00:03:17.000It was such a good show, such a good whiteboard yesterday talking about the left, the right, what is identity politics, which I thought was just fantastic coverage.
00:03:30.000But we did not get to yesterday what I intended to get to all the way through, which was you look at Kamala Harris's Medicare for All proposal at her CNN town hall.
00:03:41.000We wanted to look at Howard Schultz, the Independent.
00:03:44.000I know some people were asking about that in the super chats, in the comments.
00:03:49.000I saw, I think even somebody emailed me asking about it.
00:03:53.000So I intended, excuse me, to cover that yesterday.
00:03:56.000Didn't get to it, but we'll talk about that tonight.
00:05:28.000Where allegedly, at 2 to 3 a.m. on a Tuesday, you've got mass Trump supporters roaming the streets looking for black people to simulate lynchings on.
00:05:51.000I feel like this week is going by so slowly.
00:05:53.000I don't know if it's the weather, I don't know if it's the sleep deprivation, I don't know what it could be, but it just feels like the week is just sort of standing still here.
00:06:03.000I think we've had some pretty good shows.
00:06:05.000So I guess we're going to start out with the things going on with the election.
00:06:09.000Again, it's going to be a pretty fun year.
00:06:12.0002019 and 2020 is going to be a lot of election coverage.
00:06:15.000I didn't really fully get to cover everything that I want to talk about yesterday.
00:06:19.000You know, we spent so much time going over the particulars of that tweet that Kamala Harris made and sort of interpreting some of the rhetoric from her speech and what she represents for the Democratic Party and really for party politics post 2016, that it's obviously going to be very polarized, very racialized.
00:06:39.000It's going to be, you know, defined by the extremes, by the fringes, the margins, as opposed to the center.
00:06:46.000As it has been so far in the 21st century.
00:06:50.000So, we went over all that yesterday, but we didn't get to some of the more substantive things.
00:06:54.000For example, she went on a town hall on CNN earlier this week with Jake Tapper, and I guess she was talking about some of the things she wants to do as president and why she's running and all the rest.
00:07:05.000And she said something that was actually pretty interesting.
00:07:08.000This is something that has not really been a part of the mainstream Democratic platform for a long time, which is Medicare for All.
00:07:15.000And this is, again, symptomatic of a lot of the things we talked about yesterday the fact that Kamala Harris truly is.
00:07:23.000And if you look at previous Democratic candidates' failures or successes, they never ran on these kinds of extreme positions.
00:07:29.000They appealed mostly to the center, to the middle.
00:07:33.000And so you could see that even somebody like Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election was stridently against Medicare for All.
00:07:39.000She said not only was it politically unrealistic, but it would be a disaster.
00:07:43.000She said that it would mean repealing Obamacare and it would cause premiums to rise and everything else.
00:07:49.000And a lot of people might look at that and maybe they'd be confused or whatever, but it's not surprising because Medicare for All is not a Popular proposal.
00:07:57.000So the Democrats of 16, of 12, of 2008, while obviously Hillary Clinton was a disaster in a lot of ways and optics and messaging and physical health and things like that, the platform was ruthlessly pragmatic.
00:08:13.000She was proposing things that were relatively popular where there was flexibility.
00:08:18.000So Medicare for All was not something that was popular then.
00:08:24.000Kamala Harris took a different approach.
00:08:26.000So Jake Tapper asked her in this town hall, he said, quote, So, for people out there who like their insurance, they don't get to keep it.
00:08:33.000And he's, of course, elaborating on this idea of the single payer health care system where you don't have private insurance.
00:08:40.000And Kamala Harris says, Well, listen, and she sort of naturally dodges the question.
00:08:46.000She says, Well, listen, the idea is that everyone gets access to medical care, and you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all the delay that may require.
00:08:58.000Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, Well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?
00:09:38.000But if you bring into the fact, and this is reflected in the polling also, if you bring in the fact that Medicare for all is going to cost a lot more, it's going to raise your taxes, people bring up the fact that you're going to have to get rid of Obamacare to pave the way for that, suddenly people don't support it so much.
00:09:54.000So she sort of shoehorns it in there in sort of a subtle way, but she's saying let's just totally get rid of private insurance, let's completely nationalize healthcare.
00:10:03.000And initially, I guess there were some Kamala Harris strategists who spoke to media and said, oh, no, no, no.
00:10:09.000I guess Kamala Harris is somewhat open to exploring other options on healthcare.
00:10:13.000She's not totally a communist on healthcare.
00:10:16.000She's not totally going to nationalize healthcare.
