Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez accidentally spills the beans, we examine Tucker Carlson s populism, and the border wall war continues. This is the Ben Shapiro Show, where you get two extra hours of me every single day! Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code: PODCAST to receive immediate access to all new episodes of the Daily Wire. Enjoy this exclusive clip from an interview I did on a new segment I did with Alex Castellanos on his new show, "Alexandra: The New Face of the Democratic Party." Check it out here. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend about this podcast! It helps keep us all in touch with the latest breaking news and gives us a better sense of what's going on in the world. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends and family! Tweet me if you liked it! and let us know what you thought! Timestamps: 0:00 - Who are you listening to the podcast? 0:30 - Which Democratic Party Should We Take Seriously? 6:00- Which Democrat Are We Taking The Media Serious? 7:00 | Which Democrat Is the New Wave? 8:00 Is She the New Face Of The Democratic Party? 9:00 -- Who Are We Obsessed With? 11:30 -- Which Democrat We Should Take The Most? 12:00-- What Are We Consuming the Media? 13:30 14: Is She Dumb? 15: What Is She a Pop Culture? 16:30 | Which Party Is the Most Brilliant? 17:00 Is She Says the Most Stupid? 18:00 Can She Say the Most Idiotic Thing? 19:00 // 16:40 - Is She Not Stupid Or Is She Idiotic? 21:00 Does She Got It Better Than She Says It? 22:00 + 17:10 27:00 / 16:00 Or Does She Get It Better than That? 26:00 Are They Say It Better? 25:00 Do They Say That She Says That She's Dumb? 27: What Are They Stupid Or She's Just Idiotic Or She Says She's Not Dumb Or She Gets It Better Or She Just a Little Better Than That Or She Sells It? 26:20 29:30 Is She Just Idiot?
00:00:15.000Wow, a lot of news breaking over the weekend.
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00:02:32.000And I think that if people said we shouldn't pay attention to that person, that that would be a bit of media sophistry.
00:02:38.000If the game were to be that Democrats pay attention to a person and we're supposed to ignore that person, lest we be accused of being obsessed with that person, that would be a bunch of crap.
00:02:46.000So the person of whom I'm speaking, of course, is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:02:50.000Now the reason that a lot of folks on the right like to cover Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is because she says dumb things.
00:03:02.000Like all the things she says, 90% of the things she says are dumb.
00:03:05.000The only thing she says that are not dumb are things that are pop culturally related.
00:03:08.000So when Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez talks about like instant pot recipes on Instagram, not so dumb.
00:03:16.000When she talks about how she's a pretty good dancer, not so dumb.
00:03:20.000When she talks about economics, it's like she stuck her head in an oven, okay?
00:03:23.000The things she says are just idiotic, and she gets caught out saying idiotic things on a routine basis.
00:03:29.000But this does not seem to dim her appeal any for Democrats, which leads to an ironic situation.
00:03:34.000The same Democrats, who have accused Donald Trump of lowering the standards of truth and fact.
00:03:39.000The same Democrats who say that Donald Trump lies on a routine basis about matters of policy are worshipping at the altar of this brash new persona, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is brash and new precisely because she won 12,000 votes in a Democratic primary in a heavily blue district that is majority-minority and where the representative happened to be a white person until Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took over.
00:04:02.000The racial issue is only interesting insofar as it had an impact on the voting pattern in that primary.
00:04:08.000Okay, the reason that I bring this up is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was on 60 Minutes.
00:04:11.000Last week, she proposed what she called a Green New Deal.
00:04:14.000The Green New Deal would have required, within 12 years, 100% of the United States economy to be on renewable energy sources.
00:04:25.000economy is supported by renewable energy sources.
00:04:27.000So we're talking about the cost of tens of trillions of dollars at a minimum using the current technologies that we have.
00:04:33.000And if we wanted to develop new technologies, we are probably talking about hundreds of trillions of dollars in order to get to a completely green New Deal.
00:04:41.000She also suggested that we should have racial and gender-based equity handled by the Congress of the United States.
00:04:47.000And that we should raise the tax rates radically.
00:04:49.000So she did this interview on 60 Minutes because she is the new ideological thought leader, which makes sense.
00:04:53.000I mean, we've already had the idiocy of watching Bernie Sanders be the ideological thought leader for the Democrats.
00:04:59.000We've already watched the Democrats trot out a 70... a near-octogenarian socialist loon bag who's never passed a single piece of decent legislation from Vermont be the ideological thought leader for the Democrats.
00:05:10.000So why not prettier, dumber Bernie Sanders?
