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00:00:30.000Okay, we're gonna get to all of it in just one second.
00:00:33.000Let's begin with the Washington Post finally deciding That something very important has happened to change the nature of the Trump presidency.
00:00:41.000You can tell the press are getting desperate when they are now pushing the notion that drag queens are going to end the Trump presidency.
00:01:28.000The murmur spread through the crowd at the Lincoln Theatre, but not because the headliner, Sasha Velour, the Season 9 winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, was about to take the stage.
00:01:36.000Everyone was looking at the balcony seats on the right, where a ponytailed woman in a navy pantsuit was taking her seat.
00:01:44.000The audience rose to give representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has been outspoken about her appreciation for drag on Twitter, a standing ovation.
00:01:52.000Two days later, in another Washington mashup of work and work, W-E-R-K, drag queen Pissy Miles, and one of the most charming things about drag queen culture is the choice of R-rated names, clacked down the halls of the Longworth building in shiny red pumps, Miles was there as a journalist and commentator, covering the impeachment for livestreaming, crowdsourced to news company Haps, though she quickly became a story herself.
00:02:15.000It's not often that a drag queen sashays her way through official Washington at 6 feet 8 inches in heels and a wig, serving looks and political analysis in equal measure.
00:02:23.000The following week, she was reporting again, this time from the spin room at the Democratic debate in Atlanta.
00:02:27.000I do have a question about the use of pronouns here.
00:02:29.000If you're a drag queen, doesn't that by necessity suggest that you are a male?
00:02:32.000Hey, if you're an actual transgender person, then you're not a drag queen, are you?
00:02:37.000So it's weird to call a drag queen she when you're a he wearing makeup and heels and a wig.
00:02:44.000Drag and politics, says the Washington Post, have always been intertwined, ever since the 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York, where drag queens and transgender women, notably the performer Marsha P. Johnson, were among the foremothers of the gay rights movement.
00:02:57.000And in the lead up to 2020, with drag enjoying more mainstream popularity than ever before, drag queens are becoming a perfect foil to President Trump.
00:03:06.000You might be losing when you're relying on drag queens named Pissy Miles to oust the President of the United States.
00:03:15.000So the drag queen is the perfect foil?
00:03:20.000A drag queen who shows up with a camera in pumps to a congressional hearing.
00:03:27.000Pissy Miles, the illustrious, wise, says, in the queer community, and this is something that a more broad audience might not know, drag queens are kind of looked at as community leaders and mouthpieces.
00:03:37.000They ride out first with their sword in the air.
00:03:40.000And a lot of unfortunate language in this piece.
00:03:42.000The act of dressing in drag has long been a political statement.
00:03:45.000It's an act of rebellion against societal norms, and an art form that elevates the voices of disenfranchised communities.
00:03:50.000Oh, I just thought that it was guys dressing in drag.
00:03:52.000I thought that was, like, what it was.
00:03:54.000But apparently, it is a rebellion against societal norms.
00:03:57.000The most powerful voices among us are people who don the garb of the opposite gender.
00:04:02.000As drag has attracted a new mainstream audience, one that might see it purely as entertainment, says the Washington Post, there have been efforts to make the connection more overt.
00:04:09.000House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has appeared on Drag Race, and the show has hosted political challenges for the contestants, asking them to participate in a mock presidential debate and a Trump-themed musical.
00:04:18.000DragCon, a convention for fans of the Emmy-winning show, has hosted panels on the art of resistance and drag in Trump's America.
00:04:26.000In Los Angeles last April, maybe a girl, again, R-rated, bizarre names.
00:04:58.000The gender-fluid performer known for her satirical impressions of Melania Trump, Betsy DeVos, and Sarah Sanders announced her plans to run for California's 28th congressional district and the sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag nuns, which isn't humiliating to Catholics in any way.
00:05:13.000It's not targeting a minority group in the United States for mockery in any way.
00:05:17.000Have been politically active since their founding in 1979.
00:05:19.000No one commands attention quite like a drag queen.
00:05:23.000By the way, if you pay attention to drag queens on the street, however, then this is because you're a bigot.
00:05:28.000Even though, obviously, this is activity begging for attention.
00:05:30.000It's a matter of channeling that attention into important causes, says Velour.
00:05:34.000The queer community, especially the drag community, is made up of many people who fall below the poverty line.
00:05:39.000And many black and brown people, said Velour, I think the popularity of drag and popularity of those kinds of stories and narratives is going to shift people's minds, hopefully.
00:05:46.000If you see an impoverished person dressing in the garb of the opposite gender and strutting around town, and you think to yourself, that's a strange life choice if you wish to rise in the world at a Chase Manhattan bank, then this is because your awareness has not been raised.
00:06:03.000Pissy Miles had no reporting experience prior to her gig with Haps.
00:06:07.000She was recruited by one of the company's contributors, who thought she would be an eye-catching addition to their coverage, which targets younger viewers.
00:06:12.000She didn't realize she'd get so much attention.
