Louder with Crowder - #476 WHY BILL BARR IS A HERO... | Sen. Rand Paul Guests | Louder With Crowder

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00:02:03.000 I just wanted you to think, if you're watching this in the archive, that you were two-hammered to watch this show, but it's actually just me moving around that way.

00:02:10.000 We have Senator Rand Paul on the show today.

00:02:12.000 Two-hammered to be on the show. 0.99

00:02:14.000 Question of the day, what was your main takeaway from Wednesday's hearing on Barr?

00:02:17.000 The highlight, if you will, we're going to be talking about that, Venezuela, and usually I introduce him last, rightfully so, but he is back, G. Morgan Jr., a married man.

00:02:27.000 And I will say, I can confirm, I was at the wedding and I was very surprised.

00:02:32.000 She was actually just a cardboard cutout of Jack LaLanne.

00:02:37.000 She still said yes.

00:02:38.000 So you came back from, what's the wine of the day?

00:02:41.000 So apparently when I was gone there was a bit of a thing about boxed wine, so boxed wine of the day, baby!

00:02:47.000 Here we go.

00:02:48.000 I am not too... I don't know why Bracken thinks that's so funny.

00:02:50.000 Cause he did it!

00:02:53.000 I would go shopping and I'd be like, I'd go on Twitter saying, well since I'm still looking for Gerald, the wine of the day, should I pick this cheap red or this cheap white?

00:03:00.000 Is there good boxed wine?

00:03:01.000 Is there any good?

00:03:02.000 Yes!

00:03:02.000 Yeah, there's plenty of, I mean for people who just want everyday wine, it's not bad.

00:03:05.000 Would you marry a woman who likes boxed wine?

00:03:06.000 I did!

00:03:07.000 Jack LaLanne likes boxed wine?

00:03:11.000 She likes great wine now, too.

00:03:13.000 I'm exposing her to a lot of great wines that she's really enjoying.

00:03:15.000 Quarterblack Garrett, of course, working here. 1.00

00:03:20.000 And Brodigan there in third chair.

00:03:21.000 How are you doing?

00:03:21.000 I'm doing great.

00:03:22.000 How are you?

00:03:22.000 Good.

00:03:23.000 We're doing well.

00:03:24.000 And leading the news.

00:03:25.000 So, good wedding.

00:03:26.000 You went to France.

00:03:27.000 Yeah, I can imagine.

00:03:28.000 Released all that tension.

00:03:31.000 Of course, you had to have the Jack LaLanne cutout laminated.

00:03:34.000 That's true, unless you want to clean that way.

00:03:37.000 He single-handedly keeps Amazon's nanocloth storefront in business.

00:03:41.000 That's right, baby.

00:03:42.000 Those things are remarkable if you haven't used them.

00:03:44.000 It's like a microfiber cloth, times a million.

00:03:48.000 It's just, anyway, it doesn't matter.

00:03:49.000 Leading the news, of course, you know, attorney, and we're gonna get into Venezuela, that's the most, we have to talk about Barr because we have to.

00:03:56.000 But Venezuela, I think, is a rich country.

00:03:57.000 So, William Barr.

00:03:57.000 We have a job to do.

00:03:59.000 He didn't attend the House Judiciary hearing today, Thursday, those who are listening to the Archive.

00:04:04.000 Now, the main reason was a dispute over who'd be doing the questioning, and he felt that he left it all on stage yesterday.

00:04:09.000 And since we already analyzed it yesterday for Mug Club members in the Ash Wednesday,

00:04:12.000 and you're probably tired of hearing about it, we're just...

00:04:15.000 Well, that brings us to Bill Barr's Deaf Comedy Jam.

00:04:18.000 All right, so if you like expect an analysis...

00:04:33.000 We ain't got it, though!

00:04:34.000 Because this is just, like, the greatest hits for people who missed it, for Bill Barr.

00:04:40.000 Let's go to Bill Barr's greatest hits, my boy.

00:04:43.000 Senator Blumenthal, clip one!

00:04:45.000 Did anyone, either you or anyone on your staff, memorialize your conversation with Robert Mueller?

00:04:53.000 Yes.

00:04:55.000 Who did that? 0.91

00:04:57.000 There were notes taken of the call.

00:04:59.000 May we have those notes?

00:05:00.000 No.

00:05:01.000 Oh! 1.00

00:05:03.000 Damn, son! 1.00

00:05:05.000 You just got knocked the f*** out! 1.00

00:05:07.000 I didn't do anything! 0.99

00:05:09.000 Oh! 0.60

00:05:17.000 What?

00:05:19.000 Who had the power to make the decision about whether or not the evidence was sufficient.

00:05:23.000 To make a determination of whether there had been an obstruction of justice.

00:05:26.000 Prosecution memos go up to the supervisor, in this case it was the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General, who decide on the final decision.

00:05:38.000 And that is based on the memo as presented by the U.S.

00:05:42.000 Attorney's Office.

00:05:43.000 Oh! 1.00

00:05:44.000 He just showed you, bitch! 1.00

00:05:45.000 He showed you, bitch! 1.00

00:05:46.000 Oh! 1.00

00:05:47.000 Stop! 1.00

00:05:48.000 Oh! 0.60

00:05:49.000 Move that clip! 1.00

00:05:49.000 Oh! 1.00

00:05:50.000 Stop! 1.00

00:05:51.000 Oh! 0.60

00:05:52.000 Oh, that's clear!

00:05:53.000 I just want to nail down, you used the word spying.

00:05:56.000 Mm-hmm.

00:05:57.000 About authorized DOJ investigative activities.

00:06:01.000 Frankly, we went back and looked at press usage, and up until all the far outrage a couple of weeks ago, it's commonly used in the press to refer to authorized activities, such as referring to the FISA court as the spy court.

00:06:14.000 But it's not commonly used by the department.

00:06:15.000 What?

00:06:16.000 It is not commonly used by the department.

00:06:20.000 My time is up.

00:06:20.000 It's commonly used by me.

00:06:24.000 You just got that the f**k out, b**ch! 1.00

00:06:27.000 You just got that the f*** out! 1.00

00:06:29.000 OHHHHHH! 1.00

00:06:31.000 He suck dude! 1.00

00:06:33.000 OH! 1.00

00:06:35.000 I'm a little bit.

00:06:42.000 Being a person of color is exhausting. 0.96

00:06:45.000 It's difficult, yes.

00:06:47.000 This is awesome.

00:06:49.000 Oh man, let's get back into it.

00:06:50.000 That was good.

00:06:51.000 Wow, everything is so bright now.

00:06:52.000 Okay, so for people- we could just- just don't- now is just- Prodigate is just making all the noise.

00:06:57.000 Like, you want to ruffle some chip bags into the microphone?

00:07:00.000 I was going to put the sunglasses back on.

00:07:02.000 I don't know what happened to them.

00:07:03.000 We talked about this yesterday.

00:07:05.000 We don't want to provide a full-on analysis because everyone's been doing it.

00:07:07.000 But yesterday I said, watch.

00:07:08.000 You're going to see tomorrow, the clips are going to be Kamala Harris and Hirono.

00:07:12.000 And everyone's going to be saying, this is the onage.

00:07:14.000 This is the onage because it's a soundbite.

00:07:16.000 But none of it is true.

00:07:17.000 That's what matters.

00:07:19.000 I think Harris or just Hirono.

00:07:21.000 Hirono.

00:07:22.000 Okay, this is the one.

00:07:23.000 I want to show you the clip that the left has been showing as their big victory lap for context.

00:07:28.000 Here's Hirono in questioning.

00:07:30.000 Do you think all of the things that President Trump did are okay?

00:07:35.000 This is not a crime, but do you think it's okay for the president to do what he did to fire these special counsels to keep him from investigating?

00:07:40.000 So I guess you think it's okay.

00:07:40.000 I cannot stand her.

00:07:41.000 I don't think the evidence supports the proposition to stop the investigation.

00:07:48.000 Do you think it's okay for a president to ask his White House counsel to lie?

00:07:52.000 Look, if you're just going to go back to where you were last time, you're telling me that

00:07:56.000 it's okay.

00:07:57.000 Let me ask you, do you think it's okay for a president to offer pardons to people who

00:08:01.000 don't testify against him, to threaten the family of someone he does?

00:08:07.000 It's a good thing.

00:08:08.000 Is that okay?

00:08:09.000 When did he offer a pardon to someone in order to... I think you know what I'm talking about.

00:08:14.000 Please.

00:08:14.000 Please, Mr. Attorney General, you know, give us some credit for knowing what the hell is going on around here with you.

00:08:20.000 I give you no credit.

00:08:20.000 Not really.

00:08:22.000 Not at all, Hirono.

00:08:23.000 That's ballsy right there.

00:08:26.000 Can you give me any specifics?

00:08:28.000 Okay, start with the games.

00:08:29.000 Hold on a second.

00:08:30.000 Doesn't this matter?

00:08:32.000 You play game now!

00:08:34.000 Hold on a second.

00:08:34.000 You don't play game here!

00:08:35.000 Is that a racial stereotype?

00:08:37.000 Possibly.

00:08:37.000 And then Kamala Harris asked a question.

00:08:38.000 She asked him, she said, did Donald Trump or the White House ask you to investigate anybody?

00:08:46.000 What?

00:08:47.000 What kind of question?

00:08:48.000 And they're going, look at this.

00:08:49.000 Oh, someone actually does succinct and pointed questions of Kamala Harris.

00:08:52.000 It could not be less poignant.

00:08:54.000 Nice.

00:08:55.000 And the Dems just won't let go of this.

00:08:57.000 She obviously has been caught right there.

00:08:59.000 Give us some credit for knowing what we're talking about.

00:09:01.000 No, you get no credit.

00:09:02.000 This is a losing strategy for you guys.

00:09:04.000 How do you think this is a win to keep getting owned like this on national television?

00:09:08.000 I saw on the Young Turks, they were talking about this and they said, we agree with the 1.00

00:09:12.000 report that maybe there's no collusion, but there could have been obstruction.

00:09:15.000 That's what they said.

00:09:16.000 There could have been obstruction!

00:09:17.000 Hold on a second.

00:09:18.000 If you say there's no collusion, you agree, how can there be obstruction?

00:09:19.000 And they're arguing now, his business ties with Russia.

00:09:22.000 Hold on a second.

00:09:23.000 Hold on a second.

00:09:24.000 That's not what you called an investigation for.

