A would-be dogfight turns into a group hug, and Democrats' impeachment efforts move forward. Ben Shapiro reacts to the Democratic Debates, and asks why Bernie Sanders isn t jockeying for position. Plus, why is Elizabeth Warren not attacking Pete Buttigieg? And why is Bernie Sanders not going after Elizabeth Warren, even though he's gaining ground in the polls and gaining on her in the primary? And what s going on with Joe Biden, you ask? Well, as it turns out, he's not running for president after all, and he's running for vice president, which is not a bad thing at all, if you're looking for a guy who's going to take down Donald Trump in 2020. This is The Ben Shapiro Show, and it's sponsored by ExpressVPN. Stop putting your online data at risk! Get protected at ExpressVpn.com/ProtectYourData and get protected against online data theft at Parcast Secure Your Online Data Protections! Protect Your Online Privacy Protect Your Personal Data Protect Your Privacy! Use the Parcast Privacy Checkup tool to protect your data and keep it secure and secure. You can get 20% off your first month with discount code ProtectYourData.org. Use discount code: PGPURCHILDhood to get 10% off the entire month of your membership when you shop using PGPPGR. Protect your data protection tool! You'll get access to all of the latest tools, including PGP's newest features, and access to PGP and PGPVpn's newest software, and training software, including the ability to run a free 3D printing program, and much more! FREE Training and training, plus access to the PGPPROMOTION! PGP is a $10,000 gets you a year-and-rewrite your PGP membership gets you an ad-free 7-day trial, plus a FREE PRICING plan, plus an additional $50,000 discount when you sign up to become a patron gets you get $5,000 in-get-a chance to use PGP Plus 4-get a VIP membership gets $4,000, and a discount, and get an ad discount, plus 7-get an ad, and you'll get $4-get 4-choice option, and they'll get 7-choice of PGP gets $5-choice, and she gets $25,000 and a mentor gets an ad?
00:00:36.000If you are at the bottom of this pack, if you are Cory Booker, for example, or Kamala Harris, if you're one of these characters who literally has no shot of winning the nomination, then why are you sitting around waiting?
00:01:39.000Why is Bernie Sanders not going after Warren?
00:01:41.000If he wants to regain any sort of mojo here, he has to take back the Elizabeth Warren crowd and bring it back into his column, because he ain't going nowhere.
00:02:27.000And these candidates are incredibly, incredibly off-putting.
00:02:30.000The more people see of Elizabeth Warren, the less they like her.
00:02:32.000The more people see of Pete Buttigieg, the more they like him, except when he actually reveals his true face, which is that he is an extraordinarily radical candidate.
00:02:40.000He doesn't like to reveal that too often.
00:02:42.000He made that mistake early in the campaign.
00:02:43.000He campaigned as a moderate, started to rise, moved to the left, and then immediately fell.
00:02:58.000So there's a lot of talk today about Joe Biden falling down on the job, Joe Biden having a bad debate.
00:03:03.000And the reason people are saying that Joe Biden had a bad debate is because Joe Biden was basically some ambulance during this entire Primary season, right?
00:03:47.000Okay, so with all of that said, let's get into what was actually said during this incredibly, incredibly overall boring debate.
00:03:55.000So first off, the moderators are just terrible because it's an MSNBC debate.
00:04:00.000That means that every single question is basically a kiss-ass question.
00:04:04.000Oh, could you possibly be more wonderful?
00:04:06.000Oh, could you possibly tell us why you're so wonderful?
00:04:10.000Now, Fox News gets a lot of flack for being biased.
00:04:12.000When Fox News held presidential primary debates in 2016, it created all sorts of controversy and all sorts of heat.
00:04:18.000So much so that Donald Trump actually skipped one of the debates because he didn't want Megyn Kelly asking him questions.
00:04:23.000You will never see a Democrat skip one of these debates because the only thing they have a chance of missing is an ice cream cone handed them by Rachel Maddow.
00:04:31.000That is the only thing that they, like, none of them have to fear being asked a tough question by Rachel Maddow.
00:05:05.000Mr. Beret recently told Congress, quote, the majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by white supremacist violence.
00:05:15.000Congresswoman Gabbard, to you, as president, would you direct the federal government to do something about this problem that it is not currently doing?
