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00:02:43.000Now, there are a lot of things about President Trump that weren't normal, right?
00:02:46.000I mean, President Trump liked to tweet a lot.
00:02:48.000President Trump liked to say crazy stuff on a fairly regular basis.
00:02:51.000President Trump was certainly the only person, as the President of the United States, who have uttered the word covfefe.
00:02:56.000President Trump, A lot about him that wasn't normal.
00:02:59.000But here was the weird thing for a lot of conservatives about President Trump.
00:03:03.000While he himself was not a normal human, and while he himself was this garrulous and bloviating real estate reality TV star, I mean, that's what he was.
00:03:14.000Many of his policies, super normal, right?
00:03:16.000Restoring America on the military stage, perfectly normal.
00:03:21.000Putting in place judges who are going to properly interpret the law, perfectly normal, right?
00:03:24.000His actual policy was super normal compared to the absolute abnormality of the Obama administration, which radically moved us in the direction of identity politics, which revised the relationship entirely between the United States government and the American citizen.
00:03:39.000Which completely racialized American politics, if you compare not the personal manner and affect of the Commander-in-Chief.
00:05:09.000And the more normal they can make Biden seem, the more you are going to ignore the fact that his policy is absolutely abnormal.
00:05:15.000The more they can make it seem like Joe Biden is basically like your friendly uncle or your friendly grandpa or your friendly great, great, great, great grandpa, the more they can make it seem like that, the less you're going to pay attention to the fact that he's actually cramming down a particular view of the United States that is wrongheaded and a bunch of policy that is super not normal.
00:05:31.000And the media are invested in this because the media are just the public relations wing of the Democratic Party.
00:07:08.000You can have a boring man who is the president of the United States without the presidency being particularly boring.
00:07:13.000Okay, Woodrow Wilson, extraordinarily boring human being.
00:07:17.000Or like just a bore from top to bottom.
00:07:19.000His presidency was one of the worst presidencies in American history.
00:07:22.000It was characterized by vast amounts of terribleness.
00:07:25.000You have perfectly normal people as president of the United States and yet the presidency is not boring because it turns out the presidency is not just the personality.
00:07:32.000The presidency is what you do with the power.
00:07:34.000The presidency is the policy that you implement that affects, at this point, 330 million Americans.
00:07:39.000Yasha Monk then followed up, he said, Okay, well, what if I'm mostly concerned, as I was during the Trump administration, with the policy that comes out of the White House that affects me?
00:07:46.000What if I'm mostly concerned with the direction the United States moves?
00:07:48.000We have very different assessments of the past four years.
00:07:51.000Okay, well, what if I'm mostly concerned, as I was during the Trump administration, with the policy that comes out of the White House that affects me?
00:07:58.000What if I'm mostly concerned with the direction the United States moves?
00:08:01.000Now, none of that is an attempt to justify the various excesses and insanities of the Trump White House.
00:08:09.000But I think that we can acknowledge on a baseline level that the policy pursued by the Trump administration was shockingly normal.
00:08:15.000Again, for a president who is definitely not a normal dude, that was a shockingly normal policy, White House.
00:08:21.000And then we get this, which is, he's so normal, guys.
00:08:30.000We no longer have to worry about anything.
00:08:32.000Okay, so the norm-coring, the attempt to pretend that Joe Biden is like the most normal person who has ever lived is so in swing on the left.
00:08:41.000I mean, to the point We're there now out there taking the least normal parts of Biden and making them normal.
00:09:21.000The reason that Trump made their job easy is because every day they would get up, they would look at Trump's Twitter feed, and that would decide what they cover that day.
00:09:27.000He would literally just tweet out the news cycle.
00:09:30.000He'd be like, this country is a bleep hole.
00:09:32.000I mean, oh my God, that's 12 hours of content.
00:09:40.000Stat, the president tweeted out that a country is a bleep hole country.
00:09:43.000And everybody's like, okay, yeah, that's like not great, but I'm just wondering what that has to do with policy.
00:09:49.000I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no The truth is, the saddest people in the world in the media that Trump's Twitter got banned are the members of the media.
00:10:03.000Because now, they actually are supposed to have to do their jobs.
00:10:05.000But here's the thing, they're not going to do their jobs.
00:10:07.000Instead, literally their new policy in the media is to declare themselves irrelevant.
00:10:13.000I've never seen anything like this in the media.
00:10:16.000We felt that we were relevant during the Trump administration because we were calling balls and strikes.
