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00:00:00.000Barack Obama releases a 768 page memoir, and that is just part one.
00:00:04.000Democrats continue to lose their minds over Trump's refusal to concede the race, and politicians call for total COVID lockdowns as the virus spreads across the country.
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00:01:28.000Bambi.com slash Shapiro to schedule that free HR Okay, so the election still has not been conceded by President Trump, nor probably will it be, until all of the states have certified their election results.
00:01:41.000And to be completely real about this, President Trump is behind by tens of thousands of votes in the states that he needs most.
00:01:45.000Arizona, he's down by 12,000 to 13,000 votes.
00:01:47.000In Georgia, he's down by 14,000 votes.
00:01:49.000In Pennsylvania, he is down by 45,000 to 50,000 votes.
00:02:06.000The fact is that the mail-in balloting system has real problems with it.
00:02:09.000When you have hundreds of thousands, millions of ballots going out to people's old addresses, that does create the potential for people to take those ballots, fill them out, and send them in.
00:02:18.000Which is why Tucker Carlson on his show last night, for example, literally read off the voting records of dead people.
00:02:24.000If you send ballots to addresses and you don't cleanse the voter rolls, which is something Democrats have forcibly opposed, right?
00:02:30.000Democrats have filed lawsuits to avoid cleaning the voter rolls of people who are dead.
00:02:35.000Well, that does provide the potential for somebody to grab that particular ballot, fill it in, mail it back in.
00:02:41.000This is particularly true when in states like California have ballot harvesting, where literally people just go around picking up ballots from other people.
00:02:48.000You don't even mail it in in those circumstances.
00:02:49.000You have designated people from each particular party going out And picking all of those ballots up.
00:02:55.000You don't know what happens with them.
00:02:56.000They could theoretically fill them out.
00:02:58.000This does create the potential for voter fraud.
00:03:00.000And you've seen Democrats in various states around the country trying to get rid of signature verification.
00:03:05.000So they don't even want you to have to verify that the signature on the ballot matches the signature for when you register to vote in the first place.
00:03:12.000All of this creates the serious potential for voter fraud and voter irregularity.
00:03:16.000All of this creates the potential for people not to trust the system.
00:03:19.000And all of those things should be adjudicated.
00:03:21.000Not only should they be adjudicated, the laws should be changed.
00:03:23.000And as we have seen in certain cases, the GOP has been successful.
00:03:26.000So for example, the GOP right now is suing in Pennsylvania, going up to the Supreme Court in all likelihood, about this policy that was created out of whole cloth by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, overruling the legislature, deciding that because of COVID, ballots that arrived after the election could still be counted even without a postmark.
00:03:59.000Now, that's not quite the same thing as arguing that the proof is that all of these elections were skewed away from Trump, that the outcome of this was the skewing of the election away from Trump.
00:04:08.000That's something Trump is going to have to show in court.
00:04:10.000So, for example, In Michigan, Michigan GOP lawmakers have called for a full audit of the election results over serious allegations of error and voter fraud.
00:04:19.000The Republican senators in the Michigan legislature called on Jocelyn Benson to do so.
00:04:23.000The letter, dated Friday, November 13th, was released on Thursday, signed by two Republican state senators, Tom Barrett and Lana Thies.
00:04:29.000This is according to Tim Pierce over at DailyWire.com.
00:04:31.000The senators requested that Benson delay certifying election results over a spate of errors and allegations of voter fraud that have cast doubts on Michigan's election process.
00:04:39.000The senators wrote, Now it is true that none of that should be ignored.
00:04:41.000in the integrity of the election process and its outcome.
00:04:43.000It is our responsibility as elected public servants to assure the people of Michigan of the process's integrity through complete transparency and the faithful investigation of any allegations of wrongdoing, fraud, or abuse.
00:04:53.000Unfortunately, a number of serious allegations have been made, which cannot and should not be ignored.
00:04:57.000Now, it is true that none of that should be ignored.
00:04:59.000That doesn't mean that the state is gonna suddenly flip its electors or that they're gonna hold a brand new election.
00:05:04.000Some of the errors that have been made in terms of voter fraud or voter irregularity are in fact just that, human errors.
00:05:09.000Some of them probably are voter fraud or voter irregularity.
00:05:12.000But Leon Wolf over at The Blaze actually went through the affidavits that have been presented by the Trump campaign.
00:05:17.000234 pages of affidavits regarding alleged voter irregularities in Michigan.
00:05:21.000And Leon Wolf again of The Blaze, which is a right-wing site.
00:05:25.000He went through all of it and what he found is that the testimony contained in the affidavits pertains to fewer than a thousand total ballots.
00:05:32.000Although it should be noted that numerous affidavits complained they were not able to see what was happening because they were required to maintain six feet of social distance or because people were in their way.
00:05:41.000The material in the affidavits alleging an atmosphere of intimidation and hostility toward GOP poll workers is voluminous.
00:05:47.000Reading between the lines, some of the frustration experienced by poll workers and refusal tends to retain further complaints may have been come by honestly, but there is no way to actually tell.
00:05:55.000If you lose a state by 150,000 votes, it's going to be very, very difficult to challenge the results of that particular election.
00:06:00.000That does not mean that we should not have a legal process.
00:06:03.000Okay, and so the legal process is going forward, and it is important here to distinguish fact from rumor.
00:06:08.000So, for example, there's been a lot of talk about Dominion voting systems because there is one county in Michigan that we have talked about at length on the show already.
00:06:14.000It was called Altrom County, in which 6,000 votes were accidentally shifted by manual error from the Trump campaign to the Biden campaign.
00:06:22.000And then that was fixed because they actually have verification processes and all this stuff is double-checked.
00:06:28.000The Dominion has also been used in Maricopa County.
00:06:30.000Maricopa County is run in Arizona by the Secretary of State of Arizona, who's a Republican.
00:06:34.000And Maricopa County didn't have any problems with the Dominion system.
00:06:37.000So in other words, a problem with a software system that was human error in Michigan does not mean that everywhere that uses the Dominion system, you're gonna see 6,000 votes shift from one side to the other side.
00:06:47.000In other words, you do have to prove the voter fraud.
00:06:49.000This is the high legal bar, and I'm explaining the legal bar because I think people have to have a realistic appraisal of the situation right now.
00:06:56.000The legal appraisal of the situation is pretty obvious, and lawyers right, left, and center will tell you this, right?
00:07:00.000Just from a legal point of view, the Trump team has a very rough Road to hoe here.
