The Michael Knowles Show - November 15, 2019


Daily Wire Backstage: Impeach This!


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 31 minutes

Words per Minute

218.108

Word Count

19,984

Sentence Count

1,337

Misogynist Sentences

29

Hate Speech Sentences

75


Summary

Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles, and the lovely Elisha Krause join the Daily Wire's own Jeremy Boring to talk impeachment, Elizabeth Warren, and much, much more! Subscribe to Daily Wire Presents: Impeach This, a full meal of everything you need to know about the absolutely nothing impeachment hearing.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, this is your favorite skinny boy, Michael Knowles.
00:00:03.640 The latest Daily Wire backstage, Impeach This,
00:00:06.460 is a full meal of everything you need to know
00:00:08.820 about the absolutely nothing impeachment hearing.
00:00:11.980 Join Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan,
00:00:14.180 and the God King, Jeremy Boring and I,
00:00:16.560 as we feed you all the hot takes
00:00:18.380 on the vacuous impeachment hearing,
00:00:20.420 which happens to be sandwiched
00:00:22.240 between several screeching Democratic lunatics
00:00:25.620 with the combined IQ of a sesame seed bun.
00:00:28.400 It's basically a nothing burger.
00:00:30.480 We will give you that and so much more.
00:00:32.760 Take a listen.
00:00:40.140 Welcome to the Daily Wire backstage, Impeach This.
00:00:44.560 I'm Jeremy Boring, known around here as Jeremy Boring.
00:00:47.940 That's with a lowercase j and a lowercase b.
00:00:50.760 We're glad you've tuned in.
00:00:57.720 Well, thank you everybody for being here
00:01:08.600 and thank you especially to the teleprompter operator
00:01:10.880 who has not rolled the teleprompter.
00:01:12.700 Oh, there we go.
00:01:16.080 Now, for those of you at home,
00:01:17.340 you may think they don't have real ideas.
00:01:19.120 See, their lines are being fed to them
00:01:21.060 by billionaires who are trying to influence our election.
00:01:24.140 Fair enough.
00:01:24.580 Thank you guys for tuning in.
00:01:27.540 Is this the end of the Trump presidency?
00:01:29.280 Do the Democrats have the goods
00:01:30.640 or is it just Russian collusion round two?
00:01:33.380 Will we ever find out how many whistleblowers
00:01:35.520 it takes to screw in a light bulb?
00:01:37.040 Answer, Epstein didn't kill himself.
00:01:39.600 Joining me to speculate on all of that and more,
00:01:42.460 Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles,
00:01:44.980 and the lovely, we always say that she's lovely,
00:01:47.800 sometimes I think it's patronizing.
00:01:49.840 Oh, wow.
00:01:50.740 But she is so...
00:01:51.360 I hadn't thought of that.
00:01:51.960 But she is lovely.
00:01:53.420 Elisha Krause joining us via satellite
00:01:55.480 from wherever it is that they keep her.
00:01:58.000 We'll be taking questions from Elisha.
00:01:59.820 That was a little patronizing.
00:02:01.960 We'll be taking questions from you, the people.
00:02:06.100 By way of Elisha, if you go over to dailywire.com
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00:02:13.380 We need the support in particular
00:02:14.460 because as we move closer and closer to the election,
00:02:17.200 the pressure on advertisers to remove their content from our shows.
00:02:22.660 This isn't just us.
00:02:23.380 It's everyone involved in conservative media is so immense.
00:02:28.720 Also, for the platforms,
00:02:30.880 when you have candidates like Elizabeth Warren
00:02:32.820 flat out saying she's going to break up the big tech platforms,
00:02:36.060 basically if...
00:02:37.440 I'm actually not sure what the quid pro quo here is.
00:02:40.000 It's, if I become president,
00:02:42.160 I will break you up for helping the other guy become president.
00:02:45.960 It makes no sense to me.
00:02:47.680 Nevertheless, they're all under a lot of pressure
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00:02:53.840 I mean, do they want it?
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00:02:56.480 The content you deserve.
00:02:58.600 Is if you become a subscriber.
00:03:00.960 And we are running a special right now.
00:03:04.440 Did you guys see this?
00:03:05.460 It's actually pretty hilarious.
00:03:06.540 Elizabeth Warren,
00:03:07.820 who may actually become president of the United States,
00:03:11.580 decided that one thing that she,
00:03:15.440 that Joe Biden had that she didn't have
00:03:18.340 was, you know, accusations of plagiarism.
00:03:21.300 And I...
00:03:21.740 And that's a...
00:03:23.300 That's a been a legal property, yeah.
00:03:25.680 And so she released a billionaire tears mug on Shopify
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00:04:02.620 Thank you for being here.
00:04:03.600 We're going to talk about some politics.
00:04:05.920 Oh, wait, they already rolled the opening graphic.
00:04:07.240 They did.
00:04:09.720 Guys, I had a whole list of things
00:04:11.920 that would be fun to talk about.
00:04:13.320 And then I thought,
00:04:14.280 well, there's one thing
00:04:15.200 that won't be fun to talk about,
00:04:17.320 but will actually be the only thing
00:04:19.000 that anyone in America cares about.
00:04:21.200 And that's impeachment.
00:04:22.340 Right.
00:04:22.580 So we just have to do it.
00:04:23.480 Okay, so let's do this thing.
00:04:24.780 For day two.
00:04:26.000 Yeah, day two.
00:04:26.720 So the public hearing started yesterday.
00:04:28.660 Everybody recognizes that this is all
00:04:30.460 a made-for-TV special,
00:04:31.740 that they actually have presented no new information,
00:04:34.400 nor will they provide any new information.
00:04:37.360 The New York Times actually had their TV critic
00:04:39.780 write a review of the coverage yesterday.
00:04:42.600 They're full-on TV critic.
00:04:44.120 One of their columnists was talking about,
00:04:45.780 it was a news columnist,
00:04:46.540 it wasn't even an analysis columnist,
00:04:48.400 was talking about the reassuring gray hair of Bill Taylor.
00:04:51.320 And I thought to myself,
00:04:51.780 that is the first time I've ever heard gray hair
00:04:54.380 described as reassuring,
00:04:55.560 usually it forecasts death.
00:04:57.240 But sorry, Charmin,
00:04:58.100 but the fact is that,
00:05:00.000 you know,
00:05:00.340 the left is so obsessed
00:05:03.820 with the idea that somehow something has changed here,
00:05:06.220 that they're going to just pretend
00:05:07.520 that something has changed.
00:05:08.440 Now, obviously, as we all know,
00:05:09.540 nothing has actually changed here.
00:05:11.060 If they didn't have the goods before,
00:05:12.320 they don't have the goods now.
00:05:13.200 If they did have the goods before,
00:05:14.300 they have the goods now.
00:05:15.240 You know, my inclination is that
00:05:16.340 they certainly do not have the goods.
00:05:17.740 And the biggest hole in the testimony yesterday,
00:05:20.620 because two people testified,
00:05:21.660 Charged Affair, Bill Taylor,
00:05:22.900 who is the highest ranking American official in Ukraine,
00:05:26.020 as well as Kent, George Kent,
00:05:28.300 who is the undersecretary of state,
00:05:29.820 who is dealing with Ukrainian affairs.
00:05:31.220 They both testified.
00:05:32.340 And the Republicans kept hammering home
00:05:33.800 the only point that really matters.
00:05:35.740 And that point is,
00:05:36.800 you guys have never even talked to Trump.
00:05:38.240 You don't know Trump.
00:05:39.360 You don't know Trump.
00:05:40.600 I mean, you guys are playing seven degrees of Kevin Bacon
00:05:42.240 with the president of the United States
00:05:43.900 while attempting to impeach
00:05:44.720 the president of the United States.
00:05:45.920 And the only reason that that would not be
00:05:49.580 a dispositive argument, really,
00:05:51.740 is because there are some people
00:05:53.320 who have directly talked to Trump
00:05:54.160 who have not talked yet, right?
00:05:55.000 The only testimony that's going to matter
00:05:56.340 if you actually think that any of it matters,
00:05:58.180 which I tend not to at this point,
00:05:59.740 but if you actually think any of it matters,
00:06:01.380 the testimony that you're waiting for
00:06:02.460 is Gordon Sondland,
00:06:03.180 who actually spoke with Trump,
00:06:05.300 had conversations with Trump,
00:06:06.720 has switched his testimony already, right?
00:06:08.420 He is testifying next Wednesday.
00:06:09.780 And then there are a bunch of people
00:06:10.600 who are sort of on deck
00:06:11.960 who have been subpoenaed
00:06:14.460 but have not responded to the subpoena
00:06:15.940 and have filed lawsuits.
00:06:17.820 And that would be John Bolton
00:06:18.620 and Mick Mulvaney
00:06:19.580 and Rudy Giuliani.
00:06:20.920 Those three,
00:06:21.760 because if you haven't talked to Trump,
00:06:23.640 you basically don't matter
00:06:24.640 in this conversation
00:06:25.500 because the entire conversation
00:06:26.980 is about motive, right?
00:06:28.260 I'm the only one
00:06:29.000 who's been saying this for months.
00:06:29.860 There's the whole group of people
00:06:30.880 who have been saying,
00:06:31.880 well, the call was absolutely perfect, perfect.
00:06:34.120 Okay, it wasn't perfect.
00:06:35.520 Can we just stop with this?
00:06:36.400 It wasn't a perfect call
00:06:37.480 because, come on,
00:06:38.660 it wasn't like,
00:06:39.440 that's not what Trump does, okay?
00:06:40.840 Perfect is not in Trump's wheelhouse.
00:06:42.920 He doesn't even aim at perfect.
00:06:44.260 Right, that's right.
00:06:45.420 It's just perfect as a description
00:06:46.380 of everything that he thinks he does.
00:06:47.820 But what is obviously
00:06:49.520 the most plausible explanation
00:06:51.040 of all of his behavior,
00:06:52.540 and this is the case
00:06:53.060 I've been making for a long time,
00:06:54.760 is that when he says to Ukraine
00:06:56.800 in that phone call
00:06:57.820 that what he would like as a favor
00:06:59.740 is investigations into Burisma and Biden,
00:07:02.800 he would like investigations
00:07:03.520 into CrowdStrike,
00:07:04.340 he would like investigations
00:07:05.120 into Ukrainian interference
00:07:06.800 in the 2016 election,
00:07:08.340 that he's just naming a bunch of crap
00:07:10.040 that he thinks about Ukraine
00:07:11.160 because people have been feeding him
00:07:12.380 information about Ukraine
00:07:13.400 and this is the way
00:07:14.080 the president's brain works.
00:07:15.040 He basically has a bunch of note cards
00:07:16.320 and the note cards
00:07:17.060 have seven words on them each
00:07:18.160 and if you give him a topic,
00:07:20.360 if you say global warming,
00:07:21.440 then what comes out
00:07:22.620 is destroy economy Chinese hoax
00:07:24.060 and if you say to him,
00:07:25.820 Ukraine,
00:07:26.360 the first thing that comes out to him
00:07:27.400 is interfered in the 2016 election,
00:07:29.080 Burisma, Hillary Clinton,
00:07:30.680 CrowdStrike, right?
00:07:31.280 It's just whatever comes out of his head
00:07:32.960 and so it is quite plausible,
00:07:35.480 I think it is in fact
00:07:36.220 the most plausible explanation
00:07:37.220 that if he was thinking,
00:07:39.300 I don't feel like giving aid to Ukraine
00:07:40.660 because who else is paying for this aid?
00:07:42.260 Only we're paying for the aid.
00:07:43.340 I'm not into it.
00:07:44.280 Also, people keep saying
00:07:45.700 Ukrainian corruption.
00:07:46.740 Well, when I think of Ukrainian corruption,
00:07:48.100 here are some things
00:07:48.720 that I think about
00:07:49.320 and then it just comes out.
00:07:50.380 I think this is actually really important
00:07:51.600 because I think we all agree,
00:07:55.340 I can't speak for Michael and Drew.
00:07:57.660 I think we all agree
00:07:58.660 that if we had listened to the phone call
00:08:00.320 between Donald Trump
00:08:01.400 and the Ukrainian president
00:08:02.760 and he had said,
00:08:04.320 we're going to help you out,
00:08:05.800 the Europeans should be doing more
00:08:06.880 but first,
00:08:08.200 we need a favor.
00:08:09.020 However, I've been trying to get a hotel
00:08:10.880 in downtown Kiev
00:08:12.240 for like 22 years
00:08:14.200 and you guys are so corrupt
00:08:15.900 that I can't get my permit.
00:08:17.660 Could you get on the phone
00:08:18.780 with my personal lawyer
00:08:19.880 and my daughter
00:08:20.520 and get that worked out for me?
00:08:22.560 I think we would all agree,
00:08:24.400 definitely an abuse
00:08:25.500 of presidential power.
00:08:26.880 I would be willing to call it
00:08:28.380 an abuse of power.
00:08:29.620 Yes, I would.
00:08:30.500 Definitely an abuse
00:08:31.060 of presidential power.
00:08:32.620 Now, he did say,
00:08:34.040 I want a favor,
00:08:34.640 he used that word
00:08:35.220 and he did say,
00:08:35.800 talk to my personal attorney
00:08:36.900 and he did say
00:08:38.160 in the list of things
00:08:40.020 that he rattles off,
00:08:41.400 Joe Biden,
00:08:42.580 something in which
00:08:43.440 he has a personal vested interest.
00:08:48.180 The mitigating factor
00:08:50.200 is Donald Trump.
00:08:51.560 The way that I see it,
00:08:52.680 Donald Trump is not a guy
00:08:54.380 with a grand strategy.
00:08:56.040 He has some big ideas
00:08:57.840 that he generally points himself toward.
00:09:00.560 Winning,
00:09:02.500 building big things,
00:09:03.700 building big things,
00:09:04.200 not losing,
00:09:05.100 an isolationist,
00:09:06.020 generally an isolationist foreign policy.
00:09:08.940 These are things that we know
00:09:10.020 that he generally cares about
00:09:11.220 and he generally still
00:09:12.020 steers in the direction of.
00:09:13.740 But electoral strategy,
00:09:15.900 there were casting notices
00:09:17.020 for Trump TV
00:09:17.860 going out
00:09:18.720 the night of the election.
00:09:20.520 Donald Trump does not have,
00:09:22.180 he's never,
00:09:22.940 I think,
00:09:23.480 in his 40 years of public life
00:09:25.140 demonstrated
00:09:25.680 that kind of strategy.
00:09:26.960 What he has demonstrated
00:09:27.940 is that he spends
00:09:28.840 a lot of time
00:09:29.560 looking back
00:09:30.340 with a sort of
00:09:32.480 vindictive spirit.
00:09:34.200 You say that he has,
00:09:35.220 a reporter once reported
00:09:36.600 that he had very small hands.
00:09:38.900 Decades later,
00:09:40.140 Donald Trump would still
00:09:41.000 send that reporter
00:09:41.980 signed photographs
00:09:43.560 of his hands
00:09:44.720 to demonstrate
00:09:45.480 how perfectly large
00:09:46.580 they are.
00:09:47.900 If somebody insults him,
00:09:49.180 he never lets go
00:09:50.180 of the insult.
00:09:51.460 Ten years later,
00:09:52.220 he'll be on Twitter
00:09:52.960 fighting the feuds
00:09:54.440 that existed
00:09:55.560 before Twitter
00:09:56.080 even existed, right?
00:09:58.340 So,
00:09:58.860 if Donald Trump
00:10:00.400 believes that there
00:10:00.880 was corruption,
00:10:01.680 that that corruption
00:10:02.860 targeted him personally
00:10:04.480 in 2016,
00:10:06.360 that is something
00:10:07.060 that's going to be
00:10:07.400 very hard for Donald Trump
00:10:08.360 to let go of.
00:10:09.120 He's a dog with a bone
00:10:10.040 when it comes to a vendetta.
00:10:11.480 The problem is,
00:10:12.920 even if he
00:10:13.560 weren't a dog with a bone
00:10:14.960 and even if it wasn't
00:10:15.880 a vendetta,
00:10:17.280 if Ukrainians
00:10:19.260 were involved,
00:10:20.660 even if they weren't,
00:10:21.540 but he has reason
00:10:22.120 to believe that they were involved
00:10:23.380 in circumventing
00:10:24.720 the 2016 election,
00:10:26.960 that's a legitimate concern
00:10:28.300 for the president
00:10:28.880 of the United States.
00:10:29.500 And, you know,
00:10:30.220 yesterday,
00:10:30.960 during the testimony
00:10:31.800 of these two big witnesses
00:10:33.440 that the Democrats
00:10:34.180 were so excited to bring,
00:10:35.380 George Kent and Gordon,
00:10:36.920 not Gordon Sondland,
00:10:37.740 and Bill Taylor.
00:10:39.300 And George Kent was asked,
00:10:40.960 is it legitimate
00:10:41.740 for the president
00:10:42.540 of the United States
00:10:43.220 in regard to Ukraine policy
00:10:44.660 to ask them to investigate
00:10:46.020 this sort of corruption?
00:10:47.280 And George Kent said,
00:10:48.360 absolutely it is.
00:10:49.480 They asked Bill Taylor,
00:10:50.840 do you have evidence
00:10:52.060 of this quid pro quo?
00:10:52.940 Do you have any
00:10:53.560 first-hand account?
00:10:54.500 He said,
00:10:54.940 nope,
00:10:55.220 I spoke to Gordon Sondland,
00:10:56.320 he said,
00:10:56.680 I got the quid pro quo wrong
00:10:57.920 and I don't have
00:10:58.640 any first-hand evidence.
00:10:59.880 It's that pretense.
00:11:01.260 It's all this pretense
00:11:02.360 because the fancy people
00:11:03.760 in suits and ties
00:11:04.700 are going to go on TV
00:11:05.600 like they did on CBS News
00:11:07.080 and say,
00:11:07.900 this was devastating testimony today.
00:11:10.280 Anybody who watched
00:11:11.100 saw it was devastating
00:11:11.960 for Adam Schiff,
00:11:13.280 not for Donald Trump.
00:11:14.220 But this is the thing
00:11:15.160 that bothers me
00:11:15.760 about this whole thing.
00:11:16.700 At this point,
00:11:17.420 I actually believe
00:11:18.200 the left uses absurdity
00:11:20.100 as a strategy
00:11:21.200 because if you say,
00:11:22.440 if I have a kind of,
00:11:23.360 if I say,
00:11:23.820 well,
00:11:24.220 men and women are the same
00:11:25.600 and you say,
00:11:26.140 well,
00:11:26.240 wait,
00:11:26.480 here's the science,
00:11:27.240 we can have an argument
00:11:27.980 about that.
00:11:28.400 It may be a stupid thing
00:11:29.220 to say,
00:11:29.700 but at least we can
00:11:30.300 have an argument about it.
00:11:31.260 But if I say to you,
00:11:32.200 men menstruates,
00:11:34.220 even talking about it
00:11:35.380 elevates it beyond
00:11:36.480 the level of stupidity
00:11:37.880 they're at.
00:11:38.440 I feel that way
00:11:39.420 about this impeachment.
00:11:40.360 I go on,
00:11:41.240 I have to talk about it,
00:11:42.200 it's the news.
00:11:42.740 We all have to talk
00:11:43.340 about it,
00:11:43.540 it's the news.
00:11:44.140 I feel that even talking
00:11:45.420 about it is elevating it
00:11:46.700 above its seriousness.
00:11:48.760 The idea that this is
00:11:50.720 an impeachable offense,
00:11:51.880 an offense that actually
00:11:53.300 somehow threatens the polity,
00:11:54.580 that threatens the Constitution,
00:11:56.340 that even if he was
00:11:57.900 sitting there going,
00:11:58.620 I'm going to get that Joe Biden
00:11:59.740 because I'm really afraid
00:12:00.620 of a guy whose teeth
00:12:01.620 falls out every time he talks.
00:12:02.220 Whose eyes explode
00:12:03.200 during debates.
00:12:04.700 I just think this whole thing,
00:12:06.320 they have been calling
00:12:07.160 for impeachment
00:12:07.780 since before he even
00:12:09.920 won the election.
00:12:11.120 They were talking about
00:12:11.700 an insurance policy
00:12:13.180 against him.
00:12:13.880 They were talking about
00:12:14.560 impeachment the minute
00:12:15.400 it started.
00:12:16.100 They came up,
00:12:16.940 I mean,
00:12:17.180 it is kind of like
00:12:18.160 what Devin Nunes said,
00:12:20.160 they come out with
00:12:21.020 a strategy,
00:12:21.860 it's Russian collusion.
00:12:22.940 It's not Russian collusion,
00:12:23.940 it's obstruction of
00:12:24.560 justice,
00:12:25.060 it's not obstruction of
00:12:25.760 Ukraine.
00:12:27.540 It's going to be
00:12:28.220 his pant size.
00:12:29.660 Well, it was his pant size
00:12:30.860 with Stormy Daniels.
00:12:32.340 And then, as you say,
00:12:33.520 they go on and they do
00:12:34.900 this ridiculous stuff
00:12:35.720 and Nora O'Donnell,
00:12:37.820 who has got to be
00:12:38.420 one of the worst
00:12:39.200 personalities on television,
00:12:40.420 takes this fake action stance.
00:12:42.360 Have you watched
00:12:42.800 the way she does?
00:12:43.500 She stands like this
00:12:44.640 and she says,
00:12:45.120 it was devastating,
00:12:46.140 the walls are closing in,
00:12:47.660 it's the end of the beginning,
00:12:49.000 it's the beginning of the end,
00:12:50.040 it's explosive.
00:12:51.240 And you go like,
00:12:52.060 what the hell?
