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00:00:12.000Well, it's the day before Fourth of July, my favorite holiday of the year.
00:00:15.000Fourth of July is just spectacular, of course.
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00:02:45.000And if you don't see America as a set of eternal principles and values that outlive any single president or any single legislature or any single Speaker of the House or any single Supreme Court Justice, I would suggest that you don't have a valuable view of America in and of itself.
00:02:59.000You just think of America as what it is today, as opposed to America as a manifestation of certain ideals.
00:03:06.000And maybe those ideals are being imperfectly implemented.
00:03:08.000But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be proud of the ideals themselves or the history of America, which has freed more people from tyranny than any country in the history of the globe.
00:03:16.000Republicans have consistently said they're extremely proud to be American at a significantly higher rate than Democrats, according to Mediaite.
00:03:22.000This new number that less than half of all Americans are extremely proud to be American, this is a new low since the question was first polled by Gallup in 2003.
00:03:35.000Republicans have said they are extremely proud much more consistently than Democrats because Republicans are much more tied to foundational documents and to the system created by the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
00:03:46.000Also, Republicans are more likely to engage in displays of patriotism.
00:03:48.000There are a lot of good studies that suggest that if you take your kid to a 4th of July parade, that in and of itself is a good predictor as to whether your kid will vote Republican or Democrat.
00:03:57.000Because if you feel there is inherent importance to the idea of America and to the symbolism of America, you're more likely to be Republican.
00:04:04.000Whereas if you think of yourself as a global citizen, as a person who's above and beyond these American ideals, you're a person who can stand outside America and cast a
00:04:13.000A keen eye at the problems America faces, you're more likely to be a Democrat.
00:04:17.000The number dipped slightly to 68% of Republicans saying they were extremely proud to be American in 2016, but it's now 74%.
00:04:23.000Democrats conversely said they were extremely proud at a rate of 46% in 2016, but in two years that number has dropped by 14 points.
00:04:31.000That's because Republicans now dominate public.
00:04:34.000So, as Republicans have continued to dominate electorally, Democrats have become less and less proud of their country, because again, Democrats think of America as the government.
00:04:41.000They don't think of it as the American people, or the values embodied by the American people, or the founding values, which they don't like anyway.
00:04:47.000Democrats believe that the founding values merely enshrine racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia.
00:04:52.000That all of the Constitution, all of the Declaration of Independence, was written as a way to enshrine property ownership by rich white men.
00:04:59.000This is the Howard Zinn view of history, and unfortunately it's permeated large segments of the Democratic Party.
00:05:08.000Despite this poll, most Americans still kind of like the country.
00:05:12.000And when you have this Howard Zinn view of history, that George Washington was just a rich white slave owner who had no principles, and that he wasn't risking anything in the Revolutionary War, all these guys just wanted to keep their own property.
00:05:22.000When you believe that, you throw out American history.
00:05:25.000When you treat American history as just a series of power relations, what you're really doing is undermining what America is and what makes America good.
00:05:32.000The reality is that America is the only country in human history founded on an ideal, a stated ideal, and a good ideal, the idea that all men are created equal, granted inalienable rights by their creator.
00:05:45.000That is a unique proposition in human history.
00:05:47.000And the Founding Fathers may not have perfectly realized the manifestation of that idea.
00:06:06.000And that's why I've always objected to the folks who kneel during the national anthem.
00:06:09.000I've always objected to this idea that you have to burn the flag in order to protest.
00:06:13.000It seems to me that what you really should be doing is saying, I love the flag, and that's why I think that we're not standing up in proper ways for it.
00:06:21.000And that's why I think that we have to fulfill that dream.
00:06:24.000This is what Frederick Douglass did so well.
00:06:25.000He did a very famous speech during the late days of slavery, before the Civil War.
00:06:30.000He did a speech, very famous Fourth of July speech, in which he said, The Declaration of Independence is a magnificent document, but it doesn't protect people like me.