00:06:15.000It's noticeable, it's notable that a drag queen was sent to cover an event that wasn't overtly about LGBTQ policy.
00:06:21.000Though one could argue that impeachment is the ultimate case of, I'm sorry, my dear, but you're up for elimination.
00:06:31.000To our audience, she's another person, an unusual person, a theatrical person, said David Newman, Haps's co-founder and chief content officer.
00:06:37.000He's talking to Miles about covering other news events throughout 2020.
00:06:43.000Audience members at that event mentioned earlier were doubly starstruck by the juxtaposition between Velour and AOC, and even tried to form a selfie line to the balcony until security shut it down.
00:06:51.000The congresswoman met Velour backstage, filming a short video where they fangirled over each other, said Velour, dressed in a pink gown.
00:06:56.000Velour thanked her for facing the kind of online bullying and rabid surreal hate from some right-wing people.
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00:08:27.000Alrighty, so the Washington Post continues with this extraordinarily long piece about how drag queens are going to save us all from Trump.
00:08:33.000Because, by the way, President Trump has like nothing against drag queens.
00:08:37.000I mean, he was the person who was suggesting that Caitlyn Jenner, who's not a drag queen, but that Caitlyn Jenner could use any bathroom that he wanted, because Caitlyn Jenner is a man, could use any bathroom he wanted at Trump Tower.
00:08:48.000So Trump doesn't care about this stuff at all, but apparently drag queens are exactly the droids you're looking for.
00:08:54.000According to the Washington Post, Drag's ascension into the political conversation has not been without challenges.
00:08:59.000Drag Queen Story Hour, a national program that encourages queens to read to children in libraries, has sparked protests across the country.
00:09:05.000Well, yes, maybe because if you have adults who are trying to create gender confusion for small children and parents who subject their children to that, that's a bad thing.
00:09:15.000Maybe when you have adults, many of whom Well, some of whom, a minority of whom, shall we say, have had checkered histories.
00:09:24.000I mean, we've had several cases of Drag Queen Story Hour readers having had criminal records on sexual matters, reading to children, or showing up dressed in skimpy outfits to read to children.
00:09:38.000Yes, that has created some controversy, as it turns out.
00:09:41.000Founders say it teaches children empathy and inclusiveness.
00:09:45.000It is not about the performative need for many of the drag queens who want to read to small children.
00:09:51.000Fox News anchor Martha McCallum rightly told viewers the program aimed to indoctrinate and unnecessarily expose children to sexuality, which of course is exactly true.
00:10:00.000A meme widely shared in 2017 featured a photo of a woman in hijab sitting on a New York subway next to drag performer Gilda Wabbit, which Twitter user PollNewsNetwork1 derisively captioned, This is the future liberals want.
00:10:10.000Liberals responded that they did, in fact, want that future, and mocked the sentiment by turning it into a meme.
00:10:15.000A similar thing happened to Velour after she posted her video with AOC on Twitter.
00:10:18.000Conservative gay political commentator Dave Rubin reposted the video with the caption, Your Democratic 2024 ticket, ladies, gentlemen, and other.
00:10:25.000Another Twitter user with the handle BRREC responded, if she wins in 2024, that pink tall person will be our Supreme Court judge.
00:10:32.000The lore appropriated the insult, changing her name on Twitter to pink tall person.
00:10:36.000If these people are so threatened by a little makeup and like by theater, talk about people who live their lives defined by fear.
00:10:41.000They cannot think rationally if they're afraid of this gorgeous lipstick and a little corsetry.
00:10:48.000We're just pointing out that this is a cultural shift and that the media are cheering it on all the way.
00:10:52.000But if they really believe that this is going to result in Trump losing the election, they got another thing coming.
00:10:56.000I don't think most Americans are interested in pissy miles deciding foreign policy.
00:11:03.000Not because Pissy Miles is unqualified to discuss foreign policy.
00:11:05.000I don't know Pissy Miles' international relations background.
00:11:09.000But because if the left is forcing the notion that gender is completely malleable and that putting on a wig and a dress is the essence of womanhood and you get to use the opposite pronouns if you do so, I don't think most Americans are on board with that.
00:11:24.000And meanwhile, the radicalism of the left continues apace.
00:11:27.000Pete Buttigieg under severe attack today.
00:11:40.000Originally, in this race, I said that Buttigieg was maybe the most interesting Democrat in the race, specifically because he didn't seem like an overt radical jerk.
00:11:48.000Pete Buttigieg ...would spend his days talking about how he would eat a Chick-fil-A and he didn't really see the controversy, which was a nice thing in our culturally polarized country.
00:11:58.000And then Buttigieg, trying to win over the left, swiveled to the left and started talking about how you're a bad Christian if you don't believe that his same-sex marriage is just as non-sinful as your traditional marriage, and suggesting that you're a bad Christian also if you don't believe in abortion on demand, which is a weird take.
00:12:15.000Well, now Pete Buttigieg has swiveled back to the center, mainly because he's able to contrast himself with Elizabeth Warren, who is wildly to the left.