00:12:53.180 She even said,
00:12:54.180 she even said,
00:12:54.700 if you're bored,
00:12:56.000 you were just not
00:12:56.700 paying attention.
00:12:57.460 I thought,
00:12:57.780 no, I actually know
00:12:58.700 when I'm bored.
00:13:01.180 I don't need you
00:13:02.080 to tell me how to feel.
00:13:02.840 So I just feel like
00:13:03.640 even,
00:13:04.200 we have to talk about it,
00:13:05.380 obviously it's the news,
00:13:06.620 but I feel this thing
00:13:07.540 is absurd.
00:13:08.160 I feel it is completely
00:13:09.140 staged,
00:13:09.920 it's completely meaningless,
00:13:11.340 that we know
00:13:12.180 who Donald Trump is,
00:13:13.140 we know he says
00:13:13.780 these things.
00:13:15.360 I don't agree with you guys
00:13:17.000 about Trump,
00:13:18.320 I think he's a smart guy
00:13:19.460 with a strategy,
00:13:20.680 but,
00:13:21.220 but.
00:13:21.820 I used to think
00:13:22.440 you were a smart guy.
00:13:24.220 That ends right now.
00:13:25.980 But he's a big mouth
00:13:27.260 and he says things
00:13:28.060 and he talks off the cuff.
00:13:28.920 But this would actually
00:13:29.680 be his best strategy,
00:13:31.520 right,
00:13:31.720 would be for him to say,
00:13:33.140 yeah,
00:13:33.300 I'm a big mouth
00:13:33.700 and I say things.
00:13:34.840 Right,
00:13:35.260 I mean,
00:13:35.420 like if he just said that,
00:13:36.160 everybody would be like,
00:13:37.260 all right,
00:13:37.900 fair,
00:13:38.380 yeah,
00:13:38.660 fair.
00:13:39.160 I really feel like
00:13:40.080 one of the things
00:13:40.700 that he does
00:13:41.120 is one of the critical sins
00:13:42.440 that many presidents commit,
00:13:43.700 which is overselling.
00:13:45.260 And so you'll hear presidents
00:13:46.260 and say things like,
00:13:47.040 yeah,
00:13:47.380 right,
00:13:47.760 but Trump is gifted at this.
00:13:49.700 I mean,
00:13:49.940 what you'll hear presidents say
00:13:51.080 is we're going to aim
00:13:52.140 for 4% GDP growth
00:13:53.560 and then it comes in
00:13:54.060 like 3.6% GDP growth
00:13:55.540 and everybody's like,
00:13:55.980 oh,
00:13:56.080 well,
00:13:56.220 he fell short of expectation.
00:13:57.620 That was a really solid
00:13:58.240 GDP growth,
00:13:58.960 right?
00:13:59.380 What if he just pitched three,
00:14:00.820 right?
00:14:00.960 Why don't you undersell?
00:14:01.680 This is actually,
00:14:02.040 Clinton was very good at this.
00:14:03.020 Clinton would actually undersell
00:14:04.000 and then if it slightly
00:14:05.060 surpassed expectations,
00:14:06.100 it was a huge win for him.
00:14:07.480 Well,
00:14:07.720 Trump,
00:14:08.080 because he's constantly overselling,
00:14:09.620 instead of him just saying,
00:14:10.620 look,
00:14:10.880 I say things,
00:14:11.520 right,
00:14:11.680 I go in,
00:14:12.040 I'm on a phone call,
00:14:13.040 I say things,
00:14:13.740 I'm not corrupt.
00:14:14.740 If he just said that,
00:14:15.900 we'd all be like,
00:14:16.920 all right,
00:14:17.400 but instead it was the perfect,
00:14:18.800 most unbelievable phone.
00:14:19.800 And now you've got Congress people
00:14:21.180 who are in the unenviable position
00:14:22.520 of having to explain
00:14:23.820 why this phone call was perfect
00:14:25.440 as opposed to just saying
00:14:26.400 what all the rest of us are saying,
00:14:27.580 which is,
00:14:28.280 yeah,
00:14:28.460 dude says stuff
00:14:29.140 and he really didn't do anything wrong.
00:14:30.320 It's not great.
00:14:32.160 This is part of the Trump peculiarity
00:14:33.780 is that he does talk
00:14:34.720 like a North Korean dictator
00:14:35.860 and it does cause his supporters
00:14:39.380 to then have to either
00:14:40.740 say things that are going
00:14:42.340 to put them at odds with him
00:14:43.780 or say things
00:14:45.420 that make them sound
00:14:46.180 patently absurd.
00:14:47.260 I actually thought
00:14:47.720 that our friend Dennis Prager
00:14:48.660 did a terrific job
00:14:50.280 on his appearance
00:14:51.440 on Bill Maher last week
00:14:53.080 when Bill Maher brought up
00:14:55.280 some of these things
00:14:55.800 that President Trump has said,
00:14:57.120 like he's,
00:14:57.800 I can't remember the quote,
00:14:59.140 his glorious mind
00:15:00.280 and all this.
00:15:00.860 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:15:01.420 And Prager was like,
00:15:03.040 I mean,
00:15:03.240 I don't know if he said that.
00:15:03.920 Did he say that?
00:15:04.440 Yeah, he said that.
00:15:04.940 Well, of course that's silly.
00:15:06.500 I thought,
00:15:06.740 well, yeah,
00:15:07.100 that is how you have to react
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00:16:58.660 Is it fellows and fell-ahs?
00:17:01.780 I know, that's what I was
00:17:02.580 straining there for a second.
00:17:03.700 And I was like,
00:17:04.100 what is the equivalent here?
00:17:05.300 You're the linguist.
00:17:06.160 It's very difficult
00:17:06.920 because a fella is also a guy.
00:17:08.740 It's very,
00:17:09.320 they've anticipated transgenderism.
00:17:11.280 Maybe Trump really is
00:17:12.140 as smart as Andrew thinking.
00:17:15.020 Well, I mean,
00:17:15.580 with all of this said,
00:17:16.720 none of this is going to have
00:17:17.560 any major impact on Trump,
00:17:20.060 which leads me to believe
00:17:21.680 that the Democratic proclamations
00:17:24.180 that they're going to try
00:17:24.800 and move as fast on this thing
00:17:25.700 as possible are just a lie.
00:17:26.620 I don't think that's right.
00:17:27.340 I think that the Democrats are-
00:17:27.700 It's not in their interest to move quickly.
00:17:28.640 Right, exactly.
00:17:29.080 I think that they're looking at this field
00:17:30.640 and they're thinking,
00:17:31.340 okay, what we need to do
00:17:32.920 is avoid talking about these
00:17:34.260 because this field
00:17:35.740 is just sheer effing garbage.
00:17:37.920 I mean, and it is.
00:17:38.660 It is garbage, top to bottom.
00:17:40.260 You've got Joe Biden,
00:17:41.360 who is not even alive.
00:17:42.860 He's not a living human being.
00:17:44.860 They've dug up a corpse
00:17:46.300 and they've called it Joe Biden
00:17:47.620 and they wheel it around
00:17:48.560 and every so often-
00:17:48.960 Joe Biden is the bottom at the top.
00:17:50.300 Every so often,
00:17:52.120 his jaw falls open
00:17:54.120 and sound comes out
00:17:55.160 and that's Joe Biden's candidacy
00:17:58.220 and that guy's your front runner.
00:17:59.540 Listen, two years from now,
00:18:00.360 we're going to be sitting here
00:18:00.960 doing this show
00:18:01.740 and Drew's going to say,
00:18:02.900 I think you guys are wrong about Biden.
00:18:05.920 He's very much alive.
00:18:06.880 He might be alive.
00:18:07.860 Yeah, exactly.
00:18:08.640 He might be alive.
00:18:09.160 And then you've got our good friend
00:18:10.020 Elizabeth Warren
00:18:10.560 and Elizabeth Warren is,
00:18:12.640 I mean, the more you see her,
00:18:13.780 the more you dislike her.
00:18:15.440 And it's amazing
00:18:16.660 because she started off
00:18:17.860 and everybody's like,
00:18:18.500 yeah, she's terrible.
00:18:19.340 And then they're like,
00:18:19.800 second look at Elizabeth Warren
00:18:21.020 and the media were obsessed
00:18:22.440 with Elizabeth Warren.
00:18:23.280 Every plan, everything she said,
00:18:25.140 it's genius, it's brilliant.
00:18:26.680 She went to Harvard Law
00:18:27.600 and she was a professor.
00:18:28.860 Sure, she earned it
00:18:29.480 by proclaiming that she was
00:18:30.360 a Native American,
00:18:30.980 but she's a professor.
00:18:32.320 And by the way,
00:18:32.780 don't believe all the hype
00:18:33.540 when they say,
00:18:33.940 oh, well, Harvard Law
00:18:34.580 never looked at that.
00:18:35.260 Really?
00:18:35.480 Then why was she putting it
00:18:36.160 on her application?
00:18:36.920 Why was Harvard putting out
00:18:37.940 press releases about it?
00:18:38.920 Correct.
00:18:39.420 I mean, it's all nonsense.
00:18:40.560 But it was all just
00:18:41.900 glowing media coverage.
00:18:43.400 And then people get a load of her
00:18:44.840 and they're like,
00:18:45.320 oh my God, she is awful.
00:18:46.880 And this war on billionaires thing,
00:18:48.620 by the way,
00:18:48.960 they say that all this plays
00:18:50.300 because the vast majority
00:18:51.440 of the American people
00:18:52.140 are for the wealth tax.
00:18:53.420 Right, because anytime
00:18:54.420 you say to somebody,
00:18:55.700 how would you like
00:18:56.180 if you took somebody
00:18:56.960 richer's money from them
00:18:58.120 and then gave it to you?
00:18:59.140 How do you think
00:18:59.560 that's going to pull?
00:19:00.240 I mean, obviously,
00:19:00.980 that's going to pull
00:19:01.540 generally well.
00:19:02.660 But Dan Henninger
00:19:03.480 in the Journal
00:19:03.960 wrote a really interesting piece
00:19:05.260 where he said she may have
00:19:06.180 actually destroyed the left
00:19:07.740 because Bernie Sanders
00:19:09.000 is smart enough
00:19:09.800 to never say
00:19:10.860 what anything's going to cost
00:19:12.100 or what he's actually
00:19:13.120 going to do.
00:19:13.800 Where she did put out
00:19:15.060 a detailed plan
00:19:16.140 of her health plan
00:19:17.200 and everybody looked at it,
00:19:18.100 even the left looked at it.
00:19:19.100 And they laughed at it.
00:19:19.860 Uh-oh.
00:19:20.440 Well, it's laughable
00:19:21.380 because she literally
00:19:22.460 just falsified the numbers.
00:19:23.740 I mean, she claimed
00:19:24.460 that she was going to
00:19:25.220 take a plan
00:19:25.920 that by every estimate
00:19:26.640 costs over $30 trillion
00:19:27.600 over 10 years
00:19:28.320 and make it cost $20 trillion
00:19:30.080 over 10 years.
00:19:31.260 She was going to double count
00:19:32.140 all of the taxation
00:19:33.320 that she had already declared
00:19:34.920 was going for other purposes.
00:19:36.020 She was going to triple
00:19:36.800 the wealth tax,
00:19:37.420 not 2%, but 6%.
00:19:38.600 By the way,
00:19:39.420 can we talk for a second
00:19:40.060 about this wealth tax nonsense
00:19:41.020 because people do not understand
00:19:42.500 what a wealth tax is.
00:19:43.380 They do not.
00:19:43.880 They think that this is just
00:19:44.580 an increase in the income tax.
00:19:45.740 This is bullshit.
00:19:46.880 Okay?
00:19:47.100 Like, pardon the language,
00:19:48.540 but it's bullshit.
00:19:49.340 Okay?
00:19:49.660 Wealth tax is one of the worst ideas
00:19:51.900 ever created by the human mind.
00:19:53.680 Okay?
00:19:53.900 It's basically the equivalent
00:19:54.880 of an estate tax.
00:19:55.800 So when you die,
00:19:56.460 the government,
00:19:56.900 because they're terrible,
00:19:57.720 they decide that they're going
00:19:58.340 to step over your corpse,
00:19:59.320 pry open your safe,
00:20:00.140 take all the money
00:20:00.640 you've already paid taxes on,
00:20:01.740 and then steal it from you
00:20:02.920 so that you can't give it
00:20:03.780 to your children,
00:20:04.360 which, of course,
00:20:04.860 was the entire purpose
00:20:05.720 of you earning money
00:20:06.340 over the course of your lifetime.
00:20:07.300 The estate tax is patently evil.
00:20:08.960 Okay, so now,
00:20:09.920 but it's not just
00:20:10.480 that they pry open the safe.
00:20:11.220 They then assess the value
00:20:12.240 of every piece of property
00:20:13.460 that you own,
00:20:14.240 including your business interests
00:20:15.200 and your stocks.
00:20:15.980 And then,
00:20:16.400 they take 40% of that
00:20:17.620 if you haven't been smart enough
00:20:18.560 to get a living trust.
00:20:19.280 Folks,
00:20:19.700 go check out a living trust
00:20:20.640 at LegalZoom.com today.
00:20:22.120 Make it happen right now.
00:20:23.480 Do not give that money
00:20:24.160 to the damned federal government.
00:20:25.440 Okay, so...
00:20:25.960 You know what's especially stupid
00:20:27.440 about this wealth tax
00:20:28.720 is she says
00:20:29.500 she's only going to go after
00:20:31.280 the billionaires.
00:20:32.360 It's a familiar storyline.
00:20:34.400 There are about 621 billionaires
00:20:36.480 in the United States.
00:20:37.600 Their combined wealth,
00:20:39.200 not their income,
00:20:40.120 their wealth,
00:20:40.660 the money that they have
00:20:41.460 is a little over $3 trillion.
00:20:43.080 And I'm actually being generous here
00:20:44.540 with my estimates.
00:20:46.060 If you took
00:20:46.920 every single penny they had,
00:20:48.520 you took the shirt off their back,
00:20:50.000 you left them destitute,
00:20:51.680 you would not pay
00:20:53.060 a tiny fraction
00:20:54.480 of this plan,
00:20:55.580 which is a $20 trillion,
00:20:56.840 is it $30 trillion,
00:20:57.560 the whole plan is $52 trillion.
00:20:58.700 You'd pay for one year
00:20:59.520 worth of a plan.
00:21:00.260 You'd pay for less
00:21:00.760 or less than one year.
00:21:01.600 Right.
00:21:01.720 What do you do then?
00:21:02.940 But to get back to the details
00:21:03.800 of what a wealth tax is
00:21:04.720 so people understand
00:21:05.340 how evil a wealth tax is,
00:21:06.780 a wealth tax requires
00:21:08.260 the government and you
00:21:09.320 to assess the value
00:21:10.320 of everything that you own
00:21:11.600 every single year
00:21:12.580 and then take a percentage
00:21:13.660 off the top of that.
00:21:14.520 So when she says 2% of your wealth,
00:21:16.300 okay, let's take an example.
00:21:17.540 We have a business here
00:21:18.240 at Daily Wire.
00:21:18.760 The business earns money.
00:21:19.780 We have to assess
00:21:20.420 the value of the business.
00:21:21.740 We have to add up
00:21:22.320 the leftist tears tumblers,
00:21:23.480 the grapes,
00:21:24.320 the lights,
00:21:24.840 the cameras.
00:21:25.820 And I'll tell you who this,
00:21:26.580 I'll tell you who this,
00:21:27.200 I'll tell you who this absolutely Fs.
00:21:29.320 The person,
00:21:30.000 the people at absolutely Fs
00:21:31.000 are the business owners
00:21:31.860 because if you own a business,
00:21:32.960 let's say that you own a business
00:21:33.820 for the sake of argument
00:21:34.740 and the business,
00:21:35.220 so the wealth tax
00:21:36.500 is supposed to kick in
00:21:37.260 at $50 million
00:21:37.840 is what she says now, right?
00:21:39.360 As soon as you get to $50 million,
00:21:40.780 every dollar above that
00:21:41.620 and you're going to start paying
00:21:42.560 into this routine.
00:21:45.420 Okay, so let's say
00:21:46.000 that you have a business
00:21:47.180 and the business
00:21:47.660 is worth $50 million.
00:21:48.820 But what that actually means
00:21:49.860 is that the business
00:21:50.660 is being valued
00:21:51.380 by three times its gross,
00:21:52.800 basically.
00:21:53.480 So let's say that the business
00:21:54.340 makes $17 million this year
00:21:55.920 and you,
00:21:56.880 being a good boss,
00:21:57.840 you're only paying yourself
00:21:58.480 half a million dollars, right?
00:22:00.040 All the rest of it
00:22:00.800 goes to expenses,
00:22:01.680 all the rest goes to costs,
00:22:02.660 all the rest goes to employees.
00:22:03.640 So you're paying yourself
00:22:04.800 half a million dollars
00:22:05.480 and it's a $17 million a year business.
00:22:09.240 But it's valued at $50 million
00:22:10.680 because you're using
00:22:11.320 three times gross
00:22:12.100 to value the business.
00:22:12.980 That means that your net worth,
00:22:15.020 you make half a million dollars a year.
00:22:16.760 But it means that you will be paying
00:22:18.060 2% of $50 million.
00:22:20.920 You'll be paying $1 million in taxes
00:22:23.020 on an income of $500,000 a year.
00:22:25.700 Ben, it's even worse than that.
00:22:26.980 It means,
00:22:27.660 because it's not like that money
00:22:28.880 even is sitting in the bank.
00:22:29.880 You're not paying yourself
00:22:30.680 half a million dollars
00:22:31.520 and leaving $20 million in the bank.
00:22:33.200 This is right.
00:22:33.640 What this means is
00:22:34.460 you will have to liquidate assets
00:22:36.880 in order to pay the tax.
00:22:39.180 Correct.
00:22:39.440 People think of these
00:22:40.120 Silicon Valley billionaires, right?
00:22:42.440 I read a story two years ago
00:22:43.840 about Mark Zuckerberg,
00:22:44.860 founder of Facebook,
00:22:46.280 worth something at the time,
00:22:47.580 something like $70 billion.
00:22:48.940 I don't know who he's worth today.
00:22:50.080 At the time he's worth $70 billion.
00:22:50.600 It's like $120 billion or something.
00:22:51.740 Yeah, billion dollars.
00:22:53.240 And he had put in,
00:22:55.120 because he has to file this
00:22:56.380 with the SEC and with his board,
00:22:58.040 he had put in that he wanted
00:22:58.940 to liquidate $1 billion worth
00:23:01.320 of his interest
00:23:02.680 interest in Facebook.
00:23:05.220 Silicon Valley went into a panic.
00:23:07.840 And at the time,
00:23:08.780 it was the most money
00:23:10.040 that any Silicon Valley tech founder
00:23:12.700 had ever tried to convert
00:23:15.040 into cash out of their business.
00:23:16.760 Stock prices start to dive
00:23:18.260 because they think,
00:23:19.660 well, if the founder and CEO
00:23:20.860 is selling his stock,
00:23:22.420 we must need to get out as well.
00:23:24.060 And then the whole net worth,
00:23:25.500 not only of him,
00:23:26.100 but of people with mutual funds,
00:23:28.000 people with 401ks.
00:23:29.420 Exactly.
00:23:29.660 Everybody invested in the market
00:23:30.540 starts to collapse.
00:23:31.880 What that means is,
00:23:33.520 if we started a broom company
00:23:36.480 and we invented the best broom
00:23:38.400 anybody's ever had
00:23:39.540 and we manufacture them
00:23:40.920 and we sell our brooms
00:23:42.180 and promo code Shapiro,
00:23:44.240 we sell a ton of them.
00:23:46.040 And then we sell our broom company
00:23:47.780 to some...
00:23:50.040 Hillary Clinton, probably.
00:23:50.560 Hillary Clinton.
00:23:51.060 Yeah.
00:23:51.640 The only person who could afford it.
00:23:53.660 We sell it to Hillary Clinton
00:23:54.840 for $3 billion.
00:23:57.260 And by the time you pay out your taxes,
00:23:59.020 you pay out all your employees,
00:24:00.000 you pay out your legal costs,
00:24:00.860 let's say we clear,
00:24:01.780 there's $1 billion left
00:24:03.960 in Jeremy Boring's account.
00:24:07.720 I doubt that I have much less money
00:24:10.940 than plenty of guys
00:24:12.180 who are on paper worth $20 billion.
00:24:13.880 This is right.
00:24:14.340 Mark Zuckerberg's fortune
00:24:15.500 is in his stock.
00:24:17.100 Jeff Bezos' fortune
00:24:18.100 is in his stock.
00:24:19.320 Don't get me wrong,
00:24:20.280 they have access
00:24:21.100 to all kinds of wealth
00:24:22.600 through the company,
00:24:23.440 money that they pay themselves
00:24:24.940 in salary.
00:24:25.480 They're doing great.
00:24:26.600 But a guy who sells a company
00:24:27.800 for $3 billion
00:24:28.520 probably has more cash on hand
00:24:31.240 than these billions.
00:24:32.300 And the reason that that matters
00:24:33.160 is because...
00:24:33.720 And that stock is also invested
00:24:35.320 in other companies
00:24:36.020 which are hiring people
00:24:37.100 to do work.
00:24:38.020 That's right.
00:24:38.300 And when you make them liquidate,
00:24:40.420 you have to liquidate stock.
00:24:41.460 You bring the whole value
00:24:42.020 of the stock market down.
00:24:43.180 But he's going to...
00:24:44.180 Fewer people are going to get hired,
00:24:45.520 fewer people's retirements
00:24:46.640 are going to come through.
