00:00:25.000I know y'all enjoyed the Super Bowl last night.
00:00:27.000Well, those of you who didn't see the halftime show, I understand that yesterday was a time to get together and have our secular national holiday and all of this.
00:00:34.000But this week, man, this week, I hope you drank heavily because you're going to need all of that alcoholic intake stored in your body.
00:00:43.000For, I would say, siphoning out this week.
00:00:45.000I mean, I think that we're going to need to draw on that all this week, because here's the deal.
00:00:49.000We've got the Iowa caucuses tonight, and then tomorrow we have the State of the Union address.
00:00:53.000And sometime during this week, this whole impeachment thing is going to end.
00:00:56.000We'll get to all of those topics in just one second.
00:00:58.000The big topic, of course, is what happens in Iowa.
00:01:00.000Because right now, the human being who seems to be most likely to win the Iowa caucuses by polling data is Bernard McSanders, the octogenarian socialist loon bag.
00:01:11.000Who believes that there are too many different types of deodorants.
00:01:13.000And if there weren't as many types of deodorant, then perhaps the homeless people wouldn't be homeless.
00:01:17.000That guy is probably going to win Iowa.
00:01:19.000He's also probably going to win New Hampshire.
00:01:20.000And right now, polling has him within five in South Carolina.
00:01:23.000So that means that he is there's a significant possibility that Bernard McSanders is your nominee.
00:01:29.000Now, Joe Biden is stacking this whole thing up for a long run.
00:01:31.000He says, don't worry, guys, this is going to take a while.
00:01:34.000That is him basically conceding Iowa ahead of time.
00:01:37.000Because if Joe Biden wins Iowa, this thing is also over very early.
00:01:39.000Because if Joe Biden wins Iowa and Bernie goes on to win New Hampshire, it is likely that Biden withstands Bernie's run in Nevada, withstands him in South Carolina.
00:01:49.000All of this is basically coming down to a Biden versus Bernie battle with Bloomberg waiting somewhere in the wings.
00:01:54.000Hoping that Biden completely collapses in Iowa and New Hampshire, and then he becomes sort of the moderate choice, which is why he was dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into advertising, including tens of millions of dollars into advertising on Super Bowl Sunday.
00:02:05.000Well, Bernie has been drawing enormous crowds in Iowa, which really matters in Iowa because it's a caucus state.
00:02:10.000So normally, you don't associate crowd size with victory.
00:02:13.000I remember Republicans made this mistake in 2012.
00:02:15.000Right before the 2012 election, Mitt Romney drew like 20,000 people to a rally in Pennsylvania.
00:02:20.000I remember covering it and people were like, wow, that is amazing.
00:02:24.000And then he just got walloped by Obama, right?
00:02:27.000I mean, he won by, Obama won by fewer votes than he had over McCain, but it was still a very, very large victory for President Obama.
00:02:34.000Well, in Iowa, it's a little bit different because enthusiasm really does matter.
00:02:38.000Now, there are a few things to keep in mind in Iowa.
00:02:40.000One, Iowa is a disproportionately old state.
00:02:42.000So while we are talking about all the young people who are showing up for Bernie Sanders and their enthusiasm and the organization and the ground game and all of that, the truth is that Iowa, like most of the United States, is growing disproportionately old.
00:02:53.000According to the New York Times, Iowa's outsized role in presidential politics is often criticized for precisely that reason, but Iowa mirrors the nation's economy and demography in one very striking way, the state's rapidly aging population and the myriad economic, political, and social consequences that flow from it.
00:03:10.000The state is largely known for corn and soybeans, but it also is sort of bifurcated between the rural Iowa areas and the urban Iowa areas.
00:03:20.000It is increasingly driven by the impacts of its aging population.
00:03:22.00020 years ago, Iowa had one of the oldest populations in the nation.
00:03:25.000Its senior population has grown rapidly since then.
00:03:29.000Now the nation's older population has grown even faster.
00:03:31.000Now today, Iowa is in the middle of the pack when it comes to ranking states by age.
00:03:35.000With that said, right now, well over 20% of the Iowa population is over the age of 60.
00:03:44.000So what that means is that those are Joe Biden voters.
00:03:46.000And bottom line is those are all Joe Biden voters.
00:03:48.000If you look at the polling data, Joe Biden polls in the single digits among young voters who are Democrat.
00:03:54.000Among old voters who are Democrat, Bernie Sanders polls in the single digits.
00:03:58.000So all the old people are like, yeah, we remember communism and it wasn't that great.
00:04:01.000We remember when the USSR was around, when Cuba was a thing.
00:04:17.000So Bernie is drawing these massive crowds, but that may not actually be indicative of how the Iowa vote goes, depending on whether the old people show up.
00:04:25.000And traditionally, the old people show up.
00:04:26.000See, Bernie is betting that young people are going to show up in numbers that they haven't before.
00:04:30.000He's betting on bringing new audiences out.
00:04:32.000Typically, people who bet on new audiences, particularly young audiences showing up en masse, typically that doesn't happen.
00:04:38.000Now, Barack Obama in 2008 did get new audiences to show up to vote for him, but those audiences were disproportionately minority, meaning that black voters showed up in rows to vote for Barack Obama in 2008, which makes sense.
00:04:50.000He was the first major ticket national black nominee, right?
00:04:52.000I mean, the idea that they were going to be able to vote a black president into the White House, I mean, black populations looking at a prospective black president and saying, OK, I'm showing up to vote for that guy.
