The Ben Shapiro Show - Boycott All The Things! | Ep. 835

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden lays out his quest to save the soul of the nation.

00:00:03.000 Other Democrats tear into Trump voters.

00:00:05.000 And Michael Moore won't be riding an exercise bike anytime soon.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:14.000 That Michael Moore line right there, that actually is not really a joke.

00:00:17.000 He actually says he's not going to ride an exercise bike anymore.

00:00:19.000 To which the question becomes, what?

00:00:22.000 Was that ever a thing?

00:00:24.000 Don't you have to ride it once to not ride it again?

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00:01:55.000 Okay, so.

00:01:57.000 Right now, the question as to whether President Trump is re-elected is largely not about Trump.

00:02:03.000 Trump is just what Trump is.

00:02:05.000 And as we'll see, that ain't changing for both good and ill.

00:02:09.000 And when it comes to winning suburban women, when it comes to winning the swing states, the polls show that President Trump's personality, contrary to the popular opinion on the right, his personality is not going to help him win the election.

00:02:20.000 His personality is a real detriment to him in the 2020 election.

00:02:23.000 There's a new poll out from Pennsylvania.

00:02:26.000 This is a state that he actually needs to win.

00:02:29.000 And contrary to popular opinion, he is just getting blown up in Pennsylvania.

00:02:33.000 His Pennsylvania poll numbers are awful.

00:02:36.000 The current Pennsylvania poll numbers have him underwater by nearly 20 points.

00:02:40.000 In terms of favorable and unfavorable.

00:02:42.000 Trump 39 favorable, 58% unfavorable, 52% strong unfavorable.

00:02:48.000 Only 38% of people in Pennsylvania say that Trump deserves re-election.

00:02:53.000 61% say that it's time for a change.

00:02:54.000 Now, maybe that changes once the Democrats pick their person.

00:02:57.000 And this is what Trump is hoping.

00:02:59.000 And so this is why I say the 2020 election is not going to be really about whether Trump can change his stripes because he ain't changing.

00:03:06.000 I think that everybody knows this at this point.

00:03:07.000 We can be very hopeful about his character and how he chooses to feature it in the campaign. 0.97

00:03:12.000 And then we can be realistic, which is that he's going to tweet out dumb stuff. 0.90

00:03:15.000 He's going to say things that offend a lot of people. 0.52

00:03:18.000 He's going to hit some of the right targets and the right will cheer, but he's not going to win over anybody new unless he is able to downplay the aspects of his personality that so many people find off-putting.

00:03:28.000 And right now, that's a problem for him.

00:03:30.000 It's a serious problem for him, as we'll see.

00:03:32.000 So the Democrats then are left with a choice.

00:03:34.000 And the choice is, are we going to be fully crazy? 0.56

00:03:36.000 Are we going to let Trump drive us nuts? 0.99

00:03:38.000 Are we going to castigate anybody who ever voted for Trump as evil and terrible?

00:03:43.000 Are we going to castigate current day Trump voters, people who are thinking about voting for Trump in 2020?

00:03:47.000 Are we going to castigate those people as racists and white supremacists who don't care about racism, as people who don't care about shootings at El Paso Walmarts, or are we going to restrict our fire just to the candidate on the other side?

00:03:59.000 And this is largely the divide between Joe Biden and the rest of the left.

00:04:02.000 It's why Joe Biden in all of the national polls does pretty well against President Trump, and it's why Trump is basically running even with every other Democrat.

00:04:09.000 Because Biden apparently is the only Democrat in the race who seems to have any sort of understanding that you can't just alienate half of the American population by calling them white supremacists and then hope to win the presidency.

00:04:21.000 You can't just call everybody deplorable and then hope to win.

00:04:23.000 Now, do I think that Biden will be able to maintain that stance?

00:04:26.000 I have my doubts.

00:04:27.000 I think that he might slide right back into what the rest of the Democrats have been saying.

00:04:31.000 But Trump's greatest hope lies in the Democrats showing their true stripes.

00:04:36.000 Showing their true stripes.

00:04:38.000 His best hope lies in the Democrats revealing that what they actually believe is the same sort of stuff as the radical left and that really the two are tied at the hip.

00:04:47.000 That's why Trump has worked so hard to try and make the squad the face of the Democratic Party as opposed to, for example, Joe Biden.

00:04:53.000 It's why every time the Democrats decide to go crazy and do a crazy thing, Trump features it.

00:04:59.000 Because the more radical Democrats appear, the more people may be willing to overlook Trump's personal foibles and personality quirks, to say the least, and character flaws, and vote for him just because the Democrats are so alienating.

00:05:12.000 So we bring you the most alienating Democratic talking point of the day.

00:05:15.000 So this started a couple of days ago when Joaquin Castro decided that it would be a wonderful idea to simply post the names and addresses, not addresses, the names and workplaces and careers of people in his district who had donated to President Trump.

00:05:32.000 And then he said, oh, it wasn't meant to intimidate.

00:05:33.000 It wasn't meant to intimidate all of these people.

00:05:36.000 It was just meant to shame them, really.

00:05:37.000 Okay, obviously it was meant as an intimidation tactic.

00:05:40.000 It was really ugly. 0.97

00:05:40.000 It was really disgusting. 0.97

00:05:42.000 And in today's political environment, it was unjustifiable on any level, which is why Joaquin Castro couldn't justify it.

00:05:47.000 He appeared on MSNBC and he had no good comeback to, dude, you're actually putting people in danger.

00:05:53.000 You're putting people's faces in front of other people who want to hurt them for supporting the current president of the United States. 1.00

00:06:00.000 As it turns out, Joaquin Castro is also an idiot. 0.99

00:06:03.000 Six of the Trump donors that Joaquin Castro tried to shame also gave money to him and his brother Julian. 1.00

00:06:09.000 According to the Washington Examiner.

00:06:12.000 According to the Examiner, in attempting to embarrass constituents who donated to President Trump, Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro appears to have overlooked the fact that six of those he named also gave cash to him and his twin brother, 2020 Democrat Julian Castro.

00:06:25.000 Shocker.

00:06:27.000 So, this all started a couple days ago, right?

00:06:29.000 Julian Castro did this.

00:06:30.000 And then, Joe Scarborough came out and said, this is a great idea.

00:06:33.000 We need to shame everyone who ever gave to Trump. 0.97

00:06:36.000 If you gave to Trump at any point in the recent past, any time, then this means that you are a white supremacist who doesn't care if people get shot in an El Paso Walmart for being Latino. 0.98

00:06:46.000 This is the pitch. 0.78

00:06:47.000 And many members of the media started parroting this.

00:06:49.000 Well, there's nothing wrong with all this.

00:06:51.000 Nick Confessori, a reporter at the New York Times, started actually tweeting out yesterday.

00:06:56.000 The associations between companies and their shareholders.

00:07:00.000 Why?

00:07:01.000 Because yesterday there was a big blowup.

00:07:03.000 A big blowup about exercise bikes.

00:07:05.000 Now you ask yourself, what the hell does exercise bikes have anything to do with anything?

00:07:09.000 Well, good thing you asked.

00:07:11.000 I will tell you.

00:07:12.000 According to Fox News, Stephen Ross, owner of the NFL's Miami Dolphins, fired back Wednesday at critics of President Trump defending his plans to host a fundraiser for Trump on Friday at his Hamptons home on New York's Long Island.

00:07:24.000 Trump himself is expected to attend the event, at which donors can have their photo taken with the president for $100,000 or attend a private roundtable discussion with him for $250,000.

00:07:31.000 Okay, so what's the problem?

