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00:00:00.000 THRILL FIGHT NIGHT!

00:00:02.000 Joe Biden mumbles, Bernie bumbles, Warren fumbles, and everyone grumbles.

00:00:05.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:06.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:08.000 Now, that's some pretty outsized enthusiasm for what ended up being a pretty soporific debate.

00:00:17.000 Soporific, in the dictionary.

00:00:19.000 Boring.

00:00:19.000 Okay, gonna put you to sleep.

00:00:20.000 Here's the thing.

00:00:21.000 There were some moments, there were some moments, but how do you think that debate went last night for the Democrats?

00:00:26.000 And it was the first real debate, because you got all 10 of the leading candidates, meaning three leading candidates and a bunch of Lilliputians.

00:00:33.000 You got all of them on one stage, and it was a grand moment.

00:00:36.000 Oh, it was going to be the moment when we got some clarity on the candidates.

00:00:40.000 Yeah, we didn't.

00:00:41.000 Instead, what we ended up with There was a bunch of people clubbing each other with sticks.

00:00:45.000 And it wasn't really particularly telling, because how you think the debate went last night depends on what your expectations were going in.

00:00:52.000 So if you thought that Joe Biden was going to collapse and fall off the stage, he didn't quite do that.

00:00:57.000 He sort of stumbled around on stage, knocked into some furniture, but he's still upright, right?

00:01:01.000 He survives.

00:01:02.000 If you thought that Bernie Sanders was going to collapse into pudding, that didn't happen either.

00:01:07.000 Bernie was just Bernie, right?

00:01:08.000 Bernie is always Bernie.

00:01:09.000 That guy's been Bernie since he was five.

00:01:11.000 He's sort of like the high school principal in Back to the Future.

00:01:13.000 That guy was always bald.

00:01:15.000 Bernie was always Bernie, and Bernie will remain Bernie.

00:01:17.000 Long after he's dead, Bernie will be stumbling around talking about making the rich pay their fair share.

00:01:22.000 And if you thought that Elizabeth Warren was going to have a breakout moment, and this is where I think that the debate, it didn't change anything, but it did change an underlying assumption.

00:01:30.000 If you thought that this was Elizabeth Warren's moment to shine, she really didn't.

00:01:34.000 She really didn't.

00:01:35.000 See, what we have right now, just in terms of the dynamics of this democratic race, is a three-way standoff.

00:01:40.000 We have the very end of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

00:01:43.000 We have three people, and they all have their guns pointed at each other.

00:01:45.000 And it is utterly unclear who's going to fire first.

00:01:48.000 And each person Has a sort of prisoner's dilemma with the other members of the stage.

00:01:54.000 The worst possible option is for them to open up their guns on the other members of the stage.

00:01:58.000 But if nobody opens up their guns, then everything remains exactly as it is with Biden eking out a narrow victory over the combined voting force of Sanders and Warren.

00:02:07.000 But for each individual candidate, they have no real interest in starting a firefight.

00:02:11.000 So Biden did it a little bit with Warren, a little bit, and Warren didn't really hold up particularly well to it.

00:02:16.000 But the fact is that each one of those candidates sort of wants to avoid conflict with the other two.

00:02:20.000 So if you're Bernie, what you're hoping is that Biden attacks Warren, Warren attacks Biden, they knock each other out like a NASCAR crash, and you just run on the inside lane and win the nomination.

00:02:29.000 If you're Biden, you're hoping that eventually Sanders and Warren tire of being best friends and they go after each other and you just sort of walk through that middle lane to the nomination.

00:02:38.000 And if you're Warren, you hope that Bernie at a certain point gets frustrated and takes out Biden for your benefit, but in doing so poisons the well with all the Biden voters and all of them end up with Elizabeth Warren.

00:02:47.000 So you have all of these three candidates with their guns pointed at each other, but none of them actually have an interest in starting a firefight.

00:02:52.000 So there was a lot of talk before the debate yesterday about maybe this was going to be the moment when they opened up their guns on one another.

00:02:59.000 But that's not happening.

00:03:01.000 That's not happening.

00:03:02.000 And the person who really, in the end, does need to break away from the pact is Warren.

00:03:07.000 So if your assumption, if your baseline assumption is that if Warren just keeps doing what she's doing, she wins the nomination, then she had a fine night last night.

00:03:13.000 If your baseline assumption is she does need to do something, To overcome Biden, and that is my assumption, because the polling numbers at this point, as much as there's been talk about her early polling numbers and her gradual rise in all this, she has no support in the black community.

00:03:26.000 Bernie's support level remains absolutely steady.

00:03:29.000 In Iowa right now, Bernie and Biden are running ahead of Elizabeth Warren.

00:03:33.000 And in New Hampshire, in several of the polls, Bernie is running ahead of Elizabeth Warren.

00:03:37.000 If she loses Iowa and New Hampshire, she is toast, right?

00:03:40.000 She has to win at least one of those two races, which means I think she has to make a move.

00:03:44.000 You add that to the fact that she is obviously the smartest person on the stage in terms of IQ.

00:03:49.000 And she taught at Harvard Law School.

00:03:51.000 She has written some pretty well cited articles on bankruptcy.

00:03:55.000 And I've seen her teach classes, right?

00:03:56.000 And she is fully capable of engaging in the Socratic method of engaging in back and forth.

00:04:00.000 I really expected more from her in the debate.

00:04:01.000 So my expectations were disappointed.

00:04:03.000 You got pretty much what you expected with all the other candidates.

00:04:06.000 You got Biden, who was combative and old and half senile.

00:04:11.000 But the truth is that that Biden is actually pretty damaging in a general election campaign.

00:04:15.000 Why?

00:04:15.000 Because all of his foibles, all the stuff that makes Biden a bit of a weak primary candidate, makes him a dangerous general election candidate, including the fact that he's old and kind of senile.

00:04:25.000 Why?

00:04:25.000 Because in a general election, the fact is that if you are looking for a default candidate who doesn't scare you, Joe Biden looks a lot like that candidate.

00:04:32.000 I mean, the guy has to have people choose mashed potatoes for him.

00:04:34.000 I mean, that's not scary.

00:04:36.000 I look like there's this clip going around last night of David Muir asking Biden a question.

00:04:41.000 And it's obvious that his polident came loose and those dentures start shifting around his mouth.

00:04:46.000 And he's trying to bite him back into his mouth, looking like Jim Carrey from The Mask.

00:04:49.000 And it's a real bad moment visually for Biden.

00:04:51.000 We can play a little bit of that.

00:04:53.000 If you couldn't get it done after Sandy Hook, why should voters give you another chance?

00:04:58.000 Okay, he finally gets his teeth back in his mouth there, but it's pretty obvious that his teeth are slipping around.

00:05:07.000 Now, everybody is saying, well, that means he's too old.

00:05:09.000 In a general election, if the entire general election is premised on, here is an old man who doesn't threaten you in any way, that's not a horrible pitch, I mean, honestly, because he's running against Trump, right?

00:05:22.000 And Trump has high toxicity levels.

00:05:23.000 So if you are trying to run dead tree stump against Trump, If you're casting that in central casting, Joe Biden is that.

00:05:30.000 So even his gaffes in a general election play.