00:12:22.000And because of this, he has been gaining in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, where according to the RealClearPolitics polling data, he's now ahead in Iowa, and he is basically running even in New Hampshire under the polling average, but in the last couple of polls, he's actually been up in New Hampshire.
00:12:34.000Those are heavily, heavily white states.
00:12:36.000Very few black Democrats live in Iowa and New Hampshire.
00:12:40.000Very few black Americans live in Iowa and New Hampshire by percentage.
00:12:43.000And so the rip on Pete Buttigieg has been he's winning in all the white states, but as soon as you get down south, he's going to get clocked.
00:12:49.000Because 60% of the Democratic primary base in states like South Carolina is black.
00:12:54.000And Pete Buttigieg has right now a 0% rating among black voters in places like South Carolina.
00:13:01.000So the attacks were soon to come, right?
00:13:03.000Buttigieg has been gaining steam, and Elizabeth Warren has been losing steam, and so you could see these attacks coming from a mile away.
00:13:09.000Well, the latest attack, which is trending on Twitter today, was by a guy named Michael Harriot.
00:13:16.000Okay, Michael Harriot is a writer for The Root, and he wrote a very long piece talking about how Pete Buttigieg is a terrible person.
00:13:28.000The title of the piece is Pete Buttigieg is a lying MF.
00:13:33.000He's not just a person with very little black support.
00:13:37.000So what makes Pete Buttigieg a lying MF?
00:13:39.000As it turns out, Pete Buttigieg has suggested in the past that educational disparities between racial groups may not be entirely due to systemic discrimination.
00:14:39.000You know, where black people live, says Michael Harriot.
00:14:41.000During the crack revolution of the late 80s, to get to school every day, I would give a friendly nod as I walked past the early rising dope boys.
00:14:48.000I meandered through the projects and, if it had recently rained, I waited for someone to help me put a 10 foot long wooden plank across a ditch that separated the black part of town from the bucolic neighborhood where the only high school in town was located.
00:14:59.000If no one was there, or if a prankster had hidden the makeshift bridge, then I had to either leap across, or walk the long way around, adding an extra 15 minutes to my morning walk.
00:15:06.000Our neighborhood had no bus, so either you walked that balance beam between the projects, took a 30 minute stroll, or you said F it.
00:15:12.000But if I did, it wouldn't have been because of my lack of role models.
00:15:15.000If I had chosen to keep my mama's lights on instead of making that daily trek, my decision wouldn't have been based on a tropological dearth of motivation or communal ambivalence.
00:15:23.000As I grow older, I realize that I was not gifted, talented, or even diligent.
00:15:29.000Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is a lucky MF-er too.
00:15:32.000By the way, in this whole piece, Michael Harriot never explains what separated him from the quote-unquote dope boys, why he went to school and they didn't, for example.
00:16:23.000Right, because that's something you're born with.
00:16:25.000Now, does that mean you should be punished for that?
00:16:26.000No, it means that we should encourage more people to get married before they have kids, obviously.
00:16:29.000But we'll get to Michael Harriot's actual critique of Pete Buttigieg in just one second.
00:16:33.000And it does demonstrate where the heart and soul of the Democratic Party are now, and how you are not allowed to say basic truths, because Pete Buttigieg made a boo-boo, you see.
00:16:41.000He said a basic truth back in 2011, and this is not acceptable.
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00:17:55.000Okay, so Michael Harriot says that presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is a lucky MF for two.
00:17:59.000He attended one of the best private schools in the country that was quite literally on the campus of one of the best colleges in the country, University of Notre Dame, where his father worked as a professor for 29 years.
00:18:08.000His mother taught in an even better, more elite school.
00:18:10.000And if you asked how he got into Harvard, he became a Rhodes Scholar.
00:18:13.000Mayor Pete would probably insist it had nothing to do with whiteness.
00:18:15.000He would likely tell you he valued education and had great role models, both of which are probably true.
00:18:20.000There is no question that he is intelligent, hardworking, and well-educated.
00:18:26.000So when a clip surfaced of Buttigieg explaining why Negro kids fail at school so often, his answer made perfect sense.
00:18:31.000Okay, here is Pete Buttigieg's answer that drove Michael Harriot to call Pete Buttigieg a lying MF-er and caused that phrase to trend on Twitter.
00:18:40.000Kids need to see evidence that education is going to work for them, right?
00:18:43.000So you see a lot of parts of town that work.
00:18:46.000Yeah, because you're motivated because you believe that at the end of your educational process there's a reward, there's a stable life, there's a job.
00:18:54.000And there are a lot of kids, especially the lower income minority neighborhoods, who literally just haven't seen it work.
00:19:01.000There isn't somebody they know personally who testifies to the value of education.
00:19:06.000Okay, and for this, he is termed by Michael Harriot a lying MF-er.
00:19:16.000Pete Buttigieg went to the best educational institutions America has to offer, and he, more than anyone on the GD planet, knows that everything he just say is a bald-faced lie.
00:19:26.000Well, no, actually, nothing he said was a bald-faced lie.
