In this episode of Muck Club, Steven Crowder tells the story of how he got his start in journalism, and how he became one of the first black journalists to get a job at the New York Times. He s also joined by the Nashville Shooters Manifesto and Alex Jones.
00:05:19.000As of right now, what I'm seeing, it looks like the civil rights, gun rights, and just constitutional rights in general of millions of people are about to be trampled on.
00:13:58.000It's the opposite of that because poll after poll shows whether they are moderates or whether it's the general American population, Trump wins on policy as it relates to immigration, he wins on specific policy questions as it relates to national security, foreign policy, and the economy.
00:14:13.000So what we are seeing now is people are overwhelmingly swinging towards Trump in a general, right now if it were held today, in spite of the fact that a lot of people don't like him personally.
00:15:47.000The Bruins had the greatest year in the history of the NHL team last year and they, you know, got knocked out in the first round because they kind of peaked too early.
00:21:02.000I'm trying to think of his, let's see the pre-buttle on Biden from Trump.
00:21:07.000There was a specific clip I was looking for but we'll show it.
00:21:10.000Joe Biden is on the run from his record and lying like crazy to try and escape accountability.
00:21:16.000For the horrific devastation that his party have created, all the while they continue the very policies that are causing this horror show to go.
00:21:27.000We cannot take it any longer as a country.
00:21:31.000Can you give me the clip where he calls them socialists, communists, all of that?
00:21:36.000I don't remember which one that was, where he calls Biden a socialist.
00:21:47.000As soon as he got in, Crooked Joe and his radical left lunatics deliberately dismantled each and every one of those policies that were so good that gave us this best border.
00:23:05.000At any time during the past three years, crooked Joe Biden, and he is crooked as you can be and the most incompetent president we've ever had, could have called off the invasion But to this day, he is keeping the hordes of illegal migrants, illegal aliens, they travel in packs.
00:23:24.000By the time his term is up, we can have close to 20 million people in our country.
00:23:30.000And we have no idea from where they come.
00:24:39.000If you go back and watch that election stream in 2016, I was shocked that he won Michigan because Clinton was up by 9.6, Biden was up by 4.7, Trump is now up by 3.6 in Michigan, and that's going to be exacerbated by tonight.
00:24:54.000His old shriveled dick is in a ringer because he wants...
00:24:58.000He wants to push the green policy, which of course pisses off the UAW and a lot of these Rust Belt union workers who typically historically have voted entirely Democrat, but for their self-preservation now, they're not going to be supporting this guy.
00:25:09.000This is a 15 point spread in Michigan.
00:25:20.000So, what we're looking at right now is just trends, guys.
00:25:22.000We're not telling you that this is how the polls are going to end up, but Trump has historically performed very poorly this far out against a Democrat opponent.
00:25:30.000Obviously, Clinton was up 10 in Wisconsin, and Trump is up 1.
00:26:05.00020-20, 12% now, 23%. From 8% to 23%. Hispanics, 28%. So about a quarter.
00:26:12.000Now, Trump is winning 46%. Again, these are the comparable polls. Think about that.
00:26:18.000He's winning with Hispanics more than Biden.
00:26:21.000He actually beats Biden in a head-to-head poll with Hispanics if there's a third-party candidate.
00:26:25.000Again, if demographics are destiny, and they're trying to bring in a bunch of third-world voters, of course, illegal votes, they're trying to buy a voting base.
00:26:32.000It's not working the way that they thought it would, and of course Trump is up with white voters, except all white women, which we kind of expected.
00:26:38.000Right so and look what I want you to know about those polls from 16 to 20 Trump had small but significant increases compared to what he did from 20 to 24.
00:26:48.000So just to frame that for you from 16 to 20 when his policies were taking effect people were like oh this is actually better from 20 to 24 When they see the policies of the other guy, they're like, holy crap, he's so much better now with that comparison.
00:27:01.000So he had a major increase over 2020 without even being in office to do anything right.
00:27:05.000And by the way, I've always said this, you have a sandwich.
00:27:08.000You have eight years Obama, three years of Trump, the last year doesn't count.
