The Ben Shapiro Show - Iowat The Hell Is Going On | Ep. 945

00:00:00.000 Democrats prepare for an Iowa showdown, Trump and Bloomberg go at each other, and the Super Bowl halftime show does déjà vu.

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00:00:23.000 Today is the day.

00:00:23.000 All righty.

00:00:25.000 Iowa caucuses.

00:00:25.000 I know y'all enjoyed the Super Bowl last night.

00:00:27.000 Well, 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.

00:00:34.000 But 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.

00:00:43.000 For, I would say, siphoning out this week.

00:00:45.000 I mean, I think that we're going to need to draw on that all this week, because here's the deal.

00:00:49.000 We've got the Iowa caucuses tonight, and then tomorrow we have the State of the Union address.

00:00:53.000 And sometime during this week, this whole impeachment thing is going to end.

00:00:56.000 We'll get to all of those topics in just one second.

00:00:58.000 The big topic, of course, is what happens in Iowa.

00:01:00.000 Because 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.

00:01:11.000 Who believes that there are too many different types of deodorants.

00:01:13.000 And if there weren't as many types of deodorant, then perhaps the homeless people wouldn't be homeless.

00:01:17.000 That guy is probably going to win Iowa.

00:01:19.000 He's also probably going to win New Hampshire.

00:01:20.000 And right now, polling has him within five in South Carolina.

00:01:23.000 So that means that he is there's a significant possibility that Bernard McSanders is your nominee.

00:01:29.000 Now, Joe Biden is stacking this whole thing up for a long run.

00:01:31.000 He says, don't worry, guys, this is going to take a while.

00:01:34.000 That is him basically conceding Iowa ahead of time.

00:01:37.000 Because if Joe Biden wins Iowa, this thing is also over very early.

00:01:39.000 Because 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.

00:01:49.000 All of this is basically coming down to a Biden versus Bernie battle with Bloomberg waiting somewhere in the wings.

00:01:54.000 Hoping 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.

00:02:05.000 Well, Bernie has been drawing enormous crowds in Iowa, which really matters in Iowa because it's a caucus state.

00:02:10.000 So normally, you don't associate crowd size with victory.

00:02:13.000 I remember Republicans made this mistake in 2012.

00:02:15.000 Right before the 2012 election, Mitt Romney drew like 20,000 people to a rally in Pennsylvania.

00:02:20.000 I remember covering it and people were like, wow, that is amazing.

00:02:23.000 That's huge.

00:02:24.000 He's going to beat Obama.

00:02:24.000 And then he just got walloped by Obama, right?

00:02:27.000 I 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.

00:02:34.000 Well, in Iowa, it's a little bit different because enthusiasm really does matter.

00:02:38.000 Now, there are a few things to keep in mind in Iowa.

00:02:40.000 One, Iowa is a disproportionately old state.

00:02:42.000 So 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.

00:02:53.000 According 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.

00:03:10.000 The 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.

00:03:20.000 It is increasingly driven by the impacts of its aging population.

00:03:22.000 20 years ago, Iowa had one of the oldest populations in the nation.

00:03:25.000 Its senior population has grown rapidly since then.

00:03:29.000 Now the nation's older population has grown even faster.

00:03:31.000 Now today, Iowa is in the middle of the pack when it comes to ranking states by age.

00:03:35.000 With that said, right now, well over 20% of the Iowa population is over the age of 60.

00:03:44.000 So what that means is that those are Joe Biden voters.

00:03:46.000 And bottom line is those are all Joe Biden voters.

00:03:48.000 If you look at the polling data, Joe Biden polls in the single digits among young voters who are Democrat.

00:03:54.000 Among old voters who are Democrat, Bernie Sanders polls in the single digits.

00:03:58.000 So all the old people are like, yeah, we remember communism and it wasn't that great. 1.00

00:04:01.000 We remember when the USSR was around, when Cuba was a thing.

00:04:03.000 And like, we don't want that here.

00:04:06.000 And we were not into the Democratic Party moving in that direction.

00:04:08.000 We remember how it went for George McGovern.

00:04:09.000 So we're just not going to do that.

00:04:11.000 Younger Democrats are very enthused about the idea of pie in the sky dreams being made public and all of this.

00:04:16.000 They're very into Bernie Sanders.

00:04:17.000 So 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.

00:04:25.000 And traditionally, the old people show up. 1.00

00:04:26.000 See, Bernie is betting that young people are going to show up in numbers that they haven't before.

00:04:30.000 He's betting on bringing new audiences out.

00:04:32.000 Typically, people who bet on new audiences, particularly young audiences showing up en masse, typically that doesn't happen.

00:04:38.000 Now, 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.

00:04:50.000 He was the first major ticket national black nominee, right?

00:04:52.000 I 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.

00:05:01.000 That's not shocking.

00:05:02.000 It shouldn't be surprising for anybody.

00:05:04.000 But 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.

00:05:11.000 See, 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.

00:05:18.000 And if you look statistically, that really isn't the case.

00:05:21.000 Donald Trump performed almost exactly in line with Mitt Romney across the board.

00:05:24.000 The difference is that no one showed up to vote for Hillary Clinton.

00:05:26.000 The 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.

00:05:37.000 There were a small number of voters who were that, but it wasn't this vast, overwhelming wave.

00:05:41.000 Bernie Sanders counting on young people to show up in droves and then vote for him?

00:05:45.000 It's a risky strategy, for sure.

00:05:47.000 Now, it could happen in Iowa because of small sample size.

00:05:49.000 Now, 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.

00:06:04.000 According 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.

00:06:14.000 CNN, the Des Moines Register, and Seltzer & Company announced they would not be releasing the final installment of the CNN-Des Moines Register MediaCom poll.

00:06:21.000 A 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.

00:06:31.000 Per Politico, the survey has the power to fuel a candidate's 11th-hour momentum or damage a contender who underperforms expectations.

00:06:39.000 The 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.

00:06:48.000 Apparently, one respondent told the Buttigieg campaign the former mayor's name was not one of the choices he was offered.

00:06:54.000 The 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.

00:07:01.000 Now, the Bernie supporters are basically saying, no, the reason you pulled the poll is because Bernie is winning.

00:07:06.000 Right?

00:07:06.000 And so you don't want to demonstrate that Bernie is winning.

00:07:08.000 The Democratic Party doesn't want to show Bernie.

00:07:10.000 That is conspiratorialism.

00:07:12.000 There's very little evidence to that effect.

00:07:14.000 But 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.

00:07:22.000 It's interesting.

00:07:23.000 Over the weekend, I actually sat down and watched.

00:07:25.000 I wanted to see, like, a Bernie rally beginning to end.

00:07:27.000 I'm really a masochist.

00:07:27.000 I know.

00:07:29.000 So I sat down and I watched a Bernie rally beginning to end in Iowa.

00:07:31.000 I 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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00:09:15.000 I actually watched a Bernie rally beginning then and really tells you what you need to know about the sort of Bernie Sanders campaign.

