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00:00:00.000Trump celebrates his own personal festivus with a ceremonial airing of grievances after his acquittal, Bernie gains momentum as Biden panics, and China shows that communism isn't all that great at problem solving.
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00:00:24.000Alrighty, so yesterday was President Trump's big triumphant moment.
00:00:29.000As we said earlier this week, he gave the State of the Union address, excellent State of the Union address, theatrics, Brilliantly constructed, well-delivered.
00:00:37.000And I said at the time, you know, if President Trump were like this all the time, he'd win 55% of the vote.
00:00:41.000And pretty much everybody said that, right?
00:00:42.000His advisors were saying that, people around Trump were saying that, people in the media who are longtime allies of President Trump were saying that.
00:00:49.000They were saying, if you could just be contained, Mr. President, if you could just be the guy who focuses in on what it is the American people care about, Mr. President, then you would be near dominant in elections.
00:00:58.000It would be almost impossible to stop you in elections.
00:01:01.000And then yesterday, President Trump was celebrating his acquittal, which happened the day before.
00:01:04.000And he decided that he was just going to down eight Red Bulls, bust through a wall like the Kool-Aid man and just take a giant dump on the Democrats.
00:01:13.000And all the Republicans were cheering.
00:01:17.000And on the one hand, of course, on the one hand, of course, because come on.
00:01:20.000I mean, President Trump is President Trump.
00:02:44.000I mean, if you had to make a word cloud for this thing, it is cloudy with a chance of meatballs because weird things just flying out of the sky.
00:02:50.000References to Bobby Richardson, the former New York Yankees second baseman, full on descriptions of Steve Scalise getting shot.
00:02:56.000I mean, everything that you could possibly want and not want in a Trump presser was here.
00:03:00.000Here is President Trump, though, beginning by explaining the witch hunt started the day I came down the escalator.
00:03:05.000But a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months.
00:03:10.000but really if you go back to it over the last number of years, we had the witch hunt in It started from the day we came down the elevator, myself and our future first lady, who's with us right now.
00:03:44.000And in the end, what's really going to matter are the underlying facts, which we'll get to in a minute and which do, in fact, favor President Trump.
00:03:50.000As we'll see, Trump wasn't the only one who decided to air his grievances on Festivus yesterday.
00:03:54.000Here is President Trump holding up The Washington Post and acknowledging full well that The Washington Post never runs good headlines about him, which, of course, is true.
00:07:11.000I don't mean that thieves actually stole stuff.
00:07:13.000Online scammers stole ownership to her home, which is one of the reasons you should consider home title lock.
00:07:18.000Debra said, and I quote, criminals found the title to our home online and filed forged documents claiming they owned it.
00:07:24.000She says I was evicted from my own home and $85,000 in equity stolen.
00:07:27.000Nobody believes you can get your home stolen this easily, but as we know, hackers have gotten really sophisticated, online criminals have gotten really sophisticated, and there's just too much information online.
00:07:35.000Home titles are kept online, and thieves will hunt for them.
00:07:38.000They'll forge documents to make it look like you sold your home, and then they can borrow against your home until you're broke.
00:07:43.000No insurance or bank will protect you from this type of crime because it's just too new.
00:08:31.000The tut-tutting is what made Trump president and maybe the tut-tutting that keeps Trump president.
00:08:35.000What I mean by that is that the wildness perception that American politics in the absence of Trump is a perfectly healthy organism, that American politics without Trump is perfectly great, and that it's just Trump who ruined everything is such myopic bullcrap.
00:08:50.000If you want to talk about the institutions and the people who ruined American politics long before Trump ever came on the scene, You're going to have to look across the aisle to Nancy Pelosi.
00:08:57.000So Nancy Pelosi really let the cat out of the bag the other night when she ripped up Trump's State of the Union address because she'd been trying to do this whole, I'm above all of this.
00:10:20.000And then it turns out that the American people bridled against that, and they went to other sources of information, and the media just doubled down on all of this.
00:10:27.000The media lost all of their legitimacy long before Trump came on the scene.
00:10:44.000Okay, Newt Gingrich said it in 2012 and got a bump in the Republican primaries.
00:10:48.000This has been a long-going narrative on the right, and it is not untrue.
00:10:52.000And when we say you're fake news, it doesn't mean everything that you report is fake.
00:10:55.000It means that all of you who portray yourselves as the journalistic explainers of the world, all of you who portray yourselves as the objective journalists who are attempting to just bring fact and separate it from opinion, Nearly all of you are Democrats, and you filter everything through that Democrat lens.
