Trump vs. Biden is the most momentous election choice America has seen since the Civil War, and it's a choice that could have the most serious ramifications for the country in 160 years. I m worried, but there s still a glimmer of hope.
00:00:00.000Hello, my friends. Today, I give you my last monologue before the U.S. election. I'm a little
00:00:04.560bit nervous because I think the stakes are high. Everyone always says that, but this feels somehow
00:00:09.140like a turning point. And, you know, people say, well, the pendulum always swings back. I think the
00:00:14.640Democrats have plans so that the pendulum will not swing back, whether it's packing the court
00:00:19.260or even talking about changing the electoral college. I'm worried, and I go through my worries,
00:00:24.880but there's still a glimmer of hope underneath it. That's ahead, but before I get out of the way,
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00:00:59.120Tonight, it's election day in America tomorrow, and I think it's the most momentous choice
00:01:07.840since the Civil War. It's November 2nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:14.620Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:18.380There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the
00:01:23.940government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:33.260The Civil War was the greatest calamity to happen to the United States.
00:01:37.520Over 600,000 killed in that war, more than all other wars combined for America.
00:01:42.720It ended slavery, and it ended the secession of the southern states called the Confederacy,
00:01:47.980the most momentous crisis in American history. I truly think tomorrow's election,
00:01:52.380and the stark contrast offered by Donald Trump and Joe Biden is the most serious choice with the
00:01:59.020most serious ramifications for America in 160 years. I really believe that. In fact,
00:02:04.700I think there's actually a possibility for an informal civil war in America, not a war between
00:02:09.600the states, but a wave of mass political violence in the streets. It's not even a prediction. It's an
00:02:16.080observation of how the Democrat street gangs like Antifa and Black Lives Matter have conducted
00:02:21.360themselves in the past six months. I see that shopkeepers in Washington, D.C. have begun boarding
00:02:27.200up their windows again. They're not worried about riots from Republicans. There are no Republicans in
00:02:31.760Washington. But don't worry. All the Democrat celebrities who support Democrat rioters call for
00:02:38.460the defunding of police. They'll have plenty of private security. America has had crises since the Civil War,
00:02:45.480whether to get involved in the Second World War, for example. Isolationists won the argument for
00:02:50.640two years after Hitler attacked the world. That ended when Germany's ally, Japan, attacked Pearl0.66
00:02:56.580Harbor. It was a disaster and a calamity, but it actually unified America. After Pearl Harbor, every0.88
00:03:02.440American was fused together in a sense of shared national purpose. The Cold War that followed was a test for
00:03:08.500America, too. But again, there was a general agreement between Republicans and Democrats about foreign
00:03:13.740policy. It was John F. Kennedy, the Democrat, who contained Cuba, actually backed an attempt to
00:03:19.180invade it. Democrats love fighting wars probably a little bit too much. My point is that disagreements
00:03:24.000between Republican politicians and Democrat politicians and their voter bases have been reasonable and
00:03:29.820incremental most of the time, but that's come apart. Over the past two decades, divisions in America have
00:03:36.580increased. There isn't much of a center anymore. There's not a lot of common ground anymore. Look at these graphs
00:03:42.020from Pew Research. The country's coming apart, I think. Coming Apart, that's the title of a book
00:03:47.560published almost 10 years ago by the great scholar Charles Murray. He describes many changes in America,
00:03:52.620including a growing white underclass and how elites in places like Manhattan and Silicon Valley have so
00:03:58.380little to do with small town or rural or Christian America anymore. It's like they're living in a bubble.1.00
00:04:03.260PBS interviewed Murray and they published a little quiz online that you can take and I really recommend
00:04:08.340you do it. Do you live in a bubble, is their quiz. There exists a new upper class that's completely
00:04:13.940disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large, argues Charles Murray.
00:04:19.840Questions like, have you ever lived for at least a year in a community, an American community,
00:04:24.660with a population under 50,000 that is not part of a metropolitan area and is not where you went to
00:04:31.060college? So have you ever spent a year in a small town? Have you ever walked on a factory floor?
00:04:37.000That's my favorite by far. Have you ever had a close friend who was an evangelical Christian?
00:04:43.640And this one, which was so prescient for cancel culture, do you now have a close friend with whom
00:04:49.040you have strong and wide-ranging political disagreements? Huh. There are questions about
00:04:54.680what restaurants you go to and what movies you watch. Some of them are surprising for fancy big city
00:04:59.020pundits to read. They're not IQ tests. There's actually no right or wrong answer. It's not an
00:05:03.600ideological test. It's just testing. Do you know how people in the other places live, how the other
00:05:08.900half lives, how they think? It's not an IQ test. There's no right or wrong. It's just, do you know?0.97
00:05:13.740Trump has a massive rally. Well, he's having a bunch of them. He had one over the weekend in a place
00:05:18.520called Butler, Pennsylvania. Small town, lots of blue-collar workers working in fracking. Used to be
00:05:24.560some steel jobs there. It's over 90% white. Average income is $25,000 a year. You heard that right,0.75
00:05:30.60025%. Look at the size of the Trump rally there in Butler. I've read some reports that put it over
00:05:36.58050,000 people. Obviously, people came in from far away, probably Pittsburgh nearby. That's one part
00:05:42.280of America. Their steel jobs went to China. Fracking is what gives them some work now. They're not
00:05:47.620obsessed with what your pronouns are or transgender rights. They're not interested in pleasing the United1.00
00:05:53.440Nations global warming diplomats, and they're probably not interested in ever fighting a forever war
00:05:59.020in Afghanistan. So that's one half of the country that Charles Murray talks about.