00:19:29.000He explicitly talked about lack of opportunity on the other end for a lot of young black people, and apparently this is racist.
00:19:35.000It's also racist if you suggest that there is a problem in a lot of inner-city communities.
00:19:40.000By the way, it exists in white Appalachia as well, as J.D.
00:19:43.000Vance has talked about in Hillbilly Elegy, where education is not invested with the same value as other values on the hierarchy.
00:19:52.000But apparently, according to Michael Harriot, if you point this out, if you point out that not every discrepancy is discrimination, not every disparity between groups is discrimination, this makes you a lying MF-er.
00:20:02.000So, according to Michael Harriot, what causes the entire racial gap in education?
00:20:05.000He says, majority minority schools received $23 billion less in funding than majority white schools, according to a recent survey by EdBuild.
00:20:12.000Okay, well, by the way, that is largely due to lower property tax expenditures in largely minority areas because of endemic poverty.
00:20:20.000Meaning that if you have a poverty-ridden area, many local public schools are powered by the property taxes in those areas.
00:20:26.000If you're not garnering a lot of property tax, there's not as much money to spend.
00:20:29.000Black students in Indiana, the state where Buttigieg serves as mayor and across the country, are disciplined more harshly than white students.
00:20:35.000But even though Buttigieg has never attended a school with more than 10% black students, he thinks he knows what's stopping black kids from achieving their educational dreams.
00:20:42.000Apparently, it's not the fact that the unemployment rate for black college grads is twice as high as the unemployment rate for white grads.
00:20:47.000Black college grads are paid 80 cents for every dollar a white person with the same education earns.
00:20:51.000White people leave college with lower debt and higher earnings.
00:20:53.000White kids get more resources, more advanced classes, and have access to more technology.
00:20:57.000But Pete says it could all be solved with a vision board.
00:21:00.000Mayor Pete's bold bleepery is not just wrong, it is proof.
00:21:03.000It proves, says Michael Harriot, that men like him are more willing to perpetuate the fantastic narrative of Negro neighborhoods needing more role models and briefcase carriers than make the people in power stare into the sun and see the blinding light of racism.
00:21:15.000Get Along moderates would rather make bleep up out of whole cloth than wade into the waters of reality.
00:21:20.000Pete Buttigieg doesn't want to change anything.
00:21:51.000And then this guy concludes his piece by talking about where he got all this money.
00:21:54.000Apparently, he got the money from the quote-unquote dope boys he walked past every day who collected all of the ones and a few five dollar bills from guys in the black and handed to him when he left college.
00:22:03.000He still doesn't explain why exactly he kept jumping the ditch, but a bunch of the kids in his neighborhood did not jump the ditch.
00:22:10.000And he doesn't explain that in any way.
00:22:12.000Now, does this mean that everyone faces the same obstacles in life?
00:22:15.000You'd be a fool to suggest that everyone faces the same obstacles in life.
00:22:19.000But you would also be a fool to suggest that the discrepancies in educational performance between black students and white students are entirely due to institutional discrimination.
00:22:28.000And in a second, I'm going to show you that it is just not true with a few quick facts and figures, many of them garnered from the census data.
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00:23:44.000So, when I talk about the radicalism of the Democratic Party, when I talk about the radicalism of many members of the media, You know, beyond the whole drag queens are going to take down Trump, you have this whole article about how Pete Buttigieg is not just wrong, a lying MF-er for suggesting that kids from lower income neighborhoods haven't seen education work because there isn't someone they know personally who testifies to the value of education.
00:24:10.000That happens to be true on a statistical level.
00:24:13.000For example, there is a study that was recently done by researchers at Stanford, Harvard, and the Census Bureau.
00:24:20.000It was about income inequality and income mobility in the United States.
00:24:25.000What the study noted, and this is fascinating, is that black women, when you adjust for income gap in the households where they grow up, Black and white women raised in similar households do not have an income gap.
00:24:56.000If it's institutional racism, then what you would expect is that black women Despite adjusting for all other factors, would go to college at a lower rate, they would earn less, but that is not true.
00:25:08.000The same study, by the way, found that income gaps between whites and Hispanics were converging, and also Asian Americans actually earn more than whites raised at the same income level.
00:25:16.000Presumably that isn't discrimination in favor of Asian Americans.
00:25:20.000The study also discusses one of the reasons why black men who are raised in fairly economically privileged households actually fall into poverty a lot more often.
00:25:31.000According to the study, black men raised in the top 1% by millionaires were as likely to be incarcerated as white men raised in households earning about $36,000.
00:25:40.000The study itself finds that the relationship between racism in a given area and incarceration rates is not statistically significant.
00:25:47.000Also, if affirmative action programs in colleges and high schools are defined by race rather than non-income, high-income young black men may still end up paying a price in the workplace on the other end.
00:26:01.000So when you talk about unemployment rate among black college graduates, one of the problems is that affirmative action programs create a negative stigma around black graduates.
00:26:09.000That stigma may be unfair, but it does exist in the workplace.
