The Ben Shapiro Show - 2020 Cometh, And That Right Soon | Ep. 765

00:00:00.000 Democrats compete for attention on CNN.

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00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:07.000 Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:08.000 Oh man, last night was a smorgasbord of various...

00:00:18.000 Smorgasbord?

00:00:19.000 Smorgasbord.

00:00:19.000 Of various Democratic candidates on CNN.

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00:01:47.000 Okay, so.

00:01:48.000 Last 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.

00:01:55.000 Ooh, it was exciting.

00:01:56.000 Ooh, it was wonderful.

00:01:58.000 Ooh, it was terrifying.

00:02:00.000 Absolutely terrifying because the fact is that when you look at the Democratic Party right now, There's only one thought leader.

00:02:07.000 One.

00:02:07.000 And 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.

00:02:16.000 That guy is their thought leader.

00:02:18.000 Let's have some theme music.

00:02:22.000 I think y'all know who I'm talking about.

00:02:25.000 That's right.

00:02:25.000 It's Bernard McSanders.

00:02:27.000 So, Senator Bernie Sanders is obviously the thought leader of the Democratic Party.

00:02:30.000 He's leading in the polls right now.

00:02:32.000 He's pulled even, basically, with Joe Biden, who has yet to declare.

00:02:35.000 Biden expected to put out some sort of video declaration later this week.

00:02:39.000 To 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.

00:02:47.000 And that the extreme edge of their party is representative of the mainstream of their party.

00:02:52.000 And so Bernie Sanders, with his 25% base, seems to be the guy who's leading Democrats over a cliff.

00:02:58.000 For every crazy thing that he says, there are a bunch of Democrats who will mirror it.

00:03:02.000 It really is an astonishing thing.

00:03:04.000 And 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.

00:03:13.000 So, 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.

00:03:23.000 You'd hear the patter of their little feet.

00:03:24.000 Trump would walk over here, he'd stomp over there, and then you'd hear...

00:03:27.000 And there are all the Republicans following him.

00:03:29.000 Well, it's the same thing right now with Bernie Sanders.

00:03:31.000 Bernie says something loony, and all the Democrats rush to follow him.

00:03:35.000 So, last night's example of Bernie saying something incredibly, incredibly loony is he was talking about his proposal to let people in prison vote. 0.98

00:03:42.000 Now, this proposal is asinine in the extreme. 0.94

00:03:46.000 It's asinine because if you're in prison, you have not paid your debt to society yet. 0.93

00:03:49.000 There'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. 0.62

00:03:55.000 And 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.

00:04:01.000 If you're afraid they're dangerous or that they have not paid their debt to society, then perhaps we should keep them there.

00:04:06.000 But 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.

00:04:17.000 If 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?

00:04:24.000 It seems like there's an argument to be made.

00:04:25.000 I'm not super warm on the argument, but at least there's a logical argument to be made.

00:04:30.000 That once you have paid your debt to society and you get out, now you get to vote.

00:04:33.000 Bernie Sanders is going even further.

00:04:35.000 He wants people who are in prison to vote.

00:04:37.000 Number one, they should not vote because they are wards of the state.

00:04:40.000 If you're a ward of the state, you should not be able to vote.

00:04:42.000 That 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.

00:04:51.000 Amanda, let's put it this way.

00:04:52.000 Using 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?

00:05:05.000 What do you think they would do with the criminal law?

00:05:07.000 What do you think they would do with social benefits?

00:05:09.000 Do you think the United States would be a better place or a worse place?

00:05:11.000 So 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.

00:05:18.000 This 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?

00:05:26.000 You want him voting too?

00:05:27.000 And Bernie, being Bernie, cannot help himself.

00:05:30.000 You have said that you believe that people with felony records should be allowed to vote while in prison.

00:05:36.000 Does this mean that you would support enfranchising people like the Boston Marathon bomber, a convicted terrorist and murderer?

00:05:44.000 If somebody commits a serious crime, sexual assault, murder, They're gonna be punished.

00:05:50.000 They may be in jail for 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, their whole lives.

00:05:54.000 That's what happens when you commit a serious crime.

00:05:58.000 But I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy.

00:06:03.000 Yes, even for terrible people.

00:06:07.000 Okay, so that's an insane answer.

00:06:09.000 So 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.

00:06:19.000 Who are in prison right now.

00:06:21.000 And let me remind you, he is talking about some of the worst people on planet Earth.

00:06:26.000 I just have to recall here, what actually happened at the Boston Marathon Bombing.

00:06:30.000 At 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.

00:06:42.000 He 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.

00:06:50.000 Bernie Sanders thinks that person should have a say in the future of the United States, because that's what a vote is.

00:06:55.000 It's a say in the future of the United States.

00:06:57.000 Bernie Sanders believes.

00:06:59.000 How vicious do you have to be to believe that these people should have a say in the future of the United States?

00:07:03.000 How much must you think?

00:07:06.000 It's so self-contradictory in a variety of ways.

00:07:08.000 One, 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.

00:07:17.000 That somehow they've been oppressed or something.

00:07:19.000 I mean, what exactly is the justification here?

00:07:22.000 And 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?

00:07:36.000 That's what a vote is, after all.

00:07:38.000 So they get to decide policy by which the person whose child they murder lives?

00:07:43.000 It's insane.

00:07:45.000 The father of that young boy, Martin Richard, talked about his son in the middle of the trial.

00:07:53.000 He described what happened.

00:07:54.000 That was not the only person who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombing.

00:07:56.000 Two other people, 29-year-old Crystal Campbell and 23-year-old Lingzi Liu, were also killed.

00:08:01.000 260 people were injured in the attack.

00:08:02.000 People who lost legs, people who lost arms, people who were hit in the head.

00:08:07.000 The father addressed the court back in 2015, describing what happened.

00:08:11.000 They ducked into a Ben & Jerry's for ice cream, and then found a spot to watch the runners near the finish line.

00:08:16.000 There's a photograph showing the Richard family as they watched the race.

00:08:19.000 Martin had climbed on the metal Cradberry to get a better look.

00:08:22.000 His 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.

