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00:00:27.000They would much prefer to attribute beliefs to me that I don't actually hold, but the entire show won't be about me.
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00:01:55.000474747 again text my name Ben to 474747 go check them out right now okay so I'm gonna do something that I rarely do here on the shop I'm going to talk about something that I've said previously on the show.
00:02:08.000The reason that I usually don't do this on the show is because I feel like most of the stuff that I say is fairly self-explanatory.
00:02:15.000There's a clip from the show, and it went viral, because this is what Media Matters does.
00:02:19.000What they like to do is clip part of a clip, and then put it out there, and then people react on Twitter as they normally do, because as I have said, Twitter is the boo box, right?
00:02:27.000Twitter is the place where someone has sinned, and we throw them inside the boo box.
00:02:47.000You may have listened to the show yesterday and thought to yourself, I didn't hear anything particularly controversial.
00:02:51.000What exactly was the big controversy about?
00:02:53.000Well, the big controversy was about something that I had to say about Kamala Harris.
00:02:58.000So we were talking yesterday about bad economic takes, and we were talking about the senator from California suggesting that no one in America should have to work two jobs in order to put a roof over their head or to get ahead.
00:04:11.000And if you don't want to work multiple jobs, you don't have to.
00:04:13.000Now, there are consequences to that, of course.
00:04:15.000If you have to work two jobs to put a roof over your head, and then you don't work one of those jobs, you're going to have to lower your costs, right?
00:04:21.000You have a few choices if you don't want to work two jobs.
00:04:23.000One is, you could simply not take the jobs that pay you less, believing that you're going to get a job somewhere else that will pay you more.
00:04:38.000Possibility number three, you work two jobs in order to put that roof over your head in order to get ahead.
00:04:43.000In any case, these are your options and these are all you problems, right?
00:04:46.000This is the way that you solve your own life and you make your own life better.
00:04:50.000What they are not is what Kamala Harris suggests and what all Democrats apparently suggest, which is the fourth off-the-board option.
00:04:57.000I'm going to go to the federal government and force them to put a gun to the head of potential employers and pay me what I want to be paid.
00:05:04.000And that is not an option, because that is tyranny.
00:05:07.000And when Kamala Harris and all the other politicians tell you that they are going to fix a you problem, that they are going to fix a problem that you have to solve yourself, A problem that requires a used solution when politicians tell you they're going to fix that by somehow restructuring the economy so you can work that $15 an hour job at McDonald's and it will become a $35 an hour job magically so you can put that roof over your head that you want.
00:05:36.000There's not a bunch of rich people sitting around who have always been rich and who are seeking to put their boot on the throat of poor people in order to pay them less.
00:05:49.000Sometimes they feel they need to work multiple jobs.
00:05:52.000Sometimes they do have to work multiple jobs, but not because they are being forced by an outside actor to do that, Because these are individual choices we make in a free country where we have free consensual exchange of goods and services and pay.
00:06:06.000And people were coming back at me yesterday after I said all this, and they were saying something like, well, you know, what about bad working conditions?
00:06:12.000I'm not against private sector unions!
00:06:14.000If you get together with all of the potential employees, and you say, we're not going to work there, good for you!
00:06:21.000You should strike so that you don't have to work in asbestos-laden conditions.
00:06:24.000Of course you should strike so you don't have to work in coal dust without any sort of protections.
00:06:29.000But if the idea is that government has to come in and regulate all of this and change the consensual relationships between a person who wants to work and a person who wants to pay them for that work, the answer is no.
00:06:42.000We are a consent-based free market system and we should remain so.
00:06:44.000Okay, so that is what I was trying to say yesterday.
00:06:47.000Here's what I actually said, and then we will see how people on the left decided to take this as I'm crapping all over poor people or something, which is absurd.
00:06:55.000Kamala Harris is getting desperate at this point, and she continues to trot out promises that she can't keep.
00:06:59.000She says nobody should have to work more than one job in the United States.
00:07:02.000Nobody should have to work more than one.
00:07:28.000And in our America, we must agree nobody should have to work more than one job to have a roof over their head and food on the table.
00:07:37.000Okay, well, the fact is that if you had to work more than one job to have a roof over your head or food on the table, you probably shouldn't have taken the job that's not paying you enough.
