The Ben Shapiro Show - The Anybody-But-Trump Convention | Ep. 1076

00:00:00.000 It's a bizarre first night of the Democratic National Convention from John Kasich.

00:00:04.000 Oh, no, God, no, not John Kasich to Bernie Sanders to Michelle Obama.

00:00:07.000 And Joe Biden is, as always, an afterthought.

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00:01:40.000 Okay, so it was a very, very weird first night of the Democratic National Convention.

00:01:45.000 Weird because we're in the middle of a pandemic.

00:01:47.000 And so basically it was a really bad Zoom session.

00:01:50.000 Like a really bad Zoom session.

00:01:52.000 It lasted for hours and hours and hours.

00:01:54.000 It had extraordinarily bizarre moments.

00:01:56.000 And as always, Joe Biden was a complete afterthought because Biden is an afterthought in this campaign.

00:02:00.000 The only reason that Joe Biden is even the nominee for the Democrats is because they literally looked at every single other person and they went, okay, we'll take the dead guy.

00:02:07.000 That was pretty much how they came up with Joe Biden as the nominee.

00:02:10.000 They even looked at Bernie Sanders to the extent that we thought he was going to be the nominee.

00:02:13.000 And then Democrats were like, wait a second, we can't nominate a geriatric communist.

00:02:18.000 That seems like a bad idea.

00:02:19.000 So instead, they nominated the corpse in the corner.

00:02:20.000 Well, if you watched the first night of the DNC, Joe Biden, it sounded like a eulogy for Joe Biden, frankly.

00:02:26.000 It sounded like everybody had sort of messages they wanted to get off their chest about the state of America, and all these messages conflicted.

00:02:32.000 Some of them were, we're radical, and some of them were, we're not radical at all. 0.99

00:02:36.000 Some of them were we're going to unite America and some of them were America's garbage. 0.99

00:02:40.000 I mean, it was all over the place. 0.99

00:02:41.000 But there was one common theme.

00:02:43.000 President Trump is super evil and Joe Biden is literally not even here.

00:02:46.000 No one cares about Joe Biden. 0.93

00:02:46.000 Right. 0.93

00:02:48.000 Joe Biden is completely irrelevant to these proceedings.

00:02:50.000 Kamala Harris is so irrelevant to the proceedings that when Michelle Obama gave her speech, she recorded it like a week ago.

00:02:56.000 Before, Kamala Harris had even been nominated as the VP for Joe Biden, and she couldn't be bothered to re-record it so that she could give some sort of shout out to Kamala Harris, which shows you how much Michelle Obama cares about Kamala Harris being the VP.

00:03:09.000 But the real message of this thing was twofold.

00:03:12.000 One, Joe Biden is a complete non-entity, and this entire election is about Trump for the Democrats.

00:03:17.000 They don't care about Joe Biden.

00:03:18.000 And why should they?

00:03:19.000 I mean, the guy's lost 1,000 presidential elections before.

00:03:22.000 The only reason he's even relevant is because Barack Obama plucked him from relative obscurity and made him VP.

00:03:27.000 That is the only reason anyone cares about Joe Biden.

00:03:29.000 And now, the only reason anyone cares about Joe Biden is as an empty vessel repository for all anti-Trump sentiment.

00:03:34.000 That's all he is.

00:03:36.000 That is the entirety.

00:03:37.000 Somebody who's not completely off-putting, who seems sort of empathetic.

00:03:40.000 This is one of their big messages last night.

00:03:42.000 And who is not really anything, right?

00:03:45.000 He's just sort of there.

00:03:46.000 He's just there.

00:03:47.000 He's sitting in the corner.

00:03:49.000 He's like the, uh, he's just this bizarre kind of...

00:03:53.000 Mannequin that they've got standing in the corner, giving weird smiles at people and smelling women's hair like that.

00:03:57.000 That's that's all Joe Biden is.

00:03:58.000 That was message number one. 0.98

00:03:59.000 It was all about how Trump sucks and it has nothing to do with Joe Biden. 0.94

00:04:02.000 Message number two, and it became very clear that this is the case last night, is that the Democratic bench is just empty, absolutely empty. 0.94

00:04:08.000 So apparently the new Democratic formula for generating popular politicians is elect a Democratic president and then make the president's wife the next big thing. 1.00

00:04:16.000 This is the second straight time Democrats have done this.

00:04:18.000 Right now, Republicans don't do this.

00:04:20.000 Republicans didn't have Laura Bush speaking at like the 2008 convention on behalf of John McCain because Republicans generally don't really assume that the first lady is an elected position in American government that is deserving of the high sort of honor, Of speaking at a convention.

00:04:36.000 It's a non-political position, right?

00:04:37.000 The first lady of the United States or the first gentleman, if a woman were to be elected president, that would be a non-political position. 0.99

00:04:42.000 That is a person who's along for the ride.

00:04:45.000 This is why when Bill Clinton in 1992 suggested Hillary would be co-president, everybody was like, hold up a second, we didn't nominate that lady.

00:04:50.000 We nominated you, right?

00:04:51.000 We elected you.

00:04:52.000 Nobody elected Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:04:54.000 But Democrats have this habit of elevating the first ladies to very political positions. 1.00

00:04:58.000 They've done the same thing with Michelle Obama.

00:05:00.000 And Michelle is definitely a smart lady, right? 1.00

00:05:02.000 She's been able to morph her own image over time from extraordinarily radical and off-putting to everybody's aunt.

00:05:09.000 And now she's kind of injecting the politics back in, the partisan politics back in. 1.00

00:05:14.000 You have to recognize the game that was played.

00:05:15.000 In 2008, this was a lady who was accused of saying, incredibly, that to Barack Obama, all this for a flag, right?

00:05:22.000 I mean, there's tape of her doing that.

00:05:23.000 It's unclear what she's saying, but people have read her lips.

00:05:26.000 They've tried to.

00:05:27.000 This is the same lady who once said openly that the first time she was proud of her country and her adult life is when her husband was nominated for the presidency.

00:05:34.000 And she's very, very radical in terms of her own sort of political viewpoint on the United States.

00:05:38.000 She's very much in line with the sort of 1619 Project idea that the United States was rooted in evil.

00:05:43.000 And then she morphed into, well, she's the nice lady who makes like vegetable gardens right over at the White House and is very unifying and is a good mom and all of this. 0.99

00:05:51.000 Now, she was always a good mom, but that was the part of the personality that they decided to focus in on.

00:05:55.000 And then she wrote this very popular book, Becoming, all about her American journey.

00:05:59.000 And now she's morphing back into politics. 1.00

00:06:01.000 They closed last night with Michelle Obama, who's never been elected to an office at all.

00:06:05.000 Who is who is not a relevant political figure at all, who herself has said that she doesn't want to be seen as a relevant political figure.

00:06:05.000 Right.

00:06:11.000 And yet there she was closing out the night.

00:06:13.000 So how how shallow is the Democratic bench?

00:06:16.000 Their next big thing is the wife of the last big thing. 1.00

00:06:20.000 That's how shallow the bench is.

00:06:22.000 So those were the two messages last night, is that Democrats looked at Michelle and they said, we wish that we had nominated you. 1.00

00:06:26.000 And Joe Biden is sitting off to the side being a corpse.

00:06:29.000 And that's good enough for them.

00:06:31.000 We're going to jump into the actual weirdness of the convention in just one second, because it was very odd.

00:06:37.000 And we're gonna get to the true message of the convention, which actually happened before the convention, and then we'll get to, or at least the primetime convention, then we'll get to what happened in primetime, which was the stuff that people watched, but not that many.

00:06:47.000 I think the numbers on this thing are really gonna be pretty awful.

00:06:51.000 We'll get to that in just a moment.

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00:07:59.000 Okay, so.

00:08:01.000 Before the primetime DNC is when you actually got a solid window onto what the DNC actually is.

00:08:07.000 So in primetime is where you show your best stuff, right?

00:08:10.000 Basically, the primetime DNC is the dating photo and all the stuff that happens earlier in the day at the DNC is the reality, right?

00:08:18.000 The dating photo, everybody looks like Alyssa Milano circa 1992, right?

