The Ben Shapiro Show - The Media Pleasure Themselves | Ep. 1119

00:00:00.000 Jeffrey Toobin is suspended from The New Yorker after an unfortunate Zoom call incident.

00:00:04.000 The media continued to refuse to ask serious questions about Hunter Biden's emails.

00:00:07.000 And Trump goes to war with Anthony Fauci over COVID strategy.

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00:01:41.000 Last night, something strange happened over at the New Yorker.

00:01:45.000 So it is not supremely shocking that Jeffrey Toobin just got caught pleasuring himself on a New Yorker Zoom call.

00:01:53.000 I mean, so a couple of things.

00:01:54.000 One, everybody understands that Zoom calls generally are a waste of time. 0.95

00:02:00.000 So I think we can all take it that metaphorically, they are masturbatory and useless, but Jeffrey Toobin took that extremely, extremely literally.

00:02:10.000 Jeffrey Toobin apparently has now been suspended for masturbating on a Zoom video call between members of The New Yorker and WNYC Radio last week. 0.92

00:02:17.000 Toobin says he did not realize his video was on.

00:02:19.000 Well, I would imagine.

00:02:20.000 I mean...

00:02:22.000 I can't imagine he was like, boop, video on.

00:02:24.000 All right, go to town on yourself. 0.99

00:02:26.000 He said, I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake believing I was off camera. 0.98

00:02:29.000 I apologize to my wife, family, friends, and co-workers. 0.53

00:02:32.000 I believed I was not visible on Zoom.

00:02:33.000 I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me.

00:02:35.000 I thought I had muted the Zoom video, he added.

00:02:38.000 Apparently, two people who were on the call told Vice separately the call was an election simulation.

00:02:43.000 Oh God, featuring many of the New Yorker's biggest stars.

00:02:46.000 Jane Mayer was playing establishment Republicans.

00:02:48.000 So it turns out that the most perverse pornographic thing about this actual event is that Jane Mayer, the reporter who has been putting out like Brett Kavanaugh fan fiction, was playing the establishment Republicans.

00:03:00.000 Evan Asinos was Joe Biden.

00:03:01.000 Jelani Cobb was Establishment Democrats, which is hilarious.

00:03:04.000 Masha Gessen played Donald Trump.

00:03:06.000 Andrew Marantz was the far-right.

00:03:07.000 Sue Halpern was left-wing Democrat.

00:03:08.000 Sexter Filkins was the military.

00:03:10.000 And Jeffrey Toobin played the courts.

00:03:12.000 Well, it turns out the court was in session.

00:03:15.000 But motion, motion to withdraw denied.

00:03:22.000 Both people who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak freely noted it was unclear how much each person saw.

00:03:27.000 Both said that they saw Toobin going to town.

00:03:29.000 The two sources described a juncture in the election simulation where there was a strategy session.

00:03:33.000 The Democrats and Republicans went into their respective break rooms for about 10 minutes.

00:03:37.000 At this point, it seemed like Toobin was on a second video call.

00:03:40.000 Hmm.

00:03:41.000 The sources said that when the groups returned from their breakout rooms, Toobin lowered the camera.

00:03:46.000 The people on the call said they could see Toobin, um, Toobining.

00:03:49.000 Then, Toobin left the call.

00:03:51.000 Moments later, he called back in, seemingly unaware of what his colleagues had been able to see, and a simulation continued.

00:03:57.000 Hilariously, the New Yorker says that Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended while we investigate the matter.

00:04:01.000 So let's just be clear about this.

00:04:02.000 First of all, if he has been suspended, he's not going to be gone for so long.

00:04:06.000 But beyond that, Jeffrey Toobin, I mean, if this guy is on the right, how fast is he fired?

00:04:11.000 How fast is he fired and gone forever, right?

00:04:13.000 You don't just get to pull it out and enjoy yourself.

00:04:18.000 I mean, I understand that this is what members of the media do in front of cameras all the time.

00:04:21.000 And the good news for Jim Acosta, who is a fellow anchor at CNN, is that finally, we have discovered a CNN anchor who loves himself more than Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.

00:04:30.000 With that said, not a great look for Jeffrey Toobin.

00:04:32.000 And yes, am I enjoying this story too much?

00:04:34.000 Of course I am.

00:04:34.000 But frankly, Jeffrey Toobin, of all the human beings on Earth, sort of deserves this, considering that, you know, years back, he sort of knocked up A woman who is the daughter of a family friend and then pressured her to have an abortion.

00:04:47.000 He's a delight.

00:04:48.000 He's a delightful person, Jeffrey Toobin.

00:04:54.000 Farewell to Jeffrey Toobin, at least for now.

00:04:56.000 His refractory period has yet to be established by The New Yorker.

00:04:59.000 So that is where we are.

00:05:00.000 Now, I think that there is a metaphor here for the media's coverage of everything, which is that it is all about self-pleasure.

00:05:08.000 It is not about pleasing the American public.

00:05:10.000 The American public does not go first in the world of the media.

00:05:13.000 Instead, it is just the media pleasuring itself.

00:05:16.000 All the media care about is making themselves happy.

00:05:18.000 And what that means is pretending to be objective while simultaneously ignoring stories they don't want to be out there.

00:05:24.000 And this brings us to the Hunter Biden story.

00:05:26.000 So the fact is that the... You didn't think I was gonna make that connection, did you?

00:05:30.000 You didn't see how I was gonna go there, did you?

00:05:31.000 But it happened.

00:05:32.000 That's right.

00:05:33.000 We are professionals at segues here on The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:05:37.000 It is incredible how the media's desire to pleasure itself at the expense of the American public means they will simply ignore stories that they do not like or mischaracterize those stories with no evidence at all.

00:05:47.000 So the New York Post, of course, has reported over the last couple of weeks that Hunter Biden's emails have now been made somewhat public.

00:05:54.000 Apparently, he dropped off his laptops, allegedly, with a Delaware computer salesperson, computer fixer, and then just left them there because he's a derelict, is sort of the allegation.

00:06:05.000 Fox News now has gotten a hold of documents showing that Hunter Biden did in fact sign for the computers when he left them at this repair shop in 2019.

00:06:15.000 And what do those emails show?

00:06:16.000 Well, among other things, they show that he had emailed with Ukrainian oligarch who said that Hunter had brokered a meeting between Joe and this Ukrainian oligarch.

00:06:25.000 The Biden campaign originally denied them.

00:06:27.000 They said, well, maybe that maybe a meeting happened.

00:06:29.000 Then there was a set of two emails that really were even worse for Joe Biden.

00:06:34.000 was Hunter Biden talking with a Chinese company.

00:06:38.000 And in the midst of that conversation, on which several people were copied, there was a mention that 20% of some sort of deal would go to Hunter Biden, with 10% held in escrow for the big guy.

00:06:51.000 Fox News has reported, according to one of their unnamed sources, that the big guy refers to Joe Biden.

00:06:55.000 So in other words, Joe Biden may have been directly benefiting from Hunter jet-setting around the world and doing these deals, which would cast a different light on the entire situation.

00:07:03.000 It is one thing if Joe Biden knew nothing.

00:07:05.000 It's another thing if Joe Biden knew something and was willing to let his son traffic off of his name to make money.

00:07:09.000 It is a third thing altogether.

00:07:11.000 If Joe Biden not only knew, but was actively involved in taking money for all of this, that now verges on the criminal.

00:07:17.000 Now, Joe Biden has steadfastly refused to answer any questions about this, and the media steadfastly refused to ask serious questions or follow up questions on any of this.

00:07:25.000 They'll ask the occasional question and they let it go.

00:07:27.000 So the media have come up with an alternative theory.

00:07:29.000 See, here's what the media are afraid of.

00:07:30.000 What the media are afraid of is that they do the same thing they did in 2016.

00:07:33.000 Namely, they accurately report the Hillary Clinton email thing.

00:07:36.000 And then, two weeks before the election, there's the James Comey letter, and Hillary Clinton loses.

00:07:40.000 What the media are desperately afraid of is that they start actually reporting on the Hunter Biden story, and Joe Biden's lead dissipates, and now members of the media are responsible for Joe Biden not being President of the United States.

00:07:50.000 See, the media got off scot-free last time.

00:07:52.000 So the media They've internalized the fact that they sort of were responsible for Donald Trump's election a little bit, but they tried to blame it alternatively on social media.

00:08:01.000 They tried to blame it on Facebook.

00:08:02.000 They tried to blame it on the Russians.

00:08:05.000 Well, now they are trying to preemptively blame an email scandal on the Russians.

00:08:09.000 This is their new answer.

00:08:10.000 They're saying, we're not even going to report on this because this is the Russkies.

00:08:13.000 The Russians are hiding under their bed. 0.95

00:08:15.000 The Russian dressing in their fridge was actually created by Russia because the Russians are hiding inside the house. 1.00

00:08:20.000 After all the alarm systems are set, it's too late.

00:08:22.000 It's just like Cape Fear.

00:08:23.000 The Russians are actually hiding inside the house dressed as the maid. 0.85

00:08:26.000 No matter what, the Russians are behind everything. 1.00

00:08:29.000 Andrea Mitchell at NBC News, she said, you know, I think this is a Russian plot.

00:08:33.000 Now, again, Notice, not a single aspect of the story has yet to be debunked or even remarked upon by the Biden campaign.