00:05:02.000It shouldn't be surprising for anybody.
00:05:04.000But the idea that young people are going to show up in droves to vote for the old guy, even if that holds true in the primaries, that may not hold true in the general election.
00:05:11.000See, there's this whole myth making that's happening right now in American politics where Donald Trump activated a brand new base that had never shown up to vote before.
00:05:18.000And if you look statistically, that really isn't the case.
00:05:21.000Donald Trump performed almost exactly in line with Mitt Romney across the board.
00:05:24.000The difference is that no one showed up to vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:05:26.000The dirty little secret about 2016 is that it was all about nobody showing up to vote for Hillary Clinton, not about Donald Trump magically activating some heretofore unknown base who showed up to vote for him.
00:05:37.000There were a small number of voters who were that, but it wasn't this vast, overwhelming wave.
00:05:41.000Bernie Sanders counting on young people to show up in droves and then vote for him?
00:05:47.000Now, it could happen in Iowa because of small sample size.
00:05:49.000Now, polling in Iowa is notoriously fickle, and this is why it does matter an awful lot that just before the Iowa caucuses, there is now the Des Moines Register and CNN scrapped their final Iowa poll.
00:06:04.000According to Axios, this is the gold standard poll published by the Des Moines Register for 76 years, and the gold standard is no longer available.
00:06:14.000CNN, the Des Moines Register, and Seltzer & Company announced they would not be releasing the final installment of the CNN-Des Moines Register MediaCom poll.
00:06:21.000A respondent raised an issue with the way their interview was conducted, which could have compromised the results of the poll, and they were unable to ascertain what happened during the respondent's interview, and they couldn't determine if this was a single, isolated incident.
00:06:31.000Per Politico, the survey has the power to fuel a candidate's 11th-hour momentum or damage a contender who underperforms expectations.
00:06:39.000The release of the results was highly anticipated because this is so competitive, because you have four candidates who are basically polling within six or seven points of each other, Biden, Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg.
00:06:48.000Apparently, one respondent told the Buttigieg campaign the former mayor's name was not one of the choices he was offered.
00:06:54.000The campaign then alerted CNN and other polling partners, and then CNN said a respondent raised an issue with the way the interview was conducted, and so they pulled the poll.
00:07:01.000Now, the Bernie supporters are basically saying, no, the reason you pulled the poll is because Bernie is winning.
00:07:12.000There's very little evidence to that effect.
00:07:14.000But with that said, the Bernie people are, of course, the most adamant, and they are the loudest, and they are the—and he is drawing the biggest crowds.
00:07:29.000So I sat down and I watched a Bernie rally beginning to end in Iowa.
00:07:31.000I want to tell you about that, and I want to talk about the appeal of Bernie Sanders, which I think Republicans are underestimating, in just one second.
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00:09:41.000And then he's very vague about what exactly the movement constitutes because it would be very odd if the Soviet National Anthem started playing in the background or something to give you a clue.
00:09:49.000So he does this whole teach-in mentality.
00:09:52.000And that means, for example, about 10 days ago, he did a rally in Iowa, or not even, it was like six days ago, he did a rally in Iowa, in Ames, Iowa.
00:09:59.000And the rally opened with the band Portugal the Man playing for him, very popular band.
00:10:05.000I played one of their songs on the show.
00:10:08.000And one of their guys gets up at the end of this and he says, you know, when I was asked to play at this Bernie rally, well, I had one stipulation that every one of our concerts we ask indigenous people to come to the concert and we ask them to stand up and explain why we are standing on stolen land.
00:10:23.000So he then ushers up three Native American women in Ames, Iowa to explain why Iowa is actually stolen land.
00:10:29.000This is the opener of the Bernie Sanders rally, is that we are standing on stolen land.
00:10:33.000So basically, the foundations of the United States are evil.
00:10:36.000That is the opener at the Bernie Sanders rally.
00:10:39.000Then, these Native American women, they get up, they talk about all of this, they leave, and Michael Moore gets up.
00:10:44.000And Michael Moore, who is indeed a radical.
00:10:47.000I mean, the man made a movie about how the Cuban health care system is a joy of joys and a wonder of wonders, which is why everybody in Cuba is trying to escape from Cuba on a 1957 Chevy with tires blown up around the sides, trying to float their way to Miami, which, by the way, is not an easy thing to do, right?
00:11:02.00090 miles of shark infested waters just to get away from that wonderful health care system that Michael Moore is so high on.
00:11:08.000And Michael Moore does this shtick about how America is founded in racism, and sexism, and bigotry, and homophobia, and inequality, and how Bernie Sanders is going to completely revolutionize the way politics is done.
00:11:30.000And she gets up and she starts talking about how America is a corrupt system and AOC again is quite good on the stump, right?
00:11:35.000She's charismatic and she gets up and she does her shtick about how America is terrible and America is awful and how she is for Bernie because Bernie is the most radical guy in the field and then she ushers up Bernie and Bernie is the elder statesman right now because you've seen Portugal the man Three Native American women explaining that Iowa is bad, followed by Michael Moore, who's a crazy person, followed by AOC, who's an even crazier person.
00:11:56.000When they usher up Bernie, Bernie seems almost moderate by comparison with the rest of the rally, because Bernie's shtick is not the Bernie that you actually see during the debates.
00:12:04.000During the debates, you got Bernie yelling all the time about unfairness and about healthcare and America is terrible.
