The Democratic National Convention is in full swing, and there's a lot to be said about it. From AOC's failed foreign policy keynote, to Bill Clinton's return from the grave to John Kerry's foreign policy failure to lecture Americans, to AOC checking off every single SJW bingo box inside of one minute, Ben is here to break it all down! Today's episode of The Ben Shapiro Show was brought to you by Blinds, a company that specializes in window coverings and interior shutters. Blindz is a great way to upgrade your look and feel of your home and save on electricity bills in many cases, and it's also a good way to keep yourself safe in the event of rolling blackouts in your area. Blindes is making sure you don't need a full renovation, by simply changing what's on your windows, you can create a totally different feel, the way light comes into the room, and the way you come into contact with the room. If you're nervous about trying them, there's no reason to be because they guarantee the perfect fit, whether you do it yourself or whether you have them measure and install everything yourself Directly for you, go check them out at Blindez.com. Go right now, see how much you can save on your electricity bills by checking them out now! Go check out Blindzes.com! Ben Shapiro is on the show! Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Rate/subscribe to our new sponsor, The Ringer. Become a supporter and get 10% off your first month with discount code: CROWNER at CROWNEAT&T when you shop there! Use promo code CROWN10 at CROWDSALE at checkout and get 20% off the entire month for a chance to win a FREE 7-day VIP membership when you enter the offer ends in July! CROWDERS. That's CROWNERS WEEKLY! and get a FREE FIVE-PRICING discount when you sign up for CROWN WEEKEND OFF THE RATE AND VIP PROMO when you become a patron gets a discount of $50 or more than $50,000, and get $25,000 gets you an ad discount when they begin to get VIP access to CROWNING. CROWN FREE when they start their first month, they get the offer starts!
00:00:02.000To give a keynote, John Kerry arrives fresh off his foreign policy failure to lecture Americans, and AOC checks off every single SJW bingo box inside of one minute.
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00:01:40.000Excitement on the order of the reaction to the finale of Lost.
00:01:43.000I mean, just endless levels of excitement.
00:01:45.000How exciting has this convention been?
00:01:47.000Well, Night 1 was down 28% year on year.
00:01:49.000It turns out that running a bunch of bad YouTube videos in a row really doesn't do it for people.
00:01:54.000And while Michelle Obama was indeed a draw, Night 2 did not feature Michelle Obama.
00:01:58.000Night 2 featured a bunch of Democratic retreads talking about their crappy foreign policy perspectives and making Selfless, completely non-self-aware comments about politics.
00:02:11.000I mean, that really was the theme, was non-ironic, unaware comments about politics last night from a variety of Democratic figures just saying things that can be characterized as gaslighting.
00:02:20.000Gaslighting, for those who don't know, is a phenomenon wherein you drive somebody crazy by pretending something isn't happening that definitely is happening.
00:02:28.000It comes from a movie called Gaslight.
00:02:30.000Starring Ingrid Bergman, going all the way back, in which I believe it's Charles Boyer.
00:02:34.000Charles Boyer plays Ingrid Bergman's husband, and he wants to drive her nuts.
00:02:38.000And so every night, he turns down the gas lights in the house, and then she says, have you turned down the gas lights?
00:02:49.000Last night was example par excellence of gas lighting.
00:02:52.000And you got to feel in American politics, like one of the things that's happening is the insane amount of gas lighting on all sides really is pretty crazy.
00:02:59.000I mean, the best example of gaslighting that I've seen continues to be the media's willingness to prop up Andrew Cuomo, the worst governor in America.
00:03:06.000That stupid ass is now being given a book contract to write about COVID.
00:03:11.000It's like the captain of the Titanic being contracted to write about proper navigation of the oceans.
00:04:02.000And she is a Muslim delegate to the DNC.
00:04:05.000She didn't have like an official appearance, it's not like they slated her for a speaking role, but she appeared at one of the daytime sessions, apparently from some sort of hotel room for the DNC caucus and council meeting, as a Muslim delegate and allies assembly, and suggested that the DNC was basically run by people like her.
00:04:24.000She actually said that the DNC stands with us, stands with us, which is kind of true.