00:07:33.000 He's just a Trump donor, right?

00:07:35.000 Well, it turns out that he is also the chief investor in Equinox and SoulCycle.

00:07:40.000 Which are two fitness brands that are sort of upper end and very trendy among, I'd say, the coastal set.

00:07:46.000 It's funny, there's sort of a hierarchy in Los Angeles in terms of the gyms that are out here, and everybody knows that the gyms are not really ordered by the niceness of their facility, but by the attractiveness of their people.

00:07:57.000 Meaning Equinox and SoulCycle, people who go to Equinox and SoulCycle are the people who bike every day, they do spin classes, they're the people who are the most attractive.

00:08:04.000 A lot of Hollywood stars use Equinox and SoulCycle.

00:08:07.000 Very socially conscious company, meaning an SJW company that likes to virtue signal about LGBT issues, for example.

00:08:14.000 Very, very social justice-oriented, left-leaning company in terms of its corporate practices, Equinox and SoulCycle.

00:08:22.000 And then if you go all the way down on the scale, like Gold's Gym out here, that's for people who are sort of meatheads, who lift a lot and sometimes do steroids.

00:08:28.000 And then you've got like the YMCA, which is for the people who really don't have any other place to work out.

00:08:32.000 And you got like the 24-Hour Fitness, which is like everybody, kind of a broad spectrum, but mainly people who barely have time after work and buy a fitness regimen and then don't actually go and show up.

00:08:42.000 So Equinox and SoulCycle is at the top of the food chain for gyms in Los Angeles.

00:08:47.000 Now, the left has now called for a boycott of Equinox and SoulCycle.

00:08:52.000 So they're not going to go to their spin classes to harm the cons or something.

00:08:58.000 So we're gonna hurt the cons by not going to SoulCycle.

00:09:01.000 Fine, don't go to your spin class, see if I care.

00:09:03.000 Why would I possibly care whether you go to your spin class?

00:09:05.000 And by the way, if you actually think that Steven Ross, who owns the Miami Dolphins, and is worth probably a billion dollars or more, that he deeply cares whether you go to his spin class, that he doesn't associate with, he doesn't. 1.00

00:09:20.000 This is idiotic. 0.94

00:09:22.000 But this became a thing yesterday, when a bunch of celebrities started tweeting out that they were canceling their SoulCycle and Equinox memberships, not because SoulCycle and Equinox support Trump, but because one of the lead investors in SoulCycle and Equinox supports Trump. 0.97

00:09:37.000 Well, if we're going to do this routine, then we're going to have to do corporate name checks on every single major corporation in the United States determined there are no Trump supporters on the board before the left is allowed to shop there.

00:09:48.000 And I can't imagine anything that's better for the country than having a gym just for the left and a gym for the right.

00:09:53.000 And having coffee shops just for the left and coffee shops just for the right.

00:09:57.000 The political segregation of our society is not a good thing.

00:10:00.000 Common space, where we actually see each other and hang out with each other, where we tolerate the fact that they're opposing political views.

00:10:07.000 If we can't do that, it's going to be very difficult for us to live in a republic together.

00:10:11.000 But this is what the left wants.

00:10:13.000 Well, too many members of the left.

00:10:14.000 Again, there's a difference between the left and liberals. 1.00

00:10:17.000 Many liberals think this sort of stuff is stupid. 0.99

00:10:19.000 But there are a lot of folks on the left who celebrate this because they're standing up to that Hitler Trump. 1.00

00:10:24.000 Anybody who associates with Trump is just a brown shirt hanging out with Hitler. 0.67

00:10:28.000 And therefore, we have to boy, would you fund Volkswagen in the middle of the 1930s?

00:10:34.000 Well, Trump isn't Hitler.

00:10:35.000 People who support Trump aren't Nazis.

00:10:37.000 If you think they are, then honestly, you should be the one picking up a gun, presumably, because if Nazis are running rampant across your country and are actually in power, shouldn't you do something more than boycott SoulCycle over it?

00:10:48.000 But apparently, boycotting SoulCycle is the way to virtue- What this is really about is virtue signaling to your lefty friends, your SJW friends, your woke friends, that you're not gonna stand up.

00:10:58.000 You're not gonna stand with Trump.

00:11:01.000 I'm gonna burn my Equinox shirt.

00:11:04.000 Again, 95% of the people who go to Equinox in Los Angeles voted for Democrats.

00:11:08.000 95%, I'm sure.

00:11:11.000 And one of the folks who works here, I was talking with her earlier, she used to work at Equinox, and she happens to be an immigrant of Mexican origin.

00:11:20.000 And she was tweeting about this last night with some folks, and they immediately ascribed to her white supremacist motivations, which is absurd.

00:11:27.000 And she used to work at Equinox.

00:11:29.000 What she pointed out to people is that when you boycott Equinox, the people who are the first to get hit are not going to be people like Stephen Ross.

00:11:35.000 He's going to make his profit.

00:11:36.000 The people who are the first to get hit are the people who are the janitors, who are cleaning up the gym afterward, who disproportionately are going to be of more impoverished backgrounds and probably disproportionately maybe of immigrant backgrounds.

00:11:48.000 But people on the left don't care about any of this.

00:11:50.000 They only care about the virtue signaling.

00:11:51.000 So you got Billy Eichner, The actor, he tweeted out, Hey Equinox, what's your policy for canceling memberships?

00:11:59.000 Once a member finds out your own owner is enabling racism and mass murder. 0.72

00:12:04.000 Because Trump is enabling racism and mass murder. 0.55

00:12:07.000 And thus, anybody who funds Trump is enabling racism and mass murder. 0.61

00:12:11.000 That's the idea from Billy Eichner.

00:12:13.000 Okay, then you have Chrissy Teigen, the wife of John Legend, and she is a singer, correct?

00:12:19.000 Model, model, model, thank you.

00:12:21.000 Sorry, my awareness of bubble-headed Hollywood celebrities is a little bit out of date.

00:12:26.000 Chrissy Teigen tweeted out, the gym is my personal hell, but if you're a member of Equinox, perhaps it is time to say peace out, Inox A, I'm still sick.

00:12:35.000 Yes, but F Equinox.

00:12:37.000 So all the Hollywood celebs are coming out F Equinox.

00:12:40.000 F Equinox, we're going to cancel our SoulCycle memberships.

00:12:43.000 Michael Moore tweeted out yesterday that he was going to cancel his membership at SoulCycle.

00:12:48.000 Which, I mean, the good news is that frees up like three seats at SoulCycle.

00:12:55.000 I mean, this is all absurd.

00:12:57.000 But not only is it absurd, it's actually very dangerous for the country on a broader level.

00:13:01.000 Now, there's a difference between you cancel your subscription to the New York Times because you don't like the content of the New York Times, or you cancel your association with an organization because the organization's policies Are against your principles.

00:13:15.000 There's a difference between that and an investor in the organization holds political principles you don't like.

00:13:19.000 I shop at organizations all the time.

00:13:21.000 So do you.

00:13:22.000 I shop with advertisers all the time where I am sure that there are members of the board and chief investors in that board who disagree with me politically.

00:13:28.000 That's good for the country because commerce is about the best product being available to the most people for the cheapest possible price.

00:13:35.000 It is not about me pre-screening the politics of people Who will make money when I go to their store, so long as the store itself is not pursuing evil policies.

00:13:45.000 Like, take that Volkswagen example from the 1930s.

00:13:48.000 Volkswagen was working in concert with the Hitler regime. 0.67

00:13:52.000 Hitler designed the VW bug. 1.00

00:13:55.000 Even if you think Donald Trump is Hitler, he didn't design the SoulCycle guys.

