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00:00:19.000The President of the United States now seems to be backing off some of his tariff plans.
00:00:22.000He just said a moment ago that he has, quote, the right to go up or down on country, based on country, to which I say my two-year-old son says the same about the sea sauce.
00:00:32.000But I have many things to discuss with you, including it's International Women's Day, which is just...
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00:03:06.000So I don't know why—why is it that International Women's Day—are we celebrating biological women, or are we celebrating gendered women?
00:03:16.000So does Caitlyn Jenner get to celebrate International Women's Day, or is Caitlyn Jenner a man?
00:03:20.000And if Caitlyn Jenner gets to celebrate International Women's Day, then why can't any other biological man celebrate International Women's Day by being a woman?
00:03:29.000And none of these answers are easy in coming, because if you think gender is a social construct, it makes the feminist movement very difficult to take.
00:03:51.000My mom, who worked all through my childhood, and my dad stayed at home and took care of the kids.
00:03:55.000We'll celebrate my wife, who rumor has it is a doctor.
00:03:57.000We'll celebrate all of the women who are working and all of the women who are staying at home.
00:04:01.000We'll see if any of the women who are pushing International Women's Day are celebrating stay-at-home moms who are home taking care of their children and ensuring that the next generation of Americans are better than the last generation of Americans.
00:04:11.000So, happy International Women's Day to everyone with that proviso.
00:04:14.000Again, remember, gender is a social construct.
00:04:19.000Jeff Sessions is now going to war with my stupid state, the state of California.
00:04:23.000So he announced on Wednesday that he was going to escalate the Trump administration's war with California, suing over its so-called sanctuary state law and clashing with Democratic Governor Jerry Brown in a fiery exchange of words.
00:04:34.000So Sessions said, I can't sit idly by while the lawful authority of federal officers are being blocked by legislative acts and politicians.
00:05:49.000What Jeff Sessions said is simply not true.
00:05:53.000And I call upon him to apologize to the people of California for bringing the mendacity of Washington to California and trying to insert discord and division.
00:06:06.000And I might add dysfunctionality in a state that's really working.
00:06:10.000So let's build some bridges, not walls.
00:06:12.000Law enforcement in the state is not working.
00:06:17.000The state of California is a garbage heap, and that's largely thanks to the leadership of people like Governor Jerry Brown.
00:06:23.000Jeff Sessions particularly pointed out a situation in Oakland where apparently the story was that the city of Oakland had been actively impeding deportations.
00:06:33.000So, Sessions criticized Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for warning the public about an unannounced raid by federal deportation officers recently in California.
00:06:40.000Sessions said it allowed hundreds of wanted criminals to avoid arrest.
00:06:44.000How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of law enforcement just to promote your radical open borders agenda?
00:06:49.000And, of course, Sessions is exactly right.
00:06:51.000That's what happens in the state of California.
00:06:52.000Because a huge percentage of voters in the state of California are Hispanic, a lot of the Democratic politicians think that Hispanics
00:06:58.000are necessarily going to vote in favor of a more open borders agenda.
00:07:01.000And so they pander by saying that they're going to resist federal law enforcement.
00:07:05.000Now, one of the things that's amazing is that you recall the Obama administration sued the state of Arizona when the state of Arizona was arresting people based on immigration status under SB 70.
00:07:15.000SB 70 was a law that was passed in the state of Arizona when Jan Brewer was governor.
00:07:21.000How dare you vilify members of our community?
00:07:50.000By trying to frighten the American public into thinking that all undocumented residents are dangerous criminals.
00:07:58.000How dare you distort the reality about declining violent crime in a diverse sanctuary city like Oakland, California, to advance your racist agenda?
00:08:14.000Okay, except for the fact that the violent crime rate is apparently going up.
00:08:18.000So according to the Public Policy Institute of California, California's violent crime rate increased by 3.7% in 2016 to 444 per 100,000 residents.
00:08:22.000There were other recent uptakes in 2012 and 2015.
00:08:30.000Obviously, this is not comparable to the 60s, but these upticks are troubling.
00:08:34.000And in the city of Los Angeles, for example, which is a sanctuary city, we have seen not only increased crime rates, we've also seen an attempt to obfuscate those increased crime rates by the simple, ridiculous measure of reevaluating what exactly counts as a crime.