00:04:28.000I mean, it's been true for quite a while.
00:04:30.000By the way, I was there at the 2012 Democratic Convention at which the Democrats from the floor overruled what was obviously a majority of the delegates in trying to remove Jerusalem as Israel's capital from the DNC platform.
00:04:43.000Sarsour, her appearance in this little caucus video, it actually caused the Biden campaign to come out and condemn Linda Sarsour because they understand where their bread is buttered in terms of American politics.
00:04:54.000Linda Sarsour is not a particularly popular figure on any side of the aisle except the radical left.
00:05:00.000A Biden spokesman named Andrew Bates said, Okay, so there's a bit of gaslighting.
00:05:03.000and opponents of anti-Semitism his entire life.
00:05:14.000She's still saying that the party is her party.
00:05:17.000And she's still hobnobbing with people like AOC, right?
00:05:19.000She's never been disavowed by members of the squad, of course, and she won't be disavowed by any members of the squad.
00:05:24.000Other examples of gaslighting yesterday at the DNC in sort of the lead-up to the primetime.
00:05:29.000Again, I've paid more attention than I think most people to the stuff before the primetime, because again, the primetime is the dating profile, and the stuff that happens during the day is the actual on-the-ground grassroots Democratic Party at work.
00:05:39.000Elizabeth Warren spoke to the DNC's Native American caucus, which is like, I can't think of anything more tone-deaf than that.
00:05:46.000Elizabeth Warren, fake Native American, who claimed Native American ancestry to get ahead in her career, was speaking on behalf of the DNC to Native Americans.
00:05:56.000So that's a bit of gaslighting as well.
00:05:59.000Okay, so finally we get to primetime, and we get the cavalcade of comedy stars from the DNC.
00:06:04.000We get a bunch of Democrats coming out and saying stuff that it's almost impossible to believe that they don't understand the irony of what they are saying.
00:06:12.000They're just brought out figure after figure to say things that are in direct contravention of things these people have done.
00:06:16.000To take a perfect example, Governor Stacey Abrams of Georgia.
00:06:20.000I speak ironically, of course, because she is not actually governor of Georgia, but believes she is, despite the fact she lost by 50,000 votes in Georgia, and she's been wandering the streets ever since, claiming to be the governor of Georgia.
00:06:29.000Now, I'm just shocked she didn't declare herself the vice presidential nominee in this particular little speech.
00:06:35.000So she spoke at the DNC in this little online convention they're having.
00:06:41.000And she said, we're going to work to stop voter suppression.
00:06:44.000She talked about the undermining of elections.
00:06:46.000Now, this has been her schtick for quite a while, is that our elections are being undermined.
00:06:50.000She's literally been going around for years at this point, claiming that she won an election, she lost by 50,000 votes, and here she is talking about electoral integrity.
00:07:09.000He will restore our moral compass by confronting our challenges, not by hiding from them or undermining our elections to keep his job.
00:07:19.000In a time of voter suppression at home and authoritarians abroad, Joe Biden will be a champion for free and fair elections.
00:07:27.000Trump is undermining elections, unlike Stacey Abrams, who goes around claiming without any basis whatsoever that the vote was suppressed in Georgia.
00:07:34.000That was a bit of irony that we are just not really allowed to note according to the media.
00:07:40.000Sally Yates is the former acting attorney general.
00:07:42.000You'll recall that Sally Yates was fired by the Trump administration because Trump believed, as it turns out sort of correctly, that Sally Yates was oriented against the Trump administration.
00:07:50.000Sally Yates, it is also worth noting, has testified publicly at this point that she was shocked to learn in the early days of the incoming Trump administration, the outgoing Obama administration, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden were full in In knowledge with regard to Michael Flynn and the pursuit of Michael Flynn.
00:08:07.000Sally Yates has said that she was shocked that James Comey was not fully informing the Trump team about the fact that they were investigating Michael Flynn and that she was shocked to learn that Joe Biden and Barack Obama were fully informed and in the loop on an investigation into Michael Flynn.
00:08:20.000That's essentially what she has suggested in front of Congress.