00:08:22.000 And then in reality, everybody sort of looks like Rosie O'Donnell circa 1992, right?

00:08:26.000 That's the way that this works.

00:08:30.000 In terms of how you present your party to the general public.

00:08:33.000 There's the stuff that you want heavily publicized, and then there's the stuff where... Okay, so the stuff that's... That's all the stuff that happens before primetime.

00:08:40.000 And there's a lot of stuff happening before primetime.

00:08:42.000 And it was replete with some rather telling moments.

00:08:45.000 And I think that this is going to be wildly underplayed by the media because, of course, they only want to magnify the stuff that makes the Democrats look good.

00:08:51.000 So we begin with the DNC chair announcing full out before the primetime of the DNC.

00:08:56.000 He was on with the Washington Post.

00:08:58.000 He announced that Bernie Sanders was basically one of the driving forces behind the Democratic platform.

00:09:01.000 Now, this is something Bernie himself said last night, but it was at war with what John Kasich was saying, which was the Democrats are actually a moderate party.

00:09:08.000 Here is Tom Perez letting the beans out, spilling the beans about how Bernie Sanders really did shape the DNC platform.

00:09:17.000 The platform is a bold document.

00:09:20.000 It's both inspirational and aspirational.

00:09:24.000 The input from Senator Sanders and others was invaluable to putting that together.

00:09:30.000 The Vice President and Senator Sanders convened a series of policy groups on critical issues.

00:09:36.000 Okay, so it was Bernie Sanders who's the driving force.

00:09:39.000 Okay, then you got to the actual pre-primetime DNC.

00:09:42.000 And this was replete with strange moments.

00:09:44.000 So one of the pastors who gave a prayer at the pre-primetime DNC, and you can see how they have put up their messaging all around the screen.

00:09:54.000 If you can't actually see it, it says, our values, right?

00:09:57.000 And then it shows the Black Lives Matter fist twice, right? 0.97

00:10:02.000 The Black Lives Matter fist shows up twice in this particular In this particular iteration of the imagery that the DNC wants to feature.

00:10:09.000 Okay, so here is a DNC pastor literally saying that America is going to go to hell if we don't open our borders.

00:10:16.000 You had the nerve to build a wall while at the same time you have in the harbor there in New York a statue of liberty saying, give me your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

00:10:31.000 Jesus will say, America, if you don't get your act together, you may well go to hell.

00:10:38.000 Why?

00:10:38.000 Because in as much as you do it to the least of these, my sisters and brothers, you are also doing it unto me.

00:10:46.000 So, open your borders or you're going to hell is a hell of a message.

00:10:49.000 They didn't feature this one in primetime.

00:10:50.000 Other things that were not featured in primetime, so they had these DNC panels.

00:10:54.000 One of the panelists led off the panel, they were going to play the national anthem, and he literally says, this is the DNC caucus and council meeting, the youth council, right?

00:11:02.000 This is for the youths, the youths.

00:11:04.000 Okay, so this panelist says, you know, we're going to play the national anthem.

00:11:09.000 At home, in your basement, if you're watching this, you can either rise or you can kneel for the National Anthem.

00:11:15.000 Solid look here for the DNC.

00:11:18.000 Many of the videos and pictures you're about to see were recorded before COVID, which is why the kids are not social distancing.

00:11:24.000 However, the audio was recorded over the past month.

00:11:28.000 You may rise or kneel if you are able, per your preference.

00:11:31.000 Okay, so the heart and soul of the DNC is all the stuff that happens not in prime time.

00:11:35.000 Just like the heart and soul of what you look like is the stuff you don't put on your dating profile.

00:11:39.000 Then there was a panelist, this is a solid one, there was a panel yesterday about the Green New Deal and one of these panelists just says, from her couch presumably in her mother's house, that The Green New Deal should be utilized to full on destroy capitalism.

00:11:50.000 Again, stuff that ain't going to be featured.

00:11:52.000 This is at the DNC caucus and council meeting.

00:11:54.000 The Youth Council, the Youth Council is the future of the Democratic Party.

00:11:56.000 So if you're wondering the future of the Democratic Party, it looks a lot like AOC and not very much like Joe Biden.

00:12:01.000 Here is these panelists saying it's time to destroy capitalism.

00:12:03.000 This future that we all want, that we're all trying to build, really is about the destruction of colonization, white supremacy and capitalism.

00:12:15.000 We must really move away from these systems and these frameworks if we really want to live in a future that does have a regenerative economy and does enable liberation and equity for our communities.

00:12:30.000 Ah, kill capitalism and kill colonization.

00:12:32.000 I'm not sure, like, who's, were we colonizing the moon?

00:12:34.000 Like, what are we talking about here?

00:12:36.000 So that's the solid stuff happening again before primetime.

00:12:39.000 Gwen Carr, who's Eric Garner's mom, also appeared prior to primetime and suggested we, this may have actually been during primetime, and said we can't let things settle down, right?

00:12:48.000 We can't, under no circumstances can we let things settle down.

00:12:51.000 It seems like we might want to let things settle down considering our cities have been burning for months at this point, but here's Eric Garner's mom.

00:12:57.000 I know when my son was murdered, there was a big uprising.

00:13:03.000 But then it settled down.

00:13:05.000 We can't let things settle down.

00:13:08.000 We have to go to the politicians, and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

00:13:13.000 Because otherwise, the big uprising is not going to mean a lot.

00:13:18.000 Okay, and so there she was saying, we can't let things settle down, and Joe Biden giving randomly a fist, and randomly very, very excited.

00:13:25.000 Finally, in the pre-convention, the pre-primetime convention, Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo star of the squad, she actually praised the quote-unquote protesters who were rising up in Portland, you know, the people trying to burn down federal buildings and throwing fireworks at cops and stuff.

00:13:39.000 She was very, very happy with this.

00:13:40.000 Here's Ayanna Pressley.

00:13:42.000 Right now, we are managing against converging public health and economic crises amid a national reckoning on racial injustice in this country.

00:13:51.000 Communities from Boston to Portland and everywhere in between are rising up to demand accountability and divestment from broken systems.

00:14:00.000 Okay, good stuff right there.

00:14:02.000 She's looking at the rising up in Portland.

00:14:04.000 It's been great.

00:14:04.000 It's been great for the country.

00:14:05.000 Okay, so now we finally get to prime time.

00:14:07.000 So here is the positive face that the Democrats want to put out there.

00:14:11.000 And here's the problem.

00:14:12.000 It's not just a face.

00:14:13.000 It is many faces, like lots of different faces.

00:14:15.000 The Democrats are all things to all people, except the only thing that unifies them is the glue of orange man bad. 0.85

00:14:21.000 Trump is really bad.

00:14:21.000 The glue is not Joe Biden.

00:14:23.000 Joe Biden, again, is just that stuffed animal in the corner.

00:14:26.000 He's just in the closet with E.T., Joe Biden.

00:14:29.000 But the real glue here is orange man bad. 0.58

00:14:33.000 And so this led to some kind of awkward moments.

00:14:35.000 The whole thing was very awkward and kind of off-putting.

00:14:38.000 The only person who really had a good night was Michelle Obama, who is very good on camera.

00:14:41.000 Everybody else was pretty terrible on camera.

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00:15:52.000 Hey, so as I say, this whole thing was very awkward because normally a convention is where some of the party business gets done.

00:15:56.000 It basically is a giant party.

00:15:57.000 I mean, I went to the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, and even that one was a giant party.

00:16:03.000 It's a lot of fun.

00:16:04.000 There are a lot of kind of hangouts that are going on.

00:16:07.000 It's sort of like Comic-Con for political nerds, essentially.

00:16:10.000 Well, the audience last night looked absolutely bored.

00:16:12.000 The DNC made the very odd decision to put cameras in the houses of random DNC fans, and they looked like, alternatively, they couldn't wait to get up and go pee during the commercial break that never came.

00:16:22.000 Or, like they were going to absolutely fall asleep, fall into a coma.

00:16:27.000 The footage, the cutaways to them, they just look like, okay, are we on camera right now?

00:16:32.000 Am I supposed to be here?

00:16:33.000 It's like you are during any sort of Zoom conference.