00:11:12.000If you say you're opinion news, you're not fake.
00:11:14.000Then you're exactly what you say you are, but you don't.
00:11:16.000And so this is why every time Trump does something, and the media reveal their own bias, and reveal their own predilections, All they are doing is underscoring why Trump is the coroner and not the murderer.
00:11:26.000So, here is what CNN was doing during Trump's speech yesterday.
00:12:32.000You have been watching the president of the United States with an unscripted, vindictive, at times profane, angry, rambling response to his impeachment acquittal.
00:12:43.000This started out with the president coming out into the East Room to ruffles and flourishes.
00:12:49.000And then immediately turned into an avalanche of grievance against everybody.
00:12:56.000It was vindictive, as you pointed out.
00:13:15.000Okay, CNN was around and criticized long before this.
00:13:18.000I mean, I was on CNN in like 2014, before Donald Trump was running for president, talking explicitly about the fact that during the Gaza war that was happening between Hamas and Israel, that Hamas could not have had better spokespeople than CNN.
00:13:30.000I mean, CNN has been biased for an extraordinarily long time.
00:13:32.000So again, the media wished to make it that President Trump's childishness and vindictiveness and thin-skinnedness, that all of that is the death of American politics.
00:13:39.000And it's like, no, Trump is just the symptom and also the coroner of everything that is going on.
00:13:45.000CNN's John Harwood doing the same routine.
00:13:46.000So John Harwood comes out, he says, well, this guy is in psychological distress.
00:13:50.000Weird, I don't remember them psychoanalyzing Barack Obama when he was literally crying during some press conferences about mass shootings.
00:13:57.000I don't remember them doing like a deep dive into his psychology.
00:14:00.000I just remember them celebrating his emotion.
00:14:02.000I don't remember when Barack Obama was saying things about bringing guns to knife fights politically, them talking about Barack Obama's vindictive nature.
00:14:10.000Or in 2009, during the financial meltdown, when he suggested that he would let the pitchforks have the bankers.
00:14:15.000I don't remember people in the media suggesting, well isn't that a bit vindictive and spiteful?
00:14:19.000No, then they were busy celebrating Barack Obama.
00:14:22.000But when Donald Trump is Donald Trump, then all of a sudden we're going to go into full psychological analyses by John Harwood, who last I checked is not either a psychologist or a psychiatrist, but in any case, here is Harwood.
00:14:33.000This was a very disturbing tableau for the country.
00:14:38.000It was dark because he's made clear that his mind is dark.
00:14:41.000This is somebody in deep psychological distress right now.
00:16:07.000So, suspect number one in the death of the American political scene, the media.
00:16:10.000Okay, the media have a lot of blame to carry around.
00:16:13.000Now, I know there are a bunch of people on the left, and they say, well, yeah, polarization of the media is the problem.
00:16:17.000No, polarization of the media is not the problem.
00:16:19.000Dishonesty in the media is the problem.
00:16:20.000There are people out there on the left that are like, well, you have a leftist tears tumbler on your table.
00:16:25.000Aren't you contributing to the death of American politics?
00:16:27.000No, I'm honest about who we are over here, right?
00:16:28.000We don't really like the political left very much, by which I mean not liberals, but people who wish to shut down debate, people who believe that people should be platformed for having a finally, an absolutely mainstream point of view.
00:16:40.000I'd rather that everybody be honest like Chris Matthews is than dishonest like the folks over at CNN.
00:16:45.000Okay, so suspect number one, members of the media.
00:16:47.000We'll get to suspect number two in just one second.
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00:18:21.000Again, everybody in the media proclaims that it's Trump, but that's a red herring.
00:18:25.000And the Democrats proclaim that it's Trump, but that's a red herring too.
00:18:27.000Nancy Pelosi has been around on the scene for quite a while, and Nancy Pelosi has been a deeply polarizing figure for also quite a while.
00:18:34.000I'm old enough to remember when, just last year, she refused to pass a resolution condemning open anti-Semites like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib inside her own caucus.
00:18:42.000I'm old enough to remember when Nancy Pelosi declared that boycott-divestment sanctions of Israel were anti-Semitic, and then half of her caucus supported them, and then she was like, oh, okay, I guess it's not anti-Semitic anymore.
00:18:54.000Okay, Nancy Pelosi at least is one of the suspects.
00:18:57.000She pretends to be the detective, right?
00:18:58.000I'm going to track down Donald Trump and I'm going to pin him to the wall as the adult in the room.
