Ep. 196 - Democrats’ 2020 Strategy: WAHHHH!
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The leftists, pinkos, hippies, and freaks who make up the Democratic electoral coalition met last week and over the weekend at the Netroots Nation Conference to establish their strategy for 2020. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Liawatha Warren, and Comrade De Blasio all made their pitch to that wretched hive of scum and villainy. Spoiler alert: They hate you and want to control your lives.
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The leftists, pinkos, hippies, and freaks who make up the Democrat electoral coalition met
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last week and over the weekend at the Netroots Nation conference to establish their strategy
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for 2020. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Liawatha Liz Warren, Comrade de Blasio, all made their
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pitch to that wretched hive of scum and villainy. We have got the highlights. Spoiler alert,
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they hate you and want to control your lives. Then Kamala Harris's perverse view of her own
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country on This Is America, and we electrocute a criminal on this day in history. I'm Michael
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Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show. A lot to get to. A lot to get to today. So we have
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all the Netroots clips, and man, they're good. The Democrats are really outdoing themselves lately,
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so all of this should make 2020 very exciting, very entertaining, and pave the way for President
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to Netroots. So if you're not familiar with it, I actually wasn't familiar with the name. I remember
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the event, but the Netroots Nation Conference started in 2006. If that number sounds familiar to you,
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it's because that was the year that the Democrats made their huge lurch to the left. They decided
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they were going to double down. They were going to be the Democrat base of the Democrat party,
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and they were going to move far left. And it actually did help them in the short run. It
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did help them win some seats. So they're doubling down. They're going to be trying to make that same
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move again. Netroots began as the agenda setting moment for the left and for the Democrat party.
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It began, do you know that website Daily Kos? I don't think it's that big anymore,
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but it used to be very big even five, six years ago. The Daily Kos was this very far left site by
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Marcos Mulitsas. It was his blog. And so anyway, he and a bunch of other lefty, angry bloggers got
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together and started this. First, it was a conference for Daily Kos. Then it became Netroots.
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Netroots is where you've seen some great moments at Netroots before, even if you don't know it.
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Do you remember that moment last year where Bernie Sanders was on stage talking about socialism?
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And then he got out lefted because Black Lives Matter came on stage and took his microphone.
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And he said, well, you can stay there. You can, that's fine. That's okay. And it zoomed in on
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him with the like, with the Curb Your Enthusiasm music, you know, and they stole his microphone.
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They did the same thing to Martin O'Malley, actually. Nobody even remembers Martin O'Malley.
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He was the generic, bland, guitar-playing guy who never had a chance at winning the Democrat
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nomination in 2016. So Martin O'Malley was giving a speech at Netroots, and Black Lives Matter did the
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same thing to him. They took his microphone. It always is fun because it's really their crazies.
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You know, you really can't compare the crazies on the right and the left. Everybody's got our crazies.
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But like, the crazies on the right, with a few exceptions, the crazies on the right just like,
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really like the Constitution. Those are our most eccentric people, again, with a few exceptions.
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But the kind of majority of the eccentric, fringy people on the right, they're just like,
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yeah, I really like freedom. I know that you like freedom. I really like freedom. The ones on the
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left are screaming. I mean, they're like shrieking, shutting people down, coming on stage,
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threatening people. That's what you get at Netroots. So at Netroots, we got everyone
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to trot through here. All of the 2020 presidential contenders walked through. We got Cory Booker,
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Kamala Harris, Comrade de Blasio, Liz Warren, a bunch of other people. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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came out. And of course she did. You know, she's the new darling of the Democrats. They try to say,
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by the way, when we knock Ocasio-Cortez for not knowing anything and for being proudly ignorant,
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they say, well, she's just a candidate somewhere in Queens. She's not the head of the party.
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They're making her the head of the party. They're turning her into a superstar.
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That's why she's fair game for us all to attack. So they're doubling down. They think it's 2006.
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They're going to run in 2018 and in 2020 as though it's 2006. Hard left, they think they're
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going to double down on their base. That's going to motivate them to go out to the polls.
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I hope they do this. I know they don't watch my show, so I'm not worried about letting the cat
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out of the bag. The secret is that 2018 is not 2006. It is so not 2006. 2006, you know,
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there was a lot of anger over the Iraq war. That was really the motivating factor on the left.
