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00:00:25.000Well, I will say that this campaign, it's beginning to tighten.
00:00:28.000The polls are showing that it's beginning to tighten just a little bit.
00:00:31.000There are several polls out in the last week that show that President Trump is within a national striking distance of Joe Biden.
00:00:36.000Which is good news, because you would assume that Trump is probably going to lose the popular vote.
00:00:39.000He could lose the popular vote by up to four points and still win the election if the votes happen in the wrong places for Joe Biden, if they all happen in California or Massachusetts or New York or Washington, D.C.
00:00:49.000In the swing states, Joe Biden still has a pretty solid lead in a lot of these various states, but he is not very far above where Hillary Clinton was in many of these states.
00:00:56.000Florida, he's pretty well ahead of the pace set by Hillary Clinton, but he's well behind Hillary Clinton where she was in Pennsylvania.
00:01:02.000He's well behind where she was at this time in places like Michigan.
00:01:05.000Which suggests that this election ain't quite over yet.
00:01:08.000Now, we are being deprived of the full glory and majesty of the clash of intellectual titans that is going on between President Trump and Joe Biden right now.
00:01:16.000And it would be astonishing to watch them both on the campaign trail, a man who Probably cannot stay awake for more than about 37 minutes at a time versus a man who cannot stay focused for more than about 47 seconds at a time.
00:01:27.000And it is amusing to watch the two of them go at it.
00:01:30.000I've said before that the debates I think probably will happen.
00:01:34.000They won't happen with a crowd, which is a pity because that's President Trump's wheelhouse.
00:01:37.000When President Trump has a crowd, he plays to the crowd in ways that no one outside of the comic community would do.
00:01:43.000I saw a clip of Shane Gillis, the comedian, back from March talking about debates with Trump, and he said Trump is basically a stand-up comedian, and he would just bury you on stage.
00:01:51.000Like, all these comedians who go out there and they say things like, he's a bad orange man, he's so bad, Trump would bury them if you were next on stage, because that really is his specialty, is being a jerk in public to people.
00:02:00.000So that would be a disadvantage for Joe Biden.
00:02:03.000But we still have the somewhat muted pleasure of watching these two candidates just gaffe regularly.
00:02:08.000Now, the difference between how the media treat the gaffes, that's what's truly astonishing.
00:02:12.000So Trump right now is making a lot of gaffes that don't go to substance.
00:02:16.000He's making a lot of gaps that are kind of funny to look at, but don't really mean anything in the long run.
00:02:21.000So you saw the other day, he said about Yosemite, like the national park.
00:03:08.000You remember that just a few weeks back, he said to a black commentator, Charlemagne the God, he said, you ain't black if you don't vote for Joe Biden, which is patently crazy.
00:03:17.000Like Joe Biden being the adjudicator of blackness is pretty insane.
00:04:07.000Now, Drudge really doesn't cover the gaffes that Biden does in a very significant way.
00:04:12.000But any gaffe that Trump commits, he's covering in a really, really significant way.
00:04:16.000I don't know what Trump did to him or whether Matt is just spending less time on the site.
00:04:19.000I really don't know what's going on over at Drudge Report.
00:04:21.000But you can see that the coverage over at Drudge, honestly, it mirrors more the coverage at CNN than it does the coverage over at Fox News, which is kind of a shocker because Drudge used to be much more in sort of the Fox News column politically.
00:04:44.000That is a bill that is pushed by Democrats that essentially says that religious institutions should be forced to violate their own religious precepts in order to Maintain, quote-unquote, equal treatment for LGBT people.
00:04:56.000So you have to have a priest who's transgender in your church.
00:04:59.000The Equality Act basically says that if you're a religious business owner, you will now be mandated, in any business that you are, including religious businesses, you will be mandated to abide by social leftist structures.
00:05:09.000It goes even further than the recent Supreme Court case, which declared that in places of employment, the Civil Rights Act protects transgender people.