00:16:35.000 Like any Zoom conference, you just hope that you don't make enough noise that the camera automatically flashes to you because you're actually in your underwear and scratching yourself in the nether regions.

00:16:44.000 That's what it looked like over at the DNC last night.

00:16:47.000 Okay, so.

00:16:48.000 Time to contrast the prime time and the pre-prime time.

00:16:51.000 So as you'll remember, in the pre-prime time, they played the National Anthem and told people to kneel or rise for the National Anthem, which is a hell of a take.

00:16:58.000 At the actual DNC, like the prime time DNC, they played the National Anthem.

00:17:01.000 Very, very patriotic stuff.

00:17:03.000 Nobody kneeling at all.

00:17:04.000 It actually was quite a beautiful rendition of the National Anthem, I thought.

00:17:07.000 They had a bunch of people cut together sort of a Zoom version of the National Anthem.

00:17:09.000 I think it was quite nice.

00:17:10.000 Thanks for watching!

00:17:26.000 I mean, I think not.

00:17:29.000 I mean, you can like you can pretend that you like patriotism, I guess, if you're the Democratic Party.

00:17:33.000 And when you're not openly celebrating Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem and suggesting that it's the anthem of a cruel, racist nation, Biden's grandkids then emerge to lead the Pledge of Allegiance, which, again, Democrats have said is bad because it includes the phrase under God.

00:17:48.000 But now it's good again.

00:17:50.000 This is the dating profile for the Democrats.

00:17:52.000 We're not that crazy.

00:17:53.000 We like the National Anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:17:55.000 And then Sadovoce, it's like, well, but if you kneel for the National Anthem, that's the best of America.

00:17:59.000 And if you say the Pledge of Allegiance is too weirdly religious, that's also the best of America. 0.95

00:18:04.000 So here they were pretending they like the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:18:06.000 Not the kids.

00:18:06.000 I'm sure the kids love the Pledge.

00:18:07.000 I'm sure that they all love the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:18:09.000 Here are the kids.

00:18:10.000 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

00:18:22.000 Now, let me just say, if they play this at the RNC, the Democrats get very, very upset.

00:18:26.000 Because they said under God.

00:18:27.000 Very, very bad.

00:18:28.000 Okay, then, the Democrats opened.

00:18:29.000 Who did they open with?

00:18:30.000 They opened with famed woman of the people, Eva Longoria.

00:18:34.000 From like, Desperate Housewives.

00:18:35.000 Who has become a political figure in her own right.

00:18:38.000 She was featured at the last convention in 2016, that super successful convention.

00:18:43.000 She introduced this thing and then she introduced regular people.

00:18:47.000 Ah, the regular people.

00:18:48.000 Hollywood's bizarre fixation with the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party's bizarre fixation with Hollywood took on some really weird overtones.

00:18:56.000 In this particular DNC, as we will see, the way the DNC concluded the evening was probably the weirdest way that any evening of a convention has ever been concluded.

00:19:03.000 I mean, it was super, super odd.

00:19:05.000 We'll get to that in a little bit.

00:19:06.000 Here was Eva Longoria opening this thing up because we all need to hear from the lady who hasn't been relevant since Desperate Housewives. 1.00

00:19:13.000 The past few months have tested us all.

00:19:17.000 We've lost more than 170,000 family members and friends to COVID.

00:19:22.000 This tragedy is compounded by the loss of jobs and income.

00:19:26.000 But it's not just the past few months.

00:19:28.000 The past four years have left us as a nation diminished and divided.

00:19:35.000 And yet, in the middle of the fear and sorrow and the uncertainty, people have come together because they know we are better than this.

00:19:45.000 America is better than this.

00:19:47.000 Okay, so this was the message.

00:19:48.000 More in sorrow than in anger.

00:19:50.000 We are better than this.

00:19:51.000 America's better than this.

00:19:53.000 We are the Uniters. 0.99

00:19:54.000 Yes, sure, we've been allowing people to run roughshod through America's major cities and burn crap. 0.99

00:19:58.000 Sure, we've been suggesting for literally years at this point that the United States is inherently quite evil. 0.81

00:20:03.000 Sure, we have been promulgating bizarre conspiracy theories about the 2016 election for five years, four or five years at this point, but we've been out here uniting America.

00:20:12.000 We're super big into uniting America.

00:20:14.000 It's what we are into every day, the uniting of America.

00:20:19.000 So this was their message.

00:20:20.000 It was about empathy and unity.

00:20:22.000 And I know you're sitting there yourself going, wait a second, empathy and unity?

00:20:26.000 Like, haven't we been watching people burning cities to the ground?

00:20:31.000 And as for your unity, haven't we been watching you pretend that Southern states are evil because they're not Andrew Cuomo?

00:20:38.000 And the answer is yes, all of that is real and all of that has been happening, but that's not the dating profile, guys.

00:20:42.000 The dating profile is unity.

00:20:44.000 Unity.

00:20:45.000 So basically, this Democratic strategy last night was Donald Trump is a mean man.

00:20:49.000 It wasn't about his policies.

00:20:50.000 Very little was discussed about his policies.

00:20:52.000 And there was very little focus put on working men and women across the country, right?

00:20:55.000 There was very little about the Democrats' economic plans, how they're going to make life better for working people in the United States, which is usually something they focus on, the blue-collar workers.

00:21:02.000 Instead, it was sort of like a bizarre recap of 2016, where everything was culturally focused and focused in on Trump's character.

00:21:09.000 Now, it didn't work in 2016.

00:21:11.000 Maybe it'll work this time because people are more upset about COVID.

00:21:14.000 But it's a weird strategy to take, right?

00:21:16.000 Because you could theoretically talk about the competence level more than anything else.

00:21:20.000 And this is what Michelle Obama did, right? 0.97

00:21:21.000 That's why she's the most successful politician of any of these clowns. 1.00

00:21:24.000 But That really isn't what they went for. 0.95

00:21:26.000 Instead, what they went for overall was, isn't the country just feeling too mean right now? 0.95

00:21:30.000 And I'm looking at Democrats who have been involved in canceling anything they don't like and suggesting everybody they don't like is a racist and believing that America is filled to the brim with bigots and horrible people.

00:21:41.000 And I'm just thinking, you guys are the expositors of American unity?

00:21:44.000 Truly?

00:21:45.000 You want an overarching government that crams down on 49% of the population the political preferences of 51% of the population?

00:21:52.000 You're looking forward to a federal government overriding fundamental American rights ranging from freedom of association to freedom of religion and you guys are the unifiers and the empathetic ones?

00:22:00.000 But that requires a little bit of background knowledge.

00:22:02.000 So most people don't have that background knowledge, and so what they see instead is, look at these nice people, and they're saying nice things.

00:22:09.000 There's so much, so much niceness.

00:22:11.000 So much niceness.

00:22:12.000 So it was a made-for-Hollywood version of reality that included some bizarre moments.

00:22:16.000 When the Democrats featured George Floyd's brother, he asked for a moment of silence.

00:22:19.000 Now again, not a person in America thinks that George Floyd should have died.

00:22:22.000 No one.

00:22:23.000 Right?

00:22:23.000 Not a Republican, not a Democrat.

00:22:25.000 Nobody thinks George Floyd should be dead.

00:22:27.000 And, as it turns out, the fact pattern may be that he actually did not die of the knee to the neck, right?

00:22:33.000 The original state autopsy suggested that he didn't die of the knee to the neck, that he actually died because he had some pretty significant pre-existing drug use and medical conditions.

00:22:40.000 The Democrats start with George Floyd's brother asking for a moment of silence and talking about George Floyd because this is sort of a Hollywood production, the DNC.

00:22:51.000 The focus is not on how we solve the problem of police brutality.

00:22:55.000 Instead, the focus is on talking about George Floyd's character, which is kind of a weird focus because George Floyd had a very long criminal record.

00:23:02.000 The story of George Floyd that makes it tragic is not actually George Floyd's criminality, right?

00:23:07.000 I mean, what makes it tragic is that George Floyd shouldn't have died and now he's dead.

00:23:11.000 But instead, what was put out there was The legacy of George Floyd as like a human being.

00:23:16.000 And if you're going to talk about that, then it's almost impossible not to talk about the fact that he was arrested and did time in jail for armed robbery, in which he pointed a gun at a pregnant woman, right?

