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00:02:06.000I want to get to all of that, but I have to begin today.
00:02:09.000With the full insanity on display from some members of the hardcore left.
00:02:16.000There's a lot of talk this week about radicalization and polarization.
00:02:20.000And the idea is that right-wing radicalization is being led by the right-wing rhetoric at Fox News and the right-wing rhetoric from President Trump.
00:02:28.000Expressing this viewpoint today is Paul Krugman, who is legitimately
00:02:32.000One of the worst columnists in America.
00:02:33.000He has heavy competition over on the New York Times editorial page with folks like Charles Blow, but Krugman is truly an exorable columnist.
00:02:40.000I usually reserve that word only for Michael Moles, but it certainly applies to Paul Krugman as well.
00:02:45.000Krugman has a column today called The Hate is on the Ballot next week.
00:02:50.000He says, in America 2018, whataboutism is the last refuge of scoundrels and bothsidesism is the last refuge of cowards.
00:02:58.000So his suggestion here for folks who don't know what these words mean, whataboutism is a kind of newfangled word for you don't want to pay attention to the stuff your own side is doing so you blame the other side.
00:03:09.000So if you're talking about President Trump's sexual infidelity,
00:03:13.000Then you say, oh yeah, well, what about Bill Clinton's sexual infidelity?
00:03:18.000So he's saying that whataboutism is now taking place on the basis of rhetoric.
00:03:21.000He says, if you hadn't noticed, we're in the midst of a wave of hate crimes.
00:03:24.000Just in the past few days, bombs were mailed to a number of prominent Democrats plus CNN.
00:03:28.000Then a gunman massacred 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
00:03:31.000Meanwhile, another gunman killed two African-Americans at a Louisville supermarket after first trying to unsuccessfully break into a black church.
00:03:38.000If he had gotten there an hour earlier, we probably would have had another mass murder.
00:03:41.000All of these hate crimes seem clearly linked to the climate of paranoia and racism deliberately fostered by President Trump and his allies in Congress and the media.
00:03:48.000Killing black people is an old American tradition, but is it experiencing a revival in the Trump era?
00:03:55.000The idea that killing black people is an old American tradition, but it is experiencing a revival.
00:03:59.000I assume what he means by that is that slavery and Jim Crow were old American traditions, and that Trump is reviving those, which of course is a complete lie.
00:04:08.000He continues, he says, when the bombs were discovered, many on the right immediately claimed they were fake news or a false flag operation by liberals.
00:04:14.000But the FBI quickly tracked down the apparent source of the explosive devices, a fanatical Trump supporter, who many are already calling the MAGA bomber.
00:04:21.000Well, that would be all of the folks on the left who wish to attribute his actions directly to President Trump.
00:04:26.000The man arrested at the Tree of Life Synagogue, Paul Krugman writes, has been critical of Trump, who he apparently believes isn't anti-Semitic enough.
00:04:32.000But his rage seems to have been fueled by conspiracy theories being systematically spread by Trump supporters
00:04:37.000The claim that Jewish financiers are bringing brown people into America to displace whites.
00:05:01.000Now, I know you're sitting there, you're yelling at your phone, you're yelling at your car radio, you're saying, but Paul Krugman, it's not just that Democrats have engaged in screaming at people at restaurants.
00:05:11.000The Volusia County headquarters of the Republican Party was shot up, right?
00:05:15.000People shot bullets through the windows a day ago.
00:05:18.000A Bernie Sanders supporter shot up a bunch of Congress people, including Steve Scalise, whom he nearly murdered.
00:05:37.000He says, You might have thought that the horrifying events of recent days would finally break the norm, but you would have been wrong.
00:05:42.000Both sides' ism, it turns out, is a fanatical, cult impervious to evidence.
00:06:00.000Trump famously boasted that his supporters would stick with him, even if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue.
00:06:05.000What he didn't point out was that pundits would piously attribute the shooting to incivility, and that Sunday talk shows would feature Fifth Avenue shooting advocates and give them a respectful hearing.