00:24:47.240 But the short way of saying this,
00:24:48.720 which is just true,
00:24:49.440 is the left no longer understands
00:24:51.280 why business is there
00:24:52.320 except to fund their plans.
00:24:53.920 They have absolutely no clue
00:24:55.440 about the value of work,
00:24:56.800 about the dignity of work,
00:24:57.880 about the dignity of building stuff,
00:24:59.260 about the magic of inventing stuff.
00:25:00.660 Or how the economy grows, right?
00:25:02.920 I mean, there's a study today...
00:25:03.820 What makes it beautiful?
00:25:04.620 I mean, this is what makes
00:25:05.600 this country so great
00:25:06.560 is people building things,
00:25:08.320 you know,
00:25:08.600 like just building things
00:25:09.740 out of nothing,
00:25:10.380 sitting in their garage
00:25:11.160 and building billion-dollar companies.
00:25:12.660 This is an amazing thing.
00:25:14.080 And they just think it's there
00:25:15.300 to fund their plans.
00:25:17.320 Actually, I want to say something
00:25:18.120 about this before we take questions.
00:25:20.140 There is...
00:25:20.940 There's a kind of ethics
00:25:22.280 that most people
00:25:22.840 never have to contemplate.
00:25:23.940 But as a business owner,
00:25:24.940 you have to contemplate
00:25:25.900 this kind of ethics.
00:25:26.920 It's the ethics of business.
00:25:28.320 When is it moral to fire someone?
00:25:30.580 When is it immoral
00:25:31.740 not to fire someone?
00:25:33.700 What do you do
00:25:34.680 with profits in your company?
00:25:36.560 How do you invest...
00:25:37.380 I think he's sending you
00:25:38.040 a signal.
00:25:38.540 Yeah, hold on.
00:25:38.920 I don't know.
00:25:39.240 I don't know.
00:25:39.700 Let's take the questions.
00:25:40.580 Let's go on to questions.
00:25:41.820 But these are actually
00:25:42.740 ethical questions.
00:25:43.800 They affect people's lives.
00:25:45.100 There's right and wrong answers.
00:25:46.700 And it can be
00:25:47.760 a little bit challenging
00:25:48.480 to navigate some of those waters.
00:25:51.060 One of the things
00:25:51.720 that bothers me
00:25:52.380 as a business owner
00:25:53.320 is when I hear people
00:25:55.200 who've never contemplated
00:25:56.420 the ethics of business
00:25:57.560 condemn business people
00:25:59.780 as unethical.
00:26:01.260 Did you know
00:26:01.840 that 58% of working Americans,
00:26:05.100 I just learned this today,
00:26:06.500 say that they would trust
00:26:07.840 a stranger more than their boss?
00:26:11.600 This is offensive.
00:26:12.100 Patently absurd.
00:26:12.920 Patently absurd.
00:26:13.740 It's offensive
00:26:14.460 because your boss
00:26:15.360 absolutely trusts you.
00:26:18.360 Otherwise,
00:26:19.060 they wouldn't have hired you
00:26:20.320 and put you in a position
00:26:21.480 to advance
00:26:22.520 or harm their interests.
00:26:24.640 Right.
00:26:24.840 So they're putting
00:26:25.400 their trust in you
00:26:26.160 and the majority
00:26:26.860 of their workers
00:26:27.480 don't trust them in return.
00:26:29.420 And the reason is
00:26:30.080 because people like Bernie Sanders
00:26:31.360 and people like Elizabeth Warren
00:26:32.580 constantly say
00:26:33.920 the CEO class
00:26:35.360 is against you.
00:26:36.380 The CEO class
00:26:37.480 employs you.
00:26:38.500 Right, yeah.
00:26:38.700 They say the billionaires
00:26:39.660 are stealing from you.
00:26:40.500 The billionaires
00:26:41.380 have created
00:26:41.920 so much wealth
00:26:43.520 that global poverty,
00:26:45.240 not just America,
00:26:46.040 global poverty
00:26:46.860 is at an all-time low.
00:26:48.120 If you have a job
00:26:49.240 in America today,
00:26:51.260 you have an entrepreneur
00:26:52.160 to thank.
00:26:53.880 And there's this sort of...
00:26:54.520 Well over half of Americans
00:26:55.520 are employed
00:26:56.060 by a company
00:26:56.620 that employs
00:26:57.140 more than,
00:26:57.960 I think it's 2,500 people.
00:26:59.800 That's right.
00:27:00.160 Like a huge percentage.
00:27:01.160 Like most people in America
00:27:02.320 now work for a large company.
00:27:03.700 But nobody likes his boss.
00:27:05.060 And I get it.
00:27:06.120 You don't have to like your boss.
00:27:07.420 But let me tell you something
00:27:08.180 about your boss.
00:27:08.440 But you have to contemplate...
00:27:09.140 No, I understand.
00:27:10.100 I'm just saying
00:27:10.480 they're playing off
00:27:11.040 a natural...
00:27:11.620 Of course, of course.
00:27:12.780 And that all makes sense.
00:27:13.740 But I can tell you
00:27:14.520 because Jeremy and I
00:27:15.060 have sat in the office together
00:27:16.020 when we've had
00:27:16.500 employment discussions.
00:27:18.200 We lose sleep
00:27:19.220 over employment discussions.
00:27:20.100 Of course you do.
00:27:20.740 I mean, you know how many times
00:27:21.780 I've said I want to fire him
00:27:22.940 and Jeremy has to defend
00:27:24.120 his employment?
00:27:24.140 I know, we've wrestled you
00:27:24.940 to the ground.
00:27:25.640 But it is true
00:27:27.420 that the vast majority
00:27:28.560 of people who employ people
00:27:29.780 are the kinds of people,
00:27:31.360 really,
00:27:32.000 who are straining
00:27:32.960 not to fire people.
00:27:34.460 Especially small business owners.
00:27:35.780 But this is true
00:27:36.260 for large business owners also.
00:27:37.280 You think that they are desperate
00:27:38.180 to lay off tens of thousands
00:27:39.740 of people?
00:27:40.520 You think that they...
00:27:41.180 Because I can tell you
00:27:42.120 something right now.
00:27:42.960 If Mark Zuckerberg
00:27:43.700 wanted to liquidate
00:27:44.920 all of his wealth right now,
00:27:46.060 there are a lot of people
00:27:46.520 in this country
00:27:47.560 who would lose their jobs.
00:27:48.600 And he'd walk away
00:27:49.460 a very wealthy man.
00:27:50.280 So he could do that,
00:27:51.200 but he's not going to do that.
00:27:52.440 And that's true
00:27:53.460 of all of these billionaires.
00:27:54.100 And I just want to go back,
00:27:55.840 though, to the fact
00:27:56.360 that this is what life is.
00:27:58.180 It's guys like you
00:27:58.940 who have an idea.
00:27:59.700 You've built something.
00:28:00.960 Guys like me write a book.
00:28:02.360 People are creating things,
00:28:03.460 making things,
00:28:04.040 even if they make it
00:28:04.940 by their daily labor.
00:28:06.420 You make something.
00:28:07.960 And these people
00:28:08.920 make nothing.
00:28:10.120 And I want to say,
00:28:11.460 on the ethical piece,
00:28:13.380 yes, everybody dislikes
00:28:15.060 their boss,
00:28:15.500 and that's the price
00:28:15.940 of doing business.
00:28:16.840 I totally get it.
00:28:18.080 But covetousness
00:28:18.980 is one of the big ten
00:28:19.900 in the Bible,
00:28:21.260 the big ten
00:28:21.600 things you're not supposed
00:28:22.120 to do.
00:28:22.660 Very few people
00:28:23.560 walk around being
00:28:24.560 encouraged to murder.
00:28:26.600 Right.
00:28:26.960 Just murder.
00:28:27.680 Murder's great.
00:28:28.360 You deserve to murder.
00:28:29.360 Very few people
00:28:30.040 walk around committing adultery
00:28:32.520 as though they're being
00:28:33.760 encouraged by the culture.
00:28:34.540 Now, you might say
00:28:35.140 that the culture puts...
00:28:36.700 Winks at it.
00:28:37.260 Winks at it.
00:28:38.060 But the culture
00:28:38.740 isn't going,
00:28:39.340 cheat on your wife.
00:28:40.000 Cheating on your wife
00:28:40.580 is great.
00:28:40.940 I cheat on my wife.
00:28:41.740 You should cheat
00:28:42.080 on your wife.
00:28:43.020 Covetousness,
00:28:43.420 on the other hand,
00:28:44.400 there is an entire
00:28:45.180 political movement
00:28:45.980 in this country
00:28:46.500 dedicated to telling you
00:28:48.480 that you deserve
00:28:49.460 what you did not create,
00:28:51.000 that you deserve
00:28:51.520 what you did not earn.
00:28:53.100 Winston Churchill
00:28:53.580 called socialism
00:28:54.480 the gospel of envy.
00:28:56.200 That's not just
00:28:56.720 a cute line.
00:28:57.880 It's a penis side.
00:28:58.740 The most important
00:28:59.960 political line
00:29:00.800 of the last 20 years
00:29:01.560 is one that people
00:29:02.060 tend to ignore,
00:29:02.560 and it's when Barack Obama
00:29:03.420 was specifically asked
00:29:04.400 whether if he increased
00:29:05.280 marginal tax rates
00:29:06.280 and it lowered economic growth
00:29:07.500 and led to lower employment,
00:29:09.160 whether he would still do it.
00:29:10.380 And he said yes
00:29:10.940 for purposes of fairness.
00:29:12.040 That's right.
00:29:12.460 So that is pure and simple.
00:29:14.920 I hate rich people.
00:29:15.960 I hate rich people.
00:29:16.400 And rich people need to be taken...
00:29:17.560 Now he's a very rich person,
00:29:18.640 obviously.
00:29:19.300 I want to say this.
00:29:19.960 There's an attitude
00:29:21.480 among the working class
00:29:22.960 that is offensive
00:29:25.880 and is wrong.
00:29:26.560 And if you're an employee
00:29:28.060 in a company,
00:29:28.600 you should evaluate this.
00:29:30.460 Not because you're...
00:29:31.120 I mean, there's a great line
00:29:32.380 in The Edge
00:29:34.080 with Anthony Hopkins
00:29:35.740 and Alec Baldwin.
00:29:37.040 David Mamet.
00:29:37.480 Yeah, written by our friend
00:29:38.580 David Mamet
00:29:39.080 where Anthony Hopkins
00:29:40.600 says to Baldwin,
00:29:41.800 never feel sorry
00:29:42.480 for a man with a jet.
00:29:43.920 And that's fair.
00:29:44.720 You don't have to feel sorry
00:29:45.860 for your boss.
00:29:46.380 That's not my point.
00:29:47.180 But you should reflect
00:29:48.080 on your own attitudes
00:29:49.020 and your own biases.
00:29:50.620 You see a similar attitude.
00:29:52.060 I don't like it
00:29:52.600 with a sort of
00:29:53.100 women's power movement
00:29:54.100 where it's like
00:29:54.800 if guys wear a shirt
00:29:55.800 that says,
00:29:56.420 I can do whatever I want
00:29:58.300 and you can't tell me nothing,
00:29:59.280 that'd be bad,
00:29:59.840 but women can kind of
00:30:00.700 encourage each other in that.
00:30:01.980 Similar with the way
00:30:02.780 that this sort of
00:30:03.260 blue-collar attitude.
00:30:04.040 It's an attitude that says,
00:30:05.180 we're the real workers.
00:30:07.560 We're the people
00:30:08.000 who are really
00:30:08.580 making things possible.
00:30:10.060 We're the ones
00:30:10.620 who are irreplaceable.
00:30:11.860 The big muckety-muck up top,
00:30:14.140 he's nothing.
00:30:15.700 He's just a guy
00:30:16.560 who's stealing
00:30:17.520 all of our labor.
00:30:20.940 It's obviously untrue.
00:30:22.760 This doesn't mean
00:30:23.300 that there isn't dignity
00:30:24.120 in what you do.
00:30:25.340 There is.
00:30:25.720 If you work hard,
00:30:26.820 do your best
00:30:27.500 and deliver
00:30:28.460 no matter where you are
00:30:29.380 on the hierarchy
00:30:30.140 of employment,
00:30:31.800 you're doing something
00:30:32.600 that has an amazing value.
00:30:33.700 You're doing something
00:30:34.340 for which you should be proud
00:30:35.420 and you're doing something
00:30:35.960 that makes the world work
00:30:37.220 for every other
00:30:38.220 productive member
00:30:38.920 of society.
00:30:40.180 It is also true
00:30:41.340 that if Warren Buffett
00:30:43.700 owns a railroad
00:30:44.860 and on that railroad
00:30:46.860 there are 100,000 people
00:30:48.520 working on the train
00:30:49.380 and there are 10,000 people
00:30:51.040 in middle management
00:30:51.760 managing the people
00:30:52.560 on the train
00:30:53.160 and above that
00:30:54.160 there are 1,000 people
00:30:54.940 who are executives
00:30:55.600 over the middle management
00:30:56.640 and they're involved
00:30:57.260 in strategy
00:30:57.840 and above that
00:30:58.840 there's Warren Buffett
00:30:59.720 who has to make decisions
00:31:01.520 every single day
00:31:02.500 life and death decisions
00:31:03.320 about how to make that succeed,
00:31:05.260 make a profit
00:31:05.800 so that all those other people
00:31:06.820 can get paid
00:31:07.400 or lose a profit.
00:31:08.840 All those people
00:31:09.460 lose their jobs
00:31:10.160 and all the 401ks
00:31:12.260 that are invested
00:31:12.840 in that company
00:31:13.480 lose their retirements.
00:31:16.360 The further you go
00:31:17.280 up that pyramid
00:31:17.820 the more irreplaceable
00:31:19.000 the work of the person gets.
00:31:20.660 But you know this is
00:31:21.100 This is why
00:31:22.100 when you're at the bottom
00:31:23.220 of that
00:31:23.940 and you retire
00:31:24.660 the company goes on.
00:31:26.040 But when Warren Buffett dies
00:31:27.800 the railroad will go
00:31:28.900 into a moment of crisis
00:31:29.940 where they try to determine
00:31:31.240 now who's going to be
00:31:32.800 the one who's responsible
00:31:33.860 for determining
00:31:34.840 whether or not
00:31:35.480 all these employees
00:31:36.280 get paid or they don't.
00:31:37.660 So one of the misnomers
00:31:38.600 of modern American politics
00:31:39.600 is that this is
00:31:40.100 a working class mentality.
00:31:41.300 I really don't think it is.
00:31:42.420 And if you look at the polls
00:31:43.100 inside the Democratic Party
00:31:44.100 what you will see
00:31:44.760 is that a huge percentage
00:31:46.260 of the support
00:31:46.920 for Elizabeth Warren
00:31:47.600 is coming from college graduates
00:31:48.920 highly educated people.
00:31:51.160 It ain't the working class.
00:31:51.760 It ain't the working class.
00:31:52.680 The working class understands
00:31:53.980 that people who work
00:31:55.000 in this country
00:31:56.100 it used to be
00:31:56.760 I remember in England
00:31:57.840 during the 70s
00:31:58.760 and England during the 70s
00:31:59.740 was a horrible horrible
00:32:00.880 Oh yeah before Thatcher?
00:32:01.700 Oh it was amazing.
00:32:03.240 And they used to say
00:32:04.140 with admiration to me
00:32:05.460 they would say
00:32:06.160 you know
00:32:06.600 when we see a guy
00:32:07.800 go by in a Rolls Royce
00:32:08.900 we think I'm going
00:32:09.720 to bring that guy down.
00:32:10.900 He said when you see
00:32:11.540 a guy go by in a Rolls Royce
00:32:12.540 you think I'm going
00:32:13.140 to get one of those.
00:32:13.900 That's right.
00:32:14.220 That's the way Americans
00:32:15.060 used to think.
00:32:16.260 You can twist that.
00:32:17.260 Obviously they did in Britain.
00:32:18.320 You can twist people's minds
00:32:19.480 until they're filled with envy.
00:32:20.880 But you know
00:32:21.460 the thing that you're
00:32:22.280 talking about too
00:32:23.000 is the hidden meritocracy
00:32:24.760 of the left
00:32:25.800 because they say
00:32:27.080 you know
00:32:27.840 if you put out a pet rock
00:32:29.200 and you make a million bucks
00:32:30.280 you earn that million bucks.
00:32:31.980 That's an idea.
00:32:32.820 I did put out a pet rock
00:32:34.260 and I made a lot of money.
00:32:35.620 You did put out a pet rock.
00:32:37.340 That idea was worth something.
00:32:39.280 What have they done?
00:32:40.520 What have they done
00:32:41.500 that they get to spend
00:32:42.400 the money you made?
00:32:43.580 You know this is the thing
00:32:44.320 that drove me up a wall.
00:32:45.640 Did you see that clip
00:32:46.180 of Bernie Sanders
00:32:46.740 sitting next to AOC
00:32:47.540 and the weirdest version
00:32:48.320 of the odd couple ever?
00:32:49.260 The good news is
00:32:50.540 I think we know
00:32:50.920 who he cast as Alex
00:32:51.700 Oscar
00:32:52.200 and who he cast as Felix.
00:32:53.460 It took me three weeks
00:32:54.740 to figure out
00:32:55.420 that F.U.
00:32:56.060 meant something
00:32:56.600 something pudding.
00:32:59.220 My favorite line
00:33:00.080 from the odd couple.
00:33:01.160 It's a great play.
00:33:03.040 But there's that clip
00:33:04.740 of Bernie Sanders
00:33:05.960 saying
00:33:07.320 the arrogance
00:33:08.480 of Michael Bloomberg
00:33:09.740 and these billionaires
00:33:10.440 want to get into politics
00:33:11.560 because they think
00:33:12.320 that because they're rich
00:33:12.980 they should run your life.
00:33:13.740 And I thought to myself
00:33:14.280 you are a professional
00:33:17.440 useless person.
00:33:18.420 A professional useless person.
00:33:19.780 You have been
00:33:20.920 kicked out of a commune
00:33:22.560 for being useless
00:33:23.340 and then you're like
00:33:24.800 you know where I can go
00:33:25.520 to be even more useless
00:33:26.540 and people will give me money?
00:33:27.780 I can go into local,
00:33:28.860 state, and federal government.
00:33:29.900 And you've spent
00:33:30.260 the last 50 years
00:33:31.100 providing nothing.
00:33:32.380 Zero things.
00:33:33.080 You have not created
00:33:33.580 a single job
00:33:34.280 that was not paid for
00:33:34.900 by the taxpayer.
00:33:35.720 You have not passed
00:33:36.240 a single major piece
00:33:37.060 of legislation.
00:33:37.980 You have done nothing.
00:33:39.440 Zero things.
00:33:40.060 And you're sitting here
00:33:40.820 saying that because
00:33:41.680 listen, I don't like
00:33:42.500 Michael Bloomberg either.
00:33:43.160 I think he's a schmuck.
00:33:43.980 But Michael Bloomberg
00:33:45.060 has at least created
00:33:45.880 some jobs.
00:33:46.660 He's actually run a business.
00:33:47.720 In fact, he was actually
00:33:48.740 a fairly successful
00:33:49.820 mayor of New York.
00:33:50.860 You are literally
00:33:52.320 a professional useless person
00:33:53.700 who is old and crazy
00:33:55.280 and you scream at the moon
00:33:56.740 and you're sitting there
00:33:57.980 being like,
00:33:58.580 all these billionaires
00:33:59.260 want to get into politics.
00:34:00.200 How arrogant.
00:34:00.680 I think to myself,
00:34:01.840 okay, which is more arrogant?
00:34:02.820 The guy who has created jobs
00:34:04.540 for probably tens of thousands
00:34:05.520 of people who says,
00:34:06.740 you know what,
00:34:07.120 I can bring that same
00:34:07.820 sort of sensibility
00:34:08.560 to government?
00:34:09.760 Or the guy who has created
00:34:11.420 nothing ever
00:34:12.380 in the history
00:34:13.040 of his entire life
00:34:14.000 who says,
00:34:14.500 I want to run
00:34:14.960 every single aspect
00:34:16.200 of your life forever.
00:34:17.760 Who is more arrogant?
00:34:18.680 You finally said
00:34:19.300 something nice
00:34:19.740 about Donald Trump.
00:34:21.180 No, I mean,
00:34:21.740 but that's true.
00:34:22.260 I mean,
00:34:22.400 I didn't have any objections
00:34:23.260 to Donald Trump
00:34:23.840 running for office
00:34:24.360 on the basis
00:34:24.700 of his business record.
00:34:25.640 I've never thought
00:34:26.160 that a political career
00:34:27.040 was actually the basis
00:34:28.260 for being a good president
00:34:29.340 of the United States.
00:34:30.600 Every president we've had
00:34:31.520 has basically been
00:34:32.000 a politician
00:34:32.400 and most of them
00:34:32.840 been schmucks.
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00:36:45.780 WarrenTears.
00:36:46.760 That's WarrenTears
00:36:47.720 as in
00:36:48.200 the mighty Elizabeth Warren
00:36:49.500 and the tears
00:36:50.380 are the tears
00:36:51.020 that she will
00:36:51.600 be weeping
00:36:52.520 when we sue her
00:36:54.160 for plagiarism.
00:36:55.360 Okay,
00:36:55.940 the best part of this story
00:36:56.680 is somebody
00:36:57.140 in our Daily Wire
00:36:58.640 social media team
00:36:59.360 looked at,
00:37:00.260 did you see this thing?
00:37:00.840 It's amazing.
00:37:01.820 It's so good.