00:08:29.000 It went off a few minutes later.

00:08:31.000 Their daughter, Jane, lost her leg.

00:08:32.000 Martin was killed outright.

00:08:34.000 He said, I saw a little boy who had his body severely damaged by an explosion.

00:08:37.000 I just knew from what I saw that there was no chance.

00:08:39.000 He was eight years old.

00:08:40.000 Bernie Sanders?

00:08:41.000 Yeah, why not?

00:08:42.000 He should vote.

00:08:42.000 Just because he's a bad guy doesn't mean that he shouldn't vote.

00:08:46.000 It's truly incredible.

00:08:46.000 Now, as we will see, as we will see, other Democrats, like Lemmings, are following Bernie Sanders over this cliff.

00:08:54.000 He was not the only person to be asked this question last night.

00:08:57.000 And 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.

00:09:05.000 Even 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.

00:09:11.000 They'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.

00:09:17.000 I feel like if you kill somebody, you should not be able to vote. 0.96

00:09:19.000 I feel like if you rape somebody, your right to vote is gone. 0.94

00:09:23.000 There are certain crimes, but those are also crimes where I feel you should be in jail the rest of your life.

00:09:26.000 I don't think that you should serve 10 years for murder.

00:09:28.000 I think you should serve the rest of your life for murder.

00:09:30.000 I don't think you should be five years for rape.

00:09:32.000 I 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.

00:09:41.000 That's a problem.

00:09:42.000 It's not quite the same thing as a 19-year-old forcibly raping a 14-year-old.

00:09:46.000 That's why the law makes a distinction. 0.88

00:09:48.000 They're both evil.

00:09:49.000 There are gradations of evil.

00:09:51.000 But there are certain gradations of evil beyond which, even if you get out of prison, I don't think that you should vote.

00:09:55.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

00:09:56.000 But 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.

00:10:05.000 It's truly incredible.

00:10:08.000 I wanna finish with Bernie and then we'll move on to these other candidates.

00:10:10.000 Because what you're gonna see is Bernie says something and the rest of the Democrats follow him.

00:10:13.000 And this is why Bernie right now is the front runner.

00:10:15.000 Now, maybe that changes when Joe Biden jumps into the race, but only if Joe Biden is willing to stand up for his own record.

00:10:21.000 If 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.

00:10:33.000 It was bad policy.

00:10:34.000 It was failed policy in the 1970s.

00:10:37.000 If 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.

00:10:45.000 Because if you're gonna go extreme, you go extreme.

00:10:48.000 If you're gonna drink this whiskey, you drink it straight.

00:10:51.000 You don't mix it.

00:10:52.000 That's what Democratic Party voters are thinking right now.

00:10:54.000 We'll get to more Bernie in just one second.

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00:12:06.000 Okay, so as I say, Bernie Sanders leading the way.

00:12:08.000 And Bernie Sanders sort of trying to run away from the fact that he's a communist, at least he was in his past, and sort of not.

00:12:15.000 So, for example, he was asked about his democratic socialism last night.

00:12:18.000 He says, no, my democratic socialism is nothing like Russian communism.

00:12:22.000 No, very, very different.

00:12:23.000 My 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.

00:12:33.000 So 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?

00:12:40.000 Is it your assumption that I supported or believe in authoritarian communism that existed in the Soviet Union?

00:12:48.000 I don't.

00:12:48.000 I never have and I opposed it.

00:12:49.000 What democratic socialism means to me is we expand Medicare, we provide educational opportunity to all Americans, we rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.

00:12:59.000 In other words, government serves the needs of all people rather than just wealthy campaign contributors.

00:13:07.000 So this is his story now, is that he likes Norway and Denmark.

00:13:10.000 That wasn't his story back in the 1970s and the 1980s, when he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

00:13:15.000 Then he full-out endorsed communism, he endorsed breadlines, he endorsed nationalization of major industries, he honeymooned in the Soviet Union.

00:13:22.000 So, yeah, you did used to believe that, and as you'll see, it gets very awkward for Bernie when he's called on this.

00:13:28.000 I remember, for some reason or other, being very excited when Fidel Castro made the revolution in Cuba.

00:13:33.000 I was a kid and I remember reading that.

00:13:35.000 And it just seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up against rather ugly rich people.

00:13:40.000 You 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.

00:13:47.000 You may recall way back in, when was it, 1961, they invaded Cuba.

00:13:51.000 And 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.

00:13:58.000 They forgot that he educated their kids, gave them healthcare, totally transformed the society.

00:14:04.000 But just because Ronald Reagan dislikes these people does not mean to say that the people in their own nations feel the same way.

00:14:10.000 Okay, that's amazing.

00:14:12.000 That's amazing.

00:14:13.000 So there he is endorsing outright communist revolutions across South America.

00:14:17.000 Again, there's video of him shirtless singing in the Soviet Union.

00:14:22.000 He talked about how bread lines are good because at the end of the lines you get bread.

00:14:27.000 So 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.

00:14:39.000 You used to argue that you should have government control of the means of capitalism, energy companies, factories, banks.

00:14:47.000 When did I say that?

00:14:48.000 In the 70s.

00:14:48.000 Okay.

00:14:49.000 I 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.

00:15:01.000 We can do what other nations in the world are already doing.

00:15:04.000 I mean, the ideas that I'm advocating for you tonight, you know, they're not so radical.

00:15:08.000 I believe in a nation in which we guarantee fundamental economic rights, basic necessities of life to all of our people.

00:15:15.000 Oh, okay, so he's just gonna avoid that question.

00:15:17.000 So, 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.

00:15:22.000 I'm going to pretend I didn't say it, but I did say it, and I still think it, kind of.

00:15:26.000 Well done, Bernie Sanders.

00:15:27.000 Now, as you'll see, a normal Democratic Party would go, that dude crazy, and they would run the other way.

00:15:32.000 But that is not this Democratic Party.

00:15:34.000 No, indeed.

00:15:36.000 So, the next candidate up is, of course, Kamala Harris.

00:15:39.000 So Kamala Harris is seen by many people as sort of the, the, Silent frontrunner.