00:09:27.000 That's not how, you want to set that kind of precedent where someone pulls you over

00:09:31.000 Oh, wait, your taillight's not broken.

00:09:32.000 Yeah, but I'm going to bring you into the shop because I think maybe you hit your kid.

00:09:37.000 Do you have any proof?

00:09:38.000 You call for an investigation.

00:09:38.000 No!

00:09:40.000 It's been done.

00:09:41.000 He's not, well, no, let's go to visit.

00:09:42.000 They never want to stop.

00:09:43.000 That's the point.

00:09:44.000 That's why I don't want to analyze it.

00:09:45.000 He is the smartest guy in the room, though, and I did enjoy watching it.

00:09:47.000 Here's your other hot take of the week.

00:09:50.000 According to Yahoo!

00:09:51.000 Game of Thrones, they keep killing off the entire immigrant population. 1.00

00:09:55.000 That's a problem.

00:09:56.000 They totally all died.

00:09:56.000 I mean, you're not wrong.

00:09:58.000 If they killed off the show, that'd be okay.

00:10:00.000 Yeah, at this point on Team White Walker, where once it seemed like the show had something to say about the topic of immigration, I'm no longer sure it's interested in such heady ideas anymore.

00:10:11.000 Yahoo!

00:10:11.000 Spoiler alert, you're gonna hate episode 6.

00:10:14.000 Yeah, that's not...

00:10:17.000 Oh my gosh.

00:10:18.000 The article goes on to say, it makes a really good point, maybe there was a wall for a reason.

00:10:22.000 They didn't understand the threat on the other side of the wall.

00:10:24.000 And I'm like, huh, that's like real life right now.

00:10:26.000 Well, wasn't it to keep out the gingers because it's a recessive gene and they taint your gene pool? 1.00

00:10:29.000 Pretty much.

00:10:30.000 You don't want to have that.

00:10:31.000 I'm actually curious what a White Walker taco would taste like.

00:10:33.000 I have no idea.

00:10:34.000 Very cold.

00:10:35.000 I'm not sure.

00:10:37.000 I imagine they would stay away from the spice.

00:10:41.000 I don't think a show like that is supposed to be talking about those ideas anyway.

00:10:43.000 They weren't making any kind of a point.

00:10:45.000 This has gotten way too analytical for something that was meant to be super.

00:10:48.000 By the way, people listening on audio, just watch it!

00:10:53.000 What is this?

00:10:54.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:10:55.000 In international news anyway, a club is now teaching young boys how to be alpha males in order to fight K-pop's influence in China.

00:11:01.000 I agree with this.

00:11:02.000 This comes from the L.A.

00:11:02.000 Times.

00:11:03.000 I agree with this.

00:11:04.000 Tang Haiyan founded the Real Man Training Club to combat China's masculinity crisis, part of the backlash against the makeup and earring-wearing male TV.

00:11:12.000 Film and K-pop idols leave it to China.

00:11:16.000 And Hyund's methods are actually being called controversial, particularly given his policy of hunting down and executing the entire cast of Glee.

00:11:23.000 So that seems as though...

00:11:28.000 That original Photoshop, it was so close with the crying kid from Glee, we had to zoom in.

00:11:34.000 To me, the funniest thing about that picture actually goes back to the picture where you were like, what about the gay guy from Glee?

00:11:39.000 You need to be more specific.

00:11:40.000 Right, yeah, pretty much.

00:11:42.000 Everybody from Glee?

00:11:43.000 Yeah, one of the guys was actually quoting, he said 20% of the men were unfit for military service, and he went off to list things that matter, like they couldn't run, they were out of shape, they were watching too many YouTube videos. 0.89

00:11:54.000 And they masturbate too much.

00:11:55.000 And I was like, I'm sorry, what was in the article? 0.97

00:11:58.000 Why is that the thing that ends up on the line?

00:12:00.000 They strip off his badges. 0.99

00:12:03.000 That's cause you a wanker! 0.99

00:12:07.000 You do homework on your own time! 1.00

00:12:10.000 You bring great shame with wanking! 0.99

00:12:12.000 And Hirono's like, do you think it's good to wank? 0.99

00:12:18.000 And the funny thing is, we're supposed to be concerned that China is going to take over the world. 0.85

00:12:21.000 They're too busy watching videos and messing with it.

00:12:24.000 Well, if they're getting rid of them, that must mean it's the exceptions.

00:12:27.000 They have a lot of time on their hands.

00:12:28.000 Speaking of which, Moby, in his new memoir, he says that he was drinking heavily to process his grief over 9-11.

00:12:34.000 And he claims that he rubbed his Doniger on President Donald Trump.

00:12:40.000 This comes from Daily Beast.

00:12:41.000 He said, I drank a shot of vodka to brace myself, pulled my flaccid P-word out of my pants. 0.95

00:12:46.000 And casually walked past Trump trying to brush the edge of his jacket with my wiener. 0.96

00:12:51.000 Luckily, he didn't seem to notice.

00:12:53.000 And actually we uncovered exclusive audio from the concert in question.

00:12:57.000 Oh wow.

00:12:57.000 Duh.

00:13:00.000 Duh.

00:13:03.000 Wubba. 0.95

00:13:05.000 Oh gross.

00:13:09.000 And immediately copyright for Moby.

00:13:11.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:13:12.000 That was instant.

00:13:13.000 The funny thing is, he's talking about, like, he's drinking, he's doing drugs, he's having sex in tetanus-y bathrooms, so he's doing all of these things and then says that Donald Trump is the bad person in this story.

00:13:23.000 You're out doing all these things and Trump's the bad guy? 0.99

00:13:24.000 That's gross, man. 1.00

00:13:25.000 You rubbed your penis on him? 1.00

00:13:26.000 Why? 1.00

00:13:27.000 Because he cut AIDS funding!

00:13:29.000 Right, yeah.

00:13:31.000 You're doing illegal drugs, sleeping with random people, and drunk for three months! 1.00

00:13:34.000 And you suck. 1.00

00:13:35.000 Moby, that's the only song anyone remembers from Moby. 1.00

00:13:38.000 My mom worked with Moby on the French-Canadian Patrice Lecrier show, and he came in, and he was a jerk back then. 0.89

00:13:45.000 I just find it funny that this is the first time you've heard Moby's name since he got dissed by Eminem in the diss track, and he still is the one who looks like a douche in this situation. 0.96

00:13:54.000 Pretty much.

00:13:54.000 Which, by the way, not only is that sexual assault, but honestly, I don't really know how it's an insult to the person who is unwilling... He's the only unwilling participant!

00:14:03.000 You rubbed your penis on another man! 1.00

00:14:06.000 And not to mention... That's embarrassing for you! 1.00

00:14:07.000 Not for him!

00:14:09.000 Isn't that something you would do in elementary school or something like that?

00:14:12.000 Where did you go to grade school?

00:14:14.000 Apparently a lot tougher place than you did. 1.00

00:14:16.000 If you got a penis rubbed on you, it was on you. 1.00

00:14:19.000 I don't know if I'd call that tough. 1.00

00:14:22.000 It was Neverland Academy, what are you talking about?

00:14:24.000 Were your teachers the village people?

00:14:25.000 Exactly.

00:14:26.000 What school did you go to? 1.00

00:14:27.000 No, but if you did something stupid like that... I got punched! 1.00

00:14:29.000 Did you ever once have somebody rub their schmeckle on you?

00:14:32.000 No, no, but I think kindergarten is code word for honeymoon.

00:14:35.000 Yes, that's fair.

00:14:36.000 I had somebody try to, like, put, like, if you had your hand on your hip in the locker room or something like that, somebody would come up and, like, do it.

00:14:42.000 It'd be funny to their friends, you know what I mean?

00:14:44.000 Like, they try to touch you and you're like, oh, get away from me.

00:14:47.000 You don't remember stuff like that?

00:14:48.000 No.

00:14:48.000 You were telling me that story!

00:14:49.000 Finally, an Oxford professor, uh, now is arguing that invisible aliens- cut out of Jack Lindley.

00:14:54.000 Uh, invisible aliens... Damn you. 1.00

00:14:58.000 ...are interbreeding with humans. 1.00

00:15:00.000 This comes from an Oxford student.

00:15:01.000 This is important.

00:15:02.000 We have to focus.

00:15:03.000 Dr. Young-Hei Chi, in case we didn't have all the agents mad at us yet.

00:15:09.000 In his 55-minute presentation, he cited an abduction researcher in the U.S.

00:15:13.000 who argued that aliens' primary purpose is to colonize the Earth by interbreeding with humans to produce a new hybrid species.

00:15:19.000 Second-generation hybrids are, according to Jacobs, walking unobserved among us.

00:15:23.000 He also went on to note that he is single!

00:15:27.000 Of course, some suspect ulterior motives given his recent launch of Invisible Aliens to have sex with Match.com.

00:15:33.000 It seems as though there is a conflict of interest.

00:15:36.000 Which, unfortunately for him, most of all, proved to be unfruitful.

00:15:43.000 Everybody gets blocked every once in a while.

00:15:44.000 I just don't think he's my type.

00:15:47.000 Long walks on the beach?

00:15:48.000 Could you be less original?

00:15:52.000 I just have one request.

00:15:55.000 If there's an ALF comeback, it's because of this show.

00:15:57.000 I hope so.

00:15:58.000 There was an ALF comeback, wasn't there?

00:16:00.000 If there's a second ALF comeback, it's because of the show.

00:16:00.000 I thought there was.

00:16:03.000 I really wanted ALF to be better than it was.

00:16:05.000 That's how everyone feels about ALF.

00:16:06.000 I think you're looking back with rose-colored glasses on that show.

00:16:09.000 You look back, it is paint by numbers that don't even line up.

00:16:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:16:14.000 You're like, wait a second, this is a number!

00:16:16.000 This has three digits!

00:16:17.000 It only goes up to six!

00:16:19.000 That's how bad ALF is.

00:16:20.000 Yeah.

00:16:21.000 Isn't this the kind of story, though, that you do?

00:16:23.000 The kind of article that you write that gets you punted from all kinds of academia?

00:16:26.000 Like, you're never allowed back in?

00:16:28.000 Not in academia.

00:16:28.000 It should be.

00:16:29.000 No, no, you get rewarded for it.

00:16:31.000 That's because... No, no, you misunderstand.

00:16:31.000 This should be.

00:16:33.000 He actually studied the relation between interdimensional, invisible aliens hybridizing with humans in relation to climate change.