00:08:23.000Yet here was Sally Yates suggesting that Donald Trump is attacking our institutions when she's literally testified that she was part of an administration that was attacking basic institutions like you don't His constant attacks on the FBI, the free press, inspectors general, federal judges, they all have one purpose.
00:08:37.000Here's Sally Yates, though, talking about undermining American institutions.
00:08:40.000His constant attacks on the FBI, the free press, inspectors general, federal judges, they all have one purpose, to remove any check on his abuse of power.
00:08:55.000Put simply, he treats our country like it's his family business, this time bankrupting our nation's moral authority.
00:09:05.000By the way, she's been a longtime Democratic donor, so she started this thing off by saying, I'm not really a political figure, I'm more a legal figure.
00:09:11.000She's been getting Democrats for it for a very long time.
00:09:13.000Sally Yates testifying about institutional abuses while she was in the Obama administration, which was institutionally abusing Michael Flynn, institutionally abusing Carter Page.
00:09:24.000We'll get to more ironies from the Democratic National Convention in just one second.
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00:10:38.000Meanwhile, speaking of gaslighting, again, the DNC is claiming that Joe Biden is a deeply moderate candidate, that their party is deeply moderate.
00:10:45.000So moderate, in fact, that they are willing to disavow Linda Sarsour and all of this.
00:11:29.000In honor of the person who finished second, there's always somebody who nominates that person to the presidency.
00:11:34.000Here was AOC just spitting out, spitting some hot lyrics about racial injustice, colonization, misogyny, blah, blah, blah.
00:11:43.000Infidelity and gratitude to a mass people's movement working to establish 21st century social, economic, and human rights, including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages, and labor rights for all people in the United States.
00:12:02.000A movement striving to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny, and homophobia.
00:12:30.000AOC is just the leader of a newfangled squad that is gaining members by the election.
00:12:34.000They've gained two new members to the squad.
00:12:35.000They have a woman who is a social justice activist, a Michael Brown protester-turned-Congressperson over in Missouri, and then they have a person who got rid of Eliot Engel over in New York, basically because Eliot Engel was pro-Israel.
00:12:56.000Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, arrived to explain that President Trump has divided the country.
00:13:02.000Now, let it be known that Chuck Schumer is currently in the Senate holding up any deal that will allow anybody to get increased aid from the government in a time of government shutdowns, specifically because he and Nancy Pelosi have combined to push a $3.4 trillion pork package that pays off all of the various Democratic priorities from the post office to various union interests.
00:13:23.000They're holding it up purely and specifically because they want that deal not to happen because then Trump might get credit and the economy might be upheld.
00:13:30.000Instead, they're openly rooting for failure.
00:13:32.000Don't worry, Chuck Schumer isn't the one who's divisive.
00:13:35.000Chuck Schumer and his Democrats aren't the ones who are divisive.
00:13:53.000Chuck Schumer has contributed more to polarization in Washington over the course of his career than Donald Trump has over the course of the last four years, we're certain.
00:14:00.000Here is Chuck Schumer talking about divisions in the country, which can be healed by Chuck Schumer in some way.
00:14:04.000Here is Chuck Schumer, a pretty Gross politician, if ever we've seen one.
00:14:11.000The Statue of Liberty, the same site that greeted hopeful immigrants like my grandparents, a symbol of freedom and a beacon of hope to the world.
00:14:22.000Today, Donald Trump has divided our country, diminished our greatness and demeaned everything that this statue represents.
00:14:31.000He even hid in a bunker as Americans were tear gassed and beaten.
00:14:38.000They're focusing purely on the Lafayette Square incident.
00:14:42.000This has become the big talking point is the Lafayette Square incident, which by the way is under dispute as to whether protesters are actually attacking members of the Park Service and all of that.
00:14:49.000The studious avoidance of things that are actually going on in the country on a wide scale is pretty incredible.
00:15:12.000Don't worry, Trump is the really divisive force here.
00:15:14.000All you have to do is elect the Democrats and the riots will stop.
00:15:17.000Which, by the way, is the tacit promise here, right?