00:12:11.000During his rallies, he speaks instead Like some sort of UC Berkeley 1968 professor.
00:12:33.000And again, his whole shtick is, we're not just going to defeat Donald Trump, who is the worst person who ever lived, but also we're going to build a movement.
00:12:39.000And this is why he's got momentum right now, because Joe Biden's case is only defeating Trump.
00:12:43.000Bernie Sanders' case is, I'm going to build a movement.
00:12:46.000And that is a lot more inspiring, particularly to young people.
00:12:48.000Now, older people are going, we don't need a movement.
00:12:53.000But Bernie is like, no, we're going to stop Trump and we're going to build a movement.
00:12:57.000Now, make no mistake, his first pitch is we're going to stop Trump.
00:12:59.000And that's the only unifying pitch he has.
00:13:02.000Because the truth is that his movement is popular with his movement.
00:13:05.000It is not popular with the bulk of Americans.
00:13:07.000There was a new poll that came out that should scare the living daylights out of Democrats that showed what Americans think of capitalism versus socialism.
00:13:14.000There's a poll from NBC News Wall Street Journal released on Sunday.
00:13:17.000More than half of registered voters, 52%, have a positive view of capitalism.
00:13:21.00018% have a negative perception of capitalism.
00:13:23.000I don't know what happened to the other 30%, whether they were hit in the head by a brick or something, but the fact that you live in the greatest economy in the history of the world, And you live in a capitalist system that has generated more wealth since 1800 than in the entire history of humanity combined?
00:13:37.000And that only 52% of you think that capitalism is good demonstrates a real lack of education in the American system.
00:13:43.000But, I will say, only 19% of voters have a positive view of socialism, whereas 53% have a negative perception of socialism.
00:13:50.000And Bernie Sanders openly declares that he is a socialist.
00:13:53.000He always says democratic socialism, but he's an actual socialist in the sense that he still cannot explain why he would not nationalize all of the industries he said he would want to nationalize.
00:14:03.000With that said, look, Bernie right now in this poll is leading Trump nationally 49 to 45.
00:14:08.000That is not enough to beat Trump because when all the votes come in, it's probably more like 48 Trump.
00:14:13.000And most of those are in the swing states, whereas Bernie is racking up big scores in places like California and New York, places that already agree with Bernie.
00:14:19.000So if you are in the Democratic Party base and all you want to do is beat Trump, you're scared.
00:14:25.000But this is why the primaries are really, really a problem for Joe Biden, because the people who are voting in the primaries are the most excited.
00:14:32.000They're the people who want to feel like they're part of a movement.
00:14:34.000They're the people who are the most passionate, the people who are the, quote unquote, most well-educated, the people who follow this stuff the most closely.
00:14:39.000And those people are in Bernie Sanders' corner.
00:14:42.000So the primaries are cutting directly against the electoral interest of the Democrats.
00:14:47.000Now, with that said, do I think that Republicans who are rooting for Bernie's nomination are underestimating him?
00:14:52.000I think that Bernie is shockingly, shockingly interesting on the stump.
00:14:57.000Like, having, again, watched one of his entire events over the weekend, I think he is shockingly interesting on the stump.
00:15:02.000I think that he's good at what he does, which is be a useless communist for his entire life, but give you the feeling that there's a conspiratorial elite coming after you.
00:15:11.000Which is a different thing than, like, Elizabeth Warren does it, but it's louder, and it's more brash, and it's not as... It's weird, right?
00:15:18.000Because if you watch them in debate, you think that Warren is the one who's more modulated, because in debate she is.
00:15:22.000But if you watch them on the stump, Warren is a lot less modulated than Sanders.
00:15:26.000Sanders comes off as softer spoken on the stump than Elizabeth Warren does, which is really kind of a fascinating contrast.
00:15:32.000But with that said, is Bernie in a position where the Democratic Party upper echelon should be frightened of him?
00:15:42.000Like, I think Republicans are underestimating, but I also think that it's quite possible that Bernie gets skunked by Donald Trump.
00:15:46.000And if you're a member of the Democratic Party elite, the fact that he's building a movement in the primaries that is not going to carry over to the general beyond that core is not going to be super helpful to you.
00:15:56.000And as you'll see, Bernie's people are actively alienating other elements of the Democratic Party.
00:16:01.000Actively alienating those other elements.
00:17:14.000Okay, so, the base for Bernie Sanders, who is likely, again, to win the Iowa caucuses tonight, That base is actively alienating other parts of the Democratic Party.
00:17:23.000So over the weekend, a controversy broke out after Rashida Tlaib, who is a radical anti-Semite and a horrible human being, she was campaigning for Bernie.
00:17:33.000There was an article last week suggesting that Bernie was upping his Jewish identity in advance of the 2020 election.
00:17:39.000Okay, let me say as somebody who didn't have to up their Jewish identity, right?
00:17:42.000It's been pretty clear from the beginning because I wear the funny hat on my head and everything.
00:17:46.000As somebody who doesn't need to actively up my Jewish identity as I'm leveling up in a video game just in time to pretend that I'm intersectional, Bernie Sanders pretending that he has any serious association with Judaism while campaigning with Linda Sarsour, open anti-Semite, Ilhan Omar, open anti-Semite, Rashida Tlaib, open anti-Semite, hanging out with the Jeremy Corbynites of the party, promulgating an agenda that includes funding of Hamas, He can stick it.
00:18:10.000I don't want to hear about Bernie Sanders' Jewish identity when that has basically amounted to conveniently pulling out his Jewish identity to pretend that he's not just a white guy every few minutes.