00:15:44.000 That she really is the frontrunner but she has not emerged from the pact as of yet.

00:15:48.000 The reason that she is of course the frontrunner is because she is a black woman. 0.86

00:15:51.000 She has no other qualifications.

00:15:53.000 She's a senator just like Kirsten Gillibrand or Amy Klobuchar. 1.00

00:15:55.000 No one's talking about them.

00:15:57.000 They'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.

00:16:04.000 So let's play some Kamala Harris music right here.

00:16:10.000 Kamala Harris, as we all know, is a little unpopular with her own base because she was attorney general of the state of California. 1.00

00:16:16.000 And 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.

00:16:23.000 So Harris is trying to run away from her own record there, and she is following Bernie Sanders directly off that cliff.

00:16:28.000 So if you think back about 10 minutes...

00:16:31.000 Now 10 minutes ago we talked about Bernie Sanders saying that the Boston Marathon bomber should be able to vote.

00:16:37.000 Kamala Harris has asked the same question.

00:16:39.000 Listen to her blow this one. 1.00

00:16:41.000 The right to vote is inherent to our democracy.

00:16:44.000 Yes, even for terrible people.

00:16:46.000 Do you agree with that, Senator?

00:16:47.000 I 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.

00:17:07.000 People who are convicted, in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, they should be able to vote?

00:17:13.000 I think we should have that conversation.

00:17:16.000 I think we should have that conversation.

00:17:17.000 God, she is such a terrible candidate.

00:17:19.000 At least Bernie Sanders just says, yes, I think we should study it.

00:17:23.000 I think we should have a conversation.

00:17:24.000 I think we should have a conversation means no, but I'm too cowardly to say so.

00:17:29.000 It means I'm a coward, so I'm not actually going to say yes.

00:17:32.000 I'm scared of my own base, so I won't just give them a straight answer, which is amazing.

00:17:36.000 How are Democrats so afraid that their own base is in favor of the Boston Marathon bomber voting?

00:17:40.000 Do they think that there is a hue and cry among Democratic voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin?

00:17:46.000 We must let the Boston Marathon bomber vote! 0.88

00:17:50.000 What in the actual hell? 0.91

00:17:51.000 Do they think there are millions and millions of Democrats who are like, yeah, we need to let murderers vote. 0.96

00:17:56.000 It's a high priority, guys.

00:17:57.000 We've got to let murderers vote.

00:17:59.000 The 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.

00:18:07.000 Harris, by the way, is not averse to top-down control either.

00:18:10.000 What 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.

00:18:18.000 Kamala Harris suggested that she is simply going, if she were elected president, she is simply going to ban guns from the Oval Office. 0.84

00:18:24.000 She's just going to run roughshod over the Constitution. 1.00

00:18:26.000 This supposedly is a lawyer.

00:18:29.000 Upon 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.

00:18:39.000 And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.

00:18:43.000 And 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.

00:18:55.000 Okay, so she is, first of all, falsifying a lot of law here, but also, what gives her the authority to do this? 0.98

00:19:01.000 The Constitution does not work like this.

00:19:03.000 Now, to be fair to Harris, this has now happened with two straight presidents.

00:19:06.000 Barack Obama said, I can't get my immigration deal, therefore, I'm just going to do what I want. 0.97

00:19:11.000 Therefore, 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. 0.99

00:19:17.000 Because what the hell?

00:19:18.000 I'm going to do what I want to do.

00:19:20.000 And then Donald Trump did the same exact thing with regard to appropriating money for his wall.

00:19:25.000 He 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.

00:19:34.000 Well, he could have done that right away, supposedly, according to Trump, if he had the inherent authority to do so.

00:19:39.000 He didn't really think he had the inherent authority to do so.

00:19:41.000 He expanded executive authority to do that.

00:19:44.000 And as we said, if you are Kamala Harris or any other Democrat, you feel there are no limits to executive power.

00:19:48.000 The legislature has done a terrible, terrible job of maintaining its own control of the purse strings of the power in American government.

00:19:56.000 The way government is supposed to work is if Congress says no, no is the answer.

00:20:01.000 Government 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.

00:20:10.000 That's not the way this works.

00:20:11.000 Legislation originates in Congress.

00:20:13.000 It originates in the legislature.

00:20:16.000 That is, their job is to legislate.

00:20:17.000 It is filled with legislators.

00:20:20.000 But 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. 1.00

00:20:27.000 That's pretty scary stuff.

00:20:29.000 The American people don't favor this either.

00:20:31.000 Now, the biggest problem...

00:20:32.000 for 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.

00:20:41.000 So now she's declaring that we should let people vote at age 16.

00:20:44.000 So just to be fair about this, the Democrats are now declaring that we should pay for everybody's college, everybody's health care.

00:20:49.000 You should live in your parents' basement until you're 35.

00:20:51.000 You should never get married.

00:20:52.000 You should be a ward of the state basically until you're ready to leave, like 29, 30 years old.

00:20:58.000 But at age 16, you should be able to vote.

00:21:01.000 So, prisoners should vote, terrorists should vote, 16-year-olds should vote.

00:21:05.000 Solid platform you got going here, Democratic Party.

00:21:08.000 Do you believe that Americans should have the right to vote at age 16?

00:21:11.000 I 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.

00:21:22.000 And the larger number of people that we can involve in the electoral process, I think the more robust it would be.

00:21:29.000 You can look at what we are not doing for our students, for our teenagers, and even younger.

00:21:35.000 And 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.

00:21:41.000 And maybe that's one of the steps toward it.

00:21:43.000 Oh, wow.

00:21:44.000 OK.

00:21:44.000 So one of the steps is to let 16-year-olds vote.

00:21:46.000 Yes, 16-year-olds who are not in any way fully brain developed.

00:21:51.000 There's a good question as to whether 16-year-olds should be allowed to drive.

00:21:54.000 But no, they should definitely vote.

00:21:55.000 They can't buy alcohol.

00:21:56.000 They can't smoke.

00:21:57.000 They can't do most things without parental permission.

00:22:01.000 But they should be able to vote and have abortions. 1.00

00:22:04.000 That's the thing that the Democrats want to make sure of.