00:08:49.000So, the police have basically been told that in order for them to hit certain marks, they should just redefine things from felonies to misdemeanors.
00:08:55.000It was a bill that passed recently—it was a referendum, actually, that passed recently in the state of California that redefined a bunch of felonies as misdemeanors and also allowed the state to allow people out of prison on misdemeanors.
00:09:07.000So, if you just miscount the statistics, it's pretty easy to get to California has a lowered crime rate, even when the quality of life in California is declining.
00:09:15.000So, is Jeff Sessions right to go after the state of California on all of this?
00:09:19.000Sessions in his speech referenced Confederate states that refused to abide by federal law.
00:09:23.000Kamala Harris, the senator from California who wishes to run for president of the United States in 2020, she of course ripped into Jeff Sessions for making such a reference.
00:09:31.000Listen, as far as I'm concerned, Jeff Sessions should be advised, and I'll advise him right now, that it's a bad idea for him to start talking about anything to do with the history of slavery or Reconstruction or the Civil War in the United States.
00:09:48.000His credibility is pretty much shot on those issues.
00:10:00.000And then she suggested that Republicans are hypocritical because they're Federalists when it comes to issues like environmentalism or drugs, but they're not Federalists when it comes to immigration law.
00:10:09.000Well, of course we're not federalists when it comes to immigration law, in the sense that states should have control over their own borders, because that's one of the basic powers that is granted to a centralized federal government.
00:10:20.000If she says, you can look at members of this administration, whether it's the head of the EPA, when he was attorney general of Oklahoma, said that federal emission standards and other standards as it relates to greenhouse gas emissions should not apply to the states,
00:10:30.000What he actually says, the EPA does not have the federal authority under law to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which is true.
00:10:35.000She says you can look at this attorney general who said that imposing the terms of the Voting Rights Act on the states creates an undue burden and is meddling with the affairs of each state.
00:10:42.000That is also true of the Voting Rights Act, which was a federal attempt to get rid of racism in the registration of voters in the South and has been obsolete for decades now.
00:10:51.000That is a violation of state sovereignty.
00:10:56.000It's amazing how folks on the left will conflate certain terminology in order to avoid the obvious implication of what they're doing, which is nullification of federal law.
00:11:05.000Sanctuary cities are a nullification of federal law, at least insofar as they're actively impeding the federal government from doing its job.
00:11:12.000Now, the question is whether the state of California can have its funds cut by the federal government, whether cities can have their funds cut by the federal government, because there are laws on the books, there are constitutional issues with regard to attaching strings to federal funding.
00:11:25.000But certainly, you know, President Trump is supposed to come to California to talk about the Sanctuary City issue in the next few days.
00:11:31.000It is an issue that is top of mind for a lot of people in the state of California.
00:11:34.000And I'm not somebody who is particularly radical on illegal immigration.
00:11:38.000I'm not somebody who says that we ought to deport everybody who's here illegally.
00:11:41.000I think that we ought to go through and determine on a one-to-one basis whether people belong in the country or not, whether they are of use to the country or not.
00:11:48.000And if they are not, then we should deport them.
00:11:49.000But that's not the same thing as saying everybody who came here illegally should be deported.
00:11:52.000In fact, there's not a person living in Southern California who has not met or worked with an illegal immigrant at some point.
00:11:59.000But with all of that said, a state that is actively preventing the federal government from enforcing the law is violating the supremacy clauses of the Constitution of the United States, and there is no legal justification for anything remotely resembling that.
00:12:12.000Okay, in just a second I'm going to talk about the continued radicalism of the Democratic Party.
00:12:15.000They're so radical that now they're embracing the idea that sanctuary cities can actively fight the federal law enforcement officers.
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00:13:53.000There's still fallout for Democrats over the Louis Farrakhan hubbub.
00:13:58.000So, Louis Farrakhan obviously is an anti-Semite.
00:14:01.000We played clips of him a couple of days ago in his latest iteration of anti-Semitism.
00:14:05.000He is still, for some odd reason, given a Twitter verified checkmark, which is an amazing thing, right?
00:14:11.000We were told that you would have your verification removed, like Richard Spencer had his verification removed by Twitter because he's a disgusting racist.
00:14:18.000Okay, I thought that was a bad move because verification on Twitter is supposed to be designed to prevent fraud.
00:14:23.000It's supposed to be designed to prevent people from pretending to be Richard Spencer, for example.
