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00:01:40.000Okay, so it was a very, very weird first night of the Democratic National Convention.
00:01:45.000Weird because we're in the middle of a pandemic.
00:01:47.000And so basically it was a really bad Zoom session.
00:01:52.000It lasted for hours and hours and hours.
00:01:54.000It had extraordinarily bizarre moments.
00:01:56.000And as always, Joe Biden was a complete afterthought because Biden is an afterthought in this campaign.
00:02:00.000The 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.
00:02:07.000That was pretty much how they came up with Joe Biden as the nominee.
00:02:10.000They even looked at Bernie Sanders to the extent that we thought he was going to be the nominee.
00:02:13.000And then Democrats were like, wait a second, we can't nominate a geriatric communist.
00:02:19.000So instead, they nominated the corpse in the corner.
00:02:20.000Well, if you watched the first night of the DNC, Joe Biden, it sounded like a eulogy for Joe Biden, frankly.
00:02:26.000It sounded like everybody had sort of messages they wanted to get off their chest about the state of America, and all these messages conflicted.
00:02:32.000Some of them were, we're radical, and some of them were, we're not radical at all.
00:02:36.000Some of them were we're going to unite America and some of them were America's garbage.
00:02:48.000Joe Biden is completely irrelevant to these proceedings.
00:02:50.000Kamala Harris is so irrelevant to the proceedings that when Michelle Obama gave her speech, she recorded it like a week ago.
00:02:56.000Before, 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.
00:03:09.000But the real message of this thing was twofold.
00:03:12.000One, Joe Biden is a complete non-entity, and this entire election is about Trump for the Democrats.
00:03:59.000It was all about how Trump sucks and it has nothing to do with Joe Biden.
00:04:02.000Message number two, and it became very clear that this is the case last night, is that the Democratic bench is just empty, absolutely empty.
00:04:08.000So 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.
00:04:16.000This is the second straight time Democrats have done this.
00:04:20.000Republicans 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.
00:04:37.000The 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.
00:04:42.000That is a person who's along for the ride.
00:04:45.000This 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.
00:05:27.000This 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.
00:05:34.000And she's very, very radical in terms of her own sort of political viewpoint on the United States.
00:05:38.000She's very much in line with the sort of 1619 Project idea that the United States was rooted in evil.
00:05:43.000And 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.
00:05:51.000Now, she was always a good mom, but that was the part of the personality that they decided to focus in on.
00:05:55.000And then she wrote this very popular book, Becoming, all about her American journey.
00:05:59.000And now she's morphing back into politics.
00:06:01.000They closed last night with Michelle Obama, who's never been elected to an office at all.
00:06:05.000Who 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.
00:06:31.000We're going to jump into the actual weirdness of the convention in just one second, because it was very odd.
00:06:37.000And 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.
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00:08:30.000In terms of how you present your party to the general public.
00:08:33.000There'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.
00:08:40.000And there's a lot of stuff happening before primetime.
00:08:42.000And it was replete with some rather telling moments.
00:08:45.000And 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.
00:08:51.000So we begin with the DNC chair announcing full out before the primetime of the DNC.
00:08:58.000He announced that Bernie Sanders was basically one of the driving forces behind the Democratic platform.
00:09:01.000Now, 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.
00:09:08.000Here is Tom Perez letting the beans out, spilling the beans about how Bernie Sanders really did shape the DNC platform.
00:09:20.000It's both inspirational and aspirational.
00:09:24.000The input from Senator Sanders and others was invaluable to putting that together.
00:09:30.000The Vice President and Senator Sanders convened a series of policy groups on critical issues.
00:09:36.000Okay, so it was Bernie Sanders who's the driving force.
00:09:39.000Okay, then you got to the actual pre-primetime DNC.
00:09:42.000And this was replete with strange moments.
00:09:44.000So 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.
00:09:54.000If you can't actually see it, it says, our values, right?
00:09:57.000And then it shows the Black Lives Matter fist twice, right?
00:10:02.000The Black Lives Matter fist shows up twice in this particular In this particular iteration of the imagery that the DNC wants to feature.
00:10:09.000Okay, so here is a DNC pastor literally saying that America is going to go to hell if we don't open our borders.
00:10:16.000You 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.
00:10:31.000Jesus will say, America, if you don't get your act together, you may well go to hell.
00:10:38.000Because in as much as you do it to the least of these, my sisters and brothers, you are also doing it unto me.
