The Ben Shapiro Show - DNC Night #3: Obama’s Revenge | Ep. 1078

00:00:00.000 So, Steve Bannon just got arrested.

00:00:01.000 Also, Billie Eilish endorsed Joe Biden from a graveyard, Hillary Clinton returns to lament her fate, and a viciously partisan Barack Obama steals the night from low-energy Kamala.

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00:01:33.000 Okay, so before we get to all of the convention-related news, and it was a stilted, awkward, overwrought evening last night for the Democratic Party.

00:01:44.000 It looked much more like a typical DNC event, meaning it was kind of a star-studded affair with various Hollywood celebrities telling you how you should feel about politics, which definitely has mainstream appeal in places like Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania.

00:01:56.000 And you definitely need to hear from Billie Eilish about why you should vote if you are a rural voter living in Wisconsin.

00:02:02.000 Huge, huge, the Billie Eilish endorsement.

00:02:05.000 There was a lot of that.

00:02:05.000 There was Barack Obama showing up.

00:02:07.000 Hillary Clinton showed up.

00:02:09.000 It was basically the cavalcade of old Democratic stars.

00:02:12.000 And then Kamala Harris shows up and was utterly lackluster.

00:02:15.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:02:16.000 First, we have to break the news, breaking news as of this morning, that former senior Trump advisor Steve Bannon, who was his former campaign president, co-chair, was arrested Thursday and charged with what federal prosecutors said was his role in a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign.

00:02:32.000 This is according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:02:34.000 The campaign, known as We Build the Wall, raised more than $25 million, according to prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, which brought the charges.

00:02:41.000 The acting U.S.

00:02:42.000 attorney, Audrey Strauss, said, as alleged, the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars under the false pretense that all of the money would be spent on construction.

00:02:52.000 In addition to Bannon, the indictment charges Brian Colfage, Andrew Badalato, and Timothy Shea with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

00:03:01.000 Each charge carries a maximum of 20 years in prison.

00:03:06.000 Since December 2018, the four men convinced people to donate to the campaign, telling the public they, quote, do not take a penny in salary or compensation and that 100% of the funds raised will be used in execution of our mission and purpose.

00:03:17.000 And Bannon stated publicly, we are a volunteer organization.

00:03:20.000 So, as always, innocent until proven guilty.

00:03:23.000 And I have many comments here on a personal level about Steve Bannon.

00:03:27.000 If you don't know what I think of Steve Bannon, feel free to go back about four years when I was the first person in America to say what I thought about Steve Bannon.

00:03:33.000 Who was, in fact, my old boss at Breitbart.

00:03:37.000 I'm not a fan.

00:03:38.000 I think it is fair to say that I was maybe the first person in America to point out that Steve Bannon is the worst person I personally know, but even the worst people I personally know are entitled to their day in court, and so we will simply leave it at that.

00:03:50.000 I just would be remiss if I did not at least make a brief comment on that news since it is leading the newscasts everywhere today, and I don't want people to think that I'm simply ignoring it.

00:03:59.000 I'm not ignoring it.

00:04:00.000 I'm just Refraining from deeper comments about my thoughts on Steve Bannon, all of which are available for several years on the program, and I will leave it at that.

00:04:08.000 Okay, now to the actual big news of the day, and that was night three of the Democratic National Convention.

00:04:15.000 It was Barack Obama's night.

00:04:16.000 Barack Obama still dominates the Democratic Party.

00:04:18.000 That is the reason that Joe Biden is the nominee.

00:04:20.000 But it was a very awkward night because Barack Obama basically appointed Kamala Harris his successor.

00:04:25.000 In fact, he even said this.

00:04:26.000 Originally, he was supposed to close out the night as the last sitting president.

00:04:30.000 He was supposed to close out the night.

00:04:32.000 It was pretty unprecedented to do what he had done.

00:04:34.000 And when I say unprecedented, I mean for probably 80 years.

00:04:37.000 The former president of the United States does not go on full scale political attack on their successor, right?

00:04:43.000 George W. Bush didn't do this about Barack Obama.

00:04:46.000 Bill Clinton actually kind of refrained from doing this about George W. Bush.

00:04:49.000 H.W.

00:04:49.000 didn't do it about Clinton.

00:04:51.000 Reagan didn't do it about either H.W.

00:04:52.000 or Clinton.

00:04:53.000 And this has been true for quite a while, is that people who are formerly president generally tend not to go around bad-mouthing the people who are their successors, unless your name is Jimmy Carter and you obnoxiously walk around for decades on end lamenting about how terrible Ronald Reagan was after the end of the Cold War.

00:05:08.000 But That's more of an outlier.

00:05:10.000 Well, Barack Obama last night made the night all about him.

00:05:12.000 It didn't really help Kamala Harris that he went before because he's a much better speaker than Kamala Harris.

00:05:16.000 Also, he said that he wanted to go before Kamala Harris to hand her the baton.

00:05:20.000 Which is kind of weird since she's not the one running for president, right?

00:05:25.000 Man, that guy really doesn't like Joe Biden very much.

00:05:25.000 Barack Obama.

00:05:27.000 I mean, they always talk about, we're brothers, we're brothers.

00:05:30.000 So I sat out this entire election cycle.

00:05:32.000 I waited until after the whole thing was settled.

00:05:34.000 And then I was like, you know who I like?

00:05:35.000 Joe Biden.

00:05:36.000 Sure, I told him to stay out in 2016.

00:05:37.000 Sure, I didn't endorse him in 2020.

00:05:40.000 And now I'm appointing my successor.

00:05:42.000 Kamala Harris!

00:05:43.000 And Kamala's like, ahahaha! 1.00

00:05:45.000 And Joe Biden's off in the corner being like, Joe, um, but I'm, I'm Joe, I'm Joe Biden, Joe Biden's husband, and I'm, I'm the one running for...

00:05:53.000 So once again, Joe Biden afterthought at his own birthday party.

00:05:58.000 So that is kind of sad.

00:05:59.000 We'll get to that.

00:05:59.000 But we begin with the celebrity endorsements.

00:06:02.000 So for some reason, the Democrats keep thinking that if they trot out celebrities, this is going to be deeply affecting to millions of Americans.

00:06:08.000 And it's a weird take.

00:06:09.000 It's a very weird take.

00:06:11.000 There's one thing that Americans like about their celebrities, and it's when they perform, right?

00:06:14.000 They like when celebrities perform and do what they're doing, right?

00:06:16.000 If you want to watch a basketball game, You wanna watch the basketball players play the basketball game, you don't really wanna hear them comment about politics.

00:06:22.000 If you wanna watch a rock star, you wanna hear the rock star do his thing, you don't wanna hear the rock star's politics.

00:06:27.000 This is true in every arena of American life.

00:06:29.000 Unless you are explicitly in politics, people generally are not interested in hearing your take on the political news of the day.

00:06:34.000 And so it's bewildering to me that so many Hollywood celebrities think that people are just hinging on their every word, that people are just sitting there, waiting with bated breath to hear what Billie Eilish thinks about politics.

00:06:46.000 I will admit, I'm not a Billie Eilish aficionado.

00:06:48.000 I know this comes as a great shock to many of you.

00:06:50.000 As pop culture savvy as I obviously am, I know that it comes as a major shock to you that I had no clue who Billie Eilish was other than she looked like a person on the front of an ad for Xanax in all of her marketing materials.

00:07:04.000 That's pretty much all I knew about her.

00:07:06.000 So we're gonna play a song from her in a second and I'll evaluate.

00:07:09.000 I literally have never heard a Billie Eilish song.

00:07:11.000 Which is because I stopped listening to music in like 1875 or so.

00:07:15.000 But Billie Eilish gave her message at the DNC, because you need to hear from an 18 year old about how you should vote.

00:07:23.000 So Billie Eilish, and I mean, it's a weird optic, I will say.

00:07:27.000 This is a very strange optic.

00:07:29.000 So first of all, it seems like it's a little on the nose for her to do her endorsement of Joe Biden from an actual graveyard.

00:07:35.000 That seems a little bit on the nose.

00:07:37.000 Like, you can see there's like a tree behind her.

00:07:39.000 She's in like a haunted graveyard.

00:07:41.000 And you expect Joe Biden to kind of, like the Crypt Keeper, emerge from a grave to receive his plaudits at her hands.

00:07:50.000 And she looks kind of depressed, right?

00:07:51.000 She's supposed to be making an uplifting appeal to why you should vote, why it's important to vote.

00:07:55.000 But you'd be depressed too if you had just lost, you'd just been slimed on Double Dare, and then you were forced to give an endorsement of an 80-year-old man in a graveyard.

00:08:01.000 You'd be depressed too.

00:08:02.000 Here's Billie Eilish giving probably the least inspiring endorsement of a major politician I have ever seen in my entire life.

00:08:08.000 It was really, Trump likes to say low energy.

00:08:12.000 Low energy almost captures it.