00:05:32.000 OK, so was anybody's impression of Joe Biden changed dramatically last night?

00:05:37.000 I don't think so.

00:05:38.000 Was anybody's impression of Bernie Sanders changed last night?

00:05:40.000 Of course not.

00:05:41.000 Because, again, Bernie Sanders is the most consistent candidate in the field.

00:05:44.000 He was, is and always will be Bernie Sanders, an old red from the 1930s.

00:05:49.000 Elizabeth Warren.

00:05:51.000 She didn't change perceptions, but she did lower sort of the estimation of her skill level because she's supposed to be the one with the plan, right?

00:05:57.000 She's supposed to be the one who is capable.

00:06:00.000 I'm navigating the twists and turns of turning people inside out.

00:06:02.000 She's going to prosecute the case against Trump because she's so smart and she's so incisive.

00:06:06.000 And she basically fumbled up there last night, I thought.

00:06:09.000 I thought she did not have good answers to any of the questions that were asked to her.

00:06:12.000 I thought that she feels like someone who is not comfortable with her own agenda.

00:06:15.000 That's really what she feels like.

00:06:17.000 She feels like somebody who feels like she has to say all these things, but doesn't actually believe them.

00:06:21.000 Bernie is the true believer.

00:06:22.000 Sanders is the new convert who's sort of not into the whole speaking in tongues thing.

00:06:28.000 She walks into the commie church, and she's like, well, I get that I sort of have to be a commie, but at the same time, I'm not really a commie, and so I'm really uncomfortable with saying all of these communist nostrums.

00:06:39.000 And Bernie's out there going, yes, I will raise your taxes.

00:06:42.000 Yes, I will spend all the money.

00:06:44.000 Yes, I will bankrupt the country.

00:06:45.000 Sure, why the hell not?

00:06:47.000 And then you got Elizabeth Warren, and she's like, well...

00:06:50.000 Well, no.

00:06:52.000 And people are like, well, you know, your plan is the same as Bernie and Bernie's honest and you're not.

00:06:56.000 This is why a lot of the Bernie bros look at Elizabeth Warren and they're like, she is a dishonest Paul.

00:07:00.000 She is a dishonest Paul.

00:07:00.000 And that is correct.

00:07:01.000 OK, so we will jump into the actual content of the debate in just one second.

00:07:05.000 Don't worry, there are going to be debate grades and we're going to go through each of the candidates.

00:07:09.000 Suffice to say, Andrew Yang is the only one who doesn't receive a grade because Andrew Yang's grade is Andrew Yang.

00:07:14.000 He just is Andrew Yang.

00:07:15.000 There's no grade.

00:07:16.000 He's not on the chart.

00:07:17.000 But everyone else.

00:07:18.000 We have debate grades too.

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00:08:31.000 OK, so we're going to give grades in a little while.

00:08:34.000 Suffice it to say, this was basically a giant holding pattern.

00:08:36.000 I don't think you're going to see the polls shift in any direction one way or another.

00:08:39.000 I think the media are going to continue to try to uphold Elizabeth Warren as the frontrunner of the campaign, despite the fact that in the RealClearPolitics poll average, she's dead even with Bernie Sanders right now.

00:08:49.000 And both of them are substantially behind Joe Biden.

00:08:51.000 With that said, I thought she underperformed last night.

00:08:53.000 I thought she had a real opportunity to break out, and I think she absolutely did not.

00:08:57.000 The big winner of the debate, as per our usual arrangement, is Donald Trump.

00:09:00.000 Why?

00:09:01.000 Because you had a bunch of Democrats who were shouting at each other about all the things they were going to take away from you.

00:09:06.000 Your private health insurance, they're going to take away from you your car, they're going to take away from you your gun, they're going to take away from you your sense of the goodness of the country.

00:09:14.000 They're going to release criminals onto the streets.

00:09:16.000 They're going to take away from you border control.

00:09:18.000 They're going to take all these things away from you, these Democrats.

00:09:21.000 And in return, they will give you enormous levels of taxation.

00:09:24.000 That was basically the policy pitch last night.

00:09:27.000 Now, look, the Democratic primary debates are about winning a primary, but there is something that I think has shifted in American politics since the Richard Nixon days.

00:09:35.000 So the old nostrum that Richard Nixon used to throw out there about presidential politics is that, he was a Republican, you run to the right in a primary and to the center in a general.

00:09:44.000 And you've seen everybody in politics abide by this nostrum.

00:09:47.000 That if you're on the left, you run to the left in the primary and you run to the center in the general.

00:09:53.000 We now have this thing called tape.

00:09:53.000 There's only one problem.

00:09:55.000 Hey, and things that you say in the primaries don't stay in the primaries.

00:09:58.000 The stuff that you say in the primary debates ends up resurfacing in the general election.

00:10:02.000 And if that's the case, good night for Trump, because the fact is that every Democrat on stage basically pledged to be incredibly radical except for Joe Biden, which is why I say the biggest threat to Donald Trump in this election is and remains Joe Biden.

00:10:16.000 Because again, he is unthreatening.

00:10:16.000 Why?

00:10:18.000 He's the grandpa that you drop off at Denny's at 6 o'clock, you pick him up at 6.30, You bring him home.

00:10:23.000 You put him in PJs.

00:10:25.000 You put him in bed.

00:10:26.000 He watches a couple episodes of Matlock.

00:10:27.000 That's not threatening.

00:10:29.000 It doesn't feel like, oh god, he's gonna shift the country out from underneath me.

00:10:32.000 And that's really Biden's whole campaign is that he's non-threatening and also that he loves Barack Obama.

00:10:36.000 That's the other dividing line that none of the other Democrats can get around.

00:10:40.000 No one has stapled themselves to Obama's pants leg with more staples than Joe Biden.

00:10:45.000 I mean, that dude took a staple gun and just stapled himself directly to Barack Obama's pant leg.

00:10:49.000 And last night he made that obvious and he made that clear.

00:10:51.000 And the other Democrats suddenly realizing that, wait a second, Barack Obama was pretty popular among Democrats and particularly among black voters.

00:10:58.000 They started to pay at least mild homage to Barack Obama.

00:11:01.000 But the problem is they can't draw contrast with Biden without drawing contrast with Obama.

00:11:06.000 So again, I don't think that Biden is out of this race.

00:11:08.000 People are already counting Biden out.

00:11:11.000 I think that he's a weak candidate.

00:11:12.000 I think he's been receding, but I do not think that he is out.

00:11:14.000 And I was a little bit encouraged by his performance if I'm in his campaign and a little bit more encouraged by Elizabeth Warren's performance because she just did nothing last night.

00:11:24.000 She was just a wet sack last night.

00:11:25.000 I mean, she just did not do anything.

00:11:27.000 Okay, so let's jump into how this debate went from the very beginning.

00:11:30.000 So we begin with the opening statement.

00:11:32.000 And they're the usual litany of complaints against Trump.

00:11:35.000 Kamala Harris, who has decided that her entire campaign is going to be Trump is horrible and mean and very, very bad.

00:11:41.000 So every answer she gave last night was how mean and terrible and horribly bad Donald Trump is.

00:11:45.000 She didn't give a single reason anyone should vote for her because there is no reason to vote for Kamala Harris.