00:10:46.000So, open your borders or you're going to hell is a hell of a message.
00:10:49.000They didn't feature this one in primetime.
00:10:50.000Other things that were not featured in primetime, so they had these DNC panels.
00:10:54.000One 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?
00:11:18.000Many of the videos and pictures you're about to see were recorded before COVID, which is why the kids are not social distancing.
00:11:24.000However, the audio was recorded over the past month.
00:11:28.000You may rise or kneel if you are able, per your preference.
00:11:31.000Okay, so the heart and soul of the DNC is all the stuff that happens not in prime time.
00:11:35.000Just like the heart and soul of what you look like is the stuff you don't put on your dating profile.
00:11:39.000Then 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.
00:11:50.000Again, stuff that ain't going to be featured.
00:11:52.000This is at the DNC caucus and council meeting.
00:11:54.000The Youth Council, the Youth Council is the future of the Democratic Party.
00:11:56.000So if you're wondering the future of the Democratic Party, it looks a lot like AOC and not very much like Joe Biden.
00:12:01.000Here is these panelists saying it's time to destroy capitalism.
00:12:03.000This future that we all want, that we're all trying to build, really is about the destruction of colonization, white supremacy and capitalism.
00:12:15.000We 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.
00:12:30.000Ah, kill capitalism and kill colonization.
00:12:32.000I'm not sure, like, who's, were we colonizing the moon?
00:12:36.000So that's the solid stuff happening again before primetime.
00:12:39.000Gwen 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?
00:12:48.000We can't, under no circumstances can we let things settle down.
00:12:51.000It 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.
00:12:57.000I know when my son was murdered, there was a big uprising.
00:13:08.000We have to go to the politicians, and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
00:13:13.000Because otherwise, the big uprising is not going to mean a lot.
00:13:18.000Okay, 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.
00:13:25.000Finally, 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.
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00:16:04.000There are a lot of kind of hangouts that are going on.
00:16:07.000It's sort of like Comic-Con for political nerds, essentially.
00:16:10.000Well, the audience last night looked absolutely bored.
00:16:12.000The 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.
00:16:22.000Or, like they were going to absolutely fall asleep, fall into a coma.
00:16:27.000The footage, the cutaways to them, they just look like, okay, are we on camera right now?
00:16:33.000It's like you are during any sort of Zoom conference.
00:16:35.000Like 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.
00:16:44.000That's what it looked like over at the DNC last night.
00:16:48.000Time to contrast the prime time and the pre-prime time.
00:16:51.000So 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.
00:16:58.000At the actual DNC, like the prime time DNC, they played the National Anthem.
00:17:29.000I mean, you can like you can pretend that you like patriotism, I guess, if you're the Democratic Party.
00:17:33.000And 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.
00:18:10.000I 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.
00:18:22.000Now, let me just say, if they play this at the RNC, the Democrats get very, very upset.
00:18:48.000Hollywood's bizarre fixation with the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party's bizarre fixation with Hollywood took on some really weird overtones.
00:18:56.000In 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.
00:19:54.000Yes, sure, we've been allowing people to run roughshod through America's major cities and burn crap.
00:19:58.000Sure, we've been suggesting for literally years at this point that the United States is inherently quite evil.
00:20:03.000Sure, 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.
00:20:50.000Very little was discussed about his policies.
00:20:52.000And there was very little focus put on working men and women across the country, right?
00:20:55.000There 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.
00:21:02.000Instead, it was sort of like a bizarre recap of 2016, where everything was culturally focused and focused in on Trump's character.
00:21:11.000Maybe it'll work this time because people are more upset about COVID.
00:21:14.000But it's a weird strategy to take, right?
00:21:16.000Because you could theoretically talk about the competence level more than anything else.
00:21:20.000And this is what Michelle Obama did, right?
00:21:21.000That's why she's the most successful politician of any of these clowns.
00:21:24.000But That really isn't what they went for.
00:21:26.000Instead, what they went for overall was, isn't the country just feeling too mean right now?
00:21:30.000And 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.
00:21:41.000And I'm just thinking, you guys are the expositors of American unity?
00:21:45.000You want an overarching government that crams down on 49% of the population the political preferences of 51% of the population?
00:21:52.000You'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?
00:22:00.000But that requires a little bit of background knowledge.
00:22:02.000So 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.