00:13:59.000 But the goal here is, of course, to segregate the population and then to say that if you associate with any member of the other side of the political aisle, that you are in effect very, very bad.

00:14:09.000 You must be cancelled.

00:14:10.000 That's the new language.

00:14:11.000 We gotta cancel everything.

00:14:12.000 So we're gonna boycott everything, we're gonna cancel everything, and then we declare ourselves morally virtuous for having done so.

00:14:17.000 Now, is any of this going to cut in favor of Democrats come 2020?

00:14:21.000 No, it's not.

00:14:22.000 This is the sort of stuff that Trump is hoping for.

00:14:24.000 He likes these culture wars.

00:14:25.000 If you haven't noticed, this is Trump's favorite sort of stuff.

00:14:28.000 Like, if Trump really wants to troll today, he should say that he is joining SoulCycle.

00:14:32.000 I mean, we all know he's not gonna go there and start bicycling, right?

00:14:34.000 He has a very interesting perspective on exercise as our president.

00:14:37.000 I'm gonna go there, I'm gonna sit on the cycle, just show us apart.

00:14:41.000 But my life energy, I'm not gonna deplete it by moving my legs around like a crazy person.

00:14:46.000 In any case, turning our businesses into battlegrounds over politics when the business itself is not involved in politics is a recipe for divisions in the country and disintegration of the social fabric. 1.00

00:14:57.000 It is indeed, deeply, deeply stupid. 1.00

00:15:01.000 In nearly every possible way. 1.00

00:15:04.000 Sorry.

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00:16:49.000 Alright, so...

00:16:50.000 The Democrats have two choices, as I said at the outset.

00:16:53.000 Choice number one, go with Chrissy Teigen and go with Billy Eichner and start doing this. 0.99

00:16:57.000 Everybody who's on the other side is evil and bad and horrible and wrong and racist and white supremacist and likes shootings. 0.99

00:17:04.000 Or you could just critique Trump. 0.99

00:17:06.000 Critiquing Trump is actually a pretty rich vein.

00:17:08.000 As it turns out, Trump is not supremely popular with the American people.

00:17:11.000 Now, he's more popular than he was when he was elected.

00:17:15.000 But he would need to see another spike in his popularity to really put him in safe reelect territory.

00:17:19.000 Right now, he's about 42 percent, 43 percent in the public approval ratings.

00:17:23.000 If you were in the 48 percent range, you'd be a pretty sure bet for reelect.

00:17:27.000 Anywhere under 48, and it's at the very least a toss up and maybe favors the other side if you're if you're Donald Trump.

00:17:32.000 So the Democrats have that choice.

00:17:34.000 And it seems like pretty much every Democrat, except for Booker, I mean, except for Joe Biden, has decided to go with the the crazies. 0.97

00:17:43.000 So you know, so Beto O'Rourke from El Paso, he's going around openly just saying that Trump is a white supremacist. 0.81

00:17:48.000 Again, you can critique Trump for a lot of stuff.

00:17:51.000 Trump is not a white supremacist. 0.98

00:17:52.000 If you think that Donald Trump wants to establish white nationhood and expel all the black and brown people, expel all the Jews, you're in, I mean, this is an insane contention. 1.00

00:17:59.000 Trump, Trump says dumb stuff. 1.00

00:18:02.000 Dumb stuff that very often borders on or crosses over into casual racism. 1.00

00:18:07.000 That does not make him a white supremacist. 0.99

00:18:09.000 He's not a white supremacist. 0.84

00:18:09.000 This is absurd. 0.84

00:18:11.000 You've been very clear that you believe the president is a racist. 0.96

00:18:13.000 Is the president a white supremacist? 0.96

00:18:15.000 He is.

00:18:16.000 He's also made that very clear.

00:18:18.000 He's dehumanized or sought to dehumanize those who do not look like or pray like the majority here in this country.

00:18:25.000 He said, I wish we had Okay, that is such an overplay.

00:18:28.000 Nobody in the United States, by poll numbers, there's a percentage, but they're all Democrats, and most people in the middle don't believe that Trump is an actual, honest-to-God white supremacist.

00:18:34.000 to be in this country and who he literally wants to keep out with walls and cages and militarization and torture and cruelty.

00:18:42.000 Okay.

00:18:43.000 That is such an overplay.

00:18:45.000 Nobody in the United States by poll numbers there, there's a percentage, but they're all Democrats.

00:18:49.000 And most people in the middle don't believe that Trump is an actual honest to God, white supremacist.

00:18:54.000 And that is not something that most people actually believe.

00:18:57.000 The fact that, that folks like Beto are pushing that, that that's an insane contention.

00:19:01.000 And then Beto goes even further and he says that El Paso is going to happen again if Trump is elected.

00:19:05.000 So I guess that Trump is now in control of all the white supremacists and he's deploying them one by one to Walmarts around the country. 0.72

00:19:12.000 And if Trump is reelected, then he's going to really have a field day by unleashing them on Hispanic people across the country, according to crazy Beto. 0.92

00:19:20.000 How worried are you that with Donald Trump still in the Oval Office, something like this will inevitably happen again?

00:19:27.000 It will happen again because what happened in El Paso is not an isolated incident.

00:19:31.000 After the president warned of caravans, you had somebody go into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh warning of caravans.

00:19:40.000 You had the mosque in Victoria, Texas burned to the ground on the day that Trump signed his executive order seeking to ban Muslim travel to the United States.

00:19:48.000 So there are very real consequences to his words, to his tweets, to the racism that he fans. 0.97

00:19:56.000 Okay, just, I'm sorry, this is ridiculous.

00:19:59.000 You can't predict when evil people are going to do evil stuff. 0.84

00:20:02.000 There was a white supremacist during the administration of Barack Obama who walked into a Holocaust memorial in Washington D.C.

00:20:08.000 and tried to shoot it up.

00:20:09.000 There were riots in Ferguson and Baltimore.

00:20:11.000 If Beto can predict events with this sort of accuracy, dude should get in on the stock market and really blow up that fortune of his that he inherited.

00:20:18.000 Because this is the sort of nonsense.

00:20:20.000 If you elect us, then we'll stop shootings.

00:20:22.000 But the other side is, is this making the rhetoric better?

00:20:26.000 Is this making the country better?

00:20:28.000 Again, we should, I've been saying all week, well, I've been saying for years, we should all be able to unify on the notion that white supremacism is evil and that mass shootings are evil.

00:20:36.000 But there are many Democrats like Beto who don't want to do that for political purposes.

00:20:39.000 Cory Booker did this in a softer way yesterday as well.

00:20:42.000 And he drew this binary between agree with me and be a white supremacist supporter.

00:20:47.000 So he's speaking at a historically, I believe it's a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

00:20:52.000 In any case, here is Booker trying to draw a binary between everybody who agrees with Cory Booker and white supremacists.

00:21:00.000 The real question isn't who is or isn't a racist, but who is and isn't doing something about it.

00:21:07.000 This is a question that has a deep moral resonance.

00:21:19.000 It's...

00:21:20.000 It's not enough to say I'm not a racist, we must be anti-racism.

00:21:26.000 Because there's no neutrality in this fight.

00:21:29.000 You are either an agent of justice, or you are contributing to the problem.

00:21:34.000 Okay, one of the problems with what Cory Booker is saying here is that he never defines his terms.

00:21:37.000 So I agree.

00:21:38.000 You either can be anti-racism, like overtly anti-racism, or you can be pro-racism, but there's not really a neutral ground.

