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00:01:21.000Alright, well we begin with Media Matters doing what Media Matters does, being terrible people who spend all of their time digging up old comments by people they don't like.
00:01:37.000Now, the way the media covers all of these Media Matters stories is they cover it as though suddenly audio was unearthed.
00:01:44.000As the old material suddenly rose up out of the soil like a volcanic eruption and suddenly the material was made public.
00:01:51.000So what you will see today is headlines about Tucker Carlson of Fox News in which the media report that old audio emerges.
00:02:44.000Media Matters was a Clinton-associated institution founded by David Brock, who is one of the slimiest people in the history of modern American politics.
00:02:53.000And it was specifically designed to take right-wing hosts off the air.
00:02:56.000Media Matters was specifically designed as an organization that was going to target right-wing hosts, the members of the quote-unquote vast right-wing conspiracy, and then destroy them.
00:03:04.000And the way they were going to do this is they were going to dig up comments or find comments that they could either take out of context Or that they could spin up to levels of rage unforeseen by human eyes before, and then they were going to call up advertisers.
00:03:20.000So they were going to militarize a small base of people to call up advertisers on right-wing shows and then convince those advertisers to pull their advertising lest there be blowback and boycotts.
00:03:33.000Remember, they did this to Rush Limbaugh in the aftermath of his Cassandra Fluck comments.
00:03:36.000You'll remember that they've tried to do this to Sean Hannity.
00:03:39.000They've tried to do this to Laura Ingraham.
00:03:40.000They've tried to do this to pretty much everybody on the right.
00:03:43.000Media Matters makes a living going after the advertisers of everybody else, and they have this huge endowment from a variety of left-wing sources, including George Soros.
00:03:50.000So they have a huge amount of money, and this means they can dedicate employees full-time to simply going back and digging up everything that people who are conservative have ever said, and then trying to use those things to club them over the head.
00:04:43.000We'd have a hundred people and we would issue emails to those activists.
00:04:46.000And we would tell those activists, call these advertisers and tell them to stop advertising on Martin Bashir when Martin Bashir says that somebody should excrete into sarah palin's mouth and then the advertisers would drop because advertisers are notoriously squirrelly when it comes to political when it comes to political advertising they don't want the blowback mostly advertisers want to be left alone mostly what advertisers want is they want to be able to advertise to their audiences in peace they advertise on a wide variety of shows every advertiser on my show for example advertises on left-wing shows as well
00:05:42.000You have to understand this agenda before you can understand why all of this outrage is ginned up, why all of this is fake, why an enormous amount of this outrage is simply created out of whole cloth by the left wing in order to target Tucker Carlson.
00:05:54.000There is not one person hashtagging boycott Tucker Carlson today who's a regular watcher of Tucker Carlson's show.
00:06:01.000There's nobody going after Tucker Carlson today who is a Tucker Carlson fan and now is just shocked at the stuff he said to Bubba the Love Sponge between 2006 and 2011 because that's what all of this is.
00:06:11.000The columnist, a researcher at Media Matters who has the worst job in America, Madeline Peltz, she says she spent a hundred hours listening to Tucker's old episodes with Bubba the Love Sponge, a shock jock radio program between 2006 and 2011.
00:06:25.000Now you may be asking, Was any of that old audio offensive at the time?
00:06:33.000Bubba the Love Sponge is actually a pretty popular radio show, and it was certainly popular back when Tucker was on it.
00:06:38.000And no one seemed to have any real problem with the stuff Tucker was saying because they understood.
00:06:43.000This is a shock jock radio program where the entire purpose of the show is to shock people.
00:06:48.000Bubba the Love Sponge was basically a softer version, slightly, of Howard Stern.
00:06:53.000So this is the same thing as when the media tried to dig up old appearances of Donald Trump on Howard Stern and then use that to bash Donald Trump.
00:06:59.000As though appearing on Howard Stern is what people really think.
00:07:03.000Or as though appearing on Bubba the Love Sponge is Tucker's most thought out political commentary.
00:07:07.000So Media Matters spends hundreds of hours, hundreds of man hours, digging through the archives to try and find stuff that they can go after Tucker for.
00:07:14.000And honestly, this is how the internet works now.