00:11:49.000 Here is Kamala Harris making her pitch.

00:11:49.000 She's awful.

00:11:51.000 Trump is a mean, mean man who's mean and does mean things.

00:11:54.000 The only reason you've not been indicted is because there was a memo in the Department of Justice that says a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime.

00:12:03.000 But here's what you don't get.

00:12:05.000 What you don't get is that the American people Are so much better than this.

00:12:11.000 There's nothing more stilted in American politics than when a candidate says into camera directly to your opponent, Mr. President, I know you're listening to this right now.

00:12:18.000 You're a mean bad man.

00:12:20.000 Look how brave I am for going right.

00:12:22.000 Trump ain't watching that.

00:12:23.000 He was given a rally in Baltimore where he was actually pretty funny.

00:12:26.000 But this is Kamala Harris's pitch.

00:12:27.000 Bernie Sanders actually has a pitch.

00:12:28.000 I don't think that's right.

00:12:29.000 I don't think that's right.

00:12:30.000 Bernie is more passionate.

00:12:31.000 Bernie is crazier.

00:12:32.000 Really, I think that people who are treating Elizabeth Warren as though she's a serious upgrade from Sanders, I don't think that's right.

00:12:39.000 I don't think that's right.

00:12:40.000 Bernie is more passionate.

00:12:41.000 Bernie is crazier.

00:12:43.000 Bernie is more consistent.

00:12:44.000 Elizabeth Warren is occupying this weird middle space between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

00:12:50.000 She wants to grab Sanders' policy adherence while also appearing to be somewhat more moderate like Biden.

00:12:57.000 That's an uncomfortable place to be.

00:12:58.000 She's sort of between a rock and a hard place.

00:13:00.000 I don't think that the support base for either one of those candidates is in serious danger of eroding to the point of disappearing.

00:13:07.000 Here's Bernie Sanders explaining in his typical shouting at the sky Homer Simpson's father fashion about how we need to stop the oligarchy.

00:13:15.000 And by oligarchy, I do not mean people at the top of government who want to steal all your money and regulate your life.

00:13:19.000 I mean a bunch of people who run businesses.

00:13:21.000 We need to stop them because they have provided me with these glasses and all my clothing and the pudding I so enjoy, but they're bad.

00:13:28.000 We have got to recognize that this country is moving into an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires control the economic and political life of this country.

00:13:43.000 And as president, I am prepared to take them on.

00:13:47.000 Wow.

00:13:47.000 And he gave you the crazy eyes, he gave you the, he swallowed an entire shovel full of gravel before he even started this.

00:13:53.000 In fact, he swallowed fellow candidate Mike Gravel right before this debate began.

00:13:57.000 That was his pitch.

00:13:59.000 And then there was Warren's pitch.

00:13:59.000 So Warren's pitch is, I'm so brilliant.

00:14:02.000 I have a plan.

00:14:02.000 I have a plan for everything.

00:14:04.000 Yeah, except that when you were asked like simple, basic questions about your plan, it didn't go great for you.

00:14:09.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren last night.

00:14:11.000 The paths to America's middle class have gotten a lot smaller and a lot narrower.

00:14:16.000 Today, service members are preyed upon by predatory lenders.

00:14:21.000 Students are crushed by debt and families cannot afford child care.

00:14:27.000 I know what's broken.

00:14:29.000 I know how to fix it.

00:14:31.000 And I'm going to lead the fight to get it done.

00:14:33.000 Okay, she is... People keep saying she's charismatic.

00:14:36.000 I see no evidence of charisma right there.

00:14:39.000 I mean, really.

00:14:40.000 Like, we had prepared.

00:14:41.000 I'll tell you what we'd prepared on this show.

00:14:43.000 We had prepared for the possibility that Elizabeth Warren would score some points against somebody.

00:14:46.000 And then we're gonna play the gif of her dancing like a crazy person at a rally.

00:14:50.000 And, you know what didn't happen last night?

00:14:51.000 Any of that.

00:14:52.000 So thanks, producers, but we don't get to use any of that.

00:14:55.000 Sorry about that, right?

00:14:56.000 We don't even get to use this tape.

00:14:57.000 We'll just use it now because, I mean, why the hell not?

00:14:59.000 Of Elizabeth Warren dancing at a rally.

00:15:01.000 But that's not...

00:15:05.000 Any excuse to play this tank, basically.

00:15:07.000 I mean, it does not matter.

00:15:09.000 Her dancing like Elaine in Seinfeld, or looking like Kermit the Frog, like, that's, yeah, she is, that's electricity.

00:15:17.000 Well, she did not have the electricity last night.

00:15:19.000 Joe Biden's case was basically, I'm here, I guess we have to do this thing.

00:15:24.000 I mean, like, we won't postpone it, I'm gonna quote JFK, you can trust me because I'm basically comatose, go.

00:15:33.000 Look, this is the United States of America.

00:15:36.000 There's never been a single solitary time when we've set our mind to something we've been unable to do it.

00:15:41.000 We're walking around our heads down like, woe is me.

00:15:44.000 We're the best equipped nation in the world to take this on.

00:15:47.000 It's no longer time to postpone.

00:15:49.000 We should get moving.

00:15:51.000 Okay, so it was no more postpone.

00:15:53.000 But here's his real campaign.

00:15:55.000 Postpone everything.

00:15:57.000 Let's not do this anymore, guys.

00:15:58.000 Please.

00:15:59.000 Please.

00:16:00.000 No more of this.

00:16:01.000 Elect the man who has to be wheeled in to actually perform the office of the presidency.

00:16:08.000 Honestly, the most honest pitch last night, as always, the most honest person on the stage, my boy Andrew Yang.

00:16:13.000 Andrew Yang.

00:16:14.000 The truth is that Andrew Yang likes business too much to be a Democrat, but at the same time, he does have the most pure Democratic pitch, which is, here's some money.

00:16:21.000 So here's Andrew Yang last night being like, you get some money and you get some money and you get some money, my boy Andrew Yang, go for it.

00:16:27.000 My campaign will now give a freedom dividend of $1,000 a month for an entire year to 10 American families.

00:16:34.000 Someone watching this at home right now.

00:16:37.000 Okay, so that's awesome.

00:16:39.000 I will just acknowledge that that is hilarious.

00:16:41.000 Pete Buttigieg was like, that's a funny idea.

00:16:44.000 Pete Buttigieg was the worst.

00:16:45.000 Okay, Pete Buttigieg was awful last night.

00:16:47.000 Like really bad last night.

00:16:49.000 A lot of the fringe candidates had their moments of shine.

00:16:50.000 So Amy Klobuchar did okay last night.

00:16:54.000 And you saw a couple of the other candidates do it, like Cory Booker had a couple of good moments last night.

00:17:00.000 Yang was Yang.

00:17:01.000 Buttigieg was terrible.

00:17:02.000 Buttigieg was terrible.

00:17:03.000 Julian Castro was awful.

00:17:05.000 Beto O'Rourke is just the worst.

00:17:07.000 Beto O'Rourke was so off the rails, he thought that he was driving drunk and crossed a median line.

00:17:11.000 And Beto O'Rourke was so bad.

00:17:13.000 Okay, we'll get to all of that coming up in just one second.

