After spending his entire presidency surrendering to various foes of the United States, President Obama is now moving to make the loss of the Vietnam War complete. After all, Vietnam, which largely disappeared from the stage of history after the U.S. cut and ran at the behest of Democrats who defunded a war, has remained a communist tyranny. So that means that President Obama announced on Monday that we d be selling them military equipment. The same leadership responsible for killing tens of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands more of non-communist Vietnamese citizens will now be getting weapons, courtesy of us. This is typical Obama: ignore underlying ideological conflicts. Pretend that all such conflicts are merely products of the 1980s. Conflicts between freedom and communism. In Obama s mind, that's all ancient and silly. We can all be friends, we can even film episodes of Parts Unknown in Hanoi while handing weapons to communists to show we re new friends. Meanwhile, his preferred policy, like the ones they have in Venezuela, is a preferred policy that has resulted in literally burgers that are $170 for a burger in Venezuela. I m so glad that the left is running things here. And this is why people say, "Why do I think Trump rose?" And the answer is, why do I not vote for Trump? And the other question is: Why do I vote for the left? Trump? My answer is: because the Left is so terrible that I can t understand why anyone wouldn t just vote for someone like Donald Trump. And the reason I'm not voting for Trump, at least as of now, is because I'm a member of the anti-Left? and the reason is because the left isn t taking the place of the right. And the right is so bad that I'm jumping behind Donald Trump? I can't understand why there are so many people who are so jumping for Donald Trump, but his philosophy is so sort of sort of a defense of his defense of Donald Trump . This is a sort of like War Machine 3, he came out of his name? He came out on a tape and he calls himself War Machine? This is his name is War Machine. and he s given himself a name, War Machine This name shall be his name and he looks like his name shall come out and he's given out his name in his tape and his mom calls him War Machine, and he comes out and says he s got it.
00:00:00.000After spending his entire presidency surrendering to various foes of the United States, President Obama is now moving to make the loss of the Vietnam War complete.
00:00:10.000Vietnam, which largely disappeared from the stage of history after the United States cut and ran at the behest of Democrats who defunded a won war, has remained a backwater.
00:00:19.000State-owned enterprise is about 40% of their GDP.
00:00:22.000Their per capita GDP gross domestic product is just $6,100.
00:00:26.000More than 20% of the population lives in abject poverty, according to the World Bank.
00:00:31.000That number used to be 60% like 10 years ago, before there were some capitalistic reforms introduced, kind of like China.
00:00:37.000Vietnam, however, remains a communist tyranny.
00:00:40.000So that means that President Obama announced on Monday that we'd be selling them military equipment.
00:00:45.000The same leadership responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of non-communist Vietnamese citizens, a huge percentage of them civilians, will now be getting weapons, courtesy of us.
00:00:57.000President Obama said he wanted to kill the ban, quote, based on ideological division between our two countries.
00:01:03.000He sat in front of a bust of communist murderer, Ho Chi Minh.
00:01:06.000And he said, we've come here as a symbol of the renewed ties we've made over the last several decades and the comprehensive partnership we have created over the course of my presidency.
00:01:15.000Here's what the Chinese foreign minister spokeswoman, I guess her name is Hua Chunying said, quote, the arms sales ban was a product of the Cold War and should no longer exist.
00:01:25.000We hope the lifting of all such bans will benefit regional peace and development.
00:01:48.000He's sitting down with Anthony Bourdain right now.
00:01:50.000This is why President Obama has ignored the rise of Russia by pretending that opponents of Vladimir Putin's expansionism live in the 1980s.
00:01:57.000It's why he's now arming a communist dictatorship by pretending that conflicts between visions ended in the 1970s.
00:02:03.000He's overtly ignoring Vietnam's imprisonment of dissidents and their repression of free speech and their failure to allow a real vote.
00:02:11.000The one has arrived to beat swords into plowshares.
00:02:14.000Or rather, to sell swords to the people who beat those who push the plowshares.