00:15:19.000We all know what the tacit promise here.
00:15:20.000The tacit promise here is that if the Democrats get what they want and Donald Trump leaves office, then the riots in the big cities will stop, then the lockdowns will gradually end.
00:15:28.000There was a New York Times article, by the way, just a couple of days ago talking about the shutdowns of public education.
00:15:34.000There are new studies out suggesting that kids under the age of 10 really are not transmitting this to parents.
00:15:58.000Even New York is looking at opening the schools.
00:16:00.000But the New York Times acknowledged that much of the reason That a lot of schools are closed is because Democrats have decided that if Trump wants the schools open, the schools must be closed.
00:16:09.000At some point Trump has got to start engaging in some reverse psychology with these people and simply advocate for complete and endless shutdowns so the Democrats will start advocating for opening up the economy again.
00:16:19.000But it is fairly incredible that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats continue to claim that all of the bad things that are happening are Donald Trump's fault.
00:16:27.000All you have to do is elect us and then we will leave you alone.
00:16:31.000It's really a reflection of 1960s politics.
00:16:34.000I was listening to another podcast yesterday, the Commentary Magazine podcast, which is quite good and always interesting.
00:16:40.000And they were musing over the fact that the Democratic National Convention, if you look at the way that they label various people at the DNC, they're constantly labeling people activists.
00:16:48.000And they no longer label them by their sort of political title.
00:16:54.000Cori Bush, who's the woman who just won in Missouri in this fraught district, she is an activist.
00:17:01.000AOC likes to think of herself as an activist.
00:17:02.000You have a lot of government officials in the Democratic Party who consider themselves activists.
00:17:06.000Well, activists define themselves by opposition to the system.
00:17:09.000And so what's really happening here is that the Democrats are playing an inside-outside game.
00:17:12.000The inside-outside game is they pretend that they are activists who are shaping the system from the outside while simultaneously taking over the institutions so they can make concessions to the activist side.
00:17:21.000And this has been happening on college campuses for years.
00:17:24.000You have administrators who used to be activists, caving to the newfangled activists, who then become the administrators, who then cave to the newfangled activists.
00:17:31.000It's how you constantly push to the left.
00:17:33.000This is what happened in major cities in the 1960s.
00:17:36.000There's a great book by a man named Fred Siegel, one of the founders of the Manhattan Institute, called The Future Once Happened here, talking about the decline of America's major cities in the 1960s.
00:17:44.000And one of the major forces that led to that was the inside outside game being played by rioters, looters, and quote unquote activists outside the government, pushing members of the government.
00:17:53.000And members of the government would openly acknowledge, they would openly say, we're so glad we have these activists outside, creating chaos so that we have to cave to the chaos.
00:18:01.000Well, you shouldn't be blackmailed into voting for Democrats.
00:18:05.000You should not be blackmailed into voting for Democrats by watching as Democrats foster chaos in America's major cities, as they talk about defunding the police, as they talk about making room for people to riot and loot.
00:18:39.000If you're a free thinking American, you should not cave to anybody telling you that you cannot take advantage of your rights unless you elect them.
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00:20:43.000A president who presided over the decline of American power abroad, led to the rise of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, led to the Iranian takeover of the American embassy, facilitated the rise of the Ayatollahs, which we are still feeling the impact of, Jimmy Carter presided over stagflation.
00:21:32.000You have sort of an introductory night, then you have the foreign policy night, and then you have the VP night, and then you have the presidential night.
00:21:38.000So tonight is the VP night, so we get to hear from Kamala Harris and her joker laugh.
00:21:43.000Okay, well, we'll get to hear some of that.
00:21:45.000Maybe we won't get to hear that tonight because Kamala Harris isn't being asked tough questions tonight.
00:21:49.000Anyway, Jimmy Carter was trotted forth to endorse, and I'm old enough to remember in 2004 when Jimmy Carter was sitting in the presidential box with Michael Moore, which shows you where Jimmy Carter actually sits on politics.
00:21:59.000Just because the man is quite elderly does not mean that he was a good president or that he has pursued in any way anything remotely approaching a moral foreign policy.
