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00:00:00.000New polling shows Democrats behind on nearly every major issue, Democrats can't stop doubling down on stupid, and America's spoiled brats are on the march.
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00:01:49.000Of the issues polled, defunding the police, open borders, and reparations for slavery were by far the biggest turnoffs for both independents and voters in general.
00:01:57.000So all of those have to do with the Democrats' racial equity program.
00:02:01.000The suggestion that America is deeply unjust requires that we get rid of the police or defund the police or defang the police.
00:02:07.000We have to have open borders as some sort of guilt Notion on behalf of the United States and reparations for slavery, of course, is deeply tied into the idea that America remains systemically racist and that all inequalities of outcome are due to historic grievances.
00:02:20.000Republicans, however, didn't just stop there.
00:02:37.000Maybe Democrats best Republicans on like climate change, which is Americans 97th concern, considering it is a thing that is going to happen over the course of a century.
00:02:45.000We still don't know exactly how much human activities have contributed to it.
00:02:48.000And even if we did, we don't really know how to handle it aside from taking some sort of adaptation measures.
00:02:54.000According to Axios, the poll Future Majority wrote in its report on the findings shows voters, especially independents, believe the Democrats overspend as well.
00:03:01.000So this means the Democrats have overstepped on nearly every aspect of their agenda.
00:03:05.000But the problem is this for the Democrats.
00:03:29.000It was how he shifted the notion of how American politics was done.
00:03:34.000Instead of American politics being a battle between two sides to lock down their base and then move out to the middle and try and approach the middle.
00:03:40.000Instead, American politics became a game in which you reached out to very specific slices of particular demographics and then you gave them giveaways.
00:03:50.000goodies, almost as though you were trying to put together some sort of omnibus package in the Senate, where you give somebody a path here and there's some log rolling here. Instead, it was an intersectional coalition that was brought together only by opposition to that evil right wing.
00:04:04.000And Barack Obama was very clear about this in 2010 and 2012.
00:04:08.000In 2008, when Barack Obama was elected, he was elected on the basis of broadcasting, right?
00:04:15.000And then after 2008 when he became president and there was opposition to the to his program from the Tea Party.
00:04:21.000When he lost Congress in 2010, when he took, as he said, a shellacking, when that happened, suddenly his mindset shifted because it was not a rebuke to his program.
00:04:29.000After all, Barack Obama was too brilliant and God-like a figure for people to rebuke his agenda.
00:04:34.000If you ever read or listen to anything Obama says, the problem was never his agenda.
00:04:38.000It was always how he expressed his agenda, right?
00:04:42.000He, from on high, this Zeus-like figure, was unable to cast his thunderbolts of joy in such a way that the American public were capable of receiving it.
00:04:52.000And so instead, he interpreted his own failures and the failures of his political program to be popular.
00:04:58.000He interpreted that as American racism, as deep-seated American bigotry, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of American voters in 2008 elected him.
00:05:05.000And so he immediately began trying to cobble together a coalition that was rooted in the idea that there was an ascendant demographic minority that was eventually going to be a demographic majority and simply swamp the right.
00:05:16.000And Donald Trump was a reaction to that.
00:05:19.000If there is a racial aspect to America's politics, which undoubtedly at this point unfortunately there is, it was not started by Donald Trump.
00:05:25.000It was started by Barack Obama and Democrats who declared overtly and repeatedly, and thinkers like Ronald Brownstein, who repeatedly said that there was this demographic minority that was going to swamp the white demographic majority, and that the Browning of America inevitably meant the Making Democrat of America.
00:05:47.000As Florida has gotten demographically browner, it has also gotten demographically more Republican because it turns out that race is not, in fact, destiny.
00:05:55.000It turns out the demographics are not actually destiny.
00:06:16.000They have a racially essentialist viewpoint, right?
00:06:19.000That is, in fact, rooted in, as we've been discussing, critical race theory.