00:27:11.000Because of COVID, manufactured, the pandemic, not the virus, the pandemic was manufactured, and then you're going to have four years of Biden.
00:27:18.000So you have a consistent trend as far as wage growth, purchasing power, inflation, border policy.
00:27:22.000People go, eight, three, and four, I'm going with that guy.
00:27:26.000On the policies, this is why it's so important, specific polling on policies.
00:28:08.000Expect some Republican blaming on immigration, because we all know, we all know that it's the Democrat Party who are strict on border laws.
00:28:18.000Alright. By the way, Joe Biden's... excuse me, motorcade is on the way to the White House, but...
00:31:54.000But it's kind of surprising that nobody brought a guest related at all to the prosecution of Donald Trump, because you could say, I would not put it above any politician to bring, say, E. Jean Carroll or anyone like that, maybe they are in there, but that's something else that's A cloud over all of this is the fact that Donald Trump, who President Biden will be facing in November, has all these legal problems, Caitlin.
00:33:17.000No, and right now I know what they're trying to do is they're trying to say that Donald Trump, former President Donald Trump, crashed the economy and that Joe Biden is bringing it up, right?
00:33:26.000So, anyway, when we do, I just want to give you guys an understanding, like, we know State of the Union, he's going to be talking a lot, he's going to be speaking low, we'll keep his volume a little higher even as we talk.
00:33:34.000So you guys will still be able to hear what is being said, we'll comment on it, and we know that Donald Trump right now is actually crashing social media because people are just waiting for the mean tweets to come out.
00:33:43.000This lady was just fondling her neck like she had a phantom turtleneck.
00:36:32.000You know what, before we go, actually, Josh, of course you guys know him, you love him, third chair, he is going to be, where's he going to be?
00:36:38.000He's going to be in Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 22nd.
00:44:13.000Let's go to, I guess some other things, some key reference points here.
00:44:16.000I think he's probably going to run on, oh, let's look at some key guests we have.
00:44:19.000There's Daryl George of Barbers Hill High School, the one in Texas, which was given, this person was given an in-school suspension for not cutting his hair.
00:45:57.000He had a legitimate chance in 2012, he screwed it up, and then all he did from there is like, I just want to be relevant, guys, I'm gonna do whatever I have to do.
00:52:55.000Does he realize he's got a speech to do?
00:52:57.000If your father, if your grandfather were shuffling around in his wool slippers at this speed in the house, he'd be like, we need to call somebody.
00:53:05.000Yes, we need to make sure we find the will.
00:54:45.000Yeah, but I saw him when he was doing the daily briefings, and I would watch those daily briefings, and he would ask questions there and be in the press briefing room.
00:54:52.000And I was like, alright, he's asking some tough questions, but now he's just completely... Wouldn't you like to ask him, which is the real Jake Tapper?
00:54:57.000The one that you worked at Fox or this one?
00:56:49.000Mr. Speaker, Madam Vice President, members of Congress, my fellow Americans, In January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation, and he said, I guess you're at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.
01:01:05.000If the United States walks away, it will put Ukraine at risk, Europe is at risk, the free world will be at risk, and Bolton and others to do what they wish to do us harm.
01:01:26.000Hey, I'm so glad it's 9.30, State of the Union Address.
01:01:30.000And the only thing that's happened is talking about hundreds of more billions of dollars to a country in which we have really no interest and hates American values.
01:01:52.000Just like history watched three years ago on January 6th, when insurrectionists stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger to the throat of American democracy.
01:02:01.000Many of you here, in the darkest of days, we all saw with our own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots.
01:02:10.000They've come to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
01:03:51.000Yeah, tell it to the bitch behind you who, let's bring up that clip for later, said these people are not stopping when there were $2 billion worth of damages, thousands of officer casualties from Black Lives Matter, said nor should they stop.
01:06:01.000Because Texas law banned her ability to act, Kate and her husband had to leave the state to get what she needed.
01:06:08.000What her family got through should have never happened as well, but it's happening to too many others.
01:06:14.000There are state laws banning the freedom to choose, criminalizing doctors, forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states to get the treatment they need.
01:06:25.000Many of you in this chamber and my predecessor are promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom.
01:06:31.000My God, what freedom else would you take away?
