Ep. 505 - Joe-mentum
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Joe Biden turned around a flailing presidential campaign with a massive showing on Super Tuesday. Whereas last week, Joe was dead both figuratively and literally, now he is only dead. We will examine what the establishment comeback means for the Democratic primary and for the general election.
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Joe Biden turns around a flailing presidential campaign with a massive showing on Super Tuesday.
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Whereas last week Joe was dead both figuratively and literally, now he is only dead literally.
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We will examine what the establishment comeback means for the Democratic primary and for the general election.
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Then, the media are shocked that a Hispanic could possibly vote for President Trump.
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Disgraced thruple congresswoman Katie Hill teaches us all a lesson on selfishness.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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If you joined us for Daily Wire backstage coverage, we were there smoking stogies and drinking whiskey for about four and a half hours or so.
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And the results were largely what we predicted would happen on this show yesterday, which was that going into Super Tuesday, before the establishment Democrats dropped out of the race, before Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden, it looked like Bernie was going to kill it.
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He was going to not quite sweep Super Tuesday, but really have a blowout.
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And then after those establishment candidates got out and you saw all of the Democratic usual suspects, Susan Rice, Harry Reid, those kind of people, after all of them coalesced within the course of about two days behind Joe Biden, when you just looked at the poll averages and you added on that extra establishment support, all of a sudden it completely flipped and looked like Joe was going to blow it out.
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And it's probably going to be a race to the convention.
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So Joe Biden won Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
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Texas is a big win here because the two big prizes on Super Tuesday are Texas and California.
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It looked a week ago like Bernie was going to win Texas.
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So it's not like each of these states was a blowout.
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And I think the tightness of that is going to really matter at the convention, because the one thing that the Democrats do, they rig up the whole primary.
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They've got a group of people called super delegates who are just these party elites who come in.
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They're going to come in and choose whoever they want in a smoke filled back room at the convention.
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And the super delegates account for about 16 percent of the total delegates who are going to decide who the nominee is.
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But to offset that, what the Democrats do in their voting is proportional voting.
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So it's not like they just come in and a winner takes all in the state.
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And so, you know, if you win the state 51 to 49, all of a sudden you get 100 percent of the delegates.
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So if you win 51 percent of the state, you might get 51 percent of the delegates.
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What that does is drag out the convention fight all the way, all the way until the DNC.
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So if it were a normal candidate that was running against Joe Biden now, you might see as Joe Biden's lead begins to grow, you might see that candidate considered dropping out of the race.
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We we read Bernie Sanders's sex manifestos about the revolution from the late 1960s and early 70s.
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This is not your run of the mill establishment.
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So it's not like he's going to get a whole lot more opportunities to run for president.
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All he's done for his entire life is be a political activist and run for office.
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And in addition to that, he got Colorado, Utah and Vermont.
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And as of writing this show, Maine was still up in the air.
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So the delegate count pretty, pretty clear now.
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And boy, those Democrats dodged a bullet for now.
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President Trump is hoping that Bernie gets the nomination.
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He does, you know, President Trump, he just, he just tweeted this out.
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I'll read the tweet straight, straight from his account.
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He, President Trump, as this all comes out, he says, the Democrat establishment came together and crushed Bernie Sanders again.
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Even the fact that Elizabeth Warren stayed in the race was devastating to Bernie and allowed sleepy Joe to unthinkably win Massachusetts.
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It was a perfect storm with many good states remaining for Joe.
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So selfish for Elizabeth Warren to stay in the race.
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She has zero chance of even coming close to winning, but hurts Bernie badly.
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So much for their wonderful liberal friendship.
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He understands how to create drama, tension, characters.
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That's part of what the nicknaming is about is so that these politicians who seem kind of stiff or, or whatever, they then come to feel like television characters that you would know.
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You turn on the TV and it's Archie Bunker or somebody, except instead of Archie Bunker, it's sleepy Joe.
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I guess actually in that analogy, Trump is probably the more Archie Bunker like character, but you, you know, sleepy Joe, you know, crooked Hillary, you know, crazy Bernie.
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And it's all about these personal relationships.
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Trump is very, very good about having a relationship with the voters and about describing and pulling out the relationships between all of these other politicians.