00:07:48.000So, they took that clip without the Harris quote.
00:07:51.000So it is very obvious that I'm responding directly to Kamala Harris' contention that we all must agree, meaning the government, must agree, That you should only have to work one job to put a roof over your head.
00:08:44.000You're going to make sure that you're not spending too much.
00:08:46.000You're going to take that extra job on the side.
00:08:49.000Honestly, I'm insulted by how many people in the media on the left decided to take that last clip and then suggest that I am looking down on people who work more than two jobs as though those people can simply quit and get one job.
00:09:53.000But apparently, that's apparently scorn for people who are poor.
00:09:58.000And so I tweeted out all of this yesterday.
00:10:01.000I put out a Twitter thread explaining exactly what Media Matters had done.
00:10:03.000They cut off the part with Kamala Harris so that it sounds like I'm just saying, out of nowhere, that you should be able to quit your two jobs and get one job, and obviously that opportunity is available to everyone or something like that.
00:10:13.000That is not what I was saying, and if that's what you heard, then I apologize if that's what you heard, but that's certainly not what I was saying.
00:10:19.000In any case, I tweeted out what I meant.
00:10:20.000I said, the point I'm making, of course, is that you cannot dictate that a job pay you what you wish it paid you.
00:10:26.000That is obvious, and why it is foolishness for politicians to claim that the economy can be structured to force your desired level of pay from a job you chose to take.
00:10:34.000Now, people are very angry at this, because they do want the utopian solution, which is that government comes in and restructures the economy along Kamala Harris's desired lines.
00:10:42.000And so the answer to the problem of taking a job that you feel underpays you is to A, not take the job as I suggest here, or B, not live beyond your means.
00:10:56.000Okay, if you freely take a job, and then you take the pay that comes up, like, they made clear what they were paying you the day you walked in.
00:11:03.000This has been true for every job I ever held.
00:11:05.000And yes, I have taken significant pay cuts in order to take jobs that I wanted.
00:11:10.000When I first got out of law school, I was working at a law firm, right?
00:11:55.000Anytime she wants to discuss this or any other issue, she can come on the show.
00:12:00.000This is not catcalling, as she put it.
00:12:02.000But she sort of catcalled me yesterday by her own standards.
00:12:04.000So she tweeted out, one of the most manipulative tactics plutocrats use is convincing people that the systemic issues we face are character flaws instead of policy flaws.
00:13:04.000So it's plutocracy if I wish to preserve free exchange between people.
00:13:08.000But it is not hierarchical rule from above if AOC wants to take a gun, run by the government, and put it to the heads of employers.
00:13:16.000So top-down centralized control by people like AOC is not tyranny.
00:13:21.000It's tyranny if I say that there should be free exchange between people in how they choose to do jobs.
00:13:26.000She says that one of the most manipulative tactics plutocrats use is convincing people that the systemic issues we face are character flaws instead of policy flaws.
00:13:34.000Well, no, I'm not saying it's a character flaw to take two jobs, obviously.
00:13:38.000I'm saying, in fact, that very often it's a character benefit.
00:13:41.000It's an attribution of great character.
00:13:44.000What I am saying is that that is a you decision.
00:14:30.000Now, you problem doesn't mean a character flaw.
00:14:32.000In you, it means that you not wanting to work at a place in a free country is something that is your choice.
00:14:39.000When I say you problem, I mean a choice made by you.
00:14:43.000One of the most manipulative tactics used by socialists is suggesting that free decision-making by individuals is actually the result of systemic pressures that cannot be avoided other than by people like AOC running your life.
00:14:57.000The tactic that the left likes to use is there's no income mobility, you can never rise, you're being crammed into this job against your will, that you're a victim of circumstance and therefore give me all the power.
00:15:07.000It's manipulative and it's garbage and it makes people's lives worse.
00:15:13.000And we're going to get to more of this in just one second.
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00:16:53.000One of the things that socialists and now too many democratic politicians want to do is tell you that problems that only you can solve are solvable by them.
00:17:05.000And it's not just politicians on the left.
00:17:06.000We heard this from Donald Trump in 2016, that if you lost your manufacturing job in Ohio, it was the fault of the Chinese and the Mexicans, and all you needed to do was place your trust in Trump, and he would somehow return your job to the dying factory in your town.