00:05:16.000It actually, because there's still ministerial exceptions and religious school exceptions, the Equality Act doesn't do any of that.
00:05:21.000OK, so President Trump was going after Joe Biden and his anti-religious agenda.
00:05:25.000And while he was riffing, he said that that Joe Biden was going to hurt God.
00:05:29.000And now that that really is not a particularly revealing gaffe.
00:05:31.000Like, I don't think that Trump actually thinks that Joe Biden is going to start hurling spears at God or something, or that if he did, it would be particularly effective.
00:05:38.000It's just Trump riffing because that's what Trump does.
00:06:06.000He's against God, he's against guns, he's against energy, our kind of energy.
00:06:12.000Okay, so obviously Trump is riffing there, and it's a very crude way of saying that his agenda is anti-religious, which, again, is true.
00:06:19.000And Barack Obama's agenda was also anti-religious.
00:06:21.000Barack Obama was the man who campaigned in 2008 telling his donors in San Francisco that only bitter clingers clinging to God and guns and religion were the people who were standing between him and victory.
00:06:30.000So that is not, you know, it's not a major gaffe, seriously.
00:06:34.000Like, I guess there's the implication that Trump, because he's not a particularly religious person, he's saying things that religious people would never say.
00:06:40.000Like, as a religious person, I would never say that someone is capable of hurting God.
00:06:45.000If you're a religious person, you're like, well, that's weird, because God is the master of the universe and the creator of all things, so I'm pretty sure that Joe Biden can't hurt him.
00:07:21.000I don't think that Donald Trump is sitting there going, God loves me and God hates Joe Biden.
00:07:24.000I don't think that that is actually the case.
00:07:27.000And the media immediately swivel into, how dare Trump say this about a practicing Catholic?
00:07:31.000Never mind the fact that there are Catholic priests who will not give communion to Joe Biden because he is pro-abortion now.
00:07:36.000And Joe Biden has switched his positions on abortion several times, moving ever more in the pro-abortion direction.
00:07:43.000He's a practicing Catholic the way that Nancy Pelosi is a practicing Catholic, which is to say they violate religious scripture on a fairly regular basis.
00:07:50.000But the media's angle was, how dare Trump say something like that?
00:07:53.000It was a big, revealing gaffe for Trump.
00:07:55.000In a second, we'll go through Trump's other gaffes, and then we'll get to Joe Biden's gaffes, which are being covered for full scale by the media.
00:08:01.000First, let's talk about the fact that right now, a lot of us need to do fitness from home.
00:08:06.000A lot of gyms across the country are simply not open because the government thinks that these are vectors of transmission, whatever the evidence.
00:08:13.000Well, the reality is you still need to work out at home, but you've been looking at some of these programs, like, for example, Peloton, and you're like, that costs a damned fortune, and it does.
00:08:21.000I looked at it for my wife and for me.
00:08:22.000I was going to be one of those husbands who got his wife a Peloton bike, and I looked at the price and I went, nope, that is way too expensive.
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00:08:40.000I could not be more pumped about this.
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00:09:03.000Their EX1 connected fitness bike is less than half the price of a Peloton, which is pretty spectacular because all a Peloton is, is just an exercise bike hooked up to a bunch of classes.
00:09:11.000Well, Echelon is cutting out the middleman and Echelon is ensuring that you're not gonna have to pay a fortune for basically the same or better service.
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00:09:23.000Don't pay a ton for a Peloton, no reason for that.
00:11:33.000So, Dinesh D'Souza, who I like, I mean I like Dinesh, but Dinesh did like a whole thread about how the proper way to pronounce Thailand is Thigh-land if you're Australian or British.
00:11:41.000So I actually looked up Boris Johnson saying Thigh-land, and he says Thigh-land, he doesn't say Thigh-land, just for the record.
00:11:45.000But, with all of that said, is that like a revealing gaffe?
00:11:48.000Of course that's not a revealing gaffe!