00:19:02.000In reality, the lady's got some... the blood of American politics, that blood spatter from the corpse of American politics, it's all over her shoes.
00:19:11.000Okay, just as it is the shoes of the media.
00:20:17.000Again, it's so childish and so petty and so stupid, but she's been around a long time, right?
00:20:21.000She was the House Majority Leader in 2006.
00:20:23.000So she's been around a lot longer than Donald Trump.
00:20:25.000Pretending that the world started spinning in 2016 is the way for Democrats to avoid their culpability for the fact that Trump got elected in the first place.
00:20:32.000Pretending that Trump came along and he shattered all of the norms of American politics and broke everything?
00:20:37.000That's the way to avoid the inevitable conclusion, which is that the Democrats and the media broke American politics and then Trump came and he said, look, American politics is dead.
00:20:48.000Okay, so all of this is going to, as much as I don't like the violation of norms by President Trump, as much as I criticize President Trump for being ridiculous and petty and vindictive and thin-skinned, as much as I think that he pursues dumb strategies and going after Mitt Romney after Mitt Romney makes his vote and Trump gets acquitted.
00:21:05.000As much as I think all of that is foolish and counterproductive, I also recognize that foolishness and counterproductive action did not begin, nor will they end with President Trump.
00:21:13.000Which means that in the end, I think the American people are going instead to turn to underlying facts when it comes to the 2020 election.
00:21:19.000Underlying facts, like the fact that January was a big month for jobs.
00:21:24.000According to CNBC, an unseasonably mild January helped power the U.S.
00:21:27.000jobs market to more gains, with non-farm payrolls rising $225,000 for the month, well above Wall Street estimates.
00:21:33.000The unemployment rate ticked higher to 3.6%, but that's only because the labor force participation rate increased 0.2 percentage points up to 63.4%, which actually matched its highest level since June 2013.
00:21:45.000So people who have been out of the workforce for years are reentering the workforce looking for jobs.
00:21:50.000Economists surveyed by Dow Jones We're thinking that the payroll growth would be 158,000.
00:21:57.000A more encompassing labor market indicator that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time positions for economic reasons also moved higher, rising 0.2 percentage points to 6.9%.
00:22:06.000Again, that's because more people are re-entering the workforce.
00:22:10.000The employment-to-population ratio in the Household Survey rose to 61.2%, that's the highest since November 2008, and 0.5 percentage points higher than a year ago.
00:22:20.000So basically we are now, only now, starting to reach pre-recession levels of employment in the United States relative to the general American population, because Barack Obama did preside over the slowest job growth in American history in terms of recovery from a recession.
00:22:34.000So that is very good news for President Trump.
00:22:36.000Other very good news for President Trump is that wages are again accelerating.
00:22:40.000So again, this is very good news for President Trump.
00:22:43.000He's been pointing out the difference between himself and Barack Obama, that as wages accelerate, that was not happening really under President Obama.
00:22:52.000They topped the median estimate for $165,000.
00:22:53.000The unexpected job strength also reflects robust gains in weather-sensitive sectors, including construction, which climbed by $44,000 for the strongest growth in a year in an unseasonably warm month.
00:23:06.000Weekly hours worked held at 34.3 hours for the third month, matching the lowest level for most of the past decade.
00:23:14.000Economists look to hours worked for early signs of labor market softening, as companies often cut hours before laying off workers.
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00:26:24.000Okay, so the Democratic 2020 primaries are a mess for the Democrats.
00:26:28.000According to FiveThirtyEight, Bernie Sanders is now a one in two odds-on favorite to be the nominee for president of the United States for the Democratic Party and win a majority of the delegates.
00:26:39.000They are forecasting that he will win above a majority of delegates, about 1,700 delegates.
00:26:45.000They are forecasting that Joe Biden will come in second and Pete Buttigieg will come in third.
00:26:49.000They're really forecasting that because they're thinking that Biden is going to win a bunch of delegates in the South, particularly among black voters.
00:26:57.000There's no question that Pete Buttigieg is surging.
00:26:59.000The latest polls in New Hampshire show Pete Buttigieg actually challenging Bernie Sanders for primacy.
00:27:04.000The best news here, by the way, would be for Pete Buttigieg to win New Hampshire outright for Biden.
00:27:09.000That would be the best news for Biden.
00:27:11.000Because if Pete Buttigieg wins New Hampshire outright, I know that the conventional wisdom is that then he will go on, he will become the moderate-lane Democrat.