00:10:29.000And then everything with regard to policy will be seen through the prism of the tweets.
00:10:33.000But now that a Democrat is in the White House and the Democrats have Congress, now the media are declaring that they no longer are relevant.
00:10:41.000I've never heard of anything like this.
00:10:44.000They have the same perspective about their job that I would if I were a politician, which is my job would be to make myself irrelevant so you can live your life.
00:10:50.000But the media, their job is not to be irrelevant.
00:12:23.000Dana Perino and Ari Fleischer lied less than Robert Gibbs and Jay Carney.
00:12:26.000But the basic idea that you in the media are going to be like, how refreshing, a politician has promised me honesty, literally the opposite of your job.
00:12:34.000Your job is to say, yes, I know you're promising me honesty, and now I'm going to hold you accountable.
00:12:41.000I mean, the wild shift between, look how normal and boring this is, and five minutes ago when it was everything is a crisis, every single thing is a crisis.
00:12:49.000It's like New Orleans floods every day.
00:12:51.000It's like the planes go into the towers every day.
00:12:53.000Stelter was saying, this is we're back to normal, guys.
00:13:22.000Okay, I just gonna point out, while you guys are talking about Joe Biden's ice cream flavor, while you guys are talking about how normal Joe Biden is, and the new boring and the new normal, more people are dying on a daily basis in the United States than have ever died from COVID in the entire history of COVID.
00:16:12.000I assume the Biden, you know, I did five years of Obama, and I assume the Biden presidency will be a lot like the Obama presidency in that they will be responsive and will be able to quickly back up what they're saying.
00:16:26.000And occasionally the president will go off kilter, particularly when he's, you know, speaking extemporaneously and not following something that had previously been fact-checked.
00:16:36.000In the very first press conference, Jen Psaki and Biden, by the way, lied repeatedly, lied repeatedly about the idea that there was no vaccine plan, lied repeatedly about it.
00:17:19.000I know my boyfriend cheats on me regularly and he meets up with random strangers and does blow in the bathroom, but he's really a good guy.
00:18:01.000The administration telegraphed very early how they were going to be honest and truthful.
00:18:06.000Instead of spinning about it's, you know, today Joe Biden is president, tomorrow COVID's, you know, the beginning of the end is near.
00:18:12.000They've been very clear that it's going to get worse before it gets better.
00:18:15.000And I think you begin to make deposits in the integrity bank.
00:18:20.000When you're honest with the press and therefore the people, and I was glad to see that, and I know we're going to see more of it.
00:18:25.000By the way, they've been so clear about how it's going to get worse before it gets better that Joe Biden said that he was going to shut down the virus.
00:18:30.000That was like part of his actual pitch.
00:19:41.000When I give watches to friends and family, which I do fairly regularly, when I do that, it's like a big deal to them, as it should be, because these are expensive watches.
00:19:49.000So the New York Times has to somehow come up with the idea that Joe Biden is the super normalist guy who ever normaled.
00:20:09.000President Biden may cast his arrival in the White House as a return to business as usual at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but there's at least one way he's breaking from prevailing presidential tradition.
00:20:18.000At his inauguration, Mr. Biden laid his hand on the family Bible wearing a stainless steel Rolex Datejust watch with a blue dial, a model that retails for more than $7,000.
00:20:25.000And it's a far cry from the everyman timepieces that every president not named Trump has worn conspicuously in recent decades.
00:21:00.000And then they say to many, a president wearing a luxury watch might not seem unusual.
00:21:05.000Shouldn't the leader of the free world wear a power watch befitting his position?
00:21:08.000Never mind that it costs the equivalent of a dozen or so stimulus checks.
00:21:12.000That concept was widely accepted once, back when Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson posed guiltlessly for Oval Office portraits wearing gold Rolexes.
00:21:19.000Not for nothing is Rolex's storied gold Day-Date model known as the president.
00:21:23.000Such political power watches, however, had gone out of style in the internet age when most recent presidents and politicians in general seem to consider the luxury watch as a signifier of out-of-touch elitism.
00:21:32.000I'm going to get to more of this in just one second because it is just spectacular.
00:21:36.000The way that the New York Times twists Joe Biden owns expensive watches into But look how normal he is while owning expensive watches.
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00:22:58.000Okay, so, back to the New York Times attempting to turn So they say that Bill Clinton used to wear a Timex Ironman, and George W. Bush wore a Timex Indiglio.