00:07:17.000I experience it pretty much every day myself, where folks on the left will go back into my Twitter archive and try to find something, take it out of context, find a bad old tweet that I don't agree with anymore, and then bring it up ten years later, and then say, oh, well, you know, you're a bad guy because you tweeted this ten years ago.
00:08:46.000The reason that old audio of Bernie Sanders is still useful is because Bernie still believes all the things that he believed back in the 1980s.
00:08:53.000The same thing, I'm sure, is not true of the stuff that Tucker Carlson said on Bubba the Love Sponge.
00:08:58.000And listen, this is not about me defending Tucker, per se.
00:09:03.000You'll remember him from Guardians of the Galaxy.
00:09:06.000And James Gunn had some bad old tweets.
00:09:09.000Some bad old tweets in which he made pedophilia jokes.
00:09:12.000And those were taken out of context in bad faith to try and suggest that James Gunn was actually pro-pedophilia or was a pedophile himself because he was making pedophilia jokes.
00:09:21.000Because just like Tucker, he was a shock jock back then and he was doing shock jocky things.
00:09:38.000Why do we have to manufacture outrage?
00:09:39.000There are enough things to be outraged over in modern American life, you don't actually have to go back 15 years to the stuff that people said back on Twitter, and then get angry about it.
00:09:49.000And we see this in its most extreme form with a couple of weeks ago, people going after the old comments from 1971 of John Wayne, and getting outraged over crap that John Wayne said.
00:09:58.000John Wayne's been dead for 50 years, and people are still getting angry at the stuff he's saying.
00:10:09.000So they went back and they found some stuff that Tucker said on Bubba the Love Sponge, in which he diminished the actions of Warren Jeffs, who was then on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list for involving arranged illegal marriages between adults and underage girls.
00:10:22.000He talked about sex and young girls, and he defended statutory rape.
00:10:27.000Now, some of this, I'm sure, was him just being shocky because he was on with Bubba the Love Sponge.
00:10:32.000It wasn't like he was saying this behind closed doors and suddenly it emerged.
00:10:36.000Bubba the Love Sponge was widely listened to.
00:10:38.000Nobody seemed to have a problem with it then because he was on MSNBC.
00:10:41.000Now, does that mean his comments are unobjectionable?
00:10:43.000No, if he actually believes that, this stuff is egregious.
00:10:46.000But the question is, do you actually think that Tucker believes this stuff now?
00:10:51.000Do you think that Tucker actually believed that stuff then, or was he just appearing on a shock jock radio show and saying shock jock things because he was on with a shock jock?
00:10:59.000Now, Media Matters knows better than this, obviously.
00:11:01.000This is all bad faith garbage, and everybody knows it's bad faith garbage.
00:11:05.000So Tucker has now responded to all of this.
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00:12:42.000Honestly, good for Tucker, because here's the way this usually works.
00:12:45.000Media Matters targets somebody over a statement that is objectionable, but not career ending, or they dig up a piece of old audio that nobody cared about 20 years ago, but now we're all supposed to care about now.
00:12:57.000And then the person is hit with a wave of advertiser boycotts, and then they express contrition for their comments.
00:13:01.000And then the contrition is used as an excuse to pummel them further because it's an admission of guilt.
00:13:06.000And then the person apologizes further, and they just sort of hope it goes away.
00:13:15.000And they and their allies will do this based on comments that forget about objectionable like Tucker's comments from 2007.
00:13:20.000They'll do it based on unobjectionable content.
00:13:23.000They tried to do this to me early this year when I made some comments about why pro-life people Would not be in favor of abortion across the board, even if you knew that a person was going to commit crimes in the future.
00:13:34.000And it made a reference to pro-life people not killing Hitler in the womb because the idea was that pro-life people don't believe that you should be able to kill people based on the possibility of them committing future crime.
00:13:43.000That was specifically directed at an argument in the book for economics.
00:13:47.000Folks on the left took it out of context and then they tried to call our advertisers and manufacture outrage.
00:14:04.000If you want to ask me about it today, come, ask me about it today.
00:14:07.000But if you're going to dig up old stuff that I said 10 years ago and then use it as an excuse to just try and destroy me as a human being, try to destroy my livelihood, you can go to hell.
00:14:16.000Honestly, good for Tucker, because this is what the response should be from everyone.