00:27:18.000I think that if Pete Buttigieg wins New Hampshire, the person that hurts most is Bernie, because Bernie is widely expected to win New Hampshire.
00:27:24.000If Buttigieg wins Iowa, and he wins New Hampshire, then you will get the candidate of sort of the white upper class versus the candidate who's more popular with minorities.
00:27:35.000So people are assuming that Buttigieg is cutting into Biden, and there's truth to that in places like Iowa and New Hampshire.
00:27:40.000But if Buttigieg starts to actually overcome Bernie in state after state, then what you're going to see is people move away from some of these other candidates to counter Buttigieg.
00:27:50.000And that's why you're going to see Biden go after Buttigieg tonight.
00:27:52.000In New Hampshire, the latest poll statistics Show that Sanders is only very narrowly leading Buttigieg.
00:27:58.000The newest Boston Globe-Suffolk poll has them in a dead heat.
00:28:01.000It has Buttigieg at 23 and Sanders at 24.
00:28:04.000The Emerson poll that came out the same day, it has Sanders further ahead at 32 with Buttigieg at 23.
00:28:10.000And Monmouth, which came out the day before, had Sanders within spitting distance of Buttigieg.
00:28:27.000And Bernie was expected to do really well in Iowa, while Buttigieg was kind of left for dead a few weeks ago.
00:28:32.000Well, Buttigieg obviously did really well in Iowa, and now he's doing really well in New Hampshire.
00:28:36.000Now, these are very, very white states, and neither Bernie nor Buttigieg has a lot of black support, which is why I suggest that if Buttigieg actually overcomes Bernie, Then that's going to leave a pathway for Joe Biden in places like South Carolina, because Buttigieg does not have the national organization that Bernie has.
00:28:52.000Bernie has been starting to make some inroads into minority communities in ways that Buttigieg simply has not, although Buttigieg is a far more innately talented politician than Bernie Sanders is.
00:29:01.000Buttigieg has also been able to work this magic where he pretends that he's moderate when he is absolutely not moderate.
00:29:15.000Biden at least can make the case to his people that if he holds on to South Carolina, maybe he'll do okay there.
00:29:20.000But again, the polls in South Carolina have been tightening fairly a lot as well.
00:29:25.000Biden is now running at like 11% in the last two polls in New Hampshire, just disastrous stuff for Joe Biden.
00:29:31.000And he's gonna have to show some signs of life to his supporters or he is going to be toast forthwith Now, with all of that said, the latest East Carolina YouPoll still shows Biden blowing everybody out in South Carolina, right?
00:30:02.000The person with the easiest path, by far at this point, is Bernie.
00:30:05.000Because Bernie is the most well known, he's got a machine, he's got a movement behind him, and he has a lot of small dollar donors that are just throwing off money.
00:30:13.000All of that shows benefit for him, but the fragmentary nature of the field and the possibility that you could see, let's say that Bernie Well, let's say that Biden falls apart so badly in South Carolina he gets out.
00:30:25.000Well, that opens the door to either Buttigieg or Bloomberg or somebody else.
00:30:36.000But what exactly is he going to do that he hasn't done before?
00:30:39.000Presumably, he's going to have to get aggressive with Bernie.
00:30:41.000Presumably, he's going to have to get aggressive mostly with Buttigieg and attack Buttigieg.
00:30:45.000Buttigieg has been fairly smooth on defense.
00:30:48.000Buttigieg has been able to sort of push off all of the attacks on him.
00:30:51.000And also, I'm not sure that the experience attack really matters much to Democrats since they elected to the presidency twice a guy who had had five minutes in the United States Senate.
00:30:59.000If they really wanted somebody who had done anything in his life, they wouldn't be looking at Bernie, who's been a useless piece of crap for the last six decades.
00:31:05.000The bottom line is that they're looking for somebody who sort of mirrors vision, makes them feel good about themselves, and Buttigieg is doing that far more so than Biden.
00:31:15.000According to the Washington Post, outside the castle-themed Radisson Hotel where Joe Biden has been staying, his campaign bus was parked and ready for events.
00:31:21.000But on Thursday, just five days before the crucial primary here, the candidate was nowhere to be found.
00:31:26.000Biden spent Thursday gathered with his top advisors at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, seeking a reset and perhaps a last-ditch effort to save his candidacy, beginning with a debate on Friday night.
00:31:36.000He's set to appear on all the Sunday shows on Sunday, because he needs the publicity.
00:31:39.000Following dismal results in the Iowa caucuses that have rattled many in his orbit, his campaign is now simultaneously trying to lower expectations here, some suggesting they'd consider a finish as low as third place victory, while bracing for a second straight difficult election day.
