With Donald Trump flailing in the polls just under two weeks from Election Day, open conflict has broken out between many of the Republicans voting for Trump and those who see him as a moral and political bridge too far for conservatives in the Republican Party. NeverTrump supporters have spent the entirety of the general election cycle focused not on helping Trump win, but on blaming NeverTrumpers if he loses. And so many Never Trumpers fail to hear the distinction between intelligent conservatives voting Trump as a last resort to stop Hillary Clinton, and Trump cheerleaders who want Trump to be a bludgeon against the cuckservative establishment. This misattribution of motives on both sides is really more likely to spell the death of the Trump Republican Party than Trump himself or Trumpism itself is. After the election, which Trump will probably lose, most Republicans will grieve at the loss of Trump. They'll lament the damage done to the party by spending months snorting at sexual assault allegations and shrugging at the accusations. And as long as both sides recognize the genuineness of the other side's grief, there will be the opportunity for reconciliation. - John McCain John McCain's Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, September 14th, 2016. - Inaugural address by John McCain on the campaign trail, Sept. 15, 2016 - On November 9, 2016, in Dayton, Ohio, at the Democratic National Convention, a day before the primary election, a few days before the election. -- John McCain s Gettysburg address, a keynote address at the National Museum of American Modernity, a speech at the University of St. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, a year ago, a talk about the importance of the alt-right, and much more. . -- Inauguration day, Oct. 18, 2016 -- -- in Baltimore, MD -- in the wake of the 2016 primary debate, -- on Nov. 9th, in the aftermath of the primary race, What's going on? on Oct. 16, 2016? -- What s going to happen next? -- -- what s the future of conservatism in 2020? -- and what s to come in 2020 and 2020? ? -- and so on? -- in this episode of the John McCain campaign? -- on October 9, 2020, in this epilogue to John McCain and his response to the 2016 campaign? ...and so on and so forth?
00:00:00.000The future of conservatism depends on reconciliation beginning November 9th.
00:00:04.000With Donald Trump flailing in the polls just under two weeks from the presidential election, open conflict has broken out between many of the Republicans voting for Trump and those who see him as a moral and political bridge too far for conservatives in the Republican Party.
00:00:17.000For most people, that conflict is not based on disagreements about principle.
00:00:20.000Most never-Trumpers despise Hillary Clinton and will not vote for her.
00:00:24.000Most never-Trumpers even feel significant sympathy for the vote for Trump to stop Hillary argument.
00:00:28.000We believe that Trump fails to meet the most basic standard of morality and conservatism, and supporting him damages Republicans politically now and in the future, so we're not going to vote for either candidate.
00:00:38.000By contrast, most Trump voters despise Hillary Clinton and will vote against her.
00:00:42.000Most Trump voters are voting for Trump as the lesser of two evils, not because they support his agenda on trade or trust him as a thoughtful foreign policy sage.
00:00:50.000Most Trump voters are not Laura Ingraham or Bill Mitchell or Sean Hannity.
00:00:54.000Most Trump voters will vote for Trump because they believe the overriding priority is to stop Hillary from entering the White House, and to that end, they're willing to overlook Trump's myriad flaws.
00:01:03.000So, why are the two sides of this debate at each other's throats?
00:01:06.000Mainly it's because they've been projecting bad motives onto the other side.
00:01:10.000On the one hand, some NeverTrumpers have accused Trump voters of being high-handed, kind of sneering at them.
00:01:15.000The most vocal Trump supporters have spent nearly the entirety of the general election cycle focused not on helping Trump win, but on blaming NeverTrumpers if he loses.
00:01:23.000They stated first NeverTrumpers were unimportant to the debate because they're so few and far between.
00:01:28.000Then they stated NeverTrumpers were the only thing standing between Trump and the White House.
00:01:31.000They've argued that all Never Trumpers secretly want Hillary Clinton to be president.
00:01:35.000They can't wait for a Hillary presidency.
00:01:41.000The only people, literally the only people in this election cycle, who have benefited monetarily are those who have boosted their careers by kissing Trump's ass.
00:01:49.000These vocal Trump supporters have engaged in the most crass moral preening.
00:01:53.000Those who disagree about Trump are pure evil, saboteurs, sellouts.
00:01:57.000Now, some never-Trumpers have made the mistake of attributing the rhetoric and feelings of the people who make these yucky arguments, the ardent base of Trump support, to people who are voting for Trump reluctantly.
00:02:06.000They feel assaulted, and so many never-Trumpers fail to hear the distinction between intelligent conservatives voting Trump as a last resort to stop Hillary, and Trump cheerleaders who want Trump to be a bludgeon against the cuckservative establishment.
00:02:19.000On the other hand, a lot of reluctant Trump supporters have accused Never Trumpers of high-handedness.
