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Oscar winners quote Karl Marx. President Trump torches his critics and the Democratic presidential candidates beclown themselves in Friday night s debate. We will examine the politics of show business and the showbiz of politics. Also, why the left can t meme.
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President Trump torches his critics and the Democratic presidential candidates beclown themselves in Friday night's debate.
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We will examine the politics of show business and the showbiz of politics.
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All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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The Oscars were last night. You didn't watch them? Me neither.
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And in the spirit of the Oscars, I wanted to take a moment before we get too far down the road into 2020
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just to acknowledge and commemorate all those political campaigns that we have already lost this year.
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This is going to be a positive campaign that seeks to bring out the very best from every single one of us.
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I don't know. Like, members of the press, what the f**k?
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She was, looking back, perhaps the worst candidate ever to run from any party in the history of this country.
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The president used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help them cheat an election.
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You've got to get up and stand up and don't give up the fight.
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Let's also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female.
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Well, I didn't feel I did very good, but then I got off stage and I was told I did okay.
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Now, I appreciate the comments of my colleagues.
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This is about the closest I'll probably ever have in my life to an I am Spartacus moment.
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I'm frankly surprised that Joe Biden hasn't made the cut yet.
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We will get into all of the Democratic presidential race.
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First, I want to cover the actual Oscars, which were last night, which no one watched, myself included.
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And that actually gets to Hollywood's big problem.
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The most radical political moment of the night.
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There are really only three or four big moments from this Oscars.
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The most radical political moment of the night came from Julia Reichert, who won the best documentary for American worker.
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She decided during her speech to quote Karl Marx to the applause of the audience.
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Working people have it harder and harder these days.
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And we believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite.
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Right now, we have record low unemployment across all sectors.
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We have a record high economy and we have wages rising for the first time in 10 years.
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So workers are not suffering relatively in this country right now.
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They're actually doing well for the first time in a long time.
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Workers of the world unite is Karl Marx's call to arms from the Communist Manifesto.
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That is a direct quote of the inventor of communism.
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And the point I guess she's making is that all workers will do better under communism.
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Every communist government on earth has been absolute hell for workers.
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It's been absolute hell, especially for workers.
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Whether it's in the Soviet Union, whether it's in Cuba, whether it's in China, whether it's anywhere in the world,
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the workers have not only been oppressed, they've very often been slaughtered en masse.
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But then the cherry on top is my favorite part of this whole moment.
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American Factory was the first film produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's new production company.
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The production company is Higher Ground Productions.
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So obviously, they just give this a word because Obama's attached to it, I think, as part of it,
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and because it has this kind of underlying communist message.
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But I just want to point out when conservatives would decry the radicalism and extremism of Barack Obama,
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the left and the mainstream media would tell us, oh, you're crazy, you're hysterical, you're nuts, Obama's a moderate, it's no big deal.
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Well, his first movie to win an Oscar, in the acceptance speech, they quote Karl Marx.
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They quote probably the most famous line from Karl Marx.
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So don't tell me that the guy is a moderate, his projects are moderate, just ain't the case.
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So that was the most radical political moment of the night.
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The most bizarre political moment of the night came from Joaquin Phoenix, who also wanted to get in on the politics.
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And he wanted to use it to go after a very specific political issue.
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We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow.
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And when she gives birth, we steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable.
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And then we take her milk that's intended for her calf, and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.
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I did not know that milk was going to be the big new leftist hobby horse.
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I will point out, Joaquin Phoenix is an environmentalist.
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He does not simply want to protect the environment because it's good for human beings and we want to be good stewards of the environment.
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He seems to have a much more radical view of environmentalism, the idea that the natural environment sort of has rights, that animals have rights, that we are here to serve the natural environment.
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And so the idea that we would take a cow's little baby or kill a cow's little baby is so repugnant to him.
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The fact that we would drink a cow's milk is morally repugnant to him.
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This is a guy who is on stage at the Oscars where people are endorsing abortion.
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It just, I don't want to beat a dead horse here or beat a dead cow or drink the dead cow's milk.
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I just want to point out the absolute incoherence of being an environmentalist who cares about animal rights, of worrying about the little baby calf, of not eating veal, of being so afraid of causing harm to an animal that you won't drink a glass of milk, but then endorsing killing a million babies a year in the United States alone doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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It comes from a place of sentimentality because we think of the little cow's face and we try not to think of the baby's face, but maybe we should think of the baby's face and probably that would cause those Hollywood people to shut up for a little bit.
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So, we've got communist proclamations from the Oscar stage.
