The Ben Shapiro Show - The Wonderfully Self-Flattering World Of Barack Obama | Ep. 1137

00:00:00.000 Barack Obama releases a 768 page memoir, and that is just part one.

00:00:04.000 Democrats 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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00:01:28.000 Bambi.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.

00:01:41.000 And to be completely real about this, President Trump is behind by tens of thousands of votes in the states that he needs most.

00:01:45.000 Arizona, he's down by 12,000 to 13,000 votes.

00:01:47.000 In Georgia, he's down by 14,000 votes.

00:01:49.000 In Pennsylvania, he is down by 45,000 to 50,000 votes.

00:01:52.000 In Michigan, he's down 150,000 votes.

00:01:55.000 These are margins that it's going to be very difficult in court for him to prove Or voter fraud or voter irregularities.

00:02:00.000 Does this mean that our voting system is absolutely clean and pure as the driven snow?

00:02:04.000 100% not.

00:02:06.000 The fact is that the mail-in balloting system has real problems with it.

00:02:09.000 When 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.

00:02:18.000 Which is why Tucker Carlson on his show last night, for example, literally read off the voting records of dead people.

00:02:23.000 Right?

00:02:23.000 This does happen.

00:02:24.000 If you send ballots to addresses and you don't cleanse the voter rolls, which is something Democrats have forcibly opposed, right?

00:02:30.000 Democrats have filed lawsuits to avoid cleaning the voter rolls of people who are dead.

00:02:35.000 Well, that does provide the potential for somebody to grab that particular ballot, fill it in, mail it back in.

00:02:41.000 This is particularly true when in states like California have ballot harvesting, where literally people just go around picking up ballots from other people.

00:02:48.000 You don't even mail it in in those circumstances.

00:02:49.000 You have designated people from each particular party going out And picking all of those ballots up.

00:02:55.000 You don't know what happens with them.

00:02:56.000 They could theoretically fill them out.

00:02:58.000 This does create the potential for voter fraud.

00:03:00.000 And you've seen Democrats in various states around the country trying to get rid of signature verification.

00:03:05.000 So 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.

00:03:12.000 All of this creates the serious potential for voter fraud and voter irregularity.

00:03:16.000 All of this creates the potential for people not to trust the system.

00:03:19.000 And all of those things should be adjudicated.

00:03:21.000 Not only should they be adjudicated, the laws should be changed.

00:03:23.000 And as we have seen in certain cases, the GOP has been successful.

00:03:26.000 So 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.

00:03:44.000 Right.

00:03:44.000 The changes of those process absolutely undermine electoral integrity.

00:03:48.000 They absolutely undermine faith in our electoral system.

00:03:51.000 And all of those questions ought to be answered.

00:03:52.000 And we ought to fight those things out.

00:03:54.000 We really should.

00:03:54.000 These are legislative issues.

00:03:56.000 These are judicial issues.

00:03:57.000 And these all should be fought out.

00:03:59.000 Now, 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.

00:04:08.000 That's something Trump is going to have to show in court.

00:04:10.000 So, 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.

00:04:19.000 The Republican senators in the Michigan legislature called on Jocelyn Benson to do so. 0.91

00:04:23.000 The letter, dated Friday, November 13th, was released on Thursday, signed by two Republican state senators, Tom Barrett and Lana Thies.

00:04:29.000 This is according to Tim Pierce over at DailyWire.com.

00:04:31.000 The 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.

00:04:39.000 The senators wrote, Now it is true that none of that should be ignored.

00:04:41.000 in the integrity of the election process and its outcome.

00:04:43.000 It 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.

00:04:53.000 Unfortunately, a number of serious allegations have been made, which cannot and should not be ignored.

00:04:57.000 Now, it is true that none of that should be ignored.

00:04:59.000 That doesn't mean that the state is gonna suddenly flip its electors or that they're gonna hold a brand new election.

00:05:04.000 Some of the errors that have been made in terms of voter fraud or voter irregularity are in fact just that, human errors.

00:05:09.000 Some of them probably are voter fraud or voter irregularity.

00:05:12.000 But Leon Wolf over at The Blaze actually went through the affidavits that have been presented by the Trump campaign.

00:05:17.000 234 pages of affidavits regarding alleged voter irregularities in Michigan.

00:05:21.000 And Leon Wolf again of The Blaze, which is a right-wing site.

00:05:25.000 He 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.

00:05:32.000 Although 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.

00:05:41.000 The material in the affidavits alleging an atmosphere of intimidation and hostility toward GOP poll workers is voluminous.

00:05:47.000 Reading 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.

00:05:54.000 Here's the bottom line.

00:05:55.000 If you lose a state by 150,000 votes, it's going to be very, very difficult to challenge the results of that particular election.

00:06:00.000 That does not mean that we should not have a legal process.

00:06:03.000 Okay, and so the legal process is going forward, and it is important here to distinguish fact from rumor.

00:06:08.000 So, 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.

00:06:14.000 It was called Altrom County, in which 6,000 votes were accidentally shifted by manual error from the Trump campaign to the Biden campaign.

00:06:22.000 And then that was fixed because they actually have verification processes and all this stuff is double-checked.

00:06:27.000 That was switched.

00:06:28.000 The Dominion has also been used in Maricopa County.

00:06:30.000 Maricopa County is run in Arizona by the Secretary of State of Arizona, who's a Republican.

00:06:34.000 And Maricopa County didn't have any problems with the Dominion system.

00:06:37.000 So 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.

00:06:47.000 In other words, you do have to prove the voter fraud.

00:06:49.000 This 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.

00:06:56.000 The legal appraisal of the situation is pretty obvious, and lawyers right, left, and center will tell you this, right?

00:07:00.000 Just from a legal point of view, the Trump team has a very rough Road to hoe here. 0.90

00:07:05.000 I 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.

00:07:12.000 It's Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia were done wrongly.

00:07:17.000 Now, again, does that mean that there is not going to be some proof of voter fraud? 0.97

00:07:21.000 There is going to be proof of voter fraud in the media because they're garbage at this. 0.77

00:07:24.000 They've decided that voter fraud simply doesn't exist. 0.92

00:07:26.000 They've said that voter fraud and voter irregularity are figments of your imagination.

00:07:29.000 So 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.

00:07:37.000 Then Joe Biden, they think, was elected.

00:07:39.000 And the first thing they do is, boom, cleanest election in history.

00:07:43.000 Nonetheless, 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.

00:07:53.000 This is Ryan Savedra writing for Daily Wire.

00:07:56.000 According 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.

00:08:05.000 Originally, there was a deadline that by November 9th, if you had a ballot that was not properly marked, they would have an ID check.

00:08:11.000 And then, Buchfer just decided randomly to extend that by three days.

00:08:14.000 The ruling means the battleground state that's already been declared for Joe Biden can't count ballots from voters who submitted missing ID.

00:08:20.000 Between November 10th and November 12th, ballots with cured ID issues received before that are not, in fact, being challenged.

00:08:26.000 Still, the number of ballots that we're talking about here is not in the tens of thousands of ballots.

00:08:29.000 It is probably in the hundreds of ballots.

00:08:31.000 If it's in the thousands, it's in the very, very low thousands of ballots.

00:08:35.000 So that is where things stand, legally speaking.

00:08:38.000 Now, will the process play out?

00:08:40.000 It will play out, right?

00:08:41.000 As 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.

00:08:52.000 That's typical Trump.

00:08:53.000 Trump is not going to do that, nor is Trump forced to do that.

00:08:56.000 There'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.

00:09:06.000 That 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.

00:09:17.000 Nonetheless, 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.

00:09:25.000 We'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.

00:09:31.000 It's about the media attempting to defend their own actions over the past four years.

00:09:34.000 They've been in a state of constant hysterical insanity for four years.