00:02:23.000They believe Never Trumpers are sneering at them, riding their high horses.
00:02:27.000They refuse to acknowledge decent rationales, either moral or political, for not voting Trump.
00:02:33.000The Pro-Trumpers don't say Never Trumpers are in the pay of international bankers or secretly pray at Hillary shrines, but they claim Never Trumpers are whiners who won't get their hands dirty and simply want a virtue signal by refusing to vote for Trump.
00:02:46.000This misattribution of motives on both sides is really much more likely to spell the death of the Republican Party than Trump himself or Trumpism is.
00:02:53.000After the election, which Trump will probably lose, most Republicans will grieve.
00:02:57.000Never-Trumpers are going to grieve at the lost opportunity to stop Hillary Clinton and at paving her way by nominating a man eminently unfit and pathologically incapable of running even a half-decent campaign that'll lament the damage done to the party by spending months snorting at sexual assault allegations and shrugging at playing footsie with the despicable alt-right.
00:03:14.000Reluctant Trump voters are also going to be grieving.
00:03:16.000They're going to grieve at the Trump loss generally.
00:03:18.000They'll lament both his win in the primaries and his loss in the general, but will generally acknowledge that he failed, and he failed his supporters in doing so.
00:03:25.000Now, that does provide the opportunity for healing, so long as both sides recognize the genuineness of the other side's grief.
00:03:32.000NeverTrumpers have to acknowledge reluctant Trump voters felt they had to do what they did.
00:03:36.000They don't bear the stain of his sins for taking a lesser of two evils path, even if we think that was wrong.
00:03:41.000Reluctant Trump voters have to acknowledge, NeverTrumpers, we felt we had to do what we had to do not out of a misguided attempt to demonstrate moral superiority, but out of a real abiding belief the only way to preserve conservatism and the Republican Party is to disassociate from the political electrical fire Trump represented.
00:03:58.000No conservative or Republican of decency will be celebrating on November 9th.
00:04:02.000No one is going to be popping the cork.
00:04:03.000Both never-Trumpers and reluctant Trump voters should recognize this.
00:04:07.000The only way to rebuild a Republican party based on conservative principle is to acknowledge the good motivations of people who disagree about Trump.
00:04:15.000There is a real possibility such a rapprochement won't happen.
00:04:18.000That's because Trump and his campaign, they actually want the Civil War.
00:04:22.000They want reluctant Trump voters to fight with never-Trumpers.
00:04:25.000They want to excise conservatives who wouldn't back Trump.
00:04:28.000They want to co-opt the conservatives who would.
00:04:30.000That's why in the waning days of the campaign, Trump is spending his time ripping on Paul Ryan, a Trump endorser, by the way, and blaming other Republicans for his own failures.
00:04:37.000Trump's team, including political arsonists like former and future Breitbart chairman Steve Bannon,
00:04:42.000Want the right to burn itself out, making way for a resurgent nationalist populism that dispenses with constitutional conservatism altogether in favor of alt-right nonsense.
00:04:52.000Trump has an active rooting interest in initiating a civil war for both financial and political gain.
00:04:57.000He's planning and promoting that civil war now.
00:04:59.000To that end, Trump himself stokes the absolute lie, and it is a lie, that Republicans who won't vote for him are traitors to conservatism hell-bent on belittling those who vote for Trump.
00:05:08.000The only way to rebuild the Republican Party based on conservative principle is to acknowledge those good motives.
00:05:14.000We all want to stop Hillary Clinton and her vile agenda.
00:05:18.000We all want to reverse decades of democratic policy on immigration and government growth, on social leftism and leftist race-baiting.
00:05:24.000If Trump loses, we'll have to get over our differences about him to do that.
00:05:28.000We all had sincere positions on Trump.
00:05:34.000We had serious disagreements, but we still agree on basic principles.
00:05:38.000If we can agree on all of that, there's a future for conservatism.
00:05:42.000If Trump succeeds, though, in his post-election plan to divide conservatives between people who are loyal to him and people who weren't, he'll have told his biggest lie, and on the basis of that, won his greatest victory.
00:05:51.000The conservative movement's collapse will be the final step in the political Armageddon that he and his advisors truly, truly desire.
00:08:08.000It says that Tineo, quote, would ask and encourage our clients to contribute to the foundation.
00:08:13.000Independent of our fundraising and decision-making activities on behalf of the foundation, we have decided ourselves to help the president secure
00:08:22.000They called the operation Bill Clinton, Inc.
00:08:25.000They would even solicit in-kind services for the President and his family, and his family includes the Secretary of State, personal travel, hospitality, vacation, and the like.
00:08:33.000Bann talked openly of what the Washington Post now calls a circle of enrichment, in which he raised money for the Clinton Foundation from top-tier corporations like Dow Chemical and Coca-Cola that were clients of his firm, Teneo, while pressuring many of the same donors to provide personal income to the former President.