00:14:27.000Why you'd want to do that's beyond me.
00:14:28.000But pretend to be Richard Spencer, and that's what the checkmark is for.
00:14:32.000So for fake Ben Shapiro accounts, they can be distinguished from the real Ben Shapiro account by the blue checkmark.
00:14:37.000But Twitter decided they were going to use the blue checkmark as a sign of approval.
00:14:41.000So they got rid of the blue checkmark for Richard Spencer.
00:14:45.000They did not get rid of it for Louis Farrakhan.
00:14:47.000So, Louis Farrakhan is out there tweeting, making a fool of himself.
00:14:54.000And he's also—I mean, he tweeted this 24 hours ago.
00:14:57.000The FBI has been the worst enemy of black advancement.
00:15:00.000The Jews have control over those agencies of government.
00:15:03.000This is a guy who's been embraced by three of the four heads of the Women's March.
00:15:06.000Happy International Women's Day, gang.
00:15:08.000By three of the four heads of the International Women's March.
00:15:12.000And now, a woman named Tamika Mallory, who actually went to Louis Farrakhan's latest lecture with the Nation of Islam, and this lecture included him talking about the Satanic Jew and all the rest of it, she has written a defense of herself.
00:15:54.000To my Jewish friends and black women, including those who do and those who don't, check off either of those other boxes.
00:15:59.000I affirm the validity of those feelings, and as I continue to grow and learn as both an activist and as a woman, I will continue to grapple with the complicated nature of working across ideological lines and the question of how to do so without causing harm to vulnerable people.
00:16:26.000If your case is, I'm not a radical anti-Semite, I'd just go and listen to Louis Farrakhan spout about the satanic Jew and the white devil every year for 30 years.
00:16:49.000If the rabbi said things that I thought were truly racist or awful, I would leave because why would I go to a service where the rabbi did that?
00:16:56.000But she goes to Savior's Day every year, apparently for 30 years.
00:17:06.000In that most difficult period of my life, it was the women of the Nation of Islam who supported me, and I have always held them close to my heart for that reason.
00:17:11.000Okay, what does that have to do with Farrakhan being an awful, egregious, disgusting anti-Semite?
00:17:15.000Because I am the same woman who helped build an intersectional movement—intersectional just means a movement that is built on identity politics—that fights for the rights of all people and stands against hatred and discrimination of all forms, except against the Juden.
00:17:29.000I am the same person today I was before Savior's Day, which begs the question, why are my beliefs being questioned now?
00:17:34.000Well, her beliefs are being questioned now because we have tape of her at this event.
00:17:40.000Because I was raised in activism, and I believe that as historically oppressed people, blacks, Jews, Muslims, and all people must stand together to fight racism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia.
00:17:49.000Except that she's not going to throw Farrakhan under the bus anywhere in here.
00:18:20.000I attend meetings with police and legislators, the very folks so much of my protest has been directed towards.
00:18:24.000I've partnered and sat with countless groups, activists, religious leaders, and institutions over the past 20 years.
00:18:28.000I've worked in prisons as well as with present and former gang members.
00:18:31.000It is impossible for me to agree with every statement or share every viewpoint of the many people who I have worked with or will work with in the future.
00:18:37.000As I do not wish to be held responsible for the words of others when my own history shows that I stand in opposition to them, I also do not think it is fair to question anyone who works with me, who supports my work, and who is a member of this movement because of the ways I may have fallen short here or in any other instance.
00:18:50.000And she says it is her intention to walk in the tradition of Dr. Dorothy Height, successor to Marion McLeod Bethune, as president of the National Council of Negro Women.
00:18:59.000In 1995, she faced criticism for participating in the Million Man March, which was organized by the Nation of Islam.
00:19:04.000She said financial support was withheld from her organization.
00:19:07.000And she said—and she stood strongly and addressed the Million Man March anyway.
00:19:11.000And she said, I am here because you are here.
00:19:15.000Except that, again, you've been going here for 30 years.
00:19:17.000How hard is it to condemn anti-Semites if you're in the middle of an intersectional movement?
00:19:20.000Apparently super hard, because you are most afraid of alienating other members of your intersectional community than you are of alienating open anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan.
00:19:54.000But Barry is, I would say, a mainstream classical liberal.
00:19:59.000She's certainly not a hardcore conservative by any stretch of the imagination.