00:23:10.000The choice of a watch that cost 50 bucks or less was either a man-of-the-people statement, says the New York Times, even though Mr. Bush was an oil scion who went to Yale, or a masterstroke of old-money preppyism, where any hint of gilded glimmer is considered vulgar.
00:23:25.000During his presidency, he opted for mid-priced All-American watches by Shinola, or a sporty watch by George Gray based in Southern California that cost less than $500.
00:23:33.000This may come as a shock, but Trump shattered those norms.
00:23:36.000He remained on brand during his term, flashing mogul-worthy gold, what else, watches by Patek Philippe, Rolex, and Vacheron Constantin, right?
00:23:42.000Those are very, very expensive watches.
00:23:44.000Which brings us to Mr. Biden, who seems to balance both horological sensibilities, horological meaning having to do with watches, he seems to balance both horological sensibilities, and is unafraid to show off his house Swiss watches, all stainless steel, including his Rolex, an Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional, And an Omega Seamaster Diver 300M, both of which retail for around $5,000 or $6,000.
00:24:06.000Okay, first of all, depends on the model you're looking at.
00:24:09.000The Moonwatch Professional very often retails about $8,000, and the Omega Seamaster Diver 300M, depending if you're getting like the Bond edition, that also retails about $8,000.
00:24:17.000So what you're talking about is at least $20,000 worth of watches, is what you're talking about right here.
00:24:24.000To be fair, none of Mr. Biden's watches scream luxury, at least to watch connoisseurs who are acclimated to the thin air of Swiss watch prices.
00:24:38.000To many people, whose entire salary on a yearly basis might be $50,000 or $60,000, it seems to me that owning $20,000 of watches in excess of that, easily, might be considered at least a little bit of luxury.
00:24:57.000Okay, and I don't think there's anything wrong with Joe Biden doing it.
00:24:59.000I'm just pointing out that the media have to take even the things about Joe Biden that scream not normal, and then pigeonhole them back into normal.
00:25:07.000So what they're doing is they're taking a habit that is not inexpensive.
00:25:10.000And they're like, yeah, but that's like a normal guy would do, right?
00:25:16.000His Rolex Datejust, for example, is considered an undisputed classic, but in another sense, almost could be regarded as entry level for a brand with head-turners that quickly climb into the five figures.
00:25:27.000He's saying the Rolex Datejust, which is like eight grand at retail.
00:25:31.000You know, yeah, that's a really expensive watch.
00:26:06.000It's going to be very specific about the Patek Philippe Calatrava.
00:26:09.000Calatrava is the baseline of Patek Philippe.
00:26:11.000Patek Philippe is in the HBO show Succession.
00:26:15.000There is a great line about Patek Philippe.
00:26:18.000The line is uttered by one of the sons-in-law of the mogul who's supposed to be kind of Rupert Murdoch, and he wants to give his father-in-law a Patek Philippe.
00:26:25.000And when he gives him the watch, he says, it's a watch that tells you how rich you are.
00:26:29.000Right, so Patek Philippe, the baseline Calatrava model, if you buy it new, is gonna cost you almost $20,000.
00:26:34.000Okay, that's a very, very upscale luxury line, but compared to other Patek Philippes, which can run all the way up to a million dollars, that's really down brand, right?
00:26:43.000So Rolex Datejust, it's just like a Timex if you compare it to, you know, like the Rolex Daytona, or if you compare it to, you know, the Rolex Seamaster, right?
00:26:53.000If you compare it to the Yachtmaster, whatever it is.
00:27:03.000Likewise, his omegas do not connote fanciness, at least in the eyes of watch snobs.
00:27:06.000The Moonwatch, while Swiss in origin, has been embraced as an American emblem ever since the Apollo 11 astronauts wore this story model to the Moon.
00:27:13.000They do connote fanciness, actually, because they cost a lot of money.
00:27:16.000Also, they're like, the Seamaster's a brawny scuba watch worn by Daniel Craig's bone-breaking James Bond.
00:27:31.000Whether a conscious fashion statement or not, the high-end but macho watches suggest that even at 78, this former high school football star of the Kennedy years still wants to be seen as a he-man, rugged and young at heart.
00:27:58.000Now, if a Republican wore an expensive watch and came from nothing...
00:28:02.000If the New York Times were to do an article about the fact that I own expensive watches, do you think that it would be really rooted in, Shapiro grew up in a two-bedroom home of 1,100 square feet, sharing a room with three siblings with one bathroom.
00:28:15.000So six people, 1,100 square feet, one bathroom, one phone.
