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00:01:48.000Last night was a big night on CNN because there was a town hall event and a variety of Democratic candidates made appearances on this town hall event.
00:02:07.000And he's an octogenarian socialist loon bag from Vermont who has never passed a significant piece of legislation and was so lazy that in the 1970s he was kicked out of a commune.
00:02:32.000He's pulled even, basically, with Joe Biden, who has yet to declare.
00:02:35.000Biden expected to put out some sort of video declaration later this week.
00:02:39.000To win the nomination, all you have to do is not be a crazy person at this point, but all the Democrats are firmly convinced that Twitter is real life.
00:02:47.000And that the extreme edge of their party is representative of the mainstream of their party.
00:02:52.000And so Bernie Sanders, with his 25% base, seems to be the guy who's leading Democrats over a cliff.
00:02:58.000For every crazy thing that he says, there are a bunch of Democrats who will mirror it.
00:03:04.000And it's reminiscent of 2016, when President Trump would say something that was pretty extreme, and other Republicans would rush to follow suit, or they would rush to pretend that he was right about it.
00:03:13.000So, for example, on trade, President Trump would come out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he'd talk about how trade deals were really bad, and suddenly all the Republicans would rush to surround him.
00:03:23.000You'd hear the patter of their little feet.
00:03:24.000Trump would walk over here, he'd stomp over there, and then you'd hear...
00:03:27.000And there are all the Republicans following him.
00:03:29.000Well, it's the same thing right now with Bernie Sanders.
00:03:31.000Bernie says something loony, and all the Democrats rush to follow him.
00:03:35.000So, last night's example of Bernie saying something incredibly, incredibly loony is he was talking about his proposal to let people in prison vote.
00:03:42.000Now, this proposal is asinine in the extreme.
00:03:46.000It's asinine because if you're in prison, you have not paid your debt to society yet.
00:03:49.000There's an argument to be made that when you get out of prison, that you should be able to vote because now you have paid your debt to society.
00:03:55.000And if we don't want people voting when they get out of prison or participating in normal life when they get out of prison, maybe they shouldn't be out of prison.
00:04:01.000If you're afraid they're dangerous or that they have not paid their debt to society, then perhaps we should keep them there.
00:04:06.000But if you believe that somebody went to jail for shoplifting or somebody went to jail for securities fraud, and now they've served 10 years, 15 years for securities fraud, and they get out and they should never be allowed to vote again.
00:04:17.000If you're Dinesh D'Souza and you went to jail for some sort of campaign finance violation, a federal violation, can you vote or not?
00:04:24.000It seems like there's an argument to be made.
00:04:25.000I'm not super warm on the argument, but at least there's a logical argument to be made.
00:04:30.000That once you have paid your debt to society and you get out, now you get to vote.
00:04:35.000He wants people who are in prison to vote.
00:04:37.000Number one, they should not vote because they are wards of the state.
00:04:40.000If you're a ward of the state, you should not be able to vote.
00:04:42.000That is because you have an inherent interest in maximizing the power of the state and the benefits of the state and legislators who will give you what you want.
00:04:52.000Using the Kantian imperative, if we took this rule and extended it outright to the rest of society, if only prisoners voted, let's say that only prisoners voted in the United States, do you think that the world would be better or worse?
00:05:05.000What do you think they would do with the criminal law?
00:05:07.000What do you think they would do with social benefits?
00:05:09.000Do you think the United States would be a better place or a worse place?
00:05:11.000So we take the worst people in our society, people so bad, we remove them from our society and put them behind bars, and then we give them the right to vote.
00:05:18.000This is Bernie Sanders' proposal, and he has asked a logical question by Ann Carlstein, who is a student at Harvard University, who asks him, um, how about like the Boston Bomber?
00:06:09.000So we remove your right to freedom, we remove your right to engage in commerce, but the right to vote is so sacrosanct that people who are evil, vicious murderers should be able to vote.
00:06:21.000And let me remind you, he is talking about some of the worst people on planet Earth.
00:06:26.000I just have to recall here, what actually happened at the Boston Marathon Bombing.
00:06:30.000At the Boston Marathon Bombing, the bomber, it was two brothers, the bomber who actually planted the bomb at the Boston Marathon Bombing, took a backpack filled with a bomb, and he placed it about two feet away from an eight-year-old boy.
00:06:42.000He placed it two feet away from an eight-year-old boy, killed the boy on the spot, boy bled out in front of his parents, Blew the leg off his sister.
00:06:50.000Bernie Sanders thinks that person should have a say in the future of the United States, because that's what a vote is.
00:06:55.000It's a say in the future of the United States.
00:07:06.000It's so self-contradictory in a variety of ways.
00:07:08.000One, you must think that America is a pretty horrible place, that people who are the worst among us should have a say in what happens to the future of the country.