00:06:22.000This idea that there are certain essentials to being black or essentials to being Asian or essentials to being anything with regard to ethnicity.
00:06:29.000And this separates you off from the white demographic majority.
00:06:31.000And therefore, you are part of the intersectional coalition.
00:06:34.000Now, if you reject that, then you've rejected your own racial essentialism, and this means that you're a self-hating black person if you're Clarence Thomas, or it means that you're a self-hating Asian person if you don't side with this coalition of the ascendant.
00:06:47.000Okay, well, what this means is that Democrats are deeply wedded to this program because, again, they have pegged all of their hopes for future success not on the popularity of their actual political programs.
00:07:05.000That Americans do not like their policies with regard to the border.
00:07:08.000Poll after poll that Americans are not interested in their policies with regard to racial reparations and new racial, new forms of racial discrimination.
00:07:15.000Americans just don't like it, but they cannot let go of it because to let go of it would mean to let go of the new vision of politics wrought by Barack Obama and to go back to the old vision of politics in which you had to forge consensus and find common policy.
00:07:35.000want. And you see that this is how Democrats are playing this thing out. And so they've been militarizing the American government and weaponizing the American government in ways that frankly, would have made Donald Trump blush. We heard over and over and over that Bill Barr was simply a partisan on behalf of Donald Trump. Now we know that's not true. We do. Bill Barr repeatedly did not do what Trump wanted him to do. Trump obviously wanted him to initiate some sort of prosecution against Hillary Clinton. Jeff Sessions was pressured to do that. Jeff Sessions was
00:08:05.000pressured to intervene with regard to the Russian collusion investigation. His attorneys general, Donald Trump, I've never seen an administration where the president was so in conflict with his own attorneys general to the point where President Trump was constantly ripping on his original AG, Jeff Sessions, and suggesting that he was not loyal.
00:08:21.000In fact, by the end of his term in office, AG Sessions, by the time that Sessions left, Trump was ripping him so often that Sessions couldn't even go back to his seat in the Senate in Alabama and said Tommy Tuberville took over his seat in Alabama because Trump overtly endorsed his opponent.
00:08:38.000Bill Barr started off and Trump was in love with the guy.
00:08:41.000And then by the end of his tenure, Trump hated the guy.
00:08:43.000There's a new piece in The Atlantic talking about William Barr and Trump and how Barr was telling Trump pretty overtly.
00:08:50.000That all of the election fraud stuff was overblown and that, in fact, he had lost the election and Trump was very angry at him over all of this.
00:08:58.000This is why it was so galling to watch Democrats in the media suggest that Bill Barr was some sort of cat's paw for Trump, that he was just doing whatever Trump wanted.
00:09:09.000The great and heralded Merrick Garland, RIP, because he never made it on the Supreme Court.
00:09:14.000But Merrick Garland is the new Attorney General.
00:09:17.000So over the weekend, he announced a lawsuit against the state of Georgia.
00:09:20.000Now, the only reason to do this is partisan politics.
00:09:23.000The DOJ is being weaponized against police departments around the nation, again, on the basis of this racial equity campaign that has nothing to do with reality and, in fact, undermines the safety and security of Americans, particularly minority Americans.
00:09:34.000The DOJ is being weaponized against police departments all over the country, as we'll get to.
00:09:38.000And the DOJ is now being used as a legal cudgel against states that do not see voting in the same way the Democrats wish to see voting, namely ballot harvesting, no ID, loosening all the requirements to allow for the possibility of stuffing the ballot box, and voter fraud.
00:10:15.000Both Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr were directly at odds with Trump over and over and over again because Trump was repeatedly asking them to do things that did not comply with their oath of office, and they just rejected it.
00:10:25.000Here's Merrick Garland rejecting his own off of office.
00:10:27.000OK, there's no grounds for this lawsuit against Georgia at all.
00:10:30.000I've read the lawsuit against Georgia.
00:10:32.000It's going to get laughed out of court if there is a judge with half a brain.
