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00:00:00.000The Democrats embrace their socialist id, incivility becomes the word of the day, and the Supreme Court strikes a really harsh blow against public sector unions.
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00:02:50.000OK, so the big news of the day is the Supreme Court has handed down a ruling that does serious, serious damage to public sector unions all across the nation.
00:03:00.000And the reason is because public sector unions are awful.
00:03:02.000OK, we need to explain a little bit about the background of public sector unions and why they are bad and how this corrupt bargain works between public sector unions and state governments, as well as the federal government.
00:03:13.000In order for you to be certified as a public sector union, or as a union generally, that is negotiating on behalf of an entire block, an entire industry, you have to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board.
00:03:26.000The National Labor Relations Board decides that your entire industry now fits within a bargaining unit, and that if a majority of that bargaining unit votes to join a union,
00:03:34.000Then that union now represents the entirety of that bargaining unit.
00:03:36.000So let's say that you are a welder and you're contracting with the federal government.
00:03:40.000So the NLRB will determine that you are part of a sector and that sector can now be represented by the AFL-CIO, for example, if they choose to, if half of the people in that unit
00:03:55.000Then, the union gets to represent that entire collective bargaining unit against the federal or state government.
00:04:00.000And that's the way this typically works.
00:04:02.000In the state of Illinois, they passed a law that permits public employees to unionize.
00:04:06.000If a majority of the employees in a bargaining unit vote to be represented by a union, that union is designated as the exclusive representative of all the employees, even those who do not join.
00:04:14.000Now, the way this becomes very corrupt, obviously, is, number one, public sector unions
00:04:39.000We all want to get to the same point, but we're coming at it from opposite sides.
00:04:42.000If you're a member of a public sector union and you are bargaining with legislators, legislators have no interest in saving money.
00:04:48.000Legislators are much more interested in making some sort of deal with the union such that the union gets paid a lot of money and then the union then dumps a bunch of money back into electing those legislators again.
00:04:57.000Legislators don't care because it ain't their money.
00:05:01.000It's your money and my money that are being represented by legislators.
00:05:04.000So there's this corrupt bargain that goes on where unions get certified as a union, and then they go and bargain with a bunch of legislators, and then legislators hand them a bunch of money, and those unions take some of that money and they pour it back into the campaigns of those legislators to get them re-elected.
00:05:19.000It's happened in California for decades.
00:05:22.000While Illinois has a very similar law,
00:05:24.000Under the Illinois law, the real problem is not just that the union can be certified on behalf of an entire bargaining unit, which, again, I have no idea how that's even constitutional in the first place.
00:05:34.000The National Labor Relations Act, in my view, is deeply unconstitutional.
00:05:38.000I do not see how I, as an individual worker, should be co-opted into the bargaining of a collective unit.
00:05:44.000This is not me voting for politicians who are going to install a minimum wage.
00:05:50.000A group of people in my particular sector who may not represent a majority of the population voting for a union that is supposedly going to represent me even though I don't want them representing me.
00:06:01.000It is removing my personal ability to bargain on my own behalf for a better job or a better pay or a better raise.
00:06:09.000It's removing that ability from me on the basis of a vote inside of a collective bargaining unit decided by the federal or state government.
00:06:15.000And that seems to me deeply unconstitutional in the first place, but even assuming that part's constitutional, the question before the Supreme Court that was decided today was, can all of those people who did not actually want to join the union be forced to pay the union?
00:06:28.000So according to the law in Illinois, only the union may engage in collective bargaining.
00:06:33.000Individual employees may not be represented by another agent or negotiate directly with their employer.
00:06:37.000So my rights have been removed, right?
00:06:39.000The union itself is the only unit that can now bargain with the government.
00:06:42.000If I'm a really good employee of the federal or state government, then I can't bargain with my employer.
00:06:47.000I can't go in and say I want a raise because they already have a union contract and violates the union contract for them to give me a raise.
00:06:52.000This is one of the reasons why teachers unions are so terrible because great teachers can't bargain with the school for higher pay or for a raise and great schools can't fire bad teachers because of these union contracts.
00:07:02.000Non-members, and this is the part that has become controversial, non-members are required to pay what is generally called an agency fee, which is a percentage of full union dues.