00:22:08.000And so having him speak on Foreign Policy Night is quite the achievement.
00:22:10.000Here was Jimmy Carter endorsing Joe Biden, who, by the way, for the record, has been wrong on every major foreign policy issue of his lifetime.
00:22:29.000You have to be, like, even if you just fill in C on all the bubbles of the SAT, you'll end up getting a couple of those questions right.
00:22:36.000Somehow Joe Biden has studiously avoided being right his entire career on foreign policy.
00:22:40.000Anyway, here was Jimmy Carter endorsing him.
00:22:44.000When I ran for president in 1976, Joe Biden was my first and most effective supporter in the Senate.
00:22:50.000For decades, he has been my loyal and dedicated friend.
00:22:54.000Joe has the experience, character, and decency to bring us together and restore America's greatness.
00:22:59.000In these uncertain times, Joe Biden realizes that many American lives can be saved each day through the use of masks and testing, as recommended by our medical experts.
00:23:15.000I need to hear who needs to be the next president from Jimmy Carter.
00:23:17.000I mean, that is a sterling recommendation from a man who is literally one of the five worst presidents in the history of the United States.
00:23:34.000Justice Brett Kavanaugh was probably a rapist based on no evidence whatsoever other than an account that was disputed by every single other person who was mentioned in the account from Christine Blasey Ford.
00:23:45.000I'm old enough to remember when the Democratic Party was declaring that anyone, everyone who was accused of a thing had to go.
00:23:52.000In fact, in that brief moment, there was some talk in the Democratic Party about how Bill Clinton was done, right?
00:23:57.000There was talk in this newfangled Democratic Party about how if they could go back in time, they really would have rethought that whole Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Juanita Broderick thing.
00:24:06.000And maybe they would have thought twice about Clinton.
00:24:08.000Well, now they've thought twice about thinking twice.
00:24:10.000So Bill Clinton got trotted out to give Again, one of the least self-aware speeches in the history of a convention.
00:24:17.000So we're going to get into the non-ironic speech by Bill Clinton.
00:24:21.000Like, did he run it by anybody before he said it out loud?
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00:25:51.000Now, there were some people who were being asked questions about all of this.
00:25:55.000So, for example, Tammy Duckworth, who was not picked as the vice presidential pick, she was asked about why Bill Clinton was speaking at the DNC.
00:26:02.000And she was like, well, it's a big tent.
00:27:11.000Well, I don't know, should we grab his high school yearbooks and ask him about boofing?
00:27:15.000I'm old enough to remember, because I'm more than two years old, when they asked Brett Kavanaugh what the devil's triangle was in his high school yearbook description.
00:27:24.000And he had to bring forth his calendars from high school, which was then seen as a mark of white supremacy and privilege.
00:27:30.000Yes, I'm old enough to remember all of that.
00:27:31.000But Bill Clinton, it happened a long time ago, guys.
00:27:33.000I mean, just because he was kind of like a little rapey, like a lot for like a lot of women, and there are dozens of allegations against him that are dicey.
00:27:49.000Okay, so then Bill Clinton gives his speech.
00:27:51.000And Bill Clinton is not looking as good as he did back in 2012.
00:27:54.000You'll remember that Bill Clinton gave this much-ballyhooed speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention on behalf of Barack Obama.
00:28:00.000Barack Obama came out and gave him a real awkward bro hug afterward.
00:28:03.000Okay, so last night, Bill Clinton gave his speech, and he talked about why Donald Trump is not qualified to be president, the pressures of the job.
00:28:11.000And without any sense of irony or self-awareness at all, he started making references to the Oval Office.
00:28:16.000So here was Bill McClinton, rapey McPlain a lot.
00:28:42.000Okay, so, when you're going to talk about using the Oval Office as a storm center, I don't think that Bill Clinton means it the same way that he thinks he means it.
00:28:54.000I mean, he was literally banging the interns in the Oval Office, guys.
00:29:15.000That was the thing that happened last night at the DNC.
00:29:17.000And then Bill Clinton was like, we can't trust Donald Trump because that man is not really... I do also like when he says, the buck always stops at the top.