00:10:35.000Nonetheless, here is the great and heralded bipartisan figure Merrick Garland just doing the bidding of the Biden administration.
00:10:43.000Today, the Department of Justice is suing the state of Georgia.
00:10:48.000Our complaint alleges that recent changes to Georgia's election laws were enacted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of black Georgians to vote on account of their race or color in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
00:11:06.000The Voting Rights Act was specifically designed to prevent states from preventing black people from voting.
00:11:11.000These are laws of neutral applicability that affect black citizens and white citizens equally.
00:11:16.000And the fact is that, again, they are more permissive in many ways than the law was before this law was passed.
00:11:22.000Okay, the DOJ is ramming it down anyway.
00:11:24.000To understand how nefarious this is, you need to understand the DOJ, the chief law enforcement body in the country, right, is the highest level of law enforcement in the country.
00:11:32.000They're now being used in order to silence legislatures in Republican-led states.
00:11:39.000The judiciary cannot go along with this.
00:11:41.000According to the DOJ itself, the United States' complaint contends that several provisions of Senate Bill 202 were adopted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race.
00:11:50.000Now, they show no evidence whatsoever, none, in the entire complaint, that this was done with the quote-unquote purpose of getting black people not to vote.
00:11:57.000Because they can't show that because it wasn't.
00:12:00.000There's nothing in the consideration of the bill that is race-specific.
00:12:03.000There's nothing about the bill that is race-specific.
00:12:05.000And in fact, in many ways, again, this enshrines the ability of people to vote early.
00:12:09.000It actually opens up additional days when people can vote.
00:12:15.000All it does is it prevents more drop boxes, which are very hard to monitor, for example.
00:12:20.000But what exactly is the DOJ challenging?
00:12:22.000They're challenging several provisions of Senate Bill 202, according to the DOJ, including a provision banning government entities from distributing unsolicited absentee ballot applications.
00:12:30.000So in other words, they're stopping people from sending to your house absentee ballot applications because you should have to request one if you actually want to vote absentee.
00:12:38.000It's a way of cracking down on voter fraud.
00:12:40.000The imposition of costly and onerous fines on civic organizations, churches, and advocacy groups that distribute follow-up absentee ballot applications.
00:12:47.000In other words, we are not going to allow people to simply distribute these things without the government's purview.
00:12:52.000The shortening of the deadline to request absentee ballots to 11 days before election day, which of course is designed to prevent people From receiving the absentee ballot the day before and then it creates all sorts of issues after the absentee ballot deadline comes in.
00:13:04.000The requirement that voters who do not have identification issued by the Georgia Department of Driver Services photocopy another form of ID in order to request an absentee ballot without allowing for the use of the last four digits of a social security number for such applications.
00:13:18.000Significant, limited, like none of these things are racist.
00:13:20.000There's nothing, and the evidence that the DOJ provides in its complaint that racism is at hand here is so scanty and ridiculous.
00:13:27.000But again, everything has to be about race because it's all about holding together the coalition of the supposedly oppressed with the glue that there is some evil oppositional party out there that is trying to stop you from fueling your power, which is weird coming from a party that currently controls the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
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00:15:14.000A significant and well-publicized rise in black political mobilization and voting strength, shifting racial demographics in the state, including an increase in the number of black and Latino voters, and changes to the state's typical election procedures that resulted from the ongoing pandemic, including a notable increase in absentee voting.
00:15:29.000Okay, is any of that evidence that this was done for purposes of race?
00:15:33.000In fact, the last part of the sentence debunks the first part of the sentence.
00:15:36.000Number one, the notion that if a black preferred candidate wins, you can't change voting procedures, suggests that one racial group is supposed to run the outcome of elections, which of And the DOJ is not really even allowed to make that argument in court because, of course, it's racially discriminatory.
00:15:50.000Beyond that, it is pretty obvious that the state did this in response to the exact pandemic voting procedures that were put in place in many cases, it turns out, in many states without proper legal auspices.
