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00:00:01.000President Trump has himself a merry little Christmas, Mitt Romney decides to go after President Trump on his first day on the job, and Louis C.K.
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00:01:59.000Okay, so it is a brand new year, and there's a lot of debate already about whether 2019 is going to be 2018 part two, the revenge, or whether it's going to be part one of 2020.
00:02:08.000Pretty obviously it's going to be part one of 2020 because everybody is already running for president.
00:02:13.000Everybody is already trying to figure out whether President Trump is even going to stick around to run again for president.
00:03:25.000I will tell you, there has never been an administration, and I'm very proud of this, that's done more than the Trump administration in the first two years of office.
00:04:28.000Great things are happening for the country.
00:04:30.000Nothing says to me, calm down and enjoy the ride like somebody tweeting that at me in all capital letters.
00:04:36.000I know that if I'm in the back of the car and somebody in the front of the car says, calm down and enjoy the ride.
00:04:40.000Nothing is going to make me calm down and enjoy the ride quite like that.
00:04:44.000But there was this feeling of incipient panic that was building up in the last days of 2018.
00:04:49.000And now it has carried forward into 2019.
00:04:53.000President Trump's furious tweets over the break were not helpful that way again.
00:04:57.000The president has accomplished a lot of things in his first couple of years in office.
00:05:00.000It's not supremely helpful to be leading off his re-election campaign with him kind of hunkered down in the White House just tweeting whatever comes into his mind.
00:05:09.000Right now, what the White House should be projecting is a feeling of invincibility, a feeling of calm, a feeling of collected collected goal-making and shared purpose.
00:05:20.000And instead, what we're sort of getting is President Trump feeling isolated and tweeting out a lot of things.
00:05:25.000Now, a lot of things he's tweeting are true, by the way.
00:05:26.000So the president, for example, was tweeting out a lot about the border.
00:05:29.000Remember, we're still in the middle of a government shutdown.
00:05:31.000That shutdown was initiated by the Democrats.
00:05:33.000There's been a lot of talk about President Trump initiating the shutdown because he was foolish enough to claim on national television that he wanted to own the shutdown.
00:05:39.000But in reality, President Trump did not really initiate the shutdown.
00:05:43.000It was the Democrats who initiated the shutdown in the sense that they could just give him $5 billion for his wall and then be done with it.
00:06:21.000Most people have some sort of fence around their house, especially in California.
00:06:25.000But President Trump then continued, The Democrats will probably submit a bill, being cute as always, which gives everything away but gives nothing to border security, namely the wall.
00:06:33.000You see, without the border security, without the wall, there can be no border security.
00:06:36.000The other stuff is just, by comparison, is just, by comparison, meaningless bells and whistles.
00:06:53.000Please explain to the Democrats, there can never be a replacement for a good, old-fashioned wall.
00:06:57.000Well, first of all, you can have walls and you can have wheels and you can have fire.
00:07:00.000These are great inventions of the past.
00:07:02.000And President Trump, I can't wait to hear his essay on why the invention of fire was such a useful thing.
00:07:08.000But all of this is not particularly terrible, right?
00:07:10.000The President Trump going after the Democrats on the wall stuff is not particularly terrible.
00:07:13.000It's just that the incessant nature of it is not good politics.
00:07:17.000And this is going to become an issue for President Trump come 2020.
00:07:21.000Because when it comes to the issues, President Trump has been pretty good.
00:07:24.000As I've said many times, I did not expect him to govern this conservatively when he was elected in 2016.
00:07:29.000He has governed far more conservatively than I thought he was going to.
00:07:33.000With that said, the character flaws that the president has evidenced are going to be the chief reason why people are uncomfortable with him.
00:07:41.000It's what's going to hurt him at the polls.
00:07:42.000It's what's going to alienate people come 2020.
00:07:45.000It's that stuff he has to get under control.
00:07:47.000And it's also where the Democrats are putting all their heavy pressure.
00:07:49.000They're putting all their heavy pressure right now on the character point.
00:07:52.000Leading that charge was General Stanley McChrystal.
00:07:54.000He's going to be on our Sunday special this week, by the way.
00:07:57.000General McChrystal was on ABC's This Week over the weekend and he basically slammed President Trump's character.
00:08:02.000Here he was talking with the very objective journalist George Stephanopoulos.
00:08:07.000I think it's important for me to work for people who I think are basically honest, who tell the truth as best they know it.
00:09:00.000Well, he didn't pull his punches against General McChrystal either.
00:09:03.000He then tweeted out in response, and this is where, again, a little bit of wherewithal from the president would be a lot more useful than what he is doing here, because he says something pretty immoral here.
