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00:00:09.000All righty, so a lot of news to get to today.
00:00:17.000We are going to get into, in detail, a bunch of Democratic proposals that even they do not take seriously.
00:00:23.000It's the reason why President Trump's approval rating has risen seven points over the last month, even according to the sort of real clear politics poll average.
00:00:30.000We'll get to all of that in just one second.
00:00:32.000First, we need to talk about what you are using to send your packages this year.
00:00:37.000So I know Valentine's Day is coming up, but it's not just a Valentine's Day issue.
00:02:19.000It's actually less money allocated to border security than was allocated to border security in the original budget that was proposed by Democrats back in November that President Trump turned down.
00:02:28.000Now, the saving grace is that President Trump is likely to declare under 10 U.S.C.
00:02:33.000284 that drug corridors must have additional fencing built, which he can do.
00:02:36.000He can have the Defense Department mobilize and redirect funds for that purpose.
00:02:42.000He's also illustrated that Democrats are full-scale crazy on the subject of a border wall when he did his big event On Monday night in El Paso, he was talking about the necessity for a border wall standing about a thousand feet maybe from the border fencing between El Paso and Mexico.
00:02:57.000And meanwhile, Beto O'Rourke was standing a thousand feet from him and was saying that walls are terrible.
00:03:02.000There was a wall at Beto O'Rourke's rally, by the way, to prevent people Again, is it a bad deal?
00:03:06.000onto the territory of Beto O'Rourke's rally, even as he was proclaiming that walls were really, really bad.
00:03:11.000On Wednesday, CNN, The Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal all reported that Trump intended to sign the measure into law if it passes Congress.
00:03:17.000Representatives for the White House could not be reached immediately for comment.
00:03:20.000Trump on Tuesday did not rule out vetoing the legislation.
00:03:22.000He said he was not happy with the deal, but he's not going to get into another shutdown here.
00:03:38.000They kept upping the ante, and President Trump was not willing to try to buy the pot, basically.
00:03:42.000He was not willing to carry the bluff all the way to the final contingency.
00:03:46.000He was not willing to allow the government to remain shut down.
00:03:49.000Democrats knew that, and so they were able to basically win the hand with a pair of twos.
00:03:54.000That's essentially what happened in this particular poker game.
00:03:57.000Now, again, the president does have another card that has yet to drop here, and that is the possibility of declaring some sort of national emergency.
00:04:05.000Zero Hedge is reporting that the president is considering exactly that.
00:04:08.000According to Zero Hedge, which is Sort of a little bit of a sketchy website when it comes to reporting.
00:04:12.000They say, in an interesting twist, it looks like Trump has decided on a middle path that will allow him to keep the government open while getting more of his border wall built than Congress had initially authorized.
00:04:21.000According to Washington Post, Trump will use an executive order to reallocate federal funds to finance the wall or at least something more than the 55 miles that the compromise bill would finance.
00:04:30.000A White House official told The Post this morning that the president sees signing the border deal if passed by Congress as the way to avoid another shutdown.
00:04:46.000Is the solution that probably makes the most political sense?
00:04:48.000Once again, President Trump, his big success here is illustrating once and for all that Democrats do not care about border security, or at least they don't care enough about border security.
00:04:56.000Remember, it was a point of negotiation.
00:04:59.000During this actual border negotiation, Democrats wanted to lower the amount of funding available just for beds to house criminal illegal aliens.
00:05:07.000And President Trump did not want to lower those numbers because he was saying, well, if we can't house these people, we have to release them into general society.
00:06:22.000That means that Nancy Dentures Pelosi said she was not going to bring it up for a vote, despite mouthing all sorts of platitudes about how wonderful and excellent and hopeful and ambitious the thing was.
00:06:34.000By the way, when politicians say that something is a bold new idea, it's bold in the same way that my son trying to plug a toaster into the wall is bold.
00:08:24.000Now, let's say that you wanted to pass a piece of legislation.
00:08:26.000Let's say that you thought that climate change was the most important issue on America's dial.
00:08:31.000That Americans needed to be made aware that this Green New Deal thing had to be passed as a resolution to demonstrate to Americans that we need to take this crisis seriously.
00:08:39.000Wouldn't you want it to come up for a vote?
00:09:18.000And if he does bring it up for a vote, then he's sabotaging your movement.
00:09:22.000If your proposal is so toxic that the mere fact of bringing it up for a vote would expose it as toxic, I'm pretty sure you're the one who just sabotaged your own vote.