00:29:25.000I mean, there are literal allegations.
00:29:27.000That Bill Clinton was basically launching wars in order to avoid responsibility for nailing the help.
00:29:34.000Anyway, here's Bill Clinton talking about people being distracted at their jobs.
00:29:38.000He was like, we need people who are focused in like a laser beam on the job of being president of the United States.
00:29:45.000This is the first time he's been back to Chappaqua in years.
00:29:47.000I mean, he and Hillary Clinton studiously avoid each other.
00:29:50.000And they're like Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, just despise one another, trying to stay away from each other, but locked in eternal combat.
00:29:58.000Here was Bill Clinton talking about defining the job of the presidency.
00:30:03.000Denying, distracting, and demeaning works great if you're trying to entertain or inflame.
00:30:08.000But in a real crisis, it collapses like a house of cards.
00:30:13.000COVID just doesn't respond to any of that.
00:30:16.000To beat it, you've got to actually go to work and deal with the facts.
00:30:21.000We can't say, for example, that we didn't bang the help.
00:30:25.000We really can't say things like, there's a vast right-wing conspiracy to get me, and that is why it doesn't matter that I'm nailing the interns.
00:30:45.000And if anyone knows that, it's Bill Clinton.
00:30:47.000Here's Bill Clinton defining the job of the presidency.
00:30:51.000Now you have to decide whether to renew his contract or hire someone else.
00:30:56.000If you want a president who defines the job as spending hours a day watching TV and zapping people on social media, he's your man.
00:31:05.000And if you want somebody who spends hours a day checking out the thongs of the 18-year-olds who staff his office, we did that for two terms.
00:31:13.000So it seems like Americans have a kind of variegated view on the presidency.
00:31:17.000Then, I mean, speaking of just people who have not been relevant and are not relevant and are terrible at their jobs, trotting these people out to endorse, John Kerry was brought forth.
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00:34:55.000All righty, so we get to John Kerry's.
00:35:03.000So again, the Democrats trotted out people who just have a bad record to talk about why you should listen to them, which makes no sense at all.
00:35:09.000So John Kerry, the worst Secretary of State in modern American history, helped broker the garbage Iran deal, undermined alliances with Israel, horrible policy on Afghanistan, horrible policy with regard to the Middle East, horrible policy on China, absolutely kowtowing to Russia on Syria.
00:35:24.000I mean, just a garbage heap of a Secretary of State, an awful Secretary of State.
00:35:28.000We need to hear from him about why The foreign policy of Joe Biden will be correct.
00:35:33.000Now, again, Joe Biden has yet to make a correct foreign policy decision his entire career.
00:35:43.000That was his big theory, his going theory.
00:35:45.000He's so bad at politics that after the Trump administration brokered this Israel-UAE deal, which is a real historic breakthrough, Biden tried to take credit by claiming that he had had conversations with the UAE while he was VP.
00:35:57.000Joe Biden's last conversation with the UAE happened in 2014, and it ended with him having to issue an official apology to the government of the UAE.
00:36:04.000That's how good Joe Biden is at diplomacy.
00:36:06.000John Kerry is so good at diplomacy that his unintentional The unintentional effects of his butt-kissing of the Iranian regime ended with the creation of a pro-Israel alliance in the Middle East now.
00:36:19.000So anyway, John Kerry goes out and he gives a speech, John Kerry, about why American troops don't trust Donald Trump.
00:36:26.000Now, okay, if we have to ask American soldiers and service people overseas and at home whether they trust John Kerry, Over, say, Donald Trump.
00:36:38.000John Kerry is a person who testified that American soldiers in Vietnam were war criminals, who supposedly threw his own medals over the White House fence in protest at American soldiers.
00:36:49.000So listening to John Kerry lecture us on the troops is really ironic and rich, kind of like Bill Clinton lecturing us on honor in the Oval Office.
00:36:55.000Here was John Kerry doing this routine.
00:37:18.000Oh, so I'm going to listen to this guy, this schmuck, who suggested that American soldiers were routinely taping electrodes to genitals of Vietnamese people in order to garner information during the Vietnam War, cutting off ears.
