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00:00:01.000Also, 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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00:01:33.000Okay, 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.
00:01:44.000It 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.
00:01:56.000And you definitely need to hear from Billie Eilish about why you should vote if you are a rural voter living in Wisconsin.
00:02:02.000Huge, huge, the Billie Eilish endorsement.
00:02:16.000First, 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.
00:02:32.000This is according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:02:34.000The 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.
00:02:42.000attorney, 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.
00:02:52.000In 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.
00:03:01.000Each charge carries a maximum of 20 years in prison.
00:03:06.000Since 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.
00:03:17.000And Bannon stated publicly, we are a volunteer organization.
00:03:20.000So, as always, innocent until proven guilty.
00:03:23.000And I have many comments here on a personal level about Steve Bannon.
00:03:27.000If 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.
00:03:33.000Who was, in fact, my old boss at Breitbart.
00:03:38.000I 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.
00:03:50.000I 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.
00:04:00.000I'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.
00:04:08.000Okay, now to the actual big news of the day, and that was night three of the Democratic National Convention.
00:04:53.000And 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.
00:05:45.000And 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...
00:05:53.000So once again, Joe Biden afterthought at his own birthday party.
00:05:59.000But we begin with the celebrity endorsements.
00:06:02.000So for some reason, the Democrats keep thinking that if they trot out celebrities, this is going to be deeply affecting to millions of Americans.
00:06:11.000There's one thing that Americans like about their celebrities, and it's when they perform, right?
00:06:14.000They like when celebrities perform and do what they're doing, right?
00:06:16.000If 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.
00:06:22.000If 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.
00:06:27.000This is true in every arena of American life.
00:06:29.000Unless you are explicitly in politics, people generally are not interested in hearing your take on the political news of the day.
00:06:34.000And 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.
00:06:46.000I will admit, I'm not a Billie Eilish aficionado.
00:06:48.000I know this comes as a great shock to many of you.
00:06:50.000As 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.
00:07:04.000That's pretty much all I knew about her.
00:07:06.000So we're gonna play a song from her in a second and I'll evaluate.
00:07:09.000I literally have never heard a Billie Eilish song.
00:07:11.000Which is because I stopped listening to music in like 1875 or so.
00:07:15.000But Billie Eilish gave her message at the DNC, because you need to hear from an 18 year old about how you should vote.
00:07:23.000So Billie Eilish, and I mean, it's a weird optic, I will say.
00:07:41.000And you expect Joe Biden to kind of, like the Crypt Keeper, emerge from a grave to receive his plaudits at her hands.
00:07:50.000And she looks kind of depressed, right?
00:07:51.000She's supposed to be making an uplifting appeal to why you should vote, why it's important to vote.
00:07:55.000But 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.
00:09:37.000I'm not supposed to be alone right now.
00:09:41.000I'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.
00:10:24.000I can't even remember which show she was in.
00:10:26.000In any case, she showed up because I definitely needed to hear from Kerry Washington.
00:10:30.000Like, don't they have bigger, like, Billie Eilish is a pretty big celebrity, but Kerry Washington is really not, and neither is Yvonne Longoria.
00:10:35.000Couldn't they have gotten Tom Hanks or something?
00:10:37.000You figure they would have at least made the appeal.
00:10:38.000Here was Kerry Washington yesterday saying we're fighting for our lives.
00:10:41.000Okay, I'm so tired of the language that you're fighting for your life.
00:10:44.000You're literally not fighting for your life.
00:10:46.000This is the most civilized, free, and prosperous country in the history of the world.
00:10:50.000Kerry Washington is not fighting for her life.
00:10:52.000Okay, I'm sorry, but Kerry Washington is a very, very wealthy person in the United States.
00:11:00.000And the fact that she is black does not change any of that.
00:11:02.000She's not fighting for her life, and Billie Eilish is not fighting for her life.
00:11:05.000None of these people are fighting for their lives.
00:11:06.000This all reminds me, the overwrought nature of this is so bizarre.
00:11:10.000It 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.
00:11:25.000And then on the other side, it showed like a Rwandan child holding their stomach and saying, I'm starving.
00:11:29.000Right, and the point obviously is first world problems.
00:11:32.000There are people on planet earth who actually have problems.
00:11:35.000If you're speaking at the DNC and then you go back home to your mansion, you're not fighting for your life.
00:12:01.000But 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?
00:12:08.000Not unless you're living in a major city and riots are being allowed.
00:12:10.000But here's Kerry Washington with the, your life depends on it.
00:12:19.000I'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.
00:13:02.000Okay, 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.
00:13:11.000And that's true, again, on both sides.