00:02:18.000No wonder Phil Robertson, who's the deputy director of Human Right Watch Asia Division, lamented, quote, President Obama just gave Vietnam an award they don't deserve.
00:03:12.000So things are going beautifully over there.
00:03:14.000I'm so glad that the left is running things here.
00:03:17.000And this is why, when people say, I get two questions.
00:03:20.000One is, why aren't you voting for Trump?
00:03:21.000And the other is, why do you think Trump rose?
00:03:23.000Why do I think Trump rose is kind of a more interesting question to me, because I've talked at length about why I'm not voting for Trump, at least as of now.
00:03:30.000And the answer is because the left is so terrible.
00:03:33.000The left is so terrible it's driving people into the arms of a bad guy like Donald Trump.
00:03:37.000Dennis Prager, for whom I have tremendous admiration, he tweeted out this morning he can't understand why anyone wouldn't just vote for the vehicle that's anti-the left.
00:03:46.000My answer is that Trump is a member of the left, but his philosophy is sort of why there are so many people who are jumping to defense of Trump.
00:03:53.000Because there's now a big consolidation that's taking place.
00:03:56.000A lot of people falling behind Donald Trump specifically to stop the left.
00:03:59.000And the reason for that is you look at the left and they truly are awful.
00:04:12.000He came out of his mother, and she looked down at him.
00:04:14.000She said, I shall call him War Machine 3.
00:04:16.000His father was War Machine II, and his grandfather was War Machine I.
00:04:20.000And so he's now tweeting, and he says, he tweets, Dear White People, if Trump wins, young N-words such as myself are fully hell-bent on inciting riots everywhere we go, just so you know.
00:04:33.000And now there's another rapper, his name is Main Music.
00:04:36.000This is Maine music, and it's spelled, of course, Maine, like the state, and music, M-U-Z-I-K, because there's been some sort of blanket ban in the rap community on spelling in English.
00:04:46.000We now have to spell everything incorrectly.
00:04:49.000So Donald Trump is actually spelled Z-X-U-M-L.
00:04:53.000So here's what he had to say about Donald Trump and how he wants to kill Donald Trump, actually.
00:05:01.000Nah, y'all scared because y'all see a n***a got a motherf***er hunting around.
00:05:04.000Take the government to war, take the army to war, take the brave team to war.
00:05:08.000I can go to war with who the f*** I want to, but I really want to go to war with Donald Trump because Donald Trump trying to take food stamps from my mom and that's all the f*** she got.
00:05:39.000Also, you can't really understand what he's saying when he is speaking, and it's not bleeped.
00:05:43.000What he is saying there is I could go to war with whomever the F I want to, but I really want to go to war with Donald Trump because Donald Trump trying to take food stamps from my mama, and that's all the F she's got.
00:05:55.000The reaction of a lot of people to this sort of thing is, okay, I'm voting for Donald Trump.
00:05:59.000Because you look at that and you go, if the alternative is people who are going to pander to that guy, the guy who threatens riots if he doesn't steal other people's money, which is what food stamps are, it's a redistributionist scheme, then...
00:06:13.000And you get this feeling also from people who are more elevated in the discourse.
00:06:16.000Joanne Reid, for example, is a commentator on MSNBC.
00:06:19.000And there was a woman last week who was working, I think it was at a Home Depot, and she was wearing a hat that said, America was never great.
00:06:28.000And this became a big cause celeb among the left because a lot of people didn't like that she was wearing this hat that said America was never great.
00:06:35.000And so Joanne read a bunch of people on the left.
00:06:38.000They say that Donald Trump's slogan, Make America Great Again, is actually a racist slogan.
00:06:43.000But I think what Donald Trump sort of hit upon with his Make America Great Again message is the sense of nostalgia that a certain kind of white, particularly white voter, has for a bygone era.
00:06:58.000Okay, so she says that this is sort of racism, and that when people say, Make America Great Again, what they're really thinking about is the segregationist era.
00:07:05.000Sean King, who's a white guy who pretends to be a black guy over at the Daily News and gets paid for it, he wrote a column on this today, and he sort of said the same thing.