00:09:39.000 And then if it turns out that Donald Trump Did lose the election.

00:09:43.000 If 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.

00:10:00.000 So they have to maintain that fiction going forward.

00:10:01.000 We'll talk about that in just one second.

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00:11:28.000 Okay, so.

00:11:30.000 With 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.

00:11:37.000 No less a personage than Stacey Abrams went on TV last night and declared that Joe Biden's lead in Georgia was insurmountable.

00:11:43.000 She's on The View saying this.

00:11:44.000 Now, I will note that Joe Biden's lead in Georgia currently is under 15,000 votes.

00:11:49.000 Stacey Abrams lost her gubernatorial race against Brian Kemp by 50,000 votes, like four times that number. 0.99

00:11:56.000 She lost by a lot more votes than Joe Biden is currently winning Georgia, according to the current counts.

00:12:01.000 She says Biden's lead is intermountable.

00:12:03.000 She also maintains she is governor of Georgia.

00:12:05.000 Are 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?

00:12:13.000 Here is Governor Stacey Abrams of Georgia.

00:12:16.000 We don't know how long it's going to take, but we are absolutely certain that this lead is insurmountable.

00:12:21.000 It is absolute.

00:12:23.000 And Joe Biden won Georgia.

00:12:24.000 The reality is they have the right to follow the law and the law permits this type of behavior.

00:12:30.000 And during my election in 2018, we fought through the courts to make sure every vote got counted.

00:12:36.000 Sadly, they just want to do a recount of what we already accomplished, and I wish them well.

00:12:42.000 But 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.

00:12:51.000 Wow, so it's an insurmountable lead, guys.

00:12:53.000 There's no way that any recount, there's no way that any voter fraud or voter irregularity could overturn that count.

00:12:58.000 Says Governor Stacey Abrams of Georgia.

00:13:00.000 I'm getting very, very tired of hearing from people who are fully willing.

00:13:04.000 I mean, literally the DNC called her the governor of Georgia in the middle of the DNC.

00:13:08.000 And now they're talking about undermining of democracy.

00:13:10.000 There's this extraordinarily self-flattering view that Democrats have of the world that is actually dangerous to the country.

00:13:17.000 Really dangerous, because it basically suggests all the angels are on their side and all the devils are on the other side. 0.94

00:13:24.000 Okay, that'll become clear when we talk about Barack Obama's pathetic, self-serving, 768-page first volume of his memoir. 0.56

00:13:30.000 My God, the Pentateuch, okay, the five books of Moses in Hebrew, are not that long. 0.90

00:13:34.000 God didn't have that much to say, but Barack Obama has plenty to say.

00:13:37.000 That was his Old Testament, can't wait for his New Testament, that'll be volume two.

00:13:41.000 By the way, dude's written, what would that make, his fourth memoir?

00:13:44.000 His fourth memoir?

00:13:44.000 There's no human being important enough, they require four memoirs.

00:13:47.000 Not a single human requires four memoirs.

00:13:50.000 We'll get to Barack Obama in just a second.

00:13:52.000 But Chuck Schumer, right?

00:13:54.000 Chuck 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.

00:14:04.000 He says that we are at risk of a coup in the United States because Donald Trump won't just say the election is over.

00:14:09.000 Which again, there's no obligation for him to say the election.

00:14:12.000 Let's be real about this.

00:14:13.000 Donald Trump can go kicking and screaming.

00:14:15.000 And as long as he does not actually engage in law breaking, he has not violated anything legally, right?

00:14:21.000 There is no threat to the constitution of Donald Trump.

00:14:23.000 Again, Donald Trump can be whoever Donald Trump wants to be.

00:14:26.000 He can leave office saying the entire thing was a fraud and a sham and all.

00:14:30.000 It's not gonna matter one iota.

00:14:32.000 If 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.

00:14:43.000 And people will be pissed.

00:14:44.000 And people will have doubts about the voter process.

00:14:46.000 And people will call for rectification of many of the areas of voter unfairness that we have seen across the country.

00:14:51.000 And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

00:14:52.000 But Chuck Schumer, of all people, saying that Republicans are poisoning the well of democracy says, Chuck Schumer, come on.

00:15:00.000 Instead 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.

00:15:17.000 The 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.

00:15:39.000 You know who held up the relief bill?

00:15:40.000 We all know who held up the relief bill.

00:15:43.000 Nancy Pelosi in the House.

00:15:44.000 And it probably cost her House colleagues double digits in the House. 0.98

00:15:48.000 But Chuck Schumer, again, this is all just nonsense.

00:15:50.000 It's all nonsense and it is self-flattering. 0.98

00:15:53.000 Politically driven nonsense. 0.66

00:15:55.000 I think my favorite comment of the last 24 hours over all of this coup talk came from Seth Meyers.

00:16:01.000 Seth Meyers was like, Donald Trump, that guy's a threat to democracy.

00:16:03.000 Also, let's get rid of the Electoral College.

00:16:05.000 He's a threat to the system.

00:16:06.000 Let's destroy the system. 0.97

00:16:08.000 Let's get rid... You know what I don't like?

00:16:09.000 I don't like federalism anymore, and I don't like the Electoral College anymore.

00:16:11.000 Let's get rid of all of those things in order to restore democracy.

00:16:15.000 Let's get rid of all the institutions.

00:16:16.000 Also, Donald Trump is a big threat to your institutions. 1.00

00:16:18.000 Here's idiot Seth Meyers. 0.99

00:16:21.000 It'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. 0.97

00:16:29.000 Even 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.

00:16:44.000 These should be no-brainers. 0.99

00:16:46.000 If we had a healthy, functioning political system, both parties would react to these ideas by saying, Okay, he's such a moron. 1.00

00:16:53.000 I'm sorry. 1.00

00:16:53.000 Seth Meyers is a moron. 1.00

00:16:56.000 Moron. 1.00

00:16:57.000 Okay, when Seth Meyers says there that one party is committed to democracy and the other party is not committed to democracy. 0.94

00:17:03.000 Therefore, the party committed to democracy should reinstate the Voting Rights Act, which was put in place in the 1960s.

00:17:08.000 It required preclearance from the federal government with regard to Drawing of districts.

00:17:14.000 And was designed to be phased out over time when it became clear that these districts were not drawn for racial reasons.

00:17:19.000 And the Supreme Court recently ruled the Voting Rights Act was no longer relevant 50 years after it had been written.

00:17:24.000 He wants that restored so the federal government gets to rule the states on how the districts are drawn.

00:17:28.000 And then he also wants to get rid of the Electoral College.

00:17:30.000 But don't worry, he's the guy committed to democracy.

00:17:32.000 He's totally committed to democracy.

00:17:34.000 Weird how the word democracy tends to shift and change depending on exactly what Democrats want from it.

00:17:38.000 But let's be real about this.

00:17:39.000 All this really comes down to is, as usual, orange man bad, Don Lemon letting the cat out of the bag and being triumphalist.

00:17:44.000 Joe Biden's super popular and Donald Trump is super unpopular.

00:17:47.000 And this wasn't a close election.

00:17:49.000 Here is Don Lemon, objective journalist, getting his journalism everywhere.

00:17:54.000 Joe Biden has widened his lead over Trump in the popular vote by more than 5 million ballots in the popular vote.

00:18:05.000 He's way more popular than Trump has ever been or will ever be.

00:18:11.000 Biden has tallied up more than 77 million votes.

00:18:16.000 That's more than any presidential candidate in American history.

00:18:20.000 Can you imagine?

00:18:23.000 How the man who is obsessed with ratings and numbers, how that feels?

00:18:27.000 That's all it's about.

00:18:28.000 For 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.

00:18:36.000 By the way, by this measure, you know who's more popular than any Democrat who's ever lived, basically?

00:18:42.000 He's won more raw votes, right?

00:18:42.000 It's Joe Biden.