00:26:14.000Also, if you're going to look at underperformance in the educational sense, this study from Harvard and Stanford and Yale, again, what it shows is that social fabric matters a lot, meaning that it's not just about having a dad in the home, it's about how many fathers there are in the neighborhood.
00:26:30.000So even kids who grew up in a single mother home, if they grew up in a neighborhood where there are lots of fathers around to provide parental figures, then they do fine.
00:26:39.000But if they're growing up in an area where there are no fathers around, then they don't do fine.
00:26:45.000Hey, this is really, you know, this does demonstrate, this does demonstrate, this study, that disparity does not always equal discrimination.
00:26:55.000And in fact, in the 1980s, black anthropologist John Ogbu theorized that black kids were often penalized socially for acting white, meaning engaging in education.
00:27:02.000In 2004, Barack Obama said, quote, children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the TV sets and eradicate the slander that says that a black youth with a book is acting white.
00:27:11.000Ten years later, in 2014, he says there's an element of truth in the accusation that too many black parents denigrate education, where, okay, if boys are reading too much, then, well, why are you doing this?
00:27:22.000Black kids spend significantly less time on homework than any other race of children.
00:27:25.000Asian kids spend significantly more time on homework.
00:27:29.000Harvard's Roland Fryer, a black professor, formalized a, quote, particular peer effect, acting white, which potentially contributes to the ongoing puzzle of black underachievement.
00:27:38.000Statistically speaking, high school graduation rates are massively different between the races.
00:27:43.000Okay, that is not an effect of quote-unquote systemic racism.
00:27:46.000That is people who are not going to school.
00:27:48.000Okay, that is other factors that are driving kids not to go to school other than racism, presumably.
00:27:53.000Again, these are majority-minority schools in many cases.
00:27:57.000Black kids across the country have a significantly higher dropout rate.
00:28:01.000Graduation rates nationally, black students graduated at a rate of 69% as of 2011-2012.
00:28:11.000By the way, Asian Pacific Islanders nearly always graduate state by state at a higher rate than white kids.
00:28:19.000Or how about the idea that was pushed forward in this Michael Harriot piece that the big problem here is that in schools, black kids are punished differently than white kids.
00:28:27.000Well, again, that ignores the question as to whether black kids, not on an individual level, but on a group data level, are on average acting out more than white kids in school.
00:28:38.000The Justice and Education Departments released an annual report called Indicators of School Crime and Safety as of 2018.
00:28:46.000Black students self-reported, as according to Heather McDonald over at City Journal, being in a physical fight at school at over twice the rate of white students in 2015.
00:28:53.000A data point certainly relevant to the question of racial rates of school discipline.
00:28:57.000Schools that were 50% minority or more reported weekly gang activity at nearly 10 times the rate of schools where minorities constituted 5 to 20% of the population.
00:29:06.000Reports of gang violence in schools with less than 5% minority population were too low to be usable statistically.
00:29:11.000Widespread weekly disorder in classrooms was reported in schools with at least 50% minority populations at more than five times the rate as in schools with 5 to 20% minorities.
00:29:22.000These facts are rather relevant to judging the likelihood of student misbehavior and resulting discipline.
00:29:28.000So again, this article that Michael Harriot pushes is based in simple belief that all disparity equals discrimination.
00:29:37.000And the fact that Buttigieg didn't just bow to that in 2011 means that Buttigieg doesn't take black concerns seriously.
00:29:44.000But if you take black concerns seriously, then you should actually look to some of the systemic underlying factors that cannot be blamed on quote-unquote institutional racism or just throwing money at the problem.
00:29:52.000By the way, the same people who are blaming institutional racism and systemic discrimination are the same people who are opposing school vouchers, which would allow a lot of these kids to escape bad public schools and go to better public schools.
00:30:04.000Many of these same people are anti-development and gentrification, which would allow the tax base to rise in these areas and allow for more spending on local public schools.
00:30:14.000When it comes to post-secondary graduation rates, there's a major disparity between black and white in post-secondary graduation rates, talking about college students.
00:30:23.000The six-year graduation rate, this is according to the National Center for Education statistic, the six-year graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduate students who began their pursuit of a bachelor's degree at a four-year degree-granting institution in fall 2010.
00:30:35.000Okay, again, this is six-year graduation rate at a four-year university.
00:30:39.000Is 74% for Asian students, 64% for white students, and 40% for black students?
00:30:45.000Is that due to institutional discrimination?
00:30:50.000According to the UCNF.org, a recent UCNF found that African-American students were more likely to take remedial college courses than any other student group.
00:30:59.00061% of black students who took the ACT in 2015 met none of the four ACT college readiness benchmarks, nearly twice the 31% rate for all students.
00:31:09.000So, again, the relatively low retention rates of black students across the nation continues the pace.
00:31:16.000Among students enrolled in four-year public institutions, as of 2015, 46% of black students completed their degree in six years.
00:31:27.000So, again, this is... To blame all of this on institutional discrimination and suggest that Pete Buttigieg is a racist because he's pointing out it's not all due to institutional discrimination demonstrates how far left the Democratic Party has moved.
