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00:01:58.000But we'll get to the Oscars and its usual display of stupidity and over the top Over-the-top flashes of wealth that AOC and Bernie will have nothing to say about.
00:02:07.000In any case, let's begin with the Green New Deal.
00:02:09.000So over the weekend, something amusing happened.
00:02:12.000The amusing thing was that AOC basically let spill, unfortunately, what too many folks on the left actually think about the uses of government power.
00:02:21.000Now remember, AOC came into Congress as a fresh face.
00:03:49.000We have some questions about, you know, the destruction of the American economy, the slaughtering of all the cows, the end of air travel, perhaps, the retrofitting or destruction of every building in the United States.
00:03:59.000If you want to classify those as minor questions, I'm sure you could do that.
00:06:29.000But if we... All of this is so insane.
00:06:35.000I love... Nancy Pelosi just has to be sitting with her head in her hands every day over the fact that this person has somehow grabbed the headlines from her.
00:06:43.000And Nancy Pelosi, by the way, is Bane in Dark Knight Rises.
00:06:47.000She's sitting there going, Do you fear in control?
00:07:11.000And one of the beautiful things about power means you never have to answer serious questions.
00:07:15.000There's a piece in the New York Post about AOC today talking about the fact that it's very possible that she does not even live in her neighborhood, the one that she suggests she lives in, where she's a member of the people.
00:07:27.000Where she actually lives right now is in the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., one of the most upscale places in Washington, D.C.
00:07:32.000Paid for, by the way, because of a public-private project to build Washington Nationals Park, the kind of project that she didn't like with Amazon.
00:07:39.000In any case, the New York Post has a long piece saying that they were trying to figure out exactly where she lives in New York.
00:07:44.000Like, does she even live in her own district?
00:07:46.000And her people refuse to answer where she lives.
00:07:48.000She says for safety reasons, but they're not asking for her home address.
00:07:53.000All they are asking is, does she live in the district she says she lives in?
00:08:34.000Ocasio-Cortez was in New York City last weekend and this weekend, with appearances in Queens on both Saturdays, yet she was not seen coming or going from her park chester pad either day.
00:08:42.000Her apartment's next-door neighbor said she had never seen Ocasio-Cortez.
00:08:47.000Another neighbor, who has lived down the hall from the Congresswoman's apartment for the last 40 years, said she'd never seen her or her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, who has claimed the address as his own since last spring.
00:08:55.000I would have remembered, said the neighbor when shown a photograph of AOC.
00:08:58.000Workers at Jerry's Pizzeria, less than a block from her building, and at the local grocery store said she had never patronized their businesses.
00:09:05.000And a server at a nearby taqueria said the congresswoman had only come in to be filmed by news crews.
00:09:12.000A postal worker who delivers mail to the building said that in the last 10 years he has only seen Ocasio-Cortez intermittently and that several months worth of mail regularly accumulates in the mailbox before anyone bothers to collect it.
00:09:22.000The worker said that Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts were the only ones getting mail at the address.
00:09:26.000He said just because their names are on the box doesn't mean they live there.
00:09:30.000And in 2017, when Ocasio-Cortez first filed paperwork to become a congressional candidate, she didn't even know what district she lived in, mistakenly declaring plans to run for neighboring District 15 before correcting the error days later.
00:09:42.000Her new digs over in the Navy Yard feature gold-plated amenities like a rooftop infinity pool, a cycling studio with a dozen pricey Pelotons, men's and women's saunas, a golf simulation lounge, but no affordable units for low-income residents in spite of a local law that requires them, the news site reported.
00:09:57.000That'd be Washington Examiner reported.
00:10:08.000Now, what's hilarious about all of this is what makes her the boss is that she says catastrophic things on a regular basis.
00:10:14.000I mean, stuff that is just steeped in catastrophic thinking.
00:10:18.000So for example, AOC talks about climate change and the way she talks about climate change is the same way a small child would talk about climate change.
00:10:24.000I say the same way a small child talks about climate change because in just a few minutes I'm going to play you audio of a small child talking about climate change and it's indistinguishable from AOC.
00:10:34.000Indistinguishable except for the timbre of the voice.