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Then we've got an impassioned plea not to drink milk.
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And then we have the lamest political moment of the night, which came from, I am told, Sigourney Weaver, Brie Larson, and Gal Gadot.
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Apparently, they play superheroes in some movie.
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They wanted to make sure that their audience knew when they got on stage that really, they're not the only superheroes.
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We also wanted to stand here together and say that all women are superheroes.
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Wow, okay, all right, all women are superheroes.
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But the left is always telling me that Betsy DeVos is Hitler.
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Actually, speaking of Hitler, what about Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress?
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Because Eva Braun is a woman, and I am told that all women are superheroes.
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So, I guess by that definition, Eva Braun is a superhero.
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What kind of psycho gets on an Oscar stage and calls Eva Braun a superhero?
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The reality, of course, is that women are not superheroes.
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And this kind of saccharine nonsense is, how do people applaud for this stuff?
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I mean, it's the same kind of saccharine nonsense that has them applauding for workers of the world unite.
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These are just completely empty platitudes that, if taken to their logical conclusions, have pretty bad implications for society.
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What if a guy got up there and said, you know, men are superheroes.
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Of course, there would be no applause for that.
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It's so condescending to say to women, oh, yes, you're a superhero.
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It's the sort of thing you say to a three-year-old, right?
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The three-year-old comes out and says, I'm Superman.
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We're indulging these overgrown actresses, adult, ostensibly adult actresses.
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We're indulging them like they're three-year-old children.
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There's nothing particularly feminist about that or particularly respectful.
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Then you get to the dumbest political moment of the night.
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Thank you to the Academy for this honor of honors.
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They told me I only have 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave
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I'm thinking maybe Quentin does a movie about it.
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What are the odds that Brad Pitt knows who John Bolton is?
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He might know that John Bolton is that guy with the mustache.
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What are the odds that Brad Pitt knows that John Bolton was the national security advisor?
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Forget knows what he worked on while he was national security advisor.
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What are the odds that he knows that John Bolton was the UN ambassador?
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What are the odds that he knows anything about what he's talking about?
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He says he was 45 seconds more than John Bolton got in the Senate.
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What are the odds that Brad Pitt knows that it was the Democratic House, not the Republican
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Senate, that decided not to call John Bolton to testify?
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The Democratic House, when they were calling 17, 18 witnesses, all to help the Democrats' case,
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not a single one to help the Republicans' case.
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So they followed normal procedure, took it to the courts.
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And then the Democrats withdrew their request because they just wanted to go along and impeach
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the president, get the vote over with, move on to the Senate because they knew it was all
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kabuki theater because they knew that John Bolton didn't have nothing because they know
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And they just wanted to get it over with so that they could tell their rude base that they
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Brad Pitt doesn't know that because he's part of the rude base.
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The trouble with Brad Pitt's speech, trouble with all these speeches.
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I thought he did a great job in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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That speech made me like him less because it made me respect him less.
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It's not even that I disagreed with what he was saying.
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It was what children do when children want to have a political conversation with adults
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Brad, do you know, do you even know what you think you're talking about?
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We don't want you to insinuate that you sort of understand kind of what the political issue is about.
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But the speech makes us like him less, not even because of the content or the political content,
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My conclusion from all of this is they need to stop televising the Oscars.
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For the Oscars' own sake, for Hollywood's own sake, they have to stop televising it.
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The whole point of the Oscars is to get us to like the movies more.
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But in reality, the Oscars make people hate the movies.
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The Oscars always make us like the movies less these days.
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Without the Oscars, if the Oscars were not televised,
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the movies and the movie stars would be much, much more popular.
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I think it should be like any other trade awards show, any other industry awards show.
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They go to some convention center and there are no cameras whatsoever
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and they give out awards to each other for who had the best direction,
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And then there aren't really quite as many popular political considerations
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because they're not going to get blowback for hashtag Oscars to mail,
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hashtag Oscars to this, hashtag Oscars to that.
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It's an actual industry awards show where all the artists vote on each other's work
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and there's no cameras and there's no showboating.
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they will remember what the point of this awards show is,
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which is to celebrate movies and to bring the best work up
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Take a look at, this is a clip of Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll,
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in the 1970s, right, very heated political moment.
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You got all the craziness of the late 1960s, the early 70s heating up Vietnam
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what is your opinion of war protesters and would you today refuse to be drafted?
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Honey, I just, I just seem to keep my own personal views about that to myself
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because I'm, I'm, I'm just an entertainer and I, I'd rather not say.
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Do you think other entertainers should keep their views to themselves too?