00:06:13.000This needs to stop, and those who keep practicing both sides need to be shamed.
00:06:18.000At this point, pretending that both sides are equally to blame or attributing political violence to spreading hatred without identifying who's responsible for that spread is a form of deep cowardice.
00:06:26.000The fact is that one side of the political spectrum, says Paul Krugman, is peddling hatred while the other isn't.
00:06:32.000And refusing to point that out for fear of sounding partisan is, in effect, lending aid and comfort to the people poisoning our politics.
00:07:24.000He says, we have to stop demonizing people.
00:07:26.000We have to stop demonizing people, but white men are the devil.
00:07:30.000Here is Don Lemon saying the biggest terror threat is white men.
00:07:33.000So we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right.
00:07:44.000And we have to start doing something about them.
00:08:12.000And listen, statistically speaking, the majority of terror killings in the United States over the past year since 9-11 have been perpetrated by white men.
00:08:25.000It is also accurate to say, just statistically speaking, that the disproportionate number of murders committed in the United States are committed by young black men.
00:08:32.000That doesn't mean that we ought to be targeting young black men or that we ought to be targeting white men.
00:08:36.000It means that we ought to be targeting criminals.
00:08:38.000But Don Lemon is fully fine with demonizing an entire segment of the population on the basis of a few fringe actors who commit acts of evil.
00:08:48.000He says, I don't see Democrats killing people over politics.
00:08:50.000Like, that's not a thing that's happening.
00:08:52.000Which is a weird thing to say a year after somebody shot up a congressional baseball game and nearly killed the House majority whip.
00:08:58.000But here's Don Lemon being an ignoramus.
00:09:00.000A right-wing group killed the woman in Charlottesville.
00:09:03.000This guy is a right-winger who killed the people in the synagogue.
00:09:07.000The right-wingers sent bombs to CNN and to Democrats.
00:09:13.000I don't see Democrats killing people because of political... Yeah, there may be Democratic operatives who are out there saying... Well, they tried to.
00:09:22.000Okay, and then when that guy said they tried to, then both Max Boot and Don Lemon went nuts.
00:09:27.000The rhetoric of the Democrats is not the same as the rhetoric of the Republicans.
00:09:31.000This is the routine that Democrats are pulling these days.
00:09:33.000Brian Stelter, he's a Sunday news host on CNN, he says,
00:09:42.000I sure hope some of those Fox hosts, some of those commentators, take a moment, take a minute to think about their role in this environment.
00:09:49.000Hopefully there's some soul-searching right now in the wake of this massacre.
00:10:04.000And then there's Allison Camerata suggesting that Fox News hosts don't care if people die so long as they get their ratings.
00:10:10.000Steve Schmidt, former McCain campaign advisor in 2008, who's been making bank off of being the Republican who's not actually a Republican on MSNBC for years, he blames Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, and he says they have blood on their hands.
00:10:22.000The propaganda industry that she commands with the vile president that she serves, abetted by Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh,
00:10:32.000And Breitbart and Newsbusters and Judicial Watch and all the rest of them have blood on their hands for the incitements that they have made that have triggered and radicalized these crazy people.
00:10:49.000It is deliberate and... So we've talked about radicalization, right?
00:10:52.000We've talked about radicalization and the left keeps saying it's radicalization of rhetoric on the part of people on the right.
00:10:58.000That has led to this increase in hate crimes.
00:11:00.000Again, statistically unverified as of yet, because we don't have the FBI statistics for this year.
00:11:43.000And I'm going to explain what I mean by this in just one second.
00:11:46.000Because I know that there are people who are listening to this show right now, who are watching this show right now, and they are feeling more angry and more radical after having listened to Paul Krugman.
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00:13:16.000When he says that Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh are to blame for an anti-Semite shooting up a synagogue.
00:13:20.000Mark Levin happens to be Jewish, by the way.
00:13:23.000And then Chris Hayes in that same clip comes back and says, well, yeah, there used to be all these Republicans who used to condemn bad rhetoric like Mitt Romney and Ben Shapiro.
