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00:00:00.000All hell breaks loose at Vox when the boss unleashes hell on a top staffer, racial issues continue to rile the nation, and nasty debate breaks out over reopening schools.
00:00:34.000You just have no idea where the market is going next with coronavirus and with race riots and with the presidential election.
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00:02:00.000Nancy Pelosi was going at it with the squad.
00:02:02.000You've seen hints of it at places like Evergreen State College, where Brett Weinstein, who's a socialist, I mean, an actual member of the political left, and was basically cast out of the college and was threatened with physical violence for deciding to teach in spite of a call for him not to teach because of his race.
00:02:18.000And there have been sort of hints at it here and there.
00:02:21.000But now it is broken into full-scale warfare, particularly inside the nation's institutions that are not universities.
00:02:26.000I think it's important to note this stuff has been happening on universities for a very long time, right?
00:02:30.000People like Nicholas Christakis over at Yale being ousted from the campus for the great sin of having said people wear Halloween costumes sometimes.
00:02:36.000You've seen college campuses trying to ban speech from people ranging from me to Heather MacDonald to Charles Murray to like everybody.
00:02:43.000On the right or anywhere near the right has been basically canceled from at least one campus or been threatened with violence for appearing at a campus.
00:02:50.000And this sort of stuff happens all the time.
00:02:52.000But the liberals in the media particularly, they didn't want to believe this was coming for them.
00:02:57.000They wanted to believe that this was only aimed at the right.
00:03:00.000And so the way they shied away from this is by saying a couple things.
00:03:02.000One, this is just Enthusiasm on college campuses.
00:03:07.000I mean, these are people, they're young, they make mistakes, but we need their enthusiasm to really drive the movement forward.
00:03:13.000We need to channel that enthusiasm, and as they grow, and as they mature, and as they enter the real world, some of those rough edges will be sort of sanded off, but we certainly don't want to denounce their behavior right now, and we certainly don't want to magnify it or pretend that it's outsized or means anything.
00:03:39.000So that was one angle that was being used, right, was that these are college campuses.
00:03:44.000And so that's nothing like how the real world is going to work.
00:03:47.000And the second angle that was being used is these are enthusiastic people who are going to become our people now.
00:03:52.000As you may have noticed from the last few years in politics, as soon as you say to the most radical element of your membership that you need their passion, they immediately take over the entire party, right?
00:04:02.000As soon as you say to a group of people who are sort of on the fringe that you need their passion to drive us forward, they take over the party.
00:04:08.000You've seen this with Bernie Sanders inside the Democratic Party.
00:04:10.000You could certainly say that this happened inside the Republican Party in 2016 with President Trump, is that there was this very disaffected group of populists who basically A lot of people, you could see this with all the other presidential campaigns, the other presidential campaigns did not want to hit Trump directly because they were saying, well, eventually Trump will fall away and we'll need the support of these people and their passion really means something.
00:04:29.000So Trump just takes over the party, right?
00:04:32.000The same, this sort of stuff happens in political movements all the time.
00:04:34.000Well, now it turns out that the left's cancel culture that started on campuses has moved into mainstream liberalism.
00:04:41.000And it turns out that mainstream liberalism had no immune system for this.
00:04:45.000Now normally, you have to have an immune system against bad stuff happening inside your political movement.
00:04:49.000And the immune system relies on you being able to toss people and elements out of your movement when you don't like what they're doing.
00:04:56.000To say certain tactics are off-limits in your movement.
00:04:58.000The problem is that the mainstream liberal left Didn't have an immune system for the hardcore left because basically all the hardcore left is they just extended the argument of mainstream liberals a little bit in ways that the mainstream liberals just could not fight back against.
00:05:15.000So the difference, I think, between liberals and the hard left in the United States is that liberals in the United States were all about fighting inequality from within the system.
00:05:24.000This is what liberals in the United States used to share with sort of classical liberals or even conservatives was the idea the American system wasn't necessarily inherently bad, it just had some problems with it.
00:05:34.000And if we just fix the problems, if we tinker with the problems in a technocratic way, if we harness the power of the American economy, if we harness capitalism to a bunch of regulations, Then we can end up with something that looks a lot more like gear up, a lot more equal in outcome.
00:05:46.000Now, what the left and liberals held in common was a goal of ending inequality.
00:05:50.000And not an inequality of opportunity or inequality of rights, ending inequality of outcome.
00:05:54.000That's what the left and liberals held in common.
00:05:56.000What the left and liberals were divided about was working within the system or working to destroy the system from outside.
00:06:02.000And so these two groups, the liberals and the left, they decided to basically make a common cause.
00:06:07.000Okay, well, we're not sure whether we're gonna tear down the system or whether we are going to work inside the system, but we have a common enemy, and that common enemy is the right, and the right must be fought.
00:06:16.000And so you saw these two groups of people basically combining forces, and this is sort of the difference between the radical left wing of the Democratic Party that was rioting at the 1968 Chicago Convention and the Hubert Humphrey wing of the Democratic Party that was still in charge of the party in 1968.
00:06:30.000You've seen this debate play out for decades inside the Democratic Party.
00:06:33.000One group of Democrats basically saying that The system itself is not completely broken.
00:06:40.000It doesn't have to be completely vitiated.
00:06:42.000What you have to do is work, tinker inside the system, and we draw closer every day to utopia.
00:06:47.000But you can't tear down the entire system because, while we don't like some of the roots of the system, we do like some of the things about the system.
00:06:53.000Like, we still like the culture of rights.