00:09:12.000He says, General McChrystal got fired like a dog by Obama.
00:09:16.000And he puts General in quotation marks and scare quotes.
00:09:20.000First of all, General McChrystal is an actual general who served 34 years in the military under some very trying circumstances.
00:09:27.000And he was fired by Obama because he was very critical of Obama's strategy in Afghanistan because he said Obama wasn't being hawkish enough in Afghanistan.
00:09:34.000So it's not like he got fired for a bad reason.
00:09:52.000I'm tweeting out about how General McChrystal isn't an actual general, obviously not a great look for the President of the United States, saying that he was fired like a dog.
00:10:01.000Again, as I've said before on the show, President Trump loves saying that people were fired like a dog.
00:10:06.000I don't know where he grew up where dogs were fired.
00:10:16.000But in any case, President Trump says that General McChrystal was fired like a dog.
00:10:21.000Again, the point that I'm making here is a broader one, which is that if President Trump wishes to win re-election, he is going to have to convince the American people that he is actually fit for the job as a character.
00:10:31.000It's not just that he's superior to the Democrat, but now we've actually seen him in the presidency, he said before he was elected he could be Lincoln-esque, he could be like Washington, might not be the way that he's used to working, but he could kind of grow into the office, and every day he proves, on a character level, that he's not actually doing that.
00:10:46.000Now, does that mean Does that mean that President Trump can't win re-election?
00:11:05.000And that raises a question for Republicans.
00:11:07.000And that question was really raised by Mitt Romney over the weekend.
00:11:10.000So Romney is the new incoming senator from Utah.
00:11:13.000And let's face a fact about Mitt Romney.
00:11:16.000It was Mitt Romney's defeat in 2012 that I think broke the country.
00:11:19.000Because Mitt Romney was maybe the most decent guy to run for president of the United States in my lifetime.
00:11:23.000He was as clean as the driven snow in his personal life.
00:11:26.000He was a guy who was moderate in his politics, so moderate that he had been governor of Massachusetts, and well-beloved by a lot of members of the left, who had given him strange new respect up to the point when he won the Republican nomination.
00:11:36.000They proceeded to destroy him, slander him, call him a bad human being, and then he lost to Barack Obama in Obama's re-elect effort in 2012.
00:11:44.000And that led Republicans to believe, listen, if they're going to drag somebody like Mitt Romney through the mud, If Romney's good character and five bucks would have bought him a cup of coffee in the 2012 election, then why do we need a guy of character in 2016 at all?
00:11:56.000Let's just get the nastiest guy who can throw the most punches, and let's nominate that guy.
00:12:01.000Well, now Mitt Romney is back, and he is criticizing President Trump on a character level.
00:12:05.000And I'll explain why what he's doing here is tactically inept.
00:12:11.000Why you can criticize President Trump's character when President Trump says things that are character-free, like putting scare quotes around General when dealing with Stanley McChrystal.
00:12:19.000Why, you can say that when President Trump does stuff that is bad, it's bad, but that's not the same thing as what Mitt Romney did today in the pages of the Washington Post.
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00:13:46.000Okay, so, Mitt Romney, His first day in office, so what does he decide to do?
00:13:49.000Write an entire op-ed about how unpalatable President Trump is.
00:13:52.000Now, there are those of us in the commentariat community whose job it is to actually comment when the president does good stuff and when the president does bad stuff.
00:13:59.000I've been using the so-called good Trump, bad Trump model since 2015.
00:14:02.000Since 2015, 2016, when President Trump was then just candidate Trump.
00:14:07.000But Mitt Romney has been highly critical of Trump throughout.
00:14:11.000He gave a long speech about how he thought Trump was unfit to be President of the United States.
00:14:15.000And then Trump thought about him for Secretary of State, picked Rex Tillerson instead, sort of humiliated him publicly.
00:14:20.000And then Romney ran for Senate in Utah and took President Trump's endorsement.
00:14:24.000And now Romney is turning back around on Trump and smacking him directly in the groin.
00:14:28.000He has a piece today in the Washington Post titled, Now, here's the problem with what Mitt Romney is doing here.
00:14:39.000I may agree with a lot of his points with regard to the president's character, but What he is doing is trying, essentially, to force Republicans, trying to force conservatives into now having to choose between, quote-unquote, conservatism and Trumpism.
00:15:14.000So Romney writes, the Trump presidency made a deep dissent in December.
00:15:17.000The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president's thoughtless claim that America has long been a sucker in world affairs all defined his presidency down.