00:08:14.000 Here's Billie Eilish, a really inspiring, uplifting, energetic tone to this one.

00:08:20.000 Donald Trump is destroying our country and everything we care about.

00:08:25.000 We need leaders who will solve problems like climate change and COVID, not deny them.

00:08:30.000 Leaders who will fight against systemic racism and inequality.

00:08:34.000 And that starts by voting for someone who understands how much is at stake.

00:08:39.000 Someone who's building a team that shares our values.

00:08:42.000 It starts with voting against Donald Trump and for Joe Biden.

00:08:47.000 Silence is not an option and we cannot sit this one out.

00:08:51.000 We all have to vote like our lives and the world depend on it because they do.

00:08:56.000 Okay, I'm not accusing Billie Eilish of drug use here at all.

00:09:00.000 I'm not.

00:09:01.000 All I'm saying is the vibe here is the exact same vibe that you get when you're at a party and people are smoking dope.

00:09:01.000 I really am not.

00:09:06.000 And I have not smoked a dope myself.

00:09:08.000 It's very awkward for me.

00:09:09.000 I'm just that guy who sits in the corner reading a Russell Kirk book.

00:09:13.000 But that was the vibe there.

00:09:15.000 And again, Billie Eilish.

00:09:17.000 After having been slimed, losing the physical challenge on Double Dare, from a graveyard, endorsing the 77-year-old.

00:09:22.000 Weird vibe, weird vibe, DNC.

00:09:24.000 Okay, so then Billie Eilish sang a song.

00:09:26.000 It was a new song.

00:09:27.000 I've never heard it, but I wouldn't know her new songs from her old songs, because I've never heard a Billie Eilish song.

00:09:31.000 So what did that sound like?

00:09:32.000 Let's say, maybe she's really talented.

00:09:34.000 I mean, maybe.

00:09:34.000 Let's give it a listen.

00:09:37.000 I'm not supposed to be alone right now.

00:09:41.000 I'm supposed to be unhappy without someone But on top of someone I'm happy This is like surprisingly poppy and upbeat for a person who looks as though she's very depressed all the time.

00:10:02.000 I mean, this is—wow.

00:10:04.000 Okay, so, I mean, that's mildly enjoyable.

00:10:06.000 I mean, it's not awful.

00:10:08.000 Again, weird vibe, but okay.

00:10:10.000 If that's what you think is gonna get your voters out in, like, the—in Pennsylvania, sure.

00:10:16.000 Sure, DNC, sure.

00:10:17.000 They also brought out Kerry Washington.

00:10:19.000 Who was last relevant, what, three, four years ago when she did a show on, what was she in?

00:10:24.000 Machine Scandal?

00:10:24.000 I can't even remember which show she was in.

00:10:26.000 In any case, she showed up because I definitely needed to hear from Kerry Washington.

00:10:30.000 Like, don't they have bigger, like, Billie Eilish is a pretty big celebrity, but Kerry Washington is really not, and neither is Yvonne Longoria.

00:10:35.000 Couldn't they have gotten Tom Hanks or something?

00:10:37.000 You figure they would have at least made the appeal.

00:10:38.000 Here was Kerry Washington yesterday saying we're fighting for our lives.

00:10:41.000 Okay, I'm so tired of the language that you're fighting for your life.

00:10:44.000 You're literally not fighting for your life.

00:10:46.000 This is the most civilized, free, and prosperous country in the history of the world.

00:10:50.000 Kerry Washington is not fighting for her life.

00:10:52.000 Okay, I'm sorry, but Kerry Washington is a very, very wealthy person in the United States.

00:10:57.000 A very wealthy and privileged person. 0.82

00:11:00.000 And the fact that she is black does not change any of that. 0.57

00:11:02.000 She's not fighting for her life, and Billie Eilish is not fighting for her life.

00:11:05.000 None of these people are fighting for their lives.

00:11:06.000 This all reminds me, the overwrought nature of this is so bizarre.

00:11:10.000 It reminds me of this, there's an Onion headline from The Onion years ago, where they used to have point-counterpoint columns, and the point was something, so the one that comes to mind is there was a point of view, and it showed like a 17-year-old girl making a face and saying, I'm starving.

00:11:25.000 And then on the other side, it showed like a Rwandan child holding their stomach and saying, I'm starving. 0.85

00:11:29.000 Right, and the point obviously is first world problems.

00:11:32.000 There are people on planet earth who actually have problems.

00:11:35.000 If you're speaking at the DNC and then you go back home to your mansion, you're not fighting for your life.

00:11:40.000 You're not. 0.99

00:11:41.000 So can we cut this crap? 1.00

00:11:42.000 Seriously, destroy... I don't like it on the right. 1.00

00:11:44.000 I don't like it on the left.

00:11:45.000 The alarmism that the country is like, that the country, we're all on the verge of doom.

00:11:52.000 We're not on the verge of doom, okay?

00:11:54.000 There are serious ideological rifts in the country.

00:11:56.000 I think the destruction of the American ideal is gradually been put on the table.

00:12:00.000 I'm scared about that.

00:12:01.000 But do I think that everybody's like, in actual fear of their life being put in danger in the United States right now, based on an election?

00:12:08.000 Not unless you're living in a major city and riots are being allowed.

00:12:10.000 But here's Kerry Washington with the, your life depends on it.

00:12:13.000 Your life depends on it.

00:12:14.000 From Kerry Washington?

00:12:15.000 From Billie Eilish?

00:12:17.000 These extraordinarily rich celebrities?

00:12:18.000 Sure, sure.

00:12:19.000 I'm sure that Kerry Washington is living every day in great fear that Donald Trump is going to come to her house and do something terrible. 0.51

00:12:26.000 Our union is not without flaws.

00:12:29.000 When our Constitution was written, women couldn't vote. 1.00

00:12:32.000 Black people were considered three-fifths of a human being.

00:12:36.000 But therein lies the work.

00:12:40.000 No one is perfect.

00:12:42.000 Nothing is.

00:12:43.000 But it is the striving toward justice, equality, and truth that distinguishes us.

00:12:49.000 We fight for a more perfect union because we are fighting for the soul of this country.

00:12:57.000 You're not fighting for your life!

00:12:59.000 You're not!

00:13:00.000 Okay, stop.

00:13:01.000 Just stop.

00:13:02.000 Okay, because then you get that... Okay, so when you combine the message that you're fighting for your life with the election's gonna be stolen from you, that starts to get actually dangerous.

00:13:11.000 And that's true, again, on both sides.

00:13:12.000 Okay, we're gonna get to more from night three of the DNC in just one second.

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00:14:33.000 Okay, so.

00:14:34.000 The DNC night three was the first time they actually laid out some of the radical positions.

00:14:38.000 Their most radical position is, of course, they are very much in favor of gun control.

00:14:41.000 So Joe Biden pushed a video about how much he loved gun control.

00:14:45.000 And this video featured Emma Gonzalez and the kids from March for our lives.

00:14:49.000 You know, doing the whole, we demand action, everything, the Second Amendment doesn't exist routine.

00:14:56.000 If you ever think that the Democrats aren't radical on this issue, all you have to do is watch their convention.

00:15:00.000 I don't know which swing voters in the swing states they're going for with this one.

00:15:03.000 But apparently they think this is a popular position, which is weird.

00:15:06.000 So they played this video at the DNC last night featuring Emma Gonzalez, probably the most radical member of the March for Our Lives crowd.

00:15:13.000 They say that tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence.

00:15:17.000 We call BS!

00:15:18.000 They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun.

00:15:24.000 We call BS!

00:15:27.000 They say guns are just tools like knives.

00:15:30.000 We call BS!

00:15:31.000 Okay, can you stop it there?

00:15:32.000 I mean, this was irritating at the time.

00:15:34.000 It's even more irritating when you play it from the rostrum of the DNC, even if it's an online DNC.

00:15:41.000 Just the pitch that is being made there is a bunch of tautological statements that happen to be true, and then you just shout, we call BS.

00:15:48.000 Gravity draws objects closer to larger objects.

00:15:51.000 We call BS!

00:15:54.000 Okay, just because you call BS doesn't mean that it's actually BS.

00:15:56.000 In any case, this was one of the big messages at the DNC last night.

00:15:59.000 They brought forth a gun control activist as well to say that President Trump does not care if people get shot, which is one of my favorite things about the Democratic Party.

00:16:06.000 We have to take the high road.

00:16:07.000 The high road is we imply that our opponents literally do not care if people die.

00:16:10.000 They've been doing this about COVID.

00:16:12.000 Trump doesn't care if people die of COVID.

00:16:13.000 Trump doesn't care if people get shot.

00:16:15.000 Trump doesn't...

00:16:16.000 You know who doesn't care, it seems to me?

00:16:17.000 It seems to me that no one at the DNC for three long nights has mentioned the fact that there are ongoing riots in Portland and Seattle, that there are riots in Chicago, DC, New York, Los Angeles.