00:31:39.000To even point this thing out makes you un-woke in the Democratic Party.
00:31:43.000Okay, we'll get to more of the Democratic radicalism and the agenda being embraced in just one second.
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00:32:54.000Okay, we're going to get back to the extremism of the Democratic left in just one second and why this is leading President Trump toward a re-election victory.
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00:34:02.000That's how far left the Democrats have gone.
00:34:04.000Because if you're even remotely reasonable, watching Pete Buttigieg be slammed as a lying MF-er for simply suggesting that not all educational disparity is due to institutional discrimination, That should be rather off-putting to you, since what Buttigieg was saying there happens to be absolutely... He'll apologize, by the way, within 24 hours, right?
00:34:24.000There's no way he withstands the scrutiny on this one.
00:34:27.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are moving past safe, legal, and rare, according to the New York Times.
00:34:35.000They want to go on offense, because nothing says going on offense like killing babies.
00:34:40.000The Democratic presidential field, according to Maggie Astor reporting for the New York Times, has coalesced around an abortion rights agenda more far-reaching than anything past nominees have proposed, according to a New York Times survey of the campaigns.
00:34:51.000The positions reflect a hugely consequential shift on one of the country's most politically divisive issues.
00:34:57.000Every single candidate the Times surveyed supports codifying Roe v. Wade in federal law, allowing Medicaid coverage of abortion by repealing the Hyde Amendment so your taxpayer dollars would pay for somebody else's abortion.
00:35:07.000It used to be the position of Democrats, including Joe Biden, who repeatedly voted for it, that federal taxpayer dollars should not be spent on the killing of the unborn.
00:35:15.000Now every single Democrat wants to change the law so that your taxpayer dollars can be spent on the killing of unborn babies.
00:35:22.000And every candidate wants to remove funding restrictions for organizations that provide abortion referrals.
00:35:26.000In other words, they want to restore all of the funding, all of the Title 10 funding for Planned Parenthood.
00:35:32.000Almost all of them say they would nominate only judges who support abortion rights.
00:35:35.000I do find it amusing, by the way, that if Republicans were to say, we will only support a judge who believes that the Constitution does not protect abortion, everybody would say, how dare they with their litmus tests?
00:35:46.000Democrats are out there meanwhile being like, If that judge, right there, if I don't know that he's going to be okay with us plunging his scissors into the skull of a nine-month-old baby, well then, you know, I'm going to... That judge cannot sit.
00:35:58.000Don't worry, I don't have a litmus test.
00:35:59.000All I'm saying is skull, scissors, baby head.
00:36:05.000Very few support restrictions on abortion late in pregnancy.
00:36:08.000Seven say abortion pills should be available over-the-counter.
00:36:10.000Nine want a federal approval process for state abortion laws.
00:36:14.000So they want the federal government to have to sign off on state abortion laws, which violates principles of federalism.
00:36:19.000Joe Biden is seeking to recast himself as a full-throated champion of abortion rights.
00:36:24.000Jacqueline Ayers, VP for Government Relations and Public Policy at Planned Parenthood says, what you've seen is that it's no longer okay for any candidate just to say they're pro-choice.
00:36:32.000They're being very specific on how our rights are under attack, how access to abortion is being undermined in this country, and putting forth plans to protect and expand rights.
00:36:40.000Now, there's only one problem with all of this, which is that the vast majority of Americans want some restrictions on abortion.
00:36:45.000Very few Americans are for abortion-on-demand till point of birth.
00:36:50.000And it is obvious that the Democrats have abandoned the old language, the safe, legal, and rare language, which at least made Democrats appear ambivalent about the moral qualms surrounding the killing of the unborn.
00:37:03.000According to the New York Times, the most striking change beyond individual policies is how unapologetic candidates' tone on abortion rights has become.
00:37:11.000Advocates have traditionally said they support the right to choose abortion, not the abortion itself, and Democrats have said it should be safe, legal, and rare.
00:37:17.000Public debate has commonly centered on procedures after 20 weeks' gestation, which account for less than 1.5% of abortions.
00:37:24.000The discussion has often been on opponents' terms.
00:37:26.000Now, every candidate says the next president should actively reframe the debate.
00:37:30.000Their language focuses on healthcare, bodily autonomy, and even at times the idea of abortion as a positive force enabling women to control their lives and increase their economic security.
00:37:39.000Elizabeth Warren said in the last debate that abortion is healthcare and healthcare is a human right, and she argued that abortion rights were also economic rights.
00:37:50.000Pretty much everybody else avoided the language rare.
00:37:53.000They said it should be safe and legal, but not rare.
00:37:56.000Asked if they supported restrictions after 24 weeks, which is a six-month-old baby, which is when a healthy fetus can survive outside the womb generally.
00:38:07.000Every single Democrat, except for Joe Systack, who doesn't count, said no.
00:38:13.000It's absolute absurdity, but this is your new Democratic Party.