00:14:19.000You know what the response should be from everyone when somebody digs up a piece of 10-year-old audio?
00:14:24.000The response should be, was it public?
00:14:27.000If it was, then the response should be, am I supposed to be deeply disturbed by it now?
00:14:32.000Maybe I'll go ask this person about that audio.
00:14:34.000And then if the person doubles down on a piece of bad audio, if the person doubles down suggests that they were right about a behavior, then that's a here and now problem.
00:14:43.000So I'll explain in just a second what this means for people who are not Tucker Carlson, like for example Joy Reid over at MSNBC.
00:14:48.000So Joy Reid, host over at MSNBC, and Joy Reid has a long history of bad blog posts.
00:14:53.000There are a bunch of homophobic blog posts and Anti-Semitic blog posts, apparently, back from 2004, 2003, going back 15 years ago.
00:15:02.000And people were digging those up and using them against Joy Reid.
00:15:05.000And my initial take on Joy Reid was exactly the same as it was on Tucker Carlson, which is, she shouldn't be fired.
00:15:12.000If you're going to lose advertisers, you should lose advertisers based on stuff you say now, not stuff that you said back in history, because nobody has a time machine.
00:15:19.000We all have a wayback machine, we can all see what people said 10 years ago, but none of us can go back and correct the things we said 10 years ago.
00:15:26.000If we're given the opportunity to do so now, and we don't, that's a different story.
00:15:31.000So Joy Reid was asked about all that stuff, and instead of her just saying, listen, I've grown, I've progressed, I don't believe those things anymore, I wish I'd never written them, which is the honest way to go about a conversation with any human being.
00:15:43.000If she had done that, that's fine, right?
00:15:45.000This is the way that we all deal with stuff that we've done in our past that we don't like.
00:15:48.000When we have a fight with our spouse, Forget our spouse.
00:15:51.000We have a fight with a friend or an acquaintance.
00:15:53.000And we say, you know, I really didn't like what you did to me a year ago.
00:16:27.000Now again, I've talked about this in a variety of contexts, this idea that we have now created a society where it is impossible to apologize for stuff that you've done in the past.
00:17:02.000If you would really, if you didn't like that stuff you said, you should have preemptively come out and you should have apologized for it preemptively.
00:17:08.000And that's the take of a lot of folks on the left.
00:17:10.000Well, what that means is the only people you're going to get in politics or public life are people who are A, unrepentant, Or B, willing to preemptively, every time they change their mind, preemptively come out and say something about it and unburden themselves.
00:17:25.000We talked about this in the context of Ralph Northam in Virginia.
00:17:29.000I said about even Ralph Northam, a Democrat in Virginia with whom I heartily disagree on a variety of issues, including infanticide.
00:17:36.000I said about Ralph Northam that if Ralph Northam had come out about his Facebook in 1980, his yearbook in 1985, the one where there was a guy in blackface and a guy in a KKK outfit, and said, that was ignorant and terrible of me.
00:17:46.000It shouldn't have been on my Facebook page.
00:18:35.000I'm going to go back and dig up something that you did and then get super offended by it now.
00:18:41.000That's generally absurd because, once more, there are no time machines.
00:18:46.000You don't get to wreck somebody based on stuff they said 20 years ago without even asking them whether they agree with it now or looking at whether they were joking or whether they were on a shock jock show or any of the rest of it.
00:18:57.000Because let's be real, you're not actually outraged by this stuff.
00:19:00.000The number of people who are actually outraged by Tucker Carlson's bad comments from 2007 is no one.
00:19:05.000Everybody on the left And again, that doesn't mean the comments were outrageous.
00:19:10.000I think if I had heard these comments in 2007, maybe I would have been outraged.
00:19:15.000But I'm not going to pretend to be outraged by something that Tucker Carlson said on Bubba the Love Sponge in 2007.
00:19:21.000Sorry, I have better things to do with my life.
00:19:24.000Now, if Tucker comes out today and starts defending Warren Jeffries, if Tucker comes out today and starts talking about how much he's in favor of 27-year-olds in arranged marriages with 16-year-olds, which is allegedly what he said, well, it's what he said on tape, with Warren Jeffs or whatever, about Warren Jeffs on Bubba the Love Sponge, if he says that today, then there's a reason to rip him up and down.