00:10:18.000But then you had another aide who went on Twitter and said, let me be clear, there is no way, shape, or form that Kamala Harris is backtracking on Medicare for all.
00:10:30.000There's a little bit of a scramble there to sort of match, again, this growing disparity between the far left ideology of the party, which People feel pressured to commit to because you've got this rabid far left base demanding people shift further and further to the left.
00:10:49.000And again, trying to meet the demands of politics in a practical and pragmatic sense.
00:10:55.000The fact that the numbers just don't support it.
00:10:57.000There are not enough people in the country, Democrats or otherwise, that support Medicare for all for that to be politically tenable.
00:11:06.000And this is one campaign where I think Kamala Harris, seeing the way that she reacted to that the other day, I don't think she's going to be.
00:11:14.000There's some other things going on behind the scenes where I think if she made it to the general, it'd be pretty rough for her, and there are some other optical things.
00:11:22.000But the focus, I think, this week is exposing the fact that the Democratic Party is not in good shape.
00:11:28.000I've been talking about this for a long time.
00:11:30.000There is a vast chasm, again, between what they need to do to meet the demands of the base and what they need to do to meet the demands of normal, average Democrats, middle, independent voters, and that's only going to get worse.
00:11:45.000You could see this with Howard Schultz.
00:12:54.000I guess I'm just this Democrat that's out there in the ether with these sort of vague promises that I'll work with the president.
00:13:01.000Manchin was the same way in West Virginia.
00:13:03.000Heitkamp was the same way in North Dakota.
00:13:06.000I think you saw the same thing with Donnelly in Indiana and some of these other people who ended up losing, who ended up losing in historically safe Democrat seats where Democrats were at least competitive in some of these places in the Midwest, in the Northeast, and that really spells a lot of trouble for them.
00:13:22.000So for all the people that are saying, If we don't get our stuff together in so many years, and that's not to say that we shouldn't, but for the alarmists that are saying it's so close to democratic hegemony forever, I think it's actually quite the opposite.
00:13:36.000I think we have never seen a point in history when the Democrats have been more fragile.
00:13:40.000And I'll readily concede that, at least if you look at the current party as it stood like a week ago, it wouldn't be apparent because you saw in a great example, this, the government shutdown.
00:13:52.000Democrats were very solid with their rank and file.
00:13:55.000You remember that Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi whipped the votes in such a way that there was only one Democratic defect, what is it?
00:14:04.000Yeah, defection, defecting across the entire process on any bill, and it was Joe Manchin.
00:14:10.000Joe Manchin in West Virginia, a totally red state that went fully Trump.
00:14:13.000He barely won if it weren't for the Libertarian in 2018.
00:14:17.000Only one defection in the entire course of the shutdown.
00:14:20.000Whereas Republicans were, they had people defecting in Congress, they had people defecting in the Senate, people defecting in the cabinet all over the place.
00:14:29.000So I recognize the political reality now, but as we see a 2020 campaign march along, I think you're going to see that cleavage, not only ideologically, but also ethnically.
00:14:44.000I can't wait for the first Democratic debate when you're going to get somebody.
00:14:48.000Maybe it could be Hillary Clinton herself, or maybe it could just be a more moderate Democrat who is out there towing the normal, moderate, centrist line.
00:14:56.000You know, that although in rhetoric they might cross the line sometimes, in policy they basically have maintained for somewhat of a long time.
00:15:03.000If you look at the right people, they're going to be out there saying things like, oh, you know, we got to protect Obamacare or whatever.
00:15:09.000And I can't wait for that moment when we see that the left wing is going to fight back.
00:15:14.000Because in 2016, they didn't fight back.
00:15:16.000If you remember when Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were battling it out, this is really the genesis of all of this, is of course Hillary Clinton, who couldn't be more establishment, obviously.
00:15:26.000She's the wife of Bill Clinton, who was moderate by today's standards.
00:15:30.000Somebody went out there and railed against illegal immigration.
00:15:32.000Somebody who was, in a lot of ways, resembled some Republicans today and even some of the more based ones.
00:15:39.000Some of the crime, some of the things he did with regards to crime and foreign policy, basically a middle of the road person.
00:15:45.000Hillary Clinton's obviously been around the block, ran some very terrible campaign ads against.
00:15:50.000Barack Obama, who many see as a far left ideologue.
00:15:55.000So it's her, the establishment choice, the middle of the road choice, relatively speaking, against Bernie Sanders, who was like honeymooning in the Soviet Union and he's basically a communist and he's just this nutty little guy.