00:13:29.000It's like these people haven't listened for five minutes to my show in which I condemn bad rhetoric on all sides on a routine basis, like legitimately every day.
00:14:06.000Okay, the left is doing that right now.
00:14:08.000What the left is doing is engaging in inflammatory rhetoric.
00:14:11.000They are claiming that Republicans across the country are responsible for an anti-Semitic slaying at a synagogue, are responsible for a nut job, a whack job in Florida sending pipe bombs to Democratic officials.
00:14:44.000We saw riots in Charlotte, North Carolina.
00:14:47.000All of those riots were pushed for, were inspired, were justified by a number of Democratic officials basically saying that the cause that was being rioted about was a just cause.
00:14:59.000When five police officers were shot to death in Dallas a couple of years ago, a few years ago, President Obama had said a lot of things against the police just before that.
00:15:08.000Obama wasn't responsible for the shooting.
00:15:10.000But if we're gonna talk about a radical political environment that oft times is involved with raising the temperature so that violence breaks out, to ignore all of this is just ignorant.
00:15:20.000And not only ignorant, it's a deliberate attempt to drive you nuts.
00:15:24.000It's a deliberate attempt to raise the temperature.
00:15:31.000When Representative Maxine Waters is saying that President Trump should take responsibility for the bomb threats, the same Maxine Waters who called the LA riots an uprising and called for Republican public officials to be confronted in public places, when Julia Jaffe of GQ is blaming President Trump for his extreme rhetoric and then goes on CNN and says that Trump radicalizes more people than ISIS, when Vice President Joe Biden says that Americans should vote for politicians out of character, the same Joe Biden who said that Mitt Romney was going to re-enslave black folks in the United States, of course we feel like we're being gaslit.
00:16:02.000I have some more thoughts on this in just a second.
00:16:05.000Of course we feel like we're being gaslit, because we are being gaslit.
00:16:08.000Okay, the Democrats have suggested that they are responsible for none of what has happened.
00:16:12.000President Trump is the beginning of time.
00:16:14.000With President Trump, the universe burst into being, suddenly.
00:16:17.000The Big Bang of politics occurred, and suddenly time began flowing forward.
00:16:21.000Before, there was no such thing as time.
00:16:23.000Then, President Trump sprung on the scene, and suddenly he was the creator, lord, and master of all bad rhetoric in the United States.
00:16:33.000I will condemn President Trump when I believe that he has used inflammatory rhetoric.
00:16:36.000I will condemn other hosts when I think that they are using inflammatory rhetoric or exaggerating their case or making things up.
00:16:41.000I do it every single day on the program.
00:16:43.000But I'm not going to sit by and pretend that the left is not responsible for at least an equal amount of this sort of rhetoric.
00:16:50.000I'm not going to pretend that anti-Semitism among white supremacists
00:16:54.000is somehow a massively greater threat to Jews across the world and in the United States than the Democratic Party's full embrace of radical anti-Semites like Linda Sarsour.
00:17:07.000That's the mainstream Democratic Party doing that.
00:17:13.000It's a mark of both political immaturity and deep philosophical shallowness to refuse to look in the mirror.
00:17:23.000And Democrats right now are refusing to look in the mirror.
00:17:25.000There are Republicans who for years have been refusing to look in the mirror.
00:17:29.000I've been a big advocate of everybody ought to look in the mirror, and it's all of our responsibilities to take the temperature down.
00:17:33.000That's something we actually ought to be doing.
00:17:35.000But Democrats aren't interested in doing that.
00:17:37.000They're interested in raising the temperature.
00:17:38.000Does Paul Krugman think the temperature is raised or lowered when he suggests that Republicans are all a bunch of evil people who don't care whether folks get shot at a synagogue?
00:17:47.000Does Don Lemon think he's making the country more or less polarized, more or less radicalized, when he suggests that President Trump and Republicans are responsible for terror attacks?
00:17:57.000Do they think that they're making things better?
00:17:59.000Of course they don't think they're making things better.