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Because, don't forget, the guy was the king of the reality TV.
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So when he's trying to boost Bernie and go after Biden to create some chaos in the Democratic primary, he doesn't just say, socialism's bad.
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No, I mean, that, maybe that works once or twice, but that, that falls flat eventually.
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What people are interested in is the personal narrative, the personal story.
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So instead he says, all those Democrats, they're conspiring to steal it from poor Bernie, right?
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He's actually making Bernie into this kind of sympathetic figure.
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Elizabeth Warren was the front runner in the Democratic Party.
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When you see more of Elizabeth Warren, her support tends to go down, but she lost Massachusetts
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Amy Klobuchar was at the top of the pack in Minnesota until she dropped out of the race.
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So if Amy had maybe gotten out of the race much earlier, or if she'd stuck in it even,
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Bernie Sanders would have had a better night there compared to Joe Biden.
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So President Trump, I think pretty clearly wants Bernie.
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We had it last night on the backstage show, which is some Republicans, some conservatives,
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like me, like Drew Klavan, they want Bernie because one, Trump is going to win 57 states,
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plus Greenland, plus American Samoa, which is the only area that Mike Bloomberg won.
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But he'll win everything if it's against Bernie.
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I think they've got an oppo file on him that's very, very long.
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You know, Bernie actually stands for something.
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And Donald Trump is a symbol of American free enterprise.
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And you're going to have that battle and it's going to be hilarious to watch.
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You're looking at how great it'll be when Trump wins.
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The other view, which, which Ben and Jeremy have, we were talking about it on backstage,
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They say, look, even if Trump is more likely to beat Bernie Sanders,
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I still would rather Joe Biden be the nominee because I don't want the whole Democratic Party
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to unify behind Bernie Sanders, an actual socialist, an old commie.
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And I don't want to risk the chance that Bernie somehow becomes president.
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I think it'd be great to have the honest conversation.
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And I think it'll feel even better to win this time than it felt last time.
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So you got Trump, you got most Republicans want Bernie.
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The reason they want Biden is because one, I think they know that Bernie is more likely
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But two, I'm not sure that they want this guy, this socialist coming in and taking over
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Don't forget Bernie Sanders isn't even a registered Democrat.
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So Bernie has been an independent and he describes himself as a socialist.
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Then in 2016, in order to run for the Democratic primary, he had to register as a Democrat,
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This time around, so that his Bernie bro supporters didn't have a complete meltdown,
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But he's actually technically not even a Democrat.
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So the party itself, the party apparatus really doesn't like the guy.
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They probably are successfully going to rob him again.
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And Biden is in the lead, but Biden still faces challenges.
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So last night, Biden is addressing his supporters.
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By the way, this is my little sister, Valerie, and I'm Jill's husband.
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So this is actually a pretty funny moment, I think, for a guy who's been plagued on the
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campaign trail by forgetting all sorts of things.
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A couple of days ago, he forgot the name of God in the Declaration of Independence.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident that all, you know, and you know the thing.
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I don't think that's what's really happening in this clip.
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It showed he was a little more with it maybe than we had seen before.
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The bigger challenge, I think, look, Joe Biden is nothing.
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What's really going to happen now is, as it looks like Joe's walking away with a nomination,
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these radical Democrats, and there are many of them, are going to create a lot of trouble for him.
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Joe's big, happy victory speech was interrupted by activists, and not just any kind of activists.
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They were activists protesting the horrible cruelty of milk.
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Let Derry Die. That is an actual campaign. If you had taken this to an SNL screenwriter
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five years ago, no one would have believed it, right? Nobody would have believed it.
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But that's where we are now. I mean, this is that Joaquin Phoenix stuff. This is that
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Joaquin Phoenix at the Oscars comes up. He goes, look, man, we've got to stop drinking milk. We
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got to stop eating cheese. It's so cruel. It's so awful. By the way, all of these people support
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abortion. They all support killing babies in the womb, but they don't want to drink milk because
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somehow it's mean to the cow. I don't think Joe Biden is particularly worried about the dairy
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industry, but there are a lot of grassroots leftists who are going to come up and make
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Uh, Bernie did not have a terrible night. He had an okay night. Uh, his supporters are going to say
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that this whole thing is rigged. Uh, this time around, it doesn't seem like it's quite rigged.