00:22:08.000 Now, here's the thing about Kamala Harris.

00:22:09.000 The real problem Kamala Harris has here is not even her policy with her own base. 1.00

00:22:12.000 Her biggest problem is that she's super awkward. 0.98

00:22:14.000 So for example, she awkwardly laughs at her own joke.

00:22:16.000 She 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? 1.00

00:22:26.000 This is weird.

00:22:27.000 That happened last night on CNN.

00:22:29.000 Children, seniors, we all need to drink clean air and drink clean water and breathe clean air.

00:22:34.000 And you know, don't drink the air.

00:22:38.000 Yeah, Kamala Harris. 0.87

00:22:39.000 I'm not sure that candidacy is going anywhere fast, which again is why Bernie Sanders is doing well. 0.97

00:22:42.000 looks at you like you're crazy.

00:22:43.000 Yeah, Kamala Harris. 0.87

00:22:45.000 I'm not sure that candidacy is going anywhere fast, which again is why Bernie Sanders is doing well.

00:22:49.000 Now 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.

00:22:56.000 He went to good schools, he is white, and he says all of the nice liberal things that they like to hear.

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00:24:09.000 So next up on the Democratic roster of wonderful candidates is, of course, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

00:24:16.000 Now, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been running into a few problems of late.

00:24:21.000 His image is wholesome, clean cut, Down with the people.

00:24:26.000 You know, he's a small-town mayor from Indiana.

00:24:28.000 That's his image, right?

00:24:34.000 He's Ron Howard from the Music Man.

00:24:36.000 He can't wait for the Wells Fargo wagon to come coming down the street.

00:24:40.000 Oh, please let it be for him.

00:24:42.000 That is Mayor Pete's image.

00:24:44.000 He comes off as though he is from a Norman Rockwell cover.

00:24:47.000 That's the big blue eyes and the tie but no jacket and the whole deal.

00:24:51.000 That's his image.

00:24:53.000 Well, right now, his actual kind of attitude is starting to come out, and that is that Pete Buttigieg seems to be an elitist.

00:25:01.000 He seems to be a guy who is most comfortable in the halls of elite folks, which makes sense.

00:25:06.000 He is a member of the elite.

00:25:08.000 This is a guy who went to Harvard undergrad, and then he was a Rhodes Scholar over at Oxford.

00:25:13.000 This is a person who speaks many languages.

00:25:16.000 He's the kind of person that the media love.

00:25:18.000 He's sort of like John Kerry in this way.

00:25:19.000 The media love John Kerry because John Kerry can speak French.

00:25:21.000 It's the same thing with Buttigieg.

00:25:22.000 Wow, he can speak French.

00:25:23.000 That's amazing.

00:25:24.000 You know who else can speak French?

00:25:26.000 Everyone in France.

00:25:26.000 But, may I repeat, Buttigieg is an amazing guy because he's smart.

00:25:30.000 Listen.

00:25:31.000 I'm very much in favor of smart.

00:25:33.000 I like smart.

00:25:33.000 Smart is a quality.

00:25:34.000 It is not a moral quality, however.

00:25:37.000 But if I have an option between talking with someone smart and someone not smart, I will pick the smart human.

00:25:42.000 That's good.

00:25:42.000 I'm glad Mayor Pete is smart.

00:25:43.000 But sometimes his scorn for folks comes out, and he's been trying to hide it.

00:25:49.000 And now it's starting to come out.

00:25:49.000 So 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.

00:25:58.000 He now claims to be speaking on behalf of God without apparently having read the Bible, any of the difficult bits.

00:26:03.000 In any case, Mayor Pete got himself in trouble.

00:26:06.000 Not really about that over the last week or so.

00:26:08.000 He got in trouble because he took a shot at Bernie Sanders' supporters.

00:26:11.000 Here is what Mayor Pete had to say.

00:26:13.000 I 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.

00:26:26.000 They're stuck.

00:26:27.000 It 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.

00:26:36.000 I think that's how we got where we are.

00:26:39.000 Okay, so he compares Trump supporters to Bernie supporters and he suggests that they want to blow up the system.

00:26:45.000 This 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.

00:26:53.000 It sounds a lot like Hillary Clinton when she said that people who opposed her were moral deplorables.

00:26:58.000 And now, he... I mean, that's a big boo-boo.

00:27:01.000 That's not just him ripping on Trump supporters, that's him ripping on Bernie Sanders supporters.

00:27:05.000 One of the crucial things that you're not supposed to do in politics is rip on supporters of a particular politician.

00:27:10.000 You can rip on the politician, but supporters support politicians for a wide variety of reasons.

00:27:15.000 Those reasons may be bad, those reasons may be good.

00:27:17.000 But if you're running for office, the last thing you want to do is say, the supporters of that candidate, those are bad people.

00:27:23.000 Those people are somehow morally lacking.

00:27:26.000 Mitt 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.

00:27:32.000 Now, 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.

00:27:44.000 Anytime you rip a giant crowd of people that way while running for office, it's a mistake.

00:27:48.000 And Pete Buttigieg has been trying to atone for that ever since.

00:27:51.000 It is also true that as Buttigieg rises in the polls, he's up to about 14% in Iowa, apparently, which is a massive jump.

00:27:57.000 According to the latest polls, only five points back of both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.

00:28:01.000 He's running in a very solid third place right now, out of nowhere.

00:28:06.000 People are starting to ask, hey, why don't you have like policies?

00:28:10.000 Like why don't you have any policies on your website?

00:28:12.000 So he was asked about this and his answer was because policy would make me not look all that great.

00:28:18.000 You've got a website up, but when I go to it, I don't see yet where Pete Buttigieg stands.

00:28:25.000 When do you expect that to be up?

00:28:27.000 Where does Pete Buttigieg stand?

00:28:28.000 Well, 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.

00:28:38.000 We're trying to run a non-traditional campaign.

00:28:40.000 So 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.

00:28:56.000 Okay, so that is a giant, long word salad about why he doesn't actually have any policies.

00:29:01.000 Don't worry, as time goes on, he will have policies, but he hasn't had any so far.

