Ep. 420 - The Price of Lies
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Summary
Joe Biden fails to make the case for his own candidacy. Half of young voters think the world will end in a decade, and the left ignores actual scientists, 500 of them, on global warming. All of which reveals an eternal and important and urgent truth about politics: Lies come with a great cost.
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Joe Biden fails to make the case for his own candidacy.
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Half of young voters think the world will end in a decade,
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and the left ignores actual scientists, 500 of them, on global warming,
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all of which reveals an eternal and important and urgent truth about politics.
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Then, President Trump defends America at the UN.
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The Ukraine scandal implicates not just Joe Biden, but other Democrats as well.
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And Michelle Williams, whoever that is, spreads nonsense at the Emmy Awards.
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First bit of news I want to get to is in the 2020 race,
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because that is what is dominating our politics right now.
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And Joe Biden, who is dominating the Democratic field, keeps failing and failing and failing.
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And people are blaming a lot of different aspects of Biden's candidacy for why it's falling apart.
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His age, his teeth, his plastic surgery, his, all of these things, his 1994 crime bill, his career.
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I think it comes down to one character flaw above all.
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He doesn't believe in anything and he has no regard for the truth.
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And this is a problem that affects a lot of our politics today.
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Here's Joe Biden, he's being asked on camera, why people should elect him president?
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Well, in Iowa, the unemployment rate is two and a half percent.
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People say they are employed in Iowa and their small businesses are growing.
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The president won by 10 percentage points in Iowa.
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I'm not suggesting he didn't win by 10 percentage points.
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What I'm suggesting is he's not the reason for the unemployment rate being down.
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But why should people want to make a change though?
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I'm not going to make the case because I can't make the case.
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And he hasn't been able to make the case for himself at all.
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I mean, he launched his campaign, his campaign ad against Trump.
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He basically said, Trump is a big racist, so vote for me.
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And then he took Trump's Charlottesville comments out of context.
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He cut out the spot where he explicitly condemned neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
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And he said, see, Donald Trump likes neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
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That's all he did in his initial campaign ad for 2020.
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The second problem, a related problem, is he can't actually make the case against Trump.
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And this reporter who was interviewing him nails him on it.
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People are generally happy with the way things are going.
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And he says, well, Trump's not responsible for any of that.
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It's all actually someone else's responsibility.
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And she has the correct follow-up, which is, okay, maybe that's true.
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Maybe the great economy that we're living under right now in the Trump administration,
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Maybe that's thanks to Obama or Bush or Bill Clinton or Calvin Coolidge,
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He says, well, yeah, the voters have to make that decision.
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The question wasn't who makes the decision about whether or not to change.
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Because the correct answer to that question would be the voters make the decision.
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But can you tell us, of course, the voters are going to make the decision,
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but why should the voters make the decision to change now?
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He says, well, they have to make that decision.
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This is where it would help if Joe Biden believed in anything.
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This is where it would help if Joe Biden had any regard for the truth.
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If you have regard for the truth, if you state plain truths,
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you're going to have angry mobs come after you, especially in politics.
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You might remember at the University of Missouri, Kansas City,
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I was physically attacked because I said men are not women.
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And there was a mob of people screaming at me from the minute I opened my mouth.
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Some guy comes in and assaults me with some creepy, strange super soaker.
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That's the price of telling the truth in politics.
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if you say we shouldn't put little children on puberty blockers when they're three years old
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If you are going to have to take slings and arrows for standing up for the truth,
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However, it's not all bad news because in the long run,
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And the great statesmen of history are the ones who stood firm
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I'm not even saying it's necessarily a left-right thing or a Republican-Democrat thing.
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But it is certainly the case that Joe Biden does not rise to that level.
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He has taken the easy way out in politics again and again his whole life.
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and he's got the best chance that he's ever had of getting that big office.
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And it's absolutely hilarious because he doesn't know what to say.
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He got thrown out of the race for being a liar and a plagiarist.
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because Barack Obama hates Hillary Clinton so much
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he couldn't bear the thought of her being his vice president.
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Then he runs in 2020 and he actually is the leader of the pack.
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and he has always moved with the wind in politics,
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that it looks absurd for Joe Biden to try to put on the pink hat
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when people know he hasn't been saying those things for his whole career.
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his opinion on gender identity and sexuality in prisons.
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an ideological movement to redefine sex to gender.
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A very, very small number of people have ambiguous genitalia
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suffer from something called gender confusion or gender dysphoria.
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We have a lot of legislation based on these sexes.
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So, for instance, the Title IX legislation says
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You set up sports leagues, for instance, for women,
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because women are physically not as strong as men,
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all of a sudden the women's sports league ceases to exist
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are allowed to participate in the women's sports league,
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They're going to win statistically all of the time.
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Because men and women are physically different,
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That was the point of the legislation in the first place.
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more danger than they're already in being in prison.
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because he's willing to tell whatever sort of lies
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which is, he doesn't understand this issue at all.
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everyone's been talking about climate change all week
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because there were all these crazy climate change,
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This survey found that over the next 10 to 15 years,