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It seems like it's strategic, right? It seems like the, the democratic party is making a choice here.
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So the person who most underperformed is Warren. There's a fan question just came in from TZ. Who is
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the next dropout? Funny you should ask that now. Very likely could be Warren. There are, it's either
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Warren or Bloomberg, right? And so Warren had a terrible night. I mean, it was humiliating. She came
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in third in her own state. So for Warren, the question is going to be, can she go to her donors
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with a straight face and say, give me more of your money so that I can do what? Can't even win
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Massachusetts? No, probably not. And Elizabeth Warren needs those donors because she's still
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running. She's still an active politician. Mike Bloomberg doesn't need any of that money. He's
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accountable to no one. And he's got his campaign staff on contract through November.
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So Mike Bloomberg doesn't cost him anything really to keep running. The guy's worth $60
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billion. So even if he spends another 200 million, that doesn't really do all that much.
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If Elizabeth Warren is smart for the rest of her career, she will drop out now and stop burning her,
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her donor money. Mike Bloomberg doesn't have to worry. I hope he stays in a long time and pushes
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for a brokered convention and buys off the whole rest of the party. So Elizabeth Warren's big problem.
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Why did she flop? Her big problem was she didn't pick a lane. The lane was, do you go for Bernie's
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voters or Biden's voters? All right, this is, this is a, a problem that rhinos have a lot,
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the Republicans in name only, right? Is why would you vote for a liberal Republican when you can vote
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for a Democrat? This was Elizabeth Warren's problem. She, when she initially, she was maybe going to go
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for some of Biden's voters. Then she decided she was going to go radical, go for Bernie's voters.
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And then when she was asked more or less, why should people vote for you over Bernie? She said, look,
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I love Bernie's policies. I think they're great. Bernie's so terrific, but I'll be better at
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implementing them. Nobody cares about that. Nobody is going to get behind that candidate. If you're
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making the argument that you're just Bernie light, if Republicans make the argument that they're
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Democrats light, then people are going to vote for the real thing. Why do I want this watered down,
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watered down Bernie Sanders when I can get the real Bernie? Why would anybody vote for some weak
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Republican who's half a Democrat when they can just vote for the Democrat themselves? Another lane that
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she didn't pick, which is, people are not really talking about, is that there are two kinds of
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politicians. There are conviction politicians and convenience politicians. I've been saying this
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for a long time. Dennis Prager brought it up last night on the backstage. Those are the two,
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the politicians who believe something, who run for office to do something, to enact a vision,
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and politicians who just want to be politicians. Now, when you look at the two Democratic frontrunners,
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it's pretty clear who is who. Bernie Sanders, got to give the guy credit where credit's due. He's had a
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consistent vision. Joe Rogan called Bernie's vision insanely consistent. I would call it insane as
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well. Joe Biden doesn't believe in anything. He's changed his opinion on virtually every issue. He
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doesn't care. He is a cynical view of the world. He has no regard for the truth. He just wants to be
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a politician. He just wants to be the president. He wants to sit in the Oval Office. So those are the
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two. And you can pick, right? Actually, both kinds of politicians can be successful. Liz Warren's
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trouble is she can't decide. Which is she going to be? She is cynical. She has no regard for the truth.
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She lies about everything, her upbringing, her getting fired, her child school, all of that.
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But is she going to be the progressive champion, the fighter power to the people? Or is she going to be
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an establishmentarian DC type person who really knows how to work the system? She didn't choose
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and it was too bad for her. Mike Bloomberg lost everything except for American Samoa.
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The thing that matters is not Bloomberg's campaign because he's not going to be president.
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The thing that matters is it shows you how empty a left-wing slogan is. The left is always telling you
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that people are buying off the White House. They're buying political office in the United States.
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Mike Bloomberg sure doesn't think so. Bloomberg's candidacy shows you money doesn't actually
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determine politics in the United States. The guy has spent like $600 million so far.
