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00:00:15.000Alrighty, so this Donna Brazile report in Politico is pretty astonishing for a number of reasons.
00:00:21.000I'm going to go through them, and it just demonstrates how in the tank the media were for the Democratic Party, that so little of this came out over the past couple of years during the center of the election cycle.
00:00:32.000It does demonstrate also how in the tank the DNC was for Hillary Clinton and how Bernie Sanders really got jobbed.
00:00:37.000And furthermore, it demonstrates why Bernie Sanders is the future of the party.
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00:02:03.000Donna Brazile was a CNN commentator, former part of the Al Gore campaign in 2000, and she was made interim head of the Democratic National Committee after Debbie Wasserman Schultz was basically ousted for handing the DNC over to Hillary Clinton and using it as a weapon against Bernie Sanders.
00:02:17.000And Donna Brazile had already at that point, I believe, been leaking questions to Hillary Clinton, debate questions to Hillary Clinton from the CNN desk.
00:02:26.000Before the debate, she was actually let out of her CNN contract.
00:02:28.000She was essentially fired, as I recall.
00:02:31.000And she is now coming out trying to explain that she is not at fault, right?
00:02:39.000And what she has to say about the Democratic National Committee really does demonstrate that the sort of division that I was talking about, I've been talking about for a year now on this show, the tripartite division inside the DNC, the division between Hillary followers, Obama followers, and Bernie followers is very real, and that Bernie is actually winning this battle.
00:02:56.000So here are some of the revelations from Donna Brazile's piece at Politico.
00:03:00.000This is from her new book that is coming out shortly.
00:03:03.000First of all, Brazile is obviously trying to shield herself.
00:03:06.000She's obviously doing the, I'm shocked, shocked to find there's gambling going on here routine.
00:03:10.000She portrays herself as Hercule Poirot, as Encyclopedia Brown, entering the situation and trying to determine where the malfeasance has been at the DNC, like she didn't know.
00:03:22.000She talks in this article about it's a week before the election, and she's been sussing out how Bernie Sanders got screwed, and she is just so devastated by it.
00:03:29.000She says, I love this, she says, before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music.
00:03:35.000I wanted to censor myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call.
00:03:56.000This is the same lady who, as I say, leaked debate questions to Hillary, now claiming that she was trying to just bring honesty to the Democratic National Committee.
00:04:03.000Debbie Wasserman Schultz, her predecessor, was a disaster who turned the entire party over to Hillary, according to Brazil.
00:04:33.000And Debbie Wasserman Schultz didn't want to do the fundraising, so instead she went to Hillary and said, you do all the fundraising, you fill back in that hole, you backfill that gap in our funding, and I'll let you run the DNC, basically.
00:04:46.000All the Bernie people who are complaining that the thing was rigged, all of Trump's statements that it was rigged against Bernie, all of that was true.
00:04:52.000Third point here, Obama cleaned out the party.
00:04:54.000So for all of the talk about how Barack Obama was the great savior of the Democratic Party, the new FDR, the man who had revitalized the Democratic Party, not only did Obama devastate the Democratic Party down ballot, losing over 1,000 state seats in legislatures across the country, losing 13 gubernatorial seats, losing 12 Senate seats,
00:05:12.000Not only did he do all of those things, he also cleaned them out financially.
00:05:15.000Brazil says that by the time she took over the DNC, the Democratic Party was broke and $2 million in debt.
00:05:21.000This is in the middle of an election cycle where Hillary is raising oodles and gobs of cash.
00:05:27.000According to Brazil, Obama, after 2012, left the party $24 million in debt.
00:05:50.000She didn't cut, she didn't put the party on a starvation diet.
00:05:52.000She grew the staff and allowed the DNC to pick up the check for Obama consultants.
00:05:57.000So Obama had already run the party into the ground, but the DNC was continuing to pay using the credit card for all of Obama's consultants, which is pretty amazing.
00:06:05.000They turned it over to Hillary, and Hillary was supposed to come in and fill in the gap.
00:06:08.000So Hillary used that debt to pick up power.
00:06:11.000Gary Gensler, who is the chief financial officer of the Hillary campaign, apparently, quote, And here's where you get into some dicey territory.
00:06:17.000Hillary Clinton was apparently using the DNC
00:06:43.000She says, Instead, it all went right back into campaigning for Hillary.