00:06:53.000And this Marxist idea that all politics, all principle, is really just a manifestation of what you want, it's all just power relationships, that the only reason that the Constitution exists is because there are a bunch of people who want to preserve their own interests,
00:07:10.000It was a lot riskier for the founders to fight against the greatest empire on earth than it was for them, much riskier for them to fight that empire and put all their property at risk.
00:07:22.000I mean, the Declaration of Independence pledges their lives, their wealth, and their sacred honor, their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the fight.
00:07:30.000There are founders who went legitimately broke in the course of the Revolutionary War, Robert Livingston among them, from New York.
00:07:36.000He watched his house burn to the ground.
00:07:38.000George Washington, there's a story my business partner Jeremy Boren was telling me last night.
00:07:44.000George Washington, the British were threatening Mount Vernon, and apparently one of his staffers basically went out and begged the British not to burn down Mount Vernon when Washington found out about it.
00:07:55.000He said, listen, I pledged my life, my fortune, my sacred honor to fight this battle.
00:08:00.000To pretend that the heroes of America's past are not actually heroes is deeply embedded in a lot of democratic ideology right now, and it's really bad.
00:08:09.000You want to know why the country's breaking apart?
00:08:10.000Because we don't have a common mythology, we don't have a common set of values, we don't have a common concept of liberty, even the things that used to unite us divide us.
00:08:18.000Go back to 1950 and listen to how Democrats talked about the Declaration of Independence.
00:08:22.000Look at the speeches and the writings of Arthur Schlesinger and who is considered, you know, the great intellectual of the Democratic Party.
00:08:47.000That they were a fact of this terrible American hierarchy.
00:08:50.000That the reason that there was racism, the reason there was Jim Crow, the reason there was this war in Vietnam, it was all because America had been built on the wrong basis.
00:08:56.000If it had been built on the basis of redistributionist Marxism, with social ownership of the means of production, then everything would have been so much better.
00:09:04.000And the left has never gotten over this.
00:09:06.000So according to this report from Gallup, politics appears to be a factor in why so many people are not proud to be American, with sharp declines evident among Democrats and political liberals and no decrease among Republicans and conservatives.
00:09:18.000The point here is not that Democrats dropped their support for the United States because of Trump.
00:09:25.000What's actually kind of interesting is that Republican support for the United States or enthusiasm about the United States only rose like a little bit in single digits.
00:09:33.000In other words, Republicans are very much tied to these generalized ideals.
00:09:38.000And Democrats see these generalized ideals as bad, unless they have a president in office who's fighting against those generalized ideals.
00:09:52.000Particularly the sharp drops in the last year.
00:09:54.000But again, I point out the fact that only a minority of Democrats said they were extremely proud to be American, even when Barack Obama was president.
00:10:06.000And that is that there are a number of people who are just not appreciative of living in America because they have it so good.
00:10:13.000See, everyone who's trying to get into America realizes that America is a great place.
00:10:17.000Everybody who's trying to get in, illegally or legally, who's trying to cross that border, is trying to get here because it's better here.
00:10:23.000People around the world are trying to imitate the implementation of American markets and American constitutional ideas because they see that America is a powerhouse.
00:10:31.000And they look at their own lives, and they say, our own life isn't that great.
00:10:35.000Maybe our life could be better if we started implementing some of those ideals.
00:10:38.000And in fact, when you implement those ideals, your country becomes better.
00:10:41.000When you implement free market ideas on a rock like Hong Kong, you turn Hong Kong into a thriving place.
00:10:47.000When you implement terrible ideas in a barren area, then you end up in poverty.
00:10:53.000So one of the things that's important to note here is that we are all living better in the United States and generally around the world than we ever have.
00:11:03.000And he's praised the Republican-led Congress for rejecting the Trump administration's proposed cuts to the State Department budget, according to PJ Media.
00:11:10.000Gates pointed out that the foreign aid budget nearly doubled during President George W. Bush's tenure.
00:11:14.000But here is the point that he makes, and this is the one that I think actually matters.
00:11:19.000He says that the world is better now than it ever has been.
00:11:23.000It's not really about how much we spend on foreign aid.
00:11:59.000Obviously, the world is a better place.
