acosta, basically.
00:47:11.000That LeBron probably comes to the Boston Garden, or whatever they call it now, and he plays, and everybody boos him, and they say that he's a traitor, and they say he's terrible, and then after the game, they are clamoring for an autograph.
00:47:22.000If you go to Trump rallies, that's actually the way that Acosta is sort of treated.
00:47:25.000People yell at him, they scream at him, it's fun.
00:47:27.000It's fun to say that CNN sucks, because CNN does, in many cases, suck.
00:47:30.000And then, Jim Acosta, and then they go up and they take pictures with Acosta.
00:47:35.000Well, Acosta is still complaining about this, suggesting that we're not in America anymore.
00:47:38.000By the way, he came out this morning and attacked Sean Hannity and said that Sean Hannity is a terrible human.
00:47:43.000So it's okay to attack other members of the media, it's just not okay for anybody to attack Jim Acosta.
00:47:48.000Here is Jim Acosta talking about his horrifying experiences.
00:48:40.000The media only discovered that the alt-right were a bunch of jackasses when the alt-right started attacking people on the left, right?
00:48:46.000The alt-right started attacking Julia Jaffe, for example, and suddenly the alt-right was a thing.
00:48:50.000I took months of alt-right abuse, but that was totally okay because I was on the right, obviously.
00:48:54.000The media's selective coverage is one of the reasons why people don't trust the media at all.
00:48:59.000You see the same thing from ABC's Sunny Hostin, who's over on The View.
00:49:02.000She says that President Trump's attacks on the press are like the acts of a dictator.
00:49:07.000Their jobs are to report the facts, and I think that's one of the reasons why this president has started this war against the media, because he doesn't like that the truth is being reported.
00:49:18.000And I think that means that as journalists, you have to continue to do so.
00:49:24.000These are the acts, in my opinion, of a dictator.
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