00:06:54.000This is why the ACLU used to be very much in favor of freedom of speech.
00:06:58.000And the radical left's like, no, all of this is bad, right?
00:07:01.000We need to tear everything down in neo-Marxist fashion, and we need to build up a new Marxist utopia.
00:07:05.000So that divide was there, but it was papered over by general oppositions to the right.
00:07:10.000Now, liberals always had the upper hand here because the mainstream American population was never in favor of tearing down the system.
00:07:16.000And when the Democratic Party was most successful historically is when the Democratic Party was making the liberal argument, not the hard left argument.
00:07:21.000Whenever the Democratic Party made the hard left argument, the Democratic Party lost.
00:07:25.000Whenever the Democratic Party argued we're tearing down the entire system, then they realized the American people are not up for that.
00:07:30.000The American people kind of like the American system.
00:07:33.000And so liberals always had the upper hand inside the party.
00:07:37.000But the problem, and this was the pitch the liberals made, was, you know, the reason you, on the left, you need to deal with us is because we can channel your program into action points that are palatable to the American people.
00:08:08.000Well, in the 1960s, the left began to make the argument that if you were against their programs, if you were against their political programs that stood in favor of ending inequality, right?
00:08:18.000We're working within the system to end inequality was the argument.
00:08:21.000If you were against any of those programs, it's because secretly you were racist.
00:08:25.000And the right was hit with this over and over and over again.
00:08:29.000I mean, the right got this all the time.
00:08:31.000If you were in favor of welfare reform, it's because you were secretly a racist.
00:08:35.000If you were against Obamacare, it's because you're secretly a racist.
00:08:38.000If you were against any of the left's programs, the liberals' programs, in terms of shifting the nature of American government, it's because you were secretly a racist.
00:08:47.000So they allied with the radical racial movement to racialize everything in order to again push forward.
00:08:52.000So the liberal left, which wanted to work within the system, built alliances with two groups of people now who wanted to tear down the system.
00:08:58.000One, radical racialists who saw the entire system as an outgrowth of American brutality.
00:09:03.000And two, neo-Marxists who wanted to see the entire system ripped down about their ears.
00:09:08.000And liberals were like, okay, we still have the upper hand here.
00:09:12.000Now the problem is that by bringing everybody into this fold and creating this alliance, the liberals basically made themselves a minority inside their own movement.
00:09:23.000So basically you had a bunch of people who said, listen, When we say that you stand in favor of systems, you on the right, that you stand in favor of systems that perpetuate inequality.
00:09:33.000And so we want to change those systems because that's racist that you want to perpetuate inequality.
00:09:38.000The left said, it's not just that the systems have to be changed from the inside to stop racism.
00:09:43.000The systems have to be torn down as a whole to stop racism.
00:09:46.000In fact, every element of the system has to be torn down to stop racism.
00:09:50.000And the liberals wanted to maintain at least some semblance of the system were taken aback by this argument.
00:09:55.000They had no immune system to this argument because they'd been using the exact same argument to attack the right for years.
00:10:01.000For years, the attack on the right had been, you guys are secretly racist because you don't agree with us.
00:10:06.000And then the left said to the liberals, you guys are secretly racist because you don't agree with us.
00:10:11.000And liberals had no comeback to that because they'd been using the same exact argument for literally decades.
00:10:17.000Now, normally, there'd be a couple of pushback points from the liberals to the left here.
00:10:21.000One would be, guys, we can't win like this, right?
00:10:24.000Tearing down the system is not a winning strategy.
00:10:26.000Tearing down the system is not going to be successful, right?
00:10:28.000This has always been the liberal talking point against the hard left, which is, we're gonna take your more radical viewpoints, we're going to channel them into a more palatable form to the American people, and then we will win a broad victory.
00:10:38.000But if it's just you guys, you're a rump, right?
00:10:40.000You don't actually have enough votes in order to win things.
00:10:43.000Well, now the left says to liberals, guys, have you seen our cultural dominance?
00:10:47.000Have you seen the kind of cultural power we can exert?
00:10:50.000Have you seen the fact that we can take shows off the air?
00:10:52.000Have you seen the fact that we can take over Hollywood?
00:10:54.000That we can take over mainstream media institutions?
00:10:57.000Have you seen the fact that we can club people into submission?
00:11:05.000We have a coalition of the dispossessed.
00:11:07.000Or at least the purportedly dispossessed.
00:11:09.000And we are going to mobilize against the system and you guys are standing in our way.
00:11:12.000You're either with us or you're against us.
00:11:14.000So point number one that the liberals had against the left was gone.
00:11:17.000Because the left said, listen, you've been saying we need you for victory.
00:11:20.000What if we don't need you for victory?
00:11:21.000What if actually, if you join us, we have victory?
00:11:25.000What if the left sides behind Bernie Sanders and maybe we can still win?
00:11:29.000And this begins to look much more like a plausible outcome when they're running against somebody like Donald Trump because they say everybody hates Trump so much that, you know, we can be as hard left as we want to be and we don't need you to uphold the system anymore.
00:11:40.000So that was point number one that the liberals used to use against the left and that the left has basically destroyed.
00:11:44.000Point number two is that the liberals used to have a principled point with regard to the left, which was, listen, even if we are the majority, the reality is that one of the ways we became the majority is by using many of the rights that are now decrying, right?
00:12:37.000And you are complicit in violence if you stand for rights.
00:12:40.000So the left came up with a clever tactic, right?
00:12:42.000This started on college campus with all the safetyism.