00:09:21.000 And that is everything Bernie Sanders does is about quote-unquote building a movement.

00:09:24.000 If you watch one of his rallies, from beginning to end, he feels like a 1960s style professor who's doing a teaching.

00:09:31.000 And it's deliberately created like this.

00:09:32.000 I mean, this is what his rallies are created to do.

00:09:34.000 This is how he speaks.

00:09:35.000 He has this sort of We're speaking up to the man.

00:09:38.000 We're not just here to stop Donald Trump.

00:09:40.000 We're here to build a movement.

00:09:41.000 And 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.

00:09:49.000 So he does this whole teach-in mentality.

00:09:52.000 And 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.

00:09:59.000 And the rally opened with the band Portugal the Man playing for him, very popular band.

00:10:05.000 I played one of their songs on the show.

00:10:06.000 They do catchy tunes.

00:10:08.000 And 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.

00:10:23.000 So he then ushers up three Native American women in Ames, Iowa to explain why Iowa is actually stolen land. 0.82

00:10:29.000 This is the opener of the Bernie Sanders rally, is that we are standing on stolen land.

00:10:33.000 So basically, the foundations of the United States are evil.

00:10:36.000 That is the opener at the Bernie Sanders rally.

00:10:39.000 Then, these Native American women, they get up, they talk about all of this, they leave, and Michael Moore gets up.

00:10:44.000 And Michael Moore, who is indeed a radical.

00:10:47.000 I 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?

00:11:02.000 90 miles of shark infested waters just to get away from that wonderful health care system that Michael Moore is so high on.

00:11:07.000 So Michael Moore then gets up.

00:11:08.000 And 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.

00:11:19.000 Right?

00:11:19.000 He gets up and he does his shtick for like 20 minutes.

00:11:22.000 And then, after that, he ushers up Bernie Sanders, and now Bernie looks like the- Well, actually, I'm sorry.

00:11:27.000 Then he ushers up AOC.

00:11:28.000 Okay, AOC gets up.

00:11:30.000 And she gets up and she starts talking about how America is a corrupt system and AOC again is quite good on the stump, right? 0.89

00:11:35.000 She'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. 0.56

00:11:56.000 When 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.

00:12:04.000 During the debates, you got Bernie yelling all the time about unfairness and about healthcare and America is terrible.

00:12:11.000 During his rallies, he speaks instead Like some sort of UC Berkeley 1968 professor.

00:12:19.000 It's much more lower pitched.

00:12:21.000 It's much lower pitched.

00:12:22.000 He gets up and he says, we live in a country that has serious inequality and you and I together are going to build a movement.

00:12:28.000 It sounds much more reasonable.

00:12:30.000 And it's designed like this, right?

00:12:31.000 It's actually quite clever.

00:12:33.000 And 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.

00:12:39.000 And this is why he's got momentum right now, because Joe Biden's case is only defeating Trump.

00:12:43.000 Bernie Sanders' case is, I'm going to build a movement.

00:12:46.000 And that is a lot more inspiring, particularly to young people.

00:12:48.000 Now, older people are going, we don't need a movement. 1.00

00:12:50.000 We just need to stop Trump, right?

00:12:51.000 We don't like Trump.

00:12:52.000 Trump's bad.

00:12:53.000 But Bernie is like, no, we're going to stop Trump and we're going to build a movement.

00:12:57.000 Now, make no mistake, his first pitch is we're going to stop Trump.

00:12:59.000 And that's the only unifying pitch he has.

00:13:02.000 Because the truth is that his movement is popular with his movement.

00:13:05.000 It is not popular with the bulk of Americans.

00:13:07.000 There 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.

00:13:14.000 There's a poll from NBC News Wall Street Journal released on Sunday.

00:13:17.000 More than half of registered voters, 52%, have a positive view of capitalism.

00:13:21.000 18% have a negative perception of capitalism.

00:13:23.000 I 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?

00:13:37.000 And that only 52% of you think that capitalism is good demonstrates a real lack of education in the American system.

00:13:43.000 But, I will say, only 19% of voters have a positive view of socialism, whereas 53% have a negative perception of socialism.

00:13:50.000 And Bernie Sanders openly declares that he is a socialist.

00:13:53.000 He 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.

00:14:03.000 With that said, look, Bernie right now in this poll is leading Trump nationally 49 to 45.

00:14:08.000 That is not enough to beat Trump because when all the votes come in, it's probably more like 48 Trump.

00:14:13.000 And 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.

00:14:19.000 So if you are in the Democratic Party base and all you want to do is beat Trump, you're scared.

00:14:25.000 But 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.

00:14:32.000 They're the people who want to feel like they're part of a movement.

00:14:34.000 They'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.

00:14:39.000 And those people are in Bernie Sanders' corner.

00:14:42.000 So the primaries are cutting directly against the electoral interest of the Democrats.

00:14:47.000 Now, with that said, do I think that Republicans who are rooting for Bernie's nomination are underestimating him?

00:14:51.000 I do.

00:14:52.000 I do.

00:14:52.000 I think that Bernie is shockingly, shockingly interesting on the stump.

00:14:57.000 Like, having, again, watched one of his entire events over the weekend, I think he is shockingly interesting on the stump.

00:15:02.000 I 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.

00:15:11.000 Which 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?

00:15:18.000 Because if you watch them in debate, you think that Warren is the one who's more modulated, because in debate she is.

00:15:22.000 But if you watch them on the stump, Warren is a lot less modulated than Sanders.

00:15:26.000 Sanders comes off as softer spoken on the stump than Elizabeth Warren does, which is really kind of a fascinating contrast.

00:15:32.000 But with that said, is Bernie in a position where the Democratic Party upper echelon should be frightened of him?

00:15:41.000 They should.

00:15:42.000 They should.

00:15:42.000 Like, I think Republicans are underestimating, but I also think that it's quite possible that Bernie gets skunked by Donald Trump.

00:15:46.000 And 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.

00:15:56.000 And as you'll see, Bernie's people are actively alienating other elements of the Democratic Party.

00:16:01.000 Actively alienating those other elements.

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00:17:14.000 Okay, 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.

00:17:23.000 So 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. 1.00

00:17:31.000 I was amazed.

00:17:33.000 There was an article last week suggesting that Bernie was upping his Jewish identity in advance of the 2020 election.

00:17:39.000 Okay, let me say as somebody who didn't have to up their Jewish identity, right?

00:17:42.000 It's been pretty clear from the beginning because I wear the funny hat on my head and everything.

00:17:46.000 As 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.

00:18:10.000 I 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.

00:18:20.000 That's pretty much his only association with Judaism.

00:18:22.000 You don't get to play the I'm a Jew card after your association with Judaism has basically been campaigning with anti-Semites. 0.60

00:18:30.000 Throughout your entire career undermining the state of Israel and covering for the anti-Semitism in your own party.

00:18:35.000 Sorry, you don't get to do that.