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There was a lot of distaste for George Bush, but mostly for that reason. In 2018, we have
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peace abroad. We've got a booming economy. We've got a terrific economy coming out. You know,
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how did the left turn their 2006 victory into a 2008 victory? It's because there was this
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devastating economic crash. Now we don't have that. We have record high employment, record low
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unemployment. We've got a great economy. Economy has never done better. The IMF credits President
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Trump's policies for that. Everybody's gotten a tax break. Virtually everybody, some wealthy people in
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blue states haven't quite gotten a tax break, but everyone else, everyone who would vote for
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Republicans, everyone that the Democrats want to put in their so-called coalition of the ascendant
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has done very well in this economy. And, you know, what they do, their entire strategy is to divide
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people along racial lines, along ever more precise racial gender lines. The numbers don't look good in
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that direction. President Trump's support among black voters is now at 29%. Now that doesn't sound
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very high. That sounds pretty low. It should be higher. Hopefully it will be higher by the end of this
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term and certainly by the end of the second term and third term, fourth term. You know, it'll keep
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increasing. But his support just a year ago was at 15%. That support has basically doubled in one year
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among black voters. And the Democrats are running scared. They're terrified by this. So they're trying
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to demagogue on race issues, on class issues, on all of this. Having set up all of that, having set up
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what seems to be the Democrats' unsuccessful setup for 2018, let's delve into the craziness and enjoy
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they're a spectacular failure. Take it away, Laya Watha. According to Trump, the problem is other
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working people. People who are black or brown, people who were born somewhere else, people who
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don't worship the same, dress the same, or talk the same as Trump and his buddies. Before getting into
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all of that, when she says don't worship the same, does she mean they're not lapsed Presbyterians?
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What do you mean by doesn't worship the same? She's, you know, they're, what they're trying to do
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is run up against this stereotypical religious right, hard ideological conservative. And they
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keep failing at that because Donald Trump isn't those things. He, he regularly misspeaks when he's
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trying to discuss Christianity. He's not fluent in the language of Christianity because he's not
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a figure of the religious right. Someone asked him if he'd ask God for forgiveness. He said,
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I try not to make any mistakes. That's why I don't have to ask for forgiveness.
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Then she says, you know, he's trying to divide working people against this and that, and this
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is that. He represents those people. He represents the people that Elizabeth Warren wants to represent,
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but she can't. She is a liar. First of all, she lied. I, we make jokes about this because she's
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Laya Watha. She's chief spreading bull. And, but she, this is really offensive to a lot of people.
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She is the whitest woman that has ever walked the earth. And she lied about being a racial minority
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to get preferential treatment in employment. She won if regardless, because those policies are on
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the books, she could have taken a job away from an actual native American and she lied. She, she's
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just a fraud through and through, but also she's this effete Harvard professor, this true elitist who
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looks like one and speaks like one to use her identity politics. And Donald Trump doesn't,
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he doesn't talk like one of those people. He doesn't talk like any elitist. He talks to people
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in the way that people talk on the street. He talks to people like the way that New Yorkers talk.
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That is much more compelling. That's much more attractive. I'll let Liz Warren keep going.
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And it comes in all sorts of flavors, racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia. It comes in all sorts of
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forms, nasty personal attacks, trolling on Twitter, winking at white supremacists. And it all adds up
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to the same thing, the politics of division. Politics that tries to pit black working people against
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white working people so they won't band together. Politics of division that tells Americans to
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distrust each other, to fear each other, to hate each other. You see the politics of division by
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Donald Trump, they, they keep, uh, white working people and black working people apart so they don't
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join up and kill the rich whitey. That's what she's saying. It's, I don't, does she hear herself
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when she's talking? The left is always projecting and here more than ever, she's, she's talking about
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dividing people along all of these lines and all of the language that she uses to divide, to, to
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describe this divides people along precisely those lines. She is dividing people against, along lines
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of race. Not the Republicans, not Donald Trump, not Mike Pence, not Paul Ryan. No, they're not.
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She is. She's dividing people along lines of, of, uh, wealth and class. Not Donald Trump,
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not the Republican party. She's dividing people along all of these lines. To, to, the, the way that
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they rattle off that phrase, racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, phobic-phobic,
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liawathaphobic. I'm a liawathaphobic. I certainly would fear her if she were in the White House.
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The, the way they rattle it off, like they've been practicing it in their sleep, like they say it in
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their sleep. They're talking about the boogeyman that doesn't exist. We, we, uh, have the lowest
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amount of, uh, overt racism in the history of the United States, possibly in the history of the
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world, anywhere else in the world. I, I, I don't know if you've traveled much, but the rest of the
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world is not as enlightened on, on racial matters and ethnic matters and cultural matters as the
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United States is. We're doing better than anyone else in the history of the world. And, uh, but Liz
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Warren, they just repeat this, this boogeyman that they need to, uh, that they, that they need to
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have. And by the way, forget even just the question of this, this kind of bigotry or that kind of
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they're, they're talking about their, uh, all of that racial bigotry that the right is spewing
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against the left, against black people. They're anti-black bigots, aren't they? Uh, let's cut to
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a video of my friend Candace Owens walking around with Charlie Kirk of TPUSA. You've got the Antifa
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group, uh, the anti-fascists. And to translate that for you, uh, anti-fascist in left-wing language
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means fascist. Uh, so you've got these people just screaming in her face for, uh, supporting
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Get that out of my face. Don't let that touch me. I'm not kidding.