00:16:09.000But if you remember in those debates when it was just him and her, and I think he had Martin O'Malley and Jim Webb and a couple of them, but eventually it was just him and her, they went out of their way, or at least Bernie Sanders went out of his way to not attack Clinton.
00:17:22.000But of course, if the pragmatists don't actually win the elections and they don't actually get into power and all this talk about practical.
00:17:30.000Thinking and everything completely fails, well, then the ideologues say, hey, maybe it's time for that kind of thinking to end.
00:17:41.000Maybe it's time for people like Beta O'Rourke, who's a total left wing guy, Kamala Harris, to go full throated left wing in the same way that Trump went full throated right wing.
00:17:51.000So that's going to be a big problem for them.
00:17:53.000But anyway, on this specific topic in general, rather, in this specific topic in particular, you look at Medicare for All.
00:18:01.000Just goes to show why this is going to be such a problem.
00:18:04.000This proposal costs, it's no secret to anybody, this proposal costs $32, closer to $33 trillion over 10 years.
00:18:13.000I know that's a lot of people on the dissonant right, for some reason they have an aversion to talking about the cost of things, unless it's the military.
00:18:22.000They're very triggered by how much we're paying for the military, but spending money on welfare, that's all fine and well.
00:18:27.000For some reason in the dissonant right, there's the streak, but $32 trillion, that's not really a tenable proposal.
00:19:08.000That Donald Trump's border wall is more popular than Medicare for All.
00:19:12.000Just to give you an idea, if you think that the wall is a very partisan, polarizing, extreme sort of a thing, it's too far right, whatever.
00:19:21.000Donald Trump's wall has consistently polled above 40% and has been inching closer towards 50% in recent weeks.
00:19:28.000If you look at the most recent polls, it's getting up there.
00:20:17.000This was sort of a dark horse candidate as an independent from the beginning.
00:20:21.000He came out on Sunday and he tweeted, I love our country, and I am seriously considering running for president as a centrist independent.
00:20:30.000And this was, for a long time, the Democrats' worst nightmare.
00:20:33.000This is something even in 2016 that was a big problem for them.
00:20:37.000You know, you saw Jill Stein, you saw Bernie Sanders, even to a lesser extent, Gary Johnson.
00:20:44.000As a big threat when they needed every possible vote.
00:20:48.000When it came down to a few thousand votes that cost Hillary Clinton the election in very specific counties in Michigan, in Florida, in Pennsylvania, it was these smaller spoilers, even somebody like Ed McMullen for Donald Trump in Utah.
00:21:02.000These smaller spoiler candidates were peeling off votes in an election where it's very close.
00:21:08.000And although the popular vote wasn't totally close, you looked in 2016, again, the Electoral College was technically a landslide, but the states that tipped it in for Trump.
00:21:17.000It was a few thousand votes that brought him to victory, that pushed him over the finish line.
00:21:23.000Well, now you've got a self financed billionaire, centrist independent, who's going to enter the race and probably have a good chance because Donald Trump is not very popular.
00:21:32.000He doesn't have great numbers in terms of favorability.
00:21:55.000Again, is that he would be a spoiler and probably split the Democrat ticket.
00:21:59.000You had Castro, Julian Castro, he came on television this week.
00:22:04.000You had Bloomberg go on Twitter this week, both of them saying we can't have a third party independent run because you'd be handing the election to Donald Trump.
00:22:13.000And if you look at the polling, it's sort of up in the air.
00:22:17.000The polling from Ed Schultz's, I'm sorry, Howard Schultz's campaign would show that if a centrist independent ran in 2020, and this is just a no name, just a centrist independent, That choice was polling between 25% and low 30s.
00:22:34.000So they said that the high watermark for any candidate would probably be the low 30s.
00:22:38.000Once you put a name on the ballot, it would probably be substantially less than that.
00:22:43.000So that the 30 would probably be the maximum you could expect out of that poll.
00:22:47.000Trump consistently polled at 29 to 30%, very strong showing from his base, which supports him at about 70%.
00:22:54.000And if it was Elizabeth Warren as the Democrat, she would be polling between 26 and 30.
00:22:58.000So you'd be basically looking at Trump is at about 30.
00:23:02.000Then you'd have Warren between 26 and 30, and then you'd have whoever the centrist independent would be, probably Howard Schultz.
00:23:10.000Once his name is added, it would be 25 to 30 also.
00:23:14.000And the polling would show that about 24% of Democrats would break if it was Elizabeth Warren on the ticket, would break for a potential centrist independent third party candidate, and only about 20% would defect from Trump.