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00:18:29.000 Okay, so now we get to the policy in the Democratic debate.

00:18:32.000 Yeah, the big policy argument, it took up like the first 45 minutes of this debate, was healthcare.

00:18:36.000 So this is always fun, because basically, I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama claimed that Obamacare was gonna cure healthcare, and that didn't happen, and now Democrats are like, you know what would cure healthcare?

00:18:45.000 If we tax the living bejesus out of you, and also get rid of your private healthcare insurance.

00:18:50.000 And Joe Biden is over there like, guys?

00:18:53.000 Guys, this is why Joe Biden continues to be a fairly solid candidate in the Democratic Party right now.

00:19:01.000 Here's Joe Biden really lashing out at Elizabeth Warren.

00:19:04.000 This is the one moment where he lashed out.

00:19:06.000 And Warren had no answer for this.

00:19:07.000 Here's Joe Biden explaining, your plan on health care really blows.

00:19:11.000 It's really a terrible plan.

00:19:13.000 I think we should have a debate on healthcare.

00:19:15.000 I think, uh, I know that the senator says she's for Bernie.

00:19:19.000 Well, I'm for Barack.

00:19:21.000 I think the Obamacare worked.

00:19:23.000 My plan for healthcare costs a lot of money.

00:19:25.000 It costs $740 billion.

00:19:27.000 It doesn't cost $30 trillion.

00:19:32.000 $3.4 trillion a year, it turns out, is twice what the entire federal budget is.

00:19:37.000 That's before it exists now, without interest on the debt.

00:19:41.000 How are we going to pay for it?

00:19:42.000 I want to hear tonight how that's happened.

00:19:44.000 So far, my distinguished friend, the senator on my left, has not indicated how she pays for it.

00:19:50.000 Correct.

00:19:51.000 Correct.

00:19:51.000 OK, so this is Joe Biden.

00:19:52.000 Really, he does get in a solid shot here.

00:19:54.000 There's a solid body shot against Elizabeth Warren.

00:19:57.000 And Elizabeth Warren had no answer for it.

00:19:58.000 And this is the problem for Elizabeth Warren, is Elizabeth Warren used to not be fully crazy.

00:20:03.000 Elizabeth Warren knows better than the stuff that she is saying right now.

00:20:06.000 And so she is uncomfortable with it.

00:20:08.000 Bernie Sanders is not.

00:20:09.000 If you directed that at Sanders, this is why he went after Warren, because he knows that Warren probably does not believe a lot of the things she says.

00:20:15.000 Bernie's a true believer.

00:20:16.000 You direct that question at Bernie, he just goes, we tax everybody!

00:20:19.000 Yes, your taxes are going to go up!

00:20:21.000 Get over it!

00:20:22.000 You go to Elizabeth Warren, and Warren tries to slip the punch by claiming that taxes are not going to go up, that you're actually going to save money since your employer is not going to have to pay for your health insurance anymore.

00:20:31.000 And then there's a follow up question to Elizabeth Warren and she's asked, OK, so do you really believe that employers are then going to take the money that they're not spending on health insurance and they're going to hand it back to all of the all of the employees?

00:20:43.000 Like that's that's not going to be a thing.

00:20:45.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren openly lying about taxing the middle class.

00:20:48.000 Will middle class taxes go up?

00:20:50.000 Will private insurance be eliminated?

00:20:51.000 Look, what families have to deal with is cost.

00:20:55.000 Total cost.

00:20:57.000 That's what they have to deal with and understand.

00:20:59.000 Families are paying for their health care today.

00:21:02.000 Families pay every time an insurance company says, sorry, you can't see that specialist.

00:21:07.000 In a debate with Donald Trump, that's not going to go well because she's going to say that and Trump's going to say, you still haven't answered why you didn't pay for it.

00:21:13.000 You still haven't answered, right?

00:21:14.000 Aren't taxes going to go up?

00:21:15.000 Just a yes or no.

00:21:16.000 This is very simple.

00:21:17.000 Are taxes going to go up?

00:21:18.000 Because everyone knows the answer to this.

00:21:20.000 In fact, this is why people like Bernie, because Bernie is at least Bernie, right?

00:21:24.000 Here's Bernie going, yep, pretty much.

00:21:26.000 Taxes are going to go up.

00:21:27.000 Deal with it.

00:21:28.000 Status quo over 10 years will be $50 trillion.

00:21:33.000 Every study done shows that Medicare for All is the most cost-effective approach to providing health care to every man, woman, and child in this country.

00:21:43.000 I, who wrote the damn bill, if I may say so, intend to eliminate all out-of-pocket expenses He's lying.

00:21:56.000 Now, Bernie's wrong about this.

00:21:57.000 When Bernie says that every study shows Medicare for All will save money, absolute nonsense.

00:22:01.000 There's like one study that says that.

00:22:03.000 All the others say it's going to cost an enormous, enormous amount of money.

00:22:06.000 And Biden points that out.

00:22:07.000 He says, guys, you, Bernie, and you, Elizabeth, you're just not telling the truth.

00:22:13.000 The fact of the matter is we're in a situation where, if you notice, he hadn't answered the question.

00:22:17.000 This is about candor, honesty, big ideas.

00:22:19.000 Let's have a big idea.

00:22:21.000 The tax of 2% that the senator is talking about, that raises about $3 billion.

00:22:26.000 Guess what?

00:22:27.000 That leaves you about $28 billion short.

00:22:30.000 The senator said before, it's going to cost you in your pay.

00:22:32.000 There will be a deductible in your paycheck.

00:22:35.000 The middle class person, someone making 60 grand with three kids, they're going to end up paying $5,000 more.

00:22:41.000 They're going to end up paying 4%.

00:22:43.000 OK, so that is Biden saying the exact correct thing.

00:22:52.000 OK, and then you get to it.

00:22:54.000 This is honestly, I thought that Biden, for an old codger, he didn't do too badly last night.

00:22:59.000 Here is Bernie Sanders talking about health care and Biden coming back with a line that actually is not a terrible line.

00:23:06.000 Let us be clear, Joe.

00:23:08.000 In the United States of America, we are spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as the Canadians or any other major country on Earth.

00:23:17.000 It's America.

00:23:19.000 Okay, when he says this is America, you know, not Canada, he is correct.

00:23:22.000 Now, people on the left were laughing at him, but the fact is that when he says that, he's not wrong.

00:23:27.000 The fact is medical innovation happens here.

00:23:28.000 You want a surgery, you're going to be able to get a surgery in the United States of America.

00:23:32.000 In fact, his health care outcomes in the United States are still pretty good when you remove all of the confounding factors.

00:23:37.000 In fact, if you take away car accident deaths and homicide and suicide from the national statistics, what you end up with is the United States is one of the top countries on earth in terms of life expectancy.

00:23:46.000 So Joe Biden is not wrong on any of this.

00:23:49.000 And again, it was it was a rough night for folks on the left who are going to have to answer these questions in a general election.

00:23:54.000 We'll get to more of that in just one second.

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00:25:20.000 So as I say, the leftists in the race, the Bernies, I mean, they're all left, but Bernie and Warren, Bernie at least is honest.

00:25:29.000 Warren is not.