00:07:11.000Under Abood v. Detroit, which was a decision made back in 1977, this fee may cover union expenditures attributable to those activities germane to the union's collective bargaining activities, but may not cover the union's political and ideological projects.
00:07:23.000The problem, of course, is that unions use this money in fungible fashion.
00:07:36.000The union sets the agency fee annually and then sends non-members a notice explaining the basis for the fee and the breakdown of expenditures.
00:07:42.000Here, in this particular case, it was 78% of full union dues.
00:07:47.000Okay, so to recapitulate, there are several issues that have to do with unions.
00:07:51.000So issue number one is, should unions be given the power to bargain collectively on behalf of non-members?
00:07:58.000I think the answer should be no to that.
00:08:00.000It seems to me that unions can be just fine if everybody wants to join the union.
00:08:04.000In fact, the whole point of having a union is that people want to join it.
00:08:08.000But if you have to kneecap people, if you have to use the government in order to force people to be represented by a union, I don't see how that doesn't violate the Constitution.
00:08:14.000That was not what was at issue, though.
00:08:16.000Even assuming that unions have the capacity to represent people who do not want to be members, then there was a law on the books in Illinois, it's in California, it's in a bunch of other states in the union.
00:08:26.000This law suggested that even if I did not want to join the union, but the union is now bargaining on my behalf, I now am forced by the government to pay that union.
00:08:35.000So the government now becomes the enforcer for the union.
00:08:47.000So there's a member of the union, a non-member of the union actually, a state employee, whose unit was represented by a public sector union in Illinois.
00:08:55.000And he refused to join the union because he doesn't like a lot of its positions, including those taken in collective bargaining.
00:09:01.000And he was paying something like 500 bucks a year to this union, even though he didn't want to join the union in the first place.
00:09:07.000So, the Supreme Court held today, under the decision written by Justice Alito and joined by Kennedy and Gorsuch and Thomas and Roberts, this decision held that this part of the law is no longer applicable.
00:09:19.000That you cannot force non-members of unions to pay union dues.
00:09:27.000Why should I be forced to pay the dues?
00:09:28.000So the counter argument to that that's been made by folks on the left is, well, what happens when all the members of the union decide not to pay the union?
00:09:35.000They decide they don't want to be represented by the union anymore because they don't want to pay the union dues and they are quote-unquote free riders, right?
00:09:40.000Now they're getting benefits of union representation without having to pay the fee.
00:09:49.000The answer to that is, then the union should do a better job of earning its members' loyalty and earning its members' money.
00:09:54.000It shouldn't be the government stepping in and forcing people to pay the union when you don't want to pay the union in the first place.
00:10:00.000So Justice Alito delivers the opinion of the court, and he writes,
00:10:11.000We conclude that this arrangement violates the free speech rights of non-members by compelling them to subsidize private speech on matters of substantial public concern.
00:10:18.000And this, of course, is exactly right.
00:10:21.000And Justice Alito goes on to explain why all of the foolishness that is being pushed by the left on these union issues is unconstitutional.
00:10:31.000He says, The First Amendment, made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment, forbids abridgment of the freedom of speech.
00:10:36.000We've held time and again that freedom of speech, quote, includes both the right to speak freely and the right to refrain from speaking at all.
00:10:41.000The right to eschew association for expressive purposes is likewise protected.
00:10:46.000As Justice Jackson memorably put it, if there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
00:11:00.000Compelling individuals to mouth support for views they find objectionable violates that cardinal constitutional command, and in most contexts, any such effort would be universally condemned.
00:11:09.000Suppose, for example, the state of Illinois required all residents to sign a document expressing support for a particular set of positions on controversial public issues, say the platform of one of the major political parties.
00:11:18.000No one we trust would seriously argue that the First Amendment permits this.
00:11:22.000Perhaps because such compulsion so plainly violates the Constitution, most of our free speech cases have involved restrictions on what can be said rather than the law's compelling speech.
00:11:30.000But measures compelling speech are at least as threatening.
00:11:33.000And it goes on to discuss the fact that these unions are essentially compelling speech.
00:11:38.000He says that the dissent in this particular case proposes that we apply what amounts to a rational basis review, that is, that we ask only whether a government employer could reasonably believe that the exaction of agency fees serves his interest.
00:11:51.000This form of minimal scrutiny is foreign to our free speech jurisprudence, and we reject it here.