00:18:44.000 He's more popular than Barack Obama by leaps and bounds.

00:18:46.000 Now, do you actually think that Don Lemon believes that?

00:18:48.000 Of course not.

00:18:49.000 Of course not.

00:18:49.000 Okay, in just one second, we're going to get to the continuing self-flattering narrative Democrats are painting.

00:18:54.000 So according to Democrats, Democrats love democracy.

00:18:57.000 Also, Democrats are the only people who care about COVID.

00:18:59.000 We'll get to that ridiculous narrative in just one second as COVID spreads across the country.

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00:20:23.000 Okay, so as part of the Democrats' self-flattering narrative here, there are a couple things.

00:20:27.000 One, they love democracy.

00:20:29.000 Republicans hate democracy.

00:20:30.000 Also, Republicans love COVID, right?

00:20:32.000 This is their other narrative, is that Republicans love COVID.

00:20:34.000 So here is the reality, as some of us have been saying for quite a while.

00:20:38.000 It turns out that nobody has a good solution to COVID.

00:20:41.000 There are no good solutions to COVID.

00:20:42.000 This 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.

00:20:49.000 There'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?

00:21:03.000 Above the age of 65 is 2,500.

00:21:04.000 That means that what you actually have to do is protect not even the old, but truly you have to protect people with preexisting conditions.

00:21:10.000 Okay, now the thing is in the United States, That's a lot of people.

00:21:14.000 Because there are a lot of people who have diabetes, a lot of people who have asthma, a lot of people who have heart conditions.

00:21:18.000 Hypertension could theoretically be a contributing factor to a bad reaction to COVID.

00:21:23.000 But 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.

00:21:31.000 And what that does mean is that if you have vulnerable people in your family, you should wear a mask around them and socially distance.

00:21:37.000 That's just the smart thing to do.

00:21:37.000 Right?

00:21:38.000 I have two grandmothers, both of whom are over the age of 90.

00:21:41.000 Thank God they're still alive and doing decently.

00:21:44.000 And 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.

00:21:53.000 And that is the smart thing to do.

00:21:55.000 And 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.

00:22:15.000 Is anybody realistically suggesting that we all be confined to our homes from November until March?

00:22:22.000 Is anybody really suggesting that at this point?

00:22:24.000 Even the WHO doesn't suggest that that is a good idea.

00:22:27.000 Even Anthony Fauci suggests that that is not a good idea.

00:22:30.000 And Anthony Fauci is about as hawkish on lockdowns as anybody in the American federal government right now.

00:22:34.000 Fauci appeared on Good Morning America yesterday, and he said, there's no appetite for locking down.

00:22:38.000 We shouldn't be pushing full-scale lockdowns at this point.

00:22:42.000 There is no appetite for locking down on the American public, but I believe that we can do it without a lockdown.

00:22:50.000 I really do.

00:22:51.000 I 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.

00:23:03.000 It isn't necessarily lockdown.

00:23:04.000 You could still get businesses going.

00:23:06.000 You could still have economic forward thinking.

00:23:10.000 while you're doing that, you don't necessarily have to shut everything down.

00:23:13.000 So 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.

00:23:34.000 Doesn't matter.

00:23:34.000 Democrats have declared that if you are a Republican, you literally want people to die.

00:23:38.000 So Nancy Pelosi yesterday, she said that Republicans and the GOP should be carrying deaths on their conscience.

00:23:44.000 This 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. 0.97

00:23:51.000 She was holding up a COVID relief bill at the time.

00:23:53.000 She's still holding up a COVID relief bill.

00:23:54.000 By the way, if you're in favor of more lockdowns, you know what you need?

00:23:57.000 To pass a COVID relief bill!

00:23:58.000 Because there are a bunch of people who aren't going to be able to go to work.

00:24:00.000 How do you think they're going to be able to pay your bills?

00:24:03.000 I mean, it's wild.

00:24:05.000 Nancy 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.

00:24:15.000 Even as she held up the relief bill for her own nefarious political purposes, which completely backfired on her own caucus. 1.00

00:24:21.000 This is the master politician.

00:24:22.000 Here she was yesterday declaring, again, herself on the side of the angels and her enemies on the side of Satan.

00:24:28.000 If 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.

00:24:40.000 No.

00:24:41.000 Every single one of those deaths is important to us.

00:24:44.000 We carry those people in our hearts.

00:24:47.000 And they should be carrying them on their conscience for what they did not do.

00:24:52.000 Since we passed the bill, the HEROES Act, over 100,000 more people have died.

00:24:57.000 That could have been prevented.

00:25:00.000 Alex Azar, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, under Trump, said yesterday that during Thanksgiving we have to make sacrifices to keep people alive.

00:25:07.000 Fauci is still in the Trump administration.

00:25:08.000 Probably Trump's fulminations about Fauci.

00:25:10.000 Dude is still in the federal government.

00:25:12.000 Alex Azar, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, under Trump, said yesterday that during Thanksgiving, we have to make sacrifices to keep people alive.

00:25:19.000 That might mean fewer parties, more social distancing, more mask wearing.

00:25:23.000 Like there is no vast gap here between Republicans and Democrats.

00:25:26.000 The only vast gap is that Democrats have taken the political incentive structure and completely perverted it.

00:25:30.000 So they are now in favor of vast lockdowns, including of places that are not risk centers like schools.

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00:27:09.000 Okay, 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.

00:27:16.000 This is not particularly controversial.

00:27:17.000 Here'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.

00:27:26.000 Reduce the number of people at your gathering.

00:27:28.000 If you can open the windows, let more ventilation in.

00:27:31.000 We've got very practical things.

00:27:32.000 Even if you have a ceiling fan, set it so it pulls the air up instead of down.

00:27:36.000 Use single-use servings for individuals.

00:27:39.000 Wear your face coverings because I want to make sure, even if we make sacrifices this Thanksgiving and Christmas, those sacrifices are for a reason.

00:27:48.000 So that everybody you want to be with will be here for next Thanksgiving and next Christmas.

00:27:54.000 Okay, 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?

00:28:07.000 You're on the side of Satan.

00:28:09.000 Even as Nancy Pelosi holds up the COVID relief efforts, you're on the side of Satan. 0.99

00:28:14.000 And so Democrats have decided that because of the incentive structure, it's time for full lockdowns.

00:28:18.000 Full lockdowns are back on the table.

00:28:21.000 Except, by the way, if you are celebrating some sort of woke cause.

00:28:24.000 If you're celebrating a woke cause, then lockdowns don't matter anymore.

00:28:26.000 As we all know, COVID is the wokest virus that ever was.

00:28:29.000 It does not affect anybody who attends a Black Lives Matter rally, but it'll hit everybody at a Trump White House event.

00:28:34.000 It has never affected a non-Trump voter.

00:28:37.000 It turns out that this virus is sort of a holy virus in the view of the left.

00:28:40.000 It only hurts people who do the wrong things.

00:28:43.000 It's like Santa Claus.

00:28:45.000 It keeps a list, it checks it twice, and then it comes after you if you were naughty and not nice.

00:28:50.000 Anyway, here is Biden's spokeswoman yesterday ducking whether he would actually attempt a national lockdown, which is like, good luck.

00:28:55.000 First 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.

00:29:02.000 We don't even know where this thing is going to be in January.

00:29:04.000 But 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.

00:29:10.000 I mean, if you want to talk about the essence of tyranny, that would be it.

00:29:13.000 The President of the United States declaring, you know what?

00:29:15.000 National lockdown time.

00:29:16.000 Here is Biden's spokeswoman literally refusing to answer the question.

00:29:22.000 Is that something that President-elect Biden is considering, a four to six week lockdown?

00:29:29.000 Well, 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.

00:29:38.000 But what does that mean?

00:29:39.000 No plans for a lockdown, but that could change?