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He spent over half a billion dollars on this campaign and he's gotten nowhere other than
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American Samoa, which he could have just purchased outright for the same amount of money.
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The left is always prattling on about Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that allowed
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people to donate to candidates, that allowed organizations to donate to candidates, as you
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absolutely should be permitted to do. They said there's too much money in politics.
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Even John McCain, when he teamed up with all the liberals, on one of the occasions that he teamed up
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with all the liberals, he limited our First Amendment rights to donate to political campaigns.
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And he said there's too much money in politics. Guess what? Money in politics doesn't go very far,
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does it? Mike Bloomberg completely flopped. Guy's got all the money in the world. Actually,
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we've seen this before. We saw this in the 1992 election with Ross Perot. Ross Perot was an
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independent billionaire who came out, spent a lot, a lot of money, didn't do anything, didn't go very
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far at all. The enduring image from the day, from the Bloomberg campaign comes out. It is Mike Bloomberg
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at a table of snacks, reaching and grabbing the snacks, then licking all of his fingers, then reaching
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back into the snacks. You see this? He looks just like a, he looks like an old retired billionaire,
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really. He's wearing a sweater, kind of hunched over, doing whatever he wants, licking his fingers
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like a total psycho, then leaning, then back in, he's touching the coffee thing. Look, man, we got
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coronavirus over here. This is not terribly sanitary and it doesn't look good. It doesn't make you look
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like a leader. So the Super Tuesday leaves Democrats in relatively good shape. With Biden, they have a
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chance, however small, to beat President Trump. So that's good. I guess they're probably breathing
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a sigh of relief there. Downside is it's now more likely to be a very, very bloody primary all the
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way to the convention. Whereas if it were Bernie, it might not have been so bloody because if Bernie
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actually made it through, he probably would have run away with the thing. Maybe more important than
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the number of delegates that each candidate got is the number of voters who actually showed up.
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I think this is going to predict a little bit more than even the horse race of who's winning.
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Democratic turnout so far in this primary is down. It's down from 2018, which was a midterm election.
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We were told every, all the Democrats are fired up. They're going to show up. They're going to go out
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there. Young voters fired up. Young voters barely turned out. NBC was reporting from exit polls,
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13% of the voters were young. I thought young voters were going to make up the majority. That's
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what they all told us. Virginia turnout was pretty high. Most other places, very low. At the same time,
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President Trump is seeing record high turnout for an incumbent. So in New Hampshire, just to use that
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example, Trump got about 130,000 votes in the Republican 2020 primary. Most people don't even know
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that there are people running against Donald Trump in the Republican primary, but there are. One guy's
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name is Bill Weld, a couple other wackos. And Trump, Trump got the voters out. He crushed them,
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got 130,000 votes. That's more than double what Obama got in 2012 when he was running for re-election
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and what George Bush got in 2004 when he was running for re-election. The media can't understand this.
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Okay. They can't understand why Democrats would not be totally fired up, ready to go to the polls
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for the ouster of President Trump and why anybody would still go vote for Trump.
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So there was this great moment. It happened on MSNBC where one of the reporters asked a Hispanic
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All right. So the media are shocked. They can't imagine that enthusiasm might be a little lower
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for Democrats. It might actually be pretty high for Republicans. So on Katie Turr's show
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on MSNBC, she goes in with an interpreter to talk to a man at a Hispanic market, and they
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ask who they're voting for, who the family's voting for. She gets an answer she doesn't
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like. You don't see that too much, but it's fascinating. You know, and you know, it's a lot of
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people. You don't see that too much, but it's fascinating. You know, in Latino community,
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you're seeing that there's still kind of the stubborn 10 to 15 percent of the population
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that is going to that continuously polls in favor of Donald Trump. Why do you think that
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is? You know, at least in my family, I don't know, some folks who are going to vote for
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law enforcement. Some folks, you know, just really focus on the economy. I don't know what
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the exact reasons are, but there tends to be that certain conservative slang within the Latino
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community. I love this. I love his, he's embarrassed. He's embarrassed for his own
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community. He says, yeah, there's just this really stubborn 15 percent that had votes for
00:28:37.020
Trump and Republicans. I don't get it, right? He asks the guy, he says, wait, who's your daughter
00:28:43.320
voting for? I says, oh, for Trump, for Donald, for Donald. Listen to that familiarity, that first
00:28:49.800
name. And so he said, why? And she goes, she likes him. I don't know. She likes him and the economy is
00:28:57.080
good and whatever. And then this guy, he says, wait, hold on. There's this stubborn group of
00:29:02.580
Hispanics who, I don't know, maybe they work in law enforcement. Maybe they like it when there are laws
00:29:07.580
and there's, they're a stable country and I guess they like the economy. What a bunch of weirdos.