00:29:05.000 His 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.

00:29:12.000 And right now, he would prefer to look neither, and just get all of the rich media attention he has been receiving.

00:29:16.000 He wants to run a Beto O'Rourke 2018 Senate campaign.

00:29:20.000 He does not want to run a Bernie Sanders campaign.

00:29:23.000 Also, as Pete Buttigieg rises in the polls, the guns are starting to turn on him.

00:29:28.000 So 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.

00:29:42.000 And this, of course, is not okay with the woke crowd in South Bend.

00:29:45.000 Now, the way to defend this is I was trying to improve the area.

00:29:48.000 These houses were not occupied.

00:29:49.000 If you haven't been paying your bills, the houses get bulldozed.

00:29:52.000 If 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.

00:30:06.000 But that's not what Pete Buttigieg says.

00:30:07.000 Instead, he's apologizing for his record.

00:30:09.000 As soon as you start apologizing, you're in serious trouble.

00:30:12.000 This is what Bernie Sanders knows.

00:30:13.000 Which is why it's good he has no legislative record and also will never apologize for being communist warm.

00:30:18.000 Here 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.

00:30:26.000 The 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. 0.77

00:30:39.000 In 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.

00:31:06.000 Okay, so, you know, there is there is Buttigieg basically explaining away and also apologizing for his policy.

00:31:13.000 In 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.

00:31:19.000 And then we have to get to the Native American princess, Elizabeth Warren, who also joined CNN.

00:31:26.000 We've talked Sri Lanka a lot coming up first.

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00:34:35.000 So we've been talking about Mayor Pete on CNN.

00:34:36.000 And Mayor Pete's real appeal to the left media is threefold.

00:34:41.000 Well-educated, articulate, gay, and purportedly religious.

00:34:46.000 When I say purportedly religious, I assume that he believes in God.

00:34:49.000 I assume that he goes to church.

00:34:50.000 But when I say purportedly, I mean he obviously does not believe in central propositions of the Bible.

00:34:54.000 He's in favor of late-term abortion and same-sex marriage on a private level, obviously.

00:34:58.000 And on a public level.

00:34:59.000 So, none of those things mesh well with Biblical texts.

00:35:02.000 So if you're a Biblical-believing Christian, it is difficult to take these positions.

00:35:06.000 But, 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.

00:35:21.000 See, 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.

00:35:28.000 I'm not a huge fan of that sort of picking and choosing among the things you choose to believe.

00:35:33.000 It 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.

00:35:39.000 And if you're a Jew and you believe that God gave the Torah at Sinai.

00:35:44.000 You should believe the things that God gave at Sinai in the Torah.

00:35:48.000 This seems fairly holistic to me.

00:35:50.000 But 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.

00:35:57.000 The same sort of stuff that you would get on any self-help tour from anybody.

00:36:01.000 Just this self-help touring guide is God.

00:36:03.000 And then also just ignore all of the injunctions about moral behavior.

00:36:06.000 So Pete Buttigieg, that is his candidacy.

00:36:08.000 That is his appeal.

00:36:09.000 And he sort of admits this.

00:36:10.000 He said yesterday on CNN that if he hadn't come out of the closet, he would not be running for president.

00:36:15.000 Now, he doesn't mean it the way that it comes out, but that is obviously true. 0.99

00:36:19.000 If 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.

00:36:24.000 He would just be a normal, articulate mayor from South Bend, Indiana, a heavily Democratic area that votes 80-20 Democrat in every presidential election.

00:36:30.000 That would be it.

00:36:31.000 South Bend is not ranked among the top 150 cities in population.

00:36:34.000 He has not done some masterfully outstanding job in South Bend that is worthy of national note.

00:36:39.000 He is prominent because he is smart.

00:36:41.000 He is prominent because he is articulate. 0.99

00:36:42.000 And he is prominent because he is gay. 0.98

00:36:43.000 This is obvious.

00:36:44.000 And Buttigieg sort of acknowledges this, although he says, No, it's just his homosexuality, which gave him the impetus to run.

00:36:52.000 Okay, I don't care what gave him the impetus to run. 0.78

00:36:54.000 The reason people are paying attention to him is because he is gay. 0.88

00:36:56.000 Were 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. 0.88

00:37:04.000 Here's Pete Buttigieg.

00:37:07.000 In 2015, at 33, is when you came out publicly.

00:37:10.000 How do you think your life would be different if you had come out before that?

00:37:13.000 I started really thinking about how you only get to live one life.

00:37:17.000 And I came out, and I started dating, and I found Chastin.

00:37:23.000 And 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.

00:37:38.000 So I guess another way to answer your question is I would not be running for president today if I hadn't come out.

00:37:45.000 Okay, that is also probably a lie.

00:37:46.000 I mean, the fact is that he was awarded most likely to become president in his high school yearbook.

00:37:50.000 He's been constructing his resume since he was in high school and junior high to be president of the United... All that's fine.

00:37:55.000 Ambition is fine.

00:37:56.000 I don't have a problem with ambition.

00:37:58.000 The founders thought ambition was good.

00:37:59.000 The 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. 0.97

00:38:06.000 Now, what is truly amazing about Buttigieg, again, he's smart, but there's a strong streak of hypocrisy that runs through his candidacy. 0.92

00:38:13.000 He has now spent weeks attacking Mike Pence for no reason.

00:38:16.000 He keeps saying that Mike Pence hates him.

00:38:17.000 There's no evidence Mike Pence hates him.

00:38:19.000 He keeps saying he's been victimized by Mike Pence.

00:38:20.000 Mike Pence has never victimized him.

00:38:22.000 When 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.

00:38:29.000 Mike Pence personally called Buttigieg when he was activated for the military.

00:38:33.000 Mike Pence has never said a bad word about Pete Buttigieg.

00:38:35.000 Pete 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.

00:38:45.000 I don't think Pete Buttigieg is ungodly.

00:38:47.000 I think he's a sinner like all the rest of us. 1.00

00:38:49.000 And 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. 0.97

00:38:59.000 At best.

00:39:00.000 But that doesn't mean he's irreligious.