00:06:51.000Brazil says when the Politico story described this arrangement as quote, essentially money laundering for the Clinton campaign, Hillary's people were outraged at being accused of doing something shady.
00:07:00.000Bernie's people were angry for their own reasons, saying this was part of a calculated strategy to throw the nomination to Hillary.
00:07:07.000All the money was coming into the DNC vis-a-vis Hillary, and it wasn't being used for Democratic Party operations, it was being used to campaign for Hillary Rodham Clinton personally.
00:07:16.000So they let Hillary have run of the shop, and she immediately corrupted the DNC in the same way that she corrupted the State Department, in the same way the Clinton Foundation was corrupt.
00:07:23.000All of which leads to the sixth point here.
00:07:28.000If the DNC had not handed all of its operations over to Hillary, to the point where Hillary for America was basically running the DNC from Brooklyn, from her Brooklyn offices, every press release from the DNC apparently had to be vetted through Hillary's office.
00:07:42.000If that had not been happening, Bernie probably wins the nomination, or at the very least, it's an extraordinarily close race, even closer than it ended up being.
00:07:50.000Brazil basically admits that Hillary was in charge of the DNC from August 2015.
00:07:56.000The first primaries didn't take place until January 2016.
00:07:59.000So before Bernie was even seriously running, the party had been turned over to Hillary Clinton, a candidate for the nomination, which is insane.
00:08:07.000And all of this leads to the final point here.
00:08:09.000It is very obvious that Bernie Sanders lost the battle in 2016, but he absolutely won the war.
00:08:27.000If Bernie had won the nomination, maybe he doesn't beat Trump.
00:08:30.000Maybe he's just a crazed old loon bag socialist from Vermont who couldn't defeat Donald Trump and Hillary is sitting somewhere crying into her beer and we get Hillary running again in 2020.
00:08:39.000But Bernie Sanders didn't win the nomination.
00:08:41.000And now the widespread perception, apparently correct, is that Bernie Sanders was cheated out of the nomination by the Democratic Party establishment.
00:08:48.000And so Bernie can now run as the anti-establishment outsider again in 2020 and as the loyal soldier.
00:08:53.000Because according to Brazil, she went to Bernie with all of this one week prior to the election.
00:08:56.000Bernie didn't say, I want to blow this up or I'm going to go public with this.
00:08:59.000Instead, Bernie swallowed hard and he said, I'm going to campaign for Hillary against Trump.
00:09:04.000If Bernie runs for the nomination in 2020, he will win the nomination in 2020, and he may win the presidency, which is very scary for the country, very frightening for the country.
00:09:13.000But Bernie Sanders is now where the power lies in the Democratic Party, and Brazil is making that clear.
00:09:19.000Donna Brazile is a political survivor.
00:09:21.000And what she is doing here is she is basically tossing Hillary Clinton to the wolves so that she can get in good with the Bernie Sanders folks, who she feels are the next wave in the Democratic Party.
00:09:51.000He will defeat Kamala Harris, for sure.
00:09:54.000Bernie Sanders will have the power of revenge behind him, plus Bernie Sanders has a better feel for what voters want to hear in some of the swing states that Hillary lost than Hillary Clinton's in.
00:10:03.000There's a significant possibility that Bernie Sanders is president in 2020 because of Hillary Clinton.
00:10:08.000If that's not scary to you, then you haven't been following Bernie Sanders' career in any significant way.
00:10:13.000So that's the news out of Democratic land, where they've torn each other apart.
00:10:17.000Bernie Sanders owns the party because Hillary Clinton corrupted the party and Barack Obama bankrupted the party.
00:10:24.000And Bernie Sanders is the only solution?
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00:12:39.000It also lowers the pass-through tax rate on what they call S-corporations from close to 40% down to 25%, which is also a good thing because our corporate tax rates are the highest in the industrialized world.
00:12:51.000They are higher than France, they are higher than Japan, they are higher than the UK, they are higher than Germany.
00:12:55.000Bring it down to 20% would put us right in the middle of the pack.
00:13:06.000It would bring it down to, or it would get rid of three of them rather, it would bring it down to four tax brackets as opposed to seven.
00:13:12.000It would actually negatively impact people who are making over $400,000 a year.