00:08:39.000 And yet, NBC anchors are saying overtly this is Russian propaganda, despite the fact, like...

00:08:45.000 Either this is Russian disinformation, in which case it's all false, or all the emails are real and being misconstrued.

00:08:45.000 You have to make a claim.

00:08:52.000 But you can't have it both ways.

00:08:53.000 Here's Andrea Mitchell claiming that it's all Russian disinformation.

00:08:57.000 There are new questions about an unverified report targeting Joe Biden's son and new reporting about possible ties to a Russian disinformation effort aimed at influencing the U.S. election.

00:09:10.000 NBC senior Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell has details on this.

00:09:13.000 Hey, Andrea, good morning.

00:09:16.000 Hi there, Hoda.

00:09:17.000 NBC News has confirmed that U.S.

00:09:19.000 spy agencies have gathered intelligence that the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was dealing with alleged Russian intelligence agents last year on a trip to Ukraine as part of his effort to dig up dirt on Joe Biden.

00:09:32.000 Okay, that is nothing new.

00:09:34.000 Okay, seriously, we've known this for a while, is that Rudy Giuliani was hanging out in Ukraine and was speaking to people who may or may not have been Russian agents.

00:09:40.000 Rudy himself has acknowledged this.

00:09:43.000 But that does not mean that the email scandal has to do with Russia.

00:09:46.000 In fact, as we will see, the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, overtly denied this yesterday and said there's no intelligence information to support this allegation put forward by the media.

00:09:54.000 But the media are not in the business of conveying information to you.

00:09:56.000 They're in the business of self-pleasure, Jeffrey Toobin style.

00:09:59.000 They're journalism-ing all over the place.

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00:11:48.000 Okay, so Politico also picks up on this Disinformation is the suggestion that false information is being put out by the Russian government in order to deceive the American public.

00:12:01.000 That's what disinformation means.

00:12:02.000 It does not mean that the Russians are trafficking in good information.

00:12:07.000 Disinformation is like a KGB tactic.

00:12:09.000 It's where you put out information that is overtly false in order to confuse people.

00:12:14.000 That is not what is happening here.

00:12:15.000 Nothing in the Hunter Biden email scandal has been even remarked upon by the Biden campaign or accused of being false.

00:12:18.000 Good example, the Steele dossier is Russian disinformation.

00:12:21.000 There's nothing in the Steele dossier that came from the Russians that has actually been confirmed as of yet.

00:12:25.000 And there's plenty of stuff that is overtly false.

00:12:28.000 Nothing in the Hunter Biden email scandal has been even remarked upon by the Biden campaign or accused of being false.

00:12:33.000 And yet you have this article from Politico.

00:12:35.000 More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden's son has quote, all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.

00:12:46.000 Well, you know, if they're speculating without any inside information that this looks like the Russians must be the Russians.

00:12:51.000 I guess that's the way this works now, is that open speculation is now taken extremely seriously so long as it cuts in favor of Joe Biden.

00:12:58.000 Now, there's only one problem.

00:12:59.000 The Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, he said openly yesterday, we have no evidence this is a Russian disinformation campaign.

00:13:05.000 And again, there are now receipts with Fox News that Hunter Biden apparently dropped off this computer at a Delaware computer repair shop.

00:13:12.000 Here is John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, denying the self-pleasuring media's narrative that this is all Russian disinformation.

00:13:18.000 It is Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who, as you pointed out on Friday, said that the intelligence community believes that Hunter Biden's laptop and the emails on it are part of some Russian disinformation campaign.

00:13:33.000 Let me be clear.

00:13:34.000 The intelligence community doesn't believe that because there's no intelligence that supports that.

00:13:39.000 And we have shared no intelligence with Chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden's laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign.

00:13:48.000 It's simply not true.

00:13:49.000 It doesn't matter.

00:13:50.000 Adam Schiff was pushing that story.

00:13:51.000 Politico was pushing that story.

00:13:52.000 Andrea Mitchell was pushing that story because they're all on the same side. 0.96

00:13:55.000 They're all on the same side.

00:13:56.000 See, when I say that the media are self-pleasuring, what I mean is that they are all Democrats and they want to see Joe Biden win.

00:14:01.000 And they are very upset at the possibility that they would contribute to Joe Biden losing.

00:14:05.000 And so they've become the overt policy, the overt communications arm of the Democratic National Committee and of Joe Biden's campaign personally.

00:14:12.000 I mean, how bad is this?

00:14:13.000 The Biden campaign can't even acknowledge that the, like they're saying that it's Russian disinformation or that it was a hacking job or whatever it is.

00:14:21.000 A Biden spokeswoman named Jenna Arnold was on Fox News And would not say that the emails were inauthentic.

00:14:28.000 So we keep hearing that the emails somehow are a lie or that all of it's not true.

00:14:33.000 She wouldn't even claim that they were inauthentic.

00:14:35.000 So what exactly is their case?

00:14:37.000 Is the case that the emails are put out there by the Russians?

00:14:39.000 Because we have no evidence of that.

00:14:40.000 Is the case that the emails are fake?

00:14:42.000 We keep hearing that this is quote unquote fake news, that the metadata don't match or something like that.

00:14:42.000 We keep hearing that.

00:14:46.000 But nobody from the Biden campaign is even willing to say that the emails are fake because apparently they're not fake.

00:14:52.000 The emails are not fake, which means that at some point you actually have to answer the question as to whether Joe Biden... This is very easy.

00:14:57.000 Honestly, this is very easy for the Biden campaign to kill the story.

00:15:00.000 All they have to do is say, at no point has Joe Biden ever received money or had money held in trust for him by Hunter Biden.

00:15:08.000 That's all he has to say.

00:15:09.000 Why wouldn't he just say that?

00:15:10.000 That's two sentences long.

00:15:11.000 And why won't the media just badger him to say- I mean, he did a full-on town hall last week.

00:15:15.000 And George Stephanopoulos did not ask him one question about this topic, even though it was the hottest topic in the country.

00:15:21.000 Social media still have suspended the New York Post for even having tweeted the article.

00:15:26.000 Twitter still has the New York Post account locked out.

00:15:29.000 So you've got overt liars like Aaron Ruppar over at Vox, who literally just cuts clips out of context, puts them out there, and then pretends that his little paraphrases are accurate.

00:15:37.000 I mean, so badly that yesterday, even the left-wing media, people like Daniel Dale at CNN were fact-checking Aaron Ruppar.

00:15:43.000 His account is fine.

00:15:44.000 But the New York Post account, again, have they even explained what is false about the original New York Post story yet?

00:15:50.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:15:51.000 Here is Joe Biden's campaign spokeswoman admitting that no one says the emails are inauthentic.

00:15:57.000 So much of this is unconfirmed.

00:15:59.000 Okay, so Jenna, Jenna, it's real simple.

00:16:02.000 You say it's unconfirmed.

00:16:02.000 Tell us what parts are not true.

00:16:05.000 I mean, Hunter Biden knows what emails he has and hasn't sent.

00:16:08.000 Are you saying, in the campaign, saying that these emails aren't his?

00:16:13.000 It's unclear to me.

00:16:15.000 Can anyone say that these emails are inauthentic?

00:16:17.000 And so far, I haven't heard anybody say that.

00:16:20.000 Yeah, I think that's fair.

00:16:22.000 I don't think anybody's saying they are inauthentic or not.

00:16:26.000 Okay, so she says, I've never heard anybody say that the emails are inauthentic.

00:16:29.000 So then when you keep saying that it's unconfirmed, you just kind of confirmed it right there.

00:16:33.000 You just confirmed the emails are real.

00:16:35.000 So what exactly is unconfirmed?

00:16:36.000 They keep saying unconfirmed.

00:16:38.000 Unconfirmed just means that you don't know the original source of the story.

00:16:41.000 Okay, but actually in this case, you kind of do know the original source of the story since Fox News has the receipt as to the laptops being sent to this guy in Delaware.

00:16:51.000 In fact, we know much more about this story than we know about most of the stories that the mainstream media puts out through their anonymous sourcing.

00:16:56.000 And yet the media refuse to cover this thing straight.

00:16:59.000 They refuse to cover it.

00:17:00.000 They refuse to ask the Biden campaign questions.

00:17:02.000 And this, of course, has pissed Trump off to no end.

00:17:04.000 And he is absolutely right.

00:17:05.000 I mean, honestly, he is right to say that the media are botching the story.

00:17:09.000 So Trump said yesterday that Biden is going to stay in his basement.

00:17:12.000 He will stay in his basement.

00:17:12.000 He declared a quote unquote lid again.

00:17:14.000 OK, lid means that he's going to stay in his basement.

00:17:16.000 He declared a lid until Thursday.

00:17:18.000 Yesterday was Monday.

00:17:20.000 We are two weeks from an election and he declared he is going to literally hide in his basement and watch Cocoon on loop until the debate.

00:17:29.000 Here is here is Trump going after Biden for it.

00:17:32.000 They put the lid on it.

00:17:33.000 Every day you wake up, where's Biden today?

00:17:35.000 Sir, he's littered out.

00:17:37.000 He's littered out.

00:17:38.000 What does that mean?

00:17:39.000 That means he's going to stay in the basement all day.

00:17:43.000 But I think today he's staying in the basement to talk to his lawyers.

00:17:46.000 They caught him, Cole.

00:17:48.000 Okay, you know, he's not wrong about this.

