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00:11:55.100I can't tell you, first of all, how despicable I found his speech to be.
00:11:59.080Obviously, it was a historic slamming, damming, jamming, I can't remember the Anderson Cooper stuff.
00:12:04.980It was a very historic speech because we've never seen a former president get up and lay into a sitting successor in the way that Barack Obama did.
00:12:13.260He's always seen himself as a historic figure and he proved it.
00:12:17.320I've just been so glad over the last four years not to have to listen to that blowhard, the only guy in the history of the country to think that he was slumming in the presidency, to think that he was too good from the job from the minute that he got it.
00:12:29.700He was the kind of guy who makes the ocean stop rising.
00:12:32.240And then we made him go to work and put on a tie every day.
00:12:34.600And I think he resented the country for it.
00:12:37.380Hearing him back on the national stage, especially in such an ugly situation, I found it to be a love.
00:12:43.720I mean, the part about Barack Obama that I've always found the most disquieting is his ability and willingness to hijack America's founding documents and then pretend that he stands with those founding documents when in reality he stands against virtually every founding principle of the country because progressives have stood against those founding principles for the last 120 years.
00:13:04.200I was hearing conservatives being like, well, wasn't it great that he was at least saying that while the Constitution had problems with it, at least we can have the mechanisms of the Constitution that still work.
00:13:12.100And I kept saying to them, the principles of the Constitution, which are undergirded in the Declaration, are pretty specific, right?
00:13:18.340Natural rights to the pre-exist government, a government instituted to protect those rights, a limited government of enumerated powers, checks and balances, right?
00:13:25.220Those are the actual principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
00:13:28.900Barack Obama reduced that while standing in this hall in honor of the American Revolution.
00:13:45.460It allowed for the inhumanity of slavery and failed to guarantee women, and even men who didn't own property, the right to participate in the political process.
00:13:56.940But embedded in this document was a North Star that would guide future generations, a system of representative government, a democracy through which we could better realize our highest ideals.
00:14:13.440I'm sorry to interrupt just on this, but I have to correct the record.
00:14:54.580And I was the only person who got really irritated by this.
00:14:56.700He would cite the Declaration of Independence.
00:14:58.420And then he would say things like, but we don't all have to have the same definition of liberty, which is exactly what is at the heart of the Declaration of Independence, is that we do have the same definition.
00:15:05.720In fact, that's the only thing we basically have to agree on.
00:15:08.860Here, he says that what the Constitution boils down to is not equal protection before the law.
00:15:13.340It is not individual rights that pre-exist governments.
00:15:15.400It is not that all men are created equal.
00:15:25.940He's in favor of adding Puerto Rico and D.C. as states with pure majoritarian representation, right, just to stack the United States Senate.
00:15:37.820I mean, this is not a person who believes in any of the actual principles of the Constitution.
00:15:41.420The founders were not pure mob rule majoritarians by any stretch of the imagination, which is why what makes the beauty of the Constitution is that it protects minority rights.
00:15:50.980He actually said he actually said that the people demonstrating in Portland and on the streets were the dream fulfilled of the Constitution, when in fact they were the nightmare, the actual nightmare of the founders was that that kind of representative democracy would lead to mob rule.
00:16:05.100So everything is it actually was like opposite day.
00:16:10.080And again, very disturbing to me to watch the press, which used to be a good institution in this country to watch the press just absolutely go right back into their what I call their O face.
00:16:20.180Now they're going back right into their O face, you know, just loving in ecstasy at this president.
00:16:25.020And it just reminds you again that it's not the way they cover Donald Trump that's so disgusting, though it is even Trump, who deserves some of it.
00:16:45.700And because of the unique superficial aspects, this is the amazing thing about it.
00:16:50.140It isn't the deeper things about Barack Obama.
00:16:52.020It's purely the superficial ones created an environment where the press could not in any way be critical of him.
00:16:59.380Yeah, he he he was almost like you couldn't construct a better figure to be immune from any sort of criticism from the press.
00:17:07.660And so after eight years of that, they have no credibility left.
00:17:11.660Right. And you could almost say that in their attacks on Trump, they're trying to overcompensate to show that, no, we are still a vibrant old, you know, speak institution that speaks truth.
00:17:21.520It's a power. But democracy dies in darkness and democracy dies in darkness.