00:22:25.000Nobody thinks George Floyd should be dead.
00:22:27.000And, as it turns out, the fact pattern may be that he actually did not die of the knee to the neck, right?
00:22:33.000The 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.
00:22:40.000The 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.
00:22:51.000The focus is not on how we solve the problem of police brutality.
00:22:55.000Instead, 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.
00:23:02.000The story of George Floyd that makes it tragic is not actually George Floyd's criminality, right?
00:23:07.000I mean, what makes it tragic is that George Floyd shouldn't have died and now he's dead.
00:23:11.000But instead, what was put out there was The legacy of George Floyd as like a human being.
00:23:16.000And 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?
00:23:24.000That's not relevant to his actual death.
00:23:27.000But 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.
00:23:44.000He always made sacrifices for his family, friends, and even complete strangers.
00:23:50.000George had a giving spirit, a spirit that has shown up on streets around our nation and around the world.
00:23:57.000Please join me in a moment of silence.
00:24:01.000Okay, and the names that he's talking about are, of course, the names of people who have died in altercations with police.
00:24:18.000He'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.
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00:25:49.000Okay, then we get to the actual politicians in the DNC.
00:25:53.000And 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.
00:26:01.000So Amy Klobuchar was allowed like 60 seconds to talk about why she doesn't like Trump.
00:26:05.000And again, that is the only message here, right?
00:26:07.000There's no message about why Biden is good.
00:26:08.000It's all about how Donald Trump is bad.
00:26:10.000Here is Amy Klobuchar passed over because The Democrats decided they needed to check intersectional boxes.
00:26:17.000So 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.
00:26:23.000I believe that the right to vote is fundamental and the post office is essential.
00:26:30.000You 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.
00:26:40.000And then there's Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, who has presided over a pretty significant death toll in the state of Michigan.
00:26:48.000In fact, if you look at state by state in the United States, it's one of the worst hit states.
00:26:53.000She was one of the people who was apparently shipping the old people back to the nursing homes with COVID.
00:26:58.000That was one of the actual policies in the state of Michigan.
00:27:01.000Michigan currently ranks ninth in America in terms of death rate per million.
00:27:05.000Surpassed only by New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Louisiana, Rhode Island, D.C., and Mississippi.
00:27:11.000And so here she was last night saying that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will lead by example.
00:27:16.000Again, the way the Democrats mean lead by example is we're not actually going to do any leading.
00:27:20.000We'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.
00:27:28.000The 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.
00:27:37.000Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will lead by example.
00:27:41.000It'll be science, not politics or ego, that will drive their decisions.
00:27:47.000They know the health of our people goes hand in hand with the strength of our economy.
00:27:57.000Over the past few months, we've learned what's essential.
00:28:00.000Rising to the challenge, not denying it.
00:28:04.000By rising to the challenge, she means that she did a terrible job in Michigan.
00:28:07.000And people who live in Michigan know this is the case.
00:28:09.000Then, Muriel Bowser, who was briefly considered on the VP ticket, the D.C.
00:28:13.000mayor, 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.
00:28:24.000The story of our nation's capital is a story of reckoning.
00:28:27.000It was here that John Lewis and Dr. King spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
00:29:23.000Now, 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.
00:29:31.000This is like trotting out the captain of the Titanic to talk about avoiding icebergs.
00:29:35.000OK, and the headlines from New York these days are astonishing.
00:29:38.000It'll be things like in The New York Times, like New York handled the first wave.
00:30:03.000Here'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.
00:30:11.000What COVID mostly suggests is that you probably shouldn't cover up nursing home deaths.
00:30:16.000His state deliberately covered up nursing home deaths, said there were 6,600 of them, there were 11,000.
00:30:20.000Here 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.
00:30:29.000We went through hell, but we've learned much.
00:30:32.000We know that our problems go beyond the COVID virus.
00:30:34.000COVID is the symptom, not the illness.
00:30:56.000In like the ways where people were suffocating to death, it was not such a metaphor.
00:31:02.000In a lot of ways, it wasn't a metaphor.
00:31:03.000Like 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.
00:31:13.000According to Andrew Cuomo, it's a metaphor.
00:31:15.000It's a metaphor for his excellent leadership.
00:31:18.000And then he talks about divisions in America.
00:31:20.000Andrew 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.
00:31:26.000Well, he sits on, by states, the second worst death per million rate in America.