00:17:50.000 Joe Biden is, in fact, hiding in his basement, for sure.

00:17:53.000 Okay, then Trump went even further, and we'll get to that in just one second, because that, of course, becomes the headline.

00:17:58.000 The media don't want to cover what Biden is doing.

00:18:00.000 They want to cover what Trump is doing.

00:18:02.000 Biden knows this, which is why he refuses to answer simple questions like, will you pack the court?

00:18:06.000 Instead, he says, just, if I answer that question, come on, man, if I answer that question, you're going to focus on me.

00:18:12.000 You're not going to focus on what you need to focus on, Trump, and he's bad, and he's orange.

00:18:17.000 I'm gonna go to sleep now.

00:18:18.000 I need your apioca pudding.

00:18:20.000 I'll see you later.

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00:18:25.000 Too much COVID in the restaurant.

00:18:27.000 Catch you later.

00:18:29.000 And then you're like, okay, let's go focus on what Trump is saying.

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00:19:49.000 OK, so Trump is talking about Biden on the campaign trail and he lashes out at the Bidens.

00:19:53.000 He says that they are criminals, which again, Trump throws this term around a lot.

00:19:57.000 Basically, anybody that he doesn't like or that he suspects of criminal activity becomes a criminal, like literally everyone.

00:20:02.000 And then he uses the word criminal in a different sense.

00:20:06.000 He says that that the media are criminal for not covering the story.

00:20:10.000 And in a colloquial sense, I mean, people say that kind of stuff all the time, right?

00:20:13.000 You say, it's absolutely criminal that this person didn't do X. We don't actually mean that we want them to be physically locked up.

00:20:19.000 But the media pretend to take this incredibly literally, like Trump is threatening to lock up the reporter.

00:20:23.000 He's going to activate his AG to go arrest the reporter for not asking a question about Joe Biden in violation of zero criminal statutes.

00:20:29.000 That, of course, is not true.

00:20:31.000 Trump is really loose with his language.

00:20:34.000 The great lie of this election is that we have to treat every absurdity by Trump as the new low.

00:20:39.000 I keep saying this, and I've been saying this for a long time.

00:20:42.000 There's no new bottom for Trump.

00:20:44.000 It's not like he says something new, and you're like, oh my God, I can't believe he's this bad.

00:20:47.000 Everybody just goes, all right, yeah, that's Trump doing his thing, man.

00:20:51.000 All right, some people love it, most people don't.

00:20:55.000 You know, I look at stuff that he says on a daily basis and I just slap myself in the forehead.

00:21:00.000 But is it like a new low?

00:21:01.000 See, in order to use the phrase new low, it actually has to be lower than he has previously gone.

00:21:05.000 And you're going to have to explain to me how him saying that the Bidens should be locked up is any different from him saying that Hillary Clinton should be locked up.

00:21:12.000 If you're saying that he says, you know, bad things on a routine, you're going to have to explain to me how the stuff he says in 2020 is significantly worse than the stuff that he said in 2015, 2016.

00:21:19.000 In other words, Donald Trump is consistently at the same level.

00:21:22.000 And in order for you to be driven to the point where you vote for Biden, the media have to continue to focus in on every Trump headline.

00:21:28.000 The only way to do that is if there is new news, right? 1.00

00:21:31.000 It is not news that Donald Trump says stupid things. 1.00

00:21:33.000 He says stupid things a lot. 1.00

00:21:35.000 I've been very critical of the stupid things that he says. 1.00

00:21:37.000 That's not news. 1.00

00:21:39.000 In the same way that it is not news that my son is yelling again because I turned off the TV.

00:21:42.000 That's not news.

00:21:43.000 It's just what happens whenever I turn off the TV.

00:21:45.000 Donald Trump, he is going to yell and scream and say things and then the media are going to treat it as a new low.

00:21:52.000 Even though it's not a new low, they'll treat it as a new low so that you are reminded of Donald Trump as opposed to being reminded of the fact that Joe Biden still won't answer very simple questions about whether or not he was involved in some sort of corruption scheme.

00:22:03.000 With his son.

00:22:04.000 Now, so one half of the statement that Trump is about to make, look, a well-calibrated statement, I know, I'm just spitting in the wind here, but a well-calibrated statement here from Trump would be something like this.

00:22:13.000 There are very suspicious activities surrounding Hunter and Joe Biden.

00:22:15.000 The media refused to answer them.

00:22:17.000 It's disgusting that the media refused to answer simple questions of my opponent and allow him to hide in his basement, and the only questions they ask him is about the flavor of ice cream that he's eating.

00:22:24.000 That's wrong, and it's bad, and it's indicative of the evils of our modern day media, which is basically a wing of the Democratic Party.

00:22:30.000 That would be the well-calibrated version.

00:22:32.000 The Trump version is, we should lock Hunter and Joe up, and you're a criminal if you don't ask about it.

00:22:36.000 Here's Trump.

00:22:39.000 His strategy seems to be to call Biden a criminal.

00:22:42.000 Why is that? 0.99

00:22:43.000 He is a criminal. 1.00

00:22:44.000 He's a criminal. 1.00

00:22:45.000 He got caught. 0.99

00:22:46.000 Read his laptop.

00:22:47.000 And you know who's a criminal? 0.90

00:22:48.000 You're a criminal for not reporting it. 0.99

00:22:50.000 You are a criminal for not reporting it. 1.00

00:22:53.000 Let me tell you something. 1.00

00:22:55.000 Joe Biden is a criminal, and he's been a criminal for a long time. 0.99

00:22:58.000 And you're a criminal, and the media, for not reporting it. 0.99

00:23:02.000 Okay, so again, people decided to take this super seriously.

00:23:04.000 Is that even close to a new low?

00:23:06.000 That's not even a low.

00:23:07.000 I'm sorry, that's like just normal Trump.

00:23:09.000 Him saying that the Bidens are criminal when there are allegations out there about Biden corruption is not a shock.

00:23:14.000 And him saying reporters are criminal for not reporting it, he doesn't actually mean that you're going to lock up the reporters.

00:23:19.000 Again, the only person who tried to lock up reporters I'm aware of is Barack Obama, who actively attempted to wiretap the AP.

00:23:26.000 He actually went after a Fox News journalist, James Rosen, while he was president of the United States.

00:23:30.000 I know that we memory hole the entire Obama era, but I mean, the only person who threatened the press in my recent memory was Barack Obama, not Donald Trump.

00:23:40.000 Trump says a lot of things.

00:23:41.000 It was Barack Obama who did a lot of things.

00:23:43.000 Which does bring us to a larger point here about the way that we are meant to perceive Joe Biden's campaign by the media.

00:23:50.000 The way that we are meant to perceive Joe Biden's campaign and Joe Biden becoming president by the media is that it is a return to normalcy.

00:23:55.000 I've been saying for years that this would be the Biden campaign return to normalcy.

00:23:58.000 And in the aftermath of a Joe Biden election, make no mistake, that will be the media line.

00:24:03.000 COVID will suddenly recede into the distance.

00:24:05.000 Well, now it's being well handled.

00:24:06.000 Wow.

00:24:07.000 The world will be back on its moorings.

00:24:09.000 The right people, the responsible people, are back in charge.

00:24:13.000 And you're happier, right?

00:24:14.000 I mean, Joe Biden isn't out there saying crazy things every day.

00:24:17.000 He's not tweeting every day.

00:24:18.000 We're back to normal.

00:24:20.000 The lie there is that there was a normal.

00:24:22.000 Barack Obama's administration was not normal.

00:24:24.000 It was a new normal.

00:24:26.000 Barack Obama was an incredibly divisive president.

00:24:28.000 His economic plans were a disaster.

00:24:30.000 Barack Obama's foreign policy was even more of a disaster than his economic plans.

00:24:33.000 The simmering social tensions of America were kept slightly below the surface.

00:24:37.000 The Trump era ripped them wide open because the left decided to burst out through the hole, like the alien through John Hurt's belly, an alien.

00:24:47.000 Those tensions were there.

00:24:49.000 And those tensions would still be there if Joe Biden were elected.

00:24:52.000 They wouldn't just go away.

00:24:52.000 I mean, there were riots in Ferguson in 2014.

00:24:54.000 There were riots in Milwaukee in 2016.

00:24:58.000 There was a mass shooting of Dallas police officers in 2016.

00:25:00.000 Like, the idea that everything was hunky-dory and beautiful and placid during the Obama era is such a media creation.

00:25:05.000 It's such a lie.

00:25:06.000 I mean, again, that goes back to the media pleasuring themselves.

00:25:08.000 The same media Who refused to cover the Obama administration in any sort of depth or detail, declaring that the only scandal for the Obama administration is that Obama once wore a tan suit.

00:25:17.000 We'll go back to the lie, but I'm not sure that the lie may be comforting, but it's certainly not true, which is that we're back to normal.

00:25:23.000 We're back.

00:25:23.000 Everything is now fine.

00:25:25.000 If things will still be not great in terms of our social fabric and in terms of social decay, if Joe Biden is president of the United States, particularly if the Democrats win back the Senate and you see the radicals on the march.

00:25:36.000 The lie that the media have told is that Trump Was the murderer and not the coroner.

00:25:40.000 That he got into office and suddenly things went south.

00:25:43.000 That is not correct.

00:25:44.000 Things were already quite south when it came to the social fabric of the United States.