00:11:49.000Unless you're revealing a thigh in Thigh-land.
00:11:51.000But, is that like a super revealing gaffe?
00:11:53.000Of course that's not a revealing gaffe, it's just silly!
00:11:55.000Okay, like it's funny, and it's silly, and it makes for good late-night political comedy, and that's pretty much it!
00:12:01.000Stormy Daniels performing in Thailand.
00:12:05.000But again, the media covered this thing like wall to wall yesterday.
00:12:08.000It was like a wall to wall coverage in the media yesterday.
00:12:12.000So again, we're getting all of these quote unquote gaffes from Trump and they're basically innocuous or mild exaggerations or like none of these are world shaking in their import.
00:12:21.000And we saw the same thing over the past 48 hours, 72 hours after Trump did that interview with Jonathan Swan.
00:12:27.000There were some real mistakes in that interview.
00:12:31.000But one of those things that he said is he was talking about the levels of death in the United States and he said it is what it is, meaning I can't control how many people die from a disease, which is true.
00:12:40.000And reporters have been all over him for that.
00:12:45.000I mean, when a disease is running rampant through a community and you're doing the best you can, Like, he should have expressed more sympathy.
00:12:52.000So it's a political gaffe in that way, I suppose.
00:12:54.000It reveals that he has a lack of empathy, if that's a thing that you think is super important.
00:12:58.000But, and I guess it's important, but when he says, it is what it is, and that's treated like a major story, it's still being treated like a major story like five days later.
00:13:06.000Here was a reporter yesterday going after Trump over that yesterday.
00:13:10.000You said, that's true and it is what it is.
00:13:15.000No, you look at the statement I made right after that.
00:13:18.000Because if you look at... It is what it is, but that doesn't mean we aren't doing everything we can.
00:13:23.000Yeah, and I said something after that too.
00:13:24.000So, the message that I have is very simple.
00:13:27.000Nobody can do what I've done in terms of all of the things that we're doing to combat this horrible disease that never should have been sent to us.
00:13:38.000Okay, so he's not wrong about any of this, but the media covered this stuff wall to wall.
00:13:41.000The reason that I'm focusing in on this is because this is what Trump is up against.
00:13:45.000He'll make a fairly innocuous gaffe, and the media will blow it all out of proportion.
00:13:48.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden will make gaffes that go directly to the heart of his campaign, and the media will simply overlook them.
00:13:54.000I mean, just completely overlook them.
00:13:56.000We'll get to Joe Biden's gaffes in just one second, because it's a gaffe a minute around here.
00:14:00.000Again, these debates are going to be, as I've said before, the Swedish chef versus Chewbacca.
00:14:03.000It's just going to be Trump going, It'll be fun, I guess, if that's your thing.
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00:14:56.000With results like that, it is no wonder that four out of five employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the very first day.
00:15:03.000So, for example, we have a producer here, Katie, and Katie has decided that she actually wants to help children instead of being here and helping me put together clips in the morning.
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00:15:36.000Okay, so meanwhile, Joe Biden, again, making gaffes that actually go to the heart of his campaign.
00:15:40.000So yesterday, Joe Biden suggested that black people are not diverse like Latino people.
00:15:45.000And again, he has said this like repeatedly.
00:15:46.000Okay, they're treating this as though this was a weird outlier, that it was just a brain fart from Biden.
00:15:51.000And let's be real, that man has a very flatulent brain.
00:15:54.000There's a lot of farts coming out of that brain, a lot of brain farts.
00:15:57.000And it could, enough methane to choke a horse.
00:15:59.000In any case, This was not a brain fart.
00:16:01.000This is something that Biden has been saying repeatedly for years, which is that black people all think the same, according to Joe Biden.
00:16:06.000He said it again just a few weeks ago when he suggested that you ain't black if you don't vote for Joe Biden.
