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00:00:18.000So the vortex of stupidity continues to whirl, and you are a part of it, my friends, as am I. There's no way to escape the Category 5 stupid hurricane that has descended upon the United States and that continues each and every day.
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00:02:09.000Okay, so, the football controversy, the NFL controversy will not die.
00:02:13.000The ratings were apparently slightly up on Sunday over the previous year, but that's because people were tuning in to see the controversy.
00:02:20.000Next week, watch for the ratings to plummet as people simply tune out and demonstrate that they're not interested in watching a bunch of players who they feel are ungrateful for being in the United States of America and who are kneeling about the anthem and the flag.
00:02:32.000So, one of the things that I've been talking about for years on this program now is the idea that two bubbles have formed in the United States.
00:02:44.000There's the bubble of those of us on the right and the bubble of those of the people on the left.
00:02:48.000In the right bubble, we look at the people kneeling and we say everyone who's kneeling is doing so because they hate the anthem and the flag.
00:02:55.000The reason that you kneel during the anthem is because you don't like the anthem and you think that America is a problematic place imbued inherently
00:03:03.000With racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia.
00:03:16.000It was the flag of the United States that was carried into battle by the black regiment during the Civil War that you can see in the movie Glory.
00:03:23.000You know, the flag has always stood for the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and the development toward a better America.
00:03:29.000That's what the flag has always stood for, which is why smart civil rights protesters back in the 1960s weren't burning the flag.
00:03:34.000They were marching with the flag and saying, this is our flag.
00:03:47.000The way that you see this battle is all the people who are kneeling originally were kneeling because they don't like the country, and the people who are kneeling with them today are probably kneeling because they also don't really like the country too much.
00:03:57.000Then there's the way the left reads this, which is people are kneeling because they think the country is not all that it can be, and they are kneeling to demonstrate that the flag is not really being upheld, even though symbolically it matters.
00:04:08.000It's because it matters symbolically that we have to protest it.
00:04:11.000And therefore, that's why Kaepernick and company were kneeling originally, and now all the people who are kneeling now, it's not even because they agree with Kaepernick, it's because they don't like that President Trump called for a boycott of the NFL, and called for the NFL to fire everyone who was kneeling.
00:04:24.000So, there are two reasons for the kneeling.
00:04:27.000Reason number one is because America just isn't what it's supposed to be, it's not all it's cracked up to be, so kneel for the national anthem.
00:04:33.000And reason number two is to protest Trump.
00:04:35.000Okay, and these two visions of what exactly is happening, it demonstrates, it's sort of like the movie Rashomon.
00:04:40.000I mean, there's a bunch of, there are multiple viewers of a single event, and they're each taking what they want from that event.
00:04:48.000On the right, we're taking away there are a lot of people who don't like the country.
00:04:50.000On the left, they're taking away that there are a bunch of people who want to stand against America's fundamental values, and kneeling is the way to protest those people.
00:04:57.000So that's the actual, that's actually what's going on.
00:04:59.000From an objective, if you're an alien coming in from outer space watching all of this, this is what you would say, right?
00:05:03.000There's a bunch of different perspectives on the same event.
00:05:12.000Again, you'd be better off grabbing the flag and saying this is my flag, I stand with the flag against these forces that stand against American values.
00:05:19.000So the kneeling is stupid, it's just, it's pointless.
00:05:24.000On the other hand, the people who were kneeling yesterday are not quite the same thing, or Sunday, not quite the same thing as Colin Kaepernick kneeling.
00:05:32.000Colin Kaepernick was basically kneeling by himself by the end of his career, and the people who were kneeling yesterday, a lot of them were people who were not on board with Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the anthem in the first place, but they wanted to show solidarity for the right to kneel.
00:05:46.000In the same way that you sometimes see people sort of spite protest in order to piss off the other side.
00:06:23.000The left doesn't understand that when President Trump says polarizing things on a wide variety of topics, when he says that, when he does sort of macho posturing, most Americans don't care about that.
00:06:34.000We've all got a right to our opinions.
00:06:59.000But I don't think it's too much to ask the players in the National Football League to stand for our national anthem.
00:07:08.000And I know the people of Alabama agree.