00:05:15.000So 60 Minutes brings out Ocasio-Cortez, and she says some things about policy.
00:05:19.000So she begins by pushing a 70% marginal tax rate.
00:05:22.000This is her big policy proposal, is that what we should do is we should pay for her Green New Deal, which, as I say, would cost tens of trillions of dollars by, you guessed it, taxing rich people more.
00:05:34.000You have a progressive tax rate system, your tax rate, you know, let's say from zero to $75,000 may be 10% or 15%, etc.
00:05:45.000But once you get to like the tippy tops, on your 10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70%.
00:05:53.000That doesn't mean all $10 million are taxed.
00:05:58.000At an extremely high rate, but it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more.
00:06:05.000Okay, this is like watching my four-year-old daughter explain basic addition to me.
00:06:09.000I mean, that she has like a certain amount of kind of baseline understanding, but she doesn't really get it.
00:06:14.000I like that Alexander Ocasio-Cortez is explaining to Anderson Cooper, who I promise you pays the top marginal tax rate, she's explaining how marginal tax bracket works.
00:06:23.000to Anderson Cooper on national television.
00:06:25.000This is the new wave of the Democratic Party.
00:06:27.000You see, like, when you get up to, like, the very tippy-top and the toppity-tip toes, and when you get to, like, the $10 million, that's taxed at a different rate than, like, if you made $5.
00:07:05.000This person wrote, "Okay, so a lot of rich white folks "are freaking out about what a 70% tax rate "on the wealthy would look like, "and they're scared about it and bleep, "even though it's literally what rich baby boomers "are he dealt with." First of all, rich baby boomers did not deal with it.
00:07:17.000They had massive tax loopholes that were applicable during the Eisenhower era when the top tax bracket, starting at about $3.4 million jointly for households, was at 91%.
00:07:26.000The effective tax rate for those households was about 45%.
00:08:54.000Because France tried to do exactly this.
00:08:57.000A few years back, let's go back in the way back machine to like 2017, like two years ago.
00:09:03.000The prime minister of France was a guy named Edouard Philippe.
00:09:07.000OK, and he had to and he had tried to impose, he had tried to impose, along with Emmanuel Macron, economic reforms that have led to a massive wealth tax.
00:09:32.000It turns out that rich people, if you try to tax them at a 70% rate above $10 million, you know what they'll do?
00:09:37.000They will just sell their houses and leave and go live in Monte Carlo.
00:09:41.000If you think The Rock is sticking around to watch 40 million bucks of his disappear every year so Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez can pay off her Green Solyndra supporters, you are out of your damned mind.
00:10:01.000They say, Ocasio-Cortez's suggestion for nearly doubling taxes on people earning more than $10 million would bring in $720 billion per decade, $72 billion a year.
00:10:25.000Ya think maybe Iraq just wouldn't do as many movies?
00:10:28.000I wouldn't work as hard if I knew 70% of my money were going to the federal government.
00:10:33.000Already an enormous amount of my money goes to the federal government.
00:10:35.000You think I would take on extra jobs just so I could pay the bills for the stupid ideas of our congresspeople?
00:10:41.000There's something deeply immoral about stealing 70% of any dollar that anyone makes.
00:10:46.000And if you think that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez knows how to spend her money better than The Rock knows how to spend his money, I don't know what to tell you.
00:10:52.000I'm with Cardi B. I don't know what the government does with my bleeping money, and neither do you.
00:10:57.000And the fact that the federal government is now trying to seize that money and people are cheering this on is nuts.
00:11:02.000So this is the new Democratic push, is that they are going to massively raise taxes.
00:11:06.000I also love the baseline lie that is being told here, which is that if you raise the top marginal tax bracket 70%, that's going to pay for everything.
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00:12:59.000All right, so that was not the dumbest thing Ocasio-Cortez had to say, but we're not supposed to talk about the dumb things she says again.
00:13:05.000Because she's good at Instagram, and she dances sometimes.
00:13:53.000But, you know, if you're the media, then none of that matters, right?
00:13:56.000If you're the media, the only thing that matters is that she's a Democrat.
00:14:00.000And because she's a Democrat, we have to give her all sorts of leeway.
00:14:02.000And if you attack her, if you say that her ideas are bad, then this is because you are a sexist.
00:14:07.000Just the same way that if you say Elizabeth Warren is a charmless hack, then this is because you are also a sexist.
00:14:12.000Because if you talk about likability, but you're talking about a Democrat, this means that you're a racist or a sexist or a bigot in some way.