00:13:16.000If you were making over $400,000 a year, then you are paying 39.6% in the, sorry, if you're paying
00:13:27.000No matter what, you're paying 40% tax bracket if you're making about $420,000 a year.
00:13:33.000This new program would lift that cap to $500,000 a year, but it would also make it that if you're making more than $400,000 a year, you're paying a 35% tax as opposed to a 33% tax.
00:13:41.000So it raises taxes slightly for people in that tax bracket, but then increases the next station on the belt.
00:14:38.000Right now what this plan would do is to take the estate tax which is 40% on estates above $5.5 million and doubles it so that the estate tax only applies on estates above $11.2 million and then in 2024 it just is eliminated completely.
00:14:51.000It just goes away completely so no more estate tax which of course is the proper
00:14:55.000Solution considering that anybody who knows what they're doing with taxes simply signs a living will and then they don't have to pay an estate tax Anyway, right a living will just allows you to essentially transfer your assets over before your death to your children So that way they're not inheriting from you.
00:15:08.000It's only inheritance that they get screwed here The GOP tax plan does repeal the deduction for state and local income and sales taxes This is why I say if you're in California, you're screwed.
00:15:19.000I think it's a bad thing for me, right?
00:15:20.000I think I'm in trouble here because California has a 10% state income tax, which is insane.
00:15:27.000So basically, the way that it used to work is that I would take that as a deduction against my federal tax.
00:15:31.000Now I can't do that anymore under the Republican tax plan.
00:15:34.000So basically, if I'm in the top tax bracket, or at least the portion of my income that's in the top tax bracket, I'm going to be paying 39.6% on that, and then I'm going to be paying an additional 10% on that from the state of California.
00:15:46.000So I'm paying 50% of all that money to the state or federal government, which is pretty crazy.
00:15:50.000Especially because, as I've said, I don't agree with tax plans that increase taxes on people who are wealthy, because the people who are making a lot of money are also the people who are investing a lot of money, saving a lot of money, and allowing free commerce to flourish.
00:16:02.000That it also allows a deduction for property taxes, but it caps it at $10,000.
00:16:07.000So again, it punishes people in California.
00:16:09.000California has some pretty significant property taxes, even though it's been capped by Prop 13.
00:16:13.000In places like Massachusetts, which have a huge property tax, that is going to just destroy them.
00:16:18.000The purpose here, on a political level, is to force a lot of the blue states to reconsider whether their taxes should be quite this high.
00:16:25.000And it is not fair that Texas has been basically paying the freight for California through this particular tax deduction.
00:16:32.000Republicans are going to curtail the deductions.
00:16:33.000This is according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:16:35.000Individuals take for state and local tax payments and the ones businesses get for the interest they pay on debt.
00:16:40.000But it doesn't charge the 401k savings accounts, which is good.
00:16:43.000It also calls for leaving the top individual tax rate at 40%, but pushing the income threshold to $1 million for married couples.
00:16:50.000There are some holes that I think Democrats are going to try and exploit here.
00:16:55.000The holes they're going to try and exploit are, again, the failure to take into account state income taxes, and also that it gets rid of deductions for medical expenses.
00:17:04.000So people who have HSAs don't really have to worry about it, but if you have a serious medical problem and you're paying lots of money, and now you can't take that deduction in the same number as you were before, that is going to hurt you.
00:17:14.000And that's where the Democrats are going to attack.
00:17:16.000They're going to say, you're killing Obamacare already, and now you're trying to take away my deduction for the medical care.
00:17:20.000Why are you punishing people who have health problems?
00:17:22.000That's where the Democrat line of attack is likely to come.
00:17:27.000So as I say, there are a couple of political landmines.
00:17:31.000Also, speaking of people who it's going to hurt in California and Massachusetts, the bill limits the home mortgage interest deduction.
00:17:37.000So right now, you can take a home mortgage interest deduction for loans up to a million dollars.
00:17:42.000Now, it would only be deductible on loans up to $500,000.
00:17:45.000Well, that's not just, you know, that's not just rich people in the state of California.
00:17:49.000Basically, any home in a major city in the state of California, any single family home in the state of California, you're taking a loan above $500,000.
00:17:56.000The average price for a three bedroom in like LA is probably $750.
00:18:01.000So that's going to hurt some people who are middle class.