00:25:47.000 It had been fraying for quite a while.

00:25:49.000 Barack Obama wildly exacerbated the fraying of that social fabric.

00:25:53.000 Donald Trump didn't put it back together.

00:25:55.000 But there's a lie that's out there, which is that everything will calm down if Joe Biden is president.

00:25:59.000 On the surface, it will calm down because it turns out the way that many people consume the chaos is via the media.

00:26:03.000 And the media have an interest in saying that things have calmed down if Joe Biden becomes president.

00:26:07.000 But under the surface, will things have calmed down?

00:26:09.000 No, they'll get worse because the underlying issues that we are addressing with politics, the underlying values divisions in the United States are not going to be lessened by a Biden administration.

00:26:18.000 They're going to be heightened by a Biden administration, which is going to very aggressively pursue leftist agenda, social items.

00:26:25.000 In contravention of your individual rights.

00:26:27.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:26:29.000 Because again, the media are ignoring stories they don't like in order to promulgate a particular agenda.

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00:27:41.000 Okay, so again, the media are four square behind Joe Biden because they're gonna promulgate the notion that the only bad things that have ever happened are attached to Donald Trump.

00:27:51.000 But Donald Trump did not arrive newly formed in Washington, D.C.

00:27:55.000 and then turn Washington, D.C.

00:27:56.000 into his image.

00:27:57.000 Washington, D.C.

00:27:58.000 was a very bad place before Donald Trump ever got there.

00:28:01.000 The social fabric of the United States was already rent long before Donald Trump got there.

00:28:06.000 And if Joe Biden should be put in charge, the media will try to put a lid on it I mean, Joe Biden has been enmeshed in the swamp for a very long time.

00:28:12.000 is that they will whitewash it, but the rot is still in the walls. And in fact, the media whitewashing the rot in the walls means that people are not going to perceive as well the rot that is in the walls when it comes to our politics. I mean, Joe Biden has been enmeshed in the swamp for a very long time. Tim Carney has a good piece over at the Washington Examiner how Joe Biden and his revolving door lobbyist donor aid helped big oil profit off of Burmese oppression. He says, here's something Joe Biden has never explained.

00:28:38.000 Why, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, did Biden weaken sanctions against Burma to benefit a big U.S.

00:28:43.000 oil company?

00:28:44.000 Did it have anything to do with his chief of staff having been in the pay of that oil company, which was partnered with Burma's oppressive government?

00:28:50.000 Biden's big oil lobbyist in Burma story starts in 2003, when Congress passed the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act.

00:28:56.000 Mitch McConnell was the chief Senate sponsor.

00:28:58.000 California Democrat Tom Lantos was the House sponsor.

00:29:00.000 Congress barred imports from Burma in response to Burmese human rights violations.

00:29:05.000 One of the companies lobbying on the bill was Unocal, a U.S.

00:29:08.000 oil giant since merged with Chevron.

00:29:09.000 One of its lobbyists on the matter was Alan Hoffman, formerly Biden's Senate Chief of Staff, would soon again be Biden's Senate Chief of Staff and would, in the future, hold top jobs in the Obama-Biden administration.

00:29:18.000 Unocal was partnered with Burma's regime in a natural gas field and related pipeline, and so if Congress forced a full-fledged divestment, Unocal would lose millions in profits.

00:29:26.000 Some advocates were pushing for exactly that.

00:29:29.000 And this is what Hoffman and Unocal's other lobbyists were hired to fight against.

00:29:32.000 Public records show Hoffman and his colleagues at K Street firm Timmons & Company lobbied the Senate, the House, and the administration on Lantos' bill in the first and second half of 2003.

00:29:41.000 They got their money's worth, it seems.

00:29:42.000 While the United States steadily pushed all sorts of companies out of doing business with Burma, Unocal and later Chevron were allowed to keep their gas fields and pipeline investment there, splitting the profits with the Burmese regime that was globally recognized as a human rights abuser.

00:29:55.000 Hoffman left K Street, passed back through the revolving door, became Biden's chief of staff once more.

00:29:59.000 In 2007, Lantos introduced a new legislation that would ban U.S.

00:30:02.000 investment in Burma, forcing again Chevron to divest.

00:30:06.000 When the House passed Lantos' bill, it included such a provision.

00:30:08.000 Then Lantos died in early 2008.

00:30:09.000 Biden became chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:30:12.000 He passed a version of Lantos' bill that stripped out the language, forcing Chevron to divest.

00:30:17.000 At this time, the Burmese government was getting about half of all of its revenue from oil and gas enterprises.

00:30:21.000 So once again, you know, look, Biden is a swamp creature.

00:30:24.000 He has long been a swamp creature, but we are going to go back to the new normal. 0.56

00:30:27.000 We'll go back to the old normal of sort of normal type corruption if Joe Biden is president.

00:30:32.000 And we're all supposed to be grateful for that because the media don't wish to focus on any of this.

00:30:36.000 They wish to focus in on Trump's violation of rhetorical norms.

00:30:40.000 Now, as I've said before, Trump's violation of rhetorical norms is a violation.

00:30:44.000 And much of it is really bad.

00:30:46.000 But that does not get to the underlying problems in the country.

00:30:49.000 Like, at all.

00:30:50.000 In any real way.

00:30:52.000 Which brings us to a separate topic, and that is the treatment of Trump and COVID.

00:30:57.000 Because it turns out that Trump's policy on a fair bit of his kind of agenda has been quite good, right?

00:31:03.000 His foreign policy has been quite good.

00:31:05.000 President Trump has not started any new wars.

00:31:08.000 First president in my lifetime to not start any new wars.

00:31:10.000 President Trump has brokered peace in the Middle East.

00:31:12.000 That continues to bear fruit in the Israel-UAE relationship.

00:31:15.000 Saudi Arabia is probably going to join into that sometime in the near future.

00:31:19.000 Trump has been very harsh on China in a way the Obama-Biden administration never was.

00:31:23.000 On foreign policy, Trump has been excellent.

00:31:24.000 On domestic policy, we had the most booming economy in half a century under Donald Trump before COVID hit.

00:31:29.000 And so Democrats have been forced to rely on COVID as their chief point.

00:31:34.000 Democrats have been forced to rely on COVID as their chief point.

00:31:38.000 So, I cut a video, I put it out yesterday, about why I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, but I am voting for Trump in 2020.

00:31:44.000 And it has racked up over almost 2 million views on Twitter, it's racked up probably at this point over a million views on YouTube, and people are watching it and taking it seriously, which I appreciate, because I think that it is a fair take on why a conservative would vote for President Trump.

00:31:59.000 And one of the points that I make in there is that all of the Trump wildness and craziness and tweets and rhetorical excesses and immoralities, all of that is baked into the cake already, right?

00:32:09.000 For better or worse, that is the normal.

00:32:11.000 And it's not as though that normal just goes away as soon as Trump is off the scene, right?

00:32:15.000 The boundaries have been pushed.

00:32:17.000 That was not foreclosed in 2016, and so that is what it is.

00:32:20.000 Okay?

00:32:20.000 And not voting for him in 2020 doesn't actually change anything along these lines.

00:32:24.000 It's not like we all go back to wonderful civility.

00:32:26.000 The Democrats were not participating in wonderful civility before Trump arrived on the scene. 0.99

00:32:29.000 They were calling Mitt Romney a homophobe who forcibly cut the hair of gay kids, strapped dogs to the top of his car, and was a vicious racist. 0.97

00:32:37.000 So, rhetorical norms have been violated before. 0.97

00:32:39.000 So Democrats have decided to focus in on COVID.

00:32:42.000 So I cut this video.

00:32:43.000 And the video does briefly talk about COVID.

00:32:45.000 It talks about COVID specifically with regard to President Trump refusing to take top-down control over the entire country and essentially assert dictatorial executive branch control over lockdown policy.

00:32:57.000 And I say that's a very good thing because this has been the greatest government power grab of my lifetime.

00:33:01.000 You've seen governments literally shutting down every human activity.

00:33:05.000 Against the science, by the way, because the WHO says that lockdowns are bad policy.

00:33:09.000 There are ways in which you can operate your business safely.

00:33:13.000 There's social distancing, there's mask wearing, right?

00:33:16.000 There are things that you can do to continue to operate. 0.96

00:33:19.000 Now, as I've said before, Trump's rhetoric on COVID has sucked, right?

00:33:22.000 Trump has said a lot of things on COVID that are not good.

00:33:24.000 Trump has not been a good advocate for his own positions, but the actual actions by the administration on COVID have been quite good.

00:33:30.000 They got the ventilators where they needed to go.

00:33:31.000 They got the PPE where it needed to go.

00:33:33.000 They've developed Operation Warp Speed, which will result by the end of this year, in all probability, in a working vaccine.

00:33:39.000 The fastest vaccine development in human history.

00:33:42.000 All of that is quite good.

00:33:43.000 And more than that, if you look at Trump's policy, Joe Biden has no different policy.

00:33:47.000 This is a point that Mike Pence made in a debate with Kamala Harris.

00:33:50.000 The COVID policy pursued by the Trump administration is identical to the COVID strategy that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden say they will pursue.

00:33:57.000 With one exception, Joe Biden says that he will call people up and tell them to wear masks, which of course makes no difference at all.

00:34:02.000 It also happens to be true that no one has a good handle on COVID.