00:31:51.000In one troublesome sign for the financially strapped campaign, it canceled nearly $150,000 in TV ads in South Carolina, which votes February 29th, and moved the spending to Nevada, whose February 22nd contest follows New Hampshire's.
00:32:03.000The move seemed to acknowledge that Biden's campaign cannot sustain a continued run of bad news, which of course is true.
00:32:09.000Dick Harputtley, a South Carolina state senator, said from a Biden perspective, there's going to be a course correction in all three states before Super Tuesday.
00:32:18.000He suggested those inside the campaign realize the gravity of the moment and that Biden had to better explain the differences with his opponents.
00:32:24.000The problem is that his campaign is not exactly built for comeback kid Bill Clinton, New Hampshire type moments, right?
00:33:00.000Now, in a second, We're gonna get to Bernie versus Buttigieg because now this is a three candidate race and really one of those candidates is in serious trouble, right?
00:33:07.000That candidate who's in serious trouble the most, obviously, is Biden.
00:33:10.000And we'll talk about the radicalism of Pete Buttigieg, which has been completely ignored, right?
00:33:13.000He's been able to pretend that he's actually a member of the moderate coterie simply because Bernie is an out-and-out socialist and Buttigieg isn't.
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00:37:53.000Even the ones who are sort of moderate, like Michael Bloomberg, are trying to pretend they're not moderate because if they acknowledge that they are moderate, then they have a problem, which is that the base doesn't like them very much.
00:38:01.000So instead what you get is one candidate, basically the difference between Buttigieg and Sanders is that Buttigieg pretends he's a moderate and Sanders is not.
00:38:08.000So Sanders just says the quiet part out loud.
00:38:51.000Okay, again, nationalized healthcare does not mean that you live in a socialist country.
00:38:55.000It means you want to socialize medicine, which, by the way, is wildly unpopular in the United States because his version of socializing medicine is not the version that you see in Switzerland or that you see in Singapore, where there's an individual mandate and then you buy into a private but not heavily regulated health insurance sector.
00:39:08.000Instead, Bernie's vision is that you are just taxed and then the government borrows a lot of money and then the government provides you directly healthcare and doctors and nurses and hospitals work directly for the government, which is the worst form of socialized medicine.
00:39:21.000When Bernie says his brand of socialism is Finland and Denmark, I'm just wondering when it shifted from Cuba and the USSR and Venezuela, which he's praised fulsomely, all of them.
00:39:30.000If you actually ask the politicians of Denmark whether they are a socialist country, they will tell you straight up no.
00:39:36.000In fact, the Prime Minister of Denmark recently spoke at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and somebody asked him about the socialism in Denmark.
00:40:23.000But what we can do is create a heck of a lot more jobs As we retrofit our older buildings, as we move to wind, solar, geothermal, and other sustainable energies.
00:41:49.000Here's Bernie acknowledging that nobody showed up in Iowa either.
00:41:53.000Senator, a key part of your argument for the general election, your electability, is that you're going to boost turnout by bringing all these people into the process that haven't been voting.
00:42:02.000Iowa turnout doesn't look like it was higher than last time.
00:42:39.000Well, actually, most members of Congress, I believe, are I think the majority are on board for Medicare for all in the House, not the Senate.
00:43:27.000They don't want to hear how they actually get implemented.
00:43:29.000But here was Hillary making the point that Bernie can't effectuate any of this stuff.
00:43:34.000You've got to be responsible for what you say and what you say you're going to do.
00:43:40.000We need to rebuild trust in our fellow Americans and in our institutions.
00:43:46.000And if you promise the moon and you can't deliver the moon, then that's going to be one more indicator of how, you know, we just can't trust each other.
00:43:53.000So, it's not good theater, it's not maybe good politics anymore, but I think you should tell people what you mean, mean what you say, and have some sense of responsibility for how you would get anything done that you talk about.
00:44:08.000I can't believe I'm about to say this, but Hillary Clinton is being more honest than Bernie Sanders.
00:44:11.000That is a reality, what she is saying right there.
00:44:13.000Meanwhile, speaking of dishonest people, Pete Buttigieg has been masquerading as the moderate alternative to Bernie Sanders, and he's been able to get away with it because Bernie is so off-the-wall loony left, and because Joe Biden has been collapsing, and he's been almost physically collapsing.
00:44:29.000There is no moderation inside this Democratic Party.