00:28:19.000Do you think that it would be about the rising from humble beginnings to be able to own an expensive watch?
00:28:23.000Or do you think it would be like, look at that elitist with his expensive watch.
00:28:57.000The goal is we are going to push Joe Biden as a normal human.
00:29:01.000And the reason we're going to push Joe Biden as a normal human is so we don't have to cover the fact that his policy is absolutely abnormal.
00:29:06.000And that's the thing. The more you pretend he's normal, the less you have to focus on his policy.
00:29:10.000So for example, he just killed the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:29:15.000It just killed at least 11,000 American jobs. It pissed off our northern neighbors in Canada.
00:29:20.000Ted Cruz asked Pete Buttigieg about this and Buttigieg was like, well, yeah, I understand we're killing lots of jobs, but you have to understand that overall it's going to create jobs.
00:29:35.000Here is Ted Cruz with the—the hoping for—the incoming Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg.
00:29:42.000I think the most important thing is to make sure that we make good on the promise of the president's climate vision as being one that, on net, creates far more jobs.
00:29:54.000We'll have to do a lot of work to make sure that's real.
00:29:57.000But getting this right means ensuring that there are more good-paying union jobs for all Americans delivered through that infrastructure vision.
00:30:35.000Okay, other normal things that have been happening over the weekend.
00:30:38.000So Joe Biden is now set to lift restrictions on transgender military service members.
00:30:42.000So, to understand exactly what this means, you have to understand what the policy was before.
00:30:48.000So the actual policy on transgender service members was, in 2019, rewritten slightly.
00:30:55.000And the basic idea is that it was okay to identify as transgender in the military.
00:30:59.000There actually was no formal transgender military ban as implemented by the United States military.
00:31:05.000But the actual transgender military ban was designed to prevent, essentially, people from joining up And then suffering from severe mental illness, gender dysphoria, and then needing transgender surgeries.
00:31:17.000That's what it was designed to do, right?
00:31:19.000So the policy allowed that if you wanted a transgender surgery, the military could discharge you because now you're basically joining up and then you required surgeries that shouldn't be paid for by the taxpayer was the basic idea.
00:31:32.000By the way, the idea that this was some form of discrimination is completely bizarre, considering the fact that there are a bevy of mental illnesses that make you ineligible for military service.
00:31:41.000According to thebalancecareers.com, here are some of the disqualifying medical conditions for serving in the military.
00:31:47.000No one has a right to serve in the military.
00:31:49.000First of all, this is not what I'm about to say right here.
00:31:51.000None of this is a referendum on individuals, transgender or otherwise, who are joining the military and doing something far more patriotic than I have done.
00:31:58.000All of those people should be given enormous, enormous tribute.
00:32:00.000This is a question of how you make military policy.
00:32:04.000Military policy does not allow the following people to join the military.
00:32:11.000Unless you can demonstrate passing academic performance and no use of medication in the prior year.
00:32:17.000You are not allowed to join the military if you have a current or history of academic skills or perceptual defects, including but not limited to dyslexia.
00:32:27.000If you have any history of disorders that have psychotic features like schizophrenia or paranoid disorder, Any mood disorder like depression or bipolar or psychosis, all of that is disqualifying.
00:32:38.000Any history of mood disorder requiring medication and or outpatient care for longer than six months by a mental health professional is also disqualifying.
00:32:46.000Also, any symptoms of mood and mental issue that affect social ability, school and learning, or work efficiency, disqualifying.
00:33:00.000Any speech impediment, stammering, stuttering, or other receptive or expressive language disorder that may significantly interfere with the ability to repeat commands is disqualifying.
00:33:08.000Any history of suicidal behavior that even includes discussions, gestures, or the actual attempt is disqualifying.
00:33:46.000The policy, by the way, was, until Joe Biden came into power, that currently serving transgender troops, anyone who's signed an enlistment contract would be able to continue with plans for hormone treatments and gender transition, but no one with gender dysphoria who is taking hormones or had transitioned to another gender would be allowed to enlist.
00:34:01.000Anyone currently serving, any currently serving troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria will have to serve in birth gender, you can't just switch gender, and barred from taking hormones or getting transition surgery.
00:34:10.000That was the Trump administration policy.
00:34:19.000They're going to be pursuing equity, above all.
00:34:21.000By equity, the Democrats mean that they're going to be seeking equal outcome, not the enforcement of equal rights.