00:05:23.000Vice President Biden, you suggested in your campaign that if you defeat President Trump, Republicans will start working with Democrats again.
00:05:31.000But right now, Republicans in Congress, including some of whom you've worked with for decades, are demanding investigations not only of you, but also of your son.
00:05:40.000Okay, so now, so every single question is, could you possibly be more far left?
00:05:44.000Like, let's just push you to the left.
00:05:46.000So that's what the debate was last night.
00:05:49.000Which is why he sort of ended up with this whole kumbaya moment.
00:05:51.000Now listen, CNN got a lot of flack in debates that were held before this one for supposedly contributing to the candidates attacking each other.
00:06:01.000The only purpose of a debate is to highlight differences between the candidates, not to highlight similarities between the candidates.
00:06:06.000But MSNBC, because it is an insane, ridiculous network, decides that instead the purpose of the debate should basically be generalized kiss-assery and demonstrating the unity of the Democratic Party in the face of Donald Trump.
00:06:26.000By the way, when Republicans hosted debates, when Republicans had a debate in 2016, and Fox News was hosting the debates, there was no point at which Sean Hannity was one of the hosts of the debate.
00:06:44.000Because Sean is a partisan, an open partisan.
00:06:47.000Rachel Maddow is an open partisan, and bringing in Rachel Maddow to play this game is just ridiculous.
00:06:52.000So obviously nothing new was learned last night.
00:06:54.000It was supposed to be a showpiece for the candidates.
00:06:56.000Instead, it ended up being an incredibly boring affair with really very few punches thrown.
00:07:02.000Except for the punches that Joe Biden threw at himself, but we're all used to those at this point.
00:07:06.000Okay, we'll get to the actual content of what the candidates had to say in just one moment.
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00:08:32.000Amy Klobuchar is certainly not as irritating as Elizabeth Warren.
00:08:37.000On the other hand, Kamala Harris is significantly more irritating than Elizabeth Warren, but Elizabeth Warren is an irritating human being.
00:08:44.000Okay, so I'm very friendly with Senator Ted Cruz, but during the 2016 campaign, There is no question that Senator Cruz came off as insincere in his affect, right?
00:08:55.000It's just a problem that Senator Cruz has in his affect when he speaks on stage.
00:08:59.000Elizabeth Warren has the exact same problem.
00:09:42.000My favorite answer to the how bad is Donald Trump question came from Amy Klobuchar, who decided, you know what would be worthwhile?
00:09:47.000I'm gonna quote Jimmy Carter, the worst president of the last 50 years, to talk about honor and dignity and integrity.
00:09:53.000A guy who was ousted from office after, he's the only president of the last 50 years, ousted from office after one term with no huge third party threat like Ross Perot in the wings.
00:10:03.000Here's Amy Klobuchar citing Jimmy Carter as an inspiration.
00:10:08.000I was thinking about this when I was at the Carter Presidential Museum, and on the wall are etched the words of Walter Mondale when he looked back at their four years.
00:11:02.000I'm running to be the president for that day the sun comes up and the Trump presidency is behind us, which will be a tender moment in the life of this country.
00:11:10.000And we are going to have to unify a nation that will be as divided as ever, and while doing it, address big issues that didn't take a vacation for the impeachment process or for the Trump presidency as a whole.
00:11:21.000A climate approaching the point of no return.
00:11:24.000The fact that we've still got to act on health care.
00:11:27.000Kids learning active shooter drills before they learn to read.
00:11:30.000In an economy where even when the Dow Jones is looking good, far too many Americans have to fight like hell just to hold on to what they've got.
00:11:39.000The reason Buttigieg is very good at this is because the question was about Trump, but he made the answer about what he's going to do as president beyond Trump, right?
00:11:45.000That's actually a very smart tactic, as opposed to Elizabeth Warren, who went into battle battle militant mode, and Amy Klobuchar, who is citing Jimmy Carter or something.
00:11:53.000Buttigieg says, no, we're going to have this moment, and then I'm going to unify The country.
00:11:59.000OK, this was his very first answer, his opening statement.
00:12:03.000OK, Joe Biden says the right thing, but he looks as though he is actively going to collapse on the stage.
00:12:10.000He looks as though he is going to actually faceplant.
00:12:13.000It's going to be one of those comedy movies where the person just stops, clutches their chest and keels over.