01:06:33.000It's a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
01:06:38.000The Supreme Court majority wrote the following.
01:06:41.000And with all due respect, Justices, women are not without electoral power.
01:06:47.000Excuse me, electoral or political power.
01:06:50.000You're about to realize just how much you worry about.
01:08:52.000We have, it doesn't make new, but news in a thousand cities and towns, the American people... She said you have a small penis!
01:09:04.000By the way, I believe it's Mission Control.
01:09:08.00067% of COVID deaths have taken place under Biden after he came in when the vaccine was already developed, which of course he's touted since.
01:09:15.000And after the giant spikes, it subsided.
01:09:18.000Building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down.
01:09:22.000Investing in all America, in all Americans, to make sure everyone has a fair shot.
01:15:01.000Instead of auto factories shutting down, auto factories reopening, a new state of the art
01:15:06.000battery factory is being built to power those cars.
01:15:10.000So keep in mind when he says battery factories, what he means is subsidized.
01:15:14.000What he means is he's forcing these car companies to build batteries that aren't being used
01:15:19.000for cars that most Americans don't want.
01:15:21.000And you're paying for it with your tax dollars, while condemning Elon Musk and Tesla, who create the only electric cars that are actually profitable.
01:20:17.000And they'll still be extremely profitable.
01:20:24.000It will not only save lives, it will save taxpayers another $200 billion.
01:20:30.000Starting next year, the same law caps total prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare at $2,000 a year, even for expensive cancer drugs that cost $10,000, $12,000, $15,000.
01:20:41.000even for expensive cancer drugs that cost 10, 12, 15 thousand dollars.
01:20:45.000Now I want to cap prescription drug costs of two thousand dollars a year for everyone.
01:20:56.000You mandated a shot that was government-sponsored that we had to then go get boosters for, so basically you just fed them billions of dollars in profits.
01:21:07.000Now you want to cap- There's never been a bigger transfer of wealth from the American taxpayer to pharmaceutical companies than the COVID mRNA injection.
01:21:40.000And the reason that other countries pay less for prescriptions is because these drug companies innovate knowing that the cost will be subsidized by governments in other countries who don't have to burden the cost of creating the drugs.
01:21:52.000Many in this chamber want to take this prescription drug away by repealing the Affordable Care Act.
01:22:33.000You just want to spend other people's money, Joe.
01:22:37.000To state the obvious, women are more than half our population.
01:22:41.000The research on women's health has always been underfunded.
01:22:45.000Hey, can someone bring me up the stats of breast cancer versus testicular and prostate cancer?
01:22:53.000I believe the two diseases that get the most funding known to man are AIDS, entirely preventable, just don't have unprotected anal sex with strangers in truck stops, and breast cancer.
01:23:04.000I just want to say, this is the largest stream on the planet right now.
01:24:18.000We've cut red tape so billboards can get federally financing, which is already helping build a record 1.7 million new homes.
01:24:24.000You've made BlackRock Vanguard too big to fail who are creating a generation of renters while forcing out mom-and-pop land providers, home providers, into bankruptcy.
01:24:34.000Now pass and build and renovate Mandating rents go down?
01:24:38.000Remaining the strongest economy in the world, we need to have the best education system in the world.
01:25:31.000start school, kindergarten, or first grade, hearing, having heard a million fewer words spoken.
01:25:37.000Well, studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school,
01:25:43.000go on to earn a two and four year degree, no matter what their background is.
01:25:47.000And it's less than a third, as far as the increase compared to children who have a dad.
01:25:52.000He wants your kids in public school for another year.
01:25:57.000And then he wants to forgive them student loans so you have children from 4 to 22 years old being funded and completely indoctrinated by the government.
01:26:11.000Point it out to them, as Vice President.
01:26:13.000I met with over eight, I think it was 182 of those folks.
01:30:58.000Do you understand no matter how he paints his rosy picture for the next hour, tomorrow or the next day you're gonna read a headline about somebody else getting murdered by an illegal or whatever, and all that shit's just gonna go right out the window.
01:35:05.000In fact, the snack companies think they won't notice if they change the size of the bag and put a hell of a lot fewer... Why did it only start under you?