00:07:11.000Because, you know, patriotism is what unites us.
00:07:16.000It's about respect for the flag, respect for the country.
00:07:20.000And most importantly, it's about respect for all those who fought
00:07:28.000And I think that Pence is exactly right, of course, which is why I've always opposed flag burning and kneeling on the flag and pictures of Bill Ayers standing on the flag.
00:07:39.000So this is how the right's attempting to frame it.
00:07:41.000You see groups like the NRA doing the same thing.
00:07:42.000The NRA released an ad yesterday, last night, that essentially says the same thing.
00:07:48.000For the land of the free and the home of the brave.
00:07:52.000From high school gyms to towering stadiums, every time I see our flag wave, I feel a humbling reminder of the brave who keep and have kept us free.
00:08:02.000I stand to honor the sacrifices of the generations before me.
00:08:06.000Heroes who charged into battle through bombs and bullets, who lost their brothers and still push through, fighting for every inch of our freedom.
00:08:17.000I stand for my brothers who can't stand anymore.
00:08:20.000Men who hunted terrorists to the ends of the earth.
00:08:24.000Who sacrificed their bodies and their lives so that we could peacefully live ours.
00:08:30.000I stand for the children, the spouses, and parents whose family made the ultimate sacrifice for us.
00:08:36.000Right, so you can see how political framing happens here, right?
00:08:38.000And it's actually quite a good ad here, right?
00:08:40.000This is an attempt to frame this specifically as all the people kneeling are doing a disservice to service members and spouses and children of people who have died in combat protecting the flag and protecting our national unity.
00:08:55.000That's the way the right is framing this.
00:08:56.000Now here's the way the left is framing it.
00:08:58.000It's like we're living in two separate worlds.
00:09:00.000Here's Hillary Clinton framing this in a completely different way.
00:09:03.000It's as though you're watching two separate narratives happening at the same time.
00:09:07.000Protest is a part of the American way of life, and it's something that I'm very proud of, whether I agree or disagree.
00:09:16.000I think peaceful protest is part of what has helped us make progress, learn more, be a better country over time.
00:09:27.000Okay, and this is what I don't like about what President Trump did, is that these were both principles that we generally believed, right?
00:09:32.000Pretty much all Americans believed this, that you should stand for the flag, you shouldn't disrespect the flag, you shouldn't disrespect the anthem, and also that what Hillary Clinton is saying about peaceful protest is basically correct, that we in America have always valued peaceful protest, we've always valued dissent, we think that that's a valuable thing.
00:09:47.000But now, the left has basically grabbed hold of the dissent-is-patriotism banner, and the right has grabbed hold of the actual banner, and now they're going to war with each other.
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00:11:34.000Okay, so, as I say, the normal battle should be, it should be easy to fix.
00:11:39.000Standing for the national anthem is appropriate, kneeling is inappropriate, but this is America, you're allowed to do it.
00:11:47.000Trump overstepped on the one end by using the flag to bash people who were kneeling to the extent saying that they ought to be fired, and then Hillary Clinton oversteps her boundaries, not by defending the First Amendment, but by then implying that anyone who opposes people who kneel is a racist.
00:12:01.000So here's Hillary Clinton doing that routine.
00:12:03.000I think it's deeply troubling that the president would be attacking black athletes for expressing their opinions peacefully.
00:12:16.000As I said on Fox News last night, President Trump is pretty equal opportunity in who he attacks.
00:12:21.000I mean, Hillary Clinton gets it on the chin from President Trump virtually every single day, and she's been not a relevant part of America's political scene for nearly a year at this point.
00:12:30.000So, the idea that Trump is only attacking black athletes?
00:12:45.000He has a comedy routine called, uh, called, Of Course, But Maybe.
00:12:50.000And his comedy routine goes something like this.
00:12:51.000He says, of course, of course, we all understand that peanut allergies are things that we should be careful of and we should make sure that nobody around a kid who has a peanut allergy should have a peanut because we have to protect those kids.
00:13:03.000I mean, it's just something we have to do as a society.
00:14:25.000We at least go halfway, but now we don't even go halfway.
00:14:28.000Now we're in total disagreement because of the butt maybes.