00:23:27.000So if you just do basic math, that would show that probably if Democrats are breaking 4% more for a third party candidate, Than Donald Trump, then they'd be in a little bit of trouble.
00:23:40.000A lot of people from the Howard Schultz camp have taken to television to say he wouldn't act as a spoiler, just be a free and fair election and get more options.
00:23:49.000So far, and it's interesting because he's pitched himself as not a Democrat, even though, as I said yesterday, he's given so much money to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, all kinds of left wing politicians.
00:24:02.000I mean, he's liberal, is what he is, but it's kind of ironic.
00:24:06.000The reason he has a place in this election is because.
00:24:09.000The so called liberal Democrat Party is just so far to the left of that that they constitute just a completely different entity in and of itself.
00:24:17.000When you've got frontrunners, multiple frontrunners in the Democratic Party that want to abolish ICE, they want open borders, they want Medicare for all, they want reparations for blacks in some cases, you know, that's like a completely different party.
00:24:33.000And so it's almost like Howard Schultz is like he's popped up and replaced the Democrats in a way, and I guess that's why they're concerned.
00:24:41.000But he's been hitting the left really hard to sort of differentiate himself.
00:24:44.000That's been the tactic, I guess, he's been.
00:25:01.000He's been hitting really hard against the left wing, trying to balance out some of the good things from the right, saying, Well, I'm not for a wall, but I'm for border security.
00:25:10.000But his chief task will be differentiating from the left.
00:25:13.000Ultimately, I think it's basically true that he would act as a spoiler for the Democrats.
00:25:18.000That doesn't mean that it wouldn't be a difficult race, because if a third party would peel off votes from anybody, I think he would peel it off in places that Trump won, Trump flipped, rather, in 2016.
00:25:30.000But by the same token, if that's out of play for the Democrats also, you know, it could kind of go either way.
00:25:35.000So it would be a tough struggle, but it would probably end up helping us in the end.
00:25:50.000He might sound refreshing or good on some issues only because the people in the Democratic Party are like Karl Marx now, but the guy's a liberal.
00:26:02.000He had a little bit of a faux pas today.
00:26:04.000He was on Morning Joe and they asked him how much a box of Cheerios cereal costs as sort of like a gauge of is he really in touch with the common man?
00:26:47.000And the last thing we'll discuss about 2020 is Hillary Clinton.
00:26:50.000I don't really have too much to say about that other than it might be, it would be a very good thing if she ended up getting into the race.
00:27:03.000I think it's a possibility, but it's unlikely.
00:27:05.000The reason we're talking about it is because there were some reports earlier this week that said that people close to her said that she still has not closed the door on the possibility she could run in 2020.
00:27:17.000So that's a lot of hearsay, it's a lot of rumors.
00:27:20.000I will say there is a lot of evidence that that could be true.
00:27:24.000Why else would she be writing books and going on tour and talking to donors and getting on television?
00:27:31.000It would be a little bit confusing why she would be doing that if that wasn't at least a possibility.
00:27:47.000When you've got so many candidates in the field, By the virtue of just being established, she might be able to pull out a small plurality and pull it off.
00:27:57.000Because you're going to have centrists, you're going to have far left commies, blacks, whites, purples.
00:28:02.000You're going to have so many people in the field from Beto O'Rourke to Kamala to, well, potentially Beto, to Elizabeth Warren to Tulsi Gabbard.
00:28:10.000You know, maybe she would just sort of steal it in the way she did in 2016 and she'd have the party, the infrastructure, the money.
00:29:23.000The police report says that he was approached in the early hours of Tuesday morning by two people who gained his attention by yelling out, quote, racial and homophobic slurs towards him, adding that they punched him in the face, poured a chemical on him, and wrapped a robe around his neck.
00:29:41.000In a follow up interview with police the next day, Smollett alleged that his attackers yelled, This is MAGA country.
00:32:31.000The one time the left is concerned with violence in Chicago, it's either it's police killing a criminal or it's these fever dreams about the MAGA menace roaming the streets looking to not only just to harm black homosexuals, but again, also they had to have that psychological, this cruel, Psychological simulation of a lynching, also.
00:32:57.000And it's wonderful because about a year ago, you remember when Donald Trump did his, or two years ago, I guess now, around the time of Trump's inauguration, he talked about Chicago.
00:33:31.000Chicago is, you know, yeah, we've got a worse murder rate than Afghanistan, but you're ignoring all the excellence that happens in Chicago.
00:33:40.000Look at this shitty mural that some black kid from some Chicago public school made.
00:34:50.000So that's what black people had to worry about white police officers, like, you know, the guy in St. Louis or the neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman, people like that.