00:16:28.000 Three nights of this, and not one mention of it.

00:16:30.000 In fact, glorification of that by contrast.

00:16:32.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:16:34.000 But apparently it is.

00:16:34.000 It is, of course, everybody on the right who's uncaring if we disagree on gun policy.

00:16:38.000 This is a long ongoing schtick from the left.

00:16:40.000 It is very irritating.

00:16:41.000 I thought I had debunked it when I told Piers Morgan that you really shouldn't stand on the graves of victims in order to castigate the political position of your opponents.

00:16:47.000 But apparently this is what they're going to continue to do.

00:16:49.000 So that was trotted out last night.

00:16:51.000 President Trump, he doesn't care.

00:16:54.000 He didn't care about the victims after Parkland, Las Vegas or El Paso.

00:17:01.000 I want a president who cares about our pain and grief.

00:17:05.000 A president who will take on the gun lobby to ban assault weapons and close the loopholes to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

00:17:14.000 Joe Biden has taken on the NRA twice and won, and he will do it again as president.

00:17:21.000 Okay, well, worthwhile noting that him taking on the NRA and quote-unquote winning did not actually involve them winning.

00:17:27.000 More guns have now been sold in the United States.

00:17:31.000 So, that was sort of the lead-up.

00:17:39.000 Then we got to the prime time.

00:17:41.000 The prime time featuring all of the Democrats' big stars.

00:17:44.000 So many big stars.

00:17:46.000 For example, Hillary Clinton made her big return to lament the fact that life has been unkind and cruel to Hillary Clinton. 0.75

00:17:53.000 She was back to serve as a warning to all of you.

00:17:57.000 She returned from the woods of Chappaqua after a long time in exile to tell you that people tell me all the time they have regrets.

00:18:05.000 They have regrets.

00:18:06.000 Now, remember, Hillary Clinton is the same person who asked about this and she's like, people will come up to me and they'll say they regret not voting for me.

00:18:11.000 I'm like, what the f- Which, by the way, is at least an honest take.

00:18:15.000 Here is Hillary Clinton from Chappaqua, New York.

00:18:16.000 Now, I assume this was filmed not at the same time as Bill Clinton filmed his little speech from Chappaqua, New York, because I believe she has a restraining order against him.

00:18:26.000 They're sort of like the same side of the magnet.

00:18:30.000 They are poles, and if you bring the positive side of the magnet toward another positive side of the magnet, they just repel.

00:18:37.000 They have to stay outside of a certain mile radius of one another, lest the universe implode.

00:18:41.000 For four years, people have told me, I didn't realize how dangerous he was.

00:18:44.000 I wish I could do it all over.

00:18:44.000 People tell me they have regrets.

00:18:46.000 Regrets I've got a few.

00:18:47.000 For four years, people have told me, I didn't realize how dangerous he was.

00:18:55.000 I wish I could do it all over.

00:18:57.000 Or worse, I should have voted.

00:19:00.000 Look, this can't be another woulda, coulda, shoulda election.

00:19:05.000 If you vote by mail, request your ballot now and send it back right away.

00:19:10.000 If you vote in person, do it early.

00:19:13.000 Become a poll worker.

00:19:15.000 Most of all, no matter what, vote.

00:19:18.000 My God, she's magnetic. 0.82

00:19:19.000 I cannot believe she lost to Donald Trump.

00:19:22.000 What a magnetic politician.

00:19:24.000 It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at this.

00:19:27.000 And fortunately for you, I don't have a heart of stone.

00:19:31.000 She also lamented, she said, you can win by three million votes and still lose.

00:19:34.000 So here she is prepping the argument.

00:19:36.000 The Democratic argument, by the way, is Trump is trying to undermine the legitimacy of the election.

00:19:40.000 Here's Hillary Clinton, again, undermining the legitimacy of the election. 1.00

00:19:44.000 Vote for honest elections so we, not a foreign adversary, choose our president.

00:19:52.000 Vote for the diverse, hopeful America we saw in last night's roll call.

00:19:59.000 And don't forget, Joe and Kamala can win by 3 million votes and still lose.

00:20:05.000 Take it from me.

00:20:07.000 So we need numbers overwhelming so Trump can't sneak or steal his way to victory.

00:20:14.000 Take it from me.

00:20:16.000 I have been out here in the wilderness pretending I'm president for years.

00:20:20.000 And it's getting old.

00:20:22.000 I'll be honest with you.

00:20:23.000 Ah, Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:20:25.000 And then she, of course, saved over some of her bile from the last election cycle to talk about Donald Trump.

00:20:31.000 I do love when Hillary Clinton does the more in sadness than in anger routine. 1.00

00:20:34.000 She is so bitter about the 20- I mean, listen, I'd be bitter too, right?

00:20:36.000 If I won the popular vote by three million and then didn't end up president, I'd be kind of pissed as well.

00:20:40.000 If I'd spent my entire waking adult life wanting to be president and then I lost To somebody I considered a reality TV star clown because I didn't visit Wisconsin.

00:20:47.000 I'd be kind of ticked as well.

00:20:49.000 But here was Hillary Clinton reserving her bile for Donald Trump saying that she wishes that Trump knew how to be president.

00:20:55.000 You know, like she knew how to be president, but isn't. 1.00

00:20:58.000 Or like her husband knew how to be president when he was using the Oval Office for particular purposes.

00:21:03.000 Here was Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:21:05.000 But if he had put his own interests and ego aside, seen the humanity in a child ripped from her parents at the border, or a protester calling for justice, or a family wiped out by natural disaster, that would have been a good thing for America and the world.

00:21:23.000 I wish Donald Trump knew how to be a president because America needs a president right now.

00:21:30.000 Okay, I just want to point out that when she says, I wish that Donald Trump knew how to put his inhumanity and ego aside.

00:21:38.000 Inhumanity and ego.

00:21:40.000 That was basically Hillary Clinton's entire career long slogan. 1.00

00:21:44.000 Hillary Clinton, not famous for being the most human candidate, and certainly the only reason that she was even up for the job is because of her unbelievable ego trip that alienated so many Americans. 0.92

00:21:52.000 Donald Trump ended up being president.

00:21:54.000 She concluded by saying, what do you have to lose?

00:21:55.000 You have everything to lose.

00:21:57.000 You know, Donald Trump said, what do you have to lose?

00:21:59.000 And the answer is, you have everything to lose.

00:22:01.000 All of the things.

00:22:02.000 So here's Hillary Clinton blaming everything on planet Earth on President Trump. 0.99

00:22:08.000 As Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders warned us, if Trump is re-elected, things will get even worse.

00:22:16.000 That's why we need unity now more than ever.

00:22:20.000 Remember back in 2016 when Trump asked, what do you have to lose?

00:22:25.000 Well, now we know our health care, our jobs, our loved ones, our leadership in the world, and even our post office.

00:22:34.000 Oh, the post office, guys.

00:22:36.000 We have to.

00:22:37.000 We have to uphold the post.

00:22:38.000 We know.

00:22:38.000 I love mailboxes.

00:22:40.000 Mailboxes are great.

00:22:41.000 OK, so that charmless human being.

00:22:44.000 As decided by the American people circa 2016.

00:22:47.000 So she returned.

00:22:48.000 That's not a great look for the Democrats because she's kind of charmless, right? 1.00

00:22:51.000 I mean, the fact is that they could not drag her over the finish line.

00:22:54.000 But she was not the only person to be brought in.

00:22:56.000 So last night was also Women's Night at the DNC.

00:22:58.000 A lot of focus on women because Kamala Harris is the VP nominee.

00:23:02.000 And so we got to hear from other luminaries like Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren.

00:23:06.000 So, none of them, by the way, were the star of the show, but we'll get to what they had to say as well.

00:23:10.000 The gaslighting at the DNC is truly incredible.

00:23:12.000 It really is.

00:23:13.000 You have Hillary Clinton making the appeal for unity over ego. 1.00

00:23:16.000 Hillary Clinton!

00:23:17.000 Okay, and then wait till you get to Obama. 0.99

00:23:20.000 I mean, just the enormous hypocrisy is pretty telling.

00:23:24.000 We'll get to more of this in one second.

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00:24:35.000 Okay, so.

00:24:35.000 Other luminaries showed up.

00:24:36.000 Nancy Pelosi showed up. 0.59

00:24:38.000 And, again, she makes the pitch. 0.69

00:24:39.000 This is the big pitch for the Democrats, because here's the thing.

00:24:42.000 Things were going pretty well until COVID. 0.97

00:24:44.000 You had Donald Trump going on Twitter and making an ass of himself. 0.91

00:24:44.000 They were. 0.91

00:24:46.000 But other than that, things were going pretty well.

00:24:49.000 The economy was really booming on the foreign policy front.

00:24:52.000 A lot of progress was being made in the Middle East.

00:24:53.000 A lot of progress was being made versus China.