00:14:30.000Okay, so you can see the media is finally starting to catch on to this game.
00:14:34.000Trump is making serious political hay here.
00:14:36.000He's getting people to rally around him.
00:14:38.000You can see that, we'll show you in a second how the NFL is really stuck between a rock and a hard place, but the media is beginning to catch on that Trump
00:14:45.000is playing a game and they are falling for it.
00:14:48.000Here's CNN's Jim Acosta, the least self-aware reporter in America, talking about how Trump, is Trump trying to wage a culture war, is he?
00:14:58.000This morning he's putting out a tweet praising NASCAR, which obviously is geared towards a different demographic, and the way they stand and respect and honor the flag.
00:15:10.000Is he trying to wage something of a culture war?
00:15:13.000Okay, so is he trying to wage a culture war?
00:15:15.000First of all, the left started this culture war by politicizing sports.
00:15:28.000And by the way, this notion that the NASCAR has a supremely different demographic from football is just not really true.
00:15:35.000According to Statista Online, the distribution of the television audience in 2013, 77%
00:15:42.000In any case, what's happened now is because Trump has
00:16:02.000polarized the country even further than it already was on this, and then the left has responded by polarizing even further by saying that everyone has to kneel, everyone must kneel before Zod.
00:16:11.000Now the NFL is stuck between a rock and a hard place, because their audience is 77% white, and there are a lot of people in that audience, white, black, and Hispanic, who are not interested in doing this routine where they watch a bunch of people protest that America is a racist, terrible, terrible country.
00:16:26.000They're not interested in doing that routine.
00:16:28.000So Rush Limbaugh, I think, is actually a good case study.
00:16:30.000Not just because Rush is a right winger, obviously, but because Rush is the biggest football fan on radio.
00:16:35.000I mean, Rush is a super giant football fan.
00:16:38.000So much so that ESPN tried to have him on Sunday NFL Countdown about 15 years ago.
00:16:42.000And here is Rush saying that for the first time in a long time, he didn't watch any football on Sunday.
00:16:48.000I did not watch the National Football League yesterday, and it was the first time in 45 years that I made an active decision not to watch, including my team, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
00:17:09.000It is sad that these common symbols are being ripped away.
00:17:12.000If you're an NFL owner or you're an NFL player, though, you are stuck now between a rock and a hard place.
00:17:16.000Because on the right, they're saying you need to stand for the anthem.
00:17:18.000And because Trump threatened, because Trump basically said, I want everyone to be fired, the NFL should change its rules, let's boycott.
00:17:25.000Now, if you're an NFL player, even if you don't like the kneeling, you feel the necessity to stand by your teammates.
00:17:30.000Because if you're playing on a team, you tend to stand by your teammates and their rights.
00:17:34.000If you're an NFL owner, you don't want to alienate the NFL Players Association, nor do you want to alienate your own players by saying, I'm going to force you to stand.
00:17:41.000But at the same time, if you don't force your players to stand, you're alienating the audience.
00:17:45.000So the Dallas Cowboys last night tried to have it both ways.
00:17:48.000The Dallas Cowboys, basically Jerry Jones came out, the owner of the team, Trump supporter.
00:17:52.000He came out and he kneeled down, he knelt with all the players before the anthem.
00:17:57.000So the idea was that we're going to kneel to show free speech rights and to demonstrate that we care about equality, and then during the anthem, we're going to stand up.
00:18:04.000We won't actually kneel during the anthem, so we're not disrespecting the anthem or the flag, but we are going to protest President Trump by kneeling before the anthem.
00:18:12.000The problem is, everybody in the stadium thinks that Trump is sort of right about the kneeling, and so they say, okay, you're really siding with all the players who are kneeling before the anthem.
00:18:21.000This is one of the dark places that we've gone in sort of our First Amendment discourse, is if we don't like how you exercise your First Amendment rights, then we suggest that the First Amendment itself is the problem.
00:18:35.000Or that if you stand up for the First Amendment, you're standing up for the worst excesses of the First Amendment.
00:18:58.000When I say that I think you should be able to own and operate your business the way that you see fit, and then the left says, what?