01:36:45.000My administration has proposed rules to make cable, travel, utilities, and online ticket sellers tell you the total price up front, so there are no surprises.
01:36:56.000He just secured the Ticketmaster Swifty vote.
01:38:10.000Does anyone actually buy that Joe Biden is being threatened on immigration?
01:38:14.000Tell you what, the American people aren't and it's the single most important issue in this election and they overwhelmingly think that Donald Trump did a better job.
01:40:08.000But, if it's only six months, six weeks, The idea is it's highly unlikely that people will pay that money and come all that way knowing that they'll be able to be kicked out quickly.
01:40:21.000Folks... Look at the black guy's palms, you can see him, he's like, what the... I respectfully suggest to my Republican friends, to the American people, get this bill done.
01:40:33.000So look, Donald Trump's highest year is 977,000 border crossings as far as what was caught.
01:40:38.000Biden was 1.7 million at his lowest year.
01:40:42.0007.53 million border crossings caught under Biden.
01:40:45.000This is a guy who's flying hundreds of thousands of illegals on planes in the United States so that he can lower the amount of border crossings being caught.
01:40:52.000This is a guy who sold off $154 million worth of border materials that Donald Trump had purchased to secure our borders.
01:40:59.000This man wants to buy votes with your tax dollars.
01:49:08.000You just brought a sister of a murdered child up and used her to say, we did something, we created a commission that doesn't do crap because it's Washington D.C.
01:49:37.000By the way, we already showed you this, the crime maps.
01:49:39.000If you even look in red states where they say gun crimes are higher, almost all, meaning between 80 and 100% of gun crimes take place in the blue districts, urban areas, and gun-free zones.
01:54:12.000Now, the good news is he's very unpopular, but if he was popular or even remotely charismatic, this would be the rise of a fascist to power.
02:04:07.000Look at Carmella, she's gonna lick his wrinkled bag.
02:04:10.000Alright, so I just want to say really quickly, trending number 5 right now is Lincoln Riley, the wrong person who was not actually killed by somebody who was here illegally.
02:05:59.000And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport protesting me, spitting, calling me a baby killer, and all kinds of vile crap.
02:07:16.000I want him to be president of the United States.
02:07:19.000He's got some really good points on what we should be focusing on, and I think President Donald Trump is going to be focusing on those things.
02:07:24.000So we'll bring that up in just a minute, but let's see what CNN is saying so far, because I think they'll probably speak over this a little bit.
02:10:29.000I'm going to not pile on to what the obvious was, which is this man who was screaming at the audience.
02:10:35.000It was more unifying for the people of Ukraine than it was for the people in the United States.
02:10:39.000And so there's a lot to say that others have already said.
02:10:42.000But let me add something that maybe hasn't been said, but I think is important.
02:10:45.000Which is that the speech he gave paints a caricature of Donald Trump and his policies that actually pretends like it's more like George Bush that he's running against.
02:10:56.000And I want to say that when you think about the issues he prioritized the most, let's just see it for what it is.
02:11:01.000Donald Trump is not the Republican candidate who's calling for tax exemptions for private equity billionaires.
02:11:07.000He's not the Republican candidate who's calling for cutting Social Security, or cutting Medicare, or letting pharmaceutical companies off the hook when it comes to drug pricing caps.
02:11:16.000This is actually pretty ironic, because within the Republican Party, starting in 2016, Donald Trump is actually the one who led a revolt Within that same Republican Party, largely abandoning those same policies.
02:11:29.000So we can get into the policy debate on its own merits later.
02:11:33.000You'll have some Republicans on one side of these questions, some Republicans on another side of these questions.
02:11:37.000But what I thought was most interesting about tonight is that we got a lot of insight into what I think the Democratic machine's approach is going to be for the rest of this year.
02:11:47.000Which is to paint Donald Trump's policies as George Bush's policies.
02:11:53.000Criticize Donald Trump for his persona and pretend like Donald Trump doesn't actually agree with much of the country and even some of the Democrats in that room on issues relating to pharmaceutical drug pricing, Social Security, Medicare.