00:12:00.000And I would suggest the reason the world is a better place is because of America.
00:12:03.000The reason the world is a better place is because of the United States.
00:12:07.000In a second, I'm going to talk about that a little bit more.
00:12:09.000First, I want to say thanks to the USCCA.
00:12:11.000So, one of the things that the United States has always enshrined is the Second Amendment.
00:12:15.000And as we approach Fourth of July, it's important to remember that one of the reasons that we have our freedoms is because American citizens owned guns.
00:12:22.000And you should own a gun, too, if you're a law-abiding citizen.
00:12:24.000You should protect your family and your community and your country with those weapons.
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00:13:34.000That's not why the world is a better place.
00:13:36.000The world is a better place because the rest of the world has embraced America's visions of markets.
00:13:40.000Because the rest of the world has engaged with the United States in an exchange of free labor.
00:13:45.000Because the rest of the world has decided that America had it right in the first place.
00:13:49.000America has been the atlas holding up the world since World War II.
00:13:54.000Virtually all global growth has occurred on the back of the United States.
00:13:57.000There are a lot of people on the left who believe that if the United States were to disappear, or were to go European-style redistributionist, or if it were to go socialist, then nothing in the world would really change.
00:14:07.000What they neglect to mention is the fact that the world engine for growth is the United States.
00:14:11.000That is the engine of growth in virtually every part of the globe.
00:14:14.000We are the chief trading partners with a huge number of countries for a reason.
00:14:18.000We're not just the biggest market, we're the biggest producers.
00:14:21.000The United States is a global engine of growth, not just because of free markets, but because of the values embedded in free markets.
00:14:29.000The idea that you have a duty and a responsibility to go out and work.
00:14:33.000These are American ideas embedded in the Declaration of Independence, embedded in the Constitution of the United States.
00:14:38.000This is all stuff we should be proud of.
00:14:40.000When we look at the world, you know, there's a tendency by even some on the right to look at the world and we say, well, you know, America hasn't seen the gains that it should have seen over the past 30 years, which I think is utter nonsense.
00:14:50.000If you look at the standard of living in the United States, the stuff that you can have now versus what you could have 30 years ago, you'd significantly rather live now than live in 1980.
00:15:00.000If you had to be born when I was born or be born now, you'd rather be born now.
00:15:11.000Even if you believe that the United States has not grown the way that it should, and then you look at global growth and you say, well, look at all these other countries that are growing so fast.
00:15:21.000That's due to the fact that America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.
00:15:25.000So if you're a leftist and you don't actually believe that a stronger America is necessary, look at the rest of the world where we have halved the extreme poverty rate in less than 40 years and think to yourself, maybe that's because the ideas that created the United States were the best ideas that anybody ever had for founding a country.
00:15:41.000And if you don't believe that, I think that you're going to get America wrong, you're not going to be patriotic, and you're not going to understand why it is that America is great in the first place.
00:15:49.000It's not just that we have to make America great again, it's that we have to understand why America was great in the first place so that we can make America great again.
00:15:56.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of making America great again, the President of the United States
00:15:59.000is moving steadily toward picking his Supreme Court nominee.
00:16:03.000Right now, they are saying that the person in the lead is Judge Kavanaugh from the D.C.
00:16:34.000But one of the problems I see is that there are two types of votes on the Supreme Court.
00:16:39.000There's the Clarence Thomas kind of vote on the Supreme Court, which is, I will vote the way that I think is correct in every possible case, and I'm not going to try to pretend that I'm currying favor or cultivating votes among other members of the court.
00:16:50.000I'm not interested in the cohesiveness or coherence or the sort of collegiality of the court.
00:16:56.000I'm more interested in just voting the right way and saying what's true, which is Clarence Thomas' approach.
00:17:00.000And then there's Roberts' approach, which is, I'm going to try to cobble together majorities.
00:17:05.000Now, sometimes you need to cobble together majorities on crucial cases.
00:17:08.000But Roberts has a tendency to do that by sacrificing principles.