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See, even, right, they say, hey, Mr. Presley, what are your political views?
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And I'm obviously not qualified to talk about politics.
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I'm a guy who wears a jumpsuit who does karate chops and sings beautiful, beautiful songs.
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So I, I just don't spend my time thinking about Vietnam.
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Do you think other people should keep their views to themselves?
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Dolly Parton still doesn't give her views on politics, right?
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And it really was led in many ways by the Oscars.
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And it's killing me because I have to watch even part of this awards show.
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Now there was a great show that took place over the past few days.
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That would be the press, the Trump press conference celebrating his exoneration.
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So President Trump holds a press conference at the White House right after his official
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Now conservatives are completely split on this.
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I think both sides are completely missing the point here.
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To begin, the press conference started out great.
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Because we have something that just worked out.
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I've done things wrong in my life, I will admit.
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It's the only good headline I've ever had in the Washington Post.
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So it starts out very funny, even sort of self-effacing, right?
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He says, look, I've done a few things wrong, okay?
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A full-on narcissist can't admit that he's ever done anything wrong.
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He says, look, I've done a few things wrong, okay?
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Maybe, look, I've never gotten a good headline in the Washington Post.
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It's funny, it's victorious, it's triumphant, does great.
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Then it got even better when President Trump started going after his adversaries like Mitt Romney.
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And then you have some that used religion as a crutch.
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An article written today, never heard him use it before.
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But, you know, it's a failed presidential candidate,
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So it starts out well at this Trump press conference, gets even better when he starts
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We've been going through this now for over three years.
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Okay, first of all, total acquittal is two words.
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All right, you see that's Joy Behar playing it on The View, and then she gets that dig
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There are two conservative reactions to this, two distinct ones.
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Then the other conservative reaction is, I hate it.
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It's the only thing he does that I don't like in his official capacity as president.
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You know, a little bill or a little law here and there.
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But otherwise, I think he's doing an excellent job, and I hate it.
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I hate that he had to give this press conference.
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I wish he didn't have to give this press conference.
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I wish that we were living in a time where the president could have given
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that amazing State of the Union address and then walked off glorious into the sunset back
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to the White House and just gotten down to business and not had to give this press conference
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that was a little meaner and a little more reality TV and a little tougher.
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We live in a very, very corrupt time and a degraded time.
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And President Trump had to give this press conference.
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And what's even worse, he had to take it too far.
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He had to, because he had to get all these liberals like Joy Behar on The View to tell
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If Trump just went out there, if, first of all, if he had just left it at the State of
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the Union, we wouldn't have heard a thing about it.
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And a lot of the country, which isn't paying very close attention to politics, would probably
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So if he just left it at the State of the Union, wouldn't do him any good.
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Now, if he had given this press conference, but it just said, look, I won, I was acquitted,
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Even if he had just done that, wouldn't have worked.
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There would have been nothing about that clip that the left would have had to play.
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It's because he took it too far and did things that I hate, like swear in public and get
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He goes, that one word that I love, that one word, total acquittal.
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Did President Trump know that that's not one word?
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I suspect the billionaire who's been a real estate developer genius, who is married to
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the supermodel, who became president on its first try, and who was the king of reality
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I suspect he knows that total acquittal is more than one word, that it's two words.
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But by saying that and giving his opponents an opening to attack him, the clip gets played.
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When you say, this is BS, the clip gets played.
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And when the clip gets played on the view, what happens?
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What do you, if it were total acquittal is two words, they play his words.
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And that reaches a whole lot of people, a lot more people than those of us who are paying
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And by the way, this is not some conspiracy, like I'm reading 4D chess into Trump.
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He has ginned up a sort of negative headline that he then rides to get his message out.
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He did it on network television, and he's doing it now in the political press as president.
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This is the most consistent tactic he's used in his whole career.
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And I wish we didn't have to use it, but we do.
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And so you got to defend these kind of press conferences.
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It's the only coherent way to say, well, you could say, I love what Trump does, but I
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And even if he did win, he'd probably be spineless about it.
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Did you even know there was a Democratic debate?
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You probably didn't know the Oscars were last night.
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You probably did see that Trump press conference.
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And I'm certain you didn't watch the Democratic debate on Friday night.
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We still don't know who the winner is, by the way.
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And the Democrats knew it would be a devastating debate.
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And that's why they buried it on a Friday night when even fewer people than usual would be watching it.
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The most important one is it exposed how radical all of the Democrats are.
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Bernie Sanders remains the Democratic frontrunner.
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He very likely won Iowa, even though officially they're probably going to give it to Buttigieg.