00:37:02.580 So they looked at her website
00:37:03.740 where she's selling
00:37:04.580 these billionaire tears
00:37:06.040 and it says
00:37:07.120 powered by Shopify.
00:37:08.740 Shopify,
00:37:09.300 of course,
00:37:09.520 is owned by a man
00:37:10.020 who's worth $3.2 billion.
00:37:11.900 Capitalism always wins.
00:37:14.100 It always wins.
00:37:15.140 By the way,
00:37:15.500 quick last note
00:37:16.520 on the wealth tax
00:37:17.000 and then we can do
00:37:17.380 the questions.
00:37:17.920 Quick note on the wealth tax.
00:37:18.880 There was a study
00:37:19.340 that came out
00:37:19.700 in the New York Times today
00:37:20.360 and what it found out
00:37:21.740 was that it was a,
00:37:23.040 I think it was done
00:37:23.420 by University of Pennsylvania
00:37:24.380 analyzing the wealth tax
00:37:25.440 and what it found
00:37:25.960 is that over the course
00:37:27.080 of the next decade,
00:37:28.200 Elizabeth Warren's proposals
00:37:29.760 could,
00:37:31.100 they predict,
00:37:31.940 would lower
00:37:33.100 the economic growth rate
00:37:34.320 in the United States
00:37:35.040 from 1.5% to 1.3%,
00:37:37.520 so 0.2%.
00:37:38.380 That's annually,
00:37:39.200 every single year.
00:37:40.300 Okay,
00:37:40.560 that is a massive amount
00:37:41.960 of money.
00:37:42.260 To explain how massive
00:37:43.060 an amount of money that is,
00:37:44.460 the same people forecast
00:37:46.320 that Donald Trump's
00:37:47.700 tax cuts
00:37:48.340 would increase
00:37:49.080 the growth
00:37:50.500 of the United States
00:37:51.140 over the course
00:37:51.540 of the next 10 years
00:37:52.300 by 0.06%
00:37:54.140 per year.
00:37:55.420 Okay,
00:37:55.580 what that means
00:37:56.260 is that the downside
00:37:57.560 of Elizabeth Warren
00:37:58.360 is three times
00:37:59.560 the upside
00:38:00.080 of the Trump tax cut.
00:38:01.780 Okay,
00:38:01.960 and that is,
00:38:02.560 if you use the rosiest estimates,
00:38:03.820 if you actually believe
00:38:04.480 that she's going to be able
00:38:05.000 to seize this wealth
00:38:05.640 and people aren't going
00:38:06.320 to simply move,
00:38:07.180 which is what happened
00:38:07.760 in France.
00:38:08.120 40,000 millionaires
00:38:09.060 moved out of France,
00:38:09.900 which is why every country
00:38:10.780 that's ever tried
00:38:11.220 this garbage wealth tax,
00:38:12.300 which by the way
00:38:12.720 is also unconstitutional
00:38:13.700 under Article 1,
00:38:14.480 Section 9 of the Constitution,
00:38:16.020 it's never going to happen,
00:38:17.040 but she is,
00:38:18.280 she's a bad person.
00:38:19.920 She's a bad person
00:38:20.580 because she's making it
00:38:21.420 part of the narrative.
00:38:22.740 Of course,
00:38:23.100 it's not going to happen.
00:38:24.100 Even if she's elected president,
00:38:25.920 there is a 0% chance
00:38:27.480 that this wealth tax
00:38:28.560 goes into...
00:38:29.260 I think she's a bad person
00:38:31.320 because she knows all this.
00:38:32.700 She does.
00:38:33.220 She's smarter than this.
00:38:33.900 And she's known
00:38:34.520 all this for years.
00:38:35.540 Every point that she makes now,
00:38:36.860 she's previously taken
00:38:37.580 the opposite side of.
00:38:38.780 Every story she's ever told,
00:38:39.880 it turns out,
00:38:40.360 is probably false.
00:38:40.920 That's actually right.
00:38:41.580 She's a wildly
00:38:42.720 disingenuous human being.
00:38:43.920 Plus,
00:38:44.140 she stole
00:38:45.140 my leftist tears
00:38:46.540 hot or cold tumbler
00:38:47.440 and made her
00:38:48.660 billionaire tears mug.
00:38:50.840 And guys,
00:38:51.700 billionaires cry tears of gold.
00:38:54.880 If I felt that I could
00:38:56.140 collect billionaire tears
00:38:57.240 and all I had to do
00:38:57.780 was buy that mug,
00:38:58.640 I'd do it.
00:38:59.500 Go over to
00:38:59.900 dailywire.com
00:39:00.600 slash subscribe.
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00:39:02.620 as your promo code
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00:39:04.520 And we are going
00:39:05.080 to take your question.
00:39:05.860 No, no.
00:39:06.080 I'd say one thing.
00:39:07.240 Okay, really,
00:39:08.000 I promise.
00:39:08.180 No, what's interrupting?
00:39:09.160 It's the last thing.
00:39:09.840 It's the last thing.
00:39:10.660 Okay, because it'll
00:39:11.740 escape my mind
00:39:12.360 and then it'll be gone forever.
00:39:13.080 And then no one
00:39:14.040 will be able to share
00:39:14.680 it in the brilliant
00:39:15.360 pearls of wisdom
00:39:16.000 that fall from these lips.
00:39:18.680 Elizabeth Warren,
00:39:20.420 there is something
00:39:21.000 so deeply immoral
00:39:21.920 about the idea
00:39:23.040 that billionaires
00:39:24.220 are not allowed
00:39:25.200 to complain
00:39:25.740 about people harming them.
00:39:27.640 Right, really?
00:39:28.120 That is an immoral proposition.
00:39:29.700 Of course it is.
00:39:30.000 It's an immoral proposition.
00:39:31.300 I mean, her basic suggestion
00:39:32.180 is that if somebody
00:39:33.020 sees a billionaire
00:39:33.700 on the street
00:39:34.260 and punches them
00:39:35.440 and beats the living
00:39:36.460 crap out of them
00:39:37.100 that because they're
00:39:37.640 a billionaire,
00:39:38.120 that's okay.
00:39:39.140 I mean, she is
00:39:40.420 a Danton Robespierre
00:39:42.020 French revolutionary
00:39:42.880 character.
00:39:43.360 I mean, that is
00:39:43.900 the kind of language
00:39:44.460 that she uses.
00:39:45.360 Yeah.
00:39:45.700 And what she neglects
00:39:46.480 to mention is
00:39:46.880 that she's worth
00:39:47.180 $12 million.
00:39:47.780 She'll be one of the
00:39:48.360 first people
00:39:48.660 on the key team.
00:39:49.000 Danton actually believed
00:39:49.720 what he was saying.
00:39:51.280 All right, I want to hear
00:39:52.920 from our Daily Wire subscribers.
00:39:54.300 They keep us on the air.
00:39:55.680 So, Alicia,
00:39:56.500 are you with us?
00:39:57.860 Yep.
00:39:58.320 And I gotta say,
00:39:59.100 if I were Catholic,
00:39:59.960 I'd be going to
00:40:00.540 confessional tomorrow
00:40:01.380 because I'm pretty envious
00:40:02.680 of a Focahontas carving
00:40:04.520 that somehow
00:40:05.920 made it into the studio
00:40:07.820 before I did.
00:40:08.940 I hadn't noticed.
00:40:09.560 I don't know what you're
00:40:09.640 talking about.
00:40:11.380 I don't know what she's
00:40:12.080 talking about.
00:40:12.720 She's in a different room.
00:40:13.860 Maybe she's in a different room.
00:40:14.520 I don't know.
00:40:15.500 Still in the broom closet,
00:40:17.240 but a crazy lying leftist
00:40:19.080 gets to be in there.
00:40:20.120 Okay.
00:40:20.500 We can make $3 billion
00:40:21.260 off that broom closet.
00:40:22.260 As Jeremy the God King said,
00:40:26.300 of course,
00:40:26.760 lowercase g,
00:40:27.380 lowercase k,
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00:40:49.540 to get those questions in
00:40:50.540 and apparently get
00:40:51.240 a Leftist Tears Tumblr
00:40:52.200 before Elizabeth Warren
00:40:53.160 becomes president
00:40:53.800 and bans them.
00:40:55.320 So our first question
00:40:56.460 comes from a subscriber
00:40:57.520 who wants to know,
00:40:58.480 on the topic of immigration,
00:40:59.820 how do we as Americans
00:41:00.800 assimilate to our own culture
00:41:02.440 and values
00:41:03.180 before we can assimilate
00:41:04.480 immigrants to do the same?
00:41:05.800 Thanks for all the work
00:41:06.700 that you guys do.
00:41:08.260 Andrew.
00:41:08.640 I don't actually understand.
00:41:09.400 I think that the basic idea
00:41:10.260 is that Americans
00:41:10.800 don't understand our own values.
00:41:11.980 How can we hope
00:41:12.440 to assimilate immigrants
00:41:13.520 to our values?
00:41:13.800 I think that that is
00:41:14.560 the great lie
00:41:15.240 of illegal immigration
00:41:16.340 and of unfettered immigration
00:41:17.740 is the idea that
00:41:19.140 we can let people in
00:41:20.880 without causing them
00:41:22.280 to be us.
00:41:23.280 This is the whole thing.
00:41:24.340 If you want to come
00:41:25.320 to this country,
00:41:26.420 you must,
00:41:27.460 you have to be able
00:41:28.440 and willing to leave behind
00:41:30.520 the assumptions
00:41:31.360 and practices
00:41:32.220 of your culture
00:41:33.060 and adopt the assumptions
00:41:34.300 and practices
00:41:34.840 of our culture.
00:41:35.700 And the advantage is
00:41:36.620 the assumptions
00:41:37.400 and practices
00:41:37.900 of our culture
00:41:38.500 are written down.
00:41:39.700 They're written down
00:41:40.180 in the Constitution.
00:41:40.900 They're written down
00:41:41.300 in the Declaration.
00:41:42.320 You cannot come over here
00:41:43.420 and say,
00:41:44.160 yeah, I want to come over here,
00:41:45.800 but I don't want to ascribe
00:41:46.820 this people are equal stuff
00:41:48.460 or people should be free stuff.
00:41:50.180 I come from a country,
00:41:51.000 I want you to be more
00:41:51.680 like my country.
00:41:52.420 I hear this in taxi cabs
00:41:53.800 in New York
00:41:54.220 all the time, by the way,
00:41:55.420 as people say,
00:41:55.900 I don't like this liberty very,
00:41:57.160 the driver will say to me,
00:41:58.140 I don't like this liberty
00:41:59.020 very much.
00:41:59.800 I'll say, you know,
00:42:00.600 go to LaGuardia,
00:42:01.940 go to JFK,
00:42:03.040 you can fly right
00:42:04.140 the hell out of here.
00:42:05.100 There's no problem.
00:42:06.440 What taxis are you taking, man?
00:42:09.140 No, but this is actually true
00:42:10.860 that what the left wants
00:42:12.400 is not just unfettered immigration.
00:42:14.160 It's unfettered immigration
00:42:14.960 without assimilation
00:42:15.980 and you can't have it.
00:42:17.600 And I think that this has become
00:42:18.600 a huge problem
00:42:19.920 in discussing this
00:42:21.060 because when you say,
00:42:22.200 well, what country
00:42:23.520 do you come from?
00:42:24.040 Well, I come from Saudi Arabia.
00:42:25.420 And are you willing
00:42:25.940 to leave behind the idea
00:42:27.080 that women are chattel?
00:42:28.800 Well, no, I'm not.
00:42:30.260 Get the hell out.
00:42:31.340 You know, I mean,
00:42:31.880 this is something,
00:42:32.660 we have values here.
00:42:33.860 We have them.
00:42:34.700 We're not like Europe.
00:42:35.520 We have them written down.
00:42:36.700 It's not based on race.
00:42:38.440 I don't care where it came from.
00:42:39.840 It's not based on race.
00:42:40.760 It's not based on the color
00:42:41.800 of your skin.
00:42:42.380 It's based on desire.
00:42:43.500 Do you want to be one of us?
00:42:45.240 And I think that this is something
00:42:46.540 we have to argue for.
00:42:48.620 We can, you know,
00:42:49.200 the problem that we have
00:42:50.760 on the right
00:42:51.560 is we do have these guys,
00:42:52.760 the alt-right guys
00:42:53.380 that you've been taking on
00:42:54.100 brilliantly, by the way.
00:42:55.140 You've been taking on
00:42:55.800 these alt-right guys
00:42:56.420 who are racist.
00:42:57.400 They're haters.
00:42:58.180 And we have nothing
00:42:58.900 to do with them.
00:42:59.500 I want nothing to do with them.
00:43:00.700 I don't want to be associated
00:43:01.520 with them.
00:43:02.060 But to say that you have
00:43:03.120 to ascribe to the non-racist,
00:43:05.480 pro-liberty,
00:43:06.280 pro-equality ideals
00:43:08.100 that made this country
00:43:09.180 what it is,
00:43:09.980 of course that's true.
00:43:11.300 And you can't do that
00:43:12.280 if we don't know
00:43:13.140 who you are.
00:43:14.040 And so the old immigration
00:43:15.840 was so well-regulated,
00:43:17.820 was so, you know,
00:43:18.580 people were asked questions.
00:43:19.780 People were given medical tests
00:43:21.700 to see if they had diseases
00:43:22.660 that they were going to spread.
00:43:23.620 This idea that we can
00:43:24.240 just open our borders
00:43:25.140 and that makes us welcoming
00:43:26.160 and compassionate
00:43:26.800 is nonsense.
00:43:27.660 And by the way,
00:43:27.960 the virulence of this idea
00:43:29.100 that immigration
00:43:29.980 should be race-based,
00:43:31.220 which is an ugly, ugly idea,
00:43:33.160 the virulence of that idea,
00:43:34.760 I was thinking about this
00:43:35.740 the other day,
00:43:36.180 like why is that cropping up now?
00:43:38.260 And I will say
00:43:39.020 that I think that the left
00:43:39.820 has a heavy hand of blame here
00:43:41.420 because I think that the left
00:43:42.520 has spent years claiming
00:43:43.760 that there is going to be
00:43:44.880 a demographic change
00:43:45.820 in the country
00:43:46.300 and that the demographics
00:43:47.060 of the country are destiny, right?
00:43:48.200 They keep saying this.
00:43:48.900 They wrote books about this.
00:43:49.820 They would say,
00:43:50.360 well, you know,
00:43:50.840 there will come a day
00:43:51.500 when there's a non-white majority
00:43:52.620 in America
00:43:53.080 and that inevitably means
00:43:54.380 that there will be a change
00:43:55.080 in the politics.
00:43:55.700 And I thought to myself,
00:43:56.300 well, that is pure,
00:43:57.340 unbridled racism.
00:43:58.420 You are now saying
00:43:59.220 that because there are more Hispanics
00:44:00.480 in the country,
00:44:01.220 then therefore that means
00:44:02.240 that necessarily
00:44:03.080 there will be more leftists
00:44:04.560 in the country.
00:44:05.400 And then you're saying,
00:44:06.000 I want to bring in
00:44:06.580 millions more illegal immigrants
00:44:08.200 across the border
00:44:08.860 and then give them amnesty.
00:44:09.740 So what do you think
00:44:10.240 people are going to think?
00:44:11.180 I mean, the people
00:44:12.160 who are reacting with racism
00:44:13.660 are not doing any better.
00:44:15.100 They're doing it just as badly.
00:44:17.160 They're horrible.
00:44:17.900 All of them are horrible.
00:44:18.780 The whole point is that
00:44:19.660 immigration, again,
00:44:20.340 should be driven by ideas.
00:44:21.460 And the fact that the left
00:44:22.920 has said a couple of things.
00:44:24.080 I wrote an entire column
00:44:25.520 about this this week
00:44:26.320 because there's an interesting piece
00:44:27.340 by Yoni Applebaum
00:44:28.040 in The Atlantic
00:44:28.560 suggesting, well,
00:44:29.720 Republicans seem to have forgotten
00:44:30.880 about the idea
00:44:31.500 that their ideas
00:44:32.920 can appeal to anybody.
00:44:34.200 Instead, they're just suggesting
00:44:35.360 that their ideas
00:44:35.920 can only appeal
00:44:36.560 to a certain racial subset
00:44:37.680 and that is why
00:44:38.500 they keep going back
00:44:39.100 to the white working class.
00:44:40.180 And I thought to myself,
00:44:40.880 well, no, that's not true.
00:44:42.700 But it is true
00:44:43.400 that the left has been saying
00:44:44.440 that conservative ideas
00:44:45.600 can only apply
00:44:46.340 to a certain subset,
00:44:47.520 namely white working class people maybe,
00:44:49.260 and that everybody else
00:44:50.220 is not susceptible
00:44:51.040 to conservative ideas.
00:44:52.620 I think, to be fair,
00:44:53.840 to be fair for a moment,
00:44:55.200 that Republican politicians
00:44:57.260 have been feckless
00:44:58.140 when it comes to walking in
00:45:00.000 to neighborhoods
00:45:01.180 where we're not usually welcome
00:45:03.200 and making their case.
00:45:04.420 And the reason they're feckless about it
00:45:05.960 is because they're afraid.
00:45:06.580 They're afraid
00:45:06.980 because every time Mitt Romney did it,
00:45:08.360 he went to the NAACP,
00:45:10.040 and they said,
00:45:10.380 how dare,
00:45:11.760 they actually said this,
00:45:12.840 how dare you tell black people
00:45:14.160 they should start businesses
00:45:15.220 when they can't even
00:45:16.100 hold bank accounts.
00:45:17.100 This is what the Democrats said.
00:45:18.700 And if we don't go in
00:45:19.760 and make the argument,
00:45:20.660 I mean, that's the thing
00:45:21.360 you've got to love about Trump.
00:45:22.520 He said,
00:45:22.880 what have you got to lose?
00:45:24.040 Why don't you sign up
00:45:25.060 and see what happens?
00:45:26.040 And if anybody who did sign up
00:45:27.560 who is a person of color,
00:45:29.180 as they say now,
00:45:29.960 is doing really well
00:45:31.020 because of Donald Trump.
00:45:32.440 And yet, and yet,
00:45:33.480 I mean, look at Rudy Giuliani.
00:45:35.120 I know Rudy Giuliani today
00:45:36.220 is kind of a loop loony,
00:45:37.860 but he was one of the greatest mayors,
00:45:39.460 if not the greatest mayor
00:45:40.340 New York ever had.
00:45:41.200 And he turned New York around
00:45:42.220 from a cesspit,
00:45:42.980 which I lived in,
00:45:44.280 to one of the greatest world,
00:45:45.860 probably the greatest city on earth.
00:45:47.440 And that was almost all Giuliani.
00:45:49.820 Every single day,
00:45:51.040 he was called a racist.
00:45:52.320 His policy saved
00:45:53.620 an estimated 4,000 black lives.
00:45:56.300 And now today,
00:45:57.020 they're saying,
00:45:57.260 well, it was mass imprisonment.
00:45:59.020 Nobody was put in prison in mass.
00:46:00.820 People were put in prison
00:46:01.580 for breaking the law.
00:46:02.340 Individually.
00:46:03.320 One at a time.
00:46:04.400 I actually think
00:46:05.120 it's a fairly simple question,
00:46:06.940 and there's historical precedent
00:46:08.180 for it, too.
00:46:09.120 And I think it is entirely
00:46:10.740 the left's fault.
00:46:11.700 And I don't think
00:46:12.800 there's anything wrong
00:46:13.360 with saying that.
00:46:14.220 We right now
00:46:14.780 have the highest
00:46:15.480 foreign-born population
00:46:16.680 as a percentage
00:46:18.200 of the total
00:46:18.700 American population
00:46:19.520 that we've had since 1890,
00:46:21.200 which was another period
00:46:21.860 of mass immigration
00:46:22.640 when many of our ancestors
00:46:23.880 came over here,
00:46:24.580 some of mine included.
00:46:25.780 And this created
00:46:26.940 an assimilation crisis.
00:46:28.580 And that was at a time
00:46:29.480 when there was
00:46:30.100 great encouragement
00:46:31.120 to assimilate.
00:46:32.120 And this led to tighter
00:46:32.960 immigration controls
00:46:33.840 from the early 20th century
00:46:35.580 up until 1965
00:46:36.640 when Teddy Kennedy
00:46:37.780 opened up the floodgates again.
00:46:39.540 And now we have
00:46:40.420 not only 1.2 million
00:46:42.340 legal immigrants
00:46:43.000 coming every year,
00:46:43.780 but an extra million
00:46:44.640 illegal aliens
00:46:45.380 coming on top of that.
00:46:46.780 Assimilation is very,
00:46:47.900 very difficult,
00:46:48.780 even in the best of times.
00:46:49.820 That's right.
00:46:50.200 When you have the entire
00:46:50.960 left in this country
00:46:51.880 actively encouraging you
00:46:53.480 not to assimilate,
00:46:54.760 that is going to create
00:46:55.860 the crisis that people
00:46:56.860 are experiencing now.
00:46:58.220 In the 1990s,
00:46:59.240 you had William F. Buckley, Jr.
00:47:00.840 and Arianna Huffington,
00:47:02.180 of all people,
00:47:03.020 arguing for drastically
00:47:04.160 lowering rates
00:47:04.960 of legal immigration.
00:47:06.180 Because they were
00:47:06.760 racist bigots?
00:47:07.880 No, absolutely not.
00:47:09.020 But because of this problem
00:47:10.260 of assimilation,
00:47:11.280 and because America
00:47:12.020 is so great
00:47:13.100 and has historically
00:47:13.940 been so welcoming
00:47:14.720 to immigrants
00:47:15.220 that you want to be able
00:47:16.320 to preserve that.