00:12:45.000The argument is that if I say something you don't like, it is not that I am exercising my freedom of speech and we ought to have a discussion.
00:12:51.000It is that I am enacting violence upon you.
00:12:54.000And so rights are not implicated anymore.
00:12:56.000Rights themselves, in fact, are a shield for violence being done.
00:13:01.000And again, the liberals really had no comeback to this because the liberals had been using very similar arguments on a variety of issues.
00:13:08.000Liberals had been using this argument, for example, on freedom of association, right?
00:13:11.000They said, freedom of association is bad.
00:13:13.000The federal government now has to regulate freedom of association because some people misuse freedom of association.
00:13:18.000They don't want to associate with people because they're racist, for example.
00:13:20.000And therefore, freedom of association cannot be used as an excuse to do bad things.
00:13:26.000And so the hard left said, okay, well, if that applies to freedom of association, then it also applies to things like freedom of speech.
00:13:31.000And so freedom of speech has to be curtailed in order to protect people's feelings, because people's lives are being ruined.
00:13:45.000This is all a big lead up to what you are seeing right now in mainstream media institutions around the country, major institutions around the country, as liberals, I think, are giving sort of their final gasp of breath before they are drowned in the bathtub of leftism.
00:14:00.000What's happening right now is that the liberals, having thought all along that this alliance was going to serve them, it turns out that the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact has now been broken.
00:14:12.000And it turns out that somebody's invading the Soviet Union.
00:14:14.000It turns out that the heretofore alliance was always a shield for a betrayal that was going to come and take over the leadership.
00:14:25.000There was gonna be an internal battle, liberals didn't expect it, and now they're looking around and they're going, oh, wait a second, oh no.
00:14:32.000The Committee on Public Safety, they're the first people to the guillotines, as it turns out, that if you humored all these folks, that eventually they would turn on you.
00:14:39.000They figured they'll never turn on us, they're just, you know, we'll use their passion.
00:14:43.000The liberals felt about the mainstream left, the big radical left, the same way they felt about the college campus kids.
00:15:08.000What if we take the wheel and you ride shotgun for a little while?
00:15:11.000And liberals have no idea how to counter this.
00:15:13.000And so instead, they're signing open letters saying, we support freedom of speech, and then they're being canceled for doing so.
00:15:19.000You can see this playing out in the halls of Vox.com, one of the less good publications on the internet.
00:15:25.000We'll get to the battle that's broken out At Vox.com, because it is quite fascinating and indicative of exactly what is happening inside the left versus liberal internal battle.
00:15:34.000Now, normally, by the way, I would say I would just sit back and enjoy this, right?
00:15:37.000I mean, this is like a bunch of people who I'm not necessarily the most fond of who are eating each other.
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00:15:51.000I think right now they're losing and they're losing pretty badly.
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00:17:31.000Vox.com has for a very long time been on the side of the cancel culture, right?
00:17:35.000They've been deeply enmeshed in the cancel culture.
00:17:38.000When Steven Crowder said some not very nice things about Carlos Maza, who was then working for Vox, Carlos Maza claimed publicly that he had been victimized and that he was, his feelings had been hurt, his safety had been imperiled because somebody said mean words about him on the interwebs, which as a person who's, I think it's fair to say I've taken my fair share of mean words on the interwebs.
00:18:05.000But, Vox went all out and tried to have Steven Crowder basically ban from the YouTube platform.
00:18:10.000Like, they issued a full letter from the editorial board trying to ban.
00:18:13.000So they've been very involved in cancel culture for a long time.
00:18:17.000But one of the people over at Vox.com, Matthew Iglesias, Again, is not a person who I think I've spoken about positively much on this program other than maybe in the last couple of months when it seems like he has had an awakening to the fact that free speech is actually a good thing.
00:18:29.000Iglesias signed on to this Harper's Weekly letter that was signed by 150 different people, all of whom were from center to central left, I would say.
00:18:37.000The most right-wing figures there were people like David Frum, right?
00:18:39.000Not a single Trump voter among them, obviously.
00:18:42.000It was signed by about 150 intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals, like Noam Chomsky.
00:18:46.000And it was basically just a statement that we don't like cancel culture.
00:18:50.000So Iglesias signed it, and he was immediately hit with an accusation by one of his own staffers, who is a trans woman, meaning biological male, who believes that he is a female, that Iglesias was somehow threatening his safety, right?
00:19:04.000That Iglesias was somehow targeting him.
00:19:40.000He's currently editor-at-large over there, I believe.
00:19:42.000So Ezra, obviously a very high-ranking staffer over there.
00:19:44.000And Ezra, who's always been semi-warm toward cancel culture, and you can view our Sunday special that I did with him.
00:19:50.000Perfectly nice guy, Ezra Klein, but not somebody who has fought very hard against cancel culture, and in fact has sort of sat there sort of cheering it for a while.
00:19:57.000Ezra Klein and Matthew Iglesias get into a flame war.
00:20:00.000Now remember, Iglesias is another co-founder of Vox.com, right?
00:21:24.000To take the co-founder of your website, who signed a letter that basically says free speech is good and cancel culture is bad, and then tweet, actually, what he means, actually, what he means is he wants to be powerful.
00:21:35.000He gets power out of defending free speech.
00:21:36.000First of all, let me just make something perfectly clear on the left today.
00:21:39.000There is no power in claiming you're about free speech on the left today.
00:21:43.000The amount of power and prestige to be earned on the political left for being pro-free speech is very low.
00:21:50.000By the way, it ain't that high on the right either.