00:17:11.000So I think most recently there is a case in this term with regard to Masterpiece Cake Shop, in which there were certainly five votes, certainly five votes, to say that laws that tell religious people that they have to cater same-sex weddings are discriminatory against religious people.
00:17:26.000And instead, Roberts decided, I'm going to cobble together a 7-2 opinion that is decided on very narrow grounds, where maybe those laws aren't unconstitutional, it's just that they have to be implemented in the most neutral possible way.
00:18:09.000with the opinion that Obamacare itself was unconstitutional.
00:18:14.000Instead, what he said is, I'm not going to rule on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional because under the Anti-Injunction Act, I'm not allowed to rule on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional because basically the penalty under Obamacare is applied as a tax and because the Anti-Injunction Act is sort of specifically worded, I therefore can't reach the jurisdictional question.
00:18:35.000That logic, that this was a tax and not a penalty, ended up being used by Chief Justice Roberts and by the Obama administration in their arguments before the Supreme Court that ended with Chief Justice Roberts essentially green-lighting Obamacare.
00:18:47.000Also, there have been some complaints that Kavanaugh has been providing some of his clerks to liberal justices at the Supreme Court.
00:18:55.000There's more crossover appeal to Kavanaugh, for sure, with other leftist members of the court.
00:19:00.000There are a couple of other cases that people are talking about.
00:19:21.000So it's, um, you know, I'm, I'm not in love with this.
00:19:25.000I'm just, I'm not in love with the Kavanaugh pick.
00:19:28.000I'm not going to pretend I'm supremely enthusiastic about the Kavanaugh pick.
00:19:31.000I don't think that it is, it is going to, uh, again, do I, do I think it's going to be the worst thing in the world?
00:19:36.000No, but I also think that it's going to fall well in line with the, with the generalized mainstream Republican opinion now that we shouldn't overturn Roe v. Wade.
00:19:44.000I don't think the Kavanaugh will be a vote to overturn Roe.
00:20:16.000It has nothing to do with the Constitution.
00:20:18.000But Leonard Leo, the guy who's actually helping Trump select the Supreme Court pick, is saying openly he doesn't think that Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned.
00:20:25.000You know, he's never asked this question of a nominee.
00:20:29.000And right now, there's only one justice on the court, Clarence Thomas, who has said explicitly he wants to overturn Rose.
00:20:34.000So, there's a lot of speculation going on here, and I'm just very skeptical about, you know, what people are suggesting might happen.
00:20:43.000So, you know, if you're getting that from Leonard Leo, then I would think that that's probably the way that it's going to go.
00:20:49.000It's worth noting, by the way, that he was instrumental, Kavanaugh was, when he was working with the Bush administration and helping to push Chief Justice Roberts onto the Supreme Court in the first place.
00:20:58.000Now, I understand there's a tendency to try and
00:21:01.000You know, make people feel a little bit more sanguine about whatever Supreme Court pick happens here.
00:21:06.000But this is not a time to make people feel sanguine.
00:22:00.000Repainting the place or building in addition.
00:22:02.000I'm talking about the blinds on your windows You don't think about those a lot because who the hell thinks about their blinds But when you look at them go home look at your window coverings, and they're gonna be pretty ugly.
00:22:10.000I'm just good good indicator They're probably gonna be pretty ugly That's why you need blinds.com and taking the time to pick out and buy blinds It sounds expensive and kind of boring installing them yourself sounds harder than you want to admit but blinds.com makes it super easy if you're not sure what you want or where to start
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00:23:53.000I don't think there's any indicator that that was the case.
00:23:55.000But there is no question that the Democrats are deliberately raising the temperature in the country and they're treating people as heroes.
00:24:02.000for confronting other people in public, right?
00:24:05.000Not by protesting, not by making an appointment for a discussion, not by speaking out, but by harassing people in public.
00:24:10.000So this is the most polite harassment that I've seen.
00:24:12.000And still, it's not, I think, a very good precedent.
00:24:15.000Scott Pruitt was at a restaurant, the EPA chief, Scott Pruitt was at a restaurant, and a woman comes up with her child and decides to lecture him on why he should resign.