00:12:17.000Here is Joe Biden's opening statement.
00:12:19.000He says something true, but he also happens to be experiencing some sort of trouble while he is saying it.
00:12:27.000You have to ask yourself up here, who is most likely to be able to win the nomination in the first place, to win the presidency in the first place?
00:12:34.000And secondly, who is most likely to increase the number of people who are Democrats in the House and in the Senate?
00:12:42.000Okay, and I mean, he was like this the whole debate.
00:12:44.000He couldn't get through a sentence without stumbling.
00:12:46.000Because he's not going to get through a sentence without stumbling.
00:12:50.000Just from those opening statements, Buttigieg is the best at this.
00:12:53.000And Buttigieg has not had a bad debate yet, right?
00:12:54.000I mean, Buttigieg has really performed well in these debate circumstances.
00:13:03.000Also, when you contrast him with Warren, again, he looks much more attractive than Warren as a candidate.
00:13:09.000To sort of the general population and particularly people in the swing states.
00:13:13.000The reason for that is because Elizabeth Warren has decided that she's going to run full-scale hardcore progressive and alienate as many people as she can.
00:13:20.000So the candidates were asked about unity.
00:13:22.000This is a question Taylor made for Booty Judge.
00:13:25.000And her answer about unity is, I'm going to cram taxes down your throat, and I'm going to say that if you built a business in this country, it's because there's a road in front of your business.
00:13:33.000That was considered a gaffe by Barack Obama in 2012.
00:13:37.000People forget this because Romney lost the election.
00:13:39.000But in 2012, when Barack Obama did the whole, you didn't build that, and then cited Elizabeth Warren's idiotic 2011 speech where she suggested that the reason that your business is successful is because we have a public school system.
00:13:51.000Well, that doesn't explain why many businesses are not successful.
00:13:54.000Well, Elizabeth Warren just says it straight out.
00:13:57.000She's asked, how are you going to unify the country?
00:13:58.000She says, I'm going to go to the rich people's houses and I'm going to rob their safes, basically.
00:14:05.000Doing a wealth tax is not about punishing anyone.
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00:17:22.000And I believe that commanding people to accept that option, whether we wait three years as Senator Warren has proposed or whether you do it right out of the gate, is not the right approach to unify the American people around a very, very big transformation that we now have an opportunity to deliver.
00:17:40.000OK, so, you know, again, Buttigieg against Warren looks much better to the general population than Elizabeth Warren does.
00:17:47.000And this was her theme throughout the campaign.
00:17:49.000She started off as a person who always had a plan.
00:17:52.000And now she's the person who's basically Bernie Sanders, but spelled out longer and less honest.
00:17:58.000And this irritates Sanders to no end, by the way.
00:18:01.000She's asked about her health care plan, and Bernie Sanders is standing over here going, she ripped me off, man!
00:18:05.000Like, why is everyone talking about Elizabeth Warren's health care plan?
00:18:08.000Elizabeth Warren is asked about her dumb health care plan, which she originally suggested Medicare for all.
00:18:12.000Then she walked it back and said, oh, no, no, no, we'll do sort of Medicare for some.
00:18:16.000And then after three years, we'll have a referendum on it.
00:18:19.000And Bernie Sanders is asked about this, clip nine.
00:18:21.000And Bernie Sanders is just like, why didn't you ask me about this in the first place?
00:19:14.000Nancy Pelosi is one of those people who then thinks it makes sense.
00:19:18.000Okay, so, this is a, uh, you know, this is a telling attack.
00:19:21.000Now, while all of this was going on at the top of the field, meanwhile there were a bunch of sideshows that were happening.
00:19:26.000The most, the most kind of pyrotechnic sideshow was this tit-a-tat between, tit-a-tat, rather, uh, between, uh, tit-for-tat, tit-a-tat, between Tulsi Gabbard and Kamala Harris.
00:19:39.000Tulsi Gabbard went after the Democratic Party, broadly speaking, and then Kamala Harris went after Tulsi Gabbard.
00:19:44.000It was amusing, but has very little impact on the race.
00:19:46.000Kamala Harris is going nowhere by attacking Tulsi Gabbard, nor is Tulsi Gabbard going anywhere by attacking Kamala Harris.
00:19:51.000Here is Tulsi Gabbard ripping on the Democratic Party, and then Kamala Harris coming back at her.