00:10:37.000So AOC said over the weekend that Republicans won't have to deal with climate change because, after all, they'll all be dead.
00:10:44.000Which is weird because she's like six years younger than I am.
00:10:48.000And I speak regularly to thousands of Republicans who are younger than she is.
00:10:52.000But apparently all the Republicans will be dead so they won't have to deal with climate change.
00:10:55.000She will have to deal with climate change.
00:10:58.000I'm 29 and I know that this is going to be the world that we're going to have to deal with, that we're going to have to live in.
00:11:06.000And with all due respect to my colleagues, but especially in like the Republican Party, it's like, you're not going to have to live with this problem.
00:11:47.000AOC is merely a miniature of what her party is.
00:11:50.000If we pretend that the problem is so looming and so big and so disastrous, but not disastrous enough for us to do anything practical like, you know, build nuclear power plants, but so big and so disastrous that we have to wreck the entire economy on the shoals of this problem, Well then, I guess you'll have to give us all the power.
00:12:05.000I mean, that makes me the boss, doesn't it?
00:12:07.000In a second, we'll get to... That wasn't... These were not even her dumbest statements of the weekend.
00:12:11.000Wait until you hear what else she had to say about the Green New Deal.
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00:13:34.000Why do you think the Democrats like talking about World War II?
00:13:37.000Because you know what happened during World War II?
00:13:39.000A vast government seizure of pretty much everything in the United States.
00:13:43.000Goods were rationed, prices were controlled, wages were controlled, all the men were put in barracks and given rations.
00:13:49.000If this was your ideal for how to build an economy, I would say that you've got some real thinking to do about liberty and freedom.
00:13:55.000But the bigger you can make the catastrophe, the more power you're able to seize.
00:13:59.000Now it's amazing because Democrats will suggest that President Trump is doing this with the border.
00:14:02.000They'll say that he's manufacturing a crisis at the border and therefore he is seizing executive power in order to build a wall.
00:14:08.000That is nothing compared to what Democrats are trying to do with the Green New Deal and the issue of climate change.
00:14:15.000In just a second, I'm going to show you what AOC had to say about this because it's really insane.
00:14:19.000Again, You have to maximize the damage climate change is going to do and the extremity of how bad things are going to get and how quickly they're going to get in order so that you can grab power in the here and now.
00:14:31.000So here is AOC suggesting that we will all die, literally we'll all die, if we don't pass her Green New Deal.
00:15:36.000She's sitting in like a top-notch apartment in Washington, D.C., slicing squash and putting it in a blender on Instagram and talking about how we're all going to die and the world is over and you don't even have to provide evidence.
00:16:09.000Is that she knows if she walked outside she'd be dead in a second because of the freezing cold temperatures or because of the massive heatwave thanks to global warming that is happening in the here and now.
00:16:18.000So bad that she says she does not even have to prove that it's going to happen in the future or that her plans are going to do anything to mitigate it.
00:16:40.000She says, not only are we all going to die, maybe we shouldn't have kids.
00:16:44.000Well, listen, AOC, if you want to be the first to start with this, I am fine with that.
00:16:48.000Frankly, I don't think that if you're going to indoctrinate your kids into believing that they are on the verge of their doom, then please don't.
00:17:12.000But here's AOC encouraging young people not to have babies because it's hot outside or something.
00:17:17.000It's scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult.
00:17:22.000And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question, you know, should, is it okay to still have children?
00:17:32.000And I mean, not just financially, because people are graduating with 20, 30, $100,000 worth of student loan debt, and so they can't even afford to have Is it okay to still have children?
00:17:48.000- It's also just this basic moral question, like what do we do?
00:17:50.000And even if you don't have kids, there are still children here in the world and we have a moral obligation to them to leave a better world for them. - Is it okay to still have children?
00:18:02.000Okay, if you're taking your moral advice on life from a 29-year-old bartender turned congresswoman who is not married and doesn't have kids, if that's where you're gonna get your moral advice, All you, man.
00:18:15.000If you're the kind of person who thinks this is intelligent commentary from AOC, then I hope you live out all of her prescriptions and don't have kids.