00:15:31.000It is well known that Donald Trump was not my choice for the Republican presidential nomination After he became the nominee, I hoped his campaign would refrain from resentment and name-calling.
00:15:41.000When he won the election, I hoped he would rise to the occasion.
00:15:43.000His early appointments were encouraging, but on balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions last month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.
00:15:52.000Those are pretty strong words that the president hasn't risen to the mantle of the office, meaning basically he's still unfit for the presidency.
00:15:58.000He says it's not that all of the president's policies have been misguided.
00:16:02.000corporate taxes with those of global competitors, to strip out excessive regulations, to crack down on China's unfair trade practices, to reform criminal justice, to appoint conservative judges.
00:16:10.000These are policies mainstream Republicans have promoted for years, but policies and appointments are only part of a presidency.
00:16:15.000I'll continue by explaining more about Mitt Romney's perspective here in just a second and why he's doing it in the pages of the Washington Post and what this means for the sort of choice that is going to be set up falsely by Romney and by the press in 2020 for Republicans.
00:16:31.000Mitt Romney says, to a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation.
00:16:36.000A president should unite us and inspire us to follow our better angels.
00:16:39.000A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity and elevate the national discourse with comedy and mutual respect.
00:16:46.000As a nation, we have been blessed with presidents who have called on the greatness of the American spirit.
00:16:49.000With the nation so divided, resentful, and angry, presidential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable, and it is in this province where the incumbent's shortfall has been most glaring.
00:16:58.000Then he talks about how in 2016, 84% of people in Germany, Britain, France, Canada, and Sweden believed the American president would do the right thing in world affairs.
00:17:05.000One year later, that number had fallen to 16%.
00:17:06.000I don't know why he's citing that poll.
00:17:08.000Obama was terrible for foreign affairs, and who cares what the Germans have to say?
00:17:28.000He concludes his piece by saying, I remain optimistic about our future.
00:17:31.000In an innovation age, Americans excel.
00:17:33.000More importantly, noble instincts live in the hearts of Americans.
00:17:36.000The people of this great land will eschew the politics of anger and fear if they are summoned to the responsibility by leaders in homes, in churches, in schools, in businesses, in government, who raise our sights and respect the dignity of every child of God, the ideal that is the essence of America.
00:17:47.000So first of all, I want to argue with Romney's general perception of the presidency.
00:17:52.000I don't think that the president really raises the level of the American people as a general rule.
00:17:57.000I think the American people may raise the level of the president, but the president is a guy hired to do a particular job.
00:18:02.000If you get your moral guidance from the president of the United States, I would suggest that you're looking to the wrong places.
00:18:07.000If you get your moral guidance from your teachers, from your parents, from your family, from your pastor, from your priest or rabbi, that seems to make a lot more sense to me than getting your moral guidance from Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump, George W. Bush, or anybody else in what is a public governmental office.
00:18:24.000But in any case, what Romney's doing here is really counterproductive.
00:18:27.000Now, again, this is coming from someone who's been quite critical of President Trump's character.
00:18:31.000But not in the pages of the Washington Post since President Trump became president.
00:18:36.000And the reason for that is because what Romney is actually doing now is he's setting up the possibility of a primary run against Trump.
00:18:42.000There's been a lot of talk about this from a certain segment of the Republican Party and it's a big mistake.
00:18:45.000The reason that it's a big mistake is because basically what you are now suggesting, what the media will suggest is that a primary race between, say, Mitt Romney and Donald Trump is a race between true decency and conservatism versus the evil, evil Trump guy.
00:18:59.000And then when Trump wins the primaries, it'll be, well, look at those deplorable Republicans.
00:19:03.000They voted for Trump over Mitt Romney.
00:19:04.000Look at those terrible, terrible Republicans, those evil, terrible people who voted for the incumbent president when they were given a choice of a more decent, kinder, gentler alternative.
00:19:13.000When that isn't the actual calculus, because whoever runs against Trump in a primary is going to have to basically make three cases.
00:19:20.000They're going to have to declare that they are a person of better character than Trump, which in all plausibility will be true probably.
00:19:27.000They'll have to say they're a better representative of conservatism than Trump in 2020, which probably will not be true in terms of policy.
00:19:36.000And then they'll have to say that they're more likely to win in 2020 than Trump, which is likely to be false.
00:19:43.000And that's going to be the calculus that actual Republican voters do.
00:19:46.000When they look at 2020, they're not just going to say in a vacuum, who would I prefer, Mitt Romney or Donald Trump?