00:18:04.000And because of the larger standard deduction, so the standard deduction has gone up.
00:18:07.000That's kind of the max deduction you can give.
00:18:10.000Fewer people would have a tax incentive to make charitable deductions.
00:18:13.000So, you used to give charitable deductions in order to increase your itemization.
00:18:16.000That is going to go away a little bit.
00:18:37.000Overall, this is quite a good tax plan.
00:18:39.000I think that it does pick and choose in some areas that I don't exactly love.
00:18:43.000It retains the earned income tax credit, which is basically a welfare program.
00:18:47.000It also increases the child tax credit, but not as much as people like Mike Lee and Marco Rubio have suggested.
00:18:53.000Under current law, a married couple with two children making $60,000 would get a $13,000 standard deduction and four personal exemptions worth $4,100, $4,150.
00:19:02.000That means they pay taxes on $30,000 of taxable income, which means that they are only going to be paying a very small tax bill as opposed to a significantly larger tax bill.
00:19:11.000So, bottom line is that it does lower taxes for virtually everyone except the people who are at the top of the income spectrum and people living in states like California and Massachusetts.
00:19:23.000It's going to be difficult for him to cobble together a majority for anything, particularly because there's the say no to anything Trump wants caucus now, which may or may not include people like John McCain, Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins.
00:19:34.000We'll see how bad the blowback is from the Democrats.
00:19:37.000What's interesting about this proposal is because Trump is not actually giving tax breaks to people at the upper end of the income spectrum like me, it's going to be difficult for the Democrats to say that he's attempting to create tax cuts for the rich at the expense of people lower in the income scale, because that simply is not true.
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00:21:35.000I said there are more people who have been killed by white supremacist terror attacks in the United States since 2001 than Islamist terrorist attacks.
00:21:42.000There have been more white supremacist attacks than Islamist terror attacks overall, but the number of people who have been killed in Islamist terror attacks is greater than the number of people killed in white supremacist terror attacks because there are places like Orlando,
00:21:54.000Where he had 59 people killed, or I think it was 59, right, who were killed in Orlando.
00:21:59.000I'd have to check the number, but a solid number of people who were killed in the Orlando nightclub shooting.
00:22:08.00058 non-fatal injuries, 50 deaths, including the perpetrator.
00:22:11.000So, more deaths in Islamist terror attacks, more attacks by white supremacists.
00:22:14.000Okay, so I wanted to correct the record on that, because I think it's important to correct ourselves when we make mistakes.
00:22:19.000I also said yesterday that I didn't think that it was the right time to talk about immigration policy, mainly because I think that the immigration policies Trump is espousing are exactly correct, but we have to do this outside the heat of a terror attack.
00:22:32.000So here is Laura Ingraham making the argument that Trump was making yesterday with regard to immigration policy.
00:22:37.000Now remember, I agree with Laura Ingraham's argument on the immigration policy.
00:22:40.000I agree with Trump's argument on the immigration policy.
00:22:42.000But I think the justification you're about to hear Laura Ingraham use here is actually a really problematic one.
00:22:48.000Although we can't stop all terror attacks in the United States, the safety of the American people demand that we do what we can to stop those attacks that are preventable.
00:22:58.0009-11 should have made it obvious to everyone that Islam has a hideous radicalization problem.
00:23:06.000Donald Trump put the onus on Muslim leaders on his first foreign trip to get their houses in order and reform from within.
00:23:13.000Here at home, we should not lose one more American life because politicians don't have the nerve or the will to do what's necessary to secure the homeland.
00:23:25.000Our safety is their primary responsibility.
00:23:28.000Okay, so here's the problem with what she's saying to a certain extent.
00:23:30.000Of course, we should take policies that minimize terror attacks.
00:23:33.000But this basically boils down to, we cannot lose one more life.
00:23:40.000That's essentially what she's saying here.
00:23:41.000She's basically saying, we cannot lose one more life.
00:23:44.000You know, if this even saves one more American life, right?
00:23:47.000She says, here at home we should not lose one more American life because politicians don't have the nerve or will to do what's necessary to secure the homeland.
00:23:53.000That last line, we shouldn't lose one more life, that's the exact same line that gun control advocates use when they're talking about banning guns, right?
00:24:15.000There are lots of things we can do to save just one life.