00:25:30.000 And that's why all the people who are singing Warren's praises after last night, I'm not seeing.

00:25:34.000 Listen, I could always be wrong.

00:25:36.000 I can't gauge the minds of Democratic voters.

00:25:38.000 But if they think that she is a formidable candidate based on that performance last night, I am not seeing it.

00:25:43.000 Because she does not have great answers for all of this stuff.

00:25:46.000 Amy Klobuchar clocked Bernie's healthcare plan, and she's exactly right.

00:25:49.000 I mean, I thought that Klobuchar actually had a pretty good night last night.

00:25:52.000 And here's the thing, Elizabeth Warren is standing there knowing that what Klobuchar is saying is correct.

00:25:56.000 Sanders doesn't have any clue that what she's saying is correct because Sanders still believes that Stalin was great at his job.

00:26:01.000 But but but Elizabeth Warren knows that and her discomfort with her own policy positions was evident throughout the debate.

00:26:07.000 Now, was it a universally good night for Joe Biden?

00:26:10.000 So Julian Castro, who's become the kamikaze agent in this particular race, right?

00:26:10.000 No, it wasn't.

00:26:15.000 I mean, he is just running into the middle of fields of fire and trying to take out other candidates in a desperate plea for attention.

00:26:22.000 So Julián Castro, he went after Joe Biden and he was actually really dishonest about this.

00:26:27.000 So I'll play you the exchange and then I'll explain why Julián Castro is actually lying about what Biden said.

00:26:31.000 He went in there with one agenda with Joe Biden, and that is say Joe Biden is old.

00:26:35.000 Try to say that Joe Biden doesn't belong on the debate stage because he's super old.

00:26:38.000 And Julián Castro did that last night.

00:26:39.000 He's sort of the Chris Christie of the Democratic Party here.

00:26:42.000 The difference between what I support and what you support, Vice President Biden, is that you require them to opt in.

00:26:48.000 And I would not require them to opt in.

00:26:50.000 They would automatically be enrolled.

00:26:52.000 They wouldn't have to buy in.

00:26:53.000 That's a big difference because Barack Obama's vision was not to leave 10 million people uncovered.

00:26:58.000 He wanted every single person in this country covered.

00:27:01.000 My plan would do that.

00:27:03.000 Your plan would not.

00:27:03.000 They do not have to buy in.

00:27:05.000 They do not have to buy it.

00:27:06.000 You just said that.

00:27:07.000 You just said that two minutes ago.

00:27:09.000 You just said two minutes ago that they would have to buy it.

00:27:12.000 I'm fulfilling the legacy of Barack Obama, and you're not.

00:27:16.000 I'll be surprised to him.

00:27:18.000 Okay, well, again, you know, Biden saying, you know, that he is tied to Obama's leg is correct.

00:27:24.000 So Julian Castro there is obviously attempting to, you don't even remember what you said two minutes ago.

00:27:27.000 It's not true.

00:27:28.000 You can go back and look at the transcript.

00:27:29.000 Biden said that if you can't afford insurance, you'll be automatically enrolled in Medicaid.

00:27:35.000 That's what he said.

00:27:35.000 But in any case, that was the hit on Biden last night.

00:27:39.000 And it's still the hit that Democrats think is going to take him out is that he's real old.

00:27:42.000 Now, again, I thought Julian Castro was awful last night, but.

00:27:46.000 You know, I did have a Godzilla let them fight moment, and that's when Julian Castro and Pete Buttigieg went at each other.

00:27:52.000 Two of the more smarmy candidates on stage.

00:27:54.000 It was pretty wonderful.

00:27:54.000 Buttigieg did the, why are we all fighting with each other?

00:27:57.000 Why can't we all be friends?

00:27:58.000 And Julian Castro was like, because this is a debate, moron.

00:28:01.000 This reminds everybody of what they cannot stand about Washington.

00:28:05.000 Scoring points against each other, poking at each other, and telling each other that you're my plan, you're my plan.

00:28:11.000 Look, we all have different visions of what is better about our country.

00:28:18.000 Points to Julián Castro.

00:28:19.000 It is so irritating when people do this, okay?

00:28:21.000 It's super irritating.

00:28:22.000 You've seen it in Republican debates and Democratic debates.

00:28:24.000 Everybody's debating.

00:28:26.000 It's called a debate.

00:28:27.000 And somebody's like, why can't we all be on the same page?

00:28:30.000 And Julián Castro's like, it's a debate.

00:28:32.000 So I thought Julián Castro was terrible last night, but that was really good.

00:28:34.000 That was really good.

00:28:35.000 And Pete Buttigieg deserves this because he is insufferable.

00:28:37.000 He has become so insanely insufferable, and he really showed it last night.

00:28:42.000 I do have to play you the one other relevant Andrew Yang clip, because anytime I have an excuse to play my boy Andrew Yang, I'm going to.

00:28:48.000 So last night he just decided randomly to announce he knows a lot of doctors because he's Asian, which is weird and somewhat racially discriminatory, but sure, go for it.

00:28:55.000 Now, I am Asian, so I know a lot of doctors, and they tell me that they spend a lot of time on paperwork, avoiding being sued, and navigating the insurance bureaucracy.

00:29:07.000 Yeah, that's like me going up there and being like, I'm Jewish, so that means I know a lot of accountants.

00:29:11.000 Like, okay.

00:29:13.000 All right.

00:29:15.000 OK, now here's the thing.

00:29:16.000 Speaking of the the rest of the Democratic Party, the truth is that the main candidates are most Americans are sort of used to them at this point.

00:29:24.000 Right.

00:29:24.000 We're used to Bernie.

00:29:25.000 We're used to Biden.

00:29:26.000 We're getting very used to Elizabeth Warren.

00:29:28.000 But some of the fringe candidates are helping shape how people see the Democratic Party.

00:29:31.000 And that's the stuff that's really good for President Trump.

00:29:34.000 In a second, we're going to get to the Democratic Party asked about racism last night, because this stuff is really terrible for the Democrats.

00:29:41.000 And every Democrat should be asked if they agree with Beto O'Rourke's view on American history.

00:29:45.000 That guy went from being the supposed unifying moderate in Texas to being a wild left Howard Zinn spouting garbage machine.

00:29:53.000 My goodness.

00:29:55.000 You know, just stayed up a little night, brah.

00:29:57.000 And I thought to myself, how do I break out from this pack of Democrats?

00:30:01.000 I mean, sure, I skateboard and I do a lot of weed, but how do I really break out?

00:30:05.000 I guess I'll, I guess I'll read some Howard Zinn and then just flips through like seven pages.

00:30:09.000 He goes, you know what?

00:30:10.000 I never thought of this before.

00:30:12.000 America is racist, brah.

00:30:14.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:33:06.000 So we've gone through some of the internal dynamics of the Democratic Party race.

00:33:17.000 Now it's time to talk about what their agenda looks like to outsiders.

00:33:19.000 So, as I say, if you had to sum up the Democratic agenda, we'll go topic by topic in this particular debate.

00:33:26.000 On health care.

00:33:26.000 It's we're going to take away your private insurance and raise middle class taxes to do it.

00:33:30.000 So if that sounds great, I'll go for it, America.