00:19:51.000They're going to look and say, Mitt Romney lost in 2012 and Trump won in 2016.
00:19:54.000So I'm more likely to vote for the guy who I think is going to win, Trump.
00:19:58.000They're going to look at Mitt Romney in 2012 versus Trump in 2020 and say, Trump has a record of appointing now, probably by that point, 100 federal judges.
00:20:07.000Trump has a record of cutting regulations.
00:20:09.000Trump has a record of rebuilding alliances in the Middle East.
00:20:11.000President Trump has a record of criminal justice reform and movement of the U.S.
00:20:15.000Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the American military and, God willing, a decent economy.
00:20:20.000And they're going to look at all those factors and they're going to say, I'll pick Trump over Romney.
00:20:24.000But what Romney will have set up, and have done so in the pages of the Washington Post, is this false narrative that choosing Trump over a Romney or a John Kasich or somebody else in the Republican Party is just Republicans doubling down on Trump's lack of character, which is really not what's going on here.
00:20:40.000In the middle of 2015, 2016, what Trump was as a human being.
00:20:44.000Most people certainly since then know what he is as a human being.
00:20:48.000I don't think there are a lot of Republicans sitting around thinking that this guy is somebody you'd recommend to be your pastor.
00:20:53.000Somebody that you'd recommend to babysit your kids when you go out for dinner at night.
00:20:57.000But they look at his record, they look at the fact that he beat Hillary Clinton, and they'd be likely to vote for him in a primary.
00:21:01.000But what Romney is doing here is he is setting up a narrative that the left will use to club Republicans into submission, which is that if you vote for Trump in 2020, then this is because you're a bad person.
00:21:10.000It reinforces the deplorables theme that Democrats used to their great advantage in 2016, and hope to use particularly to advantage with younger people in upcoming elections.
00:21:22.000And so what Romney is doing here is strategically inept, unless he believes that Trump is going to leave office in disgrace, in which case he's basically positioning to be the heir apparent and to pick up the mantle, saying, well, I stood to thwart Trump all these years, and now you should hand it over to me.
00:21:35.000By the way, the chances of that happening are zero.
00:21:37.000Republicans are not handing over the party to the guy who lost to Barack Obama in his re-elect effort in 2012.
00:21:43.000The general feeling among Republicans about Romney is that Romney is a perfectly serviceable, nice fellow who lost to Barack Obama and is really milquetoast.
00:21:51.000And is spending more time ripping Trump these days than he is going after Democrats.
00:21:54.000That's the general perception among Republicans.
00:21:57.000Now, that's not to say that there aren't problems with the Republican view of Trump in certain quarters.
00:23:33.000Speaking of the attempt to paint Republicans as bad characters, Jerry Falwell Jr., who is the head of Liberty University, a great institution.
00:23:47.000is doing a poor job of representing Republicans when it comes to President Trump, particularly, again, playing into the narrative that Republicans don't need.
00:23:55.000So as I say, going forward to 2020, the narrative that would benefit Republicans is President Trump changes character.
00:24:00.000Barring that, the narrative that Republicans are going to want to push is, you may not like President Trump's character.
00:24:05.000I may think that he's a bad character myself, but is he getting the job done?
00:24:10.000And so I'm not going to turn over the government to radical leftists simply to show my disdain for President Trump's character, which I have done every day since President Trump basically announced whenever he has done something wrong.
00:24:22.000I don't have to throw the election to Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris in order to demonstrate that I don't like President Trump's tweeting.
00:24:29.000And that is not a necessity of American government.
00:24:33.000But unfortunately, there are Republicans like Mitt Romney who want to make this next election a choice between President Trump's character and conservatism, which is not an actual choice.
00:24:43.000That's not the choice that's happening here.
00:24:44.000And then there are people like Jerry Falwell Jr. who sort of want to force the same choice.
00:24:49.000They want to suggest that President Trump is actually a godsend in every possible way.
00:24:54.000has this long interview in the Washington Post when he talks about how President Trump is just spectacular.
00:25:01.000And he was asked about whether Christians were supposed to support nice guys.
00:25:05.000He said, it's a distortion of the teachings of Jesus to say that what he taught us to do personally to love our neighbors as ourselves, help the poor, can somehow be imputed on a nation.
00:25:12.000Jesus never told Caesar how to run Rome.
00:25:14.000He went out of his way to say, that's the earthly kingdom.
00:25:16.000I'm about the heavenly kingdom and I'm here to teach you how to treat others, how to help others.
00:25:19.000But when it comes to serving your country, you render under Caesar that which is Caesar's.