00:07:12.000He said, I wrote a column about the word again in Trump's slogan.
00:07:15.000I think it's a racist dog whistle, and it gets to the heart of the point of the hat Crystal Lake was wearing.
00:08:16.000I don't think there's anything wrong with the slogan.
00:08:17.000I think you can read it in a bad way if you want to read it in a bad way.
00:08:20.000But there's nothing wrong with the idea of make America great again, because the idea isn't just... There are two ways to read that.
00:08:25.000Make America great again like it was great before, and make America great again.
00:08:29.000Basically, we need to become great as we have been great in the past, but the way we were great in the past was in relation to other things.
00:08:35.000Great is a term of relationship, right?
00:08:37.000If I just say something is great, if I say a movie was great, the reason that has meaning is because you know what a bad movie looks like.
00:08:44.000If I just say the sky today is great, that doesn't mean anything.
00:08:48.000So when you say make America great again, you mean in relation to other nations, in relation to the morality that prevails today, in relation to the economics that prevails today.
00:08:56.000That's what he means by make America great again.
00:08:58.000But there are people out there who would rather wear a hat that says America was never great, which is nonsense.
00:09:18.000So what you have is reactionaries on both sides who are now fighting against each other and so people look at this sort of thing and they go, okay fine, I'll back Trump.
00:09:25.000If I have a choice between America was never great and make America great again, then I'll take make America great again because I think America has been a pretty great place and I think there are some things that are currently lacking.
00:09:35.000No one's ever said America was perfect at any point in time.
00:09:38.000Nobody says there was some sort of halcyon era where America was just the greatest thing that it would ever be, and it couldn't be improved.
00:11:50.000And if people really wanted to live in Mexico so badly, why are they jumping the border illegally to live here?
00:11:54.000So people react to this sort of thing with, okay, well, whoever these people are against, I must be for.
00:11:59.000The enemy of my enemy is my friend politics is very strong.
00:12:02.000Whoever, I said yesterday on Twitter, anybody who had coined the, who had trademarked the phrase lesser of two evils would be in the money in this election cycle.
00:12:12.000It's the enemy of my enemy is my friend and the lesser of two evils.
00:12:16.000And that being said, one of the reasons Trump is succeeding, there are a bunch of polls over the weekend that show that Trump's up two, maybe three points.
00:12:22.000There's a couple of polls that show that he's down 4 or 5, but in the poll averages, for the first time, Trump is actually ahead of Hillary Clinton.
00:12:29.000Part of that is because of Trump, because he's bombastic, because he's fun to watch, because he sucks up media attention.
00:12:34.000A lot of it is because of the people who hate Trump, and a lot of it is because of Hillary Clinton.
00:12:38.000Hillary Clinton is terrible at everything and she has no real line of attack on Trump.
00:12:42.000So any normal Democrat would be able to attack Donald Trump on all of his positional switches.
00:12:47.000They'd be able to attack him on his corruption.
00:12:50.000They'd be able to attack him on the fact that he has no coherent principles.
00:12:53.000They'd be able to attack him on his treatment of women.
00:12:55.000They'd be able to attack him on his treatment of the disabled.
00:12:57.000They'd be able to attack him every which way.
00:13:00.000The problem is we now have two mud monsters throwing mud at each other.
00:13:03.000So, Hillary Clinton is running, honest to God, one of the worst campaigns I've ever seen.
00:13:07.000I mean, this is truly an awful campaign.
00:13:09.000This campaign makes Jeb Bush's campaign look like it deserved the exclamation point.
00:13:14.000Hillary Clinton is on national TV over the weekend, and she's talking about Donald Trump.
00:13:18.000You wonder why Donald Trump is winning?
00:13:19.000It's because this is the person he's facing.
00:13:21.000Hillary Clinton, let's open that maw of hell and listen to the voice of Satan.
00:13:44.000And if you've got someone running for president who's afraid to release his tax returns because it will expose the fact that he pays no federal income tax, I think that's a big problem.