00:18:40.000When I say she speaks like a small child, I mean literally like a small child.
00:18:43.000My favorite video of the last few days, there are a bunch of kids from something called the Sunrise Movement, and they've been indoctrinated by their teachers and by their parents to believe that they are on the verge of their own death, which they are not, okay?
00:18:55.000Again, the United States is the safest, most prosperous...
00:18:58.000Healthiest country that has ever been, that has ever been.
00:19:01.000The only possible exceptions are in Western Europe, which we prop up with our economy.
00:19:06.000And yet, these kids are going to Dianne Feinstein's office and trying to lecture her about climate change.
00:19:20.000But, as a senator, I've thought she's terrible for years and for literally my entire life because she's been a senator since I was like eight years old in the state of California.
00:19:49.000Some scientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around.
00:19:55.000Well, it's not going to get turned around in 10 years.
00:19:58.000What we can do is put ourselves... Senator, if this doesn't get turned around in 10 years, you're looking at the faces of the people who are going to be living with you across the country.
00:20:06.000The government is supposed to be for the people and by the people and all for the people.
00:20:10.000You know what's interesting about this group?
00:20:47.000But if you are going to pretend that you're the boss, come the hell on.
00:20:52.000So good on Dianne Feinstein owning the small children of the facts and logic.
00:20:55.000Now, if she will only turn to the small children within her own party, the mental The mental derelicts inside her own party, who apparently have no compunction about saying completely factless things, who are not interested in real solutions, who simply want to primp and pose so that they can get on the covers of magazines and then take more power for themselves so that they can be the boss.
00:21:15.000Okay, then, Dianne Feinstein, step in.
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00:23:04.000She has more momentum than, say, Elizabeth Warren, who is, I guess, fading out into the colors of the wind.
00:23:10.000But Kamala Harris Is still trailing Bernie Sanders because Bernie Sanders has what all the young people are looking for, a bag full of crazy and some old people charm.
00:23:20.000Kamala Harris is trying the intersectional approach.
00:23:22.000So Kamala Harris basically is taking the Oscars approach to politics.
00:23:27.000So I knew that Green Book was going to win last night at the Oscars.
00:23:30.000How did I know that Green Book was going to win last night at the Oscars?
00:23:32.000Because I knew that Shape of Water was probably going to win the year before.
00:23:36.000Because I have a very simple algorithm that I use for the Oscars.
00:23:39.000The simple algorithm that I use for the Oscars is simply, I just look at the PC metric on particular The intersectional metric on particular movies.
00:23:48.000So, last night, nominated for Oscars in the Best Picture categories were Bohemian Rhapsody, a movie about a gay guy, The Favourite, a movie about an old lesbian, Black Panther, a movie about black folks, Black Klansman, a movie about black folks, Vice, a movie about Dick Cheney, which was gonna go nowhere, A Star is Born, a movie about straight white people going nowhere, Roma, a story about a Latino woman, and Green Book, a story about a black gay guy.
00:24:17.000I mean, so Kamala Harris is basically doing the same thing, but in the 2020 Democratic primary.
00:24:21.000She's basically saying, listen, there's a lot of women in this primary, and there's some black people in this primary, but do you have a black woman in this primary?
00:24:28.000And if the answer is no, well, honey, I got an answer for you right here.
00:24:37.000So she came out yesterday and she says, you know, people keep complaining about this identity politics stuff.
00:24:43.000She's referring to Bernie, because Bernie has said that identity politics is a bad idea, generally, that we should judge candidates based on their merits, not based on their race or their sex.
00:24:51.000Kamala Harris has to fight back against that, because that's basically the only reason she's in the race.
00:24:56.000She's a first-term senator from California.
00:25:31.000They'll bring it up when we're talking about civil rights issues as a way to marginalize the issue.
00:25:39.000Okay, I love this so much because what identity politics itself is, is a way to silence and shut up.
00:25:47.000And so now if you say identity politics is bad, then you are the person shutting people up.
00:25:51.000Here is why identity politics shuts people up.
00:25:53.000The way identity politics works is it makes an essential claim.