00:25:22.000I have a real problem with this basic idea, which is that it's an Augustinian idea, this city of God, city of man distinction.
00:25:30.000And it's not quite as firm as Jerry Falwell Jr. is.
00:25:33.000is making it right here, which is basically that Christians have no say in how the nation is to be governed.
00:25:39.000Rendering to Caesar what is Caesar's means that Christians should have no care about the character of their leaders is a very weird contention.
00:25:47.000And then he talks about how there's literally nothing that President Trump could do that would endanger his support.
00:26:11.000Politicians that you love should endanger your support every time they go out every day, because one pretty fundamental element of faith is that you should have faith in God, but not in man.
00:26:20.000To say that nothing President Trump could ever do would endanger your support is an amazing statement from a Christian leader.
00:26:26.000But this is, again, reinforcing a narrative that the left wants, which is that it's either total fealty to Trump or conservatism and decency.
00:26:34.000That's a false choice, and it's not a real choice, and it's not what's really going on right here.
00:26:42.000And again, this is the narrative that Democrats are going to try to push in 2020.
00:26:47.000Now, the good news for Republicans is that Democrats are going to have a really tough time pushing this particular narrative in 2020 because they've become so radical themselves.
00:26:55.000So the narrative Democrats want in 2020 is the reverse narrative of 2000.
00:26:59.000In 2000, it was two years after the Clinton impeachment scandal and the Monica Lewinsky stuff.
00:27:07.000And President Clinton was out of the picture, but Al Gore was now running for the White House, and George W. Bush was running on the basis of bringing character back to the Oval Office.
00:27:14.000It's the same thing that Jimmy Carter did in 1976 when he ran against Gerald Ford.
00:27:18.000It's time for us to bring character back to the White House.
00:27:21.000That's usually a pretty successful tack, but in order to make that Claim you actually have to be some semblance of normal and moral.
00:27:29.000And the problem for Democrats is that there aren't too many candidates in their ranks or anything remotely resembling normal and moral.
00:27:35.000The latest case in point is Elizabeth Warren.
00:27:37.000So Elizabeth Warren is she declared over the weekend.
00:27:41.000That she wants to run for president, which is a shock to precisely no one.
00:27:43.000She'd been sending smoke signals from her wigwam about it for legitimately years at this point.
00:27:48.000So she announced that she would be running for president and then she said she was going to build a grassroots campaign and that she would be wandering the plains in search of both Buffalo and voters.
00:27:59.000Here is Senator, very Native American, Elizabeth Warren, talking about exploring her presidential run in front of a garage before the Boston, the assembled Boston media.
00:28:07.000Right now, Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected.
00:28:11.000It's just not working for anyone else.
00:28:19.000I'm going to build a grassroots campaign.
00:28:23.000It's already got people from all across this country who are going to be part of it, and together we're going to make change.
00:28:31.000And if people out there see it and want to be part of it, I hope they go to ElizabethWarren.com and join us, because this is how we're going to build the movement that will change America.
00:28:42.000I mean, it's like her campaign manager went out there and said, OK, we want Hillary's campaign without the name recognition or the charisma.
00:28:48.000Let's just make that happen right there.
00:28:50.000I mean, it was so bad, her presidential announcement, that not only did she have to avoid a question about her DNA and her Native American ancestry, which she did, she also tried to be a cool kid.
00:29:02.000I'll show you the cool kid thing in a second.
00:29:04.000Here was Elizabeth Warren being asked about her Native American DNA.
00:29:07.000This is why the Democrats are going to have a little bit of a tough time.
00:29:11.000arguing character against President Trump because they can't even get their own party on board with saying it's okay to be a particular genetic ancestry.
00:29:18.000The reason Elizabeth Warren has to pretend to be Native American is because she doesn't rank high enough on the intersectionality scale for Democrats to care about her.
00:29:51.000I worry about a campaign more about Native American ancestry than the middle class.
00:29:54.000You know, look, I'm in this fight because I understand what's happening to working families.
00:30:03.000I grew up in a paycheck-to-paycheck family, and my big chance was a commuter college that cost $50 a semester.
00:30:11.000I run for office because I'm grateful down to my toes for the opportunities that were given to me, and I am determined that we will give those same opportunities, not just to some of our kids, but to all of our kids.
00:30:24.000Yeah, I'm sure she's going to just blow Trump out of the water with that kind of character and charisma, I'm sure.
00:30:29.000My favorite part of her campaign is that she opened up by then doing an Alexander Ocasio-Cortez-style Instagram.
00:30:34.000So, AOC, we will call her AOC because that's the thing now, right?