00:34:29.000According to the New York Times, In his first days in office, President Biden has devoted more attention to issues of racial equity than any new president since Lyndon Baines Johnson, a focus that has jeered civil rights activists and drawn early criticism from conservatives.
00:34:41.000In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to defeat white supremacy, using a burst of executive orders on day one to declare that, quote, advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity is the responsibility of our whole government.
00:34:54.000He has ordered his coronavirus response team to ensure that vaccines are distributed equitably, not on the basis of risk, equitably.
00:35:01.000His $1.9 trillion recovery plan targets underserved communities by calling for paid leave for women forced out of jobs, unemployment benefits that largely help black and brown workers, and expanded tax credits for impoverished Americans who are disproportionately non-white.
00:35:14.000So they are looking at equity issues above all.
00:35:20.000But don't worry, guys, this is all normal.
00:35:22.000This is just, this is the new normal, because Biden's a normal guy.
00:35:25.000So don't pay any attention to what his actual agenda is.
00:35:28.000Just pay attention to the fact that he's a normal dude who likes chocolate chip ice cream.
00:35:32.000And even though he wears expensive watches, it's like a normal guy wearing expensive watches, not like a rich guy wearing expensive watches.
00:35:36.000Okay, in a second, we're gonna get to more of the abnormal policy and what it means for the country.
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00:37:29.000We picked up Run, Hide, Fight after Hollywood Studios turned away from the quote-unquote distasteful subject because it didn't include leftist talking points and celebrated actual bravery.
00:37:37.000Run, Hide, Fight follows a 17-year-old girl who fights back against school shooters.
00:38:54.000I was struck by how Republicans and Democrats are committed to each other across party lines, how fervently they want to break the partisan logjam is all the normality.
00:39:01.000And then he says this, if this doesn't work and Republicans go into full obstruction mode, Democrats should absolutely kill the filibuster.
00:39:09.000Oh, you mean you're going to kill the filibuster, which has been the greatest procedural check on majoritarian excesses for the past, I don't know, 180 years or so?
00:39:22.000That seems like kind of not normal, actually.
00:40:57.000Equity is about the idea that if you have a disproportionate number of white old people, you should ignore the elderly in favor of younger black people, right?
00:41:21.000Here was Dr. Fauci explaining that now he is free, science will rule, science will speak, men are ladies, babies don't exist until they're born.
00:41:31.000The president made it very clear that what we were going to do going forward is everything is going to be based on science and evidence and data.
00:41:42.000And science will rule and science will speak.
00:42:07.000The vaccine that's been put in place was created under the Trump administration.
00:42:10.000The vaccine plan that will be put in place will be a Trump administration plan with very, very minor tweaks by the incoming Biden administration.
00:42:53.000It's not so much about what they do as much as the attitude.
00:42:56.000So Xavier Becerra, who is a radical leftist.
00:42:59.000He was the Attorney General of the state of California.
00:43:01.000There is no reason in hell this man should be up for Secretary of Health and Human Services other than he checks particular intersectional boxes.
00:43:28.000Here is Xavier Becerra openly playing down the response of the Biden administration.
00:43:33.000You see, when bad things happen and you say they're going to happen, I feel like the joker here, but this is how the media approach this stuff.
00:43:38.000If you say bad things are going to happen and then they happen, the media take it in stride.
00:43:42.000If you say bad things are not going to happen and then they happen, this means that you're a bad person.
00:43:46.000So here is Xavier Becerra being like, yeah, lots of people are going to die.
00:45:11.000The president, before he had an opportunity to be in the Oval Office for one day, had already committed 100 million vaccine shots in 100 days.
00:45:22.000Okay, I'm just going to point out here that Fauci has already backtracked on this.
00:45:26.000So originally, Fauci said, by 100 million vaccine shots in 100 days, that's not what he said.
00:45:30.000He said 100 million vaccinated in 100 million days.
00:46:05.000According to KTVU, his administration won't disclose key information that will help determine when his latest stay-at-home order is lifted.
00:46:12.000But today, he's announcing that you're free to move around.
00:46:41.000This goal would be to prevent him from ever running for office again.
00:46:47.000According to the Washington Post, Democratic members of Congress are pressing ahead with preparations for the second impeachment trial of former President Trump, saying there is a compelling case for Trump to be convicted of inciting an insurrection and arguing that moving forward with the trial is imperative for the country's healing.
00:47:00.000Meanwhile, fractures within the Republican Party were evident on Sunday.
00:47:03.000GOP senators appeared split on whether it was even constitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a president who had already left office.