00:24:23.000I just wanted to urge you to resign because of what you're doing to the environment in our country.
00:25:06.000You know, I've had discussions with people on politics in public before, but do I think that it's good for the country that this sort of thing is happening on a more regular basis?
00:25:15.000Not particularly, because I don't think that this woman is interested in engaging in a discussion.
00:25:18.000I think that the reason there's a camera on her right now is because she wants a viral video of her telling off Scott Pruitt.
00:26:49.000And then he gets into his personal experience, and this is where he's getting mocked.
00:26:52.000He says, I know this because I have experienced this firsthand on Martha's Vineyard.
00:26:55.000I am not a Trump supporter, nor am I a member of the Trump administration.
00:26:58.000I have strongly and publicly opposed his immigration policies, ranging from the travel ban that was upheld by the Supreme Court to the zero-tolerance policy that led to the separation of parents and children at the border.
00:27:07.000I oppose other Republican policies as well.
00:27:09.000I voted for and contributed handsomely to Hillary Clinton.
00:27:11.000But I have defended Trump's civil liberties, along with those of all Americans, just as I would have defended Hillary Clinton's civil liberties had she been elected and subjected to efforts of impeachment or prosecution.
00:27:21.000And then he says, I'm a liberal Democrat in politics, but a neutral civic libertarian when it comes to the Constitution.
00:27:26.000But that is not good enough for some of my old friends on Martha's Vineyard, says Ellen Dershowitz.
00:27:31.000For them, it is enough that what I have said about the Constitution might help Trump.
00:27:35.000So they are shunning me and trying to ban me from their social life on Martha's Vineyard.
00:27:38.000One of them, an academic at a distinguished university, has told people he would not attend any dinner or party to which I was invited.
00:27:43.000He and others have demanded trigger warnings so they can be assured of having safe spaces in which they will not encounter me or my ideas.
00:27:49.000Others have said they will discontinue contributions to organizations that sponsor my talks.
00:27:53.000It is all familiar to me since I lived through McCarthyism in the 1950s when lawyers who represented alleged communists on civil libertarian grounds were shunned.
00:27:59.000Some of those lawyers and victims of McCarthyism lived on Martha's Vineyard.
00:28:02.000I never thought I'd see McCarthyism come to Martha's Vineyard, but I have.
00:28:05.000Okay, so people are making fun of him because Martha's Vineyard is very wealthy, and if Dershowitz is getting shunned on Martha's Vineyard, oh, play the world's smallest violin is sort of how the logic goes.
00:28:25.000But I'd like to point out the counter logic of the left.
00:28:27.000So the left itself has said that it is a refusal of human dignity.
00:28:31.000It is a refusal of human dignity for me and my synagogue not to perform your same-sex wedding.
00:28:36.000It is a violation of your personal dignity for me personally not to approve of your behavior in any way.
00:28:42.000Not just with regard to sex, with regard to anything.
00:28:44.000For me to withhold my approval of you is a denial of your self-esteem and it's an imposition on your life.
00:28:50.000And then the same people will mock Alan Dershowitz for saying, listen, I used to be invited to all these dinner parties.
00:28:55.000I said that Trump has civil rights and now I'm not invited to any of the dinner parties.
00:28:58.000The point that Dershowitz is making is not that he's seeing some sort of brutal government crackdown.
00:29:03.000The point that he's making, and I think it's well taken, is that intolerance in our nation has reached a supreme extreme where nobody is even listening to one another anymore.
00:29:10.000They would prefer for these utopian schemes to play out one way or the other.
00:29:15.000So, this is particularly true on the left, where they believe that Donald Trump is going to be removed from office through a deus ex machina.
00:29:20.000There's going to be something that happens.
00:29:21.000There will be a god outside the machine who will intervene, stick his hand in, and Trump will no longer be president.
00:29:28.000And if you don't believe that, well, you don't belong in our religious clique.
00:29:31.000And he's not wrong about that, Dershowitz, when he says this.