00:29:42.000 I mean, Michael Osterholm's on the task force.

00:29:48.000 There are steps that we can take now, again, encouraging people to wear a mask.

00:29:51.000 Again, 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.

00:29:57.000 And mayors all over the country who are Democrats are now calling for a total lockdown, except when they're not.

00:30:01.000 So Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued another lockdown advisory. 0.96

00:30:04.000 She demanded that you cancel your Thanksgiving plans.

00:30:07.000 Starting on Monday, according to the Chicago Tribune, she'll impose a 10-person ceiling on gatherings such as weddings, funerals, and other events. 0.89

00:30:14.000 She also tweeted out, a stay-at-home advisory for Chicago will go into effect on Monday, November 16th at 6 a.m.

00:30:19.000 By the way, I do love these delays.

00:30:20.000 Is the virus delayed for the next three days or so?

00:30:25.000 If you can issue this advisory, shouldn't you do it right now?

00:30:28.000 It's that big an emergency?

00:30:29.000 This 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.

00:30:41.000 By 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.

00:30:57.000 That's a picture of her right there.

00:30:58.000 This is here she goes. 1.00

00:30:59.000 This is a great day for our country.

00:31:03.000 We get to take our democracy back.

00:31:08.000 Giant crowd in the streets, many not wearing masks.

00:31:11.000 For all those people who voted, you made this happen.

00:31:15.000 Because that was okay.

00:31:19.000 Six days ago, that was okay.

00:31:19.000 That was okay.

00:31:21.000 Now you can't have grandma and grandpa over for Thanksgiving dinner, even if you're being cautious and socially distancing.

00:31:26.000 So yeah, I definitely trust these people and don't think this is political at all.

00:31:29.000 How about Bill de Blasio?

00:31:30.000 Bill de Blasio is doing the same thing.

00:31:31.000 So Bill de Blasio was asked about Andrew Cuomo's restrictions on CNN last night.

00:31:35.000 He said, I think that Andrew Cuomo's new restrictions that basically say that we're going to shut down bars and restaurants after 10 p.m.

00:31:40.000 because COVID apparently does not apply before 10 p.m.

00:31:43.000 Also saying that you can't have 10 people in your backyard.

00:31:46.000 But you can't have eight people in your house, which makes no sense at all.

00:31:49.000 Here's Bill de Blasio saying these standards make perfect sense to him.

00:31:54.000 He and I have talked about this a lot.

00:31:55.000 I think he's in the right place.

00:31:57.000 I think it will help for sure.

00:31:59.000 And the additional work that's being done in Staten Island in particular, I think is going to help a lot.

00:32:05.000 Look, the goal here is to turn this around.

00:32:08.000 We're still at one of the lowest levels of positivity in the country.

00:32:12.000 We can drive it down again.

00:32:15.000 Okay, and I'm just going to note that, like, again, six days ago, here was Bill de Blasio in the streets celebrating with people.

00:32:22.000 It's liberation.

00:32:23.000 It's just joyous.

00:32:24.000 People have felt this weight and a sense of we're divided, and we shouldn't be that way.

00:32:29.000 And now there's a feeling that anything's possible, that we can heal again, that we can move forward.

00:32:34.000 And look, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did something amazing.

00:32:38.000 This is turning out to be a huge victory all over the country.

00:32:41.000 We can stop it there.

00:32:42.000 Somebody should have told Bill de Blasio that there were a bunch of Orthodox Jews having like a prayer session behind him.

00:32:46.000 Maybe we would have done something else. 0.99

00:32:47.000 The giant ass crowd directly behind him celebrating in the middle of a pandemic. 0.99

00:32:52.000 That was apparently totally fine. 0.87

00:32:53.000 By 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.

00:33:00.000 Ronald 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.

00:33:07.000 Here's a Ronald Klain tweet from the middle of February.

00:33:10.000 He was responding to a tweet from Bill de Blasio, February 13th.

00:33:13.000 It was my honor to spend time with our Asian-American owned small businesses in Flushing today.

00:33:16.000 This vibrant community is standing strong, but they need your support.

00:33:19.000 Our Chinatowns are open for business.

00:33:21.000 Make some dinner plans, do some shopping, stand with our neighbors.

00:33:23.000 This is from all the captains of science who were saying that they would have changed everything had they been in charge in February.

00:33:29.000 Okay, Ronald Klain.

00:33:30.000 Okay, that is the new incoming Joe Biden chief of staff.

00:33:33.000 Here is what he tweeted.

00:33:34.000 He tweeted, So it's not that everybody does their best here and people make mistakes.

00:33:38.000 We are starting to see a fear epidemic.

00:33:40.000 Kudos to Mayor Bill de Blasio and others for standing against that.

00:33:43.000 So it's not that everybody does their best here and people make mistakes.

00:33:46.000 It's that the political priors decide everything.

00:33:49.000 They do.

00:33:50.000 If Donald Trump was talking about the dangers of the Wuhan virus in February, then it was xenophobic, and he should go down to Chinatown.

00:33:57.000 If Donald Trump started talking about how the issues with COVID were overblown, then it was lock everything down immediately. 0.99

00:34:03.000 The binary nature of politics is one of the stupidest things in the world. 1.00

00:34:06.000 One of the dumbest things ever. 1.00

00:34:08.000 By 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. 0.98

00:34:17.000 And then yesterday they had on a medical guest and they were like, you know what?

00:34:19.000 You should cancel Thanksgiving because gathering should not be the norm.

00:34:24.000 Less is more this Thanksgiving.

00:34:26.000 It is the COVID Thanksgiving.

00:34:28.000 We don't want to give the virus while we're giving thanks.

00:34:31.000 We want to protect Grandma and Grandpa, and we do that by keeping ourselves as separate as possible.

00:34:38.000 As much as we would like to get together, this year, separation should be the norm.

00:34:44.000 Please, everybody, be careful.

00:34:46.000 We don't want Thanksgiving to be a spreader event.

00:34:50.000 Honestly, I don't disagree with a lot of this because bottom line is that people are going to have to act in responsible fashion.

00:34:56.000 I'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. 0.99

00:35:03.000 It's just it's so irritating and so stupid and it undermines faith in science. 1.00

00:35:08.000 It undermines faith in the media. 1.00

00:35:10.000 The 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.

00:35:17.000 I'm sorry, I'm not going to pay any attention to you guys.

00:35:19.000 I'm just not.

00:35:20.000 I'll pay attention to people who have been consistent.

00:35:22.000 That large-scale gatherings in the middle of a pandemic are bad all the way through.

00:35:25.000 Like those people I will listen to.

00:35:27.000 I will listen to people who have said that we should be cautious all along.

00:35:29.000 I'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.

00:35:36.000 That undermines public trust.

00:35:37.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:35:39.000 And 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.

00:35:47.000 And the Radicals are going to win. 1.00

00:35:48.000 The reason the Radicals are going to win is because they are the mainstream. 1.00

00:35:51.000 The fact is that the moderates inside the Democratic Party are now the minority in their own party.

00:35:55.000 And the reason is because of Barack Obama.

00:35:57.000 And he's making this very clear with his voluminous tome of memoirs.

00:36:02.000 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:37:14.000 Okay, 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.

00:37:24.000 And this battle has broken out into the open between the Democratic radicals and the so-called moderates inside the Democratic Party.

00:37:31.000 Biden is supposed to be a representative of the moderate Democratic Party, a return to normalcy.

00:37:35.000 There's only one problem.

00:37:36.000 The heart and soul of the Democratic Party is not controlled by the moderates.

00:37:39.000 The heart and soul of the Democratic Party is controlled by the radicals.

00:37:42.000 Because Barack Obama was a radical posing as a moderate.

00:37:44.000 He took over the party and he shaped that party in his image.