00:17:20.000And by and large, this has not happened.
00:17:21.000Because it turns out that when politicians say that decisions freely made among human beings are bad and can be fixed by them, that is a gambit for power and money.
00:17:32.000And that's what Kamala Harris is doing, just as Bernie Sanders does.
00:17:34.000They label a problem that we all experience, or that many of us have experienced, which is economic shortcoming, or economic deprival.
00:17:41.000And then, they use that as an excuse to say that they can restructure the system in a better, more fulfilling way, and that's a lie.
00:17:47.000It's a lie, because the collective intelligence of the American public, and yes, the world public, is greater than any one politician believing they know what you ought to be paid, or what a job ought to pay.
00:17:57.000Do you think that AOC, they're complaining about the price of insulin?
00:18:01.000Well, she's free to start an insulin company and then explain how by eliminating corruption, she has lowered the price of insulin and this has allowed her to create enormous wealth for herself and her employees.
00:18:13.000In fact, if she provides me with a great business plan, I'm happy to invest.
00:18:17.000But I don't think she has any intent of doing that.
00:18:19.000I think that she's shouting at the moon just as Kamala Harris is shouting at the moon.
00:18:22.000And all that does is train the American people in learned helplessness.
00:18:26.000So there is this theory of psychology called learned helplessness.
00:18:30.000And learned helplessness basically suggests that all animals, including human beings, All human beings and animals that we can learn helplessness that if you teach people that there is no correlation between cause and effect, people stop seeing the correlation and then learn helplessness.
00:18:47.000So this this experimentation was first done by a psychologist named Martin Seligman.
00:19:20.000So the dogs would simply be shocked seemingly at random times.
00:19:24.000Then what they would do is they would take that second set of dogs, shocked at random times, and they would put the food in front of them, and they would start treating them like the first set of dogs.
00:19:32.000So every time the dogs tried to eat the food, they would electroshock them.
00:19:34.000It turns out the second set of dogs had learned helplessness.
00:19:39.000They wouldn't start avoiding the food.
00:19:42.000They would still go for the food, but then they would sit there and whine when they were shocked, because they were not capable now of learning aversion.
00:19:48.000They were not capable of learning to help themselves.
00:19:51.000Well, learned helplessness is a trait among human beings, too.
00:19:53.000It's highly linked to depression, by the way.
00:19:55.000If you teach children, if you teach teenagers they are not in control of their own life.
00:20:00.000If you teach them that systemic forces out there that we won't define are always going to keep you down and that nefarious corrupt people out there, we won't name them, they're just out there, that they're trying to screw you.
00:20:11.000Eventually, people are not going to take the actions that can actually help them.
00:20:15.000They are not going to learn helpfulness.
00:20:17.000Now, there's another theory of learned helplessness, which is that the natural state of human beings is actually helplessness, and that you have to learn helpfulness.
00:20:24.000You actually have to actively train people in the relationship between cause and effect.
00:20:28.000I tend to believe this theory because I see it in my own kids.
00:20:31.000Kids don't understand cause and effect until you teach it to them, and they would rather whine than learn cause and effect.
00:20:37.000Well, that means that as a society, one of the things we should be teaching is that decisions in your control are the ones that can make your life better.
00:20:46.000Then start looking at what's in your control instead of giving power to politicians like Kamala Harris or AOC to restructure the entire economy along lines that they see fit, and which will not help you in the end.
00:20:57.000Because the fact is, people have been trying to restructure capitalism in the United States for decades.
00:21:02.000About the same percentage of people in the United States are still under the poverty line after we spent $20 trillion in the war on poverty.
00:21:11.000The great danger to the American public right now is a sense of pervasive helplessness that we are not in control of our own lives.
00:21:21.000Now that doesn't mean that every situation in which we find ourselves is a pleasant one.
00:21:25.000It doesn't mean that we're not going to have to work jobs we don't want to work.
00:21:28.000It doesn't mean that we're not going to have to work hard or cut expenses or make decisions to move.
00:21:33.000It does mean, however, that the decisions within our control are the ones most likely to impact our own lives, and Kamala Harris ain't gonna change that by bitching about people working two jobs.
00:21:42.000Okay, that's not gonna change anything.