00:23:24.000 That's not relevant to his actual death.

00:23:27.000 But because you're trying to create an overall narrative, instead you sort of put out that message, which is a strange and kind of counterfactual message to the actual problem, which is police brutality, which does crop up.

00:23:39.000 So here was that message last night.

00:23:41.000 My brother George was selfless.

00:23:44.000 He always made sacrifices for his family, friends, and even complete strangers.

00:23:50.000 George had a giving spirit, a spirit that has shown up on streets around our nation and around the world.

00:23:57.000 Please join me in a moment of silence.

00:24:01.000 Okay, and the names that he's talking about are, of course, the names of people who have died in altercations with police.

00:24:18.000 He's not talking about, as the Democratic Party will never talk about, the names of black Americans who are killed in inner-city violence, which is significantly more prevalent than cops killing black Americans under disputed circumstances.

00:24:30.000 Okay, we're going to get to more of this in just one second.

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00:25:49.000 Okay, then we get to the actual politicians in the DNC.

00:25:53.000 And so we begin with the also-rans, meaning the people who were once sort of considered for the VP slot and then were completely ignored because they didn't fit the bill.

00:26:01.000 So Amy Klobuchar was allowed like 60 seconds to talk about why she doesn't like Trump.

00:26:05.000 And again, that is the only message here, right?

00:26:07.000 There's no message about why Biden is good.

00:26:08.000 It's all about how Donald Trump is bad.

00:26:10.000 Here is Amy Klobuchar passed over because The Democrats decided they needed to check intersectional boxes.

00:26:17.000 So here is Klobuchar, who won many more votes than Kamala Harris, but is not the vice presidential candidate, making a joke about Trump hating the post office or something.

00:26:23.000 I believe that the right to vote is fundamental and the post office is essential.

00:26:30.000 You know, the president may hate the post office, but he's still going to have to send them a change of address card come January.

00:26:40.000 And then there's Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, who has presided over a pretty significant death toll in the state of Michigan.

00:26:48.000 In fact, if you look at state by state in the United States, it's one of the worst hit states.

00:26:53.000 She was one of the people who was apparently shipping the old people back to the nursing homes with COVID.

00:26:58.000 That was one of the actual policies in the state of Michigan.

00:27:01.000 Michigan currently ranks ninth in America in terms of death rate per million.

00:27:05.000 Surpassed only by New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Louisiana, Rhode Island, D.C., and Mississippi.

00:27:11.000 And so here she was last night saying that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will lead by example.

00:27:16.000 Again, the way the Democrats mean lead by example is we're not actually going to do any leading.

00:27:20.000 We're just going to have Joe Biden say things, sort of the same way that Joe Biden says he wants a national mask mandate with no empowering authority and no actual plan.

00:27:27.000 That's leading by example.

00:27:28.000 The way Gretchen Whitmer leads by example is by banning people from buying seeds at the local store while allowing her husband to go boating or something. 0.94

00:27:37.000 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will lead by example.

00:27:41.000 It'll be science, not politics or ego, that will drive their decisions.

00:27:47.000 They know the health of our people goes hand in hand with the strength of our economy.

00:27:52.000 They know action begets action.

00:27:57.000 Over the past few months, we've learned what's essential.

00:28:00.000 Rising to the challenge, not denying it.

00:28:04.000 By rising to the challenge, she means that she did a terrible job in Michigan.

00:28:07.000 And people who live in Michigan know this is the case.

00:28:09.000 Then, Muriel Bowser, who was briefly considered on the VP ticket, the D.C. 1.00

00:28:13.000 mayor, who's most famous for painting stuff on sidewalks while people get shot in her city, she emerged to talk about her amazing record at the DNC.

00:28:24.000 The story of our nation's capital is a story of reckoning.

00:28:27.000 It was here that John Lewis and Dr. King spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

00:28:31.000 But we have to do something, too.

00:28:34.000 Each and every one of us challenge our own biases.

00:28:37.000 If we see something, do something.

00:28:40.000 Together we can turn this reckoning into a reimagining of a nation where we the people means all the people.

00:28:48.000 And she shot this from directly above her giant Black Lives Matter mural that is located in the middle of the street in Washington, D.C.

00:28:54.000 It hasn't stopped people from getting shot in Washington, D.C., but she at least gets to talk about it.

00:28:58.000 Finally, the Democrats have moved on to Andrew Cuomo.

00:29:00.000 OK, so they're big picture.

00:29:02.000 Because, again, they don't have very good policies.

00:29:04.000 In fact, no policies, so far as I can see.

00:29:07.000 Because the Democratic pitch is that Donald Trump is a mean, bad man who's mean and bad, they're focusing in on COVID, right?

00:29:11.000 COVID is the big thing.

00:29:12.000 This is the overarching meta-narrative, is that Donald Trump doesn't care about you, and that is why your family member died of COVID.

00:29:19.000 But you know who does care about you?

00:29:20.000 Andrew Cuomo, the worst governor in America.

00:29:22.000 So they trotted out Andrew Cuomo.

00:29:23.000 Now, I don't know what kind of perverse sense of humor you have to have to trot out Andrew Cuomo to talk about success and failure in COVID.

00:29:31.000 This is like trotting out the captain of the Titanic to talk about avoiding icebergs.

00:29:35.000 OK, and the headlines from New York these days are astonishing.

00:29:38.000 It'll be things like in The New York Times, like New York handled the first wave.

00:29:41.000 Will they handle the second?

00:29:42.000 If I handle the first wave, everyone died.

00:29:45.000 All of the humans died.

00:29:46.000 Then sure.

00:29:47.000 Great job, Andrew Cuomo.

00:29:48.000 But Andrew Cuomo was trotted out at the DNC and he made some he made some weird comments.

00:29:54.000 He suggested, for example, that COVID was mostly a metaphor.

00:29:57.000 A metaphor that killed 33,000 people in his state.

00:30:00.000 But that's a hell of a metaphor.

00:30:01.000 It's a good metaphor right there.

00:30:03.000 Here's New York Governor Andrew Cuomo talking about how COVID is a symptom, not known as COVID, just demonstrates how we were already so divided.

00:30:11.000 What COVID mostly suggests is that you probably shouldn't cover up nursing home deaths.

00:30:16.000 His state deliberately covered up nursing home deaths, said there were 6,600 of them, there were 11,000.

00:30:20.000 Here is the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, who when he is not being grilled by his brother about his nostril size, is letting old people die in his state.

00:30:29.000 We went through hell, but we've learned much.

00:30:32.000 We know that our problems go beyond the COVID virus.

00:30:34.000 COVID is the symptom, not the illness.

00:30:38.000 Our nation is in crisis.

00:30:40.000 And in many ways, COVID is just a metaphor.

00:30:43.000 A virus attacks when the body is weak and when it cannot defend itself.

00:30:49.000 Over these past few years, America's body politic has been weakened.

00:30:54.000 In many ways, it's not a metaphor.

00:30:56.000 In like the ways where people were suffocating to death, it was not such a metaphor.

00:31:02.000 In a lot of ways, it wasn't a metaphor.

00:31:03.000 Like when people were not allowed to see their loved ones as they lay dying, as their lungs basically ceased to function, it turned out not such a good metaphor.

00:31:12.000 It was mostly not a metaphor.

00:31:13.000 According to Andrew Cuomo, it's a metaphor.

00:31:15.000 It's a metaphor for his excellent leadership.

00:31:18.000 And then he talks about divisions in America.

00:31:20.000 Andrew Cuomo, the guy who's right now saying, I'm going to ban people from other states because New York handled this great, but everybody else handled it terribly.

00:31:26.000 Well, he sits on, by states, the second worst death per million rate in America.

00:31:30.000 The only state that surpasses is New Jersey.

00:31:32.000 Here is Andrew Cuomo suggesting that we've learned how bad things can get when we're divided.

00:31:36.000 That's why we have to unite. 0.97

00:31:38.000 Unite around my garbage policy. 0.94

00:31:40.000 The temerity that it takes to trot out Andrew Cuomo at your convention after he has presided over the greatest natural loss of life in the United States—by natural, I mean illness-related—loss of life in the United States in decades is astonishing. 0.97

00:31:53.000 I mean, the gall is just incredible.