00:17:25.320But it is true that the the orgasmic level of coverage, the journalismic, you know, journalism is just getting everywhere.
00:17:30.920Well, it was it was really sticky and awful.
00:17:32.880The fact that they were journalism all over the place the way that they were after after Obama's speech, it was it was really disturbing.
00:17:39.640And there's something that Obama does.
00:17:41.320And it's clever. But Democrats have been doing it for 60 years.
00:17:44.180And that is this inside outside game where they say democracy works when we win.
00:17:47.920When we lose, democracy isn't working. So you need to get out in the streets.
00:17:50.760And that's what he did during the speech. He said the protesters are democracy fulfilled.
00:17:54.160But I'm here to tell you that the system of democracy does work.
00:17:57.320So if you vote and you elect people like us, then we will do the work for you.
00:18:00.920OK, what that really is, is to all Americans who are not voting for Democrats, that is tacit blackmail.
00:18:04.680That is, if you do not vote for us, we will allow these riots and looting and all of this stuff, which, by the way, eight hours of coverage in prime time.
00:18:11.040Not a single mention of a riot, not a single mention of looting, not a single mention of property destruction.
00:18:15.180By the way, not a single mention of Chinese repression or Chinese aggression, not a single mention of Iran, not a single mention of any of these things.
00:18:22.040Right. It's just hunky dory out there. Apparently, we're particularly in protest land.
00:18:25.540But there actually was a reference to Iran. Was it there?
00:18:27.720If we elect Joe Biden, we're going to be back in the Iran deal, which is really exciting, really exciting.
00:18:32.300I actually want to talk about, Ben, what you just brought up.
00:18:36.500Is it the case that the argument that the Democrats are making is vote for us and maybe we'll stop burning down your cities?
00:18:43.020Is it really the case that they're saying vote for us and maybe you'll get to go back to work and have a job again?
00:18:49.520I've always noticed when they say when they say these riots are mostly peaceful, I immediately think of the mafia protection rackets.
00:18:56.420You know, they see they didn't they didn't blow up my store. They're mostly peaceful.
00:18:59.480And that is effectively what they're saying. And it even goes deeper than that, because in frequently in tyrannical countries, there's not a lot of crime in the street.
00:19:09.380The repression is so tough that the crime that people are afraid, you know, because you get executed or whipped or whatever if you commit a minor crime.
00:19:16.080So there's not a lot of crime in the streets. But all that crime is sucked into the government.
00:19:20.140The government are the ones who are committing the crimes against liberty and against people.
00:19:23.660And that's what they're essentially saying. We'll stop rioting in the streets.
00:19:27.100But the the goals of the rioters, which are anti-American per se, will infest our government.
00:19:33.240By the way, on the lockdown point that you're making, this is 100 percent true.
00:19:35.940I mean, you could they featured Andrew Cuomo, who killed 11000 nursing home patients. Right.
00:19:40.080They featured Andrew Cuomo, who has a new book called American Crisis Leadership During COVID-19.
00:19:46.440Leading them right into the nursing home.
00:19:47.540I mean, they should have called the book If I Did It. Right.
00:19:50.140If I Did It by Andrew Cuomo, because that is so unbelievably astonishing.
00:19:55.080But I mean, I was pointing out there are certain things that people just stopped looking at.
00:19:58.380New York State had yesterday a grand total of, I believe, seven deaths.
00:20:02.360New Jersey, the entire state had a grand total of eight deaths yesterday from COVID.
00:20:06.100Not that they occurred yesterday, that were reported yesterday, which probably means that it's lower than seven or eight deaths in those states.
00:20:11.580Manhattan had zero deaths and 64 total diagnosed cases of COVID-19.
00:20:17.920So now now there's no way to argue that's not political because they're like the metric doesn't exist by which you cannot open under these circumstances.
00:26:53.360He voted for him, listened to him, believed him and his mouthpieces when they said that coronavirus was under control and going to disappear.
00:27:03.720That it was okay to end social distancing rules before it was safe.
00:27:07.900And that if you had no underlying health conditions, you'd probably be fine.
00:28:12.820And the only excuse is grief, even though she actually demonstrates no grief in the clip.
00:28:17.700The only grief she actually talks about is having the sads that her dad was apparently wrong about Orange Man bad.
00:28:24.800I thought that this was as low as it gets.
