On this episode of Thick & Thin, the boys discuss the latest in the scandal surrounding Brett Kavanagh, Mia Cavanagh and her daughter, and how she should have handled it differently. They also discuss a new conspiracy theory about Trump having inherited Obama's wealth, and a woman who wore a "pussy hat" to an anti-Trump rally.
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00:00:58.000Africa is a wonderful place, very dynamic place.
00:01:01.000It's got a rich history and incredible wealth, especially areas that the white man didn't ruin, like, for example, obviously Wakanda.
00:01:09.000Wakanda is a place featured in comic books and was recently in a fictitious superhero movie called Black Panther.
00:01:18.000I guess all superhero movies are fictitious.
00:01:22.000So I want to talk about a video I saw recently where they featured all the facts in the history about Wakanda and what a great place it would be to visit were it to exist.
00:01:34.000I also want to talk about this rumor going around that Trump has just inherited Obama's wealth.
00:01:40.000Now, this is an economic discussion and I found economics so boring that when I took it in college, it was like being shot in the face with a heroin dart gun.
00:05:12.000Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., if they dismiss this, then they can say Trump is appointing a Supreme Court judge who trivializes rape and thinks rape ain't no thang.
00:05:47.000I don't think you should do Adderall if you're my age.
00:05:50.000To testify under oath in front of the full Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:05:55.000My client will do whatever is necessary to make sure that the Senate Judiciary Committee has the full story and the full lady, you're going to be awake for three days.
00:06:08.000You're supposed to just chew a piece of a pill.
00:09:21.000If the economy was bombing now, then he'd say, well, I told you Trump's a terrible president.
00:09:26.000If it's doing well, which it is, well, I told you I can set a guy up.
00:09:31.000It's a win-win for Obama, even when he loses.
00:09:34.000The politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party.
00:09:40.000Republicans who know better in Congress, and they're there, they're quoted saying, yeah, we know this is kind of crazy, are still bending over backwards to shield this behavior from scrutiny or accountability or consequence.
00:10:00.000A reference to Trump's much-panned, both sides are to blame response to last year.
00:10:04.000Both sides are to blame in Charlottesville, Virginia.
00:10:07.000We're sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to Nazi sympathizers.
00:11:03.000We covered another 20 million Americans with health insurance, and we cut our deficits by more than half, partly by making sure that people like me, who've been given such amazing opportunities by this country, pay our fair share of taxes.
00:12:21.000And he's discussing the economy, and he's saying that if you go back too far, yes, you see a 45-degree increase, and yes, that could look like Obama.
00:12:29.000But when you zero in, you see that even within the improvements, things are improving much better.
00:12:35.000Let's see how long we can tolerate this boring nerd.
00:12:38.000Key part of the economy, and it's one of the factors that we look at most closely because it characterizes basically the good-paying jobs, the jobs that affects normal Americans, blue-collar Americans.
00:12:51.000And the first chart is core capital goods orders, and the second chart is too boring.
00:14:36.000So Kevin Hassett shows us some graph where there's a thing that goes up and it seems to be going up higher than it was supposed to go up, the new business applications.
00:14:46.000I guess that's people trying to register an LLC?
00:14:50.000Yeah, the chart was showing that every quarter, or at least the most recent quarter, there are something like 150,000 small business applications being filed, above what we would expect if it was going on the same pace as when Obama left office.
00:15:04.000So the passive video, I'm assuming you showed it earlier, what he was doing is referring to an argument that people make that, sure, the Trump economy is doing great, but it's really just a continuation of the Obama economy.
00:15:18.000And, you know, as we know, generally speaking, over any time period, the economy is going to get better.
00:16:02.000That one, we see George W. Bush just ruin everything with his open borders and his relentless foreign intervention.
00:16:09.000And then Obama seems to be a 45-degree lineup.
00:16:14.000Yeah, I mean, charts like that really do depend on the timeframe.
00:16:18.000I mean, you could even get cute and do an extreme example and say, you know, if you look at the trend from 1950 to when Obama left office, he was just continuing a trend.
00:16:27.000And, you know, the decline in the financial crisis looks almost like a bullet in comparison.
00:16:30.000So as always, the timeframe does matter.
00:17:57.000Yeah, and the thing is, I mean, you could directly link them to Trump's policies because, you know, the first hump or jump you see is mostly anticipation of his tax policies because corporations are going to be making more money overnight, therefore it should boost their stock prices.
00:18:13.000And then, I mean, we see all these other effects.
00:18:15.000You know, small business optimism, if you look at the chart of that, it pretty much is aligned directly upward once Trump takes office.
00:18:21.000And that's not something you can write off as continuing, you know, the Obama years.
00:18:27.000Yeah, I noticed that as a Canadian in Quebec, when there was a referendum and they were discussing the possibility of separating, the economy just started plummeting because businesses are very sensitive and they think, I don't want my head office to be in Quebec, and then Quebec is a new country.
00:18:42.000So any kind of uncertainty makes investors skittish.
00:18:45.000And I think Trump took away a lot of uncertainty.
00:18:51.000I mean, there are other ways in which Trump creates uncertainty, like certainly with a lot of the trade and tariff talk, but it's a bit bizarre that the market does not react as harshly as you'd expect.