00:07:17.000That somehow they've been oppressed or something.
00:07:19.000I mean, what exactly is the justification here?
00:07:22.000And secondly, how vicious as a person must you be to ignore the evil that somebody commits in order to say that that person should be able to vote on what happens to the family of the person whose kid they murdered?
00:07:54.000That was not the only person who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombing.
00:07:56.000Two other people, 29-year-old Crystal Campbell and 23-year-old Lingzi Liu, were also killed.
00:08:01.000260 people were injured in the attack.
00:08:02.000People who lost legs, people who lost arms, people who were hit in the head.
00:08:07.000The father addressed the court back in 2015, describing what happened.
00:08:11.000They ducked into a Ben & Jerry's for ice cream, and then found a spot to watch the runners near the finish line.
00:08:16.000There's a photograph showing the Richard family as they watched the race.
00:08:19.000Martin had climbed on the metal Cradberry to get a better look.
00:08:22.000His family didn't know that just then, seen in the same photograph an arm's length away, was the bomber allegedly dropping a backpack with the bomb inside.
00:08:46.000Now, as we will see, as we will see, other Democrats, like Lemmings, are following Bernie Sanders over this cliff.
00:08:54.000He was not the only person to be asked this question last night.
00:08:57.000And all the other Democrats are so afraid of Bernie Sanders' support base that they decide that they are going to just trail him right off that cliff.
00:09:05.000Even the most moderate Democrats are making the case that if you're a murderer and you get out of prison, then you should be allowed to vote.
00:09:11.000They're not making exceptions for... So I said earlier that if you get out of prison for like securities fraud, maybe you should be able to vote.
00:09:17.000I feel like if you kill somebody, you should not be able to vote.
00:09:19.000I feel like if you rape somebody, your right to vote is gone.
00:09:23.000There are certain crimes, but those are also crimes where I feel you should be in jail the rest of your life.
00:09:26.000I don't think that you should serve 10 years for murder.
00:09:28.000I think you should serve the rest of your life for murder.
00:09:30.000I don't think you should be five years for rape.
00:09:32.000I think that if we have a forcible rape that is found, statutory rape is a little bit different because you may have a 19-year-old and a 14-year-old, for example.
00:09:56.000But the Democrats, there were some Democrats last night who even went so far as to say that they would consider Bernie Sanders' proposal to let the Boston Marathon bomber vote.
00:10:08.000I wanna finish with Bernie and then we'll move on to these other candidates.
00:10:10.000Because what you're gonna see is Bernie says something and the rest of the Democrats follow him.
00:10:13.000And this is why Bernie right now is the front runner.
00:10:15.000Now, maybe that changes when Joe Biden jumps into the race, but only if Joe Biden is willing to stand up for his own record.
00:10:21.000If Joe Biden feels the necessity to also apologize for his moderation, if Joe Biden feels the necessity to apologize for his tough on crime record in the 90s, or for his opposition to forced busing, which was bad policy.
00:10:37.000If Joe Biden feels the necessity to run away from the only palatable parts of his record in order to try and cater to Bernie Sanders's base, Bernie walks away with the nomination.
00:10:45.000Because if you're gonna go extreme, you go extreme.
00:10:48.000If you're gonna drink this whiskey, you drink it straight.
00:12:23.000My father's family left Soviet Russia in 1979, fleeing from some of the very same socialist policies that you seem eager to implement in this country.
00:12:33.000So my question is, how do you rectify your notion of democratic socialism with the failures of socialism in nearly every country that has tried it?
00:12:40.000Is it your assumption that I supported or believe in authoritarian communism that existed in the Soviet Union?
00:12:49.000What democratic socialism means to me is we expand Medicare, we provide educational opportunity to all Americans, we rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.
00:12:59.000In other words, government serves the needs of all people rather than just wealthy campaign contributors.
00:13:07.000So this is his story now, is that he likes Norway and Denmark.
00:13:10.000That wasn't his story back in the 1970s and the 1980s, when he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
00:13:15.000Then he full-out endorsed communism, he endorsed breadlines, he endorsed nationalization of major industries, he honeymooned in the Soviet Union.
00:13:22.000So, yeah, you did used to believe that, and as you'll see, it gets very awkward for Bernie when he's called on this.
00:13:28.000I remember, for some reason or other, being very excited when Fidel Castro made the revolution in Cuba.
00:13:33.000I was a kid and I remember reading that.
00:13:35.000And it just seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up against rather ugly rich people.
00:13:40.000You know, as a socialist, the word socialism does not frighten me, and I think it's probably fair to say that the Nicaraguan government is primarily a socialist government.
00:13:47.000You may recall way back in, when was it, 1961, they invaded Cuba.
00:13:51.000And everybody was totally convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world, that all the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro.