00:21:52.000Because I end up having to defend a lot of people that the right doesn't like particularly much.
00:21:55.000I've ended up defending people like James Gunn on this show.
00:21:58.000I've ended up defending people on this show Who have been hired by the New York Times after saying anti-white stuff.
00:22:04.000I've defended a wide variety of people.
00:22:06.000You're not going to earn friends and influence people, really, by defending free speech.
00:22:09.000But according to Ezra Klein, if you say you're for free speech, you're for the re-enshrinement of power, which is a trick that Ezra does a lot, and I find it really, really ugly, is this idea that when you say one thing, what you actually mean is this other thing.
00:22:21.000But what you actually are about is re-enshrining hierarchies of power.
00:22:25.000And that's what Ezra Klein says about Iglesias.
00:22:28.000So then Iglesias fires back, should I reply to this with a concrete example or stick to my commitments to you?
00:22:32.000Which is basically him saying, do you want me to violate my confidentiality that I've signed with Vox.com and the commitments that I've signed to Vox.com and the personal commitments?
00:22:41.000You're flaming me online, but I'm not going to flame you, is what Iglesias is saying right there.
00:22:47.000Okay, then, so it appears like people online are speculating that basically it looks like Vox is going to fire Iglesias, right?
00:23:20.000He is trying to keep silent so that he is not ousted from Vox.com and publicly bashed by his former co-founder partner, Ezra Klein.
00:23:29.000And then Ezra Klein does the same thing.
00:23:31.000They must come to some sort of agreement.
00:23:32.000Ezra Klein tweets out, The idea that I would try to get Matt, literally my co-founder and the oldest friend in journalism, fired over this letter is risible.
00:23:38.000I've asked Matt and others at Vox to not subtweet colleagues.
00:23:41.000My mistake here is this tweet read like a subtweet of him when it honestly wasn't.
00:23:44.000I am sure that it was not a subtweet of Iglesias.
00:23:46.000Sure, sure it wasn't a substitute of Iglesias.
00:23:49.000The bottom line is that the sort of Iglesias versus Klein battle inside Vox.com is quite indicative of the extent to which the radical left has influenced the debate.
00:24:26.000The actual EIC of Vox is a woman named Lauren Williams, who tweeted out, Okay, well, if you're the EIC of Vox, you might want to get your house under control, lady.
00:24:33.000I don't tweet, so folks who don't know or work with me seem to think a variety of other people wield that power.
00:24:38.000Okay, well, if you're the EIC of Vox, you might wanna get your house under control, lady.
00:24:41.000I mean, like, let me just put it this way.
00:24:46.000And if people inside my shop were subtweeting other people inside my shop, the way that this is going on at Vox, somebody would be on the breadlines tomorrow.
00:24:55.000This is not the way you run a business.
00:24:57.000But again, the way that you run a business now is to basically let your woke staffers control the whole thing.
00:25:01.000And the liberals, do the liberals have an immune system to this?
00:25:05.000I really wonder because once you have that combination of tear down the system and also anyone who says don't tear down the system is a racist.
00:25:12.000Once you have moved from traditional liberal views of racism to the anti-racism of the Ibram Kendi, Robin D'Angelo crowd, there is no immune system among liberals to fight this.
00:25:21.000I think the battle's over and I think that the liberals just haven't acknowledged it yet.
00:25:24.000Or they're going to have to acknowledge that they are on the outside of their own party.
00:25:26.000And I think that, let me just say this, I've spoken to many, many liberals at mainstream organizations in the past three weeks.
00:25:33.000I never reveal who I talk to because I understand the way this works.
00:25:35.000If they say they've ever had a conversation with me, they're immediately canceled.
00:25:43.000But if you're a liberal working inside a mainstream media organization, You can't say you've ever had a conversation, like, you've never glanced at me publicly.
00:25:50.000If you ever glance at me publicly, you might get canceled.
00:25:52.000Let me just say, I've gotten a bevy of texts, not just from one or two people, from many, many people, who are mainstream liberals, asking me what the hell is going on.
00:26:00.000I'm like, guys, sorry that you're late to the party.
00:26:02.000Sorry I've been warning you about this for a while.
00:26:06.000Just, I hate to break it to you, but welcome.
00:26:08.000I feel like Bruce Willis in Die Hard looking down on Carl.
00:26:12.000Welcome to the party, pal, as the shots rain down from the third floor from Hans Gruber's crew.
00:26:19.000Meanwhile, you know how much the... So, a couple of the key arguments that have been made here by the radical left, you can see that, again, their argument is not absolutely wrong, right?
00:26:29.000The liberals made a couple of arguments.
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00:28:02.000Okay, so as the liberals lost, I think, their unity with the country.
00:28:08.000As they began to give ground over time to the radical left that claimed that the entire system was corrupt and evil and anybody who opposed institutional change was racist.
00:28:15.000As that happened, as they went along with the full-scale destruction of America's history, culture, philosophy, the destruction of the elements of which I talk about in my upcoming book, comes out very soon now, in about a week and a half, my new book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:28:30.000As the liberals and the left basically formed an alliance to go along with the destruction of these things in pursuit of political power, it turns out that the left gained the upper hand because as the culture changed, as people began to accept liberal arguments, that to oppose changes to the system was in fact an element of racism, an element of bigotry, the great stain on American history.
00:28:50.000As people began to accept this, the left began to credibly make the argument in the institutions of power that they could make as radical an argument as they possibly wanted and people would basically go along with it.
00:29:10.000They've participated in institutional capture.