00:19:44.000But there's no reason to rip him up and down based on old audio that he has not even given a chance to talk about or defend or disassociate himself from.
00:19:54.000The reason this is dangerous is because it can be done with pretty much anybody.
00:19:57.000Anybody who's been in public life for more than the last 30 seconds is going to have stuff on their record nobody likes.
00:20:03.000And if we make it the rule that you can't advertise on any show where somebody has ever said anything you dislike, ever, there will be no more advertising on political radio or political television.
00:20:14.000It will, in fact, circumscribe the capacity of people to bring their political opinions to the fore.
00:20:21.000We'll be polarizing the public for no apparent reason?
00:20:23.000Listen, if you don't like Tucker, you already don't like Tucker.
00:20:26.000How many people additionally don't like Tucker today because of stuff that Tucker said 15 years ago, or 10 years ago, or whatever it is?
00:21:35.000I've had it with the vast majority of the federal government at this point because they've completely overrun the boundaries that were drawn for them in the Constitution of the United States.
00:21:43.000Those beautiful checks and balances that were created by the Founding Fathers to limit the power of the federal government, they've been completely overthrown.
00:21:49.000And that's why one of the ways that we can fight back is to use a convention of states I'm a big believer in calling a convention of states where we the people can propose amendments.
00:21:58.000Amendments like, for example, reestablishing the checks and balances between Congress and the presidency, getting rid of executive branch agencies, ensuring that legislation passed by Congress is understandable and on a single issue.
00:22:30.000The limitations of the Constitution have been overthrown.
00:22:32.000There's a reason to re-establish them.
00:22:34.000Go to conventionofstates.com slash ben to sign the petition today and volunteer and help out.
00:22:39.000It's a great way to help restore the founding philosophy of the country by re-embracing the Constitution.
00:22:44.000Alright, speaking of people who have not embraced the Constitution, the left has decided to full-scale embrace socialism, which is deeply exciting.
00:22:52.000He is, in my opinion, the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination at this point.
00:22:56.000I know Joe Biden hasn't jumped in, but I think that the best day of Joe Biden's campaign will be the first day.
00:23:01.000Bernie Sanders is making overt outreach plays toward the intersectional base.
00:23:05.000I've been saying for a while, the Democratic Party is really splintered along one line, intersectionality versus socialism.
00:23:12.000Now, they don't necessarily have to be in conflict, and this is where Bernie is going.
00:23:16.000What he is trying to do is say that socialism ought to be applied first for people of minority status.
00:23:22.000He believes that socialism overall is a solution for everyone of every race equally, but Bernie is now beginning to make sort of overtures toward the intersectional base.
00:23:32.000He's trying to jump into the America's a racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic place, as opposed to America just hates poor people, which was his old line.
00:23:41.000So Bernie is coming out and he's saying, listen, my radical ideas have now been embraced by the base of the party.
00:23:45.000And this, of course, is exactly right.
00:23:47.000Those ideas that we talked about here in Iowa four years ago, that seemed so radical at that time.
00:23:58.000Well, today, virtually all of those ideas are supported by a majority of the American people.
00:24:07.000And they are ideas that Democratic candidates from school board to presidential candidates are running on today.
00:24:26.000Okay, so, you know, he is right about this.
00:24:28.000The fact is that because we live in a time where people are disconnected from the actual impacts of socialism, very few people in the United States have ever lived under socialism, and all of them are expatriates from socialist dictatorships, essentially.
00:24:41.000It's very easy to re-embrace bad ideas because nobody ever sees the price tag.
00:24:44.000One of the beautiful things about being Bernie Sanders, and being a socialist in general in the United States, is you get to point to programs in other countries and say, we ought to do that.
00:24:53.000And then when people ask, how do you pay for that?
00:25:51.000So his own city is essentially bankrupt at this point, and he's got nothing to say about that, except that he wants to take more money from rich people.
00:26:00.000Which, of course, is not going to work.
00:26:04.000Even New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said, we can't raise taxes on the rich people anymore in this state.
00:26:09.000They're all leaving and going to Florida.
00:26:12.000The largest contingent of New Yorkers outside of New York is now living in Florida because everyone is leaving.
00:26:17.000Including, by the way, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez's mom, who said she moved down to Florida because there was less property tax.