00:16:39.000 So... Four million dollar grant!

00:16:41.000 Makes sense.

00:16:41.000 There you go.

00:16:42.000 By the way, the winner of last week's trivia contest is Andrew Morales at DJAM32, who knew that Brodigan dressed up as Spider-Man from the Oscars livestream.

00:16:50.000 I knew that one too, but I wasn't eligible.

00:16:51.000 You were in.

00:16:51.000 Isn't Morales, isn't that the Spider-Man in the cartoon one?

00:16:53.000 It's Miles.

00:16:54.000 Miles Morales.

00:16:54.000 Miles.

00:16:55.000 It's a great movie.

00:16:57.000 All right, which brings us to the top five lessons learned from Venezuela.

00:16:57.000 Just a Latino name.

00:17:02.000 Let me ask you this.

00:17:03.000 What have you learned most from the story unfolding in Venezuela?

00:17:06.000 Everyone's been talking about Barr.

00:17:07.000 This has been a little lost in the shuffle.

00:17:09.000 Yeah.

00:17:10.000 Nothing surprising.

00:17:12.000 No, they've really taught us a lot.

00:17:14.000 So obviously, they've reached a boiling point, right?

00:17:17.000 The citizens have been staging massive demonstrations against the dictator Maduro.

00:17:21.000 And by the way, how do you pronounce the name of the legitimate president?

00:17:24.000 Oh gosh, I don't know.

00:17:25.000 Trump.

00:17:26.000 We'll just say Juan.

00:17:28.000 His last name is very hard for me to pronounce properly.

00:17:30.000 Juan.

00:17:31.000 President Juan Gaudo?

00:17:34.000 I don't know.

00:17:35.000 Not gonna work out.

00:17:36.000 But anyway, there have been demonstrations going on, obviously, against dictator Maduro.

00:17:41.000 who's not recognized.

00:17:42.000 So Juan, the other guy, recognized as the interim president

00:17:46.000 by both the United States, this is important to note,

00:17:48.000 and other nations.

00:17:50.000 Actually, I think we, do we have a clip and a freeze here

00:17:52.000 to show you what's going on?

00:17:53.000 We just froze for a minute, we can't show it.

00:17:55.000 Because they've been running over dissidents with tanks.

00:17:59.000 And Maduro is, for people who haven't been following, let me give you a brief kind of history lesson.

00:18:02.000 He's a socialist turned dictator, but I repeat myself.

00:18:07.000 Slaughtering civilians, and this is what's so important. 1.00

00:18:07.000 Is that better? 1.00

00:18:10.000 People say, well, no, this is an example of pure socialism.

00:18:14.000 The most tragic thing here is that it is entirely predictable.

00:18:17.000 This isn't the first time this kind of a government has run people over with tanks!

00:18:20.000 No, it happens all the time.

00:18:21.000 Armored personnel carriers in that state?

00:18:22.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:18:23.000 They ran them over.

00:18:24.000 And I was gonna say, like, the most disturbing thing is, like, what's actually going on in Venezuela now is the stuff that we say sarcastically to socialists in this country that it's gonna turn into.

00:18:34.000 Right.

00:18:34.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:18:35.000 And before you say that it's not true socialism, let me walk you through the top lessons we've learned, as to why it is.

00:18:41.000 Lesson number five, by the way, is that democratic socialists are going to hate lessons four through one.

00:18:46.000 Hit the notification bell, bookmark the page, join up at Mug Club, by the way, because we're hitting, everything's demonetized now versus driving iTunes.

00:18:55.000 So, the fourth lesson that I think is most important is that socialism doesn't work.

00:18:58.000 And I know a lot of people say, well this isn't... No, no, hold on a second.

00:19:02.000 We're not talking about places like Venezuela.

00:19:04.000 Actually, do you know how I know you... Bernie Sanders and celebrities have long praised Venezuela and other South American socialist countries.

00:19:12.000 They did it when their economies seemed to work.

00:19:15.000 Way back in, what was it, 1961, they invaded Cuba.

00:19:18.000 And everybody was totally convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world, that all the Cuban people were gonna rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro.

00:19:25.000 They forgot that he educated their kids, gave them healthcare, totally transformed the society.

00:19:30.000 You know, it's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food.

00:19:36.000 That's a good thing.

00:19:37.000 In other countries, people don't line up for food.

00:19:39.000 The rich get the food and the poor starve to death.

00:19:42.000 His view is skewed because there's no lineup in the prune juice aisle.

00:19:42.000 He doesn't understand.

00:19:45.000 By the way, when people argue that it's not real... Do you know how I know that it's not true still today?

00:19:50.000 Okay?

00:19:51.000 Bernie still has an article on his website today, right now, that claims Venezuelans are living the American dream better than those in the United States.

00:19:58.000 Today!

00:19:59.000 Right now!

00:20:00.000 And I guarantee you, after this show, they'll probably wait two weeks until this blows over, and then remove it, and then you can time machine go back to today!

00:20:00.000 Right now!

00:20:07.000 Right now!

00:20:08.000 This Thursday!

00:20:09.000 What's the date?

00:20:10.000 May 2nd.

00:20:10.000 Thursday, May 2nd.

00:20:11.000 May 2nd.

00:20:12.000 Still says on Bernie Sanders' website, official website, that Venezuelans are living the American dream.

00:20:17.000 Is that lining up for a toilet paper and having to eat dogs because you're starving to death?

00:20:21.000 I don't remember that being the American dream.

00:20:23.000 You cannot simply say it's not real socialism because it doesn't work now.

00:20:27.000 You praised it.

00:20:29.000 Bernie still praises it.

00:20:30.000 This is what you wanted.

00:20:32.000 It's what you got.

00:20:33.000 It's over.

00:20:33.000 You're done.

00:20:34.000 Screw your attempted pivot to Denmark.

00:20:36.000 They don't want you! 0.99

00:20:38.000 I don't want you!

00:20:39.000 I don't love you!

00:20:42.000 But I will give you one more chance.

00:20:44.000 The irony of all ironies here is that Bernie Sanders is setting up that

00:20:44.000 Yes, Jim.

00:20:50.000 capitalists are the worst people, right? Rich capitalists are the people that you have to hate. 0.68

00:20:54.000 They're the ones that are taken from the economy.

00:20:56.000 Not that you have to hate or the worst people, but he does vilify them more than

00:20:59.000 socialist government. He does give the benefit of the doubt.

00:21:03.000 They're the villain.

00:21:03.000 He assumes altruism to socialists.

00:21:06.000 They're the villain in the story, right?

00:21:07.000 And he's supposed to be the heroine coming in to save you.

00:21:10.000 He becomes the villain if his system... He becomes that same villain, right?

00:21:16.000 Because who ends up with all the power, money, and control?

00:21:18.000 The people in government.

00:21:19.000 And who are the people that end up taking advantage of everybody else once they get that power?

00:21:23.000 The people in government!

00:21:24.000 That's why it's important when people say democratic socialism.

00:21:27.000 Maduro was elected!

00:21:29.000 If you say it was a special election because Chavez died, fine!

00:21:33.000 So did Chavez!

00:21:33.000 Chavez was elected!

00:21:35.000 You asked for this, people!

00:21:36.000 The scales were tipped a little bit by endorsements from one Jeff Spicoli and Bernie Sanders.

00:21:40.000 Still, pretty fair and free.

00:21:42.000 Sorry, leftists, you can't blame this on corrupt leaders when your system, the system of socialism, is what grants them unbridled power in the first place.

00:21:54.000 The fact that a socialist turns into a dictator because you created the sole environment where he can become an all-powerful dictator is your fault. Yes. And we already did a video debunking

00:22:05.000 John Oliver's lies specifically on Venezuela, why it failed. You can watch it on the channel.

00:22:08.000 But let me give you kind of a brief summary for people who understand. They try and say, well,

00:22:12.000 it's about the economy. No, okay.

00:22:13.000 Venezuela, most oil rich country in the world. More so than Saudi Arabia. A lot of people don't

00:22:17.000 know this. Yeah. Chavez reserves had the state run the oil industry instead of investing it back

00:22:22.000 into the oil industry. Right.

00:22:24.000 Investing profits.

00:22:25.000 Or the economy to grow other sectors.

00:22:26.000 They used it to pay for a ton of socialist programs.

00:22:28.000 That's why people liked them for a while, creating a bubble that burst when the oil market didn't do that well.

00:22:32.000 So when people say it's all about oil, no, no, no!

00:22:34.000 What was a road bump for the capitalist economies was an absolute disaster for Venezuela.

00:22:40.000 So before these protests, this is what's important to note, right now you see them being run over with tanks and shot by their government, it seems severe, but before this they were starving, they were digging through trash for food.

00:22:50.000 Socialism doesn't just kill people by running them down with tanks.

00:22:53.000 At least we have not died of hunger.

00:22:56.000 While he dislikes having to do this, he says he finds food that is edible.

00:23:02.000 Socialism doesn't just kill people by running them down with tanks.

00:23:05.000 It starves them first.

00:23:07.000 And socialism presumes that there is this benevolent class of geniuses out there that

00:23:11.000 are able to run the economy and take care of everybody better than anybody else would

00:23:16.000 be, right?

00:23:17.000 History has never shown that to be the case.

00:23:19.000 Anyone that gets into power and has power like that historically has always, like you said, led to being a dictator and killing their citizens.

00:23:25.000 That's why I can't stand West Wing.

00:23:26.000 Every time you watch it, they just assume that everyone who happens to work for Martin Sheen has it right.

00:23:30.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:23:32.000 Why is that the case?

00:23:33.000 Where does that come from?

00:23:34.000 You've never seen an example of that in history.

00:23:37.000 Why would you think it would happen now?

00:23:38.000 They didn't do it right.

00:23:40.000 Yes.

00:23:40.000 But they're doing it the way you told them to do it!

00:23:45.000 Crap! 1.00

00:23:49.000 I don't mean a successful socialist country. 1.00

00:23:51.000 I mean a leader.

00:23:51.000 Do you think it's nice to hold Bernie Sanders to his own words?

00:23:56.000 That's just mean.

00:23:57.000 Give us credit for knowing what we're talking about.

00:23:59.000 You don't!

00:23:59.000 You know nothing!

00:24:02.000 This is important and I don't want to be simplistic so let me back this up.

00:24:07.000 Gun rights are necessary for a free society.

00:24:08.000 Essential.

00:24:09.000 So here you can see someone on MSNBC Surprise!