00:06:04.440They know that open borders immigration drives down wages. They've been hit hard by opioid drugs
00:06:09.020from China. I think they care about China. I think Trump's message is like, this works. Here's a
00:06:14.200one-minute ad. I think this works. ABC News investigation this morning into Joe Biden's son,
00:06:18.520Hunter, and questions about money he made from foreign business dealings while his father was vice
00:06:22.980president. And did Joe Biden allow it? We're talking about millions of dollars in at least two
00:06:27.300countries. Did you talk about China or your deal with China? No. A 12-hour flight over? No. No,
00:06:32.180of course not. That never came up? No. Less than two weeks after that trip, BHR Partners was launched,
00:06:37.800a private equity firm funded in part by Chinese banks. He has come forward and said it was a mistake
00:06:43.420on his part to be on the board. My son's business dealings were not anything with everybody that he's
00:06:49.080talking about. What's your understanding of what your son was doing for an extraordinary amount of money?
00:06:53.400I don't know what he was doing. I know he was on the board. Hunter Biden holds an equity stake in a
00:06:58.340company that's taken over a billion and a half dollars in loans from the Chinese government.
00:07:02.140This is obviously an issue. What they said is China would prefer Joe Biden. China and Iran. China and
00:07:09.000Iran. China and Iran want to see Donald Trump's defeat, and they're looking for ways to make that
00:07:14.580happen. China's a great nation, and we should hope for the continued expansion. Growth of China is
00:07:20.720overwhelmingly in our interest. And there's much more to come. And now the steel mill ain't even
00:07:27.900there. I think that connects, which is why the mainstream media absolutely censored the massive
00:07:33.880scandal of Biden's son, Hunter Biden, taking millions from China and millions from Russia and
00:07:38.760other foreign countries, while Biden himself was vice president dealing with those same countries.
00:07:43.500Hunter Biden is a dissolute, drug-addictive ne'er-do-well, always in trouble, bizarre moral choices that I
00:07:49.080will not get into here. Absolutely unemployable, but all of these foreign countries were hiring him
00:07:55.940for millions of dollars. What were they paying him for? Well, here's a hint. I remember going over
00:08:00.400convincing our team, our brothers too, convincing us that we should be providing for loan guarantees.
00:08:07.300And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there was
00:08:15.220another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from
00:08:21.580Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't.
00:08:26.460So they said they had, they were walking out to press conference, said, no, I said, I'm not going to,
00:08:30.480we're not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You're not the
00:08:35.640president. The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion
00:08:40.660dollars. I said, you're not getting a billion. I'm going to be leaving here. And I think it was, what,
00:08:44.760six hours? I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not
00:08:49.280getting the money. Oh, son of a bitch. You got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid.1.00
00:08:57.580Yeah, that's what Hunter Biden was hired for. You've heard the phrase honey trap, right? Basically a way
00:09:02.480to entrap someone, to compromise them, usually using sex, but you could extort someone over almost
00:09:09.000anything. Hunter Biden is the Winnie the Pooh when it comes to honey traps. I mean, seriously,
00:09:13.120why on earth would the wife of the former mayor of Moscow wire him $3.5 million? It's not even the
00:09:19.880corruption. It's that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, it's not the grift. It's not the immorality. It's
00:09:25.840not even the security risk. It's that Joe Biden would obviously sell out the people of Butler,
00:09:31.160Pennsylvania to China for a buck. They're not fighting for the people of Butler. I think it's true to say
00:09:37.200that Trump is belligerent and aggressive and bellicose and offensive and feisty, but I think
00:09:41.960it's in the service of people like those in Butler. I don't know how rich Trump is, whether he's worth a
00:09:46.480few hundred million or a billion or 10 billion. I don't know, whatever. But it's clear that he's
00:09:50.580not doing this for the cash. It's absolutely unthinkable that Joe Biden would decline to take
00:09:55.300the president's salary. Trump donates his salary to a different charity every quarter. What does Trump
00:10:00.480fight for? Why is he in it? He had fame and fortune and influence. Whether you agree with him or
00:10:05.320disagree with him, he's deploying his personal and political capital to certain very clear public
00:10:09.940outcomes. Tax cuts, reviving oil and gas for economic reasons and also to make America energy
00:10:16.180independent, not getting into foreign entanglements, checking the power of China militarily and politically
00:10:21.580and economically. I mean, all the masters of the universe, all the big bosses hate Trump for
00:10:25.980putting tariffs on China. Of course they do. They want to use cheap Chinese factories instead of0.99
00:10:30.580hiring people in Butler, Pennsylvania. Look at this. Wall Street donors line up behind Biden in
00:10:37.120massive third quarter fundraising hall. Trump might be a billionaire, but he's certainly not part of the
00:10:41.840club. The plutocrats, they love Biden and they love China. We see what they'll do to get in good with
00:10:47.840China and get access to the markets. Watching the NBA take a knee to oppose America while bowing at the
00:10:54.360waist of communist China tells you everything you need to know. So it's jobs. It's also respect. People say
00:10:59.260Donald Trump insults others a lot. People in media and politics, too, the most profane professions I
00:11:05.340can tell you, haven't worked in both, and people in the media and politics are pretending to be shocked,
00:11:09.860shocked by some of the things Trump says. He's mean sometimes, sure, but imagine taking that
00:11:14.500criticism at face value. Imagine pretending that journalists and Trump's political opponents
00:11:19.500are not rude and abusive in their language, too. They just generally don't let the mask slip in public.