00:37:47.000 Joe Biden, in order to be a return to normalcy, would have to be a return to the pre-Obama era, but he is not.

00:37:52.000 He is not a return to the pre-Obama era.

00:37:53.000 The 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.

00:38:08.000 The battle between the moderates and the non-moderates in the Democratic Party has broken out really, really radically.

00:38:14.000 According to Politico, It was the biggest surprise on election night.

00:38:18.000 Democrats, instead of growing their House majority, actually lost seats.

00:38:21.000 Now the party is going through an internal reckoning on what went wrong.

00:38:23.000 The 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.

00:38:30.000 But the most shocking results available thus far make it clear Trump did far better than polling indicated he would in many suburban battlegrounds.

00:38:36.000 And in others, Republican congressional candidates may have benefited from ticket splitters.

00:38:40.000 Overall, it looks like 2018 was a high watermark for Democrats, a wave that crested and fell.

00:38:44.000 Democrats' 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.

00:38:55.000 In the end, Democrats could end up losing around 10 seats, depending on the final counts.

00:38:58.000 It'll probably be more than that.

00:38:59.000 It'll probably be like 13 or 14.

00:39:01.000 Here 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.

00:39:09.000 The 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.

00:39:18.000 One person who knows this is Senator Joe Manchin.

00:39:20.000 Joe Manchin has always sort of been on the bubble.

00:39:22.000 He keeps getting elected in West Virginia, which is an extremely red state at this point.

00:39:26.000 West Virginia, in terms of presidential elections, it votes like 65-35 in favor of the Republican candidate.

00:39:33.000 But Joe Manchin, because he's sort of an older-style moderate Democrat who very often votes with Republicans, he's been able to survive.

00:39:38.000 So he tweeted this out.

00:39:39.000 He tweeted out, Defund the police. 1.00

00:39:41.000 Defund my butt. 0.99

00:39:42.000 I'm a proud West Virginia Democrat. 0.99

00:39:44.000 We are the party of working men and women.

00:39:46.000 We want to protect Americans' jobs and healthcare.

00:39:48.000 We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police.

00:39:54.000 All of which prompted the Honorable Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D, Crazy Towns, to tweet out a picture of herself glaring at Joe Manchin. 1.00

00:40:03.000 Because during the State of the Union Address, Joe Manchin had the temerity to, I believe, applaud for some tax cuts.

00:40:08.000 And AOC sat behind him and glared at him.

00:40:12.000 This is the... Slay, Queen.

00:40:14.000 Please, continue.

00:40:15.000 Continue along.

00:40:16.000 I want her to primary Chuck Schumer. 0.94

00:40:18.000 I really, really do.

00:40:20.000 Hey, glaring at Joe Manchin.

00:40:21.000 By 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.

00:40:28.000 Because otherwise, he's gonna lose his seat.

00:40:30.000 Because if he gets tied to that wing of his party, he's toast in West Virginia.

00:40:35.000 But here's the thing.

00:40:36.000 For 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.

00:40:48.000 She's not appearing on magazine covers with Abigail Spanberger and Conor Lamb.

00:40:51.000 She's appearing with the hottest new things in the new media with all the Twitter, Instagram crowd.

00:40:57.000 The people who make for good clapback tweets, but have no actual ability to get anything done other than shouting socialism at the moon.

00:41:05.000 It's a real problem for the Democrats.

00:41:07.000 As 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.

00:41:16.000 Not one Republican incumbent lost.

00:41:20.000 Republicans won from Miami to New York to Minnesota to California.

00:41:26.000 The only seat the Democrats won was an open seat.

00:41:30.000 And then they claim to have won a redistricting in North Carolina where Republicans didn't even run.

00:41:36.000 I heard the Speaker call it a mandate.

00:41:38.000 It was a mandate against socialism.

00:41:42.000 It was a mandate against defunding the police.

00:41:45.000 It was a mandate against wasting a majority that the Democrats have done for the last Congress.

00:41:51.000 Okay, 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.

00:41:56.000 There is only one problem.

00:41:57.000 This is not the party of Bill Clinton.

00:41:59.000 If Bill Clinton ran on his 1992 platform today, he'd be in the Republican Party.

00:42:04.000 Real talk.

00:42:05.000 Okay, that is the reality.

00:42:06.000 This is Barack Obama's Democratic Party, and Barack Obama's Democratic Party is not, in fact, the party of Hillary Clinton.

00:42:12.000 Or Joe Biden, even.

00:42:13.000 Barack Obama's Democratic Party is the party of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:42:17.000 It is the party of Rashida Tlaib.

00:42:19.000 It is the party of Ilhan Omar, who's just better at hiding it.

00:42:22.000 What 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.

00:42:36.000 And Barack Obama was excellent at lying about this.

00:42:39.000 And we'll get to his memoir in just a second because it really does spell all of this out.

00:42:43.000 If 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.

00:42:54.000 We'll get to that in just one moment first.

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00:44:01.000 All right, we're going to get into Barack Obama and how this is Barack Obama's party, but it's not Barack Obama's moderate party.

00:44:06.000 It's Barack Obama's radical party.

00:44:08.000 His memoirs are making that absolutely clear.

00:44:10.000 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:46:17.000 All righty, so let's talk about the fact that this is Barack Obama's Democratic Party.

00:46:28.000 So 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.

00:46:41.000 And 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.

00:46:47.000 The people like Rashida Tlaib, the people like Elizabeth Warren, which is that the system itself is deeply corrupt.

00:46:52.000 The reason there's no immune response is because Barack Obama killed the immune response.

00:46:57.000 The great lie of Barack Obama's tenure is that he was a unifying president who believed in foundational American principles.

00:47:01.000 He absolutely did not.

00:47:03.000 The 2012 election, I think, broke the country because in 2008, Barack Obama was elected along the lines of, I am here to unify.

00:47:09.000 I'm here.

00:47:10.000 Red states, blue states, United States.

00:47:12.000 We've had a lot of racial conflict in this country in my own person.

00:47:15.000 I have felt that pain, but now I am a symbol of hope.

00:47:18.000 That was his whole 2008 campaign. 0.98

00:47:20.000 And then come 2012, everybody who opposed him was racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. 0.94

00:47:25.000 If you didn't like him, it was because you had not uncovered the bigotry in your own heart.

00:47:30.000 And in fact, his agenda was about a vision for the country that may have moved beyond the founders.

00:47:34.000 Okay, so now he has a memoir out.

00:47:36.000 And the memoir is making pretty damned clear where he comes from.

00:47:38.000 Okay, the memoir is not vague.

00:47:41.000 It is slightly coded.

00:47:44.000 When 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.

00:47:53.000 Barack Obama is the pathway for the Democratic Party moving forward.

00:47:59.000 That's what they think.

00:48:00.000 This is what the Democratic Party thinks.

00:48:01.000 And 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.

00:48:10.000 That is the future of the Democratic Party.

00:48:12.000 It's radicals all the way down.

00:48:16.000 First of all, for anybody who believes that Donald Trump has narcissistic personality disorder, let me introduce you to a man named Barack Obama.

00:48:23.000 Nobody has ever loved Barack Obama more than Barack Obama loves Barack Obama.

00:48:27.000 Jeffrey Toobin doesn't love Jeffrey Toobin as much as Barack Obama loves Barack Obama.

00:48:31.000 It is absurd how much Barack Obama loves himself and Barack Obama.

00:48:34.000 The 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.

00:48:40.000 Not kidding.

00:48:41.000 In the original Hebrew, this is a 768-page memoir.

00:48:44.000 That's volume one.

00:48:46.000 Hey, he didn't accomplish anything when he was president.

00:48:48.000 He did Obamacare, and then he had a bunch of executive orders, and he undermined the fundamental unity of the country.

00:48:52.000 So I guess there are a few things that he did, but is that worthy of like 1,500 pages?