00:13:53.000But my question was, there's nothing about his background that is praiseworthy?
00:14:07.000I think that we're beginning to find out, but I don't think we know enough, and that's why he should release his tax returns.
00:14:13.000Prove that he actually has the level of success he claims to have.
00:14:18.000How Chuck Todd does not follow up that question with, and you didn't release any of your Goldman Sachs speeches is beyond me, or why does your foundation keep amending its tax returns over and over over the past three to five years?
00:14:29.000Right, it's sort of amazing that that's not the comeback, but that's the comeback in everybody's mind, and that's why this doesn't work.
00:14:33.000She's sitting there going, well, he's really not qualified.
00:14:35.000I can't name anything in his career that makes me think he's qualified.
00:14:38.000You went to his wedding, you took his money, and now you're saying he ought to be more transparent with the public when you had a server full of 30,000 emails that you tried to hide, and you deleted however many else that we don't even know about, and you won't release your speeches to Goldman Sachs.
00:16:39.000And the fact that she's so terrible at this is why Donald... I've said this before.
00:16:42.000Donald Trump can only win an election in which he faces Hillary Clinton, and Hillary Clinton can only win an election in which she faces Donald Trump.
00:17:31.000I just think that I'm in a much stronger position, have been, and the voters who have turned out and given me three million more votes believe that as well.
00:17:40.000Okay, so she's kind of dismissing Bernie Sanders.
00:17:42.000And again, the Sanders supporters are going to riot at the convention, and one of the reasons they're going to riot is because she keeps dismissing him over and over.
00:17:48.000Now, the Sanders supporters do have a decent case here.
00:17:51.000The case for the Sanders supporters is this.
00:17:54.000When this whole thing started, everybody knew Hillary was going to be the nominee.
00:17:58.000There were already 600 superdelegates that were pledged to her.
00:18:00.000From the very beginning, from the very outset, he was running at a major deficit.
00:18:04.000Now, let's say that you and I, the two of us, we were going to get into an election versus each other.
00:18:09.000But I knew going in that I was going to have four percentage points.
00:18:21.000Because people like to vote for people they think can actually win.
00:18:24.000When you have the entire media saying Bernie Sanders has no chance against Hillary, when you have the entire Democratic Party infrastructure that have selected delegates against Bernie Sanders, that...
00:18:33.000Holds down the polling numbers for Bernie Sanders, and there have been some very close states that Hillary has won that she probably wouldn't have won if it hadn't been for this generalized perception that she was going to be the nominee.
00:18:43.000But Hillary continues to give Sanders short shrift.
00:18:45.000So, you know, she refuses to do a debate with Bernie Sanders.
00:18:49.000She refuses to countenance Bernie Sanders.
00:19:00.000And then Hillary Clinton is trying to trot forth Bill Clinton, and it's having no impact because, as I said last week, Hillary Clinton has spent this entire campaign disowning everything that Bill ever did that was good.
00:19:09.000She disowned welfare reform, and she disowned criminal justice reform, and she disowned the Bill Clinton tax cuts.
00:19:15.000She disowned the contract with America that Clinton helped make law.
00:19:20.000So when Bill is out there trying to defend her, it just looks weak.
00:19:23.000So here's Bill staggering around, as we like to say, not fully concentrating, playing the lesbian pornography in his head, and explaining that the Republicans are good at attacking, but Bill is clearly out of it because the case he's about to make is basically a case against Hillary Clinton.
00:19:41.000Now I know the Republicans have been mean to her and they say terrible things.
00:21:32.000There was an interesting poll over the weekend, by the way, that showed that if there was a third-party candidate like Mitt Romney running, he'd win 22% of the vote.
00:21:38.000It would be 37% for Hillary, 35% for Trump, 22% for Romney.
00:21:52.000So over the weekend, I was giving a speech at... there's an event, there's a family called the Avericks, and the Avericks, a nice family, their son, unfortunately, about 15 years ago, 13-15 years ago, died of a brain tumor.