00:09:31.000Now, Ed Markey is in the back of the ship drilling a hole directly through the hull, and Mitch McConnell's like, Sir, if you would prefer, I will bring you a stick of dynamite.
00:09:41.000And then Markie's like, well, Mitch McConnell's trying to sabotage this thing.
00:10:21.000I mean, it's a situation where you got in a fight with your spouse, and you just kept upping the ante, and then finally, your spouse is like, fine, go for it.
00:11:02.000Now, one of the things that's hilarious about the new wave of Democrats is that all of their proposals are similarly ambitious and similarly stupid and similarly undoable.
00:11:11.000And we are finding this out day after day when they run screaming from their own proposals.
00:11:15.000Like, legitimately, they run screaming from their own proposals.
00:11:17.000I'll give you a couple of examples in just one second.
00:11:20.000From across the country, Democrats propose audacious, ambitious, bold things, like my son with the toaster.
00:11:28.000They're the dog that catches the car, and then they realize that by catching the car, they've now put themselves in direct proximity to the back wheels, and if that thing is in reverse, they're gonna get smushed.
00:11:37.000We'll talk about it in just one second.
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00:12:50.000I really think it's a deeply important thing.
00:13:49.000He's basically a living Ken doll with all the brains that come along with it.
00:13:52.000And Gavin Newsom was Lieutenant Governor.
00:13:54.000Well, back in 2014, I had Gavin Newsom on my radio show, and I specifically asked him about a proposal that Californians had voted in favor of for a high-speed rail between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
00:14:05.000It would have stops in places like Sacramento.
00:14:07.000It would have stops in Bakersfield, for whatever reason.
00:14:10.000And this was going to cost us legitimately billions and billions of dollars, like billions of dollars, this high-speed rail.
00:14:16.000Now, those of us who live in California, we're sitting around going, but isn't there a giant highway called the I-5 that also connects Los Angeles with San Francisco?
00:14:26.000And the answer was yes, there is a giant highway called the I-5 that connects all of these various cities.
00:14:31.000But it was very important that we build a high-speed bullet train in one of the most sparsely populated areas of California, that giant corridor where no one lives except for Bakersfield and Fresno, between Sacramento and Los Angeles.
00:14:43.000Deeply, deeply important to spend billions of dollars on that monstrosity.
00:14:46.000Well, I asked Gavin Newsom about this all the way back in 2014.
00:14:48.000So now, five years ago, I asked him about this, and he said at the time, yeah, this is a really dumb idea.
00:14:54.000Are you pro or against the train, especially given the fact that the Californian public, which approved the train in the first place, now has reneged and no longer likes the train?
00:15:02.000Yeah, I think I'm where the public was and is.
00:15:05.000I would take the dollars and redirect it to other more pressing infrastructure needs.
00:15:11.000And I am not the only Democrat that feels this way.
00:15:14.000And I gotta tell you, I am one of the few that just said it publicly.
00:15:19.000Right, he said it publicly, and then he immediately backtracked, because the train was already off and running.
00:15:24.000We were already gonna do the train, man.
00:15:25.000Jerry Brown was... Jerry Brown, our governor, who is 1,000 years old, he's actually... I think he passed away, sadly, about 10 years ago, and they've just been wheeling him around ever since, and then playing a tape of Jerry Brown from behind his head.
00:15:36.000And so every so often, he sort of nods off in the middle of press conferences, like, I love the train.
00:15:44.000Well, Jerry Brown made the train super popular among Democrats, but... And then Gavin Newsom embraced it.
00:15:51.000He was like, yeah, the train's great, I love the train now, and he completely flipped on it.
00:15:54.000It was a big story back when he was running for governor that he flipped on the train.
00:15:58.000Well, now Gavin Newsom has flipped back on the train, because it now turns out that this was a stupid idea in the first place.
00:16:05.000In a second, I'm going to get to that.
00:16:07.000Gavin Newsom, the new governor of California, said this during his first State of the State speech.
00:16:12.000He surprised listeners by announcing he would put the quest for high-speed rail connecting San Francisco and LA, championed by his predecessor, far on the back burner.
00:16:19.000Instead, Newsom offered a consolation prize, high-speed rail between Bakersfield and Merced.
00:16:39.000We're going to spend billions of dollars for a high-speed rail between two cities that, unless you live there, these are not tourist destinations.