00:18:01.000And if folks on CNN can accuse Fox News hosts of dialing for ratings, then CNN is doing exactly the same thing with its own base.
00:18:09.000I'm amused, amused, by Democrats and CNN hosts who suggest, while Republicans are engaged in conspiratorial thinking, we never engage in conspiratorial thinking.
00:18:18.000I've been alive for the past 20 years.
00:18:20.000I'm old enough to remember when you suggested that Halliburton was behind the Iraq war, when you suggested that George W. Bush lied specifically to get American soldiers killed because Iraq was a war for oil.
00:18:30.000I'm old enough to remember when you suggested, without any evidence whatsoever, that Donald Trump actively coordinated with the Russian government to skew the results of this election.
00:18:39.000I've been here the whole time, and you have too.
00:18:42.000Bad rhetoric has been a part of American politics for a very long time.
00:19:13.000I've never seen Republicans, conservatives, as angry as I saw them about a month ago during the Brett Kavanaugh saga.
00:19:20.000That wasn't a result of deplorable Republicanism.
00:19:23.000That was a result of the Democrats engaging in extreme partisanship and extreme rhetoric.
00:19:28.000Failing to recognize what exactly is happening here, calling it whataboutism, when you suggest correctly that bad things are happening on all sides and that everybody is kind of acting like garbage right now,
00:19:40.000That is contributing to this environment.
00:19:42.000That is making things significantly worse.
00:19:44.000And I think folks on the left know this, but I think there are some folks on the left who don't care, because they are so ensconced in their partisan worldview that to even acknowledge that folks on their own side are engaged in bad behavior would be to lend credence to the other side.
00:19:57.000And when it comes to defeating Trump, everything is on the table, up to and including lying about the other side, and more importantly, lying about your own side.
00:20:04.000And the mark of a good person, and the mark of a good political movement, is the capacity to look at yourself, recognize where you're flawed, and try to become better.
00:20:12.000All the people in your life that you know and that you like, when you make a critique of them, their first reaction, and your first reaction too, their first reaction is, okay, maybe I should think about that.
00:20:23.000Maybe I should think about that, right?
00:20:24.000When I'm criticized, my first reaction generally is, maybe I did do something wrong.
00:20:29.000And sometimes I did do something wrong.
00:20:32.000But nobody seems to want to do any sort of self-reflection because we're in the middle of bashing each other across the skull with bricks as hard as we can, and then suggesting that we are innocent in this brick fight.
00:20:42.000That's not the way that any of this works.
00:20:45.000Well, in just a second, I want to talk about the latest from Pittsburgh.
00:22:11.000We could be having a moment when we all say something terrible just happened.
00:22:15.000What can we do to fight anti-Semitism?
00:22:17.000Instead, what we're going to do is use every individual evil incident as an excuse to bash each other and club each other.
00:22:24.000So President Trump goes and he visits Pittsburgh and protesters, of course, show up to protest President Trump.
00:22:29.000Now, this is not a bunch of people who happen to be
00:22:33.000You know, philo-semitic, wonderful, pro-Jewish people who are just angry at President Trump for his failure to sufficiently condemn the alt-right in 2015.
00:22:41.000It turns out that all of these protesters are radically left, generally anti-Israel protesters, who are out there protesting President Trump.
00:22:50.000But the media is going to cover this as though this is a referendum on President Trump's rhetoric, when in fact it's just a bunch of people who don't like Trump and they're using this as an opportunity to club Trump.
00:22:58.000And they've been doing this for a while now.
00:23:00.000The media malfeasance, even on Pittsburgh, has been truly astonishing.
00:23:05.000The story that I talked about a couple of days ago, in which the media suggested that Jewish leaders didn't want Trump to come to Pittsburgh,
00:23:14.000And then they quoted a group called Bend the Arc and refused to acknowledge that that was a group run by Alexander Soros, George Soros' son, that's stated mission is to stop Trump.
00:23:26.000The media... I mean, another example of media malfeasance on the Pittsburgh issue.