00:18:36.000 That does not hold any water at all.

00:18:38.000 Anyway, 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.

00:18:46.000 So this you can So here's the thing.

00:18:50.000 You can get away with this in a primary when you look like you're running against the party establishment.

00:18:54.000 This is what Donald Trump did in 2016, right?

00:18:56.000 He 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.

00:19:05.000 But in the general election, the party rallied behind him simply out of opposition?

00:19:09.000 I don't know.

00:19:10.000 As much as the Democrats hate Trump, I don't know that in the swing states they hate Trump nearly that much.

00:19:14.000 I think that most of the Democratic hatred for Trump is in real blue areas, not in those purple areas.

00:19:20.000 I think Trump is unliked, but I don't think that he's disliked.

00:19:23.000 I 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.

00:19:30.000 Here'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. 0.99

00:19:40.000 Talk about female solidarity here. 1.00

00:19:41.000 Here goes Rashida Tlaib directly after Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:19:44.000 Iowa, we have three days.

00:19:46.000 I 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.

00:19:54.000 We're classy here.

00:19:55.000 No, no, I'll boo.

00:19:57.000 Boo! 0.83

00:20:00.000 She's so woke.

00:20:01.000 You all know I can't be quiet.

00:20:03.000 No, we're gonna boo.

00:20:05.000 That's alright.

00:20:05.000 The haters will shut up on Monday when we win.

00:20:09.000 Okay, and everybody is laughing, and everybody is cheering, and Ilhan Omar is laughing, and Jayapal is laughing.

00:20:16.000 Okay, that's amazing.

00:20:17.000 First of all, I wish I had a bowl of popcorn right here, because I would just be shoveling it in my mouth right now.

00:20:21.000 Just give me that popcorn.

00:20:22.000 Because the Bernie versus Hillary thing didn't end.

00:20:24.000 It never is going to end. 1.00

00:20:25.000 And the fact that Rashida Tlaib ripped that scab right off because she is the dumbest politician in Washington, D.C. 1.00

00:20:30.000 I mean, she's truly awful. 1.00

00:20:33.000 It is incredible. 0.58

00:20:34.000 And this is the Bernie campaign.

00:20:35.000 The 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.

00:20:41.000 You don't see that in the marketing materials, right?

00:20:45.000 The 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.

00:20:53.000 So Rashida Tlaib tried to back away from this and suggest, no, it was wrong for me to boo Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:20:57.000 I really shouldn't have done this.

00:20:58.000 And then Michael Moore, of course, jumped into the fray and defended Rashida Tlaib.

00:21:02.000 There's a picture for you.

00:21:03.000 He says, so proud of my longtime friend from Michigan who spoke the truth last night at the Bernie rally in Clive, Iowa.

00:21:09.000 The audience booed Hillary and then somebody tried to shush them and Rashida said, don't shush them. 1.00

00:21:12.000 Boo Hillary and anyone else who doesn't speak the truth. 0.87

00:21:15.000 So they are just ripping the scab off.

00:21:16.000 They'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.

00:21:26.000 And this is what the American people are going to see.

00:21:28.000 They're not going to see Bernie on the stump for two hours.

00:21:30.000 Again, I watched that rally.

00:21:32.000 Most people are not going to watch a two-hour Bernie rally.

00:21:34.000 They're not.

00:21:35.000 Instead, 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.

00:21:42.000 So Ilhan Omar was on the stump for Bernie Sanders, and she described how disappointed she was to see homelessness in America.

00:21:48.000 Now 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.

00:21:57.000 And she's complaining about how unfair America is because she's seen homeless people here.

00:22:00.000 Do you have any idea how insanely ungrateful this is?

00:22:03.000 It is one thing to say America needs to do better to solve the homelessness crisis.

00:22:07.000 We do.

00:22:07.000 I agree.

00:22:08.000 Although the policies she's promoting won't do any of that.

00:22:11.000 But for her to say that she came here and she saw the homelessness in America and she was disappointed?

00:22:16.000 I hate to break it to Ilhan Omar, but half of Somalia is basically homeless.

00:22:20.000 If not more.

00:22:21.000 I mean, it is a failed state.

00:22:22.000 It is a failed state in which terrorist groups run rampant.

00:22:25.000 But she was, but hey, she was 12 and she was very disappointed that she saw a guy living in a tent in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

00:22:31.000 I mean, really, just what a tough life she has led.

00:22:33.000 I'm so, the ingratitude of the people associated with Bernie and Bernie's ingratitude. 0.97

00:22:38.000 You live in the greatest country in the history of the world and all you can do is bitch about it. 0.99

00:22:41.000 It really is sickening. 0.99

00:22:42.000 Here's Ilhan Omar doing that.

00:22:45.000 When 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.

00:22:57.000 And I remember turning to my father and saying, this doesn't look like the America you promised.

00:23:03.000 And my father said, hush child, we're going to get to our America.

00:23:08.000 This is, I'm, hush child, we're gonna get to our America.

00:23:11.000 Okay, so you're, like, what?

00:23:13.000 You came from Somalia and your first move was, I can't believe I see a homeless person?

00:23:17.000 Again, like, maybe your first move should be, what an amazing country.

00:23:20.000 Now, we've got problems here, let's see if we can solve them.

00:23:22.000 But if your first move is, what a terrible place, I see homeless people.

00:23:25.000 You're from Somalia.

00:23:27.000 My God.

00:23:28.000 I mean, just, how about like a moment of gratitude?

00:23:30.000 Before you get to all the problems in America, and there are many, before you get to that, how about like a moment of America's fantastic?

00:23:35.000 Because guess what?

00:23:36.000 America's pretty damned fantastic. 0.60

00:23:38.000 It really is.

00:23:39.000 This 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.

00:23:44.000 Which is that most Americans actually like this country.

00:23:46.000 Most Americans don't think that the country needs quote-unquote fundamental change.

00:23:50.000 That even Barack Obama subsumed his fundamental change rhetoric Beneath the guise of a serious racial problem, right?

00:23:57.000 He 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. 0.60

00:24:03.000 He was going to unify us around race.

00:24:04.000 He didn't do any of that, but that was the fundamental promise.

00:24:07.000 When Bernie Sanders says fundamental change, you don't need to decode what he is saying.

00:24:10.000 His fundamental change is, I want to completely overthrow the way the United States was created.

00:24:15.000 I want to completely overthrow everything about the United States.

00:24:20.000 I mean, the guy was literally drinking shirtless in the Soviet Union in 1988.

00:24:23.000 I mean, that's actual tape of Bernie Sanders, right?

00:24:28.000 This is who this man is.

00:24:30.000 So 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.

00:24:43.000 Okay, that's what most Americans see.

00:24:45.000 Now, the problem is, in a Democratic primary, that ain't gonna hold.

00:24:47.000 In a Democratic primary, that's not enough to stop him.

00:24:50.000 Because 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.