00:22:06.000He had chemotherapy and then he was infected in the lung, couldn't get a lung transplant in time.
00:22:10.000So what they do is, in his honor, he was very into politics.
00:23:10.000You vote for who you want to vote for.
00:23:12.000I'm just going to give you my view of things, and my view of things is that Donald Trump poses a real threat to the conservative movement that doesn't exist with Hillary Clinton.
00:23:19.000So, my view is that Barack Obama has basically, I've given this analogy before, Barack Obama took a country that was moving at 30 miles an hour toward the cliff, rammed the pedal to the metal, we're now heading toward the cliff, Thelma and Louise style at 70 miles an hour.
00:23:31.000Hillary Clinton as president will elevate that to 90 miles an hour.
00:23:34.000Donald Trump will elevate it to 75 miles an hour.
00:23:37.000So, if all you care about is the speed with which we are moving toward the cliff, you do vote for Trump over Hillary.
00:23:49.000There's a shot that he's going to be better than Hillary, and there are certain areas in which he can't possibly be worse than Hillary, everything from judges to gun rights, right?
00:23:59.000Donald Trump takes the gears, he takes the gear shift, and he rips it out of the car.
00:24:06.000So now, there's no possibility of throwing that car into reverse.
00:24:08.000No matter who's the driver from now on, there's no possibility of throwing it into reverse, because the only reverse mechanism in the United States that's going to save us is conservatism.
00:24:55.000Milo has made the case that conservatism is over, he is the new brand, the alt-right, the European populist right.
00:25:01.000That's gonna be the thing that saves Western civilization, despite the fact that European populism has never saved or conserved a damn thing.
00:25:06.000It's always been a disaster everywhere it's been tried.
00:25:25.000There's a fellow who did it over at the Hill today who articulated it this way.
00:25:29.000So first off, let me say, when people say, what kind of damage do you think Trump is going to do to conservatism?
00:25:33.000The damage I think Trump is going to do to conservatism is he's going to put these folks who don't care about conservatism in the driver's seat.
00:25:39.000And everyone else will fall in line because they want to defeat Hillary Clinton.
00:25:54.000If he's a good president, which I highly doubt because his policies are not geared toward working, just as Obama was not geared toward being a good president because his policies weren't geared toward working.
00:26:03.000But let's say that Trump is not an utter disaster.
00:26:05.000Let's say he's John Kasich as president.
00:26:38.000The other grandmother wasn't even alive when Herbert Hoover was president of the United States, right?
00:26:44.000But we're still here being Herbert Hoover because Herbert Hoover, who by the way on policy looks a lot like Donald Trump, Herbert Hoover was such a bad president that conservatism has been slandered with the memory of Herbert Hoover for the last three generations, four generations.
00:26:55.000The same thing was true with regard to Nixon.
00:26:58.000Nixon is still linked to conservatism.
00:27:00.000The only gap here is the black swan that was Reagan.
00:27:04.000And remember, Reagan was not brought about by Nixon.
00:27:05.000Reagan was brought about by the failures of 1964.
00:27:12.000Conservatives sort of coalesce, and then they go into hiding for a little while.
00:27:16.000Nixon wins, and then they come back with a vengeance and take the party away from the Nixons and the Fords.
00:27:21.000Right, and that's a brief respite in time, then we go right back to H.W.
00:27:24.000Bush, who is so bad that people are still citing him as an example of people who lie about taxes, and W., who's gonna be used to smack conservatives for another generation.
00:27:33.000Trump will be all of that, except way worse, because Trump is also an authoritarian, he's also a vulgarian, he's also somebody who says nasty and terrible things about various groups, he's somebody who is...
00:27:44.000Not geared toward conservative ideals in any way, shape, or form.
00:30:51.000We stopped Obama from blowing out, as he wanted to, the budget even more than he did, but you say that we won there and we accomplished nothing, so why are you now declaring that victory for someone who's more left than all the Republicans in Congress, that's going to accomplish the victory.