00:31:55.000 Here is Andrew Cuomo.

00:31:57.000 Today, we trail the world in defeating COVID.

00:32:01.000 We have over 5 million cases.

00:32:04.000 Americans learned a critical lesson.

00:32:06.000 How vulnerable we are when we are divided.

00:32:09.000 And how many lives can be lost when our government is incompetent.

00:32:14.000 But we learned something else, my friends.

00:32:16.000 We saw the negative, but we also saw the positive.

00:32:19.000 As they proved their way failed, we proved that our way succeeded.

00:32:28.000 Uh, which way would that be?

00:32:29.000 Like, um, what now?

00:32:32.000 Andrew Cuomo being trotted out as a success story is one of the most extraordinary examples of gaslighting I think I've ever seen in my entire life.

00:32:39.000 That is an incredible, incredible thing.

00:32:41.000 Simpson talking about how to prevent murder.

00:32:41.000 It's like O.J.

00:32:44.000 My God, people.

00:32:45.000 Wow, wow, wow.

00:32:47.000 By the way, if you want to talk about shamelessness, wait until we get to the next person that the Democrats had speak.

00:32:53.000 They had a woman from Arizona whose father died of COVID speak at the convention and say maybe the most shameless thing I have ever heard on a Democratic National Convention stage.

00:33:03.000 Her name was Kristen Urquiza.

00:33:06.000 Literally, her entire billing is father died of coronavirus.

00:33:09.000 That's the only reason that she is here, right?

00:33:12.000 Is because she's a Democrat and her dad died of coronavirus.

00:33:15.000 And she blames Trump for this.

00:33:16.000 This is one of the most shameless things I have ever seen at a political convention. 0.70

00:33:20.000 It is truly shameless.

00:33:21.000 I feel awful for the lady because anybody who has a relative die, that's a horrible, horrible experience.

00:33:26.000 But this is a shameless political move by the Democrats to bring out a woman whose parent died of COVID to blame Trump and do it in the way that she does is, on a political and a moral level, despicable.

00:33:37.000 I mean, really despicable.

00:33:39.000 Listen to what she says. 0.94

00:33:41.000 It's it's patently crazy. 0.83

00:33:42.000 Here we go.

00:33:45.000 My dad, Mark Anthony Urquiza, should be here today, but he isn't.

00:33:52.000 He had faith in Donald Trump.

00:33:54.000 He voted for him, listened to him, believed him and his mouthpieces when they said that coronavirus was under control and going to disappear.

00:34:04.000 That it was okay to end social distancing rules before it was safe.

00:34:08.000 So apparently only Trump voters have died.

00:34:10.000 Anybody who listens to Trump died.

00:34:11.000 If you didn't listen to Trump, you're fine.

00:34:13.000 healthy 65 year old. His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump and for that he paid with his life.

00:34:33.000 I mean, this is equivalent to when there was an ad in 2012 blaming Mitt Romney and Bain Capital for firing a guy so his wife would later die of cancer.

00:34:43.000 Is there any evidence that he just went out there willy-nilly and started macking on people who had COVID because he believed Trump?

00:34:52.000 That's such an unbelievable statement that her dad is dead because he trusted Trump, as opposed to what?

00:34:57.000 Like, you know what this is?

00:34:59.000 Honestly, that sort of take on life is a bizarrely ritualistic take on what it takes to mitigate risk.

00:35:07.000 That if you just don't vote for Trump, I guess you're immune to COVID now.

00:35:10.000 If you don't believe Trump and you pay no attention to Trump, then apparently you're immune from COVID, which is weird because every single state that leads in death in the United States is a blue state.

00:35:18.000 Every single one.

00:35:19.000 All of them.

00:35:21.000 The only one in the top 10 in terms of death per millions that is not a blue state is Mississippi.

00:35:26.000 Every other one is a blue state.

00:35:28.000 So I'm failing to see the connection between you believe Donald Trump and you die of COVID.

00:35:33.000 That's an absurd contention.

00:35:35.000 Truly absurd.

00:35:36.000 But the Democrats trotted that out in prime time last night.

00:35:38.000 OK, in a second, we're going to get to the actual political part of the convention.

00:35:42.000 And this was really three separate speakers who were featured in the political part of the convention.

00:35:48.000 And they gave very conflicting messages.

00:35:50.000 One was John Kasich.

00:35:51.000 Oh, God, no, please, God, no, not John Kasich.

00:35:54.000 Bernie Sanders.

00:35:55.000 He shows up again.

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00:35:57.000 And Michelle Obama, the greatest, wisest, and most wonderful of all human beings.

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00:38:46.000 So as I've been saying, there are very agated pitches for the Democrats last night.

00:38:56.000 Pitch number one was, Trump botched COVID.

00:38:58.000 Let us show you this great leader, Andrew Cuomo.

00:39:02.000 Not the world's best pitch.

00:39:03.000 Pitch number two was, we're super patriotic, except when we're telling people to kneel for the national anthem.

00:39:08.000 And then they trotted out pitch number three, which is, here are our token Republicans.

00:39:13.000 Here they are.

00:39:13.000 They're here to yell about how much they don't like Donald Trump.

00:39:17.000 So they brought out John Kasich.

00:39:19.000 Oh, yes.

00:39:20.000 Oh, God, no.

00:39:21.000 Please, God, no.

00:39:22.000 Not John Kasich, the former governor of Ohio.

00:39:25.000 Now, Governor Kasich, for some odd reason, decided to do his speech from an actual crossroads, in case you didn't get the metaphor word, a crossroads, gang.

00:39:35.000 So he literally stood at a crossroads in the middle of a field, like the scarecrow in Wizard of Oz. 0.97

00:39:43.000 Because he has no brain.

00:39:44.000 And on one side of the crossroads was, quit the 2016 presidential race in March to give Ted Cruz a shot at defeating Donald Trump.

00:39:52.000 That was the crossroads he didn't take. 0.96

00:39:54.000 He took the other one that said, stay in the race long enough to guarantee Trump the nomination, and then speak four years later at the DNC and make an ass of yourself. 0.60

00:40:00.000 That was the crossroads he chose.

00:40:01.000 But he spoke about being at the crossroads while literally standing at a crossroads.

00:40:09.000 In case you didn't get the metaphor, like Tom Hanks at the end of Castaway.

00:40:12.000 Here was John Kasich, a raisin in the sun.

00:40:17.000 Sometimes elections represent a real choice, a choice we make as individuals and as a nation about which path we want to take when we've come to challenging times.

00:40:27.000 America is at that crossroads today.

00:40:29.000 I'm a lifelong Republican, but that attachment holds second place to my responsibility to my country.

00:40:36.000 That's why I've chosen to appear at this convention.

00:40:40.000 In normal times, something like this would probably never happen.

00:40:44.000 But these are not normal times.

00:40:46.000 No, I feel like basically anywhere there's a spotlight, you can find John Kasich.

00:40:49.000 My favorite John Kasich clip was back during the 2016 campaign.

00:40:53.000 My favorite was when he went into a section of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, campaigning, and he started lecturing Orthodox Jews on what it says in the Bible.

00:41:00.000 Did you know it's what it says in the book?

00:41:02.000 Like, no, they kind of do. 0.96

00:41:03.000 Actually, it turns out John Kasich, that dude is the worst. 0.99

00:41:06.000 He's the worst. 0.89

00:41:07.000 So I'm glad that you Democrats have him.

00:41:09.000 Welcome to the party.

00:41:10.000 I hope you enjoy this gift that we gave you and John Kasich.

00:41:14.000 OK, so the juxtaposition of John Kasich with Bernie Sanders is pretty astonishing.

00:41:18.000 It was pretty astonishing because Kasich at the in the middle of his speech, he's talking about the wonders of Joe Biden, dead man standing over here.

00:41:25.000 Here is my late departed Joe Biden.

00:41:28.000 And he says, don't worry, you know, I'm a Republican.

00:41:30.000 You think that I would vote for somebody who's going to go radical?

00:41:32.000 I'd never vote for anybody who's going to go radical.