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He's at the top of all the polls in New Hampshire.
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The Democratic frontrunner denounced the entire country from top to bottom, quote, as hopelessly racist.
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Have a racist society from top to bottom impacting health care, housing, criminal justice, education, you name it.
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And clearly this is an issue that must be dealt with.
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But in terms of criminal justice, what we have got to do is understand the system is broken, is racist.
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We invest in our young people in jobs and education, not more jails and incarceration.
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We end the war on drugs, which has disproportionately impacted African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.
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We end private prisons and detention centers in America.
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So what's interesting about Bernie and all of the Democrats when they talk about racial issues is they always immediately go to drugs and crime.
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It's as though when you ask them about any kind of racial issue, you say, what are you going to do for the black community?
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What are you going to do for the Latino community?
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They say, yeah, we're going to give them lighter sentences for all their crimes and we're going to give them more drugs to take.
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If the first thing you think of when you think of black people is drugs and crime, like Bernie Sanders, that's not a great look.
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He still said, even though he exhibited this kind of bigotry himself, he said that the whole country is racist, top to bottom.
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You can't chalk that kind of thing up just to one crazy socialist, okay?
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Because you could say, this is what a lot of people are trying to say, Bernie's at the top of the heap, sure.
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He might be the front runner, but he doesn't represent the mainstream of the Democratic Party, except he does.
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What this debate showed us in particular was that Bernie Sanders has remade the Democratic Party in his own image.
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One of the moderators asked all of the candidates, they said, do any of you feel uncomfortable with nominating an open socialist for president?
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Is anyone else on the stage concerned about having a Democratic socialist at the top of the Democratic ticket?
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Okay, and then, so you see at the very end, so no one raises their hand.
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Then at the end, Amy kind of puts her hand up and puts it back down.
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Is she uncomfortable with being a socialist, or is she just trying to answer the question?
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Then Bernie raises his hand and goes, I'm not uncomfortable with that at all, because Bernie is the open socialist.
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All of them, every single one of them, just gave their assent to socialism.
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And Joe Biden was saying a little while ago, he said, look, if we nominate Bernie,
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or this was at least attributed to Biden and people around him.
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If we nominate Bernie, then the Republicans are going to hang this socialist label around our necks,
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Well, then you probably should have objected when you were asked that question,
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because as of now, every single major Democratic candidate for president has just said
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that they're fine with a socialist being their nominee.
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Then you see how this trickles down the whole campaign.
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We knew Elizabeth Warren was going to become a radical.
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Then she released that crazy health care plan, $52 trillion health care plan,
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wealth tax, just confiscating wealth from people, and her campaign started to sink.
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But even Joe Biden, old sleepy Joe, been around for a hundred years.
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Used to be relatively moderate, especially on the issue of abortion.
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Now, Joe Biden is all the way in, even on an issue as personal and controversial as abortion.
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Mr. Vice President, I am aware of what you said, which is why I'm asking,
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Litmus test on abortion relates to the fundamental value in the Constitution.
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I would, in fact, if they rule it to be unconstitutional, I will send to the United States Congress,
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and it will pass, I believe, a bill that legislates Roe v. Wade adjusted by Casey.
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I mean, he used to say people can have difference of opinion on abortion.
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Then a few months ago, he started to support taxpayer funding of abortion.
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Now he's saying it would be a litmus test for a judge.
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We're not allowed to have litmus tests, but apparently the left is allowed to have litmus tests.
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Biden is now a radical and can barely form an English sentence.
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I know you think, oh, that guy, he couldn't have cheated and stolen Iowa.
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Oh, that guy, he is the single worst candidate.
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And he didn't do very well in this debate, especially when he was asked about racial issues.
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He was asked why black people in the town that he's the mayor of, South Bend, Indiana,
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why they were getting incarcerated and arrested at a higher rate than white people.
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How do you explain the increase in black arrests in South Bend under your leadership for marijuana possession?
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No, there was an increase the year before you were in office.
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Once you became in office in 2012, that number went up.
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In 2018, the last number year that we have a record for, that number was still up.
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Because Pete Buttigieg, more than any other candidate, is duplicitous, two-faced, insincere,
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Probably Joe Biden's lost a little bit with age.
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Bernie Sanders doesn't really lie to your face.
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He will relieve himself on your leg and tell you that it is raining.
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He said, look, the arrest rate went down while I was mayor.
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You lie, Pete Buttigieg, but the numbers don't.
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His answer was worse than Bernie, who just comes out and asks him about racial issues
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Pete Buttigieg's answer was even more to the point.