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00:26:06.000 Okay, so Joe Biden is trying to fight the battle against Bernie.

00:26:16.000 Now, the best battle against Bernie is going to be America is great.

00:26:19.000 Okay, that we have problems.

00:26:21.000 Yes, we can solve those problems together, but America is great.

00:26:24.000 That would be the case.

00:26:25.000 The 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.

00:26:33.000 So 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? 0.99

00:26:41.000 We've created this intersectional coalition, and they are pushing back against what America historically was.

00:26:47.000 Well, what that means is that America was historically bad.

00:26:49.000 It means America, current day, is bad.

00:26:51.000 And that means overthrow of the system.

00:26:53.000 When 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. 0.97

00:27:03.000 And so you're left with this weak tea garbage.

00:27:04.000 You got Joe Biden going out there saying, how is Bernie going to pay for all this? 0.99

00:27:08.000 You think anyone in the Democratic Party gives two craps about paying for things?

00:27:11.000 You think they care about this?

00:27:12.000 Everybody, right, left, and center, has been driving up the deficit, an insane race. 0.82

00:27:15.000 We have a trillion dollar deficit this year.

00:27:17.000 You think anyone cares about this?

00:27:18.000 Good luck for Joe Biden pointing out that Bernie Sanders' plans are irresponsible and never reachable.

00:27:25.000 This ain't going nowhere.

00:27:26.000 If Biden's best pitch against Sanders is he doesn't know how to pay for this stuff, that's not a good pitch.

00:27:31.000 The 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.

00:27:38.000 Bernie Sanders is a radical who wants to remold America.

00:27:41.000 And America is pretty great in the first place, but Democrats have spent the last 10 years proclaiming America is awful, right?

00:27:46.000 This is the party of the 1619 Project.

00:27:48.000 That 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.

00:27:58.000 I don't believe most Democrats believe this.

00:27:59.000 And I think if you look at the polls, this is right.

00:28:01.000 Most 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.

00:28:13.000 Most 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.

00:28:19.000 They're afraid of the Twitterati and they're afraid of Bernie Sanders and his angry base.

00:28:23.000 So instead, they're relegated to making dumb arguments like Joe Biden, that he's fiscally responsible.

00:28:27.000 You think, again, you think anybody cares that Joe Biden is more fiscally responsible than Bernie?

00:28:31.000 Good luck with this.

00:28:32.000 Bernie'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.

00:28:45.000 Okay, good luck.

00:28:47.000 Good luck chiding Bernie Sanders supporters on, this is all pie in the sky.

00:28:50.000 Many of them will say, you're right, it's pie in the sky, but at least he's, at least he's consistent.

00:28:54.000 At least he's dreaming big.

00:28:56.000 And unless you're going to present a conflict of visions, you got nothing.

00:28:59.000 Which is why the Trump Biden race, the Trump Sanders race is going to be very different from the Biden-Sanders race.

00:29:07.000 John 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.

00:29:19.000 And again, once you're arguing not over morality, but over accounting, then Bernie's got the advantage inside the Democratic Party on that.

00:29:27.000 Because again, no one in the Democratic Party has the stones to just say, Bernie's vision of the United States is wrong.

00:29:32.000 It is incorrect.

00:29:33.000 Nobody in the Democratic Party will say that.

00:29:35.000 So instead, you get people like John Kerry, who apparently was overheard by reporters saying that Sanders was taking down the party.

00:29:42.000 Well, the difference between John Kerry and Bernie Sanders is that Bernie says the quiet part out loud.

00:29:47.000 John Kerry is a man who back in the 1960s and early in the early 1970s, he went to Vietnam.

00:29:52.000 He came back.

00:29:53.000 He threw his medals over the fence of the White House. 0.98

00:29:55.000 This is a person who went during the winter soldier testimony and suggested that American soldiers were raping, looting, pillaging, cutting off ears, electrifying genitals. 0.92

00:30:03.000 I mean, this is like torturing people.

00:30:05.000 This is what John Kerry said in congressional testimony.

00:30:08.000 And then he became a United States senator on the back of this.

00:30:10.000 He ran in 2004.

00:30:12.000 And 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?

00:30:20.000 The 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. 0.97

00:30:25.000 Once you're in bed with the anti-American left, you will be screwed. 0.92

00:30:28.000 It is just a question of how. 0.80

00:30:29.000 So 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.

00:30:36.000 Yes, I am sure that John Kerry would be able to defeat Bernie Sanders in a way that Joe Biden has not. 0.97

00:30:40.000 We need another octogenarian useless person. 0.99

00:30:43.000 That's what we need. 1.00

00:30:44.000 John Kerry.

00:30:46.000 So John Kerry tweeted out last night.

00:30:48.000 As I told the reporter, I'm absolutely not running for president.

00:30:52.000 Any report otherwise is effing or categorically false.

00:30:56.000 I'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.

00:31:02.000 Then he deleted this.

00:31:03.000 Because he used the F word.

00:31:06.000 And that was him being authentic, so he backed off of that.

00:31:08.000 But again, the entire Democratic Party is gradations of Bernie.

00:31:11.000 You want gradations of Bernie?

00:31:12.000 Bernie has the advantage.

00:31:14.000 You'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.

00:31:20.000 Now they are all just doing gradations of Bernie.

00:31:22.000 Listen to Ayanna Pressley.

00:31:23.000 So Ayanna Pressley was out campaigning for Elizabeth Warren.

00:31:26.000 Ayanna Pressley, of course, is the congressperson from Massachusetts.

00:31:30.000 She's the sole member of the squad who did not endorse Bernie Sanders. 0.94

00:31:33.000 And 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.

00:31:40.000 Because 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.

00:31:53.000 Here's Ayanna Pressley making the Bernie Sanders case, but doing it on the basis of race as opposed to class. 1.00

00:31:59.000 Elizabeth's got a plan for that. 1.00

00:32:01.000 But she's got a plan for all of it that is true to how we live our lives, which is in complexity and intersectionality and in nuance.

00:32:12.000 She speaks my love language.

00:32:16.000 She knows the power of the pen and the power of policy.

00:32:21.000 She speaks her love language.

00:32:23.000 Is that gifts, or is that feelings?

00:32:26.000 There 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.

00:32:33.000 Okay, 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.

00:32:42.000 When I say he's anti-American, I mean, he literally believes the idea of America is bad.

00:32:47.000 He believes that America was founded in evil.

00:32:48.000 He believes that America was built on the backs of the impoverished.

00:32:52.000 He believes that America is a story of exploitation and intersectional grievance.

00:32:57.000 That's what he believes.

00:32:58.000 He just believes it more in a class way than in a race way.

00:33:01.000 The 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.

00:33:13.000 The same thing is happening with Bernie.

00:33:15.000 You can't crib off Bernie's sheet and then hope to beat Bernie.

00:33:18.000 That's what Elizabeth Warren tried, it failed. 1.00

00:33:20.000 Biden 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.