00:13:58.000They forgot that he educated their kids, gave them healthcare, totally transformed the society.
00:14:04.000But just because Ronald Reagan dislikes these people does not mean to say that the people in their own nations feel the same way.
00:14:13.000So there he is endorsing outright communist revolutions across South America.
00:14:17.000Again, there's video of him shirtless singing in the Soviet Union.
00:14:22.000He talked about how bread lines are good because at the end of the lines you get bread.
00:14:27.000So he was asked about that last night by Chris Cuomo, who asks him, okay, so you say that you're just for democratic socialism, but in the past you've talked about large-scale nationalization of industry, and listen as Bernie refuses to answer the question.
00:14:39.000You used to argue that you should have government control of the means of capitalism, energy companies, factories, banks.
00:14:49.000I said what I said, and that is I want to live in a nation in which all people in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world can have a decent standard of living.
00:15:01.000We can do what other nations in the world are already doing.
00:15:04.000I mean, the ideas that I'm advocating for you tonight, you know, they're not so radical.
00:15:08.000I believe in a nation in which we guarantee fundamental economic rights, basic necessities of life to all of our people.
00:15:15.000Oh, okay, so he's just gonna avoid that question.
00:15:17.000So, no, he said what he said, and I sort of agree with what I said, but I'm not going to say that out loud.
00:15:22.000I'm going to pretend I didn't say it, but I did say it, and I still think it, kind of.
00:15:57.000They're only talking about Kamala Harris because she is a minority woman as opposed to just a white woman and that means that she must be special.
00:16:04.000So let's play some Kamala Harris music right here.
00:16:10.000Kamala Harris, as we all know, is a little unpopular with her own base because she was attorney general of the state of California.
00:16:16.000And even though she was very soft on crime, if you're even a little hard on crime in the Democratic Party, this makes your life not all that wonderful.
00:16:23.000So Harris is trying to run away from her own record there, and she is following Bernie Sanders directly off that cliff.
00:16:28.000So if you think back about 10 minutes...
00:16:31.000Now 10 minutes ago we talked about Bernie Sanders saying that the Boston Marathon bomber should be able to vote.
00:16:37.000Kamala Harris has asked the same question.
00:16:47.000I agree that the right to vote is one of the very important components of citizenship, and it is something that people should not be stripped of needlessly, which is why I have been long an advocate of making sure that the formerly incarcerated are not denied a right to vote.
00:17:07.000People who are convicted, in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, they should be able to vote?
00:17:13.000I think we should have that conversation.
00:17:16.000I think we should have that conversation.
00:17:17.000God, she is such a terrible candidate.
00:17:19.000At least Bernie Sanders just says, yes, I think we should study it.
00:17:23.000I think we should have a conversation.
00:17:24.000I think we should have a conversation means no, but I'm too cowardly to say so.
00:17:29.000It means I'm a coward, so I'm not actually going to say yes.
00:17:32.000I'm scared of my own base, so I won't just give them a straight answer, which is amazing.
00:17:36.000How are Democrats so afraid that their own base is in favor of the Boston Marathon bomber voting?
00:17:40.000Do they think that there is a hue and cry among Democratic voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin?
00:17:46.000We must let the Boston Marathon bomber vote!
00:17:59.000The fact that Kamala Harris thinks that Bernie Sanders, that his heart is where the Democratic Party's heart is, demonstrates what you need to know about the modern Democratic Party.
00:18:07.000Harris, by the way, is not averse to top-down control either.
00:18:10.000What she had to say about guns last night is maybe the scariest thing any of the candidates had to say, including Bernie Sanders suggesting that terrorists should vote.
00:18:18.000Kamala Harris suggested that she is simply going, if she were elected president, she is simply going to ban guns from the Oval Office.
00:18:24.000She's just going to run roughshod over the Constitution.
00:18:29.000Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws.
00:18:39.000And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.
00:18:43.000And specifically, what I will do is put in place a requirement that for anyone who sells more than five guns a year, they are required to do background checks when they sell those guns.
00:18:55.000Okay, so she is, first of all, falsifying a lot of law here, but also, what gives her the authority to do this?
00:19:01.000The Constitution does not work like this.
00:19:03.000Now, to be fair to Harris, this has now happened with two straight presidents.
00:19:06.000Barack Obama said, I can't get my immigration deal, therefore, I'm just going to do what I want.
00:19:11.000Therefore, I'm just going to declare that all DREAMers are here legally, and I'm going to move forward as though everyone was fine with that.
00:19:20.000And then Donald Trump did the same exact thing with regard to appropriating money for his wall.
00:19:25.000He argued with Congress, there was a government shutdown over it, he did not get his money, and now he says he's going to declare a national emergency and shift the money from one area to another area.
00:19:34.000Well, he could have done that right away, supposedly, according to Trump, if he had the inherent authority to do so.