00:08:50.000Band raised $8 million for the foundation.
00:08:52.000He created contracts worth $66 million for the Clintons over the next nine years.
00:08:57.000So, as an example, and he used the State Department as sort of the payoff, for example, Tineo brought together Clinton and the chief executive of Dow Chemical, a guy named Andrew Liveris, and he helped facilitate Dow's donation of millions to the Clinton Foundation and tens of millions to Tineo.
00:09:11.000Simultaneously, Hillary Clinton visited Northern Ireland as Secretary of State and thanked Dow for their creation of jobs in the country.
00:09:18.000Right, so that seems like a minor thing, and this is the problem with the story, is that there's no quote-unquote smoking gun.
00:09:23.000Now, the ties between Tineo and the Clinton Foundation, the State Department, they all run really deep.
00:09:28.000As we all know at this point, Cheryl Mills, who's Hillary's top hatchet woman, she's her lawyer, really, really corrupt.
00:09:33.000She worked heavily with the Clinton Foundation while she was at the State Department.
00:09:36.000Huma Abedin worked at the State Department, and she worked for Tineo at the same time.
00:09:40.000She worked to, quote, assure a presidential appointment for a supporter of the Clinton Foundation, according to a chain of emails obtained by Politico.
00:09:47.000Chelsea Clinton was upset enough by Tineo's infiltration of the Clinton Foundation that she ended up ripping on Tineo to John Podesta, who is Hillary's current campaign chair.
00:09:56.000And that led Doug Band, who's the head of Tineo, to call Chelsea, quote, a spoiled rich brat who has nothing to do but create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she said, has not found her way and has a lack of focus in her life.
00:10:07.000So, all of this is really bad stuff for the Clintons, or would be if the Trump campaign were focused on explaining it.
00:10:13.000Now, there is an advantage for the Clintons.
00:10:15.000The Clintons, number one, know how to run a good scam operation.
00:10:45.000They do some good work because that's a front.
00:10:48.000Just like Genco Olive Oil Company was the front for the Corleones, the Clinton Foundation is the front for Hillary's routine.
00:10:55.000And meanwhile, behind the scenes, it's very complex.
00:10:57.000You have Teneo, which is a private organization, coordinating with the nonprofit, the Clinton Foundation, and both of them coordinating with the State Department to get favors.
00:11:06.000And the thing is that the smoking guns
00:11:08.000The smoking guns are not huge, and that's part of the problem here, too, is that the favors that Hillary was granting to people are relatively small in the grand scheme of things.
00:11:19.000It's not billion-dollar favors, trillion-dollar favors.
00:11:21.000It's the kind of thing where she thanks Dow Chemical when she visits Northern Ireland, or it's the kind of thing where the Clinton Foundation directs money to rebuilding in Haiti to friends of Hillary Clinton's and Bill Clinton's with the approval of the State Department, and it's like a $10 million contract, and $5 million of it goes into somebody's pocket.
00:11:37.000People don't tend to get too upset about this kind of stuff because they're not smoking guns as much as they are sort of smoking matches.
00:11:44.000That's because Hillary's a pro at this and she knows how to play this game.
00:11:51.000And that means that the only way to uncover this is to really prosecute the case, which means that the only person who's going to prosecute the case are the Republicans, right?
00:11:58.000That's the only way that you're going to be able to prosecute
00:12:01.000In this case, so the media, you know, signal their outrage, but they're not really willing to go all the way in explaining what exactly is happening with these scandals.
00:12:17.000It's a little hard to understand unless you're reading closely.
00:12:19.000So what you end up with is the overall impression that Hillary is corrupt,
00:12:23.000But then, when you have people like Media Matters' Hilary Schills come out and try to pierce through that fog and say, no, no, no, no, Hilary, she never did anything wrong, people don't know enough to rebut it.
00:12:32.000So, for example, Donald Trump in the second debate, or actually in the third debate, Donald Trump mentioned the Clinton Foundation, and he just said, what they did in Haiti, it's unbelievable, it's just terrible what they did in Haiti.
00:12:42.000He's right, what they did in Haiti is really awful.
00:12:44.000The Haitian people were jacked around by the Clinton Foundation.
00:12:47.000Again, the Clinton Foundation greenlit the use of firms that were friendly to the Clintons, and they built basically corrugated iron shacks that blew over at the first moment's notice.
00:12:57.000But Trump didn't explain what he means by that.
00:12:59.000So most people go, well, I don't know what happened in Haiti.
00:13:01.000And because Trump only reads the headlines, he didn't have the capacity to lay out all of the steps of what actually happened in full living color.