00:23:30.000So, the chief rabbi of Israel is Rabbi David Lau.
00:23:34.000So, Rabbi Lau, there's a lot of controversy in Israel over whether the conservative and the reform movements in Israel ought to be accepted by the rabbinate.
00:23:41.000My personal opinion is no, because they're not halachic, right?
00:23:46.000They don't work according to Jewish law.
00:23:47.000There's a good argument to be made whether or not there actually ought to be a rabbinate in Israel, whether there ought to be, like, an official religious rabbinate in Israel, but
00:23:55.000Put that aside, that controversy has existed.
00:23:58.000In the aftermath of the shooting, there was a story that went out at the Washington Post and a bunch of other leftist outlets, trying to suggest that David Lau refused to acknowledge that the shooting happened at a synagogue.
00:24:07.000They suggested that Rabbi Lau had said that the shooting did not happen at a synagogue, it happened at a place of significant Jewish character.
00:24:14.000If you go back and you read David Lau's comments in Hebrew, he calls it specifically a Beit Knesset, which is to say, a place where people pray, right, which is a synagogue.
00:24:23.000And the media completely misreported it because they have an agenda which is to even split the Jewish community between the Orthodox and the non-Orthodox in the middle of an anti-Semitic shooting.
00:24:31.000In any case, these protesters gathered for Trump and watch the media coverage.
00:25:03.000Okay, he's unwelcome in this neighborhood.
00:25:04.000And then you look at the video, and there are people wearing SEIU jackets, and carrying ACLU handmade, not handmade, printed out placards.
00:25:13.000Okay, the idea that all of these people are just grassroots folks who are showing up with no agenda, other than they're just very upset about President Trump and his feelings about anti-Semitism, it's just nonsense.
00:25:24.000But that's not the way the media cover all of this.
00:25:26.000And then the media, of course, decided they were going to cover, in great specificity, a family of one of the synagogue shooting victims rejecting a Trump meeting, saying that he was blaming the community.
00:25:37.000They neglected, of course, to mention that one of the people who was shot and survived was, in fact, a Trump voter, and that there were other Trump people, fans of Trump.
00:26:18.000Dividing Americans even further on the basis of this stuff is cynical.
00:26:21.000Now, with that said, does President Trump have an unfortunate tendency of putting his foot so far down his mouth that it goes through his colon, out his ass, and then back into his mouth again, creating an Ouroboros of stupidity?
00:26:54.000Okay, so, it is true, as I say, that the media have miscovered this story from beginning to end.
00:26:59.000It is also true that when you go and visit the site of a mass anti-Semitic shooting, the worst in American history, the key central part of the story is not how you were treated.
00:27:10.000That's not really the important part of the story.
00:27:25.000Well, meanwhile, there are a couple of other stories that we must comment on here.
00:27:29.000So as I said long ago, live by the Kanye, die by the Kanye.
00:27:32.000So Kanye West became beloved of the right for the last six, seven months after he started making noises about how he loves President Trump.
00:27:39.000And he was wearing a MAGA hat and he was saying that he was thinking freely, all of which is totally fine.
00:27:43.000But as I tweeted, as soon as he started doing this,
00:27:50.000He is not somebody who decided to become an ideological conservative after reading the combined works of William F. Buckley and Russell Kirk.
00:27:58.000Kanye West is a guy who sort of says whatever is on his mind that day.
00:28:03.000Well, that resulted in a reversal on Twitter yesterday.
00:28:05.000He has not rejected President Trump or ripped into President Trump, but he started tweeting out about sort of his political leanings now.
00:28:12.000He said, And then he continued, he said,
00:28:22.000I support those who risk their lives to serve and protect us, and I support holding people who misuse their power accountable.
00:28:27.000I believe in love and compassion for people seeking asylum and parents who are fighting to protect their children from violence and war.
00:28:33.000Okay, all of this sounds like a stump speech, and then he gets to the point.
00:28:36.000He finally tweets out, I introduced Candace Owens, this would be Candace Owens, the black conservative who was associated with Kanye's move to the right.