00:37:29.000This is literally what he testified in the Winter Soldier Testimony.
00:37:31.000I need to hear that schmuck talk about what's best for American troops.
00:38:20.000Well, as opposed to Barack Obama, who has looked up, again, who looked up to Barack Obama overseas, except for leftists overseas who want to see America shrink its role in the world.
00:38:29.000And the fact is that whatever you can say about Donald Trump, China is more fearful of the United States today because Trump is president than if Biden were, and it's been made obvious and clear.
00:38:37.000There are intelligence reports suggesting China's trying to interfere in our elections on behalf of Joe Biden.
00:38:43.000And when it comes to Russia, I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama was pledging flexibility to the Russians and letting them take over Crimea.
00:39:09.000Joe Biden will be a president we will all be proud to salute.
00:39:12.000With Joe Biden in the White House, you will never doubt that he will stand with our friends and stand up to our adversaries, never the other way around.
00:39:21.000He will trust our diplomats and our intelligence community, not the flattery of dictators and despots.
00:39:26.000He will make it his job to know when anyone dares to threaten us.
00:39:31.000He will stand up to our adversaries with strength and experience.
00:39:58.000And this is the part of the Joe Biden resume that they're trying to emphasize the most, right?
00:40:04.000Because Donald Trump is orange man bad and he's mean and he tweets weird things and he's a mean old orange man who's fat and all of that, right?
00:40:10.000So Joe Biden, however, by contrast, is a nice old doddering fool.
00:40:18.000The most effective moments of the DNC last night and even the night before, and I'm sure tonight, are going to be all the parts where people say that Joe Biden is a nice guy.
00:40:24.000And by all accounts, he is kind of a nice guy, right?
00:40:26.000I mean, like, I've talked to Senator Ted Cruz on the right.
00:40:29.000Meghan McCain says that Joe Biden was very nice to her when her father passed away.
00:40:35.000People who know Joe Biden seem to like Joe Biden.
00:40:37.000Now, he is kind of an idiot who runs on at the mouth politically, but in terms of just being like a personable guy, apparently he's a very personable guy, gets along with a lot of people in the Senate, and that's basically the pitch.
00:40:47.000The pitch is, do you want a nice guy at this point?
00:40:49.000Now, when the economy was going gangbusters, then no one cared whether you had a nice president or not, which is why back in March, it looked like Trump was going to be elected pretty easily.
00:40:58.000Now, because the economy is bad, people are like, it would be nice to have a nice guy or someone who cares.
00:41:03.000Listen, this is not my brand of politics.
00:41:05.000I don't care whether politicians care about me because I don't deal with them.
00:41:08.000I don't think politicians should have to care about me on an empathetic level.
00:41:11.000I think they should create policies that get out of my way and allow me to live my life in freedom.
00:41:16.000I don't care whether my plumber cares about me.
00:41:18.000I don't care whether my roofing guy cares about me.
00:41:21.000All I want from him is to do a good job.
00:41:23.000It matters not to me whether he goes home and thinks about me day in and day out or whether he cries with me when something bad happens in my family because that's literally not his job.
00:42:36.000Nominating someone like that to be in the White House is a good place to start.
00:42:41.000That's why I nominate my friend, Joe Biden, as the next President of the United States.
00:42:49.000Okay, so it's nice and also a little bit condescending.
00:42:52.000And when I say condescending, I just mean that the DNC is plucking from obscurity, sort of, let me introduce you to random blue-collar worker who met Joe Biden once in an elevator for 30 seconds, but knows down to his soul what Joe Biden is like as a human being.
00:43:06.000Now, as a politician, Joe Biden is a vicious knife fighter.
00:43:08.000As a politician, Joe Biden is the guy who called Mitt Romney basically a re-enslaver of black Americans.
00:43:14.000And as a politician, Joe Biden is viciously partisan.
00:43:17.000As a politician, Joe Biden is willing to cut corners.
00:43:20.000He's been willing to do that for years, but as an individual interacting with people, apparently he is pretty nice.