00:44:31.000Pete Buttigieg was on The View yesterday, and he was asked by Meghan McCain about late-term abortion, like partial birth abortion, and Pete Buttigieg refused to even disassociate from late-term abortion, which is madness.
00:44:44.000Very few Democrats are into the idea of being able to abort a baby at 8 months in the womb.
00:44:50.000I don't know who's for this, but it's an evil position that once you hit 35 weeks of pregnancy, you should be looking at the possibility of killing the child?
00:45:11.000If this is a late-term situation, then by definition, it's one where a woman was expecting to carry the pregnancy to term.
00:45:18.000Then she gets the most perhaps devastating news of her life.
00:45:22.000We're talking about families that may have picked out a name, may be assembling a crib, and they learn something excruciating, and are faced with this terrible choice.
00:45:37.000I just know that I trust her and her decision medically or morally and isn't going to be any better because the government is commanding her to do it.
00:45:45.000I mean, what he's talking about is eugenics there, right?
00:45:47.000When somebody gets horrible news that a baby is going to have some sort of terrible disease right before birth, they decide to kill the baby.
00:46:04.000Late-term abortions, as it very often turns out, are done for the same reason that the vast majority of abortions are done out of choice and convenience.
00:46:10.000So the fact that Pete Buttigieg is overtly defending late-term abortion on a moral level is pretty astonishing stuff.
00:46:23.000Yesterday, Pete Buttigieg Did the CNN Town Hall, and he was talking about how teachers are paid.
00:46:30.000And his suggestion is that America would be better if we paid teachers like doctors.
00:46:33.000Now, this is ridiculous on a couple of scores.
00:46:35.000One, teachers do not go to school for as long as doctors, nor do they have as particular a skill set, nor is there a supply and demand problem with teachers.
00:46:42.000The fact is that if you're a first grade teacher, you are incredibly valuable to first graders.
00:46:46.000You're not as valuable to first graders as a doctor is to somebody who just had a heart attack.
00:46:53.000There's a serious supply and demand issue here.
00:46:55.000It is fairly easy to get trained to be a first grade teacher.
00:46:58.000It is very, very difficult to be trained as a doctor.
00:47:00.000I know this because, once again, my wife is a doctor, which only gives me credibility insofar as I accompanied her on that decade-long journey of crap in order so that she become a doctor.
00:47:09.000To suggest that she should be paid the same as a third-grade teacher.
00:47:12.000See, in order for this to make sense, what he's saying is teachers should be paid like doctors.
00:47:16.000What he really means is doctors should be paid like teachers.
00:47:17.000Because he's not suggesting that teachers get paid $300,000 a year.
00:47:21.000If he were suggesting that teachers be paid $300,000 a year, he'd be very much in favor of private education and open competition.
00:47:29.000He'd be anti-teachers unions, which are the reason the teachers don't get paid more.
00:47:32.000The reason that teachers do not get paid more on an individual level, not on an average level, on an individual level, is because no matter how good a teacher you are, you may be booted out of your job because of seniority rules established by unions in order to protect older teachers who may not be as good and have been in the job longer.
00:47:47.000But here's Pete Buttigieg saying silly things.
00:47:49.000I mean, this is, again, Bernie pie in the sky kind of stuff.
00:47:52.000America would be better if we paid teachers like doctors?
00:47:54.000Yeah, America would be better if we paid line cooks like doctors.
00:47:57.000But the problem is, it's much easier to nationalize systems and have doctors paid like teachers than to do the hard thing that Pete Buttigieg would never want to do, and that is actually pay teachers like doctors based on skill set, based on the performance of their students, and based on the need for the skill level of a particular teacher.
00:48:14.000I'd love to hear him explain to Randy Weingarten over at the American Federation of Teachers why he is now in favor of a merit-based pay system for teachers, because he clearly is not.
00:48:24.000You should have a little more support.
00:48:28.000I would argue that if we could honor our teachers a little more like we do our soldiers, and pay our teachers a little more like we do our doctors, this entire country would be a better place.
00:48:38.000And again, being married to a teacher, I have seen just how much teachers put in and invest in not just having to pick up supplies for your classroom, but emotionally invest in the well-being of kids.
00:48:49.000Conversations with parents long after hours, late nights, grading papers, and yet look at what you're up against.
00:48:54.000Yeah, what you're up against is a system that is stacked against you in terms of a government that pays you not all that much based on your merit, but instead pays you based on union contracts that you have signed with the state.
00:49:07.000You're also stacked up against a governmental system that demands things from you that really ought to be put on the back of parents.