00:18:20.000That's pretty much his only association with Judaism.
00:18:22.000You don't get to play the I'm a Jew card after your association with Judaism has basically been campaigning with anti-Semites.
00:18:30.000Throughout your entire career undermining the state of Israel and covering for the anti-Semitism in your own party.
00:18:38.000Anyway, Rashida Tlaib is on stage and this is again at one of these Bernie Sanders rallies and Rashida Tlaib leads the crowd in booing Hillary Clinton.
00:18:50.000You can get away with this in a primary when you look like you're running against the party establishment.
00:18:54.000This is what Donald Trump did in 2016, right?
00:18:56.000He ran against the party establishment, he ran against Jeb, he ran against these so-called higher-ups, the Romneyites and all of this, and he was able to capture the party.
00:19:05.000But in the general election, the party rallied behind him simply out of opposition?
00:19:10.000As much as the Democrats hate Trump, I don't know that in the swing states they hate Trump nearly that much.
00:19:14.000I think that most of the Democratic hatred for Trump is in real blue areas, not in those purple areas.
00:19:20.000I think Trump is unliked, but I don't think that he's disliked.
00:19:23.000I don't think that he's quite as polarizing as the Democrats think he is, such that they can be Rashida Tlaib and win a national election on this basis.
00:19:30.000Here's Rashida Tlaib, who is undermining unity inside her own party, actively booing Hillary Clinton, leading boos for the Democratic Party nominee who won the most popular votes in 2016.
00:19:46.000I don't remember if you guys remember last week when someone by the name of Hillary Clinton said that nobody... We're not gonna boo, we're not gonna boo.
00:20:35.000The draw of the Bernie campaign is we're building a movement, but the problem is you don't actually see modulated Bernie on the campaign stump.
00:20:41.000You don't see that in the marketing materials, right?
00:20:45.000The kind of subtle Bernie that you see on the campaign stump, you don't actually see that when you've got people like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar making this case.
00:20:53.000So Rashida Tlaib tried to back away from this and suggest, no, it was wrong for me to boo Hillary Clinton.
00:21:03.000He says, so proud of my longtime friend from Michigan who spoke the truth last night at the Bernie rally in Clive, Iowa.
00:21:09.000The audience booed Hillary and then somebody tried to shush them and Rashida said, don't shush them.
00:21:12.000Boo Hillary and anyone else who doesn't speak the truth.
00:21:15.000So they are just ripping the scab off.
00:21:16.000They're going directly at the quote unquote establishment Democratic Party, which of course is scaring the daylights out of the Democratic Party as they face up against Donald Trump.
00:21:26.000And this is what the American people are going to see.
00:21:28.000They're not going to see Bernie on the stump for two hours.
00:21:35.000Instead, what you're going to get is Bernie calling for the complete destruction of the American way of life, and his surrogates like Ilhan Omar doing the same thing.
00:21:42.000So Ilhan Omar was on the stump for Bernie Sanders, and she described how disappointed she was to see homelessness in America.
00:21:48.000Now let me just point out, This human being moved to the United States and was taken in as a refugee by a kind and generous country from Somalia.
00:21:57.000And she's complaining about how unfair America is because she's seen homeless people here.
00:22:00.000Do you have any idea how insanely ungrateful this is?
00:22:03.000It is one thing to say America needs to do better to solve the homelessness crisis.
00:22:45.000When I first came to the United States, I remember one of the first things that I saw was homeless people sleeping on the sides of Manhattan when we arrived in New York.
00:22:57.000And I remember turning to my father and saying, this doesn't look like the America you promised.
00:23:03.000And my father said, hush child, we're going to get to our America.
00:23:08.000This is, I'm, hush child, we're gonna get to our America.
00:23:39.000This is the part of the Bernie Sanders campaign that is the see-me underbelly that the people who feel like they're joining a movement are missing.
00:23:44.000Which is that most Americans actually like this country.
00:23:46.000Most Americans don't think that the country needs quote-unquote fundamental change.
00:23:50.000That even Barack Obama subsumed his fundamental change rhetoric Beneath the guise of a serious racial problem, right?
00:23:57.000He said, we need fundamental change, and then it was the idea that he and his personage was the fundamental change because he was half black and he was half white.
00:24:30.000So when he says fundamental change, a rational person says, okay, the fundamental life change I see is the fundamental change of destroying capitalism, destroying the greatest economy in the history of the world, destroying free markets and individual rights.
00:24:45.000Now, the problem is, in a Democratic primary, that ain't gonna hold.
00:24:47.000In a Democratic primary, that's not enough to stop him.
00:24:50.000Because the only Democrats, like, really, there could be a Democrat who was willing to come out this way and really bash Bernie, but they were all doing the same routine that Republicans did with Trump in 2016.
00:25:00.000Truly, I'll get to that in just one second.
00:25:02.000First, let us talk about your sleep quality.
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00:26:25.000The problem is, the Democratic Party has been spending so much of its time centralizing around the intersectional ideal, they can't make this case anymore.
00:26:33.000So the intersectional ideal was, here's a bunch of minority groups who have been historically put upon by the majority of white people in this country, and America, therefore, is bad, right?
00:26:41.000We've created this intersectional coalition, and they are pushing back against what America historically was.
00:26:47.000Well, what that means is that America was historically bad.
00:26:49.000It means America, current day, is bad.