00:25:56.000The essential claim that it makes is that you and I cannot understand each other if we are members of different racial groups, or different ethnic groups, or different sexual groups.
00:26:04.000That if I am a white man, I can therefore not understand what you, a black woman, are saying, Kamala Harris.
00:26:39.000That's how you get from one to the other.
00:26:40.000The idea being that Kamala Harris's politics are rooted in her identity.
00:26:45.000If I disagree with her politics, I therefore don't understand or I'm afraid of her identity and therefore I've attacked her identity and therefore I am discriminating against her simply by virtue of disagreeing.
00:26:55.000Identity politics is a way of destroying common conversation.
00:27:00.000Western civilization was built on the notion that we are all individuals freely capable of using our reason to communicate with one another.
00:27:06.000All of liberal republicanism is based on this.
00:27:09.000I mean like a liberal republic, a free republic, all of it is based on the idea that we are able to overcome our own membership in particular groups and speak to each other as individuals capable of using human reason.
00:27:21.000Identity politics cuts directly against that.
00:27:24.000But Kamala Harris wants to be able to run on the basis of identity politics.
00:27:27.000So now she says that if I call out her identity politics, if, for example, I say that she's pandering on particular issues because she's trying to pander to particular political groups that she thinks will benefit her, when she says that she's for, for example, slavery reparations, when I say that this is obviously a move to try and gain black votes in the Democratic primaries in 2020, because that's the only group in America that overwhelmingly supports slavery reparations, And so that is an aspect of her invoking politics of identity in order to garner certain votes back.
00:27:56.000If I say that, then that's me attempting to shut her up.
00:27:59.000Now, that's silly, because I'm more than willing to have a conversation about the relative merits and demerits of slavery reparations.
00:28:05.000We did it twice last week on the show, but Her point is that if you challenge anything she has to say, then you are by nature challenging her identity.
00:28:13.000And that's the only way she's going to get through these primaries.
00:28:16.000Too many Democrats have bought into this.
00:28:18.000But it is an ugly way of doing politics.
00:28:21.000And once again, it demonstrates that Kamala Harris's biggest selling point is, in fact, her identity and not actually her capacity to be a good senator or to do anything of use.
00:28:30.000This should be obvious from another answer she gave yesterday in this same interview.
00:28:33.000She was asked specifically about the cost of all of her various programs on MSNBC with Joy Reid.
00:28:38.000Who, by the way, how does Joy Reid still have a show?
00:28:54.000And then I guess she was also on CNN with John King.
00:28:56.000And she was asked specifically about how she was going to pay for all of her bizarro world, Medicare for all, free college for all, everything free for everybody proposals.
00:29:05.000And she gave the same answer that AOC gave, which is, well, money grows on trees and I'm the boss.
00:29:33.000People in the private sector understand this really well.
00:29:36.000It's not about a cost, it's about an investment.
00:29:39.000And then the question should be, is it worth the cost in terms of the investment potential?
00:29:45.000Are we going to get back more than we put in?
00:29:46.000Okay, if she is really suggesting that there is an ROI, a return on investment, that's the term we use in the private sector for what she's talking about.
00:29:53.000First of all, she's not investing her own dollars.
00:29:55.000She's investing my dollars and your dollars.
00:29:57.000Second of all, there is no ROI on what she is talking about.
00:30:01.000Right now, there's an ROI on the dollars that I personally spend on my healthcare.
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00:32:38.000Meanwhile, things have collapsed over in Venezuela, where it looks like open turmoil is the latest situation.
00:32:44.000This has not stopped some Democrats from coming out in defense of the current Venezuelan regime, or at least in lukewarm fashion for the Venezuelan regime.
00:32:51.000There's an amazing tweet thread from Chris Murphy, who is, believe it or not, an actual United States Senator from Connecticut.
00:32:57.000He tweeted out over the weekend, Okay, we can stop right there for a second.
00:33:04.000First of all, the potential trap being set by Trump?
00:33:07.000If you look at Venezuela and you think the problem is Trump, you got another thing coming.
00:33:10.000The problem in Venezuela is a socialist government run by a socialist dictator who is, in fully socialist fashion, murdering his people and preventing human aid from getting in.