00:07:05.000I mean, it's going to be very difficult for them to climb this particular hill and prove the tens of thousands of votes in a wide variety of states because now it's not just Pennsylvania.
00:07:12.000It's Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia were done wrongly.
00:07:17.000Now, again, does that mean that there is not going to be some proof of voter fraud?
00:07:21.000There is going to be proof of voter fraud in the media because they're garbage at this.
00:07:24.000They've decided that voter fraud simply doesn't exist.
00:07:26.000They've said that voter fraud and voter irregularity are figments of your imagination.
00:07:29.000So five seconds ago, they were telling you that voter fraud and voter irregularity were going to be used by the Trump campaign and voter suppression in order to prevent Joe Biden from being elected.
00:07:37.000Then Joe Biden, they think, was elected.
00:07:39.000And the first thing they do is, boom, cleanest election in history.
00:07:43.000Nonetheless, a Pennsylvania judge ruled on Thursday that voters who took advantage of an extended deadline to provide missing proof of ID will not have their ballots counted because the government official who gave the extension lacked the legal authority to do so.
00:07:53.000This is Ryan Savedra writing for Daily Wire.
00:07:56.000According to Bloomberg Law, Commonwealth Court Judge Mary Hanna-Levitt ruled Thursday that Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Buchfer lacked the authority to extend the original November deadline by three days.
00:08:05.000Originally, there was a deadline that by November 9th, if you had a ballot that was not properly marked, they would have an ID check.
00:08:11.000And then, Buchfer just decided randomly to extend that by three days.
00:08:14.000The ruling means the battleground state that's already been declared for Joe Biden can't count ballots from voters who submitted missing ID.
00:08:20.000Between November 10th and November 12th, ballots with cured ID issues received before that are not, in fact, being challenged.
00:08:26.000Still, the number of ballots that we're talking about here is not in the tens of thousands of ballots.
00:08:29.000It is probably in the hundreds of ballots.
00:08:31.000If it's in the thousands, it's in the very, very low thousands of ballots.
00:08:35.000So that is where things stand, legally speaking.
00:08:41.000As I've been saying all along, the media are in a rush to declare this thing, mainly because they know that Trump isn't going to concede this until all of the states have actually verified their counts and until the electors are selected.
00:08:53.000Trump is not going to do that, nor is Trump forced to do that.
00:08:56.000There's nothing in the Constitution, there's nothing in our legal process that says that if NBC or ABC or Fox News projects that an election has been won by a person, that you then have to concede.
00:09:06.000That is a sort of nicety that has been typically observed, but it is not, in fact, something that is legally obligated, nor does it have much of an impact on the transition process, as no less than Joe Biden himself has stated.
00:09:17.000Nonetheless, the media have ramped this thing up because the idea here is that if Trump doesn't concede, it's just more evidence that Republicans are authoritarians and they're terrible and a coup is underway.
00:09:25.000We'll get to the media's hysteria over all of this in just a second, because again, that media hysteria is not about anything real.
00:09:31.000It's about the media attempting to defend their own actions over the past four years.
00:09:34.000They've been in a state of constant hysterical insanity for four years.
00:09:39.000And then if it turns out that Donald Trump Did lose the election.
00:09:43.000If it turns out that he is deemed to have lost the election, and Donald Trump leaves office, and we have a peaceful transition of power, it turns out all of their weird cosplay fantasies about how Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler, they weren't true, and the media just blew out their own credibility for no reason other than pure political partisanship, which is of course exactly what they've done.
00:10:00.000So they have to maintain that fiction going forward.
00:10:01.000We'll talk about that in just one second.
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00:11:30.000With all of that said, it's been amusing to watch as members of the Democratic Party declare that the election is over and that if you have questions about the election, you're a very bad person.
00:11:37.000No less a personage than Stacey Abrams went on TV last night and declared that Joe Biden's lead in Georgia was insurmountable.
00:11:44.000Now, I will note that Joe Biden's lead in Georgia currently is under 15,000 votes.
00:11:49.000Stacey Abrams lost her gubernatorial race against Brian Kemp by 50,000 votes, like four times that number.
00:11:56.000She lost by a lot more votes than Joe Biden is currently winning Georgia, according to the current counts.
00:12:01.000She says Biden's lead is intermountable.
00:12:03.000She also maintains she is governor of Georgia.
00:12:05.000Are you getting the feeling these folks are not particularly consistent when it comes to their claims of voter suppression or voter fraud, and that actually all they really care about is the results?
00:12:13.000Here is Governor Stacey Abrams of Georgia.
00:12:16.000We don't know how long it's going to take, but we are absolutely certain that this lead is insurmountable.
00:12:24.000The reality is they have the right to follow the law and the law permits this type of behavior.
00:12:30.000And during my election in 2018, we fought through the courts to make sure every vote got counted.
00:12:36.000Sadly, they just want to do a recount of what we already accomplished, and I wish them well.
00:12:42.000But we know that Joe Biden is going to be not only the president of the United States, but the first president in 30 years from the Democratic Party to carry Georgia.
00:12:51.000Wow, so it's an insurmountable lead, guys.
00:12:53.000There's no way that any recount, there's no way that any voter fraud or voter irregularity could overturn that count.
00:12:58.000Says Governor Stacey Abrams of Georgia.
00:13:00.000I'm getting very, very tired of hearing from people who are fully willing.
00:13:04.000I mean, literally the DNC called her the governor of Georgia in the middle of the DNC.
00:13:08.000And now they're talking about undermining of democracy.
00:13:10.000There's this extraordinarily self-flattering view that Democrats have of the world that is actually dangerous to the country.
00:13:17.000Really dangerous, because it basically suggests all the angels are on their side and all the devils are on the other side.
00:13:24.000Okay, that'll become clear when we talk about Barack Obama's pathetic, self-serving, 768-page first volume of his memoir.
00:13:30.000My God, the Pentateuch, okay, the five books of Moses in Hebrew, are not that long.
00:13:34.000God didn't have that much to say, but Barack Obama has plenty to say.
00:13:37.000That was his Old Testament, can't wait for his New Testament, that'll be volume two.
00:13:41.000By the way, dude's written, what would that make, his fourth memoir?
00:13:54.000Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, a guy who five minutes ago was talking about getting rid of the filibuster and members of his caucus were talking about adding states willy-nilly to the Senate and packing the Supreme Court.
00:14:04.000He says that we are at risk of a coup in the United States because Donald Trump won't just say the election is over.
00:14:09.000Which again, there's no obligation for him to say the election.