02:12:06.000Well, we had the fact check there, and Donald Trump was the first president to oversee an actual reduction in costs of prescription drugs, and that was largely because of the way the market was working, let alone the policy as it related to, I don't know if it was Medicare, Medicaid, and insulin out-of-pocket costs not being higher than $35, which of course, former Vice President Biden reversed, and then created a new policy to take credit for it.
02:12:27.000Another question I have, are you in front of an actual bookshelf, or is that a green screen?
02:13:01.000Do you think anyone is buying that this guy is going to do more about illegal immigration?
02:13:04.000Do you think anyone is going to buy that this guy is doing more for the middle class?
02:13:07.000And by the way, it is important to note that he equated middle class with unions, right?
02:13:11.000There's a big divide there, even in the Rust Belt.
02:13:14.000It's almost like today was opposite day.
02:13:17.000When you look at the polls, every single poll shows that on immigration, on national security, even moderates don't believe Biden.
02:13:25.000Do you think it's going to continue after tonight or do you think he convinced anybody?
02:13:30.000So look, I mean I think I would like to beat Biden in a Reagan 1980 style landslide and I'd love to see Donald Trump win with that moral mandate but I want to be objective and put myself in the shoes of even extended family members or friends that might be on the left or in the center or whatever that aren't as engaged in politics on a day-to-day basis.
02:13:46.000What do I actually think that they saw in this?
02:13:49.000I think that he might have had some people right up to the point where he got to the border.
02:13:53.000I think that's where he would have lost all credibility.
02:13:54.000Because you can hear people where he's talking about making sure that the tax rate is borne fairly by people who billionaires pay an 8% tax rate.
02:14:04.000Seniors thinking about Social Security or Medicare cuts.
02:14:06.000Keep in mind, he's running against the guy in the Republican Party who is advocating for many of these same policies.
02:14:11.000But then when he got to the border, I think that's when he'll lose even many of those moderates or independents or politically otherwise unengaged people.
02:14:19.000Most people have a brain to understand that without any new law, so Biden saying, oh, the Republicans aren't supporting this new border bill that all of a sudden we're showing concern to push through.
02:14:28.000I think people in their most basic sense understands that we don't have, we didn't have that new law under Donald Trump.
02:14:43.000Under the same set of laws, we have two presidencies.
02:14:46.000Under one of those presidencies, we saw a decline in illegal immigration.
02:14:50.000In the other of those presidencies, we have seen the largest massive influx of illegal mass migration into this country.
02:14:56.000And so when he goes that further step, it was almost like, you know, the Icarus flying too close to the sun version of Joe Biden.
02:15:03.000I think even somebody who he might have had on the lines, somebody who's not as engaged as the average political viewer, but might turn on the State of the Union for a given night, I think he might have had them curious until he got to that border question, at which point he goes back to losing all credibility, because under the same set of laws, we see what exactly is happening today.
02:15:20.00010 plus million illegal migrants, anybody living in a city, understanding the effect of that.
02:15:25.000And so I think whatever credibility he might have built up, minuscule as that might have been, with a moderate, politically disengaged viewer, he lost that when he got to the border.
02:15:33.000Let me ask you, since the polling shows that immigration is the single most important issue to the American voter right now, that was kind of a surprising, like compared to 2016 where they were really thinking it was a winning issue, meaning the left, painting Donald Trump as a racist.
02:15:45.000Now I believe it was 28% said it was their most important issue, but it was number one, significantly.
02:15:50.000Would we say that tonight, because like you said, let's say some people kind of bought what he was selling up until then, it still ends up being a net loss because that's his Achilles heel, and he spent time on it?
02:16:01.000And it lacks any credibility that he made a mistake.
02:16:06.000I think it was a net loss for two reasons.
02:16:08.000First of all, the way he opened it with January 6th in Ukraine.
02:16:27.000He started coming back largely by embracing policies that Donald Trump also supports.
02:16:32.000But pretending like Donald Trump doesn't support them, but then coming back to the border and pretending like he was somehow the border security guy, other than Trump, he went back to losing them again.
02:16:40.000So I think both at the start of the speech, and then right when he had maybe built an iota of credibility by appropriating many of Trump's policies and pretending like they're his own, actually went back ultimately to losing them on the question of the border.