00:29:12.000The most obvious example of the institutional capture is, of course, the 1619 Project.
00:29:16.000The 1619 Project, by the way, one of my favorite things about the New York Times, their dishonesty is just astonishing.
00:29:22.000The New York Times spends day after day after day trying to browbeat companies like Facebook into shutting down all the outlets they don't particularly like.
00:29:30.000The New York Times has column after column suggesting that Facebook is evil and horrible and risible and terrible because they allow sites like Daily Wire to exist and monetize.
00:29:41.000You know, this kind of stuff is very bad, according to the New York Times.
00:29:44.000Every single day, there's a columnist at the New York Times who'll tweet out how popular my Facebook page is.
00:29:49.000What he's really doing, obviously, is he's suggesting that Facebook is evil for allowing my page to be popular.
00:29:54.000Listen, it's not my fault that you write good headlines over at the Daily Wire and people want to click on our stuff, you jerk.
00:29:58.000But the reason that people at the New York Times are doing that is because the New York Times is simultaneously dropping millions and millions of dollars in marketing on Facebook.
00:30:06.000You know how much money the New York Times spends on the 1619 Project marketing?
00:30:11.000There's a good story over at Daily Wire today by the new editor-in-chief over there, John Bickley, in which he talks about how much money the New York Times has spent on the 1619 project.
00:30:20.000According to the marketing intelligence platform, Pathmatics, the New York Times, which has spent all of its time suggesting other outlets should basically be shut down on Facebook, the New York Times has spent around $65 million over the course of the last 12 months on Facebook advertising for all of its various promotional campaigns.
00:30:36.000A review of just three ads promoting the 1619 Project, which of course reimagined America as a racist hellscape from inception to now, over the course of about two months, in fall 2019, estimates a spend of around $3 million for three ads.
00:31:06.000I mean, Nicole Hannah-Jones, what a racist hellscape America is.
00:31:08.000I mean, what's hilarious about this is the more the radical left takes over the institutions of American culture, the harder their argument should actually become.
00:31:15.000Because their argument, particularly the racially radical left, their argument is that America is a racist hellscape, bigoted, evil in every way.
00:31:23.000And at the same time, they're in charge of all the major cultural institutions of the country, right?
00:31:27.000Colin Kaepernick is earning millions of dollars from Disney for some sort of first-look deal, plus millions of dollars from Nike for kneeling.
00:31:33.000Nicole Hannah-Jones, who spends her entire life talking about how racist America is, is now working with Oprah Winfrey, perhaps the richest woman on planet Earth, a black woman from America, partnering with Lionsgate to bring the New York Times' project to a series of films and TV shows.
00:31:49.000Does this sound like people who are shut out of the halls of power by a racist hellscape system?
00:31:53.000Apparently the answer is yes, but the broader argument the left can make now is, listen, we're in control.
00:31:59.000We don't need to tolerate rights anymore.
00:32:00.000You used to need those things like freedom of speech in order to push your point of view, because it turns out that most Americans didn't agree with it.
00:32:06.000We don't need freedom of speech anymore.
00:32:10.000We control the dissemination of information.
00:32:12.000And if we don't, then we'll try to bully platforms into mirroring us, right?
00:32:16.000We'll try to bully Facebook into shutting down all other dissemination of information.
00:32:20.000Once the left has taken the reins, it's totalitarian.
00:32:22.000I mean, that is what is going on here.
00:32:25.000According to the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times have chosen global content leader Lionsgate to be the home for a wide-ranging partnership to develop Ms.
00:32:34.000Hannah-Jones' landmark issue of the New York Times magazine, The 1619 Project, and hit New York Times podcast, 1619, into an expansive portfolio of feature films, TV series, and other content for a global audience.
00:32:45.000Wow, I mean, what a racist hellscape America is.
00:32:47.000What a terrible, terrible place where people of color simply cannot get ahead.
00:32:51.000Like Nikole Hannah-Jones, who's made a living, an incredible living, and an incredible profile out of suggesting that America is, from root to branch, the worst place ever.
00:33:01.000So again, the left's argument is really effective against liberals.
00:33:05.000They say, listen, we don't need any of those rights that you used to talk about.
00:33:08.000You know, we're old enough to remember when you used to say things like, we'll defend your right to say anything, even if we disagree with it, but we don't.
00:33:14.000Because really what you're doing is you're enabling evil, guys.
00:33:19.000And this is why you see people on the hard left who feel no shame at defending, openly defending just terrible behavior, so long as the person who's engaging in the terrible behavior is a member of a victimized minority group.
00:33:33.000It truly is amazing what people are willing to go along with.
00:33:36.000For example, there's this football player named Deshaun Jackson.
00:33:39.000Deshaun Jackson is a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, very talented guy.
00:33:44.000He also happens to be apparently a rabid anti-Semite who is fond of quoting Hitler on his Instagram page, which is always a delight.
00:33:50.000Okay, he quoted Hitler, he quoted Louis Farrakhan.
00:33:53.000We already know that Ice Cube does this, right?
00:33:55.000There was all this blowback for about 24 hours about Ice Cube.
00:33:58.000Does anyone actually think Ice Cube won't be hired to play a part anytime in the next year or two?
00:34:03.000Imagine somebody white in Hollywood quoting Hitler about the Jews and think whether that person would be hired anytime in the near future.
00:34:12.000Mel Gibson lost a decade of his career because he did this sort of stuff, right?
00:34:15.000But if you are on the left, and you are on the hard left, and you're a person of color, you can basically say what you want about the Jews.