00:33:33.000 Alternatively, we'll do it, but we'll just do it real slowly.

00:33:35.000 Right.

00:33:36.000 That's sort of Biden's plan.

00:33:37.000 OK, then we get to racism.

00:33:39.000 Are you ready for this?

00:33:40.000 So here's Beto O'Rourke after having read like seven pages of Howard's in in a late night doobie binge.

00:33:46.000 Here is here's Beto O'Rourke desperately seeking attention.

00:33:50.000 Here's his take on America.

00:33:51.000 It's not great.

00:33:53.000 Racism in America is endemic.

00:33:55.000 It is foundational.

00:33:56.000 We can mark the creation of this country not at the 4th of July, 1776, but August 20th, 1619, when the first kidnapped African He was brought to this country against his will and in bondage and as a slave, built the greatness and the success and the wealth that neither he nor his descendants would ever be able to fully participate in and enjoy.

00:34:19.000 I'm going to follow Sheila Jackson Lee's lead and sign into law a reparations bill that will allow us to address this at its foundation.

00:34:28.000 But we will also call out the fact that we have a white supremacist in the White House and he poses a mortal threat to people of color all across this country.

00:34:37.000 He just called Trump a racist murderer on a national stage, suggested that America's foundation is slavery.

00:34:42.000 Not that slavery was a part of America's history and a horrible part of America's history that required the death of some 600,000 soldiers in a civil war and the bravery of millions of African Americans and allies.

00:34:54.000 In the reconstruction era South, in the Jim Crow era, in the civil rights movement.

00:35:00.000 He's not going to talk about any of that, right?

00:35:01.000 America is just a dark, horrible place.

00:35:03.000 And Trump is a white supremacist in the White House who poses a moral threat to people of color all across the country, which should come as a shock to all the people of color all across the country who have jobs now.

00:35:13.000 Because the economy is doing real well.

00:35:14.000 We have the lowest black unemployment rate in American history, but apparently Trump wants to kill all the black people.

00:35:19.000 That's how he's lowering the unemployment rate.

00:35:20.000 Apparently he's going around murdering all of the minorities, and then they're not on the unemployment line, so that's obviously what Beto thinks.

00:35:26.000 I mean, this is just insanity.

00:35:27.000 It's insanity.

00:35:29.000 And if you think that Trump ain't gonna use that sort of stuff in a general election campaign, The Democrats cheering, cheering, as he says that America was not founded on the 4th of July, but in slavery, that we are endemically racist.

00:35:41.000 And one of the things that makes Beto so repellent as a candidate and now as a human being is that he is the race equivalent of the guy who declares himself a male feminist.

00:35:51.000 The guy who says, well, you know, it's not just that I stand for female rights.

00:35:54.000 I'm a male feminist.

00:35:55.000 I'm more woke than the females are.

00:35:58.000 Beto is more woke.

00:35:59.000 He's more woke than anybody.

00:36:01.000 He's going to acknowledge his white privilege, so elect him to president.

00:36:03.000 Make that white guy president so he can acknowledge his white privilege from the White House.

00:36:06.000 Perfect pitch, Beto.

00:36:08.000 And then Cory Booker comes out there and he's like, you know what?

00:36:12.000 Black people are in jail disproportionately because of racism.

00:36:14.000 Not because people get arrested for crimes, and disproportionately those people happen to be minority.

00:36:20.000 But just randomly, the police are just picking up black folks and throwing them in jail.

00:36:23.000 Which would be pretty wild if that were true, but it ain't.

00:36:26.000 So here's Cory Booker doing this routine.

00:36:28.000 We have systemic racism that is eroding our nation, from healthcare to the criminal justice system.

00:36:35.000 And it's nice to go all the way back to slavery, but dear God, we have a criminal justice system that is so racially biased, we have more African Americans under criminal supervision today than all the slaves in 1850.

00:36:48.000 Okay, there's a difference.

00:36:49.000 The slaves in 1850 didn't commit crimes.

00:36:51.000 If you're talking about people who are in jail, they committed crimes.

00:36:54.000 They were convicted of crimes.

00:36:55.000 Slaves were innocent.

00:36:56.000 They were brought here against their will and then forced to work and give their labor to others at the point of sword, effectively.

00:37:04.000 To compare people who are in prison now to slaves brought over against their will, in many cases raped, separated from their families, Beaten?

00:37:13.000 I mean, like, come the hell on.

00:37:15.000 I mean, this is insanity.

00:37:16.000 It's insanity.

00:37:17.000 So, you know, does this cut in Trump's favor?

00:37:19.000 You bet it cuts in Trump's favor.

00:37:20.000 Here's Joe Biden botching his line and suggesting that nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime.

00:37:25.000 Nobody!

00:37:26.000 So I guess Bernie Madoff's about to get out of jail.

00:37:28.000 That's exciting.

00:37:29.000 Nobody should be in jail for a non-violent crime.

00:37:33.000 When we were in the White House, we released 36,000 people from the federal prison system.

00:37:38.000 Nobody should be in jail for a non-violent crime?

00:37:39.000 Like no one?

00:37:40.000 How about like drug dealing?

00:37:42.000 Not drug using, like drug dealing.

00:37:43.000 That's a non-violent crime.

00:37:44.000 Let's say that you're dealing crack to 12-year-old kids outside a playground.

00:37:46.000 Should you be in jail for that?

00:37:48.000 I feel like sort of.

00:37:49.000 I feel like that, yeah, I feel like that should probably be a jailable offense.

00:37:53.000 Let's say you commit embezzlement.

00:37:54.000 Does that seem like something you should go to jail for?

00:37:56.000 So later he says, well, he meant nonviolent drug crime.

00:37:59.000 Again, there are lots of drug dealers who are in prison who are dealing drugs to children.

00:38:03.000 Should they be in prison?

00:38:04.000 Yes.

00:38:04.000 Yes, they should.

00:38:05.000 By the way, the vast majority of people in, we've gone through these stats before.

00:38:08.000 The vast majority of people in prison on the state and federal level are not there for nonviolent drug possession offenses.

00:38:13.000 That is a minute percentage of both the state and federal prison population.

00:38:17.000 But we're gonna pretend this is all racism and all the rest.

00:38:19.000 Okay, then, the Democrats get to gun control.

00:38:22.000 And this gets really wild.

00:38:24.000 So Beto, again, just Leroy Jenkins-ing the hell out of this thing.

00:38:27.000 So Democrats are, Cory Booker literally came out this morning, and he was like, you know, Republicans, they keep, after the debate, Republicans, they keep saying that, that this is fear, that Democrats are gonna confiscate their weapons.

00:38:38.000 That's fear-mongering, is what Cory Booker said.

00:38:41.000 And then, we don't even have to play Booker, and then we have, and then Beto is just like, LEROY JENKINS!

00:38:47.000 Sirius Beto saying, I'm coming for your gun.

00:38:49.000 Yeah, you and who else, buddy?

00:38:51.000 Hell yes!

00:38:51.000 We're gonna take your AR-15, your AK-47.

00:38:52.000 We're not gonna allow it to be used against... People cheering this.

00:38:57.000 ...any more.

00:38:59.000 You know, we have this thing called the Second Amendment in the United States.