00:47:17.380 If we simply told the left
00:47:18.660 we're not going to take it anymore,
00:47:20.080 you're not going to bully us on this,
00:47:21.700 we are going to assimilate people
00:47:23.080 to American culture.
00:47:24.460 If that means a reduction
00:47:25.300 in immigration
00:47:25.900 for some period of time,
00:47:27.120 that's what we're going to do,
00:47:28.380 and you can't stop us.
00:47:29.340 If we just had a little backbone
00:47:30.880 on that issue.
00:47:31.500 By the way,
00:47:31.800 we should define this also
00:47:32.780 because the fact is that
00:47:33.740 if you look at the studies,
00:47:34.780 what the studies tend to show
00:47:35.620 is that people do learn
00:47:36.420 the English language
00:47:37.120 at about the same rate
00:47:37.820 they were learning
00:47:38.240 the English language before.
00:47:39.160 There is assimilation going on
00:47:40.300 in terms of the English language,
00:47:41.240 but that's not really
00:47:42.000 what people are talking about.
00:47:42.940 What people are really talking about
00:47:43.920 is level of belief
00:47:45.260 in the government running lives.
00:47:47.220 But this is actually
00:47:48.300 the real problem.
00:47:49.860 Yes.
00:47:51.020 So, you know,
00:47:51.880 when conservatives will say
00:47:53.400 some illegal immigrant
00:47:55.600 will rape someone
00:47:56.960 or murder someone,
00:47:57.840 and then they make a big to-do
00:47:59.340 about the fact that that happened,
00:48:00.800 and then the left will say,
00:48:02.200 Americans rape each other
00:48:03.300 all the time,
00:48:03.760 Americans murder each other
00:48:05.220 all the time,
00:48:05.740 we understand that
00:48:06.600 the reason it's different
00:48:07.620 when an illegal immigrant does it
00:48:09.880 is because,
00:48:11.300 yes,
00:48:11.560 all people are flawed
00:48:12.420 and you're going to have
00:48:12.920 rapes and murders
00:48:13.540 even if you don't have immigration.
00:48:15.600 But why should you have to have
00:48:17.020 this rape or this murder
00:48:18.360 from someone who didn't have
00:48:19.900 the legal right to be here?
00:48:20.920 This one could have been prevented,
00:48:22.720 and we know exactly
00:48:23.500 how it could have been prevented.
00:48:25.180 The same is true here,
00:48:26.420 I think,
00:48:26.920 almost in reverse.
00:48:28.400 We're saying
00:48:28.960 it's bad that people
00:48:30.560 come into the country
00:48:31.540 and they don't assimilate
00:48:33.940 to the traditional American ethic,
00:48:35.980 the traditional American set of values,
00:48:38.020 the creed.
00:48:39.360 But the fundamental problem is
00:48:41.260 we're not inculcating that creed
00:48:43.140 in actual Americans today.
00:48:45.140 This is exactly right.
00:48:46.540 You can't say
00:48:47.820 an immigrant should have to.
00:48:48.140 It turns out that assimilation
00:48:49.060 to the free market
00:48:49.620 is very easy
00:48:50.200 when there's no welfare state.
00:48:51.360 And it turns out
00:48:51.900 when there's an enormous
00:48:52.500 welfare state,
00:48:53.280 then it changes the nature
00:48:54.600 of people who are going to come here.
00:48:55.600 You draw a different crowd
00:48:56.240 when you leave the front door open
00:48:57.500 and save free donuts, right?
00:48:58.880 If you're a legal immigrant
00:48:59.520 and you want to become a citizen,
00:49:00.540 you have to take a test.
00:49:02.480 Most Americans can't pass the test.
00:49:03.740 That's right.
00:49:04.080 It is more than even
00:49:08.360 just having them agree
00:49:09.200 to a few things.
00:49:10.260 It is also about
00:49:11.440 American customs
00:49:12.500 and hot dogs
00:49:13.700 on the 4th of July.
00:49:14.860 And you have the left
00:49:15.620 in this country
00:49:16.140 saying that the American flag,
00:49:18.300 the symbol of the country itself.
00:49:19.580 And that cultural appropriation,
00:49:21.140 the best thing
00:49:21.660 about this country,
00:49:22.540 the best thing
00:49:23.040 about this country
00:49:23.500 is come in,
00:49:24.100 we'll wear your funny hat,
00:49:25.140 but you have to be free.
00:49:26.120 We'll eat your food,
00:49:27.400 but you have to be free.
00:49:28.660 That's all we ask.
00:49:29.480 I mean,
00:49:29.720 it's a wonderful thing
00:49:30.880 that we culturally appropriate things for.
00:49:32.520 I promise that this is probably
00:49:33.640 the last time that Beto O'Rourke
00:49:34.680 will ever be mentioned on the show.
00:49:36.200 Beto O'Rourke is.
00:49:36.800 Or anywhere else.
00:49:37.480 Right, exactly, exactly.
00:49:38.700 But this all comes down to the image.
00:49:41.500 You want to know
00:49:41.980 what the immigration problem is
00:49:43.120 right now in America.
00:49:44.180 It is the image of Beto O'Rourke
00:49:46.080 standing in front of new immigrants
00:49:47.800 to the United States
00:49:48.640 and talking about how America
00:49:49.720 is indubitably racist
00:49:51.000 and will continue to be racist forever
00:49:52.840 and why America is terrible.
00:49:54.260 And always was.
00:49:54.680 That's the whole thing.
00:49:55.680 That's the whole thing.
00:49:56.620 They openly say this.
00:49:58.060 This is the thing.
00:49:58.700 Sometimes I listen to myself
00:50:00.280 and I think you sound
00:50:00.960 like a conspiracy theorist
00:50:02.040 except they actually come out
00:50:03.380 and say this.
00:50:03.880 That America was never great.
00:50:05.400 America was founded on racism.
00:50:07.120 All these things
00:50:07.500 which are literally untrue.
00:50:09.400 Also,
00:50:10.000 they're only for people
00:50:10.660 who've never lived
00:50:11.200 outside the country.
00:50:12.180 I lived outside the country
00:50:12.920 seven years.
00:50:13.480 This is the least racist country.
00:50:16.500 It's not the least racist country.
00:50:16.660 There are studies to prove this.
00:50:17.960 It's not the third.
00:50:18.780 And if you want numbers to prove it,
00:50:20.280 there are numbers to prove it.
00:50:21.000 There's a Swedish study
00:50:21.740 that investigated
00:50:23.080 how many Americans
00:50:24.020 versus other countries
00:50:25.000 were willing and interested
00:50:26.380 in living in a neighbor
00:50:27.300 who did not share their race.
00:50:28.440 America came in
00:50:29.040 at the top of the list.
00:50:29.800 Of course.
00:50:30.140 Ask somebody in France
00:50:31.140 that question.
00:50:31.800 Ask somebody in Japan
00:50:32.580 that question.
00:50:34.380 It's as though America
00:50:35.240 doesn't exist in the world
00:50:36.500 and it's just like
00:50:37.420 this weird island bubble
00:50:40.200 and that you get to pick
00:50:41.560 on every flaw in America
00:50:42.540 without reference to the fact
00:50:43.640 that anything else
00:50:44.580 has ever existed.
00:50:45.200 That's right.
00:50:45.640 Anytime they use the word
00:50:47.000 American something,
00:50:48.320 it's always a lie
00:50:49.140 because they'll say
00:50:49.620 American racism.
00:50:50.500 You think,
00:50:50.920 is that different
00:50:51.380 than other racism?
00:50:52.260 Yeah, there's less of it.
00:50:53.160 That's the difference.
00:50:54.020 I also think that it's funny
00:50:55.140 that people take arbitrary moments
00:50:57.040 in history
00:50:57.720 that aren't connected
00:50:58.380 to practical human experience
00:51:00.060 and they make that the moment
00:51:01.360 when something really,
00:51:02.220 really, really, really mattered.
00:51:03.740 So we've been fighting
00:51:04.620 with the racist anti-Semites
00:51:06.840 on the alt-right
00:51:07.480 a little bit
00:51:08.160 over the last few weeks
00:51:08.900 and they all want to focus
00:51:09.880 on this event
00:51:10.800 surrounding the USS Liberty
00:51:12.260 which was an American naval vessel
00:51:14.400 that was bombed
00:51:15.020 by the Israelis in the 60s.
00:51:16.660 When Ben was giving
00:51:17.220 a speech last night,
00:51:18.060 people were in the comments
00:51:18.800 going,
00:51:19.340 we need reparations
00:51:20.260 for the USS Liberty
00:51:21.180 and I thought,
00:51:22.140 we got them.
00:51:23.080 We didn't want to get them.
00:51:23.680 Literally,
00:51:24.080 literally,
00:51:25.220 literally,
00:51:25.480 but nevertheless,
00:51:27.120 I always think
00:51:27.540 you're going back
00:51:28.440 to the 1960s
00:51:29.760 to make an argument
00:51:30.980 which even if you're right
00:51:32.120 about the event
00:51:32.880 and I don't think you are,
00:51:34.120 even if you're right,
00:51:35.160 your argument is that
00:51:36.020 50 years ago,
00:51:37.720 Israel pursued its interest
00:51:39.520 which did not align
00:51:41.440 with an American interest.
00:51:42.620 To Michael Knowles' point,
00:51:44.020 go back 150 years before that
00:51:45.740 and the British burned the white house.
00:51:47.200 This is how you know.
00:51:48.620 But this is how it is
00:51:49.340 with the slavery argument too.
00:51:50.600 Like,
00:51:51.540 America abolishes slavery
00:51:53.320 in 1865.
00:51:54.460 The British Empire
00:51:56.180 abolished slavery
00:51:57.060 in the 1840s.
00:51:58.700 So somehow,
00:51:59.820 now,
00:52:00.420 150 years later,
00:52:02.880 the fundamental distinction
00:52:04.840 between a good country
00:52:06.040 and a bad country
00:52:06.900 is a 20-year gap in time
00:52:09.680 a century and a half before.
00:52:12.540 Otherwise,
00:52:13.020 we'd be talking about
00:52:13.820 how Britain has a...
00:52:15.460 They obviously don't care about that.
00:52:17.320 Brazil didn't outlaw
00:52:18.160 slavery until 1880.
00:52:19.620 But why does nobody talk
00:52:20.440 about the original sin
00:52:22.180 of Great Britain,
00:52:22.900 slavery baked into
00:52:24.800 the DNA of Great Britain?
00:52:26.380 Right,
00:52:26.560 because Britain was the first country
00:52:27.660 to get rid of it.
00:52:28.260 The United States
00:52:28.820 was acting very quickly
00:52:30.120 from the founding
00:52:30.720 to actually limit
00:52:31.440 the importation of slaves.
00:52:32.920 This is why...
00:52:33.320 Because Great Britain
00:52:34.120 got rid of it
00:52:34.680 20 years before America
00:52:35.880 got rid of it
00:52:36.740 and America had to fight
00:52:37.940 its bloodiest war
00:52:38.820 in order to do it.
00:52:41.960 I'm just saying
00:52:42.660 that it's an absurdity
00:52:43.900 to suggest
00:52:44.520 that we're guilty of it
00:52:45.840 and the British
00:52:46.260 are somehow free of the guilt.
00:52:47.660 This is why I detest the press
00:52:50.860 and why I support Trump
00:52:52.660 100% in his war on the press.
00:52:55.380 You go...
00:52:55.940 We live in L.A., right?
00:52:57.360 You go...
00:52:57.820 I was...
00:52:58.280 The other day,
00:52:58.880 I was with my wife
00:52:59.580 at a mommy burger
00:53:00.380 and while she was talking,
00:53:01.600 I was pretending
00:53:02.040 to listen to what she said.
00:53:03.220 I was looking...
00:53:03.940 I can only say that.
00:53:05.380 I can only say that
00:53:05.920 You've been married
00:53:06.380 long enough, exactly.
00:53:07.480 All right.
00:53:08.080 No, I'm looking around the...
00:53:09.380 At this point,
00:53:09.860 she's too old.
00:53:10.420 You both are too old
00:53:11.200 for you guys
00:53:11.580 to get divorced enough, right?
00:53:12.640 I mean, it's like...
00:53:13.240 It's too late.
00:53:14.320 I'm looking around the room
00:53:15.520 and there's Muslim people,
00:53:17.240 there's Jewish people.
00:53:18.140 I mean, openly,
00:53:18.860 you know,
00:53:19.120 wearing yarmulkes
00:53:20.000 and black people
00:53:21.700 and white people,
00:53:22.360 gay people and straight people.
00:53:23.540 It's L.A., right?
00:53:25.100 Everybody's there
00:53:25.680 and everybody's getting along fine.
00:53:27.260 In fact, there's some of the...
00:53:27.960 There were straight people there in L.A.
00:53:29.160 That's why I was there.
00:53:30.140 And a mommy burger?
00:53:31.360 And everybody's sitting there
00:53:32.680 getting along fine
00:53:33.420 and it's the press
00:53:34.420 that gives a bullhorn
00:53:37.060 to these people.
00:53:38.240 It's so true.
00:53:39.020 I remember I was sitting...
00:53:39.840 It makes us hate you.
00:53:40.440 I had this exact experience.
00:53:41.640 I was sitting with David Mamet
00:53:42.860 and we were having lunch
00:53:43.760 and it was in a restaurant
00:53:45.220 in Santa Monica
00:53:46.100 and I'm just dropping his name
00:53:46.940 because he's very famous
00:53:47.560 and an excellent writer.
00:53:48.740 And you haven't had...
00:53:49.640 And most of the people
00:53:50.320 in our audience
00:53:50.660 have not had lunch
00:53:51.480 with David Mamet.
00:53:52.160 So I've had lunch with David Mamet.
00:53:53.440 Hold on.
00:53:53.720 So you're telling me
00:53:54.220 who did you have lunch with?
00:53:55.780 It rhymes with David Mamet.
00:53:56.880 In any case,
00:53:57.900 David Mamet and I
00:53:58.560 were sitting together
00:53:59.020 and it was me and David Mamet
00:53:59.920 and David Mamet
00:54:00.620 was talking
00:54:01.140 and as we looked around
00:54:02.300 the restaurant
00:54:02.660 everybody looked at the fact
00:54:03.480 that David Mamet
00:54:04.020 was sitting there with me.
00:54:05.320 As we looked around
00:54:06.260 this restaurant
00:54:06.720 it's in the middle
00:54:07.460 of Santa Monica
00:54:08.560 close to Westwood Boulevard.
00:54:10.300 It's gorgeous outside.
00:54:11.540 It's beautiful.
00:54:12.180 Everybody is sitting there
00:54:13.000 in the middle of lunchtime
00:54:13.920 taking a long lunch.
00:54:15.200 It's 1.30 in the afternoon.
00:54:16.680 We're sitting there.
00:54:17.860 And David Mamet's writer
00:54:18.660 so it doesn't matter
00:54:19.240 if David Mamet is at home.
00:54:20.620 And everybody is drinking
00:54:22.560 these $100 bottles of wine
00:54:24.420 at the low end.
00:54:25.820 And I just looked around
00:54:27.080 and I thought
00:54:27.360 if I pulled this room right now
00:54:28.760 and I said
00:54:29.380 how close are we
00:54:30.060 to a civil war?
00:54:31.040 95% of the people
00:54:32.060 in this room would say
00:54:32.620 we are this close
00:54:33.560 to a civil war.
00:54:34.400 And I just thought to myself
00:54:35.060 but they can't be bothered
00:54:36.020 to get up from their drinks
00:54:37.700 to actually think about this
00:54:39.220 for five seconds
00:54:39.840 because the fact is
00:54:40.980 they're enjoying their lives.
00:54:41.780 Their lives are pretty,
00:54:42.800 pretty good.
00:54:43.540 These things are good
00:54:44.420 in this country
00:54:44.920 except on TV.
00:54:46.340 I actually think
00:54:47.460 the reason that
00:54:48.240 they're throwing
00:54:48.840 all of this antipathy
00:54:49.760 on the country
00:54:50.320 and discouraging assimilation
00:54:51.520 and everything about America
00:54:52.760 is awful
00:54:53.120 from Thomas Jefferson
00:54:53.920 to the flag
00:54:54.560 is because of this line.
00:54:56.380 You always hear this.
00:54:57.400 Slavery is the original
00:54:58.400 sin of America.
00:54:59.520 It's not the original sin
00:55:00.340 of all these other countries.
00:55:01.180 It's just of America.
00:55:02.560 That isn't true.
00:55:03.960 Original sin
00:55:04.800 is the original sin
00:55:05.680 of America.
00:55:06.640 And you've got to look
00:55:07.340 in the mirror
00:55:07.760 to understand that fact
00:55:08.960 and the left doesn't do it.
00:55:10.060 So, Alicia,
00:55:10.900 we're going to hear
00:55:11.280 from some more
00:55:12.020 of our Daily Wire members.
00:55:13.800 All right.
00:55:14.320 Next question
00:55:14.840 from a subscriber.
00:55:15.700 They want to know
00:55:16.060 what are your thoughts
00:55:16.700 on the lawsuit
00:55:17.260 that's being brought
00:55:18.000 against Remington
00:55:18.780 by members
00:55:19.560 of the Sandy Hook families?
00:55:20.740 So, my understanding
00:55:23.720 is that the Supreme Court
00:55:24.600 wrongly turned down
00:55:26.360 a case that was
00:55:27.300 to adjudicate
00:55:27.980 the immunity
00:55:28.760 of firearms manufacturers
00:55:30.620 to lawsuits
00:55:31.580 that were designed
00:55:32.180 to go after
00:55:32.600 firearms manufacturers.
00:55:33.720 So, typically,
00:55:34.500 there's a couple
00:55:35.280 of categories
00:55:35.760 of products liability.
00:55:36.900 You're going to put it
00:55:37.160 on the legal hat
00:55:37.680 for a second.
00:55:38.320 So, in products liability,
00:55:39.360 there's manufacturer liability.
00:55:40.620 So, you manufacture a gun
00:55:41.960 and it's defective
00:55:42.620 and it blows up
00:55:43.220 in somebody's hand.
00:55:44.440 You can be sued for that.
00:55:45.520 There's also a form
00:55:48.300 of basically advertising liability
00:55:50.060 in which you misadvertise
00:55:51.380 a product,
00:55:51.760 you say that it can do something
00:55:52.740 and it can't do something
00:55:53.560 and now you're liable
00:55:54.200 for that.
00:55:55.180 There has never been
00:55:55.920 a category of products liability
00:55:57.260 in which a product
00:55:58.380 is created,
00:55:59.860 it fulfills
00:56:00.460 what it is supposed to do,
00:56:02.640 it is advertised
00:56:03.460 for what it is supposed to do,
00:56:04.920 it does not malfunction,
00:56:06.140 but somebody bad
00:56:06.920 used the product
00:56:07.540 in a bad way
00:56:08.160 and therefore the manufacturer
00:56:09.320 of the product
00:56:09.920 is guilty.
00:56:09.940 It would be like
00:56:10.280 if you sued Gillette
00:56:11.260 because somebody slit
00:56:12.060 someone else's throat
00:56:12.860 with a razor.
00:56:13.480 Correct.
00:56:13.820 So, the problem was
00:56:14.780 that there were a bunch
00:56:15.300 of these lawsuits
00:56:15.840 that were being filed
00:56:16.380 and as anybody knows
00:56:17.500 about the American tort system,
00:56:18.500 all you have to do
00:56:19.120 is get seven people
00:56:20.280 on a friendly jury
00:56:20.980 and you can rip money away from,
00:56:23.400 and it's very easy
00:56:24.300 in these particular cases
00:56:25.200 because you get a shooting victim
00:56:26.220 who's obviously
00:56:26.800 very sympathetic
00:56:27.300 and should be very sympathetic
00:56:28.220 talking about a gun manufacturer
00:56:29.920 who's very rich
00:56:30.560 and very wealthy
00:56:31.100 and they're making weapons of war,
00:56:33.260 right,
00:56:33.420 and you just get
00:56:33.860 eight, nine jurors
00:56:35.040 to say,
00:56:35.600 okay, well,
00:56:36.100 they can afford
00:56:36.760 to give a million bucks
00:56:37.460 to this poor kid
00:56:38.120 who's now in a wheelchair
00:56:39.100 because some jackass shot him,
00:56:41.080 right,
00:56:41.220 and so what you ended up with
00:56:42.260 was a bunch of cases
00:56:44.080 in the early 90s,
00:56:45.040 a bunch of cases
00:56:45.860 in which manufacturers
00:56:47.180 were paying out
00:56:47.880 exorbitant sums of money
00:56:49.020 to people who had been shot
00:56:50.300 in these sorts of cases.
00:56:51.180 So Congress comes along
00:56:52.080 in the mid-2000s,
00:56:53.000 they pass a law
00:56:53.860 that grants immunity
00:56:54.940 to lawsuit
00:56:55.900 to manufacturers of firearms
00:56:57.800 saying this is not
00:56:58.880 a special class
00:56:59.660 of manufacturers
00:57:00.800 who suddenly are,
00:57:02.140 we've created a new class
00:57:03.400 of liability
00:57:03.920 just for firearms
00:57:04.700 or anything.
00:57:05.200 It was just re-enshrining
00:57:06.360 the basic tort liability stance
00:57:07.860 that you cannot be held liable
00:57:10.440 for somebody misusing
00:57:11.340 your product
00:57:11.860 or using your product
00:57:12.920 in the way it was intended
00:57:13.640 to be used
00:57:14.080 but using it
00:57:14.560 against the wrong target,
00:57:15.800 right,
00:57:15.960 like if you,
00:57:17.120 a knife,
00:57:17.880 it is meant to stab,
00:57:19.380 right,
00:57:19.600 it stabs many things,
00:57:20.680 it can be used to stab
00:57:21.580 people who are innocent
00:57:22.820 as O.J. Simpson
00:57:23.700 will tell you.