00:19:57.000That our Democratic Party, unfortunately, is not the party that is of, by, and for the people.
00:20:04.000It is a party that has been and continues to be influenced by the foreign policy establishment in Washington, represented by Hillary Clinton and others' foreign policy, by the military-industrial complex, and other greedy corporate interests.
00:20:20.000Okay, and then Kamala Harris comes right back at her and suggests that she's basically a closeted Republican who's just doing this for the press as opposed to Kamala Harris who's a closeted crazy person who's just doing this for the press.
00:20:29.000Here's Kamala Harris going after Tulsi Gabbard.
00:20:33.000I think that it's unfortunate that we have someone on the stage who is attempting to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, who during the Obama administration spent four years full-time on Fox News criticizing President Obama.
00:20:52.000Criticizing people on this stage as affiliated with the Democratic Party when Donald Trump was elected, not even sworn in, buddied up to Steve Bannon to get a meeting with Donald Trump in the Trump Tower, fails to call a war criminal by what he is as a war criminal, and then spends full time during the course of this campaign again criticizing the Democratic Party.
00:21:18.000Okay, again, Kamala Harris is going to win no points with the audience for going after Tulsi Gabbard, and Tulsi is happy to take it because she ain't going anywhere in this race, right?
00:21:24.000She's not going to be the Democratic nominee.
00:21:26.000Maybe she'll run as an independent or something.
00:21:28.000Being attacked by Kamala Harris is not the worst thing to happen to her.
00:21:32.000Okay, so then we get to the Democrats' radical proposals.
00:21:36.000Okay, and their radical proposals are just insane.
00:21:38.000This is particularly true when you get to their proposals on climate change, which bear no relation to reality at all, in any way.
00:21:44.000This is also true of foreign policy, right?
00:21:46.000So, so far, this has sort of been a personality battle.
00:21:49.000The MSNBC anchors wanted to make sure that the Democrats were never asked specific questions about their plans, because the more specific the plans get, the worse Americans like them.
00:21:56.000And you can see this from the left-wing websites that cover the debates.
00:21:59.000The left-wing websites that cover the debates, they are firmly focused on We can't have another one of these debates, guys, where we talk about Medicare for all.
00:22:09.000The last thing they want you to know is the actual plans of the Democratic Party.
00:22:13.000Unfortunately for the Democrats, some of that was able to seep out through the cracks, despite the best attempts of people like Rachel Maddow to prevent people from talking about what they would do as President of the United States.
00:22:22.000We'll get to more of Democratic policy in a moment.
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00:23:44.000All the commentators today are saying Joe Biden had a rough night.
00:23:48.000Joe Biden has a rough night every night.
00:23:49.000It's called being Joe Biden and being alive.
00:23:52.000I mean, last night, Joe Biden learned that he had a grandchild in Arkansas he didn't even know about because Hunter Biden, his son, his ne'er-do-well son, who gets paid to sit on the board of Ukrainian oil and natural gas companies based on his vast experience in doing nothing and being kicked out of the Navy, Hunter Biden had contested paternity of a child in Arkansas, and it came out yesterday that, congratulations, Joe, you got a grandkid.
00:24:13.000Right, so every night being Joe Biden is an adventure.
00:24:16.000Okay, so the fact that Joe Biden didn't perform great last night doesn't really hurt him.
00:24:20.000But what does hurt the Democrats is every time they talk about their climate change plans, they're totally insane.
00:24:23.000So here is Joe Biden talking about climate change.
00:24:26.000It is the existential threat to humanity.
00:24:30.000And I might add, I don't really need kind of a lecture from my friend.
00:24:37.000While I was passing the first climate change bill and that Flutterfax said was a game changer.
00:24:44.000While I managed the $90 billion recovery plan, investing more money in infrastructure that related to clean energy than any time we've ever done it, my friend was producing more coal mines and produced more coal around the world, according to the press, than all of Great Britain producers.
00:25:08.000Okay, so, I mean, him ripping on Tom Steyer ain't gonna help him.
00:25:11.000But the fact that he's talking about, like, these... It's an existential threat to humanity.
00:25:30.000And I will use all that money to do many things that I would like to do, having produced zero jobs or anything of value for my entire adult life.
00:25:38.000During my childhood, perhaps, I produced something.