00:39:02.000 You are going to criminalize my ownership of an AR-15?

00:39:05.000 Have I committed a crime?

00:39:07.000 You're going to come to my house with the police and you're going to threaten to jail or shoot me if I don't hand over my weapon that I own to protect myself from criminals and from tyranny?

00:39:16.000 That's Beto's plan?

00:39:19.000 Yeah, good luck with this in a general election cycle, guys.

00:39:22.000 Again, Joe Biden desperately trying to cling on to moderation here.

00:39:25.000 I mean, he's like grabbing the hem of the Democratic Party skirt and being like, guys, guys, don't do it.

00:39:30.000 Here's Joe Biden talking about how you can't simply declare that you're going to take everybody's guns.

00:39:35.000 We have this thing called the Constitution.

00:39:37.000 And the crowd cheering, cheering Kamala Harris, saying, we don't need a Constitution.

00:39:43.000 Nobody's nobody cares about the Constitution anymore, old man.

00:39:46.000 Listen to this exchange.

00:39:47.000 It's astonishing.

00:39:48.000 You can't do it by executive order any more than Trump can do things when he says he can do it by executive order.

00:39:54.000 Does the vice president have a point there?

00:39:56.000 Some things you can.

00:39:57.000 Many things you can't.

00:39:58.000 Let's let the senator answer.

00:40:00.000 Well, I mean, I would just say, hey, Joe, instead of saying, no, we can't, let's say, yes, we can.

00:40:06.000 She breaks out that joker laugh.

00:40:16.000 I mean, that is some creepy bleep.

00:40:18.000 And Biden at the very end, Biden gets laughed over.

00:40:21.000 He says, let's be constitutional.

00:40:22.000 We've got a constitution.

00:40:24.000 And Kamala Harris is like.

00:40:28.000 All right.

00:40:29.000 All right, Democratic Party.

00:40:30.000 This is the route you want to go.

00:40:31.000 All right.

00:40:31.000 And then Elizabeth Warren jumps in and she's like, you know what?

00:40:34.000 Let's just dump the filibuster.

00:40:36.000 Right.

00:40:36.000 You know, we need to get rid of the filibuster.

00:40:37.000 OK, so I have this thing that I want to remind Elizabeth Warren of.

00:40:40.000 You know who's in charge of the Senate right now?

00:40:42.000 Mitch McConnell.

00:40:44.000 You want to do this thing?

00:40:45.000 I say Mitch McConnell should put up for a vote dumping the filibuster today.

00:40:48.000 And let's see how Elizabeth Warren votes on it when it's Republicans in charge.

00:40:51.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren going, yeah, let's just dump the filibuster and then we can ram through gun control and confiscation.

00:40:56.000 We have a Congress that is beholden to the gun industry.

00:41:01.000 And unless we're willing to address that head-on and roll back the filibuster, we're not going to get anything done on guns.

00:41:10.000 I was in the United States Senate when 54 senators said, let's do background checks, let's get rid of assault weapons.

00:41:19.000 And with 54 senators, it failed because of the filibuster.

00:41:25.000 Okay.

00:41:26.000 Also, also, if it had not been filibustered, if this had happened under a Republican president, there's something called the veto power.

00:41:32.000 So Trump would veto any bill of that sort.

00:41:34.000 But in any case, you know, when Elizabeth, if it was Obama that was president then, then the filibuster was effective.

00:41:38.000 The filibuster is there to provide yet another check and balance against a bare majority running roughshod over rights enshrined in the Constitution.

00:41:45.000 In any case, this is radical stuff, right?

00:41:47.000 The Democrats are proving themselves to be radical every day.

00:41:49.000 And then Pete Buttigieg jumps into the game on immigration.

00:41:52.000 He just dumps it out there.

00:41:53.000 He's like, yeah, if you support Trump, you're a racist.

00:41:54.000 And by the way, you're going to hell.

00:41:55.000 He didn't really dump that last part, but that's been his pitch.

00:41:58.000 His pitch has been, as the holiest man on this stage to support late-term abortion and be in a same-sex marriage, as the most Bible-believing person to not believe certain sections of the Bible, let me explain to you my campaign platform.

00:42:10.000 Anyway, here's Pete Buttigieg saying that if you support Trump, you're a racist.

00:42:13.000 So just to get this straight, According to Beto, America is deeply and systemically racist.

00:42:18.000 According to Cory Booker, the only reason black people are in jail, basically at all, is because of criminal justice racism.

00:42:24.000 And according to Beto and the rest of the Democratic Party, Donald Trump is a white supremacist racist murderer.

00:42:30.000 And according to Pete Buttigieg, if you support Trump's immigration platform, you are also a racist.

00:42:35.000 Solid pitch here, guys.

00:42:37.000 Do you think that people who support President Trump and his immigration policies are racist?

00:42:42.000 Anyone who supports this is supporting racism.

00:42:45.000 Okay, well, yeah, go along with that.

00:42:47.000 So you support border control, you're supporting racism, yada.

00:42:50.000 Now, the best part of the Democratic Party right now is that they also don't have any solutions.

00:42:56.000 And there are places where they totally agree with Trump, but they just can't say so out loud.

00:43:00.000 And so you end up with this bizarre situation where their policies look a lot like President Trump's policy, but they can't say it.

00:43:06.000 So on China, there's broad bipartisan agreement that China is a national security threat to the United States, that they are stealing our intellectual property, that they are pursuing global ambition.

00:43:16.000 That they have built up their regional power and that we have to do something about it.

00:43:19.000 Every Democrat, when asked about this, they refuse to just say, yes, I agree with the president about China.

00:43:24.000 Here's what I would do differently.

00:43:25.000 Instead, it turns into Trump's all wrong about China.

00:43:29.000 Also, I'm going to do all the exact same things that China, that Trump's currently doing on China.

00:43:33.000 Here's Buttigieg trying to thread this ridiculous needle.

00:43:36.000 I would have a strategy that would include the tariffs as leverage, but it's not about the tariffs.

00:43:41.000 Look, what's going on right now is the president who has reduced the entire China challenge into a question of tariffs, when what we know is that the tariffs are coming down on us more than anybody else, and there's a lack of... I mean, he's just speaking gobbledygook, Pete Buttigieg, right there.

00:43:56.000 So, in other words, Trump... I would also use tariffs, just like Trump is using tariffs, but Trump is bad for using the tariffs, whereas I would be good for using the tariffs.

00:44:03.000 Solid, solid pitch.

00:44:05.000 And then you get to Elizabeth Warren.

00:44:06.000 So here's where Elizabeth Warren really is passionate.

00:44:09.000 And just like Trump, she does not understand the basics of international trade.

00:44:12.000 So she is, I mean, much worse than Trump.

00:44:15.000 Here's what she says about negotiating trade agreements.

00:44:18.000 What she's about to say is patently insane.

00:44:20.000 Patently insane.

00:44:21.000 She says that the way that we should do trade policy in the United States is we should have American unions negotiate our trade policy with China.

00:44:29.000 Yeah, that's gonna happen.

00:44:30.000 We're gonna artificially... You want a trade war?

00:44:33.000 Have our unions and the environmentalists in the United States dictate trade policy to countries with whom we trade.