00:16:47.000Nobody in New York is like, you know what?
00:18:09.000And if you drive it fast enough, and you have enough thrust behind the vehicle, and the wings are actually directed at the proper angle to the ground, these things fly.
00:19:16.000So that means that we could pay for 19.25 one-way tickets for every person living in the state of California.
00:19:23.000Every single person living in the state of California, right this very instant, we could pay for 20 tickets between LA and San Francisco via plane for the price that it would take to build this stupid high-speed rail.
00:19:37.000Honestly, Jerry Brown, the Democrats in California, they're just the guy from The Simpsons.
00:19:40.000They're just the monorail guy from The Simpsons.
00:19:46.000Everybody already knew it was an idiotic plan.
00:19:49.000And yet we were supposed to pretend it was not an idiotic plan.
00:19:51.000By the way, it's actually more tickets than that because they're not 40 million, they're not 50 million residents in the state of California, there are 40 million residents in the state of California, so we could pay for 24 tickets for every resident in the state of California to go from L.A.
00:21:07.000So it would cost an additional $20 billion per year minimum.
00:21:12.000That is not a thing that is going to happen.
00:21:14.000And you're seeing it play out in New York, too, where New York has pursued every idiotic policy they can possibly think of, and now they're shocked.
00:21:23.000That none of their policies are working out.
00:21:25.000So Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is, as we have said, in a running gun battle with his brother to be the stupider Cuomo brother.
00:21:31.000We have a block of wood on CNN, and then we have the governor of New York, who is a block of slightly more brittle wood, a little bit older, sort of petrified stone.
00:21:40.000Well, he is now complaining about Florida.
00:21:43.000Why is New York complaining about Florida?
00:21:45.000Because it turns out anyone with money is trying to get out of New York and into Florida.
00:22:13.000Because one of the things that the tax bill did is it did not exempt state taxes from federal income tax.
00:22:19.000So people who are high income in states like California and New York, where you're already paying an inordinate state tax, they couldn't take that as a discount on their federal taxes.
00:22:27.000So you're basically getting double taxed in states like California and New York.
00:22:30.000The point being that there shouldn't be a federal incentive for states to raise their taxes.
00:22:36.000So what he's really complaining about is that Florida isn't governed like complete garbage, and New York is governed like complete garbage, and when you raise taxes inordinately, you end up driving people out of the state.
00:22:44.000You'll recall that just a week ago, Andrew Cuomo basically admitted they can't tax people in New York anymore because if they keep taxing people, all the billionaires leave, all the millionaires leave.
00:22:53.000No one wants to be in these badly governed states.
00:22:56.000Bad democratic ideas will not even be embraced by bad Democrats at this point.
00:23:01.000And yet we're supposed to let them govern based on their high hopes and their commitment, their commitment to the future, their ambitious and bold plans?
00:23:12.000Yeah, let's hand over governance to these schmucks.
00:23:14.000We'll get to a little bit more of this in just a second.
00:23:16.000Let's talk about the presidential race.
00:23:17.000So, a lot of these Democrats are having a very, very difficult time in the presidential race because they have what Sarah Jessica Parker might call failure to launch.
00:23:28.000One of those candidates is Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who has been described as Minnesota nice, which I guess is just a euphemism for I throw binders at my staffers.
00:23:38.000That was a report that came out in the last couple of weeks, is that she is apparently, allegedly, routinely abusive to her staffers, up to and including throwing objects at her staffers.
00:23:48.000I have to say, there are a lot of people who work at this company, and when I abuse them, I do it publicly on air.
00:23:53.000Behind the scenes, I'm actually much nicer than I am to folks on air.
00:23:57.000They won't confirm this, and if they don't, I'll fire them.
00:23:59.000I mean, this is the reality of how things work here.
00:24:02.000It has never even crossed my mind to throw objects at the people who work here.
00:24:08.000And number two, you shouldn't throw objects at people.
00:24:11.000I don't even let my kids throw objects at each other.
00:24:13.000Amy Klobuchar reportedly took binders and threw them at people.
00:24:17.000So, Mitt Romney, not fit to be president because he had a binder full of women he thought about hiring.
00:24:22.000Amy Klobuchar, a woman who throws binders, now being considered for president.
00:24:28.000Now, the best part of this is a great story.
00:24:31.000According to Mediaite, in a potentially embarrassing AP report for Senator Amy Klobuchar, more than a dozen current and former staffers describe her as an abusive boss who often tried to have job offers rescinded when they tried to jump ship.