00:19:39.000He didn't really think he had the inherent authority to do so.
00:19:41.000He expanded executive authority to do that.
00:19:44.000And as we said, if you are Kamala Harris or any other Democrat, you feel there are no limits to executive power.
00:19:48.000The legislature has done a terrible, terrible job of maintaining its own control of the purse strings of the power in American government.
00:19:56.000The way government is supposed to work is if Congress says no, no is the answer.
00:20:01.000Government does not work like my five-year-old with me and my wife, where you go to one and you ask the question, and if they say no, you go to the other and ask the question and see if they also say no.
00:20:20.000But according to Kamala Harris, when she's president, she's gonna give Congress 100 days to act, and then she's just gonna declare herself dictator and start declaring policy.
00:20:32.000for Kamala Harris is that she is trying to out-radical Bernie Sanders, just like, as we will see, Elizabeth Warren is trying to out-radical Bernie Sanders, everybody trying to out-radical Bernie Sanders.
00:20:41.000So now she's declaring that we should let people vote at age 16.
00:20:44.000So just to be fair about this, the Democrats are now declaring that we should pay for everybody's college, everybody's health care.
00:20:49.000You should live in your parents' basement until you're 35.
00:20:52.000You should be a ward of the state basically until you're ready to leave, like 29, 30 years old.
00:20:58.000But at age 16, you should be able to vote.
00:21:01.000So, prisoners should vote, terrorists should vote, 16-year-olds should vote.
00:21:05.000Solid platform you got going here, Democratic Party.
00:21:08.000Do you believe that Americans should have the right to vote at age 16?
00:21:11.000I think that there is no question that if we are looking at what is going on in our country, we are putting more responsibilities on people at a younger age.
00:21:22.000And the larger number of people that we can involve in the electoral process, I think the more robust it would be.
00:21:29.000You can look at what we are not doing for our students, for our teenagers, and even younger.
00:21:35.000And I believe that if they had greater political power, Maybe we would get our act together a little bit better than we've been doing.
00:21:41.000And maybe that's one of the steps toward it.
00:21:57.000They can't do most things without parental permission.
00:22:01.000But they should be able to vote and have abortions.
00:22:04.000That's the thing that the Democrats want to make sure of.
00:22:08.000Now, here's the thing about Kamala Harris.
00:22:09.000The real problem Kamala Harris has here is not even her policy with her own base.
00:22:12.000Her biggest problem is that she's super awkward.
00:22:14.000So for example, she awkwardly laughs at her own joke.
00:22:16.000She has the Hillary Clinton problem of when she's in an awkward position, she randomly starts laughing hysterically and everybody looks at her like, why are you laughing?
00:22:45.000I'm not sure that candidacy is going anywhere fast, which again is why Bernie Sanders is doing well.
00:22:49.000Now in a second, we're going to get to Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is of course, an enormous credibility in media circles since he mirrors all of their best friends.
00:22:56.000He went to good schools, he is white, and he says all of the nice liberal things that they like to hear.
00:23:01.000So we'll get into all of that in just one second.
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00:25:49.000So we've already seen him direct his scorn at people like Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States, and religious Christians who are not left-leaning in orientation.
00:25:58.000He now claims to be speaking on behalf of God without apparently having read the Bible, any of the difficult bits.
00:26:03.000In any case, Mayor Pete got himself in trouble.
00:26:06.000Not really about that over the last week or so.
00:26:08.000He got in trouble because he took a shot at Bernie Sanders' supporters.
00:26:13.000I think the sense of anger and disaffection that comes from seeing that the numbers are fine, like unemployment's low, like all that, like you said, GDP's growing, and yet a lot of neighborhoods and families are living like this recovery never even happened.
00:26:27.000It just kind of turns you against the system in general, and then you're more likely to want to vote to blow up the system, which could lead you to somebody like Bernie, and it could lead you to somebody like Trump.
00:26:36.000I think that's how we got where we are.
00:26:39.000Okay, so he compares Trump supporters to Bernie supporters and he suggests that they want to blow up the system.
00:26:45.000This sounds exactly like Barack Obama suggesting that people who didn't vote for him were a bunch of bitter clingers clinging to God and religion and xenophobia.
00:26:53.000It sounds a lot like Hillary Clinton when she said that people who opposed her were moral deplorables.
00:26:58.000And now, he... I mean, that's a big boo-boo.
00:27:01.000That's not just him ripping on Trump supporters, that's him ripping on Bernie Sanders supporters.
00:27:05.000One of the crucial things that you're not supposed to do in politics is rip on supporters of a particular politician.
00:27:10.000You can rip on the politician, but supporters support politicians for a wide variety of reasons.
00:27:15.000Those reasons may be bad, those reasons may be good.