02:16:53.000One good thing that did happen, I think, potentially out of tonight is, if he really bombed it tonight, I think that that would have strengthened the faction on the left.
02:17:01.000And I think there's two factions on the left.
02:17:03.000There's the managerial class that wants to keep him right where he is.
02:17:06.000And then there's the people who ideologically are just deeply worried to say that the Democratic Party needs to do whatever they can do to actually maximize their odds of beating Donald Trump.
02:17:14.000And so As much as we have our own struggles and I would say balance of power shifts on the right, there's a similar struggle right now as it relates to this election on the left.
02:17:27.000have a vested interest in making sure Joe Biden stays right where he is and Jill Biden and that whole apparatus does because that's where, you know, that's where their milk comes from.
02:17:36.000Their mother's milk comes from their access to power.
02:17:40.000And then there's the other people who are less close to that center of gravity that would rather see Joe Biden out and put up somebody who's actually going to be, for them, a much more competitive nominee, likely somebody younger, so they can take all the age-related criticisms and turn it into a tailwind.
02:17:53.000That's the struggle going on on the left.
02:17:55.000And so if Biden bombed tonight, that would actually further empower the faction that really wants to sideline him so that they could put up a more competitive candidate.
02:18:03.000And the fact that they got him, whatever, five-hour energy or whatever it was he took, To be able to at least scream into the teleprompter and state it.
02:18:18.000And so, whatever it was, I think that that actually did just enough of the trick to say, didn't arm the other camp within the left quite with what they needed to sideline him yet.
02:18:27.000Though I do think that's going to be the real issue to watch.
02:18:30.000I mean, the Republican nominee has been known for a long time.
02:18:32.000Donald Trump ever since Iowa, that's been crystal clear.
02:18:35.000The real question coming out of Super Tuesday and even coming out of tonight is this could have been the night where that last domino fell and there was the emperor was really wearing no clothes and ultimately all you have left is who's going to be the new nominee.
02:18:46.000I didn't think we quite got there tonight and so that's going to be an increasing persistent question.
02:18:51.000An interesting persistent question for the next few months still is are they going to keep him or not?
02:18:57.000Well thank you for that, and one question I have is from Gerald, and I have a final question because I know you're a hot ticket tonight.
02:19:02.000Highly sought after, Vivek, good to talk to you again.
02:19:04.000Look, I think you're right, he had to start off with some of these other topics, you know, like Ukraine, but it's because he couldn't... Think about it, think about it!
02:19:13.000Think about being in the position of not being Donald Trump coming into 2020 and giving that State of the Union address and talking about how wonderful the economy is.
02:19:54.000I mean, it's all a game of deflection.
02:19:56.000The core question that many Americans themselves are going to ask at home is, you have two presidents, four years of one and four years of the other.
02:20:02.000And keep in mind, this is a rare occasion that you get this.
02:20:06.000It's happened like once or twice in American history.
02:20:09.000Where you might get a new guy making promises who's challenging an incumbent, but what the person at home has to decide is, okay, is this new guy making me promises actually going to deliver on what he's doing versus the guy who's at least the devil who I know who's sitting here in the presidency right now?
02:20:56.000It's not the politically hyper-engaged, it's the people who only vote in a general election but haven't voted in a primary, who wouldn't consider themselves to be partisan one way or another that are going to decide this election in about five states and maybe 98 counties in this country.
02:21:09.000What are the people in those areas who otherwise wouldn't have shown up in a primary or otherwise, when they do show up in this November, what do they decide based on?
02:21:16.000I don't think they're going to remember exactly what happened in Obama versus Bush versus Trump, but they can remember the last two presidents.
02:21:21.000I remember what four years under Trump were.
02:21:23.000There were no foreign wars, my economy grew, my paycheck grew, and I actually trusted the country that I lived in to actually at least look after my interests over the interests of those in other foreign countries.
02:21:34.000Now you have four years of functionally open borders, a shrinking economy, prices that
02:21:38.000have gone up at a faster rate than my wages have, and understanding that we're closer
02:21:42.000to World War III and major conflict than we've ever been in our lifetime, and we certainly
02:21:47.000that we were at any point under Trump's presidency.