00:13:12.000Okay, we're gonna get to more from night three of the DNC in just one second.
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00:14:34.000The DNC night three was the first time they actually laid out some of the radical positions.
00:14:38.000Their most radical position is, of course, they are very much in favor of gun control.
00:14:41.000So Joe Biden pushed a video about how much he loved gun control.
00:14:45.000And this video featured Emma Gonzalez and the kids from March for our lives.
00:14:49.000You know, doing the whole, we demand action, everything, the Second Amendment doesn't exist routine.
00:14:56.000If you ever think that the Democrats aren't radical on this issue, all you have to do is watch their convention.
00:15:00.000I don't know which swing voters in the swing states they're going for with this one.
00:15:03.000But apparently they think this is a popular position, which is weird.
00:15:06.000So they played this video at the DNC last night featuring Emma Gonzalez, probably the most radical member of the March for Our Lives crowd.
00:15:13.000They say that tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence.
00:15:54.000Okay, just because you call BS doesn't mean that it's actually BS.
00:15:56.000In any case, this was one of the big messages at the DNC last night.
00:15:59.000They 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.
00:16:16.000You know who doesn't care, it seems to me?
00:16:17.000It 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.
00:16:28.000Three nights of this, and not one mention of it.
00:16:30.000In fact, glorification of that by contrast.
00:16:41.000I 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.
00:16:47.000But apparently this is what they're going to continue to do.
00:18:06.000Now, 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.
00:18:11.000I'm like, what the f- Which, by the way, is at least an honest take.
00:18:15.000Here is Hillary Clinton from Chappaqua, New York.
00:18:16.000Now, 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.
00:18:26.000They're sort of like the same side of the magnet.
00:18:30.000They are poles, and if you bring the positive side of the magnet toward another positive side of the magnet, they just repel.
00:18:37.000They have to stay outside of a certain mile radius of one another, lest the universe implode.
00:18:41.000For four years, people have told me, I didn't realize how dangerous he was.
00:20:25.000And then she, of course, saved over some of her bile from the last election cycle to talk about Donald Trump.
00:20:31.000I do love when Hillary Clinton does the more in sadness than in anger routine.
00:20:34.000She is so bitter about the 20- I mean, listen, I'd be bitter too, right?
00:20:36.000If I won the popular vote by three million and then didn't end up president, I'd be kind of pissed as well.
00:20:40.000If 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.
00:21:05.000But 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.
00:21:23.000I wish Donald Trump knew how to be a president because America needs a president right now.
00:21:30.000Okay, I just want to point out that when she says, I wish that Donald Trump knew how to put his inhumanity and ego aside.
00:21:40.000That was basically Hillary Clinton's entire career long slogan.
00:21:44.000Hillary 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.
00:21:52.000Donald Trump ended up being president.
00:21:54.000She concluded by saying, what do you have to lose?
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00:24:46.000But other than that, things were going pretty well.
00:24:49.000The economy was really booming on the foreign policy front.
00:24:52.000A lot of progress was being made in the Middle East.
00:24:53.000A lot of progress was being made versus China.
00:24:56.000But 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.
00:25:07.000Doesn't matter that that really is inaccurate on every level.
00:25:11.000Doesn't matter, by the way, that there's no apparent standard for reopening anywhere.
00:25:29.000I 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.
00:25:37.000There is no standard for reopening for the Democratic governors.
00:25:41.000And then they are praised to the skies by the media for all of this.
00:25:43.000So the Democratic playbook is keep everything locked down as much as you possibly can.
00:25:46.000Blame Trump for all the death, even though those cities, like New York City, just absolutely got walloped and are governed by blue.
00:25:52.000Okay, Nancy Pelosi is withholding aid right now.
00:25:56.000Republicans are trying to push forward a relief package for people who are still on unemployment.
00:26:26.000The science-based action, the HEROES Act we enacted three months ago, is essential to safeguard lives, livelihood, and the life of our democracy.
00:27:53.000There 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.
00:28:06.000Hey, Elizabeth Warren tried the same routine, by the way.
00:28:09.000She also tried to blame COVID on Trump, which is a despicable character assault by Elizabeth Warren.
00:28:15.000I will note that this is pretty amazing.
00:28:16.000So Elizabeth Warren spoke from a classroom in Springfield, Massachusetts.
00:28:20.000I 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.
00:28:30.000The same people who are dictating that they cannot reopen classrooms are speaking from the classrooms.
00:28:33.000The classroom's good enough for Elizabeth Warren to be in it, but not your kids.
00:28:36.000My favorite part of this graphic, though, is that in the background, somebody took children's block letters and put BLM in the background.