00:38:16.000Drag queens to defeat Trump, Pete Buttigieg is evil for suggesting that educational disparities are not entirely due to institutional discrimination, and also abortion should be safe and legal all the way to point of birth.
00:38:57.000You're better at arithmetic than I am.
00:39:02.000Okay, so that is not a great pitch, but go for it, man.
00:39:06.000Meanwhile, you got Elizabeth Warren out there lying about her stories.
00:39:09.000So Elizabeth Warren has turned out to be deeply inauthentic.
00:39:13.000She's still telling this lie that she was fired for being visibly pregnant back in the 1970s, despite the fact that there's contemporaneous documentation showing that she was unanimously offered a re-op.
00:39:22.000By the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant.
00:39:24.000And the principal did what principals did in those days.
00:39:25.000It's because she didn't feel like doing it.
00:39:27.000She's still telling this ridiculous story that she was fired for being visibly pregnant.
00:39:30.000This is similar to her ridiculous story that she was the first breastfeeding mother ever to take the New Jersey bar exam, which of course is false.
00:39:35.000Here is Elizabeth Warren saying things that aren't true.
00:39:37.000By the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant.
00:39:43.000And the principal did what principals did in those days.
00:39:47.000Wished me luck and hired someone else for the job.
00:39:53.000Okay, well, this is just one of the fibs that she has been telling by best available evidence.
00:39:58.000Meanwhile, there's another fib she has been telling.
00:40:00.000According to Chrissy Clark at The Federalist, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts told a school choice activist last week she sent her kids to public schools.
00:40:06.000But new records show that her son, Alex Warren, attended private schools in both Austin, Texas and Haverford, Pennsylvania.
00:40:12.000The New York Post reported that Warren initially sent her son to a private school in Austin while she was a professor at University of Texas, Austin.
00:40:18.000But Warren also sent her son to Haverford School in Pennsylvania while she was teaching at University of Penn.
00:40:23.000Alex Warren was born in 1976, so he was 15 years old when he started at Haverford, and 17 years old by the time, by the end of his time there.
00:40:30.000Also, a yearbook photo was submitted to the Federalist.
00:40:34.000The same Haverford alumnus said tuition at the time of Alex Warren's graduation was approximately $11,000 a year.
00:40:40.000Warren told a school choice activist that her kids went to public schools.
00:40:46.000A school choice activist named Sarah Carpenter said, I read that your children went to private schools, and Warren said, no, my children went to public schools, because Warren is a liar.
00:40:55.000But this is your modern Democratic Party, unfortunately.
00:40:58.000It'd be better to have a couple of reasonable parties, but unfortunately we don't.
00:41:02.000And the bleeding, bleeding edge of the Democratic Party still exists on college campuses, with idiots like Michael Roth, who is the Dean of Wesleyan University, has a piece at CNN.com today titled, What the Woke Student and the Welfare Queen Have in Common.
00:41:18.000They're both myths, don't you see, as the president of Westland.
00:41:20.000He says every age seems to need a bogeyman, some negative image against which good people measure themselves.
00:41:25.000When I entered college in the mid 1970s, the term welfare queen was being popularized by Ronald Reagan as he campaigned for president and was starting to be taken up by the mass media.
00:41:33.000It would soon go on to upstage the outworn commie and well-worn dirty hippie as objects of vitriol in the American political imagination.
00:41:40.000Self-described regular decent Americans had, in Welfare Queen, a new image against which to define themselves.
00:41:46.000There had long been accounts of people scamming the government in one way or another, contractors overcharging politicians on the take of crooked cops, but the trope of the Welfare Queen was nicely constructed to seep into a white American psyche, already anxious in the 1970s and 1980s about race, single mothers, and an urban culture that challenged more than a few mainstream myths.
00:42:04.000Says Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University.
00:42:06.000Today, I'm a college president and a teacher at the school known for student activism.
00:42:10.000And I've noticed a new trope on the scene with rising potential as a national scapegoat.
00:42:13.000It is the politically correct woke college students.
00:42:16.000If the sin of the welfare queen were crazy, laughing, crafty laziness and promiscuity, the sins of the woke so-called social justice warrior are elitist condescension and a failure to connect with the needs of real people.
00:42:26.000Well, so far, that description seems fairly on to me.
00:42:30.000Like the welfare queen, the woke student activist is a convenient type, one who unites others in opposition to what they imagine is wrong with the country.
00:42:38.000Young, woke people have aroused the choreographed indignation of leaders as different as Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
00:42:43.000By the way, there was an entire piece over the weekend, I believe it was in the New York Times, trying to characterize Barack Obama as a conservative.
00:42:48.000That's how far left the Democratic Party has moved.
00:42:51.000Literally called Barack Obama, the progenitor of nationalized healthcare and the creator of Obamacare, The man behind a massive stimulus package.
00:43:00.000The man behind heavy regulations of virtually every area of American life.
00:43:05.000A man behind a pusillanimous foreign policy that undercut America's allies in the world.
00:43:10.000That guy, they call him a conservative.
00:43:11.000That's how far left the Democrats have moved.
00:43:15.000Apparently, according to this president over at Wesleyan University, it's very bad.