00:24:13.000 Actually admitting that Venezuelans are completely powerless because they don't have gun rights.

00:24:17.000 You have to understand in Venezuela, gun ownership is not something that is open to everybody.

00:24:22.000 So if the military have the guns, they have the power.

00:24:25.000 And as long as Nicolas Maduro controls the military, he controls the country.

00:24:30.000 Uh oh! 0.99

00:24:31.000 Did I just say that out loud?

00:24:33.000 That would never happen here though.

00:24:34.000 Come on.

00:24:34.000 That would never happen here.

00:24:36.000 Was that Tucker Carlson in a fat suit?

00:24:38.000 How does that make air?

00:24:39.000 I know what people are going to say.

00:24:41.000 People have been saying this nonstop on social media.

00:24:43.000 It's what they call the reverse nirvana fallacy.

00:24:45.000 I think they call it that in either rhetoric, logic, or philosophy.

00:24:49.000 It's hard to know which is taught in college.

00:24:50.000 I remember I learned about this in college.

00:24:52.000 We'll call it that.

00:24:53.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:24:54.000 If they had guns, do you think it would fix the problem here?

00:24:57.000 The government has tanks.

00:24:58.000 OK, hold on a second.

00:25:00.000 So?

00:25:01.000 Before we get into the statistics, let me ask you this.

00:25:05.000 Do you think it's a better scenario that citizens are being defenselessly run over by tanks from their government as opposed to a civil war scenario where they fight back?

00:25:13.000 So because they're completely defenseless right now and they're getting bazooka'd to high heaven, you think they should have no way to defend themselves?

00:25:22.000 I don't understand the argument.

00:25:23.000 And by the way, it's also incorrect.

00:25:24.000 With an unarmed population, Maduro is barely hanging on to power.

00:25:28.000 Okay?

00:25:28.000 If you dumped 300 million guns into the mix, he'd be through.

00:25:31.000 Yeah, they're doing great with rocks and bottles right now.

00:25:33.000 Can you imagine if they were armed in any way?

00:25:35.000 This is the idea.

00:25:35.000 It's like, well, they would just nuke.

00:25:37.000 Well, no.

00:25:38.000 There's a ground war that needs to be fought.

00:25:40.000 And right now they are fighting without guns.

00:25:42.000 And the Second Amendment is designed specifically.

00:25:44.000 This is where people miss it when they talk about it being hunting.

00:25:47.000 I know I sound like a broken record, but it's designed specifically to prevent this kind of government from even attempting this sort of tyranny.

00:25:54.000 But that would never happen here.

00:25:55.000 Yeah, that's the next time.

00:25:56.000 It would never happen here, so let's just make sure that we have no failsafe.

00:26:00.000 Take the United States, for example.

00:26:02.000 If you look at the numbers, we have a population of 320-something million people.

00:26:05.000 We have 300-something million guns.

00:26:07.000 I think it's over 30% of households who own guns.

00:26:13.000 Our total military population is just over 2 million.

00:26:16.000 That's including active and reserve personnel.

00:26:19.000 There's no chance of the United States gunning down its people because they know the citizenry is so armed.

00:26:23.000 It cannot happen.

00:26:25.000 And if you think, again, you think that genocide is better in Venezuela than a civil war, I need to hear your argument when you say that guns in the hands of civilians wouldn't help.

00:26:34.000 I just don't agree.

00:26:36.000 No, no, absolutely.

00:26:37.000 You have to have some kind of a protection.

00:26:38.000 If these people had guns, Maduro would have stopped a long time ago knowing that they would have come after him if he made those kinds of decisions that led to the conditions they're in now.

00:26:46.000 He would have had a check against him, even if it wasn't used.

00:26:49.000 Just like we have a historical precedent for all socialist, Marxist, communist governments doing this.

00:26:53.000 Do we have any kind of a precedent for armed populations fighting people?

00:26:56.000 Well, Switzerland weren't invaded during World War II, and I know some of you will say, well, they had a geographical advantage because of the mountainous regions.

00:27:02.000 OK, but you know what?

00:27:03.000 Let's use another example.

00:27:04.000 Direct quote from Japanese military.

00:27:05.000 When they were asked why they didn't invite the United States after Pearl Harbor, said, there would have been a gun behind every blade of grass.

00:27:11.000 By the way, Japanese, very flowery.

00:27:13.000 What's your excuse, Hirono?

00:27:14.000 Don't you think I know how to do poetry?

00:27:17.000 Give me credit.

00:27:18.000 I give you no credit.

00:27:19.000 None.

00:27:19.000 Whatsoever.

00:27:22.000 This is what's so important.

00:27:23.000 It's so predictable.

00:27:24.000 There's nothing unique about Venezuela.

00:27:26.000 All, it would be, if you could find an exception, no, all big government and socialist leaders disarm their citizens.

00:27:32.000 Every single one.

00:27:33.000 Soviet Union, Cuba, Nazi Germany.

00:27:35.000 Socialism, with socialism, disarmament is the rule.

00:27:40.000 Not the exception.

00:27:41.000 In every case.

00:27:42.000 And one of the things, I'm baffled at how people are forgetting recent military history.

00:27:47.000 Vietnam.

00:27:48.000 Vietnam, think about this.

00:27:49.000 Insurgents will always outlast in invading.

00:27:52.000 Always.

00:27:52.000 You know why?

00:27:53.000 The Taliban!

00:27:54.000 They're not centralized. 0.94

00:27:55.000 Okay, wouldn't they nuke them?

00:27:57.000 Fine, they would nuke a city.

00:27:58.000 There's millions more.

00:27:59.000 We're not centralized all standing in one place saying we're going to fight you from here.

00:28:02.000 It is one of the most impossible tasks.

00:28:04.000 Look at Afghanistan. 0.93

00:28:05.000 10 years, 15 years later.

00:28:06.000 We're still trying to take care of an insurgency.

00:28:08.000 Right.

00:28:09.000 Right?

00:28:09.000 So we would absolutely... And we can't.

00:28:11.000 As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure we'll talk with Senator Rand Paul after the break and he'll tell us that I know he doesn't think we should still be there because he thinks it's unwinnable.

00:28:17.000 If I had to say something about it... That was because I mean... That's a good point.

00:28:19.000 I mean, to contradict Joe a little bit, when you think U.S.

00:28:22.000 history only started in January 2009, what's in Vietnam?

00:28:26.000 Right.

00:28:26.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:28:27.000 Yeah.

00:28:28.000 I understand that, but man...

00:28:29.000 Well, lesson number two, this one is kind of an aside, but I wanted to include it, is that we learned that Trump is in a Russian stooge.

00:28:34.000 My important one, though, so this is really simple.

00:28:37.000 Putin has supported Maduro openly and repeatedly.

00:28:39.000 Maduro was actually readying a plane, did you know, to escape to Cuba?

00:28:42.000 Yeah, he was out.

00:28:43.000 Before the Russians convinced him not to.

00:28:46.000 And back in January, Trump issued a statement officially recognizing one other guy, one

00:28:54.000 other guy as the interim president of Venezuela.

00:28:57.000 And by the way, it's also important to note that Russia's had cozy relations with Cuba.

00:29:02.000 And if you look at Donald Trump and Bolton and not only their sanctions, but their rhetoric

00:29:06.000 on Cuba, again, this just backs it up.

00:29:08.000 But if you don't believe me, and I don't think you should believe me.

00:29:12.000 You should never believe me.

00:29:12.000 Hold your feet to the fire a little bit here.

00:29:13.000 Don't believe me.

00:29:14.000 Believe your lion eyes and believe your lion ears.

00:29:16.000 Here's President Trump meeting with one other guy's wife, telling her that her husband is 100% the president.

00:29:22.000 When asked about Russia, by the way, he couldn't be more clear.

00:29:27.000 We are with Venezuela.

00:29:28.000 We are with your husband, did you know?

00:29:31.000 And we're with the people that he represents, which is a big, big majority of the country.

00:29:38.000 There it comes.

00:29:39.000 What sort of complications does the Russian involvement now pose?

00:29:42.000 Russia has to get out. 0.90

00:29:43.000 What?

00:29:45.000 Alright, what's your next question?

00:29:48.000 Ha ha ha ha!

00:29:49.000 Someone's in the Kremlin's pocket!

00:29:53.000 What do you think about Russia?

00:29:54.000 Scrub! 0.99

00:29:55.000 They okay?

00:29:56.000 It couldn't be more forceful.

00:29:59.000 I'm just thinking about this now.

00:30:00.000 When Trump did this, didn't Cortez, Omar, and the other three stooges attack him for it?

00:30:06.000 Like, why are you getting involved?

00:30:07.000 We shouldn't be intervening.

00:30:09.000 No, I think you're thinking about Omar ranting about the Jews.

00:30:13.000 I'm a little confused here.

00:30:16.000 I think you're right, they did.

00:30:17.000 I have a legitimate question.

00:30:19.000 So if Russia is this socialist, Marxist, whatever, like the alternative to capitalist society over here that they want to usher in, wouldn't they want Donald Trump to be a stooge of the Russians so that it would happen here? 0.85

00:30:30.000 Why are they so opposed to the Russia connection if Russia has helped communism spread around the world and socialism by extension?

00:30:40.000 Right, wouldn't they want that?

00:30:41.000 Why are they fighting against that so much and tarring him like that? 0.96

00:30:44.000 Because you're a racist. 0.85

00:30:46.000 None of this makes any sense to me! 0.98

00:30:48.000 Hey, come on! 1.00

00:30:50.000 I'm the host!

00:30:50.000 Give me credit that I know a little bit what I'm talking about here.

00:30:53.000 No, no!

00:30:54.000 Well, hold on.

00:30:55.000 Can you give me specifics?

00:30:57.000 I relinquish my time.

00:31:01.000 Here's a final lesson.

00:31:02.000 Not only does socialism not work, but the macro really works.

00:31:05.000 Socialism is outright evil, and I've talked about this many times.

00:31:08.000 It's not compassionate. 0.96

00:31:10.000 Maduro's army, they're running people down in the streets, shooting them.

00:31:13.000 This is where socialism always ends.

00:31:16.000 How is there any question As to this being pure evil.

00:31:20.000 Venezuela, again, it's not an outlier.

00:31:21.000 Nope.

00:31:21.000 For the 20th century, socialist Marxist regimes have killed over 100 million people.