00:24:56.000 But then COVID hit, and so the entire Democratic playbook here is keep everything shut down, like as much as possible shut down, blame Trump for that, and then blame Trump for all the deaths that have happened.

00:25:07.000 Doesn't matter that that really is inaccurate on every level.

00:25:11.000 Doesn't matter, by the way, that there's no apparent standard for reopening anywhere.

00:25:14.000 I mean, this is pretty incredible.

00:25:15.000 New York City yesterday had zero deaths from COVID and 64 total diagnosed cases, and the city is still shut down.

00:25:21.000 They're in what they call stage four of reopening, which means that restaurants are still not open and hair salons are still not open.

00:25:26.000 There is no stage five.

00:25:28.000 So it's indefinite.

00:25:29.000 I mean, they're just going to keep it like that in New York, despite the fact they have zero, count them, zero deaths yesterday and 64 total cases in a county of 1.6 million people.

00:25:37.000 There is no standard for reopening for the Democratic governors.

00:25:41.000 And then they are praised to the skies by the media for all of this.

00:25:43.000 So the Democratic playbook is keep everything locked down as much as you possibly can.

00:25:46.000 Blame Trump for all the death, even though those cities, like New York City, just absolutely got walloped and are governed by blue.

00:25:52.000 Okay, Nancy Pelosi is withholding aid right now. 1.00

00:25:56.000 Republicans are trying to push forward a relief package for people who are still on unemployment.

00:26:00.000 Nancy Pelosi is holding that up.

00:26:02.000 Yet there she was at the DNC last night, suggesting that the Republicans don't want to crush the virus.

00:26:08.000 So she's just blaming Republicans for COVID-19, which is a pretty astonishing and remarkable and horrific claim, actually.

00:26:19.000 More than 5 million Americans are infected by the coronavirus.

00:26:23.000 Over 170,000 have died.

00:26:26.000 The science-based action, the HEROES Act we enacted three months ago, is essential to safeguard lives, livelihood, and the life of our democracy.

00:26:37.000 And who is standing in the way?

00:26:38.000 Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump.

00:26:41.000 Instead of crushing the virus, they're trying to crush the Affordable Care Act and its pre-existing conditions benefit.

00:26:50.000 Um, they're the ones trying to pass a relief package that you have now delayed several times, Speaker Pelosi. 0.88

00:26:56.000 Mainly, her pitch comes down to Trump is a very, very bad, bad mean man.

00:26:59.000 Again, the entire DNC, when you boil it all the way down, is really they don't like Trump and Trump's mean.

00:27:03.000 And, which means, which means that if Trump had any discipline at all, he'd actually be able to win this election.

00:27:08.000 As we'll see, the president's lack of discipline is not helping him right now. 0.96

00:27:11.000 But here was Pelosi basically making her pitch, which is Trump is mean and bad and mean and orange and bad and fat and mean and orange. 0.74

00:27:18.000 As Speaker of the House, I've seen firsthand Donald Trump's disrespect for facts, for working families, and for women in particular. 0.97

00:27:26.000 Disrespect written into his policies toward our health and our rights, not just his conduct.

00:27:34.000 But we know what he doesn't, that when women succeed, America succeeds. 0.83

00:27:40.000 Okay, so he's a sexist too. 0.97

00:27:42.000 So that was the pitch going in for Kamala Harris is that he's a sexist, he's a racist, that's why he doesn't like Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:27:48.000 Even though Trump is mean to anyone who doesn't like him, as we'll see, and he's nice to anybody who does. 0.58

00:27:51.000 That is the common theme of Trumpism.

00:27:53.000 There is no unifying principle other than Trump's ego when it comes to who he likes and who he doesn't, which means it's hard to call him a racist or a sexist when he literally just judges people based on whether they are nice to him.

00:28:03.000 That is the actual Trump doctrine.

00:28:05.000 Are you nice to me?

00:28:06.000 Hey, Elizabeth Warren tried the same routine, by the way. 1.00

00:28:09.000 She also tried to blame COVID on Trump, which is a despicable character assault by Elizabeth Warren.

00:28:15.000 I will note that this is pretty amazing.

00:28:16.000 So Elizabeth Warren spoke from a classroom in Springfield, Massachusetts.

00:28:20.000 I do find it amusing that Democrats chose to speak from classrooms, that they mandate remain shut down, even if it is safe to reopen classrooms in safe and secure fashion.

00:28:30.000 The same people who are dictating that they cannot reopen classrooms are speaking from the classrooms.

00:28:33.000 The classroom's good enough for Elizabeth Warren to be in it, but not your kids.

00:28:36.000 My favorite part of this graphic, though, is that in the background, somebody took children's block letters and put BLM in the background.

00:28:43.000 If you're watching this, you can see it in the right-hand side of your screen.

00:28:46.000 It's literally they took the letters B, L, and M and put them in the cubby holes.

00:28:50.000 So propagandizing via children's toy.

00:28:52.000 Good job, DNC.

00:28:54.000 Here was Elizabeth Warren, another extraordinarily non-ego-driven, non-radical, non-off-putting person, suggesting that COVID is on President Trump.

00:28:54.000 Solid job.

00:29:06.000 Today, America has the most COVID deaths in the world and an economic collapse.

00:29:12.000 And both crises are falling hardest on black and brown families.

00:29:17.000 Millions out of work.

00:29:18.000 Millions more trapped in cycles of poverty.

00:29:21.000 Millions on the brink of losing their homes.

00:29:24.000 Millions of restaurants and stores hanging by a thread.

00:29:28.000 This crisis is bad, and it didn't have to be this way.

00:29:33.000 This crisis is on Donald Trump and the Republicans who enable him.

00:29:38.000 That's astonishing.

00:29:39.000 I mean, again, these are astonishingly overwrought claims.

00:29:42.000 What would her policy be to have stopped COVID?

00:29:44.000 She doesn't have one.

00:29:45.000 No one has one.

00:29:46.000 It's burned through a bunch of nations.

00:29:48.000 What in the world is she talking about?

00:29:50.000 Also, why is great aunt Warren yelling at everybody? 0.83

00:29:54.000 We all need to be in the fight to get Joe and Kamala elected.

00:29:56.000 woman hear me roar pitch again. This is all part of the Kamala Harris pitch. 1.00

00:29:58.000 We organized, we persisted, we changed America. Women power. 1.00

00:30:02.000 Yeah, you went nowhere, Elizabeth Warren. I mean, you got skunked. We all need to be in the fight to get Joe and Kamala elected.

00:30:11.000 And after November, we all need to stay in the fight to get big things done. We stay in this fight so that when our children and our grandchildren ask what we did during this dark chapter in our nation's history, we will be able to look them squarely in the eye and say we organized, we persisted.

00:30:37.000 And we changed America.

00:30:38.000 Wow, we persisted.

00:30:40.000 We persisted.

00:30:41.000 Oh, so inspiring.

00:30:43.000 So inspiring.

00:30:44.000 And then she went off to write another recipe for powwow chow. 0.67

00:30:46.000 So what a wonderful candidate.

00:30:48.000 That was one one thousand twenty fourth interesting, Elizabeth Warren.

00:30:51.000 Thank you for that.

00:30:52.000 OK, the real star of the night, however, was Barack Obama, who can never let anyone overshadow him.

00:30:56.000 Barack Obama.

00:30:57.000 continues to be the only draw in the Democratic Party.

00:31:00.000 His wife, Michelle, is the only other draw in the Democratic Party.

00:31:03.000 The party is completely built around the Obamas at this point.

00:31:05.000 We'll get to Barack Obama's speech, which was, again, it is just astonishing.

00:31:09.000 It's an astonishing case in point of how Barack Obama is very good at politics and is incredible at lying.

00:31:16.000 I mean, and those two things are not a coincidence.

00:31:18.000 I mean, they are related.

00:31:19.000 Barack Obama's gaslighting of the American people about his love for the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, it is one of my least favorite things about Obama's legacy, is the way that he was able to double-talk so smoothly.

00:31:29.000 I mean, again, props to the man for being very good at his job.

00:31:33.000 Also, his perversion of the Constitution was unparalleled in his own administration.

00:31:40.000 His dislike for founding principles and the principles undergirding the Constitution of the United States, it was obvious from his governance, it was obvious from his rhetoric.

00:31:47.000 And yet, The man had the temerity to stand in the Museum of the American Revolution in front of a display about the Constitution and talk about constitutional limits on presidential power.

00:31:56.000 I mean, the gaslighting is incredible.

00:31:59.000 It really, really is amazing.

00:32:00.000 We're going to get to that in just one second.

00:32:02.000 First, let us talk about the fact that there's never a great time to go to the auto parts store.

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00:33:13.000 Okay, so that brings us to the star of the night.

00:33:16.000 The star of the night, Barack Obama.

00:33:17.000 So as I say, Barack Obama was originally supposed to close it out, which makes sense.