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Once you became in office in 2012, that number went up.
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In 2018, the last number a year that we have a record for, that number was still up.
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And one of the strategies that our community adopted was to target when there were cases
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where there was gun violence and gang violence, which was slaughtering so many in our community,
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burying teenagers, disproportionately black teenagers.
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We adopted a strategy that said that drug enforcement would be targeted in cases where
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there was a connection to the most violent group or gang connected to a murder.
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These things are all connected, but that's the point.
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That's the, this was a bad, this was one of those moments where Pete Buttigieg tells you
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what he really feels because he does feel that these things were all connected.
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Did you listen to the logical line in his answer?
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They say, okay, why were black people arrested at a higher rate for drugs in your, under your
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They were arrested in higher numbers at a higher rate when you were mayor.
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And he said, well, we prioritized arresting violent people.
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So Pete Buttigieg's answer as to why more black people were arrested for the same crime
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when he was mayor is because the black people are just more violent.
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This is a sort of answer where if you, if you put him behind a veil, right?
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If you were just listening to this on the radio and you kind of mixed up the voices a little
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bit, that could have been an answer given by one of these white racialist guys.
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Now I'm not accusing Pete Buttigieg of being a white racialist.
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I'm accusing the Democrats of hypocrisy on racial issues because these answers, if these
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answers were given by a Republican or a conservative, this would be top of the news for weeks and
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But the Democrats have no answer on racial issues.
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They have no account for their own history on racial issues and they don't want the public
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The more you see the movie stars, the more the movie stars come into your own living room,
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And it's the more these candidates talk, the less you like them.
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That's why they're burying this debate on Friday nights.
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Buttigieg did not do terribly well at this debate.
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But the worst thing, look, Buttigieg is rising to the top now because he's trying to get
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So there's a world in which this thing comes down to Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.
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He only speaks in platitudes when he's not accidentally making these racial comments.
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This is the typical Buttigieg answer on virtually any topic from the same debate.
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We cannot solve the problems before us by looking back.
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We have to be ready to turn the page and change our politics before it's too late.
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And I'm seeing everywhere I go, not just fellow Democrats, but a striking number of independents
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and what I like to call future former Republicans ready to join in that historic American majority
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Can you try now, just get a pen and paper, write down in one sentence what he actually
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He said, we can't go forward if we're going back.
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And we need people who disagreed with us to agree with us.
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And we need to do those things together, you know, and, you know, it's like the universe,
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It's sort of like we're all, like we're all one, you know, it doesn't, he said nothing.
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He just uses words and he says enough of them together that it makes it seem like he's saying
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They're just saying nothing, nothing that people want to hear at least.
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One candidate who's jumping up the polls was not there.
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He bought his way into the next debate, but he wasn't able to buy his way into this debate.
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And so he sent the whole debate sending out terrible memes.
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And I want to show you, it's a tale of two memes to show you why we often hear that the
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The left doesn't know how to use newfangled internet speak to convey the ideas that they
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Most of the memes on the internet come from the right.
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And he says, he said, this is Donald Trump's recent speech.
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And in the, in the meme, he says, lie, lie, lie, unfair, lie, lie.
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And in the meme is a little gingerbread cookie, gingerbread man, who's catching on fire and
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And he's just kind of jumping around the screen and it's a little gingerbread man.
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And it's getting a lot of scorn and mockery on the internet by people who can meme.
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Compare that to the Trump meme that he just put out.
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This was put out by the White House social media director.
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It said, select all the squares with the president.
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Like those little security measures that you get when you go on different websites, right?
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And you have to pick all the squares with the crosswalk or with the traffic light.
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And it's a photo of Donald Trump standing next to Mitt Romney.
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And so you select all the squares with Trump in it.
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And then obviously you don't select the squares with Romney in it.
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It's not just right out there telling you exactly what it means.
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But the message is clear once you appreciate what, what the work is telling you.
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Bloomberg's team thinks that memes are just random things.
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You just throw a bunch of random stuff together.
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And then at the end of all that random stuff, that's funny.
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And that's going to make you look cool and hip or something.
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The, the definition of a meme is not its lack of meaning.
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The reason that the left thinks it's all this random nonsense is because the left doesn't
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Showed that the right understands the left pretty well, but the left doesn't understand
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And so to them, when we convey our worldview in these kind of silly images online, it just
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It's actually conveying something that they simply can't understand.
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So then they try to recreate that by creating random nonsense and we mock them because that's
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That is, there's much more to say on this topic, but in a nutshell, that's why the left
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There is, AOC is out with something that explains another big flaw of the left, but you'll just
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