00:34:21.000So, Deshaun Jackson is openly quoting Hitler, and Shannon Sharp, the former tight end for the Denver Broncos, and I believe Green Bay Packers at one point, Shannon Sharp, he comes out and defends Deshaun Jackson and Louis Farrakhan on national television.
00:34:37.000Because this is, the radical left does not have to have, they don't even have to abide by their own rules.
00:34:53.000Where are the calls to boycott first, to boycott undisputed?
00:34:58.000Right, really, if this happened on Fox News, right, not on Fox Sports, if this happened on Fox News, And it was right-wingers talking about excusing pro-Hitler commentary from a white guy.
00:36:01.000Okay, I love the whataboutism on behalf of Louis Farrakhan.
00:36:03.000Really solid stuff there from Shannon Char.
00:36:05.000Bottom line is, if you're on the proper side of the left, all defenses are available to you.
00:36:10.000If you're not on the proper side of the left, no defenses are available to you.
00:36:13.000And again, the cultural commanding heights have been captured by the radical left to the point where bloviating idiots like Chelsea Handler are fully compliant with the line, right?
00:36:23.000The new line is it's time to dismantle the entire system.
00:36:25.000Here is Chelsea Handler talking about this yesterday.
00:36:29.000Coming to the realization that my success has a lot to do with my skin color, I wanted to really do something that set an example about how to, you know, contribute.
00:36:42.000Because at this point, it's not enough to just say you're not racist.
00:36:46.000You know, you have to be, we have to be working to dismantle the system because we are reaping the benefits in exchange for people losing benefits.
00:36:55.000We have to, we have to dismantle the system.
00:36:58.000Okay, well, when you've got the entire culture echoing the message, it's time to not just work within the system, the old liberal line, right?
00:37:03.000Not to change the system, to dismantle the system, to fundamentally transform the system.
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00:38:31.000Okay, in just a second, we are going to get to The Joe Biden of it all, because the left kind of wants to have it both ways, right?
00:38:39.000Joe Biden was nominated on the basis of the liberal promise, not the hard left promise.
00:38:43.000But can Americans trust that Joe Biden is going to be a bulwark against this sort of stuff?
00:38:47.000In other words, would Joe Biden have signed the cancel culture letter or would he be on the Ezra Klein side, basically pooh-poohing cancel culture, pretending it doesn't exist and suggesting that if you care about free speech, it's about relationships of power, right?
00:39:33.000I know you've heard about my book a little bit.
00:39:34.000It's my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:39:37.000You're watching it like enacted step by step.
00:39:39.000But my book is really the response to the attempt to destroy America and what you should do in order to stop that.
00:39:44.000It really is an activism manual, philosophical activism manual for how to fight back against the leftist lies about the disintegrationist, really is what I call them.
00:39:51.000People who want to destroy our common heritage.
00:39:54.000The Disintegrationist Lies About American History, America's Culture of Rights, America's Philosophy.
00:39:58.000All of those things are under assault.
00:40:00.000How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:40:01.000It is easily the most relevant book at the moment.
00:40:03.000I mean, there's just no question about it.
00:40:04.000I didn't think it was going to be that relevant when I wrote it.
00:40:06.000It is far more relevant now than when I wrote it back in December and January.
00:41:00.000I mean, he was having rallies where he literally had indigenous people get on stage and talk about how the rally was taking place on stolen Native American land.
00:41:08.000He was going up there and apologizing for America's history.
00:41:10.000He was going up there and suggesting that America's entire system was thoroughly corrupt and evil and had to be torn down and built anew.
00:41:17.000And this is stuff that Bernie Sanders talked about.
00:41:19.000So all the kind of most radical stuff that you're hearing right now about Mount Rushmore and tearing down statues.
00:41:24.000Bernie had already made his peace with the radical racial left and he had made the alliance.
00:41:29.000And then Joe Biden waltzed to the nomination because it turns out most Americans are still not up for this.
00:41:33.000So the great lie that this is what the liberals really should be resisting along the lines of is That the old promise is still kind of true, which is you can't win, except that the radical left thinks they can win and that they're going to use Joe Biden as their vehicle for winning.
00:41:49.000So Joe, is Joe Biden a captured vehicle is really the question of the moment for the 2020 election.
00:41:55.000Because Joe Biden basically won the primaries by saying, I'm not Bernie.
00:41:59.000And most Democrats were like, you know what?
00:42:00.000We could use a not Bernie in order to win.
00:42:03.000But as Trump becomes more unpopular and the radical left gains more and more credence in the culture wars, the radical left has been able, as I've been talking about, to suggest that it does have the power to win elections on its own without the soft peddling of people like Joe Biden.
00:42:22.000Joe Biden, secretly, and not quite that secretly, is making overtures to the radical left.
00:42:28.000He's still making noises about how he's gonna be sort of a bulwark, but we know that the bulwark doesn't really exist.
00:42:33.000In the same way that Barack Obama, in 2008, was suggesting that he was very much pro-traditional marriage, when everybody basically knew that he was lying, everybody kind of knew, because he'd already talked about it in 2006, 2007, that he was pro-same-sex marriage, but in 2008, running for president, he was like, I don't think the American people are ready for that, so I know, I'll just lie.
00:42:48.000And he went out there and he was like, I'm pro-traditional marriage, In fact, the same election that elected Barack Obama basically brought a proposition in California to fruition, Prop 8, that protected traditional marriage.
00:43:01.000And it was largely on the back of black votes, right?