00:20:03.000But she wrote a column for the New York Times talking about the pathetic attempts by people on the left to continuously call people who are not of the radical left fascists.
00:20:11.000And she points out all of the protests that we've seen over the last week against Jordan Peterson and Christina Hoff Sommers and a variety of other figures.
00:20:17.000I mean, Steven Pinker is being called alt-right now.
00:20:20.000We talked about Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist, who has been an ardent Democrat
00:20:46.000I've been labeled a fascist by a bunch of people on the left.
00:20:48.000They call me alt-right, which is just insane considering I was the alt-right's number one target during the 2016 election cycle.
00:20:53.000Weiss writes this, quote, We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.
00:21:00.000And she names Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping and Bashar Assad.
00:21:03.000But she continues, these are generally not the extremists the left is focused on.
00:21:07.000Instead, they seem to believe that the real cause for concern are the secret authoritarians passing as liberals and conservatives in our midst.
00:21:14.000Christina Hoff Sommers and Laura Kipnis of Northwestern University, who questioned whether people should be run out of town on a rail in campus show trials if a professor has sex consensually with a student.
00:21:24.000Is that deserving of being fired or destroyed?
00:21:26.000Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is an atheist, a black female atheist, who's now being considered a fascist because she objects to the excesses of radical Islam.
00:21:37.000Mary Beard, who's another feminist who's being run out of town on a rail.
00:21:57.000For even the most minor transgressions, as in the case of Professor Beard, people are turned radioactive.
00:22:01.000The main effect is that these endless accusations of fascism or misogyny or alt-right dull the effects of the words themselves.
00:22:07.000As they are stripped of meaning, they strip us of our sharpness, of our ability to react forcefully to real fascists and misogynists or members of the alt-right.
00:22:15.000Okay, this is, of course, exactly correct.
00:22:17.000Everything Barry Weiss says here is right.
00:22:18.000So, what was the reaction of people on the left?
00:22:21.000Amanda Marcotte, who is one of the stupidest humans on planet Earth, she writes for Salon.com, here's what she tweeted, quote, So, the entire point that Barry Weiss is making is that the left keeps using labels on mainstream conservatives and liberals, and Amanda Marcotte's solution is
00:22:44.000Clearly, Barry Weiss is a fascist alt-righter.
00:22:49.000If the left thinks they're going to win any contests through this, they must be out of their minds.
00:22:53.000We have now boiled down politics to culture wars, and these are not culture wars the left is likely to win if they continue along these lines.
00:22:59.000OK, so before I go any further, and we'll talk Stormy Daniels, we'll talk guns, we'll talk foreign policy, and also there's a piece in Vox.com that I may or may not discuss because I think that the left is making a disturbing mistake with regard to sex, particularly.
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00:24:50.000Alrighty, so, in other news, Stormy Daniels is back in the news, and CNN is just beside itself.
00:24:58.000So when I go to work out, one of the things that is unfortunate is that CNN is what's on the TV.
00:25:03.000Well, that means that it was wall-to-wall Stormy Daniels coverage yesterday.
00:25:07.000So Stormy Daniels' lawyer is now suing the president to try and avoid an injunction.
00:25:12.000So, Michael Cohn, Trump's lawyer, as we know, signed an agreement with Stormy Daniels, former porn star, or current porn star, I guess she's still a porn star, and paid her $130,000 to keep her story under wraps.
00:25:24.000And now Daniels is suing Trump because she says that Trump did not actually sign that agreement.
00:25:29.000Now, legally speaking, it's not clear that that actually is a good legal case.
00:25:35.000Like, if I sign an agreement, and then you don't countersign and send it back to me,
00:26:19.000Mr. Cohen, through his attorney, Mr. Rosen, further threatened my client in an effort to prevent her from telling the truth about what really happened.
00:26:25.000We do not take kindly to these threats, nor will we be intimidated.
00:26:55.000Say in more convincing fashion that she thinks that Trump didn't know about the payment by Michael Cohen, his lawyer, to Stormy Daniels.
00:27:01.000Here's Sarah Huckabee Sanders answering some questions.
00:27:03.000The president has addressed these directly and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true.
00:27:12.000This case has already been won in arbitration, and anything beyond that I would refer you to the president's outside counsel.
