Cory Booker has dropped out of the Democratic presidential race, which means that by the rule of double negation, I am still in it, even though I am Spartacus, who I am, dropped out yesterday. This is about the closest I'll probably ever have in my life to an I AM Spartacus moment.
00:05:38.080You know, when you think of the 2016 Republican field, there were a lot of candidates of a lot of different races who lasted pretty long, right?
00:05:52.760Ted Cruz made it almost until the very end.
00:05:55.300I mean, he was the last guy standing other than Donald Trump.
00:05:57.440So, the Republicans, who don't talk and boast and brag about all their racial diversity and how much more virtuous they are than Democrats.
00:06:06.960They don't constantly malign Democrats as a bunch of racial bigots like the Democrats do to us.
00:06:11.540They had a ton of racial diversity right until the very end.
00:06:14.580Democrats kicked out all the candidates who aren't lily white before 2020 even began, right?
00:06:22.000Before the first Democratic presidential debate of 2020, all of their non-white candidates are gone.
00:06:29.440This is a real problem for Democrats, right?
00:06:32.380They make multiculturalism, they make racial identity politics the central point of their political pitch.
00:06:59.800She lost because she's black and a woman.
00:07:03.000And so they'll add gender politics in there too.
00:07:05.340Well, guys, you're the ones voting, so it's your fault.
00:07:08.080Maybe take a look at the man in the mirror if you really believe that that's the reason that she and Castro and Booker and these other candidates have dropped out.
00:07:16.360But this is not merely a case of Democrats failing to live up to their ideals.
00:07:23.180Because you might say, well, well, Michael, at least the Democrats prioritize racial politics.
00:07:28.660They might not live up to actually voting for the candidates who are racial minorities, but at least they think about it.
00:07:48.920I think that's a pretty bad analogy, right?
00:07:51.480You saw this a little bit with the porn debate.
00:07:53.500You remember at the end of 2019, all these conservatives were debating whether we should regulate porn or ban porn or have porn everywhere.
00:08:00.620And the hypocrite argument is you've got all these conservatives who want to ban porn, but a lot of them look at porn all the time.
00:08:08.440Right, that's a case of hypocrisy as the tribute vice pays to virtue because they're admitting a moral standard and they're failing to live up to it, right?
00:08:19.940These conservatives will say, I hate porn.
00:08:26.960It's misogynistic, and yet many men in this country, the majority men in this country, have a compulsion or an addiction to look at these kind of materials.
00:08:38.760They try to resist, but the temptation overcomes them, and sometimes they look at naked ladies on the Internet.
00:08:43.040That is not the case with Democrats in racial politics.
00:08:49.440It's not like they're really trying to vote for Kamala Harris, and they just can't pull the lever for some reason.
00:08:54.560They really want to vote for Cory Booker, but when the pollster calls them on the phone, they say, ah, no, I prefer Pete Buttigieg.
00:09:00.340There's no impediment to them supporting these candidates.
00:09:03.320And how about the candidates themselves?
00:09:04.820If these candidates, these liberals, really believe that white people have ruined everything, and we need to choose candidates of other races now, and that should be the first thing we think about in politics, then drop out.
00:09:18.920Buttigieg, Biden, Bernie, Warren, if you really believe that, if you actually believe this is a terribly racially bigoted country, and white people have had seats in the Senate for too long, and they've been running for president for too long,
00:09:31.060and we've got to get the white people out and get other races in, okay, lead the way, do it, drop out.
00:09:36.820Barack Obama said this a couple months ago.
00:09:39.560He was making some pandering, ridiculous remark where he said that men have ruined everything in politics, and if the world were run by women, everything would be so much better.
00:09:53.120You know how I know he doesn't believe that?
00:09:55.460Because he was elected president in 2008 by beating Hillary Clinton.
00:10:01.060If he really believed that women are so much better than men, and men have ruined society, and women should take the lead in politics, he wouldn't have run in 2008.
00:10:10.620If he had run, because he didn't know Hillary was going to run, he would have dropped out and endorsed her, but he didn't.