00:34:06.000 Basically, in countries where COVID was widely seeded, It has moved quickly across the entire country.

00:34:12.000 Right now, Europe is seeing more of a spread than the United States.

00:34:14.000 Is that Donald Trump's fault?

00:34:15.000 I wasn't aware that Donald Trump was president of Belgium.

00:34:18.000 I wasn't aware that he was president of France or that he was prime minister of the UK.

00:34:22.000 I wasn't aware of any of that because he isn't.

00:34:24.000 That is just a simple fact.

00:34:26.000 No one has a good handle on COVID.

00:34:27.000 And yet Democrats have created this alternative mental structure the entire media have bought into Which is that Donald Trump's behavior on COVID is singularly disqualifying.

00:34:37.000 They've bought into the lie that if Donald Trump weren't president, 200,000 Americans would be alive right now.

00:34:41.000 There is no evidence this is the case whatsoever.

00:34:43.000 Even with regard to Trump's foolishnesses about public gatherings, right?

00:34:48.000 Trump has basically gone out there, he's done public gatherings, people wear masks, there was a super spreader event at the White House. 0.90

00:34:54.000 Right, that's bad.

00:34:54.000 I said at the time that's bad.

00:34:56.000 I disagree with all of that.

00:34:57.000 I think it's political malpractice.

00:34:59.000 It also happens to be true the entire Democratic Party said you could go out and party in the streets millions strong if you just shouted George Floyd's name without a mask.

00:35:07.000 And that magically this woke virus would not affect you.

00:35:10.000 So the notion that Democrats are going to handle this thing on a practical level, any differently than Republicans did, is just a lie.

00:35:15.000 But there's been a narrative created.

00:35:16.000 So people said about my video, why didn't you focus in on Trump's COVID policy?

00:35:19.000 And I said, because I don't think that Trump's COVID policy is a point of differentiation between Democrats and Republicans.

00:35:26.000 I don't see the magic bullet that Democrats would use that Trump has not attempted.

00:35:31.000 I see ways in which Trump could have spoken differently and better.

00:35:34.000 And I agree with that.

00:35:35.000 But is that singularly disqualifying?

00:35:38.000 Do I think that fewer people would be dead if Donald Trump were not president right now?

00:35:43.000 I have serious doubts considering the vast majority of people who have died in the United States died in blue states where nobody supports Trump.

00:35:49.000 Okay, so that is the media lie.

00:35:52.000 I mean, I got some texts from people in the media like, I saw your video and it was good for what it was, but you didn't pay attention to COVID.

00:35:58.000 I was like, because?

00:35:59.000 If you're asking me to differentiate between the candidates, you can't give me an issue where everybody is basically the same.

00:36:06.000 That happens to be the case when it comes to COVID.

00:36:08.000 And the media myth notwithstanding, Trump's actions are identical to the actions that Joe Biden would have taken.

00:36:15.000 And yet, this is the Democratic narrative and the media will continue to play it.

00:36:18.000 That self-pleasuring media refusing to acknowledge the reality of the statement I just made, even though they know that it's true.

00:36:23.000 I literally had phone conversations With people in the mainstream media, they acknowledge what I was saying was true.

00:36:27.000 No one in Europe has a handle on this.

00:36:29.000 Nobody in New York has a handle on this.

00:36:30.000 No one in New Jersey has a handle on this.

00:36:32.000 Nobody in Massachusetts has a handle on this.

00:36:34.000 Basically, the harder you were hit the first time, the less hard hit you are being the second time.

00:36:37.000 But that does not mean that you got all of this right.

00:36:40.000 In fact, the states that have the lowest transmission rates right now are the states that got walloped the first time, including states like Louisiana, right?

00:36:45.000 A red state with a blue governor in John Bel Edwards.

00:36:47.000 We'll get to Trump and COVID, which again is the media's backup plan.

00:36:51.000 They don't want to talk about Hunter Biden.

00:36:52.000 They don't want to talk about Biden at all.

00:36:53.000 So they just keep going back to Trump and COVID, which is predicated on a false idea about COVID.

00:36:59.000 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:38:08.000 Okay, so again, the media have fallen back on the COVID narrative, right?

00:38:12.000 Because in the end, they can't talk about the economy.

00:38:15.000 Trump's economy was good.

00:38:16.000 They can't talk about foreign policy.

00:38:17.000 Trump's foreign policy was good.

00:38:18.000 They can talk about two things, Trump's rhetoric and COVID.

00:38:21.000 And they can't really talk about COVID.

00:38:23.000 So instead, what they like to do is talk about Trump's rhetoric on COVID.

00:38:25.000 Because again, the policy Trump has pursued is precisely the same as the policies that are now being pursued by everybody across Europe.

00:38:32.000 Trump's refusal to take top-down control, I think of as an asset.

00:38:35.000 He didn't nationalize American industry.

00:38:37.000 He didn't nationalize the vaccine production process.

00:38:39.000 Donald Trump did not assert massive top-down control over every area of the United States.

00:38:45.000 I'm seeing members of the media lament that we're not like China.

00:38:47.000 Right.

00:38:47.000 So what you're saying is that you would like the president of the United States to weld people in their homes if they have COVID.

00:38:54.000 You would like to see forcible quarantine if people have COVID.

00:38:57.000 Just say it out loud if that's what you want.

00:38:59.000 But Joe Biden has not even suggested that that is his policy.

00:39:02.000 And when people say testing and tracing is going to fix this, not when you got community spread with hundreds of thousands of people it ain't.

00:39:08.000 You could have locked everybody down, I suppose, and forced them to stay in their homes for months on end, but nobody in Europe has done that, and the spread continues in Europe.

00:39:16.000 We're gonna have to learn to live with the virus until a vaccine is developed, and even after a vaccine is developed, it is possible we'll have to learn to live with the virus, because again, we don't know the efficacy of the vaccine when tried over a wide range of human beings.

00:39:26.000 At that point, people are gonna have to go back to normal and take their chances.

00:39:29.000 Everybody acknowledges this if they are rational about this, but the media have crafted a narrative. 0.94

00:39:33.000 The narrative is Trump killed 200,000 people, And also that once Trump is gone, he's like a devilish, miasmatic evil.

00:39:42.000 Once Trump goes, all bad things in the universe subside.

00:39:45.000 This is how you know that politics has turned into paganism for so many people.

00:39:48.000 When Barack Obama left office and Donald Trump took office, I didn't think that all bad things in the universe had stopped.

00:39:53.000 Donald Trump is a person.

00:39:54.000 He does things.

00:39:55.000 Some of them I like, some of them I don't.

00:39:56.000 But for Democrats, because they have so much invested in politics, because So little is played.

00:40:03.000 I mean, honestly, I do think there's a religious aspect to this, because religion seeks an outlet.

00:40:07.000 And if you're not a religious person, you seek that outlet in faith in the state, faith in the collective, faith in political actors.

00:40:14.000 You end up saying wildly paganistic things about politics.

00:40:18.000 And so this is the democratic narrative.

00:40:20.000 Donald Trump, if removed from office, everything is justified in removing the devil, right?

00:40:24.000 Anything that you can do to stop the devil, you do.

00:40:26.000 That means you don't report.

00:40:28.000 It means that you say false things.

00:40:29.000 It means you promote false narratives.

00:40:31.000 All of that is okay because you're stopping the devil.

00:40:32.000 And once the devil is gone, then utopia reigns.

00:40:35.000 Once Donald Trump, Satan is gone, then the sun breaks through the clouds.

00:40:40.000 COVID magically dissipates.

00:40:41.000 The economy starts to boom again.

00:40:43.000 Racial tolerance is flowing across the land like milk and honey. 1.00

00:40:47.000 If you believe any of this, you're a sucker. 1.00

00:40:49.000 You're an absolute sucker. 1.00

00:40:50.000 But this is what the media and Democrats want you to believe. 1.00

00:40:53.000 We'll get to that false paganistic narrative in just one second.

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00:42:05.000 You may have noticed 2020's been nuts, man.

00:42:08.000 Statues toppled, coupled with radical rioting and looting in American cities.

00:42:11.000 It can feel at times like America is coming apart.

00:42:13.000 Well, that's because it is.

00:42:14.000 But it's not coming apart just because of politics.

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00:42:38.000 How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps is really about how to build America in three easy steps.

00:42:42.000 Philosophy, culture, history.

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00:42:48.000 A culture of adventure and entrepreneurialism.

00:42:51.000 A culture of tolerance for other people's rights.

00:42:53.000 What is the history of the United States?

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00:42:58.000 That is what this book is about.

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00:44:17.000 The narrative that has been crafted by Democrats with regard to the Trump administration is that once Trump goes, everything goes back to normal.

00:44:30.000 And so just ignore everything bad that's happening.

00:44:32.000 In pursuit of the devil, you can do anything.

00:44:34.000 Now, there's a famous scene in one of my favorite plays slash movies, A Man for All Seasons, about Sir Thomas More, in which he has a son-in-law named Roper.

00:44:44.000 And Thomas More is being basically blackmailed by a guy named Richard Rich, played in the movie by John Hurt.

00:44:51.000 He's being blackmailed with the threat that he's going to tell the king that Thomas More does not approve of his divorce and remarriage.

00:44:59.000 And Thomas More is talking to his son-in-law, Roper, and Roper says, you should arrest that man.

00:45:04.000 And Thomas More says, on what charge?