00:39:01.000 I think he believes what he believes.

00:39:03.000 I think we all believe what we believe.

00:39:04.000 But, Buttigieg has been attacking Mike Pence, and then he pretends as though Mike Pence is attacking him.

00:39:08.000 He did that routine last night.

00:39:10.000 Richard 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. 0.98

00:39:18.000 He's a gay man. 0.86

00:39:19.000 He answered for Mike Pence. 0.89

00:39:19.000 He said Mike Pence does not hate gay people. 0.89

00:39:21.000 And so, Buttigieg now suggests that Grinnell is attacking him. 0.65

00:39:24.000 All of this is really, really dishonest.

00:39:27.000 Got 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.

00:39:35.000 The 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.

00:39:48.000 How do you respond to that?

00:39:50.000 I'm not a master fisherman, but I know bait when I see it and I'm not going to take it.

00:39:54.000 Oh, well, he knows bait.

00:39:56.000 Well, you were the one chumming the waters, dude.

00:39:58.000 You're the one who started this fight.

00:39:59.000 There was no fight between you and Pence.

00:40:00.000 You decided you were gonna say a bunch of stuff about Pence.

00:40:03.000 Pence responded, and they were like, oh, no, I don't, I'm not the kind of person who engages in that sort of fight.

00:40:07.000 Buttigieg'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.

00:40:20.000 Here is Pete Buttigieg talking about God and politics.

00:40:25.000 And I get that one of the things about Scripture is different people see different things in it.

00:40:28.000 But at the very least, we should be able to establish that God does not have a political party.

00:40:39.000 Okay, now, that is true and it is not true.

00:40:41.000 God, it's true, God does not have a political party.

00:40:43.000 However, if you are a religious believer, God does have a series of principles and morals, and those principles and morals are embedded in politics.

00:40:50.000 So, for example, I can say God is anti-abortion.

00:40:52.000 How do I know that?

00:40:53.000 Because God says so a lot.

00:40:55.000 I can say that God is in favor of traditional sexual morality.

00:40:58.000 How can I say so?

00:40:59.000 As a religious believer.

00:41:00.000 Again, I'm speaking only in the context of religious belief.

00:41:02.000 So if you're an atheist and you're sitting there shouting it at your phone or at your radio right now, saying, well, God doesn't exist.

00:41:08.000 That's not my point.

00:41:09.000 You can believe what you want.

00:41:10.000 I'm not talking about public policy.

00:41:11.000 I'm talking about Buddha judge's statement, which is a religious statement that God has no political party.

00:41:16.000 Okay, 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.

00:41:26.000 He's not a pantheist!

00:41:28.000 Presumably, Pete Buttigieg.

00:41:30.000 He's not somebody who believes that God is just in the universe.

00:41:32.000 He's not a deist.

00:41:33.000 He says he's a Christian.

00:41:34.000 Okay, so if he's a Christian, you would have to look at, you know, scriptural sources.

00:41:38.000 And 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.

00:41:46.000 That God is in favor of same-sex marriage.

00:41:48.000 God is pretty clear not.

00:41:49.000 That God is in favor of abolishing the notion of biological sex, as the transgender rights movement seems to want to do in law. 0.96

00:41:57.000 God would be against all of those things.

00:41:58.000 So, I don't know which party God would vote for because God doesn't vote.

00:42:01.000 He doesn't have to.

00:42:02.000 He's God.

00:42:03.000 But 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.

00:42:11.000 Now again, if you're not a Judeo-Christian value person, that's fine. 0.81

00:42:15.000 If you don't believe in the Bible, that's your thing.

00:42:17.000 Fine.

00:42:17.000 I'm not making the case you cannot vote for Pete Buttigieg.

00:42:19.000 I'm making the case that Pete Buttigieg's case that God is not political in any way is just a lie.

00:42:23.000 It's just not true.

00:42:25.000 There'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.

00:42:34.000 It'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?

00:42:53.000 All of these things are embedded in Judeo-Christian values.

00:42:56.000 Buttigieg is standing there and saying, as a Christian, I reject all of this.

00:42:59.000 Okay, well, he's free to do so, but that is not a good read of the Bible.

00:43:03.000 It just isn't.

00:43:04.000 And if you ask anybody who is more religiously Christian than I, they will tell you the same.

00:43:09.000 Okay, now, Buttigieg is making gains.

00:43:12.000 The person who is floundering, of course, is Elizabeth Warren.

00:43:14.000 So...

00:43:16.000 Final candidate who was on CNN last night was Elizabeth Warren. 0.96

00:43:19.000 She stopped by to discuss all things campaign related.

00:43:23.000 She has been struggling to gain footing.

00:43:25.000 If she had run in 2016, I think that there's a serious shot she would have won the nomination.

00:43:29.000 But time passed her by, like the river of time.

00:43:34.000 She didn't know what was around the riverbend, as it turns out.

00:43:37.000 What was around the riverbend was apparently anonymity.

00:43:40.000 So our Native American princess, Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts, She went on CNN, and then she proceeded to dodge a bunch of questions.

00:43:51.000 So, she was asked about Social Security insolvency.

00:43:54.000 Not a single Democrat has a serious answer on Social Security insolvency, and Elizabeth Warren is no exception.

00:43:58.000 Here she is, not being honest about it.

00:44:02.000 Do you have a plan to reform our present Social Security system to increase its longevity?

00:44:06.000 So 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.

00:44:17.000 It's not working for people who are relying on Social Security.

00:44:21.000 So your question was, is this something?

00:44:24.000 The plan is not hard.

00:44:25.000 It's political will to make it happen.

00:44:29.000 I'm willing to take on that fight.

00:44:32.000 It's an important fight.

00:44:33.000 So thank you.

00:44:34.000 Okay, well, that is not an answer.

00:44:36.000 It's a real problem, and I'm willing to take it on.

00:44:37.000 Okay, lady, thank you.

00:44:40.000 Great answer.

00:44:41.000 So, I mean, can you imagine... Think of a politician like a doctor.

00:44:45.000 Can you imagine that you go into the doctor, and like, doctor, my arm hurts.