00:14:19.000The dumbest thing that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said was so dumb on the 60 Minutes interview that even Anderson Cooper looked at her and almost vomited in her lap.
00:14:28.000So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked specifically about the fact that she says a lot of things that are not true, that in common parlance, she lies a lot.
00:14:35.000She will just trot out arguments that make no sense.
00:14:37.000She will say things that are blatantly, factually false.
00:14:40.000Listen to her response, because it is telling about the way so many folks on the political left think about what politics is, and it explains why younger generation folks are turning socialist.
00:14:49.000What she's about to say is a sign of deep immorality.
00:14:55.000But she says it with a straight face, and so we take it seriously.
00:14:59.000I think that there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.
00:15:11.000But being factually correct is important.
00:15:48.000We shouldn't worry about her being semantically or factually accurate.
00:15:51.000We shouldn't worry about any of those things.
00:15:52.000Accuracy is of no consequence when what you're saying is morally right.
00:15:56.000So you might say that We should take her seriously, but not literally.
00:16:01.000Now, I was informed by Democrats that Donald Trump had lowered the standards of the presidency when it came to truth.
00:16:06.000I was informed by Democrats that Donald Trump had destroyed our politics because he says a lot of things that are factually untrue.
00:16:12.000And I've said in the past that when Donald Trump says things that are factually untrue, that he should correct them, and that he's wrong, and that sometimes he's lying, and that that's bad.
00:16:20.000But Democrats don't actually care about all that.
00:16:22.000What Democrats actually care about is the narrative.
00:16:24.000So, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, when she says, Facts don't actually matter.
00:16:40.000Democrats have been saying my entire lifetime that it is okay to lie so long as you get to the end point that you are seeking.
00:16:45.000If you are Barack Obama, you can lie about liking your doctor and keeping your doctor because the ends justify the means.
00:16:51.000The ends are morally right, therefore the means, not telling the truth to the American people, that's okay too.
00:16:57.000So when Ocasio-Cortez says, I don't have time to tell the truth, people worry too much about me being factually accurate instead of morally right.
00:17:04.000One of the ways we decide whether you are morally right is if you are factually accurate.
00:17:10.000If somebody's lying all the time to you to get you to do something, Pretty obvious giveaway that what they are trying to get you to do is probably not morally right, because the truth shall set us free.
00:17:19.000When we hear a group of facts that are laid together to form an argument, then it is inherently more convincing than a group of lies that are put together to form an endpoint if we know they are lies.
00:17:30.000If you have to lie to get somebody to identify with your conclusion, then you are not only doing it wrong, you are doing something immoral itself.
00:17:38.000There are certain cases in life where lying is necessary.
00:17:41.000And there's certainly the Nazis at your door, and you've got somebody who's a resistor to the Nazis hiding in your basement.
00:18:05.000I don't like it when Donald Trump says things that are not true about the economy, or about immigration, or about the state of the Middle East.
00:18:12.000I don't like when he does any of those things to support his political viewpoint.
00:18:16.000It's no better when a Democrat does it.
00:18:18.000But to pretend that the standard has only been lowered on one side is a joke.
00:18:21.000The standard has been lowered on both sides for years, and it was lowered by Democrats a lot earlier than it was lowered for Republicans.
00:18:30.000So spare me your lectures about Donald Trump undermining American politics.
00:18:34.000The same left that disdains Donald Trump for his supposed abolition of basic principles of the presidency, that same left cheers on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez every step of the way.
00:18:45.000That same left tells us that Barack Obama never had a scandal.
00:18:48.000That same left says that Barack Obama never told a lie.
00:18:50.000That same left says that Bill Clinton should still be held up as some sort of halcyon of the presidency and that his wife should have won in 2016.
00:18:59.000I'm not going to take moral guidance from these folks.
00:19:46.000So that was seven years, eight years ago now.
00:19:50.000But she says Democrats have compromised too much.
00:19:53.000And there's something, I think, deeply telling about the fact that she thinks the Democrats have compromised too much when she can't name a single Democrat a compromise in the last 10 years.
00:20:02.000We as a party have compromised too much, and we've lost too much of who we're supposed to be and who we are.
00:20:09.000The Democratic Party has lost too much?
00:20:13.000I think we've compromised things that we shouldn't have compromised, whether it's judgeships with Mitch McConnell, whether it's Compromising on climate change.
00:20:23.000I think there are some things that we've compromised a little bit too much on.
00:20:27.000Okay, they have not compromised on judgeships.
00:20:29.000Harry Reid nuked the filibuster and Mitch McConnell has ran through judges.