00:45:06.000 And he says, well, make up the charge.

00:45:08.000 Just arrest him. 1.00

00:45:09.000 He's going to get you killed. 0.99

00:45:10.000 And Thomas More says, you'd cut down the law to go after the devil. 0.99

00:45:13.000 And Roper says, I would cut down the law to go after the devil.

00:45:15.000 I cut down every law in England to go after the devil.

00:45:18.000 And Thomas More says, oh, you would.

00:45:19.000 What happens when all the laws are down and the devil turns around on you?

00:45:23.000 Where are you going to hide then?

00:45:25.000 And that is what is happening in the United States.

00:45:27.000 In pursuit of Donald Trump, every institution has been militarized.

00:45:30.000 In pursuit of Donald Trump, every truth has been thrown out.

00:45:33.000 In pursuit of Donald Trump, everybody has decided that the rules no longer apply.

00:45:37.000 Because when you're going after the devil, the entire forest of laws, the entire forest of facts and objectivity, all of it has to go away.

00:45:43.000 The media doesn't have to do its job because Trump has to leave office.

00:45:46.000 We can tell overt lies about COVID policy because Trump has to leave office.

00:45:50.000 You can simply ignore big and important corruption narratives.

00:45:55.000 You don't have to do your job as a journalist because Trump has to leave office.

00:45:59.000 So what happens when a Republican takes power again?

00:46:02.000 Let's say that Trump wins re-election.

00:46:05.000 How are all these journalists gonna maintain their credibility?

00:46:06.000 They've destroyed their credibility.

00:46:08.000 How are Democrats going to maintain their credibility?

00:46:11.000 They've destroyed their credibility.

00:46:12.000 The institutional collapsing that collapses we see all around us, the attempts to rip into everything from the police to corporations, the attempt to twist everything in pursuit of Donald Trump means that trust in America is at an all-time low, and it's going to get lower, not higher, in the future, because the institutional trust that we have in all of our institutions has basically been destroyed.

00:46:32.000 It has not been destroyed by Trump.

00:46:34.000 Trump has said things about our institutions that I've disagreed with and I think are bad.

00:46:38.000 But it is the Democrats' willingness to actually use those institutions as brickbats against Trump that means that people no longer trust the institutions.

00:46:46.000 So in pursuit of this narrative, Democrats are willing to say anything.

00:46:50.000 How bad is this to Elizabeth Warren yesterday?

00:46:52.000 She said something that many Democrats have said.

00:46:54.000 She was campaigning for Joe Biden, was the senator from Massachusetts.

00:46:58.000 And I know Elizabeth Warren a little bit.

00:47:00.000 I met her a little, interacted a little bit with her at Harvard Law School.

00:47:02.000 She's too smart for this. 0.92

00:47:03.000 But again, this has become a pagan religion.

00:47:05.000 Elizabeth Warren says that Donald Trump threatens all human life on the planet.

00:47:08.000 All human life on the planet. 0.98

00:47:10.000 He's Satan.

00:47:11.000 And so if he is Satan, you can do whatever you want in order to target him.

00:47:14.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren laying that out. 1.00

00:47:18.000 He not only hasn't made things better, he has actively made them worse.

00:47:22.000 He withdrew us from the Paris Climate Accord.

00:47:26.000 He's put a coal lobbyist in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency.

00:47:31.000 What could possibly go wrong?

00:47:34.000 He has opened up for offshore drilling.

00:47:37.000 And he has said yes to the oil companies that can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve.

00:47:45.000 Donald Trump Threatens the existence of human life, of all life on this planet.

00:47:53.000 Okay, that's insane. 0.68

00:47:54.000 I'm sorry, that's just totally crazy.

00:47:55.000 That's crazy!

00:47:57.000 The existence of all human... So you're telling me that by drilling an anwar, that all human life is threatened? 0.97

00:48:02.000 That's been like a hot issue since I was in college in 2000, 20 years ago.

00:48:05.000 You're telling me that if the climate warms approximately four degrees Fahrenheit over the course of the next century, that it threatens all life, not just human life, all life on this planet, according to Elizabeth Warren?

00:48:15.000 That is her case?

00:48:17.000 That's paganistic nonsense. 0.94

00:48:18.000 It truly is.

00:48:18.000 And that has been carried over to COVID, where without any evidence whatsoever, the media have suggested that if a Democrat were in charge, 200,000 people wouldn't be dead.

00:48:25.000 Let's be very clear about this.

00:48:26.000 If Hillary Clinton had been president in 2020, you know how many people would be dead? 0.93

00:48:29.000 Probably about the same number as are dead under Donald Trump.

00:48:33.000 Because nobody knows what to do with this thing.

00:48:35.000 Nobody knows what to do with this thing. 1.00

00:48:37.000 This bizarre idea that Donald Trump is responsible for people losing their lives through his COVID policy is idiotic. 0.98

00:48:43.000 So, what they've decided to focus on is the only point of real contradistinction between Democrats and Republicans on COVID, and that is the rhetoric. 0.99

00:48:49.000 And this is where Trump really has failed.

00:48:51.000 He has stepped on rake after rake after rake when it comes to COVID.

00:48:54.000 In the last two weeks of an election, you know what's a really bad strategy?

00:48:57.000 Going to war with Anthony Fauci.

00:48:59.000 That is a bad strategy.

00:49:00.000 It's what Democrats have been begging for for months.

00:49:02.000 Because again, Democrats can't point to anything that Trump has quote-unquote done in terms of policy that really has hurt the country in terms of COVID worse than any place else.

00:49:10.000 Donald Trump is not responsible for the massive spike we are now seeing in case numbers in Europe.

00:49:14.000 He is not responsible for the fact that blue states did much worse than red states in the early going.

00:49:20.000 That would be on Andrew Cuomo, who's being touted at the DNC as Captain COVID Handler.

00:49:25.000 Okay, but so they focus in instead on the point of distinction, which again, it always comes down to Trump's rhetoric.

00:49:29.000 If you just stripped Trump's rhetoric from the Trump administration, the Democrats are stripped of virtually every talking point.

00:49:34.000 So it always comes down to Trump's rhetoric.

00:49:35.000 So since the beginning of COVID, they've been trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Fauci.

00:49:39.000 Very early on, Fauci refused it and Trump refused it.

00:49:42.000 Well now, Fauci's been doing more and more interviews.

00:49:44.000 He was on the cover of InTouch Magazine, which again, I don't understand how you can perceive yourself as a serious public health official and be posing for photo shoots with InTouch Magazine.

00:49:53.000 I gotta say, I'm not a huge Fauci fan.

00:49:56.000 I've said that I think Fauci is doing his best under trying circumstances.

00:49:59.000 I think that he has evolved with new information.

00:50:02.000 I think that we only see snippets of him.

00:50:04.000 Right, he was for lockdowns, then he was against lockdowns, he was anti-mask, then he was for mask.

00:50:07.000 But okay, like everybody is moving with the new evidence as it comes out.

00:50:11.000 Well, Fauci did an interview on 60 Minutes in which he got very angry that Donald Trump had used him in an ad, which again, was not illegitimate.

00:50:19.000 Fauci is a trusted public figure.

00:50:20.000 He said, we've done the best that we can, we've done more than anybody else could have, and Trump used that in an ad.

00:50:24.000 Okay, well, he's the president, you work for him, right?

00:50:28.000 You're in the executive branch, so who the hell do you think you work for, really?

00:50:31.000 So that was illegitimate.

00:50:32.000 It was.

00:50:33.000 Fauci instead decided on 60 Minutes to go out and appear.

00:50:36.000 So there was a private campaign phone call that has now been leaked, right?

00:50:40.000 So I guess that since it's been leaked, we can't pay attention to it according to the media.

00:50:42.000 That's the way this works, right?

00:50:43.000 It's unauthorized leakage.

00:50:45.000 I don't see Twitter taking any of this down. 1.00

00:50:46.000 So Trump, on this phone call, ripped into Fauci and called him an idiot. 0.99

00:50:51.000 Now, is this a smart campaign strategy? 1.00

00:50:54.000 Because Fauci has again become the repository of anti-Trump sentiment.

00:50:54.000 Of course not.

00:50:58.000 So ripping into Fauci allows the Democrats to play a game with you, which is Fauci is captain science and Trump is captain anti-science.

00:51:06.000 And then Trump plays right into that, right?

00:51:07.000 He'll go out his rallies and he'll say, Joe Biden says, listen to the science.

00:51:11.000 And Biden will be like, yep.

00:51:13.000 Which is literally what happened the other day.

00:51:14.000 Trump said that at a rally.

00:51:16.000 He said, you know, Biden will listen to Fauci.

00:51:19.000 And Biden just tweeted out, yes. 1.00

00:51:22.000 That is a rhetorical idiocy on the president's part. 0.99

00:51:26.000 This is where Democrats are really making their hay. 0.99

00:51:28.000 So this campaign phone call has now become the big headline. 1.00

00:51:30.000 Here was Trump calling Fauci an idiot on a campaign phone call. 1.00

00:51:33.000 People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots, these people. 1.00

00:51:39.000 These people that have gotten it wrong. 1.00

00:51:41.000 Fauci's a nice guy.

00:51:43.000 He's been here for 500 years.

00:51:45.000 He called every one of them wrong.

00:51:47.000 Every time he goes on television, there's always a bomb.