00:31:30.000The only state that surpasses is New Jersey.
00:31:32.000Here is Andrew Cuomo suggesting that we've learned how bad things can get when we're divided.
00:31:40.000The 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.
00:32:32.000Andrew 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.
00:32:39.000That is an incredible, incredible thing.
00:32:41.000Simpson talking about how to prevent murder.
00:32:47.000By the way, if you want to talk about shamelessness, wait until we get to the next person that the Democrats had speak.
00:32:53.000They 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.
00:33:21.000I feel awful for the lady because anybody who has a relative die, that's a horrible, horrible experience.
00:33:26.000But 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.
00:33:54.000He voted for him, listened to him, believed him and his mouthpieces when they said that coronavirus was under control and going to disappear.
00:34:04.000That it was okay to end social distancing rules before it was safe.
00:34:08.000So apparently only Trump voters have died.
00:34:11.000If you didn't listen to Trump, you're fine.
00:34:13.000healthy 65 year old. His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump and for that he paid with his life.
00:34:33.000I 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.
00:34:43.000Is there any evidence that he just went out there willy-nilly and started macking on people who had COVID because he believed Trump?
00:34:52.000That's such an unbelievable statement that her dad is dead because he trusted Trump, as opposed to what?
00:34:59.000Honestly, that sort of take on life is a bizarrely ritualistic take on what it takes to mitigate risk.
00:35:07.000That if you just don't vote for Trump, I guess you're immune to COVID now.
00:35:10.000If 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.
00:35:57.000And Michelle Obama, the greatest, wisest, and most wonderful of all human beings.
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00:37:29.000Okay, we're going to get to the heavily political arena of the convention, the Kasich, Sanders, and Michelle Obama triumvirate.
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00:39:22.000Not John Kasich, the former governor of Ohio.
00:39:25.000Now, 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.
00:39:35.000So he literally stood at a crossroads in the middle of a field, like the scarecrow in Wizard of Oz.
00:39:44.000And on one side of the crossroads was, quit the 2016 presidential race in March to give Ted Cruz a shot at defeating Donald Trump.
00:39:52.000That was the crossroads he didn't take.
00:39:54.000He 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.
00:40:01.000But he spoke about being at the crossroads while literally standing at a crossroads.
00:40:09.000In case you didn't get the metaphor, like Tom Hanks at the end of Castaway.
00:40:12.000Here was John Kasich, a raisin in the sun.
00:40:17.000Sometimes 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.
00:40:46.000No, I feel like basically anywhere there's a spotlight, you can find John Kasich.
00:40:49.000My favorite John Kasich clip was back during the 2016 campaign.
00:40:53.000My 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.
00:41:00.000Did you know it's what it says in the book?
00:41:10.000I hope you enjoy this gift that we gave you and John Kasich.
00:41:14.000OK, so the juxtaposition of John Kasich with Bernie Sanders is pretty astonishing.
00:41:18.000It 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.
00:41:37.000Here 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.
00:41:45.000Here is John Kasich talking about how Joe Biden won't go radical because he's not alive anymore.
00:41:52.000I'm sure there are Republicans and Independents who couldn't imagine crossing over to support a Democrat.
00:41:57.000They fear Joe may turn sharp left and leave them behind.
00:42:02.000I don't believe that because I know the measure of the man.
00:43:32.000And I can assure you they won't go radical because I know Joe Biden and Joe Biden is not alive.
00:43:36.000And then Bernie's like, I can assure you we definitely have gone radical and you're going to have to get over it.
00:43:42.000I believe Bernie because Tom Perez said before the convention that Bernie wrote the convention and wrote the platform.
00:43:49.000And then Bernie Sanders jumped into the main message of the evening, because again, all of this is all over the place, right?
00:43:55.000Biden is a moderate, but he's also a radical.
00:43:57.000Biden is very patriotic, but also kneeling for the anthem is very patriotic.
00:44:02.000America is a wonderful patriotic place filled with great people, but also America is systemically racist.
00:44:06.000But there's one unifying message, and that is Donald Trump is not normal.
00:44:09.000So here is Bernie Sanders saying Donald Trump is not normal.
00:44:11.000He is orange and looks like an orange and also is bad, like an orange from the Godfather.
00:44:15.000Whenever you see an orange, somebody is going to get shot.
00:44:17.000Donald Trump is like orange for the American people.