00:35:00.000And whenever anybody would bring up the fact, like, hey, you know, you say Black Lives Matter, you're concerned about black people dying or getting killed, well, the number one threat.
00:35:11.000For black people, as other black people.
00:35:13.000They're just gunning each other down like every day for sport, not just in Chicago, but everywhere, but particularly in Chicago.
00:35:20.000And we would always hear back the same thing oh, that's racist.
00:35:28.000It's almost the same thing as I talked about yesterday and last week.
00:35:32.000The way that black people view crime, the reason for this madness, you know, a normal conservative pundit would just say, this is liberal madness.
00:35:47.000Why is it that the left wing media, why is it that blacks get so upset when they hear any whisper of a white person killing a black person, a police officer, a MAGA supporter, but you know, black people again killing each other like it's like it's crazy, like it's a free for all.
00:36:03.000Nobody really cares, nobody talks about it.
00:36:05.000The reason is it's almost similar to the mentality you have with your family.
00:37:21.000It's the same thing with the Covington kids.
00:37:23.000And another thing about this whole scandal, aside from that, which I think people understand at this point, that blacks have completely, totally, Tribal mentality.
00:37:33.000For all the people that want to put identity politics aside, black people are the biggest proponents of it.
00:37:41.000White people are not allowed to have that kind of tribal mentality.
00:37:46.000We're not even supposed to believe that we exist as a separate and distinct people, let alone have a tribal mentality.
00:37:52.000If you were to say, you know, just think about it, if you were to say, well, I'm going to stand up for somebody who maybe they did something wrong because they're white, like me.
00:38:03.000It may sound wrong to you because you've been conditioned for 30 years to believe that that kind of racial kinship is racist, white supremacist, problematic.
00:38:11.000To say, I'm going to vote for that candidate because he's white.
00:38:15.000I did that in Chicago when I voted in 2018.
00:38:38.000You think it was because Donald Trump was just so much more appealing to blacks, or do you think it was because he wasn't running up against somebody with black skin?
00:38:45.000Why do you think Barack Obama won 97% of the black vote?
00:38:48.000You think they just really like his ideas?
00:38:50.000You think they just really are thrilled about the Affordable Care Act and what he did with insurance companies and the common market?
00:39:16.000The idea, again, that the problem in Chicago, or even that this is possible, that there's MAGA supporters roaming the streets yelling, This is MAGA country, lynching black homosexuals they see on television nonsense.
00:39:28.000The left believes this without a doubt because it fits their narrative.
00:39:32.000MAGA supporters attacking people of color, it's so infrequent, it's such a non issue that every time.
00:39:38.000There's even some resemblance of that happening.
00:39:40.000They will latch on to that again because it's sort of confirmation bias.
00:39:43.000It confirms what they already believe.
00:40:22.000They believe that we endorsed that Covington kid, that Catholic kid, just the other week because he was white and he was terrorizing some Native American.
00:40:32.000They believe that the only reason we landed on the moon was because they saw a little movie called Hidden Figures where it was only thanks to black female mathematicians and scientists that we were ever able to get there from the beginning.
00:40:46.000The people that built the pyramids, some of the most important anthropological features in human history were built by black pharaohs and kings.
00:40:54.000They believe in entirely different history than we do.
00:40:57.000We who know, we who understand Brett Kavanaugh is not a racist, or a rapist rather, that the Covington kids were approached by the Native Americans.
00:41:05.000We who knew that it was only through the ingenuity of white people that we landed on the moon, a particular subset of rocket scientists from a certain continental European country.
00:41:16.000Maybe it was something called Project Paperclip that built the rockets to put us on the moon.
00:41:20.000And that the pharaohs and the Greeks and all the ancients bore a closer genetic resemblance to us.
00:41:28.000Than the people of sub Saharan Africa.
00:41:30.000But you can see that all these different historical, sociological, political narratives that have been constructed, they accumulate.
00:41:39.000You've got sort of this thick history, sort of like thick morality.
00:41:43.000You've got this accumulation of events, narratives, ideas, whatever, that have just been distorted and changed through an ideological lens to the point where we can't even agree that various things happen.
00:41:54.000You've got people that are coming out for these various different episodes and they bring up, oh, remember when.
00:41:59.000Remember when you supported Brett Kavanaugh?
00:42:14.000If you cannot agree on what is in reality objectively, that what you're perceiving is actually there and the same as what they're perceiving, this is why they say things like our truth, my truth, it's totally subjective.
00:43:56.000You've got technological and economic changes, which are causing economic discontent in ways that are not uniform, in ways that are heterogeneous.