00:24:45.000Interviews with some of Klobuchar's Capitol Hill staffers portray a hostile work environment run on fear, abuse, and humiliation.
00:24:52.000According to staffers, the overly critical senator will sometimes turn a single mistake into a multi-day affair of shaming and demeaning, followed by post-work angry late-night phone calls and all-caps emails.
00:25:02.000The way she treats staff is disqualifying, said a former female staffer.
00:25:06.000And one of the staffers says, I will not vote for her because she's a bad person.
00:25:10.000Three former Klobuchar staffers told the Huffington Post their boss made them or their co-workers run personal errands for her, such as picking up her dry cleaning, packing her suitcases for travel, and even cleaning and washing her dishes at home.
00:25:33.000She has one of the highest rates of staff turnover in Congress.
00:25:35.000So how widely has Klobuchar's mistreatment of her staff been rumored?
00:25:41.000It's been rumored so widely that SNL, actually a Veep writer confirmed, a writer for the show Veep, confirmed That they had a joke on the show about a staffer shaving Amy Klobuchar's legs, and that joke was inspired by reality.
00:25:57.000That they had heard a rumor that the staffers were so abused that they were like shaving the senator's legs, and so they made a similar joke on Veep.
00:26:04.000That's how bad the rumors have been about Amy Klobuchar.
00:26:06.000So, Minnesota Nice, when they say Minnesota Nice, they don't actually mean the Francis McDormand character in Fargo.
00:26:13.000They mean the guy who throws people into a wood chipper on Fargo.
00:27:32.000If a 17-year-old illegal immigrant killed someone, reporting them to ICE?
00:27:36.000I'm sorry, she's too moderate for the modern-day Democratic Party.
00:27:40.000According to CNN, as District Attorney of San Francisco, Kamala Harris supported a city policy that required law enforcement to turn over undocumented juvenile immigrants to federal immigration authorities if they were arrested and suspected of committing a felony, regardless of whether they were actually convicted of a crime.
00:27:56.000Harris sided with then-Mayor Gavin Newsom in a political fight over San Francisco's status as a sanctuary city that split the city's municipal government, with the mayor's office supporting the policy and the city's elected board of supervisors opposing it.
00:28:08.000Kamala Harris is too much of an arc for the Democratic base.
00:28:11.000Her past position, according to CNN, could open her up to attacks from immigration activists, as well as the more progressive wing of the party as she seeks the Democratic nomination in 2020.
00:28:21.000The fight over the San Francisco policy was covered extensively at the time, but Harris' role has not been closely examined since she entered the national spotlight.
00:28:28.000In a statement to CNN, Harris' campaign spokesman, Ian Sams, said the policy was intended to protect the sanctuary status of San Francisco and to ensure local police, who needed to have strong relationships with the communities they serve regardless of immigration status, were not forced to operate as immigration agents, which is the responsibility of the federal government.
00:28:46.000Looking back, this policy could have been applied more fairly.
00:28:49.000Oh, that last line is a killer for Kamala Harris.
00:28:53.000Because that means she is going to be accused of anti-immigrant racism!
00:28:58.000So Democrats being hoisted on their own petards here.
00:29:02.000They're now in a serious problem because it turns out that the Democratic base is too crazy for the candidates.
00:29:08.000Legitimately too crazy for the candidates.
00:29:10.000How crazy are segments of the Democratic base?
00:29:13.000Segments of the Democratic base are angry at Kamala Harris because she's married to a white person.
00:29:45.000But I love the fact that this is I love the fact that this is controversial.
00:29:48.000Here is Kamala Harris giving an answer, like legitimately answering a question that should never have been asked.
00:29:52.000And I don't think it's fair, because I don't even think the person or life should matter, but they do mention your husband a lot.
00:29:58.000And they say, how is she so black, but she married white?
00:30:02.000Look, I love my husband, and he happened to be the one that I chose to marry because I love him, and that was that moment in time, and I'm... That's it.
00:31:52.000Liberalism are just people with whom I disagree.
00:31:54.000Leftists are people who want to shut down the debate and or nationalize all industry.
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00:32:46.000As we say, the Democrats, the Democrat candidates for 2020 are being outflanked by their own base.
00:32:56.000And so virtually every Democratic candidate is now being dragged through the mud for saying some quasi-moderate things.