00:11:55.000So then they go through the Abood decision, which is a 1977 decision, saying that the state can compel people to pay money to unions.
00:12:04.000He says there were basically two rationales that were used by the court in Abood to suggest that unions could actually be forced to, that non-union members could be forced to pay agency fees.
00:12:15.000Okay, argument number one was labor peace.
00:12:20.000That's a stupid argument in the first place.
00:12:23.000Labor peace is apparently the idea that if you are not forced to pay an agency fee to the union, then you may instead go join another union, and then that other union will be certified and a different union will be decertified.
00:12:33.000And the answer to that is, so the hell what?
00:12:34.000Why should you be locked into a union forever?
00:12:40.000I'll explain what Alito has to say in just a second.
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00:13:51.000Okay, so, again, the argument that was being made by a bunch of folks on the left is that we have to prop up these unions because we must have labor peace.
00:14:19.000Hey, there's no such thing as labor peace.
00:14:23.000If you suggested on the other side of the aisle that employers should be able to get together and decide wages because what we really need is wage peace, everybody would understand that amounts to collusion and monopoly.
00:14:33.000But when a union does it and the government props up that union, this is supposed to lead to labor peace, which is just ridiculous.
00:14:39.000The only capacity for unions to strike is when they have a monopoly.
00:14:44.000You want to destroy the labor market, all you have to do is have monopoly of unions, because then those unions can walk off the job, particularly if they are contracted with public sector employers.
00:15:25.000Nevertheless, nearly a million federal employees, about 27% of the federal workforce, are union members.
00:15:30.000The situation in the Postal Service is similar.
00:15:32.000Although permitted to choose an exclusive representative, Postal Service employees are not required to pay an agency fee, and about 400,000 are union members.
00:15:41.000It is now undeniable that labor peace can be readily achieved through means significantly less restrictive than the assessment of agency fees.
00:15:48.000Okay, so labor peace is a stupid argument.
00:16:33.000I don't want to pay them because I don't want to be part of the union.
00:16:35.000If I could get away from the union, I would do it.
00:16:38.000And Alito says, and this is the telling point, he says, And this, of course, is exactly right.
00:16:56.000Again, just because a group says that it speaks on behalf of a broader group does not mean that it should be able to leverage the government into forcing those people to pay that group.
00:17:03.000Now, the left is going nuts over this decision.
00:17:05.000And in just a second, I'm going to explain why it is that the left is losing its mind over this decision.
00:17:10.000The left believes that this is going to destroy public sector unions.
00:17:14.000The left truly believes that this decision, now that people are not forced to pay the unions, is going to destroy the public sector union wholesale.
00:17:20.000That basically people will stop paying the unions, the unions will run out of money, and then the unions will no longer have a monopoly on labor, and it will destroy the unions as they stand.
00:17:32.000Because it is forbidden to kneecap people to force them to join a union.
00:17:35.000Pointing the government gun at people and forcing them to pay a union is no better.
00:17:40.000So, if the unions can't provide services and benefits that make people want to join the union, that is their problem.
00:17:46.000The truth is that the American law in states and the federal level have been stacked in favor of public sector unions for a very long time and it has corrupted our entire system of government.
00:17:55.000Unions take more than $3.5 billion a year from public sector union members.
00:18:01.000They spend billions of dollars a year on politics.
00:18:03.000People are always talking about money and politics on the left.
00:18:06.000They're always talking about these big corporations.
00:18:08.000Ooh, the evil corporations that are spending money to lobby politicians and giving money to politicians.
00:18:13.000Folks like Cenk Aygar are constantly making this case after taking millions of dollars from outside funders to prop up their companies.
00:18:20.000Sure, you know, all of this is... Corporate money is bad.
00:18:23.000We know corporate money is bad, but...
00:18:25.000The truth is, the corporate money pales in comparison to what public sector unions have been spending on politics for a very long time.
00:18:31.000Unions spend a ton of money on politics.
00:18:33.000They spend a ton of money on politics because they are bribing the public officials with whom they will have to bargain.
00:18:38.000So, when people are screaming and crying about the unions not being able to force people to pay the money, understand the reason they're upset about this is because they believe that people do not want to voluntarily join unions.
00:18:48.000If they wanted to voluntarily join unions, then they would go ahead and voluntarily join unions.