00:16:11.000And then he said it a couple of days ago to the National Association of Black Journalists when he suggested that black people aren't diverse like Latino people.
00:16:38.000He said black community does not think in diverse fashion as opposed to Latino community coming from all different places, a lot of diversity within the Latino community, which is wild.
00:16:47.000I will acknowledge that members of the media actually kind of agree with Joe Biden.
00:16:50.000This is why they speak of the black community as a monolith.
00:16:52.000It's also why the media have overtly stated that black should be capitalized in media coverage while white should not be because black people are not diverse.
00:17:02.000They share a common history, which is a weird thing because Africa is incredibly diverse.
00:17:06.000Black Americans don't have a ton in common.
00:17:08.000I mean, most black Americans are centuries removed from Africa.
00:17:24.000Here he was a couple of days ago saying that.
00:17:26.000What you all know, but most people don't know, unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community.
00:17:36.000With incredibly different attitudes about different things.
00:17:39.000Unlike the black community where everybody thinks the same.
00:18:07.000He put out a statement via Twitter saying, I made some comments about diversity in the African American and Latino communities that I want to clarify.
00:18:14.000In no way did I mean to suggest the African American community is a monolith.
00:18:17.000Not by identity, not on issues, not at all.
00:18:20.000Throughout my career I've witnessed the diversity of thought, background and sentiment within the African American community.
00:18:25.000It's this diversity that makes our workplaces, communities, and country a better place.
00:19:14.000Like, here was Politico's headline about that comment, right?
00:19:16.000The one where he says that all black people think the same?
00:19:18.000Politico's headline was this, quote, Joe Biden contrasted the black and Latino communities in remarks on Wednesday, stating that the latter is incredibly diverse.
00:19:31.000That headline is designed to not convey information.
00:19:34.000You can tell when the media are covering for somebody, when the media decide to cover the story in such a way that you have less information from the headline than you would listening to the original quote.
00:19:43.000That is a headline deliberately designed to obscure information.
00:19:46.000Joe Biden contrasted the black and Latino communities in remarks on Wednesday.
00:19:51.000So that sounds like, I mean, that's completely innocuous, right?
00:21:08.000Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden faces new scrutiny over how he discusses race and ethnicity after drawing distinctions between Black and Hispanic populations in the United States.
00:21:33.000The media are so far in the tank for Biden.
00:21:37.000I know that it's an old news thing at this point, but it is a constant source of astonishment that they are so willing to bend over backwards in order to push this agenda.
00:21:49.000And meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to gaffe on policy.
00:21:53.000Again, his gaffes on policy are pretty telling because they explain where he's gonna be.
00:21:56.000So yesterday, Joe Biden was asked about his policy on China, how he's going to stop China from engaging in intellectual property theft and threatening its neighbors.
00:23:02.000Joe Biden, at a certain point, he's actually going to be forced to answer questions about his own policies.
00:23:06.000So far, he has not been forced to do so because the media despise Trump so much that every Trumpian error is treated as the end of the world and every Biden error is treated as nothing, literally nothing, just turned into a non-story.
00:23:19.000And it's no wonder if the American people never see the actual story, if they never see the actual clips, it's no wonder that they think that Joe Biden is a lot more stable than he is.
00:23:29.000He's not stable in terms of his mental state.
00:23:33.000The more you see it, if this were an open campaign, this race would be a lot closer because Joe Biden on the campaign trail would be gaffing like that every 35 seconds.
00:23:40.000Not just the sort of mental acuity issues that he's been having, but simple statements that would be eating him alive.
00:23:46.000I mean, he was always like this, guys.
00:23:49.000I mean, go back to like his campaign in 2008.
00:23:50.000He was going around a decade ago, a decade and a half ago, saying that Indian people run 7-Elevens, as though the only Indian person he'd ever met was Apu from The Simpsons.
00:24:02.000The fact that he's considered a frontline, solid presidential candidate demonstrates how stupid everything is at this point.