00:27:17.000But if you're running for office, the last thing you want to do is say, the supporters of that candidate, those are bad people.
00:27:23.000Those people are somehow morally lacking.
00:27:26.000Mitt Romney got in trouble for this in 2012, when he suggested that 47% of the country wasn't going to vote for him anyway because they didn't pay income tax.
00:27:32.000Now, there was a lot of truth to that, but it seemed as though he was making some sort of moral judgment about people who did not pay income tax, suggesting that they were thus dependent on the government, and therefore didn't have the moral backbone to vote for him.
00:27:44.000Anytime you rip a giant crowd of people that way while running for office, it's a mistake.
00:27:48.000And Pete Buttigieg has been trying to atone for that ever since.
00:27:51.000It is also true that as Buttigieg rises in the polls, he's up to about 14% in Iowa, apparently, which is a massive jump.
00:27:57.000According to the latest polls, only five points back of both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
00:28:01.000He's running in a very solid third place right now, out of nowhere.
00:28:06.000People are starting to ask, hey, why don't you have like policies?
00:28:10.000Like why don't you have any policies on your website?
00:28:12.000So he was asked about this and his answer was because policy would make me not look all that great.
00:28:18.000You've got a website up, but when I go to it, I don't see yet where Pete Buttigieg stands.
00:28:28.000Well, we've made it very clear where I stand on the major issues and we've been putting up a search tool so people will be able to Search video based on whatever keyword they care about.
00:28:38.000We're trying to run a non-traditional campaign.
00:28:40.000So even though this is going to be a highly substantive and specific campaign, we're not going to inundate people with the minutiae of policy before they understand exactly what the big ideas are, the values that motivate our policies, and the impacts are going to have on the ground.
00:28:56.000Okay, so that is a giant, long word salad about why he doesn't actually have any policies.
00:29:01.000Don't worry, as time goes on, he will have policies, but he hasn't had any so far.
00:29:05.000His whole goal in this campaign is to avoid talking policy, because if he talks policy, he's either going to have to look moderate, or he's going to have to look radical.
00:29:12.000And right now, he would prefer to look neither, and just get all of the rich media attention he has been receiving.
00:29:16.000He wants to run a Beto O'Rourke 2018 Senate campaign.
00:29:20.000He does not want to run a Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:29:23.000Also, as Pete Buttigieg rises in the polls, the guns are starting to turn on him.
00:29:28.000So last night, during his CNN little town hall, Pete Buttigieg was asked about the fact that while he was mayor of South Bend, Indiana, one of his rather unpopular policies among minority communities was bulldozing houses owned by minority homeowners in order to gentrify.
00:29:42.000And this, of course, is not okay with the woke crowd in South Bend.
00:29:45.000Now, the way to defend this is I was trying to improve the area.
00:29:49.000If you haven't been paying your bills, the houses get bulldozed.
00:29:52.000If you want to improve an area and make it not a crime area, if you want to make sure that businesses can relocate into low-income neighborhoods, if you want to make life better for everybody, sometimes that means that you have to seize houses that people are living in but not paying for and bulldoze them.
00:30:06.000But that's not what Pete Buttigieg says.
00:30:07.000Instead, he's apologizing for his record.
00:30:09.000As soon as you start apologizing, you're in serious trouble.
00:30:13.000Which is why it's good he has no legislative record and also will never apologize for being communist warm.
00:30:18.000Here is Pete Buttigieg, though, immediately apologizing for his gentrification plan in South Bend, Indiana, which, after all, is maybe the only thing he did in South Bend, Indiana.
00:30:26.000The number one answer I heard citywide, but also an answer I heard in particular from people living in minority and low-income neighborhoods, was do something about the vacant, boarded-up, and collapsing houses around me.
00:30:39.000In particular, what we found is that our policy tools didn't do a great job, at first, of being able to tell the difference between a sort of big, bad, out-of-town landlord who just thought of these houses as lines on a spreadsheet and never even visited South Bend, and somebody who maybe had three or four properties in town as investments, or one area where we had a lot of issues, where somebody would buy a house, believing they could fix it up, and not even know that it was on the vacant and abandoned list, and that we were coming in to demolish it.
00:31:06.000Okay, so, you know, there is there is Buttigieg basically explaining away and also apologizing for his policy.
00:31:13.000In just a second, we'll talk about what Buttigieg's candidacy really is about and why he is popular right now and why I don't think that will last.
00:31:19.000And then we have to get to the Native American princess, Elizabeth Warren, who also joined CNN.
00:31:26.000We've talked Sri Lanka a lot coming up first.
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00:34:59.000So, none of those things mesh well with Biblical texts.
00:35:02.000So if you're a Biblical-believing Christian, it is difficult to take these positions.