00:18:53.000Now, the way the left is playing this is that the Supreme Court in the last several days over the course of several decisions, the travel ban decision and the religious freedom decision, that they are now cutting against left-wing interest groups.
00:19:03.000What they're really cutting against is non-legal justification for political ends.
00:19:10.000That's really what the Supreme Court has done here.
00:19:12.000The left has this very perverse view of the Supreme Court that the Supreme Court exists to green-light and rubber-stamp the leftist agenda.
00:19:19.000The Supreme Court is there to benefit particular populations of people that the left wishes to benefit.
00:19:23.000So the left believes that in the travel ban case, the question is not whether the president does have executive authority under current law to actually use national security as an excuse to shut down immigration from five predominantly Muslim countries.
00:19:35.000They say, no, no, no, that's religious discrimination.
00:19:40.000Even though 92% of the world's Muslims can still enter the United States because they're not coming from these particular countries, this is obviously because the Supreme Court, like President Trump, hates Muslims.
00:19:49.000It can't be that the status of the law requires them to actually look at the law.
00:19:54.000And then, when it comes to religious freedom, it can't be that the Supreme Court looked at the status of the First Amendment and said, you cannot compel people to act in artistic fashion on behalf of a group that you like.
00:20:06.000You can't do that by force of government.
00:20:08.000They say, no, no, that's because the Supreme Court must hate gay people.
00:20:11.000And then when it comes to this particular case, it must be that the Supreme Court hates poor people.
00:20:18.000It can't be that the Supreme Court looks at the First Amendment and says, how in the hell can you possibly justify forcing someone at point of gun to pay an organization they don't want to join?
00:20:29.000And it's this sort of shortcut thinking that leads to a breakdown in civil politics in our society.
00:20:34.000We're going to get to the civility in politics in just a second, because the Democrats are moving radically to the left, and it's happening incredibly quickly.
00:20:40.000But it is this mentality that is leading to that polarization.
00:20:44.000Every time the left sees an outcome from the right, every time they see an outcome that is based on law, based on neutral principles of law, that does not cut in their favor, they immediately attribute bad motivation to the party that is pushing that particular opinion.
00:20:58.000So if I say that the First Amendment suggests that you cannot force me to join a union, or you cannot force me to pay fees into a union, their suggestion is, I'm only saying that because I hate blue-collar people.
00:21:10.000It's always they go directly to the character attack.
00:21:13.000It's never that they stand and say, well, you know, maybe this person has a little bit of justification for their point of view.
00:21:18.000Maybe it is that they believe in competing values like freedom of speech above compelled payment to collective bargaining.
00:21:25.000They can't actually credit the other side with any sort of logic or decency.
00:21:28.000Instead, they immediately go to the Supreme Court is filled with a bunch of bigots, Justice Gorsuch,
00:21:32.000If only we had Merrick Garland there, then he would have voted in favor of our favorite constituencies.
00:21:36.000If you believe that the purpose of the Supreme Court is to back your favorite constituencies instead of to enforce the law as it stands, to adjudicate the law as it stands, then I would suggest that you are perverting the cause of the Supreme Court.
00:21:49.000So would Alexander Hamilton, who wrote in the Federalist Papers that the minute that the judiciary begins to substitute will for judgment, it loses its raison d'etre.
00:21:56.000There's no reason for it to exist in the first place.
00:21:59.000So, you know, the Supreme Court decision is quite good, and makes a lot of sense, but the left is not going to accept it because the left has moved radically to the left.
00:22:06.000Now, in just a second, I'm going to explain how radically the left has moved.
00:22:09.000I mean, it is pretty astonishing, and we have some more great evidence of that over the last 24 hours.
00:22:14.000First, I want to tell you about Texture.
00:22:15.000So, if you're somebody who loves information, you listen to this show, so clearly you love information, clearly information is your thing.
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00:22:27.000So much great journalism is being done in magazines these days.
00:22:29.000The entire Harvey Weinstein scandal is blown wide open by Ronan Farrow over at The New Yorker.
00:22:33.000The Atlantic, despite my disagreements with a lot of what they put out, The Atlantic has some really interesting long-form journalism happening right now.
00:22:40.000There are a lot of really great magazines, and it's across the board.