00:26:51.000And that means overthrow of the system.
00:26:53.000When you draw, when you siphon from that well, when you're constantly drawing on that, it's very difficult to then turn around and say, listen, America's pretty great, and overthrowing America as it stands is a really bad idea.
00:27:03.000And so you're left with this weak tea garbage.
00:27:04.000You got Joe Biden going out there saying, how is Bernie going to pay for all this?
00:27:08.000You think anyone in the Democratic Party gives two craps about paying for things?
00:27:26.000If Biden's best pitch against Sanders is he doesn't know how to pay for this stuff, that's not a good pitch.
00:27:31.000The only kind of pitch that would work against Bernie Sanders is a case in which you actually point out that Bernie Sanders is Dennis Kucinich.
00:27:38.000Bernie Sanders is a radical who wants to remold America.
00:27:41.000And America is pretty great in the first place, but Democrats have spent the last 10 years proclaiming America is awful, right?
00:27:46.000This is the party of the 1619 Project.
00:27:48.000That means that Biden's on the ropes, even though Biden probably is where the heart and soul... Most Democrats, I really believe, most people who vote Democrat do not believe that America is an inherently crappy place.
00:27:58.000I don't believe most Democrats believe this.
00:27:59.000And I think if you look at the polls, this is right.
00:28:01.000Most Democrats do not believe that America is inherently evil, that it was born in evil, that America is rooted in 1492 or 1619 in principles of exploitation and and principles of slavery.
00:28:13.000Most Democrats don't believe this, but nobody in the Democratic Party is willing to stand up and say this because they are afraid of the media blowback.
00:28:19.000They're afraid of the Twitterati and they're afraid of Bernie Sanders and his angry base.
00:28:23.000So instead, they're relegated to making dumb arguments like Joe Biden, that he's fiscally responsible.
00:28:27.000You think, again, you think anybody cares that Joe Biden is more fiscally responsible than Bernie?
00:28:32.000Bernie's dilemma from my perspective is that he is not being straightforward on how he's going to get done what he's suggesting and the cost of what he's suggesting.
00:28:56.000And unless you're going to present a conflict of visions, you got nothing.
00:28:59.000Which is why the Trump Biden race, the Trump Sanders race is going to be very different from the Biden-Sanders race.
00:29:07.000John Kerry, what this means is that if you've bought into the basic premise that America is a bad place, that America is crappy, that America is historically evil, and all of that, that America is not inherently great, if you bought into that, then we're just arguing over the boundaries of spending.
00:29:19.000And again, once you're arguing not over morality, but over accounting, then Bernie's got the advantage inside the Democratic Party on that.
00:29:27.000Because again, no one in the Democratic Party has the stones to just say, Bernie's vision of the United States is wrong.
00:29:53.000He threw his medals over the fence of the White House.
00:29:55.000This is a person who went during the winter soldier testimony and suggested that American soldiers were raping, looting, pillaging, cutting off ears, electrifying genitals.
00:30:03.000I mean, this is like torturing people.
00:30:05.000This is what John Kerry said in congressional testimony.
00:30:08.000And then he became a United States senator on the back of this.
00:30:12.000And he tried to then run on the basis of America is good and Bush was like, well, yeah, but all that stuff about like what you said before, what does that mean?
00:30:20.000The problem is, once you get in bed with the actual anti-American left, it is very difficult to get out of bed with the anti-American left.
00:30:25.000Once you're in bed with the anti-American left, you will be screwed.
00:30:29.000So John Kerry, Apparently was suggesting on his cell phone, in the middle of Iowa, which is a genius move, that maybe he would jump in the race.
00:30:36.000Yes, I am sure that John Kerry would be able to defeat Bernie Sanders in a way that Joe Biden has not.
00:30:40.000We need another octogenarian useless person.
00:30:48.000As I told the reporter, I'm absolutely not running for president.
00:30:52.000Any report otherwise is effing or categorically false.
00:30:56.000I've been proud to campaign with my good friend Joe Biden, who is going to win the nomination, beat Trump, and make an outstanding president.
00:31:14.000You're seeing this in everybody from Pete Buttigieg, who used to proclaim that he was a moderate, to Elizabeth Warren, who at one time was in favor of school choice.
00:31:20.000Now they are all just doing gradations of Bernie.
00:31:23.000So Ayanna Pressley was out campaigning for Elizabeth Warren.
00:31:26.000Ayanna Pressley, of course, is the congressperson from Massachusetts.
00:31:30.000She's the sole member of the squad who did not endorse Bernie Sanders.
00:31:33.000And so she was out there making the suggestion that Elizabeth Warren knows we live our lives in complexity and intersectionality, which is to say America is a crappy place.
00:31:40.000Because again, the theory of intersectionality, at least when it comes to politics, is that there are a bunch of dispossessed groups, and that when you put them all together in opposition to quote-unquote mainstream America and the system, that this amounts to the overthrow of the system.
00:31:53.000Here's Ayanna Pressley making the Bernie Sanders case, but doing it on the basis of race as opposed to class.
00:32:26.000There are five love languages, by the way, so I don't know which love language she specifically— If your love language is intersectionality, you're doing love languages wrong.
00:32:33.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to President Trump and his take on all of this, because again, Trump's take on all of this is directly anti the anti-Americanism of Bernie Sanders.
00:32:42.000When I say he's anti-American, I mean, he literally believes the idea of America is bad.
00:32:47.000He believes that America was founded in evil.