00:29:11.660
They don't even understand about the 56 genders. They don't even care about gender theory and
00:29:17.460
killing babies. They don't, it's like so weird, right? It doesn't make sense. They can't figure
00:29:21.200
it out. I think most Americans have figured it out. Let's get to a listener question from MJ.
00:29:26.780
Michael, do you think the closer the race is, the more it hurts Biden in the general election
00:29:31.440
because all the Bernie bros will stay home on election day feeling they got cheated? Yes,
00:29:36.160
it's very possible. It's very possible that they will not show up. You know, usually what happens,
00:29:41.560
in bruising primaries is the party comes together, they unite, it's fine. Don't worry about it.
00:29:49.480
The thing that's different about Bernie Sanders, thing that might've been different about Donald
00:29:53.580
Trump too, is they're not regular members of their own parties. I mean, Bernie Sanders is literally not
00:30:01.320
a Democrat and Donald Trump was not a Republican for much of his life. So he got different voters in
00:30:08.980
that usually, you know, the Republicans wouldn't get for Bernie that usually the Democrats wouldn't
00:30:13.040
get. And they just want Bernie. They don't want Biden. They hate Biden. If you look at the vitriol
00:30:18.480
that the, that the Bernie bros have sent at Biden, at Buttigieg, even at Elizabeth Warren,
00:30:23.180
these kind of neoliberal establishment types, I think they'd probably prefer Donald Trump. And I
00:30:28.560
think that's what Trump is thinking. Trump is thinking, yeah, I could win over some of those Bernie
00:30:31.980
guys. And even if I can't win them all over, I can demoralize them enough, or rather Joe Biden is
00:30:37.920
going to demoralize them enough that they'll stay home because they don't hate me all that much more
00:30:42.880
than they hate Joe Biden. In some cases they, they probably prefer him. So you've got this
00:30:50.040
bruising primary that's going on. And that's really what I think the Republicans are hoping for.
00:30:55.840
They're hoping for like the Iran-Iraq war. You don't care who wins. You just want,
00:30:59.860
you just want mass casualties. Some Democrats have gone from perplexed at this to furious.
00:31:07.560
And one of them is the former head of the Democratic Party, Donna Brazile, who's a contributor
00:31:12.440
on Fox News. She was interviewed on Fox News and she was on with Ronna McDaniel, who's the head of the
00:31:18.280
Republican Party currently. I just did an event with her at CPAC and Ronna is kind of laughing and
00:31:23.740
having a great time at this crazy Democratic primary. And Donna Brazile gets so heated and
00:31:29.280
she tells the RNC chairwoman to go to hell. First of all, I want to talk to my Republicans. First of
00:31:36.540
all, stay the hell out of our race. Stay the hell out of our race. I get sick and tired, Ed and Sandra,
00:31:44.040
of listening to Republicans tell me and the Democrats about our process. First of all, they don't have a
00:31:50.300
process. They're canceling primaries. They have winner take all. They don't have the kind of
00:31:56.560
democracy that we see on the Democratic side. And for people to use Russian talking points to sow
00:32:02.140
division among Americans, that is stupid. So, Ronna, go to hell. This is not about, no, go to hell.
00:32:09.920
I'm tired of it, Ed. We're not, we're not trying to prevent anyone from becoming the nominee. I know
00:32:17.000
the process. Ronna knows the process. But to infer that we're trying to prevent one candidate over
00:32:24.000
another, that's not happening. Okay. First of all, that's not what infer means. I know there are other
00:32:30.500
big aspects of this, this interview, but this is the first thing that jumped out at me. She means
00:32:36.140
imply. Imply is when you are saying something and that has an insinuation. And infer is when you are
00:32:42.820
deducing something from what you've heard. Just a minor point to show you that Donna Brazile doesn't
00:32:47.720
know what she's talking about on a whole host of things because she's being very dishonest in this
00:32:52.680
clip. She, she says that the Democrats are not trying to steal this election from anybody.