00:44:38.000 That is a great way of never arriving at a trade agreement, ever, for the rest of time.

00:44:41.000 Because you know who's not going to abide by our union rules?

00:44:43.000 I have a feeling.

00:44:45.000 China, or anyone else.

00:44:46.000 You know who's not going to abide by our environmental rules?

00:44:49.000 China, or anyone else.

00:44:50.000 Like, she's ripping on China about his trade policies, and then she's like, basically, I would tariff everybody to the moon.

00:44:56.000 It's insane.

00:44:58.000 How do we change our trade policy in America?

00:45:01.000 First, the procedures.

00:45:02.000 Who sits at the table?

00:45:04.000 I want to negotiate trade with unions at the table.

00:45:07.000 I want to negotiate it with small farmers at the table.

00:45:11.000 I want to negotiate it with environmentalists at the table.

00:45:14.000 I want to negotiate with human rights activists at the table.

00:45:18.000 Yeah, I'm sure that's gonna go great.

00:45:20.000 That's gonna go fantastically well.

00:45:21.000 And then Kamala Harris just sort of Leroy Jenkins-es it herself, and she... Seriously, every answer that Kamala Harris gave last night is, I'm going to unconstitutionally seize power, and also I hate Trump.

00:45:31.000 So she's talking about China, and she just randomly calls Trump physically small.

00:45:36.000 Which is weird, because Trump is actually a fairly large human being.

00:45:38.000 Here is Kamala Harris doing this routine, and everybody cheering and clapping.

00:45:42.000 Donald Trump, in office, on trade policy, you know, he reminds me of that guy in The Wizard of Oz, you know, when you pull back the curtain, it's a really small dude.

00:45:54.000 Wow, just wow.

00:45:55.000 That's pretty spectacular.

00:45:57.000 Also, the Democrats being radical on foreign policy.

00:46:00.000 So on Afghanistan, every single Democrat said that they would completely withdraw all troops from Afghanistan.

00:46:04.000 They wouldn't even leave a trigger force, which is obviously against what Joe Biden had to say.

00:46:08.000 Elizabeth Warren says we should withdraw all the troops and then we will solve it with diplomacy, which is always my favorite thing is when Democrats treat diplomacy like it's a strategy.

00:46:19.000 Diplomacy is a tactic.

00:46:20.000 It is not a strategy.

00:46:21.000 A strategy is where you come up with a broad, overarching plan for how you achieve your goals.

00:46:27.000 Maybe one of the pieces of that plan is diplomacy.

00:46:30.000 Like, Trump right now was trying to engage in diplomacy with the Taliban.

00:46:34.000 But Democrats seem to believe that if you just shout diplomacy at things, then they solve themselves.

00:46:39.000 So, around's a problem.

00:46:40.000 Diplomacy!

00:46:41.000 North Korea, man, they have nuclear weapons.

00:46:43.000 Diplomacy!

00:46:44.000 That's not a strategy, you idiots.

00:46:46.000 That's a tactic.

00:46:47.000 And if you think diplomacy hasn't been attempted with Afghanistan, you are completely foolish.

00:46:52.000 Again, Elizabeth Warren tries to obfuscate her message.

00:46:55.000 Bernie Sanders just dumps it right out there.

00:46:57.000 He's just like, I love the troops.

00:46:58.000 Also, we should fire all of them and take away all the money from the military.

00:47:01.000 Bernie Sanders, man, owning it.

00:47:04.000 We cannot express our gratitude to all of the men and women who have put their lives on the line to defend us, who have responded to the call of duty.

00:47:16.000 But I think also I am the only person up here to have voted against all three of Trump's military budgets.

00:47:26.000 Well, I don't know you can do both of those things.

00:47:28.000 We're so grateful for the soldiers.

00:47:30.000 Also, none of them should have jobs.

00:47:32.000 Also, I'm not going to fund anything they need.

00:47:35.000 Solid, solid pitch.

00:47:36.000 OK, so it goes like this, right?

00:47:38.000 Climate change.

00:47:38.000 They declare that this is the day after tomorrow.

00:47:40.000 It's what Amy Klobuchar said.

00:47:42.000 And there was this amusing point where Bernie Sanders suggested that it's unfair to call Venezuela socialist, which is always fun.

00:47:47.000 But there is one more moment that is worthy of note.

00:47:49.000 And that is, again, underscoring the main complaint against Biden, which is that he's not with it.

00:47:52.000 So Biden was pretty alive last night.

00:47:54.000 Like for a man who is not fully conscious, he was fairly alive last night.

00:47:58.000 And then there was this one moment, as the debate went on, and it moved into its seventh hour last night, Joe Biden started to lose some steam.

00:48:05.000 And he was asked about education.

00:48:06.000 And he ended up rambling about record players.

00:48:09.000 Which isn't a great look.

00:48:10.000 If you're trying to rebut accusations that you're too old and out of touch to be in the race, and you start rambling about a technology that went out of style, like, before I was born, then that ain't great.

00:48:20.000 Here's Joe Biden rambling about record players as an answer to education.

00:48:23.000 Bring social workers into homes of parents to help them deal with how to raise their children.

00:48:28.000 It's not that they don't want to help, they don't want, they don't know quite what to do.

00:48:32.000 Play the radio, make sure the television, excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the phone, make sure the kids hear words.

00:48:41.000 A kid coming from a very poor school, a very poor background, will hear four million words fewer spoken by the time they get there.

00:48:48.000 Okay, so what he's going for here is there are these studies that show that impoverished, that particularly parents of single kids, I mean, single parents of children, that they speak fewer words to their children and children develop differently based on that language deficiency.

00:49:01.000 That's what he's going for there.

00:49:02.000 Instead, he's like, turn on the, well, I can't say turn on the television because that actually is not good for kids.

00:49:06.000 Put on the record player.

00:49:07.000 Record players have not been relevant since approximately, I mean, like, put on the phonograph.

00:49:12.000 Put on the phonograph.

00:49:14.000 We need the phonograph.

00:49:15.000 Put on some Benny Goodman.

00:49:17.000 All right, Joe.

00:49:18.000 So, okay, time for some very quick grades, and then we'll get to a quick thing I like and a quick thing that, you know, we won't even do things I like or things I hate.

00:49:24.000 Here are the quick grades.

00:49:25.000 Last night's debate grades.

00:49:26.000 Biden, B minus.

00:49:28.000 Because he fulfilled expectations, but he had a couple of gaffes.

00:49:31.000 Bernie was a B, because Bernie is always a B. Warren was a C, because I thought that she didn't fulfill expectations.

00:49:37.000 Buttigieg was a D, because he's just terrible.

00:49:39.000 Klobuchar I thought was a B+, but nobody cares, because she's irrelevant.

00:49:42.000 Castro was an F, because he's deeply annoying and horrible.

00:49:45.000 Cory Booker was a B. We didn't even play any Cory Booker, because he's not super relevant, but I thought that he performed okay.

00:49:51.000 Beto was an F, because he's awful.

00:49:53.000 Kamala Harris was a D, but shading into an F, because she was awful too.

00:49:57.000 And Andrew Yang was a Yang.

00:49:59.000 Those are the grades.

00:49:59.000 Those are your debate grades.

00:50:01.000 Alrighty.

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