00:32:48.000He believes that America was built on the backs of the impoverished.
00:32:52.000He believes that America is a story of exploitation and intersectional grievance.
00:32:58.000He just believes it more in a class way than in a race way.
00:33:01.000The problem for the Democratic Party is they were trying to draw on that energy in the same way that the Republican Party in 2016 was trying to draw on the populist energy of Trump, since they never took on the sort of bleak picture of the United States, and he ended up cruising to victory in the primaries.
00:33:13.000The same thing is happening with Bernie.
00:33:15.000You can't crib off Bernie's sheet and then hope to beat Bernie.
00:33:18.000That's what Elizabeth Warren tried, it failed.
00:33:20.000Biden tried it in a very subtle way, which is he would sort of crib off of the intersectionality, America's kind of crappy, We've been ruined.
00:33:29.000Biden should have made his pitch more explicit, right?
00:33:30.000Biden's pitch was that America was great when Barack Obama was president.
00:33:34.000Now it's bad because Trump is president.
00:33:35.000Now I'm going to make it great again, to coin a phrase.
00:33:40.000He couldn't do that because Bernie was out there basically saying, yeah, but even under Barack Obama, none of these problems were solved.
00:33:45.000Once you drink from the well of intersectionality and political grievance, whoever drinks most deeply, whoever coughs most deeply from that well is going to win the nomination.
00:33:55.000Right now, that looks a lot like Bernie Sanders.
00:33:56.000We'll get to President Trump's counter pitch in just one second.
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00:35:58.000We do have a Daily Wire backstage tomorrow covering the State of the Union address, which should be a lot of fun because I don't know that they're going to have completed impeachment proceeding to that point, right?
00:36:06.000So Trump may still be under a quote-unquote threat of impeachment even as he does his State of the Union address.
00:36:10.000We will be covering that tomorrow live over at dailywire.com.
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00:37:49.000Like, he's made sort of weird, open-ended comments about why he's not opposed to free markets?
00:37:53.000But, like, let's hear him talk about the glories of the free market for a second before we grant him that he doesn't want to nationalize all industry.
00:37:59.000How is it that no one in the mainstream media has asked Bernie Sanders, you know, back in the 70s, when you were in your mid-30s, okay?
00:38:05.000When you were in your mid-30s, you ran at the head of a party that called for nationalizing the banks, the energy industry, and heavy industry in the United States.
00:38:17.000Are you looking for a transitional plan?
00:38:19.000Like, what exactly changed right here?
00:38:21.000So, when Trump says, like, you've backed every communist regime ever, and also, it seems like you're kind of a commie, the reality is he is kind of a commie, okay?
00:38:29.000Here's President Trump going off on Bernie Sanders.
00:39:47.000And that's why no one believes in them anymore.
00:39:49.000Okay, all of that is fair except for the mini Mike part.
00:39:51.000I tire of Trump's, really, like I'm kind of annoyed by the physical, like pencil neck shift, mini Mike, like all of this is such schoolyard nonsense.
00:40:00.000But Trump says many of the ads you are watching were paid for by mini Mike Bloomberg.
00:40:13.000So here is Trump militating in favor of Bernie, right?
00:40:16.000Trump says he wants to run against Bernie.
00:40:18.000It's pretty obvious he wants to run against Bernie.
00:40:20.000And then he goes after Bloomberg again calling him little like if your chief diss on Bloomberg is not that he's a government nanny state who wants to control everything but that he is a little man that he's 5'8 and that Bernie and that because Michael Bloomberg like he suggested yesterday that the DNC was going to provide an Apple box For for Mike Bloomberg to stand on.
00:40:39.000This is all such schoolyard crap, but whatever, man.
00:40:44.000If Trump could just withhold this for like a second, if Trump could just spend one second and be like, let me explain why America is great and why Bernie Sanders's vision of America is garbage, he'd win walking away.
00:40:55.000If he insists on going to Michael Bloomberg is short.
00:40:57.000What do you think suburban women feel about that?
00:41:00.000Seriously, do you think suburban women are like, well, now that the president said he's short, I can't stand Michael Bloomberg.
00:41:30.000Then does that mean everyone else gets a box?
00:41:33.000I guess that wall one I left the negotiation.
00:41:35.000Well, the other thing that's very interesting, Cory Booker and all these people couldn't get any of the things that Bloomberg's getting now.
00:41:41.000I think it's very unfair for the Democrats, but I would love to run against Bloomberg.
00:41:46.000So your chief critique is that he wants to stand on a box.
00:41:50.000Now, maybe I'm oversensitive to this because I get a lot of height jokes.
00:42:30.000Bloomberg campaign spokesman Julie Wood said, quote, He's a pathological liar who lies about everything.
00:42:34.000His fake hair, his obesity, his spray-on tan.
00:42:38.000And then the former mayor said that Trump lies about everything, so you shouldn't be surprised he said things like that.
00:42:42.000I stand twice as tall as he does on the stage that matters.
00:42:46.000Okay, so now we're going to get into fights over who is fat and who is short.
00:42:51.000I guess this is what... See, here's the thing.
00:42:53.000It's not as though we haven't had dummies run for president of the United States before and schoolyard taunting in the presidency.
00:42:59.000The difference is it didn't matter because the presidency didn't control so much of American life.
00:43:02.000This is why, if you don't like any of this, join me over here in the Libertarian Quarter where we wish to minimize the power of government so we don't care what idiots are presidents of the United States.