00:24:07.000In a second, we're going to get to how Democrats are twisting COVID policy, because again, the Trump campaign is basically behind the eight ball on COVID, and Democrats are going to keep pushing that.
00:24:17.000They're rooting for lockdown and economic ruin.
00:24:18.000I don't know how else to express this.
00:24:19.000I'm going to show you the proof of that in just one second.
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00:24:31.000We actually saw this in Missouri when two property owners went out there in the middle of what was going to be a riot.
00:24:36.000People broke into a private gated community.
00:24:37.000They went out there and they held up guns to basically say, you're not coming into our property.
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00:26:26.000And the only thing that is preventing the economy from breaking free are two things.
00:26:29.000One, fear of COVID, some of which is legit and some of which is wildly exaggerated.
00:26:33.000It is my opinion that if you are young and healthy and you're wearing a mask around other people when you are in crowded areas and you are socially distancing for the most part, you can go back to work and you should be going back to work.
00:26:42.000And we should all be going back to the stores.
00:26:44.000We should all be going back to the restaurants.
00:26:45.000You can have half occupancy or whatever you need to do.
00:27:11.000They're seeing increases in Australia.
00:27:13.000All the places that lockdown, all the places that have worn masks, many of them are starting to see outbreaks.
00:27:18.000The bottom line is, you can only delay the virus, you cannot prevent the virus from moving through a population, which means that you need to protect the elderly, you need to protect the infirm, you need to protect those with serious pre-existing conditions, and everybody else needs to get back to work with as many precautions as we can take and still live normal lives.
00:27:35.000None of this should be particularly controversial.
00:27:37.000And the economy is waiting to break loose.
00:27:38.000If the economy starts to break loose again, the problem for Democrats is there's a better shot that Trump is going to win.
00:27:42.000And it's hard not to see this in extraordinarily political light.
00:27:45.000Joe Biden keeps saying that he wants more lockdowns.
00:28:10.000Here is Joe Biden, though, saying that his easy solution would be to continue to lock down the American economy forever.
00:28:15.000Again, the political incentive structure here is completely screwy.
00:28:18.000The political incentive structure is for politicians to deliberately destroy individual lives and then bail people out through bucks that we do not have in order to say that they are protecting you.
00:28:53.000If I were president today, I would roll back the reopenings in a number of places, because look, Masks are, it's clear, masks and social distancing make a gigantic difference in terms of the spread of this disease.
00:29:15.000Where are the reopenings that he's talking about?
00:29:18.000None of this makes any sense, but the political incentive structure is aligned.
00:29:21.000So, you push the lockdowns, you claim you're trying to save lives, and oh, by the way, if it ruins the economy and then we need massive government bailouts, great.
00:29:27.000The second prong of this attack is being promoted by Nancy Pelosi.
00:29:29.000So right now, Republicans have basically agreed with Democrats that we are going to spend an awful lot of money because we are forcing people into bankruptcy, we are forcing people into lockdown, and if you can't work, then you can't make money.
00:29:40.000And so, Republicans, for the first time in my lifetime, basically, in widespread fashion, agree that some sort of government intervention is necessary in the economy in order to ensure that people don't go completely without.
00:29:52.000So that means that the Republicans were willing to basically extend, in clean fashion, unemployment insurance for a couple more months at $600 per week.
00:29:58.000Originally, they proposed a couple hundred bucks a week because they don't want to pay people to stay home.
00:30:02.000It turns out that if we pay everybody through January $600 a week, four out of five American workers would actually be making more, I believe the statistic was.
00:30:10.000Four out of five American workers currently unemployed would be making more on unemployment than they would be if they went back to work.
00:30:15.000If you continue this through January, Democrats are pushing for that.
00:30:18.000Democrats are also pushing for spending on every area of American life.
00:30:21.000They want $3.4 trillion more spent this month.
00:30:24.000By the way, they have not even fully spent all the money that was sent to the states in the last tranche of spending.