00:20:33.000And on climate change, Democrats have not compromised on one iota.
00:20:35.000They just haven't had the power to get through their radical agenda.
00:20:49.000There are a lot of Democrats out there, I assume, who are still caring about truth, who would still like some compromise, who would still like some moderation, but...
00:20:57.000Because Pelosi can't step on Ocasio-Cortez because she knows the passions with Ocasio-Cortez in the same way that the leadership couldn't step on Bernie Sanders because they knew that the passion was with Bernie Sanders.
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00:22:25.000Okay, so The Democratic intransigence that has been pushed forth by the Democratic base is exactly what I predicted last year and what anybody who's been watching the Democratic Party predicted last year.
00:22:36.000This is not a party that was going to come in and be reasonable.
00:22:38.000This was a party that was going to come in and push the most radical agenda they could and refuse to compromise on anything.
00:22:43.000So Donald Trump has asked for something like $5 billion for a border wall, which, let's face it, would not be sufficient to actually build the border wall.
00:22:50.000The actual cost of a border wall apparently is between $11 and $13 billion, not $5 billion.
00:22:55.000In any case, $5 billion is a pittance compared to what we spend every year on virtually everything else.
00:23:01.000And we do, in fact, have a border problem.
00:23:03.000Huge numbers of people are coming across the border.
00:23:06.000In 2015, this is according to the Washington Post, the year Donald Trump launched his White House bid with a promise to build a wall on the Mexico border, illegal migration to the United States plunged 31 percent.
00:23:16.000Falling near its lowest levels in 50 years.
00:23:18.000In 2017, President Trump's first year in office, he continued to insist on the urgent need for a border wall, even as illegal crossings dropped even further.
00:23:26.000With parts of the federal government shut down over what has morphed into a defining symbol of Trump's presidency, administration officials are clamoring louder than ever.
00:23:33.000Only this time, they face a bona fide emergency on the border.
00:23:35.000This is according to the Washington Post.
00:23:40.000And they're struggling to make the case there's truly a problem.
00:23:42.000Record numbers of migrant families are streaming into the United States, overwhelming border agents and leaving them holding cells dangerously overcrowded with children, many of whom are falling sick.
00:23:52.000In a letter to lawmakers on Friday, the White House and Department of Homeland Security made a fresh appeal to amend immigration laws they'd announced as legal loopholes and blame for creating a border security and humanitarian crisis.
00:24:02.000But this is not going to happen so long as Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats refuse to compromise.
00:24:06.000Now, That humanitarian crisis is not being created only by the lack of a border wall.
00:24:11.000It's also being created by our immigration procedures, which require us to arrest people and then people have to go to an immigration court.
00:24:18.000And while they're not in an immigration court, we either have to imprison them or let them go, which would be catch and release.
00:25:05.000When it says this isn't a wall between the US and Mexico, that is literally what it is.
00:25:08.000A wall between the United States and Mexico.
00:25:11.000Some sort of physical barrier that allows our border patrol agents to know when people are crossing illegally.
00:25:16.000Why this is immoral in any way, Democrats have yet to explain.
00:25:19.000I love that they can just shout slogans like, it's immoral and it's not who we are.
00:25:24.000Whenever a politician assures you it's not who we are, Be aware that all they are trying to do is shame you into not asking the question, why?
00:25:32.000Why is it not who we are to protect our own border?
00:26:01.000I don't know why Trump thinks this comes across Obviously, it does not come across as a compromise.
00:26:06.000Nonetheless, he is trotting out members of his administration to claim that it is.
00:26:10.000Mick Mulvaney, who is his new chief of staff, was on Meet the Press, and he said that President Trump is compromising by shifting from a wall to a fence, which is not actually a compromise, but here he is.
00:26:19.000Fences that we have built on the southern border, the ones that were already there under Republican leadership, Democrat leadership, they're in San Diego, they're in El Paso, more than 90% effective in preventing criminal immigration.
00:27:24.000And then he said that's not who we are in the U.S.
00:27:26.000Literally, that's how you define a nation, is by separating us from them.
00:27:29.000That doesn't mean that them are bad, but it does mean that you have to separate populations, otherwise you don't know who's a citizen and who is not a citizen.
00:27:36.000So Democrats are pandering to their most radical base, and then President Trump is pandering to his base in the sense that he should have done this immediately upon entering office.
00:27:43.000He had a Republican Congress, he had a Republican Senate.
00:27:45.000Holding his own Senate's feet to the fire would have been a better move than trying to hold Nancy Pelosi's feet to the fire.