00:57:24.420 So the fact is,
00:57:25.500 like,
00:57:25.800 could Nicole Brown Simpson's family
00:57:27.480 then sue the manufacturer
00:57:28.800 of the knife?
00:57:30.420 Cutco.
00:57:30.860 Right,
00:57:31.200 Cutco for any of this
00:57:32.460 and the answer of course
00:57:32.980 is no.
00:57:33.380 So this goes to the Supreme Court,
00:57:34.800 the Supreme Court
00:57:35.420 turns down the case
00:57:36.800 and has basically reopened
00:57:38.240 the liability
00:57:39.200 into gun manufacturers
00:57:40.300 and the left is celebrating
00:57:41.100 because they feel like,
00:57:41.920 okay,
00:57:41.980 now we're going to launch
00:57:42.520 a bunch of lawsuits
00:57:43.200 against these gun manufacturers
00:57:44.680 in an attempt
00:57:45.020 to put them out of business.
00:57:45.980 You've already seen
00:57:46.460 some of the gun manufacturers
00:57:47.400 starting to carve off
00:57:49.000 different portions
00:57:49.740 of their company
00:57:50.320 and bifurcate the company
00:57:51.480 to prevent liability
00:57:52.420 from spilling over
00:57:53.140 into every area
00:57:53.760 of the company
00:57:54.200 so they will create
00:57:54.980 an advertising liability,
00:57:56.740 basically a separate
00:57:57.600 advertising company
00:57:58.320 for Remington
00:57:58.900 because the lawsuits
00:57:59.960 are generally based on
00:58:00.840 you advertised this gun widely
00:58:02.280 and then somebody who's bad
00:58:03.380 saw the advertisement
00:58:04.240 and then bought the gun
00:58:05.100 so they're trying
00:58:06.000 to carve this up
00:58:06.620 but look,
00:58:07.220 all this really is
00:58:07.900 is about an anti-gun agenda.
00:58:09.560 It is not really
00:58:10.220 about a pro-victim agenda
00:58:12.640 any more than it would be
00:58:13.580 a pro-victim agenda
00:58:14.420 to allow a liability class
00:58:16.440 against a knife manufacturer.
00:58:18.840 That's the legal breakdown.
00:58:20.120 Alicia,
00:58:20.640 let's hear from one more subscriber.
00:58:22.100 All right.
00:58:22.540 A Cuban-American subscriber
00:58:23.900 wants to let you all know
00:58:24.780 that he plans on voting
00:58:25.680 for Donald Trump
00:58:26.480 and what can Trump
00:58:27.460 and the Republican Party
00:58:28.300 do in order to gain
00:58:29.360 more of the Hispanic vote
00:58:30.560 which he thinks
00:58:31.480 will be decisive
00:58:32.380 in following elections.
00:58:33.680 Well, Michael Knowles,
00:58:34.280 you once played a Cuban
00:58:35.220 in an independent film.
00:58:36.560 That's true.
00:58:36.940 I think you're
00:58:37.320 the most qualified people.
00:58:38.540 That's true.
00:58:39.180 I've always enjoyed
00:58:40.340 Cuban people
00:58:41.420 and Cuban products
00:58:42.240 as a matter of fact.
00:58:43.780 There is,
00:58:44.620 actually this gets
00:58:45.440 into the immigration question
00:58:46.660 because one argument
00:58:48.380 that you could always use
00:58:49.220 against the bigot people
00:58:50.880 is you point out
00:58:52.500 that when they say
00:58:53.400 that all of the Hispanic vote
00:58:55.360 votes to the left,
00:58:56.200 that isn't true
00:58:57.180 of Cuban immigrants.
00:58:58.360 Why?
00:58:58.600 Because they've just left
00:58:59.240 this horrific totalitarian
00:59:00.940 communist regime
00:59:01.860 and so they come here.
00:59:03.180 But over generations,
00:59:05.140 the share of Cuban Americans
00:59:06.500 who vote for Republicans
00:59:07.680 diminishes throughout
00:59:09.180 the generations.
00:59:10.520 This is true
00:59:11.080 if you look at
00:59:11.880 all millennials,
00:59:13.120 if you look at all Gen Z,
00:59:14.100 if you look at
00:59:14.880 any number of different races.
00:59:16.420 That's probably true
00:59:16.920 of Russian expatriates as well.
00:59:18.060 Exactly.
00:59:19.080 Who no longer remember.
00:59:20.580 They don't remember
00:59:21.740 because that has been lost.
00:59:23.820 That becomes
00:59:24.900 a problem of education.
00:59:26.280 I don't think that the GOP
00:59:27.480 needs slicker advertising.
00:59:29.320 I don't think that's
00:59:30.080 going to do it
00:59:30.640 because the advertising
00:59:31.740 actually begins
00:59:32.580 in kindergarten.
00:59:33.700 The people who don't have
00:59:34.980 a generational memory
00:59:36.180 of communism
00:59:37.040 are learning from
00:59:38.060 K through 12
00:59:38.960 and when they read
00:59:39.780 the New York Times
00:59:40.340 and the Washington Post
00:59:41.180 that actually
00:59:42.360 communism was really great
00:59:43.720 and actually
00:59:44.500 America's really terrible.
00:59:46.240 You're not going to fix this
00:59:47.460 on the political level.
00:59:48.260 You have to get
00:59:49.000 into the institutions,
00:59:50.180 not just colleges,
00:59:51.160 not even just high schools,
00:59:52.180 but middle school
00:59:52.680 and elementary school too.
00:59:53.920 Good luck doing that.
00:59:55.200 Man.
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01:00:26.520 Yes.
01:00:26.960 Okay, everyone should have
01:00:27.740 life insurance,
01:00:28.400 particularly Drew.
01:00:29.160 But all of us should have life,
01:00:30.420 and me as it turns out.
01:00:31.520 I don't know why my wife
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01:00:34.660 on me,
01:00:34.880 I'm not sure what that is.
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01:00:38.680 It's open enrollment season
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01:00:41.300 and they think that that's sufficient.
01:00:42.600 Generally not sufficient.
01:00:43.480 You probably need more
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01:00:45.540 and you should have
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01:01:28.400 Alicia.
01:01:29.520 Are you still awake over there, Alicia?
01:01:30.780 Are you still alive, Alicia?
01:01:32.420 Barely.
01:01:32.940 I've been up since 1 a.m.
01:01:34.200 Don't ask.
01:01:35.220 What?
01:01:35.620 Well, now I'm going to ask.
01:01:36.900 Why have you been up since 1 a.m.?
01:01:37.920 Oh, because, you know,
01:01:39.100 some god king decided
01:01:40.120 to do backstage tonight
01:01:41.420 and I had to come back
01:01:42.400 for a moment.
01:01:43.800 I think that's me.
01:01:45.260 No wonder people hate their balls.
01:01:47.200 Sometimes give people
01:01:48.120 what they want
01:01:49.320 and ask more questions of y'all
01:01:51.620 from the subscribers
01:01:52.540 over on DailyWire.com.
01:01:54.000 So this is a two-part question.
01:01:55.260 It's going to be pretty interesting.
01:01:56.320 I think it'd be cool
01:01:57.460 to hear all the guys' take on this.
01:01:58.960 How long do you think
01:01:59.740 it will be before conservatives
01:02:00.940 can take back California
01:02:02.220 and how likely is it
01:02:04.180 that the god king's
01:02:04.980 home state of Texas
01:02:05.840 turns Democrat
01:02:06.700 this election cycle?
01:02:07.680 Yeah, that's a genuine danger.
01:02:09.580 I think, you know,
01:02:10.100 I was just talking
01:02:10.720 to a guy from Texas
01:02:11.480 and he says,
01:02:12.100 he was kind of bragging about it.
01:02:13.140 He said,
01:02:13.280 all these people
01:02:13.900 are coming in from California.
01:02:15.140 And I said,
01:02:15.680 well, I hope they don't
01:02:16.260 ruin your state.
01:02:17.220 And his face fell.
01:02:18.320 He hadn't thought of that.
01:02:19.400 That may be that.
01:02:19.800 Although, you know,
01:02:20.780 this is not true.
01:02:21.200 This is not right.
01:02:21.800 As a bona fide Texan,
01:02:23.800 I will tell you
01:02:24.440 that during the last election
01:02:25.920 when Ted Cruz
01:02:26.520 was running against,
01:02:27.400 I hate to name it again,
01:02:28.700 but we never would.
01:02:29.620 This is the most press
01:02:30.460 Beto has gotten
01:02:31.340 in like weeks, right?
01:02:33.140 He's not feeding
01:02:33.700 the dirt in Utah.
01:02:35.560 I mean,
01:02:35.680 here we are talking about it.
01:02:36.440 It'd be funny
01:02:36.880 if he surged to like 2%
01:02:38.380 in the Democratic polls.
01:02:39.260 When our friend Ted Cruz
01:02:43.600 was running against
01:02:44.180 Beto O'Rourke
01:02:44.720 for Senate
01:02:45.180 in the last election,
01:02:47.480 they took a look
01:02:48.300 at the polls after.
01:02:49.100 It turns out
01:02:49.780 there was a huge swing
01:02:50.820 in Texas
01:02:51.220 from the last election
01:02:52.960 that had happened
01:02:54.220 in terms of moving left, right?
01:02:56.940 Moving from deep red
01:02:58.260 to dangerously purple.
01:03:00.800 What they found was
01:03:01.980 all of the Californian expats,
01:03:04.980 even all the immigrants,
01:03:06.040 well, that's not fair,
01:03:07.300 all the California expats
01:03:08.480 who had moved
01:03:08.940 into Texas.
01:03:09.660 They all voted
01:03:10.020 for Ted Cruz.
01:03:10.640 Good God.
01:03:11.260 That's one.
01:03:11.600 The problem is Texans.
01:03:14.420 It's the kids of Texans.
01:03:16.220 That's right.
01:03:16.680 The young people.
01:03:17.500 Right.
01:03:18.080 It's not Marty McFly.
01:03:19.220 It's Marty McFly's kids.
01:03:20.320 That's right.
01:03:20.800 It's the kids, Marty.
01:03:23.840 Something's got
01:03:24.340 to be done about that.
01:03:24.960 I mean, it really is.
01:03:25.760 It's a generational thing
01:03:26.860 and that's the real danger
01:03:28.060 in Texas.
01:03:29.360 Honestly, I think that Texas,
01:03:31.300 it'll be very difficult
01:03:32.040 for Democrats to win Texas
01:03:33.440 in this election cycle,
01:03:34.340 specifically because
01:03:34.980 they're going to nominate
01:03:35.600 somebody nuts.
01:03:36.880 And Texas is still,
01:03:38.420 heavy Trump territory.
01:03:40.280 He's lost some in the polls.
01:03:41.940 I find it very,
01:03:43.240 very unlikely.
01:03:44.080 It may actually be
01:03:44.760 that the best thing
01:03:45.340 happening in Texas right now
01:03:46.480 is the Californians
01:03:47.160 keep moving there
01:03:47.780 because the Californians
01:03:48.840 who are leaving California
01:03:49.920 by and large
01:03:50.640 are the Californians
01:03:51.420 who are trying to flee.
01:03:52.360 And there's a whole study
01:03:53.240 done about people
01:03:54.720 who are in California
01:03:55.440 who want to leave
01:03:56.120 and it's entirely
01:03:57.100 red state Californians.
01:03:58.580 This is the thing
01:03:59.200 I would like to ask.
01:04:00.260 I have seen twice in my life,
01:04:02.100 which has now gone on,
01:04:03.060 I don't know,
01:04:03.440 150, 160 years.
01:04:04.780 I have seen twice
01:04:08.700 things that you thought
01:04:10.000 would never turn around
01:04:11.320 that turned around.
01:04:12.200 One was I was in New York
01:04:13.080 in the 70s,
01:04:14.020 which, my God,
01:04:15.260 I mean,
01:04:15.440 you really could not
01:04:16.300 go outside at night
01:04:17.180 without taking your life
01:04:18.140 in your hands.
01:04:18.640 I mean, you had to worry.
01:04:19.680 Death Witch
01:04:19.980 was a documentary.
01:04:21.020 Right.
01:04:21.600 And Giuliani
01:04:22.840 turned that town around,
01:04:24.080 as I said before.
01:04:25.280 I also saw the Carter years,
01:04:26.860 the Jimmy Carter years,
01:04:27.920 when this country was,
01:04:29.200 they called it
01:04:30.080 the time when the West
01:04:31.120 tried to commit suicide.
01:04:31.940 When he was thrown out,
01:04:33.360 all it took was Ronald Reagan
01:04:34.500 to come in
01:04:35.060 and he turned it around.
01:04:36.500 What I want to know
01:04:37.360 is how long,
01:04:38.480 how long are people
01:04:39.400 in California
01:04:40.140 going to put up
01:04:41.180 with the homeless
01:04:41.700 in their streets
01:04:42.340 crapping on their sidewalks?
01:04:44.040 And God knows,
01:04:44.880 I have a heart for the homeless.
01:04:45.900 I really do.
01:04:46.700 It's not about that,
01:04:47.700 but it's not compassionate
01:04:48.500 to leave people out
01:04:49.320 in the streets.
01:04:49.880 It's not compassionate
01:04:50.580 to leave people untreated
01:04:51.480 for mental illness
01:04:52.180 and drug abuse.
01:04:52.940 This is not compassion.
01:04:54.480 How long are people
01:04:55.380 going to stand for that
01:04:56.240 and not think,
01:04:56.960 you know,
01:04:57.680 you know what I might do?
01:04:58.640 I might vote for the other party
01:04:59.880 because Republicans
01:05:00.880 have abandoned the state.
01:05:02.140 They're starting now
01:05:02.920 at grassroots
01:05:03.540 to move back
01:05:04.360 to say,
01:05:04.940 can we rebuild this party?
01:05:06.260 I've been talking
01:05:06.700 to people who are doing it,
01:05:07.760 but it's a long,
01:05:09.100 slow process.
01:05:09.900 I think it's a losing
01:05:10.280 proposition though
01:05:11.240 because,
01:05:11.940 always,
01:05:12.760 I mean,
01:05:13.040 because we are so rich now.
01:05:15.880 People have never been richer
01:05:16.960 in this country
01:05:17.500 than they are today.
01:05:18.300 That means they've never had
01:05:19.380 more geographic mobility.
01:05:21.540 And the fundamental truth
01:05:22.340 goes back to the problem
01:05:23.480 in Texas
01:05:23.920 is the problem in Cali,
01:05:25.240 or the hope for Texas
01:05:26.660 is the problem
01:05:27.360 in California.
01:05:29.000 Everybody who's trying
01:05:29.720 to build a new Republican party
01:05:32.000 in the state of California
01:05:32.940 is having to fight
01:05:33.880 against the fact
01:05:34.420 that every Republican
01:05:35.300 is moving out of California.
01:05:36.260 It's going away.
01:05:36.880 So I actually am not
01:05:38.380 as hopeless about California
01:05:39.720 as I was even maybe
01:05:40.520 a couple of years ago,
01:05:41.420 and that is because
01:05:41.840 California has turned
01:05:42.500 into a sh**hole.
01:05:43.740 It really has.
01:05:45.280 It's a third world country.
01:05:45.780 So let's Donald Trump
01:05:47.920 be condemned
01:05:48.720 for using that word
01:05:49.780 about places
01:05:50.620 that are not the United States.
01:05:51.540 I've lived my entire life
01:05:52.660 in California,
01:05:53.580 with the exception
01:05:54.140 of when I was in law school.
01:05:55.280 Every single moment
01:05:56.080 of my life
01:05:56.560 has been in California.
01:05:57.340 I love this state.
01:05:58.880 I don't have any plans
01:05:59.540 to move from this state.
01:06:00.820 The place is turning horrible.
01:06:01.960 It's a horribly governed state.
01:06:03.400 It's amazing.
01:06:04.060 It's unbelievable.
01:06:05.140 And so I have been urging,
01:06:07.080 I can't tell you
01:06:07.560 how many politicians,
01:06:08.540 people who have run
01:06:09.060 for governor
01:06:09.460 in these races,
01:06:10.580 I've said to them
01:06:11.160 over and over,
01:06:12.180 most recently,
01:06:12.960 Neil Kashkari,
01:06:13.560 I remember saying this
01:06:14.060 to you repeatedly,
01:06:14.940 why are you not running
01:06:16.440 on crime
01:06:17.340 and quality of life?
01:06:18.180 Yes.
01:06:18.740 Why?
01:06:19.440 Why?
01:06:19.980 Even Arnold Schwarzenegger
01:06:20.980 didn't when he ran
01:06:21.600 in 2000 against Gray Davis
01:06:22.700 in the runoff.
01:06:23.620 It was basically just,
01:06:24.620 well, you know,
01:06:25.300 he's a friendly guy
01:06:25.860 who likes education.
01:06:26.580 Remember,
01:06:26.820 his big issue was education.
01:06:28.040 You can't run on education
01:06:29.300 as a Republican
01:06:29.960 and win,
01:06:31.060 even on school vouchers.
01:06:32.060 That's usually not
01:06:32.920 like a huge win.
01:06:33.860 Sometimes it's a little bit
01:06:34.500 of a value add
01:06:34.960 like it was for Ron DeSantis
01:06:35.860 in Florida
01:06:36.300 where he won like 100,000
01:06:37.200 black votes.
01:06:37.640 He wouldn't have won
01:06:38.060 without school choice.
01:06:38.840 But when it comes to
01:06:40.240 the bread and butter issues
01:06:41.880 in California,
01:06:43.240 you can't run on something
01:06:44.600 where the easy answer
01:06:45.680 from the other side
01:06:46.220 is throw money at it,
01:06:47.160 right,
01:06:47.300 which is education.
01:06:48.500 What you should be running on
01:06:49.620 is the fact that the DA
01:06:50.620 in San Francisco
01:06:51.440 says he is not going to
01:06:52.500 prosecute people
01:06:53.320 pissing and shitting
01:06:54.260 on the streets.
01:06:54.960 Well, it's not just that
01:06:55.720 I'm very tired,
01:06:56.320 so I'm cursing more.
01:06:56.880 It's not just that he said
01:06:57.940 it when he got elected.
01:06:58.960 The shift we've seen is
01:07:00.160 it was formerly
01:07:01.100 mal-administration.
01:07:02.520 Now they are running on
01:07:04.320 legalizing public urination.
01:07:06.000 Running on it.
01:07:06.400 Okay, and this city,
01:07:08.020 LA, I mean,
01:07:08.580 I've lived here
01:07:09.020 my entire life.
01:07:10.020 I remember when this was
01:07:10.880 a pretty clean city.
01:07:12.100 It was cool.
01:07:12.600 Okay, and that is not a,
01:07:14.000 again, for those
01:07:15.240 who don't understand English,
01:07:16.220 that is not any commentary
01:07:17.600 on ethnicity or race.
01:07:18.920 I mean like physically clean.
01:07:20.360 There is trash everywhere.
01:07:21.560 There's a homeless person
01:07:22.340 living on every bunch.
01:07:23.400 Like literally,
01:07:23.740 you can go down
01:07:24.080 Ventura Boulevard
01:07:24.680 and every single bench,
01:07:26.300 go down Sunset,
01:07:27.020 every single bench
01:07:27.800 will have a homeless person
01:07:28.820 on it.
01:07:29.220 You go by any freeway
01:07:30.540 underpass,
01:07:31.440 any one of them,
01:07:32.240 and you will find
01:07:32.680 a homeless encampment there.
01:07:33.860 And you'll find
01:07:34.700 open needles
01:07:35.200 in suburban areas.
01:07:36.180 How are Republicans
01:07:37.080 not running on this?
01:07:38.060 The homeless actually
01:07:38.960 burned down Brentwood
01:07:40.160 a year ago.
01:07:40.580 Yeah, they did.
01:07:41.200 They burned the richest
01:07:42.220 community in LA.
01:07:44.200 By the way,
01:07:44.600 the wildfires have been linked
01:07:45.640 to, there have been
01:07:46.200 several wildfires
01:07:46.900 linked to that homeless issue.
01:07:47.960 Is it pure virtue signaling
01:07:49.420 that people will tolerate
01:07:50.840 this at all?
01:07:51.780 I mean, why?
01:07:52.460 San Francisco,
01:07:53.100 I lived in San Francisco,
01:07:54.060 one of the most beautiful
01:07:55.540 cities on Earth,
01:07:56.840 on the planet.
01:07:57.600 It is now a hellhole.
01:07:59.040 It really is.
01:07:59.720 It just is absolutely
01:08:00.640 disgusting.
01:08:01.480 Why isn't somebody saying,
01:08:03.020 hmm,
01:08:03.560 you know what I'm going to do?
01:08:04.700 I'm going to vote for
01:08:05.420 different people.
01:08:05.880 Because the left
01:08:06.540 has shamed people,
01:08:08.620 particularly people of wealth,
01:08:09.660 because California
01:08:10.400 has bifurcated so strongly
01:08:11.800 that it's basically
01:08:12.740 people who are
01:08:13.300 extremely wealthy,
01:08:14.300 living in Beverly Hills,
01:08:15.160 living off of Sunset Boulevard,
01:08:16.540 or people who are living
01:08:17.620 in the downtown LA underpass.
01:08:20.200 Another way to put it
01:08:20.960 is you have Maxine Waters
01:08:21.960 and Maxine Waters
01:08:22.900 is constituent.
01:08:24.120 That's the divide.