00:31:25.000 Tell that to your edgy atheist friend who talks about all religions being fought in the name, all wars being fought in the name of religion. 0.90

00:31:31.000 Yes.

00:31:31.000 I don't understand.

00:31:32.000 Please answer me.

00:31:33.000 How is this a surprise to anyone?

00:31:35.000 If only we had the literal exact comparison of a Marxist out-of-control government running over dissidents with tanks.

00:31:44.000 In the history books!

00:31:46.000 Is it possible?

00:31:47.000 Somewhere, maybe.

00:31:48.000 You starting to get the picture?

00:31:50.000 And this is the issue.

00:31:51.000 We have to go to Senator Rand Paul in a little bit.

00:31:54.000 Socialism, it starts with, it can only function with an entirely powerless and entirely defenseless society.

00:32:00.000 The two are different things.

00:32:01.000 When I say powerless, I mean people who are reliant on the government for their health care.

00:32:06.000 Reliant on the government for their education.

00:32:09.000 Reliant on the government for their welfare.

00:32:11.000 For their ability to live. 0.98

00:32:12.000 You suck the soul straight from somebody's body.

00:32:14.000 When I talk about defenseless, I'm talking about systematic disarmament.

00:32:17.000 And one, of course, precedes the other.

00:32:19.000 This is one thing, too, that...

00:32:22.000 I think Thomas Sowell talked about this.

00:32:23.000 You can't blame the leaders who seize control that you've willingly given to them.

00:32:29.000 At some point, maybe it was democratic, but guess what?

00:32:32.000 At some point, it's not going to be.

00:32:34.000 Let's not say Bernie Sanders is a Maduro.

00:32:36.000 I don't think he would be.

00:32:37.000 Maybe not the next guy, but it could be the next guy, and the next guy, and the next guy, and you're too far in because you're dependent on the government based on these policies because you thought you were getting a gimme.

00:32:47.000 Something else here that I think is important to note.

00:32:49.000 Capitalism is not flawless.

00:32:50.000 No one here is arguing that.

00:32:52.000 Free enterprise, of course, has its problems.

00:32:54.000 But if I'm wrong, and this is the issue, the idea of dispersing power, but not being centralized.

00:32:59.000 If I'm wrong and Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are corrupt and they become like Maduro's, you know what?

00:33:06.000 Thousands of people lose their jobs.

00:33:07.000 The economy's going to do pretty poorly.

00:33:10.000 Yeah, it'll be catastrophic economically for a lot of people.

00:33:14.000 If you're wrong, people get starved and run over with tanks.

00:33:18.000 So if you're going to take the lesser of two evils, let me know what you pick.

00:33:21.000 We have Senator Rand Paul after the break.

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00:35:46.000 I need to check that out.

00:35:47.000 I'm very glad to have our next guest.

00:35:48.000 We've had so many requests for him to be on.

00:35:50.000 He's obviously immensely popular with a lot of younger political activists, particularly millennials who are conservatives.

00:35:56.000 His brand of conservatism, I would want him to represent himself, but really seems to resonate with him.

00:36:01.000 You can follow him on the Twitter, at Rand Paul, in case you don't know who it is.

00:36:05.000 We'll be talking about his introduced plan called the Penny Plan to balance the budget, among other things.

00:36:11.000 Senator Rand Paul, thank you for being here, sir.

00:36:14.000 Well, thank you, but if they follow me on the Twitter, would that be on the internets?

00:36:18.000 It would be, yes.

00:36:19.000 At Walmarts?

00:36:20.000 Correct.

00:36:21.000 So long as it remains neutrality, yeah.

00:36:23.000 I wanted to make sure where they would go.

00:36:26.000 To the Twitter.

00:36:27.000 To the Twitter, yeah.

00:36:29.000 The Twitter and the YouTubes and the books of faces where that Game of Thrones girl also learns to become an assassin, I think.

00:36:35.000 I'm not entirely clear.

00:36:37.000 You're probably more in touch than I am, Senator.

00:36:39.000 You seem to really have your finger to the pulse of what's going on online.

00:36:43.000 Well, we have discovered today, have you seen the new White Walker calendar?

00:36:48.000 No, it sounds horrifying in the sense that people who would purchase it sound horrifying.

00:36:52.000 Well, the White Walker calendar has Senate Republicans depicted as White Walkers.

00:36:58.000 Oh! 0.60

00:36:59.000 Sort of some creative photoshopping.

00:37:01.000 It's actually quite good.

00:37:02.000 You might want to get your hands on it.

00:37:03.000 Now, I'm not going to lie, I don't mean this in any of the demonic undead sense, but because of the white hair and the lighter eyes, it wouldn't require too creative photoshopping to make you a White Walker. 0.88

00:37:13.000 Oh no, but I'm on the good side.

00:37:16.000 There's good and evil, and I think just the evil is being depicted as well.

00:37:20.000 So whoever made this must not have thought I was evil enough.

00:37:23.000 I'm on the white worker side anyways.

00:37:25.000 Yeah, you know, at a certain point when the storylines get all muddled, I'm like, you know what?

00:37:29.000 I just want this whole thing to fall.

00:37:31.000 First off, before we get to the penny plan, which is incredibly interesting, I think people would love to hear about it.

00:37:36.000 I know you've been busy.

00:37:37.000 Have you been following the Barr hearing this week?

00:37:40.000 What's your take on that?

00:37:43.000 Just peripherally, and a lot of people have been talking about it on the floor of the Senate.

00:37:47.000 You know, I wasn't part of the hearings, but yeah, I've been hearing from Lindsey Graham and others that it seems like the other side sort of lost it.

00:37:55.000 I mean, maybe just went completely bonkers, you know, over Barr, yelling and screaming at him, calling him a liar.

00:38:04.000 I guess from my point of view, it sounds like that even Mueller doesn't dispute anything that Barr said.

00:38:10.000 Everything Barr said was accurate.

00:38:12.000 He just wanted more released of, I guess, his narrative that he wrote about the whole thing.

00:38:18.000 But I guess my point of view on the whole Mueller report, the whole reveal, is that if you're not indicted for something, the government shouldn't release anything.

00:38:26.000 You know, I went against the Mueller report, and the same would go for Hillary Clinton. 0.65

00:38:30.000 I actually think Comey did a disservice to all of us, including the FBI, when he came forward and said, oh, we're not indicting her, but she really seems guilty as hell on these three different things.

00:38:40.000 The government shouldn't do that.

00:38:42.000 Because think about it from your perspective, or an ordinary citizen's perspective, that if the government accused you of a terrible crime that would make you a pariah in your whole community, but then it turns out you didn't commit it, would you want the government to say, The Democrats did not commit this horrendous crime and yet

00:38:59.000 we're going to write a 400 page narrative describing all the things that he might have done

00:39:02.000 that we think are kind of shady but he didn't commit the horrendous crime. I wouldn't want the

00:39:06.000 government writing a 400 page report on what I've done today before lunch. I'd be incredibly

00:39:11.000 embarrassed and I don't think you would appear on this program.

00:39:14.000 But that was actually going to be my first question, because you blocked a resolution calling for the release of the Mueller report.

00:39:19.000 And listen, you're obviously seen as an advocate for government transparency.

00:39:22.000 You're kind of seen as that candidate, the torchbearer, if you will.

00:39:26.000 So for those folks not in the know, you explained also, when you blocked this resolution, also that it was important to understand the origins of where the investigation began.

00:39:36.000 I'm an advocate for individual liberty, and so I'm an advocate for the individual, and I'm an advocate for government being controlled and restrained from what it can do to individuals.

00:39:53.000 So I look at a prosecution, or a prosecution where they do not find something that they can actually There isn't an overriding sort of, oh, we must be transparent about something that could destroy an individual where we didn't actually have proof that they committed a crime.

00:40:13.000 So I think in this case, the individual's rights would trump any sort of argument for transparency.

00:40:19.000 Now, in general, should the government be transparent?

00:40:22.000 Sure.

00:40:23.000 But really, it's always about how big is the government?

00:40:26.000 What does the government do to the individual?

00:40:27.000 And what do we do to protect the individual from a government that might grow too large?

00:40:31.000 And this is what I told the president.

00:40:33.000 I was with the president this weekend.

00:40:34.000 We played golf.

00:40:35.000 And I said, They've mistreated you.

00:40:38.000 The intelligence agencies have mistreated you.

00:40:40.000 The special prosecutor has.

00:40:41.000 But, my advice is that he needs to generalize this and talk about what would happen, for example, if the government could look at all the tax returns of everyone they didn't like.

00:40:52.000 A political enemies list.

00:40:53.000 So, Republicans get mad, they look at all the Democrats' tax returns.

00:40:57.000 Democrats get mad, they look at Republicans.

00:40:59.000 Or, what if we had special prosecutors for everybody?

00:41:03.000 And so we don't know that there's a crime you've committed, but we say, you know, what we do is we have a person, and we're going to look for wrongdoing.

00:41:10.000 That is an injustice, and it's important that people realize and remember that there's a burden on the government to prove guilt, and that's a tough burden.

00:41:20.000 We do it intentionally because we want to give any kind of degree of doubt to the individual.

00:41:25.000 We want to make the government have a bigger burden.

00:41:28.000 Their burden is to prove guilt.

00:41:30.000 And one thing Mueller really screwed up in this report is, Mueller failed in the one sense of understanding that the burden of guilt comes from the government, because he says at one point, oh, but we cannot exonerate the president.

00:41:41.000 I think he actually uses those words.

00:41:43.000 Well, that's not his business, and it's not the business of government to exonerate.

00:41:48.000 The business of government is to overcome a hurdle, and it's his burden of proof to prove someone's guilt.

00:41:54.000 Because if we had to prove everyone innocent, it's like, Oh, well, I'm pretty sure Stephen didn't do that, and we're not going to indict you, but I can't absolutely say that Stephen's completely innocent of all crime.

00:42:04.000 Right.

00:42:04.000 The innuendo of that, and the government's full force and power, it's a terrible power, and we have to be very careful.

00:42:11.000 And I've decided I won't ever vote for a special prosecutor, because I don't think it's the right justice.

00:42:15.000 We have grand juries, we have normal prosecutors, but we don't need special prosecutors that go through everybody's life from the beginning of time.

00:42:23.000 That's a very good point.

00:42:23.000 And that leads to the innuendo of Donald Trump angrily tweeting or saying, I didn't do anything.

00:42:28.000 And I'm saying, hold on a second.

00:42:29.000 Is that obstruction?

00:42:30.000 Right?