00:41:33.000 Joe Biden isn't going to go radical.

00:41:34.000 I mean, look, the man's dead.

00:41:36.000 He can't go radical.

00:41:37.000 Here is John Kasich, a man who, again, mostly resembles a crumbled up piece of paper in your pocket or a seat from a local restaurant that went through the washing machine in your jeans.

00:41:45.000 Here is John Kasich talking about how Joe Biden won't go radical because he's not alive anymore.

00:41:52.000 I'm sure there are Republicans and Independents who couldn't imagine crossing over to support a Democrat.

00:41:57.000 They fear Joe may turn sharp left and leave them behind.

00:42:02.000 I don't believe that because I know the measure of the man.

00:42:05.000 It's reasonable, faithful, respectful.

00:42:08.000 And you know, no one pushes Joe around.

00:42:12.000 He's reasonable.

00:42:13.000 He's fine.

00:42:14.000 No one pushes him around.

00:42:15.000 No one pushes him around.

00:42:17.000 Quick cut to Bernie Sanders.

00:42:19.000 Bernie Sanders speaks at the convention last night.

00:42:21.000 He's like, by the way, you know who now runs this party?

00:42:23.000 It's me, me, a communist nightmare.

00:42:26.000 And I'm going to tell you how John Kasich, he was saying that Joe Biden won't be pushed around.

00:42:26.000 I'm back.

00:42:31.000 Well, let me explain to you that I push him around all the time.

00:42:35.000 In fact, I actually have Joe on a gurney in the back.

00:42:39.000 Just for fun, I push him around side to side, back and forth.

00:42:41.000 It's really fun.

00:42:42.000 In fact, my ideas are now the mainstream.

00:42:44.000 Remember when they used to pretend that I was not a mainstream politician?

00:42:47.000 Now, I've basically taken them over, like the facehugger in Alien. 0.95

00:42:51.000 I went on Joe Biden's face.

00:42:53.000 And then I went down into his body and I burst forth in full socialist flowering.

00:42:59.000 Bernie Sanders explaining that not only will he push Joe Biden around, but he is Joe Biden now.

00:43:04.000 He just wears a Joe Biden mask like the guy from Silence of the Lambs.

00:43:08.000 Here we go.

00:43:09.000 Bernie Sanders.

00:43:11.000 Our campaign ended several months ago, but our movement continues and is getting stronger every day.

00:43:20.000 Many of the ideas we fought for that just a few years ago were considered radical are now mainstream.

00:43:28.000 So is that a bit of a conflicting message?

00:43:30.000 John Kasich's like, they won't go radical, guys.

00:43:32.000 They won't go radical.

00:43:32.000 And I can assure you they won't go radical because I know Joe Biden and Joe Biden is not alive.

00:43:36.000 And then Bernie's like, I can assure you we definitely have gone radical and you're going to have to get over it.

00:43:42.000 I believe Bernie because Tom Perez said before the convention that Bernie wrote the convention and wrote the platform.

00:43:49.000 And then Bernie Sanders jumped into the main message of the evening, because again, all of this is all over the place, right?

00:43:55.000 Biden is a moderate, but he's also a radical.

00:43:57.000 Biden is very patriotic, but also kneeling for the anthem is very patriotic.

00:44:02.000 America is a wonderful patriotic place filled with great people, but also America is systemically racist.

00:44:06.000 But there's one unifying message, and that is Donald Trump is not normal.

00:44:09.000 So here is Bernie Sanders saying Donald Trump is not normal. 0.76

00:44:11.000 He is orange and looks like an orange and also is bad, like an orange from the Godfather. 0.98

00:44:15.000 Whenever you see an orange, somebody is going to get shot.

00:44:17.000 Donald Trump is like orange for the American people.

00:44:22.000 During this president's term, the unthinkable has become normal.

00:44:28.000 He has tried to prevent people from voting, undermined the U.S.

00:44:31.000 Postal Service, deployed the military and federal agents against peaceful protesters, threatened to delay the election, and suggested that he will not leave office if he loses.

00:44:46.000 This is not normal, and we must never treat it like it is.

00:44:51.000 Tell me more about normality, communist who has praised every evil regime from Cuba to China to the Soviet Union.

00:44:56.000 Tell me more, Bernie, about not normal.

00:44:59.000 Now, not normal Bernie Sanders.

00:45:01.000 OK, then finally, the Democrats got to the most beloved person in America.

00:45:05.000 I mean, by poll numbers, this is true.

00:45:06.000 Michelle Obama, who, as we say, has undergone a complete reinvention twice.

00:45:10.000 So first there was Michelle Obama, radical life partner to Barack Obama.

00:45:14.000 Then there was Michelle Obama, wonderful apolitical first lady, beloved of all Americans.

00:45:19.000 And now there's Michelle Obama, political figure, and she's back.

00:45:22.000 So, Michelle Obama speaks last night.

00:45:24.000 Now, again, it's weird for the first lady, the last first lady, to speak at a convention that doesn't involve her husband, really.

00:45:32.000 I believe Laura Bush did not speak, certainly not in prime time, at the 2008 convention for John McCain.

00:45:41.000 But Michelle Obama is a political figure.

00:45:43.000 One of the things that is so perverse about the Obamas, generally, is the high-level lying.

00:45:47.000 I mean, they're really good at it.

00:45:49.000 Really good at it. 0.86

00:45:49.000 So some people are just bad liars. 0.86

00:45:50.000 Like Kamala Harris is a terrible liar. 1.00

00:45:52.000 She happens to be an awful liar. 1.00

00:45:53.000 Every time she lies, she breaks into the Joker laugh. 1.00

00:45:56.000 As I always tell my children when we watch animated films, the way that you can tell the bad guy is the bad guy always laughs a lot.

00:46:01.000 Bad guys always seem to be having the most fun in the movies.

00:46:03.000 It doesn't matter what movie you watch.

00:46:04.000 It could be a Marvel movie.

00:46:06.000 It could be a cartoon movie.

00:46:08.000 Whenever you have somebody who laughs like a crazy person, that's the bad guy.

00:46:11.000 Because bad guys have all the fun.

00:46:13.000 Kamala Harris laughs.

00:46:14.000 It's her tell. 0.98

00:46:15.000 The crazy joker laugh every time she lies. 0.98

00:46:18.000 Not the Obamas. 0.87

00:46:18.000 The Obamas are really smooth. 0.87

00:46:19.000 So they've been able to portray themselves as above the fray and really nice people who get along with it.

00:46:24.000 Not partisan knife fighters in any way, which of course is utterly untrue.

00:46:28.000 Barack Obama was one of the most vicious partisan knife fighters in my political lifetime.

00:46:31.000 It's amazing.

00:46:32.000 Amazing that he was able to come off as empathetic.

00:46:34.000 I mean, the guy's really gifted that way.

00:46:36.000 Michelle turns out to be a fairly radical character herself. 0.99

00:46:39.000 Again, a lady who in 2008 openly said the only reason that she'd been proud of her country in her adult lifetime was the nomination of her husband, which is an amazing statement.

00:46:47.000 I've been proud of this country when Barack Obama was president.

00:46:49.000 I've been proud of this country when Donald Trump was president.

00:46:51.000 I've been proud of this country when Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were president.

00:46:53.000 My pride in the United States of America is not reliant on who has been nominated for president of the United States.

00:46:58.000 Doesn't mean I like everybody who's been president.

00:47:00.000 Doesn't mean I like any of the nominees.

00:47:02.000 But my pride in the country goes a little deeper than that.

00:47:04.000 Michelle Obama's always been fairly radical.

00:47:05.000 She's always been really political.

00:47:07.000 Very, very political.

00:47:08.000 But last night, she had to portray herself as an apolitical figure, and the media doing their best to prop her up on this one. 0.79

00:47:15.000 She began her speech by saying she hates politics, which is just laughable.

00:47:19.000 Michelle Obama hating politics?

00:47:20.000 Sure.

00:47:21.000 I'm sure Michelle Obama despises politics, by which she means that she absolutely adores politics, has been in it nearly her entire life.

00:47:29.000 You know that I tell you exactly what I'm feeling.

00:47:32.000 You know I hate politics.

00:47:35.000 But you also know that I care about this nation.