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Did you, did you hear that? Like, shrieking from hell? Just like these demons, these just
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screaming in her face. For those of you who couldn't see the video, they're yelling F white
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supremacy. At Candace Owens, a black woman, they are all white people. They're all white
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women. White women with, like, crazy blue hair and probably deep-seated emotional problems
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stemming from their families. I don't know. They're a lot, they got a lot of issues going
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on, clearly. If you get up to someone's face and start screaming at them in public, you've
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got some issues. But it's all these white girls going up with loud whistles, uh, with
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megaphones right into Candace's ears and shrieking, F white supremacy. That, that is white supremacy.
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That, they are, they are the white supremacists. They are the white people who are drowning
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out physically intimidating Candace Owens because of her beliefs for thinking what she wants
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to think. Because you're not supposed to. They say, no, if you're black, you're not allowed
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to. You're not allowed to think that. Listen to us. We're white women. We're allowed to tell
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you, black woman, what to think. That's what they're saying. I mean, it is, it is really,
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it's easy to make fun of it. And Candace has thick skin. She's a tough girl and she can handle
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herself very well, obviously. But it, this is really deeply offensive and horrifying. These
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white girls shrieking in her face, how dare you, how dare you hold a position that I don't give you
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permission to hold. That's what they're saying to Candace Owens. Really crazy. That's the left
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though. That is what, uh, they're doing to her. The left is always projecting onto other people,
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their own biases, their own sins. They're saying F white supremacy. You're the white supremacist.
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You're the white, you're the one who's telling people how they have to think, how they have to
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behave. And if they don't get in line, you're going to physically intimidate them. You're going to
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scream in their face, try to blow out their eardrum. Uh, so I don't want to, I don't want to
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let Liz Warren totally get away though. I mean, those were the highlights from her speech. I don't
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want to let her totally get away though. Uh, there was another, another woman who comes up to the podium
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and, uh, I think this was a dig at Liz Warren. You, you judge for yourself.
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Netroots Nation, please welcome from the great state of New Mexico,
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My name is Deb Haaland. I'm the democratic nominee for New Mexico's first congressional district.
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If elected, if elected, I'll be the first native American woman in Congress.
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Did you catch that? Did anybody catch that? Are you sure you're not the second Deb? You sure you
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think that lady was whiter than Casper the ghost over there? You don't think she's the first native
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American in Congress? You don't know? Maybe not. No, I guess it would be Deb. Uh, so I re I really
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like that. I think it is a dig at Liz Warren because it is offensive to people who, who, you know,
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don't lie about where they come from. Um, but this is the kind of thing, right? This is what you get at
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the Netroots conference. This is what the Democrats are setting up for 2020. Their platform is going to
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be all identity, all identity politics, not thoughts, not ideas, not even public policy,
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all identity. Listen to me because I'm a native American woman. Listen to me in the case of Liz Warren,
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because I'm a fake native American woman. Listen to me because I'm a black Muslim, lesbian, uh,
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Martian from Venus. I don't know how, how, how's that possible? I don't know how that's possible.
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And illegally, you might say, uh, the, the, another serious contender showed up, uh, Kamala Harris,
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Kamala Harris from my own state of California. Uh, what was most interesting about her speech though,
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because she, she touched on all the same points, but she played it safe. And I, I'm,
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I wonder what that shows. Here is Kamala Harris spouting inane platitudes.
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As I look around this room, I see the best of what America is really about.
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And I see the best of what America can be unburdened by what we have been.
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And I see in this room and all that is represented in this room, the power of the people.
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And these past 18 months have demonstrated that the people in power are no match for the power of
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the people. Wow. How brave. Where, when did you write that? Just utter platitudes. And I am here to
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tell you that the sky is blue, not red. It's not red. It's blue. The sky. I am here. I am
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so proud to be here because the sun is bright, not dark. It's not dark. It's, it's bright.
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Oh, do I clap? I don't know. She said it in such an emphatic way. There's a character,
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a Congresswoman character on 30 Rock. I don't know if you've seen this. I forget her name.
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And she kind of like maybe the fifth season or something. And she comes in and she just starts
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talking and saying things that are just either inane platitudes or nonsense. But because she says
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them emphatically, everyone gives her a standing ovation. That was Kamala Harris at this Net Roots
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conference. And a part of that is she's considered a favorite going into this election. We don't really
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know anything about her. She's relatively new to the Senate. She doesn't have much of a record. We
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know she's a lefty, but a lot of the commentary about her has focused on all of these aspects of
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identity politics. She herself has totally embraced identity politics. She has run on them. She's,
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I'm a black woman. That's why you've got to support me. That's why I'll be good.
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And so I think perhaps Kamala Harris thinks she's going into 2020 with this great advantage.
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The Democrats are embracing identity politics. That is what they're running on. She has the most
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identity politics, not only black, but a woman, not only, you know, not only woman, but from
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California. I don't know. She's all of the, not only that, but she's young and she's this and that,
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right? She checks all of these boxes. And so she thinks, all right, I can play it safe because this is
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mine right now. I'm in the lead right now. And I don't know, given her electoral coalition,
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that very well might be the case. She clearly has an advantage over Cory Booker because Cory Booker
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is a man. Kamala Harris is a woman. So she played it relatively safe, but she's still got her hits
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in. I mean, she still had her cred. Here is Kamala Harris going on. Let's speak truth that if it wasn't
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clear before Charlottesville, it is clear now, racism is real in this country and we need to
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deal with that. Let's speak truth. Sexism is real in this country. Let's deal with it.