02:21:59.000Vivek, I'm not sure if you know this, but Donald Trump, President Trump as we like to call him here in the studio, basically is just truthing out as if he is watching our show right now.
02:22:08.000One minute ago he actually tweeted, or truthed out, he didn't stand up to Putin, he gave Putin to Ukraine.
02:22:13.000President Trump, look, if you're watching, let us know!
02:23:29.000And once the momentum of an entire campaign becomes defined against being against that other, that guy, then you've set yourself up for failure because all they need is a bait and switch.
02:23:38.000It's like a feigned retreat in warfare.
02:23:41.000Lead the enemy to one spot when in fact you're actually getting them from the other angle.
02:23:45.000Call that other angle Michelle Obama or whoever you want to call it.
02:23:48.000So here's what I would do if I was running against Biden.
02:23:51.000I would effectively ignore his existence and say this is an opportunity for us to actually define here's what we stand for, that we believe the nation state is worth preserving, that of a citizen of this nation, the United States of America, not some nebulous global citizen fighting climate change.
02:24:08.000And a nation without borders is not a nation.
02:24:11.000If you're going to succeed economically and we have a country where we're the most prosperous nation on earth, we don't have to apologize for that and flog ourselves.
02:24:19.000We're going to own it because that's what it means to be American.
02:24:21.000And I don't care if you're at home black or white or gay or straight or man or woman or Democrat or Republican for that matter.
02:24:29.000If you want to get ahead in this country and achieve whatever you want to achieve, Be as rich as you want to get and as successful as you want to be with your own hard work, then I will back you in doing it because that's what it means to be American.
02:24:42.000And whatever the Democrats put up, black or white or Michelle Obama to identity politic, Kamala Harris to Gavin Newsom to anybody else, it doesn't matter because they're all puppets for a managerial class that's trying to screw you over.
02:24:55.000We're the ones who actually stand in for the interests of Americans.
02:24:58.000America First includes all Americans, not a bunch of Ukrainian bureaucrats, but all Americans from inner city to the rural communities to the suburbs here.
02:25:07.000And whoever they put up, it doesn't matter because we're running on the agenda that made this country great in the first place.
02:25:13.000I think that's what we've got to be doing now, is standing for our own vision, irrespective of the nonsense that we saw tonight, or else we risk falling into a trap where they're really leading us to selling us the rope today that they're going to use to hang us tomorrow.
02:25:27.000And I think we've got to be careful to resist that, or else it could be a very ugly summer once that switch comes.
02:25:33.000Well, I was waiting with bated breath, and when the word came out, irrespective and not irregardless, I don't have to hit you.
02:31:26.000I was going to say to Vivek, I was going to say, I made a point during the show to these guys that it doesn't matter what Biden, he could have hit a grand slam tonight.
02:31:34.000I was just going to say to him, in a week or so, you're going to read about another incident at the border.
02:31:38.000You know, it's always, it's the economy, stupid.
02:34:42.000I'll be honest with you, this is the most, you know, I mean, the good thing, like, most of us didn't understand and it's not because, you know, he speaks with a Yankee accent like I do, but most of us didn't even understand what he had to say.
02:34:54.000Then from the stuff he said, you couldn't really even figure out what in the hell he's talking about, you know, where he's getting his numbers and which calculator he's using.
02:35:03.000So that was really bizarre, I'll be honest with you, and probably, like, only, like, two times Republicans actually, you know, had to stand up when he, you know, pretty much, you know, mentioned, you know, very patriotic couple phrases.
02:35:16.000That's about it, you know, this is really crazy.
02:35:19.000I tell you what, the biggest surprise of the night is that Nick DiPaolo has helped me with a guest.
02:36:26.000So let me ask you, Mrs. Sparks, because as someone who comes from the, you know, former USSR, Biden tonight led right away with, not Ukraine, but money for Ukraine.
02:36:38.000You're someone who'd have first-hand experience with this.
02:36:40.000How do you think that played and what was your thought when that was right out of the chute the very first thing?
02:36:45.000Well, it is like, listen, Biden is full of bullshit!