00:47:39.000 You know how much I care about all of our children.

00:47:44.000 Okay, so I find this stuff kind of off-putting.

00:47:46.000 I mean, shockingly.

00:47:47.000 I'm not Captain Empathy.

00:47:49.000 But this is the Democrat pitch.

00:47:50.000 In the end, the Democratic pitch is going to be, Donald Trump doesn't care about people like you.

00:47:54.000 Which is the biggest question in any presidential election.

00:47:56.000 Usually it's, does this person care about people like you?

00:47:58.000 Trump did that.

00:47:59.000 He actually won that argument over Hillary, who appeared to be completely non-caring about people who are not like her.

00:48:05.000 Michelle Obama makes the case that Trump is not Captain Caring, which is obviously true, right? 0.95

00:48:09.000 And that she is very... So it all comes down to empathy.

00:48:11.000 Now, as I've mentioned before, there are entire books written about the problems with empathy in American politics.

00:48:18.000 There's an entire book by a guy named Paul Bloom, who's a social scientist, called Against Empathy, the Case for Rational Compassion, right?

00:48:23.000 There's a difference between having compassion for somebody on a rational level and empathy that forces you to abandon your kind of Concerns about people who are not the person with whom you're empathizing.

00:48:34.000 But Democrats have decided that elections ought to be referenda on empathy, which always is gonna cut in favor of the Democrats because for Democrats, empathy means us doing something for you, no matter how bad it is, no matter whether it's counterproductive.

00:48:47.000 And Democrats can always say, we'll spend more money.

00:48:49.000 Well, empathy can be equated with money in this particular iteration.

00:48:52.000 So their case is Donald Trump is not empathetic.

00:48:55.000 We, however, are empathetic.

00:48:56.000 We are classy.

00:48:57.000 We take the high road.

00:48:58.000 So here's Michelle Obama saying the Democrats take the high road, which is weird because I've been alive.

00:49:03.000 So no, you don't.

00:49:04.000 No, you don't.

00:49:05.000 I'm old enough to remember when Joe Biden, your current presidential nominee, said that Mitt Romney was going to put black people back in slavery.

00:49:12.000 He was going to put them back in chains.

00:49:14.000 I'm old enough to remember when the Obama campaign ran with the line that Mitt Romney was a sexist because he had a binder of women he was examining for a VP candidate.

00:49:20.000 Sort of like, hmm, Joe Biden having a binder full of women he was examining for his VP candidate.

00:49:26.000 I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama threatened the banks by saying the pitchforks are out front and I can just let them come get you.

00:49:32.000 But according to Michelle Obama, they always take the high road, which is just the greatest myth in American politics.

00:49:37.000 Over the past four years, a lot of people have asked me, when others are going so low, does going high still really work?

00:49:48.000 My answer?

00:49:50.000 Going high is the only thing that works.

00:49:54.000 Because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that's drowning out everything else.

00:50:07.000 Okay, she's really good at this, right?

00:50:09.000 She's doing it without an audience. 0.83

00:50:09.000 She understands that it has to be like an Oprah direct-to-camera moment. 0.83

00:50:12.000 She's very, like, just on an aesthetic level, you have to acknowledge that she is very good at her job right here.

00:50:17.000 That doesn't mean that she's telling the truth.

00:50:19.000 Because, as it turns out, when it comes to degrading and dehumanizing and mischaracterizing your opposition and not taking the high road, Michelle Obama did plenty of that last night.

00:50:27.000 Most obvious example, she suggested that the Trump administration throws people in cages.

00:50:32.000 Okay, so here she was last night suggesting the Trump administration throws people in cages.

00:50:37.000 They see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemies of the state while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists.

00:50:46.000 They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages and pepper spray and rubber bullets are used on peaceful protesters for a photo op.

00:51:00.000 Sadly, this is the America that is on display for the next generation.

00:51:05.000 Weird, because the America that was on display during your administration was complete, utter chaos in Ferguson, Missouri.

00:51:10.000 Complete, utter chaos in Washington, D.C.

00:51:12.000 and Baltimore.

00:51:13.000 So, yeah.

00:51:15.000 Also, I seem to remember that, you know where those cages got started?

00:51:17.000 You know where they got started, those horrible, horrible cages?

00:51:20.000 With Barack Obama.

00:51:21.000 I have some bad news from the Obama administration era.

00:51:24.000 Those cages?

00:51:26.000 began with forced separation policy promulgated by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

00:51:30.000 It began under the Obama administration, which led to that famous botch where the media started putting out a photo of kids in cages that actually was from the Obama time.

00:51:37.000 But don't worry, she took the high road right there.

00:51:40.000 And the Trump administration is only using rubber bullets and tear gas against peaceful protesters.

00:51:44.000 There are no actual rioters in the streets.

00:51:46.000 They don't exist.

00:51:46.000 They're gone.

00:51:47.000 But she's taking the high road, guys.

00:51:49.000 Very, very high.

00:51:50.000 Very, very high road.

00:51:51.000 Also, she says that the White House doesn't care about black people, which is also taking the high road. 1.00

00:51:55.000 So she says that there is a never-ending list of black people who've been murdered by the police. 0.94

00:51:58.000 A never-ending list of black people murdered by the police?

00:52:01.000 Um, well, actually, according to the Washington Post, there are a grand total of 15 black people who were killed unarmed by the cops last year.

00:52:07.000 15.

00:52:08.000 So that seems like an ending list, not a never-ending list.

00:52:10.000 It seems like mostly an ending list.

00:52:12.000 And, in the vast majority of those cases, the people who were quote-unquote unarmed actually were either going for a cop's gun, or using some other type of weapon to attack a cop, or were physically In an altercation with a cop, but apparently it's a never-ending list and the White House won't say Black Lives Matter.

00:52:26.000 The White House won't say Black Lives Matter because they don't want to mimic the rhetoric of the actual Black Lives Matter movement because the phrase Black Lives Matter is a semantic trap that has been laid by Democrats.

00:52:34.000 It is a semantically overloaded term.

00:52:37.000 Right, that is why the White House has not used the term Black Lives Matter because it is unclear what it means.

00:52:40.000 I've mentioned this several times.

00:52:42.000 It means, one, the utterly unobjectionable idea that black lives matter just as much as any other lives in the United States. 0.91

00:52:47.000 Two, the perfectly objectionable idea that the United States is systemically racist and that people are targeting black people for death, which is utterly untrue. 0.84

00:52:54.000 The vast majority of black people who are killed in the United States are killed by other black people, just like the vast majority of white people in the United States who are killed are killed by other white people. 0.77

00:53:01.000 Okay, so that's a completely arguable idea. 0.98

00:53:03.000 And then finally, there's the completely inarguable idea that you should not be endorsing the Black Lives Matter organization, a radical, awful, terrible group. 1.00

00:53:10.000 Okay, but she says that there's a never-ending list.

00:53:12.000 Again, this is Michelle Obama, who is just the greatest, wisest.

00:53:15.000 Mom is disappointed in us.

00:53:16.000 That was sort of the message of this.

00:53:19.000 Because she's everybody's mom.

00:53:20.000 Michelle Obama, that's how she's portrayed by the media. 0.92

00:53:22.000 Mom is disappointed in you. 0.53

00:53:23.000 And she's disappointed in you because the White House won't say that Black Lives Matter, while endless numbers of black people are being murdered, apparently by the system.

00:53:31.000 Which isn't true, but she's gonna push that line anyway.

00:53:35.000 As George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and a never-ending list of innocent people of color continue to be murdered, stating the simple fact that a black life matters is still met with derision from the nation's highest office.

00:53:53.000 Never-ending list, guys.

00:53:54.000 Because however we look to this White House for some leadership or consolation or any semblance of steadiness, what we get instead is chaos, division, and a total and utter lack of empathy.

00:54:10.000 Okay, again, it's going to come back time and time again to empathy, and we're going to blink very slowly for the camera.

00:54:16.000 Lack of empathy and caring, right?

00:54:18.000 That's the shtick.

00:54:19.000 That's the shtick, is that Trump should care.

00:54:21.000 Now, she's never going to mention the fact that there are full-on riots in major American cities that have taken more lives, by the way, than the police took of unarmed black Americans last year.