00:13:09.000And that's why the media have focused so much on Trump scandals, not only because they're corrupt, they are, not just because they're leftists, they are, but because it's a lot easier to understand, grab them by the bleep, right, Trump's campaign, Trump's statement to Billy Bush,
00:13:22.000Then it is to understand the relationship between Teneo, which is run by Clinton Aides and the Clinton Foundation and the State Department, and who did Huma Abedin work for?
00:13:48.000But it should be a reminder of just how corrupt they are.
00:13:51.000Now, the media are doing something, and I want you to pay attention to it, because this is where the media—you can tell the media think Trump is going to lose, because they're actually starting to cover Hillary's scandals.
00:14:00.000When the media think Trump was going to win, all of a sudden the only thing they would cover is Trump.
00:14:04.000Now they think Trump's going to lose, so now they're going to create the impression that they care about Clinton corruption, so later when we say, you never cared about Clinton corruption, they can say, really?
00:14:18.000I mean, and so, this is what they're doing now.
00:14:21.000Ron Fournier, who, Ron Fournier, I think, works for National Journal, and he is complaining about the circle of enrichment.
00:14:28.000I did that story, the one you're talking about, when this scandal first broke in early 2015, and it was based on a person very close to the Clintons who I'd known for a long time, who'd worked for the Clintons for a long time, who was saying, you know, getting to the motive of why she had the secret server, and it was because
00:14:46.000Of the circle of enrichment, the phrase that the Washington Post pulled up today, that was clear even then.
00:14:51.000There was already some connections between Doug Band and, you know, shaking down donors at the time.
00:14:57.000And this person was saying this is really about the foundation.
00:15:01.000And more importantly, Joe, you know, for the next 18 months, I wrote story after story basically begging the Clintons to stop taking foreign money, to come clean with this email, to turn over to the Inspector General, the secret server, to stop lying about what went into this.
00:15:18.000And Fournier's coverage, he has, in fairness, covered Hillary better than a lot of these other sources, but what you're seeing is places like CNN, which have basically ignored Hillary's scandals in favor of Trump's all the time, now they're trying to cover their butts by claiming that they're just offended, they can't believe Hillary's corrupt.
00:15:33.000Again, if you can't believe Hillary's corrupt, it's because you haven't been watching closely enough.
00:15:38.000So we will continue along these lines, plus we have to get to
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00:16:40.000So the media are trying to cover up for the fact that they don't care about Hillary's corruption by pretending to care about Hillary's corruption.
00:16:47.000CNN's Gloria Borger, she says, yeah, Clinton, she knew her server was wrong.
00:16:52.000It does seem to reinforce the narrative that Republicans have been reiterating for months that Hillary Clinton knew her email server was wrong and when she got caught or AIDS, you know, when she got caught, she tried to conceal it or AIDS wanted to conceal it.
00:17:09.000And it hasn't seemed to move the needle at all, Anderson.
00:17:13.000And maybe it's because it's a little bit at this point, at this late in the game, like saying, oh, there's gambling going on here in Casablanca?
00:17:53.000Oh yeah, because you people wouldn't cover it because you were too busy covering whatever stupid thing Donald Trump said earlier in the campaign.
00:18:50.000I've been kind of astounded about how sort of run-of-the-mill these emails have been.
00:18:57.000I think that's why they really haven't made much news.
00:19:03.000You know, within a campaign, you have people having disputes with other people and some of their judgment on certain things, but it doesn't seem like...
00:19:14.000Okay, so if you believe Al Franken, and this is the story, but obviously, if she wins, she's going to enter office as a very weak president because everyone knows how corrupt she is, even if they're not sure precisely why she's corrupt, because the Trump campaign has done a poor job of prosecuting the case against Hillary Clinton.
00:19:30.000Now, meanwhile, Donald Trump is still on the campaign trail.
00:19:33.000The polls, by the way, are tightening somewhat.
00:19:35.000That doesn't mean that Trump is within spitting distance, but he's within shouting distance right now.
00:19:39.000He's down in too many states, I think, for him to come back.
00:19:42.000Right now, the betting markets still have him.
00:19:44.000Far and away trailing, but he is tightening the polls nationally a little bit.
00:19:50.000There's a poll out with Clinton up 6, there's one with Clinton up 7, there's one with Clinton up 5, 3, 2, 2.
00:19:59.000But the real clear politics poll average right now has Clinton, in a two-way race, has Clinton up 5.7, in a four-way race has Clinton up 5.8.
00:20:09.000That's a pretty big gap going into 11 days out from the election, barring some sort of cataclysmic event Trump is going to lose.
00:20:17.000That said, the polls are tightening in some of these states.
00:20:20.000The polls are getting closer in some of these states.
00:20:24.000So Trump is out there campaigning, and he is.