00:27:19.000So she wouldn't answer what exactly the arbitration case was, she didn't answer what it meant to have won this case in arbitration, and then she was asked repeatedly whether Trump knew that Cohen was paying off Stormy Daniels.
00:27:37.000Lawyers don't go around spending $130,000 on behalf of clients to pay off their former porn star lovers out of the goodness of their heart.
00:27:47.000And to suggest to anybody that they ought to buy that account is just insane.
00:27:52.000You have to be a crazy person to actually believe that, or you have to be so in the tank for Trump that you are willing to overlook basic reality.
00:27:59.000Obviously Trump knew his lawyer was paying off Stormy Daniels, which brings us to the second point.
00:28:08.000And the second is, is this a violation of campaign finance law?
00:28:11.000Not clear this is a violation of campaign finance law.
00:28:13.000A settlement outside of court that allows you to pay somebody to keep quiet is not rare in the legal world.
00:28:20.000In fact, John Edwards was basically paying alimony to a camera woman that he knocked up, and she was pregnant with his baby.
00:28:26.000He paid her $900,000 from campaign funds, and that was not a violation of law according to the court.
00:28:31.000So, if that's not a violation of law, not sure why $130,000 is a violation of law, they're going to have to go further than just saying that Trump paid off a porn star to say this is a violation of campaign finance law.
00:28:42.000Maybe it's an in-kind contribution by Michael Cohen or something, but it's going to be kind of hard to make this particular case.
00:28:48.000Then there's the more general question, should we care?
00:28:50.000So on a moral level, yes, we should care that the President of the United States is a douche with regard to women.
00:28:55.000President Trump is not great on the female front.
00:28:59.000The fact that this is even mildly controversial is again demonstrative of the fact that we have broken down into tribal identity.
00:29:59.000Okay, so, before I go any further here, and I want to talk about an article that is—we'll talk a little bit about the poll outlook for Democrats in 2018, and then there's an article that I think is worth discussing at Vox.com.
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00:33:56.000One thing that I'm seeing in the feminist movement, it's been happening for a long time, is conflation of a lot of terminology that is actually dangerous to relationships and dangerous to marriage.
00:34:03.000There's an article today about sexual assault within marriage by Anonymous over at Vox.com.
00:34:08.000Anonymous happens to be a feminist professor, shockingly, and this article is about how she says she was sexually assaulted within marriage.
00:34:15.000Sexual assault can occur within marriage.
00:34:16.000Obviously it can occur outside of marriage as well.
00:34:18.000Sexual assault is just a woman says no and a man says I'm doing it anyway, right?
00:34:24.000A woman refuses consent and a man disobeys that and then does the most evil act a human being can do outside of murder, which is that he takes advantage of a woman against her will, right?
00:34:34.000That is, in my view, should be punishable by castration or death.
00:34:38.000I mean, that's how seriously I take sexual assault.
00:34:40.000But one thing that the left has done is they have watered down consent.
00:34:43.000So we saw this with the Aziz Ansari story, where a woman accused Aziz Ansari of violating her consent when she did not, in fact, say no to him at any point.
00:35:10.000As a married man, and as a man, and as somebody who reads social science studies, and as someone who believes in evolutionary biology, men want sex more than women do.
00:35:19.000Or at least they want sex on a more regular basis than women do.
00:35:22.000Every social science study ever done shows this.
00:35:24.000Men, on average, want sex more often than women do.
00:35:26.000The great feminist lie that women want sex in the same way that men want sex is just absurd, it's crap, it's not true.
00:35:47.000What happens if a woman does not really want to have sex, but the guy wants to have sex?
00:35:51.000So, the way traditionally women have treated sex within marriage is that there's a difference between I actively don't want to have sex with my husband and I'm not super into it, but I'll go ahead with it anyway.
00:36:01.000Okay, I'm not super into it, but I'll go ahead with it anyway because I love my husband, is a pretty common thing within marriage.
00:36:06.000In fact, it's a very common thing within marriage.
00:36:08.000And I think it's a good thing within marriage.
00:36:10.000I don't think it's an active... I think the woman is not doing something wrong.
00:36:13.000I think she's doing something healthy and right for the relationship.
00:36:15.000Because when it comes to... That's not saying that a woman should have sex if she really doesn't want to, if she thinks her husband's a boor and disgusting person.