00:54:28.000 She's not going to mention any of that.

00:54:30.000 She's not going to mention the complete looting of entire districts of New York, L.A., Washington, D.C., Chicago.

00:54:37.000 She's not going to mention any of that stuff because it doesn't exist.

00:54:39.000 Poof.

00:54:40.000 It's just that Trump isn't empathetic.

00:54:41.000 That's the big problem here.

00:54:42.000 Trump lacks in empathy. 0.99

00:54:43.000 And it doesn't matter that politicians pushing the lying narrative that America is systemically racist and targeting black people for death in endless numbers. 1.00

00:54:50.000 There's a never-ending list of black people targeted for death by the cops. 0.98

00:54:53.000 That is significantly more damaging to America, by the way.

00:54:55.000 What she says, that there's a never-ending list of black Americans being targeted by the cops, is significantly more of a lie and more damaging to the United States than Donald Trump not saying the phrase, black lives matter, because it's semantically overloaded.

00:55:05.000 But she is going to pretend that this is all just an issue of empathy.

00:55:08.000 And this is the game the Democrats love to play.

00:55:10.000 If you disagree with them, it's because you're just not caring enough, guys.

00:55:13.000 It's because you don't care.

00:55:14.000 And watch, I will show you how much I care, because I'm going to blink slowly right now.

00:55:16.000 You ready?

00:55:17.000 1, 2, 3, go.

00:55:20.000 Caring.

00:55:20.000 Did you see it?

00:55:21.000 Did you see the caring happening right there?

00:55:22.000 That means that I know what's best for America, because I have empathy.

00:55:26.000 Right?

00:55:27.000 That is the shtick.

00:55:28.000 And then Michelle lectured all Americans that we lack empathy. 1.00

00:55:31.000 I mean, she doesn't lack empathy, but you lack empathy.

00:55:34.000 Here is Michelle Obama again on empathy.

00:55:35.000 Empathy, empathy, empathy, empathy.

00:55:38.000 Right now, kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another.

00:55:48.000 They're looking around wondering if we've been lying to them this whole time about who we are and what we truly value.

00:55:57.000 They see people shouting in grocery stores, unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe.

00:56:03.000 They see people calling the police on folks minding their own business just because of the color of their skin.

00:56:13.000 If we're going to go with examples of lack of empathy in the United States, those can fit the bill, sure.

00:56:19.000 I mean, people not wearing masks when they should be wearing masks and screaming about it, or people who are calling the police on people under unjust circumstances.

00:56:28.000 Although, frankly, I think that that is typically less of a statistical problem.

00:56:31.000 But if I were going to go with lack of empathy in America today, I'd probably go with the people who are literally stopping cars and then beating the living hell out of people Because of their race.

00:56:39.000 That seems like that might be a good one.

00:56:40.000 How about like burning down stores?

00:56:42.000 That's a good example of lack of empathy.

00:56:44.000 Notice what doesn't make the speech, of course, because the fact is that not a single Democrat will condemn Antifa, will condemn Black Lives Matter looters and rioters.

00:56:51.000 Not a single one.

00:56:52.000 But they are the party of empathy.

00:56:54.000 So much empathy.

00:56:55.000 Incredible levels of empathy, in fact.

00:56:58.000 And by the way, Michelle Obama, so much going high here, so much going high in the speech.

00:57:01.000 So for example, like Michelle Obama simply says that without any evidence, we're going to stop black people from voting if you're the Trump administration.

00:57:07.000 Right now, folks who know they cannot win fair and square at the ballot box are doing everything they can to stop us from voting.

00:57:13.000 does that. Here she was going high by saying that black people are gonna be stopped from voting. 0.71

00:57:19.000 Right now, folks who know they cannot win fair and square at the ballot box are doing everything they can to stop us from voting. They're closing down polling places in minority neighborhoods. They're purging voter rolls.

00:57:34.000 They're sending people out to intimidate voters, and they're lying about the security of our ballots.

00:57:41.000 These tactics are not new.

00:57:43.000 Okay, and then she goes on to try and compare this to the past of voter suppression in the United States, which is patently crazy.

00:57:51.000 Again, black Americans have voted in larger numbers than the percentage of the population for several election cycles in a row in the United States, actually.

00:57:57.000 Barack Obama was reelected in 2012 almost solely because of that, statistically speaking.

00:58:01.000 And then finally, Michelle gets to her final pitch, which is Trump is in over his head, which I need to hear from a former first lady who has run precisely zero things.

00:58:08.000 Zero.

00:58:09.000 Like, listen, I may agree that Trump has botched a fair number of things, but Michelle Obama's experience with running things is basically relegated to the White House vegetable garden.

00:58:18.000 If you want to have Barack Obama say this, he's allowed to do it.

00:58:21.000 If you want to have any governor say this, they're allowed to, except for Andrew Cuomo, he's not allowed to say it.

00:58:25.000 But Michelle Obama saying that Trump is in over his head, again, I don't know what her qualifications are to say this.

00:58:30.000 I understand she's a popular political figure and it's a popular thing to say, but I'm just wondering what she has run so successfully that it gives her the credibility to say this sort of thing.

00:58:39.000 Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country.

00:58:43.000 He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head.

00:58:51.000 He cannot meet this moment.

00:58:53.000 He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us.

00:58:58.000 It is what it is.

00:59:01.000 It is what it is, is of course her suggesting that Trump doesn't care about COVID deaths because he said at one point that when people die, that is what it is that doesn't change.

00:59:08.000 And so a fully dishonest, pretty vicious, viciously political partisan speech by Michelle Obama affected.

00:59:14.000 She's good at what she does. 0.99

00:59:15.000 I mean, I'll say that for her.

00:59:16.000 She's good at what she does. 0.99

00:59:17.000 But is she really about politics?

00:59:19.000 Does she hate politics?

00:59:20.000 You get that sense from her?

00:59:22.000 Now that is the next level of the Democratic Party.

00:59:24.000 So whatever happens with Joe Biden, recognize Michelle Obama is on the horizon.

00:59:27.000 And so the Democrats concluded the DNC last night With perhaps the greatest sign yet of their disconnect from many members of the American public.

00:59:35.000 They finished with Billy Porter, who's mostly famous for dressing in women's clothing and going to large events, and then getting applauded to the media for it.

00:59:45.000 He wears full-on glittery dresses to media events because he's an LGBT activist.

00:59:50.000 I don't know what one has to do with the other, but I guess that's like a thing.

00:59:52.000 So he likes to wear glittery sequin gowns to major events and women's clothing.

00:59:57.000 And then he receives widespread media praise for this because somehow this is an issue of activism.

01:00:01.000 The Democrats concluded the DNC last night with Billy Porter playing a Buffalo Springfield song in a bizarre cable like late night Cable access, direct access cable take on a 1960s protest song.

01:00:18.000 By the way, this protest song was written originally about the 1966 Sunset Strip Club Riots.

01:00:24.000 What were those about?

01:00:25.000 For those who don't know any LA history, they're about a group of teenagers and young people who wanted to stay out past curfew, and the neighbors were like, you're making too much noise, so they rioted. 0.99

01:00:34.000 And so this has become a pro- because the 60s were in many ways an incredibly stupid time. 0.98

01:00:38.000 Children, what's that sound? 0.99

01:00:38.000 happened, very good things happened during the 60s, the Civil Rights Act, for example, and then a lot of really stupid crap happened during the 60s, including some pretty bad music. 0.99

01:00:44.000 Here was Billy Porter doing his transition of a Buffalo Springfield song, because this is what, in, you want to, like, everything they say, this is actually what the Democratic Party is. 0.95

01:00:51.000 It's Billy Porter singing Buffalo Springfield from 1966.

01:00:54.000 Okay, and then it's just a bunch of slogans popping up behind Black Lives Matter, the, the Black Lives Matter fist, him dancing strangely and wearing, like, a weird cape.

01:01:23.000 Peace.

01:01:24.000 Maybe Donald Trump will be president forever after all.

01:01:27.000 Like, forever.

01:01:28.000 Alrighty, guys.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 18, 2020

The Anybody-But-Trump Convention | Ep. 1076

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