00:44:04.000Some are feeling it, some are not feeling it.
00:44:06.000You know, for example, the housing market in.
00:45:06.000If we want to start solving the problem of violent crime, and even if the victims are blacks and Hispanics, let's talk about who the progenitor of it is.
00:45:16.000And I love everybody, don't get me wrong.
00:45:18.000But somebody's doing the murdering, somebody's doing the raping, somebody's doing all of the violent crime, or it's a disproportionate amount of it.
00:45:27.000Not MAGA supporters, I could tell you that much.
00:45:30.000Unless Blexit counts as MAGA supporters, right?
00:45:34.000But anyway, we're going to move right along into our Streamlabs and Super Chats before I get myself into any more trouble here.
00:45:41.000Somebody described me the other day on Twitter as carefully balancing on a tightrope.
00:46:20.000Norwood Nick says I was playing a game of Fortnite the other day and I noticed something weird.
00:46:26.000Although everyone is supposed to be competing as individuals, 1.4% of the players in the lobby were working together, and the guy who got that epic victory was one of them.
00:46:39.000The idea that, you know, you look at a game like Fortnite, and maybe you're playing squads, for example, where you got 100 people, 25 teams of four.
00:46:49.000And, you know, I guess if you were playing that game mode and you only had one person in your squad, you'd be sort of at a disadvantage, right?
00:46:56.000Because, you know, everybody else has four people on their team, and you only have one person on your team.
00:47:02.000If we talked about that probabilistically, in terms of probability, rather, It would make sense that the winners, the people in the top five, the top six, the top 12, would be people with teams of four rather than teams of one.
00:47:14.000And I guess you could take that principle even further that if you had, I don't know, maybe 60 people all competing as individuals, but then you had a squad of 14 and a squad of two and a squad of, you know, it's getting closer to 20 now, probably the winners would be the squads of 14, the squad of two, the squads of 20.
00:47:35.000It wouldn't be one of the 60 individuals, right, who sometimes worked together but sometimes warred against each other.
00:48:51.000But he comes at it from the same perspective as Brett Stevens, that rabbi shmuel or whatever, where they say, you know, we have to recognize and acknowledge Jewish power to protect Jewish power.
00:49:02.000Oh, so that's not really waking up, is it, right?
00:49:05.000I mean, that's not, I don't know if that really counts.
00:49:08.000Because when he does his streams and he talks about, oh, there's all these, everyone in the intellectual dark web is Jewish.
00:49:14.000You know, you've got probably how many people in LA and all the people in the intellectual dark web are Jewish?
00:50:46.000You're about to be really proud, right?
00:50:48.000There was this play in the playoff game, in the final game, where it was the Louisiana, the New Orleans, I don't know what city or state, the Saints.
00:50:59.000Got ripped off because of a bad call by the referee handing the victory to the Rams, who are now in the Super Bowl.
00:51:06.000That's why, because they're mad that the Rams stole it from them.
00:51:10.000So, see, you know, people tell me, Nick, you got to know sports to, you know, make it in this life.
00:52:33.000Honestly, this is problematic because when people come at me with unironic collective hatred of a race, you're forcing me to say, but we're not actually about that.
00:53:00.000We can recognize, obviously, problems with some groups as opposed to others.
00:53:05.000But when people come in here with this kind of talk about, you know, hating a whole group of people, unironically, and I think people kind of got lost in the shuffle because it started out that we were like, we don't hate anybody.
00:53:54.000I don't know enough about Scott Adams.
00:53:56.000I don't really watch his stuff, so I can't really stay with him.
00:53:58.000But Cernovich has been very rude to me, and he's just not really an ethical person.
00:54:04.000He's not really somebody who I think is a role model.
00:54:07.000You know, there are people who have been more or less a fan of mine, but who are my heroes.
00:54:13.000But, you know, I don't think there's anything admirable about a guy who's just sort of a fake intellectual grifter talking about the simulation and all this other stuff.
00:54:58.000McDonald's drive-through worker says, Hey, Nick, I have never been more convinced that we are fighting a spiritual war against literal demons.
00:55:06.000Only by returning to God can we find salvation.
00:55:09.000Keep up the great work and have a cheeseburger on me.
00:55:44.000I want to read your super chat, I want to respond to it, but when people come in here and it's just like illiterate, oh, it's America only, naturally.
00:55:51.000Of course, it's America only, our favorite super chatter.
00:57:43.000I thought you were doing like a demon crap sort of a boomer play on words.
00:57:47.000But no, no, universal catastrophic care is what it is.