00:48:58.000 Maybe he'll just continue writing these memoirs forever.

00:49:01.000 I don't know that Winston Churchill wrote this many memoirs, and Winston Churchill was actually an important human.

00:49:05.000 I 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.

00:49:13.000 Okay, but that doesn't stop the media from just drooling over him.

00:49:16.000 The New York Times Book Review?

00:49:17.000 Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come.

00:49:20.000 It 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.

00:49:32.000 Jeffrey, too, has been writing that right there.

00:49:34.000 I mean, that is a lot of book review journalism going on right there.

00:49:39.000 OK, so what does Barack Obama actually say in his memoirs?

00:49:42.000 Well, we have an early excerpt from The Atlantic, another place that is basically a Barack Obama stenographer.

00:49:47.000 Jeffrey 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. 0.99

00:49:55.000 In 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. 0.92

00:50:08.000 Anyway, The Atlantic, which fired Kevin Williamson for the sin of being pro-life, but obviously will print nearly anything. 0.91

00:50:14.000 Ibram Kendi writes over there.

00:50:17.000 They printed some of Barack Obama's memoir.

00:50:20.000 Here are the paragraphs that stick out the most.

00:50:23.000 Okay, so the theme of Barack Obama's presidency and his life is that he is disappointed in you.

00:50:27.000 You get this from Michelle Obama too.

00:50:28.000 He'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.

00:50:35.000 He wants a radical reshifting.

00:50:37.000 He talks about the contest between Democrats and Republicans. 0.98

00:50:41.000 And 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. 1.00

00:50:51.000 This is Barack Obama, a twice elected president by wide margins both times, talking about how the American people are garbage. 0.99

00:50:57.000 He says, This contest is not new. 0.94

00:51:00.000 Right now, we are seeing a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be.

00:51:06.000 A 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.

00:51:16.000 First of all, being lectured on basic facts by, Captain, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, is somewhat galling.

00:51:21.000 But Barack Obama says this contest is not new, of course.

00:51:23.000 In many ways, it has defined the American experience.

00:51:26.000 It's embedded in founding documents that could simultaneously proclaim all men equal and yet count a slave as three-fifths of a man.

00:51:31.000 It 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.

00:51:43.000 It's a contest that's been fought on the fields of Gettysburg and Appomattox, but also in the halls of Congress.

00:51:48.000 On 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.

00:52:04.000 At the heart of this long-running battle is a simple question.

00:52:06.000 Do we care to match the reality of America to its ideals?

00:52:10.000 Do we really believe that our notions of self-government and individual freedom, equality of opportunity and equality before the law apply to everybody?

00:52:16.000 Or are we instead committed in practice, if not in statute, preserving those things for a privileged few, right?

00:52:21.000 Again.

00:52:22.000 If 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. 0.98

00:52:30.000 You're a bad person. 0.98

00:52:32.000 Not only are you a bad person, it turns out, you might be a racist and also the founding fathers might be a racist. 0.99

00:52:36.000 So 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.

00:52:43.000 Here's where we get into the radical 1619 project territory of Barack Obama's thought.

00:52:47.000 He 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

00:53:16.000 that 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.

00:53:23.000 I don't know.

00:53:25.000 He doesn't know.

00:53:25.000 You know, he doesn't know.

00:53:26.000 He doesn't know if these were actually... Maybe the myth is wrong.

00:53:28.000 Maybe America was founded in racist, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, exploitation.

00:53:32.000 And then he says, what I can say for certain is I'm not yet ready to abandon the possibility of America.

00:53:38.000 Oh, so again, you guys, you just keep disappointing Barack Obama.

00:53:41.000 But here's the thing.

00:53:42.000 In order to not disappoint Barack Obama, what you have to do is you just have to concede.

00:53:47.000 That's what you need to do.

00:53:47.000 You need to concede to all of his radical opinions.

00:53:50.000 And if you don't, it's because you want a worse America. 0.97

00:53:52.000 You're a bad person.

00:53:54.000 This is AOC kind of language. 0.98

00:53:54.000 This is not the language of unity. 0.98

00:53:56.000 This is not the language of discussion.

00:53:58.000 This is not the language of a common vision for the future.

00:54:00.000 This is the language of radicalism.

00:54:02.000 Barack Obama speaks it fluently.

00:54:04.000 He's able to cover it in a way that the radicals in the squad aren't, but he's every bit as radical as they are.

00:54:09.000 It just takes him a little bit longer to word his way around it.

00:54:15.000 This is what made him good at what he did.

00:54:16.000 It's also what makes him an admigog. 0.98

00:54:18.000 OK, so let's talk for a second about Barack Obama's role in polarizing the country.

00:54:23.000 So I know that there is this myth, this media-created myth, that Barack Obama brought the country together.

00:54:28.000 He was great.

00:54:29.000 His only scandal was the tansuit.

00:54:30.000 Wonderful, wonderful man.

00:54:31.000 Captain Unity over here.

00:54:33.000 And that Barack Obama is a unifying figure in American public life.

00:54:37.000 He is absolutely not.

00:54:38.000 Barack Obama was a radical in sheep's clothing.

00:54:40.000 He always was.

00:54:41.000 If you read Dreams for My Father, he makes this very clear.

00:54:43.000 He says, in Dreams for My Father, that the same things drive terrorism in Jakarta as drive crime in the heart of Chicago, right?

00:54:50.000 Not ideology, not philosophy, but poverty, right?

00:54:53.000 There'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.

00:55:00.000 He also has a very essentialist vision of race in the United States.

00:55:05.000 His 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.

00:55:12.000 That you're a victim if you are a member of a particular group.

00:55:15.000 And 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. 0.82

00:55:22.000 He's a victim.

00:55:23.000 A 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. 1.00

00:55:31.000 And 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. 0.99

00:55:40.000 This is the great shift that has happened in our politics. 0.99

00:55:44.000 If you look back to 2000 or even to 2004, there are pretty significant differences between the party, particularly in terms of economic vision.

00:55:50.000 But there was no great argument about the foundations of the country.

00:55:54.000 There was no great argument that America was essentially and in its root racist.

00:55:59.000 You heard people calling each other racist for no apparent reason and because they thought that it was politically popular to do so.

00:56:04.000 But the truth is that that argument was largely ignored.

00:56:07.000 It was largely seen as overwrought.

00:56:10.000 See, 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.

00:56:21.000 And that bubble bursting in the 60s had some very good effects, and it had some very bad effects.

00:56:25.000 Obviously, the good effects would be the Civil Rights Movement. 0.77

00:56:27.000 The bad effects would be the complete destruction of traditional notions of morality, for example.

00:56:31.000 Okay, but in the 1960s, a couple of things happened.

00:56:34.000 One, there was a failure of the liberal vision when it came to the role of government in American life.

00:56:39.000 So in the 1960s, there was a vision.

00:56:41.000 It was a vision of the anointed that suggested that government could cure all problems. 0.77

00:56:45.000 And so government on an economic level was going to take on new burdens.

00:56:48.000 It was going to cure all the problems.

00:56:49.000 It was going to overthrow the rapacious rule of capitalism.

00:56:52.000 And it was going to guarantee the fundamental freedoms promised by FDR.

00:56:55.000 Freedom from fear, freedom from want, and all the rest of this, right?

00:56:58.000 This is the LBJ's great society program.

00:57:00.000 Government was now going to care for all of us.

00:57:03.000 So that was movement number one.

00:57:04.000 There was simultaneously a second movement, and that was a movement to fight racism in American life.

00:57:09.000 Initially an excellent, excellent movement because it was in fact fighting racism in American life.

00:57:13.000 It culminated in the Civil Rights Act.

00:57:16.000 Right, and all that was good.

00:57:17.000 And then in the late 60s, the notion of racism itself began to transmute.