00:16:02.000Also, according to the DOJ, this must be a racist law because the total black population in Georgia has been rising and because black voter turnout rose as well.
00:16:10.000And also because, quote, black Georgians undertook substantial new efforts to harness their political power in 2018 when Stacey Abrams, a black candidate, ran for governor.
00:16:18.000The 2018 yielded high turnout among black voters and other voters of color and specifically encouraged their use of absentee ballots.
00:16:24.000Also, during early voting and on election day in 2018, advocates and organizations helped to ensure that voters who faced long lines, often voters of color, had basic food and water.
00:16:33.000Okay, this is supposed to be striking at the New Georgia restriction that basically says you're not allowed to bribe people who are in line if they're 150 feet from a polling place.
00:16:41.000All of this, there's no evidence for any of this demonstrating that the Georgia voting law is racist at all.
00:16:47.000All they say, over and over, is that a bunch of people we like won in 2020 and now they are changing the law and we don't like that they're changing the law, therefore it's racist.
00:16:57.000The November 2020 general election in Georgia resulted in historic firsts that reflect significant demographic and political shifts in the state.
00:17:03.000For example, Vice President Kamala Harris became the first black and Indian American vice president ever elected.
00:18:21.000If you look at the records, both Clark and Gupta are defund the police specialists.
00:18:25.000I mean, they talked repeatedly about the evils of the American police.
00:18:29.000So again, these are two issues on which Americans just disagree with Democrats.
00:18:33.000Democrats do not have the capacity to let it go.
00:18:34.000In fact, they're going to gaslight you.
00:18:36.000In the same way that Barack Obama said you don't oppose his policies, it must be that you're racist.
00:18:40.000Now, you have Democrats telling you that if you're worried about crime, it must be because you're either hysterical or racist.
00:18:44.000It doesn't matter that we've had the greatest spike in crime in modern American history over the period 2019 to 2021.
00:18:51.000And it doesn't matter that that actually began in 2014-2015 with the Obama administration poo-pooing crime and riots in places like Ferguson and Baltimore.
00:19:00.000No, if you're in a major city and you're worried about rising crime, it must be because you're hysterical, which is weird because it turns out that black voters largely in New York City voted for Eric Adams, who's the pro-cop candidate in New York City.
00:19:12.000Here's Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, the irrepressible, so fresh, so face, so brilliant, so many IQ points bouncing around that empty head.
00:19:18.000Here is AOC explaining that if you're worried about spiking crime, it's because you are hysterical.
00:19:29.000We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases.
00:19:33.000Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much.
00:19:38.000But I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn't drive a hysteria and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context.
00:19:55.000And look at the numbers in context, because if there's somebody who's just a mistress of complexity and contextualization, it is the irrepressible Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:20:04.000Now, again, if you look at the spike in murders, it didn't start in 2020.
00:20:34.000And let's talk about who defunded the police.
00:20:37.000When we were in Congress last year trying to pass a rescue plan, I'm sorry, not the rescue plan, but an emergency relief plan for cities that were cash strapped and laying off police and firefighters.
00:20:48.000It was the Republicans who objected to it.
00:20:50.000And in fact, They didn't get funding until the American Rescue Plan, which our plan allowed state and local governments to replenish their police departments and do the other things that are needed.
00:21:02.000So look, Republicans are very good at staying on talking points of who says defund the police, but the truth is they defunded the police.
00:21:12.000Okay, they're so panicked about their own positions right now that they are hysterically projecting onto Republicans to defund the police.
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00:22:48.000Okay, so again, Democrats ideologically committed to an agenda that Americans just don't like.
00:22:52.000The latest example of this is, of course, their attempt to turn the George Floyd situation into a referendum on both policing writ large and American racism writ large.
00:23:02.000Again, no evidence presented in the Derek Chauvin trial at all that Derek Chauvin did this on the basis of race.
00:23:09.000They literally provided zero evidence of this, and yet it has become somehow a talking point and a point of sort of natural Assumption that Derek Chauvin is the face of American white racism and George Floyd is the face of black victimization at the hands of white Americans.