00:21:44.000 He can't just be like, I'm kind of ambivalent on racism.

00:21:46.000 He can't do that, obviously.

00:21:48.000 But when he says do something, what exactly does that mean?

00:21:51.000 Because what are people, quote unquote, doing about it?

00:21:53.000 Does that mean if you don't cancel your SoulCycle membership today, then you are overtly advocating for racism?

00:21:58.000 Or is what he really means, if you don't back Democrats, then you are a racist. 0.86

00:22:03.000 If you don't back Cory Booker, you're racist. 0.98

00:22:04.000 If you don't rip on Trump daily and declare that you won't vote for him and donate to his opponents, then you are a racist. 0.85

00:22:12.000 That is the false binary that the left is attempting to draw.

00:22:16.000 And they're attempting to do so in a clever way.

00:22:18.000 They're attempting to do so by refusing to define terms.

00:22:21.000 So, I have not said anything racist.

00:22:23.000 I've not done anything racist.

00:22:24.000 Because I'm not a racist.

00:22:25.000 In fact, I hate racism. 0.99

00:22:26.000 And I hate white supremacists so much that they hate me right back, which is why we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year here at this company to defend us from death threats from white racists. 1.00

00:22:34.000 From white supremacists. 0.98

00:22:36.000 But, I would be, according to people like Booker and people like presumably AOC, a white supremacist because I've expressed support for many of Donald Trump's policies and because I don't think that Trump is a white supremacist.

00:22:49.000 So what the left likes to do is throw out terms like white supremacists without actually defining them.

00:22:53.000 Just like they wouldn't define alt-right back in 2015-2016.

00:22:55.000 The alt-right was a threat in 2015 and 2016. 0.88

00:22:59.000 They happen to be disgusting today.

00:23:00.000 But there's an actual definition as to what alt-right means. 0.92

00:23:03.000 It's the ideology of folks like Richard Spencer.

00:23:05.000 It's the ideology of folks like Vox Dei.

00:23:07.000 People who have suggested that there is innate biological difference between the races such that some races are inferior and some races are superior.

00:23:16.000 Right?

00:23:17.000 That is the nature of white supremacy.

00:23:20.000 That is a definition that I just gave you.

00:23:22.000 But what the left refuses very often to do is provide definitions of any of this stuff.

00:23:26.000 Because they don't want definitions.

00:23:27.000 What they want is a broad, miasmatic sense.

00:23:30.000 Like a miasma.

00:23:31.000 They want a broad sense of what white supremacy is without having to define it so they can label you a white supremacist if you disagree with them on anything.

00:23:39.000 That is the goal.

00:23:40.000 Specificity in terms is really helpful when you're having political conversations or moral conversations.

00:23:45.000 Because then we can get to what we agree on and what we disagree on.

00:23:48.000 So for example, I do not think that it is white supremacy to oppose affirmative action.

00:23:52.000 In fact, I think it is racist to be in favor of any program that benefits one race at the expense of another race.

00:23:59.000 And is designed to do so.

00:24:01.000 But according to members of the left, it would be quote-unquote white supremacy, presumably, to oppose affirmative action. 0.97

00:24:07.000 If you support Trump in 2020 because you like his policies and you don't think that Trump is a racist, you just think that he is a muddleheaded dolt who says doltish things and cloddish things on a regular basis in the racial realm. 0.92

00:24:22.000 If you're one of those people, the left will declare you a white supremacist, even if you speak out forcefully every time you think Trump crosses the line. 0.88

00:24:30.000 So the point here is that for the left, the construction of a debate between white supremacy and everything else is all about obfuscating the line between white supremacy and everything else.

00:24:42.000 If we don't know where the line is, then I can put you on the other side of the line anytime I want.

00:24:45.000 So you have a perfect example of that yesterday.

00:24:47.000 So Alexander Ocasio-Cortez puts out this long tweet thread about white supremacy.

00:24:53.000 And she is deliberately defining white supremacy down, right?

00:24:55.000 She's deliberately defining it down.

00:24:57.000 Defining things down is a phrase once used by Daniel Patrick Moynihan with regard to deviancy.

00:25:01.000 What he suggested is that as a society, what we're constantly doing in order to excuse our own sin is we define sin down, meaning things that used to be considered sinful and deviant are no longer sinful and deviant.

00:25:12.000 He used the example of single motherhood.

00:25:13.000 He said that when you define single motherhood as quote-unquote the new normal, it's no longer deviant, it's now normalized, and you get more of it.

00:25:20.000 Well, the left is defining white supremacy down in a different way.

00:25:24.000 What they're doing is they're saying everything is white supremacy.

00:25:27.000 So what do you get?

00:25:28.000 What you actually end up getting more of is people labeling each other white supremacists, and that's what the left wants.

00:25:32.000 Okay, so now to AOC's thread.

00:25:34.000 So, AOC tweets this out yesterday, quote, There is a difference between white supremacists and white supremacy.

00:25:41.000 First of all, when she says this, what she's actually attempting to do now is take the definition of white supremacy and broaden it out to include a bunch of people who are not members of the alt-right, who don't write manifestos about Hitler, who don't go and shoot up El Paso Walmart, who are Out there, right?

00:25:57.000 They suffer from white supremacy.

00:25:58.000 As you'll see, wait until she broadens this definition because it's so broad that it encompasses, it can encompass, it can be shaped to encompass nearly anything.

00:26:05.000 So she says, there's a difference between white supremacists and white supremacy.

00:26:08.000 So.

00:26:09.000 First move in this broadening of the definition.

00:26:12.000 You can't say you're not a white supremacist just because you're not a white supremacist.

00:26:15.000 Maybe you are. 0.88

00:26:16.000 Maybe you suffer from white supremacy and you just don't know it. 1.00

00:26:18.000 She says, white supremacy is like a virus. 0.98

00:26:20.000 There's still no definition, but it's like a virus, meaning that it infects people. 0.98

00:26:24.000 It jumps from person to person without them knowing it, because you don't know if you're sick.

00:26:28.000 She says, supremacists are those who have been completely overcome by the disease, but supremacy, the virus, exists on a larger scale beyond just the infected.

00:26:36.000 It also lays dormant.

00:26:38.000 So, just to be clear, the virus exists on a larger scale beyond white supremacists, and also can lie dormant, so you can never have exhibited any symptom of white supremacy, but still you can suffer from white supremacy.

00:26:56.000 You can be a carrier of white supremacy.

00:26:59.000 So now, you don't have to be an overt racist, a covert racist, a person who knows they're racist, a person who has ever evidenced any symptom of white supremacy, and still you can be an agent of white supremacy because it's lying dormant in you. 0.95

00:27:11.000 Look how this is blown up from small group of white supremacists and alt-righters who are dangerous, to anyone at any time who could suffer from this thing that's a virus called white supremacy. 0.91

00:27:23.000 Again, white supremacy exists. 0.88

00:27:24.000 It has a specific definition. 0.99

00:27:25.000 It is deeply evil.

00:27:27.000 I'm fighting these people on a daily basis.

00:27:29.000 I know it.

00:27:30.000 They've threatened my family.

00:27:33.000 But AOC is deliberately attempting to make this move and it's a it's a dangerous move for the country.

00:27:37.000 So AOC continues with this thread.

00:27:39.000 And she suggests white supremacy is often subconscious.

00:27:42.000 You don't even know if you're a white supremacist or if you suffer from white supremacy.

00:27:42.000 So it's not even conscious.

00:27:46.000 So you can you can.

00:27:48.000 You can demonstrate no symptoms?