00:35:06.000But, because Buttigieg proudly speaks as a gay man, and as a Christian, somebody who believes in the divinity of Jesus, this means that according to the media, he's a ringing rebuke to the supposed religious intolerance of religious people who have believed in this funny thing called the Bible.
00:35:21.000See, I'm not a big believer in biblical belief where you take one half of the stuff and then you just don't believe in the other half of the stuff that's inconvenient for you.
00:35:28.000I'm not a huge fan of that sort of picking and choosing among the things you choose to believe.
00:35:33.000It seems to me that if you're a Christian and you believe in Jesus, you should also believe in the stuff that Jesus said in Romans and Corinthians, for example.
00:35:39.000And if you're a Jew and you believe that God gave the Torah at Sinai.
00:35:44.000You should believe the things that God gave at Sinai in the Torah.
00:35:50.000But for the media, what they would love is all of the guitar playing and pizza eating at church and a little bit of God talk that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
00:35:57.000The same sort of stuff that you would get on any self-help tour from anybody.
00:36:01.000Just this self-help touring guide is God.
00:36:03.000And then also just ignore all of the injunctions about moral behavior.
00:36:06.000So Pete Buttigieg, that is his candidacy.
00:36:10.000He said yesterday on CNN that if he hadn't come out of the closet, he would not be running for president.
00:36:15.000Now, he doesn't mean it the way that it comes out, but that is obviously true.
00:36:19.000If he were a straight white male who is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and no one ever would have heard of him, no one would care about him.
00:36:24.000He would just be a normal, articulate mayor from South Bend, Indiana, a heavily Democratic area that votes 80-20 Democrat in every presidential election.
00:36:44.000And Buttigieg sort of acknowledges this, although he says, No, it's just his homosexuality, which gave him the impetus to run.
00:36:52.000Okay, I don't care what gave him the impetus to run.
00:36:54.000The reason people are paying attention to him is because he is gay.
00:36:56.000Were he not gay, he would be Martin O'Malley, the candidate in 2016 on the Democratic side who never got more than his immediate family to support him.
00:37:07.000In 2015, at 33, is when you came out publicly.
00:37:10.000How do you think your life would be different if you had come out before that?
00:37:13.000I started really thinking about how you only get to live one life.
00:37:17.000And I came out, and I started dating, and I found Chastin.
00:37:23.000And even though in the past I was mystified by the idea of how anybody, any of my fellow mayors or elected officials ever managed to do that job and also be in relationships and be married, I don't know how I'd do this without him.
00:37:38.000So I guess another way to answer your question is I would not be running for president today if I hadn't come out.
00:37:58.000The founders thought ambition was good.
00:37:59.000The point that I'm making is that his appeal, obviously, in the intersectional culture of the Democratic Party, lies in the fact that he is a gay man.
00:38:06.000Now, what is truly amazing about Buttigieg, again, he's smart, but there's a strong streak of hypocrisy that runs through his candidacy.
00:38:13.000He has now spent weeks attacking Mike Pence for no reason.
00:38:16.000He keeps saying that Mike Pence hates him.
00:38:17.000There's no evidence Mike Pence hates him.
00:38:19.000He keeps saying he's been victimized by Mike Pence.
00:38:22.000When asked about him coming out of the closet, when asked about Buttigieg coming out of the closet, Mike Pence said, he's a good man.
00:38:29.000Mike Pence personally called Buttigieg when he was activated for the military.
00:38:33.000Mike Pence has never said a bad word about Pete Buttigieg.
00:38:35.000Pete Buttigieg has said many bad words about Mike Pence, including calling Mike Pence an ungodly person, which again is a relatively amazing statement when no one is suggesting that Pete Buttigieg is ungodly.
00:38:45.000I don't think Pete Buttigieg is ungodly.
00:38:47.000I think he's a sinner like all the rest of us.
00:38:49.000And him purporting to speak in the name of religion while simultaneously declaring that fundamental precepts of that religion no longer apply, that seems hypocritical to me.
00:39:10.000Richard Grinnell, who is the ambassador to Germany, nice guy, I know Rich, Rick Grinnell, and Rick is over in Germany right now, and he answered for Mike Pence.
00:39:19.000He said Mike Pence does not hate gay people.
00:39:21.000And so, Buttigieg now suggests that Grinnell is attacking him.
00:39:24.000All of this is really, really dishonest.
00:39:27.000Got into kind of a back and forth, a public back and forth between Vice President Pence and yourself over the issue of discrimination against LGBTQ people and faith.
00:39:35.000The current ambassador to Germany, Richard Grinnell, who's also gay, he weighed in on this saying that you have been, quote, pushing this hate hoax along the lines of Jussie Smollett for a very long time now, several weeks.
00:39:56.000Well, you were the one chumming the waters, dude.
00:39:58.000You're the one who started this fight.
00:39:59.000There was no fight between you and Pence.