00:57:21.000 Shelby Steele talks about this.

00:57:23.000 The 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.

00:57:38.000 Something that didn't make a whole lot of sense, right?

00:57:40.000 That was, any inequality of outcome could be attributable to the system.

00:57:44.000 The system was responsible for all inequality, and therefore the system itself was inequitable, and the system had to be torn down.

00:57:50.000 This 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.

00:58:00.000 So Stokely Carmichael suggested institutional racism.

00:58:03.000 The idea was that any institution that ended with inequality between groups was a racist institution.

00:58:10.000 This could include things like freedom of speech.

00:58:11.000 If 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?

00:58:19.000 This 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.

00:58:31.000 Barack Obama kind of believes that too.

00:58:32.000 So that was a Stokely Carmichael point talking about the institutions of the United States.

00:58:36.000 He had these two simultaneous movements, right?

00:58:38.000 One was, That government had the power to correct all the economic ills of the entire society and fix everything.

00:58:45.000 And the second was that all of the institutions of government were themselves infused and infected with racism and bigotry and power dynamics and exploitation.

00:58:56.000 Well, it turns out over the course of the subsequent 20 or 30 years, both of these narratives started to fall apart.

00:59:01.000 So 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.

00:59:12.000 It ended with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 after a decade of essentially economic Complete economic stagnation between the late 1960s and 1980.

00:59:22.000 Pretty much complete economic stagnation.

00:59:24.000 It ends with the Reagan Revolution.

00:59:26.000 And that culminates in Bill Clinton, Democrat, claiming that the era of big government is essentially over.

00:59:31.000 So that was line number one from the left that falls apart.

00:59:34.000 Then there's line number two from the left that falls apart.

00:59:36.000 And that is that there is no way to overcome our racism in the United States.

00:59:40.000 That what we have to do is we have to shift our thinking on racism so as to achieve equality of outcome.

00:59:46.000 And this results in an actual widening of gaps in the United States.

00:59:51.000 It results in a slower growth of the black middle class.

00:59:54.000 It 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.

01:00:05.000 And so by 1994, the Republicans and the Democrats are getting together and they are saying, OK, this is not working.

01:00:10.000 We're going to need to actually crack down on crime.

01:00:11.000 What if we just treated everybody as an individual?

01:00:13.000 What if we treated everybody as an economic individual in charge of their own life?

01:00:16.000 The era of big government is over.

01:00:18.000 And what if we treated everybody as an individual in terms of personal responsibility?

01:00:21.000 If you commit a crime, no matter what your race, you're going to go to jail.

01:00:25.000 And if you are cheating welfare, we're not going to give you welfare.

01:00:28.000 Welfare reform is now going to be a bipartisan thing in order to promote work.

01:00:33.000 We're going to treat you as an individual.

01:00:34.000 We'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.

01:00:39.000 So both of these twin narratives from the 60s have basically died by the early 1990s.

01:00:44.000 And after the fall of the Soviet Union, they basically remain dead, right?

01:00:48.000 Even throughout the Bush administration, the growth of government never really stops after 9-11, right?

01:00:52.000 The growth of government really picks up and accelerates after 9-11.

01:00:55.000 But 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?

01:01:03.000 Everybody should be treated as an individual.

01:01:05.000 These basically become centralizing principles and they exist in both parties.

01:01:08.000 In 2008, Barack Obama runs on both those principles.

01:01:12.000 In 2008, Barack Obama says, we need change, right?

01:01:14.000 Because it's the middle of a recession.

01:01:15.000 We need change.

01:01:16.000 Fundamental change.

01:01:17.000 But he doesn't define the change.

01:01:19.000 And so people say, OK, well, he's sort of moderate, right?

01:01:21.000 Joe Biden himself says he's the first guy that white people find non-threatening.

01:01:24.000 And what he means by that is that he's not Jesse Jackson out there on the barricades shouting about how America is endemically racist.

01:01:31.000 So, Barack Obama comes along and he campaigns as basically blah.

01:01:35.000 He 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. 0.83

01:01:43.000 He 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.

01:01:49.000 He comes in on the wings of eagles in 2008, blowing out John McCain, an actual war hero.

01:01:55.000 And he comes in on the wings of having like five minutes of legislative experience and making one speech in 2004 at the DNC.

01:02:01.000 That is his entire experience.

01:02:03.000 Okay, so he comes in, and then what does he proceed to do?

01:02:05.000 He proceeds to not only revivify both of the 1960s narratives, but to tie them together.

01:02:11.000 Right?

01:02:11.000 In his person, he proceeds to tie them together.

01:02:14.000 Two narratives again.

01:02:15.000 Government can solve all your problems.

01:02:16.000 And two, America, its systems are itself racist.

01:02:20.000 And what he says is, government can only solve all of your problems if the right people are running the government.

01:02:26.000 And 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.

01:02:34.000 And 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.

01:02:41.000 It's because you don't like me personally.

01:02:43.000 It's not that you reject the fundamental notion that government can solve all these problems.

01:02:47.000 It's because you hate me.

01:02:48.000 It's because you're in favor of exploitation. 0.89

01:02:50.000 It's because you're in favor of racism.

01:02:52.000 So in his memoir, Barack Obama makes this absolutely clear.

01:02:55.000 This was always his campaign, right?

01:02:56.000 This is what he did in 2012.

01:02:58.000 He revivified those two dead narratives.

01:03:00.000 He tied them together.

01:03:02.000 He created a coalition out of it, the Coalition of the Ascendant.

01:03:05.000 And then he won in 2012.

01:03:07.000 And Democrats have been trying to remake that coalition ever since.

01:03:10.000 And the problem is that Joe Biden actually campaigned in the same way that Obama did in 2008.

01:03:16.000 But the coalition that he's relying upon is Barack Obama's 2012 coalition with a few add-ons.

01:03:21.000 The base is not Barack Obama's wide base of 2008.

01:03:23.000 The base is still that core of 2012 from Barack Obama.

01:03:28.000 And 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.

01:03:33.000 This is why the radicals are in charge.

01:03:35.000 So Barack Obama's memoir makes all of this perfectly clear, apparently.

01:03:38.000 According 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.

01:03:47.000 deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted.

01:03:51.000 Which 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.

01:03:57.000 For millions of Americans spooked by a black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety. 0.62

01:04:02.000 Now it's weird because Donald Trump switched a bunch of states that Barack Obama had won.

01:04:06.000 Barack Obama won Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania.

01:04:09.000 He won Florida.

01:04:11.000 Donald Trump switched all of those.

01:04:13.000 He flipped all of those.

01:04:14.000 So were all those people not racist when Barack Obama was in office and then racist later?

01:04:17.000 How did that happen exactly?

01:04:19.000 But 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.

01:04:33.000 If you don't believe that, it's because you hate Barack Obama. 0.95

01:04:36.000 It's because you hate black people according to Barack Obama. 0.99

01:04:39.000 And he says this over and over and over. 0.97

01:04:40.000 He 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.

01:04:58.000 Again, 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.

01:05:07.000 And he keeps suggesting it over and over and over.

01:05:11.000 There are only two reasons, according to Barack Obama, to ever oppose Barack Obama. 1.00

01:05:14.000 One is you were stupid, and the other one was you were racist. 1.00

01:05:17.000 It could also be both. 1.00

01:05:19.000 So in 2010, after his party got shellacked, because it turns out Americans reject it, Obamacare.

01:05:23.000 They did not want Obamacare.

01:05:24.000 Which to me was just as damning.

01:05:25.000 As far as I was concerned, the election didn't prove our agenda had been wrong.

01:05:27.000 Shocker.

01:05:28.000 It just proved that I'd failed to rally the nation, which to me was just as damning. 1.00

01:05:32.000 Oh, it was just about how the American people were too stupid to understand what he was saying. 0.99

01:05:36.000 Hey, 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. 0.99

01:05:48.000 And maybe he'd be able to get his agenda through.