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Let's speak truth. Anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia are real in this country. Let's deal
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with it. So she had to get those lines in. You heard Liz Warren do it too. They all have to go
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and they say America's awful. It's racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamophobic. I love, by the way,
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that they equate Islamophobia with racism, with hatred of people for their skin. Your skin is
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something you can't change unless you're a pedophilic pop star. You can't change the color
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of your skin unless you have a lot of money and an amusement park in your house in California.
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But your views, you can change. Views are up for criticism. It's very mean to criticize someone
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for the way they look, for any aspect of the way they look. It's just crude and rude and not very
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civilized. But to criticize someone for holding bad ideas is perfectly legitimate. In fact, that's
00:22:52.200
what we are called to do in society, in civil society, in a civilization where we discuss things
00:22:59.620
and where we have a democratic republic. That's what we're called to do. Religion is just a bag
00:23:04.180
of ideas. It's just a bunch of ideas. And to equate those two is a real slate of hand. The left
00:23:10.380
always does this, but she's doing it too. So she gets all of her hits in. Okay, she comes out of this
00:23:15.880
thing looking fine. She doesn't look too wacky. She didn't, you know, she didn't Ocasio Cortez herself.
00:23:20.580
She didn't make some bizarre gaffe where you're like crazy gesticulations and spouting things that
00:23:26.300
just like orders of magnitude from being, from being true. Um, the biggest disappointment was
00:23:32.040
Cory Booker. The biggest disappointment probably to himself, certainly to Democrats is Cory Booker.
00:23:36.760
Here is Cory, uh, giving, given at his level best. We say an oath that we are a nation of liberty and
00:23:46.180
justice for all, but that's just words. It's a civic faith. But I'm one of these people that says,
00:23:51.520
before you tell me about your religion, first show it to me and how you treat other people.
00:23:57.820
Well, how are we living our civic gospel? How are we living our civic gospel that demands
00:24:05.420
for us to reject the normalcy of injustice, the normalcy of apathy, the normalcy of indifference
00:24:11.680
and rise to the higher ground of activism, of engagement, of love. And that's the last person I want to end with.
00:24:19.580
His name is Hassan Washington. I'm a big believer that if America, if this country hasn't broken your heart,
00:24:31.140
then you don't love her enough because there's things that are savagely wrong in this country.
00:24:39.420
There's a normalcy of injustice that we've accepted.
00:24:42.300
And I tell you, Newark has gifted me a wisdom that can only come from wounds.
00:24:52.060
A sense of purpose that can only come from shared pain.
00:24:56.800
It's a city that at times where my heart has been broken, but I've learned that the heart is this
00:25:02.100
interesting organ that can, it's the only one that really works, even if it's gotten broken.
00:25:06.240
Get that, man. Whatever the opposite of an Oscar is, get that for Corey. I've sat in on a lot of
00:25:15.780
auditions over time, New York, LA, college, you know, even before that. And I don't know that I've,
00:25:22.780
and I've seen a lot of bad performances. I've seen a lot of truly horrific plays, movies. I have never
00:25:29.540
seen anything as unconvincing as Cory Booker trying to be emotional. I have never seen,
00:25:34.580
it just doesn't, I'm not trying to be mean to Cory Booker. It just doesn't pass the smell test. It
00:25:40.800
doesn't look real. I don't think anybody in that room thought that he was genuine. It's so
00:25:46.200
disingenuous. It's so, he's not, he's just not good at performing emotion. Look, Cory Booker is a very
00:25:51.980
smart guy. He is very intelligent. He has a lot to offer his party. I don't know if he's got a lot to
00:25:57.580
offer the country, but he's got a lot to offer his party at least. But he's playing wrong. You can't,
00:26:03.020
I'll give a little, a little more advice from, you know, Stanislavski and Sanford Meisner and,
00:26:07.720
you know, great, great acting directors and theorists and coaches. You, you can't push. You don't want to
00:26:15.080
push against what is coming sort of naturally to you and what comes organically. Cory is all pushing
00:26:20.700
right now because he's not, he's this guy from New Jersey who was cozy with Wall Street and has
00:26:25.540
zillionaire donors and, you know, defended Mitt Romney in 2012. That's who Cory Booker actually
00:26:31.480
is. He's now running left of Lenin because he thinks that that's going to work. He thinks that's
00:26:36.840
going to get him the nomination. It's not because you have to be authentic. The lesson of 2016 should
00:26:41.580
have been that. You have to be authentic. When you're not authentic, you get blown off the stage
00:26:45.840
by somebody who is. Uh, really, really, uh, sad. He's savagely wrong. It's savagely tears of rage
00:26:52.780
said. Okay. No. Also just a usage note, please. He said that Newark gifted him with something.