00:28:45.000I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo, and they didn't want their name on it, so she used mine.
00:28:50.000I never wanted any association with Blexit.
00:29:26.000But when you bet on people who are not the most stable people in the world, and you pretend that they are deeply stable, this is a not unpredictable consequence.
00:29:34.000I think it is fair to say that is not the least predictable consequence that has ever happened in human history.
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00:33:17.000Well, he's compromised because he's investigating Trump and therefore there was a scheme to find women and pay them to lie about being sexually assaulted by Robert Mueller.
00:33:27.000According to the Daily Beast, the scheme became public on Tuesday when Robert Mueller's staff formally asked the FBI to launch an investigation into the matter.
00:33:34.000But for weeks, it has been simmering below the surface with numerous reporters having been tipped off by a woman who claims she'd been approached with promises of cash.
00:33:41.000At the center of the scheme is publicity-hungry Republican lobbyist Jack Berkman, who has repeatedly dabbled in Internet conspiracy theories in the past, including promoting the idea that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich was killed by deep state government operatives.
00:33:54.000Berkman denied involvement in any attempts to pay people to frame or accuse Mueller, but he also claims he has witnesses who are going to expose the special counsel as a sexual harasser.
00:34:03.000He scheduled a Thursday press conference at a Holiday Inn
00:34:06.000In Northern Virginia, to introduce his first accuser, number one, if you ever are attempting to launch, in credible fashion, some sort of accusation, you should upgrade from the Holiday Inn.
00:34:47.000In his efforts to dig up dirt on Mueller, Berkman appears to have enlisted outside help.
00:34:50.000Jacob Wohl is a right-wing Twitter personality who's tweeted inane things for years about MAGA MAGA President Trump.
00:34:57.000He's a self-described friend of Berkman.
00:34:58.000He said Berkman had told him he'd hired Matthew Cohen, who claims to be a managing partner at the private investigations company Surefire Intelligence, to assist with the investigation.
00:35:13.000Matthew Cohen, as it turns out, is Jacob Wohl.
00:35:16.000Okay, and Jacob Wohl apparently set up a bunch of fake LinkedIn accounts for people who worked for Surefire Intelligence by grabbing all these just random pictures from the internet and using them as employee pictures for his fake business.
00:35:33.000So for example, he said that an investigator was named Donald Treehorn.
00:35:38.000Okay, that is a stock photograph of an actor.
00:36:44.000And then, it turns out that he registered the website
00:36:49.000Under the name- under the phone number of his mother.
00:36:52.000This is what the Daily Beast is saying.
00:36:53.000So, suffice it to say, our politics is too crazy.
00:36:55.000People have been driven out of their minds.
00:36:58.000Surefire's website domain data lists an email address bearing Wohl's name and that of a legally suspect financial firm he held, Nex Management.
00:37:05.000Surefire's website also contains images uploaded to the same Google Cloud account.
00:37:09.000Wohl, who hinted at the Mueller investigations on Monday night, denied any involvement in or knowledge of Surefire.
00:37:16.000He said he works for an influence marketing company in LA.
00:37:19.000Yeah, turns out that, um, not so much.
00:37:22.000So, yes, things are crazy out there, and everybody needs to calm down.
00:37:27.000Now, that did not end the crazy yesterday.
00:38:29.000But that's the way that this works now, is that Democrats can say the most absurd, on-their-face, stupid, ridiculous things and get away with it.
00:38:36.000But you have to enjoy... I mean, that is a full-on Michael Scott fail right there.
00:38:40.000That is the office-style Michael Scott failure.
00:38:46.000Okay, so in just a second, I want to talk to you about a segment on Dr. Phil that really suggests one of the big problems in the country right now.
00:38:58.000He did a segment in which he had on Michael Eric Dyson and a bunch of other sort of social activists, particularly in the black community, and he did what he called a study.
00:39:15.000And then he had somebody ask them some 30 questions about privilege in their life.
00:39:21.000And then he had you take a step forward for everything that you, every privilege you had, and take a step back for every privilege you didn't have.