00:51:49.000 after Fauci, then he suggested that he was considered firing Fauci.

00:51:54.000 He said that he had considered firing it, but it would cause more of a firestorm than just keeping him around.

00:51:58.000 Every time he goes on television, there's always a bomb, but there's a bigger bomb if you fire him.

00:52:04.000 Okay.

00:52:05.000 And then Trump tweeted against Fauci, right?

00:52:07.000 He tweeted out, Dr. Tony Fauci says we don't allow him to do television and yet I saw him last night on 60 Minutes.

00:52:12.000 He seems to get more airtime than anybody since the late great Bob Hope.

00:52:15.000 All I ask of Tony is that he make better decisions.

00:52:17.000 He said no masks and let China in. 1.00

00:52:19.000 Also, bad arm, which is just typical Trump, right?

00:52:23.000 Is that he threw out a bad first pitch.

00:52:24.000 And then he reiterated this.

00:52:26.000 Going to war with your health advisor on COVID?

00:52:28.000 Like, two weeks from the election?

00:52:28.000 reasons. Number one, it is not up to the high standards that he should be exposing. Number two, it keeps reminding me that Tony threw out perhaps the worst first pitch in the history of baseball. Going to war with your health advisor on COVID like two weeks from the election.

00:52:41.000 Is that your final election pitch here? Is that your final election pitch?

00:52:45.000 So Democrats, look for the point of distinction.

00:52:47.000 The point of distinction is that Trump says things.

00:52:49.000 And so Trump decides to double down on all of that.

00:52:53.000 He decides to double down on that.

00:52:54.000 Now, again, he's not wrong when he says the media have miscovered COVID. 1.00

00:52:57.000 And so Trump at a rally called CNN dumb bastards. 0.99

00:53:01.000 Fact check, mostly true. 1.00

00:53:03.000 I mean, here is Trump going after CNN.

00:53:06.000 They're getting tired of the pandemic, aren't they?

00:53:09.000 Getting tired of the pandemic.

00:53:11.000 You turn on CNN, that's all they cover.

00:53:13.000 COVID, COVID, pandemic, COVID, COVID, COVID.

00:53:17.000 They're trying to talk everybody out of voting.

00:53:17.000 You know why?

00:53:20.000 People aren't buying it, CNN, you dumb bastards. 1.00

00:53:22.000 They're not buying it. 1.00

00:53:23.000 Okay, so are they really trying to talk people out of voting?

00:53:26.000 No.

00:53:27.000 Are they really trying to talk people into the idea that Trump has killed tons of people from COVID?

00:53:30.000 Of course.

00:53:31.000 That is what CNN's overt goal is at this point.

00:53:34.000 Trump walking directly into that door is not a particularly smart strategy.

00:53:37.000 Now, again, I have serious doubts on whether the trust the science crowd actually trusts the science, considering that you still have Andrew Cuomo going out there and saying he literally will not trust a vaccine if Trump says to take it.

00:53:47.000 Which, again, I'm not taking anything just because Trump says to take it.

00:53:50.000 I'll take it because the scientific community says to take it.

00:53:51.000 I don't even understand the point of this.

00:53:53.000 The vaccine is not even going to be greenlit until after the election.

00:53:56.000 Why are you sowing doubts about a vaccine that is not going to be greenlit until after we know who the next president of the United States is going to be?

00:54:02.000 But here was Andrew Cuomo doing that.

00:54:03.000 Here's Party of Science Andrew Cuomo.

00:54:05.000 I'm not that confident, but my opinion doesn't matter.

00:54:08.000 I don't believe the American people are that confident.

00:54:11.000 You're going to say to the American people now, here's a vaccine, it was new, it was done quickly, but trust this federal administration and their health administration that it's safe?

00:54:23.000 And we're not 100% sure of the consequences.

00:54:27.000 I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and it should be.

00:54:32.000 So remember, the entire Democratic Party infrastructure has been, including Kamala Harris, has been sowing doubts about taking a vaccine, right?

00:54:38.000 So when you hear about how people are getting people killed from COVID, the same party that said it was OK to march in the streets millions strong, said it was OK to go to a funeral so long as it was of a prominent leftist, the same party that suggests that vaccines are bad, Right now, because they're being developed under the Trump administration.

00:54:54.000 Those are the people who are definitely going to protect you from COVID.

00:54:56.000 It's all false narratives, all the way down.

00:54:59.000 All the way down.

00:55:00.000 Okay, meanwhile, there is a big piece of election news coming out of the Supreme Court.

00:55:04.000 The Supreme Court, John Roberts is just a terrible justice.

00:55:07.000 He is, I'm sorry.

00:55:09.000 He thinks that his sole mandate is to somehow preserve, in some way, the legitimacy of the court.

00:55:15.000 And his way of preserving the legitimacy of the court is to avoid quote-unquote controversy in the here and now, as opposed to controversy in the later.

00:55:23.000 He's constantly kicking the can down the road.

00:55:25.000 So on the ACA, he will rewrite the law just so that the Supreme Court is not required to strike down a law that was very controversial.

00:55:32.000 He'll rewrite it just to quote-unquote re-establish the institutional legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

00:55:37.000 Question, did it help?

00:55:38.000 Answer, no.

00:55:39.000 John Roberts is constantly doing this kind of stuff.

00:55:41.000 So here's a perfect case in point.

00:55:43.000 Yesterday, the Supreme Court refused to take up a case, to split 4-4 on taking up a case on Pennsylvania voting.

00:55:51.000 So here's the underlying fact pattern.

00:55:53.000 In Pennsylvania, there is a law on the books.

00:55:56.000 The law on the books is that you have to vote by November 3rd.

00:56:00.000 November 3rd is not an arbitrary deadline, as Andrew McCarthy points out.

00:56:03.000 It is the election.

00:56:04.000 It's a date fixed by Congress for voting across the country to take place.

00:56:08.000 Well, under the Constitution, states have a great deal of discretion regarding the manner in which elections are conducted.

00:56:13.000 But that discretion is not limitless.

00:56:15.000 The election is November 3rd.

00:56:16.000 Whatever time frame the states allow for early voting, whatever procedures they prescribe for authenticating legitimate mail-in ballots, the voting has to be concluded on November 3rd.

00:56:23.000 The Constitution states it is for Congress to determine the time of choosing the electors, in modern parlance, for conducting in each state the presidential election.

00:56:31.000 The states don't have authority to alter that date.

00:56:33.000 In Pennsylvania, they just altered the date.

00:56:36.000 The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, says Andy McCarthy from National Review, is enmeshed in politics.

00:56:40.000 Its members are elected, not appointed, for 10-year terms.

00:56:43.000 A few weeks back, in a 4-3 ruling along partisan lines with Democrats in the majority, the court nullified the mandate, duly enacted by the state's legislature, that mail-in ballots must be received in the office of the County Board of Elections no later than 8 o'clock p.m.

00:56:56.000 on the day of the primary or election.

00:56:58.000 That law makes perfect sense, right?

00:57:00.000 Because what you would like to do is start counting.

00:57:02.000 So everything has to be received by a certain date.

00:57:04.000 This is something, by the way, that the post office actually warned about months ago.

00:57:08.000 They put out an actual notice to states across the country saying, you know, guys, you really should change your laws so that the final date on which people can send their mail for an election gives enough time for us to deliver that mail such that the thing can be received by the date of the election.

00:57:21.000 The Constitution and federal law, as the Supreme Court has observed, vests discretion to set election rules in the state legislatures, not state courts.

00:57:27.000 And as even the Pennsylvania court conceded, it was within the legitimate power of the state's General Assembly to set this deadline.

00:57:33.000 There was no ambiguity about it, nor any legal infirmity.

00:57:35.000 Right?

00:57:36.000 If you wanted your ballot counted, it had to be received by November 3rd.

00:57:39.000 Yet, the court's Democratic judges dictated a three-day extension of the lawful deadline for counting mail-in ballots.

00:57:46.000 The vehicle for this act of willful usurpation was a lawsuit brought by, surprise, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.

00:57:52.000 The state court's majority invoked a hurl-it-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks combination of rationales said to flow from COVID, natural disasters, emergency situations, a loopy construction of the state constitution's Free and Equal Elections Clause, theorizing that since the virus does not affect all people the same way, provisions the legislature makes to deal with it somehow render elections unfair and unequal.

00:58:12.000 So what does this actually do?

00:58:13.000 What does the court ruling do?

00:58:14.000 The court effectively ruled that you can vote after election day.

00:58:18.000 The Pennsylvania court requires election officials to presume that any ballot received by its extended deadline, now November 6th, must be counted even if it lacks postmark proof it was mailed on or before November 3rd.

00:58:30.000 So, you could see an election in which the entire thing comes down to Pennsylvania.

00:58:34.000 In fact, this is quite easy to see because Pennsylvania is a battleground state, right?

00:58:36.000 You could see an election in which Trump replicates all the states that he won, except for Michigan and Wisconsin.

00:58:41.000 And now he needs to win Pennsylvania.

00:58:43.000 And Joe Biden needs to win Pennsylvania.

00:58:44.000 And the entire election rests on Pennsylvania.

00:58:47.000 And it's November 3rd, and we don't know the results, right?

00:58:50.000 November 3rd happens, and it's a very tight election in Pennsylvania.

00:58:53.000 Again, right now, that election is within three to four points, right?

00:58:56.000 It's close to margin of error.