00:26:58.820
That's not a word. The verb to gift is not, I know it's been in use. It has been in use at various
00:27:05.180
times for three or 400 years to gift. So I gifted this to you. It's not proper. There's a wonderful
00:27:11.200
word, which is give. I give you this. And now you have a gift from me. I've got a gift because I
00:27:16.880
gave it to you. I'll give it to you. Gifted. I gifted this to him. It's just like nails on a
00:27:21.940
chalkboard. Cory, come on. You went to Yale law school, learn how to use language better. Let's get
00:27:26.740
those tears out of here. Okay. So the main, uh, the main takeaway, this is all the Democrats are running
00:27:32.920
very far left. I don't want to harp on this too much, but that all of the candidates here, uh,
00:27:37.400
advocated Medicare for all open borders and abolishing law enforcement agencies, every single
00:27:42.420
one of them, a Medicare for all. I didn't think this was going to work for them. I saw this
00:27:46.780
percolating in the fringes a couple of years ago, few years ago. Uh, they say Medicare for all. And
00:27:51.400
that to me seems like such a sad sales pitch. When I think of Medicare, I think of old people who can't
00:27:55.520
take care of themselves, who are at the mercy of the government, who are at the mercy of the state,
00:28:00.000
who are just frail and weak and have no control over their own destinies.
00:28:04.420
Why would we all want that? Why would we do it? You should, you too can be like an 85 year old.
00:28:09.900
I want to be like an 85 year old. I'll be like one when I'm 85. I don't want to be like one now
00:28:13.500
when I'm 28. Uh, still they've all embraced it. They've all embraced socialist healthcare,
00:28:19.980
all the rest. These are not popular issues. They're not popular. You saw what happened with Obamacare.
00:28:24.720
It destroyed the Obama presidency because he pushed that through. People hated that policy.
00:28:28.220
They hate open borders. The majority of Democrats despise open borders and they don't want to
00:28:33.340
prioritize any immigration legislation, including any amnesty, uh, legislation, including for the
00:28:38.740
dreamers. The majority of Democrats don't want legislation legalizing even dreamers. That is a
00:28:44.460
crazy statistic, uh, of abolishing law enforcement. Who wants that? Nobody wants that. Um, so, okay,
00:28:50.660
that's fine. Keep it up. Do it, please. I hope this is your platform. Give it to me. Uh, all of these
00:28:55.740
candidates, by the way, are deeply flawed in a way that Trump is not. All of these candidates are
00:28:59.600
far left and, uh, they're running as ideologues, far left ideologues. Trump never did that. Trump
00:29:05.420
never did that. They've tried to make him into that on the left, but he isn't that. He's totally
00:29:09.860
heterodox. He's not ideological at all. He actually boasted about that in the campaign. He said,
00:29:14.420
I like this. I don't like this. I'm going to do this. I'm not a religious conservative. I'm this.
00:29:17.740
I do, do, do, do, do, do. He just, he's his own character. He's authentic. And there's a moderation
00:29:22.340
that comes out of that. Their people are more comfortable there. This is why people are more
00:29:25.840
comfortable with Donald Trump than Mike Pence. You would think people would be more comfortable
00:29:29.280
with Mike Pence. Stable, steady, good conservative politician, but he believes too many things.
00:29:35.100
They say, oh, he's, he really takes his belief seriously. Trump, I feel like we can negotiate
00:29:38.840
with him. Uh, these candidates are, they're running into a brick wall right now, but keep it up. I hope,
00:29:44.060
I hope they do. Uh, do I have to say goodbye? No, I'll get one more bit in, then we'll say goodbye
00:29:48.240
to Facebook and YouTube. So the, the main takeaway from Netroots is the left doesn't like you
00:29:54.540
because you're all vicious bigots and, uh, the left needs to control every aspect of your lives,
00:30:00.600
your healthcare, your, uh, they're going to take away your ability to decide who comes in and out
00:30:05.280
of the country. They're going to take away your money so that they can pay for all of their crazy
00:30:08.440
social programs. They really don't like you. Uh, Angela Rye, CNN commentator typified this,
00:30:15.220
did this very well on Fredo Cuomo's show the other day. Well, while he just sat there, uh,
00:30:20.760
he just, just take a listen to this. Essentially not have any border. First of all, let's be very
00:30:25.980
clear. Let's be very clear. I can't wait to search your genealogy and see if you have any illegal
00:30:31.300
immigration in your family child. Like, I don't know what you're talking about. You've never once
00:30:35.560
asked me if I'm for open borders. You've never once asked me that. And at least I have the decency
00:30:40.880
not to continue to repeat myself. Clearly you don't want to enforce our clearly. You don't
00:30:45.100
want to enforce the, the border laws. Cause that's what I've said. No, what I don't want
00:30:48.960
to enforce is your president's nonsense. That's what I don't want to. Come on, man. You guys know
00:30:54.460
that this policy is ass backwards, plain and simple. You guys know this policy is inhumane,
00:31:00.640
plain and simple. Like if you just take yourselves out of it for just a moment,
00:31:05.140
take off the lenses of bigotry for just a moment. Okay. So now we're getting into the name calling.