01:05:52.000 Maybe he'd be able to get his radical agenda through if he put a white face on it. 0.78

01:05:55.000 Because again, the only reason to oppose the agenda was not because you opposed the agenda. 0.97

01:05:58.000 The only reason to oppose the agenda is because, you know, like black people. 1.00

01:06:01.000 He 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.

01:06:19.000 Okay, so again, the idea here is that Joe Biden was only picked because he was white, right? 0.98

01:06:23.000 Because the American people are just a bunch of vicious, horrible racists. 0.99

01:06:32.000 He talks about the Henry Louis Gates incident. 0.99

01:06:35.000 He 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.

01:06:41.000 He 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.

01:06:48.000 Those 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.

01:06:56.000 She seized the remote and turned off the set, her expression hovering somewhere between rage and resignation.

01:07:00.000 It's a trip, isn't it, she said, that they're scared of you, scared of us.

01:07:05.000 Again, that is what Barack Obama did to the country.

01:07:08.000 Instead 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.

01:07:24.000 That is the Democratic Party.

01:07:25.000 The reason this is important is not because of Barack Obama.

01:07:28.000 It's because the Democratic Party is now built on that fused pillar.

01:07:33.000 It is built on the graft between socialistic ideology and intersectional ideology.

01:07:38.000 They've been tied together, and that is the root of the Democratic Party today.

01:07:42.000 Democrats are not going to be able to escape this.

01:07:44.000 They cannot run away from it.

01:07:45.000 It was born in Barack Obama.

01:07:47.000 It is not going to die with Barack Obama.

01:07:49.000 It is now in the bloodstream and it ain't going away.

01:07:52.000 That ideology, that intersectional, socialistic ideology, that is not going away.

01:07:57.000 It has been revivified.

01:07:59.000 And 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.

01:08:04.000 Okay, 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.

01:08:10.000 Since 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.

01:08:23.000 If 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.

01:08:30.000 There was this idea of the noble savage living in the wilderness and not believing in private property.

01:08:36.000 Now, as it turns out, on an anthropological level, that simply is not true.

01:08:39.000 People actually did mark off territory, they did claim territory, And that's always been true. 0.99

01:08:44.000 But the idea is that property itself is the root of all evil.

01:08:47.000 Now that is a misread of New Testament principles in Christian circles, right?

01:08:53.000 The actual quote from the New Testament suggests that greed is the root of all evil.

01:08:58.000 Not that property itself or property ownership is the root of all evil, but love of money.

01:09:01.000 Not money.

01:09:02.000 Love of money is the root of all evil.

01:09:04.000 The 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.

01:09:11.000 It is not normative.

01:09:12.000 It doesn't mean that if you're rich, you can't enter heaven.

01:09:14.000 It 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.

01:09:20.000 Okay, 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.

01:09:28.000 That there is something endemic to human nature that claims property.

01:09:31.000 That property is something we have to recognize as something inherent.

01:09:34.000 It is not, in fact, a social construct.

01:09:36.000 It is not something that human beings placed on each other as a method of exploitation.

01:09:40.000 Property is a way for us to imprint our stamp on the world.

01:09:43.000 There's a great book by the historian Richard Pipes on property that is well worth getting.

01:09:47.000 He talks about this at length, the sort of ideology and philosophy of property.

01:09:52.000 Now, on the right, in American politics, There's a lot of talk about why private property is useful.

01:09:56.000 There's sort of a utilitarian take on capitalism, which is that capitalism works, right?

01:10:01.000 It makes everybody richer, it makes everybody more prosperous, it allows for more freedom, and thus it is good.

01:10:06.000 But there's very little sort of moral explanation of why property ownership is good.

01:10:10.000 Property ownership is good because you are not just your body.

01:10:15.000 You are the things around you, right?

01:10:16.000 When you think of your family, you think of them As an extension of you.

01:10:20.000 And you think of your house as an extension of you.

01:10:22.000 And you think of your things as an extension of you.

01:10:23.000 And this goes all the way back to childhood.

01:10:24.000 You can see little kids fight over objects all the time.

01:10:27.000 It actually takes civilization in order to get them to learn sharing.

01:10:30.000 But little kids have an innate capacity.

01:10:34.000 Animals have an innate capacity to claim things.

01:10:36.000 They want to claim the things around them.

01:10:37.000 That is not inherently bad.

01:10:39.000 What is, in fact, it can be very good because it allows people to stake a claim and then stand on that claim.

01:10:45.000 So that comes up in this week's Parsha, in this week's Torah portion that the Jews read every week.

01:10:50.000 This is the portion in which Sarah dies called Chayisara.

01:10:52.000 It's from the book of Genesis.

01:10:55.000 So after Sarah dies, Abraham is trying to find her a burial place.

01:10:59.000 And he goes to Hebron, and he buys the cave of Machpelah, Maarat Machpelah.

01:11:06.000 This is still now disputed territory.

01:11:09.000 It has always been Jewish territory. 0.71

01:11:11.000 According to Jewish philosophy, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Adam, are all buried.

01:11:16.000 I've actually been there.

01:11:17.000 It's an amazing place, Hebron.

01:11:20.000 It is in Judea and Samaria.

01:11:22.000 It has been made somewhat dangerous by the fact that there are a lot of terrorists who have tried to attack this particular area.

01:11:29.000 And Muslims also do not allow Jews to go into particular areas of the Mart Hamach Pella for most of the year.

01:11:35.000 But the place still exists.

01:11:37.000 That is the first territorial claim that the Jewish people make in the land of Israel through a property purchase. 0.88

01:11:43.000 And so what happens is that Abraham goes to Hebron. 0.59

01:11:46.000 He sees this cave.

01:11:47.000 He says, I want to buy that as a burial place for my wife.

01:11:50.000 And the people who own the place, they say, you know what?

01:11:54.000 We're just going to give it to you.

01:11:56.000 And 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. 0.77

01:12:06.000 It's at the end of his field for a full price.

01:12:08.000 Let him give it to me in the midst for burial property.

01:12:11.000 Now 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.

01:12:18.000 I've given you the field and the cave that is in it.

01:12:20.000 Behold, I've given it to you before the eyes of the sons of my people.

01:12:23.000 I've given it to you. 0.99

01:12:23.000 Bury your dead. 0.99

01:12:25.000 And Abraham spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people.

01:12:28.000 And he said, but if you only would listen to me, I'm giving the money for the field.

01:12:31.000 Take it and I'll bury my dead there.

01:12:32.000 And Ephron said, my Lord, listen to me, a piece of land with 400 shekels of silver.

01:12:35.000 What is it between me and you?

01:12:36.000 Bury your dead.

01:12:37.000 And 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.

01:12:45.000 Right, so the question is, it seems like Ephron is trying to do a nice thing.

01:12:47.000 Why is Abraham so insistent that he buy the field?

01:12:49.000 And the answer is because property claims matter.

01:12:52.000 And as you can tell, certainly in the Middle East, property claims matter.

01:12:56.000 Property ownership matters.

01:12:57.000 And a consensual exchange of property between people is an endemic good because it clarifies the boundaries between people.

01:13:04.000 When we do not believe that property matters, you end up encroaching on those boundaries rather regularly.

01:13:10.000 Those boundaries become points of contention rather than points of clarification.

01:13:15.000 There's the old Robert Frost phrase that good fences make good neighbors.

01:13:18.000 That happens to be true.

01:13:19.000 Property ownership makes for a polite society.

01:13:21.000 It makes for a better society.

01:13:22.000 It 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.

01:13:29.000 And that is something that is worth remembering as we move forward into a brave new era.

01:13:33.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 13, 2020

The Wonderfully Self-Flattering World Of Barack Obama | Ep. 1137

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