00:43:18.000We shouldn't talk about the evils of woke college students.
00:43:22.000He says, denouncing college students, be they long-haired protesters of the 1960s, the environmentalist tree-huggers of the 1990s, or the pronoun policers today, is bound to please in a number of circles.
00:43:31.000Like the welfare queens of yore, the stereotype of the woke social justice warrior, only concerned with canceling other people, is a politically useful, if wildly misleading figure.
00:43:40.000Nobody wants to fit this description, and in my experience, very few actually do.
00:43:44.000Well, no, you are just one of the people who's making excuses for them.
00:43:48.000You allow the students to take over the university anytime you please.
00:43:51.000He says, sure, there are cases of student protesters who angrily denounce practices the previous generations thought were emblematic of fairness or free expression.
00:43:59.000Student newspapers at Northwestern and Harvard were criticized within the last month for soliciting a statement from ICE in the case of the Harvard Crimson and for tracking down student activists for their statement on a disruptive protest in the case of the Daily Northwestern.
00:44:11.000In both cases, some of the young journalists were taken off guard and wanted to apologize to their fellow students on the left.
00:44:16.000They were quickly pounced upon by pundits.
00:44:19.000While less attention was paid to those other students at the newspapers who defended young journalists' reporting practices and their editorial autonomy.
00:44:26.000It turns out there was a healthy debate in newsrooms after all.
00:44:30.000Says conversations about race, the economy, bias, sexual assault, climate change, or the winner-take-all economy all tend to involve strong emotions and challenging complexity.
00:44:37.000Sometimes people complain they don't want to speak up because they fear being criticized or stigmatized.
00:44:41.000But they should recognize their fear isn't somebody else's fault, isn't a sign of their environment's political correctness or hostility toward free expression.
00:44:48.000Their fear of speaking out is just a sign they need more courage, for it requires courage to stay engaged with difference.
00:44:54.000Or alternatively, if you're a conservative on college campus, you very often will face discrimination from professors and administrators.
00:45:00.000You'll face the hatred of your fellow students and social exclusion of your fellow students.
00:45:05.000And that's kind of an ugly thing on college campuses that are supposed to be promoting free speech.
00:45:11.000By the way, I've been shouted down at a number of universities.
00:45:13.000I've had friends in the past couple of weeks who've been shouted down at universities.
00:45:17.000This notion that woke college students are just there to enrich the debate is nonsense.
00:45:21.000There's a difference between the good-hearted liberal who wants to have a conversation and the woke social justice left warriors who want to ensure that the conversation is never had.
00:45:31.000He says these scapegoats are meant to inspire solidarity in a group by providing an object for its hostility and educators and civic leaders should not play along.
00:45:42.000Instead of arousing easy antipathy, they should strive to cultivate the robust exchange of ideas across differences.
00:45:48.000Yes, I am sure that Wesleyan will be hosting all sorts of conservatives to have open conversations about these issues.
00:45:55.000I look forward to speaking at Wesleyan with the go-ahead of the administration.
00:45:59.000By the way, this is the same idiot who wrote a piece in the New York Times in August called Don't Dismiss Safe Spaces, talking about how the university's primary obligation is to provide a safe space for students.
00:46:09.000So, at the same time he's pretending that woke students want a debate, he's suggesting that a debate itself undermines their safe spaces.
00:46:16.000Man, the left is moving left at an extraordinary rate and they are going to leave the voting public behind.
00:46:23.000Alrighty, time for a quick thing I like and then a quick thing that I hate.
00:46:28.000So, Chris Pratt, the actor, has a really cool GoFundMe that he's got going.
00:46:40.000Basically, he is raising a bunch of money for the Brain Treatment Foundation, which is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support for brain health initiatives relating to treatment, rehab, research, and public education.
00:46:51.000This organization is specifically designed to serve American combat veterans whose lives have been severely impacted by traumatic brain injury.
00:46:58.000Plus, if you give, you have a chance to win and visit Pratt on the set of The Tomorrow War in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:47:16.000All right, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:47:22.000Okay, so, thing that I hate, number one, you have to acknowledge that the same media that are pushing the idea that drag queens are going to take down Trump, they may have lost all touch with reality.
00:48:20.000It's scary if Melania isn't like riding the dog around?
00:48:24.000Joan Walsh says, Trump tells you how incredible this particular type of dog is repeatedly, but he clearly can't remember the name of the breed or other details.
00:48:32.000He tells us he really wanted the dog to be muzzled, which tells you about his fear.
00:51:11.000This is just, it's an absurdity, but, you know, again, her understanding of economics is rivaled only by her knowledge of foreign policy, which is to say, she has none.
00:51:18.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:51:21.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
00:51:54.000President Trump gives Conan the terrorist-chomping, canine-killing machine a plaque and a medal at the White House on the same day that he signed sweeping animal cruelty legislation.
00:52:06.000And while Conan is the goodest boy in the country, the law is very bad.
00:52:10.000We will examine our broken moral compass, all that and a lot more.