00:39:29.000So, it was stuff like, if both your, if one of your parents works nights to support the family, take a step back.
00:39:36.000If you've ever been sexually harassed, take a step back.
00:39:39.000And by the end of that little exercise, some of the young people were pretty far forward on the stage and some of the young people were pretty far backward on the stage.
00:39:48.000And here's how some of those young people responded to learning about their privilege.
00:39:53.000Thank you all for participating today.
00:39:57.000I'm very aware of my white privilege, but it really showed through when I looked behind me and most of the people in the very back were people of color.
00:40:25.000I didn't have very much growing up, but I've always thought that there are other people who had less.
00:40:31.000I didn't know I was going to end up in the front.
00:40:33.000The way I was raised by the border in Mexico, that I would be less privileged.
00:40:38.000So it's weird to know that I am actually doing good.
00:40:41.000I think talking about white privilege in a room full of white people is awkward, but in a room full of different ethnic groups, I think it's necessary.
00:41:05.000The reason it's a bad thing is you can listen to what some of these young people are saying.
00:41:08.000So there's a woman who is standing in the back, and she appears to be of maybe Filipino extraction, and she says, you know, it never occurred to me that I had it rough, right?
00:41:17.000It always occurred to me that there were people who were worse off than I was.
00:41:23.000That's a really good attitude and being awakened to the fact that you have it really rough and being thought of thinking of yourself as a victim is a really easy path to slide into resentment and anger and rage at other people who quote-unquote have it better.
00:41:38.000There's a young black woman there who says, you know, I've never stood in the back in my life.
00:41:51.000But the entire privilege discussion is supposed to not awaken people to the fact that there is inequality in the United States in terms of where we start.
00:42:00.000You have to be an idiot not to know that.
00:42:02.000But it's supposed to instead instill in people who were better off growing up that they somehow had an unfair advantage over others and to instill in people who are worse off growing up that the people in the front screwed them.
00:42:16.000To even set it up in this sort of physical dichotomy where the people who are quote-unquote more privileged are ahead and the people who are less privileged are behind is to suggest a sort of back-of-the-bus mentality.
00:42:24.000Oh, you've been treated by America wrongly.
00:42:27.000Somebody has victimized you in some way.
00:42:28.000Well, virtually none of the questions that were asked in that segment.
00:42:33.000were about members of the group victimizing each other.
00:42:36.000It was never, if you've been victimized by somebody in this group, take a step back.
00:42:40.000If you've victimized somebody in this group, take a step forward.
00:42:42.000None of those questions were about that.
00:42:44.000If it were about that, then we could talk about whether inequality and inequity are linked.
00:42:48.000It was about, have you had it rougher or have you had it better?
00:42:51.000Why do you need full discussions of who's had it?
00:42:53.000There's no more boring discussion in the world than who's had it rougher or who's had it better.
00:42:59.000And I don't just mean boring in terms of, like, actually not interesting.
00:43:04.000I mean that it is useless and counterproductive.
00:43:07.000And there's a famous joke that says, there's nobody more boring than a person who you ask them how they are and they actually tell you.
00:43:12.000Okay, the same thing is true when it comes to this sort of stuff.
00:43:15.000Because in a country that is free, where you started is not where you end up.
00:43:19.000And re-inculcating the idea that where you started is where you end up is a way of ensuring that people don't do all that they can in order to better themselves.
00:43:28.000Thinking of yourself as a victim is the first path toward irrelevance and toward destroying your own life.
00:44:28.000It says, a slight majority of Americans, 52%, do live in middle-class households, according to a recent annual report by the Pew Research Center.
00:44:38.000Another 20% or so live in upper-income households.
00:44:42.000In other words, 72% of Americans are middle-income or better, are middle-class or better.
00:44:46.000So how does that square with 62% of middle-class jobs don't actually lead to middle-class lifestyles?
00:44:52.000That's because they're juggling multiple jobs or relying on investments and inheritance or other household members who may have higher paying jobs.