00:24:17.000The question is, is that good policy or not?
00:24:19.000So, I think Trump's recommendations on policy here are basically correct, but I think that using the logic of terror attacks in order to push for particular
00:24:53.000One of the things that's amazing is that, you know, when they released the JFK documents, it showed that the government
00:24:58.000was really nervous about releasing those documents.
00:25:00.000I think the reason the government is really nervous about releasing those documents is they had all sorts of red flags on Oswald.
00:25:05.000For the same reason the government was nervous about the 9-11 report.
00:25:08.000For the same reason the government is always nervous whenever there's a terror attack and a report on it.
00:25:12.000There's always the problem of, we botched our job.
00:25:14.000That is usually a more plausible explanation for why there was some sort of terror attack or some sort of shooting or some sort of assassination.
00:25:23.000A policy that was already on the books was not enforced.
00:25:25.000That's almost always a more plausible explanation for why something happened than a broad-based policy failure.
00:25:31.000So the question here is, what is the broad-based policy failure?
00:25:33.000So there are a couple of broad-based policy failures here, but they are failures not because of an anomalous terror attack.
00:25:39.000They are failures because these broad-based policies have writ broad-based changes in American social standards and cultures and mores, right?
00:25:46.000So here is Trump yesterday talking about chain migration with this New York City terrorist.
00:25:50.000And what he's saying about chain migration is absolutely true as a general matter.
00:25:53.000And we want to get rid of chain migration.
00:25:58.000This man that came in, or whatever you want to call him, brought in with him other people.
00:26:08.000And he was the point of contact, the primary point of contact, for, and this is preliminarily, 23 people that came in, or potentially came in with him.
00:26:22.000So we want to get rid of chain migration.
00:26:26.000And we've wanted to do that for a long time.
00:26:29.000And I've been wanting to do it for a long time.
00:26:31.000Okay, and it is right to get rid of chain migration.
00:26:33.000What he's saying here, as a general rule, the big problem with chain migration is not a bad guy enters the United States, brings in 23 bad relatives, right?
00:26:46.000People who come in, not necessarily bad people, but people who come in with different cultural mores and then they bring in their entire family, right?
00:26:54.000You get one guy who comes in through the diversity visa lottery, has a high school degree and two years of work experience.
00:26:59.000He comes in and he brings his entire extended family, none of whom have any high school degree or any work experience, none of whom have been
00:27:26.000The diversity lottery, the idea that we are going to give affirmative action to countries that don't have enough people coming in, is really stupid.
00:27:33.000Originally, it was designed to get more Europeans in.
00:27:35.000It's largely been used for countries that are majority Muslim now.
00:28:40.000You know, Trump last night tweeted out that he was very upset, obviously, over the attack, and he said, this terrorist should get the death penalty.
00:29:42.000Okay, so whenever, first of all, whenever he says I would certainly consider that, that's him buying time to a certain extent.
00:29:47.000He doesn't know the answer so he always says I'll consider it.
00:29:50.000But even if he says that, you know, the fact is that people resonate to the fact that Trump basically sees these terror attacks in the same way that they do.
00:29:57.000Now, the media, of course, responds to all this, how dare Trump politicize?
00:33:40.000I mean, yeah, I know, in 2008 she was saying that she didn't love her country until Obama was nominated, but she's now a unity figure, a unifying force in America.
00:34:40.000You know, we're raising our men to feel entitled and self-righteous because we've never seen an entitled or self-righteous woman anywhere in America.
00:35:03.000So, another issue that, where I think there's bipartisan stupidity going on.
00:35:08.000So, there's a big discussion now going on over internet censorship.
00:35:11.000And it's all based on the 2016 election.
00:35:13.000There's been a lot of talk in recent days about how
00:35:16.000Hillary Clinton, she was jobbed, basically, by the Russians.
00:35:20.000The Russians used Facebook and Twitter in order to push their own political agenda, in order to push political chaos in the United States.
00:35:26.000There's a study that came out and said that the Russians had, I guess, 150 million engagements on Facebook, and this was supposedly shifting the election.
00:36:23.000But what's amazing is that the Democrats are so ensconced in this idea that Hillary must have won the election that they have to say that it was the Russian bots that really won her the election now.