00:33:00.000
They are. They don't want Bernie to be the nominee. That's why they all coalesced
00:33:05.560
behind Joe Biden after South Carolina. That's why they didn't even wait until Super Tuesday.
00:33:12.240
But it's not just that they're trying to steal it from him now. The way that I know that Donna
00:33:15.680
Brazile is lying about this is she personally tried to steal the election, the nomination from
00:33:23.420
Bernie Sanders in 2016. Personally, there was a democratic debate and Donna Brazile passed debate
00:33:30.640
questions along to Hillary Clinton. Down in Brazil, head of the DNC, goes on cable news a lot,
00:33:39.300
hands it to the candidate. So yes, she is certainly stealing it from them. And then just think about
00:33:45.240
how rude it is. Think about how unseemly it is to go out there and say, hey, you go to hell. This is
00:33:52.680
dumb. This is stupid. This is right. They criticize Trump for being mean and for being crass and for being
00:33:58.080
vulgar. That's very vulgar behavior. That's just as bad as anything that Donald Trump has done.
00:34:04.540
But the left is always projecting onto others what they themselves do. And then when occasionally
00:34:09.140
Trump actually fights fire with fire, gives them a taste of their own medicine, they're shocked.
00:34:13.240
They clutch their pearls. The fury that you're seeing from Donna Brazile there is genuine, I think. I think
00:34:19.860
it is representative of what the Democratic Party is feeling right now. I think they feel lost because
00:34:25.860
even though they dodged a bullet with Bernie last night, he didn't run away with Super Tuesday,
00:34:29.900
they're in for a very bruising primary process. And their front runner, Joe Biden,
00:34:35.460
is simply past his prime. Okay, Joe Biden is in his late 70s. He was not always quick on his feet,
00:34:43.180
even in his 40s or 50s. He's been in the government for about 50 years. That's not a great look when you
00:34:50.880
look at somebody like President Trump. If you're trying to beat the president, this is a guy who
00:34:56.060
he jokes. He says, do I think Joe's too old? I don't know, but I'm young and vibrant. I've got
00:35:00.620
a lot of energy. I mean, Trump has the energy of a guy who's half of his age and Joe Biden does not.
00:35:05.620
He's got the energy of a guy who's double his age. So I think they're really furious.
00:35:09.080
The cream of the crop candidates did not show up in 2020. That might be because they're writing off the
00:35:13.760
year and they're going to try to regroup for 2024. In any case, a fine night for Democrats,
00:35:20.940
but a finer primary season for Republicans. Speaking of corrupt Democrats, misunderstanding
00:35:28.040
the world, there is a little reported on story here that I thought was so indicative
00:35:33.780
of the kind of left-wing worldview. So you remember Katie Hill. Katie Hill is that
00:35:38.920
Democratic congresswoman who had the thruple. She was the one who was married, but then she was
00:35:44.440
taking weird nude photos with her staffer and combing her hair. And it was just like yucky.
00:35:49.680
It's just not cool. And then she was, she had relationships with other staffers and it was
00:35:53.060
just very, very creepy and weird. So, so Katie Hill does all of this. Then it's found out,
00:36:00.100
right, that she's sleeping with her staff and doing sort of things that if a Republican did it,
00:36:04.480
they'd be run out of town and probably prosecuted. But Katie Hill does it. She's a Democrat.
00:36:08.560
And the media conspire to paint her as a victim somehow. She's sexually harassing all of her
00:36:14.600
staff, but she's the victim. And there's a lot of evidence that they were actually planning this
00:36:19.980
all out together, the media and Katie Hill. So there is now a piece trying to rehabilitate her
00:36:24.500
image. This piece is out in the cut, you know, so left-wing outlet. And it gets to, I don't even
00:36:34.240
really care that much about Katie Hill. She can have whatever career she wants. It gets to a problem
00:36:38.260
with the way the left views life and views the world. This is how it goes.