00:30:31.000And Republicans are going along with all this.
00:30:32.000Republicans have caved on a lot of the state and local funding, which they should not.
00:30:36.000The federal government is not responsible for bailing out crappy government contracts created by California and New York.
00:30:41.000The Republicans have basically caved on the unemployment money when the states have not even fully dispersed their unemployment money yet.
00:30:48.000I know people in California who have filed for unemployment in California, still not received their checks from the last tranche.
00:30:54.000Republicans are caving left and right because Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, is not a Republican.
00:30:59.000So he's out there being like, OK, fine, Nancy, what do you want?
00:31:05.000And Nancy Pelosi, because her political interest is in not getting a deal done so she can blame Trump, is still holding up the works.
00:31:11.000This is the second or third time she's done this.
00:31:14.000Remember, on the first round of relief, Nancy Pelosi Stopped a deal that had already been cut between the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, so that you could dilly-dally for a week.
00:31:58.000When I say she's no right-winger, I mean Judy Woodruff is a leftist, okay?
00:32:00.000She's been a liberal journalist for a very long time.
00:32:03.000And Judy Woodruff asked, like, a very basic question to Pelosi, and Pelosi doesn't want to be asked that question.
00:32:07.000Because it demonstrates that she is a full-scale political actor who would prefer to watch Americans go without, rather than letting Trump take credit for preventing people from going under.
00:32:19.000It's so much that Nancy Pelosi goes after Judy Woodruff and suggests that Judy Woodruff is basically a Republican, which is patently crazy.
00:32:26.000Here's Judy Woodruff asking a basic question, and Nancy Pelosi, then sure as all fallen out, trying to explain that Judy Woodruff is a bad person for even asking.
00:32:35.000And they're also saying a lot of the money that was passed in the spring, Madam Speaker, has not even been spent yet.
00:32:41.000Well, if you want to be an advocate for them, Judy, if you want to be an advocate for them, that's not what the facts are.
00:32:47.000I'm playing devil's advocate here to ask you for your position.
00:32:52.000Again, and she doesn't want to give the position.
00:32:54.000She simply does not want to give the position because the position is obvious.
00:32:57.000She doesn't want the relief package to move forward because if a relief package moves forward, then She doesn't get to claim that Republicans are obstructing.
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00:36:57.000Alrighty, so Michelle Obama, who has become more and more political, like a couple of weeks ago, she did a graduation speech in which she claimed that you cannot get ahead.
00:37:14.000People in the United States simply cannot get ahead.
00:37:17.000Her direct quote, I believe, was, quote, The truth is, when it comes to all those tidy stories of hard work and self-determination, we like to tell ourselves about America, well, the reality is a lot more complicated than that, said Michelle Obama just a couple weeks ago.
00:37:29.000For too many people in this country, no matter how hard they work, there are structural barriers working against them that just make the road longer and rockier.
00:37:35.000Sometimes it's impossible to move upward at all.
00:37:38.000And that is a very political statement from a woman who, again, grew up kind of middle class.
00:37:47.000And then she ended up at Princeton and Harvard Law School, ended up working at a law firm, making a bunch of money, married the president, the future president of the United States, is now probably the best-selling nonfiction author of the last 20 years.
00:37:56.000Seems like there's been some upward mobility in her life.
00:37:58.000Seems like there's an upward mobility in a lot of our lives.
00:38:00.000But Michelle Obama is a very political figure.
00:38:02.000If you believe she will not run for president at some point in the future, I think you have another thing coming.
00:38:06.000In any case, Michelle Obama completes the trifecta of coronavirus policy here.
00:38:11.000So remember, when it comes to the Democrats, they have to rely on COVID to bring Trump down.
00:38:16.000I mean, I think that that is what's going on here.
00:38:18.000I used to think there was some good faith.
00:38:20.000I no longer think that because good faith Would assume some basic premises about coronavirus.
00:38:24.000One, there's no great way to handle it.