00:29:33.000When Dershowitz says that he's being excised, the only thing that he's wrong about is that this is something new.
00:29:39.000This was happening during the Bush administration.
00:29:41.000Every Republican that I know, when they go to a Thanksgiving dinner, is shunned by their Democratic relatives.
00:29:46.000I know very few Republicans who've actually shunned their Democratic relatives when they come over for dinner.
00:29:51.000There's a reason that conservatives avoid bringing up politics when they're in the context of their family events, whereas Democrats have no problem doing it whatsoever.
00:29:59.000People on the left are constantly bringing up politics at family dinners because they understand that conservatives tend to be more tolerant.
00:30:04.000Polls show this, by the way, that conservatives tend to interact more with people on the left than people on the left tend to interact with conservatives.
00:30:11.000But then the mockery of Alan Dershowitz that, oh, he's rich and, oh, he's Jewish and, oh, he teaches at Harvard Law.
00:30:17.000Therefore, why is he complaining about how people treat him?
00:30:19.000This is coming from the same people who whine nonstop about how they are treated by people to whom they have no right to affection.
00:30:27.000It's mind-bogglingly hypocritical, but perfectly within line with how the left thinks, which is that they have all these rights from you, but you have no rights from them.
00:30:37.000The answer is none of us have a right to love from anybody, right?
00:31:00.000It's greater than the entire economic output of the United States.
00:31:02.000If your entire life savings is tied to the U.S.
00:31:03.000dollar, you might want to ask yourself what happens if the Chinese start selling American bonds because of our debt that we're not paying off.
00:31:12.000It's a hedge against uncertainty and stability with precious metals.
00:31:15.000It is a safe haven against that sort of uncertainty.
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00:32:37.000As the Supreme Court selection grows ever closer to replace Anthony Kennedy.
00:32:49.000We're the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast in the nation.
00:32:57.000So the extremism of the left is on full display.
00:32:58.000The reason they feel fully justified in treating people badly is because they feel that you are an inferior human being.
00:33:04.000And again, I don't think there's anything new.
00:33:05.000I think that Alan Dershowitz has just been mugged by reality when he complains about this stuff.
00:33:09.000I don't think that anything has changed.
00:33:11.000I really don't think anything has changed.
00:33:13.000So, I'll take for an example Joss Whedon.
00:33:16.000So Joss Whedon has been a nut for a long time.
00:33:18.000And now, Joss Whedon tweets out this today.
00:33:38.000It's that second-to-last line that really is telling.
00:33:40.000Like, I'm glad that he's not going to start a war.
00:33:42.000By the way, if people on the left tried to start a war with people on the right, they should think about who has all the guns in the country right now.
00:33:48.000But that second-to-last line there, our rage is love.
00:33:58.000And I think that we live in an era of politics where anger is seen as authenticity.
00:34:02.000That if you're not rageful, if you're not screaming at the moon, if you're not baying like a hound at people, then that means that you're not passionate enough.
00:34:08.000We can automatically throw out your opinion.
00:34:21.000The left believes that they did not fight hard enough against President Trump, that Hillary Clinton was too civil to President Trump, and that's why they need to go yell at people in restaurants.
00:34:30.000That's why they need to attack people at gas stations.
00:35:36.000If you were born, if you were transported from 1920, you're Rip Van Winkley, go to sleep in, let's say, not even 1920, let's pick 1917, it's the middle of World War I, okay?
00:35:47.000And two years away is the influenza epidemic, a year away is the influenza epidemic that's gonna kill legitimately hundreds of thousands of people across the world.
00:35:54.000And you're living in 1917, 1918, and you go to sleep.
00:36:17.000Obviously, there are people having a tough time.
00:36:19.000But the average citizen of the United States has a car, a microwave, central air conditioning, a piece of hardware that they carry around in their hand that has more computing power than NASA had when they sent somebody to the moon.
00:36:34.000In walking around with instant access to information and entertainment, you don't have to go to a movie theater anymore and drop money at a movie theater.
00:36:39.000Instead, you've got this information that's available to you at every moment of the day.