00:33:29.000 Biden should have made his pitch more explicit, right?

00:33:30.000 Biden's pitch was that America was great when Barack Obama was president.

00:33:34.000 Now it's bad because Trump is president.

00:33:35.000 Now I'm going to make it great again, to coin a phrase.

00:33:38.000 But instead, he couldn't do that.

00:33:40.000 He couldn't do that because Bernie was out there basically saying, yeah, but even under Barack Obama, none of these problems were solved.

00:33:45.000 Once 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.

00:33:55.000 Right now, that looks a lot like Bernie Sanders.

00:33:56.000 We'll get to President Trump's counter pitch in just one second.

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00:37:22.000 Okay, so President Trump, for his part, obviously believes that this primary is coming down not to Bernie Sanders versus Joe Biden.

00:37:33.000 He believes it is coming down to Bernie Sanders versus Michael Bloomberg.

00:37:36.000 He's pissed off at Michael Bloomberg.

00:37:38.000 First, he correctly calls Joe Biden and he calls Bernie Sanders a communist.

00:37:41.000 Now everybody in the media is like, he's not a communist, he's a democratic socialist.

00:37:45.000 Okay, so let him explain why capitalism is good.

00:37:48.000 Really?

00:37:49.000 Like, he's made sort of weird, open-ended comments about why he's not opposed to free markets?

00:37:53.000 But, 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.

00:37:59.000 How 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?

00:38:03.000 We're not talking about you were 17.

00:38:05.000 When 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.

00:38:13.000 You still for that?

00:38:14.000 And if not, why not?

00:38:15.000 What changed?

00:38:16.000 Did you realize that was unrealistic?

00:38:17.000 Are you looking for a transitional plan?

00:38:19.000 Like, what exactly changed right here?

00:38:21.000 So, 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? 0.69

00:38:29.000 Here's President Trump going off on Bernie Sanders.

00:38:32.000 Whatever comes to your mind.

00:38:33.000 We'll start with Joe Biden.

00:38:36.000 I just think of Sleepy.

00:38:37.000 I just watch him.

00:38:38.000 He's Sleepy, Sleepy Joe.

00:38:40.000 Bernie Sanders.

00:38:42.000 Well, I think he's a communist.

00:38:43.000 I mean, you know, look, I think of communism when I think of Bernie.

00:38:46.000 Now, you could say socialist, but didn't he get married in Moscow?

00:38:50.000 And that's wonderful.

00:38:51.000 Moscow's wonderful.

00:38:52.000 Might have been the honeymoon.

00:38:53.000 You don't think necessarily.

00:38:54.000 Well, whatever.

00:38:55.000 But you don't necessarily think in terms of marriage, Moscow.

00:39:00.000 Okay, that's all fair, and he's going to be hitting Bernie on all of this, right?

00:39:03.000 And this is what he should be doing, right?

00:39:05.000 He should, honestly, like, him going after Bernie on the fact that Bernie believes that America is inherently bad is not a bad way to go.

00:39:11.000 Because most Americans don't believe that America is inherently bad such that it requires revolutionary Marxist change.

00:39:17.000 Which is what Bernie is calling for.

00:39:18.000 Meanwhile, Trump is upset about Michael Bloomberg.

00:39:20.000 So, Bloomberg has been spending all this money targeting Trump, hundreds of millions of dollars targeting Trump.

00:39:25.000 He's been rising in the national polls.

00:39:26.000 According to some national polls, he's running as high as number three after Biden and Sanders.

00:39:30.000 If Biden were to collapse, then Bloomberg presumably would be the inheritor of the quote-unquote moderate mantle.

00:39:34.000 This has led President Trump to go on Twitter and say, Mini-Mike is part of the fake news.

00:39:38.000 They're all working together.

00:39:40.000 In fact, Bloomberg isn't covering himself.

00:39:42.000 Too boring to do.

00:39:43.000 Or other Dems.

00:39:44.000 Only Trump.

00:39:45.000 That sounds fair.

00:39:46.000 It's all the fake news media.

00:39:47.000 And that's why no one believes in them anymore.

00:39:49.000 Okay, all of that is fair except for the mini Mike part.

00:39:51.000 I 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.

00:40:00.000 But Trump says many of the ads you are watching were paid for by mini Mike Bloomberg.

00:40:05.000 He is going nowhere.

00:40:06.000 Just wasting his money. 0.90

00:40:07.000 But he is getting the DNC to rig the election against crazy Bernie.

00:40:10.000 Something they wouldn't do for Cory Booker and others.

00:40:12.000 They are doing it to Bernie again.

00:40:13.000 2016.

00:40:13.000 So here is Trump militating in favor of Bernie, right?

00:40:16.000 Trump says he wants to run against Bernie.

00:40:18.000 It's pretty obvious he wants to run against Bernie.

00:40:20.000 And 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. 0.95

00:40:39.000 This is all such schoolyard crap, but whatever, man. 0.56

00:40:42.000 Again, this is the thing. 0.99

00:40:44.000 If 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.

00:40:55.000 If he insists on going to Michael Bloomberg is short.

00:40:57.000 What do you think suburban women feel about that? 1.00

00:41:00.000 Seriously, do you think suburban women are like, well, now that the president said he's short, I can't stand Michael Bloomberg. 1.00

00:41:05.000 I don't like short men.

00:41:07.000 I mean, come on.

00:41:09.000 Here he is going after Michael Bloomberg and calling him short.

00:41:12.000 Michael Bloomberg.

00:41:14.000 Very little.

00:41:15.000 I just think of little.

00:41:17.000 You know, now he wants a box for the debates to stand on.

00:41:20.000 OK, it's OK.

00:41:21.000 There's nothing wrong.

00:41:22.000 You could be short.

00:41:24.000 Why should he get a box to stand on?

00:41:26.000 OK, he wants a box for the debates.

00:41:28.000 Why should he be entitled to that?

00:41:30.000 Really?

00:41:30.000 Then does that mean everyone else gets a box?

00:41:33.000 I guess that wall one I left the negotiation.

00:41:35.000 Well, 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.

00:41:41.000 I think it's very unfair for the Democrats, but I would love to run against Bloomberg.

00:41:46.000 So your chief critique is that he wants to stand on a box.

00:41:50.000 Now, maybe I'm oversensitive to this because I get a lot of height jokes.

00:41:53.000 I am 5'9", by the way.

00:41:54.000 But I will say that that's a weird critique.

00:41:58.000 Like, he shouldn't be president because he wants to stand on a box is a very weird critique.

00:42:02.000 Especially when you have, he tried to ban soda in New York City.

00:42:06.000 And his policies on cigarettes led to a crackdown on people selling loosies in the street.

00:42:12.000 There's plenty to attack Michael Bloomberg on.

00:42:15.000 His gun control agenda is nonsense.

00:42:17.000 And by the way, Michael Bloomberg then shot back in exactly the way that you would think that Michael Bloomberg would shoot back. 0.98

00:42:23.000 Now you have Bloomberg's campaign saying that he is fat and orange.