00:38:26.000Two, everybody is doing their best to prevent loss of life and prevent loss of the economy.
00:38:31.000And three, to blame any single person for a disease that no country has control over is insane.
00:38:37.000But Democrats have decided to ignore all of these things.
00:38:39.000And now they're openly militating for policy that has not been successful.
00:38:42.000They're suggesting that places that are utterly unsuccessful are successful, like New Jersey and New York.
00:38:46.000And they're pretending that they have all the solutions.
00:38:48.000So they've come up with this sort of three-pronged attack.
00:38:50.000One is Joe Biden's remove the lockdowns.
00:38:53.000Two is Nancy Pelosi's, I'm going to block any of the funding necessary to stop the worst of the fallout, so I can blame Republicans.
00:40:58.000The government has forcibly shut down millions of businesses all around the United States.
00:41:03.000The government has put tens of millions of people out of work.
00:41:06.000And then the government has incompetently attempted to backfill some of that, and the solution from the Democrats is more government?
00:41:13.000If you fall for that one, you kind of deserve what you get.
00:41:15.000I mean, frankly, if you fall for the idea that government is going to fix all the problems that government helped create in the first place, and you don't think that individual initiative and self-assessment and a realistic appraisal of your own situation is the best answer, then you deserve to be controlled from above.
00:42:23.000One, there can be serious, real corruption problems over the NRA.
00:42:26.000And two, when the New York AG decides to dissolve the NRA, that has nothing to do with the corruption problems and everything to do with this particular AG using the power of her office to target political opponents.
00:42:38.000Here was Letitia James announcing a lawsuit to dissolve the NRA yesterday.
00:42:41.000Just a few minutes ago, my office filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association to dissolve the organization in its entirety for years of self-dealing and illegal conduct that violate New York's charities law.
00:43:01.000And now the real reason she's doing this is because there's a widespread perception in democratic circles that the NRA spends tons and tons of money during election cycles.
00:43:11.000They spend like 18, 20 million dollars during a normal presidential election cycle as compared to like Michael Bloomberg who will drop a hundred million dollars in an election cycle himself alone.
00:43:58.000If you want to talk about fascism, fascism is electing a DA, specifically arguing they're going to go after a person they have not identified a crime about.
00:44:13.000The media are like, oh, look, hero, hero time for Letitia James.
00:44:17.000If that doesn't scare you, I really do not know what would.
00:44:21.000And if Democrats love this sort of stuff, wait until Republican age, you start doing the same thing.
00:44:24.000Going after Planned Parenthood and attempting to dissolve Planned Parenthood on a state-by-state basis, saying that there are corruption issues inside Planned Parenthood.
00:44:30.000The death penalty remedy, as the Wall Street Journal put it, right, it's a death penalty remedy to dissolve the entire organization.
00:45:19.000OK, meanwhile, I have to discuss this bizarre controversy that broke out online.
00:45:22.000It wasn't covered as much as it should be because it truly is indicative of where we stand in American public life.
00:45:28.000We now live in a time When power politics is significantly more important than truth.
00:45:32.000And you can see this from both sides of the aisle.
00:45:34.000But I will say that the deconstructionist wing of the Democratic Party, the radical wing of the Democratic Party, the sort of the sort of social justice warrior, critical race studies wing of the Democratic Party.
00:45:44.000Has really decided to prioritize power structures and power dynamics over truth.
00:45:50.000This is why you see people suggesting that any inequality is inequity.
00:45:53.000It's why you see people completely ignoring statistics in order to push a narrative.
00:45:57.000Because in the end, all that matters is power.
00:46:00.000The story that brought this to a head was this bizarre, bizarre debate that happened last weekend on Twitter over whether, I kid you not, 2 plus 2 equals 4.
00:46:08.000Now, I know what you're saying to yourself.
00:46:12.000The answer is because if you live in the world of critical race theory, if you live in the world of Derrida and Michel Foucault and their philosophy of deconstructionism, then all truth is subjective.