00:20:28.000By the way, just to give you the quick poll update, in the RealClearPolitics poll average for the swing states, Clinton is up in Florida, Pennsylvania by 5, New Hampshire by 6.5, she's up in North Carolina by 2, she's up in Nevada by 2.
00:20:39.000Iowa, Trump is up by 3.7, so he'll win Iowa in all likelihood.
00:20:43.000He's up by 1.1 in Ohio, so that one's basically a toss-up, or he'll win.
00:20:48.000And then she's also up in Michigan heavily, Wisconsin heavily, Colorado heavily, Virginia heavily.
00:20:53.000She's up in Maine, and she's up in Arizona as well.
00:20:55.000So right now, the live betting odds remain 84% for Hillary and 16% for Trump.
00:21:00.000So it would take a pretty massive miracle in order for Trump to pull this off.
00:21:05.000But Trump, as I say, he's still out there campaigning, and that means that
00:21:09.000We're only gonna get a few chances to use this.
00:21:19.000Okay, so, we're drawing to our closing episodes of Good Trump, Bad Trump, if indeed he loses.
00:21:26.000If he wins, we have four more years of Good Trump, Bad Trump, in which we will not pay residuals to Brandon Snipes, who writes this theme.
00:21:32.000So, in any case, one of the things that people like about Trump is that Trump is constantly slapping the media.
00:21:39.000She had been saying literally for years, long before Trump came on the scene, that Republicans ought to be saying to George Stephanopoulos, you do not get to pretend to be an objective journalist when you were Hillary Clinton's chief of staff.
00:21:50.000Donald Trump finally, finally goes after George Stephanopoulos.
00:22:33.000Which is funny, and by the way, he should have included George Stephanopoulos, aka the Keebler Elf.
00:22:37.000We'll get to some more good Trump in his speech to Black America, because there was some good stuff there today, although the new YouGov poll shows him garnering all of 1% in the black community, so his black person liked the speech.
00:23:42.000The purpose of this is to gin up his base who are still thinking about those glorious days during the primaries when it looked like Donald Trump was going to win, other silly things that Donald Trump did.
00:23:50.000Donald Trump has now, he surprised Melania with the idea that she's going to make a bunch of speeches on his behalf, which is just what America's women need.
00:23:57.000I mean, America's women are just dying to hear from Melania Trump.
00:24:00.000By the way, the idea that American women are going to be convinced to vote for Trump by Melania, maybe by Ivanka, who's actually likable, but trotting out the foreign ex-model
00:24:09.000Who is probably responsible for your own divorce to cater to America's women.
00:25:11.000So, OK, so now I want to talk about Trump.
00:25:14.000All of this is minutiae, obviously, and I want to talk about something that's not minutiae, and that is Trump's speech to black America.
00:25:18.000So one of the things I've praised Trump for during this campaign is the fact that he actually has attempted to draw black voters successfully or unsuccessfully by speaking directly to black voters.
00:25:28.000And I think that that's a worthwhile thing.
00:25:29.000I think that Republicans ought to be speaking to every crowd about their message everywhere they can find a microphone.
00:26:38.000It's the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world.
00:26:43.000If I'm president and the executives at Ford Motor Company announce they're moving their plants and jobs to Mexico, I will pick up the phone and make a very, very simple call.
00:26:55.000I don't know if it's presidential, but I'd rather do it myself.
00:27:19.000He's talking now about the idea that you are owed a job in Detroit no matter what the union contracts are, no matter what the taxes are, and he will punish companies for moving their labor base to places where they can more cheaply produce product.
00:27:31.000Okay, and he's personally going to do that.
00:27:33.000You understand that's economic fascism that he's talking about?
00:27:35.000The President of the United States picking up the phone and threatening companies directly, I am going to tax your imports if you do that.
00:27:42.000First of all, if Ford moves its company, if Ford moves their plants to Mexico,
00:27:47.000You have to understand, Ford has also moved a lot of its plants down south.
00:27:49.000The only reason there's a labor base for Ford in the United States at all is because the money they've saved from moving to Mexico they can then use to build a labor base in places like Jackson, Mississippi.
00:27:58.000The idea that everything has to remain in Detroit is just absurd.
00:28:20.000We need companies to hire black people.
00:28:22.000Let's get down to the root of what he's saying here.
00:28:23.000We need companies to hire more black people because I want black people's support in this election.
00:28:27.000Therefore, if there's a company located in a heavily black area, and they move out of the heavily black area, I threaten to remove money from them.
00:29:14.000It also includes a massive middle-class tax cut, tax-free child care savings accounts, and child care tax deductions and credits, and a total simplification of the tax code.
00:29:33.000I will also propose tax holidays for inner city investment, a new tax incentive to get foreign companies to relocate in blighted American neighborhoods, and they will do that.
00:29:49.000So he mentioned some good policy about lowering taxes, and then he says he's basically going to create tax loopholes that give an incentive for people to locate businesses in areas that are blighted.