00:28:43.000If you're watching this, you can see it in the right-hand side of your screen.
00:28:46.000It's literally they took the letters B, L, and M and put them in the cubby holes.
00:28:54.000Here was Elizabeth Warren, another extraordinarily non-ego-driven, non-radical, non-off-putting person, suggesting that COVID is on President Trump.
00:29:46.000It's burned through a bunch of nations.
00:29:48.000What in the world is she talking about?
00:29:50.000Also, why is great aunt Warren yelling at everybody?
00:29:54.000We all need to be in the fight to get Joe and Kamala elected.
00:29:56.000woman hear me roar pitch again. This is all part of the Kamala Harris pitch.
00:29:58.000We organized, we persisted, we changed America. Women power.
00:30:02.000Yeah, you went nowhere, Elizabeth Warren. I mean, you got skunked. We all need to be in the fight to get Joe and Kamala elected.
00:30:11.000And 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.
00:31:19.000Barack 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.
00:31:29.000I mean, again, props to the man for being very good at his job.
00:31:33.000Also, his perversion of the Constitution was unparalleled in his own administration.
00:31:40.000His 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.
00:31:47.000And 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.
00:31:56.000I mean, the gaslighting is incredible.
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00:33:49.000He's a Chicago politician knife fighter.
00:33:51.000He's always been a Chicago politician knife fighter.
00:33:53.000The 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.
00:34:01.000Americans were far more optimistic about racial matters when Obama entered office than when he left office.
00:34:17.000The 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.
00:34:25.000I mean, the media just sit there and gaze at the pictures of Barack Obama and think of better times.
00:34:33.000They got some Barry White going in the background.
00:34:34.000As you'll see from the media reaction to this, this has not waned one iota.
00:34:38.000Many 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.
00:34:49.000Much of the rest of the country saw Barack Obama as a deeply divisive figure.
00:34:51.000They liked him personally, but they saw him as deeply divisive.
00:34:53.000They didn't like his policies very much.
00:34:59.000Okay, so Barack Obama has always been partisan.
00:35:01.000And it's not a shock that he showed up at the DNC and was super partisan.
00:35:04.000I mean, he literally showed up at John Lewis's funeral and was super partisan.
00:35:07.000John 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.
00:35:15.000And then Barack Obama gets up there and he's like, Donald Trump is trying to change the election standards to steal votes.
00:35:21.000It's like, oh my God, dude, this is a memorial service.
00:35:23.000But you shouldn't have been shocked by that.
00:35:24.000He 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.
00:35:33.000He went to a memorial service in Arizona and he politicized gun control there.
00:35:35.000So Barack Obama has always been this guy.
00:35:37.000Nothing has changed about Barack Obama.
00:35:40.000And Barack Obama has always been characterized by this incredible ability to double talk the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
00:35:46.000So 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.
00:36:02.000Those are the fundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
00:36:06.000Barack Obama knows that, and just like every progressive since Woodrow Wilson, he just likes that.
00:36:10.000He doesn't believe there are natural rights that pre-exist government.
00:36:13.000He believes that rights come from government, just like entitlements come from government.
00:36:16.000Barack Obama does not believe that a limited government ought to protect rights.
00:36:20.000He believes that an unlimited government ought to give you things.
00:36:22.000Barack Obama does not believe in checks and balances.
00:36:24.000He believes in whatever gets the job done.
00:36:29.000That's why you got war in Libya without congressional authorization, Obama.
00:36:33.000And yet, the man has the temerity to get- and he's been doing this throughout his career, so this is nothing new.
00:36:38.000He has the temerity to get up there and pretend that he's speaking in the name of documents that he absolutely abhors.
00:36:43.000Because he thinks that there are limitations on the ability of government to bring us all together.
00:36:47.000In 2012, one of the actual slogans flashed on the scoreboard at the DNC was, government is the only thing we share.
00:36:54.000Hey, 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.
00:37:17.000In that giant display of the Constitution of the United States.
00:37:23.000Barack Obama's always been a tremendous speaker.
00:37:25.000It 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.
00:37:30.000He does a good job, just like Michelle does, of speaking direct to camera.
00:37:38.000So 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.
00:37:52.000Now listen, the Constitution is pro-people voting, but it is not a pure democracy.
00:37:56.000It is a Republican document that embodies all sorts of checks and balances, specifically because the founders did not want mob rule.
00:38:03.000But here is Barack Obama reducing all of America's founding philosophy down to people vote.
00:38:08.000No, that is not all of America's founding philosophy.
00:38:10.000You're leaving out some pretty key elements there, President Obama.
00:38:57.000To which we could better realize our highest ideals.