00:36:45.000You can FaceTime with your kids when you're 3,000 miles away.
00:36:57.000We had a murder epidemic that took place basically from 1960 to 1994, and it started dropping then, and it's continued to drop.
00:37:04.000You can live in your neighborhood, depending on your neighborhood, most neighborhoods in the United States, you go to sleep at night, and you're not deeply worried that somebody's going to break into your house and murder you, or that your house is going to get burned down, or there's going to be a riot outside.
00:37:16.000Think about the progression in New York City alone.
00:37:19.000New York City was one of the most violent places in America.
00:37:23.000New York City is now one of the safest places in America.
00:37:26.000America has made heaven a reality, at least insofar as anyone in the past would have thought.
00:37:32.000And we are looking at it and we are seeing a hell.
00:37:34.000And maybe that's because we've got the wrong frame of mind.
00:37:36.000That's because we're not comparing ourselves to the past.
00:37:38.000We're not even comparing ourselves to what we could be.
00:37:40.000We are comparing ourselves to a utopia that doesn't exist, but only exists in your mind.
00:37:45.000We're comparing ourselves to a political system that has never been tried, that has never been really attempted without leaving a lot of people dead.
00:37:55.000And we're comparing ourselves to this phantom that doesn't exist in reality, and then we're declaring that we've come up short.
00:38:03.000That's the only way I can explain this anger, because anger, it seems to me, is coming out of frustration, and the only reason that Democrats would be frustrated in a world where same-sex marriage is legal, abortion on demand is legal, and they've got everything they want in terms of state intervention in a social safety net, basically, they're looking around, they're saying, this is hell?
00:38:20.000Maybe it's just that they were so used to being on top for so long that when the American people said, hold up a sec, let's throw the brakes on and let's appreciate what's happened in the United States, and maybe let's think about whether we've gone too far in some areas,
00:38:32.000Meanwhile, I want to talk to you about this really funny study.
00:38:34.000So one of the things that I think is really funny is that the left
00:38:52.000is insistent that science is not a thing.
00:38:55.000Really, there are a lot of folks on the left who believe that real science is a manifestation of the patriarchy, and that biological differences are really not biological differences, particularly between men and women.
00:39:06.000So the left wants to hold that gender identity is fully biological, that if you're a man who believes you're a woman, that is fully biological, and there is no act of choice involved whatsoever, but it's also socially constructed, gender itself.
00:39:18.000Gender is socially constructed, but your gender identity is biological.
00:39:22.000If you can square that circle, then congratulations to you, because you are either incredibly stupid or incredibly smart.
00:39:30.000But it turns out that biology has some things to say about differences between the sexes.
00:39:35.000And those things don't always cut in favor of feminist notions about the differences between the sexes.
00:39:40.000So there's a study that the Daily Mail reports on today.
00:39:42.000They say women are more attracted to men who are sexist, because they think they are more willing to protect them, provide for them, and commit to a relationship, scientists say.
00:39:53.000So, poor feminist men who think that they were going to get some because they were wearing the I am a feminist t-shirt.
00:40:00.000It turns out that you are less prone to be the obvious victors in natural selection than the guy who just says men are men, women are women, and men's job is to defend women.
00:40:43.000Men who are considered to be sexist in a well-meaning way, for example, if they're chivalrous or think women need a man to protect them, may be more attractive.
00:40:49.000Even though women find these men patronizing and can feel undermined by them, they're more likely to want to couple up with them than with men who don't give them special treatment.
00:40:56.000Feminists still want men to pick up the bill when they go to coffee.
00:40:59.000Researchers say women may be hardwired
00:41:01.000To think the benefits of being with a kind but sexist man outweigh the downsides.
00:41:05.000The scientists maintain that despite romantic and flattering elements of the relationship, even well-meaning sexism reinforces the idea that women are inferior.
00:41:12.000Okay, this is the part of the study that's dumb.
00:41:15.000Really, if women really believe that a man opening a door for them means that they are inferior, that's because women have a complex that they cannot be cured by a change in men's social status.