00:36:32.000Now, before I show you what these idiot senators are saying, and I think it's from both parties, the stupidity, I want to show you some of what the Russian bots were putting out that supposedly swung the election.
00:36:42.000Okay, so here is a, we're going to show a couple of these graphics, Austin.
00:36:46.000Can we get the Bernie Sanders graphic here?
00:37:39.000Group called American Made and then it's a picture of a father and a son both carrying guns and it says, this is the way our children have to be raised.
00:37:46.000It's not the promotion of violence, it's the motion of confidence and the ability to defend yourself or whatever it is.
00:37:51.000And this was, I think the number of times these were clicked on, the first one was clicked on like 100 times, this one was clicked on like 800 times.
00:38:52.000When I put up a video, we're talking thousands and thousands of shares.
00:38:55.000This is the sort of stuff Democrats say shifted the election, and we have to punish Facebook and Twitter and Google, because if they had shut down the Russian bots, then Hillary certainly, certainly would have won.
00:39:03.000Here is Dianne Feinstein openly threatening Facebook, Google, and Twitter, saying to them,
00:39:08.000That if you don't find a way to crack down on material we don't like, we will find a way to do it.
00:39:11.000This is a threat to the First Amendment, what she's talking about here.
00:39:14.000You have a huge problem on your hands.
00:39:17.000And the United States is going to be the first of the countries to bring it to your attention.
00:39:22.000And others are going to follow, I'm sure.
00:39:40.000Okay, you do something about it or we will is the government-threatening regulation of an industry that's not violating the law.
00:39:45.000Okay, it's not a violation of the law for Russia Today to put out propaganda, or for Russian bots to put out propaganda, or for Russian groups to put out propaganda.
00:39:54.000The big problem here is not that the Russians were trying to exploit the system.
00:39:57.000The big problem is that Americans are gullible and will click on anything that hits our buttons in the right way.
00:40:03.000I would venture to say that if you're gonna talk about propaganda that benefited the Trump campaign, start with Infowars, don't start with Russia Today, right?
00:40:09.000And if you're gonna talk about propaganda that benefited Hillary Clinton, don't talk about the Russians, okay?
00:40:17.000I mean, there are groups in American life, in the Huffington Post, there are groups in American life that put out material like this to try to censor Facebook, Twitter, and Google and suggest that it's their fault.
00:40:28.000Tom Cotton did the same thing from the right.
00:40:29.000Again, I like Senator Cotton, but I think he's dead wrong here.
00:40:31.000Thank you, gentlemen, for your appearance this morning.
00:40:33.000Mr. Edgett, I want to discuss Twitter's history of cooperation with our intelligence community.
00:40:40.000Last year, in an open hearing before this committee, I asked then-CIA Director John Brennan about Twitter's decision to prohibit a subsidiary called DataMiner from working with our intelligence community.
00:40:49.000Director Brennan stated that he was disappointed in Twitter's decision.
00:40:54.000But at the same time, we learned that Twitter was refusing to work with the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community.
00:41:00.000We also learned that Twitter was pitching Russia Today and Sputnik propaganda arms of the Kremlin to sell advertisements for profit.
00:41:09.000So in essence, last year, Russia was beginning its covert influence campaign against the United States, and Twitter was on the side of Russia, as opposed to the national security interests of the United States.
00:41:18.000Okay, so first of all, if Twitter, if there's, if there are Russians who want to put out political messages, you know, the only thing that's illegal here is if there's actually, like, a campaign contribution.
00:41:27.000Like, if Russia's making active campaign contributions, so if they said, we want to back Trump and we want to put out ads, that's a violation of law by Russia.
00:41:33.000Right, but the idea that Twitter has to, like, what if there's a Russian citizen living, an American citizen living in Russia who wants to put out these messages?
00:41:40.000And if the messages are exactly the same as messages that would be put out by Team Trump or Team Clinton, I'm, let's put it this way, I am much more worried about the government cracking down on Facebook, Twitter, and Google than I am about Twitter, Facebook, and Google somehow falling into the pocket of the nefarious Russians to shift our election system.
00:41:56.000And I think we better be careful with all of this.
00:41:57.000Okay, time for some quick things I like, things I hate, and then I'll do a very quick big idea.
00:44:45.000So as you can see, I mean, she's super talented, right?
00:44:47.000I mean, she's obviously great at what she does.