00:44:48.000 What can you do about it?

00:44:49.000 They say, you know what?

00:44:49.000 That's a problem I'm willing to take on.

00:44:51.000 Like, right, but my arm hurts.

00:44:52.000 Well, what should I do about it?

00:44:53.000 Should I have, like, an x-ray?

00:44:54.000 Or should we, like, get it bandaged?

00:44:56.000 And you're like, well, you know what?

00:44:57.000 That's a problem I'm willing to handle.

00:44:59.000 Thanks.

00:45:00.000 Thanks.

00:45:01.000 Super helpful, Elizabeth Warren.

00:45:03.000 Other super helpful things she said.

00:45:06.000 She 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.

00:45:12.000 Does that include Medicare for All?

00:45:13.000 Does that include a federal jobs guarantee, as AOC wants?

00:45:16.000 Or does it just mean that we build nuclear power plants?

00:45:18.000 Like, what exactly is she talking about?

00:45:20.000 Nobody knows.

00:45:20.000 It's a buzzword, and she's for it.

00:45:23.000 We're running out of time to make change.

00:45:26.000 We must make change and we must make it now.

00:45:30.000 So here's how I see this.

00:45:32.000 I am a strong supporter of the Green New Deal.

00:45:35.000 And I want to tell you that.

00:45:39.000 Okay, yeah, stop her, stop her. 1.00

00:45:41.000 This is nonsense.

00:45:42.000 Okay.

00:45:43.000 I love the hysterics in the crowd clapping, like seals out there in the audience. 0.87

00:45:47.000 Oh, she said she's for the Green New Deal.

00:45:49.000 That means she's awesome.

00:45:50.000 Okay, she didn't say anything, guys.

00:45:52.000 She said, it's a problem we have to handle.

00:45:55.000 It's a problem we have to handle.

00:45:57.000 Warren 2020, it's a problem we have to handle.

00:46:00.000 Thank you, Elizabeth Warren.

00:46:01.000 My 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. 0.96

00:46:08.000 And she said, well, yeah, sure.

00:46:10.000 I mean, I like order things from Amazon and everything.

00:46:12.000 OK, well, if you think the big tech companies are so bad, why are you ordering from Amazon?

00:46:16.000 At least the people who hate Chick-fil-A hate Chick-fil-A enough not to shop there.

00:46:19.000 And she says that Amazon should be broken up.

00:46:21.000 But sure, I get cheap products from Amazon.

00:46:22.000 It's pretty great for the consumer and all.

00:46:24.000 So that's the reason I want to see the two of them broken apart.

00:46:27.000 Do you order stuff from Amazon?

00:46:28.000 Sure.

00:46:29.000 You do?

00:46:30.000 What was the last thing you ordered, do you know?

00:46:33.000 Uh, a mailbox.

00:46:36.000 Okay.

00:46:38.000 And everybody's like, what?

00:46:39.000 Why'd you order a mailbox from Amazon?

00:46:41.000 That's a weird thing to do.

00:46:42.000 Who orders a mailbox, by the way?

00:46:45.000 That is the mark of a non-millennial woman right there. 1.00

00:46:48.000 Ordered a mailbox from Amazon.

00:46:51.000 Who even gets mail anymore?

00:46:53.000 Pretty amazing stuff.

00:46:54.000 So, solid stuff there from Elizabeth Warren.

00:46:57.000 Okay, meanwhile, I do have to note that the media contin- Not one mention last night in the entire night of Sri Lanka.

00:47:04.000 Not one mention the entire night over Sri Lanka in an Islamic radical terror attack that has now claimed the lives of 311 people.

00:47:12.000 Not one Democrat mentions this.

00:47:14.000 Not one.

00:47:15.000 ISIS has claimed responsibility for Sri Lanka.

00:47:19.000 The Sri Lanka's government says it has information that the bombers were reacting to last month's terror attack on mosques in New Zealand.

00:47:26.000 I have my doubts that that is true, specifically considering the complexity of this terrorist attack.

00:47:30.000 Eight simultaneous suicide bombings.

00:47:32.000 I don't think in 34 days you're able to get a terrorist attack of that magnitude together simply in response to Christchurch.

00:47:37.000 But was Christchurch a bad thing?

00:47:39.000 Of course, Christchurch was a tremendous act of evil.

00:47:41.000 You know what is also an act of evil?

00:47:43.000 Murdering 311 people at church on Easter Sunday.

00:47:46.000 And both of those acts of evil deserve to be condemned with all the enthusiasm that we can muster.

00:47:52.000 I'm only noticing that level of enthusiasm in condemning Christchurch from the left media.

00:47:57.000 And that runs in spite of the fact that Christians are under attack worldwide at a rapidly rising rate.

00:48:02.000 According to Christopher Vondracheck at the Washington Times, violence against Christians has been escalating steadily over the past few years, according to international observers.

00:48:11.000 Open 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.

00:48:23.000 Nearly 50 worshippers were killed on Palm Sunday, 2017 by bombers who targeted Coptic Christians in Cairo.

00:48:27.000 We're supposed to ignore that because Christians in the West... Ross Dudat has a good piece on this today at the New York Times. 0.65

00:48:33.000 Because Christians in the West are generally well-off. 0.89

00:48:35.000 They do real well.

00:48:36.000 And because Christian societies tend to be wealthier, we forget about Christians who are not in Christian societies, who are victimized on a regular basis.

00:48:44.000 In Pakistan that same year, nine Christians were killed a week before Christmas by suicide bombers linked to ISIS.

00:48:50.000 Sarah 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. 1.00

00:49:00.000 But how does the Washington Post respond to all of this?

00:49:02.000 With this article.

00:49:03.000 Christianity under attack?

00:49:05.000 Sri Lanka church bombings stoke far-right anger in the West.

00:49:09.000 So weird, weird.

00:49:11.000 I 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.

00:49:22.000 I don't remember them saying, I don't remember them saying, Islam under attack?

00:49:28.000 Christchurch attack prompts calls of Islamophobia from far left.

00:49:33.000 I don't remember that.