00:30:38.000We've got RBG, we've got AOC, we've got all of these initial political leaders.
00:30:44.000But AOC does these political Instagrams where she cooks instant pot recipes while taking questions from her mailbag.
00:30:52.000My instant pot recipe would basically be cereal and milk, by the way, if I were to do an Instagram like this.
00:30:56.000But in any case, I love that Elizabeth Warren, she's basically the Steve Buscemi character from Saturday Night Live, How Do You Do Fellow Kids?
00:31:04.000She's walking into the Instagram and she is now doing Instant pot recipes in her kitchen while drinking beer.
00:31:12.000I don't know if you remember in 2016, Hillary Clinton went to Cedar Rapids and she had like a can of some sort of juice or something.
00:31:20.000She said, I'm just chilling in Cedar Rapids!
00:31:23.000Well, here's Elizabeth Warren doing that.
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00:36:02.000You know what I didn't have with me on vacation?
00:36:06.000This thing right here, this Leftist Tears Hot or Cold Tumbler.
00:36:08.000I was in Hawaii, and I didn't bring it with me because when I travel, I'm loathe to bring the possibility of damage to my precious Leftist Tears Hot or Cold Tumbler.
00:36:16.000Well, I protected it, but it did not protect me, and thus I am sick.
00:36:20.000I'm not saying that you can be protected by all disease and harm in life by drinking from the Leftist Tears Hot or Cold Tumbler.
00:36:25.000All I'm saying is that correlation may be causation.
00:36:29.000When I didn't have the tumbler, got sick.
00:36:31.000When I did have the tumbler, didn't get sick.
00:36:50.000By the way, if Elizabeth Warren had actually had a drink of beer from the Leftist Tears Cotter cold tumbler, it would have made her video a lot cooler.
00:37:01.000So, Elizabeth Warren, gonna have a tough time running against President Trump.
00:37:05.000And meanwhile, the Democrats are busy clubbing each other with bricks over the 2020 nomination.
00:37:09.000Every Democrat on planet Earth wants to run.
00:37:12.000Governor Jay Inslee of Washington State.
00:37:39.000I mentioned before the break that I think that Beto O'Rourke is the only candidate who has the possibility of sort of unifying the various parts of the Democratic Party.
00:37:49.000But the problem for the Democrats is that while they are running on character issues against President Trump, politics sometimes betrays character.
00:37:56.000And when the Democrats go so radical on politics that they seem wildly out of kilter and off base.
00:38:03.000When they seem like they're not in touch with the American people, people take that as a character critique too.
00:38:08.000And so it doesn't help them when their top politicians are saying things about climate change, like Bernie Sanders, the socialist loon bag from Vermont.
00:38:16.000He tweeted out the other day, we must look at climate change as it was devastating military attack against the United States and the entire planet.
00:38:28.000Well, I mean, if Bernie Sanders has one, I guess that means that we would surrender.
00:38:30.000If there were a devastating military attack against the United States, I guess Bernie Sanders' take would be that we should surrender to global warming.
00:38:37.000But in any case, if the Democratic pitch is, President Trump is immoral, we have to treat it being hotter outside the same way that we would treat a military attack by nuking the power plants.
00:38:56.000Their moral case, their political moral case, is that President Trump is not just a man of little character, which, again, I think is a case that can be made.
00:39:05.000The case that they are going to try and make is that President Trump is immoral in his politics.
00:39:10.000And the way they've been making that case has been really awkward because they've been making the case that he's immoral because he wants a wall, which is patently not immoral.
00:39:16.000In fact, it's a good idea to have some sort of border barrier to prevent people from illegally immigrating into the United States.
00:39:22.000And now they're trying to make the case that President Trump is almost a Hitlerian character because he doesn't care enough about climate change, an issue about which most Americans don't care.
00:39:29.000Jerry Brown, our senile governor of California, who's been governor since approximately 1833, Legitimately, he's now 1,211 years old.
00:39:41.000So Jerry Brown is doddering around here in my home state, and he says that climate change is as devastating as the Nazis to humanity, which comes as a shock to my people.
00:39:56.000It's been hot outside, but It was a lot hotter in certain situations for Jews in the past.
00:40:03.000Here's Jerry Brown from California making the claim that climate change is just like Hitler and the Nazis!
00:40:11.000I would point to the fact that it took Roosevelt many, many years to get America willing to go into World War II and fight the Nazis.
00:40:20.000Well, we have an enemy, though different, but perhaps very much devastating in a similar way, and we've got to fight climate change, and the President's got to lead on that.