00:47:09.000Mitt Romney said that they should push forward an impeachment trial because we need unity.
00:47:15.000So here is Mitt Romney, who, again, voted for the impeachment the first time around.
00:47:19.000So he's saying, shockingly, that he's going to vote for impeachment the second time around.
00:47:21.000And also, this will bring unity, right?
00:47:40.000I think he's wrong about this, but here's Senator Romney.
00:47:43.000Well, we're certainly going to have a trial.
00:47:45.000I wish that weren't necessary, but the president's conduct with regards to the call, the Secretary of State Raffensperger in Georgia, as well as the incitation towards the insurrection that led to the attack on the Capitol calls for a trial.
00:48:00.000And, you know, if we're going to have unity in our country, I think it's important to recognize the need for accountability, for truth and justice.
00:48:08.000So I think there will be a trial and I hope it goes as quickly as possible.
00:48:55.000Constitution, and I think, and I know that there are other people out there that may disagree with me, but Article 1 sections, I think it's 6 and 7, specifically point out that you can impeach the president, and it does not indicate that you can impeach someone who is not in office.
00:49:12.000So I think it's a moot point, and I think it's one that That they would have a very difficult time in trying to get done within the Senate.
00:49:38.000While wrongheaded, the Democrats had every right to do it.
00:49:40.000Fast forward to January 2021, a national tragedy occurred when militants, agitators, and zealots were convinced and allowed to believe that January 6th could produce any results other than the certification of the electors of President Joe Biden.
00:49:50.000I stood firmly on the side of those who believe Congress should not overturn state-certified electors and that doing so might destroy the Electoral College.
00:49:56.000Did Trump push Congress to overturn the electors?
00:49:59.000Did some of my colleagues perform a little play for their supporters in which they claimed to be fighting for a different outcome they all knew couldn't happen?
00:50:05.000Did the combination of an out-of-control crowd And this is the right point, okay?
00:50:08.000Forget about the constitutional question of whether you can impeach a person who's no longer sitting in office.
00:50:11.000January 6th, also yes. But to argue that any politician that tells a crowd to fight back to take back your country is somehow guilty of incitement is absurd. And this is the right point. Okay, this is forget about the constitutional question of whether you can impeach a person who's no longer sitting in office. That's sort of an open constitutional question. The historical precedent seems to be you can impeach somebody who is or at least convict somebody after they've already left office in order to prevent them from running for office again.
00:50:36.000Now, I will say that the political acumen of people like Mitt Romney for saying that they think that if they push forward here and the Republicans vote to acquit, which will probably happen, right?
00:50:45.000Again, you need two thirds of the Senate to vote in favor of a conviction here, which is likely not going to happen.
00:50:50.000You'd require 17 Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching Trump here.
00:50:55.000If that doesn't happen, and your goal as Mitt Romney is to, or Mitch McConnell, is to minimize Trump's presence in the party going forward, him not being convicted in the Senate would be like the best thing for him.
00:51:07.000Because what Trump would then argue is, the reason that they were coming after me is not because they wanted me out of office.
00:51:13.000The reason they came after me is they wanted to prevent you from voting for me again.
00:51:17.000And so I am running again to give you the opportunity to vote for me again.
00:51:21.000Counterintuitively, the thing that if Republicans are done with this, and I mean elected Republicans, if elected Republicans, politically speaking, are saying, we're done with this, then pretty much the worst thing they can do is push forward with this entire thing, knowing that it's going to fail.
00:51:37.000Because that tends to, and as I've said before, I think the American people are done with even thinking about this as a general rule.
00:51:44.000The American enthusiasm for impeachment is very high at the beginning, and then it steadily drops off.
00:52:01.000Isn't that what happened on January 6th?
00:52:04.000In any case, Rand Paul makes the best sort of principled point with regard to impeachment.
00:52:10.000He says, if we're to blame politicians for the most violent acts of their craziest supporters, many of my colleagues would face some pretty harsh charges themselves. I've been shot at, assaulted and harassed by supporters of the left, including some who directly said the words of politicians moved them to violence. I was at the ball field when a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter almost killed Steve Scalise and seriously wounded several others. At the time, Democrats were arguing the GOP plan for health care was you get sick and then they let you die.
00:52:33.000Is it any wonder an insane left-wing gunman took that rhetoric to heart and concluded, if the GOP is going to let me die, maybe I'll just kill them first?