00:43:24.000So I guess that's nice, but that is the real pitch.
00:43:27.000And if the pitch for Biden is nice, then sort of his awkward moments become sort of charming grandpa moments instead of worrisome, oh my God, what's he going to say now moments, right?
00:43:35.000This has always been the balance for Joe Biden being barely alive, is that on the one hand, you want your president to be alive enough not to constantly be falling off of ramps and such.
00:43:46.000And that's a reference to Bob Dole in 96, right?
00:43:48.000In 96, Bob Dole kind of fell off the stage and he was considered too old.
00:44:58.000I mean, he's giving the same look that my grandmother gives us when we give her a surprise party, which is, I don't know what's going on, but I know I'm supposed to be happy right now.
00:45:05.000A lot of that from Joe Biden, but looking sort of, this was played as more charming than a little frightening that Joe isn't completely aware of his surroundings.
00:45:12.000Again, then Cindy McCain came forth and Cindy McCain talked about how Joe was always a wonderful guy with John.
00:46:09.000OK, so Joe Biden was making the only case that you can make for Joe, which is that he's a nice guy.
00:46:13.000You can't make the case that he's alive because he barely is.
00:46:16.000You cannot make the case that he is competent because he really is not.
00:46:19.000And when other people make the case for Joe Biden, it's always slightly awkward.
00:46:23.000Basically, Michelle Obama's case for Joe Biden is, I should be the nominee, but Joe Biden is the dead guy over there and he's the one you nominated.
00:46:28.000So really do him instead of Trump, please.
00:46:39.000Joe Biden is the only one who can make an authentic case on behalf of Joe because she's been married to that guy for 30 years and been listening to his diarrhea of the mouth for the last three decades.
00:46:50.000So having somebody who likes Joe Biden talking about how he's likable makes some sense.
00:46:53.000I thought Joe Biden came off as very authentic.
00:46:55.000I thought that she came off as very nice. So she talked about Joe Biden and personal tragedy, which is the most affecting part of the story. This is a person who lost children in a car crash early on in his in his life. And then obviously he just lost his son to brain cancer. I mean, these are serious personal tragedies. And that does humanize people.
00:47:13.000Humanizing Joe Biden has always been an easier task than humanizing Hillary Clinton, who's a velociraptor of a human being. So Joe Biden did what I thought was a very good job.
00:47:25.000And here was Joe Biden being a nice lady, talking about her nice husband.
00:47:28.000As someone put it last night, they're the kooky couple from next door on the sitcom, where you might wander into their apartment by accident, and they're elderly people making weird kinds of love.
00:47:38.000It was really, they have that vibe to them from the 1970s Three's Company era.
00:47:43.000Here was Joe Biden talking about the wonders of Joe.
00:47:47.000Four days after Beau's funeral, I watched Joe shave and put on his suit.
00:47:54.000I saw him steal himself in the mirror, take a breath, put his shoulders back, and walk out into a world empty of our son.
00:48:35.000The only thing that Democrats want to focus in on is empathy and Joe Biden and his Captain Feelings and all the rest of this.
00:48:41.000That's why the part of Joe Biden's speech I thought that fell a little flat is when she talked about how the schools are all closed because of COVID.
00:48:47.000And I was just thinking to myself, they don't have to be.
00:48:49.000I mean, really, they don't have to be.
00:48:50.000It is Democratic politicians who are saying that we can't open up schools again, even though children are not dying of COVID.
00:50:43.000OK, so the record got stuck and then they had to kind of, you know, hit the record machine and get the thing to stop skipping and scratching.
00:51:01.000I suppose if that's what you're looking for, then that is what you will get.
00:51:04.000All righty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:51:07.000And of course, we'll be back here tomorrow to recap night three of the Democratic National Convention, when we expect to hear from the wondrous Presidentess of the United States, Hillary Clinton, still wandering the woods of Chappaqua in complete bewilderment that she's not, in fact, president, and a person nearly as charmless as Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, she of the joker guffaw and the prosecution of small children that can expect all sorts of good times tonight.
00:51:31.000So stick around for more show later today, and then we'll be here tomorrow.
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