00:33:21.000 You want your cleanup hitter to hit cleanup. 0.72

00:33:23.000 But he wanted to hand the torch to Kamala, and Joe Biden is over in the corner going, what about me?

00:33:27.000 Why not me?

00:33:28.000 I'm the nominee.

00:33:30.000 Why aren't you?

00:33:31.000 Oh, okay.

00:33:32.000 I'll sit down.

00:33:33.000 All right.

00:33:33.000 I'll just stay here.

00:33:34.000 Where am I?

00:33:35.000 Who?

00:33:37.000 So, Barack Obama handed the torch to come, but what he really did was he engaged in a vicious partisan speech.

00:33:42.000 Now, why anybody is surprised by this is beyond me.

00:33:46.000 Barack Obama's a vicious partisan.

00:33:47.000 He's always been a vicious partisan. 0.96

00:33:49.000 He's a Chicago politician knife fighter.

00:33:51.000 He's always been a Chicago politician knife fighter.

00:33:53.000 The attempt to paint Barack Obama as some sort of great unifying figure is belied by nearly every poll, certainly on racial matters in the United States since 2008.

00:34:01.000 Americans were far more optimistic about racial matters when Obama entered office than when he left office.

00:34:05.000 There's a reason for that.

00:34:06.000 He was an incredibly divisive president.

00:34:08.000 He was very politically radical.

00:34:10.000 And he was good at smoothing over the rhetoric.

00:34:13.000 And the media just loved the guy.

00:34:14.000 I mean, the media slobber over him.

00:34:17.000 The media have posters of Barack Obama on their wall in the same way that Tim Robbins had a poster of Raquel Welch in his cell in Shawshank Redemption.

00:34:25.000 I mean, the media just sit there and gaze at the pictures of Barack Obama and think of better times.

00:34:32.000 And they play romantic music.

00:34:33.000 They got some Barry White going in the background.

00:34:34.000 As you'll see from the media reaction to this, this has not waned one iota.

00:34:38.000 Many of the forces that led to the rise of Donald Trump are direct oppositions to the media worship of Barack Obama and the widespread gap between the perception of Barack Obama by the elite and the rest of the country.

00:34:49.000 Much of the rest of the country saw Barack Obama as a deeply divisive figure.

00:34:51.000 They liked him personally, but they saw him as deeply divisive.

00:34:53.000 They didn't like his policies very much.

00:34:55.000 The media thought he was just God.

00:34:57.000 They thought he was God embodied.

00:34:59.000 Okay, so Barack Obama has always been partisan.

00:35:01.000 And it's not a shock that he showed up at the DNC and was super partisan.

00:35:04.000 I mean, he literally showed up at John Lewis's funeral and was super partisan.

00:35:07.000 John Lewis died, and George W. Bush gets up there at the funeral, at the memorial service, and gives this beautiful unifying speech about John Lewis and how he made the country better.

00:35:15.000 And then Barack Obama gets up there and he's like, Donald Trump is trying to change the election standards to steal votes.

00:35:21.000 It's like, oh my God, dude, this is a memorial service.

00:35:23.000 But you shouldn't have been shocked by that.

00:35:24.000 He did the same thing after the attempted massacre in Arizona, that shooting, that horrible shooting that ended with the, including the shooting of Gabby Giffords.

00:35:33.000 He went to a memorial service in Arizona and he politicized gun control there.

00:35:35.000 So Barack Obama has always been this guy.

00:35:37.000 Nothing has changed about Barack Obama.

00:35:40.000 And Barack Obama has always been characterized by this incredible ability to double talk the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

00:35:46.000 So he's smart enough to understand that the principles undergirding the Constitution and the Declaration are natural rights of pre-existing government, a limited government instituted only to protect those rights, And checks and balances to prevent government from overstepping its boundaries in violation of those rights.

00:36:02.000 Those are the fundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

00:36:06.000 Barack Obama knows that, and just like every progressive since Woodrow Wilson, he just likes that.

00:36:10.000 He doesn't believe there are natural rights that pre-exist government.

00:36:13.000 He believes that rights come from government, just like entitlements come from government.

00:36:16.000 Barack Obama does not believe that a limited government ought to protect rights.

00:36:20.000 He believes that an unlimited government ought to give you things.

00:36:22.000 Barack Obama does not believe in checks and balances.

00:36:24.000 He believes in whatever gets the job done.

00:36:26.000 Right?

00:36:26.000 That's why you got Peninophone Obama.

00:36:28.000 That's why you got DACA Obama.

00:36:29.000 That's why you got war in Libya without congressional authorization, Obama.

00:36:33.000 And yet, the man has the temerity to get- and he's been doing this throughout his career, so this is nothing new.

00:36:38.000 He has the temerity to get up there and pretend that he's speaking in the name of documents that he absolutely abhors.

00:36:43.000 Because he thinks that there are limitations on the ability of government to bring us all together.

00:36:47.000 In 2012, one of the actual slogans flashed on the scoreboard at the DNC was, government is the only thing we share.

00:36:54.000 Hey, that is Barack Obama's view of the world, and yet he had the temerity last night to give this speech from the Museum of the American Revolution, a revolution many parts of which, the basic philosophy of which you reject, and stand in front of a display of the Constitution of the United States, sort of like Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul, right, standing in his office from Breaking Bad.

00:37:17.000 In that giant display of the Constitution of the United States.

00:37:19.000 So that was Barack Obama's backdrop.

00:37:21.000 It was well-lit.

00:37:22.000 It was well-spoken.

00:37:23.000 Barack Obama's always been a tremendous speaker.

00:37:25.000 It was actually a better speech than many of the ones he gives in front of a crowd, because when he waits for crowd applause, he looks smug and arrogant.

00:37:30.000 He does a good job, just like Michelle does, of speaking direct to camera.

00:37:33.000 The man is naturally gifted this way.

00:37:34.000 I mean, he really, really is good. 0.82

00:37:36.000 He's also extraordinarily dishonest.

00:37:38.000 So here is Barack Obama speaking about the ideals of the Constitution of the United States and ignoring all of the actual ideals of the Constitution of the United States in favor of Pablum about how what the Constitution was really about was just democracy writ large.

00:37:52.000 Now listen, the Constitution is pro-people voting, but it is not a pure democracy.

00:37:56.000 It is a Republican document that embodies all sorts of checks and balances, specifically because the founders did not want mob rule.

00:38:03.000 But here is Barack Obama reducing all of America's founding philosophy down to people vote.

00:38:08.000 No, that is not all of America's founding philosophy.

00:38:10.000 You're leaving out some pretty key elements there, President Obama.

00:38:12.000 But that, of course, is the point.

00:38:13.000 Because what he's going to say is that he's for, quote unquote, democracy.

00:38:17.000 Donald Trump is not for democracy.

00:38:19.000 And he's going to stand in front of a display about the Constitution in order to do this.

00:38:24.000 I'm in Philadelphia, where our Constitution was drafted and signed.

00:38:30.000 It wasn't a perfect document.

00:38:33.000 It allowed for the inhumanity of slavery.

00:38:36.000 and failed to guarantee women and even men who didn't own property the right to participate in the political process.

00:38:45.000 But embedded in this document was a North Star that would guide future generations.

00:38:52.000 A system of representative government.

00:38:55.000 A democracy.

00:38:57.000 To which we could better realize our highest ideals.

00:39:01.000 Okay, again, he reduces all of the philosophy of the founding to people can vote and then we can realize quote-unquote our highest ideals.

00:39:07.000 Now Obama has said in previous speeches, namely his second inaugural address, that those highest ideals are completely malleable by time, right?

00:39:13.000 Liberty doesn't have the same meaning to everybody.

00:39:15.000 This is Barack Obama's reductionism of the Constitution into a progressive version of what government ought to be.

00:39:20.000 That's what's happening here.

00:39:21.000 And it's important to note what this is because This was his tenure, right?

00:39:24.000 He transmuted the basic ideals of the Constitution into something very, very different.

00:39:29.000 The founding ideals of the country that led to women getting the vote, and black Americans getting the vote, and to people without property getting the vote, the founding ideal there was not really all people vote.

00:39:39.000 It was more that all people are created in the image of God, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.

00:39:44.000 Those are the things that are in the Declaration that end up embodied in the Constitution.

00:39:49.000 But the problem is that that embeds a few further principles that Obama doesn't agree with.

00:39:52.000 Namely, that you are endowed by or created with certain inalienable rights.

00:39:55.000 Rights that cannot be tread on by the government.

00:39:57.000 Obama doesn't believe that kind of thing.

00:39:59.000 Right, so in a second, we'll get to more of Obama's, you know, continuing perversion of American philosophy. 0.97

00:40:04.000 And then we'll get to what the real core of the speech was, which was Donald Trump is very bad and very incompetent and very bad and also incompetent. 0.95

00:40:09.000 It was a very partisan speech. 0.96

00:40:11.000 Again, not shocking from Barack Obama.