00:31:21.000We need somebody who's gonna tell us the right thing to do.
00:31:24.000Now, we use the word conservatism very often on this show, and we do in politics, because I think ideology matters.
00:31:30.000I think one of the great lies that you're told by the media, one of the great lies that you're told by politicians, is that ideology does not matter.
00:31:43.000If you don't have an ideology, and I have an ideology, that ideology is that the government should be as small as possible and should only intervene basically if I'm going to hit you in the face.
00:31:53.000That's basically the only time government should intervene.
00:31:55.000That is an ideology, it's a rule, and you can look at my rule and say I either like that rule or I don't like that rule.
00:32:00.000You get rid of ideology, what you end up with is ad hoc totalitarianism.
00:32:04.000So what you end up with is, I'm not gonna give you my rule.
00:32:56.000His common sense is not my common sense.
00:32:57.000It doesn't sound like it's your common sense either.
00:33:00.000Right, how about, here's your principle, what do you stand for?
00:33:04.000This is why I prefer Bernie Sanders as a human to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
00:33:08.000At least he gives me the principle he stands for.
00:33:10.000It's an evil, terrible, destructive, despicable principle, but at least I know what the principle is.
00:33:15.000All these conservatives who are saying, throw out conservatism, it's okay if it does tremendous damage to the movement down the road, just throw it out, because we need to win again.
00:33:23.000We need to stop Hillary, and we can't stop Hillary if we don't win.
00:33:27.000A lot of them really want just a dear leader to make them feel better.
00:34:18.000And to me, a certain principle of how life works is you don't tell people you're going to defend them if they punch people in the face based on political feeling.
00:34:45.000If you say I'm not conservative enough because I refuse to vote for a man who donated money to his political opponents in this race, right?
00:34:53.000You're more right-wing than I am, because I won't vote for the lifelong Democrat who just switched to con you.
00:35:01.000If you say that I'm not conservative enough because you complain that Congress hasn't been conservative enough so we need to elect somebody who's a left-winger, you back Donald Trump now?
00:35:08.000And you don't care what happens to conservatism?
00:35:18.000I was there at the NRA meeting, Britt, and there was a crowd, it was supposed to be 7,000, that's how many tickets they sold, but they let another 1,000 people at least in.
00:35:28.000Very enthusiastic crowd for Trump there.
00:35:39.000I think it's one of a number of signs that Donald Trump is well on his way
00:35:45.000To pulling nearly all of the Republican Party behind him.
00:35:49.000There will be holdouts and there will be conservatives who were conservatives first and Republicans second, who will not be reconciled to him.
00:35:56.000But the Supreme Court list that he put out, the meeting with Paul Ryan, all these things are pointing in the same direction.
00:36:02.000That Republicans and most conservatives are increasingly ready, particularly because they so fear the alternative, to back him.
00:36:35.000This entire election is a horrible metamucil moment.
00:36:39.000It's just a horrible, horrible bowel movement of an election.
00:36:42.000And so all we're doing now is just determining how we deal with it, because...
00:36:47.000If you think I don't want to walk into a voting booth tomorrow, despite how much I dislike Trump on a political level, and how much I think that he's a bad person as a person, if you think I don't want to walk into a voting booth tomorrow and punch that ballot for Trump, you're wrong.
00:37:02.000I want to, because I want to stop Hillary Clinton just as much as you, and probably more than you, because if you voted for Trump in a primary, you don't care about the same principles that I do.
00:39:13.000And the nice thing about Trump is that that Cheeto dust on his face wipes off on everybody with whom he associates.
00:39:18.000He's got his mini-me's now, like Newt Gingrich, who used to be a voice in the Republican Party and has become
00:39:23.000Utterly extinct and and and wipes off on people like Milo Yiannopoulos who's basically become Donald Trump's mini-me All the way down to the ridiculous hair and and the and the exclamation points at the ends of his tweets So in any case the the all of the folks on the on the right are consolidating behind Trump and they're using this this phraseology come home Why don't you just come home to Trump?