00:33:19.000Preventing any sort of food or water from getting in through particular borders.
00:33:22.000Chris Murphy says cheering humanitarian convoys sounds like the right thing to do, but what if it's not about the aid?
00:33:28.000So now he's arguing a full United States senator is arguing against humanitarian convoys for people who are eating dogs, children are dying in Venezuela, and we're being told by Chris Murphy we should worry about Trump.
00:33:38.000He says what if the real agenda is laying a pretext for war?
00:34:00.000He said it with regard to Iran, with whom he was secretly attempting to cut a nuclear deal, leaving Iran in control of more weaponry and more money.
00:34:06.000So that's always been part of American policy.
00:34:10.000The idea that behind the velvet glove lays an iron fist or the possibility thereof.
00:34:50.000Murphy says, Senator Rubio rushed to tweet out reports today of Maduro allies firing into Colombian territory, warning that the United States will help Colombia confront any aggression against them.
00:34:59.000Venezuela ordered Colombian diplomats out in 24 hours, ramping up the crisis.
00:35:02.000By the way, Rubio also tweeted out the two expatriate members of the Venezuelan National Assembly were poisoned in Colombia yesterday, presumably by the by the Maduro.
00:35:30.000Didn't Barack Obama do that back during the Libyan War when some of us were saying, I'm bad idea, dude?
00:35:34.000And he did it repeatedly during the Arab Spring when some of us were saying bad idea.
00:35:38.000Murphy concludes, finally, perhaps most importantly, go look up the 1947 Rio Treaty.
00:35:43.000It's a Western Hemisphere mutual defense treaty and may not require a war declaration if Trump is legitimately coming to the defense of Colombia.
00:35:49.000Don't think the Venezuela hawks don't know this.
00:35:52.000Again, Donald Trump does not want to go to war in Venezuela.
00:35:55.000He does not want to be expending American blood and treasure in Venezuela.
00:35:58.000But we are going to support the Venezuelan people every way short of war if we can.
00:36:04.000And we'll support Colombia with presumably military aid if they need it against the Venezuelan government.
00:36:09.000If you're a Democrat and your chief worry today is about America's war and about Trump and how volatile he is, and not the fact that Maduro is doing all this stuff, again, there's been no indicator from the Trump administration they are interested in going to war.
00:36:24.000And once again, administrations signal routinely, every single one, Democrat and Republican, they are always signaling that they are willing to go to the ultimate if they have to.
00:36:34.000But there's been no indicator that Trump actually wants to do that, and it's amazing to watch Democrats come out of the woodwork to try and defend Maduro in effect, even as they pretend that they really don't like Maduro very much.
00:36:44.000The Oscars took place last night, and it was exactly what you would think it was.
00:36:48.000It was a liberal, self-pleasuring fest.
00:36:52.000It was ridiculous in every possible way.
00:36:55.000First of all, nobody had seen any of these movies except for Bohemian Rhapsody and Black Panther.
00:36:59.000So two of the movies people saw, Bohemian Rhapsody won a bunch of awards, including for best film editing, which is just, I mean, as I said early on the show, solid prank everyone.
00:37:09.000For those who actually saw Bohemian Rhapsody, Or clips from Bohemian Rhapsody.
00:37:13.000Essentially, the way that that film was edited, is that they had several cameras running on the same scene, and then they had a monkey with a toggle switch, who just toggled between reaction shots that meant nothing.
00:37:23.000It's one of the worst edited films of all time, and it won Best Film Editing, because guess what?
00:37:27.000People in Hollywood don't know anything about movies.
00:37:32.000In any case, the Oscars are always a back-patting fest, and there's always a large helping of irony when the folks who are most concerned about income inequality and who are cheering Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris walk in with $30 million diamonds around their neck.
00:37:55.000She's really in touch with the people.
00:37:57.000I always find it amazing how AOC finds time to rip on Jeff Bezos, who has created legitimately hundreds of thousands of jobs, but never finds any time at all to go after, you know, some of the major celebrities who are walking around wearing $10,000 gowns they will wear once and then discard on the charity pile.