00:41:25.000I don't know a secure woman on earth who feels terrible that a man opened a door for them.
00:41:30.000It says, even women who consider themselves strong feminists show the same preferences in the study by British and U.S.
00:41:45.000Because women are built to have kids with men and men are built to have kids with women and women are built to need protection by men from other men.
00:41:55.000This is not just among human beings, okay?
00:41:59.000The reality is that dominant males are not just physically dominant, they are also protective of their brood.
00:42:06.000Scientists from the University of Kent and Iowa State University carried out five tests to explore the theory that women are more attracted to what they call benevolent sexists.
00:42:12.000Benevolent means well-meaning or kind.
00:42:14.000Experts define the sexism as men who, for example, think women are more delicate or should be cherished or looked after by a man.
00:43:20.000The researchers' test found women are more attracted to men who have benevolent sexist attitudes and actions than they are to men who treat them as equals or don't give them special treatment.
00:43:45.000But I guess we're all supposed to pretend that all this is a social construct, that really what men want is a soy-drinking pajama boy who sits in his mother's basement all day and reads feminist literature.
00:43:56.000That's what women are really looking for.
00:45:02.000They can't see anything, but they can hear pretty much everything.
00:45:05.000So if you make noise, then they will hunt you down.
00:45:07.000So it's about this family that sort of lives on a farm.
00:45:10.000And one of the kids has a hearing difficulty.
00:45:13.000So all the people can speak sign language.
00:45:15.000This obviously helps protect them against the aliens.
00:45:18.000Really atmospheric and really creepy, but it's also quite meaningful pro-life and pro-gun.
00:45:23.000So I doubt that they meant this when they wrote the film, but it is a pro-life, pro-gun film.
00:45:28.000And one of the basic issues is that as this is happening, you know, and you're not allowed to make noise, Emily Blunt, who's the wife in the film, is pregnant.
00:45:38.000And there's never a thought about, like, should she have the baby or not?
00:46:38.000But unlike other horror films that sort of treat the death of children as almost a fun aspect of the horror film, it's treated with actual sensitivity.
00:48:08.000So now that they supposedly barred a black guy from a bathroom in Philadelphia, a story which I still have significant doubts about, because again, there are many cameras in that Starbucks, the person behind the counter, the barista, who is supposedly the evil racist, turns out to be an SJW...
00:48:25.000In any case, they've now shut down their restaurant for three hours to retrain everybody in implicit bias, which is a bunch of crap anyway.
00:48:33.000Now Starbucks advisors say that the company's anti-racial bias training in response to the arrest of two black men in a store in Philadelphia
00:48:39.000So former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz contacted Heather McGhee of the Equality Advocacy Group Demos and Sharon Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund after the arrest in May for advice.
00:49:44.000They say that this should include a top-to-bottom civil rights audit, more resources for employees encountering customers with mental health and addiction problems, and the creation of a customer bill of rights to be posted at each store.
00:50:21.000But the idea that you have rights against other American citizens when it comes to their private business transactions is just inane.
00:50:30.000They say that they found some improvements, these people did, in the Starbucks understanding of the nature of unconscious bias, but they decided that they need a more rigorous evaluation.
00:50:39.000So I guess that we're going to actually put all of the Starbucks baristas in rooms like Clockwork Orange.
00:50:45.000With the with the with the metal thingies.
00:50:48.000And then we're going to make them watch over and over 12 years of slave until they understand that slavery has to do with coffee or something.
00:50:55.000And then it says that the policy manuals need to be overhauled to prioritize equality throughout the company culture and clearly direct employees on managing customer relations, including how to respond to incidences of discrimination, bias and harassment.
00:51:28.000There's that video that came out of this woman who was putting her hands in the water near a shark, and a shark bit her finger and pulled her into the water.
00:51:35.000And everybody's like, ooh, it was shocking.
00:51:37.000OK, that video is a metaphor for Starbucks.
00:51:40.000Starbucks decided to put their finger into the water with the SJWs, and the SJWs just dragged them under.
00:51:44.000Now they're ripping off their digits one by one.