00:33:03.000So, for example, Cory Booker the other day, who, you know, Spartacus, A very, very brave person, Spartacus.
00:33:09.000He said something not terrible on race, and he is just being ripped up and down over it.
00:33:14.000He was in Des Moines, and he was specifically asked about the Virginia situation with people who had dressed up as Michael Jackson or rappers back in 1980.
00:33:22.000And here was Booker's answer, which, by the way, for the record, is actually a pretty good answer.
00:33:26.000How do we get to a point where we can start having the conversation without people falling into a defensive crouch?
00:33:31.000Because sometimes when folk want to tell the truth about something, they fear.
00:33:36.000Speaking the truth or talking to people about what they don't understand.
00:33:39.000We've got to tell the truth, but we, all of us, black, white, gay, straight, we've got to start extending grace to each other so we can have honest conversations and leave room for growth.
00:33:50.000And people are angry at him for saying this.
00:33:52.000For him saying we need to have grace with each other and maybe acknowledge that some people have been ignorant in the past about their activities.
00:34:07.000This is why you end up with a situation where every Democratic candidate is endorsing the Green New Deal that Democrats are scared to death will be brought to the floor of the Senate for a vote.
00:34:19.000And it's also why you're seeing some of the most pandering, ridiculous moves by Democratic candidates.
00:34:22.000So, Elizabeth Warren, the non-Native American senator from Massachusetts, she actually showed up on Tuesday to do her professional pandering.
00:34:31.000According to CNN, she showed up on Tuesday, she made an unannounced appearance at a lunch on the sidelines of a major Native American conference in Washington.
00:34:42.000You know, white people taking over Native American territory.
00:34:44.000That is not a good thing, Elizabeth Warren.
00:34:46.000Her remarks came amidst continued scrutiny of the Massachusetts Senator's past claims to Native ancestry.
00:34:51.000According to details provided by a campaign aide, after Warren's appearance at the National Indian Women's Lunch Honor Luncheon, she introduced Wampanoag tribe of gay head Aquena Chairwoman Cheryl Andrews Maltais, a tribal leader and former senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs during the Obama administration.
00:35:09.000The senator was introduced by New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland, who is one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress last year.
00:35:15.000Warren did not address or make any mention of the controversy surrounding her past claims to Native American heritage, an aide told CNN, including an attempt to prove her ancestry with a DNA test last year.
00:35:26.000Apparently, in her introduction, she said, whether it's building coalitions among allies or reaching across the aisle to bridge divides, Cheryl is masterful at persuading public policymakers to do what's right for Native communities.
00:35:35.000So, Elizabeth Warren, because she has to keep pandering to the intersectional crowd, she cannot stop herself from putting her hand directly on the stove.
00:35:42.000She is just going to keep going back to that abscessed tooth and sticking her tongue in it over and over and over.
00:35:48.000Nothing she does is going to change the fact that she lied about her Native American status for years.
00:35:57.000I mean, she's very bad at this game, and she's not going to be forgiven to it, because forgiveness is not an aspect of the Democratic left.
00:36:02.000There is no forgiveness for the Democratic left.
00:36:19.000That means no forgiveness is available.
00:36:21.000The Democratic base is radical and they are vicious.
00:36:23.000And Howard Schultz is finding that out too.
00:36:25.000The former Starbucks CEO, he's doing his national campaign and he got himself in all sorts of trouble yesterday because, again, he said some stuff that the Democratic base does not want to hear.
00:36:36.000One of the things he said is that he does not actually see color.
00:36:50.000Here's Howard Schultz saying the opposite.
00:36:52.000This is going to alienate the Democratic base.
00:36:55.000It was a terrible moment for the company.
00:36:58.000It's not something that we're going to forget, and it's something that we learned a great deal from, and we're still learning it about.
00:37:04.000And I would just say, as somebody who grew up in a very diverse background as a young boy in the projects, I didn't see color as a young boy.
00:37:19.000How terrible for Howard Schultz to say this.
00:37:21.000He's got an enormous blowback from the left for saying that he is colorblind and tries not to see color.
00:37:26.000He's getting ripped up and down for it.
00:37:27.000By the way, the fact that he even acknowledges that something bad happened in Philadelphia is in and of itself a joke.
00:37:33.000I've talked to people who went down to that Philadelphia Starbucks.