01:08:24.920 I mean,
01:08:25.180 you want to talk about
01:08:25.820 income inequality?
01:08:26.680 Income inequality is a thing
01:08:27.800 here in Los Angeles
01:08:28.560 and it is in San Francisco
01:08:29.720 as well.
01:08:30.440 And so it's very easy
01:08:31.280 for politicians
01:08:31.900 to demagogue this thing
01:08:33.100 by basically saying,
01:08:34.460 well, you know what?
01:08:34.920 You can buy off.
01:08:35.600 Like, this is actually the pitch.
01:08:36.520 The pitch is,
01:08:37.240 there's this vast underclass
01:08:38.420 that has been created
01:08:39.140 by all of our regulation,
01:08:40.380 but it's really created
01:08:40.940 by you, the rich people.
01:08:41.840 And you know how you can
01:08:42.360 keep that vast underclass
01:08:43.320 from coming after you?
01:08:44.040 You can buy them off.
01:08:45.140 You can buy them off
01:08:45.780 by us leaving them alone.
01:08:47.540 I mean, like really,
01:08:48.360 do you think that the folks
01:08:49.000 in San Jose have to deal
01:08:50.520 with the homeless
01:08:51.040 in their neighborhood?
01:08:51.860 They don't.
01:08:52.400 Or in Brentwood.
01:08:55.240 It's all the nicest areas.
01:08:56.520 They don't care, right?
01:08:57.360 For them,
01:08:57.940 it's a way of saying,
01:08:58.700 look how compassionate I am.
01:09:00.220 I'm not taking,
01:09:01.000 I'm not criminalizing poverty.
01:09:02.620 No one's talking
01:09:03.240 about criminalizing poverty.
01:09:04.400 It is a criminal act
01:09:05.460 to live on a public street.
01:09:07.160 It is a criminal act
01:09:08.160 to crap in public.
01:09:09.300 It is a criminal act
01:09:10.240 to solicit or engage
01:09:11.560 in sex in public areas.
01:09:12.660 The DA in San Francisco
01:09:13.820 says none of these
01:09:14.560 are criminal acts anymore.
01:09:15.920 How in the world?
01:09:17.060 Like, I think, frankly,
01:09:18.240 that if Adam Carolla
01:09:18.920 ran for governor
01:09:19.540 of the state of California
01:09:20.500 on this platform,
01:09:21.260 I think he would win.
01:09:21.940 You know, the key, too,
01:09:23.780 to framing this is,
01:09:24.580 this is how they always,
01:09:25.320 they say,
01:09:26.000 you people are anti-poverty.
01:09:29.240 You're right.
01:09:29.560 Well, I mean,
01:09:29.840 I guess I am anti-poverty,
01:09:30.920 but they'll say
01:09:31.200 you're anti-poverty.
01:09:31.660 I like less poverty, yes.
01:09:32.700 Right, right.
01:09:33.820 They'll say you're
01:09:35.020 criminalizing poverty
01:09:36.100 and you're somehow
01:09:36.920 a sort of bigot
01:09:37.560 for this anyway.
01:09:38.320 The lie of this,
01:09:39.580 the lie that they push
01:09:40.300 is that it's compassionate
01:09:41.260 to let people
01:09:42.220 live on the street.
01:09:43.120 The lie is that
01:09:43.860 it's compassionate
01:09:44.400 to let people
01:09:45.100 who have psychological issues,
01:09:46.900 who have addictions,
01:09:48.160 who have a lot of problems,
01:09:49.660 live on the street
01:09:50.520 in very dangerous areas
01:09:52.100 in squalor.
01:09:52.880 By the way,
01:09:53.200 there's nothing compassionate.
01:09:53.740 You want to keep people
01:09:54.660 in poverty.
01:09:55.160 There's no better way
01:09:55.860 to keep somebody
01:09:56.340 in poverty
01:09:56.780 than to let them
01:09:57.480 live on the street,
01:09:58.180 leave their crap there,
01:09:59.260 and tell them
01:09:59.780 that this is their new home.
01:10:01.280 Okay, that is the definition
01:10:02.960 of leaving somebody in poverty.
01:10:04.060 The other thing
01:10:04.480 that is horrific,
01:10:05.380 it's absolutely horrific,
01:10:06.520 is if you now go
01:10:07.380 to the L.A. County Jail,
01:10:08.820 I write about this
01:10:09.420 in another kingdom,
01:10:10.400 you know,
01:10:10.880 is that when you go,
01:10:11.780 it is now a mental institution.
01:10:13.260 Yeah.
01:10:13.480 So they're taking people
01:10:14.400 who are mentally ill,
01:10:15.940 and I'm sure we've all
01:10:17.060 had experience
01:10:17.540 with mental illness.
01:10:18.380 It's a horror.
01:10:19.200 And they're putting them
01:10:19.760 in prison.
01:10:20.640 Because why?
01:10:21.340 Because once they commit a crime,
01:10:22.580 where are you going to put them?
01:10:23.320 You've got to put them somewhere, right?
01:10:24.400 So now you've got these guys
01:10:25.320 who don't even know
01:10:25.880 what reality is behind bars
01:10:27.440 and terrible...
01:10:28.180 Well, because the regulations
01:10:29.020 on mental illness
01:10:29.820 in this state are awful.
01:10:30.920 Meaning that if you are
01:10:31.900 mentally ill,
01:10:33.020 like this was exactly the case.
01:10:34.420 You saw this case
01:10:35.200 that the New York Post
01:10:35.760 reported on,
01:10:36.360 where somebody in the middle
01:10:36.920 of Hollywood Boulevard,
01:10:37.880 right, a homeless man
01:10:38.380 in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard
01:10:39.260 took a bucket of hot feces,
01:10:40.880 pulled a woman out of her car,
01:10:41.940 and poured the bucket
01:10:42.500 of hot feces over her head.
01:10:43.940 Obviously a mentally ill person.
01:10:45.220 So the person goes to court
01:10:46.540 and is sentenced to basically
01:10:48.320 an outpatient
01:10:49.040 mental illness facility.
01:10:50.720 They do six months there.
01:10:51.640 They're released.
01:10:52.540 They're back on the street, right?
01:10:54.280 And so the problem is that
01:10:56.100 for a large percentage
01:10:58.100 of people who are
01:10:58.860 severely mentally ill,
01:10:59.820 such that they are dangerous
01:11:00.800 to themselves and others,
01:11:01.480 we shouldn't blanket
01:11:02.120 all mental illness.
01:11:03.080 We all know people
01:11:03.480 who are perfectly functional
01:11:04.260 who suffer from some sort
01:11:05.240 of mental illness, obviously.
01:11:06.420 So just for clarity's sake.
01:11:07.560 But there are people
01:11:08.420 who are dangerous to themselves,
01:11:09.740 dangerous to others.
01:11:10.680 And the regulations basically say
01:11:13.140 that you can keep them
01:11:14.080 on a 24-hour or a 72-hour hold,
01:11:16.540 and then you have to release them
01:11:18.000 back into society
01:11:19.300 even if they require the medication.
01:11:20.520 And if they refuse
01:11:21.160 to take the medication,
01:11:22.300 you cannot put them
01:11:22.960 in a place to force them
01:11:23.800 to take the medication.
01:11:24.800 So you have people
01:11:25.360 who are fully paranoid schizophrenic
01:11:27.980 who don't know
01:11:28.800 what reality looks like,
01:11:30.160 saying I won't take my pills
01:11:31.100 and the ACLU saying
01:11:31.760 he doesn't have to take his pills.
01:11:32.820 If you make him take your pills,
01:11:33.960 he's a fascist.
01:11:34.620 This is all based on a study
01:11:35.940 from the 1970s
01:11:37.020 that was just debunked
01:11:38.040 that led to the closing
01:11:39.200 of so many of these institutions.
01:11:41.140 And all their leftist theories.
01:11:42.020 You know, 20 years ago,
01:11:43.300 it's almost 20 years ago,
01:11:44.480 I was researching detective novels
01:11:46.180 set in San Francisco,
01:11:47.000 and I went up to talk
01:11:47.960 to the police,
01:11:48.520 and I spent the day
01:11:49.160 with a couple of detectives,
01:11:50.560 and they said to us,
01:11:51.420 they said to me,
01:11:52.020 this is like,
01:11:52.720 so it's 18 years ago, say.
01:11:54.300 They said to me,
01:11:55.360 they will not let us
01:11:56.620 treat people who are sick.
01:11:58.820 They will not let us
01:11:59.580 take them off the street,
01:12:00.560 and it's going to get bad.
01:12:02.520 This is 18 years,
01:12:03.340 and of course,
01:12:03.800 the police always know
01:12:04.520 what's going to happen
01:12:05.040 because they're dealing
01:12:05.620 with the detritus
01:12:06.660 of the things that we create,
01:12:08.240 that the higher-ups create.
01:12:09.740 I mean, this is one of the-
01:12:10.480 people to watch this stuff.
01:12:11.320 If you had a Republican
01:12:12.200 in this state
01:12:12.780 who ran on two propositions,
01:12:14.140 you don't get to live
01:12:14.840 on the street,
01:12:15.400 and we are going to
01:12:16.960 add additional funds
01:12:18.040 for the actual building
01:12:19.020 of mental institutions
01:12:19.900 and check and change
01:12:21.260 the regulations
01:12:21.840 to allow for involuntary
01:12:23.580 commitment of people
01:12:24.220 who are actively dangerous
01:12:25.380 to themselves or others,
01:12:26.420 they'd win the governorship.
01:12:27.980 Well, speaking of the horrors
01:12:29.000 of mental illness,
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01:13:42.900 All right,
01:13:43.280 next question wants to know
01:13:44.320 about Trump impeachment.
01:13:45.860 She says that she doesn't think
01:13:46.800 Trump will likely be impeached,
01:13:48.280 but in that unlikely event,
01:13:50.080 would Mike Pence
01:13:50.780 automatically become
01:13:52.020 the Republican nominee
01:13:52.900 in 2020?
01:13:53.840 And do you think
01:13:54.300 that Pence has
01:13:55.040 what it takes
01:13:55.620 to win the presidency?
01:13:56.900 Well, first,
01:13:57.340 I think that our
01:13:57.980 beloved subscriber
01:13:59.180 is wrong.
01:14:00.320 I think Donald Trump
01:14:01.080 will certainly be impeached.
01:14:03.620 But it's a bit of a technicality
01:14:05.200 because I think
01:14:05.780 what she really means
01:14:06.640 is that he won't be
01:14:07.660 convicted in the Senate
01:14:08.600 and removed from office.
01:14:10.020 Impeachment happens
01:14:10.700 in the House,
01:14:11.260 and it's a political process.
01:14:13.400 They have the numbers.
01:14:14.680 I think that they're
01:14:15.360 boxed in by their own
01:14:16.520 electoral,
01:14:17.580 by their own rhetoric
01:14:18.460 going into the 2020 election.
01:14:20.520 I don't think
01:14:20.780 the Democrats have
01:14:21.460 any choice
01:14:22.420 but to impeach
01:14:23.020 Donald Trump,
01:14:23.940 and they will do.
01:14:24.900 Will he be convicted
01:14:25.600 in the Senate
01:14:26.040 and removed from office?
01:14:27.280 Of course,
01:14:27.840 that's not going to happen
01:14:29.140 unless they actually
01:14:29.940 do find
01:14:30.600 that breaking
01:14:32.540 smoking gun.
01:14:34.920 Devastating and explosive.
01:14:36.180 Just a little historical point
01:14:37.400 that people don't know
01:14:38.220 because we've had
01:14:39.020 much more impeachment
01:14:39.960 in recent years.
01:14:41.040 No president
01:14:41.760 in American history
01:14:42.480 has ever been impeached,
01:14:43.620 convicted in the Senate,
01:14:44.440 and removed from office.
01:14:45.260 It's never happened.
01:14:45.860 Even Andrew Johnson.
01:14:46.780 Andrew Johnson was acquitted
01:14:47.680 in the Senate.
01:14:48.280 Ah, I didn't remember that.
01:14:49.040 And no one's ever been
01:14:49.940 impeached in his first term
01:14:52.080 because they just figure
01:14:53.300 you can go to the electorate,
01:14:55.440 but the Democrats
01:14:56.040 can't do that.
01:14:56.560 Well, Donald Trump's
01:14:57.180 about to do this.
01:14:57.940 And listen,
01:15:00.140 they'll probably go on,
01:15:01.240 he'll put up on his wall,
01:15:02.680 first impeachment
01:15:03.360 and earned the first term.
01:15:05.100 Greatest impeachment.
01:15:05.680 Greatest impeachment.
01:15:06.400 He probably will.
01:15:07.400 It was the greatest impeachment.
01:15:08.180 There'll be pictures of him.
01:15:08.840 Yeah.
01:15:09.480 It was the best impeachment.
01:15:10.940 Everybody said so.
01:15:11.720 But if,
01:15:12.300 if they actually find
01:15:14.500 that missing
01:15:15.260 phone call
01:15:16.140 of Donald Trump
01:15:17.200 asking Vladimir Putin
01:15:18.560 to build hotels
01:15:19.660 for him all around
01:15:20.520 the world
01:15:21.140 while giving
01:15:22.240 all of his political opponents
01:15:23.360 polonium poisoning,
01:15:24.660 then yes,
01:15:25.660 Mike Pence would automatically
01:15:26.920 become the next
01:15:27.860 president of the United States.
01:15:28.780 He'd be sworn in,
01:15:29.660 but even before,
01:15:30.980 even before there was
01:15:32.060 an official swearing-in ceremony,
01:15:33.880 he would,
01:15:34.240 he would,
01:15:34.580 in the same way
01:15:35.020 that the president
01:15:35.460 becomes the president-elect,
01:15:37.040 he would be the,
01:15:37.840 he would be the de facto
01:15:39.340 acting president,
01:15:40.200 then they'd have a swearing-in ceremony.
01:15:41.120 But do you think
01:15:41.660 he could win
01:15:42.200 the next term,
01:15:42.880 I think was the question.
01:15:43.720 Do you think he could win again?
01:15:44.480 No, I think the question
01:15:45.080 was would he automatically win?
01:15:46.160 No, then it was,
01:15:46.780 then it was would he win?
01:15:47.700 And the answer is no.
01:15:48.840 No.
01:15:49.000 Because then under the circumstance
01:15:49.840 where Trump is actually convicted
01:15:51.300 and removed from office,
01:15:52.660 the evidence would have
01:15:53.220 to be so overwhelming
01:15:53.940 that it would completely
01:15:54.680 damn the Republicans.
01:15:55.600 And everybody who voted for Trump,
01:15:57.940 the Republican electorate
01:15:59.380 would feel like
01:15:59.900 their own senators
01:16:00.660 had betrayed them
01:16:02.400 in removing them from office.
01:16:03.340 It would be a total disaster.
01:16:03.960 What do you think
01:16:04.660 the odds are
01:16:05.400 of Trump dumping Pence
01:16:06.980 for Nikki Haley?
01:16:08.400 Zero.
01:16:09.080 Zero?
01:16:09.480 A chance, yeah.
01:16:10.820 I don't think that's what
01:16:11.340 Haley's doing.
01:16:12.880 I don't think it is either,
01:16:14.020 but I wonder.
01:16:15.000 I think it's like 3%.
01:16:16.080 I tend to agree.
01:16:17.200 I think it's overwhelming.
01:16:17.940 I actually think
01:16:18.480 it's a little higher than that,
01:16:19.540 but I don't think
01:16:20.260 it's going to happen.
01:16:21.220 Yep.
01:16:22.060 Alicia,
01:16:22.520 what else you got for us?
01:16:23.340 I think I might know
01:16:24.160 the answer to this,
01:16:25.000 but it'll be interesting
01:16:25.580 to get everyone's opinion.
01:16:27.020 Our next subscriber
01:16:27.700 wants to know
01:16:28.180 which current Democratic candidate
01:16:29.440 is your least favorite
01:16:30.720 and why?
01:16:32.780 Oh, there's so many
01:16:33.340 to choose from.
01:16:33.840 There's so many to choose from.
01:16:34.400 I think we each have
01:16:35.140 to give an answer to this.
01:16:36.220 Andrew, start with you.
01:16:37.320 Well, you know,
01:16:38.080 I have to say
01:16:38.860 that even though
01:16:39.800 Bernie Sanders
01:16:40.660 actually gets stars for me
01:16:42.560 for being sincere,
01:16:43.960 to be a sincere communist
01:16:45.040 is not actually a good thing.
01:16:46.200 And this guy,
01:16:47.900 not only has he done nothing
01:16:49.060 his entire life,
01:16:50.520 but he has ascribed
01:16:52.200 loyally to a policy
01:16:55.000 that has failed
01:16:56.140 again and again
01:16:56.880 in front of him
01:16:57.660 and he has not changed at all.
01:17:00.240 I mean,
01:17:00.740 he's visited Cuba.
01:17:01.840 He's visited the Soviet Union.
01:17:03.420 He's saying,
01:17:03.820 I was joking on my show
01:17:04.820 that he's saying this,
01:17:05.620 he went to the Soviet Union
01:17:06.440 and saying,
01:17:07.160 this land is your land,
01:17:08.060 this land is my land,
01:17:08.940 and so is Poland.
01:17:09.620 And, you know,
01:17:12.480 because I think
01:17:14.160 there is something,
01:17:15.900 you know,
01:17:16.460 it's not evil.
01:17:17.540 It's something fundamentally wrong
01:17:19.360 and maybe wicked
01:17:20.280 is the right word
01:17:21.060 to keep being attached
01:17:23.780 to a philosophy
01:17:25.000 that has done
01:17:25.620 so much terrible damage
01:17:27.020 in this world.
01:17:27.720 And he's not a socialist.
01:17:28.980 He's a communist.
01:17:29.840 Of course.
01:17:30.000 And he has basically
01:17:31.960 shown loyalty
01:17:32.740 to communist regimes
01:17:34.100 in every country
01:17:35.020 where they've arisen.
01:17:36.220 And it doesn't matter
01:17:37.220 to him that the people die.
01:17:38.340 He's obviously living
01:17:39.300 in a theoretical universe.
01:17:40.840 I think there's something
01:17:41.740 wrong with the guy.
01:17:42.920 And so...
01:17:43.360 By the way,
01:17:43.640 the proof of your contention
01:17:44.480 is that he's endorsed
01:17:45.120 by Linda Sarsour and El Omar.
01:17:46.660 There you go.
01:17:48.120 He's the wrongist.
01:17:48.740 I think that he is
01:17:50.620 the worst
01:17:52.160 as an actual
01:17:54.480 real-life human being
01:17:55.540 in the world.
01:17:56.560 Michael.
01:17:57.260 Pete Buttigieg
01:17:57.760 is my least favorite.
01:17:59.000 I can't stand him.
01:18:00.480 He is such an obvious jerk.
01:18:02.980 At least Bernie Sanders
01:18:04.120 is honest about
01:18:04.820 what he believes.
01:18:05.800 Elizabeth Warren
01:18:06.580 is not honest
01:18:07.840 about many things
01:18:08.880 but she's always been
01:18:10.000 a left-winger at least
01:18:11.180 you could say.
01:18:11.820 Not nearly as radical
01:18:12.880 as she is now.
01:18:14.320 Julian Castro
01:18:15.100 is hilarious
01:18:16.420 in his radicalism.
01:18:17.580 I get a huge kick
01:18:18.220 out of his candidacy.
01:18:19.260 Only Pete Buttigieg
01:18:20.500 blows in the wind.
01:18:22.260 So one day
01:18:23.020 he's the moderate candidate
01:18:23.820 trying to get Biden's votes.
01:18:24.860 The next day
01:18:25.200 he's this radical
01:18:25.920 trying to get
01:18:26.900 the Bernie votes.
01:18:28.300 And he's so
01:18:29.160 incredibly judgmental.
01:18:30.940 He's so incredibly
01:18:32.080 moralizing.
01:18:33.220 The Pastor Pete crap
01:18:34.060 is unbelievable.
01:18:34.980 His whole candidacy
01:18:37.020 is about telling Christians
01:18:38.340 that they're not really Christians
01:18:39.340 and telling, you know...
01:18:40.540 Tell me more,
01:18:41.100 Captain Abortion on demand.
01:18:42.200 Exactly.
01:18:42.960 It's so outrageous
01:18:44.200 and disingenuous
01:18:45.020 he drives me up a wall.
01:18:46.740 Okay.
01:18:47.240 I have to
01:18:48.080 because it's true.
01:18:50.140 Elizabeth Warren
01:18:50.700 is the worst.
01:18:51.300 Okay, Elizabeth Warren...
01:18:52.020 Also, I have a personal stake
01:18:53.580 in Elizabeth Warren
01:18:54.140 being the worst.
01:18:54.700 Meaning she's the only one
01:18:55.360 of these candidates
01:18:55.800 I've ever actually met.
01:18:56.520 You just don't like me.
01:18:57.020 I met...
01:18:58.640 You know,
01:18:59.280 when I was having lunch
01:19:00.100 in Santa Monica
01:19:00.620 with Elizabeth Warren...
01:19:01.640 But I actually have met
01:19:03.560 Elizabeth Warren.
01:19:04.280 And there was a point in time
01:19:05.260 where Elizabeth Warren
01:19:05.860 was an actual interesting
01:19:06.580 human being.
01:19:07.340 Like, back in 2004
01:19:08.500 when she was recruiting
01:19:09.280 for Harvard Law School
01:19:10.040 was right after she'd written
01:19:10.960 The Two-Income Trap.
01:19:12.320 And obviously,
01:19:13.040 she was a committed leftist.
01:19:13.960 I mean, there was no question
01:19:14.700 she was a committed leftist.