00:23:39.000It's why you're seeing all this kickback about critical race theory.
00:23:41.000The polls show Americans are not interested in this sort of stuff.
00:23:43.000And then the second prong of that is that Derek Chauvin is supposed to represent police officers writ large.
00:23:49.000And you know who's pushing this is Keith Ellison.
00:23:51.000Okay, Keith Ellison is one of the greatest radicals in the Democratic Party.
00:23:53.000He's now the AG of the state of Minnesota.
00:23:55.000But when he was in Congress, Keith Ellison was a racial radical par excellence.
00:23:59.000And now he's pushing the idea that he has a unifying agenda, and his unifying agenda is go after the cops.
00:24:04.000At the same time, Democrats are like, no, Republicans are defunding the police.
00:24:07.000We've got Keith Ellison saying that we need to use prosecutors to go after cops pretty much everywhere.
00:24:11.000Quote, the Justice Department must also be a partner in prosecuting cases when local prosecutions fail to win convictions or fail to act, is according to Keith Ellison in the Washington Post.
00:24:20.000So it's not just we have to get local prosecutors to go after bad cops.
00:24:23.000We have to have the Justice Department sit on top of every police department in the United States.
00:24:28.000The Biden administration's return to conducting investigations into biased policing patterns and practices is also welcome.
00:24:35.000It's about biased policing patterns and practices, right?
00:24:37.000We're not going to demonstrate actual racism.
00:24:39.000Any evidence of inequality of outcome.
00:24:41.000More black people being pulled over for traffic tickets.
00:24:44.000More black people being arrested for murder.
00:24:45.000That is obviously an expression of deep-seated American racism.
00:24:50.000So, Democrats can keep pushing this, but it's not going to be particularly popular.
00:24:54.000And same thing when it comes to the border.
00:24:56.000Again, remember, the poll that came from that Democratic group showed that the issues where Democrats were most unpopular were policing, the border, public safety issues.
00:25:04.000Because obviously they've decided to elevate their own bizarre version of equity over the safety of American citizens, which disproportionately affects minority citizens.
00:25:13.000Well, over the last three days, Kamala Harris decided that she was going to finally go down and visit the border.
00:25:17.000But by the border, she meant somewhere in the general vicinity of Mexico.
00:25:20.000She went down to El Paso, which is a border town, but is not where the border crisis is happening.
00:26:16.000Blaming Trump for everything while you have a record number of people arriving at the border because you've been pushing open borders rhetoric is pretty wild.
00:26:22.000Also, Jen Psaki was asked specifically why Kamala Harris was visiting now and why she didn't go to the border, why she went to El Paso, right, which is a largely Democratic town.
00:26:30.000Why'd you go to El Paso as opposed to going down to, you know, the actual border where the problems are happening or visiting at one of the holding facilities or something?
00:26:37.000And Jen Psaki was like, because Trump!
00:26:39.000This is going to be the Democrats' constant refrain over and over.
00:26:45.000El Paso has an interesting history, as you may know, because it was the place where the former president, kind of, it was a base place of where he put in place some of his immigration policies that we felt were so problematic.
00:27:01.000And so it's a place that has a little bit of historical connection in that regard, and it's an opportunity to draw a bit of a contrast with what we're trying to accomplish.
00:27:34.000You had a new administration that changed executive orders and invited people to rush the border illegally.
00:27:43.000Now, in May, we had 180,000 encounters.
00:27:44.000That was a 21-year record of illegal crossings.
00:27:50.000For the last three months, it has increased.
00:27:52.000Okay, and he's right about all of this.
00:27:56.000Meanwhile, again, Democrats keep getting caught up in their own vision of what America should be as opposed to what America is.
00:28:03.000And this is particularly true with regard to Joe Biden's agenda.
00:28:07.000So over the weekend, we saw this bizarre situation in which Joe Biden, once again, I mean, he is not all there.