00:37:36.000Not only are there cameras in the Philadelphia Starbucks that could have shed light on the situation, And then Starbucks did not release the tape because they'd already jumped on the PC bandwagon.
00:37:44.000But the woman, if you recall the Starbucks situation from several months ago, what happened is that two black men went into a Starbucks, they were asked repeatedly to buy something if they wanted to use the restroom, they apparently sat there for hours, and then, when the police were called, they refused to leave the restaurant.
00:37:58.000They just stood there and basically asked to be arrested, as though this were a civil rights sit-in at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, a city which is plurality black.
00:38:06.000As though no one's ever seen a black person in Philadelphia before.
00:38:09.000It turns out that the woman behind the counter who is slandered as a racist is, according to people who know her, a far-left LGBTQ activist.
00:38:18.000And she was slandered as a racist for all of this.
00:38:21.000So Howard Schultz not only is not wrong about any of this stuff, Howard Schultz Are you surprised by the blowback?
00:38:45.000I think the extent of it has taken us back a bit.
00:38:49.000But I think any time you try and go against the grain and take the road less traveled and challenge the status quo, and actually that's something I've been doing my whole life, but not at this level, Clinton.
00:39:01.000Clearly we're going to have some resistance.
00:39:03.000So we expected it, perhaps not as acute as it has become.
00:39:07.000Well, I mean, frankly, I'm shocked that Howard Schultz finds himself taken aback at the radicalism of his own political side of the aisle.
00:39:21.000You can always tell what violates Democratic standards by the standard of forgiveness they use.
00:39:25.000So Democrats have no standard of forgiveness.
00:39:27.000When it comes to things that they perceive of as anti-black, even if they're not in fact anti-black, they have no forgiveness for stuff that is perceived as anti-gay, like, you know, Christian churches.
00:40:17.000The New Democratic Party is okay with generalized anti-Semitism.
00:40:21.000So long as you can couch it in anti-Zionist, anti-Israel terms.
00:40:24.000So long as you can hide your anti-Semitism behind outdated, silly notions about Israel as a fascist state.
00:40:31.000So long as you can do that, you can get away with it.
00:40:33.000Ilhan Omar's only boo-boo is that she came out front and said something openly anti-Semitic.
00:40:37.000But if you can even mildly pretend you're not anti-Semitic while being completely anti-Semitic, then you get away with it.
00:40:43.000Case in point is AOC, who just a week ago tweeted out that she had a conversation with Jeremy Corbyn, who is an open, vicious, pro-terrorist anti-Semite, the head of the Labour Party in Britain.
00:41:00.000The media have not asked her a single question since about any of that.
00:41:03.000AOC came out yesterday and actually defended Ilhan Omar.
00:41:06.000So Ilhan Omar, you'll recall over the weekend, suggested that Jew money was behind the American support for Israel, which, of course, is not true.
00:41:14.000And then Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez came out and defended her.
00:41:19.000Well, first, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez came out and tweeted something from Peter Beinart, who is a self-hating Jew of the highest order, a Hamas defender of the highest order.
00:41:27.000He wrote a piece for the very left-leaning, often anti-Semitic Forward magazine, a Jewish magazine that really is willing to defend any level of anti-Semitism, including, in many cases, open anti-Semitism.
00:41:38.000Peter Beinart had said, if you denounce Ilhan Omar but support Donald Trump, you don't really oppose bigotry, you don't even really oppose anti-Semitism, what you oppose is criticism of Israel.
00:41:47.000Except that Trump is not anti-Semitic, there's no evidence of his anti-Semitism.
00:41:50.000And Ilhan Omar is an open anti-Semite, who has called for the full-scale destruction of the state of Israel, basically.
00:41:56.000Okay, which is in and of itself anti-Semitic.
00:41:59.000AOC then tweeted out the Peter Beinart piece, and she tweeted, unlike this president, because the fallback position for every Democrat is, don't pay attention to how evil I am, Trump.
00:42:11.000So AOC tweeted out in support of Ilhan Omar, unlike this president, Representative Ilhan Omar demonstrated a capacity to acknowledge pain and apologize, use the opportunity to learn about history of anti-Semitism and grow from it while clarifying her stance.
00:42:32.000In fact, there was a story that came out yesterday that for years, the Jewish community in the Twin Cities has been trying to have normal conversations with Ilhan Omar, and they have been absolutely shocked by her attitude about antisemitism.
00:42:45.000So this notion that she is somehow doing something out of the box and that she's not really an anti-Semite, that is betrayed by her entire record.