00:27:50.000 You don't have to know that you're a member of the white supremacist class?

00:27:54.000 It's subconscious and it's dormant, but you can still suffer from it.

00:27:57.000 She says, clearly our nation has not been inoculated.

00:28:00.000 White supremacy is our nation's original sin, the driving logic of slavery, of native genocide, of Jim Crow, of segregation, of mass incarceration, of send her back.

00:28:07.000 Okay, now she's conflating a lot of stuff.

00:28:10.000 Okay, so.

00:28:12.000 Yes, white supremacy is the driving logic of slavery and of Native genocide.

00:28:16.000 And again, the question of Native genocide is slightly more complicated.

00:28:20.000 The mistreatment of Native Americans in the United States is horrific and well-known.

00:28:25.000 To call it a full-on genocide, I think, is an overstatement because usually people are talking about lots of Native Americans dying of disease.

00:28:32.000 Ethnic cleansing, you know, as far as forcibly moving Native Americans out of areas they were legally entitled to and into reservations, I think would be a probably a bit more accurate term.

00:28:40.000 Jim Crow, fair. 0.91

00:28:42.000 Of segregation, fair, and then she has a mass incarceration, and this is where she brings slavery all the way up to date, and she says that if you are in favor of harsh policing of crime, and lots of people who commit crime go to jail, and they are disproportionately of color, then you are a white supremacist.

00:28:55.000 Right?

00:28:56.000 So she's, again, broadening out that definition.

00:28:58.000 She's still not defined white supremacy. 1.00

00:29:02.000 We're two, what, three tweets in here?

00:29:04.000 Two tweets in?

00:29:05.000 And she's still not defined the term she's talking about.

00:29:07.000 She's just giving you symptoms of the term.

00:29:09.000 She says, it never went away.

00:29:11.000 It was just dormant.

00:29:12.000 Okay, so it was dormant, it never went away.

00:29:17.000 So again, bunch of people who didn't side with any of the stuff that she likes, that she's talking about here.

00:29:23.000 Those people could have been carriers.

00:29:25.000 And then she continues.

00:29:26.000 Again, this is broadening and broadening until it means nothing.

00:29:28.000 Healing ourselves of white supremacy will be hard.

00:29:31.000 Normally, when you diagnose someone with a disease, you have to define the disease.

00:29:35.000 What does the disease do?

00:29:36.000 How is it treated?

00:29:38.000 What exactly can you expect its development course to be?

00:29:41.000 If you're a doctor and you just say, you know what?

00:29:43.000 You suffer from cancer.

00:29:44.000 And somebody says, what is cancer?

00:29:46.000 And the doctor goes, I don't know.

00:29:48.000 It was dormant for a while.

00:29:49.000 Now it's here.

00:29:50.000 It's bad.

00:29:52.000 Not helpful. 0.97

00:29:53.000 And if you say that you can't tell what is cancer and what isn't cancer, then you're a horrible doctor. 0.97

00:29:57.000 She says, healing ourselves of white supremacy will be hard. 0.99

00:29:57.000 So she's a horrible doctor. 0.99

00:30:00.000 It will be hard because it requires us to confront ourselves. 0.89

00:30:02.000 We wish it was as simple as denouncing a white hood, a burnt cross, vile language. 1.00

00:30:06.000 But we need to address where supremacy begins, not just where it ends.

00:30:10.000 And this is the sort of language that the left loves because she's never defining where it begins.

00:30:15.000 And she's saying that if you stand up and you say the KKK is evil and you say that vile language is bad and you say that some of the president's comments cross the line. 0.99

00:30:26.000 And if you say white supremacists are garbage, if you say all that stuff, that still doesn't mean you're not a white supremacist because you haven't addressed where white supremacy began. 0.99

00:30:35.000 Now, does she define where white supremacy begins? 1.00

00:30:37.000 Again, she keeps begging the question, where does this begin?

00:30:40.000 What is the definition?

00:30:42.000 This would be important.

00:30:43.000 Again, if you're going to diagnose the transmission of a virus and you're going to explain how to prevent the virus, shouldn't you do that at some point?

00:30:50.000 She continues.

00:30:50.000 We need to address where supremacy begins.

00:30:52.000 She says, perhaps.

00:30:54.000 She says, perhaps more than the obvious last steps of the supremacist, we must examine the nuance of their first steps.

00:31:00.000 Again, she's not actually explaining what the first steps are.

00:31:03.000 She's not explaining what the first steps are, because what she wants to say is that being the first step means being conservative or Republican.

00:31:10.000 That's what she wants out of this.

00:31:11.000 In the end, the place that she doesn't actually say out loud, but where she wants to go, is that if you are against affirmative action, if you believe in, if you're against criminal justice reform, for example, if you believe that police forces across the nation are not systemically racist, if you believe that America's legal institutions are not institutionally racist, that the legacy of racism and slavery obviously has after effects, because history always has after effects into the present, but that America

00:31:37.000 is, under its current legal regime, the fairest nation in the history of the world with regard to race.

00:31:42.000 And if you believe all of that, those are the first steps, right?

00:31:45.000 Because she never labels what the first steps are.

00:31:47.000 She just says what the last steps are.

00:31:49.000 Which means that you could, right now, without knowing it, be on the slippery slope to white supremacy.

00:31:55.000 You could.

00:31:55.000 It could be dormant in you.

00:31:57.000 It could be subconscious.

00:31:58.000 You might not even recognize what you think about things.

00:32:01.000 And you could be on that slippery slope all the way down into white supremacy.

00:32:05.000 Tucker Carlson is getting a lot of flack for saying that white supremacism isn't a problem in the United States.

00:32:10.000 On my radio show yesterday, I criticized him for it.

00:32:12.000 I think that he is absolutely wrong.

00:32:14.000 White supremacism is, of course, a problem in the United States.

00:32:17.000 And Tucker was trying to make the statistical case that there aren't that many white supremacists in the United States.

00:32:21.000 And that is statistically true.

00:32:23.000 But statistically speaking, there weren't that many ISIS members in the United States.

00:32:26.000 That was a problem.

00:32:27.000 White supremacism is, in fact, a problem.

00:32:29.000 But what AOC is doing here By suggesting that white supremacy is everywhere is just as much of a problem because instead of underplaying it, she's now suggesting that, what, 60, 70, 80, 300 million Americans are secret white supremacists and don't even know it?

00:32:46.000 She says, recognizing white supremacy in ourselves, our institution, our subconscious, our own past remarks or acts, no matter how consciously unintentional, I don't know what consciously unintentional means, is what makes the healing work ahead challenging, but it is not impossible, and confronting it is the only way to move forward.

00:33:02.000 Again, what she is doing is now setting herself up as the arbiter of what white supremacy is without defining it, which is the mark of arbitrary judgment.

00:33:10.000 It is the mark of a bad politician and, frankly, the mark of a bad person morally.

00:33:14.000 If a person says, I have a moral standard, I'm not going to tell you what it is, but I'll tell you when you violated it.

00:33:20.000 That person should not be your moral standard, obviously, because they are not trustworthy.

00:33:24.000 And this is what is undermining trust in the moral standard.

00:33:26.000 It's why the right looks at the left and says, OK, you guys are ripping on racism all the time.

00:33:31.000 We're fine with that.

00:33:32.000 But how about that Al Sharpton guy that you were praising like a week ago?

00:33:36.000 You were talking about bigotry and how bigotry is bad.

00:33:40.000 And AOC is taking magazine covers with Ilhan Omar and sponsoring legislation with her.

00:33:46.000 No, you don't get to be the arbiter because your standard is not only unclear, it is cynically defined in order to put people who you don't like outside the box and keep yourself in.