00:49:12.000I mean, the fact is that if you want to look at school performance, the first thing that you ought to look at is not the teachers.
00:49:16.000The first thing that you ought to look at is the family structures of the students, because that is what is correlative.
00:49:23.000That is a simple demographic point across races.
00:49:27.000That parents who have more time and more energy and more focus on their kids with regard to their schooling are going to do better no matter what school they go to.
00:49:35.000But again, this is all pie-in-the-sky nonsense.
00:49:37.000Buttigieg is just as radical as Bernie.
00:49:41.000Buttigieg says he's going to pay for his health care plan, which of course is Medicaid for all who want it.
00:49:46.000And he acknowledges that this is basically the first step toward Medicare for all, because once you establish a public option paid for by taxpayers, then employers are now going to have an incentive to not give their employees health care, at which point they can toss people onto the public roles.
00:49:59.000You're going to have to increase the expenditure on taxpayer dollars.
00:50:01.000The public plan will be funded by Congress.
00:50:04.000What is popular for Congress to do is to continue to fund that at exorbitant rates, undercutting insurance companies, and eventually you run the insurance companies out of business and you end up with Medicare for all.
00:50:12.000That is what the public option is designed to do.
00:50:15.000Here's Pete Buttigieg saying the way he's going to pay for that is by repealing Trump's tax cuts.
00:50:20.000If you think that simply by repealing the Trump tax cuts, which, by the way, disproportionately benefited people in the middle class, then good luck to you.
00:50:30.000All we've got to do to pay for it is take two steps.
00:50:33.000Part of that 1.5 comes from rolling back a Trump corporate tax cut that went to the wealthiest and the biggest corporations, didn't do us any good, and has created a huge deficit.
00:50:42.000We roll that back, that does most of the work.
00:50:46.000No, it doesn't do most of the work, and when you do corporate tax increases, corporations lay people off.
00:50:51.000What do you think they are doing with their money?
00:50:54.000They're not just paying it out to people, and if they do pay it out to people, you know what those people do?
00:51:00.000The economic either illiteracy or dishonesty here is astonishing.
00:51:04.000But again, as Biden collapses, Buttigieg is picking up the pieces, which opens the way for Michael Bloomberg, who is writing full-on op-eds in the New York Times about fixing income inequality as the ninth richest person on Earth.
00:51:15.000The Democratic Party may be irrevocably broken at this point, which is why it is vital that President Trump not blow it on the shoals of his own emotionality.
00:51:24.000Because seriously, seriously, do you want these people running the country?
00:52:18.000It is... Nicolas Cage made a series of really cheesy and wonderful action flicks in the 90s, ranging from Face Off, which I've recommended on the show, to Con Air, which I'm sure at some point I will recommend on the show.
00:52:33.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:52:40.000So it turns out that, you know, it's a not great place to live, a communist country.
00:52:43.000Which is weird, because every time you hear from people like Bernie Sanders, he's talking about the wonderful things that are accomplishable if you have a one-party system run by people who truly care about equality.
00:52:56.000The latest evidence that China is a horrible place to live, courtesy of the New York Times, the Chinese authorities resorted to increasingly extreme measures in Wuhan on Thursday to try to halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
00:53:05.000Ordering house-to-house searches, rounding up the sick, and warehousing them in enormous quarantine centers.
00:53:11.000The urgent, seemingly improvised steps come amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in Wuhan, one exacerbated by tactics that have left the city of 11 million with a death rate from the coronavirus of 4.1% as of Thursday.
00:53:23.000Staggeringly higher than the rest of the country's rate of 0.17%.
00:53:26.000With the sick being herded into makeshift quarantine camps with minimal medical care, a growing sense of abandonment and fear has taken hold in Wuhan, fueling the sense that the city and the surrounding province of Hubei are being sacrificed for the greater good of China.
00:53:38.000They're literally herding people into quarantine centers where they have basically no medical care and assuming that a lot of those people are just going to die because they don't have basic medical care.
00:53:48.000Everybody was paying homage in the media to the fact that they built a hospital in 10 days.
00:53:52.000Look what they can do when they put their minds to it.
00:53:53.000Yes, and when you activate capitalism in that direction, you can do this stuff much faster and much better.
00:53:58.000But basically, this entire city has now been turned into a quarantine center because communists Did not pass the information up the chain, because they did not make public the information, because they did not call for help for outside resources, and because they knew that in a pinch, they could always do something like this.
00:54:15.000The harsh new moves in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, clearly signaled the ruling Communist Party's alarm that it had failed to gain control of the coronavirus epidemic, which has overwhelmed the country's healthcare system.