00:27:50.000Now President Trump is supposedly considering using emergency powers to build the wall.
00:27:55.000According to CNN on Friday, President Trump said he was considering using emergency powers which would allow him to use military funding to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:28:17.000Code Section 284, support for counter drug activities and activities to counter transnational organized crime.
00:28:23.000That provision says that the Secretary of Defense may provide support for the counter drug activities or activities to counter transnational organized crime of any department or agency of the federal government if Such support is requested by the official responsible for the counter-drug activities or by the appropriate state officials, and this could amount to the maintenance and repair of equipment that has been used to stop such drug-related activity.
00:28:48.000So, it's never been invoked in this way, that you have somebody on the border and then they say to the president, we need border wall, please misdirect funding from other Department of Defense priorities to the wall because of counter-drug activity.
00:29:01.000Also, it would be kind of a stretch to suggest that This would fall under maintenance or repair or upgrading of equipment that usually amounts to, you know, making the equipment better, not building an entirely new barrier that spans thousands of miles of United States border.
00:29:14.000Legally speaking, it would be difficult for the president to do this, nor really should he, because we don't want the president routinely using national emergency powers to do stuff he can't otherwise get congressional approval for.
00:29:36.000In the event of a declaration of war or the declaration by the president of a national emergency in accordance with the National Emergencies Act that requires the use of the armed forces, the secretary of defense, without regard to any other provision of law, may undertake military construction projects.
00:29:50.000This has only been used in the aftermath of 9-11 to build up military bases in certain areas.
00:29:55.000And it's supposed to be an emergency use.
00:29:57.000It's supposed to be that Congress just hasn't had time to consider the reprioritization of defense funding.
00:30:03.000It is not really supposed to be a way of overruling Congress when Congress doesn't want to do something.
00:30:07.000Listen, again, I'm in favor of the wall.
00:30:11.000I'm in favor of Trump putting pressure on Congress over the wall.
00:30:13.000I'm in favor of Trump saying that he's happy to shut down the government.
00:30:15.000I don't really care about any of that.
00:30:16.000What I do care about is you don't get to expand the national emergency powers of the executive branch without understanding that Democrats will do exactly the same thing the other way.
00:30:25.000Wait until the shoe's on the other foot and Democrats declare that they are going to have to build out some sort of facility that you don't want them to build out, some national surveillance facility that you don't want them to build out because Congress won't give them what they want and it's a national emergency.
00:30:40.000Expanding the powers of the presidency is never a good idea, even when you think that the president is somebody of your party who's doing something that you like.
00:30:48.000This would be struck down in court, and it should be struck down in court.
00:30:50.000Now, in just a second, I want to talk about an ideological rift that's broken out inside the Republican Party that I think is really deeply, deeply important.
00:30:58.000It's because of a monologue Tucker Carlson gave that brings it up.
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00:34:15.000So one of the things I love talking about on the show is obviously conservative philosophy and ideology.
00:34:25.000You know, the things that are really important that we like to discuss.
00:34:28.000Because while the left is a real threat, there is also a serious debate that is broken out inside the right over the role of the free market.
00:34:35.000Now, I know that a lot of folks who are kind of older conservatives, Reagan conservatives, they're not necessarily aware that this debate has broken out because it's been glossed over by a lot of politicians.
00:34:44.000A lot of politicians say things like, I love the free market, but...
00:34:48.000Well, once you add that but to the end of I love the free market, what you're really talking about is government interventionism in the market.
00:34:54.000The person who made, I think, the best case for such interventionism made that case last week.
00:34:59.000He gave a monologue on his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson.
00:35:01.000It was about a 15-minute monologue regarding the future of economics and politics in the United States.
00:35:07.000We did a Sunday special on my podcast with Tucker where we discussed a lot of these issues.
00:35:12.000I really think that Tucker is wrong on a lot of this, but I think that the economic populism he's espousing is becoming increasingly popular in a Republican Party that has forgotten a lot of its free market capitalistic roots.
00:35:23.000And is ignoring the benefits of the free market in favor of government interventionism.
00:35:27.000I think they are looking for fixes in the wrong places.
00:35:30.000I think what ails America right now is a crisis of soul.
00:35:33.000What ails America right now is a hole in the American heart.
00:35:37.000A hole that used to be filled by community and social fabric and religion and that has fallen apart and now people are seeking to fill that hole with economic solutions.
00:35:45.000In the same way that some folks on the left seek to fill that hole in the American heart with economic solutions, they attribute the problems in America to bad policy.