00:46:24.000There is no such thing as an objective truth.
00:46:26.000So 2 plus 2 could theoretically equal 5.
00:46:28.000There's a professor named James Lindsay, and all of this controversy started when he had a text exchange with another person about postmodernism and what they think about objective claims about the world.
00:46:39.000His friend asked him at one point what postmodernists would say about the contention that 2 plus 2 equals 4.
00:46:44.000And this professor, James Lindsay, who's a professor of mathematics, he says, I told her that they would say that 2 plus 2 does not equal 5.
00:46:52.000They would say 2 plus 2 equals doesn't matter so long as what it equals is not constrained by hegemonic discourses.
00:46:58.000Meaning that 2 plus 2 could equal 5, it could not equal 5.
00:47:01.000It all depends on what the Westerners say.
00:47:03.000If the Westerners say 2 plus 2 equals 4, that is now an intellectual construct that must be torn down at the root.
00:47:09.000So, says James Lindsay, that answer is basic postmodernism, and it has infused so much of wild left-wing thought.
00:47:13.000equal whatever people want it to equal, and we should be very skeptical of the idea that it equals four because so much political dominance is already built into that answer and how it is obtained.
00:47:21.000That answer is basic postmodernism, and it has infused so much of wild left-wing thought.
00:47:27.000Well, what happened here is that Nicole Hannah-Jones, who's the de facto editor of the New York Times, she decided to make fun of the idea that two plus two equals four, saying, using Arabic numerals to try to make a point about white Western superiority is just so damn classic.
00:47:46.000Okay, so what was happening is that somebody said 2 plus 2 equals 4, and then somebody else tweeted back, well, according to deconstructionists, 2 plus 2 could equal 5 because math is just a western construct.
00:47:58.000And then Nicole Hannah-Jones, because she's a crazy person, tweeted back, using Arabic numerals to try to make a point about white western superiority is just so damn classic.
00:48:05.000No, there's nothing white western or superior about the contention that 2 plus 2 equals 4.
00:48:10.000But if you see the world purely in terms of power structures, then everything that is ever said is merely a manifestation of power.
00:48:19.000And so when people came forth to defend the proposition that 2 plus 2 does objectively equal 4, a bunch of randos in the academic community began tweeting out the idea that 2 plus 2 does not, in fact, equal 4.
00:48:32.000A PhD student named Brittany Marshall Insisted quote the idea of two plus two equaling four is cultural and because of Western imperialism and colonization We think of it as the only way of knowing Now we've seen stuff like this actually being taught at like the Smithsonian Institute.
00:48:47.000That the basic idea of science or math is a Western construct.
00:48:53.000But if the idea is that all knowledge is merely a manifestation of the peculiar minds of the power structure, then it means that truth is of no consequence whatsoever.
00:49:01.000Anything can be not true so long as it is said by a white person or is a manifestation of the white power structure.
00:49:06.000And so in politics, truth doesn't matter.
00:49:09.000The objective truth of a statement doesn't exist.
00:49:11.000It is just a bunch of white people saying something.
00:49:13.000This is why you see so many people in the critical justice, the critical race studies program, the critical race theory, the Ibram Kendi's and the Robin DiAngelo's basically say that objective truth doesn't exist.
00:49:22.000Anything that I want to be is, and if you deny it, it's because you're a racist who assumes cultural superiority.
00:49:29.000It's this little controversy which completely blew up over the weekend.
00:49:31.000I mean, 2 plus 2 equals 4 is actually trending on Twitter.
00:49:34.000This is how far we have come as a civilization, to deny basic truth in exchange for the principle that all truth is basically subjective and is replaceable by power structures.
00:49:45.000And so we have to shift away from the notion that we can have... I mean, all conversation ends at this point.
00:49:49.000It is just a question of certain people clubbing other people to death, politically and intellectually speaking.
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