00:42:31.000 It leads to that.

00:42:31.000 Hold on a second.

00:42:32.000 If there's no crime, how can we now declare it to be obstruction?

00:42:36.000 And it really does become a slippery slope.

00:42:38.000 And I'm amazed at the media coverage of this.

00:42:40.000 Right.

00:42:41.000 And I think you're exactly right.

00:42:43.000 How can you obstruct something that wasn't a crime?

00:42:46.000 And actually, no one's actually saying he did obstruct anything.

00:42:49.000 There's nothing he actually did that stopped the wheels from turning.

00:42:52.000 The Mueller investigation went forward, $35 million worth, you know.

00:42:57.000 I don't know where there was actual obstruction. 0.99

00:42:58.000 Did people talk about ways we can try to get this stupid Mueller investigation over? 0.98

00:43:03.000 I think they did talk about that. 1.00

00:43:04.000 Right.

00:43:05.000 But there was no crime, and it turns out it was a false allegation.

00:43:08.000 So, if you're falsely accused of something, and you try to get the charges dismissed, and you work hard to make sure that whoever's trying to accuse you of the false crimes doesn't succeed, are you obstructing justice, or are you actually helping and abetting justice?

00:43:23.000 Or even it gets to the point, you know, where Barr answered a question from, uh, I think it was Kamala Harris.

00:43:28.000 Yes, it was Kamala Harris.

00:43:29.000 And she, she asked a question.

00:43:30.000 She said, uh, have you had, has the president, I want to make sure I get this correct.

00:43:36.000 Has the president or anyone else instructed you to investigate anybody?

00:43:43.000 And they're trying to act as though that's an own.

00:43:45.000 I'm going, wait, and, and, uh, Barr said, uh, uh, I'm grappling with the word anyone else.

00:43:51.000 It's like asking, hold on, have you, Senator Rand Paul, or anyone else ever said anything bad about anyone?

00:43:58.000 And then if you say, I don't think so, is that obstruction?

00:44:01.000 It seems like they're going to more generalized questions.

00:44:04.000 If you look at the hearing, it was no longer about legality.

00:44:06.000 It was about if he's a nice guy or not.

00:44:09.000 Well, I think they're getting at whether the president has asked them to investigate the investigators, the ones who came up with this fake dossier.

00:44:16.000 Should they?

00:44:17.000 And I think they should, because I think it's very important that we have the head of the CIA, John Brennan, who swore under testimony that he never saw this dossier till January.

00:44:29.000 Well, he had a task force for six months looking into this, and had members of the FBI on his team.

00:44:34.000 You think he never saw one of those letters from Christopher Steele?

00:44:38.000 I think he's parsing words, and this is the kind of stuff that they'll do to you.

00:44:42.000 The dossier wasn't a dossier until they put all the letters together.

00:44:45.000 Right.

00:44:45.000 Before that, there was 20 individual letters.

00:44:48.000 So I think he read the letters, and then when they put together in a folder and called it a dossier, he says, well, I have not seen the dossier.

00:44:54.000 Obstruction!

00:44:57.000 Really, so much of this originated in government.

00:45:01.000 Government took a dossier that no one would believe, and to get people to believe it, they gave it to people like John McCain, who then gave it back to the government.

00:45:08.000 The FBI's like, well, John McCain gave us this dossier.

00:45:11.000 Well, we already had it, but he gave it back to us, and now we need to investigate because a senator has given us what we already had that we gave them to begin with.

00:45:20.000 Well, look what we found in Senator Rand Paul's recycling bin!

00:45:23.000 You put it there!

00:45:24.000 Let's not get into details here.

00:45:27.000 Let me ask you this, because you've obviously been a critic of President Trump in the past, and I think you've supported, I think you've been very fair.

00:45:33.000 What is it like, you said you played golf with him.

00:45:35.000 Is it tense at all?

00:45:37.000 Do you have a good working relationship together?

00:45:39.000 You know, we get along pretty well.

00:45:41.000 We both love the game of golf, which helps.

00:45:43.000 He's very competitive, and so we have a good competitive round usually when we play.

00:45:48.000 And really, it doesn't get overly serious.

00:45:50.000 But I can tell you through the round, and being around him a long time, and hearing his statements, that I'm very encouraged by some of his sentiments and his instincts.

00:45:59.000 And I'll give you an example.

00:46:00.000 In the State of the Union, he said that great nations don't fight perpetual wars.

00:46:05.000 I couldn't agree more.

00:46:07.000 None of the Bushes would have ever said that.

00:46:09.000 None of the establishment Republicans would have ever said that.

00:46:11.000 It takes somebody who hasn't been muddled and drugged down by all of the establishment neoconservative rhetoric to say something like that, but it's exactly what I believe.

00:46:23.000 Nations don't fight perpetual war.

00:46:25.000 And in private and in public, when I talk to him, he says that he wants to be the president that gets, you know, that ends some of these wars.

00:46:32.000 In Afghanistan, we're spending $50 billion a year.

00:46:35.000 There's not a general left at the Pentagon who actually believes that there is a military solution in Afghanistan.

00:46:41.000 So I don't want to send the last kid or send one of my family members over there to fight in a war where every general is saying there is no military solution.

00:46:49.000 Right.

00:46:49.000 We're going to take one more village so we can have a better negotiated settlement.

00:46:54.000 Look, if the people over there don't want their current government, they're going to 0.65

00:46:57.000 get rid of them. 0.99

00:46:58.000 And frankly, the current government's full of a bunch of thieves, drug warlords. 0.99

00:47:03.000 They grow more poppy in Afghanistan than they ever have, even though the U.S. government 0.97

00:47:07.000 and the taxpayer spent $8 billion trying to wipe out their poppy crop.

00:47:11.000 They grow more than they've ever grown.

00:47:13.000 I mean, it's a waste.

00:47:15.000 You do better probably to burn the money. 0.89

00:47:17.000 If we just put it in a big, burnt bin and burned it.

00:47:19.000 Well, I actually knew a kid in high school who spent $800 on poppy, but it was California

00:47:24.000 poppy, which actually is not the same. 0.99

00:47:26.000 He thought he was going to make poppy tea and get blitzed, and he was a very dumb person. 0.99

00:47:29.000 Never made it to college. 0.86

00:47:30.000 But before I get to the penny plan, which is what I want to get to, you mentioned that, so I am curious, how does that go when you speak with the president on Syria, for example?

00:47:40.000 Obviously, you've adamantly been calling for withdrawal of troops from Syria.

00:47:43.000 Do you have those conversations?

00:47:45.000 You know, I think where there's agreement is that he believes that the Iraq war was a mistake, that toppling the Iraq regime made Iran stronger and made the Middle East, there's more unrest in the Middle East because of the Iraq war.

00:47:59.000 I think he thinks that leaving troops in Syria, that Syria is such a mess, will lead to more problems.

00:48:05.000 Now, his advisors are neoconservatism people who are the stay forever crowd.

00:48:10.000 They've convinced him to leave 200.

00:48:12.000 But I think actually leaving 200 is worse than leaving 20,000, frankly, because 20,000 aren't going to be picked off by a suicide bomber.

00:48:20.000 200 could.

00:48:21.000 You know, it happened at the barracks in Beirut.

00:48:23.000 Ronald Reagan decided, you know, this place is You know, crazy over there and we're just not staying, and he brought the troops home from Lebanon.

00:48:31.000 I think Trump has great instincts on that.

00:48:34.000 And even at the very least, if he put them on, you know, I'm not for staying forever in Iraq also, but it'd be better to have them on a military base in Iraq than it would be in the middle of that war in between the Turks, the jihadists, which some on our side call allies.

00:48:49.000 We armed jihadists.

00:48:50.000 Right.

00:48:51.000 Probably for five years, we sent arms to people who hate us.

00:48:54.000 Who would just soon skin us alive who hate Israel?

00:48:57.000 That's who we were sending arms to throughout that because we thought they'd be better than Assad 1.00

00:49:02.000 I'm, not positive that the people we were arming were any better or would be better than Assad 0.96

00:49:07.000 It seems like it's always a struggle because obviously when you think you're dealing with the worst evil you ally

00:49:12.000 yourself You ally yourselves with the people who you think would

00:49:15.000 would do the least amount of damage and then you know hindsight is is 2020

00:49:19.000 Um, okay. I do want to get to because we can talk about this all day and I really appreciate it

00:49:22.000 but the penny plan, your plan to balance the budget.

00:49:25.000 For people who don't know, I know they can follow you on Twitter, they can go check it out on YouTube.

00:49:29.000 Explain it to them.

00:49:32.000 We have a problem.

00:49:34.000 A debt, $22 trillion debt.

00:49:36.000 Every year now, we're adding about a trillion to it.

00:49:38.000 Seems statistically significant.

00:49:39.000 I'm with you.

00:49:41.000 Approximately, we spend approximately $4 trillion, and we bring in about $3 trillion.

00:49:45.000 Those are rounded numbers, but that's about it.

00:49:48.000 And so, what we would like to do is actually cut on the spending side.

00:49:51.000 But we want people to realize that it actually wouldn't be as dramatic as people make it out to be.

00:49:56.000 People are like, oh, it's too much, we can never do it.

00:49:59.000 So nothing ever gets done, and everybody says, oh, we could never cut.

00:50:04.000 What I've come up with as a plan is to cut 1%.

00:50:06.000 So 1% of $4 trillion is $40 billion.

00:50:10.000 Right.

00:50:10.000 Not so bad.

00:50:11.000 You do it every year for five years, and for the last several years, if you did one penny a year for five years, the budget balanced.

00:50:17.000 But because we don't do the penny plan, it's actually a little bit harder.

00:50:20.000 So we actually, this year, we had to rename it.

00:50:22.000 It's confusing marketing.

00:50:23.000 We're having to call it the new penny plan.

00:50:25.000 Okay.

00:50:26.000 Now you have to spend 98% of what you spent last year, but you can do it for five years.

00:50:31.000 But here's the rub, and it leads to one of the big lies of Washington.

00:50:35.000 So when I present this, and when the media reports it, they'll say that I'm cutting $10 trillion.

00:50:42.000 And I'm telling you it's $40 billion.

00:50:44.000 So how do we figure out the difference?

00:50:46.000 Government is increasing at about 6% or 7% a year.

00:50:49.000 So over the next 10 years, government will go from, you know, it'll increase $10 trillion in spending.

00:50:56.000 So if you're free spending, how much are you cutting?