00:35:53.000And there's truth to the idea that the American government has pursued bad policy, but I would say that bad policy is largely welfare-based.
00:36:00.000Tucker and a lot of members of the Republican Party are now claiming That the bad policy is trade-based, for example, that we need tariffs.
00:36:06.000Or that it is a failure of redistributionism, that we need higher taxes.
00:36:10.000These are cases being made by actual populists inside the Republican coalition.
00:36:15.000So I think the strongest possible case for this was made by Tucker over the last week.
00:36:20.000And he basically argues that the social breakdown that we are seeing is a result of government non-interventionism.
00:36:26.000We actually need more government in our lives.
00:36:28.000So here is how Tucker let off his monologue.
00:37:33.000What we've seen over the past two centuries is a massive rise in life expectancy, a massive decline in child mortality.
00:37:40.000Our children are alive and our parents are alive because of the rise of free markets and capitalism and innovation and entrepreneurship, low taxes, less government regulation.
00:37:48.000All of that has led to the prosperity we enjoy.
00:37:50.000If we are blowing that, That is our own fault.
00:37:52.000That doesn't have to do with our capacity to get those cheap products.
00:37:56.000He can decry cheap products from Amazon as much as he wants, but you have a nicer phone, you have a nicer car, you have a nicer house, you have a nicer table, you have a nicer microwave, you have a nicer refrigerator, you have all those things because of the free market.
00:38:07.000Now, nobody said that that stuff was going to make you happy.
00:38:10.000But to conflate the two problems as though the nicer refrigerator is what has made you unhappy is a huge mistake.
00:38:16.000And it's a mistake made by people who are on the left and also on the right.
00:38:21.000So what I would say is, yes, all this stuff has made us more prosperous.
00:38:25.000It hasn't necessarily made us more happy.
00:38:26.000I don't know a single religious person who's ever made an opposite contention, by the way.
00:38:30.000Moses says this, Jesus says this, every major prophet of the Old Testament says this, that stuff isn't going to make you happy.
00:41:16.000So Tucker continues by saying that the big problem here is not that we don't know what to do, it's that our leaders just don't care about us.
00:41:29.000I think they care about pandering to us for votes.
00:41:31.000I think maybe what we ought to have is a leadership class that is more concerned with doing right Then is concerned with pleasing its own population.
00:41:40.000Edmund Burke talked about this a lot, the British statesman.
00:41:42.000He suggested that being a representative of your public didn't just mean channeling what your public wants at any given moment.
00:41:48.000It also meant sometimes standing up to that public and saying that what's best for them is not necessarily what they think it is.
00:41:54.000Maybe what's best for them is freedom.
00:41:57.000Being an elitist, it's so funny, Tucker rails against the elites.
00:42:01.000I think people who think they can control your life are the people who are wrong.
00:42:04.000Tucker seems to think that the people who control your life ought to simply take control of the ring that is the government, like the J.R.R.
00:42:12.000Tolkien ring that is the government, and use it on behalf of you.
00:42:15.000My view is that that is an elitist point of view.
00:42:18.000Nobody should control that ring because that ring does not belong to anyone.
00:42:23.000The market is something we hold in common.
00:42:24.000Our society is something we hold in common.
00:42:25.000You don't get to seize the power from that society and then administer it top-down for the benefit of any particular group, no matter how much that group happens to be suffering.
00:42:34.000Here's Tucker, though, making this case.
00:42:57.000Okay, the Democratic Party does not actually believe that economics is a topic for public debate, but family, faith, and culture are personal matters.
00:43:25.000Except it turns out that both, if there is some sort of consensus, it is from the Democratic Party and the Republican Party that they ought to control too much of your life.
00:43:32.000Not that they agree that we shouldn't control any of your life, but that they ought to control too much of your life and restructure the economy to their liking.
00:43:40.000Tucker makes the case that social conservatives have blown it.
00:44:10.000Questioning markets feels like apostasy.
00:44:13.000Both sides in this miss the obvious point.
00:44:16.000Culture and economics are inseparably intertwined.
00:44:21.000Certain economic systems allow families to thrive.
00:44:23.000You know which economic systems allow families to thrive?
00:44:26.000The same economic systems that allow individuals to thrive.
00:44:28.000Free markets allow families to thrive.
00:44:30.000Socialist countries do not have solid families.
00:44:32.000Communist countries do not have solid families.
00:44:34.000When the government becomes your family, your family falls apart.
00:44:38.000If you believe that capitalism has undermined the free market, I mean, it has undermined the family, what I would suggest is that cultural forces have undermined the family at the same time that capitalism has eliminated poverty globally.