00:26:24.000But Bill de Blasio is still trying to play this class warfare game where he is pushing for taking away wealth from some and giving the wealth to others.
00:26:32.000Socialism is all fun and games until it's actually implemented.
00:26:36.000When it is implemented, like in Venezuela, there's no electricity.
00:26:40.000Caracas, Venezuela, is now in its fourth day of complete darkness.
00:26:45.000People are eating spoiled and rotten food.
00:26:48.000Socialism, working wherever it's tried.
00:26:50.000And don't get me Norway and Denmark, guys.
00:26:52.000Those are capitalist countries with some redistributionist programs stacked on top.
00:26:56.000If you're talking about socialism, you have to talk like Bill de Blasio, which means nationalization of industry and removal of money from those who make business to those who don't.
00:27:05.000Well, one of the lead proponents of this nonsense is, of course, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who says the same dumb stuff as Bernie Sanders, but is younger and more attractive, and snaps her fingers in a Z formation.
00:27:17.000And so, that means she's cool, I guess.
00:27:19.000In any case, AOC says, if you do not have a job, she's speaking at South by Southwest, and she said, if you don't have a job, you're left to die under capitalism.
00:27:30.000Socialism means not leaving people to die.
00:27:32.000Which is weird, since socialism killed over 100 million people in the last century, and is killing a bunch of people in Venezuela right this instant.
00:27:39.000But apparently, under AOC, if you don't have a job under capitalism, you are left to die.
00:27:43.000We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work, right?
00:28:08.000She's the first person ever to discover that leaving people to die is bad.
00:28:12.000Which is weird, since again, socialism routinely leaves people to die, so long as those people get in the way of the grand socialist vision.
00:28:18.000Mass exterminations under socialism have not been rare, it turns out.
00:28:25.000People in Venezuela, as I mentioned, starving to death.
00:28:28.000China eradicated some 40 million of its own citizens.
00:28:31.000The Soviet Union routinely gulagged political opponents and also killed a bunch of people in the Ukraine in the 1930s.
00:28:37.000So socialism basically has been a party.
00:28:39.000The notion that socialism is just wonderful for human lives, that they are seeking to preserve every human life, and that if you don't have a job you're left to die under capitalism, it's just absurd.
00:28:48.000First of all, capitalism has been responsible for more people rising from extreme poverty than any force in the history of humanity.
00:28:54.000Look at world GDP since the implementation of free markets, and what you will see is a straight line up.
00:29:00.000It's exponential growth in world GDP since the implementation of free markets.
00:29:05.000When it came to top-down control of government, top-down control of markets via government, you don't even have to go back to the socialist past to see how much that has failed.
00:29:13.000That was the rule, not the exception, in virtually all human societies up till about 1800.
00:29:18.000And then, we started thinking, hey, wait, what if we left individuals to pursue their own economic decisions in peace?
00:29:28.000It is also amazing to me, and truly astonishing, how folks on the left so often conflate Government action with kindness.
00:29:37.000I mean, I don't know how much AOC gives in charity.
00:29:39.000I do know that people who tend to vote socialist give less charity than people who tend to vote Republican, because Republicans tend to be religious.
00:29:45.000And that means that we spend a lot of our money on charity.
00:29:47.000We give tens of thousands of dollars, I mean, literally, per person, in many cases, to charity.
00:29:54.000If you just look at the studies, people in red states give more charity than people in blue states.
00:29:58.000People who are religious give more charity than people who are non-religious.
00:30:01.000People who vote Republican give more charity than people who vote Democrat.
00:30:04.000These are just well-established facts.
00:30:08.000The conflation of government action with helping the poor is truly perverse.
00:30:14.000The fact is that over the long span of history, including in modern history, the first place that religious people go when it comes to hard times is their religious community.
00:30:24.000Under capitalism, capitalism does not bar you from being part of a social institution that helps pick up the slack.
00:30:30.000Government grabbing all the resources and getting rid of the profit incentive, which is what AOC wants to do.
00:30:35.000She doesn't just want to redistribute the gains.
00:30:37.000She wants to get rid of the profit incentive entirely, as we'll see.
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00:33:20.000When you are Barack Obama and you say that if you believe in traditional marriage, you're not on the right side of history, that's a nonsensical silly phrase.