00:10:16.520Instead, he dragged that campaign on, got into a pretty vicious campaign with Hillary Clinton, and absolutely pummeled her political career into obscurity.
00:10:31.060They don't really believe that we should give racial minority candidates and female candidates special treatment.
00:10:39.300By the way, I don't think we should give them special treatment either.
00:10:42.280I think that we should judge candidates on their accomplishments, and on their character, and on their platforms, what they're going to do, and whether they can actually do what they say they're going to do.
00:10:53.020And we should judge them, and we should judge them, on electability.
00:12:14.340Because despite lip service to the contrary, the Oscars are white and male as well.
00:12:20.040There is only one black former nominated in a major category.
00:12:23.260That is Cynthia Barrivo as Harriet Tubman.
00:12:26.920And actually, some people were upset about this.
00:12:29.120They were upset that the nomination for the black actress was for this role of a sort of historical, legendary, larger-than-life black figure, an ex-slave who helps other slaves escape.
00:12:43.800I don't really understand how people are upset about this.
00:12:47.420This actress was not going to play Jackie Kennedy, right?
00:12:51.420If you were talking about historical figures, then you're going to talk about the historical figures that the actors or actresses look more like.
00:13:02.560Hollywood doesn't make a lot of roles for racial minorities.
00:13:06.160It's why, on average, you'll notice this in films, on average, the performance by black actors and actresses is better than the average performance by white actors and actresses because there just aren't that many roles.
00:13:18.800So, generally speaking, the people who get those roles are just really, really good performers.
00:13:24.880But the issue here for the academy, for the left, for the woke people who are really upset about the Oscars so white is not quality.
00:13:38.120They're upset that more people were not nominated.
00:13:40.600They're upset that there aren't more, you know, half of the nominees in Best Actor or Best Picture or Best Director aren't this race or that race or this sex.
00:13:51.800You know, they're upset that Greta Gerwig, who is a very good director, was not nominated for Best Director.
00:14:08.880What's interesting in all of the coverage about how the Oscars are so racist and the academy is so racist is Parasite, which is a Korean movie, actually was nominated for a bunch of awards.
00:14:22.800But according to the woke crowd, these racial politics people, Asians don't count as real minorities, I guess, because they were saying, nope, they're sort of white.
00:14:33.160It's got to be our preferred races, not other racial minorities as a whole.
00:14:37.020I haven't seen most of the movies, so I can't really comment on the justice or the injustice of the nominations.
00:14:44.280But I actually would like to say something nice about Hollywood and liberals on the issue of racial politics.
00:14:52.760I actually would like to take the temperature down in the country a little bit, bring together a little bit of political unity.
00:15:00.500It kills me to do it, but I'm going to say something nice about Hollywood and about the Democratic candidates in just one second.
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00:21:15.120But until they admit that this isn't some just totally closed off country, the patriarchy, the white supremacy, or whatever slogans and bumper stickers they're going to use.
00:21:24.400Until they admit that, we are going to point out their hypocrisy.
00:21:28.400And we are going to laugh and enjoy and lap up the circular firing squad because there is no sign that the left is going to cut it out.
00:22:01.240There was a leak, certainly from the Elizabeth Warren camp, that during a private meeting in 2018 between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders,
00:22:11.560where they were going to try to negotiate and hash out how they were both going to run for president,
00:22:16.380Bernie Sanders, that misogynist, that sexist, told Elizabeth, Liawatha Warren, that a woman can't win in 2020.
00:34:37.860This guy obviously has done some pretty bad things.
00:34:41.120This guy putting poor women out of business and sending lewd messages to underage girls and trying to lure kids into this awful party and beating up journalists.
00:34:51.660And this guy's done some awful things.
00:34:54.080I actually have some sympathy for him, though.
00:34:56.160I actually feel bad for the guy because I think it's pretty clear he's not all there in the head.
00:35:03.500I think it's pretty clear he's got some issues that he's working on.
00:39:12.520We were told in the 60s that overpopulation was going to destroy the whole world, that there'd be mass starvation, 100 million people dying a year.
00:39:21.400Now, between 1970 and today, the world population has doubled.