00:28:12.000And it is perfectly obvious at this point that he is not all there.
00:28:15.000Because he makes comments and then his team has to rush out of the wings and wheel old Joe back, feed him his cream of wheat, put him down for a nap, and then they have like Ron Klain come out and clarify what exactly he meant.
00:28:26.000Or they put out a written statement where Joe Biden can't fumble over his own words and get into a physical fistfight with the teleprompter.
00:28:32.000So, you remember that late last week, on Thursday, there was a group of Republicans and Democrats and Joe Biden, they all came together at the White House, and they announced they had a bipartisan deal on infrastructure.
00:28:41.000And Kamala Harris was creepily hanging out, like, behind a pillar, kind of staring at the man whose job she will eventually take.
00:28:49.000Don't be a food taster at the White House, gang.
00:29:48.000What Republicans were saying to Biden was, listen, if you insist on this being part of a package deal, we're not going through with any, you're not going to get past the filibuster.
00:29:55.000Not only that, we're not going to vote for it.
00:29:58.000So then, Joe Biden had to walk it back.
00:30:00.000According to the New York Times, it was all going according to President Biden's tightrope plan to pass the most ambitious economic agenda in generations.
00:30:06.000Right until the moment that Mr. Biden, a politician with a history of rogue comments, veered off script.
00:30:10.000Understand, the reason that Biden did this is because he is more afraid of AOC and Bernie Sanders than he is of his actual base.
00:30:17.000The people who are closer to center left are the people who just want to get things done in a practical way.
00:30:21.000He's scared crapless of the radical Democrats saying that he is insufficiently committed to the cause.
00:30:26.000Because remember, Joe Biden's agenda, he knows he's not a two-term president.
00:30:30.000If he makes it through a first term, and if he runs for a second term, he certainly is not making it through a second term.
00:30:35.000So he knows he's not making it eight years.
00:30:36.000So it's, I need to be a historic president right here, right now.
00:30:40.000And if I'm deprived of that by these Republicans who are filibustering, then I'm going to make my mark by basically shellacking them over and over and over.
00:30:49.000So that's why he walked back the bipartisan deal.
00:30:51.000After weeks of closed-door negotiations, according to the New York Times, Mr. Biden strode to the cameras on White House driveway on Thursday.
00:30:57.000Flanked by an equal number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers to proudly announce an overall infrastructure agreement totaling $1.2 trillion over eight years that could cement his legacy as a bipartisan dealmaker.
00:31:07.000Biden and his top aides had successfully struck a limited agreement with key central senators to rebuild roads and bridges, while carefully signaling the liberals he still intended to embrace a measure likely to gain only Democratic support to spend trillions more on climate education, childcare, and other economic priorities.
00:31:20.000It was an I-told-you-so moment for a president who's supremely confident in his ability to navigate legislative negotiations, but I'm not signing my partisan bill.
00:31:28.000an hour later, the president blurted out he would not approve the compromise without the partisan bill. He said, if that's the only thing that comes to me, I'm not signing it.
00:31:36.000I'm not signing the bipartisan bill and forgetting about the rest. Come on, man.
00:31:42.000It may not seem like much, says the New York Times, it was enough to upend Biden's proud bipartisan moment.
00:31:48.000On the one hand, he was saying out loud what liberals in his party wanted to hear.
00:31:51.000But to centrist senators and Republicans, it made explicit a notion that had only been hinted at before, that Biden not only intended to sign a second, more ambitious package, but that he would also go so far as to veto their bipartisan plan if the larger bill did not materialize.
00:32:04.000Senator Susan Collins said, we never had an inkling that would be any kind of linkage.
00:32:07.000We always knew there'd be another bill, but not that the success of the infrastructure package was going to be in any way dependent on the other bill.
00:32:14.000So the White House had to engage in damage control and then they had to walk it back.
00:32:17.000And then Biden had to concede that he had misspoken.