00:40:00.000You decided you were gonna say a bunch of stuff about Pence.
00:40:03.000Pence responded, and they were like, oh, no, I don't, I'm not the kind of person who engages in that sort of fight.
00:40:07.000Buttigieg's most shocking comments, I thought, is when he suggested, he said, God has no political party, which, of course, was a suggestion that God is probably, if he had to take an opinion, he is apparently, he's got no opinion on late-term abortion, apparently.
00:40:20.000Here is Pete Buttigieg talking about God and politics.
00:40:25.000And I get that one of the things about Scripture is different people see different things in it.
00:40:28.000But at the very least, we should be able to establish that God does not have a political party.
00:40:39.000Okay, now, that is true and it is not true.
00:40:41.000God, it's true, God does not have a political party.
00:40:43.000However, if you are a religious believer, God does have a series of principles and morals, and those principles and morals are embedded in politics.
00:40:50.000So, for example, I can say God is anti-abortion.
00:41:11.000I'm talking about Buddha judge's statement, which is a religious statement that God has no political party.
00:41:16.000Okay, so assuming there is a God, and assuming you are working within the Judeo-Christian framework of that God, God does have principles and morals embedded in the Judeo-Christian system.
00:41:34.000Okay, so if he's a Christian, you would have to look at, you know, scriptural sources.
00:41:38.000And there's very little in the way of scriptural sources that suggests that God is in favor of killing babies late term, which Buttigieg has supported.
00:41:46.000That God is in favor of same-sex marriage.
00:42:03.000But I can say there are a bunch of values that Pete Buttigieg stands for and has openly articulated that Judeo-Christian values do not mesh with.
00:42:11.000Now again, if you're not a Judeo-Christian value person, that's fine.
00:42:15.000If you don't believe in the Bible, that's your thing.
00:42:25.000There's an inherent politics to religion, as everyone acknowledges, which is specifically why the media are so enamored of this routine that Buttigieg is doing.
00:42:34.000It's specifically why they are so enthralled with him, because he seems to be speaking from a religious perspective, while trying to knock the legs out from under scriptural sources on very, very basic issues, including abortion, including traditional sexual morality, including the nature of biological sex, right?
00:42:53.000All of these things are embedded in Judeo-Christian values.
00:42:56.000Buttigieg is standing there and saying, as a Christian, I reject all of this.
00:42:59.000Okay, well, he's free to do so, but that is not a good read of the Bible.
00:43:16.000Final candidate who was on CNN last night was Elizabeth Warren.
00:43:19.000She stopped by to discuss all things campaign related.
00:43:23.000She has been struggling to gain footing.
00:43:25.000If she had run in 2016, I think that there's a serious shot she would have won the nomination.
00:43:29.000But time passed her by, like the river of time.
00:43:34.000She didn't know what was around the riverbend, as it turns out.
00:43:37.000What was around the riverbend was apparently anonymity.
00:43:40.000So our Native American princess, Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts, She went on CNN, and then she proceeded to dodge a bunch of questions.
00:43:51.000So, she was asked about Social Security insolvency.
00:43:54.000Not a single Democrat has a serious answer on Social Security insolvency, and Elizabeth Warren is no exception.
00:43:58.000Here she is, not being honest about it.
00:44:02.000Do you have a plan to reform our present Social Security system to increase its longevity?
00:44:06.000So I'm really glad you asked about Social Security because this is one that reminds you how things have broken apart because Washington keeps working for those at the top.
00:44:17.000It's not working for people who are relying on Social Security.
00:44:21.000So your question was, is this something?
00:45:06.000She said we can't wait any longer on the Green New Deal, and then refused to suggest what exactly are the policies she would support under the Green New Deal.
00:46:01.000My favorite part of the Elizabeth Warren quiz section here is when she was asked about the fact that she wants to break up the big tech companies.
00:47:43.000Murdering 311 people at church on Easter Sunday.
00:47:46.000And both of those acts of evil deserve to be condemned with all the enthusiasm that we can muster.
00:47:52.000I'm only noticing that level of enthusiasm in condemning Christchurch from the left media.
00:47:57.000And that runs in spite of the fact that Christians are under attack worldwide at a rapidly rising rate.
00:48:02.000According to Christopher Vondracheck at the Washington Times, violence against Christians has been escalating steadily over the past few years, according to international observers.
00:48:11.000Open Doors USA, a mission for persecuted Christians, estimated that violent attacks on the faithful doubled from 2017 to 2018, approximately 11 Christians dying every day for their faith.
00:48:23.000Nearly 50 worshippers were killed on Palm Sunday, 2017 by bombers who targeted Coptic Christians in Cairo.
00:48:27.000We're supposed to ignore that because Christians in the West... Ross Dudat has a good piece on this today at the New York Times.