00:52:39.000Interestingly, not one Republican stepped up to blame Bernie Sanders or suggest he be impeached or held responsible for the attempted assassination of more than 20 congressmen.
00:52:48.000And he says, what of this exercise the House started and the Senate is about to take up, which some will dutifully report as impeachment?
00:52:54.000Impeachment is a tool to remove somebody from office.
00:52:57.000And again, I think the constitutional question is a lot more unsettled than Paul is making it out to be, but I think that his argument there, which is if the charge is incitement, you actually have to prove incitement.
00:53:07.000And it's very difficult to prove incitement in a speech in which Trump said, I want you to peacefully protest down at the Capitol building.
00:53:12.000That's a very difficult charge to prove just on the face of it.
00:53:15.000Everybody knows that if Trump were in court, there is no way to prove criminal incitement against him on that basis.
00:53:20.000With the Raffensperger call to prove that he was intimidating Raffensperger.
00:53:24.000Number one, you'd have to show that he actually had leverage over Raffensperger.
00:53:26.000And number two, you'd have to show he wasn't just mouthing off.
00:53:28.000We talked about that on the show, even when it happened.
00:53:53.000But the basic idea of impeachment for the Democrats is, of course, political.
00:53:57.000They want to keep Trump top of the headlines.
00:53:58.000The more they keep Trump top, this ties back into the idea that what they are looking for is to contrast Biden's supposed personal normalcy with Donald Trump's supposed personal abnormality.
00:54:09.000And that way, you'll ignore all of the underlying policy that is shifting radically in the direction of a hardcore left.
00:54:14.000And this is why Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are really pushing this thing.
00:54:16.000Here is Chuck Schumer, late in the week, explaining bizarrely that President Trump actually incited an erection.
00:54:23.000I don't know what Chuck Schumer is thinking about here.
00:54:25.000That's a weird thing to say, but here we go.
00:54:28.000Make no mistake, there will be a trial, and when that trial ends, senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John Trump incited the erection, Insurrection against the United States.
00:54:59.000It's a fraught time in American politics.
00:55:01.000And meanwhile, the generalized push in the culture continues to be, and this is going to be, I think, part of the pushback on the right to any sort of impeachment effort, is going to be there's a broader effort Right now, in the media, to not just go after Trump, obviously, but to suggest that if you don't want Trump impeached, or if you ever voted for Trump and you do want him impeached, if you ever supported any element of Trump, you're part of the abnormality.
00:55:24.000Right, the goal of, again, if the whole campaign here is we are the new normal ones, the Democrats, we're the normal ones, right?
00:55:30.000And look at Trump, that guy wasn't normal.
00:56:09.000And then there was the backlash that has now been caused against 74 million Americans on the other side.
00:56:13.000And it's more than that because many more people actually agree with basic conservative principles than actually voted for Trump.
00:56:19.000The press are going hard after anybody who disagrees with them.
00:56:23.000The founding fathers believed that the greatest protectors of press freedoms would be members of the press.
00:56:28.000As it turns out, the people who are leading the charge in terms of taking away press freedoms are members of the press going after their political opponents.
00:56:36.000This is why you have a piece by Margaret Sullivan, the media columnist over at the Washington Post, about how to basically take Fox News off the air.
00:57:21.000Losing the traditionally red state would make it that much harder to proclaim the election was so close, it must in fact have been stolen by the Democrats.
00:57:27.000It would disrupt the big lie narrative.
00:57:29.000By the way, the fact that the media have universally taken to calling this the big lie, as in like Joseph Goebbels' big lie, is pretty astonishingly tone deaf.
00:57:38.000There's a difference between saying the election was stolen, which is a lie, and suggesting the Jews are responsible for all our problems, let's genocide them.
00:58:02.000In recent days, Fox has taken a sharp turn toward a more extreme approach as it confronts a post-Trump ratings dip.
00:58:07.000The result of some of its furthest right viewers moving to outlets like Newsmax and One America News and some middle of the roaders apparently finding CNN or MSNBC more to their liking.
00:58:15.000With profits as the one true religion at Fox, something had to change.
00:58:18.00089-year-old Rupert Murdoch, according to a number of reports, has stepped in to call the shots directly.
00:58:23.000Most notably, the network has decided to add an hour of opinion programming to its primetime offerings.
00:58:28.000Okay, so what is the solution for Margaret Sullivan?
00:58:31.000The solution for Margaret Sullivan is to basically destroy Fox News.
00:58:36.000She says, how to get the Fox News monster under control.