00:36:43.000Because one of the things about doing things for people you love is that you're constantly doing things where you are ambivalent about them, but you do them for the sake of the person that you love.
00:36:52.000Now what's weird is that the feminist left treats it as though the only form of sex that can ever be had is the most passionate, the most
00:37:19.000I think it's setting an expectation up for women that can't be fulfilled within a relationship if they think that a man is going to be happy with his wife, only having sex with him, only at the times when she's most enthusiastic about it.
00:37:31.000Because again, just biologically speaking, women are not going to be enthusiastic about sex nearly as much as men are.
00:37:37.000Relationships are about people doing things that they are ambivalent about, or even maybe don't want to do all that much, because they love their partner.
00:37:44.000Again, this is not to say that men should be able to violate the consent of their wives.
00:38:00.000The reason I say this is because this article from Vox.com blurs this line.
00:38:03.000They say that anytime a man says to his wife, can we have sex, and she says, you know, I'm not super into it, but okay, that he's now raping her.
00:40:28.000If a woman who is married to a man will not have sex with him under any circumstances, he is going to feel slightly peeved.
00:40:33.000He is going to feel as though the woman doesn't love him.
00:40:36.000And I don't think that's completely unjustified.
00:40:38.000Anyway, this woman continues, He sounds like an insane person, by the way, to be happy in this relationship.
00:40:52.000At home, having tried without success, the therapist prescribed exercises for restoring emotional connection, check-ins about feelings, non-sexual touch.
00:40:58.000My husband lobbied for his own solution.
00:41:00.000The thing you need is really complicated and difficult, and it's not something I can do.
00:41:03.000But the thing I need is easy and quick.
00:41:05.000Why can't you just give me the thing I need?
00:41:50.000First of all, he sounds like a real messed up dude.
00:41:53.000If that satisfies any guy, if a guy feels satisfied by that sort of level of sexual connection with his intimate partner, then that person is screwed up.
00:42:01.000There are a lot of deeper issues in this marriage, but the problem I have with this article is the conflation of what seems to be... what she's talking about is a failed marriage, a real failed marriage, where she hates her husband and he doesn't care about her.
00:42:14.000But what she's conflating that with is every woman who has ever said yes to sex with her husband
00:42:41.000To a certain extent, you should have used your volition, right?
00:42:44.000I mean, you should have stood up and said no if this is the way that your marriage was going.
00:42:48.000And he does sound like a piece of work.
00:42:50.000But, honestly, it sounds like you never said no.
00:42:53.000I mean, it sounds like you never said, listen, without emotional connection, nothing's happening in the bedroom, Buster.
00:42:57.000Which seems like the right way to do this.
00:42:59.000But if you're setting up the expectation, here's the problem that I have with all this.
00:43:03.000If you're setting up the expectation from men that men are only going to have sex with their wives when their wives are fully, fully emotionally deployed, fully into it, really horny, right?
00:43:13.000If that's the idea, then that's not going to work inside marriages.
00:43:17.000Women routinely make the decision that because they love their husbands they are going to have sex with their husbands at times when it seems inconvenient or at times when they are okay with it but not supremely into it.
00:43:26.000At times when it's not passionate lovemaking on the beach all from here to eternity.
00:43:31.000If women are told that they don't have to...
00:43:36.000They don't have to do anything they don't want to.
00:43:37.000But if women are told that it's healthy for a marriage, that they can have a fulfilled, emotionally stable relationship on the basis of turning down sex except when they are most enthusiastic about it, that's not going to work.
00:43:46.000It's setting up unfulfillable expectations with regard to men.
00:43:50.000And if men are told that when they get married, then there's no greater access to sex than when they were single,
00:43:56.000Then, to be perfectly blunt about this, there will be less marriage.
00:44:00.000One of the reasons that men have sex, one of the reasons men get married, in the basic bargain of things, is because when they love a woman and believe that they are in a relationship for life, they're giving up polygamy, polyamory, for the sake of frequency in the basic economic bargain.
00:44:15.000That's to put it in its most blunt terms.
00:44:16.000On an emotional level, what they're really doing is they're saying, I love this woman so much, I'm willing to be with her the rest of my life, and because we love each other so much, we are going to have a lot more sex than I would if I were a single guy.
00:44:26.000Men identify sex with love, and women do too.
00:44:28.000They just come at it from different angles.