00:36:43.000
By mid-2019, Hill was thriving in her new role in Congress. She'd begun a romantic relationship with
00:36:49.120
Alex Thomas, a political writer she met in DC. In August, they went on a beach vacation together.
00:36:56.060
There was this overwhelming sense then that like, this is perfect, she said. I feel so happy and I
00:37:02.480
feel like I've accomplished so much and I'm doing this important work. And like, it can't really get
00:37:07.920
better than this. And maybe this is the point that I should just check out, right? Check out meaning
00:37:14.400
kill herself. She's married, by the way, and she's on this vacation with a guy who's not her husband.
00:37:20.040
Goes on. She said she stared at the ocean and thought of The Awakening by Kate Chopin,
00:37:25.120
a feminist novel from the turn of the 20th century in which a dissatisfied wife and mother
00:37:31.440
commits suicide by drowning. Wow, very romantic, dramatic scene.
00:37:39.200
Katie Hill contemplated suicide. Very sad sort of thing. I hope she doesn't do that. I hope she
00:37:46.100
comes to her senses. What's most disturbing about this though is not even that she contemplated suicide.
00:37:52.280
It's that she didn't contemplate suicide when things were going really, really poorly.
00:37:58.440
She contemplated suicide when things were going really, really well. She said, she writes,
00:38:04.800
I just felt so happy. I feel like I've accomplished so much. I'm doing this important work.
00:38:09.860
So it can't really get better than this. So maybe this is the point I should just kill myself.
00:38:15.260
She thinks of suicide as a way to celebrate how well things are going.
00:38:20.340
And look at this important, she said, I'm doing all this important work. But if you're doing all
00:38:25.240
this important work, this work that you think is really important, why would you kill yourself?
00:38:28.820
That would prevent you from doing the work. Well, we see here that Katie Hill, and I think a lot of
00:38:36.460
leftists view their work this way. What's important about the work is not the effect it might have on
00:38:42.320
other people. What's important to her about the work is how it makes her feel. It's all just about her.
00:38:48.480
The work makes me feel so good. And pleasure is all that I want. This is what happens to a mind that
00:38:55.020
is warped by selfishness, is pleasure becomes the most important thing to attain. And if you look at
00:39:02.840
the personal scandals Katie Hill has had, you see that she's clearly lived her life that way.
00:39:07.920
Pleasure is the most important thing, and you have to sacrifice everything, including your own life,
00:39:13.860
on the altar of pleasure. She said, I just want to feel good. I just write, I mean, if you look at
00:39:21.880
this in the sort of sexual realm, you say, oh good, I've got this one sexual partner, that's good. Maybe
00:39:26.520
two would be better. Maybe three would be even better than that. And if you look at this in the
00:39:31.940
span of a lifetime, you say, gosh, I never want to suffer. I never want to go through pain. I never want
00:39:36.980
to complete the work that I'm saying is so important. Because if I complete the work, I will risk
00:39:41.020
discomfort. And that would be unthinkable, unimaginable to possibly suffer at all.
00:39:46.420
So instead, I'm going to just find the exact moment when my pleasure levels are exactly at the
00:39:51.700
highest, and then end it. That's really perverse. I mean, suicide is a purely selfish act. And
00:40:01.040
that's true even if you're in great pain and you commit suicide. That's a purely selfish act.
00:40:07.020
But think about how much more disturbing it is. How much more perverted your worldview has
00:40:12.080
to be. How much more selfish you have to be to contemplate that because things are going
00:40:18.300
too good and you don't want them to get any worse. Really perverse stuff, but that's what
00:40:24.040
happens when your worldview just goes off kilter. Before we go, speaking of worldviews going off
00:40:28.740
kilter, I've got to get to the T-Swift music video. The news cycle's been so insane, we haven't
00:40:33.280
had any time to get to it. But Taylor Swift has a new video out. It's called The Man,
00:40:39.000
I think. And in it, Taylor Swift very disturbingly puts on all these prosthetics and looks like
00:40:43.760
a man and then sings about how terrible men are and how it would be so much cooler if she
00:40:50.280
were a man. I would be complex. I would be cool. They'd say I played the field before I found
00:40:57.860
someone to commit to. So she's got the suit on. She's being a big jerk. She's ripping
00:41:04.320
up things in the office. So then she's sitting on the subway dressed like a man with her legs
00:41:24.000
spread smoking a cigar, which is actually the way that I ride the subway. If I were a man,
00:41:35.600
then I'd be the man. That's the, that's the thesis. And at one point, she, he is urinating
00:41:43.480
on the wall of a subway. They're right. This guy's a real jerk, huh? This guy's a real jerk. There are
00:41:49.700
so many problems with the logic of this video. First, the first one has to do with the thesis.