01:19:15.680 The first conversation...
01:19:16.880 The only conversation
01:19:17.620 I ever had with her,
01:19:18.400 she started ripping
01:19:18.860 on Rush Limbaugh
01:19:19.460 like right away.
01:19:20.460 But she was actually...
01:19:21.840 She had some kind of
01:19:22.480 interesting ideas.
01:19:24.140 She was in favor
01:19:24.780 of school choice
01:19:25.480 at that point.
01:19:26.600 If there's one thing
01:19:27.460 that I can't stand,
01:19:28.440 I think the vast majority
01:19:29.400 of Americans cannot stand,
01:19:30.660 you've cited
01:19:31.240 Sanders' sincerity
01:19:33.040 as both an asset
01:19:34.880 and as a detriment.
01:19:36.600 She is the least sincere
01:19:38.120 candidate in this race.
01:19:39.420 And it is not close
01:19:40.320 because she does not believe
01:19:41.520 a single thing
01:19:42.380 that she is saying
01:19:43.060 right now.
01:19:43.940 Every story that she has
01:19:45.060 ever told apparently
01:19:46.020 is a shading
01:19:47.860 of the truth at best
01:19:48.880 from I'm the first
01:19:49.760 lactating mother
01:19:50.500 to sit for the New Jersey bar
01:19:51.720 which is obvious nonsense
01:19:53.280 to I was fired
01:19:54.520 for being pregnant
01:19:55.140 which is also
01:19:55.860 apparently nonsense
01:19:56.540 to I'm a Native American
01:19:58.260 because I have
01:19:58.660 high cheekbones
01:19:59.300 and I write a recipe
01:20:00.140 that I cribbed
01:20:00.860 from like Harper's Bazaar
01:20:01.900 for Pao Lao Chow
01:20:02.780 to I am now
01:20:04.580 in favor of getting rid
01:20:05.380 of, I hate charter schools,
01:20:07.980 they need to go,
01:20:08.760 they need to be abolished.
01:20:09.980 She was for school choice
01:20:10.800 five seconds ago.
01:20:12.080 I love free markets
01:20:13.340 but billionaires
01:20:14.100 should not exist.
01:20:15.240 Billionaires' tears,
01:20:16.200 I will drink them.
01:20:17.700 She's so utterly dishonest
01:20:19.180 and the cynicism
01:20:19.880 of somebody
01:20:20.420 who's not even,
01:20:21.780 you can't even blame
01:20:22.520 her embrace
01:20:24.380 of immoral positions
01:20:26.380 on stupidity.
01:20:28.420 Like Sanders,
01:20:28.860 you can blame it
01:20:29.200 on the fact
01:20:29.440 that he's a delusional old coot
01:20:30.580 and he's been delusional
01:20:31.360 his entire life.
01:20:32.280 This is not delusion,
01:20:33.100 this is calculated
01:20:33.780 and when you are
01:20:34.320 a calculated advocate
01:20:35.480 for positions
01:20:35.980 you don't even believe
01:20:36.860 but you are willing
01:20:37.620 to make the country worse
01:20:38.720 in order to achieve
01:20:39.900 your own personal power,
01:20:40.820 I think this makes you
01:20:41.380 the worst person in the race.
01:20:43.760 Well, I was going to say
01:20:45.060 Pete Buttigieg
01:20:45.660 but since Michael already did,
01:20:47.040 I'll just give you guys
01:20:47.980 the process by which
01:20:49.020 I arrived at the people
01:20:49.940 that I knew.
01:20:52.440 In the beginning,
01:20:53.140 I hated Kamala Harris the most
01:20:54.200 because she's the one
01:20:54.760 that I actually fear.
01:20:56.400 Like, I don't fear
01:20:57.160 Bernie Sanders
01:20:58.120 because I think he'd be
01:20:58.860 so ineffectual
01:20:59.680 at being president
01:21:00.840 because communists
01:21:01.500 are terrible at everything
01:21:02.360 and Bernie's never accomplished
01:21:03.300 a damn thing
01:21:03.820 in his entire life.
01:21:05.240 And Elizabeth Warren,
01:21:07.720 I actually think
01:21:08.460 that she certainly poses
01:21:10.200 as a major leftist right now
01:21:11.440 and everything you say,
01:21:12.260 Ben, about how insincere
01:21:13.560 and dishonest she is,
01:21:14.400 of course is true.
01:21:15.660 But I actually suspect
01:21:16.540 that if she were
01:21:17.680 to be elected president,
01:21:19.080 she would not functionally
01:21:20.820 be the radical
01:21:21.440 that she presents as right now.
01:21:22.760 I think that's all calculated.
01:21:24.000 It would still be terrible
01:21:24.660 but it would not be
01:21:25.340 what it appears to be today.
01:21:27.260 Kamala Harris scared me
01:21:28.120 because she openly talks
01:21:29.760 about just putting people
01:21:30.560 who disagree with her in jail.
01:21:32.100 And she's got a lot of experience
01:21:33.880 in putting people in jail.
01:21:35.160 And the guys who run her campaign
01:21:36.800 go on Twitter all the time
01:21:38.260 and say,
01:21:39.040 we wouldn't stand for that
01:21:40.960 if Kamala Harris was president.
01:21:42.760 We'd lock all of you up.
01:21:43.900 And I think,
01:21:44.640 well, that's actual fascism.
01:21:46.600 I don't think that's good.
01:21:47.780 But then I realized
01:21:48.340 she didn't stand a chance
01:21:49.140 of winning
01:21:49.460 and she wasn't affecting
01:21:50.160 the national conversation
01:21:51.080 in any way.
01:21:52.080 And at that point,
01:21:52.960 I moved to Buttigieg,
01:21:53.740 but a close second for me
01:21:54.920 is Beto.
01:21:55.540 And the reason is
01:21:56.300 race demagoguery
01:21:58.800 is the worst thing
01:22:00.320 for this country.
01:22:01.240 I said before
01:22:01.880 that I think it's unfair
01:22:02.700 to say that America's
01:22:03.500 original sin is slavery
01:22:05.060 and not Great Britain's
01:22:06.020 just because there was
01:22:06.780 a 20-year gap
01:22:07.580 150 years ago.
01:22:09.060 Nevertheless,
01:22:10.140 race is functionally
01:22:11.500 the most detrimental thing
01:22:13.300 to the culture of America.
01:22:15.060 It's a,
01:22:15.380 it's a,
01:22:16.940 it's the thing
01:22:17.860 that rips us apart
01:22:18.860 the most,
01:22:19.560 that's leveraged
01:22:20.200 by the left
01:22:20.740 in order to rip us
01:22:21.840 apart the most.
01:22:23.760 And what,
01:22:24.680 what I hate about
01:22:25.980 Beto O'Rourke
01:22:26.900 is that when he was down
01:22:28.140 and he should have been out,
01:22:29.840 instead of recognizing
01:22:30.920 that he didn't stand a chance,
01:22:32.180 he picked up the race issue
01:22:34.140 and the guns issue
01:22:35.220 and demagogued
01:22:36.300 in a way that,
01:22:37.460 and the religious liberty issue,
01:22:38.620 right?
01:22:38.920 The religious liberty issue.
01:22:40.000 And he,
01:22:40.740 and he basically
01:22:42.020 reinforced
01:22:42.820 all of the worst
01:22:44.820 arguments against
01:22:46.040 American liberty
01:22:47.300 that exist.
01:22:48.220 And for that,
01:22:48.880 I think there's
01:22:49.980 a special place
01:22:50.700 in,
01:22:51.660 I mean,
01:22:52.000 I guess Arizona.
01:22:53.620 I don't know.
01:22:54.760 He'll be eating dirt
01:22:55.560 forever there.
01:22:56.960 Eternal Arizona fire.
01:22:58.940 Alicia,
01:22:59.240 we're going to take
01:22:59.900 at least one more question.
01:23:01.520 They told me never to say
01:23:02.280 this is the last question
01:23:03.140 because people may tune out,
01:23:04.380 but I'm just going to tell you guys
01:23:05.260 I'm leaning very heavily
01:23:06.240 to not taking any questions.
01:23:09.440 So that means
01:23:10.120 I can go after this?
01:23:11.220 Hooray.
01:23:11.800 All right.
01:23:12.840 If the 2020 candidates
01:23:14.280 have their way
01:23:14.960 and make college free,
01:23:16.480 I'm assuming she means
01:23:17.740 the Democratic 2020 candidates,
01:23:19.820 do you think that we will see
01:23:20.580 dramatic drop-off
01:23:21.640 in the quality
01:23:22.240 of American education?
01:23:26.140 There's no room.
01:23:27.600 Where would they go
01:23:28.220 if they were going to drop off?
01:23:29.620 Yeah.
01:23:30.040 We actually had an argument
01:23:31.140 this very week,
01:23:32.480 Michael and Drew and I
01:23:33.300 sitting in my office,
01:23:34.380 about the state of the academy.
01:23:36.680 And the argument was,
01:23:37.820 we think it's terrible
01:23:38.880 and you think it's really,
01:23:39.800 really, really terrible.
01:23:40.440 No,
01:23:40.820 it wasn't even that.
01:23:42.000 We all think it's terrible.
01:23:43.060 Yeah.
01:23:43.520 I think that it's irredeemable
01:23:45.060 and that we need to raise
01:23:46.600 the institution and start over.
01:23:48.360 I think that it's a,
01:23:49.680 you know,
01:23:50.080 it's an 18th century model
01:23:52.220 trying to be applied
01:23:53.200 to 21st century reality
01:23:55.580 at best anyway.
01:23:57.680 I don't think it can get much worse.
01:23:59.580 I think if you're
01:23:59.960 a conservative parent,
01:24:01.480 if your child was speaking
01:24:02.740 six languages
01:24:03.520 by the time that they were seven,
01:24:05.180 if your child
01:24:05.940 in elementary school
01:24:07.120 was asking you
01:24:07.860 how to pronounce words
01:24:08.820 in Shakespeare.
01:24:09.700 That's me.
01:24:10.520 You're talking to me.
01:24:11.140 That is your kid.
01:24:11.840 Yeah.
01:24:12.260 Then you probably need
01:24:13.440 to send them
01:24:13.800 to an elite university.
01:24:14.580 Similarly,
01:24:15.560 if your kid has a knack
01:24:16.660 for the law,
01:24:17.300 if your kid wants
01:24:17.880 to be a doctor,
01:24:20.400 if your kid wants
01:24:21.240 to be an engineer,
01:24:23.520 you probably got to
01:24:24.200 send them to college.
01:24:24.960 I would think about
01:24:25.640 in the latter case,
01:24:27.060 not sending them
01:24:27.560 to get a liberal arts education,
01:24:29.080 but just to be
01:24:29.700 a bachelor's of science.
01:24:32.060 Anybody else,
01:24:32.840 if you're a conservative
01:24:33.500 and you send your child
01:24:34.860 to college,
01:24:35.840 I think you are
01:24:36.440 willfully naive
01:24:37.620 about the reality
01:24:38.520 of what it is.
01:24:39.320 It is a Soviet-style
01:24:40.760 re-education camp.
01:24:42.100 They intend
01:24:43.080 and they succeed
01:24:44.400 at re-educating
01:24:45.500 your child
01:24:46.000 away from every value
01:24:47.300 you try to instill
01:24:48.820 in them
01:24:49.180 and you pay them
01:24:50.320 for the pleasure.
01:24:51.880 They don't want
01:24:52.560 to make it free
01:24:53.320 because it will help
01:24:54.020 your kids get a job
01:24:55.120 from a billionaire,
01:24:56.180 an evil billionaire.
01:24:57.200 They want it to be free
01:24:58.340 so that they can
01:24:59.380 brainwash
01:25:01.580 every one of our children
01:25:03.340 and we should oppose it.
01:25:05.260 We shouldn't send
01:25:05.720 our kids to it.
01:25:06.560 It can't get much worse.
01:25:07.460 It's pretty freaking bad.
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01:25:22.720 But before we go,
01:25:23.660 there is one thing
01:25:24.520 that I think we have
01:25:25.700 to talk about very briefly.
01:25:27.040 We're going to spend
01:25:27.320 a few minutes on this
01:25:28.100 and that is our friends,
01:25:29.780 Adam Carolla
01:25:30.360 and our friend Dennis Prager
01:25:31.700 are in the process right now
01:25:34.040 as we speak today
01:25:35.040 of releasing their fantastic
01:25:37.100 documentary,
01:25:38.480 No Safe Spaces.
01:25:39.560 It's in limited release.
01:25:41.200 Today,
01:25:41.620 I think Ben and Michael
01:25:43.280 and Drew
01:25:43.620 were able to go
01:25:44.160 to the premiere this week.
01:25:46.280 I'm not welcome
01:25:46.820 on red carpet,
01:25:47.660 so I wasn't able
01:25:48.740 to be there,
01:25:50.100 but I have seen the film.
01:25:51.480 It's absolutely fantastic.
01:25:52.800 A huge piece of the film
01:25:53.760 tracks Ben's arrival
01:25:56.160 at Berkeley
01:25:56.680 to the $600,000 worth
01:25:58.500 of police protection
01:26:00.720 that he needed
01:26:01.760 at the heart
01:26:02.660 of free speech
01:26:03.280 in America,
01:26:04.480 Berkeley University.
01:26:05.600 It's a fantastic film.
01:26:07.040 I want to get
01:26:07.620 all of your opinions,
01:26:08.200 but I do want to say
01:26:09.380 if you're watching this,
01:26:10.860 you're in Southern California,
01:26:11.820 I know it's playing
01:26:12.600 in Burbank this weekend.
01:26:13.940 That's not the only place.
01:26:14.880 You should check the listings.
01:26:16.160 If it's playing near you,
01:26:17.480 I'll say this is
01:26:18.240 an important film.
01:26:19.080 It's a fantastic film
01:26:20.180 produced by our friend
01:26:21.320 Owen Brennan
01:26:21.880 and directed by our friend
01:26:22.880 Justin Folk,
01:26:23.580 who's a genuine talent.
01:26:25.080 I hate to say it,
01:26:25.820 almost everything we do
01:26:26.680 we stole from Justin
01:26:28.320 several years ago.
01:26:30.000 And the only way
01:26:31.300 that films like this
01:26:32.320 get made
01:26:33.640 is if we're able
01:26:34.700 to convince
01:26:35.280 high net worth individuals
01:26:36.740 and distributors
01:26:38.280 that there is an audience
01:26:39.420 for it.
01:26:39.800 So if you want to,
01:26:41.420 listen,
01:26:41.840 it's not an act of charity.
01:26:43.520 It's a great film.
01:26:44.760 You'll learn an awful lot
01:26:45.720 from it.
01:26:46.020 You'll see the reality
01:26:46.800 of how bad things are
01:26:47.720 on our campus.
01:26:48.500 In fact,
01:26:48.780 if you're one of those
01:26:49.260 conservative parents
01:26:49.880 thinking how bad
01:26:50.860 can the schools,
01:26:52.260 go watch No Six Spaces
01:26:53.460 so that you'll know
01:26:54.540 just how absurd
01:26:55.620 the question already is.
01:26:57.560 But while it's not
01:26:58.220 an act of charity,
01:26:59.500 it is an act of
01:27:01.220 good.
01:27:02.660 Support.
01:27:03.340 It's an act of support
01:27:04.440 to reach out
01:27:05.660 to the talented people
01:27:06.660 who do try to make
01:27:07.460 this content
01:27:08.000 to get our values
01:27:09.120 out into the
01:27:10.180 entertainment marketplace.
01:27:11.740 It only happens
01:27:12.560 if you support these films.
01:27:13.740 Please go see
01:27:14.300 No Safe Spaces.
01:27:15.060 You guys probably
01:27:15.520 have some things.
01:27:15.920 I have to say
01:27:17.120 this one personal note.
01:27:18.540 You know,
01:27:18.980 you talk about
01:27:19.440 Owen Brennan
01:27:19.880 who started Madison McQueen
01:27:21.080 which is the producer
01:27:22.020 of this film
01:27:22.660 and you talk about
01:27:23.100 Justin Folk
01:27:23.640 who directed it.
01:27:24.720 Those guys
01:27:25.480 were key to PJTV
01:27:27.380 which was a forerunner
01:27:28.380 of the Daily Wire.
01:27:29.500 Justin Folk
01:27:30.400 directed my
01:27:31.340 Clavin on the Culture
01:27:32.120 of Things
01:27:32.380 which is how I got
01:27:33.060 started in this business
01:27:34.780 and I used to sit
01:27:35.900 and watch him
01:27:36.500 take my words
01:27:37.860 and turn them
01:27:38.420 into these artistic
01:27:39.340 two minute videos
01:27:41.060 and I just used to
01:27:42.960 shake my head
01:27:43.540 and they were brilliant
01:27:44.200 and I'm so,
01:27:45.380 I really am so proud
01:27:46.920 of the job he did
01:27:47.920 in putting together
01:27:48.500 you know,
01:27:48.840 because documentaries
01:27:49.360 can be boring
01:27:50.680 or they can be interesting
01:27:51.840 and this is made
01:27:52.620 interesting by the way
01:27:53.420 he put it together.
01:27:54.120 Owen ran the newsroom
01:27:57.420 of the PGA TV
01:27:59.640 made it what it was
01:28:00.840 at its best
01:28:01.620 and these two guys
01:28:02.980 have gone on
01:28:03.540 to really great things
01:28:04.820 and I gotta say
01:28:05.760 I was sitting
01:28:06.180 in the theater
01:28:07.000 and I was just thinking
01:28:07.960 I made these people
01:28:09.040 I made them
01:28:09.640 I did it
01:28:10.200 No, I really
01:28:11.200 I was thinking
01:28:11.720 I just, I'm so proud
01:28:13.000 of what they've done
01:28:13.580 and it's a good film.
01:28:15.100 I went there
01:28:16.200 and I told Owen
01:28:16.860 and Justin
01:28:17.280 that I would have
01:28:17.920 lied to their faces
01:28:18.740 and said it was a good movie
01:28:19.760 even if it wasn't
01:28:20.460 but I wouldn't have lied
01:28:22.300 to everybody else
01:28:23.300 I was really impressed
01:28:26.200 even in the kind of content
01:28:28.700 that, look, I go to these
01:28:30.860 college campuses
01:28:31.500 I've been attacked
01:28:32.100 on these college campuses
01:28:32.940 I've seen it
01:28:33.560 I didn't think there was
01:28:34.400 anything new
01:28:35.180 I could see in this movie
01:28:36.220 and some of the stuff
01:28:38.220 that is in that movie
01:28:39.140 I was shocked by
01:28:40.540 I actually hadn't seen it before
01:28:41.800 and the creativity
01:28:43.360 in the movie
01:28:44.160 I mean, there are these
01:28:45.100 whole, I don't want
01:28:45.900 to ruin the movie
01:28:46.280 there are these whole
01:28:46.720 sequences though
01:28:47.340 that are just
01:28:48.020 laugh out loud
01:28:49.320 drop down funny
01:28:50.400 and my favorite
01:28:51.640 part about it
01:28:52.260 there's a little
01:28:53.000 easter egg appearance
01:28:53.840 of me in the movie
01:28:54.880 see if you can find it
01:28:55.740 and my name is at the end
01:28:56.720 and they spelled it wrong
01:28:57.640 K-L-A-V-E-N
01:28:58.680 this is every day
01:28:59.660 I tell them
01:28:59.920 people who produce
01:29:00.540 solve your radio
01:29:01.140 I also have
01:29:03.700 an easter egg appearance
01:29:04.880 in the film
01:29:05.680 so be watching
01:29:06.660 for Michael Knowles
01:29:07.560 and the God King
01:29:08.220 while you're actually
01:29:09.580 just tuning in
01:29:10.180 to see Adam Crow
01:29:10.840 and his Prager
01:29:11.520 addiction here
01:29:12.080 I mean, so never mind
01:29:13.520 the fact that
01:29:14.460 I mean, it has
01:29:15.840 Jeremy in it briefly
01:29:16.680 and it has Knowles
01:29:17.500 in it briefly
01:29:18.020 and is made by the people
01:29:19.280 who made Clavin
01:29:20.160 all of those are
01:29:20.780 I mean, see the film
01:29:21.940 in spite of those things
01:29:22.820 I mean, the fact is
01:29:24.680 that it is a brilliant film
01:29:25.800 about brave
01:29:27.320 beautiful people
01:29:28.440 and I highly recommend it
01:29:32.360 and as we all know
01:29:33.320 I mean, the fact is
01:29:34.100 that if you enjoy shows
01:29:36.400 that feature me
01:29:37.320 but have others in them
01:29:38.360 then you should probably
01:29:41.580 enjoy No Safe Space
01:29:42.840 I will say
01:29:43.520 I will say
01:29:44.700 there are several
01:29:45.240 laugh out loud moments
01:29:46.160 in No Safe Spaces
01:29:46.940 and I think that
01:29:48.080 the flashback
01:29:48.740 to young Dennis
01:29:50.040 and young Adam
01:29:50.840 is just unbelievable
01:29:52.500 they did such a good job
01:29:54.820 with your segment, Ben
01:29:56.040 it is so funny
01:29:57.480 the way that they
01:29:58.220 juxtapose
01:29:59.120 5'9", Ben Shapiro
01:30:01.360 checking his phone
01:30:02.500 going through airport security
01:30:03.700 with like
01:30:04.500 the SWAT team
01:30:05.660 flying over him
01:30:08.220 it's fantastic
01:30:09.680 it's highly creative
01:30:10.480 again, No Safe Spaces
01:30:11.740 check it out
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01:30:15.200 you're just going to have
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01:30:17.200 and it will be worth it to you
01:30:19.040 it's a fantastic film
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