00:30:03.000It's left policy to use government dollars or to use government benefits, which is what he's talking about, to encourage people to put their money in certain areas as opposed to other areas that's government interventionism.
00:30:13.000Then he goes full-scale Hillary Clinton, Barney Frank on the financial sector.
00:30:19.000He says the way he's going to help black people is by restricting the big banks.
00:30:22.000I will also pursue financial reforms to make it easier for young African Americans to get credit to pursue their dreams in business and create jobs in their communities.
00:31:19.000The policies of the Clintons brought us the financial recession through lifting Glass-Steagall, pushing subprime lending, and blocking reforms to Fannie and Freddie.
00:31:31.000Two friendly names, but they're not so friendly.
00:31:35.000It's time for a 21st century Glass-Steagall, and as part of that, a priority on helping African-American businesses get the credit they need.
00:32:34.000If you prohibit them from investing because you think that they are incapable of investing, then you're actually preventing them from having the cash flow necessary in order for them to grant
00:32:43.000I want every poor African-American child to be able to walk down the street in peace and not be scared and not be hurt.
00:33:09.000The problem is not the presence of police, but the absence of police.
00:33:13.000We need really a great group of people to keep you safe, to keep us all safe.
00:33:21.000I will invest in training and funding both local and federal law enforcement operations to remove the gang members, drug dealers, and criminal cartels from our neighborhoods.
00:33:37.000The best thing that he said in the whole speech, right?
00:33:39.000What he says right here is the best thing that he says in the whole speech.
00:34:34.000He says he's going to promote the family, but then he doesn't explain what he means by that.
00:34:37.000He doesn't say we're going to encourage social institutions to push family structure.
00:34:43.000We're going to try and reinvigorate a feeling in the United States that a child deserves a mother and a father.
00:34:49.000And I'm going to stand out front right here and say right now, every child deserves a mother and a father and it's immoral for fathers to abandon their children and it's immoral for people to have children out of wedlock because it does not help the child.
00:35:35.000I just thought that it was worthwhile to have a final illustration in objective measures of what he is and what he's not.
00:35:41.000He's not a hardcore leftist, but he's certainly not a constitutional conservative who believes in limited government and individual liberty.
00:35:49.000So, with that said, let's do some things I like and some things I hate, and then we'll do mailbag, because we've had to cut the mailbag short the last couple of times out.
00:37:15.000Is going to be interviewed by Samantha Bee, who's legitimately the least funny person in human history.
00:37:19.000She and Trevor Noah actually have a cage match next week to determine who's the least funny person in human history.
00:37:25.000Both of them, I believe, beat Stalin for that title a while back, so now we're going to unify the championships.
00:37:30.000So, Obama's going to be on with Samantha Bee, where presumably they will jabber about how much they love each other and why abortion's wonderful.
00:37:37.000John Oliver was ripping on Donald Trump.
00:37:40.000The other day I was at some awards ceremony and because he's British that means we're supposed to pay attention to him even though we fought a revolution so we wouldn't have to pay attention to the Brits.
00:37:47.000Here's John Oliver talking about abortion.
00:37:51.000And in terms of the communication about reproductive rights and the conversation that is so important, we really did potentially hit an idea in the modern era during that third debate, because his discussion of late-term abortions showed no real understanding of how abortions work, no clear understanding of the basic biology of women's bodies, and a very poor sense of grammar as well.
00:38:19.000We got, in a sense, what we were asking for.
00:38:22.000If you asked Donald Trump to draw a fallopian tube, I cannot imagine what you would get back other than a child's drawing of a cobra.
00:38:32.000Okay, and I would hesitate to ask John Oliver to draw a fallopian tube or describe any of the biology here because he obviously doesn't know.
00:38:41.000Now, look, I criticize Trump for being ignorant about how he describes abortion because he wasn't graphic enough, but let me, for those who missed it, explain what exactly happens in a late-term abortion, which is what he was talking about, okay?
00:38:53.000What happens in a late-term abortion, what happens in a late-term abortion is something completely
00:40:14.000But of course he'll never do that, other than it might look like a cobra, might look like a cobra, maybe it'll look like a princess waving her fairy magic wand and a unicorn emerges from the vagina.
00:40:24.000The fact that he thinks his accent covers for his basic ignorance of biology and his euphemistic willingness to ignore what amounts to child killing is absolutely ridiculous and despicable.
00:40:34.000Alrighty, on that note, time for some mailbags.
00:41:07.000Coming from a family of immigrants, I understand not liking people circumventing the system.
00:41:11.000But economically, does it not make more sense to leave it be?
00:41:13.000America has recently become more white than blue collar, so don't we want people occupying the unwanted jobs, not having to pay the minimum wage, thereby keeping costs
00:41:21.000So, Evan, as you may have seen on the program, I am fully libertarian when it comes to immigration so long as there are safety checks and no welfare system.