00:58:58.000 And you now have a Pennsylvania law that says that if, the day after the election, November 4th now, everybody looks at the TV, they recognize it comes down to Pennsylvania, and everybody rushes to their mailbox and sends in their ballot, people who didn't vote, they rush to their mailbox and now they send in their ballot.

00:59:15.000 According to Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, those will be counted, if received, by November 6th, whether or not they are postmarked late.

00:59:24.000 Even if it lacks postmark proof, it was mailed on or before November 3rd.

00:59:27.000 As Andy McCarthy said, in effect, it greenlights voting after Election Day, even as the national media is reporting the results of a contest that is supposed to be over.

00:59:35.000 For those reasons, the state's Republican Party asked the Supreme Court to stay the court's ruling to the extent it permits voting after Election Day.

00:59:42.000 The Supreme Court adheres to a so-called Purcell Principle arising out of its 2006 ruling in Purcell v. Gonzalez that courts must not change the rules for an election late in the game.

00:59:51.000 Purcell is now being flouted, not just in Pennsylvania.

00:59:54.000 In Wisconsin, Judge William Conley, an Obama appointee on the federal district court, presumed to rewrite a number of state law election-related deadlines, including extending the deadline for counting absentee ballots until November 9th.

01:00:04.000 In his wisdom, Judge Conley caveated that ballots should only be counted if they are mailed in by Election Day, November 3rd, which sounds fine in theory, but there's gonna be a lot of dispute about when ballots were mailed, right?

01:00:13.000 You're gonna say, I dropped it off at the post office, I dropped it in a mailbox November 3rd, it wasn't postmarked until November 4th.

01:00:19.000 So did I mail it in on time?

01:00:22.000 So the Supreme Court could have intervened here.

01:00:25.000 The Supreme Court could have done something here.

01:00:28.000 Well, in April, the High Court intervened in a similar Wisconsin case.

01:00:32.000 Judge Conley hadn't just extended by a week after Election Day the deadline for mail-in ballots to be received by state election officials.

01:00:38.000 He had ordered that votes be counted even if they were mailed after Election Day, and the Supreme Court stayed Conley's order.

01:00:43.000 All four liberal-bloc justices, including now-deceased RBG, dissented from the unsigned opinion by a five-justice majority.

01:00:50.000 The majority concluded that to permit people to keep voting after election day would gravely affect the integrity of the election process.

01:00:55.000 But the opinion took pains to emphasize it was forbidding the counting of post-election mail-in ballots because Conley had ordered it unilaterally.

01:01:02.000 So here's how this is going to go.

01:01:03.000 Let's say that it does come down to what we're talking about.

01:01:05.000 It comes down to Pennsylvania.

01:01:06.000 might have approved post election day voting, which is insane. So now the court is essentially saying that they are going to put off decisions on whether or not to count ballots until after election day itself. So here's how this is going to go. Let's say that it does come down to what we're talking about. It comes down to Pennsylvania. It comes down to states that have extended their voting deadlines after election day, which is crazy, by the way.

01:01:29.000 And now, you have a ninth justice on the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, who's gonna be confirmed this week or early next.

01:01:35.000 And now, Democrats proclaim that a five-seat majority on the Supreme Court with Amy Coney Barrett in the majority is illegitimate because Amy Coney Barrett was rammed through.

01:01:42.000 I mean, the possibilities here are devastating.

01:01:46.000 And if you're talking about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, if that's John Roberts' chief concern, I cannot think of anything more calibrated to undermine that legitimacy than what the Supreme Court is doing right here.

01:01:56.000 Okay, meanwhile, the debate is happening.

01:01:58.000 Final debate between Trump and Biden is happening.

01:02:00.000 It is happening on Thursday night.

01:02:01.000 Well, now new rules have been set.

01:02:03.000 According to the New York Times, President Trump and Joseph Biden will be muted during the portions of Thursday's final presidential debate, an effort by the organizers to avoid the unruly spectacle that played out at the candidates' first meeting in Cleveland last month.

01:02:15.000 Now, here's the thing.

01:02:15.000 I don't think that you should mute the mics.

01:02:17.000 I actually don't think you should mute the mics.

01:02:18.000 The reason is, if you're a Democrat, I'm confused why you'd want to mute the mics.

01:02:22.000 If you look at the polls, what you see is that Trump's performance in the last debate killed him.

01:02:26.000 It was terrible for him.

01:02:27.000 He started dumping in the polls immediately after that, before he even got COVID, by polling data.

01:02:32.000 So why exactly would you want to mute the mics?

01:02:34.000 Okay, so fine, they're muting the mics. 0.90

01:02:36.000 As in the first debate, each candidate will be allotted two minutes of speaking time to initially answer the moderator's questions.

01:02:42.000 Under a plan announced on Monday, the opponent's mic will be turned off during that period in an attempt to ensure an uninterrupted response.

01:02:48.000 Trump said he wasn't happy about it.

01:02:50.000 Trump said, I'll participate.

01:02:51.000 I just think it's very unfair.

01:02:52.000 I'll participate, but it's very unfair they changed the topics.

01:02:55.000 It's very unfair that, again, we have an anchor who is totally biased.

01:02:58.000 The commission acknowledged both campaigns might be dissatisfied with the new rules.

01:03:01.000 One might think they go too far.

01:03:03.000 One might think they don't go far enough.

01:03:06.000 The Thursday debate is the final meeting of the candidates.

01:03:09.000 There were supposed to be three debates. 0.84

01:03:10.000 The second one got canceled because the debate commission unilaterally suggested that Trump's COVID forbade it, even though there was no medical information that suggested that this was the case.

01:03:20.000 Meanwhile, Bill Stepien, Trump's campaign manager, he claimed that the nonpartisan commission, he called it the Biden Debate Commission, had promised that the national debate would be about foreign policy and asked for it to discard the six subjects announced last week by the moderator, Kristen Welker.

01:03:34.000 Those topics are fighting COVID, American families, race in America, climate change, national security, and leadership. 0.98

01:03:40.000 You can see why the Trump administration would like to talk about foreign policy, which is a big bright spot for them, as opposed to more conversation about racism, and is Trump a white supremacist, and all this garbage, again, again. 0.95

01:03:53.000 So Biden's people are, of course, very happy with the rule changes. 0.96

01:03:55.000 So once again, it'll be Trump versus the moderator, for sure.

01:03:59.000 Now, final note here.

01:04:01.000 It turns out that when people actually look at policy, When people look at policy, when they look beyond the personalities of the candidates, it turns out that Democratic policies are just not that popular.

01:04:10.000 Polls show this.

01:04:11.000 Polls show that Democrats may be more popular than Republicans, but that is a personality question.

01:04:16.000 That is based on social disapproval.

01:04:18.000 It is not based on actual policy.

01:04:20.000 56% of Americans, according to Gallup, say they are better off now than they were four years ago.

01:04:24.000 A plurality support Republican policies over Democratic policies.

01:04:27.000 This culminated yesterday in 50 Cent, the rapper, This is according to, I believe, Fox Business.

01:04:33.000 tweeting out a graphic of the top tax rates by state.

01:04:36.000 This is according to, I believe, Fox Business.

01:04:39.000 It showed top tax rates by states under the Biden tax plan.

01:04:43.000 California would have a top tax rate of 62.6%.

01:04:48.000 New Jersey would have a 60% top tax rate.

01:04:50.000 New York State would have a 58% top tax rate.

01:04:53.000 New York City would have a 62% top tax rate.

01:04:56.000 That is according to the Tax Foundation.

01:04:58.000 And that is because of an increase in social security tax, as well as an increase in personal income tax for people at the top tax bracket.

01:05:04.000 50 Cent tweeted out, What the F?

01:05:05.000 Vote for Trump. 0.81

01:05:06.000 I'm out.

01:05:07.000 F New York.

01:05:07.000 The Knicks never win anyway.

01:05:09.000 I don't care. 0.99

01:05:09.000 Trump doesn't like black people. 0.99

01:05:10.000 62%? 1.00

01:05:10.000 Are you out of your effing mind? 1.00

01:05:14.000 So first of all, it's not true that Trump doesn't like black people, but it turns out that Democratic policies are wildly unpopular. 0.97

01:05:19.000 So here is the good news.

01:05:20.000 If you're a Republican and you're deeply worried about the outcome of this election, as you should be.

01:05:25.000 If Joe Biden is elected president, and if the Democrats take the Senate, right now, pollsters suggest there's about a 75% shot that Democrats take the Senate, there's no doubt Democrats will promptly go too far, pass a bunch of crappy policy, and there will be a reaction to it in two years, which means that what our real fear should be is them wrecking the system, adding seats to the Senate, and completely changing the constituency of the Supreme Court, institutional changes that outlast the temporary.

01:05:47.000 If, however, Democrats push too far on the bizarre thought that this is not about Trump, they made the entire election about Trump, So if Trump is ousted, and then they say, well, really, it wasn't a referendum on Trump.

01:05:57.000 It was a referendum on how much people love high taxes.

01:05:59.000 They will go for it.

01:06:00.000 They will go for broke.

01:06:00.000 And the reaction will be exactly 50 Cent's reaction.

01:06:03.000 And the pendulum will swing back the other way.

01:06:05.000 OK, we'll be back here later today for two additional hours of content.

01:06:09.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 20, 2020

The Media Pleasure Themselves | Ep. 1119

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