00:42:56.000Ilhan Omar has been talked to about this before.
00:42:58.000Last year, before she was elected to the House of Representatives, before she emerged from a crowded Democratic field in Minnesota's liberal 5th congressional district, leaders of Minneapolis' Jewish community fashioned what could be described as an anti-Semitic intervention of Omar, a rising star of the left whose remarks had made many fellow Democrats in the Jewish community uncomfortable.
00:43:15.000This is relevant because Omar, a freshman member of Congress, has come under fire this week after suggesting on Twitter that supporters of Israel in Congress are bought and paid for by a bipartisan pro-Israel lobbying group.
00:43:25.000To many, the remark went beyond a critique of money's influence in politics and evoked the anti-Semitic myth that Jews seek to control the world via money.
00:43:33.000The response by some, ranging from Chelsea Clinton to fellow U.S.
00:43:36.000Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, is to engage her in a type of educational discussion.
00:43:41.000Apparently, this has already been tried.
00:43:44.000Last year, State Senator Ron Latz, a St.
00:43:46.000Louis Park Democrat, who has served in the legislature since 2002, invited Omar to his house, where a number of Jewish leaders had gathered.
00:44:10.000The trappings of antisemitism in Minneapolis, restricted hospitals, country clubs, property covenants, were American manifestations that vanished decades before Omar came to America.
00:44:19.000The subtleties of language, the code words used to marginalize Jews.
00:44:23.000Latz recalled, we wanted to reach out to her.
00:44:25.000We were a bit troubled about several things she had said.
00:44:28.000Among those things was a 2012 tweet in which Omar wrote, As of Tuesday morning, Omar had still not deleted the tweet, even after supposedly apologizing for it.
00:44:43.000Apparently, Lattes emphasized the problem wasn't the policy dispute with Addiction and the tone they had a two-hour gathering with Ilhan Omar.
00:44:50.000He declined to recall the exact statements made by him or others, but here is his summary.
00:44:55.000Over the course of two hours, we shared with her our concerns for things, including language that has references and meanings beyond just the meanings of words.
00:45:01.000Tropes, dog whistles, call them what you will.
00:45:03.000We explained to her how hurtful and how factually inaccurate they were.
00:45:06.000Most of us came out of that conversation very troubled by the answers we received.
00:45:12.000I was not convinced she was going to give a balanced approach to policy in the Middle East, and I was not convinced where her heart is on these things.
00:45:19.000Okay, so the bottom line is that Omar has been a longtime anti-Semite, she continues to traffic in anti-Semitism, and Democrats don't care.
00:45:28.000They forced a fake apology out of her.
00:45:30.000They're not removing her from any committee assignments.
00:45:32.000She's had to apologize for anti-Semitism two times in the last four weeks.
00:45:38.000When Steve King said a thing that was construed as openly racist, he was removed of all committee assignments by a Republican Congress.
00:45:45.000Ilhan Omar has twice in four weeks apologized for open antisemitism, and we're going to treat her like she's a five-year-old, as though she doesn't know what she's saying, when she's been saying openly antisemitic garbage for years on end.
00:45:57.000Because, as I say, the Democrats brook no forgiveness for people who violate the standards they care about, but they don't actually care about anti-Semitism.
00:46:05.000Their forgiveness is readily available.
00:46:07.000Their Ilhan Omar maintains her status as a fresh face of the Democratic Party.
00:46:11.000AOC maintains her status as a fresh face.
00:46:13.000Rashida Tlaib, another anti-Semite, retains her status as a fresh face.
00:46:17.000Because anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party is not a violation of standards.
00:46:35.000Bill Gates is apparently fed up with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well he should be, because her proposals are silly, they are backwards, they are asinine, they are counterproductive.
00:46:45.000Even Bill Gates, who's a very left-leaning dude, a career Democrat, he says that AOC is missing the big picture, that she just doesn't get it.
00:46:53.000What do you make of the notion that our government should work harder?
00:46:57.000That the idea that we should just tax folks like you at a 70% marginal tax rate, and that that money should be used to build infrastructure and services like this?
00:47:04.000Certainly the idea of the government being more effective in terms of how it runs education or social programs, you know, there's a lot of opportunity for improvement there.
00:47:13.000We can be more progressive, the estate tax and the tax on capital, the way the FICA Social Security tax worked, we can be more progressive without really threatening the income generation.