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00:23:23.000So, when we talk about the radical move to the left by the Democratic Party, it is obvious from yesterday's elections that this is the case.
00:23:56.000He was the fresh face, the 58-year-old.
00:23:57.000Well, he was ousted yesterday in a Democratic primary by a woman named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is 28, a first-time candidate, and an open member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:24:08.000So she's a Bernie Sanders Socialist, and she is a former bartender.
00:24:12.000She's bartending until about five minutes ago.
00:24:14.000She's a graduate of Boston College, or Boston University, rather, in 2011, and she is wildly left.
00:24:19.000When I say she's a leftist, I mean she is an insane leftist.
00:24:21.000Not only does she believe that Israel is genocidal, she also favors Medicare for all, abolishing immigration and customs enforcement.
00:24:28.000She suggests that there should be a job for everyone provided by the government.
00:24:31.000She believes that there should be a minimum wage of $15.
00:24:34.000She says, quote, when it comes to power, we can't just be tempted by power and money alone.
00:24:38.000What we need to do is be bold enough and courageous enough to choose leadership that takes no corporate money and advances health care, education and housing for all.
00:24:45.000So this is another one of her programs is housing for all.
00:24:47.000So she is a full scale redistributive socialist.
00:25:15.000This is the dawning of a new era for the Democratic Party.
00:25:18.000They've fully embraced Bernie Sanders' socialism and Maxine Waters' nuttiness.
00:25:22.000Here is this new hero of the Democratic Party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:25:26.000Here she was today after winning the primary.
00:25:28.000She'll win the general too because this is a heavily Democratic district.
00:25:31.000Claiming that ICE, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, is running black sites on the border.
00:25:35.000Black sites being like CIA sites set up in Jordan to torture people.
00:25:38.000She thinks that's what's happening on the American border because she's a crazy person.
00:25:43.000I think that ICE is right there as a part of it.
00:25:45.000Its extrajudicial nature is baked into the structure of the agency and that is why they're able to get away with black sites at our border, with the separation of children.
00:25:58.000We are committing human rights abuses on this border and separating children from their families.
00:26:04.000Okay, so one of the reasons that Joe Crowley lost this election also, number one, he wasn't radical enough for the district, but number two, one of the things that's been happening in his district is that he's moved to what is now a majority-minority district.
00:26:14.000It's a heavily Hispanic district, and he was one of the last remaining Democrats living in a heavily minority district who was a white guy.
00:26:21.000So there's been a real shift in racial demographics in this particular district, and that was reflected in this election as well.
00:26:27.000She is a deep radical, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:26:29.000She will be treated as an up-and-comer.
00:26:31.000She'll be treated as the new heroine of the left, of course, because she's a pretty young woman, obviously.
00:26:36.000And also, she is talented at what she does.
00:26:39.000So, I mean, she's a good face for the Democratic Party, if you like socialism.
00:26:42.000If socialism is her thing, she's a much more attractive candidate on every possible level than Joe Crowley, except for the fact that she is a radical, insane person.
00:26:49.000So here she is talking some more in a debate about ICE and trying to go after Joe Crowley's folks, trying to suggest that Joe Crowley is not extreme enough on ICE.
00:27:00.000If this organization is as fascist as you have called it, and you have said it's fascist, then why don't you adopt the stance to eliminate it?
00:27:10.000This is a moral problem, and your response has been to apply more paperwork to this situation, to have ICE collect more information on immigrants.
00:27:19.000And that puts our communities in danger, and it also conveys a profound misunderstanding of how we should be approaching this problem.
00:27:26.000She wasn't the only radical who was elected last night.
00:27:29.000Ben Jealous, who's the former head of the NAACP, won Maryland's Democratic primary for governor on Tuesday, and he promised to deliver an agenda that makes college free, legalizes marijuana, and raises the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour.
00:27:40.000So the Bernie Sanders full-on Medicare-for-all
00:27:44.000Legalized marijuana, raising the state's minimum wage.
00:27:46.000I don't care about legalizing marijuana all that much, but making college free and raising the state minimum wage, all of this stuff is really radical stuff.
00:27:52.000And you're seeing a significant move, a really heavy move, toward the far left among Democrats.
00:27:58.000Now, that clip that I just played you of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showing righteous indignation against Joe Crowley because he doesn't want to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, because he doesn't want to abolish the people who actually enforce the border.