00:39:01.000Okay, again, he reduces all of the philosophy of the founding to people can vote and then we can realize quote-unquote our highest ideals.
00:39:07.000Now Obama has said in previous speeches, namely his second inaugural address, that those highest ideals are completely malleable by time, right?
00:39:13.000Liberty doesn't have the same meaning to everybody.
00:39:15.000This is Barack Obama's reductionism of the Constitution into a progressive version of what government ought to be.
00:39:21.000And it's important to note what this is because This was his tenure, right?
00:39:24.000He transmuted the basic ideals of the Constitution into something very, very different.
00:39:29.000The 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.
00:39:39.000It was more that all people are created in the image of God, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.
00:39:44.000Those are the things that are in the Declaration that end up embodied in the Constitution.
00:39:49.000But the problem is that that embeds a few further principles that Obama doesn't agree with.
00:39:52.000Namely, that you are endowed by or created with certain inalienable rights.
00:39:55.000Rights that cannot be tread on by the government.
00:39:57.000Obama doesn't believe that kind of thing.
00:39:59.000Right, so in a second, we'll get to more of Obama's, you know, continuing perversion of American philosophy.
00:40:04.000And 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.
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00:40:32.000I don't like unwritten rules like that generally.
00:40:34.000If you're a political figure, obviously you have opinions.
00:40:43.000What I begrudge is that he's a partisan and the media act as though he is not a partisan.
00:40:46.000Like he's some great unifying figure who believes in the constitution when he obviously does not.
00:40:50.000He routinely overran the boundaries of the constitution when he was president.
00:40:53.000We'll get to more of the hypocrisy from Barack Obama in just one second.
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00:43:41.000All 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.
00:44:01.000He had some words for President Trump.
00:44:21.000And this is a line that was also used the other night by Michelle Obama.
00:44:23.000So Michelle and Barack are going to do the, we're very competent, Donald Trump is not very competent routine.
00:44:28.000And this one has some tell to it, right?
00:44:30.000I 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.
00:44:43.000Now, the good news is that the constitutional boundaries hem in the president and he has a team around him.
00:44:48.000And so that really isn't the end of the world in terms of policymaking.
00:44:50.000Trump's policy has been a lot better for the country than Barack Obama's policies were.
00:44:55.000But 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.
00:45:10.000So 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.
00:45:17.000I mean, it's just it's beyond political malpractice what Trump has been doing in the last couple of weeks via Twitter.
00:45:22.000Anyway, here is Obama going after him.
00:45:25.000I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously.
00:45:33.000That he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care.
00:45:51.000No interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends.
00:45:58.000Okay, so there are several things here to unpack.
00:46:01.000One, 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.
00:46:15.000When Obama says that he hasn't understood the depth of his office, this is Captain Selfie over here, right?
00:46:22.000Barack Obama is the guy who literally took a selfie stick into the Oval Office and was taking pictures of himself with the selfie stick.
00:46:27.000He was doing interviews with Glozell and Pimp with a Limp back in 2012.
00:46:31.000So when it comes to the seriousness of the office, Barack Obama was not exactly Captain Serious himself.
00:46:37.000OK, beyond that, when he says that he showed no interest in helping anybody but himself, a lot of Americans were doing great until COVID.
00:46:43.000We had the best economy in 50 years under Donald Trump's presidency before COVID.
00:46:48.000There are a lot of folks who are affected.
00:46:49.000I didn't like criminal justice reform.
00:46:51.000Criminal justice reform helps a lot of people.
00:46:53.000Whether you like it or not, it helped a lot of people who Trump obviously wanted to help, who were not his political constituency, frankly.
00:47:02.000And Donald Trump has helped a lot of people.
00:47:03.000When 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.
00:47:12.000I mean, the very least you can say about Barack Obama is that when he entered public office, the man was not rich.
00:47:16.000He's now worth tens of millions of dollars.
00:47:19.000Donald Trump entered public office being a billionaire, and he will leave a billionaire.
00:47:22.000So when it comes to people who have used politics to make money, Barack Obama is on that list.
00:47:28.000Okay, then Obama said that Trump hasn't grown into the job, and then he blames Trump for 170,000 dead people.
00:47:33.000This is really, really scurrilous stuff.
00:47:34.000Again, 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.
00:48:20.000Saying that Trump is responsible for 170,000 deaths is crap.
00:48:23.000Him saying that our worst impulses were only unleashed under Donald Trump?
00:48:27.000At 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.
00:48:36.000In fact, not only does Barack Obama not decry that, at a certain point, he actually paid tribute to it.
00:48:41.000He just pretends that everybody's protesting.