00:33:28.000The whole title of the book is a play on the phrase.
00:33:31.000The whole title of the book is, if there is a right side of history, it's that the right things Throughout history have been generated by certain fundamental truths.
00:33:41.000It's about looking at what in history is good.
00:33:44.000It is not about trying to justify your silly social proposal of the day by appealing to in a hundred years history will have justified me.
00:35:32.000How does she think things would have gone for her if she'd been living in Cuba or Venezuela or China or Vietnam?
00:35:37.000Does she think things would have been lots better for her, you know, in socialist countries?
00:35:40.000Anyway, AOC says capitalism is irredeemable.
00:35:43.000This is maybe the most pathetic, stupid, ignorant statement of, I don't know, at least the last 48 hours because stupidity is running real high these days.
00:35:54.000You know, the system that has raised One that has raised virtually everyone on the globe from abject poverty.
00:36:00.000That system, according to her, there's been an 80% decline in the world's worst poverty since 1980.
00:36:05.000But according to AOC, capitalism is irredeemable.
00:36:10.000Capitalism isn't, to me, it's an ideology of capital.
00:36:15.000It puts capital, the most important thing is the concentration of capital and it means that we seek and prioritize profit and the accumulation of money above all else and we seek it at any human and environmental cost.
00:37:08.000Free markets are about the idea that you as an individual have innate value given to you by God, that I as an individual have innate value, and that in recognition of each other's innate value, we own our own labor and creativity, and that we can trade our labor to one another.
00:37:22.000For additional benefit to ourselves and that we have a right to accrue profit based on our voluntary exchanges with other people.
00:37:30.000That's what capitalism and free markets are.
00:37:32.000When you mischaracterize capitalism and socialism, it's real easy to fall in love with socialism.
00:37:41.000She describes what she thinks capitalism is, and everything that she describes is actually an aspect of corporatism, of a perversion of free markets.
00:37:50.000So she says, you know what's real bad about capitalism is that corporations have taken over our government.
00:37:55.000Just as there's all this fear mongering that government is going to take over every corporation and government is going to take over every business or every form of production, we should be scared right now because corporations have taken over our government.
00:38:09.000Okay, corporations have taken over our government.
00:38:58.000And the reason we spend so much time on this is because AOC really is, in the same way that Donald Trump is the id of sort of populist nationalism, he says whatever comes to mind.
00:39:08.000AOC is the id of the socialist push in the United States.
00:39:11.000And that id has about as much brains as my two-year-old son sticking his finger repeatedly into the light socket and then declaring himself a light bulb.
00:39:59.000Let's tax corporations at 90% so people can write poetry.
00:40:02.000One thing she doesn't seem to understand.
00:40:04.000Who's going to work for the corporation if the corporation makes no profit, thereby providing the pay for people to do useless crap like write poetry that she reads?
00:40:13.000Bill Gates has talked about taxing robots at 90%.
00:40:17.000And what that means, what he's really talking about is taxing corporations at 90%.
00:40:21.000And we should be excited about automation because what it could potentially mean is more time educating ourselves, more time creating art, more time investing and investigating in the sciences, more time focused on invention, more time going to space, more time enjoying the world that we live in.
00:40:53.000Because what we need is... The unemployed are typically where all the best inventions come from.
00:40:59.000That's usually where it happens, right?
00:41:00.000You just quit your job and then you go in your back room and you tinker around like you're on Wonder Lab from the 1990s on Nickelodeon with Bill Nye or something.
00:41:08.000And then you, that's when you come up with the greatest inventions.
00:41:10.000Greatest inventions are not made by people, you know, employed by universities or who are working for some sort of R&D department.
00:41:17.000The greatest inventions are made by unemployed people in their basements.
00:42:16.000And then you'll get conglomerations of individuals who all just divvy up the money as it comes in to avoid the legal ramifications of filing as a corporation.
00:42:39.000This beneficiary of the greatest, freest, most democratic system ever created by human minds This human being is suggesting that America is garbage as she sits there having been useless virtually her entire life, now being championed at South by Southwest.
00:42:55.000She was more useful when she was bartending.
00:42:57.000At least she was providing a good or service somebody wanted.
00:42:59.000Now she's providing a good or service nobody wants at taxpayer expense.