00:14:32.000If the Electoral College votes the way the Electoral College is probably going to vote, Given the current vote counts and the certifications of state votes as they currently stand, then we will all move on because that is how the country works.
00:14:44.000And people will have doubts about the voter process.
00:14:46.000And people will call for rectification of many of the areas of voter unfairness that we have seen across the country.
00:14:51.000And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
00:14:52.000But Chuck Schumer, of all people, saying that Republicans are poisoning the well of democracy says, Chuck Schumer, come on.
00:15:00.000Instead of working to pull the country back together so that we can fight our common enemy, COVID-19, Republicans in Congress are spreading conspiracy theories, denying reality, and poisoning the well of our democracy.
00:15:17.000The Republicans should stop their shenanigans about an election that President Trump has already lost and focus their attention on the immediate issue at hand, providing relief Okay, by the way, I do love Chuck Schumer suggesting that Donald Trump is so distracted that he won't pass any sort of relief bill.
00:16:21.000It's not a good situation when you have one political party committed to democracy no matter the outcome and the other opposed to democracy at all costs.
00:16:29.000Even if this ridiculous coup attempt fails, it doesn't bode well for the future, which is why we need bold, systemic reforms to empower everyone to vote and honor what the majority of voters actually want, like abolishing the Electoral College and fixing the Voting Rights Act, among other things.
00:18:28.000For the Democrats and for the media, but I repeat myself, it's all about the schadenfreude of suggesting that Donald Trump is getting what he deserves because he's unpopular.
00:18:36.000By the way, by this measure, you know who's more popular than any Democrat who's ever lived, basically?
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00:20:42.000This is why I have been suggesting the only thing that you can really do is expend resources trying to protect the most vulnerable among your population.
00:20:49.000There's a study recently published, I believe in the Wall Street Journal, that suggested that the number of people above the, who are on Medicare in the United States, essentially everybody over the age of 65, who have died of COVID with no preexisting conditions, right?
00:21:04.000That means that what you actually have to do is protect not even the old, but truly you have to protect people with preexisting conditions.
00:21:10.000Okay, now the thing is in the United States, That's a lot of people.
00:21:14.000Because there are a lot of people who have diabetes, a lot of people who have asthma, a lot of people who have heart conditions.
00:21:18.000Hypertension could theoretically be a contributing factor to a bad reaction to COVID.
00:21:23.000But given widespread community spread, not just here in the United States, but all over Europe, the fact is that the only thing that you can do is shield the most vulnerable.
00:21:31.000And what that does mean is that if you have vulnerable people in your family, you should wear a mask around them and socially distance.
00:21:38.000I have two grandmothers, both of whom are over the age of 90.
00:21:41.000Thank God they're still alive and doing decently.
00:21:44.000And if I visited them, I would definitely not visit them without a face mask or without being several feet back, right? I mean, at least six feet back.
00:21:55.000And that's the only thing you can do. Now, there's this weird idea out there that if you just lock everything down, this is going to solve everything. But of course, locking everything down is not going to solve everything. All you're going to end up doing is prolonging the agony in the sense that you lock it down and then eventually you have to reopen. So yes, a vaccine is on the way, but the vaccine is not going to be widely available, we are told, until March or April.
00:22:15.000Is anybody realistically suggesting that we all be confined to our homes from November until March?
00:22:22.000Is anybody really suggesting that at this point?
00:22:24.000Even the WHO doesn't suggest that that is a good idea.
00:22:27.000Even Anthony Fauci suggests that that is not a good idea.
00:22:30.000And Anthony Fauci is about as hawkish on lockdowns as anybody in the American federal government right now.
00:22:34.000Fauci appeared on Good Morning America yesterday, and he said, there's no appetite for locking down.
00:22:38.000We shouldn't be pushing full-scale lockdowns at this point.
00:22:42.000There is no appetite for locking down on the American public, but I believe that we can do it without a lockdown.
00:22:51.000I mean, sometimes when people talk about the measures that I'm suggesting we double down on, they equivocate that and say that, well, that that makes that not a lockdown.
00:23:06.000You could still have economic forward thinking.
00:23:10.000while you're doing that, you don't necessarily have to shut everything down.
00:23:13.000So that actually is accurate, right? Okay. And Republicans basically across the country are saying the same thing. They're saying, okay, because they're saying mostly what I'm saying, right? Be cautious. Don't go out into crowded areas. If you are going to be in crowded areas, then make sure that you wear a mask and you try to socially distance as much as possible. Like we're all on the same page here. It is not as though there's this vast split in terms of where the American mind is.
00:23:34.000Democrats have declared that if you are a Republican, you literally want people to die.
00:23:38.000So Nancy Pelosi yesterday, she said that Republicans and the GOP should be carrying deaths on their conscience.
00:23:44.000This is the lady who's eaten ice cream in front of her Sub-Zero fridge while declaring that she was not going to be passing a COVID relief bill.
00:23:51.000She was holding up a COVID relief bill at the time.
00:23:53.000She's still holding up a COVID relief bill.
00:23:54.000By the way, if you're in favor of more lockdowns, you know what you need?
00:24:05.000Nancy Pelosi, the woman who was saying, come on down to Chinatown and party with us in late February, is now declaring that it's Republicans' fault that this thing has spread across the country.
00:24:15.000Even as she held up the relief bill for her own nefarious political purposes, which completely backfired on her own caucus.
00:24:22.000Here she was yesterday declaring, again, herself on the side of the angels and her enemies on the side of Satan.
00:24:28.000If the Republicans want to be cold-hearted and say they don't care, or as the President's son said, 125,000 I think at that time, that's no big number kind of thing.
00:25:00.000Alex Azar, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, under Trump, said yesterday that during Thanksgiving we have to make sacrifices to keep people alive.
00:25:07.000Fauci is still in the Trump administration.
00:25:08.000Probably Trump's fulminations about Fauci.
00:25:10.000Dude is still in the federal government.
00:25:12.000Alex Azar, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, under Trump, said yesterday that during Thanksgiving, we have to make sacrifices to keep people alive.
00:25:19.000That might mean fewer parties, more social distancing, more mask wearing.
00:25:23.000Like there is no vast gap here between Republicans and Democrats.
00:25:26.000The only vast gap is that Democrats have taken the political incentive structure and completely perverted it.
00:25:30.000So they are now in favor of vast lockdowns, including of places that are not risk centers like schools.
00:25:36.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:27:09.000Okay, so as I say, there is no partisan conflict over the fact that when it comes to COVID, people should exercise a certain level of caution.
00:27:16.000This is not particularly controversial.