00:39:44.000Face the nation had a panel with John Dickerson talking about this and and people are saying oh, yeah People are gonna come home to Trump.
00:40:04.000But here's the panel saying everybody's going to come home.
00:40:07.000Molly, are we surprised by these numbers that it's so close?
00:40:11.000Well, I think it has been somewhat surprising.
00:40:13.000A lot of even Republicans I talk to are surprised that the party has come home to Trump so quickly.
00:40:19.000And that's really what we're seeing in a lot of these polls.
00:40:21.000You know, before Trump won the nomination, there were these hypothetical general election matchups where Clinton was way far ahead of him.
00:40:29.000And that is tightened up principally because of the coalescing of the Republican Party and the failure to coalesce of the Democratic Party.
00:40:35.000So I think the real open question is whether, once Hillary Clinton does decisively win the Democratic nomination, whether her party comes home to her the way Trump's party has come home to him, which is not necessarily a sure thing.
00:40:48.000Ezra, of course, this is a long way off from when we have an actual election, but the way Democrats were talking about Trump's vulnerabilities with women, with younger voters, with voters of color, you would have thought that those would be just, that you wouldn't have numbers this close so far or right now.
00:41:53.000If they had an alternative... The way the country is really set up, a quarter of the country is for Trump, a quarter of the country is for Clinton, and half the country is open to an alternative.
00:42:03.000The ABC poll shows half, basically half, 45% saying we'd like to have a third choice.
00:42:09.000So I think the ground is there for an independent candidate.
00:42:15.000It's a tough thing to ask a politician.
00:42:17.000It's a tough thing to ask someone to do, but let's see what happens.
00:42:25.000She's saying that people always say they want a third choice, and this is true, which is why I've said that it's easy to throw out names, it's easy to say third choice, but
00:42:35.000In reality, it's much more difficult to uphill climb than people make it out to be, which is why it's important what happens inside the Republican Party.
00:42:41.000I don't think there's an easy brush-off solution like, oh, just go get a third-party candidate, take over a third party and run.
00:42:47.000I don't think it's quite as easy as all of that.
00:42:49.000I think that what happens with Trump here is going to decide the next 20 years of what it means to be a Republican, and given the level of
00:42:58.000There's this sort of blind happiness that's rushed over people now that the primaries are over and people are going to start downplaying Trump's flaws and downplaying all of this.
00:43:08.000Again, as I say, it's a gut-wrenching decision.
00:43:10.000Whatever decision you have to make, you have to make.
00:44:03.000And more than that, she has bad principles.
00:44:05.000You know, I want to take all sides of the argument very seriously here, but that means that my opponents also need to do the same.
00:44:11.000And I think on net, all I can say is I wish to God Donald Trump were not the nominee, because it would make things so much easier for everybody involved.
00:44:17.000Unfortunately, he is, because people have decided to be reactionary in just the way that I talked about.
00:44:41.000My daughter came down with a 103 fever which is which is always a party which is why if my shirt looks a little bit stained here those are probably snot stains from my daughter crying on my shirt from a doctor's appointment this morning but she had her she came down with like a 103 yesterday and we don't let her watch TV we're not TV parents and
00:45:00.000Note to all parents with young kids, if you have kids under two, they shouldn't be watching TV.
00:45:13.000So we tried a couple of the Pixar films, and she was not interested.
00:45:16.000The one that she wanted to watch, and she ended up watching nearly the entire thing, is Mary Poppins, which is just a delightful, delightful film.
00:45:24.000I hadn't watched it all the way through for, it's gotta be 20 years.
00:45:34.000And there's a message to it that's kind of great that we'll talk about in a second.
00:45:37.000Here's the trailer for the original Mary Poppins.
00:45:40.000A robin feathering his nest Has very little time to rest While gathering his bits of twine and twig Though quite intent in his pursuit He has a merry tune to toot He knows a song will move the job along!