00:43:02.000A lot of black voters voted for Obama and also voted to preserve traditional marriage.
00:43:05.000And those were not in conflict in 2008 because Barack Obama was saying he was for traditional marriage in 2008.
00:43:11.000So now it feels kind of the same thing with Joe Biden and him standing up for quote, America's values and America's history, right?
00:43:17.000Joe Biden was asked, would you tear down statues?
00:43:19.000And he said, well, I would let them tear down the Confederate statues, but I wouldn't tear down statues of Washington, Jefferson and Columbus, which is, by the way, the sort of mainstream American position.
00:43:33.000Is Joe Biden genuine when he says that sort of stuff?
00:43:35.000That he's going to provide some sort of wall against the radical left, destroying our culture from within, turning us into a censorious Mao struggle session?
00:43:57.000Joe Biden will say whatever he has to do to get elected, but Joe Biden is not going to be an activist on behalf of traditional American history, philosophy, or culture.
00:44:04.000When it comes right down to it, if Joe Biden thought he could get away with signing into law a hate speech regulation, I think Joe Biden would probably do it.
00:44:13.000I think that if Joe Biden thought he could get away with signing into law slavery reparations, I think Joe Biden would probably do it.
00:44:18.000He wants to be seen as a historic figure.
00:44:20.000You're not seen as a historic figure for holding the line.
00:44:22.000You're seen as a historic figure on the left for radically changing things.
00:46:06.000And these folks, needless to say, people who represented the progressive movement had a different perspective on things than did Biden's people.
00:46:14.000But there was serious discussion and I think a real honest effort to come up with a compromise.
00:46:21.000And I think the compromise that they came up with, if implemented, We'll make Biden the most progressive president since FDR.
00:46:31.000So as you can hear, Bernie is sounding pretty happy there, right?
00:46:34.000Bernie has engaged in institutional capture and the institutional capture is complete.
00:46:38.000And Biden is now a tool of the radical left.
00:46:41.000And this is one of the reasons, by the way, why I think that it's very likely that Biden is going to avoid debate with Trump.
00:46:46.000Because I think Trump could simply ask him some very simple questions, some very simple questions.
00:46:50.000He could ask him, do you believe that America was founded in 1776 or in 1619?
00:46:55.000Do you believe that America was founded on slavery?
00:46:57.000Do you think that America was an incredible system marred by the great sin of slavery?
00:47:02.000Or do you think that America's systems are rooted in slavery?
00:47:05.000Do you believe in slavery reparations?
00:47:08.000Do you believe that the cops should be defunded, as so many members of your own party seem to have suggested?
00:47:13.000Do you think the cops are endemically racist?
00:47:15.000Do you think that they are systemically racist and targeting black Americans?
00:47:20.000There are a thousand things that Biden could be asked that are part of the radical left's agenda.
00:47:24.000Biden doesn't want to be asked those questions because his entire goal here is to elide those questions in very much the same way that Barack Obama was able to elide many of the questions about his own radicalism in 2008.
00:47:35.000Biden is not quite as quick on his feet as Barack Obama was circa 2008.
00:47:40.000Also, he's not faced with an opponent.
00:47:43.000Who was quite as conciliatory as John McCain in 2008.
00:47:45.000In 2008, John McCain was not willing to ask Barack Obama any tough questions.
00:47:48.000Donald Trump has no limits and will ask Joe Biden pretty much anything on a debate stage, which is why I think it is quite likely that Biden actually just does not debate Trump.
00:47:56.000I think that, especially with coronavirus, I think it is quite possible that Joe Biden basically says, I'm not debating Trump and there's no reason for me to debate Trump.
00:48:27.000Now that could change, but Trump's going to have to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
00:48:30.000One of the rabbits he's going to have to pull out of the hat is a debate in which he just clocks Biden across the head.
00:48:35.000And so Biden's best move here is to avoid all these questions.
00:48:40.000Biden's best move here, because you know he's going to pick somebody radical for his VP.
00:48:44.000There's just no way he's going to pick somebody who is not, in some sense, radical.
00:48:48.000The least radical candidate on his list is Susan Rice, which does not speak very highly of the non-radicalism of your list.
00:48:54.000But Thomas Friedman is openly suggesting now, in the New York Times, that Biden should not debate Trump unless Trump releases his tax returns for 2016 through 2018, which, of course, Trump is probably not going to do.
00:49:06.000And second, Biden should insist, says Thomas Friedman, on a real-time fact-checking team approved by both candidates be hired by the Nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, and that 10 minutes before the scheduled conclusion of the debate, his team report on any misleading statements, phony numbers, or outright lies either candidate had uttered.
00:49:23.000Okay, there's no way Trump's going to agree to that, because there is no possible way he could come up with an actual bipartisan fact-checking team approved by both candidates.
00:49:49.000The goal here is to wander through Biden, the radical left, to use Biden as the final sort of moderate elderly guys for what's coming next.
00:50:02.000He's the only candidate in my lifetime who's openly proclaimed that he's not running for president.
00:50:07.000He's running to be the guy who's before the next president.
00:50:10.000That's a pretty amazing statement, but it also happens to have a ring of truth to it.
00:50:15.000So, all the people, this is why Trump's being off-putting is so bad for him, frankly.
00:50:23.000Because if Trump were anything but the kind of off-putting candidate he is, there'd be a lot of people, liberals, who might be inclined to think, okay, well, I gotta think about the alternative here.
00:50:32.000It's funny, I was talking to somebody yesterday who, again, is working inside one of these organizations that's currently experiencing the purge, and I said to him, have you thought about voting for Trump?