00:44:22.000During this president's term, the unthinkable has become normal.
00:44:28.000He has tried to prevent people from voting, undermined the U.S.
00:44:31.000Postal 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.
00:44:46.000This is not normal, and we must never treat it like it is.
00:44:51.000Tell me more about normality, communist who has praised every evil regime from Cuba to China to the Soviet Union.
00:44:56.000Tell me more, Bernie, about not normal.
00:46:32.000Amazing that he was able to come off as empathetic.
00:46:34.000I mean, the guy's really gifted that way.
00:46:36.000Michelle turns out to be a fairly radical character herself.
00:46:39.000Again, 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.
00:46:47.000I've been proud of this country when Barack Obama was president.
00:46:49.000I've been proud of this country when Donald Trump was president.
00:46:51.000I've been proud of this country when Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were president.
00:46:53.000My pride in the United States of America is not reliant on who has been nominated for president of the United States.
00:46:58.000Doesn't mean I like everybody who's been president.
00:47:00.000Doesn't mean I like any of the nominees.
00:47:02.000But my pride in the country goes a little deeper than that.
00:47:04.000Michelle Obama's always been fairly radical.
00:47:59.000He actually won that argument over Hillary, who appeared to be completely non-caring about people who are not like her.
00:48:05.000Michelle Obama makes the case that Trump is not Captain Caring, which is obviously true, right?
00:48:09.000And that she is very... So it all comes down to empathy.
00:48:11.000Now, as I've mentioned before, there are entire books written about the problems with empathy in American politics.
00:48:18.000There's an entire book by a guy named Paul Bloom, who's a social scientist, called Against Empathy, the Case for Rational Compassion, right?
00:48:23.000There'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.
00:48:34.000But 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.
00:48:47.000And Democrats can always say, we'll spend more money.
00:48:49.000Well, empathy can be equated with money in this particular iteration.
00:48:52.000So their case is Donald Trump is not empathetic.
00:49:05.000I'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.
00:49:12.000He was going to put them back in chains.
00:49:14.000I'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.
00:49:20.000Sort of like, hmm, Joe Biden having a binder full of women he was examining for his VP candidate.
00:49:26.000I'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.
00:49:32.000But according to Michelle Obama, they always take the high road, which is just the greatest myth in American politics.
00:49:37.000Over the past four years, a lot of people have asked me, when others are going so low, does going high still really work?
00:49:50.000Going high is the only thing that works.
00:49:54.000Because 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.
00:50:07.000Okay, she's really good at this, right?
00:50:09.000She understands that it has to be like an Oprah direct-to-camera moment.
00:50:12.000She's very, like, just on an aesthetic level, you have to acknowledge that she is very good at her job right here.
00:50:17.000That doesn't mean that she's telling the truth.
00:50:19.000Because, 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.
00:50:27.000Most obvious example, she suggested that the Trump administration throws people in cages.
00:50:32.000Okay, so here she was last night suggesting the Trump administration throws people in cages.
00:50:37.000They see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemies of the state while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists.
00:50:46.000They 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.
00:51:00.000Sadly, this is the America that is on display for the next generation.
00:51:05.000Weird, because the America that was on display during your administration was complete, utter chaos in Ferguson, Missouri.
00:51:10.000Complete, utter chaos in Washington, D.C.
00:51:26.000began with forced separation policy promulgated by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:51:30.000It 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.
00:51:37.000But don't worry, she took the high road right there.
00:51:40.000And the Trump administration is only using rubber bullets and tear gas against peaceful protesters.
00:51:44.000There are no actual rioters in the streets.
00:51:51.000Also, she says that the White House doesn't care about black people, which is also taking the high road.
00:51:55.000So she says that there is a never-ending list of black people who've been murdered by the police.
00:51:58.000A never-ending list of black people murdered by the police?
00:52:01.000Um, 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.
00:52:12.000And, 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.
00:52:26.000The 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.
00:52:42.000It means, one, the utterly unobjectionable idea that black lives matter just as much as any other lives in the United States.
00:52:47.000Two, the perfectly objectionable idea that the United States is systemically racist and that people are targeting black people for death, which is utterly untrue.
00:52:54.000The 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.
00:53:01.000Okay, so that's a completely arguable idea.
00:53:03.000And then finally, there's the completely inarguable idea that you should not be endorsing the Black Lives Matter organization, a radical, awful, terrible group.