00:42:29.000 So I guess this is where we're going. 0.99

00:42:30.000 Bloomberg campaign spokesman Julie Wood said, quote, He's a pathological liar who lies about everything. 0.98

00:42:34.000 His fake hair, his obesity, his spray-on tan. 0.96

00:42:38.000 And then the former mayor said that Trump lies about everything, so you shouldn't be surprised he said things like that.

00:42:42.000 I stand twice as tall as he does on the stage that matters.

00:42:46.000 Okay, so now we're going to get into fights over who is fat and who is short.

00:42:51.000 I guess this is what... See, here's the thing. 0.92

00:42:53.000 It's not as though we haven't had dummies run for president of the United States before and schoolyard taunting in the presidency.

00:42:59.000 The difference is it didn't matter because the presidency didn't control so much of American life. 0.99

00:43:02.000 This 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. 0.99

00:43:10.000 We don't care! 1.00

00:43:11.000 Like, they don't bother us.

00:43:12.000 That'd be great. 0.99

00:43:13.000 Then I wouldn't have to worry about any of this dumb, dumb stuff. 0.99

00:43:15.000 I'm the only commentator in America who wants to put himself out of work by making you not care about politics. 1.00

00:43:20.000 Okay, but apparently, like, we're just gonna do, it's idiocy all the way down. 0.99

00:43:24.000 Here's, here's a Bloomberg advisor mocking, mocking Trump. 0.99

00:43:28.000 Mike Bloomberg would eat Donald Trump alive on a debate stage.

00:43:31.000 Donald Trump is chattering. 0.57

00:43:33.000 Who knew that Donald Trump was such a snowflake?

00:43:38.000 What's it like to be in Donald Trump's head so much? 0.98

00:43:41.000 And 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.

00:43:52.000 Okay, so this is how it's going to go.

00:43:54.000 This is how it's going to be.

00:43:56.000 And honestly, like, I'm not gonna pretend that I think that it's like wildly out of character for the Bloomberg people to go after Trump.

00:44:03.000 Trump goes after everybody else this way. 0.98

00:44:05.000 You open the door to this sort of schoolyard crap and this is what you're gonna get. 1.00

00:44:08.000 It's immature, it's stupid, it's nonsense, but this is what we are. 1.00

00:44:12.000 Do I think that's effective for Trump? 1.00

00:44:13.000 I don't.

00:44:14.000 I know.

00:44:14.000 I cut against the grain of most Republicans who are laughing and thinking this is really wise and all this.

00:44:19.000 Listen, it can be funny and also stupid. 1.00

00:44:20.000 Funny and stupid. 1.00

00:44:21.000 Very, very possible. 1.00

00:44:22.000 Many movies are funny and stupid. 1.00

00:44:24.000 This is funny. 1.00

00:44:24.000 It is also stupid. 1.00

00:44:25.000 It is not smart politics. 1.00

00:44:28.000 Well, for their money, both Trump and Bloomberg ran ads during the Super Bowl.

00:44:31.000 So President Trump ran an ad that was kind of fascinating in its take.

00:44:35.000 He ran an ad on Alice Johnson.

00:44:37.000 So Alice Johnson was a sentence to serve life in prison for a nonviolent drug offense. 1.00

00:44:43.000 Okay, 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.

00:44:57.000 So 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.

00:45:03.000 Like, that is not accurate.

00:45:04.000 With 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.

00:45:13.000 That's obviously him attempting to make inroads with women, inroads with minorities. 0.87

00:45:17.000 It's an interesting take.

00:45:18.000 I mean, I'm not sure I love it.

00:45:20.000 I mean, I don't love criminal justice reform as a general rule.

00:45:22.000 I 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.

00:45:34.000 their due sentences sitting in prison.

00:45:36.000 But this was the ad that Trump ran.

00:45:37.000 It's a good ad for what it's worth.

00:45:39.000 It says Alice Johnson was sentenced to serve life in prison for a nonviolent drug offense. 0.98

00:45:39.000 Here is the ad. 0.98

00:45:46.000 Thanks to President Trump, people like Alice are getting a second chance.

00:45:49.000 I'm free to start over.

00:45:52.000 This is the greatest day of my life.

00:45:55.000 My heart is just bursting with gratitude.

00:45:56.000 - It's busted.

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.

00:46:13.000 I think it's a mistake for politicians to try to be what they are not.

00:46:17.000 Okay, 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.

00:46:27.000 Possibly.

00:46:28.000 It's also true that criminal justice reform may end up with more criminals on the streets.

00:46:31.000 Also, you're never going to beat Democrats at this game because Democrats just want a jailbreak.

00:46:34.000 Democrats are just like everybody.

00:46:35.000 Whoever committed a crime should be out on the streets.

00:46:37.000 Meanwhile, 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.

00:46:46.000 On a Friday morning, George was shot.

00:46:49.000 George didn't survive.

00:46:52.000 I just kept saying, you cannot tell me that the child that I gave birth to is no longer here.

00:46:59.000 Lives are being lost every day.

00:47:02.000 It is a national crisis.

00:47:05.000 Does 2,900 children die every year from gun violence?

00:47:07.000 He's been in this fight for so long, he heard mothers crying.

00:47:10.000 So he started fighting.

00:47:12.000 When I heard Michael is stepping into the ring, I thought, now we have a dog in the fight.

00:47:19.000 Okay, so it's a gun control ad on behalf of Michael Bloomberg.

00:47:21.000 First of all, that 2900 statistic apparently is not correct.

00:47:24.000 Apparently it's about half that.

00:47:25.000 But in any case, that's also a weird take from Michael Bloomberg.

00:47:29.000 You'd expect him to run an anti-Trump ad in a time when people don't like Trump.

00:47:32.000 That 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.

00:47:39.000 That's not really an attack ad on Trump so much.

00:47:41.000 And then again, you have the oblique ad from Trump.

00:47:43.000 Very weird takes for those Super Bowl ads from Trump and Bloomberg.

00:47:47.000 But apparently Trump believes that Bloomberg is sort of going to be the replacement for Joe Biden as Joe Biden falls out of contention.

00:47:53.000 We'll know a lot more tonight.

00:47:55.000 Meanwhile, I'd be remiss if I did not note that the Super Bowl had another round of silly controversies. 0.96

00:48:01.000 The dumbest controversy of all, of course, was President Trump last night deciding that Kansas City was actually in the state of Kansas. 0.54

00:48:07.000 So he originally tweeted, congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on a great game and a fantastic comeback under immense pressure. 0.98

00:48:12.000 You represented the great state of Kansas and in fact, the entire USA so very well.

00:48:16.000 Our country is proud of you.

00:48:18.000 Kansas City's in Missouri.

00:48:20.000 So he got the state wrong.

00:48:21.000 This 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.

00:48:32.000 Congratulations to citizens of Kansas who now have taken control of Kansas City without a shot fired.