00:57:52.000That's actually the right word to say.
00:57:55.000Do you think the universal catastrophic care insurance, in addition to private insurance, would be a good solution to the health care issue?
00:58:27.000Probably the people that have worked in it, Rand Paul as an eye doctor, Ben Carson obviously as a neurosurgeon.
00:58:33.000I think you actually have to be in it to really have that sort of practical expertise.
00:58:38.000So I believe they were just in favor of health savings accounts, electronic medical records, that sort of thing, moving it more towards private health care.
00:58:48.000But Ann Coulter is a little bit more political.
00:58:50.000She says, yeah, that the universal catastrophic care plus private is probably the way to go.
00:59:08.000Dumb Wignats think universal health care is a winner because it's politically popular.
00:59:12.000Well, yeah, it's popular, but it has to be done right.
00:59:14.000It might be inevitable, but it has to be done right.
00:59:17.000You have to understand the economic principles are immutable to a certain extent.
00:59:21.000There are abstract theories and everything, but supply and demand is very real.
00:59:25.000So, again, the idea that you have the same amount of resources, but more people have access to them.
00:59:31.000And everyone's going to get everything that they want.
00:59:33.000Everything's going to, and it's going to be cheap or free.
00:59:37.000You know, it just doesn't make any sense.
00:59:38.000If I've got a pile of, if I've got a pile of 100 cookies and 100 people are eating the cookies and they're paying money to eat the cookies, and paying money is a way to ration, just like on the toll booth.
00:59:49.000You know, if people put in place the toll booth, only people who absolutely need it are going to pay the $2 to use it.
00:59:54.000Or if you commute every day, you might consider alternative options and then there's less congestion.
00:59:59.000So the same is true with, you know, it's maximizing, Efficiency.
01:00:03.000And the same is true with the cookie example.
01:00:05.000If you have 100 cookies, everybody's paying to have their cookie, and 100 people are in this cookie eating enterprise.
01:00:11.000But then you say, oh, well, now the cookies are free.
01:00:15.000Everyone, now all 1,000 people can eat the cookies.
01:00:19.000Well, does that increase the amount of cookies?
01:00:22.000Does that change the economic reality that now you're going to have to divide 100 cookies amongst 1,000 people?
01:00:28.000And not only that, but you're going to have to pay the people to administer the cookies.
01:00:32.000In cookies themselves, so it's going to be an additional 200 people that are in on the take.
01:00:36.000And these are called transaction costs or bureaucratic costs, you know, that kind of overhead when you have it administered by government.
01:00:43.000So there's all kinds of economic things that are just common sense, which suggests that national health care would be a disaster.
01:00:50.000It would either, the quality would decrease, it would be rationed, it would become more expensive, either for government or for private individuals if you had some degree of private health care, and these problems would only compound themselves.
01:01:02.000This is what's happening in Canada and the UK.
01:01:04.000So maybe you could have that in a locality, maybe in a city you could have that, but not in a nation of 330 million people, no way.
01:01:14.00030 year old boomer says, I see a lot of Republicans like Will Chamberlain slash Coulter are overly zealous about a wall.
01:01:21.000I seriously doubt they care that much about stopping coyotes slash drugs.
01:01:25.000So, how do we engage those that tacitly know the demographic trends are awful but can't admit it in public?
01:01:32.000Well, I mean, obviously, the wall is one small part of the solution in the sense that illegal immigration is a, you know, it's people who are illegally crossing over, but it's also visas.
01:01:47.000Illegal immigration is probably less than half or about half of the problem.
01:01:51.000The real problem is legal immigration, where you've got people that are anchor babies, or you've got people that have birth tourism, is another way to call it, which is a similar concept but same outcome.
01:02:04.000You've got, again, mass legal immigration from Asia or from Latin America, and that's one or two million a year or between there.
01:03:50.000Based one says Kamala Harris has been tap dancing hard for the black vote, and it will backfire based off of her past record as a district attorney.
01:03:58.000Funny how she wants to push herself as black to get votes, but yet she denies her heritage and has a white husband.
01:04:04.000Yeah, she's, that's not really going to work so well.
01:04:07.000And yeah, it's very funny when people, when anybody tries to appeal to the black vote because the black vote is notoriously impossible to win.
01:04:15.000There's no real winning there because there's no correlation between what they believe and what they vote for.
01:04:21.000So it's totally just this futile effort of superficial things.
01:04:25.000I mean, you might as well just have a rapper run for president.
01:04:28.000You might as well have a basketball player run for president, basically.
01:04:32.000As opposed to trying to appeal to them on a level of policy or something, right?