00:28:10.000You know, that sort of righteous indignation is now what animates the Democratic Party.
00:28:13.000It makes the Democratic Party feel special.
00:28:16.000It makes them feel as though they are authentic.
00:28:18.000This is one of the big problems in American politics generally right now, and this is true right and left, is that people are mistaking decency for insincerity.
00:28:24.000That if you are a decent person, and you don't want to go after people hammer and tongs, and you are not demonstrating sufficient passion, that means that you are not authentic.
00:28:32.000Really authentic people are people who can't keep their emotions in check.
00:28:35.000If you're truly authentic, you're the kind of person who pounds the table, right?
00:28:38.000You're the kind of person who looks across at your opponent and yells at them.
00:28:43.000And that's how we know that you're a decent, authentic person and you're not just a political phony, is the more you yell and the more you scream and the more emotional you are, the more we believe that you're an authentic human being.
00:28:52.000Well, I think that that is about as stupid a policy as you can have when it comes to voting for candidates.
00:28:56.000Unfortunately, it's being adopted on both sides of the aisle.
00:28:59.000But the Democrats have fully embraced this stuff and they're moving radically to the left politically as well.
00:29:04.000President Trump said yesterday the Democrats have become the party of Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi.
00:29:08.000There's no question Nancy Pelosi is now the moderate in the Democratic Party.
00:29:11.000Nancy Pelosi is now representing the moderate wing of the Democratic Party because the up and comers are all Bernie Sanders acolytes.
00:29:38.000Now, I'll say one thing President Trump was not correct about is that after Joe Crowley lost his race last night, President Trump tweeted this out.
00:29:45.000He tweeted out, uh, wow, big Trump hater Congressman Joe Crowley, who many expected was going to take Nancy Pelosi's place, just lost his primary election.
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00:31:45.000So the radicalism of the Democratic Party has been in the works for quite a while, and more evidence of this.
00:31:50.000So Keith Ellison, who's currently the number two at the DNC, he nearly won the top slot as head of the Democratic National Committee.
00:31:58.000He's a radical with long-standing connections to racist and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.
00:32:04.000He came out yesterday, he compared the travel ban decision by the Supreme Court saying that President Trump has the authority, in fact, to cut down on immigration from countries that are heavily ensconced in terror.
00:32:14.000It includes five Muslim countries, but the countries that the travel ban includes are North Korea, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Chad, and Venezuela.
00:32:47.000I'm telling you, discrimination and racism and hatred and religious bigotry is never going to be winning in the end.
00:32:55.000Now, my favorite part of that is that he says religious bigotry and racism and hatred will never win in the end, except that he's a giant Louis Farrakhan fan.
00:33:01.000Jake Tapper had on Keith Ellison yesterday and it got really rough.
00:33:04.000OK, when you're too far left for when Jake Tapper can destroy you this easily because you're this far left.
00:33:23.000Large swaths of the Democratic Party have embraced the idea that every legal immigrant in the country ought to be remanded out of custody and released into the general population.
00:33:31.000They've moved far, far, far to the left.
00:33:33.000Here's Jake Tapper going after Keith Ellison for his associations with Louis Farrakhan.
00:33:57.000If any Republican were to have the sort of associations that Louis Farrakhan has, they would be called out every single day and every Republican would be made to disassociate from that Republican as well.
00:34:05.000The Democrats have moved radically to the left, so far so, that the incivility of the Democratic Party, as I said yesterday, I think that there are a couple of people in the Democratic Party who are trying to hold back the tide.
00:34:14.000Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, they've been saying that incivility, mob action, this stuff is inappropriate for Democrats to pursue.
00:34:21.000They're gonna hit the dustbin of history.
00:34:23.000Those people are not loved by their base.
00:35:09.000There's a difference between a protest and civil disobedience and you going into a restaurant and shouting at people until they leave and then following them to another restaurant and then shouting at them until they leave.
00:35:17.000But the left, the hardcore left base, really believes this stuff.
00:36:04.000This is why Sarah Huckabee Sanders now requires Secret Service protection.
00:36:07.000There are a bunch of members of the Trump administration who now need Secret Service protection, specifically because of the insanity of the left in all of this.
00:36:14.000Here's some tape from yesterday that was making the rounds.