00:48:33.000Because Christians in the West are generally well-off.
00:48:36.000And because Christian societies tend to be wealthier, we forget about Christians who are not in Christian societies, who are victimized on a regular basis.
00:48:44.000In Pakistan that same year, nine Christians were killed a week before Christmas by suicide bombers linked to ISIS.
00:48:50.000Sarah Cunningham, senior director of communications for Open Doors USA, said there's a specific pattern of violence around Christian holy days, such as Easter and Christmas, which obviously is true.
00:49:00.000But how does the Washington Post respond to all of this?
00:49:11.000I don't remember after the Christchurch attacks and the entire media going nuts and suggesting that this was evidence of widespread Islamophobia rooted in traditional conservative thought.
00:49:22.000I don't remember them saying, I don't remember them saying, Islam under attack?
00:49:28.000Christchurch attack prompts calls of Islamophobia from far left.
00:49:33.000But according to the Washington Post, it's only the far right that is upset about Sri Lanka.
00:49:37.000There's this article in the Post, and they say, to some, it was further proof that Christians in many part of the world are under attack.
00:49:43.000Several churches were targeted in Sunday's bombing attack.
00:49:46.000Then they cite Marine Le Pen, and then they cite Germany's far right alternative for Germany, framing the bloodshed as an attack against Christians.
00:49:54.000Well, so the hell... I mean, like, that's what happened.
00:50:10.000It shows everything that is wrong with the media and a Democratic Party that have followed the media because the Democratic Party and the media basically merged and are now two.
00:50:18.000The press are basically the press wing of the Democratic Party at this point.
00:50:22.000Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:50:50.000So if you're looking for a broader survey, a deeper survey of Western philosophy than my own, The Right Side of History, which continues to be on the bestseller charts, mine is sort of an introduction to the introduction.
00:50:59.000So if you want to read my book and then read A History of Philosophy, I think they pair really well together.
00:51:28.000Okay, so, on Friday, the New York Times, right before Passover, because this is what they do, every Jewish holiday, the New York Times runs an anti-Semitic piece.
00:51:47.000So, the New York Times ran a piece on Friday, by a writer, who was reported for the New York Times, and edited at the New York Times Magazine.
00:51:54.000He never acknowledged that Jesus was Jewish, said it was unlikely he was white, and said he was likely to have been a Palestinian.
00:52:02.000He said, as I grew older, I learned that the fair skinned blue eyed depiction of Jesus has for centuries adorned stained glass windows and altars in churches throughout the United States and Europe.
00:52:10.000But Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was most likely a Palestinian man with dark skin.
00:52:14.000So it is true that Jesus probably looked like my father in law.
00:52:21.000He's probably a short Jewish guy of Middle Eastern descent.
00:52:47.000He is described in the Gospels as a Judean man, right, as a Judean.
00:52:51.000His parents were Judean and they were Jewish.
00:52:54.000The term Palestinian originally referred to Jews.
00:52:57.000The term Palestinian now refers to Syrian.
00:53:00.000and Jordanian and Egyptian and Saudi Arabs who were living in British Mandate Palestine at the time of the division of that mandate into Israel and Jordan and Transjordan and then the Palestinian areas.
00:53:12.000That deal was rejected, of course, by the Arab states themselves.
00:53:16.000But the notion that Jesus was an Egyptian Arab or that he was a Syrian Arab Arabs were not even in this part of the world at that time.
00:53:27.000The Arab conquest of the region didn't happen until hundreds of years later.
00:53:30.000The term Palestine was not used until generations later.
00:53:38.000In the 600 plus words of the piece, it's never acknowledged that Jesus was Jewish.
00:53:43.000Instead, the idea is that Jesus was a Palestinian Arab, and thus the Israelis are just like the Romans today, which is pretty antisemitic crap.
00:53:51.000Now, even though cultures across the world may at times show a Jesus that reflects their own story, a white Jesus is still embedded in the Western story of Christianity.
00:53:58.000It has often become impossible to separate Jesus and white from the American psyche.
00:54:03.000in how white Christians feel about images of Christ?
00:54:05.000How do you feel about the possibility that Christ may not have looked the way he has been portrayed for centuries in the United States and Europe?
00:54:10.000If you've seen Christ depicted as a man of color, what was your reaction?
00:54:35.000Arabs didn't conquer the area until 700 years after Jesus was crucified.
00:54:39.000Jesus was not an area, was not an Arab.
00:54:42.000And also, the name Palestine only came into existence after Romans exiled the bulk of the Jewish people from Judea in the second century AD.
00:54:55.000Second century, long after Jesus lived.
00:54:58.000And that's when the Roman Emperor Hadrian exiled the Jews.
00:55:00.000And then he decided to call it Palestine specifically in order to mock the Jews by naming it after their historic enemies, the Philistines.