00:28:26.780Yeah. I mean, I hope that, you know, I'll say that I think that maybe she's coming from like an actual genuine place of grief and this is all misguided, but it was insane.
00:28:35.580I mean, first of all, the suggestion seems to be that if you didn't believe Donald Trump, you lived, which is a real hot take.
00:28:41.320I mean, 33,000 people died in New York.
00:28:43.200Last I checked, he didn't win New York and then another 16,000 or so died in New Jersey and he didn't win New Jersey.
00:28:48.800And then another 10,000 or so died in Massachusetts and win Massachusetts.
00:28:51.800Turns out a lot of people died, mostly in major cities that are blue.
00:28:53.980So if we're going to go with like how people voted, dictated whether they died of COVID, then I have a feeling that's not going to go fantastically well.
00:29:01.040But that that that basic notion that she puts out there, like, as you say, the only way that this makes any logical sense is if what she's basically saying is my dad drank the fish tank cleaner.
00:29:09.500Right. Which it's like that story that they tried to try it out at the very beginning when Trump was like, you should try hydroxychloroquine.
00:29:14.080And then that woman and then a woman murdered her husband, probably allegedly murdered her husband by feeding him the fish tank cleaner and being like, Donald Trump told me that my husband should take this.
00:29:24.100Cyanide. I can't believe Donald Trump killed my husband. Also, I took out a life insurance policy one day before.
00:29:29.840But Donald Trump told me to do that. Like it was it was sort of like that.
00:29:33.040It is. You're right. They've been doing this now for like several conventions in a row.
00:29:36.960In 2004, it's all about Bush in Iraq. And then it was about and then it was about Romney being a terrible, terrible person who killed a woman of cancer.
00:29:44.420Yeah, that's right. By by by Bain Capital buying out a business and restructuring it or something.
00:29:48.260So this is it's nothing new, but it was the blaming of covid, like the willingness by every single politician in America, apparently to blame Donald Trump for the ravages of covid.
00:29:57.420Biden did it himself, too. When Biden was pledging, well, I'm going to end.
00:30:00.380By the way, Biden's list of promises pretty extensive. He promises to stop every threat seen and unseen.
00:30:05.780Yeah, let's play that clip because it really is just jaw dropping.
00:31:20.680It's a metaphor. How bad Andrew Cuomo is at his job.
00:31:23.020You're right. You make that good point.
00:31:24.200When was Nancy Pelosi going to say, hey, come on down to Chinatown like she did without a mask, no social distancing at the start of covid?
00:31:31.420I guess what what they're banking on is what we've been talking about all night, which is that the press are going to fawn over them.
00:31:36.220They're not going to call them out for any of this. And it's a it's a total fan.
00:31:38.960This brings me to my theory on how Donald Trump could be guaranteed to win the election.
00:31:43.820You guys want to hear it? I want to hear it.
00:31:44.980Yeah. Donald Trump gets eight primetime hours next week for the RNC.
00:31:49.500If the RNC had been first before the DNC, my strategy would not work because I actually think the media would just not play it since they played all eight hours in primetime of the DNC.
00:32:00.360They have to play the RNC. I think that they should put two giant screens up and no matter who is speaking during the national anthem, during the benediction, during the president's speech, during the vice president's speech, the entire time they should be playing footage of the riots in Portland and the riots in Seattle and the Chaz zone and all the violence that's happening all across this country.
00:32:22.340Because the media will not tell people the truth about these protests when he's tried this trick before.
00:32:28.440They actually have pulled even Fox News shut down the feed so that you couldn't see it.
00:32:32.620They can't do that with the actual Republican National Convention.
00:32:35.820And if they do, they give him the presidency again just by.
00:32:39.180So dare them. He should run it for all eight hours, even when he's not talking about it and dare them not to play it.
00:33:00.540You remember this? It was a great way of framing John Kerry vis-a-vis George W. Bush, because one makes you feel safe and the other makes you feel insecure.
00:33:08.200In the case of Barack Obama, Barack Obama made people feel noble and virtuous, and they were able to feel good about themselves when they voted for him.
00:33:16.760Donald Trump made people feel empowered in 2016.
00:33:20.520He made people feel like they could have a voice when they hadn't had one before.
00:33:24.160But his behavior since then makes people feel insecure because he's bombastic, because he's boorish.
00:33:31.980Even people who are going to vote for him, often they'll say,
00:33:34.320I hate that I have to vote for him, but look at the other guy.