00:43:33.000Who knew that Donald Trump was such a snowflake?
00:43:38.000What's it like to be in Donald Trump's head so much?
00:43:41.000And what I've said to people is when you get inside Donald Trump's head, all you're going to discover that you find there is a putter, a cheeseburger, a porn video, and somebody else's credit card.
00:43:52.000Okay, so this is how it's going to go.
00:44:37.000So Alice Johnson was a sentence to serve life in prison for a nonviolent drug offense.
00:44:43.000Okay, to be fair, she's sentenced to serve life in prison for allegedly running a drug smuggling ring or being deeply involved in a drug smuggling ring that was involved in bringing literally, I believe it was hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the United States, if I'm not messing this up.
00:44:57.000So it wasn't like she was just sitting on the street corner and smoking a joint and then she ended up in prison for life.
00:45:04.000With that said, it's interesting that Trump is running his Super Bowl ad on the basis of criminal justice reform, as opposed to just a rote patriotic ad.
00:45:13.000That's obviously him attempting to make inroads with women, inroads with minorities.
00:45:20.000I mean, I don't love criminal justice reform as a general rule.
00:45:22.000I think that criminal justice reform has been wildly overstated in its necessity, as well as in the idea that there are tons and tons of innocent people who are sitting in prison, or tons and tons of people who are I'm free to hug my family.
00:45:34.000their due sentences sitting in prison.
00:45:57.000- President Trump got it done. - With gratitude.
00:45:59.000- Thousands of families are being reunited. - I would thank President Donald John Trump.
00:46:03.000- Woo! - Woo! Woo! - Woo! - Thank you, thank you, thank you. - I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message.
00:46:10.000- Okay, so here's my feeling about political ads like this one.
00:46:13.000I think it's a mistake for politicians to try to be what they are not.
00:46:17.000Okay, for Trump to play the like, I'm super compassionate card during the Super Bowl, like what I am known for is my compassion and reuniting of families, like, It's true with regard to criminal justice reform.
00:46:35.000Whoever committed a crime should be out on the streets.
00:46:37.000Meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg ran an ad blaming Trump for gun violence, which again, I don't think that this is a particularly smart ad either by Bloomberg, but all right.
00:47:25.000But in any case, that's also a weird take from Michael Bloomberg.
00:47:29.000You'd expect him to run an anti-Trump ad in a time when people don't like Trump.
00:47:32.000That was actually his promise that him spending hundreds of millions of dollars would benefit the Democrats generally because he'd be attacking Trump with all that money.
00:47:39.000That's not really an attack ad on Trump so much.
00:47:41.000And then again, you have the oblique ad from Trump.
00:47:43.000Very weird takes for those Super Bowl ads from Trump and Bloomberg.
00:47:47.000But apparently Trump believes that Bloomberg is sort of going to be the replacement for Joe Biden as Joe Biden falls out of contention.
00:48:21.000This led to a number of sort of hilarious memes of the state of Kansas with the Sharpie marked like he did with the hurricane path with Sharpie marked to now include Kansas City.
00:48:32.000Congratulations to citizens of Kansas who now have taken control of Kansas City without a shot fired.
00:48:55.000This is the dirty little secret, is that the NFL plays on everybody's patriotic feelings because most Americans are still patriotic, right?
00:49:01.000This is what Trump should be honing in on, not the criminal justice reform stuff.
00:49:04.000He should be honing in on Americans' sense of patriotism and contrasting that with Bernie's sense that America is an awful, terrible, no good, very bad place.
00:49:11.000Beyonce and Jay-Z refused to stand for the anthem.
00:49:20.000But this notion that you sit for the National Anthem in the same way that Jackie Robinson faced racism, Beyonce and Jay-Z are facing racism, as they sit there, billionaires, and they sit for the National Anthem, it's just obnoxious garbage.
00:50:04.000The Super Bowl is not what it used to be.
00:50:06.000Like a lot of people that I know who I'm friends with, like five years ago, everybody watched the Super Bowl.
00:50:09.000I don't know what the ratings were this year yet.
00:50:12.000Just on a personal level, I feel like more and more Americans are like, OK, this isn't what it used to be.
00:50:17.000I'm really not that into it as much as I was.
00:50:18.000OK, so the Super Bowl halftime show happens, and every other year we have this idiocy from the Super Bowl producers where they decide to put on some sort of over-sexualized act.
00:50:26.000This goes all the way back to Justin Timberlake stripping down Janis Jackson wearing a pasty.
00:50:31.000I think it was 2004 when that happens, and now we're 15 years later.
00:50:34.000And so last night they held a striptease on the stage.
00:50:38.000And this was championed as feminism-ing.
00:51:14.000But can we stop pretending that this had nothing to do with sex or sex appeal?
00:51:18.000Like, there's a reason that Lizzo wasn't on the stage shaking her ass that way.
00:51:21.000Okay, and, like, really, there's a reason the Super Bowl cast it this way.
00:51:25.000There's a reason that J-Lo was doing, like, actual pole dances.
00:51:29.000Right, she did a pole dance in the middle of this, in the middle of this, right?
00:51:31.000She actually got up and she was, like, caressing her own privates and doing a full-on pole dance, and then girls aspire to something better.
00:51:39.000There are all these commercials about female astronauts.
00:51:42.000And then the halftime show was a sexy woman climbing on a pole and doing a pole dance.