00:32:21.000He's saying the quiet part out loud, which is that he intends to shiv Republicans directly in the back, which is why they never should have gone along with this dumb deal in the first place.
00:32:28.000Mitt Romney, always of generous spirit, suggested, of course, that now he takes Biden at his word that he's delinking the two issues.
00:32:36.000I do take the President at his word, and over the weeks and weeks of negotiations with Democrats and with the White House on an infrastructure bill, the President's other agenda was never linked to the infrastructure effort.
00:32:49.000We came to an agreement on the infrastructure effort in a way that I think is really impressive.
00:32:54.000As you know, it is true infrastructure.
00:32:57.000Bridges, roads, rail, electric utility support and so forth and without raising taxes.
00:33:05.000And so this is a bill which stands on its own.
00:33:09.000OK, well, we'll see if the bill stands on its own or if Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are just going to quietly go along with what it was that Biden was saying in the first place.
00:33:24.000Don't give them the veneer of bipartisanship on what is a heavily partisan agenda.
00:33:28.000And you say, oh, well, you know, we saved over the course of a decade, $200 billion.
00:33:32.000Okay, and you also gave him the political wins that he can go out and continue to win on the basis of a lie, which is that he's a bipartisan president when he very much is not.
00:33:41.000Okay, in just a second, we are going to get to the spoiled brat problem in American public life.
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00:36:52.000He himself had unique personal characteristics that no other American candidate seems able to sort of put together.
00:36:58.000So where is all this Democratic confidence coming from?
00:37:01.000That they're going to be able to be victorious with such a radical agenda that most Americans really don't like?
00:37:05.000And the answer is, I think, I think it lies in a sense that most Americans are disconnected from the rest of the world and from their own history.
00:37:12.000They're disconnected in the sense that they do not understand how far we have come.
00:37:15.000They do not understand what it is like to live at any other place on Earth.
00:37:17.000And this leads to an awful lot of ingratitude.
00:37:21.000It's so easy to look at your own life and see all the problems with your own life and never think about the fact that you are living in like the top 1% of people who have ever lived on planet Earth.
00:37:30.000And in fact, If you're living in the United States right now, you're still, in terms of global population, living in the top, even if you're at the very lowest end of the American economic spectrum, you're still living in the top quintile, for sure, of people who are living on planet Earth right now.
00:37:46.000There are lots of other countries on planet Earth.
00:37:48.000And a lot of those other countries, people are living in absolute horror and privation and poverty and repression by their government.
00:37:54.000And yet there's this enormous sense of ingratitude that Democrats bank on in order to push forward the idea that America must undergo some sort of fundamental systemic change.
00:38:03.000Gratitude is an understanding that you owe something to the past.
00:38:07.000And not only that you owe something to the past, maybe the people who came before you knew some things.
00:38:11.000But ingratitude believes that the entire system is corrupt.
00:38:14.000And just like a small child, my kids, they're ungrateful on a regular basis.
00:38:18.000And it's because they don't understand what they have.
00:38:19.000They don't understand how good their life is.
00:38:22.000They're comparing their life to some utopian vision of what their life would be if they got everything that they wanted.
00:38:26.000Now, they're children, so what they want is usually very stupid.
00:38:29.000But that's also true, it turns out, of many people on the left.
00:38:31.000Many of the things that they actually want in life are not particularly beneficial for a society.
00:38:35.000More importantly, however, what it really relies on is a failure of understanding about the society in which they live.
00:38:42.000And a belief that there are other societies out there that are so much better if only we did X.
00:38:47.000Or there's a utopia that we're comparing ourselves to and we'll never reach the utopia, but we can grow closer to that utopia by disregarding the past that brought us this far.
00:38:56.000Now, none of this is an argument that we should always eschew change, that we should never look at changing our systems, but it means that you ought to go carefully.
00:39:04.000If you recognize all the wonderful things in your life and all the wonderful things about this country, you might be a little bit careful about ripping on the country, broadly speaking, about deciding that all of the systems of the United States are a serious problem.