00:27:17.000Here's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, who is a member of the Trump administration, saying that we need to be cautious about this.
00:27:26.000Reduce the number of people at your gathering.
00:27:28.000If you can open the windows, let more ventilation in.
00:27:32.000Even if you have a ceiling fan, set it so it pulls the air up instead of down.
00:27:36.000Use single-use servings for individuals.
00:27:39.000Wear your face coverings because I want to make sure, even if we make sacrifices this Thanksgiving and Christmas, those sacrifices are for a reason.
00:27:48.000So that everybody you want to be with will be here for next Thanksgiving and next Christmas.
00:27:54.000Okay, so again, not a huge gap, except that Democrats have artificially created a gap about COVID, where if you just say, you know what, the economy should remain open, you should be careful, you should try to shield your fellows who are particularly vulnerable, then this means you're evil, right?
00:28:45.000It keeps a list, it checks it twice, and then it comes after you if you were naughty and not nice.
00:28:50.000Anyway, here is Biden's spokeswoman yesterday ducking whether he would actually attempt a national lockdown, which is like, good luck.
00:28:55.000First of all, you don't have the power under the Constitution of the United States, thank God, to impose a national level lockdown, particularly in January.
00:29:02.000We don't even know where this thing is going to be in January.
00:29:04.000But I think that you should pretty much commit that you are not going to use an executive order to try and lock down the entire American economy.
00:29:10.000I mean, if you want to talk about the essence of tyranny, that would be it.
00:29:13.000The President of the United States declaring, you know what?
00:29:16.000Here is Biden's spokeswoman literally refusing to answer the question.
00:29:22.000Is that something that President-elect Biden is considering, a four to six week lockdown?
00:29:29.000Well, I think he laid out very clearly across the course of the campaign the things that he wants to do to get the virus under control, including encouraging national mask mandates.
00:29:39.000No plans for a lockdown, but that could change?
00:29:42.000I mean, Michael Osterholm's on the task force.
00:29:48.000There are steps that we can take now, again, encouraging people to wear a mask.
00:29:51.000Again, they're just going to say mask, mask, mask, but they'll hold in abeyance the possibility of a total lockdown of the American economy.
00:29:57.000And mayors all over the country who are Democrats are now calling for a total lockdown, except when they're not.
00:30:01.000So Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued another lockdown advisory.
00:30:04.000She demanded that you cancel your Thanksgiving plans.
00:30:07.000Starting on Monday, according to the Chicago Tribune, she'll impose a 10-person ceiling on gatherings such as weddings, funerals, and other events.
00:30:14.000She also tweeted out, a stay-at-home advisory for Chicago will go into effect on Monday, November 16th at 6 a.m.
00:30:29.000This advisory calls on all Chicagoans to do the following, stay home unless for essential reasons, stop having guests over, including family members you do not live with, avoid non-essential travel, and cancel your Thanksgiving plans.
00:30:41.000By the way, I will just note that the queen of science, who yesterday released an entire video about how much she values science, this was her like six days ago at a rally in the open with no mask on, shouting into a loudspeaker about Joe Biden.
00:32:53.000By the way, the rewritten history by which Donald Trump is responsible for everything COVID related, let me just take you back to like mid-February.
00:33:00.000Ronald Klain is the incoming chief of staff for Joe Biden if Joe Biden is in fact legally made the president-elect of the United States.
00:33:07.000Here's a Ronald Klain tweet from the middle of February.
00:33:10.000He was responding to a tweet from Bill de Blasio, February 13th.
00:33:13.000It was my honor to spend time with our Asian-American owned small businesses in Flushing today.
00:33:16.000This vibrant community is standing strong, but they need your support.
00:34:08.000By the way, again, CNN was spending the week talking about how these parties in the streets, this celebration, this block party that was happening all over the United States, it was good.
00:34:17.000And then yesterday they had on a medical guest and they were like, you know what?
00:34:19.000You should cancel Thanksgiving because gathering should not be the norm.
00:34:46.000We don't want Thanksgiving to be a spreader event.
00:34:50.000Honestly, I don't disagree with a lot of this because bottom line is that people are going to have to act in responsible fashion.
00:34:56.000I'm just not going to hear it from a bunch of people who five seconds ago were saying it's totally fine to gather in the streets and swig from the same champagne bottle because you don't like Donald Trump.
00:35:03.000It's just it's so irritating and so stupid and it undermines faith in science.
00:35:10.000The same people who shout science are at the same time shouting that racism is a scientific issue that requires you to be out in the streets.
00:35:17.000I'm sorry, I'm not going to pay any attention to you guys.
00:35:27.000I will listen to people who have said that we should be cautious all along.
00:35:29.000I'm not going to listen to people who are like, either willy-nilly, depending on your political point of view, you can do what you want, or you can't do what you want at all.
00:35:37.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:35:39.000And we'll get to the battle that is now raging inside the Democratic Party between the Democrats and the Radicals, between the so-called mainstream and the Radicals.
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00:37:14.000Okay, so meanwhile, The Democrats are trying to cope with the fact that they lost a bunch of seats in the House, that they are in all likelihood not going to gain the Senate.
00:37:24.000And this battle has broken out into the open between the Democratic radicals and the so-called moderates inside the Democratic Party.
00:37:31.000Biden is supposed to be a representative of the moderate Democratic Party, a return to normalcy.
00:37:36.000The heart and soul of the Democratic Party is not controlled by the moderates.
00:37:39.000The heart and soul of the Democratic Party is controlled by the radicals.
00:37:42.000Because Barack Obama was a radical posing as a moderate.
00:37:44.000He took over the party and he shaped that party in his image.
00:37:47.000Joe Biden, in order to be a return to normalcy, would have to be a return to the pre-Obama era, but he is not.
00:37:52.000He is not a return to the pre-Obama era.
00:37:53.000The only reason that he is apparently the president-elect at this moment, according to media projections, is because he is supposedly following in the footsteps of Barack Obama, who was one of the great political prevaricators of modern American history, I mean, truly.
00:38:08.000The battle between the moderates and the non-moderates in the Democratic Party has broken out really, really radically.
00:38:14.000According to Politico, It was the biggest surprise on election night.
00:38:18.000Democrats, instead of growing their House majority, actually lost seats.
00:38:21.000Now the party is going through an internal reckoning on what went wrong.
00:38:23.000The clearest picture of what happened will come when a full breakdown of how Donald Trump and Joe Biden fared in individual districts across the country is available.
00:38:30.000But the most shocking results available thus far make it clear Trump did far better than polling indicated he would in many suburban battlegrounds.