00:47:24.000So you're not like in a modern monetary theory that says, don't worry about the deficit, we'll just print the money and do it.
00:47:39.000That is, the people you owe the money to, you will have a problem.
00:47:43.000Well, Bill Gates, who knows something about money generation and generating jobs, and is a career Democrat, is coming out and saying the New Democratic Party is out of its mind.
00:47:51.000He will be cast out with scorn and hatred within the next five years.
00:47:54.000The Democratic Party has just moved too far to the left.
00:47:57.000Now, if we're going to become the Soviet Union, if AOC were to receive fruition, we would nationalize all industry, we would abolish capitalism and all the rest.
00:48:06.000It would be pretty awful for the economy of the world.
00:48:09.000The Soviet Union, an awful, evil, terrible, no good, very bad place.
00:48:12.000The one thing, the one upside, they had a great national anthem.
00:48:15.000I mean, I know, awkward, but they did.
00:48:18.000In fact, the National Anthem for the Soviet Union was so good that Vladimir Putin recently brought it back and changed the words, because the National Anthem for the Soviets is pretty great.
00:48:25.000Here's a little bit of the Soviet National Anthem.
00:48:26.000and we may as well just get used to it since presumably this will be played at the 2024 Democratic National Convention when AOC is nominated.
00:49:16.000I mean, if we're gonna go down this path, maybe we can... I mean, it's a better National Anthem than our National Anthem, just on a musical level.
00:49:22.000Not on a freedom level, obviously, but on a musical level, I've been a long-time believer that we should actually substitute America the Beautiful for our National Anthem.
00:49:30.000I think the Star-Spangled Banner is just musical garbage.
00:49:33.000It actually was an old British drinking song.
00:49:38.000Also, if you enjoy that, you can watch the Hunt for Red October, where people actually sing the Soviet National Anthem to let the Americans find the Soviet defectors, which is pretty great.
00:49:46.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:49:48.000Okay, so, over the last couple of days, President Trump held this rally in El Paso.
00:49:57.000It was a big story because a cameraman was attacked at the Trump rally.
00:50:00.000There's a little bit of tape of what that actually looked like.
00:50:03.000Like, here was President Trump speaking, and then you will see what happened to this camera person.
00:50:06.000Okay, it's a little bit hard to see, but basically there's a cameraman, a guy in a MAGA hat pushed the but basically there's a cameraman, a guy in a MAGA hat pushed Now, what the media are not reporting is that the crowd started booing the guy who pushed over the reporter, and he was being held back by another guy in a MAGA hat.
00:50:32.000So, you know, that seems to me a bad person doing a bad thing.
00:50:38.000The White House Correspondents Association then tried to blame it on Trump.
00:50:41.000The White House Correspondents Association put out a statement saying that they condemn the physical attack on our colleague at the President's rally in El Paso, Texas.
00:50:47.000We're relieved that this time no one was seriously hurt.
00:50:49.000The President of the United States should make absolutely clear to his supporters that violence against reporters is unacceptable.
00:50:55.000Well, honestly, like the administration has said that multiple times.
00:50:59.000And they repeated that this morning with Sarah Huckabee Sanders going on TV and saying, of course, we condemn this violence.
00:51:04.000We don't want violence against reporters.
00:51:05.000We just think that they should stop fibbing.
00:51:07.000But those those are completely separable.
00:51:08.000Reporters should actually report the news and be better at their jobs.
00:51:10.000And also, separately, no one should attack anybody else in a civilized country.
00:51:15.000You condemn any sort of attacks on anybody, right?
00:51:43.000There's this weird relationship the press has to free speech where they say that certain speech causes violence but not if it's leftist speech.
00:51:49.000So Bernie Sanders' supporter shoots a bunch of Congress people on a baseball field?
00:52:02.000Okay, either words only cause violence when you're actively encouraging violence, or words cause violence if a cracked person could take them to heart.
00:52:11.000And if that's the case, then Beto O'Rourke should preemptively condemn violence, because at his rally, there were people who were beating the living crap out of a Donald Trump piñata.
00:52:19.000So the pinata is not a person, but I think it's fair to say this is a somewhat violent activity, obviously.
00:52:25.000So good times over there at the Beto rally.
00:52:41.000Again, the tenor of politics in our country does have to change pretty radically, but I think that if the media are going to try and blame Trump for violence, then they're going to have to hold an equal standard.