00:31:12.840
Um, yes, we are. I'm calling this. Okay. That, you know, what's great in amidst all of this too,
00:31:20.220
you probably, if you were listening, you wouldn't be able to tell Chris Cuomo is there. The Fredo
00:31:24.480
of the Cuomo family is sitting there just, just like this, just, just wide eyed, just sitting there
00:31:31.660
silent, staring like a mook, just, just doing nothing. And he gets paid. I might've gotten
00:31:37.060
paid a little bit to, to not write a book, but this guy gets paid a lot more money to not host a
00:31:41.400
TV show. It's just, they're letting her accuse, uh, his other guest of being a bigot, of being a
00:31:48.360
racist out of nowhere. They made no, uh, they made, she made no argument whatsoever, right? She didn't
00:31:54.800
demonstrate anything through logic. She just said, you're a bigot, you're prejudiced, wah, wah, wah.
00:31:59.200
You have bad intentions. I hate your guts and you're terrible for the country. Really awful
00:32:03.460
stuff. I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube, but we'll explain this like profound
00:32:06.860
racism on the left as it comes up through Sarah Jong in the New York times and Candace Owens. Uh,
00:32:13.180
plus we've got, we've got to electrocute some people in chairs on this day in history. We've
00:32:16.960
got to show Kamala Harris and her racist view of America on this isn't, we've got a lot to come,
00:32:21.820
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00:33:06.320
Savagely wrong. That's just savagely wrong to make fun of Cory Booker. You remember Sarah Jong.
00:33:11.100
Sarah Jong is that tech reporter who sent out all of these tweets about how much she hates white people,
00:33:16.720
especially white men, and wants them to be eradicated from the earth. She actually said that.
00:33:21.840
She said, I'm so happy that white people aren't breeding so that they'll go extinct. She said,
00:33:26.920
we need to cancel white people. She said, white people shouldn't speak. They should be censored.
00:33:30.700
She just doesn't like them. I'd say they were jokes, but they don't, they were just, first of all,
00:33:35.800
they didn't have a punchline. And it just seems to me that over the years, she's kept this up and
00:33:41.800
clearly just hates white people. So they pointed this out to the New York Times. New York Times stands by
00:33:46.520
her on the editorial board. Now a video has surfaced at Sarah Jong from Harvard Law School,
00:33:51.480
where she attended college, or where she attended law school. Here she is.
00:33:56.200
Everything is implicitly organized around how men see the world. And not just men,
00:34:03.520
how white men see the world. And this is, this is a problem. This is why so many things suck.
00:34:10.960
That's why white men, that's why so many things suck. To quote Sarah Jong, New York Times editorial
00:34:16.740
board. All the news that's fit to print. The gray lady. The gray, at least, good thing the gray lady
00:34:22.740
is not a white lady. Otherwise, Sarah Jong would unleash some venom against her too. This is the
00:34:28.140
left-wing view of the world at this point, which is that white men are the cause of every problem in
00:34:35.280
the world. And everyone needs to band together through intersectionality to take them down and
00:34:40.080
to undo the patriarchy and all of the other terms they use for social hierarchies. Now,
00:34:44.840
any reasonable person listening to this would say, wow, she's a vile racist. She's at least saying
00:34:49.540
vile racist things. But the left answers and says, no, no, that's not racist because she's not white.
00:34:54.960
You can only be racist if you're white because it's about power. And only white people have power.
00:35:00.380
Nobody else has power. Vox.com. Zach Beauchamp writing for Vox.com, which is whenever I want to
00:35:06.220
learn, whenever I want to know less than I currently know, I go to Vox.com and then it just sucks
00:35:10.820
knowledge out of me. Vox.com, he wrote to anyone who's even passingly familiar with the way the
00:35:16.460
social justice left talks. This is just clearly untrue. White people is a shorthand in these
00:35:21.560
communities. One that's used to capture the way that many whites still act in clueless or racist ways.
00:35:26.240
It's typically satirical or hyperbolic to emphasize how white people continue to benefit
00:35:30.600
from their skin color or to point out ways in which a power structure that favors white people
00:35:35.120
continues to exist. What he's saying is, yeah, the left uses white, but they hate white people.
00:35:41.260
That's right. They don't like white people. And what makes it different, he writes,
00:35:44.480
what makes it different from actual racism is, yes, the underlying power structure in American society.