00:39:16.000But I do think that the attempt by the media to conflate male with female, and to pretend that males acting in stereotypically female ways does not have any impact on children, and that gender confusion is actually a good thing, and that all of this is merely a... that all gender distinctions in dress and in manner and in behavior and in what they wear, that all of these are simply social constructs of no serious import, If that's true, then you're gonna have to explain why virtually every culture in the history of the planet has had separate dress for men and women.
00:39:45.000Very few cultures men and women dress identically.
00:39:49.000And the attempt to say, oh, well, it's so brave that here's this guy who's willing to dress like a woman... Question.
00:39:54.000Why is it cultural appropriation when a white chick wears a kimono, but it is not cultural appropriation when a black male wears a stereotypically female dress?
00:40:25.000It won Oscar after Oscar in a bunch of categories the director is kind of responsible for.
00:40:29.000Not one person thanked Bryan Singer because he's under suspicion of having statutorily raped underage boys.
00:40:35.000So nobody was willing to mention Bryan Singer.
00:40:37.000So that's one name that didn't get mentioned.
00:40:38.000The other name that didn't even get joked about is Jussie Smollett.
00:40:41.000It's only the leading story in America, and it's about an actor in Hollywood faking a hoax crime, faking a hate crime.
00:40:47.000Not one mention at the Oscars last night, but plenty of mentions of Trump because brave, stunning, stunning, brave, brave McStuns, stunning McBravery.
00:40:57.000If you think that it is brave for people in Hollywood to get up in front of other people in Hollywood and make jokes about Donald Trump, Let me introduce you to, like, anyone who is brave on planet Earth.
00:41:08.000Because any one of those people is braver than what just happened last night.
00:41:10.000So here are all these women dumping, like, legitimate bad jokes.
00:43:25.000And this beautiful, intimate film, one that gives a voice to the voiceless, reminds us of the understanding and compassion that we all owe to the invisible people in our lives, immigrants and women who move humanity forward.
00:43:46.000Okay, I just have to point out right here, Roma is so boring.
00:44:06.000So, the Oscars did what the Oscars do, and they do the same thing every year, and they are always equally irritating.
00:44:11.000People are always like, why are you irritated by the Oscars?
00:44:13.000Well, because you put out a program that's supposed to be the best of one of America's seminal domestic industries, and all you can come up with is the latest PC films that nobody saw, and then make fun of whatever Republicans happen to be in office, while feeding whatever Democrats happen to be in office.
00:44:36.000Like, even Bob Hope, when he was hosting the Oscars for years and years and years, he would always start off by roasting Hollywood, because we all love Hollywood, we all like going to the movies, but these people deserve to be roasted a little bit, don't they?
00:44:52.000Over the weekend, I was reading a book by Michael Denton, who is, in fact, a biologist, called Evolution Still a Theory in Crisis.
00:44:58.000The book does not suggest that evolution does not take place, of course.
00:45:02.000The book is basically about how microevolution takes place, but he makes the point that the notion that natural selection combined with genetic mutation, the idea that this has provided for all change in human history, and that macroevolution, meaning the jump from species to species, That that is simply a result of natural selective pressure combined with mutations?
00:45:21.000There's just not enough evidence for that.
00:45:22.000So macroevolution and microevolution might actually run along different lines.
00:45:26.000And you'd be surprised to learn how many major biologists and scientists agree with him.
00:45:31.000People including folks like Stephen Jay Gould.
00:45:33.000The notion that evolution is a continuous slow process of incremental change, and that that has taken us from species to species, that's not really accurate, just biologically speaking.
00:45:46.000There's evolution within species, there's evolution over time, but the notion that you can move from one to the other without some sort of different factor making the change happen, as opposed to just random natural selection, natural selection and random mutation, that's essentially what the book is about.
00:46:01.000It's highly technical, there's a lot in there that's technical, but the book is well worth the read.
00:46:04.000Michael Denton's Evolution Still a Theory in Crisis.
00:46:07.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:46:13.000Okay, so thing that I hate, number one.
00:46:14.000So Nike ran a commercial last night and everybody was fawning over this commercial.