00:25:40.000When I was a small child, I made poop.
00:25:42.000But since then, I have done nothing useful.
00:25:44.000And now I will take all your money, and I will throw it at the sun.
00:25:52.000What we have got to do tonight, and I will do as president, is to tell the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet.
00:26:06.000And by the way, the fossil fuel industry is probably criminally liable.
00:26:12.000Because they have lied and lied and lied.
00:26:15.000When they had the evidence that their carbon products were destroying the planet.
00:26:21.000And maybe we should think about prosecuting them as well.
00:26:32.000We should prosecute people who run the oil industry, which is powering the lights in this room.
00:26:37.000We should prosecute the people in the oil industry for having used carbon-based fuel that has powered the growth of the globe for the past 150 years.
00:27:02.000And what you get here is a combination of Joe Biden, who's been wrong on every foreign policy issue of his lifetime, stumbling over himself.
00:27:10.000And then you get Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders suggesting a Middle Eastern foreign policy that makes no sense at all.
00:27:17.000So let's go, first of all, before we get to that aspect of foreign policy, I just want to point out what an irritating person Elizabeth Warren is for like the 30th time.
00:27:24.000Okay, the reason that I say that Elizabeth Warren is a deeply irritating human being Is because, listen to this exchange, okay?
00:27:33.000So Andrew Yang is asked by one of the moderators what he would say to Vladimir Putin if he wins the 2020 election.
00:27:38.000And Yang gets off a pretty good laugh line.
00:27:40.000And then listen to Warren come in from the wings with a bat, like a character from Goodfellas, and beat the joke to death and bury it in a shallow grave in a cornfield in Iowa.
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00:30:13.000Okay, so Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders lay out the democratic foreign policy, and suffice it to say, it is completely ignorant of the situation in the Middle East.
00:30:20.000So Joe Biden is asked about his policy on Saudi Arabia.
00:30:23.000Now, Saudi Arabia is a disaster area, and Saudi Arabia is a repressive Islamic dictatorship.
00:30:29.000But, it is also true that Saudi Arabia is the regional check on Iran, which is an even more horrible place in the sense that Iran has regional aspirations that Saudi Arabia does not.
00:30:40.000But, according to the Democratic Party, the solution in the Middle East is to defund the government of Saudi Arabia, so that presumably the Iranians will be able to maximize their regional power, and so that the Saudi government is in danger of falling to Islamic radicals who are more radical than the Saudi government, which is in fact the danger in Saudi Arabia.
00:30:56.000Which would be a danger to not only global oil supply, but also a danger to the region because you have even more militant people in charge of Saudi Arabia.
00:31:04.000How do you think that's going to go with Iran?
00:31:05.000Here's Joe Biden, though, suggesting that because Saudi Arabia is horrible and terrible, therefore, we should think about ending our relationship with Saudi Arabia, which would benefit Iran.
00:31:15.000There's very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia.
00:31:22.000And I would also, as pointed out, I would end the subsidies that we have, end the sale of material to the Saudis, who they're going in and murdering children, and they're murdering innocent people.
00:31:34.000And so they have to be held accountable.
00:32:20.000We have got to bring Iran and Saudi Arabia together in a room under American leadership and say we are sick and tired of us spending huge amounts of money and human resources because of your conflicts.
00:32:33.000And by the way, the same thing goes with Israel and the Palestinians.
00:32:39.000It is no longer good enough for us simply to be pro-Israel.
00:32:54.000Where youth unemployment is 70 or 80 percent is unsustainable.
00:32:58.000So we need to be rethinking who our allies are around the world, work with the United Nations, and not continue to support brutal dictatorships.
00:33:06.000Okay, he just compared Israel to the brutal dictatorships of Iran and Saudi Arabia, suggested that the unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip is not due to the fact that a terrorist group runs the Gaza Strip called Hamas.
00:33:16.000He blamed it on Israel, and then he said he was pro-Israel.
00:33:57.000Right now, we are spending a fraction of the intention and resources on things like the artificial intelligence research that China is doing right now.
00:34:06.000If we fall behind on artificial intelligence, the most expensive ships that the United States is building just turn into bigger targets.
00:34:15.000Okay, so all of that is perfectly reasonable, what he is saying right there, right?
00:34:19.000He sounds like the reasonable guy on the stage.