00:33:55.000 AOC concludes with this clever and yet dangerous tweet thread.

00:33:59.000 the right.

00:33:59.000 She says, what this moment is asking of us is to discuss white supremacy and racism as much or possibly more than white supremacists and racists.

00:34:06.000 When we do that, I believe we'll start to make progress.

00:34:09.000 Well, actually, if we do it in the way that she's talking about, it will be the opposite of progress because this is just excuse making for her calling everybody she doesn't like a racist.

00:34:18.000 And that's all this is.

00:34:20.000 When you boil all this down, what this means is that she's given no definition of white supremacy.

00:34:25.000 She's given no definition of those first steps toward white supremacy.

00:34:28.000 She's just gonna sit there and, on a case-by-case basis, tell you that you're the problem.

00:34:32.000 Because I don't see her doing it.

00:34:33.000 It's so funny.

00:34:33.000 She talks here about ourselves, self-examination.

00:34:36.000 When was the last time you heard AOC talk about her own self-examination of her own inherent bigotry?

00:34:42.000 Of course not.

00:34:42.000 Ever?

00:34:43.000 She means you.

00:34:44.000 She says it is incredibly important we recognize that perfectly normal, good people are capable of aiding racism and white supremacy.

00:34:50.000 So you're a good person, and you're normal, but you're still aiding racism and white supremacy. 0.78

00:34:55.000 This brings you full circle to the soul cycle equinox nonsense.

00:34:59.000 She's recognizing that it is not about pillorying people.

00:35:01.000 Yeah, I'm sure.

00:35:02.000 It's about learning to recognize the virus and end an oppressive system designed to hurt us all.

00:35:06.000 Yeah, sure lady. 1.00

00:35:08.000 I'm sure that this is not about pillorying people.

00:35:10.000 I'm sure that you will never act in bad faith and simply call your political opponents like Nancy Pelosi racists just because it serves your political ends.

00:35:19.000 I'm sure that you will engage in deep self-reflection today about your own bigotry and helping out Ilhan Omar, I'm sure. 0.98

00:35:24.000 This... this kind of trash? 0.93

00:35:27.000 This is what's going to again, condemning white supremacy is fully not only inbounds praiseworthy, but you got to define the term and the left is deliberately undefining the term so they can then apply it to everybody on a broad scale. 0.99

00:35:40.000 And that is it's so wrong.

00:35:42.000 It is incredibly wrong.

00:35:43.000 It is labeling tens of millions of Americans who oppose white supremacy, white supremacists.

00:35:48.000 But of course, that is the political goal for the radical left.

00:35:50.000 Now, speaking of radicalism, we're going to get to CNN's town hall on gun control in just a second.

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00:36:14.000 By the way, we saw yesterday that Media Matters had put together a seven-month compilation of some of the other hosts here at Daily Wire.

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00:36:47.000 So speaking of radicalism, last night, CNN does another one of these CNN town halls, and the NRA didn't participate.

00:37:00.000 Because why would they?

00:37:01.000 Last time there was a CNN Town Hall on guns, it was the Parkland Town Hall.

00:37:05.000 Dana Lash was brought forth so that people could shower her in rotten tomatoes, and Marco Rubio was brought forth so that members of the audience could suggest that he had committed a mass shooting. 0.97

00:37:13.000 Well, Chris Cuomo, the stupider of the Cuomo brothers, he decided that he was gonna host this thing. 0.98

00:37:19.000 And Chris Cuomo knows less than nothing about guns. 0.99

00:37:21.000 I mean, he really knows nothing.

00:37:23.000 Normally when you have somebody moderate a town hall on a topic, they should know a thing about the thing they are talking about.

00:37:29.000 But that is not a prerequisite of having a job at CNN.

00:37:31.000 How do I know this?

00:37:32.000 Because Chris Cuomo tweeted out this morning about the Second Amendment.

00:37:35.000 And he's been tweeting this kind of stuff incessantly. 0.95

00:37:37.000 It's just ridiculous. 24. 0.88

00:37:39.000 Chris Cuomo tweeted out, This is patently insane, it's ignorant, it's ridiculous. 0.99

00:37:42.000 Second Amendment was created for? 0.99

00:37:43.000 That there was no individual right contemplated until Scalia read it in?

00:37:47.000 If you are an originalist about the Constitution, you have no basis for thinking you and not the state controls access to guns.

00:37:52.000 This is patently insane. 1.00

00:37:54.000 It's ignorant. 1.00

00:37:54.000 It's ridiculous. 1.00

00:37:56.000 It would be almost funny, except for the fact that Chris Cuomo was hosting a town hall on this particular topic yesterday.

00:38:01.000 Does he really think that Justice Antonin Scalia in 2008 in the case established an individual right to keep and bear arms?

00:38:09.000 Is that what he thinks?

00:38:10.000 Where has it been for the last couple of hundred years? 0.89

00:38:13.000 Dolt.

00:38:14.000 The actual wording of the Second Amendment, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

00:38:25.000 Okay, that last part is what we call the Operative Clause.

00:38:28.000 All the rest is prefatory.

00:38:30.000 The right of the people, not the right of the state, not the right of the militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

00:38:37.000 The people were the militia. 0.93

00:38:39.000 I mean, you have to be so historically ignorant to believe what he's saying in that tweet. 0.93

00:38:43.000 A militia was comprised of people who got together and then formed the militia. 0.96

00:38:48.000 They kept the guns at their houses.

00:38:50.000 You didn't have to be a member of the militia in order to own a gun.

00:38:53.000 But because a militia was important, you needed to have people who own guns.

00:38:56.000 So from that population, you could call a militia.

00:38:59.000 The Second Amendment was written specifically at the behest of the anti-federalists who oppose the Constitution and who are guaranteed, they were pushing for a guarantee, that the federal government would not regulate the ownership of guns.

00:39:10.000 Anyone who has spent five minutes studying this topic knows that.

00:39:13.000 Except for John Paul Stevens, who wished to reach a different conclusion because he was driven by his outcome, which was that he wanted gun regulation. 0.96

00:39:22.000 Anyway, Chris Cuomo hosts this dumb CNN town hall. 0.89

00:39:25.000 The NRA doesn't show up, and then Chris Cuomo rips them for not showing up. 1.00

00:39:28.000 So if you don't show up to his party where he's going to poop on your head, then you're a very bad and stupid person, according to Chris Cuomo. 1.00

00:39:34.000 We also invited the National Rifle Association, the NRA, to be part of tonight's conversation. 1.00

00:39:39.000 They declined.

00:39:40.000 They sent a totally disingenuous statement that they're open to honest discussion, but not this spectacle.

00:39:46.000 That's what you call this, a spectacle?

00:39:48.000 I guess they want to do their talking with propaganda ads and millions in lobbying.

00:39:52.000 Besides, let's be honest. 0.99

00:39:54.000 Yes, yes, yes, yes, you fool. 0.99

00:39:57.000 Yes, this is a spectacle. 1.00

00:39:58.000 Of course it's a spectacle.

00:40:00.000 What have you ever done on gun control?

00:40:02.000 Are you a legislator?

00:40:02.000 Were you elected?

00:40:03.000 Of course it's a spectacle.

00:40:04.000 We all know it's a spectacle.

00:40:05.000 The NRA's got some internal problems right now.

00:40:07.000 They're wrong about this.

00:40:09.000 This obviously is true. 0.62

00:40:10.000 This is a spectacle.

00:40:12.000 I love that he goes, they wouldn't show up calling this a spectacle.