00:40:31.000Okay, so it's just like Roosevelt mobilizing America for World War II.
00:40:34.000It's just like the President mobilizing America to fight global warming.
00:40:37.000If this is the moral case the Democrats are going to make, they're going to have a tough time.
00:40:42.000In the late 90s, Americans basically came to the conclusion that you could divorce character and politics.
00:40:46.000That President Clinton's character and his politics were completely separable.
00:40:49.000That you could get good policy out of a guy who's a bad person.
00:40:52.000And most Americans basically learned to agree with that because then we got a good character in the president, George W. Bush, who most Democrats decided was evil on policy.
00:41:00.000So you had a, what Democrats decided, a bad character with good politics, Bill Clinton, and then a good character with bad politics, George W. Bush, and then the view of Democrats, a good character with good politics in Barack Obama, and then a bad character with bad politics in President Trump, right?
00:41:13.000That's the view of Democrats on the various presidents that we've had over the past 20 years.
00:41:17.000What that means is that character and politics are separable.
00:41:20.000Well, if character and politics are separable, then Donald Trump can be a bad character and also be a pretty good president.
00:41:25.000But according to Democrats, they have to make the case that he's also a bad character on politics, and if the most solid case they have is that he is not intersectional enough, or that he doesn't pay enough attention to climate change, or that he is insufficiently kind to illegal immigrants, that's gonna be a bit of a tough case.
00:41:43.000Okay, meanwhile, I have already dubbed what this year is going to be.
00:41:47.000So I think that the year 2019 is going to be the year of the woke scold.
00:41:55.000So, We now live in an era in which the left insists, and this is where the radicalism of the left really comes to the fore in cultural and political terms, that we rewrite biology, language, religion, Politics, art, all these things must be rewritten so that we all stay woke.
00:42:13.000And if you refuse to abide by these new moral strictures of the left, then this makes you immoral.
00:42:18.000This is why so many people have reacted to President Trump's character failings and said, okay, whatever, at least he's not trying to tell me what to say or what to do.
00:42:25.000You guys are trying to tell me what to say and what to do.
00:42:28.000You're the new Puritans, except the Puritans actually were trying to promulgate some decent social policy once in a while.
00:42:34.000The latest indicator that the left has gone too far in the woke scolding has been Louis C.K.
00:42:39.000So, Louis C.K., before his downfall, was probably my favorite working comedian.
00:42:45.000And that is saying that, despite the fact that Louis C.K.
00:42:48.000is a wild leftist who hated Sarah Palin, is vulgar, is vile as a human being, he's really, really funny.
00:42:54.000If you ever want to watch a great comedy set, go watch Louis C.K.
00:43:05.000Well, if you recall, last year, Louis C.K.
00:43:07.000was outed in the middle of the Me Too movement for having basically brought back female comedians to his green room and then having pushed them to watch him perform sexual acts upon himself, right?
00:43:20.000And he went into self-imposed exile and lost tens of millions of dollars and all of the rest.
00:43:26.000Well, the woke scolds don't want him to come back.
00:43:28.000They say that he has sinned, he can never return to public life.
00:43:33.000I mean, this is the amazing thing about the new woke-scolding SJWs, is that there's no such thing as repentance, there's no such thing as redemption.
00:43:40.000If you sin against them, then you must be cast out into the nether regions forever.
00:43:44.000Unless you are sufficiently wildly leftist, like Kathy Griffin, then maybe you get to come back.
00:43:48.000In any case, Louis C.K., who is indeed a wild leftist, was never supposed to come back.
00:45:49.000Go back and watch his comedy routine three, four years ago.
00:45:51.000It's probably not six to ten years ago, in which he talks about But where he says, of course, but maybe it's a great comedy routine where he talks about all these things that we now consider deeply immoral, but maybe they're not.
00:46:30.000The best kind of comedy is the comedy where you don't laugh, ever.
00:46:33.000See, what we've been doing wrong all these years is defining comedy as funny things, when in reality, the only thing that's funny is that we ever considered comedy funny at one time.
00:46:40.000The real comedy is you being lectured on why you aren't enough of a woke person to make those kind of jokes.
00:46:49.000If this is the way that the left wants to promulgate culture, they are going to lose.
00:46:53.000This is the real downfall of the left.
00:46:54.000They can attack President Trump's character as much as they want, but if I have a choice between listening to the dopes who think that Louis C.K.
00:47:01.000shouldn't be able to make a taboo joke, and Donald Trump tweeting like a moron from the White House, this is not a choice for me.