00:40:13.000 And frankly, I'll be honest with you, I really don't care whether presidents attack their successors.

00:40:18.000 I don't.

00:40:19.000 They've always been political figures.

00:40:20.000 I've always thought that, frankly, it's weird that George W. Bush has receded from the public scene to the point where he won't even defend his own legacy.

00:40:27.000 I understand the tendency to say, well, you know, presidents shouldn't speak on political matters beyond their tenure.

00:40:32.000 I don't like unwritten rules like that generally.

00:40:34.000 If you're a political figure, obviously you have opinions.

00:40:37.000 It's a free country.

00:40:37.000 You should be able to say what you want.

00:40:39.000 So I'm not going to, I honestly don't begrudge Obama getting political.

00:40:42.000 This is what he does.

00:40:43.000 What I begrudge is that he's a partisan and the media act as though he is not a partisan.

00:40:46.000 Like he's some great unifying figure who believes in the constitution when he obviously does not.

00:40:50.000 He routinely overran the boundaries of the constitution when he was president.

00:40:53.000 We'll get to more of the hypocrisy from Barack Obama in just one second.

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00:42:10.000 We're gonna get back to Barack Obama, then we'll get to Kamala Harris, who was an afterthought.

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00:43:41.000 All right, so double talk specialist Barack Obama, who disdained the Constitution on an ideological level, who thought that its boundaries were hackneyed and that the president should be as big a man as he is capable of being, which is a Woodrow Wilson line that Obama really did try to apply.

00:44:01.000 He had some words for President Trump.

00:44:02.000 Now, he had two lines of attack.

00:44:04.000 Line of attack number one is that Trump had overrun the boundaries of the Constitution.

00:44:08.000 That one is just coming from Barack Obama.

00:44:10.000 I mean, that is...

00:44:13.000 Take the beam out of your own eye, dude.

00:44:14.000 I mean, that one is, that one's pretty wild.

00:44:16.000 His other line of attack is that Trump is not competent, right?

00:44:19.000 Is that Trump is always distractible.

00:44:21.000 And this is a line that was also used the other night by Michelle Obama.

00:44:23.000 So Michelle and Barack are going to do the, we're very competent, Donald Trump is not very competent routine.

00:44:28.000 And this one has some tell to it, right?

00:44:30.000 I mean, politically speaking, there's a widespread perception that Donald Trump is fragmentary in his leadership style, to put it, to put it And it's most obvious and it's most mild that the president is distractible that the president is not focused.

00:44:43.000 Now, the good news is that the constitutional boundaries hem in the president and he has a team around him.

00:44:48.000 And so that really isn't the end of the world in terms of policymaking.

00:44:50.000 Trump's policy has been a lot better for the country than Barack Obama's policies were.

00:44:55.000 But when it comes to Trump's leadership style and the obvious Sort of volatility and chaos of Trump as a personality that those are the attacks that Obama's using because his basic idea is and here's dead Joe over here and dead Joe won't be quite as volatile because frankly he's not alive.

00:45:10.000 So here is Barack Obama saying that Trump hasn't put in the work and Trump for some reason decided to underscore the attacks on him by simultaneously live tweeting this.

00:45:17.000 I mean, it's just it's beyond political malpractice what Trump has been doing in the last couple of weeks via Twitter.

00:45:22.000 Anyway, here is Obama going after him.

00:45:25.000 I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously.

00:45:33.000 That he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care.

00:45:42.000 But he never did.

00:45:43.000 For close to four years now, he has shown no interest in putting in the work.

00:45:49.000 No interest in finding common ground.

00:45:51.000 No interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends.

00:45:58.000 Okay, so there are several things here to unpack.

00:46:01.000 One, when he says that Trump hasn't put in the work, meaning he, you know, is distractible, that one's hard for Trump to rebut when he is on Twitter at the same time tweeting out in all capital letters his critique of Barack Obama's speech. 1.00

00:46:12.000 That is a stupid move by Trump. 0.99

00:46:14.000 It underscores Obama's attack. 1.00

00:46:15.000 When Obama says that he hasn't understood the depth of his office, this is Captain Selfie over here, right?

00:46:22.000 Barack Obama is the guy who literally took a selfie stick into the Oval Office and was taking pictures of himself with the selfie stick.

00:46:27.000 He was doing interviews with Glozell and Pimp with a Limp back in 2012.

00:46:31.000 So when it comes to the seriousness of the office, Barack Obama was not exactly Captain Serious himself.

00:46:37.000 OK, beyond that, when he says that he showed no interest in helping anybody but himself, a lot of Americans were doing great until COVID.

00:46:43.000 We had the best economy in 50 years under Donald Trump's presidency before COVID.

00:46:48.000 There are a lot of folks who are affected.

00:46:49.000 I didn't like criminal justice reform.

00:46:51.000 Criminal justice reform helps a lot of people.

00:46:53.000 Whether you like it or not, it helped a lot of people who Trump obviously wanted to help, who were not his political constituency, frankly.

00:47:00.000 Many of them.

00:47:02.000 And Donald Trump has helped a lot of people.

00:47:03.000 When you talk about people helping themselves, Barack Obama was routinely engaged in political activities that were designed to help his own political campaigning, his own administration.

00:47:12.000 I mean, the very least you can say about Barack Obama is that when he entered public office, the man was not rich.

00:47:16.000 He's now worth tens of millions of dollars.

00:47:19.000 Donald Trump entered public office being a billionaire, and he will leave a billionaire.

00:47:22.000 So when it comes to people who have used politics to make money, Barack Obama is on that list.

00:47:28.000 Okay, then Obama said that Trump hasn't grown into the job, and then he blames Trump for 170,000 dead people.

00:47:33.000 This is really, really scurrilous stuff.

00:47:34.000 Again, the line the Democrats are using that Trump is responsible for the number of dead, when again, the vast bulk of the dead in the United States are in states run by Democrats, and when it is clear that no one has a good solution to COVID, is really despicable. 0.68

00:47:46.000 Here's Barack Obama being despicable.

00:47:49.000 Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't.

00:47:54.000 And the consequences of that failure are severe.

00:47:59.000 170,000 Americans dead.

00:48:02.000 Millions of jobs gone, while those at the top take in more than ever.

00:48:09.000 Our worst impulses unleashed.

00:48:12.000 Our proud reputation around the world badly diminished. 1.00

00:48:15.000 Okay, this stuff is crap. 0.98

00:48:16.000 Okay, this is where he really gets demagogic. 0.99

00:48:18.000 This is demagogic stuff. 1.00

00:48:20.000 Saying that Trump is responsible for 170,000 deaths is crap. 0.99

00:48:23.000 Him saying that our worst impulses were only unleashed under Donald Trump? 0.99

00:48:27.000 At no point in the speech, by the way, does he actually decry the riots happening in major American cities, many of them driven by a media that hates Trump and mayors that hate Trump as well.

00:48:36.000 In fact, not only does Barack Obama not decry that, at a certain point, he actually paid tribute to it.

00:48:41.000 He just pretends that everybody's protesting.

00:48:42.000 There hasn't been a riot anywhere.

00:48:44.000 Obama said about the protesters, you are the nation's dream fulfilled.

00:48:48.000 Really, I mean, you can make the case that protesting is, is the, and it is true that protesting is a major part of American tradition.

00:48:56.000 It is not true that rioting and looting ought to be a major part of American tradition, and failing to make any distinction or even to note that that stuff is happening for three straight nights of the DNC is pretty incredible.

00:49:06.000 Next week, the RNC should, on a loop, show what's been happening around the country in terms of the violence, the chaos, the rioting, and the looting that's been promulgated by Democrats, excused by Democrats, excused by the media.

00:49:15.000 Here's Barack Obama pretending that the only thing that's been happening in the United States is some nice low-level protest.

00:49:21.000 To the young people who led us this summer, telling us we need to be better, in so many ways, you are this country's dreams fulfilled.

00:49:31.000 Earlier generations had to be persuaded that everyone has equal worth.

00:49:36.000 For you, it's a given, a conviction.

00:49:39.000 And what I want you to know is that for all its messiness and frustrations, your system of self-government Okay, this is the inside-outside game that Democrats have been playing for quite a while here, which is that, sure, the system is great when we run it.

00:50:02.000 When we don't run it, we need you out in the streets.

00:50:04.000 We need you out in the streets, and we need you not only protesting, but we'll excuse your rioting, and we'll excuse your looting, and we'll excuse the violence, and we'll excuse the messiness, we'll excuse the chaos, because we don't run the government.

00:50:12.000 But, when we're in power, you need to calm it down, guys, because then we got this thing.

00:50:17.000 This is the inside-outside game Democrats are playing.

00:50:20.000 But Obama didn't stop there.

00:50:22.000 So Obama then suggested that Trump doesn't believe in American principles.

00:50:26.000 Now, again, how Barack Obama defines American principles has been a long-standing question.

00:50:31.000 And this is a real question.