00:38:36.000And in others, Republican congressional candidates may have benefited from ticket splitters.
00:38:40.000Overall, it looks like 2018 was a high watermark for Democrats, a wave that crested and fell.
00:38:44.000Democrats' unexpected losses ranged from districts in Florida and Texas, where sliding Latino support provided costly blue-trending suburbs, where affluent voters split their tickets, and rural seats, in which Trump's GOP roared back last week.
00:38:55.000In the end, Democrats could end up losing around 10 seats, depending on the final counts.
00:39:01.000Here are the most surprising congressional races of 2020, and then they name a bunch of areas in which incumbent Democrats lost their districts, and lost pretty heavily.
00:39:09.000The point of this, and pretty much everybody in the Democratic Party knows it, is that the moderate Democrats got blown out because they were tied to the radical Democrats.
00:39:18.000One person who knows this is Senator Joe Manchin.
00:39:20.000Joe Manchin has always sort of been on the bubble.
00:39:22.000He keeps getting elected in West Virginia, which is an extremely red state at this point.
00:39:26.000West Virginia, in terms of presidential elections, it votes like 65-35 in favor of the Republican candidate.
00:39:33.000But Joe Manchin, because he's sort of an older-style moderate Democrat who very often votes with Republicans, he's been able to survive.
00:39:44.000We are the party of working men and women.
00:39:46.000We want to protect Americans' jobs and healthcare.
00:39:48.000We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police.
00:39:54.000All of which prompted the Honorable Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D, Crazy Towns, to tweet out a picture of herself glaring at Joe Manchin.
00:40:03.000Because during the State of the Union Address, Joe Manchin had the temerity to, I believe, applaud for some tax cuts.
00:40:08.000And AOC sat behind him and glared at him.
00:40:21.000By the way, chances that Joe Manchin switches to the Republican Party over the course of the next couple of years, I would say at least 50-50.
00:40:28.000Because otherwise, he's gonna lose his seat.
00:40:30.000Because if he gets tied to that wing of his party, he's toast in West Virginia.
00:40:36.000For all the Democrats declaring that they are not, in fact, the party of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Squad, makes it very difficult to claim that when Nancy Pelosi is literally posing on covers with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Squad.
00:40:48.000She's not appearing on magazine covers with Abigail Spanberger and Conor Lamb.
00:40:51.000She's appearing with the hottest new things in the new media with all the Twitter, Instagram crowd.
00:40:57.000The people who make for good clapback tweets, but have no actual ability to get anything done other than shouting socialism at the moon.
00:41:05.000It's a real problem for the Democrats.
00:41:07.000As Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, said, what this election shows more than anything is that there's a mandate against socialism, and Republicans are right about this.
00:41:42.000It was a mandate against defunding the police.
00:41:45.000It was a mandate against wasting a majority that the Democrats have done for the last Congress.
00:41:51.000Okay, so the Democrats have been pushing back against this by saying, we're not socialism, we're not defunding the police, we're not that radical.
00:42:19.000It is the party of Ilhan Omar, who's just better at hiding it.
00:42:22.000What Barack Obama was great at doing was pretending that he was in the mold of old-school Democrats, when actually he's just an intersectional politician who is deeply ensconced in all of the lies of the socialist and race-baiting left.
00:42:36.000And Barack Obama was excellent at lying about this.
00:42:39.000And we'll get to his memoir in just a second because it really does spell all of this out.
00:42:43.000If you read what we now know about his memoir, if you read it, what you'll see is that Barack Obama in ideology is much closer to people like Ibram X. Kendi or Robin DiAngelo than he is to Joe Manchin.
00:42:54.000We'll get to that in just one moment first.
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00:46:17.000All righty, so let's talk about the fact that this is Barack Obama's Democratic Party.
00:46:28.000So the battle inside the Democratic Party right now between the so-called moderates, the Joe Manchins of the party, or even the Joe Bidens of the party, against the sort of Alexander Ocasio-Cortez squad, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders wing of the party, that battle is over.
00:46:41.000And the reason that the battle is over is because there is no immune response to the argument that is being made by people like Ocasio-Cortez.
00:46:47.000The people like Rashida Tlaib, the people like Elizabeth Warren, which is that the system itself is deeply corrupt.
00:46:52.000The reason there's no immune response is because Barack Obama killed the immune response.
00:46:57.000The great lie of Barack Obama's tenure is that he was a unifying president who believed in foundational American principles.
00:47:44.000When I say it's slightly coded, I mean that he pays sometimes lip service to what he says are American principles that are actually not foundational American founding principles.
00:47:53.000Barack Obama is the pathway for the Democratic Party moving forward.
00:48:00.000This is what the Democratic Party thinks.
00:48:01.000And this is why the future of the Democratic Party looks a lot more like the Squad and a lot less like Joe Manchin, which is why you have that particular tweet from AOC glaring at Joe Manchin.
00:48:10.000That is the future of the Democratic Party.
00:48:16.000First of all, for anybody who believes that Donald Trump has narcissistic personality disorder, let me introduce you to a man named Barack Obama.
00:48:23.000Nobody has ever loved Barack Obama more than Barack Obama loves Barack Obama.
00:48:27.000Jeffrey Toobin doesn't love Jeffrey Toobin as much as Barack Obama loves Barack Obama.
00:48:31.000It is absurd how much Barack Obama loves himself and Barack Obama.
00:48:34.000The man has written, at this point, this is his third memoir, and volume one is longer, as I have said, than the five books of Moses.
00:48:46.000Hey, he didn't accomplish anything when he was president.
00:48:48.000He did Obamacare, and then he had a bunch of executive orders, and he undermined the fundamental unity of the country.
00:48:52.000So I guess there are a few things that he did, but is that worthy of like 1,500 pages?
00:48:58.000Maybe he'll just continue writing these memoirs forever.
00:49:01.000I don't know that Winston Churchill wrote this many memoirs, and Winston Churchill was actually an important human.
00:49:05.000I don't think that Barack Obama is a particularly important human in the vast panorama of American politics, except for destructive things that he has done to the body politic.
00:49:13.000Okay, but that doesn't stop the media from just drooling over him.
00:49:17.000Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come.
00:49:20.000It is not merely this book avoids being ponderous as might be expected, even forgiven of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read sentence by sentence, the prose gorgeous in places, the detail granular and vivid.
00:49:32.000Jeffrey, too, has been writing that right there.
00:49:34.000I mean, that is a lot of book review journalism going on right there.
00:49:39.000OK, so what does Barack Obama actually say in his memoirs?