00:44:49.000The alt-right got a hold of the fact she was my sister.
00:44:52.000I'm not even friends with my family members on Facebook because of this, because I know that there are people out there targeting them.
00:44:57.000People asked why my dad, who used to work at Breitbart, was writing under a pseudonym.
00:45:00.000This is the reason, because I don't want people who I love targeted by people who are jackasses.
00:45:05.000They found my sister, they targeted her, they spammed her entire YouTube, every YouTube video that she put up, they spammed with nasty, openly anti-Semitic stuff
00:45:14.000about how she was a Jewish whore, essentially, and they targeted her this way.
00:45:19.000They started emailing her through her website.
00:45:21.000They targeted her on some of the neo-Nazi websites.
00:45:24.000These people are scum, and anybody who has granted them an inch of space is similarly scum.
00:45:29.000So I just want to call them out and note, you are scum, you are pathetic, and the fact that you sit in your basements masturbating to anime does not mean that you are of worth in any human level, you stupid...
00:45:54.000put out was a tweet of his daughter, and he said that he was telling her that he was going to take half her candy on Halloween to teach her what socialism was.
00:46:09.000Last night, Don Jr tweeted a picture of his young daughter holding her candy bucket and said, I'm going to take half of her candy tonight and give it to some kid who sat at home.
00:46:20.000It's never too early to teach her about socialism.
00:46:24.000Yes, it's never too early to teach kids the danger of sharing.
00:46:28.000On Halloween, kids literally go door-to-door to get free candy from the neighbors because the kids don't have it, and the neighbors do.
00:47:52.000I may agree with you, Stephen Colbert, but the idea that Donald Trump Jr.'
00:47:56.000's daughter should have to give half her candy, I think that the better plan there would probably be for Donald Trump Jr.'
00:48:01.000's very wealthy man to get that kid some candy if that kid needs charity.
00:48:05.000But I'm not going to enforce it with the power of government.
00:48:07.000So again, the deliberate misread on socialism here is pretty astonishing, and it just shows how the left thinks about socialism.
00:48:12.000They think about it as a benevolent, wonderful thing that really has no downside.
00:48:17.000You know, except for the whole, we have to shoot people if they refuse to abide by my version of what charity ought to constitute.
00:48:22.000Okay, quick big idea here on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:48:25.000So every Thursday, we go through a big idea.
00:48:27.000One of the big ideas today that we're going to do is stare decisis.
00:48:29.000So Clarence Thomas did an interview with Laura Ingram, which was quite good yesterday.
00:48:33.000Laura clerked for Thomas on the Supreme Court, and Thomas was asked about his judicial philosophy, and I'm going to explain what differentiates Clarence Thomas from Justice Scalia, and why I actually prefer Clarence Thomas to Justice Scalia's jurisprudence, even though I love Justice Scalia's writing.
00:48:47.000Your philosophy is described as alternatively formalistic, rigid, strictly conservative.
00:48:57.000How do you describe your philosophy, Justice?
00:49:03.000I think we are required to reason to a conclusion.
00:49:09.000And that's what we try to do and try to do it in a way that it is accessible to regular people.
00:49:17.000And when you read Thomas's decisions, first of all, they are very clear and they're very easy to read.
00:49:20.000But one of the things that differentiates Clarence Thomas from from Justice Scalia is Justice Scalia believed to a certain extent in stare decisis.
00:49:26.000That literally means the case has been decided.
00:49:29.000And the problem with Justice Scalia's take on this is that if you believe in precedent, you have to pick and choose which precedent you choose to uphold.
00:49:36.000You either have a blanket rule that a case that has been decided on similar merits must stand, or you can choose a rule that says, I don't care what the case decided before.
00:49:44.000If it's not right, then it's not right.
00:49:46.000Cases in which this comes up, Roe v. Wade, right?
00:50:19.000That rule is, if the case is wrong, I overrule it.
00:50:22.000And the case can be wrong based on them getting the case wrong at the time.
00:50:25.000This is why I think that Justice Thomas is actually a more conservative justice, a more constitutional justice than Justice Scalia, even though they voted together most of the time.
00:50:33.000Thomas's jurisprudence is, I think, more solid and a better basis for constitutionalism than Justice Scalia's, even though I'm a big Scalia admirer and Scalia was quite brilliant.
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