00:50:32.000 What are America's founding principles?

00:50:34.000 What are the creedal principles that unite us?

00:50:35.000 I mean, I wrote an entire book about this.

00:50:36.000 How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps is about what are the principles that ought to unite us.

00:50:40.000 Barack Obama disagrees with many of the founding principles.

00:50:43.000 The idea of natural rights pre-existing government.

00:50:45.000 He does not believe this.

00:50:46.000 He does not believe that government ought to be limited to protect those rights.

00:50:48.000 He does not believe in checks and balances.

00:50:50.000 He doesn't believe in any of those things.

00:50:52.000 He believes in a culture that prizes entitlement, in a culture that disdains social institutions in favor of governmental institutions.

00:50:59.000 He doesn't believe in a lot of foundational American ideals.

00:51:01.000 That's not unique to Barack Obama.

00:51:03.000 That is a hallmark of the progressive movement since the beginning of the 20th century.

00:51:07.000 But here is Donald Trump suggesting that Trump doesn't, this is Obama suggesting Trump doesn't believe in American principles.

00:51:13.000 While standing in front of a sign about the Constitution of the United States, here is Captain Penn in a phone.

00:51:21.000 Our ability to work together to solve big problems like a pandemic depend on a fidelity to facts and science and logic and not just making stuff up.

00:51:32.000 None of this should be controversial.

00:51:36.000 These shouldn't be Republican principles or Democratic principles.

00:51:40.000 They are American principles.

00:51:42.000 But at this moment, this president and those who enable him, Okay, so American principles, according to Barack Obama, are things like science and fact, and also men and women don't exist, and babies in the womb are not actually babies, they're just clusters of cells.

00:51:59.000 So that's always exciting stuff to hear from President Obama.

00:52:03.000 He also went after President Obama for using what he called troops as political props.

00:52:08.000 Again, he's focusing in on the Lafayette Park incident in which the National Park Service cleared the park before Trump walked out to do this photo op at St.

00:52:15.000 John's Church.

00:52:16.000 Again, it's unclear from the reports whether these protesters were throwing objects at the cops.

00:52:21.000 The Park Service says yes.

00:52:21.000 Many of the protesters in the media say no.

00:52:23.000 In any case, hearing the hypocrisy here is astonishing.

00:52:27.000 Hearing Barack Obama talking about using troops as political props, Barack Obama literally went in front of, at a military base, in front of a group of troops and said, you guys make a great photo op.

00:52:37.000 I'm not kidding.

00:52:38.000 That's a thing he actually said in real life.

00:52:40.000 But here he was saying like, you can't use troops as props.

00:52:43.000 I wouldn't, I wouldn't use troops as props except when I do.

00:52:45.000 There's Barack Obama.

00:52:47.000 They understand that in this democracy, the commander-in-chief does not use the men and women of our military, who are willing to risk everything to protect our nation, as political props to deploy against peaceful protesters on our own soil.

00:53:06.000 Again, Barack Obama routinely, routinely did this kind of thing.

00:53:09.000 He stood before troops and said, this is a direct quote, you guys make a pretty good photo op.

00:53:13.000 Sure, sure.

00:53:14.000 Okay, and then Obama concluded by saying that this administration is tearing down democracy.

00:53:18.000 Again, this is coming from the guy who launched War on Libya without congressional authorization, who explicitly said that he could not simply avoid the implementation of immigration law and then just did it.

00:53:26.000 This is coming from the same guy who sicked his IRS on conservative 501c3s but had plausible deniability.

00:53:34.000 This is the same guy who routinely engaged in activities that violated the long-standing norms of the Constitution.

00:53:42.000 He is now calling for, by the way, for the end of the Senate filibuster, which he calls racist, when five minutes ago he said that it was actually a tool for democracy.

00:53:49.000 This guy has no fidelity to institutional, not only norms, but to the actual institutions of the United States if they stand as an obstacle to his broader progressive mission.

00:53:59.000 And yet here he is saying the administration is going to tear down democracy.

00:54:03.000 You're the missing ingredient.

00:54:06.000 The ones who will decide whether or not America becomes the country that fully lives up to its creed.

00:54:13.000 That work will continue long after this election.

00:54:17.000 But any chance of success depends entirely on the outcome of this election.

00:54:24.000 This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes for them to win.

00:54:31.000 So we have to get busy.

00:54:33.000 What he's saying right now is so wildly, wildly dangerous.

00:54:38.000 Him saying that basically the fascists are at the gates and if we lose this election, then the country is over is extraordinarily dangerous.

00:54:44.000 Really, really dangerous.

00:54:45.000 If Joe Biden wins this election, the country is not over.

00:54:48.000 It means that a real setback for a lot of the things I care about, not just politically, but philosophically, because I think the Democratic Party is enthralled to the 1619 Project crowd.

00:54:56.000 But I don't believe that America's electoral institutions are over if the Democrats win.

00:55:02.000 Barack Obama's literally saying that.

00:55:04.000 I'm old enough to remember, because again, I'm more than 30 seconds old.

00:55:07.000 When the media were saying Donald Trump is undermining the results of an election, that's bad.

00:55:11.000 Democrats have been doing it consistently for years, and Barack Obama just did it last night.

00:55:15.000 And that is scary stuff.

00:55:16.000 Okay, so, Obama gives this speech, and the media are just gushing over it.

00:55:21.000 Ryan Lizzo, a reporter for Politico, He actually tweeted out, this is a direct quote from Twitter.

00:55:26.000 So much journalism in, guys.

00:55:27.000 I mean, the journalism was just getting everywhere.

00:55:29.000 It got real sticky and messy, the journalism.

00:55:31.000 He tweeted out, Barack Obama just delivered the finest convention speech in modern history.

00:55:35.000 Again, spellbinding, chilling, optimistic, beautifully written, expertly delivered, incredible moment.

00:55:42.000 And then he had to sleep it off for a little while, Ryan Lizza.

00:55:45.000 That guy's the White House reporter for Politico.

00:55:48.000 Don't worry.

00:55:49.000 The media are even-handed.

00:55:51.000 They show neither fear nor favor.

00:55:53.000 Rachel Maddow was very exorbitantly excited about this as well.

00:55:57.000 She said Obama slayed her. 0.90

00:55:58.000 Slayed her! 1.00

00:56:00.000 Slay, Obama, slay. 0.97

00:56:03.000 President Obama's speech tonight slayed me.

00:56:06.000 I'm sure people have different opinions about it because it's a different kind of thing from him, but his warnings that we could potentially be at the end of American democracy scared me and I found upsetting and hard to watch, but just powerful.

00:56:23.000 Powerful stuff.

00:56:24.000 Powerful stuff.

00:56:24.000 So again, when Democrats say we're at the end of American democracy, powerful stuff.

00:56:27.000 When Donald Trump suggests that the Democrats want to ruin American democracy, terrible stuff.

00:56:32.000 How about it's just not great all around when you suggest that the other side is going to end the democracy of the United States without any evidence that this is the case?

00:56:40.000 Amazing.

00:56:41.000 Well done, media.

00:56:42.000 Well done.

00:56:42.000 Okay, so here's the problem.

00:56:44.000 Because Obama got all the plaudits, that left Kamala Harris as a kind of leftover. 1.00

00:56:47.000 And this is just the case for the Democratic ticket.

00:56:49.000 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not inspiring in any way, shape, or form. 0.99

00:56:52.000 Joe Biden is a dead person. 0.97

00:56:54.000 He is not an alive human. 0.99

00:56:56.000 And Kamala Harris is an incredibly lackluster candidate. 0.98

00:56:59.000 She was lackluster in the primary, so lackluster she didn't last until the first primary. 0.99

00:57:02.000 She's not inspiring.

00:57:04.000 She is not exciting.

00:57:05.000 So she gave her speech last night, and she was low-key Kamala, because high-key Kamala, you know, really keyed up and pitched up. 1.00

00:57:12.000 That level of Kamala Harris is very off-putting to voters, as we learned in the primaries.

00:57:15.000 So she's going to go like full Mike Pence now. 1.00

00:57:17.000 She's going to really tone it down, and basically her entire campaign now is going to be, I love Joe.

00:57:22.000 Now, five seconds ago, she hated Joe. 0.95

00:57:24.000 Five seconds ago, Joe was a racist bigot. 0.89

00:57:26.000 But now, Joe's the savior of the country.

00:57:28.000 So here is Kamala Harris suggesting that Joe Biden would turn our challenges into purposes.

00:57:32.000 This comes the night after Joe Biden said that Joe Biden would make us whole.

00:57:34.000 Joe Biden can't even make his mental acuity whole.

00:57:37.000 Here is Kamala Harris suggesting that Joe Biden will turn our challenges into purposes, which, by the way, is a really nice way of saying, let no good crisis go to waste, which is the Democratic hallmark, that we are going to use every challenge as an opportunity to grow government and overthrow your rights.