00:21:45.000In fact, the only obstacles that need to be removed for people are not the obstacles of other human beings who you should respect as independent human beings negotiating with you.
00:21:54.000No, the other obstacles are people who are getting involved in the process.
00:21:58.000I got an email yesterday from somebody who had seen this clip online, and the email was, they're in Boston, and they were saying, well, you know, my wife and I, we make $170,000 combined per year, and we have three kids, and we live in a house, and they're in daycare, and we're still finding it hard to make ends meet, and we're working multiple jobs.
00:22:16.000My response to that is, number one, good for you.
00:22:19.000Number two, the reason you're finding it hard to make ends meet in Boston is because the tax rates are exorbitant, the regulations are exorbitant, and it's almost impossible to find housing in Boston.
00:22:28.000If you actually want a better world for people making decisions freely of their own accord, Then you need government out of this business, not in this business.
00:22:35.000You don't need Kamala Harris healing things.
00:22:37.000You don't need Kamala Harris ratcheting up the taxes.
00:22:40.000You don't need Kamala Harris putting down markers on how many condos can be built for affordable housing.
00:22:52.000What you need is more competition in the employment market.
00:22:55.000You need to make it easier to start a business.
00:22:57.000You need to make it less burdensome to start a business.
00:23:01.000The fact is, by the way, that these minimum wage regulations pushed by Democrats largely help big businesses at the expense of small businesses.
00:23:07.000Small businesses have lower profit margins.
00:23:10.000So the point that I am making here, and have been making consistently on this show forever and throughout my career, is that decisions are in your own hands.
00:23:18.000And if you are given a choice between a problem being a you problem and being a government problem, you should certainly prefer that it be a you problem.
00:24:16.000So one of the premises that is being used by so many folks on the left in all of this is that you lack individual choice.
00:24:23.000Your individual agency is gone because the American dream is dead, because the plutocracy has taken over.
00:24:29.000I'm going to explain why this is abjectly false in one second.
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00:25:47.000Okay, so let's talk for a second about whether it is true That you are not in control of your own life in the United States.
00:25:53.000So this is the contention of people right, left, and center these days, is that basically the American dream is dead, and now government is going to restore the American dream to you with interventionism.
00:26:47.000When people talk about the difference between the 1% and the 99%, for example, what they are missing is that people move in and out of the 1%.
00:26:59.000No, because they've spent their life building up wealth and building up careers.
00:27:02.000If you're working two jobs today, There's a good shot that in 10 years you won't be working two jobs.
00:27:06.000If you are working a job for $50,000 today, there's a very good shot that in 10 years you will not be working a job for $50,000, you'll be working a job for $75,000 or $100,000.
00:27:14.000Income mobility is still present in the United States.
00:27:17.000If you want to know why certain areas of the United States suffer from lack of income mobility, it's not because of the government.
00:27:24.000It is because, almost purely, not almost purely, but largely, largely, it is because of personal decision making.
00:27:31.000Income mobility declines radically when you make bad decisions.
00:27:34.000Okay, again, this does not mean it's a bad decision to work two jobs.
00:27:37.000As I say, often that's a fantastic decision to work two jobs.
00:27:40.000What I am saying is that if you make a decision to have a baby out of wedlock, for example, or to drop out of high school, or to not work a job, turns out you're not going to get ahead.
00:27:56.000I know their kids, but the billionaires themselves, I mean, I could tell you stories.
00:28:01.000I know billionaires who grew up so poor it would make your head spin.
00:28:05.000I mean, people who grew up, because the American dream is that you will be able to rise over the course of time.
00:28:10.000So you working two jobs to put a roof over your head right now is not an indicator that you will be working two jobs forever in the United States.
00:28:17.000Also, it is simply not true, as I said yesterday on the show, and the part that everyone wants to ignore, that tons of people in the United States are desperately working two jobs in order to put a roof over their head.
00:28:27.000Everybody who is doing that is making a freely-willed decision to do that, and good for them.
00:29:40.000In fact, it is a very, very small percentage of American workers, as held by PolitiFact, a left-wing source.
00:29:47.000It is also not true that people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week to put food on the table as a general rule.
00:29:53.000The Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to PolitiFact, breaks down its count of people with multiple jobs into three categories.