00:49:42.000Well, we have an early excerpt from The Atlantic, another place that is basically a Barack Obama stenographer.
00:49:47.000Jeffrey Goldberg famously was sort of the place that Barack Obama would go to vomit all of his bile at his enemies, and Jeffrey Goldberg would just sit there and write it and nod along.
00:49:55.000In fact, Jeffrey Goldberg was so much of a tool of the Obama administration that Ben Rhodes, who's a fiction writer who helped craft the Iran deal, the garbage Iran deal, openly stated that he used Jeffrey Goldberg as a stenographer for his idiotic politics.
00:50:08.000Anyway, The Atlantic, which fired Kevin Williamson for the sin of being pro-life, but obviously will print nearly anything.
00:50:28.000He's disappointed in you and he's disappointed in American democracy because what he wants from you and from American democracy is a radical remaking.
00:50:37.000He talks about the contest between Democrats and Republicans.
00:50:41.000And of course, it goes to this deeper point that Democrats have fallen headfirst into, which is that if you do not believe in the Democrats' radical agenda on every score, it's because you're a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
00:50:51.000This is Barack Obama, a twice elected president by wide margins both times, talking about how the American people are garbage.
00:51:00.000Right now, we are seeing a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be.
00:51:06.000A crisis that has left the body politic divided, angry, and mistrustful, and has allowed for an ongoing breach of institutional norms, procedural safeguards, and the adherence to basic facts both Republicans and Democrats once took for granted.
00:51:16.000First of all, being lectured on basic facts by, Captain, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, is somewhat galling.
00:51:21.000But Barack Obama says this contest is not new, of course.
00:51:23.000In many ways, it has defined the American experience.
00:51:26.000It's embedded in founding documents that could simultaneously proclaim all men equal and yet count a slave as three-fifths of a man.
00:51:31.000It finds expression in our earliest court opinions, as when the Chief Justice of the United States bluntly explains to Native Americans that their tribes' rights to convey property aren't enforceable because the court of the conqueror has no capacity to recognize the just claims of the conquered.
00:51:43.000It's a contest that's been fought on the fields of Gettysburg and Appomattox, but also in the halls of Congress.
00:51:48.000On a bridge in Selma, Alabama, across the vineyards of California, and down the streets of New York, a contest fought by soldiers, but more often by union organizers, suffragists, home importers, student leaders, waves of immigrants, and LGBTQ activists armed with nothing more than picket signs, pamphlets, or a pair of marching shoes.
00:52:04.000At the heart of this long-running battle is a simple question.
00:52:06.000Do we care to match the reality of America to its ideals?
00:52:10.000Do we really believe that our notions of self-government and individual freedom, equality of opportunity and equality before the law apply to everybody?
00:52:16.000Or are we instead committed in practice, if not in statute, preserving those things for a privileged few, right?
00:52:22.000If you don't believe in all the radical policy prescriptions of Barack Obama, then you believe in reserving freedom and prosperity and equality of opportunity to a privileged few.
00:52:32.000Not only are you a bad person, it turns out, you might be a racist and also the founding fathers might be a racist.
00:52:36.000So he says, I'm all in favor of founding principles, even though I might not really believe that the founding principles are in fact the founding principle.
00:52:43.000Here's where we get into the radical 1619 project territory of Barack Obama's thought.
00:52:47.000He says, I recognize there are those who believe it's time to discard the myth, that an examination of America's past and an even cursory glance at today's headlines show that this nation's ideals have always been secondary to conquest and subjugation, a racial caste system and rapacious capitalism, and that to pretend otherwise is to be complicit in a game that was rigged from the start. And I confess, there have been times during the course of writing my book, as I've reflected on my presidency and all that's happened since, when I've had to ask myself whether I was too tempered in speaking the truth as I saw it, too cautious in either word or deed, convinced as I was
00:53:16.000that by appealing to what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature, I stood a greater chance of leading us in the direction of the America we've been promised. I've been a better angel than Lincoln.
00:54:41.000If you read Dreams for My Father, he makes this very clear.
00:54:43.000He says, in Dreams for My Father, that the same things drive terrorism in Jakarta as drive crime in the heart of Chicago, right?
00:54:50.000Not ideology, not philosophy, but poverty, right?
00:54:53.000There's a Marxist vision of how the world works, that poverty drives crime and terrorism, and if you just correct the economic problems, then everything is fine.
00:55:00.000He also has a very essentialist vision of race in the United States.
00:55:05.000His belief of race in the United States is that we ought not treat people as individuals, but that we ought to treat people as members of groups, as intersectional groups.
00:55:12.000That you're a victim if you are a member of a particular group.
00:55:15.000And in fact, because Barack Obama is a member of a group, because Barack Obama is black, Barack Obama is a victim too, and he makes this clear in his memoir.
00:55:23.000A man who was elected by an overwhelming majority of the voting public of the United States in both 2008 and 2012 is apparently a victim of deep-seated American racism.
00:55:31.000And any inability to effectuate his agenda is because, number one, the American people are too stupid, and number two, because the American people are too racist.
00:55:40.000This is the great shift that has happened in our politics.
00:55:44.000If you look back to 2000 or even to 2004, there are pretty significant differences between the party, particularly in terms of economic vision.
00:55:50.000But there was no great argument about the foundations of the country.
00:55:54.000There was no great argument that America was essentially and in its root racist.
00:55:59.000You heard people calling each other racist for no apparent reason and because they thought that it was politically popular to do so.
00:56:04.000But the truth is that that argument was largely ignored.
00:56:10.000See, if you go back to the 1960s, when a lot of these issues first sprang full-blown into the American public consciousness, now, obviously, they'd been simmering under the surface, and some for quite good reason had been simmering under the surface.
00:56:21.000And that bubble bursting in the 60s had some very good effects, and it had some very bad effects.
00:56:25.000Obviously, the good effects would be the Civil Rights Movement.
00:56:27.000The bad effects would be the complete destruction of traditional notions of morality, for example.
00:56:31.000Okay, but in the 1960s, a couple of things happened.
00:56:34.000One, there was a failure of the liberal vision when it came to the role of government in American life.
00:57:23.000The definition of racism began to move from people thinking of each other as inferior based on race or crafting policy in order to make another race worse off, and it shifted into something significantly more vague.
00:57:38.000Something that didn't make a whole lot of sense, right?
00:57:40.000That was, any inequality of outcome could be attributable to the system.
00:57:44.000The system was responsible for all inequality, and therefore the system itself was inequitable, and the system had to be torn down.