00:19:02.000Meaning, I guess you could say people think that despite the more reckless or I guess you could say more certain reckless things he says or does, it's nothing in comparison to all the positive overall.
00:19:14.000Right, and the reckless things he says are silly little celebrity gossip.
00:19:18.000The real policies he makes are guttural changes you can feel in the pit of your gut.
00:19:52.000So, I mean, if you or me were to become president two years into a recession or financial crisis, the economy would probably recover on its own eventually within a couple of years.
00:20:04.000And you and I could technically claim, hey, we're presiding over a recovery.
00:20:08.000But the question is, how does it compare to other recoveries?
00:20:11.000And I think Obama's was the slowest since the end of World War II.
00:20:14.000So, yes, you presided over the worst recession since then, but also the worst recovery.
00:20:20.000So just because you recovered doesn't mean you're doing well.
00:20:22.000It's sort of like they say, look at blacks.
00:20:24.000They're doing much better off with all these liberal presidents.
00:20:27.000And you go, no, actually, the black middle class has climbed much slower under Democrats than white middle class.
00:21:34.000Well, they both have their merits, but at the end of the day, I think both are delicious, exactly like you and I. Thanks for coming on the show.
00:25:56.000The testimony included boys being forced to rape their mothers, little girls being told witchcraft will allow them to catch bullets and women forced to choose gang rape or death.
00:26:06.000So we get a refugee from that country and the first thing she does is complain about the horrible atrocities of the American human rights.
00:26:14.000What it's a bizarre double standard that is summed up by the bigotry of low expectations and I think it's racist because you're not treating everyone equally.
00:26:26.000You're going, yeah, you guys are great.
00:27:00.000I would like to come here and humiliate you despite the fact that I come from hell on earth.
00:27:06.000Anyway, this is the moment you've all been waiting for.
00:27:08.000And I put it at the end on purpose because I wanted you to have to watch the whole show and plow through those boring economic arguments that are a bit of tough love, a bitter pill that you must swallow.
00:27:19.000Let us travel to the great Wakanda with the geniuses over at The Root.
00:29:16.000Like I noticed Trevor Noah started to joke about Africa when he first got the job at Daily Show, and then he went, this is getting a little too intense.
00:29:23.000The horrors going on there, the raping of babies to cure AIDS, the dismembering albinos to get their blood because their blood is somehow magic.
00:30:33.000There's just gross lies, gross negligence of the truth.
00:30:37.000Wakanda has developed a rich culture steeped in tradition, advanced in technology, and untouched by colonists, imperialism, and interlopers.
00:31:09.000But before you trek through that techno-organic jungle or sample to the local cuisine, you should pay tribute to the nation's history with a visit to the greatest.
00:32:41.000You have a magic raw material, you have a magic, what do you call it when it's in the table of the elements, a magic mineral, a magic, a magic element?
00:32:52.000I'm not impressed that this is all you can do is have one little tiny place.
00:32:56.000Look at what Sweden does with watches.
00:32:59.000Like all these other countries have thrived using actual materials that aren't magic.
00:33:04.000And you have a place that the only reason you're doing well is because God gave you a superpower machine.
00:33:26.000The radioactive vibranium mutated everything around it, creating the heart-shaped herb that gives a panther their power and turning a bunch of tribesmen into horrible, horrible monsters.
00:33:46.000I am embarrassed at how much adults love superhero movies and talk about Marvel universes.
00:33:53.000You realize that's a guy who's trying to entertain children going, yeah, and then there's suicidal albino apes that the tribe ate their blood and they became like them.
00:34:07.000And then Black Panther, he had to get the super diamonds out of the magic golden eagle's eyeballs.
00:35:00.000This is like, can you just pause it here?
00:35:02.000And we're going to have to jump ahead.
00:35:04.000This reminds me of when my doorman was taught, he was reading a book, and it was a biography of the dude from Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter.
00:35:11.000And he goes, whew, man, this guy is scary.
00:35:16.000And I go, but what is it based on a real guy?
00:35:50.000Who were they originally they were designed to be the wives of the king, but then they became his secret army that can beat up anyone with their spears.
00:35:59.000If you pull a gun on them, they will throw the spear through the gun, and you will be left with nothing but their poo-poo.
00:36:08.000And then so they talk about them, and then they talk about how evil white people, some South African guy, yeah, that's who we should be beating up on right now, is white South Africans.
00:36:24.000They talk about how now that Wakanda's been discovered by the world, they're under a lot of pressure to give, and it's going to ruin them because there's all these disgusting, horrible plunderers that want to take the wealth of Wakanda.
00:36:36.000And now that the borders are open and they're going to the United Nations and stuff, everyone wants a piece of Wakanda.
00:37:33.000And God knows he's going to need it because ever since Wakanda entered the world state, it's been a big target for evil ass who want to exploit it.
00:37:41.000It's still one of the safest, most secure countries in existence, but during your trip, it wouldn't hurt to look over your shoulder for Wakanda's most wanted.
00:37:50.000Anyway, then they go off and talk about evil white people and a few, some guy who ate a gorilla's blood or something like that, drank a gorilla's blood and he became evil.
00:38:00.000You guys are so bad at this, you lefty fantasizers.
00:38:05.000Even your fantasies are a complete mess.
00:38:08.000And unfortunately for you, a thing called reality exists.
00:38:12.000And you can't take a vacation from that.