00:44:56.000And Lucy wrote all the music to The Secret Garden, which is a really quite beautiful musical.
00:45:01.000This ran for, I believe, 709 performances on Broadway in the early 90s.
00:45:05.000And one of the numbers, the singer, I think, is named Rebecca Luca, she sings Come to My Garden from The Secret Garden.
00:45:12.000The story of The Secret Garden, if you don't know, is a little girl whose parents die.
00:45:16.000She's adopted by her uncle, and her uncle is, his wife died.
00:45:21.000He had a child with his wife, who is a cripple.
00:45:24.000And who is, I believe, a paraplegic, a Colin.
00:45:28.000And she has also locked—she had a garden on this estate, and the husband has locked away this garden because after she died, he never wanted to see it again.
00:47:49.000That's not what a denial of cert means.
00:47:50.000I don't need you to lecture me on what the Supreme Court does and what it doesn't do.
00:47:56.000There is not a constitutional right, and you know it,
00:48:01.000And you can talk down to me all you want to, but you know there is not a constitutional... Joe, who's talking down to who?
00:48:08.000If you want to stop violent crime, this debate is dancing on the head of a pin.
00:48:11.000Okay, but... Here's what stops... But hold on, I may agree with you, Senator.
00:48:16.000So you can see how Scarborough is trying to browbeat Cruz.
00:48:18.000He does need a lecture on constitutional law.
00:48:20.000Ted Cruz litigated before the Supreme Court dozens of times, so he knows constitutional law a hell of a lot better than Joe Scarborough does.
00:48:27.000It is amazing to see Joe Scarborough, who once had an A from the NRA when he was in Congress, flip completely, and now he's a gun control guy because he's on Morning Joe, of course.
00:48:34.000But Cruz did a pretty good job with Scarborough.
00:48:38.000He should have gone back harder at Scarborough, I think, but that's because I have a different debating style than others.
00:48:46.000So I think this is a worthwhile thing that happened last night on cable TV, which is a rare thing to say.
00:48:52.000Tucker Carlson got into a big debate with John Bolton.
00:48:55.000John Bolton is rumored to be up for National Security Advisor if H.R.
00:48:59.000McMaster should step down inside the White House.
00:49:02.000And Tucker has a suddenly isolationist view of foreign policy that I don't remember him having quite as much during the Bush administration.
00:50:09.000I mean, there are a lot of people who think that.
00:50:11.000The fall of Saddam Hussein did not necessarily make Iran stronger if we had stayed and if we had stabilized Iraq as a counterbalance to Iran.
00:50:18.000So, I understand Tucker's point, which is that Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, was anti-Iran.
00:50:22.000It is also true that Iraq was participating in terrorist activity, that they threatened their neighbors, that Saddam Hussein was clearly proclaiming that he was pursuing weapons of mass destruction.
00:50:33.000Go back and watch the entire debate, if you have a chance, between John Bolton and Tucker Carlson, which I think is intelligent and useful, actually.
00:50:40.000Although Tucker does get a bit snarky at the end, which is something I'm not fully appreciative of in that sort of discussion.
00:50:46.000OK, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:50:53.000OK, a couple quick things that I hate.
00:50:54.000So, first of all, Daniel Malloy, who's the governor of Connecticut, called the NRA a terrorist organization.
00:50:58.000This is just obnoxious on every level.
00:51:30.000So what, are you going to start arresting members of the NRA?
00:51:32.000Is this kind of language that ensures that we're never going to be able to move forward on anything remotely resembling a debate about crime and violent crime in the United States?
00:51:45.000All you have to do is virtue signal to the left.
00:51:48.000McDonald's yesterday decided to flip its golden arches in order to celebrate women everywhere.
00:51:53.000So it took the M and turned it into a W. A quick way to get a headline.
00:51:57.000And what's amazing is that people on the left are perfectly willing to grant that headline to a major corporation like McDonald's, which every other day of the week they are ripping as a low-wage employer.
00:52:07.000All you have to do is flip that M into a W, like for Wario, instead of Mario, and suddenly everything changes, and we are supposed to pretend that McDonald's is a halcyon and a beacon of light in the darkness.
00:52:19.000It is amazing how easily these corporations play the left, and it's amazing how easily the left allows itself to be played by these corporations that normally they hate and want to put out of business.
00:52:27.000Okay, so we'll be back here tomorrow for much more.