00:46:09.000So we don't have to play the whole number, obviously, but it's great number after great number, and more importantly, people forget the plot of the movie because all of this stuff with Mary Poppins is so charming, but she's not the center of the movie.
00:46:22.000The center of the movie is the father character.
00:46:24.000Right, the father character who feels his world kind of collapsing around him.
00:46:28.000Right, he's got his wife who's the suffragette who's not paying any attention to the kids.
00:46:31.000And then he's got, he's trying to deal with this whole nanny issue.
00:46:33.000The movie's really about this guy trying to deal with the changes that are occurring around him.
00:46:39.000And it's about, and there's a really nice scene where the kids have run away.
00:46:43.000They start to run on the bank, if you don't remember the film.
00:46:45.000They start to run on the bank because Dick Van Dyke playing the old man who runs the bank, as well as Bert, who's the chimney sweep.
00:46:52.000Uh, he, uh, he takes the money from the kid and the kid doesn't want to give him the money.
00:47:19.000So you need to have a little bit of sympathy for the dad who sort of needs to suck it up.
00:47:22.000And meanwhile, he has to learn that the father has to learn to put the business aside.
00:47:26.000Not everything fits into these kind of comfy categories, and that's why the very end of the film is him flying a kite with the kids.
00:47:32.000It's him both getting his job, actually maintains the job, and he still is providing, but also recognizing that it's not enough to categorize myself as I'm the businessman with my very set schedule.
00:47:41.000Life throws curveballs at you, and you have to deal with it.
00:47:43.000It's a really terrific movie, and the imagery is quite beautiful.
00:47:46.000Mary Poppins for those who haven't seen it.
00:47:47.000Even if you have, it's fun to go back and watch it.
00:47:49.000There's also a good movie that they did recently with Emma Thompson about the making of Mary Poppins, which is a good movie.
00:47:56.000Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney, and it's a pretty solid film.
00:49:22.000I'm sure you would, Demi Lovato, but for all of your little teeny bopper fans who are 11 and 12 years old, no, they shouldn't be letting men into the bathroom.
00:49:59.000People were making a big deal out of this because she was up thrusting on a guitar or something.
00:50:03.000And my only question is, I didn't know there were objects either animate or inanimate that she had not thrust herself upon, but apparently they constructed a brand new object for her to thrust on, and so this is what it looked like.
00:50:34.000She's literally dancing on a pole, for people who can't see this.
00:50:38.000And singing within a three note range, because she has no range.
00:50:42.000And she still does her little girl voice, which is getting weird now that she's 75 years old.
00:51:15.000She's literally thrusting her pelvis at a pole.
00:51:17.000I assume that most people are capable of this.
00:51:19.000But this was considered forward thinking and genius because what we've decided is that the way that we decide that artists are mature now is for them to be pornographers.
00:51:28.000That's what makes you a mature artist.
00:51:30.000What took Demi Lovato from Nickelodeon
00:51:32.000To the front page of the newspaper was the fact that she is now willing to have sex with inanimate objects.
00:51:37.000Same thing happened to Britney Spears who used to be on Mickey Mouse Club.
00:51:40.000This is the the ripping away of innocence.
00:51:42.000You look at Mary Poppins and you realize this is what ten-year-old girls were watching back in 1962 and then you look at this and you realize this is what ten-year-old girls are watching now and you realize this is why we are so screwed as a society and this is why we're now on the verge of
00:51:56.000Of basically saying to young girls, it's no big deal if people flash their penises at you.
00:52:00.000There's a North Carolina editorial in the Charlotte Observer about this transgender bathroom issue.
00:52:06.000And they actually say in there, they actually say in the editorial, that quote,
00:52:14.000So in other words, little girls, get over the fact that there's a 35-year-old hairy dude who's whipping it out in your bathroom.
00:52:18.000Because, hey, you're just gonna have to get over it.
00:52:42.000So the transgender folks don't have to get over the idea of having their bowel movements in the proper bathroom, but we all have to get over it when our daughters are forced to have a bowel movement in the same bathroom as a dude.