00:35:49.760
It's okay to say vicious things about whites because the whites have all the power. But let's
00:35:55.440
analyze that. Is that true? Sarah Jong is Asian. Asian Americans have higher average household
00:36:01.900
income than whites. They have a higher average household income than any other group. Asian
00:36:06.200
Americans disproportionately are accepted to top universities in the country, such as Harvard
00:36:11.040
Law School, such as the place from which Sarah Jong was making that statement. By objective measures,
00:36:17.540
Asians have much more power and privilege in the United States. Now, I reject these racial categories
00:36:24.300
per se because I don't think they tell you that much. They do tell you some things. They're sort
00:36:28.280
of interesting demographically and from matters of electoral politics. But they don't tell you very
00:36:33.160
much about power. They don't tell you very much about politics because they don't tell you about
00:36:38.420
ideas. They don't tell you about laws. There's no de jure racism in the United States, right? There's no
00:36:44.440
structural racism saying, okay, only Asian people can do this. Only white people can do this.
00:36:48.400
Absolutely not. I suppose there is one law which is affirmative action that says certain people
00:36:53.480
get a benefit in university admission and other people do not. But the point she's trying to make
00:37:00.860
that whites have all the power in America clearly isn't true. She's a living example of it. She's on
00:37:05.760
the editorial board of the New York Times. It's a powerful position, or used to be at least. I don't
00:37:09.680
know if it still is. The left is excusing this. Washington Post excused her vile remarks and said,
00:37:14.340
is it okay to make fun of white people online? Make fun of, in Washington Post language, by the
00:37:19.080
way, means call for the eradication of. They're excusing it. They don't like the country. They
00:37:27.080
don't like the history of the country. They all talk about this. They say, we are going to move
00:37:30.280
forward, not be burdened by our past. You know, this is the symbol of their regulatory efforts in
00:37:40.420
2018 and 2020, is the plastic straws. That's the symbol. The plastic straws. They need, they are so
00:37:47.240
riled up about how awful this country is, that they are going to go in and regulate everybody's
00:37:51.760
life. It's the plastic straws. Actually, the guy, the Santa Barbara councilman, who pushed for the
00:37:57.640
plastic straw ban, who pushed to make plastic straws illegal, he said, quote, unfortunately, common sense
00:38:03.280
is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people's lives. Every aspect. That's what he
00:38:08.900
said. He's the guy behind the straw ban. That's how they see the country going into 2020, going into
00:38:13.580
the midterms. More power to them. I don't know that that's a winning message. We hate you. We hate
00:38:18.940
everyone in the country. You're all vicious bigots, and we want to control your lives. And we're going
00:38:24.640
to focus on the least popular public policies that public polling shows us. That's what they are
00:38:30.160
pushing for. More power to them. I hope they do it. Keep going, guys. We've got to get to This
00:38:34.400
is America. On This is America, variations on a theme, a startling number of Americans don't know
00:38:41.520
anything about America. They don't know anything about America. Kamala Harris actually typifies
00:38:46.460
this. She tweeted out, quote, we won't be silent about race. We won't be silent about sexual
00:38:51.440
orientation. We won't be silent about immigrant rights. These are the very issues that define our
00:38:56.540
identity as Americans. They're not. Those are not the issues that define our identity as Americans.
00:39:03.580
As a matter of fact, that's what the left pretends defines our identity as Americans. Race, class,
00:39:10.880
sex. That's what they pretend does. But it doesn't. What defines our identity as Americans is our
00:39:16.140
dignity given by God and the rights conferred by our creator. Rights to life, liberty, and property,
00:39:20.980
which come from the natural law, which come from the natural law giver. It comes from freedom,
00:39:25.420
baby. F-R-E-E-D-O-M. It comes from freedom and having the responsibility to deal in freedom and to
00:39:31.180
govern ourselves. That's what it comes from. It doesn't come from the color of your skin. But a
00:39:34.660
lot of people think that. According to a new study from the Freedom Forum Institute on just the First
00:39:40.100
Amendment, just the First Amendment, 40% of respondents couldn't name any part of the First
00:39:51.540
Amendment. They couldn't name any of the rights outlined in the First Amendment. And just one out
00:39:57.680
of 1,000 respondents could name all of the rights in the First Amendment. Right to speech, freedom of
00:40:04.780
religion, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, and freedom to lobby, freedom to petition your
00:40:08.980
government. Only one out of 1,000 could name all of those rights. There are other studies that come
00:40:14.860
out that show that students, there was one from ISI that showed students at some universities knew less
00:40:19.820
about civics when they graduated than when they went in. They somehow learned, they unlearned civics and
00:40:25.760
their time in there. A startling number of people, 90% of respondents to one national survey,
00:40:31.620
couldn't identify the system of checks and balances in the government. A huge percentage
00:40:37.700
couldn't identify the purpose of the Bill of Rights. Huge percentage. Something like 70%
00:40:42.180
couldn't identify the purpose of the Bill of Rights. This is really scary. It's because we have
00:40:46.340
no civics education in the country. At any level, it's been replaced by ideological studies.
00:40:51.760
Like, now in high schools, you'll read Howard Zinn. There are no civics classes, but you'll read
00:40:56.640
A People's History of the United States, excruple leftist propaganda. There's no civics education, and
00:41:02.520
freedom is only one generation away from extinction, as Ronald Reagan said. If you don't understand your
00:41:07.320
government, the systems of your government, then you're going to lose them. People don't even know
00:41:11.700
about the Bill of Rights, but they certainly don't know about the system that built our government.