00:51:47.000Just wow just so impressive and in every way I think feminism go to medical school or be a lawyer or be a mother or be a stripper I mean that's that's that's just that's that's very exciting stuff and let's can we stop pretending that this was not a striptease of course it was a striptease the whole thing is performed as a striptease like seriously the the so a few things one It is not racist or sexist to point out that this was a striptease and is inappropriate for children.
00:52:19.000You may have thought that this was a wonderful example of Western art.
00:52:22.000Alright, I mean, I think that your taste is garbage, but sure.
00:52:25.000But if you are going to make the claim that this was somehow appropriate for children, or that people who are offended by, like, I have a five-year-old in the room, and there's J-Lo pleasuring herself in front of hundreds of millions of people, Like, that is, like, I'm out of the box for suggesting that this might not be appropriate for a child or a young teenage audience.
00:52:44.000Like, when Shakira, dancing with a rope as though she is at the Deja Vu nightclub, is going to, is going to... Like, look at this.
00:52:59.000Like, that's... Congratulations, but... This is...
00:53:03.000Okay, with the close-up pan- Like, okay, it's not just me, okay?
00:53:05.000I'm not just sa- What's funny is when people put on these very sexualized acts, and then when you point it out, they're like, Why are you so concerned about the sex- Maybe with what's in your head.
00:53:13.000What's in my head is the same thing that's in your head!
00:54:07.000Why do you think she was being celebrated last night?
00:54:09.000Because you think that if this were just, you know, her standing in front of a microphone singing like normal and not jiggling her ass, that this would be getting the same sort of attention?
00:54:18.000Don't be upset when people pay attention to the thing you're begging for attention from.
00:54:29.000Because you're deliberately attempting to get attention, and then when I give you the attention, then you're like, how dare you give me this attention?
00:54:38.000What you wanted to go through my mind is going through my mind, and then me saying that's inappropriate, that's that.
00:54:43.000The only good thing that came out of this silliness, of course, was one great meme, which is Shakira decided to Do the thing that... I guess this is common in... I'm not sure, what is Shakira's ethnic background?
00:54:57.000I'm not sure what it is, or her cultural background.
00:55:56.000He made a movie called Light of My Life, which is sort of a post-apocalyptic film about a father and a daughter who are braving the wilds of a country where there's been some plague that's basically wiped out all the women, and he has a daughter, and so he's attempting to pass her off as a boy.
00:56:09.000And the movie's really about fathers and daughters.
00:56:13.000It's very, again, like all post-apocalyptic films, it's an incredibly pro-life film, but of course, Casey Affleck would never acknowledge that it's an incredibly pro-life film, because the moment you acknowledge that human beings must survive as a species or That it is good for them to do so.
00:56:26.000You inherently imply that life means something.
00:56:28.000Once you imply that life means something, then unborn life also means a thing.
00:56:31.000Like, there's a whole scene where he explains to his daughter how much it meant to him when there's an ultrasound done of her.
00:56:36.000And it never occurs to people who write these scripts that when they're talking about ultrasounds and how much it means, an ultrasound, it never occurs to them at all that, like, these same people will say then, if you feel like killing that baby, you can.
00:56:48.000But here's a little bit of the trailer for Light of My Life, which, again, I thought it was highly underrated, didn't see a lot of attention, didn't earn very much money at the box office, but it actually is quite a good movie.
00:57:52.000Animals, you shouldn't have made them out of meat.
00:57:53.000But, with that said, I'm drawn ideologically to the idea of vegetarianism.
00:57:58.000Every time I say this, I get all sorts of emails from vegans and vegetarians saying there are no health drawbacks.
00:58:03.000For children, there are health drawbacks.
00:58:05.000The source of protein in animal is much better than the source of protein in vegetables.
00:58:09.000But, in any case, I'm somebody who would actually be warm to the idea for animal rights.
00:58:14.000Not that animals have rights, but that you should treat animals with humanity.
00:58:18.000I'm drawn toward that, even though I'm not an animal lover.
00:58:20.000It seems to me that treating animals with cruelty is a sign of great human evil, and that if there comes a future in a hundred years in which people look back on things we're doing today and they say, that's barbaric, probably meat-eating will be one of those things.
00:58:30.000But PETA makes me want to go out and just do nothing but eat steak for the next week.
00:58:35.000So they cut an ad, and the ad was not aired at the Super Bowl, and then they were whining about it, which united the obnoxious virtue signaling of PETA with Colin Kaepernick.
00:58:44.000So it's like all the things that are garbage in one ad.
00:59:51.000Okay, I'm gonna go with, no, human beings are different than animals.
00:59:54.000And if you don't believe that- I remember, PETA did an ad years ago called, Holocaust on Your Plate.
00:59:59.000And I just thought to myself, you pieces of crap.
01:00:02.000Like, the Holocaust was an actual thing that happened with actual human beings, and if you cannot differentiate between the quality of a human being and the quality of an animal, and if you believe that they truly are the same, then you have a screw loose.
01:00:12.000This is what makes me want to eat animals, on an ideological level.
01:00:14.000Like, once you say that I shouldn't eat animals, not because cruelty to animals is inherently a bad thing, but because animals and human beings are on some moral plane equivalent, now you make me just to demonstrate that animals are not human beings who want to eat a cow.
01:00:31.000And the fact that people are attempting, because here's the thing, once you start saying that animals are human beings, then you're also saying that human beings are animals, and that ends in a lot of awful, ugly places throughout human history.
01:00:40.000Okay, we'll be back here later today for two additional hours of content, so stick around for that.
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