00:53:10.000Okay, but she says that there's a never-ending list.
00:53:12.000Again, this is Michelle Obama, who is just the greatest, wisest.
00:53:23.000And 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.
00:53:31.000Which isn't true, but she's gonna push that line anyway.
00:53:35.000As 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.
00:53:54.000Because 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.
00:54:10.000Okay, again, it's going to come back time and time again to empathy, and we're going to blink very slowly for the camera.
00:54:19.000That's the shtick, is that Trump should care.
00:54:21.000Now, 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.
00:54:28.000She's not going to mention any of that.
00:54:30.000She's not going to mention the complete looting of entire districts of New York, L.A., Washington, D.C., Chicago.
00:54:37.000She's not going to mention any of that stuff because it doesn't exist.
00:54:43.000And it doesn't matter that politicians pushing the lying narrative that America is systemically racist and targeting black people for death in endless numbers.
00:54:50.000There's a never-ending list of black people targeted for death by the cops.
00:54:53.000That is significantly more damaging to America, by the way.
00:54:55.000What 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.
00:55:05.000But she is going to pretend that this is all just an issue of empathy.
00:55:08.000And this is the game the Democrats love to play.
00:55:10.000If you disagree with them, it's because you're just not caring enough, guys.
00:55:38.000Right now, kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another.
00:55:48.000They're looking around wondering if we've been lying to them this whole time about who we are and what we truly value.
00:55:57.000They see people shouting in grocery stores, unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe.
00:56:03.000They see people calling the police on folks minding their own business just because of the color of their skin.
00:56:13.000If we're going to go with examples of lack of empathy in the United States, those can fit the bill, sure.
00:56:19.000I 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.
00:56:28.000Although, frankly, I think that that is typically less of a statistical problem.
00:56:31.000But 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.
00:56:39.000That seems like that might be a good one.
00:56:42.000That's a good example of lack of empathy.
00:56:44.000Notice 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.
00:56:55.000Incredible levels of empathy, in fact.
00:56:58.000And by the way, Michelle Obama, so much going high here, so much going high in the speech.
00:57:01.000So 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.
00:57:07.000Right now, folks who know they cannot win fair and square at the ballot box are doing everything they can to stop us from voting.
00:57:13.000does that. Here she was going high by saying that black people are gonna be stopped from voting.
00:57:19.000Right 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.
00:57:34.000They're sending people out to intimidate voters, and they're lying about the security of our ballots.
00:57:43.000Okay, and then she goes on to try and compare this to the past of voter suppression in the United States, which is patently crazy.
00:57:51.000Again, 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.
00:57:57.000Barack Obama was reelected in 2012 almost solely because of that, statistically speaking.
00:58:01.000And 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.
00:58:09.000Like, 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.
00:58:18.000If you want to have Barack Obama say this, he's allowed to do it.
00:58:21.000If you want to have any governor say this, they're allowed to, except for Andrew Cuomo, he's not allowed to say it.
00:58:25.000But Michelle Obama saying that Trump is in over his head, again, I don't know what her qualifications are to say this.
00:58:30.000I 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.
00:58:39.000Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country.
00:58:43.000He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head.
00:59:01.000It 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.
00:59:08.000And so a fully dishonest, pretty vicious, viciously political partisan speech by Michelle Obama affected.
00:59:22.000Now that is the next level of the Democratic Party.
00:59:24.000So whatever happens with Joe Biden, recognize Michelle Obama is on the horizon.
00:59:27.000And so the Democrats concluded the DNC last night With perhaps the greatest sign yet of their disconnect from many members of the American public.
00:59:35.000They 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.
00:59:45.000He wears full-on glittery dresses to media events because he's an LGBT activist.
00:59:50.000I don't know what one has to do with the other, but I guess that's like a thing.
00:59:52.000So he likes to wear glittery sequin gowns to major events and women's clothing.
00:59:57.000And then he receives widespread media praise for this because somehow this is an issue of activism.
01:00:01.000The 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.
01:00:18.000By the way, this protest song was written originally about the 1966 Sunset Strip Club Riots.
01:00:25.000For 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.
01:00:34.000And so this has become a pro- because the 60s were in many ways an incredibly stupid time.
01:00:38.000happened, 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.
01:00:44.000Here 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.
01:00:51.000It's Billy Porter singing Buffalo Springfield from 1966.
01:00:54.000Okay, 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.
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