00:54:25.000And threatened to paralyze China, the world's most populous country and second largest economy.
00:54:29.000The steps were announced by the top official leading the country's response to the virus, Vice Premier Sun Chunlin, as she visited Wuhan on Thursday.
00:54:36.000They evoked images of the emergency measures taken to combat the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed tens of millions of people worldwide.
00:54:43.000Despite the severity of the new measures, however, they offered no guarantee of success.
00:54:48.000Apparently, this looked like a military campaign as Sun ordered medical workers to mobilize into round-the-clock shifts to visit each home in Wuhan, check the temperature of all residents, and interview close contacts of any infected patients.
00:55:00.000Word of the new restrictions arrived as the people of Wuhan received an emotional gut punch from the news that a doctor who had warned of the outbreak in December and was silenced by police for it had died from coronavirus infection.
00:55:09.000This is the other story that tells you how garbage communism is.
00:55:22.000Again, according to the New York Times, he was the doctor who tried to sound a warning that a troubled cluster of viral infections in a Chinese province could grow out of control and was then summoned for a middle-of-the-night reprimand over his candor.
00:55:32.000Because in China, first rule, protect the party.
00:55:47.000Because the first priority is the protection of the party, and because the government can never be wrong, because the solution to all problems is the government, that means that if you point out a problem, and you make it public, and you make it public that the government isn't doing anything about the problem, you are the problem.
00:56:02.000On Friday, this doctor, Li Wenliang, died after contracting the very illness he had told medical school classmates about in an online chatroom, the coronavirus.
00:56:09.000He joined the more than 600 other Chinese who have died in an outbreak that has now spread across the globe.
00:56:14.000According to Wuhan Central City Hospital, Dr. Li had the misfortune to be infected during the fight against the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, and all-out efforts to save him failed.
00:56:23.000We express our deep regret and condolences.
00:56:25.000In early January, he was called in by both medical officials and the cops, and forced to sign a statement denouncing his warning as an unfounded and illegal rumor.
00:56:34.000Top-down systems of government control.
00:57:01.000He was expecting a second child with his wife.
00:57:03.000He had been a relatively obscure ophthalmologist in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and the epicenter of the coronavirus.
00:57:09.000But in recent weeks, he became a potent icon for Chinese people, angry that a viral outbreak had swelled unchecked.
00:57:15.000into a full-blown crisis and that the doctor who had spoken out was initially punished.
00:57:20.000His death poses a singularly delicate issue for the Chinese government.
00:57:22.000Even as officials have battled the epidemic, they've also tried to stifle widespread criticism that they mismanaged their response to the initial outbreak in Wuhan, a city of 11 million.
00:57:31.000And in recent days, they've stepped up censorship again, which is always good news because lack of information for the general public when a pandemic is in the offing is always good for the world.
00:57:39.000After a rush of online criticism and investigative reports by emboldened Chinese journalists exposed to missteps by officials who underestimated and underplayed the threat of the coronavirus.
00:57:49.000Dr. Lee's death has also exposed a troubling aspect of the epidemic that goes unmentioned in official statistics, the number of doctors and nurses and medical workers infected by the virus.
00:57:57.000Some unverified pictures of what appear to be government data have indicated that hundreds of hospital workers may have been infected in Wuhan.
00:58:03.000And this would be a particularly grave example of the government failing these doctors and nurses if they knew that this coronavirus was particularly virulent.
00:58:11.000And if they knew how to protect their doctors and nurses in the first place and they didn't tell anybody, well, then those deaths are on their hands.
00:58:16.000Earlier in the outbreak, a prominent infectious disease expert said a single patient had infected 14 medical workers at one hospital.
00:58:23.000The median of patients is between 49 and 56, but Dr. Li was unusually young to be infected by this.
00:58:30.000He said on December 30th in a chat room that this resembled SARS, not long after his reprimand he was vindicated as thousands of Wuhan residents fell ill with fever and pneumonia symptoms.
00:58:41.000When the announcement came that he had died, many comments accused the authorities of having sought to prolong Dr. Lee's life until deep into the night to hide the news of his death.
00:58:49.000Again, China is a horrible country to live in.
00:58:53.000We try to pretend that they are not a horrible country because presumably we don't want to acknowledge that they are a nascent Soviet Union, just in a different part of the world.
00:59:02.000But as much as we try to pretend they will be what they will be, and that country is a one-party dictatorship, The communism, always a failure, always a giant fail.
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