00:46:48.000In the same way it's ridiculous when AOC says we're all moments away from death, it is ridiculous when Nike contends that women are sorely put upon in the United States.
00:47:22.000Okay, when they say, when we stand for something, then we are unhinged, really, Margaret Thatcher, did people call her unhinged for standing for something?
00:47:32.000Condi Rice, did people call her unhinged for standing for something?
00:47:35.000Women in your life, when they stand strong for something worthwhile, do we call them unhinged?
00:47:39.000And then they say, when we outperform, then there's something wrong with us.
00:47:42.000And they show a picture of a woman named Semenya.
00:47:44.000Semenya actually has a genetic disorder, which means that she, as a child and as an adult, has received essentially male levels of testosterone throughout her life.
00:47:54.000And that means that she's been able to out-compete other women on the base of this.
00:47:58.000So let's not pretend that there was no genetic abnormality with Semenya.
00:48:02.000There was a genetic abnormality with Semenya, which is why she was dominating women in competition.
00:48:05.000Okay, I'm not making actual formal allegations that they use child slavery in Bangladesh.
00:48:08.000hysterical well no women get angry on a fairly regular basis and are not considered hysterical when you're hysterical we consider you hysterical just like when men are hysterical we consider them them hysterical like what what this whole like women are so put upon but they can overcome buy this crappy sneaker made by child slaves in bangladesh okay i'm not making actual formal allegations that they use child slavery in bangladesh it's just a rumor guys one of our producers
00:48:36.000producers, Austin, said that Nike really should change their slogan, not to just do it, but not all of our shoes explode, which seems about right after what happened in the Duke, North Carolina basketball game.
00:48:47.000Anyway, the rest of this commercial is similarly silly.
00:49:24.000Literally no one said it was crazy for her to win 23 grand slams, except that it's crazy in the sense that she's amazing at what she does.
00:49:31.000She's the narrator of this commercial, by the way.
00:49:34.000Literally no one says that it is crazy for Simone Biles to compete, or for a woman to compete in a hijab, or for a woman to change sports, or for a woman to flip twice on a snowboard or something.
00:49:45.000I like that you shifted the notion of crazy.
00:49:48.000So crazy, as in like the colloquial sense, well that's wild, that's incredible the person did that, has now been shifted to be the same thing as they were doubted.
00:50:02.000Anybody who saw her knew what kind of talent she had.
00:50:05.000This is just, it's just asinine and it's sort of, and then what's even more kind of saccharine and sickening is all the men on Twitter are like, oh, what a beautiful commercial.
00:51:06.000Bill Maher said a very, very silly thing over the weekend.
00:51:09.000It is amazing how people in blue states like to pretend, very often, blue state folks, they like to pretend that they are all for people in red states, the downtrodden, they're for people who earn less economically, who are lower income.
00:51:22.000There's an enormous amount of scorn for people in red states from blue states.
00:51:25.000People in red states tend not to think... I've been in a lot of red states.
00:51:43.000They have their own things that they're doing.
00:51:45.000Folks in Tennessee, not worried about what's happening in Massachusetts.
00:51:49.000People in Massachusetts are deeply worried about what's happening in Tennessee.
00:51:52.000People in California are deeply worried about what's happening in Texas.
00:51:55.000They are deeply concerned about all of the evil people in Texas.
00:52:00.000Doing what they want to do and they have to somehow justify to themselves why it is that they're paying twice what other people pay for living where they live and why it is that people in Texas seem pretty happy without any of the government restrictions or social values that folks on the left want them to have.
00:52:14.000And so you end up with this Bill Maher here saying that red states are jealous of blue states.
00:52:19.000People in blue states are very often jealous of people in red states because people in red states don't think about people in blue states all that much.
00:52:26.000Here's Bill Maher though just sneering at people in red states.
00:52:31.000There are two Americas, and it seems like one is where all the cool jobs are, where people drive Teslas and eat artisanal ice cream.
00:52:41.000We have orchestras and theater districts and world-class shopping.
00:52:56.00070,000 homeless people on the streets, needles in the open, people crapping on street corners, speed bumps everywhere, pornography billboards all around our schools.