00:49:33.000 But according to the Washington Post, it's only the far right that is upset about Sri Lanka.

00:49:37.000 There'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.

00:49:43.000 Several churches were targeted in Sunday's bombing attack.

00:49:46.000 Then they cite Marine Le Pen, and then they cite Germany's far right alternative for Germany, framing the bloodshed as an attack against Christians.

00:49:54.000 Well, so the hell... I mean, like, that's what happened.

00:49:58.000 I'm confused.

00:49:59.000 Are we supposed to pretend that it wasn't an attack on Christians? 1.00

00:50:02.000 The fact that the Washington Post's first response to this is, how dare we focus on the victimized Christians?

00:50:08.000 Obviously, that's just the far right.

00:50:10.000 It 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.

00:50:18.000 The press are basically the press wing of the Democratic Party at this point.

00:50:22.000 Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.

00:50:25.000 So, things that I like today.

00:50:26.000 There's a fantastic philosophy series by a Catholic philosopher named Frederick Copleston.

00:50:32.000 This is recommended to me.

00:50:33.000 I was at Loyola Marymount University last month.

00:50:36.000 I had actually not seen this, which I'm surprised by because it's pretty famous.

00:50:38.000 There's this series called The History of Philosophy.

00:50:41.000 It's 11 volumes.

00:50:42.000 It goes all the way from Greece and Rome up through the moderns.

00:50:44.000 And it's really terrific.

00:50:46.000 I've been reading it over the holiday.

00:50:48.000 And it's really enjoyable.

00:50:50.000 So 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.

00:50:59.000 So if you want to read my book and then read A History of Philosophy, I think they pair really well together.

00:51:04.000 There's a deeper look.

00:51:05.000 It's also, as I say, 11 volumes.

00:51:07.000 That means that it's probably 4,000 pages or 5,000 pages, but it is totally worth going through.

00:51:13.000 I'm enjoying it a lot as I read it.

00:51:15.000 Thanks to the professor at Loyola Marymount who suggested it.

00:51:17.000 Don't want to name you for fear of getting in trouble with your own administration.

00:51:19.000 A History of Philosophy by Frederick Copleston.

00:51:22.000 Go check that out.

00:51:23.000 Okay, time for a thing that I hate.

00:51:28.000 Okay, 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.

00:51:36.000 This is their favorite thing to do.

00:51:37.000 I don't know why they do this, but they did it, they've done it, I think it was last Passover, they did it on Sukkot. 0.99

00:51:42.000 Like, every time the Orthodox Jews take the day off, they're like, you know what would be a great idea? 1.00

00:51:46.000 Let's smack them Jews! 1.00

00:51:47.000 So, 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. 0.99

00:51:54.000 He never acknowledged that Jesus was Jewish, said it was unlikely he was white, and said he was likely to have been a Palestinian.

00:52:01.000 This guy's name is Eric Coppedge.

00:52:02.000 He 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.

00:52:10.000 But Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was most likely a Palestinian man with dark skin.

00:52:14.000 So it is true that Jesus probably looked like my father in law.

00:52:21.000 He's probably a short Jewish guy of Middle Eastern descent.

00:52:25.000 But, he was not Palestinian.

00:52:27.000 You know how I know that Jesus was not Palestinian?

00:52:30.000 Because the term Palestine was invented 400... hundreds of years after Jesus' death.

00:52:38.000 Hundreds of years after Jesus' death, the term Palestine was invented.

00:52:42.000 OK, so that that is not that is not accurate.

00:52:45.000 This was called he was a Judean man.

00:52:47.000 He is described in the Gospels as a Judean man, right, as a Judean.

00:52:51.000 His parents were Judean and they were Jewish.

00:52:54.000 The term Palestinian originally referred to Jews.

00:52:57.000 The term Palestinian now refers to Syrian.

00:53:00.000 and 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.

00:53:12.000 That deal was rejected, of course, by the Arab states themselves.

00:53:16.000 But 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.

00:53:27.000 The Arab conquest of the region didn't happen until hundreds of years later.

00:53:30.000 The term Palestine was not used until generations later.

00:53:33.000 So he was not a Palestinian man.

00:53:35.000 That's just historically inaccurate.

00:53:38.000 In the 600 plus words of the piece, it's never acknowledged that Jesus was Jewish. 0.98

00:53:43.000 Instead, the idea is that Jesus was a Palestinian Arab, and thus the Israelis are just like the Romans today, which is pretty antisemitic crap.

00:53:51.000 Now, 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. 0.95

00:53:58.000 It has often become impossible to separate Jesus and white from the American psyche.

00:54:03.000 Well, I don't know.

00:54:03.000 in how white Christians feel about images of Christ?

00:54:05.000 How 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?

00:54:10.000 If you've seen Christ depicted as a man of color, what was your reaction?

00:54:13.000 Well, I don't know.

00:54:15.000 I mean, every Christian I've ever talked to nods when I say Jesus probably didn't look like an Aryan. 1.00

00:54:22.000 I've never met a Christian who's like, how dare you, sir, Jesus looked exactly like a Nordic guy. 0.91

00:54:28.000 He looked exactly like a Dane, Jesus. 0.99

00:54:32.000 I've never met that person.

00:54:35.000 Arabs didn't conquer the area until 700 years after Jesus was crucified. 0.92

00:54:39.000 Jesus was not an area, was not an Arab. 0.91

00:54:42.000 And also, the name Palestine only came into existence after Romans exiled the bulk of the Jewish people from Judea in the second century AD.

00:54:51.000 Notice the term A.D.

00:54:53.000 That'd be after Jesus, right?

00:54:55.000 Second century, long after Jesus lived.

00:54:58.000 And that's when the Roman Emperor Hadrian exiled the Jews.

00:55:00.000 And then he decided to call it Palestine specifically in order to mock the Jews by naming it after their historic enemies, the Philistines.

00:55:07.000 So well done, New York Times.

00:55:09.000 Always, always covering the news in the worst possible way.

00:55:13.000 Pretty impressive stuff.

00:55:14.000 Okay, we will be back here tomorrow and I will see you then.

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2020 Cometh, And That Right Soon | Ep. 765

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