00:41:28.000The downside to immigration happens when there are people who come to the country and then take advantage of the welfare system.
00:41:36.000If somebody wants to come here and they have the right values and they're not a safety threat and they don't want to sponge off the taxpayer dollar and they want to come legally, which is
00:41:43.000How we screen for all of this, then I have no problem with immigration.
00:41:46.000I don't think you're owed a job at a wage that you feel that you deserve just because you exist and were born in America.
00:41:53.000I think we all compete for our jobs with people all over the world.
00:41:56.000And by the way, economically speaking, when you create these kind of
00:42:00.000False pay scales for people working in the United States, what you end up doing is making American businesses less efficient, and when you open up those businesses to foreign trade, they collapse.
00:42:09.000That's what happened to the American car industry in the 60s and 70s.
00:42:12.000We were the envy of the world in the 40s, 50s, 30s with American vehicles, and then other countries started to compete.
00:42:18.000Because we had these massive union contracts, because we had all these steel tariffs, the cost of creating cars in the United States went up.
00:42:25.000We opened up the borders, people stopped
00:42:28.000Wanting to pay so much for cars, and then we started buying foreign cars at unbelievable rates, not because we like foreigners better, but because the cars they were making were better and cheaper, and the American car industry collapsed.
00:42:38.000In order to keep something competitive, you actually have to allow competitive pressures to take place.
00:42:43.000So I'm not against immigration on economic grounds, except when it comes to illegal immigration, which I'm against because there are tremendous costs associated with it, ranging from the education of children who come in the country, and their parents are impoverished and don't have enough money to pay for them,
00:42:58.000And they can't pay for their health care, and we end up absorbing the cost through taxpayer dollars and reallocation of resources.
00:43:04.000Okay, Adam writes, Hey Ben, I grew up hearing my dad tell people, quote, if you didn't vote, you can't complain.
00:43:09.000If you're too lazy to vote, keep your mouth shut.
00:43:11.000I tend to agree with this for the most part, except for the fact these two candidates are absolutely awful.
00:43:15.000With that, thoughts on Evan McMullin, for someone who feels like he has to vote but can't bring himself to vote for either of these two.
00:43:21.000I don't have any problem with voting for Evan McMullin.
00:43:22.000If I were living in Utah, I probably would vote for Evan McMullin.
00:43:26.000He's not on the ballot here, but he's somebody I'd be comfortable voting for because he much more closely reflects my principles than all the other people who are running.
00:43:36.000By the way, this basic idea, if you didn't vote, you can't complain, I agree if you were too lazy to vote.
00:43:40.000If you didn't vote because you find everybody unpalatable, I think that you've pretty much preserved your right to complain about everybody because you haven't endorsed anyone.
00:44:08.000Ta-Nehisi Coates came to my school in Philadelphia yesterday.
00:44:10.000Well, I'm surprised he deigned to, considering he'd come back from Paris to the most racist country on Earth.
00:44:15.000All day I was passing groups of black students and locals raving about his speech and how enlightened they were.
00:44:19.000I could not go because of class, but I wanted to know how you counter his ideas of systemic racism.
00:44:23.000The way I counter his ideas of systemic racism is Ta-Nehisi Coates writes really bad books for lots of money and gets to live in Paris because he's super wealthy by playing off the fears of a bunch of leftists who feel morally superior by reading his crappy books.
00:44:35.000Okay, that doesn't sound like systemic racism to me unless it's reverse racism.
00:44:39.000I counter the ideas of systemic racism on a regular basis.
00:44:42.000That doesn't mean there aren't racists.
00:44:57.000If you find me a racist, if you find me a racist act, I am more than happy to rally against that racist act.
00:45:03.000If it is coming from government, I am more than happy to fight that racist law.
00:45:08.000But I'm not going to accuse people of racism without evidence because that's the worst slur you can throw against anybody in the United States.
00:45:14.000That's why I won't even call Donald Trump a racist.
00:45:16.000I just think that he caters to a lot of them for his own political gain.
00:45:19.000But, I think we ought to be very careful about saying things like systemic racism or institutional racism.
00:45:42.000You can buy True Allegiance and get furiously depressed at your local bookstore on November 1st, or you can subscribe annually to the podcast at dailywire.com and get a free signed copy.
00:45:52.000Right now, high school students are able to get large loans that can be very harmful to them later in life.
00:45:56.000Would you be in favor of a change to make the amount of student aid you can get be based on grades?
00:46:01.000Seth, first of all, I would change it so that all of these loans were private.
00:46:05.000When I went to Harvard Law School, the vast majority of my loans were private.
00:46:09.000And I was able to get those loans easily because I was going to Harvard Law School.