00:41:54.960
If I were a man, then I'd be the man. Because that doesn't paint, paint a very flattering portrait
00:42:02.540
of Taylor Swift. She's saying, if I were a man, then I would be the man. She's saying all these
00:42:08.160
terrible qualities associated with this guy that I'm describing, I have all of those qualities,
00:42:13.620
but because I'm a woman, they reflect really poorly on me. But if I were a man, they would reflect
00:42:18.860
really good on me, right? If I were a man, I'd be the man. So she's saying she's promiscuous and a
00:42:23.020
jerk because that's how she's depicting the man in this video. And of course, in reality, that's,
00:42:27.780
that's not the way it's worked out. In reality, Taylor Swift is portrayed in a very flattering way.
00:42:32.840
And the man in this video, the stereotypical man in that video is portrayed in a very negative way,
00:42:37.480
including by Taylor Swift. The second problem here, she undercuts her whole thesis by showing
00:42:45.320
that she wouldn't be the man, right? The whole thing is if I were a man, people would love me
00:42:52.620
for being a big jerk and urinating on subways and smoking cigars and, and opening, and smoking cigars
00:42:57.940
in people's faces and opening my legs and just being a yelling at people. But she's showing she
00:43:03.940
wouldn't, she wouldn't be the man then because people don't like those things. And the way we know
00:43:07.620
they don't like those things is she's using all of them to create a negative portrait,
00:43:13.240
an unflattering portrait. So she wouldn't be the man. The third problem with the logic of this video
00:43:19.300
is my favorite one, which is that by the logic of the left, she could be a man. She, maybe she is a
00:43:27.320
man. I like by the, by the current gender theory logic that is embraced by the mainstream left.
00:43:33.540
If you are a woman and you want to be a man, you just can be, or then you are. If you put on a suit
00:43:40.140
and you know, you put on a tie. Yeah. Then you're a man. If you say you're a man,
00:43:46.200
then you are a man. So why not just be a man? The video is undercutting, of course, this whole logic
00:43:52.980
of gender theory, which is that there's no such thing as gender. And of course, if you're going
00:43:57.620
to make a commentary on men or women, then you can't really go along with the gender theory that
00:44:01.720
there's no such thing as men or women, or that men can be women and vice versa.
00:44:04.720
Not a very logical video. What it is, is an emotional cry. It's an emotional temper tantrum.
00:44:14.340
And it comes from a place of selfishness. It's Taylor Swift saying, life's not fair to me. I'm
00:44:19.060
a woman. Taylor Swift is incredibly wealthy, incredibly hot, incredibly successful. She can
00:44:26.640
do whatever she wants in life. She has had, she's got one of the most privileged lives on earth,
00:44:32.780
but it's not enough. You got to complain. That's what happens in a culture where everyone is just
00:44:38.780
whining for more, more, more and me, me, me, whether it's a T Swift or Katie Hill or, or the
00:44:44.920
fury that we're seeing in the democratic primary. That's our show. We got a whole lot more, but we'll
00:44:48.600
have to wait. I'm going to be filling in for the Ben Shapiro radio show today. So you can tune into
00:44:53.400
that. I'm going to be up at UC Santa Cruz giving a speech that I'm going to fly out to right after
00:44:58.480
the radio show. So hopefully my flight's not delayed and we'll see you there. That's going to be a fun
00:45:02.480
speech on when democracy goes wrong. Should be fun on, I believe the most liberal campus in the
00:45:09.300
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