00:29:59.000People working one full-time job and one part-time job, people with two part-time jobs, and people working two full-time jobs.
00:30:05.000A worker with two full-time jobs is the smallest category of the three.
00:30:11.000The people who might be working 70 or 80 hours a week amount to a tiny percentage of a tiny percentage.
00:30:15.000310,000 people at most in a pool of employed Americans totaling 150 million.
00:30:21.000It's also worth noting that on average, Americans aren't working more today than they have been in the recent past.
00:30:26.000The average number of hours worked in the private sector has hugged tightly to about 34.5 hours a week since 2006, except for a dip during the Great Recession.
00:30:35.000So all of this table setting by the Democratic left, that America has no more income mobility, that everybody is working 80 hours and two jobs, it's just not true.
00:30:47.000We'll get to another myth of the left, which is that we don't spend any money trying to help people who are in poor economic circumstances.
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00:32:08.000We'll also get to the myth that Democrats are innately more charitable, so that when we say that it's your personal choice how many jobs you want to work, or what kind of lifestyle you want to lead, and that you can find a strategy to better your life and we want to help you out, that we're not just saying that we don't want government involved.
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00:33:56.000According to the American Enterprise Institute, the Census Bureau reported in 2016 that about 13% of Americans lived in poverty.
00:34:03.000That is impossible to reconcile that poverty rate, which has remained virtually unchanged over the last 50 years, with the fact that total inflation-adjusted government transfer payments to low-income families have risen steadily.
00:34:15.000Transfers targeted to low-income families increased in real dollars from an average of about $3,000 per person in 1965 to $34,000 in 2016.
00:34:31.000Those numbers actually underestimate transfer payments to low-income families because they exclude Medicare and Social Security, which provide large subsidies to low-income retirees.
00:34:40.000The measured poverty rate has remained virtually unchanged because the Census Bureau doesn't count most of the transfer payments created since the declaration of the War on Poverty, which by the way has been a large-scale fail.
00:34:51.000Now, as for the notion that is being pushed by folks on the political left, it's a real, nefariously, the real reason that those of us on the right very often suggest that your life is in your own hands.
00:35:01.000It's not because we want people to help themselves.
00:35:03.000It's not because we believe that empowerment in America is about recognizing your own value as an independent, free human being.
00:35:09.000It is not because I've seen too many people fail because they don't believe in themselves, don't believe in their own capacity to make responsible decisions.
00:35:17.000No, the real reason is because I'm selfish and don't want to pay higher taxes.
00:35:45.000Paul Sullivan, writing in the New York Times, November 3rd, 2018.
00:35:48.000Red counties, which are overwhelmingly Republican, tend to report higher charitable contributions than Democratic-dominated blue counties, according to a new study on giving.
00:35:57.000And then watch how the New York Times tries to backfill this.
00:35:59.000Although giving in blue counties is often bolstered by a combination of charitable donations and higher taxes.
00:36:05.000So in other words, they're now going to count you taxing other people as Democratic charity.
00:36:18.000It seems like I'd be able to really get around this whole trying to be a good person and give charity out of my own pocket thing simply by taking my business partner's money and giving that to charity.
00:36:47.000And if you believe differently, you're gonna live a much harder life as a general rule.
00:36:51.000Because your ability to control all of society to your liking, and in a moral fashion by forcing other people to do your will by bending them to your will, That is un-American.
00:37:01.000It is un-American to force other people to create the utopian situation for yourself against their will that you wish.
00:37:23.000Doesn't mean that your choices are free right now.
00:37:25.000I'm not suggesting that you can go from working at McDonald's to being a billionaire overnight.
00:37:29.000Nobody has ever suggested that, nor would they, because it's idiotic.
00:37:32.000What I am suggesting is that in a free country, where we should all be grateful to live, it is not a sign of elitism.
00:37:38.000In fact, it's a sign, I think, of populism to say to folks, do your own will.
00:37:45.000Make yourself the center of your story and the hero of your story.
00:37:48.000Okay, meanwhile, let's talk a little bit About the insane media bias that surrounds every major event in the United States, not just taking me out of context and throwing me on Twitter for the boo box, but, you know, the actual insane media bias that pervades the system.