00:43:03.000I think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are, but where we are is not a good thing.
00:43:10.000And this idea of like 10% better from garbage It shouldn't be what we settle for.
00:43:17.000It feels like moderate is not a stance, it's just an attitude toward life.
00:44:15.000Now, what's hilarious about this is you have to have not visited or learned or read a book or done... You know how sheltered you have to believe, have to be, to believe that America is garbage?
00:45:17.000The utter ingratitude of this perspective is truly astonishing, and the mischaracterization of free markets, and the attempt to paint socialism as some sort of boon for humanity's good side, as opposed to the collective simply trumping the individual, which is the root of socialism.
00:45:31.000The root of socialism is that individuals don't have power over their labor, that individuals don't have power over their creativity, that The only way for us to ensure that human powers of flourishing can break free is by collectivizing everything and then redistributing it so that some of us can fingerpaint while others of us have a gun pointed to our head at the behest of the federal government.
00:45:51.000If that sounds great to you, then by all means, join the socialist revolution of AOC and Bernie Sanders.
00:48:49.000You can't even understand those experiences.
00:48:51.000How dare you suggest that at our root lies a level of common humanity?
00:48:55.000When the left eats the left, it's one of my favorite things in the world.
00:48:58.000This sort of Marianne Williamson, Sarah McLaughlin, you know, emo, we're all the same underneath stuff that was the hot liberalism of 2005 is now not woke enough.
00:49:10.000And so Alyssa Milano got destroyed for that tweet in which she was trying to suggest our common humanity.
00:49:19.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:49:25.000So Ilhan Omar, you'll recall, is the awful anti-Semitic congressperson from Minnesota who has spent the last six weeks, eight weeks in Congress saying openly anti-Semitic things and then quasi-apologizing and then being defended by her Democratic colleagues.
00:49:37.000Well, over the weekend, she said that she was in fact a victim.
00:50:26.000When Ilhan Omar came to Congress She wanted to wear a hijab in Congress, and they had to change the rules in Congress because you're not supposed to wear head coverings in Congress.
00:50:34.000And I actively applauded Ilhan Omar being able to wear a hijab in Congress.
00:50:38.000As a person who wears a funny hat daily, I see no problem with anybody else wearing a hat for religious reasons or a head covering for religious reasons.
00:50:44.000I think that is totally and utterly fine.
00:50:46.000I think it is quite good that we have Muslims in Congress.
00:50:49.000I mean, I don't really care so long as you hold the right principles.
00:50:52.000The problem with Ilhan Omar is she doesn't hold any of the right principles.
00:50:54.000She believes a lot of terrible things.
00:50:57.000Okay, so with all that said, what she says is terrible.
00:51:00.000And what the right does then, and the right criticizing her is correct.
00:51:06.000The worst thing would be if somebody would come out and say that, for example, Ilhan Omar shouldn't be in Congress because she's Muslim and because she wears that head covering.
00:51:13.000Like, that would be super dumb and would play directly into Ilhan Omar's misdirected sense of victimhood.
00:51:37.000Omar wears a hijab, which according to the Quran 33, colon 59, tells women to cover so they won't get molested.
00:51:47.000Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?
00:52:02.000Even Fox News came out and said, we didn't approve that monologue, which is always a bad sign.
00:52:06.000That's so gross and silly and stupid and backwards.
00:52:11.000No, wearing a hijab does not mean that you believe all sorts of evil, terrible things.
00:52:15.000And the actual charge that Omar leveled at Jews, that Jews were suffering from dual loyalty to Israel, is now being leveled at Omar in that particular clip, with Janine Pirro basically saying, you wear a hijab, therefore you have dual loyalty to your Islamic principles and not to American principles.
00:52:31.000By the way, this is the same charge of dual loyalty that was originally leveled at Catholics in the United States.
00:52:36.000People saying you're loyal to Rome and to the Pope instead of to the United States.
00:52:56.000It's not just silly, it's nasty and wrong.
00:52:59.000So, Jeanine Pirro has already quasi-apologized for it, as well she should.
00:53:03.000I will recognize here that virtually everyone online, I saw zero defenders, pretty much zero defenders of Jeanine Pirro over this comment, whereas the entire Democratic Party infrastructure came forward to defend Ilhan Omar over being a rabid anti-Semite.