00:19:03.000Are you for discriminating against black people and gays?
00:19:05.000And I say, well no, I'm not actually for that.
00:19:08.000I'm not for that at all, but you have a right to do what you want with your own business.
00:19:12.000Rights inherently contain the capacity to misuse those rights.
00:19:16.000The problem is, when you symbolically stand up for the right, by participating in the same sort of act as the people who are misusing the right, then you're going to be lumped in with them, and that's what happened with the Cowboys last night.
00:19:25.000So here's what happened last night with Jerry Jones and the Cowboys, and listen to the crowd.
00:19:30.000They wanted to show unity, but they were very adamant about wanting to separate that message from the national anthem.
00:21:49.000So I love the idea from Shannon Sharp that how dare he, how dare Villanueva put himself ahead of his team, his personal feelings ahead of his team.
00:21:57.000What do you think Colin Kaepernick was doing?
00:21:58.000Do you think that he actually went through the 49ers locker room and asked permission before he did what he did?
00:22:03.000So you're allowed to put your opinion ahead of the team when you're kneeling for the anthem, but you're not allowed to do that when you are standing up for the American flag.
00:22:10.000Villanueva ends up apologizing for all of this because, again, this is the problem.
00:22:15.000Now you're being forced to make a choice.
00:22:17.000You're either with your team, and therefore with Colin Kaepernick by extension, or you're with Donald Trump.
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00:24:33.000They all would have, actually the entire team would have been out there with me.
00:24:36.000Even the ones that wanted to take a knee would have been there with me had they known these extreme circumstances that at Soldier Field, you know, at the heat of the moment when I got soldiers, wounded veterans texting me that
00:25:09.000And it's not Villanueva's job to stay in the locker room with his idiot teammates who won't come out for the anthem.
00:25:14.000If they want to come out and lock arms, and some of them kneel and some of them don't, that's fine.
00:25:17.000But to rip on Villanueva as though he did something totally wrong for coming out after serving three tours in Afghanistan, all these guys can just...
00:25:40.000As you see the posturing from some people on the right about the flag and the anthem and the idea that everybody who is protesting in any way must hate the flag and the anthem, which I don't think is true.
00:25:50.000I'm going to show you some scorn from the left that is truly off-putting and demonstrative of just why what Trump said is so effective politically.
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00:26:58.000All right, so the left scorn is truly astonishing, and this is the part where Trump triggered the left into making the mistake of going full Kaepernick.
00:27:14.000The left cannot help themselves, and so they feel the necessity to rip America generally.
00:27:18.000So here's Greg Popovich, who's a very left guy, the coach of the San Antonio Spurs, very brusque fellow, talking about how America is an embarrassment to the world now.
00:27:29.000We're countries in embarrassment in the world.
00:27:33.000This is an individual actually thought that when people held arms during the games that they were doing it to honor the flag.
00:27:54.000We can continue to bounce our heads off the wall with his conduct, or we can decide that the institutions of our country are more important, that people are more important, that the decent America that we all thought we had and want is more important, and get down to business at the grassroots level and do what we have to do.
00:28:18.000Okay, so the idea that everybody is embarrassed by the United States.
00:28:20.000First of all, the idea that we're an embarrassment to the world to whom?
00:28:33.000Those sorts of statements are so obnoxious that they're just ridiculous.
00:28:36.000And then Popovich said stuff, he went on to say that if you're a white person in America, you never understand what it's like to be black.
00:28:42.000If that's the case, you cannot have a functioning republic.
00:28:44.000The whole point of a functioning republic is that you can think beyond your own self-interest and think about what's good for the country and try to get in the head of somebody else and get in their shoes.
00:28:53.000The idea that inherently, if you're a black person, that you can, if you're a white person, you can never understand what it's like to be somebody black, well...
00:29:00.000That's really stupid, particularly because there are lots of different types of white people and lots of different types of black people.
00:29:05.000It plays directly into the racist stereotypes that underlie Kaepernick's nonsense.
00:29:09.000And this is, again, this is where the left is going.
00:29:13.000The left is fully embracing the radicalism now.
00:29:15.000Trump has forced them out of the closet, and they're embracing the radicalism.