00:38:05.000So yesterday there was this horrible mass shooting in Philadelphia.
00:38:10.000And everybody decided in the media to jump to conclusions.
00:38:13.000So, CNN had on this representative who immediately, before any of the facts were out, we didn't know who the shooter was, we didn't know the situation, immediately started assuming this was about gun control.
00:38:21.000The representative is named Val Demings, and said, I think we can assume, you know, without any evidence, that this was probably high-powered rifles.
00:38:28.000I hold out very seriously that if this shooter in Philadelphia was armed simply with a handgun, that this gun battle would be going on well beyond an hour.
00:38:39.000I think we can assume that he is also heavily armed with high-capacity rifles or weapons and also has high-capacity magazines.
00:38:50.000We need to get these high-capacity weapons and magazines off of our streets.
00:38:57.000Wolf Blitzer used the ongoing shooting to pitch Kamala Harris' gun control program.
00:39:02.000Again, none of the information was actually out about what happened here.
00:39:05.000But Kamala Harris openly suggested that her solutions on gun control would have stopped the mass shooting in Philadelphia before she knew what the hell was going on.
00:40:07.000Here is what was going on in Philadelphia.
00:40:09.000Quote from the Philadelphia Inquirer, police sources identified the gunman in a standoff at a Tioga apartment building that left six police officers injured as Maurice Hill, 36.
00:40:19.000He's not really a mass shooter, as we will see a Philadelphia man with a lengthy history of gun convictions and of resisting attempts to bring him to justice.
00:40:27.000Wait, wait, you mean a guy with a bunch of gun convictions for violating gun laws, had guns and used them to shoot police officers?
00:40:45.000What we actually need is more shoplifting laws because if a serial lawbreaker realizes that we've stacked up one additional law, then probably they'll stop.
00:40:54.000If you just note, like if we had an assault weapons ban, probably this guy never would have violated another gun law despite the fact that he'd violated six of them.
00:41:02.000The police sources declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak.
00:41:06.000The standoff began Wednesday about 4 30 p.m.
00:41:09.000when a narcotics strike force unit attempted to serve a search warrant at a house.
00:41:14.000It turns out that what this really was, was it was a drug arrest gone bad, and that the person who was responsible for the shooting was in fact a serial offender.
00:41:24.000But we are going to get talk about gun control nonetheless.
00:41:26.000In fact, the mayor of Philadelphia came out and suggested gun control as a solution, despite the fact that, again, there's plenty of gun control, this guy's a serial gun offender, he doesn't care about violating the law.
00:41:43.000They need help with keeping these weapons out of these people's hands.
00:41:46.000I mean, I told you earlier, the two little boys that were, the officer had his head grazed just a little bit more, and those two little boys will grow up without their dad.
00:41:55.000Because this government, both on the federal and state level, don't want to do anything about getting these guns off the streets and getting them out of the hands of criminals.
00:42:06.000It can't be the fact that the elected district attorney in Philadelphia, a guy named Larry Krasner, he's made it his entire mission to release prisoners from jail.
00:42:14.000And all the talk about criminal justice reform, people tend to forget that when you release criminals from jail, many of them go back to being criminals.
00:42:20.000Philadelphia Magazine had a piece on this going back just about a week and a half ago, or a couple of weeks ago.
00:42:30.000It was an interesting social experiment.
00:42:32.000What happens in a major metropolitan city like Philadelphia when you elect a district attorney whose primary goal is releasing criminals rather than prosecuting them?
00:42:40.000The results, however, were all too predictable.
00:42:42.000Gun-related violent crime is rising in Philadelphia.
00:42:46.000Victims of crimes, their families, advocacy groups feel betrayed.
00:42:50.000This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one.
00:42:53.000When he was running for district attorney, Krasner, Larry Krasner, supported by a PAC funded by George Soros, made his commitment to social reform and reducing the inmate population quite clear.
00:43:02.000He promised to fundamentally transform the city's criminal justice system.
00:43:06.000No one can accuse Krasner of not following through.
00:43:08.000He's funneling an increased number of gun cases to a court diversionary program called Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition.
00:43:15.000In 2018, Krasner's first year as DA, 78 cases were sent to this program compared with 12 the previous year.