00:34:22.000And then when you get to the abortion issue, he wasn't asked a question about abortion, but Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker were, and they sounded nuts.
00:34:28.000So Elizabeth Warren is asked about abortion, and she gives the most bizarre answer on abortion that I can remember in recent memory.
00:34:51.000I don't believe that abortion rights are human rights.
00:34:53.000I believe that they are also economic rights.
00:34:57.000And protecting the right of a woman to be able to make decisions about her own body is fundamentally what we do and what we stand for as a Democratic Party.
00:35:19.000The number of abortions in the United States per year before Roe vs. Wade was like 1 one-hundredth of the number of abortions that happened after Roe vs. Wade.
00:35:29.000And if her contention is that poor women should have more abortions because they need to kill babies in order to rise on the economic ladder, that's more of a moral problem than anything your opponents are saying.
00:35:39.000Then Cory Booker says something even crazier.
00:35:41.000Cory Booker somehow links abortion to voter suppression.
00:35:45.000He suggests that the reason that people are pro-life in Georgia is because they're suppressing votes and that Stacey Abrams is actually the governor of Georgia.
00:36:00.000Right here in this great state of Georgia, it was the voter suppression, particularly of African American communities, that prevented us from having a Governor Stacey Abrams right now.
00:36:12.000And this bill, opposed by over 70%, the heartbeat bill here, opposed by over 70% of Georgians, is the result from voter suppression.
00:37:01.000Other than Biden, who actually has been a longtime senator who worked across the aisle on some important issues like, for example, criminal justice reform.
00:37:08.000Other than Biden, no one on the stage has done a damn thing.
00:37:11.000Elizabeth Warren has never done a thing.
00:37:14.000She proposed the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and that is one of the most unconstitutional pieces of government in American history.
00:37:23.000Bernie Sanders has been a career-long useless person.
00:37:26.000Cory Booker was mayor of Newark and then left as his city continued to be in a state of collapse.
00:37:34.000Pete Buttigieg has run a city of 100,000 people.
00:38:42.000But if you're going to say that Pete Buttigieg is victimized in the same way that black Americans historically have been victimized in America, that's absolute sheer... It's just crap.
00:38:50.000Mike Pence was governor of Indiana when Pete Buttigieg came out of the closet.
00:38:53.000Which, by the way, was only like five or six years ago.
00:38:55.000He came out of the closet, got married to his partner Chase like three or four years ago, if I'm not missing the timeline.
00:39:01.000He only came out of the closet publicly once he was already mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
00:39:04.000At which point, Mike Pence was like, You know, go and be well, basically.
00:39:08.000Like, at no point in Pete Buttigieg's life has he faced actual serious hardship for being a gay man in America.
00:39:15.000If he can name it, I'm willing to hear it, but he certainly is not... His history is not the history of black people in America.
00:39:21.000Here's Pete Buttigieg, though, trying to make the case that he should be president of the United States because he has intersectional valor.
00:39:28.000And I care about this because while I do not have the experience of ever having been discriminated against because of the color of my skin, I do have the experience of sometimes feeling like a stranger in my own country, turning on the news and seeing my own rights come up for debate, and seeing my rights expanded by a coalition of people like me and people not at all like me, working side by side, shoulder to shoulder,
00:39:55.000Making it possible for me to be standing here wearing this wedding ring in a way that couldn't have happened two elections ago lets me know just how deep my obligation is to help those whose rights are on the line every day even if they are nothing like me in their experience.
00:40:10.000Okay, that is a beautifully put pitch.
00:40:12.000It also happens not to be true that Pete Buttigieg has experienced serious discrimination because he is a gay man in America.
00:40:18.000I'm waiting to hear the evidence of this, other than just the generalized argument that until the 2015 Obergefell decision, he could not get a tax break from the government for being married.
00:40:31.000Civil unions were still available in Indiana, so far as I'm aware, and no one was prosecuting him for living with another man, so none of that was on the table.
00:40:39.000In any case, Buttigieg's other pitch, so one is that he has special intersectional valor because he is gay.
00:40:45.000His other pitch is that he is not wealthy.
00:40:49.000Not kidding, this is his actual other pitch.
00:40:50.000His other pitch, in the Democratic Party, it's actually a point in your favor if you are not wealthy.