00:29:18.000Dan Patrick, talk show host, he says, you know, the American flag, it's just not the same thing to black Americans and white Americans.
00:29:25.000The flag represents something different to other people.
00:29:30.000Certainly white people can look at it and go, that flag, hey, my father fought.
00:29:35.000I mean, I might have to sit down and have a discussion if my father were alive to say this is what's going on, but hopefully you could have a dialogue that says this is why they're doing it.
00:29:59.000I think the flag is the same thing to everybody.
00:30:01.000I think that we should all have, as Americans, we have a common stake in the future of the country and in the history of ideas in the country.
00:30:08.000I don't think that unity is impossible in the country.
00:30:10.000See, this is where I divide from the left and I divide from President Trump.
00:30:13.000I don't think that unity is impossible on these sorts of issues.
00:30:17.000I think that we can find unity in saying the American flag stands for what's best about America, and we are always attempting to perfect the country in pursuit of that goal.
00:30:26.000And we shouldn't protest the one symbol that we hold in common.
00:31:28.000Saying to people that they are uneducated about their vote and that's why they're voting the way that they are, maybe they just have different principles than you.
00:32:28.000But he hangs out so that he can say things about how America's terrible every so often on MSNBC.
00:32:32.000So they took him out of storage, they un-mothballed him, and then they talked to him about the National Anthem protests.
00:32:40.000I think, Thomas, it's also important to realize that this anthem thing is a scam.
00:32:44.000This is not actually part of football.
00:32:46.000This was invented in 2009 from the government paying the NFL to market military recruitment, to get more people to go off and fight wars to die.
00:32:55.000This has nothing to do with NFL or American pastime or tradition.
00:32:59.000This is to get boys and girls to go fly overseas and go kill people.
00:33:04.000How dare the military show up and ask people to join the military?
00:33:07.000You know, the military that defends this moron's right to speak?
00:33:09.000How dare the military go to the NFL crowd and make as though the military is a useful thing?
00:33:17.000So again, Trump has trolled the left into being as left as it possibly can be, and at the same time, he has made an unprincipled right give up on certain principles like
00:33:25.000The president of the United States should not be interfering with private business operations.
00:33:28.000And they've given up on that because it's more important to shout about the flag and the national anthem.
00:33:33.000So yes, everything remains just as stupid as it was yesterday.
00:34:02.000He wrote a book called Zero to One, Notes on Startups or How We Build the Future, and it's a really good book.
00:34:08.000It's a short book, it's about 180 pages, very quick read, but it's got some deep thoughts about how you ought to think about your business.
00:34:13.000And how you ought to think about your life.
00:34:14.000And what I like about Thiel is that he's very optimistic in his vision for people taking control of their own lives.
00:34:53.000You turn in for five minutes, and then the ratings must have been great on CNN for this thing because people tuned in for five minutes and they died at their remote, so Arbitron and Nielsen were still registering that they were watching because they have no idea they're dead.
00:35:05.000Bernie Sanders of Vermont, he explains that healthcare is a right.
00:36:10.000So this notion that we are going to declare healthcare a right because France declares healthcare a right is the stupidest crap I ever heard.
00:36:18.000Make an affirmative case for why saying that is going to make healthcare better.
00:36:22.000But don't say that just because other nations say stuff, therefore we ought to say stuff.
00:36:25.000I mean, this falls into the same category as Popovich saying that we're an embarrassment to the world.
00:36:29.000Yeah, we only provide half the world's economic growth.
00:36:32.000Yeah, we're the embarrassment to the world.
00:36:35.000So there is an unbelievable op-ed in the New York Times today.
00:36:38.000I don't know what's going on over at the New York Times editorial page, but they have obviously decided that it is deeply important to promote communism.
00:36:46.000In the last several months, they've run the following headlines.
00:36:49.000When communism inspired Americans, April 29th, 2017.
00:36:53.000When the Harlem Renaissance went communist, August 21st, 2017.
00:36:57.000Socialism's future may be its past, June 26th, 2017.
00:37:01.000And, of course, why women had better sex under socialism, August 12th, 2017.
00:37:06.000Today's entry, okay, this is what they tweeted out.