00:43:39.000Okay, so I quoted PolitiFact earlier to demonstrate that even left-wing sources recognize the stupidity of suggesting that everybody in America is working two jobs.
00:43:47.000But, PolitiFact is in fact a terrible source on the left wing.
00:44:14.000It is amazing to me, by the way, that Kamala Harris still has not been asked publicly about the Michael Brown tweet, right?
00:44:20.000She suggested that Michael Brown had been murdered.
00:44:22.000And as I pointed out, this has rather dire ramifications for a lot of people in the United States who then have a perverse view of how policing works.
00:44:50.000Steve King said something very dumb yesterday about rape and incest.
00:44:52.000He was trying to make the case that there should not be abortion available in cases of rape and incest, a case with which I agree, and then he made it in the dumbest possible way.
00:45:11.000What if it was okay, and what if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest Will there be any population of the world left if we did that?
00:45:23.000Considering all the wars and all the rape and village that's taken place and whatever happened in culture after society, I know I can't certify that they're not part of a product of that.
00:45:32.000And I'd like to think every one of the lives of us are as precious.
00:45:35.000This is what we call a very dumb comments.
00:45:37.000So here is Steve King suggesting that we are all products of rape and incest, which seems to be sort of excusing both rape and incest as crimes, which of course is the stupidest thing ever.
00:45:47.000So Kamala Harris naturally gets asked by Wolf Blitzer about that, but he didn't ask her a single question about Michael Brown.
00:45:51.000This allows her to talk about how crazy Steve King is, which Is obviously sport for most people at this point.
00:45:58.000But again, Kamala Harris gets asked about that.
00:46:00.000But then she's got PolitiFact saying that it doesn't matter that she openly lied that Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson in a murder.
00:46:34.000We have to separate out the legitimacy of Israel banning Omar and Tlaib entering as a legal and intellectual matter from the PR effect of it.
00:46:43.000So, as a legal and intellectual matter, Israel allows critics in all the time.
00:46:47.000In fact, there are many critics who are in Israel.
00:46:48.000Israel has Arab parties in the Knesset.
00:46:50.000Many of those Arab parties have in the past openly called for the destruction of the State of Israel.
00:46:55.000So, it's not that Israel can't take dissent.
00:46:56.000Israel takes an enormous amount of dissent.
00:47:00.000The question is, do you have to let somebody into your borders who has essentially claimed that you should not exist?
00:47:06.000And as an intellectual matter, the answer is, of course, no.
00:47:08.000The United States has no obligation to bring somebody in from abroad who is making the case that the United States ought to be destroyed as a sovereign entity.
00:47:18.000The United States has every ability to ban people like that.
00:47:21.000And in fact, Britain does this on a fairly regular basis, except they more broadly apply it to everybody they don't like.
00:47:27.000It actually is more of a free speech in Britain than it would be here.
00:47:30.000So as just an intellectual matter, barring people who claim they want to boycott Israel from entering Israel, doesn't seem like that big a deal as an intellectual matter.
00:47:39.000And it's not a violation of free speech.
00:47:42.000They're calling for the destruction of the country.
00:47:46.000It is pretty obvious that free speech does not encompass inclusion of people calling for the destruction of the entire system.
00:47:53.000That is true under virtually any definition of even American free speech.
00:47:56.000If you go out there and you're calling for the violent overthrow of the American government, you could be prosecuted for that.
00:48:03.000That is long-standing American Supreme Court law.
00:48:06.000In any case, is it really a big deal that Tlaib and Omar won't be able to enter?
00:48:12.000Well, not really on an intellectual level.
00:48:14.000And President Trump, of course, is happy.
00:48:16.000He encouraged Israel to bar Omar and Tlaib.
00:48:20.000It appeared before that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, was going to allow them, they were going to do their little propaganda trip around the Judea-Samaria area and the Gaza Strip, blame Israel for everything.
00:48:30.000They'd go home, they'd fuss about it, that would be the end of it.
00:48:33.000This is and then Trump apparently sounded off and said he didn't want them coming.
00:48:37.000Maybe that is because Trump again wants to use them as the face of the Democratic Party.
00:48:43.000Maybe he wants Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats to swing behind Omar and Tlaib and against Israel.
00:48:55.000This is going to result in what we call the Streisand effect.