00:50:58.000 They would say you're cutting $10 trillion.

00:51:00.000 I would say you're not cutting any of your free spending.

00:51:03.000 Most American taxpayers would say, if we spend the same amount last year or next year as we spent last year, that's not a cut, is it?

00:51:10.000 Oh, no, no.

00:51:10.000 In Washington, we were going to increase by $100 billion, so that's a $100 billion cut.

00:51:16.000 So we have to explain to people the whole math and the media is so biased in this that it's hard for people to get, but if we can get directly to the people and say, just cut 1%.

00:51:26.000 So every day in my office, a half a dozen groups come in with their hands out like this.

00:51:32.000 Can you see my hands?

00:51:35.000 These are called the beseechers. 1.00

00:51:37.000 They come for money.

00:51:39.000 And I explained to them, we don't have any money.

00:51:42.000 Did you see the debt clock in the front office spinning wildly out of control?

00:51:46.000 We have no money.

00:51:47.000 And so then I say, I tell you what, I'll make a deal with you.

00:51:50.000 So your group last year got $100 million.

00:51:53.000 Could you live with $99 million next year?

00:51:56.000 I said, well, everybody that would happen to everybody that gets money from government being 1% left.

00:52:02.000 Almost every one of them.

00:52:03.000 Even the liberals who believe that money grows on trees.

00:52:06.000 If you tell them that the country is being weakened by this debt, that everybody would get one penny reduction.

00:52:12.000 Everybody would get 99 cents on the dollar.

00:52:15.000 Could you live with that for the next five years if everybody does it for the betterment of the country?

00:52:19.000 Every one of them actually says yes.

00:52:21.000 Right.

00:52:21.000 But you can't find one liberal in Washington, one Democrat, that'll vote for that.

00:52:26.000 The problem is not just the Democrats.

00:52:28.000 No Democrat will vote to cut any spending.

00:52:31.000 They won't vote for any, but over half the Republicans are the same. They won't vote to cut any spending either.

00:52:37.000 So really there's 53 Republicans. There's about 10 to 15 that will vote for the penny plan. The rest of them will

00:52:44.000 take a pass.

00:52:44.000 Well, that was going to be my follow-up question because if we're going to talk about the two penny plan, the penny

00:52:48.000 plan of 1% or 2%, I was going to ask where do you cut it?

00:52:52.000 Because of course, you know, if anyone goes back and watches the West Wing, they make it seem as though Republicans only want to put cuts into health care and Medicare and education, and then the left, they always only want to make cuts in national defense.

00:53:03.000 So you're talking about putting that one or two percent cut across the board?

00:53:07.000 Yeah, I would do it across the board.

00:53:09.000 Now, obviously, it would be left up to the spending committees.

00:53:12.000 The rules basically say it's 1%.

00:53:14.000 If you choose to cut 100% of something and increase another category, you could.

00:53:19.000 But here's the reason you probably should do it across the board.

00:53:22.000 What we have is the opposite now.

00:53:24.000 Democrats want to increase social welfare spending.

00:53:27.000 Republicans want to increase military spending.

00:53:30.000 So what happens every year is there is bipartisan compromise.

00:53:33.000 In fact, the most misreported fact of all media, the biggest of all fake news, is that there's no compromise up here.

00:53:40.000 They compromise every day.

00:53:41.000 That's the problem.

00:53:42.000 They compromise to spend more money.

00:53:44.000 They increase welfare.

00:53:46.000 And they increase the military.

00:53:47.000 Guns and butter.

00:53:48.000 Everything goes up.

00:53:50.000 But the military spending can only go up if you give the Democrats welfare spending so they'll vote for the military spending and vice versa.

00:53:56.000 Right.

00:53:57.000 Now, the reverse could work.

00:53:58.000 The reverse could work.

00:53:59.000 You could actually cut a little bit from everything and actually bring down spending.

00:54:03.000 But the opposite compromise, the bipartisan compromise to spend more money has been going on for ever since probably FDR.

00:54:11.000 And the thing is, you can find almost all politicians at some point saying, yeah, there is some wasteful government spending, they're just usually attributing it to the other side.

00:54:19.000 Or like you said, the left often attributes it to the military, and the right often attributes it to social welfare states.

00:54:23.000 So it seems you're saying only 15, 20 Republicans would vote for this.

00:54:27.000 So I hate to say it, but you pitch this wonderful plan that to people watching, we say, well, that makes sense.

00:54:32.000 And then you make us feel hopeless.

00:54:33.000 So what can people do to support it and get it going?

00:54:36.000 The petty plan.

00:54:37.000 What should they do?

00:54:37.000 Where can they go?

00:54:39.000 Beat the you-know-what out of your legislators. 0.99

00:54:41.000 Beat them over the head with the telephone.

00:54:43.000 Call them, email them, and tell them, why won't you vote for this? 0.92

00:54:46.000 And then nominate somebody else.

00:54:48.000 You have a primary.

00:54:49.000 Go out there and get better Republicans.

00:54:51.000 And so I think the primaries are the place to put your effort.

00:54:56.000 Not as many people vote in the primaries, so your vote counts more, your money counts more.

00:55:00.000 So I would go out there and try to get better people to represent you.

00:55:04.000 And I think the louder people are, the better.

00:55:06.000 The other thing is, is by my having the vote, even though I know I won't win, because I know these people, I'm around them all the time, I know no Democrat will vote to cut the deficit, and I know half the Republicans won't.

00:55:17.000 But by forcing them to vote, it embarrasses them, and it puts them on record, and maybe one of them goes home and has a strong primary challenge that says, why didn't you vote for the penny plan?

00:55:27.000 So it has the potential to actually upset the apple cart and get new people up here.

00:55:32.000 Here's the problem, though.

00:55:34.000 They don't want to let me have the vote.

00:55:36.000 I will only get a vote if I force them to, which is what we're craftily, very secretly, and I can't tell you all the secret tricks we're using to force a vote, but we think we will get a vote in the next week or two.

00:55:48.000 Well, see, that's the problem, is then you force the vote and you radicalize young youth into cutting 1% spending.

00:55:54.000 I don't know who you think you are, Senator Rand Paul, but you're out with the White Walkers. 1.00

00:55:58.000 All right, we do have to get going.

00:55:59.000 That is at Rand Paul on the Twitters.

00:56:02.000 Senator Rand Paul, one of my favorite guests.

00:56:04.000 I do hope that it doesn't take this long to get you back.

00:56:06.000 I really appreciate it, and I do hope that we see this vote.

00:56:08.000 Thanks, Stephen.

00:56:10.000 Thanks for having me.

00:56:10.000 Thank you very much.

00:56:11.000 God bless.

00:56:11.000 God bless, we'll be back to wrap this up after this.

00:56:16.000 That's it?

00:56:24.000 That's it?

00:56:29.000 Just do one like this.

00:56:31.000 I am a lawyer. 1.00

00:56:32.000 I'll f**k you up, motherf**ker. 1.00

00:56:37.000 I'll f**k you up, boss. 1.00

00:56:39.000 And we win every time. 1.00

00:56:41.000 F**k, f**k, f**k. I'm the f**king best. 1.00

00:56:46.000 They always do. 1.00

00:56:47.000 Hold on, I was laughing.

00:56:49.000 My glove.

00:56:51.000 I'm gonna do it just, yes, in character.

00:56:54.000 The Plankton!

00:56:56.000 Pfft! 0.63

00:56:58.000 Ha! 0.89

00:57:00.000 That doesn't even make sense!

00:57:02.000 Why did I say the plaintiff?

00:57:03.000 That's it?

00:57:12.000 Just do one like this.

00:57:13.000 I am a lawyer. 1.00

00:57:15.000 F*** you all. 1.00

00:57:16.000 Hey there, Steven Crowder here with an important safety message. 1.00

00:57:19.000 Now I know that Sunday is Cinco de Mayo and you're going to enjoy your festivities and I want you to have your fun.

00:57:25.000 Take part in your neighborhood.

00:57:26.000 Contribute.

00:57:28.000 And of course, be sure to alert your local authorities.

00:57:30.000 The number is below.

00:57:32.000 Happy 5.

00:57:40.000 Sir, we're gonna take these funds for the Old Town Road.

00:57:47.000 We're gonna buy a ton of black asphalt.

00:57:50.000 We're gonna take these funds for the Old Town Road.

00:57:54.000 We're gonna pave and also fix potholes.

00:57:57.000 Or we could take these funds for the Old Town Road and maybe build a brand new stadium.

00:58:04.000 Sir, it's our entire job to fix the Old Town Road.

00:58:08.000 We must ensure that... Is he even listening?

00:58:11.000 I'm thinking no.

00:58:12.000 This is so exciting.

00:58:14.000 Look, the roof is shining.

00:58:15.000 So touched by this project, I named it Joe Biden.

00:58:19.000 Sir, this is dismaying.

00:58:21.000 Taxpayers are paying.

00:58:22.000 Ha! 0.89

00:58:22.000 Studies show these never create economic growth. 0.89

00:58:24.000 Can't hear what you're saying.

00:58:26.000 Can't nobody tell me nothing.

00:58:30.000 You can't tell him nothing.

00:58:33.000 Can't nobody tell me nothing.

00:58:37.000 You can't tell him nothing You can't tell him nothing

00:58:42.000 You You

00:59:25.000 That's called the when I first learned to swim and I wasn't confident and I wasn't supposed to be in the water

00:59:30.000 I went in the water anyway, and I would just push off edges and grab a breath

00:59:34.000 And then I would push off the ladder and go... That's what I did.

00:59:38.000 It's horribly dangerous, by the way.

00:59:40.000 I'm amazed at... We get it. 0.99

00:59:41.000 You want to be black. 1.00

00:59:44.000 They've rejected you. 0.99

00:59:45.000 Nature hasn't been kind.

00:59:47.000 They haven't taken you in as one of their own.

00:59:50.000 You were telling me about something during the break.

00:59:53.000 Thank you, Senator Rand Paul, by the way.

00:59:55.000 Keep in mind, next week there will be a Change My Mind.

00:59:58.000 You guys saw the teaser.

00:59:58.000 There will be a Change My Mind on Tuesday.

00:59:59.000 There won't be any other shows because, A, Change My Mind takes a lot of work, and we're moving into a new studio.

01:00:04.000 Yes.

01:00:04.000 So we're moving all of the edit bay, green screen where we tape all that's going to a new space, and then the next phase is going to be this actual studio moving to that space as well so that we don't miss like two weeks of shows.