00:37:09.000For all its flaws, the communist revolution taught Chinese women to dream big.
00:37:14.000For all its flaws, let me read that again slowly so that you understand how stupid this is.
00:37:18.000For all its flaws, the communist revolution taught Chinese women to dream big.
00:37:23.000Yes, it taught them to dream big and then die.
00:37:25.000The Great Leap Forward cost 40 million lives.
00:37:29.000Overall, Chinese communism has cost 65 million dead people, 35 million of those are probably women.
00:37:36.000Forced abortion in China has caused the death of, by some reports,
00:37:41.000Of at least 191 million female babies.
00:37:46.000191 million female babies aborted since the Communist Revolution in China, according to some studies.
00:37:52.000Which means that right now, China has a shortfall in women.
00:37:54.000They have 30 to 40 million more men than women in China, which is actually a serious demographic problem.
00:37:59.000When countries tend to have far more men than women, they're more likely to be militarized and go to war because you got a lot of horny guys hanging around who aren't married and don't have families.
00:38:09.000But the New York Times op-ed says, no, no, no, you don't understand.
00:38:14.000So, here is the glowing reminisce, quote, The communists did many terrible things, my grandmother always says at the end of her reminiscences, but they made women's lives much better.
00:38:23.000That oft-repeated dictum sums up the popular perception of Mao Zedong regarding women in China.
00:38:27.000As every Chinese schoolchild learns in history class, the communists rescued peasant daughters from urban brothels and ushered cloistered wives into factories, liberating them from the oppression of Confucian patriarchy and imperialist threat.
00:38:40.000You know what actually has created women's rights?
00:39:04.000This is all reminiscent of how the left talks about people like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, at least before people are eating dogs in the streets of Venezuela.
00:40:27.000The bubble, the self-righteous bubble these people have created is quite amazing.
00:40:31.000Now the sports world is bubbling itself off in the same way that the entertainment world is, that there's a Sports Illustrated cover showing a bunch of people in sports.
00:41:15.000Okay, it's Kate Mara and Ellen Page and Amy Simons who are in a new movie that looks awful called My Days of Mercy, which looks just terrible.
00:41:22.000Kate Mara and Ellen Page play lovers on the opposite ends of the political spectrum.
00:41:25.000Page is Lucy, a woman who is vehemently opposed to the death penalty, while Mara's Mercy is in support of it.
00:42:07.000Alexander Billings is the name of this of this actual transgender person who is intransparent um and uh and so they I don't know if we just have the picture or if there's the actual scene I hope just the picture because I don't actually want to see the scene in any case this person turns around and has breasts and a penis uh and this is supposed to be some sort of some sort of step forward for the transgender community now we're all supposed to I love the descriptions in the media
00:42:44.000So, on the one hand, again, this is just pushing more cultural boundaries so that we're supposed to pretend that all of this is, that this person is actually a woman.
00:42:52.000But, on the other hand, there is something to the idea that the shocking vision of a man with breasts may dissuade some folks that this is actually a woman.
00:43:01.000Because, when you see that, that's clearly a man.
00:43:05.000So, good job Amazon for creating programming that just
00:44:38.000On CinemaScore, it's got an F. And it got an F because it degrades into this bizarre orgy of blood and violence and fire, and the whole idea is supposed to be that humanity, man and woman, come to this house that's owned by Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence, and they start ruining the house and making everything terrible, and all these people start showing up because humans are a scourge on the Earth, which was the same message that he promoted in Noah, which is garbage.
00:45:04.000They tried to pitch this as a horror film because they knew nobody would want to watch a movie about how human beings are garbage and ruin the earth.
00:45:10.000So instead they tried to promote this as a normal horror film.
00:46:06.000No, it turns out none of that crap is true.
00:46:07.000It's just all a really bad biblical allegory for a guy who has never really studied the Bible in any depth, and I believe Aronofsky's a self-proclaimed atheist.
00:46:15.000So, note to self-proclaimed atheists, please stop making religiously allegorical movies.
00:46:20.000You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
00:46:38.000We'll be back here tomorrow with the latest in the stupidity vortex as it continues to build into that Category 5 hurricane that will wipe all intellectual life from the planet.