00:48:58.000So, if Omar and Tlaib had just gone to Israel, and then they had done their little propaganda tour about how Israel is evil and shouldn't exist, then their ten fans would cheer, and everybody else would sigh and roll their eyes.
00:49:08.000Now, they've elevated that beyond this.
00:49:11.000This is actually giving Omar and Tlaib what they want, in terms of PR, so they can falsely claim that Israel doesn't tolerate dissent.
00:49:18.000That, of course, is a lie, but it does give them what they want.
00:49:23.000The Streisand effect, of course, is where you bring attention to an issue you desperately don't want to bring attention to, and this is Israel making a pretty large mistake.
00:49:32.000Again, on an intellectual and moral level, they have no duty to bring in Omar and Tlaib.
00:49:40.000Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Hoteveli said that the country would not, quote, allow those who deny our right to exist in this world to enter.
00:49:48.000Hotevelli called it a very justified decision.
00:49:50.000It's unclear when Israeli officials made that final decision.
00:49:53.000Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, said, I think it would be helpful for anyone that has an opinion to come to the country, Most people believe, again, that it's that it's unhelpful for Israel to bar the sitting Congress people.
00:50:19.000I agree with pretty much all of that, except the part that it's weakness for Israel to allow them to visit.
00:50:23.000Again, it's a PR blunder for them to give Omar and Tlaib what they want, which is to make the state of Israel look intolerant when they really are not.
00:50:31.000Democratic lawmakers, of course, jumped right on board.
00:50:33.000Jim Clymer tweeted, "This action is antithetical to our country's shared democratic values that are the basis for a strong bipartisan alliance." Yes, I'm sure.
00:50:41.000Okay, I'm sure that if a sitting member of the Israeli Knesset called for the violent destruction of the United States, called for the destruction of the United States as a sovereign entity, I'm sure Jim Clyburn would be up in arms if they couldn't visit.
00:50:55.000J Street, of course, sounded off, but who cares what they have to say because they're damned liars anyway.
00:50:59.000Again, bad PR move, but not morally unjustified.
00:51:04.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like, and then we'll get to a thing that I hate.
00:51:13.000He was talking about Chris Cuomo and Fredo Gabe.
00:51:16.000And Trevor Noah, who is black, pointed out to Chris Cuomo that no, calling somebody Fredo is not the same thing as calling them the N-word.
00:51:31.000Yeah, Cuomo's like, if I wasn't in this box, I'd smash your face!
00:51:36.000And look, Cuomo was clearly pissed off, because he feels like when this guy called him Fredo, it's a negative Italian stereotype, all right?
00:51:44.000What's funny to me, though, was that his reaction that he chose also seemed like a negative Italian stereotype.
00:52:00.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:52:05.000So everything about this Jeffrey Epstein death seems to be almost tailor-made for conspiracy theorizing.
00:52:12.000So we now have reports that there was corruption inside the jail, that both of the guards were asleep at the time of his suicide and then falsified their logs, and now we have a story on the autopsy.
00:52:29.000An autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones, according to two people familiar with the findings, deepening the mystery about the circumstances around his death.
00:52:39.000Among the bones broken in Epstein's neck was the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam's apple.
00:52:44.000Such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves, particularly if they are older, according to forensic experts and studies on the subject.
00:52:50.000But they are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation, the experts said.
00:53:17.000The medical examiner, the chief medical examiner in New York, has still listed the cause of his death as pending, and they didn't comment on the injuries found in the autopsy.
00:53:24.000A lot of people are speculating about this.
00:53:27.000I am not going to speculate about what happened here.
00:53:30.000But, again, this is like tailor-made for conspiracy theories at this point.
00:53:37.000So apparently, in Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion, there is a painting of Bill Clinton In a blue dress, which I can only assume is meant to mimic Monica Lewinsky's blue dress, pointing at the, what would be the camera if it were a picture, pointing at the observer in red shoes lying seductively across a lounge chair, basically.
00:54:12.000And the only answer is that he was probably rich and powerful.
00:54:14.000I mean, that's the only answer I can come up with, because apparently he was given all sorts of special privileges by the New York authorities.
00:54:22.000The federal authorities kind of sweetheart deal with him, even though there's controversy over how sweetheart it was.