00:39:16.000And yet, because people live within the system, they don't understand the greatness of the system.
00:39:22.000They seem to assume that they are doing something positive when they believe that the system itself is inherently corrupt and rigged and terrible.
00:39:29.000Okay, so this comes to mind thanks to a couple of stories over the weekend.
00:39:33.000First, I just want to give you just a note of what it's like to live in other places in the world.
00:39:39.000If you just read a book about what goes on in other places in the world, Suddenly, you might discover that America is a pretty damned fine place.
00:39:47.000And there's certain things we take for granted in American life that you can't take for granted nearly any other place on earth except for some areas of Western Europe and like Canada and Australia, and that's it.
00:40:10.000It was guaranteed its freedom by a treaty between the Chinese government and the British government when the British decided to abdicate all responsibility to Hong Kong in the 1990s.
00:40:18.000And China recently just basically walked in and took the place over and now has subjected it to absolute communist privation.
00:40:25.000So that means they shut down the English edition of Apple Daily.
00:40:29.000Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy newspaper just shut down, willy-nilly.
00:40:32.000And we talk in the United States, you hear all these members of the press, oh, Trump, he was going to shut down.
00:40:36.000There is no danger to the free press in the United States, none on a serious level.
00:40:40.000The only danger to dissemination of ideas is through sort of corporate censorship, but certainly not the government stepping in and just shutting down newspapers willy-nilly, the way things are happening in Hong Kong right now.
00:40:52.000The former managing editor was then arrested at the Hong Kong airport on charges of collusion.
00:40:57.000According to Axios, Apple Daily shuddered last week following the freezing of its assets under China's national security law.
00:41:02.000Journalist Feng Weikong's arrest comes days after police arrested an Apple Daily columnist, who publishes under the name Li Ping, for allegedly, quote, conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security, under the law.
00:41:14.000They also arrested seven journalists at the news outlet, which was founded by the imprisoned tycoon Jimmy Lai.
00:41:20.000Under the law, the authorities charged Lai and other pro-democracy activists after they organized a massive protest in 2019.
00:41:26.000So they just shut down the newspaper, and this sort of stuff happens routinely all over the earth.
00:41:31.000But if you look at how Americans act, I'm sorry, but a huge percentage of Americans are just spoiled brats.
00:41:50.000And number one, In order to dedicate the amount of time necessary to become a very specific skill-setted person, like throwing a hammer, which by the way, there are not a lot of like job applicants for can you throw a hammer in the United States.
00:42:01.000It's just not a lot of open jobs for hammer thrower in the United States, which means you have to dedicate a significant amount of time to a pursuit that does not pay off economically.
00:42:09.000Okay, which demonstrates, again, a certain level of wealth in a nation.
00:42:12.000Typically, when people live in absolute privation, they don't actually have the time to dedicate enormous amounts of time to learning to throw a hammer properly.
00:42:19.000Okay, so, Gwen Berry was competing in the Olympic Trials, and she came in third.
00:42:25.000Okay, she came in third in the Olympic Trials, means she's going to the Olympics, but probably is not expected to do particularly well since she came in third in her own country before we even get to international competition.
00:42:33.000But, even if she came in third at the Olympic Trials, She came in first in the self-involvement Olympics because it turns out that they have a pre-scheduled every day during the Olympic trials at like 5.20 every day or 5.25 every day, they play the National Anthem.
00:42:49.000Well, it turned out that she finished her event at about the time that the National Anthem started playing.
00:42:53.000And so everybody in the stadium turned and started putting their hand over their heart.
00:44:31.000And we are perfectly free to rip on the fact that this is a person who is utterly disconnected from the reality in which she and most other Americans live.
00:44:38.000Which is, you should be extremely grateful for all the problems the United States has.
00:44:42.000The simple gratitude of, you know, not being a horse's ass during the National Anthem seems like a baseline minimum to being a mensch, to being like a decent person.