00:41:15.560
You know, any tin-pock dictator can have a Bill of Rights, but we have a federal system of checks and
00:41:19.620
balances, which the left is willing to undermine. They don't understand the purpose of the country,
00:41:23.440
and if you don't understand the purpose of the country long enough, you lose it.
00:41:27.060
Before we go, we've got to get to this day in history. This day in history is a very important
00:41:30.420
one, because in 1890, on this day in history, the first criminal was sentenced to, or was executed
00:41:37.720
by the electric chair. This is a little grim, but you know, people have been talking about
00:41:42.080
the death penalty a lot lately. The current vicar of Christ on earth, Pope Francis, has been
00:41:47.500
talking about that. So I think it sheds some light on this debate. Conservatives are asking now,
00:41:52.240
in light of the Pope's comments, can we support the death penalty? Conservatives even have debated
00:41:59.300
this before. They say, do we want to give the state the power to kill people? Is it right for
00:42:03.000
the state to kill criminals? Is that Catholics have debated this? Pope Benedict said, I think 20 years
00:42:09.240
ago, that Catholics could have a legitimate difference of opinion on the death penalty.
00:42:13.740
What do we think about it? It's being outlawed all over the country.
00:42:16.240
So in 1890, at the Auburn prison in New York, William Kemmler was electrocuted for murdering
00:42:22.720
his lover with an axe. He murdered his lover with an axe, he was sentenced to death, and
00:42:26.540
he was electrocuted. Electrocution had been suggested nine years earlier by Albert Southwick.
00:42:32.840
I don't know if it's Southwick or Southwick. Albert Southwick, I'll just say that, who was
00:42:37.420
a dentist. And you know, dentists are so sadistic, they clearly like means of torturing people.
00:42:43.060
So anyway, he proposed the electric chair, because he one time saw an elderly drunkard
00:42:48.020
painlessly killed because he touched an electrical generator up in Buffalo. That's how he saw it. He
00:42:53.180
said, oh, this would be a good way to kill people. Hanging was a little less humane. With people who
00:42:58.600
were hanged, when they hanged the criminals, their necks would break, but they could hang there for half
00:43:02.760
an hour before they were totally asphyxiated. That's not good. So they said, okay, we're going to zap
00:43:07.280
these guys full of electricity. This will be humane. This is the better way. This is the,
00:43:11.300
the society has advanced here. Kemmler was strapped in. They sent 700 volts of electricity to him for
00:43:18.040
17 seconds, and the current failed. So they, they only sort of braised him. They didn't really cook
00:43:24.600
him. They didn't fully, they just braised him. And so he had, I mean, he was charred all over.
00:43:29.820
People could smell burnt clothing, but he was still alive. And then a little bit later, they sent
00:43:34.620
another charge over a thousand volts. They let it go for two minutes until his head was smoking.
00:43:39.120
Then they realized he was gone. This might sound a little gruesome. Southwick said, the guy who
00:43:44.860
advocated the electric chair, he said, we live in a higher civilization from this day on. And a lot of
00:43:50.320
people looked at it that way. They said, oh, good. We've, we just cooked that guy while he was still
00:43:54.120
alive and he was charred, but not dead. We burned a hole right to his spinal column and we had smoke
00:43:59.120
coming out of his head. We live in a higher civilization from this day on. People can confuse themselves on
00:44:04.380
moral issues, particularly issues of life and death, particularly when they're political.
00:44:09.340
George Westinghouse, a contemporary who was an innovator of the use of electricity at that time,
00:44:13.900
he had a different take on it. He said, quote, they would have done better with an ax and they
00:44:18.840
would have done better with an ax. He would have suffered less with an ax. They would have done
00:44:22.320
better. Just simple, simple execution that had served people well for a long time. One wonders if this
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is not the case when it comes to the death penalty. It's very, it seems so morally clear
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not to use the death penalty to people who have shallow thinking. It seems so morally clear that
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it's awful. You know, the church, the Catholic church, despite this change recently, taught for
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2000 years that the death penalty is not intrinsically evil. St. Augustine wrote in defense of it. St.
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Thomas Aquinas wrote in defense of it. St. Paul writes in defense of it. And there seems to be a
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change now. Perhaps the better question is to ask, what changed? Why do we suddenly think that this
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thing is intrinsically immoral, that this thing is evil? I think it says a lot more about our culture
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and our decadent culture and our moral myopia that we can frequently have. And nobody can attest to
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that better than the burnt crisp chars of William Kembler on this day in history in 1890. On that
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grisly, gruesome, disgusting final note, I got to say goodbye to you. Come back tomorrow.
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How's that for a pitch? Come back tomorrow. Make sure you get your mailbag questions in
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and tune into another kingdom for a season. Binge that baby, because we're about to release
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the second season, me and Andrew Klavan. It's going to be a lot of fun. Tune in then. In the meantime,
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.
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