02:37:48.000Well, and the thing is, too, people believe you're either pro-Putin or you're pro-billions of dollars to Ukraine.
02:37:54.000You have a pretty clear policy, and I think a lot of Americans understand this, where you believe that if there's any support to Ukraine, it should be through loans, not handouts, and there need to be preconditions, right?
02:38:03.000I want to make sure I'm not getting that wrong.
02:38:09.000As a congresswoman, when I demanded two years ago to have proper oversight, and we need to understand we're dealing with a corrupt country, I was dragged through mud like I am pro-Kremlin and pro-Putin.
02:38:21.000Because I demanded oversight, and how dare an American congresswoman ask where our money is spent?
02:38:27.000I mean, we'll have grandchildren pay for all this shit, and we are spending money left and right?
02:38:33.000How dare you, actual Congress, dare to ask, you know, accountability, Congress, dare to ask Congressperson where the money is spent, what is our strategy, what we're doing, why we keep having them spending money and we have more and more and, you know, and have a disaster, what's happened in Afghanistan, trillions of dollars spent, now Taliban raised the flag.
02:38:54.000I mean, it's a joke what is happening right now.
02:38:57.000It's embarrassing and I think we cannot continue doing that.
02:39:00.000I mean, it's sad for me to see from one way, but it's kind of funny because probably, I mean, most people see that where we are, and I think it's a sad reality, but I think we need to, you know, stop, you know, aggressive countries.
02:39:19.000And, you know, they have to respect peace through strengths because I'll be honest with you,
02:39:24.000we give them too much power and they've been, we have too many, you know, really weak leaders
02:39:29.000that were drinking the Kool-Aid and fighting China on Fox News.
02:40:06.000She's running for re-election in 2024, so this year, make sure if you live just north of Indianapolis, that's where the 5th District is, go and vote for her!
02:40:15.000Start a super PAC, do whatever the hell you want, support this lady!
02:42:22.000I'm just saying, when I would work with like, you know, a middle comic for the week who was clean, squeaky clean, by Friday night he'd be cursing.
02:44:46.000How do you know what I was talking about?
02:44:50.000Trump realizes, and you know this is a comic, I've met people ten times more successful than me, doctors and shit, but they all want to be comedians.
02:45:00.000And it's a brilliant way to make people like you, you know that.
02:49:13.000Imagine, look, imagine who you would be.
02:49:17.000Imagine who you would be if you never had to answer to a boss, if you never had to answer to 30, 40, 50 employees as a boss in the private sector, if you never had to actually look at an honest profit margin and say, is what I'm doing working?
02:49:33.000That doesn't apply in the public sector.
02:49:35.000He has been in the public sector his entire adult life, half a century.
02:49:41.000He has no idea the world you live in, and his solution is always more government because that's all he knows.
02:52:25.000How do we win 2024 election when nothing has changed in our election, like allowing mail-in voting in this time, and Democrats run states, they allow, who's drunk here, me or you, run states that will allow illegals to vote?
02:53:42.000If this gets to the point of some kind of an actual civil revolution conflict, in whatever capacity it may be, Just like anything else in life, you have to be able to look yourself in the mirror before anything ever goes to drastic measures and say, did I do everything I could possibly do?
02:53:56.000Did I check all the boxes I had to check?
02:53:58.000Did I cross all the T's and dot all the I's?
02:54:01.000If the answer is yes, then you know where the answer lies.
02:54:06.000But if the answer is no, if you didn't do everything you could do, you don't know.
02:54:10.000And then you may just be a reactionary prick.
02:54:12.000So do everything you can right now, and if everyone does everything they can right now, it cannot happen.
02:55:05.000If a bunch of people listen to that and don't go out and vote... I'm not saying not to vote!
02:55:09.000No, no, I know, but what I'm saying is if it's not a landslide where it clearly happens in the daytime, in sunlight, then they're gonna paint you as just reactionary, as extremist.
02:55:18.000My point is, this needs to be so clear-cut and their theft so clear that then people even understand, like, alright, I get why everyone's upset.
02:55:31.000They've already stated, even if he wins, they've already stated, I don't know who wrote the article in the Atlantic, what their plan is, something about electorates again.