01:07:41.000Or, yeah, it's probably some role play thing.
01:07:45.000Israel Respector says I wonder how you reconcile American identity founded through arguably the first liberal revolution, Protestantism, materialist capitalism based on an immigrant settler culture formed through creative destruction with your beliefs.
01:08:36.000How Greek, and I say that in the sense of being overly intellectual, do you have to be to think that you value your abstract conception of the society over your home, over where you grew up, your parents, everything that you knew as a child?
01:08:53.000Imagine being such a sick, antisocial, alienated person that you would read a couple of books and say, Oh, I hate my country.
01:09:37.000Should people that are like 5'5 and they've got, I don't know, like a weird shaped head, no chin or something, you know, they've got some weird deformity going on, should they hate themselves?
01:09:49.000Should they say, oh, I'm just going to kill myself because I'm not like the ideal?
01:09:53.000You have to love who you are, what you are, where you're from, and you try and change things for the better, but that fundamental affection, that oikophilia, does not leave you.
01:10:02.000So that's my answer reconcile American identity.
01:10:35.000I am a Roman legionary, and I want you to join my struggle.
01:10:38.000You know, people in America are going to be like, what is this guy doing?
01:10:42.000This is what happened with the alt right.
01:10:43.000Bunch of faggots, bunch of weird losers.
01:10:45.000So, there's a practical consideration.
01:10:47.000There's, I think, a deeper human consideration there.
01:10:50.000And anyway, America was founded on largely Thomistic principles.
01:10:55.000You know, you look at natural rights doctrine, you look at some of the things with how the government was structured.
01:10:59.000I don't think it was perfectly ideal, but a lot of we can't be choosers about history in the sense that things have a funny way of working themselves out.
01:11:11.000People who say, oh, that was a mistake, I know it should have been designed a different way.
01:11:18.000I'm a little bit of a determinist in the sense that history has a sort of momentum, and there are circumstances that are beyond the control of designers or individual actors.
01:11:27.000Sort of, we obey a will of maybe it's impersonal forces or it's God, but that's how things go.
01:11:34.000So to say, oh, I hate my country, whatever, it's just sick.
01:13:04.000I don't get the appeal of watching, like, You know, commercials and then people like running up and down the field.
01:13:10.000Oh, he's, you know, blah, The white noise of the game and they do a play and then, oh, this guy running down the field, you know, and then you got the coach and then you got the ref, whatever.
01:13:23.000It's like, I can't, there's not enough substance there for me.
01:14:44.000You got to understand that a lot of middle of the road people are not willing to go along with the far left.
01:14:51.000Trump consolidated the right far more effectively than a Democrat is capable of doing.
01:14:55.000Trump is truly, I think, one of a kind.
01:14:58.000I don't see Kamala Harris as having that same star quality to unify the entire Democratic Party behind this far left agenda.
01:15:07.000I don't see anybody on the left who can do that.
01:15:09.000I don't see a constituency that's ready for that.
01:15:11.000You know, because Trump is speaking to the Republican Party, which has been beaten.
01:15:16.000For like 30 years, by their own party, by the left, that wants to win, and he has great political tact.
01:15:22.000There's a lot of things going on there that make Trump sort of unique.
01:15:25.000So I don't buy it that the far left will unify the left wing of the country in the way that the right was able to do.
01:15:32.000Because Trump really is relatively moderate.
01:15:35.000He's right of the establishment, and I guess he would maybe be the right of the Republican Party, but he's not as radical as the fringe of the left, which is trying to take over, if that makes sense.
01:15:48.000Let's see, we've got some super chats now.
01:15:51.000Captain Brapp says, I like you, Nick, but your short legs are.
01:15:56.000People posting this edited picture of me from the Boston Globe, I think initially, where I'm like setting up my green screen, I'm standing on a chair, and people edited the photo to make it look like there's three chairs.
01:16:09.000It's obviously fake, but people reposted.
01:16:11.000They're like, Is Nick really like 5'5?
01:16:15.000That's the thing about being even like a little bit famous is all these gay psyops that are obviously fake, where people are like, Oh, Well, look at this picture.
01:16:22.000That's obviously, Dick must be, he's actually, do you know he's 5'3?
01:17:38.000Cloudstar says, I agree with the concept of single payer to eliminate paying for the middleman, but no way in hell do I trust the government to implement that.
01:18:13.000Yeah, it must be because it's been working for everybody else.
01:18:17.000DeVore says, Hey, Nick, I started playing World of Warcraft and I noticed that goblins are 5% of the horde population but are 90% of all bankers.