00:36:16.000Elaine Chao, who is the wife of Mitch McConnell, she is coming out of some sort of dinner party at a private residence, and she starts being harassed by a bunch of protesters who decide that they're going to harass her.
00:36:27.000Again, if this were a bunch of Republican men harassing Nancy Pelosi, all we would hear about is toxic masculinity for three weeks.
00:36:33.000But it's a bunch of Democratic men harassing
00:36:36.000Harassing Elaine Chao, an Asian woman.
00:37:18.000People are suggesting that Trump has contributed to incivility.
00:37:21.000I'll admit that Trump has contributed to incivility, but to pretend that Trump is the source of incivility is to ignore the last 20 years of American politics.
00:37:37.000Barack Obama said to a group of CEOs that if they didn't do what he wanted, he's all that stood between them and the pitchforks and the torches.
00:38:10.000So we are losing civility, and we are losing the concept of reasoned politics in general.
00:38:14.000Instead, we're just supposed to shout at the moon about what we wish politics would bring to us, and then, magically, it will descend upon us.
00:38:20.000We've reached the when you wish upon a star moment in American politics.
00:38:25.000So in just a second, I'm going to explain what I mean by that.
00:38:27.000The when-you-wish-upon-a-star moment in American politics is basically the Pinocchio moment where when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.
00:38:33.000All you have to do is shout at the moon and all of your dreams will descend upon you.
00:38:38.000You can see this a little bit among Republicans who believe that all of their problems will immediately be solved if President Trump simply does what they want.
00:38:45.000This is why there are so many Republicans who are willing to go along with President Trump's idiotic tariffs.
00:38:50.000But you see it a lot more among Democrats.
00:38:52.000So among Democrats, the idea is if they shout at the moon, and if they wish that President Trump were not president, and if they yell, and if they scream, and if they make trouble, and if they confront public officials, and if they bang the table hard enough, then everything they want will magically come to fruition.
00:39:12.000The founders believed that it would be interest juxtaposed against interest, checking interest, and that the only way to hash any of that stuff out was to have these reasonable, rational conversations.
00:39:21.000Those reasonable, rational conversations have gone completely by the wayside in favor of people screaming at the moon.
00:39:26.000The RNC just highlighted this among Democrats.
00:40:33.000And there, of course, a picture of Snoop Dogg shooting an actor dressed as President Trump.
00:40:37.000And then the ad concludes, the left in 2018 unhinged.
00:40:39.000Alright, this is a, it's a very good ad and it's also true.
00:40:43.000Now, I assume that the left could cut a similar ad about people on the right saying similarly ridiculous things, although I think that it wouldn't be quite as prominent members of the right saying such ridiculous things.
00:40:52.000The difference is that the Democrats have claimed for a long time they're the nice guys.
00:40:58.000And what we are seeing is a complete shift in the Democratic Party away from a liberal party and toward a hard left party that wants to restrict its opponents, that believes that the Supreme Court should be a tool of its own politics, that believes that you should be compelled to believe everything that they believe, and believes that violence is not necessarily out of bounds.
00:41:14.000Now, this is going to go some really bad places.
00:41:17.000It's going to lead to a reactionary side.
00:41:18.000So, Laura Loomer, who is kind of a nutty human being in my perspective, Laura Loomer, she confronted Maxine Waters.
00:41:26.000Now, I will say that I think that turnabout is fair play when it comes to Maxine Waters.
00:41:30.000She's calling on people to be pushed on.
00:41:31.000I think that creating a certain sense of mutually assured destruction, that this is not the country we want, so you better figure this out, that's not
00:41:38.000So Laura Loomer confronts Maxine Waters in public, and here's how Maxine Waters responds to somebody doing to her exactly what she has suggested be done to other Republicans.
00:41:46.000Do you think it's civil to call for the harassment and harassment?
00:41:48.000Please come to my office and sit down and talk with me.
00:42:05.000And there's Maxine Waters grinning as Laura Loomer is pushed off the elevator.
00:42:09.000But the irony there is that Maxine Waters says, why don't you come up to my office and talk civilly about it?
00:42:12.000That's exactly what Maxine Waters is telling people not to do.
00:42:15.000Maxine Waters is telling people not to do that.