00:45:56.000Manufacturing represents less of a percentage of our overall economy than it did 50 years ago, but it represents exactly the same amount of productivity that it did 50 years ago.
00:46:04.000The middle class in the United States is not disappearing.
00:46:07.000And then he suggests that women are making too much money and that's why they're not getting married, which again is contrary to what's actually happening.
00:46:13.000The women who are not getting married are not women making $100,000 a year and then having a baby out of wedlock.
00:46:18.000The women who are not getting married are the women who are making $20,000 a year and don't have a marriageable husband.
00:46:26.000I mean, that's where single motherhood is coming from.
00:46:29.000Now, the real problem that I have, where it finally comes down, is that Tucker basically suggests that we have a rich class in the United States of elites who are not helping out the poor class in the United States enough, and they ought to be doing so with money.
00:46:39.000My contention is that this is not a money problem.
00:46:43.000There are plenty of market failures, there are plenty of problems with the market, and we can talk about those.
00:46:47.000But to pretend that capitalism, that market capitalism, he says, market capitalism is a tool like a staple gun or a toaster.
00:46:53.000No, market capitalism is a representation of our deepest values, a value that suggests that we are free individuals with the capacity to alienate our own labor, to contract with each other, to make deals with each other, to make free choices in our own life.
00:47:07.000Market capitalism is not one choice among many.
00:47:09.000It is the only free choice in a land of tyranny.
00:47:13.000Market capitalism isn't the problem here.
00:47:15.000The problem is a problem of the human soul and the breakdown of the social institutions that inculcated virtue and that virtue was necessary to upholding a stable free market in which people could live together in peace and solidarity.
00:47:27.000Okay, with all that said, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:48:15.000So here's a little bit of the preview, which doesn't do justice to the actual movie, which is raking in the money, as well it should, because it's a pretty good movie.
00:48:21.000And it's certainly a lot of fun to watch and look at.
00:48:44.000They made me what I am. - Okay, so it's kind of great, and Jason Momoa is kind of great, and there's some really terrific action set pieces.
00:49:01.000What's amazing about the DC Universe is that they really blew it in how they rolled this thing out.
00:49:05.000So, they rolled out Man of Steel, which is the Superman movie, and then they did not do a standalone Batman movie, and then they did not do a standalone Wonder Woman movie, and then they did not do a standalone Aquaman or Cyborg movie.
00:49:15.000Instead, they rolled out Justice League, right?
00:49:17.000They did Man of Steel, and then they did Batman v. Superman, and then they did Justice League.
00:49:21.000Like, all of these right back-to-back.
00:49:23.000I think they did Wonder Woman right before Justice League, actually.
00:49:25.000What you have to do is what Marvel did, right?
00:49:27.000You bring out each of these heroes individually in their own movie, and then you have the crossover.
00:50:11.000So, there is a rule in politics that there are certain things that you're not allowed to say, that you just can't say.
00:50:20.000One of the things you're not allowed to say and you're not allowed to talk about is what they call rapid-onset gender dysphoria.
00:50:24.000So we talked about this a few months back.
00:50:26.000There was an abstract from Brown University that specifically talked about how basically gender dysphoria was being treated like cutting or like bulimia or anorexia.
00:50:35.000It was becoming a trendy thing among certain groups.
00:50:38.000of particularly young women, and then people were sort of doing it in groups, that people who were surrounded by folks who considered themselves transgender were more likely to start considering themselves transgender.
00:50:47.000Abigail Schreier has a very, very gutsy column in today's Wall Street Journal talking about all of this, saying, like other social contagions, such as cutting and bulimia, rapid onset gender dysphoria overwhelmingly afflicts girls, but unlike other conditions, this one, though not necessarily at sufferers, gets full support from the medical community.
00:51:04.000The standard for dealing with teens who assert they are transgender is affirmative care, immediately granting the patient's stated identity.
00:51:10.000There are, to be sure, a few dissenters.
00:51:11.000This idea of what we're supposed to do as therapists is to affirm?
00:51:14.000That's not my job, says psychotherapist Lisa Marciano.
00:51:17.000If I work with somebody who's really suicidal because his wife left him, I don't call his wife up and say, hey, you've got to come back.
00:51:23.000We don't treat suicide by giving people exactly what they want, but giving in to patients' demands is exactly what most medical professionals do when faced with ROGD.
00:51:31.000Like fashionable and tragic misdiagnoses of the past, this one comes with irreversible physical trauma.