00:40:15.000 Well, that's fine, because they're just a bunch of paid lobbyists anyway, and they're starting to obstruct the issue. 0.99

00:40:21.000 Okay, so you just, you moron, you just proved their point. 0.97

00:40:25.000 Their whole point is that you were going to be a politically driven actor, and you were going to go after anyone who was pro-Second Amendment. 0.99

00:40:31.000 And then, when you read their statement, you proceed to do just that. 0.83

00:40:35.000 I can't imagine why the NRA didn't show up to hear the dumber Cuomo brother, the Fredo of the Cuomo family. 0.97

00:40:43.000 He's very smart. 0.98

00:40:43.000 He's smart! 0.98

00:40:45.000 Explain why it is that the NRA didn't show up.

00:40:50.000 Unreal.

00:40:51.000 Okay, so, as I say, it's this sort of crazy, polarizing extremism, the attacks on people who like the Second Amendment, the deliberate obfuscation of the issues, all this kind of stuff.

00:41:04.000 That leads Trump to get elected in 2016.

00:41:05.000 So Trump has to hope that that's what Democrats do in 2020.

00:41:10.000 Or alternatively, he could change his behavior.

00:41:12.000 Well, this is the part where I say Trump is not going to change his behavior because Trump isn't going to change his behavior.

00:41:16.000 So he visited Dayton and El Paso yesterday, and that was fine.

00:41:20.000 And he kept it pretty much on the down low, which is how it should be.

00:41:22.000 OK, this is not a photo op.

00:41:24.000 Then he proceeded to release a bunch of photos of himself in Dayton and in El Paso.

00:41:28.000 When he could have just quietly done it.

00:41:29.000 I remember George W. Bush quietly going to Iraq, for example.

00:41:32.000 George W. Bush used to quietly go to Walter Reed.

00:41:34.000 It was very nice.

00:41:35.000 Obama never used to do this, and I used to criticize Obama for it.

00:41:37.000 Then, Dan Scavino, the press, the comms leader over at the White House, he tweeted out, President Trump, with the incredible medical staff at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio today.

00:41:48.000 Some extremely powerful moments throughout the entire visit, with so much enthusiasm and love.

00:41:53.000 Contrary to what the Trump-hating Dems would ever share or say.

00:41:57.000 And then he followed that one up by calling the president a rock star.

00:42:01.000 He said the President Trump is a rock star for going here and was treated like a rock star.

00:42:08.000 Is that really your pitch?

00:42:09.000 Like you went to a place where people just got shot in a mass shooting and they all loved seeing their great president because he's like a rock star?

00:42:15.000 I'm sorry, the appeals to Trump's ego are not going to help him.

00:42:19.000 They're not going to help him win reelection.

00:42:21.000 It's also not going to help him win reelection when the president heading out to El Paso and Dayton decides to tweet out about how Beto has a phony name and Beto is the worst and tweets out about Sherrod Brown, talks about how his hospital visit was totally misrepresented.

00:42:37.000 It underscores a feeling that a lot of Americans have, which is that the president is actually a petty man and that the president lacks moral fiber.

00:42:44.000 This is why I say that if the Democrats could just act sane, they'd be in pretty good shape for 2020.

00:42:49.000 If, however, they decide that they are the party of boycotting Equinox and leading CNN town halls where they rip into gun rights, and that everybody who opposes them is a white supremacist, then Trump will win re-election.

00:43:01.000 Now, Joe Biden gave a speech yesterday.

00:43:03.000 Joe Biden is seen by most Democrats as the most electable Democrat.

00:43:06.000 The reason is because of the speech he gave yesterday.

00:43:08.000 Now, the speech deliberately misrepresented a lot of the comments that Trump has made on a variety of topics.

00:43:13.000 So, for example, Biden said in his speech yesterday that Trump hadn't condemned the KKK.

00:43:17.000 Now, back in 2016, Trump did appear on CNN and pretended he didn't know what the KKK was.

00:43:23.000 He then condemned the KKK.

00:43:24.000 As it turns out, he's condemned the KKK many, many times.

00:43:28.000 And here's a full-on compilation.

00:43:31.000 Of President Trump condemning the KKK, because Trump has done it a lot, as it turns out.

00:43:36.000 Do you believe the President really supports the Ku Klux Klan?

00:43:42.000 He doesn't deny them, at a minimum.

00:43:44.000 I totally disavow the Ku Klux Klan.

00:43:48.000 I totally disavow David Duke.

00:43:51.000 When you say the party is self-destructing, what do you see as the biggest problem with the Reform Party right now?

00:43:57.000 Well, you've got David Duke just joined. 0.97

00:43:59.000 A bigot, a racist, a problem. 0.58

00:44:02.000 I mean, this is not exactly the people you want in your party. 0.95

00:44:04.000 Are you prepared right now to make a clear and unequivocal statement renouncing the support of all white supremacists?

00:44:10.000 Of course I am.

00:44:11.000 Of course I am.

00:44:12.000 Okay.

00:44:12.000 So again, he has done this over and over and over and over and over again.

00:44:15.000 So that's just not true.

00:44:16.000 In any case, Biden is launching an attack on Trump's character.

00:44:19.000 And that is sort of, it's sort of the same campaign that George W. Bush ran against Bill Clinton in 2000.

00:44:25.000 So in 2000, George W. Bush was running on the back of a policy successful presidency with a president who was deeply unpopular on the basis of character.

00:44:34.000 So he's popular overall, but on character questions, people thought that Clinton was a bleep show because he was a bleep show.

00:44:40.000 So W ran against that.

00:44:41.000 He said he's going to bring honor back to the Oval Office.

00:44:43.000 It was such a damaging attack that Al Gore had to forcibly move himself away from Bill Clinton.

00:44:47.000 He refused to campaign even with Bill Clinton and then he proceeds to lose a very narrow election.

00:44:52.000 He wins the popular vote but loses the Electoral College.

00:44:55.000 So now Joe Biden is trying to run 2000 in reverse.

00:44:58.000 He's trying to say that sure, President Trump, maybe there's some good policies, although he'll never admit it.

00:45:02.000 Maybe there are some good policies, but his character is the real problem.

00:45:06.000 And Joe Biden has some veins to mine here, right?

00:45:09.000 I mean, the fact is the president does have a lot of character shortcomings.

00:45:12.000 The president cannot control himself on Twitter.

00:45:15.000 The president says bad things on a fairly regular basis.

00:45:18.000 And so while it is true that Joe Biden is deliberately misconstruing a lot of the stuff that Trump has said and doing so in dishonest fashion, it is also true that politically speaking what he's doing here is a lot smarter than the other Democrats.

00:45:29.000 The other Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden was a racist for signing on to the criminal justice bill in 1994 and that mass incarceration is inherently racist and all of this kind of stuff, ripping on Barack Obama, suggesting that everybody who disagrees with them is a white supremacist, and Biden is focusing in just on Trump.

00:45:47.000 Right, regardless of whether you think that he's lying about Trump, and I think some of what he says here is a lie about Trump, regardless of whether you think that, the pitch that he is making is the strongest political pitch.

00:45:57.000 So this is clip eight, talking about how this is a battle for the soul of our nation.

00:46:00.000 This is him making the George W. Bush circa 2000 appeal about how we need to restore some sense of honor and dignity to the, like the fact that Joe Biden is the person the Democrats have chosen for this is fairly insane.

00:46:12.000 I mean, Uncle Joe has a lot in his closet. 0.99

00:46:13.000 Uncle Joe says some dumb nonsense. 0.99

00:46:16.000 He said some pretty borderline stuff himself, but it is the strongest pitch the Democrats are making. 0.99

00:46:21.000 When he said after Charlottesville, there were, and I quote, very fine people on both sides.