01:00:15.000 You were just telling me something, you and Too Cute Maddie, something, you were mad about Burger King? 0.96

01:00:18.000 Yeah, so Burger King just released this idiotic ad today. 0.99

01:00:22.000 Okay. 0.99

01:00:22.000 It's, uh, it's okay to feel your way. 0.99

01:00:25.000 So, uh, a fast food chain.

01:00:27.000 Yeah.

01:00:27.000 Sells cheeseburgers.

01:00:28.000 Yeah.

01:00:29.000 Um, has an ad about depression and sadness and saying F you boss.

01:00:37.000 Like, it's just this Does it actually show a kid writing F.U.

01:00:40.000 Boss?

01:00:41.000 No, it's something.

01:00:43.000 They're all millennials. 0.88

01:00:44.000 So, of course, you're not advertising to people going, hey, it's okay to be, like, happy meal, you know?

01:00:50.000 It's okay to be happy.

01:00:52.000 Let's all be super depressed.

01:00:53.000 It's probably because they're eating at Burger King.

01:00:54.000 Cheeseburgers.

01:00:55.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:00:56.000 This is how you'll feel after cheeseburgers.

01:00:57.000 I used to love Burger King when I was a kid and I was trying to work out and put on muscle.

01:01:01.000 I love their fries, but then they changed it.

01:01:03.000 The thing is, I would eat a double beef whopper with cheese, and it would get on your fingers, and it stays with you the whole day.

01:01:10.000 Just to remind you of your bad decisions.

01:01:13.000 That night, you could be eating chicken breast and broccoli, and it's like, remember me? 1.00

01:01:16.000 You're like, oh damn! 0.98

01:01:18.000 This doesn't make up for it at all. 0.99

01:01:19.000 Oh, no.

01:01:20.000 Well, I haven't seen the commercial, but I'll need to see it.

01:01:22.000 It's horrible.

01:01:22.000 I'll show you.

01:01:23.000 I don't really know that it's worth that much time.

01:01:24.000 Then we just wasted.

01:01:27.000 Hey, I wanted to say, I want to offer a shout out to my father-in-law here.

01:01:31.000 He's a great man.

01:01:32.000 Love him.

01:01:32.000 He had a, I haven't really talked to guys, he had a blood infection this week.

01:01:36.000 Actually got sepsis.

01:01:39.000 Uh, and, uh, it was really, really tough.

01:01:42.000 Uh, it seems like he's doing better.

01:01:43.000 He's gone home, and when I was looking it up, I was like, well, man, this can be pretty severe, and because I didn't want to upset my wife, and there's nothing we can do because we're in another state.

01:01:49.000 So one of the things I got talked about is, man, sometimes you don't lie to your wife.

01:01:52.000 You're like, oh, well, you know what?

01:01:54.000 That can be okay.

01:01:56.000 But the truth is, it's really tough, can cause a lot of organ damage.

01:01:58.000 Anyone who has a, and he does seem to be doing well, but anyone who has info on that would appreciate it, maybe you send me some, because we'll take all the help we can get.

01:02:07.000 And my wife and I, it was pretty tough, had to come through this week.

01:02:11.000 And you know, I really, I just, there's nothing, people often say, oh, you're saying that because, I love my wife, I love my father-in-law, I'm really fortunate, I love my mother-in-law, I love my father-in-law, I love my mother and my father, my wife, and we really, we all get along pretty well.

01:02:23.000 But I will say this, my wife and I have had conflicts quite a bit.

01:02:28.000 And same with my father-in-law.

01:02:29.000 He's a great man.

01:02:30.000 We've gotten into it a few times.

01:02:32.000 And I think it's important, this is what I wanted to talk about today.

01:02:34.000 Conflict is not inherently immoral.

01:02:38.000 I think this ties into what we were talking about with Venezuela.

01:02:40.000 This is why I push for truth over middle ground.

01:02:44.000 Common ground is fine if it's founded on truth, but middle ground isn't if it's founded on a lie.

01:02:47.000 It's just a polite lie.

01:02:49.000 We have an entire generation of people, kind of like you're talking about with Burger King, who believe that conflict in and of itself is immoral or even impolite.

01:02:57.000 No, conflict leads to breakthrough.

01:02:58.000 Conflict leads to resolution.

01:03:01.000 That's the goal of conflict.

01:03:02.000 My parents have been together 30 years.

01:03:05.000 My wife's parents have been together, I want to say 40-something.

01:03:07.000 Her grandparents, 60-plus years before he got Alzheimer's.

01:03:11.000 I used to see my parents argue a lot as kids.

01:03:14.000 They worked it out.

01:03:16.000 Italian-Americans, they have nothing on French-Canadians. 0.93

01:03:18.000 My mother is a, you know her, she knows what she wants. 1.00

01:03:21.000 She can be a pushy woman, so can my wife. 0.90

01:03:23.000 They worked it out, though.

01:03:24.000 So I used to see my parents argue, and I used to watch them work it out.

01:03:27.000 The alternative to those conflicts and the subsequent resolution is divorce.

01:03:33.000 And when you have a generation of people who were raised on the, you just need to make yourself happy.

01:03:38.000 You do you.

01:03:38.000 If you're not happy in your marriage, you need to make yourself happy.

01:03:42.000 If you're not happy in your job, just find something else.

01:03:44.000 Life's too short.

01:03:45.000 You need to be happy.

01:03:46.000 And how many of those people do you find end up being happier because of it?

01:03:52.000 More importantly, okay, how many of them end up becoming more fulfilled?

01:03:56.000 Those decisions for short-term gain.

01:03:58.000 And this is a part of the leftist worldview which, ironically, is rooted in absolutism.

01:04:03.000 In trying to be staunchly opposed to moral absolutism, one of the only absolutes that many leftists, but many progressives, believe is that conflict is wrong.

01:04:13.000 Or that violence is wrong, but we're not even talking about that today.

01:04:15.000 You know what happens in a war scenario without conflict?

01:04:20.000 Genocide.

01:04:22.000 Do you know what happens on a campus bereft of ideological conflict?

01:04:26.000 Propaganda.

01:04:27.000 Indoctrination.

01:04:28.000 Do you know what happens in a marriage without conflict?

01:04:32.000 Happy?

01:04:32.000 No.

01:04:32.000 Divorce.

01:04:34.000 Complacency.

01:04:35.000 And I get it.

01:04:35.000 Conflict is uncomfortable, as it's easy to sell people a worldview or a political ideology that tells them their discomfort is unnecessary, unwarranted, or it's out of their control, and it promises to end all conflicts for them.

01:04:48.000 I'm telling you right now that conflict is unavoidable.

01:04:51.000 You can live your whole life trying to be Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. Milk Toast, avoid discussing religion and politics, avoid standing up for anything, try to fly under the radar.

01:04:58.000 Conflict at some point will find you, period.

01:05:02.000 And that's why I think it's important for everyone else too, but I accept conflict as a fact of life.

01:05:06.000 And rather than avoid it, I want to see more people learn conflict resolution.

01:05:11.000 Rather than learn how to not fight in a marriage, I want to... No one's going to learn how to not fight in a marriage.

01:05:18.000 No one's going to learn how to be comfortable their whole life.

01:05:20.000 No one's going to learn how to be happy their whole life.

01:05:22.000 But you can learn to find resolutions through the conflict.

01:05:26.000 Do you find yourself avoiding conflict?

01:05:28.000 Hard conversations?

01:05:30.000 Or have you learned how to change people's minds?

01:05:31.000 It's one or the other.

01:05:32.000 Do you avoid the conflicts of your marriage?

01:05:34.000 Do you let it boil over?

01:05:36.000 Or do you hash out?

01:05:37.000 Do you learn how to meet each other's needs?

01:05:38.000 Compromise.

01:05:39.000 Do you avoid the conflict of your co-workers or your friends by trying to move up in the ranks?

01:05:44.000 That's one thing that happens a lot, right?

01:05:45.000 You try to move up in your job and people get mad.

01:05:47.000 They don't like you anymore.

01:05:48.000 I learned this when I became a boss who employed... There were some people who didn't like me anymore.

01:05:53.000 That happens.

01:05:54.000 You do that in your workplace?

01:05:56.000 As a result, you become complacent?

01:05:57.000 Here's the thing about conflict.

01:06:00.000 And this is why I think it's so scary.

01:06:03.000 When you're in it...

01:06:04.000 You don't know how it ends.

01:06:06.000 When you're on that ascent, you don't know what happens on the other side of that crest.

01:06:11.000 Think of riding a bike up a hill. 0.96

01:06:13.000 It's hard, and it sucks.

01:06:14.000 But you often make up for time on the other side. 0.89

01:06:17.000 That difficult initial climb—and it sucks, don't get me wrong—makes the rest of the ride easier, more efficient.

01:06:23.000 And I don't want you to mistake this, what I'm talking about right here.

01:06:27.000 I don't want you to mistake it with advising you to live a caustic life or to be one of those unbearable people looking for a fight when there needn't be one.

01:06:35.000 That's not what I'm talking about.

01:06:37.000 But it's like we were talking about earlier with Venezuela.

01:06:39.000 Do you know what the alternative is to a civil war?

01:06:43.000 Genocide or continued subjugation.

01:06:45.000 And I see that on a micro level happen to so many people.

01:06:49.000 People who email us on the life advice shows that we do for those who are Mug Club members. 0.98

01:06:53.000 People who spend their whole lives avoiding conflict and then they wonder where they went wrong.

01:06:59.000 Don't be that person.

01:07:00.000 I want you to think about this for a second.

01:07:02.000 Is there a conflict that maybe you've been avoiding in your life that you've been putting off because you know it's hard and it's uncomfortable but it's necessary?

01:07:09.000 We all have it.

01:07:09.000 We've all done it.

01:07:11.000 Don't be that person.

01:07:12.000 If you find yourself in conflicts throughout your life, listen, you're gonna lose some.

01:07:18.000 Yeah, that's unavoidable.

01:07:20.000 But if you avoid the fight your whole life, I guarantee you that you'll find yourself in a prison of your own making, haunted for the rest of your life by the idea of what could have been.

01:07:31.000 Don't be that person.

01:07:32.000 Don't avoid conflict because it's uncomfortable.

01:07:34.000 All right, I'll see you next week, but not before Thursday.

01:07:39.000 Well, change my mind, Tuesday.

Louder with Crowder - May 03, 2019

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