00:51:37.000And this column is a gutsy column talking about something you're not supposed to talk about, which is the fact that rapid-onset gender dysphoria is a thing, that it is not a reflection of a deep-seated biological need to change your gender, that the treatment for it is not always effective, and that maybe we ought to consider more seriously before we go along with the, it's time to mutilate your body because you said six months ago and discovered six months ago that you're a member of the opposite gender because you went to a gender studies course at Brown.
00:52:03.000It's a pretty gutsy column, you should go check it out in today's Wall Street Journal.
00:52:06.000Okay, time for a couple of quick things that I hate.
00:52:12.000So the Golden Globes were, last night, they were predictably terrible.
00:52:16.000The Golden Globes, I don't even know why anyone pays attention to them.
00:52:18.000It's the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which is like seven guys who are really old from places we don't care about.
00:52:23.000And they gave the top musical or drama award, or musical or comedy award, to the Queen movie.
00:52:30.000Which, apparently, to Bohemian Rhapsody, which apparently wasn't even very good.
00:52:33.000And then they gave the best drama award to, I believe, Green Book?
00:52:52.000Christian Bale won a Best Actor in a Comedy award for Vice because we have to give lots of awards to a movie that no one has ever seen or will see.
00:53:01.000Vice, a movie about Dick Cheney, apparently scrawled in crayon by Adam McKay.
00:53:07.000Christian Bale gets up and credits Satan for his inspiration in playing Dick Cheney.
00:53:12.000He should know, since he allegedly had a physical altercation with his own mother and was screaming at the light people famously on set.
00:53:19.000Christian Bale, famous crazy person, talking about how Satan was his inspiration for Dick Cheney.
00:53:26.000Thank you to that geezer over there, Adam.
00:53:29.000He said, he said, uh, he said, I've got to find somebody who can, who can be absolutely charisma-free and reviled by everybody.
00:53:48.000Thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration on how to play this role.
00:53:54.000Okay, so he's the second prominent leftist after Saul Alinsky to thank Satan for his inspiration.
00:54:00.000But it is amazing how everybody claps and cheers in Hollywood for all this sort of stuff.
00:54:03.000Do you think anybody in Hollywood would ever have the balls to do a movie like this about Hillary Clinton, who actually is extraordinarily Parodical?
00:54:10.000Like you could just do a parody of her full time?
00:54:13.000The best part of this Golden Globes, by the way, was the opening monologue where Andy Samberg, along with Sandra Oh, is that who that is?
00:54:21.000So the two of them did a monologue in which they made no jokes because this is what they have been relegated to.
00:54:27.000What's funny about this is that everybody gets the joke, but nobody's willing to say that the joke is that everyone in Hollywood is a nasty, nasty, horrible human being who will destroy somebody's career on a whim.
00:54:36.000Here is the opening monologue where they deliberately make no jokes.
00:54:39.000Without mentioning that the real reason they're making no jokes is because everyone is scared crapless in Hollywood of having their career destroyed like Kevin Hart has had his career destroyed.
00:54:48.000We're gonna have some fun, give out some awards, and one lucky audience member will host the Oscars!
00:54:56.000Now, some of you may be wondering why the two of us are hosting together.
00:55:00.000And the reason is, we're the only two people left in Hollywood who haven't gotten in trouble for saying something offensive.
00:55:47.000And they were looking for a board member.
00:55:48.000And I was seriously considering joining the board of this charity because why the hell not?
00:55:53.000And then it occurred to me, I mean, I warned them, look, I'm political, which means that probably there'll be other people on the board who don't like what I have to say, but who cares?
00:56:00.000We're all here to help out people in the arts.
00:56:03.000And one of the board members said, well, there may come a point where there's a bunch of resistance to you and we have to throw you off the board.
00:56:09.000And it occurred to me that we now live in a reality so nasty and terrible that if you are of the right wing, you cannot actually be on a nonpartisan board helping people in completely nonpartisan ways, in completely anodyne ways, out of fear that somebody will target you and other members of the left who are on the nonpartisan board will see fit to destroy your life for having tried to do something charitable.
00:56:37.000It's really nasty and it's really ugly.
00:56:40.000If we can't get together on nonpartisan boards to even do good things out of fear that someday somebody is going to come down on one of the members of the board and the other members of the board will see fit to destroy that person who is just there trying to do a good thing, I don't know how we're going to get along.
00:56:52.000I mean, you want to talk about the breakdown of the social fabric that has nothing to do with economics and everything to do with values, principles, and decency, all of which seem to have fled via the back door.