00:46:31.000 I said at the time, we're in a battle for the soul of this nation.

00:46:37.000 I said it again when I announced my candidacy.

00:46:42.000 And I say it here today, we are in a battle for the soul of this nation.

00:46:48.000 Okay, but what Biden didn't do, right?

00:46:51.000 Okay, so what Biden didn't do there, and this is the part about what he's doing smart, is he didn't rip everybody on the right side of the aisle as complicit in what he termed to be Trump's attacks on the soul of the nation.

00:47:02.000 And that's where he's going to have to stay.

00:47:04.000 Because if he moves into Cory Booker territory, where you're either voting for Joe Biden or you're evil, people will say, go take a hike.

00:47:11.000 Nobody's interested.

00:47:12.000 If he moves into the AOC realm of everybody is a vaguely defined white supremacist, except for me.

00:47:18.000 Then he's going to be in serious trouble.

00:47:20.000 And this is why Joe Biden, I think Democrats innately understand this.

00:47:23.000 Unfortunately for Trump and for Republicans, I think Democrats understand that he is the most electable Democrat.

00:47:29.000 This is why the new Iowa Democratic Caucus poll shows 28% for Joe Biden, 19% for Elizabeth Warren, 11% for Kamala Harris, 9% for Bernie Sanders.

00:47:38.000 So again, is he being honest about everything that Trump has said?

00:47:42.000 No.

00:47:42.000 He's not being honest about everything that Trump has said.

00:47:45.000 The very fine people on both sides' comment was specifically referring to the Friday night rally.

00:47:49.000 Trump explicitly said in that same speech that he condemned neo-Nazism and that he condemned white supremacists. 0.93

00:47:55.000 And then he made up in his head some weird group of people who were marching with the marchers who, for some reason, were good people but they were there at the Unite the Right rally, which was absurd and gross and ridiculous and morally reprehensible. 0.55

00:48:07.000 But carrying that to the extent that Trump was saying white supremacists are good people is, of course, not true, right? 0.85

00:48:12.000 Of course, that is not correct.

00:48:14.000 With that said, the character attack that Biden is making on Trump is the attack that is most likely to work on Trump, which is why he is the most successful Democrat at the moment, and why, if Democrats continue to move down the radical path, Trump will be reelected.

00:48:26.000 If they nominate Joe Biden, much better shot that Joe Biden ends up president than any of the other Democrats who are on that stage right now.

00:48:33.000 Okay, time for some things I like, and then perhaps we will do a thing I hate.

00:48:37.000 So, things that I like today.

00:48:39.000 There's a new poll.

00:48:40.000 It shows that half of young people say that college is not necessary.

00:48:44.000 That it's too expensive and no longer necessary.

00:48:46.000 To which I say, good.

00:48:47.000 It's about time.

00:48:49.000 It's about time.

00:48:50.000 There's an article from Market Watch.

00:48:53.000 They say that there's a study surveyed over 3,000 U.S.

00:48:56.000 teens and adults, including approximately 1,000 Generation Z, 1,000 young millennials, and 1,000 parents.

00:49:02.000 About one in five Generation Z and young millennials say they may choose not to go to college.

00:49:06.000 Many others see a less conventional path through education as a good idea.

00:49:09.000 Over 30% of Generation Z and 18% of young millennials said they've considered taking a gap year between high school and college.

00:49:16.000 What's more, 89% of Generation Z, along with nearly 79% of young millennials, have considered an education path that looks different from a four-year degree directly out of high school.

00:49:26.000 Well, I certainly hope that's the case because there is no greater scam in America today than a liberal arts education at $100,000 a year college.

00:49:36.000 That is a massive scam.

00:49:37.000 It is one thing to go to college, as I've said before, in order to learn a skill set.

00:49:41.000 But if you're going to college just so that you can be indoctrinated in gender studies, and you're going to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars for the privilege, you're making a big mistake.

00:49:48.000 You can get those same online courses at an extension school for 50 bucks a credit.

00:49:53.000 And you'll learn just as little.

00:49:56.000 So this is really, it's a good thing.

00:49:58.000 I think young people are beginning to see the scam for what it is.

00:50:01.000 Hopefully employers start to see the scam for what it is.

00:50:03.000 Here at The Daily Wire, we actually do not look at educational background when assessing whether or not somebody should be hired.

00:50:09.000 That's because my business partner, Jeremy Boring, didn't go to college.

00:50:13.000 He went to like a music school for a year and a half and then dropped out.

00:50:16.000 And so when people have brought him job descriptions to be put in the classifieds, He has taken out, like, literally crossed out the educational requirements because he says, listen, I'm the COO of the company and I didn't go to college, so how can I require anybody who wants to work here to go to college?

00:50:32.000 How about they show a skill set and then they can work here?

00:50:35.000 This seems to be much more reasonable.

00:50:36.000 I think most employers should imitate that.

00:50:38.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:50:43.000 So, President Trump, for some god-awful reason, says he is now going to consider commutation for Rod Blagojevich.

00:50:48.000 I have no idea why.

00:50:50.000 This makes no sense at all. 0.99

00:50:52.000 I understand you may remember Rod Blagojevich from when they were on The Apprentice together, because everything is so stupid. 0.98

00:50:58.000 But why in the world would you commute the sentence of Rod Blagojevich, one of the more corrupt Illinois politicians in the recent past? 0.96

00:51:04.000 He's currently serving a 14-year prison term on multiple federal corruption convictions.

00:51:09.000 Trump suggested more than a year ago he was considering a commutation for Blagojevich, who then filed paperwork requesting a commutation.

00:51:16.000 And then, Wednesday night, he told the press corps that he thought Blagojevich had been treated, quote, unbelievably unfairly.

00:51:24.000 He said that he was taking into consideration Blagojevich's wife and children and what was, in his view, mere braggadocio.

00:51:32.000 Blagojevich, of course, has been in prison since 2012.

00:51:35.000 Why?

00:51:36.000 Why?

00:51:38.000 Is there a purpose to this?

00:51:40.000 Is Blagojevich actually innocent?

00:51:41.000 I haven't seen a lot of accusations to that effect.

00:51:48.000 This sort of bizarre behavior.

00:51:49.000 Again, Trump does not have to make a headline every day.

00:51:51.000 It's a source of consistent irritation to the general public.

00:51:54.000 It's a source of consistent irritation to many members of his own staff.

00:51:57.000 The bizarre notion that Trump has to make a headline every day to drive the news cycle.

00:52:01.000 Why don't you just let the Dems be in the news cycle for a day?

00:52:04.000 You know, calling everybody white supremacists and boycotting Equinox.

00:52:07.000 How about that?

00:52:08.000 How about Robert Goyevich?

00:52:10.000 By the way, the clips of Trump chiding Rod Blagojevich on The Apprentice about not doing his proper research on Harry Potter are pretty golden.

00:52:18.000 They do exist.

00:52:19.000 They're really quite amazing, and I'm glad that our country is now being run in such a way that if you were once a contestant on The Apprentice, or if you cut a really hot R&B album, Or if you are a rapper who is fond of Kim Kardashian, then we will work our asses off to make sure that you get out of prison in Sweden. 0.71

00:52:38.000 Very, very important stuff.

00:52:40.000 Really important stuff.

00:52:42.000 All right.

00:52:42.000 We'll be back here later today for two additional hours of content.

00:52:45.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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Boycott All The Things! | Ep. 835

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