00:40:56.000In a normal world, you having earned money by running a business would be seen as a good thing.
00:41:01.000In the world of the Democratic Party, it is much better to run if you are not rich, right?
00:41:07.000If you are a person of middle class or poor circumstances, somehow this is a point in your favor.
00:41:13.000You should run the entire economy of the United States from the top down as a Democrat, because you are an elitist who wants to run everybody else's life.
00:41:19.000And your experience in doing this is having no money.
00:41:22.000Here's Pete Buttigieg's clip, 31.5 basically.
00:41:24.000It's Pete Buttigieg suggesting that he is the least wealthy person on stage and somehow this qualifies him as more honest or something.
00:41:32.000I never thought I'd be on a Forbes magazine list, but they did one of all the candidates by wealth and I am literally the least wealthy person on this stage.
00:41:41.000I also wore the uniform of this country and know what is at stake in the decisions that are made in the Oval Office in the Situation Room.
00:41:48.000And I know how to bring people together to get things done.
00:41:51.000I know that from the perspective of Washington, what goes on in my city might look small, but frankly, where we live, the infighting on Capitol Hill is what looks small.
00:42:01.000Okay, so basically, I'm not from Washington, D.C.
00:42:11.000I love the fact that I'm not wealthy is an actual pitch for the presidency, as opposed to a pitch for why you should not be in charge of the government.
00:42:18.000In a normal world, people who earn lots of money in a free market economy, that would be a point in their favor.
00:42:22.000But in the Democratic Party, it's shameful that Tom Steyer's on the stage because he's a billionaire, but it's very, very valorous that Pete Buttigieg is on the stage having one election By winning like 11,000 votes in a small town in the middle of America.
00:43:13.000Kamala Harris basically came out and said the reason I'm qualified for president is because I too am intersectional because I am a black woman.
00:43:20.000So again, the real pitch to the Democratic base isn't my ideas are better or I'm going to be unifying or I have great experience in this job bringing people together.
00:43:29.000Most of their pitches were like, I'm a woman.
00:43:37.000Here's Kamala Harris saying that the reason that she's running is to bring back together the Obama coalition and apparently only an identity politics black woman can do so.
00:43:46.000I'm running for president because I believe that we have to have leadership in this country who has worked with and have the experience of working with all folks.
00:43:56.000And we've got to recreate the Obama coalition to win.
00:43:59.000And that means about women, that's people of color, that's our LGBTQ community, that's working people, that's our labor unions.
00:44:06.000But that is how we are going to win this election and I intend to win.
00:45:51.000Which means actually good news for Joe Biden and good news for Pete Buttigieg.
00:45:53.000So those are the big winners of the night, even though Joe Biden, again, was stumbling and bumbling, but all of that is baked into the cake.
00:45:58.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like and a quick thing that I hate, and then we will be out of here.
00:46:29.000It is a fantastic source book on sort of the history of the American Revolution, at least the history of thought.
00:46:35.000Surrounding the American Revolution, and it definitely gives the lie to the idea that the founding fathers were just a bunch of rich white property holders who are only interested in preserving their own spot at the top of the hierarchy.
00:46:45.000I mean, but anybody who has read any of the founding fathers knows that that is not true, that that is just revisionist history.
00:49:20.000So, there's a story out today from the Census Bureau talking about how fewer Americans are moving than ever before.
00:49:26.000According to the New York Times, Americans are moving at the lowest rate since the government started keeping track, according to the Census Bureau data released on Wednesday.
00:49:45.000If rents have exploded, it should make it more likely that you move.
00:49:48.000People typically moved when they needed to move.
00:49:51.000Now people just stick around and wait for the government to take care of them or suggest that their dying town is going to suddenly be revived as long as we tax the rich people with a wealth tax or something.
00:50:00.000It is a bad thing that Americans are moving less than ever.
00:50:37.000That shows that there is something amiss in the way Americans are thinking about what their lives ought to be.
00:50:43.000As I've said before, the only thing you're guaranteed in America is the adventure.
00:50:45.000If you're not going to take advantage of the adventure, then you're missing not only half the joy of life, but you are also missing a lot of opportunities.
00:50:53.000So, you know, get on your running shoes and be willing to move if the opportunity crops up somewhere that you don't live.
00:50:57.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today for two additional hours, including all your impeachment gate updates.