00:50:42.000He said, I could never vote for Trump.
00:50:44.000He said, I could never vote for Trump.
00:50:45.000And I said, well, you do realize that Trump might be the last bulwark against the people who are trying to, you know, cleanse the culture.
00:50:50.000He said, right, but I could never bring myself to vote for Trump.
00:50:52.000And this is the biggest problem for President Trump, is that the conditions are lined up for Trump, not just to win, but to win enormous.
00:50:59.000You've got an entire culture of people who wish to wipe out the livelihoods of an entire side of the political aisle and claim they are racist without any evidence.
00:51:08.000And somehow Trump, the least politically correct president ever, is going to blow this?
00:51:13.000If he does, it's one of the great political sins in American history, if that happens.
00:51:19.000I understand that now Trump is the underdog again, and so we get to play the game where Trump is being batted about the ears by the media, and none of it's his fault.
00:51:29.000He was always batted about the ears by the media.
00:51:32.000What is his fault is the fact that he's become so off-putting to so many people that the left can riot, send crime skyrocketing in every major American city, cancel everyone in the culture, including people who are just moderate liberals, and somehow he receives no political benefit from that.
00:51:49.000I mean, that's a pretty damning indictment of how he's running his campaign.
00:51:54.000Because it's my belief that Joe Biden is not going to be any sort of bulwark against the radical left.
00:51:58.000And not only won't Joe Biden be a radical bulwark, I think that he is going to exacerbate the gains of the radical left by laundering their ideology into the mainstream.
00:52:08.000And if that makes Trump's election a lot more important, not a lot less important.
00:52:13.000So you should be upset with him if he's down 10 points at this point.
00:52:16.000Okay, quick commentary on a piece of good news.
00:52:18.000I may as well not say a couple pieces of good news here.
00:52:20.000So the Supreme Court actually gave a couple of good 72 decisions yesterday.
00:52:43.000So according to the New York Times, the Supreme Court upheld a Trump administration regulation that lets employers with religious or moral objections limit women's access to birth control coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
00:52:54.000Naturally, the New York Times says could result in as many as 126,000 women losing contraceptive coverage from their employers because we have to force people to violate their most dearly held principles.
00:53:04.000I was amused to see people very, very angry at nuns yesterday.
00:53:22.000It's good that at least sometimes you get good decisions from the Supreme Court.
00:53:25.000The other one is a 7-2 decision in which Chief Justice Roberts sided with the court's conservatives, so did Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer.
00:53:32.000The two radicals on the court, like really truly radicals, are Ginsburg and Sotomayor.
00:53:35.000They are always taking the most radical position.
00:53:38.000The case before the court involved two Catholic schools, St.
00:53:40.000James Catholic School and Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic School, that dismissed employees who later sued, as Emily Zanotti writing for Daily Wire.
00:53:48.000Religious institutions have a ministerial exemption that allows them leeway in hiring and firing and protection from employment discrimination suits.
00:53:55.000The case before the Supreme Court tested whether there was a specific limit to the ministerial exemption.
00:53:59.000So if you are an English teacher at a Catholic church, at a Catholic school, can you be transgender and be protected on that basis from firing, for example?
00:54:09.000The ministerial exception says, yes, you can, because if you are working for a Catholic school, the assumption is that you're going to abide by basic Catholic principles, at least while you are in school.
00:54:18.000Fox News reports the decision covered two cases involving teachers at religious schools who claimed that they were discriminated against.
00:54:24.000In one, Agnes Morrissey Beru alleged that a Roman Catholic school in L.A.
00:54:27.000did not renew her contract because of her age.
00:54:29.000She taught a variety of subjects, including religion, but didn't have any religious training or title prior to working there.
00:54:36.000She did take religious education classes at the school's request once she was working there and prayed with students.
00:54:41.000In a second case, a woman named Kristen Beal claimed she was let go from another L.A.
00:54:44.000Catholic school because she asked to take leave due to breast cancer treatments.
00:54:47.000She too taught multiple subjects, including religion, prayed with students despite not having a formal religious title.
00:54:54.000The Supreme Court affirmed that religious organizations have broad protection against employment discrimination suits.
00:54:59.000Alito noted the court could not carve out loopholes to the exemptions or they would basically moot the exemption.
00:55:04.000So this is more in line with the suggestion by my friend David French that what Justice Gorsuch was doing in the LGBT civil rights case is he was basically making it so that unless you are a church, you cannot fire people on this basis.
00:55:17.000So if you're just a religious person in regular life, you can't fire somebody on the basis of same-sex marriage, for example.
00:55:21.000If you are a religious organization, you can, which again is a distinction I think is really not protected by the Constitution or by the Civil Rights Act, but it's what has been called the Utah Compromise.
00:55:32.000It's something that Utah has pressed forward with a lot of robustness in law.
00:55:48.000The brief story is there's good evidence from Europe that schools reopening is not endangering the kids in the schools.
00:55:52.000The big problem is what do you do with the teachers?
00:55:54.000The answer might be you have to hire some younger teachers.
00:55:56.000Because if you don't want to endanger the teachers, but you also want kids to be able to go to school, which kind of is vital at this point, then you might have to just put in teachers who are less health vulnerable.
00:56:05.000That might be a possible solution here.
00:56:06.000We'll get to more of it tomorrow because hope it ain't going away.
00:56:09.000So I'm sure that we'll still be talking about it tomorrow.
00:56:11.000In the meantime, hang in there and we'll see you then.
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