00:57:50.000This was a perspective first mouthed in the late 1960s by Stokely Carmichael, Who at the time was the head of... It was before he was the head of the Black Panthers actually.
00:58:03.000The idea was that any institution that ended with inequality between groups was a racist institution.
00:58:10.000This could include things like freedom of speech.
00:58:11.000If freedom of speech ended with more inequality between black and white, then freedom of speech itself was a tool of the powerful against the oppressed, right?
00:58:19.000This is what Barack Obama is talking about in that little section of his memoir quoted earlier in The Atlantic, where he says, there are people who believe that all the systems of the United States are basically a myth, a cover for oppression and power dynamics.
00:58:31.000Barack Obama kind of believes that too.
00:58:32.000So that was a Stokely Carmichael point talking about the institutions of the United States.
00:58:36.000He had these two simultaneous movements, right?
00:58:38.000One was, That government had the power to correct all the economic ills of the entire society and fix everything.
00:58:45.000And the second was that all of the institutions of government were themselves infused and infected with racism and bigotry and power dynamics and exploitation.
00:58:56.000Well, it turns out over the course of the subsequent 20 or 30 years, both of these narratives started to fall apart.
00:59:01.000So first of all, the narrative that government was capable of taking care of you through all circumstances and fixing all problems and solving inequality, it completely fell apart by the 1970s when the American economy started to collapse in on itself like a dying star.
00:59:12.000It ended with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 after a decade of essentially economic Complete economic stagnation between the late 1960s and 1980.
00:59:22.000Pretty much complete economic stagnation.
00:59:26.000And that culminates in Bill Clinton, Democrat, claiming that the era of big government is essentially over.
00:59:31.000So that was line number one from the left that falls apart.
00:59:34.000Then there's line number two from the left that falls apart.
00:59:36.000And that is that there is no way to overcome our racism in the United States.
00:59:40.000That what we have to do is we have to shift our thinking on racism so as to achieve equality of outcome.
00:59:46.000And this results in an actual widening of gaps in the United States.
00:59:51.000It results in a slower growth of the black middle class.
00:59:54.000It results in serious crime problems because as the government starts to incentivize people to commit crimes and not punish crimes, you get this vast wave of crime, particularly in heavily minority areas that are disproportionately poor.
01:00:05.000And so by 1994, the Republicans and the Democrats are getting together and they are saying, OK, this is not working.
01:00:10.000We're going to need to actually crack down on crime.
01:00:11.000What if we just treated everybody as an individual?
01:00:13.000What if we treated everybody as an economic individual in charge of their own life?
01:00:18.000And what if we treated everybody as an individual in terms of personal responsibility?
01:00:21.000If you commit a crime, no matter what your race, you're going to go to jail.
01:00:25.000And if you are cheating welfare, we're not going to give you welfare.
01:00:28.000Welfare reform is now going to be a bipartisan thing in order to promote work.
01:00:33.000We're going to treat you as an individual.
01:00:34.000We're not going to treat you as a member of a group that is owed some sort of reparations by a perversion of the system.
01:00:39.000So both of these twin narratives from the 60s have basically died by the early 1990s.
01:00:44.000And after the fall of the Soviet Union, they basically remain dead, right?
01:00:48.000Even throughout the Bush administration, the growth of government never really stops after 9-11, right?
01:00:52.000The growth of government really picks up and accelerates after 9-11.
01:00:55.000But the basic idea in Americans' minds that government can't solve all your problems and also that people ought to be treated racially as individuals, right?
01:01:03.000Everybody should be treated as an individual.
01:01:05.000These basically become centralizing principles and they exist in both parties.
01:01:08.000In 2008, Barack Obama runs on both those principles.
01:01:12.000In 2008, Barack Obama says, we need change, right?
01:01:14.000Because it's the middle of a recession.
01:01:19.000And so people say, OK, well, he's sort of moderate, right?
01:01:21.000Joe Biden himself says he's the first guy that white people find non-threatening.
01:01:24.000And what he means by that is that he's not Jesse Jackson out there on the barricades shouting about how America is endemically racist.
01:01:31.000So, Barack Obama comes along and he campaigns as basically blah.
01:01:35.000He campaigns as unity candidate who in his very personage is going to declare an end to the racial conflict that has plagued the country for so long, the nation's founding sin.
01:01:43.000He is going to alleviate that founding sin by allowing America to say, look how far we've come, look what we've been able to accomplish.
01:01:49.000He comes in on the wings of eagles in 2008, blowing out John McCain, an actual war hero.
01:01:55.000And he comes in on the wings of having like five minutes of legislative experience and making one speech in 2004 at the DNC.
01:02:15.000Government can solve all your problems.
01:02:16.000And two, America, its systems are itself racist.
01:02:20.000And what he says is, government can only solve all of your problems if the right people are running the government.
01:02:26.000And also, if you refuse to acknowledge that government can solve all of your problems, it's because you want the systems to remain racist and exploitative.
01:02:34.000And that's why Barack Obama can so easily shift into this language where he suggests, okay guys, you know, if you oppose my agenda, it's because you're racist.
01:02:41.000It's because you don't like me personally.
01:02:43.000It's not that you reject the fundamental notion that government can solve all these problems.
01:03:07.000And Democrats have been trying to remake that coalition ever since.
01:03:10.000And the problem is that Joe Biden actually campaigned in the same way that Obama did in 2008.
01:03:16.000But the coalition that he's relying upon is Barack Obama's 2012 coalition with a few add-ons.
01:03:21.000The base is not Barack Obama's wide base of 2008.
01:03:23.000The base is still that core of 2012 from Barack Obama.
01:03:28.000And so he's going to be very hard-pressed to reject those people who made him and who are going to continue to support his agenda.
01:03:33.000This is why the radicals are in charge.
01:03:35.000So Barack Obama's memoir makes all of this perfectly clear, apparently.
01:03:38.000According to CNN, which has an early copy of this huge doorstopper, Obama writes, Now it's weird because Donald Trump switched a bunch of states that Barack Obama had won.
01:03:47.000deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted.
01:03:51.000Which is exactly why Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president.
01:03:57.000For millions of Americans spooked by a black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.
01:04:02.000Now it's weird because Donald Trump switched a bunch of states that Barack Obama had won.
01:04:06.000Barack Obama won Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania.
01:04:19.000But again, Barack Obama believes that anyone who opposes his agenda, the radical left agenda that says government can solve all your problems, government is the only thing we have in common, is what the DNC put up on its big board at the 2012 DNC.
01:04:33.000If you don't believe that, it's because you hate Barack Obama.