00:48:37.000 That's exciting stuff. 0.98

00:48:38.000 So this of course led to all sorts of dumb memes on Twitter.

00:48:41.000 In sort of more important, let's put it this way, more indicative controversy surrounding the game. 0.52

00:48:47.000 The NFL aired a patriotic display, which they do every year.

00:48:49.000 Like, I was at the Super Bowl a couple of years ago.

00:48:51.000 They had a big patriotic display before the game.

00:48:53.000 Very nice.

00:48:55.000 This is the dirty little secret, is that the NFL plays on everybody's patriotic feelings because most Americans are still patriotic, right?

00:49:01.000 This is what Trump should be honing in on, not the criminal justice reform stuff.

00:49:04.000 He 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.

00:49:11.000 Beyonce and Jay-Z refused to stand for the anthem.

00:49:13.000 Now, this stuff is just irritating.

00:49:15.000 If you want to talk about Your problems with policing in the United States, you are free to do so, it's a free country.

00:49:15.000 I'm sorry.

00:49:20.000 But 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. 0.99

00:49:30.000 It truly is. 0.93

00:49:32.000 It's really obnoxious, and it falls into the Ilhan Omar, I'm ungrateful to be in the country routine.

00:49:36.000 It's...

00:49:37.000 You're free to do whatever you want.

00:49:38.000 It's a free country. 0.82

00:49:39.000 But, it's gross. 0.75

00:49:40.000 It's gross.

00:49:41.000 I'm sorry, Jay-Z and Beyonce.

00:49:43.000 Wow, what, what.

00:49:44.000 Now, this is Jay-Z trying to buy it back.

00:49:46.000 Because remember, Jay-Z had broken with Colin Kaepernick, the great hero of our time.

00:49:51.000 And so, they were sitting for the national anthem, studiously doing so.

00:49:55.000 Which is just, again, yucky.

00:49:57.000 Very, very yucky.

00:49:59.000 And then, there was the controversy over the Super Bowl halftime show.

00:50:03.000 Do you get the feeling?

00:50:04.000 I get the feeling.

00:50:04.000 The Super Bowl is not what it used to be.

00:50:06.000 Like a lot of people that I know who I'm friends with, like five years ago, everybody watched the Super Bowl.

00:50:09.000 I don't know what the ratings were this year yet.

00:50:12.000 Just on a personal level, I feel like more and more Americans are like, OK, this isn't what it used to be.

00:50:17.000 I'm really not that into it as much as I was. 0.92

00:50:18.000 OK, 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. 0.84

00:50:26.000 This goes all the way back to Justin Timberlake stripping down Janis Jackson wearing a pasty. 0.92

00:50:31.000 I think it was 2004 when that happens, and now we're 15 years later.

00:50:34.000 And so last night they held a striptease on the stage.

00:50:38.000 And this was championed as feminism-ing. 1.00

00:50:40.000 Much feminism-ing! 1.00

00:50:42.000 Because when I think feminism, what I think is not my wife being a doctor and a mother. 1.00

00:50:46.000 What I think is scantily clad women shaking their asses for the pleasure of men. 1.00

00:50:50.000 That's really what I think. 0.99

00:50:51.000 I think feminism-ing is all about this, right? 1.00

00:50:53.000 It's all about the shaking of the ass. 1.00

00:50:55.000 That's clearly... 1.00

00:50:56.000 And everyone's like, they are so empowered.

00:50:59.000 Nothing says empowerment quite like stripping for the pleasure of the hundreds of millions of watching men.

00:50:59.000 It's true.

00:51:04.000 And I know, look, they're in great shape.

00:51:06.000 Congratulations.

00:51:07.000 Like, really, good for you that plastic surgery and exercise and restrictive diets are able to do a body good.

00:51:12.000 Like, good for you.

00:51:13.000 Really, that's a lot of hard work.

00:51:14.000 But can we stop pretending that this had nothing to do with sex or sex appeal? 0.99

00:51:18.000 Like, there's a reason that Lizzo wasn't on the stage shaking her ass that way. 1.00

00:51:21.000 Okay, and, like, really, there's a reason the Super Bowl cast it this way. 0.97

00:51:25.000 There's a reason that J-Lo was doing, like, actual pole dances.

00:51:29.000 Right, she did a pole dance in the middle of this, in the middle of this, right?

00:51:31.000 She 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. 1.00

00:51:39.000 There are all these commercials about female astronauts.

00:51:42.000 And then the halftime show was a sexy woman climbing on a pole and doing a pole dance. 1.00

00:51:47.000 Just 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. 0.72

00:52:14.000 Okay, that is patently obvious.

00:52:15.000 You may have enjoyed the striptease.

00:52:17.000 More power to you.

00:52:18.000 It's a free country.

00:52:19.000 You may have thought that this was a wonderful example of Western art. 0.99

00:52:22.000 Alright, I mean, I think that your taste is garbage, but sure.

00:52:25.000 But 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. 0.95

00:52:44.000 Like, 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.

00:52:52.000 Like, come on.

00:52:54.000 Come on.

00:52:54.000 Like, really?

00:52:57.000 Like, she's good at shaking her hips. 1.00

00:52:59.000 Like, that's... Congratulations, but... This is...

00:53:03.000 Okay, with the close-up pan- Like, okay, it's not just me, okay?

00:53:05.000 I'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.

00:53:13.000 What's in my head is the same thing that's in your head!

00:53:14.000 What do you think is in your head?

00:53:16.000 She's shaking her- Like, the whole song is this!

00:53:18.000 What are you- Come on!

00:53:20.000 I don't think that she's doing mathematics!

00:53:21.000 She's not doing higher calculus! 0.98

00:53:23.000 She's not sitting there doing your taxes! 1.00

00:53:25.000 Like, what- Come on! 0.99

00:53:28.000 This is so silly. 0.98

00:53:30.000 It's all so silly. 0.98

00:53:31.000 This is what folks on the social left like to do. 0.94

00:53:34.000 They will do things like they'll put drag queen story hour out there. 1.00

00:53:37.000 And then they'll be like, why are you so offended that we're putting drag queens in front of children? 0.97

00:53:41.000 It's because you're intolerant and you're closed minded.

00:53:43.000 It's like, well, no, I just don't think that drag should be done in front of small children. 0.88

00:53:47.000 That seems inappropriate for small children, like because you're because you're a bigot.

00:53:51.000 What's in your head?

00:53:52.000 The same thing that you're in your head, which is why you're putting drag queens in front of children. 0.99

00:53:56.000 You wouldn't be doing it otherwise.

00:53:57.000 You wouldn't think it was important to do otherwise.

00:53:59.000 What's going through my head?

00:54:00.000 Why do you think Shakira and JLo are stars?

00:54:02.000 Because of the quality of JLo's singing?

00:54:04.000 Like it has nothing to do with her look?

00:54:06.000 Nothing?

00:54:06.000 At all?