00:48:44.000Obama said about the protesters, you are the nation's dream fulfilled.
00:48:48.000Really, 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.
00:48:56.000It 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.
00:49:06.000Next 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.
00:49:15.000Here's Barack Obama pretending that the only thing that's been happening in the United States is some nice low-level protest.
00:49:21.000To 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.
00:49:31.000Earlier generations had to be persuaded that everyone has equal worth.
00:49:39.000And 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.
00:50:02.000When we don't run it, we need you out in the streets.
00:50:04.000We 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.
00:50:12.000But, when we're in power, you need to calm it down, guys, because then we got this thing.
00:50:17.000This is the inside-outside game Democrats are playing.
00:51:03.000That is a hallmark of the progressive movement since the beginning of the 20th century.
00:51:07.000But here is Donald Trump suggesting that Trump doesn't, this is Obama suggesting Trump doesn't believe in American principles.
00:51:13.000While standing in front of a sign about the Constitution of the United States, here is Captain Penn in a phone.
00:51:21.000Our 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.
00:51:42.000But 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.
00:51:59.000So that's always exciting stuff to hear from President Obama.
00:52:03.000He also went after President Obama for using what he called troops as political props.
00:52:08.000Again, 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.
00:52:21.000Many of the protesters in the media say no.
00:52:23.000In any case, hearing the hypocrisy here is astonishing.
00:52:27.000Hearing 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.
00:52:47.000They 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.
00:53:06.000Again, Barack Obama routinely, routinely did this kind of thing.
00:53:09.000He stood before troops and said, this is a direct quote, you guys make a pretty good photo op.
00:53:14.000Okay, and then Obama concluded by saying that this administration is tearing down democracy.
00:53:18.000Again, 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.
00:53:26.000This is coming from the same guy who sicked his IRS on conservative 501c3s but had plausible deniability.
00:53:34.000This is the same guy who routinely engaged in activities that violated the long-standing norms of the Constitution.
00:53:42.000He 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.
00:53:49.000This 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.
00:53:59.000And yet here he is saying the administration is going to tear down democracy.
00:54:33.000What he's saying right now is so wildly, wildly dangerous.
00:54:38.000Him saying that basically the fascists are at the gates and if we lose this election, then the country is over is extraordinarily dangerous.
00:54:45.000If Joe Biden wins this election, the country is not over.
00:54:48.000It 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.
00:54:56.000But I don't believe that America's electoral institutions are over if the Democrats win.
00:56:06.000I'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.
00:56:24.000So again, when Democrats say we're at the end of American democracy, powerful stuff.
00:56:27.000When Donald Trump suggests that the Democrats want to ruin American democracy, terrible stuff.
00:56:32.000How 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?
00:57:24.000Five seconds ago, Joe was a racist bigot.
00:57:26.000But now, Joe's the savior of the country.
00:57:28.000So here is Kamala Harris suggesting that Joe Biden would turn our challenges into purposes.
00:57:32.000This comes the night after Joe Biden said that Joe Biden would make us whole.
00:57:34.000Joe Biden can't even make his mental acuity whole.
00:57:37.000Here 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.
00:59:15.000It turns out that there is, in fact, a vaccine for racism.
00:59:17.000You just get nominated the presidential candidate for the Democrats, and then they just stop calling you racist, like, randomly, like Kamala Harris did.
00:59:22.000It turns out the vaccine is being nominated for high office as a Democrat, and then everything just goes away.
00:59:29.000My 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.
00:59:37.000She said that she knows a predator when she sees one.
00:59:40.000Which is weird and awkward, because she said that she believed Joe Biden's sexual assault and harassment accusers.
00:59:47.000So she knows a predator when she sees one.
00:59:48.000Unless she's running with one, then it's easy.
00:59:52.000So Brett Kavanaugh, yes on the assault.
01:00:38.000This 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.
01:00:59.000And I have to note this before we close.
01:01:00.000President Trump was asked about QAnon.
01:01:02.000QAnon is this bizarre conspiracy theory that has been floating around Reddit for years.
01:01:06.000Same 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.
01:01:17.000They 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?
01:01:34.000Well, over the last week, the president endorsed a candidate in Georgia who won a congressional primary, who is a QAnon believer, apparently.
01:01:43.000And then the president endorsed Laura Loomer, who is a rather nutty character, at the very least, who said some pretty egregious things, from Florida.
01:01:50.000And so people were asking him, so he was asked about QAnon.
01:01:54.000And 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.
01:02:20.000Because 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.
01:02:34.000The political nature of this is so unbelievably stupid, undermining yourself this way.
01:03:49.000The 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.
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