00:11:26.940Trump doesn't care. Except for Joe Biden, weirdly enough, Trump has insults for his opponents. He
00:11:32.300insults his rivals. He gives them funny nicknames. But I've rarely seen Trump punch down or insult
00:11:38.000entire swaths of Americans like Joe Biden does. This isn't a political statement like those ugly
00:11:44.980folks over there, beeping the horns.1.00
00:11:48.120A damn liar, man. That's not true. And no one has ever said that. No one has ever said that. You see it on the TV. You see it on the TV. No, I really do. By the way, that's why I'm not sitting there. I don't want to get up and let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Look, the reason I'm running is because I've been out all the time, and I don't feel the most people now. And I get things done. That's how I'm running. And if you want to check my shape on, let's do push-ups together, man. Let's do push-ups.1.00
00:12:14.960Let's do what's front. Let's do what you want to do. Let's do what you say. Number one. Number two. Number two. No one has said my son has done that in law, and I did not on any occasion. And no one has ever said it.
00:12:30.060I didn't say you were doing the TV wrong. You said I set up my son to work in an oil company. You know what you said? Get your word straight, Jack.
00:12:38.980That's what I hear on MSNBC. We don't hear that on MSNBC. We did not hear that at all. It's a hurt. Look. Okay, I'm not going to get him out of me here, man.
00:12:50.840No, I don't want you. Well, yeah, you do. But look, this is good.
00:12:57.040Are you a caucus? No, you haven't. You're a lying, dog-faced pony soldier. You said you were.0.98
00:13:02.460It's a laugh at people who think they need a fainting couch for Donald Trump's supposed rudeness or supporting the weirdest, rudest Democrat who was running.
00:13:11.940That's just the insults. I think Biden flees to insults when he gets agitated and forgets his points or loses his train of thought like this.
00:14:27.020I typed in their search engine and they did mention Tara Reid.
00:14:30.920It's true. They mentioned her back in the spring before Biden was officially nominated as a candidate.
00:14:36.140And they haven't uttered her name ever since.
00:14:38.540Sort of like how they put the name Rose Knight down the memory hole.
00:14:42.640Remember her? The woman Justin Trudeau sexually assaulted in Creston, B.C.
00:14:47.320I've been reflecting very carefully on what I remember from that incident almost 20 years ago.
00:14:54.840So, and again, I am, I feel, I am confident that I did not act inappropriately.
00:15:04.420But part of this awakening that we're having as a society, a long-awaited realization, is that it's not just one side of the story that matters.
00:15:19.760That the same interactions could be experienced very differently from one person to the next.
00:15:27.700Biden's falling apart physically and mentally.
00:21:49.740But what if Biden, by which I mean Kamala Harris and the activists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Elmer, what if they have two years to do as they please?
00:22:00.700They will make permanent changes to America.0.92
00:22:03.080They'll immediately pack the Supreme Court.
00:22:05.300It's got nine judges on it, six of whom are conservative, so they'll just double the size of the court at a bunch of Democrats.
00:22:10.880So they'll just seize control of the court that way.
00:22:13.500It's called packing the court, and they're absolutely going to do it.
00:22:16.900If elected, would you move to add more justices to the Supreme Court?
00:22:22.500If elected, what I will do is I'll put together a national commission of, bipartisan commission of scholars, constitutional scholars, Democrats, Republicans, liberal, conservative.
00:22:32.920And I will ask them to, over 180 days, come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system, because it's getting out of whack, the way in which it's being handled.
00:22:50.660There's a number of other things that our constitutional scholars have debated, and I'd look to see what recommendations that commission might make.
00:23:03.080And you're going to find there's a lot of conservative constitutional scholars are saying it as well.
00:23:07.520They'll also make it so they never have to ever care about Butler, Pennsylvania, or any other flyover state again.
00:23:13.340If they can change the elected college, which provides a limit on the overwhelming population of large states like California and protect smaller states,
00:23:20.180the Democrats, the Democrats have made no secret of their desire to end that, though I'm not sure how that would happen constitutionally.
00:23:26.760But we know they'll change the rules of the Senate.
00:23:28.780They'll change whatever they have to, to force through changes that can't be undone.
00:23:33.320Mass amnesty for illegal immigrants is an obvious one.0.90