00:33:36.680That means there's a whole other range of people who won't vote for him, who have that exact same sentiment, but are just breaking the other way.
00:33:44.000He has to not let this be a referendum on Donald Trump.
00:33:46.940If it's a referendum on Donald Trump, Donald Trump will lose.
00:33:49.500He needs to make it a referendum on the left.
00:33:53.700The president's job for the next two months, and especially next week, should be to use the power of his pulpit to shine a light on what the Democrats are actually doing.
00:34:02.820You don't have to know what they will do when they win.
00:34:04.640They're doing stuff right now, and every bit of it is bad.
00:34:07.340If you could put a camera in the morgues in New York City, I'd say you should do that, but that's not the way that the world works.
00:34:14.360So he should instead focus in on these riots and let people know you should feel worse.
00:34:19.280This is what the Democrats are banking on.
00:34:41.200You know, we have friends in the sort of never Trump movement who basically they're going to support Joe Biden for the presidency.
00:34:48.960And when I listen to their arguments, the arguments all come back to Donald Trump is such a threat to our societal norms that even though we like his policies better, like every one of them is more happy that we have Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice than they would be to have another Sotomayor, for example, on the court.
00:35:12.200But what they're basically saying is none of our policy preferences matter compared to the damage that Donald Trump does to our actual societal norms.
00:35:20.500And my response is the Democrats are running communist riots in major American cities, burning things to the ground.
00:35:56.940You'll get accused of a sexual assault on any American college campus and raise the idea that you're entitled to a trial by a jury of your peers.
00:36:04.920They're against the Electoral College.
00:36:06.420They're against every piece of the actual framework of our society.
00:36:11.040Listen, is Donald Trump a threat to some of our societal norms?
00:37:02.780He should also play Joe Biden's list of things he would have done if he had been handling the Chinese flu, because Trump has done them all.
00:37:11.220Every single thing that he said he was going to do, Trump has already done.
00:37:13.920And I think that one of the jokes he's been making recently is people.
00:37:45.740You know, that's that's that's the way it is.
00:37:47.640If Trump has the discipline, if the DNC, if the RNC has the discipline to do it, it could be a true turnaround thing.
00:37:53.980Speaking of women, Alicia, let's talk to the one that we have via satellite.
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00:41:48.260You know, Barack Obama had this whole line in there.
00:41:50.780To the young people who've been burning down our cities, beating people in the head with bricks and smashing windows, you are democracy in action.
00:42:12.120And then they gave Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 60 seconds to talk at the DNC.
00:42:21.660And this is what politicians always do.
00:42:23.900They pay lip service to young people because they know that young people are rubes.
00:42:28.300And they also know that the young people won't actually turn out to vote.
00:42:31.340Then when it comes to actually entrusting anything to young people, they basically say, put a couple flags behind her and let her talk for 60 seconds.
00:42:37.940I think we actually, here's what she had to say.
00:42:39.460Infidelity and gratitude to a mass people's movement working to establish 21st century social, economic, and human rights, including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages, and labor rights for all people in the United States.
00:42:58.800A movement striving to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny, and homophobia.
00:43:08.740That clip is going to play on a loop at the gulag, and it will be the last sound you ever hear.
00:43:13.760I've got to say, I said before I didn't think Sarah Cooper was funny, but she is.
01:01:27.800And so for a brief moment, you know, I watched this show.
01:01:30.460It just wrapped up its seven-year run called Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
01:01:34.180And in this last season, the ultimate season of the show, they were dealing with these robots from the future who can see the stream of time.
01:01:42.900And they had gone back into the human past of the 20th century.
01:01:47.180And they were unmaking all the things, like killing the Avengers back when they were children and all this kind of stuff was going on.
01:01:53.940And so no matter what our heroes do, they can't win.
01:01:57.620They can't win because the robots see the stream of time in terms of probabilities.
01:02:03.400And they can always figure out based on the probabilities what your move is going to be.
01:02:07.360And so they have this breakthrough moment.
01:02:10.220It's the turn of the season when they realize, well, that means the only way we can win is to not be the thing that they could calculate that we could be.
01:02:18.240We actually all have to do the thing that we would never do.
01:02:21.000Whatever our instinct is, don't do it.
01:02:22.680Whatever made us strong, run against it because that's what they won't be able to see coming.