00:57:50.000 Here is Kamala Harris last night. 0.99

00:57:53.000 Right now, we have a president who turns our tragedies into political weapons.

00:58:01.000 Joe will be a president who turns our challenges into purpose.

00:58:08.000 Joe will bring us together to build an economy that doesn't leave anyone behind.

00:58:15.000 Where a good paying job is the floor, not the ceiling.

00:58:20.000 Joe will bring us together to end this pandemic and make sure that we are prepared for the next one.

00:58:28.000 Okay, she was very not good last night.

00:58:30.000 I mean, this was kind of the tenor of her speech.

00:58:32.000 She was really not good.

00:58:33.000 She had a couple of lines that were real clunkers. 1.00

00:58:35.000 So she said, for example, just talking about racism and racial injustice.

00:58:38.000 And she said, there's no vaccine for racism.

00:58:40.000 Please can we not use COVID metaphors at this point?

00:58:42.000 It's just awkward.

00:58:43.000 Like people are still getting sick from COVID and it ain't a metaphor.

00:58:46.000 Here was Kamala Harris using COVID metaphors to talk about racism or something. 1.00

00:58:51.000 Let's be clear.

00:58:53.000 There is no vaccine for racism.

00:58:59.000 We've got to do the work.

00:59:02.000 For George Floyd.

00:59:04.000 For Breonna Taylor.

00:59:07.000 For the lives of too many others to name.

00:59:11.000 For our children.

00:59:13.000 And for all of us.

00:59:15.000 It turns out that there is, in fact, a vaccine for racism.

00:59:17.000 You just get nominated the presidential candidate for the Democrats, and then they just stop calling you racist, like, randomly, like Kamala Harris did.

00:59:22.000 It turns out the vaccine is being nominated for high office as a Democrat, and then everything just goes away.

00:59:27.000 That's the actual vaccine for racism.

00:59:29.000 My favorite unaware Kamala Harris line last night is she was talking about how, as a prosecutor, she went after various types of predator, and this one got a lot of play.

00:59:37.000 She said that she knows a predator when she sees one.

00:59:40.000 Which is weird and awkward, because she said that she believed Joe Biden's sexual assault and harassment accusers.

00:59:47.000 So she knows a predator when she sees one.

00:59:48.000 Unless she's running with one, then it's easy.

00:59:52.000 So Brett Kavanaugh, yes on the assault.

00:59:54.000 Joe Biden, no on the assault.

00:59:55.000 Unless it's yes on the assault, but if he nominates her, it's no on the assault.

00:59:58.000 Here's Kamala Harris, predator spotter.

01:00:01.000 I have fought for children and survivors of sexual assault.

01:00:05.000 I fought against transnational criminal organizations.

01:00:09.000 I took on the biggest banks and helped take down one of the biggest for-profit colleges.

01:00:16.000 I know a predator when I see one.

01:00:19.000 Do you, though?

01:00:20.000 Because you literally suggested you're running mate is a predator.

01:00:23.000 So, there is that.

01:00:23.000 Okay, so, the convention.

01:00:25.000 Final notes on night three.

01:00:27.000 Obama's still the star of the show.

01:00:29.000 He's a gifted politician who lies a lot, which may be synonymous.

01:00:33.000 Kamala Harris is lackluster.

01:00:34.000 Joe Biden is lackluster.

01:00:35.000 A lot of lackluster stuff going on.

01:00:38.000 This should open a gap for Trump, because again, they're making this entire election a referendum on two topics, essentially COVID, which theoretically could get better, and Trump personally, that Trump is a mean, very, very bad man, which would require Trump to stop.

01:00:51.000 Stop, stop, stop.

01:00:52.000 So here's the thing you shouldn't do.

01:00:54.000 So yesterday, again, this is such political malpractice.

01:00:56.000 He was asked about QAnon.

01:00:58.000 President Trump.

01:00:59.000 And I have to note this before we close.

01:01:00.000 President Trump was asked about QAnon.

01:01:02.000 QAnon is this bizarre conspiracy theory that has been floating around Reddit for years. 1.00

01:01:06.000 Same sort of people who suggest that Comet Ping Pong Pizza or whatever the hell that pizza shop is in Washington DC was actually a child predator grooming site or some such stupid garbage. 0.96

01:01:17.000 They have this theory that Donald Trump is protecting people from cannibalism and that he is the head of some group called Q and that he is trying to prevent the deep state from Satanic rituals or something? 1.00

01:01:29.000 It's totally crazy, insane, garbage, stupid garbage, stupid crap, right? 1.00

01:01:34.000 Well, over the last week, the president endorsed a candidate in Georgia who won a congressional primary, who is a QAnon believer, apparently. 1.00

01:01:43.000 And then the president endorsed Laura Loomer, who is a rather nutty character, at the very least, who said some pretty egregious things, from Florida.

01:01:50.000 And so people were asking him, so he was asked about QAnon.

01:01:54.000 And this would be a good time for the president of the United States to either shut the hell up and say, I don't know anything about QAnon, I'll study it and get back to you.

01:02:00.000 Like, I really don't know anything.

01:02:02.000 I'm not into the internet culture. 1.00

01:02:03.000 Or for him to say, QAnon is a terrible, stupid conspiracy theory. 1.00

01:02:07.000 I have no idea why people believe it. 1.00

01:02:08.000 And it's idiotic. 0.99

01:02:09.000 Instead, because everything in President Trump's world is viewed through the prism of, do they like me or do they not like me? 1.00

01:02:15.000 Do they love me?

01:02:16.000 Love me not.

01:02:17.000 Kim Jong-un?

01:02:17.000 Love me.

01:02:18.000 Love me.

01:02:18.000 Vladimir Putin?

01:02:19.000 Love me not. 0.97

01:02:20.000 Because everything is viewed that way, through this personal prism, you get this incredible answer from the president about QAnon, which, in a time when you are being attacked by your political opposition, is unfocused and conspiratorial, is a crazy answer, just on a poli- Forget the morality of it, which is ridiculous. 1.00

01:02:34.000 The political nature of this is so unbelievably stupid, undermining yourself this way. 0.99

01:02:39.000 What's he thinking? 1.00

01:02:40.000 What?

01:02:41.000 Here, the answer is nothing, right?

01:02:42.000 Here's the president being like, QAnon people like me, so I guess I like them too.

01:02:46.000 Love.

01:02:48.000 The QAnon movement has been, appears to be gaining a lot of followers.

01:02:52.000 Can you talk about what you think about that?

01:02:55.000 Well, I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much.

01:03:00.000 Okay, so a couple things.

01:03:02.000 One, he doesn't know what QAnon is. 0.97

01:03:03.000 this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals. 0.99

01:03:11.000 Is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing?

01:03:15.000 If I can help save the world from problems, I'm willing to do it.

01:03:19.000 I'm willing to put myself out there.

01:03:21.000 Okay, so a couple things.

01:03:22.000 One, he doesn't know what QAnon is.

01:03:23.000 It's perfectly obvious he doesn't.

01:03:25.000 Two, he will literally say nice things about anyone who says they like him.

01:03:28.000 I mean, that's what this comes down to.

01:03:28.000 Right?

01:03:30.000 So, the media are drawing the conclusion that he's actually, like, giving credence to QAnon.

01:03:34.000 Well, he kind of is because he doesn't know what it is.

01:03:36.000 That answer should have ended with, I don't know much about them.

01:03:40.000 But as always, President Trump's answer continues to, do they like me or not?

01:03:43.000 Just like John Lewis.

01:03:44.000 I don't know much about him, but he didn't come to my inauguration. 0.83

01:03:46.000 So he's a poopoo head. 1.00

01:03:47.000 Like, why would you do this?

01:03:48.000 Why? 0.97

01:03:49.000 The entire critique that Obama laid at your feet is that you are being distractible and unserious and that you are willing to grant credence to silly things.

01:03:57.000 There are 90 days till the election.

01:03:58.000 If Trump wants to remain president, he needs to buckle down.

01:04:01.000 Democrats are making this entire thing a referendum on COVID, which could wane.

01:04:04.000 I think actually it is on the wane by statistics.

01:04:07.000 So that's good for Trump.

01:04:08.000 But then they're really making it a referendum on him personally.

01:04:10.000 Which means he needs to cool his jets.

01:04:13.000 No more of the all-caps tweeting. 0.99

01:04:14.000 Calm your ass down, sir. 0.98

01:04:16.000 If you wish to remain president. 1.00

01:04:18.000 And also, don't say stupid, terrible things like that. 1.00

01:04:20.000 That's not good. 1.00

01:04:21.000 Okay, so.

01:04:22.000 We'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

01:04:25.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow for a recap of Joe Biden's big ascension to the Democratic nomination.

01:04:30.000 He's going to give his speech, and presumably there will be three intelligible sentences.

01:04:34.000 We'll break down all three of them tomorrow.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 20, 2020

DNC Night #3: Obama’s Revenge | Ep. 1078

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