00:42:17.000So when Laura Loomer does that, I can't say that Laura Loomer is wrong to do that when she is just doing what Maxine Waters has specifically asked
00:42:25.000OK, so so all of this is to say that what we are watching right now is a polarization in politics that simply is unhealthy and it's going to get worse before it gets better.
00:42:33.000I don't think that this is something we're on the verge of curing.
00:42:35.000I don't think a mass breakout of civility is in the cards.
00:42:38.000I just think that we're too polarized as a country and we are too in love with the idea that anger is authenticity to let it go.
00:42:44.000And certainly it's not being helped by the by the political situation we now find ourselves in when judges are really, the federal judge has now ordered the Trump administration to basically release all illegal immigrants.
00:42:54.000As long as our politics continues to be this polarized, there can't be any rational discussion to be had at all.
00:42:59.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate and then we'll do a little Bible talk because it's Wednesday and I do hope that
00:43:05.000A certain level of Judeo-Christian values can return to our public discourse.
00:43:09.000So, we'll start with the thing I like.
00:43:51.000And just remember that it doesn't really matter, because by the time you hit your 30s, most of you are going to be massively right-wing anyway.
00:43:59.000Have any of you started to think that maybe poor people don't deserve benefits?
00:44:25.000The good news is that if there's a new consensus built, it's going to be built on the back of the insane.
00:44:29.000So the insanity of some folks on the right, the insanity of a huge swath of the left, this is going to drive a lot of people to say, you know what, maybe you ought to have rational conversations instead of screaming and tweeting at each other.
00:44:41.000That's my hope, is that we can have these rational conversations, because I think that we can, you know, if we can't come to consensus, at least we can clarify our positions through rational conversation, as opposed to getting up in each other's grills, shouting at each other, suggesting that because we disagree on the nature of government, that means that we're inherently bad human beings.
00:44:58.000I think that that can be hopefully stopped.
00:45:01.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:45:07.000So I have to mention, if I'm talking about incivility and stupidity on the left, I also have to mention it when it happens on the right.
00:45:13.000So Chris Cuomo of CNN, he had on Steve King, Representative King from Iowa, whom I know, I think is personally a perfectly nice human being.
00:45:24.000But when it comes to his politics, I will say that he does very stupid things politically on a fairly regular basis.
00:46:09.000I'm here to say that you're so caught up in this us versus them thing with the left and the right that you don't want to give ground on even something that you acknowledge is wrong.
00:46:35.000At a rally this week, President Trump went after Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel as well.
00:46:43.000And these comedians decided that in order to demonstrate that they were not biased against President Trump and weren't fat comedians, they would do a skit in which they all combined to attack President Trump.
00:46:54.000I mean, it is wonderful when comedians basically acknowledge all of their own biases and justify everything President Trump said about them.
00:47:02.000It is also demonstrative, I think, of the fact that all of these comedians are so self-centered that they feel the necessity to defend themselves against the president of the United States instead of just saying, listen, I'm a comedian, which is the actual proper response to this.
00:47:13.000Instead, they're going to cut a video about basically how much they dislike Trump, mocking Trump right back, because this, look, they're happy when Trump name checks them.
00:49:02.000So, I've decided that instead of haphazardly picking from the Bible, as I have been doing, now I want to go through the Book of Psalms.
00:49:08.000So, we're going to pick a psalm every week and we're going to go through it.
00:49:10.000So, the first psalm is, I think, rather apt, actually, this week.
00:49:14.000It says, Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked, or stand in the way that sinners take, or sit in the company of mockers.
00:49:21.000But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night, that person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season, and whose leaf does not wither, whatever they do prospers.
00:49:31.000Not so the wicked, they are like chaff, and the wind blows them away.
00:49:34.000Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
00:49:37.000For the Lord watches over the ways of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
00:49:41.000I'm not sure that one needs all that much commentary, but the tribalism of our American politics has become sitting in the company of mockers, standing in the way that sinners take, walking in step with the wicked.
00:49:50.000If you are following people who you know are wicked, if you are engaging in wicked activity just because it is owning the cons or owning the libs,
00:50:02.000You are standing with a group of people.
00:50:03.000Put not your faith in other human beings whose variable standards of morality are going to change with the times and in line with their own particular proclivities.
00:50:11.000Instead, stand with truth, stand with virtue, and you won't go wrong.