00:47:08.000If that's my only choice, if it's just a black-white one-or-the-other choice, I don't think you should have to choose either, but if you want to choose one or the other, You think I'm gonna turn over the country to people who think that Louis C.K.
00:47:18.000should be forced to tell knock-knock jokes?
00:47:20.000You think I'm gonna turn over the country to a bunch of people who say that Louis C.K.' 's jokes now are deeply inappropriate when ten years ago the same people were cheering him on when he was like ripping into Sarah Palin and calling her a C-word?
00:47:33.000You think I'm gonna turn over the country to a bunch of people who have to cancel their own marches because they're not intersectional enough?
00:47:38.000In Northern California, there was a Women's March.
00:47:40.000And the Women's March in Northern California had to be cancelled because it was too white.
00:47:45.000They actually cancelled their own Women's March because they said there were not enough black people in it.
00:47:50.000This is according to the... It's Annie Weinstein of the San Francisco Chronicle.
00:47:56.000Northern California Women's March cancelled for being overwhelmingly white.
00:48:00.000They said the decision came after organizers and supporters of the movement noticed participants over the years had been overwhelmingly white in lieu of the march, which was originally set to take place on January 19th.
00:48:09.000Organizers will discuss a way to broaden cultural representation going forward, the committee wrote in a statement.
00:48:14.000Instead of pushing forward with crucial voices absent, the organizing team will take more time for outreach.
00:48:19.000You think I'm going to turn over the country to a bunch of people who think that you can't do a march if people aren't of the right color?
00:48:26.000And then turn it over to the anti-semitic women's marchers who won't march unless they're more black people, and the people who think that Louis C.K.
00:48:33.000is terrible, and that Kevin Hart is terrible.
00:49:05.000The people on the left think that Elizabeth Warren running for president is what's going to stop President Trump or Bernie Sanders or Beto O'Rourke.
00:49:12.000What they don't understand is the thing most likely to propel Trump back to the presidency in 2020 is not a race against any of these people.
00:49:19.000It's going to be all of the morons on Twitter and all the morons on Facebook and all the idiots in the media who think that Louis C.K.
00:49:24.000has to be scolded into subservience and obedience.
00:49:28.000For telling jokes about Auschwitz or something.
00:49:31.000Like that's what's driving people up a wall.
00:49:33.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
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00:52:11.000Like, I did that when I was, I think, four?
00:52:14.000Like, see, in the Jewish community, we don't do the Christmas, which means we also don't do the Santa.
00:52:18.000And there was a girl who lived across the street named Colleen, and I was friends with her, and she was a nice Christian girl, and she and I were the same age, we're probably both three or four years old, and she came over to my house, and she was talking about how Santa was gonna bring her lots of presents for Christmas, and I said to her, Santa's not real.
00:52:33.000And her mom got super pissed and called my parents and wanted to know why I had said that.
00:52:39.000And my parents were like, well, is Santa real?
00:52:41.000And she's like, no, but you're not supposed to tell kids that.
00:53:16.000So, well done, President Trump, for what was a studly display of owning with facts and knowledge.
00:53:23.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:53:30.000So I'll acknowledge, I hate New Year's celebrations.
00:53:31.000I think New Year's celebrations are, because I'm a killjoy, and also because they suck.
00:53:35.000So, have you ever been to a New Year's party where you're like, yeah, that was totally worth it?
00:53:38.000So my wife and I were in Times Square, probably now seven or eight years ago, and we had gone to a musical, and then we were gonna stay in Times Square, and we decided this is probably the most miserable place to be on New Year's Eve.
00:53:50.000It's packed in, in this claustrophobic place where if five people turn around and start a stampede, 100,000 people die.
00:54:18.000And so the media members decide that they are going to force you to engage in the fun along with them.
00:54:23.000And this means that we are going to watch news anchors act like morons.
00:54:28.000One of the things I find hilarious about this is we have gotten non-stop virtue signaling from the media all day long, all day long, all year long, for years now, about how the United States is now a dangerous place for members of the news media.
00:54:43.000When you watch those broadcasts on New Year's Eve of members of the news media getting drunk and talking about their sex lives, did this seem to you like a wildly dangerous place for members of the news media?
00:57:03.000And then CNN's Randy Kaye, another great reporter, is drinking champagne from a bong live on New Year's Eve.
00:57:09.000These are journalists who are very much in danger.
00:57:10.000Remember, President Trump has endangered their lives.
00:57:13.000President Trump has single-handedly put their lives in danger.
00:57:16.000They are so afraid that they are out at public bars drinking from champagne bongs on New Year's Eve, on the most populous night of the year.