00:45:14.000And my dad worked multiple jobs at a time when he was young with my mom.
00:45:18.000It's so foolish to suggest that people are starving in New York City while earning $50,000 a year.
00:45:25.000If you really believe that you're starving living in New York City, maybe the solution to that is to get rid of rent control, thereby lowering the rents, not to start saying that capitalism is responsible for all of these failures.
00:45:37.000It's just... The twisting of statistics is pretty astonishing.
00:45:41.000It says the rankings highlight some vivid contrast.
00:45:44.000A factory machinist in Cedar Rapids, Iowa earns an average of $46,000 a year, more than enough to meet the $40,000 threshold for a middle-class job in the area.
00:45:52.000A similar machinist makes more, $57,000 in San Francisco, but that's far short of the $82,000 minimum for a middle-class job in that area, according to the report.
00:46:44.000So this week, because I did some Jewish music yesterday, I decided that the rest of the week I'm going to pick some of my favorite nigunim.
00:49:48.000It's kind of a nice thing from time to time.
00:49:50.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:49:56.000So there's a statistic that's been cited routinely by the mainstream media suggesting that Jews are no longer safe in the United States, and they cite a study put out by the Anti-Defamation League, which suggests that there has been a 57% increase in anti-Semitic incidents in 2017.
00:50:11.000That figure was reported in NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post,
00:50:33.000So, this ADL study counts incidents that have been reported to the ADL by the media, law enforcement, and the public, and the ADL openly acknowledges that some of the increase in documented incidents is not an actual increase, but results from more people reporting incidents to the ADL than ever before.
00:50:49.000Also, the report doesn't just count certifiable anti-Semitic incidents, but any incident that results in Jews perceiving themselves as being victimized due to their Jewish identity.
00:50:58.000So, that methodological tick includes 163 bomb threats made to the JCC, even though that perpetrator was not motivated by anti-Semitism.
00:51:09.0002017 saw an elevated kind of response from the Jewish community to perceived threat, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the number of actual violent incidents on record has increased.
00:51:17.000In fact, the ADL study shows a 47% decrease in physical assaults against Jews in the United States from 37 to 19.
00:51:23.000So it shows a 57% increase in incidents overall, but a 47% decrease in physical assaults in 2017.
00:51:33.000Which is not consistent with all of the other data.
00:52:05.000The new constitution allowed that whenever two of the three branches of government concur, a convention could be called for altering the constitution.
00:52:12.000So, the judiciary and the executive don't like what the legislature is doing, so they call for a new constitutional convention.
00:52:19.000Jefferson was much more of a Democrat than a Republican, not in the modern sense, but in the idea that he liked direct popular control a lot more than some of the other founders.
00:52:27.000He also likes the idea of constitutional revision on a fairly consistent basis.
00:52:32.000He argued that Madison says that if you are continually revising the Constitution, that undermines its appeal.
00:52:37.000It undermines the durability of the system.
00:52:45.000In every other nation, the most rational government will not find it a superfluous advantage to have the prejudices of the community on its side.
00:52:51.000The danger of disturbing the public tranquility by interesting too strongly the public passions is still a more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.
00:53:02.000So basically, for all those people who claim that America is a democracy, it's not.
00:53:06.000One of the reasons is because the founders were deeply fearful of public passions resulting in bad policy and high rates of turnover in the
00:53:15.000Madison also argued that the procedure wouldn't actually curb the government because the legislature is more populist than the other two branches.
00:53:21.000So that means they'd probably win any convention fight.
00:53:23.000But once again, this cuts to the heart of how American government runs.
00:53:27.000It was not designed to be a system that quote-unquote gets things done.
00:53:30.000It was designed to be a system replete with gridlock specifically so that the more
00:53:35.000Unbridled passions of the public were not the most easily recognized and put into law by our system.
00:53:44.000The idea is that if we really want to get something done, we can, but we really had better want to get something done.
00:53:48.000And even then, it can't violate those fundamental rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution.
00:53:52.000Okay, well, we will be back here tomorrow with all the latest.