00:46:11.000They knew I was going to make enough money to pay it off.
00:46:13.000Now, that disadvantages the person who wants to major in lesbian dance theory, admittedly, because it turns out not a lot of banks are willing to foot the bill for you to dance around to the
00:46:22.000to the music of Melissa Etheridge, but that said, the fact is that the market should take care of a lot of these problems, and it's not my job to decide what loan is worthy or what loan isn't.
00:47:06.000The good news about a straight popular vote is it means that my vote would actually count in California.
00:47:09.000The bad news about a straight popular vote is it means that your vote would count slightly less in Texas.
00:47:14.000But there's a case to be made for a straight popular vote.
00:47:17.000And even though it's not something the founders would have approved of, we've broadened the notion of voting pretty broadly from what the founders once approved of.
00:47:25.000And the idea that the Electoral College provides any real sort of check or balance against bad choices I think has obviously been done away with.
00:47:32.000I don't think the electors will do anything.
00:47:34.000Let's see, this does not look like a real question from Paul, but Michael says...
00:48:03.000If only I had known that Michael Knowles was sitting at this desk, I would have beaten him to death with it.
00:48:07.000All right, Joshua writes, as a black man who's not a hardcore leftist, I don't feel I belong anywhere in the political discourse because one side panders to me while doing nothing of substance, the other side has made it clear they don't want me by pandering to alt-right white supremacists.
00:48:19.000I see myself as fiscally conservative, but every time I see this toxic rhetoric it makes me want to vomit.
00:48:25.000No, that the alt-right represents a very small portion of the Republican base.
00:48:29.000One of the reasons I've lamented the rise of Trump is because the alt-right's prominence and friendliness with the Trump campaign has led to an impression that the alt-right is a vast bulk of Republicans, when it really isn't.
00:48:41.000So, you know, I think that if you follow my show, and you think that, you know, the stuff that I say is right, and obviously I'm virulently anti-racist, I hate racism, if you believe that, then you're a conservative, and don't follow party, follow principle, find people you can vote for, people you can vote for, not parties you can vote for, and make sure that they're people you actually can vote for.
00:49:00.000Trent says, hey Ben, what is your biggest grievance with atheism?
00:49:04.000Look, I understand the arguments for atheism, I do.
00:49:07.000My biggest grievance with atheism is twofold.
00:49:09.000One, atheism fails to explain a moral system whereby human life has unique value.
00:49:26.000Atheism has fallen into collectivism because atheism falls into the idea that you have to have some power that is going to right all of the wrongs of birth and the only one capable of doing it is a vast government bureaucracy.
00:49:37.000So that's my biggest problem with atheism.
00:49:39.000I think that atheists would be wise to acknowledge the impact of religion on a moral Judeo-Christian culture even if they don't personally believe in God.
00:49:45.000I think that would be a wise agreement.
00:49:48.000That doesn't mean, by the way, you have to believe that we're enacting, you know, biblical law in the United States or anything like that.
00:49:55.000I'm just saying that if you want to acknowledge that fundamental human rights that you believe in are based on something more than atheism, that would be accurate.
00:50:02.000Joseph writes, is it not hypocritical on the part of Democrats with what they say about Trump by putting Bill Clinton back in the White House?
00:50:11.000Paul says, Ben, is voting for Trump versus a qualified candidate just so I can say, well, I tried, don't blame me, when Trump loses, a valid argument?
00:50:18.000So let me see if I, the phraseology here is a little awkward.
00:51:21.000What are your thoughts on Hillary mentioning that the president only has four minutes to make a decision on launching a nuclear weapon?
00:51:26.000Wouldn't that be considered top-secret information?
00:51:29.000Yes, because she's terrible and reveals all information, so when she says that Trump can't be trusted with national security, the answer is, lady, have you ever seen a mirror?
00:51:39.000No, because this country does not have a history of sexual...
00:51:55.000You know, bigotry that is nearly as deep as its history of racial bigotry, and people have used that history of racial bigotry as a modern excuse to go out there and rail against the system.
00:52:06.000I just don't think that the argument that America is a sexist country holds as much popular passion.
00:52:10.000I don't think either argument holds water, but I don't think it holds as much popular passion as the argument that America is a racist country and now black people in the inner cities have a right to rebel against the system.
00:52:21.000So, no, I don't expect that Hillary's pitch
00:52:23.000is going to be as strong as Obama's pitch when it comes to race or sex baiting.
00:52:28.000Okay, that brings us to the end of today's podcast.
00:52:30.000However, tomorrow we do have a special Friday podcast because we have hit every Jewish holiday.
00:52:35.000We are done with the Jewish holidays for this particular year, and we're going to make it up to you by doing a podcast tomorrow, and we'll deconstruct some culture for you, which is always a special Friday treat.