01:04:36.000It's because you hate black people according to Barack Obama.
01:04:39.000And he says this over and over and over.
01:04:40.000He says, quote, about Sarah Palin joining the ticket in 2008, quote, Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party, xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, and antipathy toward black and brown folks were finding their way to center stage.
01:04:58.000Again, Barack Obama identifying himself as America, and if you oppose Barack Obama, you oppose America, and namely, you really, really don't like black people, is what Barack Obama suggests.
01:05:07.000And he keeps suggesting it over and over and over.
01:05:11.000There are only two reasons, according to Barack Obama, to ever oppose Barack Obama.
01:05:14.000One is you were stupid, and the other one was you were racist.
01:05:28.000It just proved that I'd failed to rally the nation, which to me was just as damning.
01:05:32.000Oh, it was just about how the American people were too stupid to understand what he was saying.
01:05:36.000Hey, Obama also says that the reason that he picked Joe Biden to go and negotiate with the Republicans, he literally says this, is because if he picked Joe Biden, Joe Biden was white.
01:05:48.000And maybe he'd be able to get his agenda through.
01:05:52.000Maybe he'd be able to get his radical agenda through if he put a white face on it.
01:05:55.000Because again, the only reason to oppose the agenda was not because you opposed the agenda.
01:05:58.000The only reason to oppose the agenda is because, you know, like black people.
01:06:01.000He says, quote, One of the reasons I'd chosen Joe to act as an intermediary, in addition to his Senate experience and legislative acumen, was my awareness that in McConnell's mind, negotiations with the Vice President didn't inflame the Republican base in quite the same way that any appearance of cooperation with black, Muslim-Socialist Obama was bound to do.
01:06:19.000Okay, so again, the idea here is that Joe Biden was only picked because he was white, right?
01:06:23.000Because the American people are just a bunch of vicious, horrible racists.
01:06:32.000He talks about the Henry Louis Gates incident.
01:06:35.000He says the reactions my comments on on Gates this Henry Lewis Gates where he said the Cambridge police acted stupidly after arresting Gates after Gates refused to show ID.
01:06:41.000He says my first indicator of how the issue of black folks in the police was more polarizing than just about any other subject in American life.
01:06:48.000Those feelings just continued during the rise of Palin and the Tea Party Obama writes recalling how Michelle Obama caught a glimpse of a Tea Party rally on TV.
01:06:56.000She seized the remote and turned off the set, her expression hovering somewhere between rage and resignation.
01:07:00.000It's a trip, isn't it, she said, that they're scared of you, scared of us.
01:07:05.000Again, that is what Barack Obama did to the country.
01:07:08.000Instead of us being able to hash out economic issues, instead of us arguing about the size and scope of government, instead of us acknowledging two basic truths, people should be treated as individuals on the economic level and people should be treated as individuals With that regard to race, Barack Obama reversed both of them and tied them together.
01:07:59.000And if you think that Joe Biden is going to be able to ignore it, I have serious doubts that he will be able to ignore that.
01:08:04.000Okay, so at the end of every week, I try to do a little bit of Bible talk because it's a little bit inspirational going into the weekend.
01:08:10.000Since we are talking about socialism and property rights, There's been a weird idea in a lot of philosophy, a lot of Western philosophy, going all the way back, and not only Western philosophy, philosophy globally, that private property isn't evil.
01:08:23.000If you read Rousseau, the idea is that everybody lived free, and the first person who put up a fence had somehow sinned against original creation.
01:08:30.000There was this idea of the noble savage living in the wilderness and not believing in private property.
01:08:36.000Now, as it turns out, on an anthropological level, that simply is not true.
01:08:39.000People actually did mark off territory, they did claim territory, And that's always been true.
01:08:44.000But the idea is that property itself is the root of all evil.
01:08:47.000Now that is a misread of New Testament principles in Christian circles, right?
01:08:53.000The actual quote from the New Testament suggests that greed is the root of all evil.
01:08:58.000Not that property itself or property ownership is the root of all evil, but love of money.
01:09:02.000Love of money is the root of all evil.
01:09:04.000The quote from the New Testament about how it's easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven, that is descriptive.
01:09:12.000It doesn't mean that if you're rich, you can't enter heaven.
01:09:14.000It means it's very difficult for a person who is rich to enter heaven because they have the lure of money at them at all times.
01:09:20.000Okay, but one of the things about the Old Testament, the Old Testament is pretty damn clear that private property is not just something that is good, it is necessary.
01:09:28.000That there is something endemic to human nature that claims property.
01:09:31.000That property is something we have to recognize as something inherent.
01:09:34.000It is not, in fact, a social construct.
01:09:36.000It is not something that human beings placed on each other as a method of exploitation.
01:09:40.000Property is a way for us to imprint our stamp on the world.
01:09:43.000There's a great book by the historian Richard Pipes on property that is well worth getting.
01:09:47.000He talks about this at length, the sort of ideology and philosophy of property.
01:09:52.000Now, on the right, in American politics, There's a lot of talk about why private property is useful.
01:09:56.000There's sort of a utilitarian take on capitalism, which is that capitalism works, right?
01:10:01.000It makes everybody richer, it makes everybody more prosperous, it allows for more freedom, and thus it is good.
01:10:06.000But there's very little sort of moral explanation of why property ownership is good.
01:10:10.000Property ownership is good because you are not just your body.
01:11:56.000And he says, if it is your will that I bury my dead from before me, listen to me and entreat for me to Ephron, the son of Zohar, that he may give me Machpelah, that's a double cave, which belongs to him.
01:12:06.000It's at the end of his field for a full price.
01:12:08.000Let him give it to me in the midst for burial property.
01:12:11.000Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth of all those who had come into the gate of a city, saying, No, my lord, listen to me.
01:12:18.000I've given you the field and the cave that is in it.
01:12:20.000Behold, I've given it to you before the eyes of the sons of my people.
01:12:37.000And Abraham listened to Ephron and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, 400 shekels of silver accepted by the merchant.
01:12:45.000Right, so the question is, it seems like Ephron is trying to do a nice thing.
01:12:47.000Why is Abraham so insistent that he buy the field?
01:12:49.000And the answer is because property claims matter.
01:12:52.000And as you can tell, certainly in the Middle East, property claims matter.
01:13:22.000It makes for a freer society because it is an extension of the reality that there are individuals who have claims to things that you do not have claims to.
01:13:29.000And that is something that is worth remembering as we move forward into a brave new era.
01:13:33.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
01:13:36.000Otherwise, we'll see you here on Monday.