00:54:07.000 Why do you think she was being celebrated last night? 0.97

00:54:09.000 Because 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? 0.96

00:54:18.000 Don't be upset when people pay attention to the thing you're begging for attention from. 0.98

00:54:21.000 The left act like teenagers.

00:54:23.000 It's like they dye their hair blue, and they get three nose rings, and they're like, why are you looking at me?

00:54:23.000 They really do.

00:54:27.000 Why are you looking at me?

00:54:29.000 Because 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?

00:54:36.000 What's going through your mind?

00:54:38.000 What you wanted to go through my mind is going through my mind, and then me saying that's inappropriate, that's that.

00:54:43.000 The 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?

00:54:57.000 I'm not sure what it is, or her cultural background.

00:55:00.000 She's Colombian, okay?

00:55:01.000 So I didn't know if this is a thing in Colombian culture.

00:55:02.000 It's a thing in Sephardi Jewish culture, right?

00:55:04.000 Like, you'll be at a bar mitzvah or something, and people go like... That's a thing that people do?

00:55:09.000 Like a bar mitzvah.

00:55:10.000 It's a celebratory noise.

00:55:11.000 So Shakira actually did that on national TV, but it was weirdly sexualized. 0.99

00:55:15.000 And so the only good thing to come out of the Super Bowl was this meme of Shakira doing this thing accompanied by a goat doing this thing.

00:55:23.000 And one of the better memes I have seen recently. 1.00

00:55:25.000 Oh, this is so stupid. 1.00

00:55:33.000 Ugh, our culture's so dumb. 1.00

00:55:34.000 We deserve whatever we get, okay? 1.00

00:55:36.000 Come take us, coronavirus.

00:55:37.000 Come take us.

00:55:38.000 Okay, time for a thing I like, and then we will do a quick thing that I hate.

00:55:41.000 So, things that I like today.

00:55:43.000 There's a movie that I thought was actually quite good.

00:55:45.000 Very underrated.

00:55:46.000 Casey Affleck is the more talented of the Affleck brothers.

00:55:48.000 He also has more personal issues than the other Affleck brother, but Casey is actually a really talented guy.

00:55:53.000 Like, his acting is excellent.

00:55:55.000 Uh, he's a good director.

00:55:56.000 He 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.

00:56:09.000 And the movie's really about fathers and daughters.

00:56:11.000 I really did.

00:56:11.000 I thought it was great.

00:56:12.000 It's called Light of My Life.

00:56:13.000 It'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.

00:56:26.000 You inherently imply that life means something.

00:56:28.000 Once you imply that life means something, then unborn life also means a thing.

00:56:31.000 Like, 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.

00:56:36.000 And 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.

00:56:47.000 It's amazing.

00:56:48.000 But 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.

00:56:56.000 Bedrooms with beds.

00:56:57.000 Right now.

00:56:59.000 Can we stay?

00:57:00.000 I don't think it's a safe place to be.

00:57:05.000 Who is it?

00:57:09.000 They're looking for me because I'm a girl.

00:57:12.000 So the movie is good.

00:57:13.000 I actually liked it better than The Road.

00:57:14.000 I know a lot of people love The Road with Viggo Mortensen.

00:57:17.000 I thought this was actually...

00:57:18.000 Kind of a better movie.

00:57:19.000 So, you can check it out.

00:57:21.000 Worthy of the watch.

00:57:22.000 I think it's on Amazon Prime, I believe.

00:57:23.000 So you can check that out.

00:57:24.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:57:31.000 People for the ethical treatment of animals are in the business of making people want to eat meat just to spite them. 0.99

00:57:35.000 Like, all they do is make terrible ads and say stupid things that annoy me. 0.98

00:57:39.000 So, I am somebody who is... Honestly, I am drawn toward vegetarianism. 0.99

00:57:44.000 I am.

00:57:44.000 Like, I know that's an unpopular stance.

00:57:46.000 When I say drawn toward, I don't mean that I'm gonna stop eating meat, like, right now, because meat is delicious.

00:57:49.000 Like, if God didn't want us to eat...

00:57:52.000 Animals, you shouldn't have made them out of meat.

00:57:53.000 But, with that said, I'm drawn ideologically to the idea of vegetarianism.

00:57:58.000 Every time I say this, I get all sorts of emails from vegans and vegetarians saying there are no health drawbacks.

00:58:03.000 For children, there are health drawbacks.

00:58:05.000 The source of protein in animal is much better than the source of protein in vegetables.

00:58:09.000 But, in any case, I'm somebody who would actually be warm to the idea for animal rights.

00:58:14.000 Not that animals have rights, but that you should treat animals with humanity.

00:58:18.000 I'm drawn toward that, even though I'm not an animal lover.

00:58:20.000 It 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.

00:58:30.000 But PETA makes me want to go out and just do nothing but eat steak for the next week.

00:58:35.000 So 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. 0.97

00:58:44.000 So it's like all the things that are garbage in one ad. 0.78

00:58:46.000 So here is the PETA ad. 0.84

00:58:52.000 It shows a bee flying over a valley.

00:58:58.000 And then the bee is taking a knee. 0.98

00:59:00.000 And then they're playing the national anthem.

00:59:02.000 Then the bear is taking a knee.

00:59:05.000 And then the fish are taking a... They don't have knees.

00:59:08.000 I don't know what they would be taking, exactly.

00:59:10.000 And then you've got a wolf and a fox taking a knee, just like Colin Kaepernick, guys.

00:59:14.000 And then a mouse...

00:59:16.000 And then a dog, and they're all taking a knee.

00:59:18.000 First of all, I don't need a dog.

00:59:19.000 Do you need a dog?

00:59:19.000 Like, I haven't lately.

00:59:21.000 A horse taking a knee. 0.95

00:59:23.000 Okay, and the idea here, and then a pig taking a knee. 0.99

00:59:25.000 So basically, all these animals taking a knee, just like Colin Kaepernick.

00:59:28.000 And then a child taking a knee. 0.85

00:59:30.000 Because we all kneel for the national anthem, because America is evil and bad.

00:59:35.000 And then, the American eagle taking a knee.

00:59:39.000 Okay, so this makes me want to do nothing but eat meat.

00:59:42.000 Nothing.

00:59:42.000 Because, this is so- Respect is the right of every living being, is what it ends with.

00:59:48.000 End speciesism.

00:59:49.000 Speciesism?!

00:59:51.000 Okay, I'm gonna go with, no, human beings are different than animals.

00:59:54.000 And if you don't believe that- I remember, PETA did an ad years ago called, Holocaust on Your Plate. 1.00

00:59:59.000 And I just thought to myself, you pieces of crap. 0.97

01:00:02.000 Like, 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. 0.99

01:00:12.000 This is what makes me want to eat animals, on an ideological level.

01:00:14.000 Like, 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.

01:00:29.000 Because animals are not human beings.

01:00:31.000 And 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.

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Iowat The Hell Is Going On | Ep. 945

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