00:58:39.000I do not believe the government should have any role in regulating what can and can't be said on the air, although I often hear that proposed.
00:58:44.000That would be a cure worse than the disease.
00:58:45.000But let's not count on the hope that Fox controlling Murdoch's will develop a conscience.
00:58:50.000No, the only answer is to speak the language the bigwigs at Fox will understand.
00:58:56.000Corporations that advertise on Fox News should walk away.
00:59:00.000Citizens who care about the truth should demand that they do so, in addition to trying to steer their friends and relatives away from the network.
00:59:08.000When you think about Fox's role in the 400,000 U.S.
00:59:11.000lives lost to the pandemic, it's fair to call their coverage deadly.
00:59:15.000Some corporations don't want to be a part of that.
00:59:18.000If reality-based America wants to communicate clearly with Fox News, they'll have to do it in a language they understand.
00:59:38.000Over the weekend, Anand Giridharadas, an MSNBC talking head and New York University journalism professor, former New York Times writer, he tweeted, Should Fox News be allowed to exist?
00:59:49.000Brainmashing as a business shouldn't be legal.
00:59:52.000He continued, I'm not a lawyer, but I don't understand why you're not allowed to manufacture Bucatini that doesn't have a certain threshold of iron in it, but you can broadcast brainmashing, falsehoods, and goad people toward terrorism.
01:00:04.000So that's pretty astonishing stuff there from a journalism professor at New York University.
01:00:40.000Where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails.
01:00:44.000Masha Gessen and Andrew Marantz over at the New Yorker.
01:00:48.000They've been writing about how we should basically restrict media because free speech can't fulfill its function if people are allowed to hear dissenting views.
01:00:56.000They said, the news media have traditionally borne the responsibility for ensuring that the actual purpose of the First Amendment is fulfilled.
01:01:02.000Yet Americans are content to leave this essential component of democracy to profit-driven corporations with next to no regulatory oversight.
01:01:09.000They complained that Mark Zuckerberg had given a speech in which he said free speech was good.
01:01:15.000Okay, this is, and the list goes on and on and on.
01:01:19.000The push by big name members over at the Washington Post and the New York Times.
01:01:24.000Max Boot last week suggesting that we ought to regulate outlets they don't like.
01:01:28.000Okay, the push for cancellation is incredibly strong right now.
01:01:31.000Incredibly, and it's only gonna get stronger.
01:01:34.000Again, to restore normalcy, all we have to do is do unbelievably non-normal things.
01:01:53.000Once you let the woke out of the cage, they just go wild.
01:01:56.000And that is what's been happening on social media.
01:01:58.000Latest to find herself in the box is Miley Cyrus, So that's exciting stuff.
01:02:03.000Miley Cyrus, who identifies as bisexual, or pansexual, right?
01:02:07.000She said she's pansexual, which means she likes pans.
01:02:09.000But also, she likes both guys and girls.
01:02:12.000So, she did an interview with SiriusXM's Barstool Radio, where she said, She said that she's not interested in the male genitalia, and she suggested that everyone knows that breasts are prettier than A male genitalia are prettier than testicles.
01:02:33.000Okay, and this is why she says that she's into girls.
01:03:37.000A TERF is a person who is reinforcing the anti-trans positions of the lesbian community.
01:03:46.000In an age where TERFs are more vocal than they've ever been, comments like these reinforce some very dangerous ideas about bodies and gender, says Out Magazine.
01:03:54.000Having a gender preference or even a genitalia preference in who you sleep with is obviously not a problem, but to reduce the genitalia to men's bodies contributes to dangerous beliefs about trans women.
01:04:09.000Because so many people like Miley believe that genitals determine gender, trans women, and girls are often considered to be men in public spaces.
01:04:16.000Oh, you mean like men are considered to be men in public spaces?
01:04:20.000Trans women are kicked out of women's restrooms, locker rooms, and school sports, not allowed in women's shelters, put in prison with men, murdered all because they have male genitalia.
01:04:29.000First of all, Andy Ngo has done some interesting work on the actual number of trans people who are being murdered.
01:04:37.000In any case, put that aside for a second.
01:04:40.000The basic notion that biological men should not be allowed in ladies' locker rooms seems fairly unobjectionable, but again, everybody is subject to the cancel culture.
01:04:50.000Once you let the cat out of the bag, once you start canceling people for views you don't like, And once you start conflating your own views with quote-unquote the facts, there is no limit to the kind of censorship you will pursue.
01:05:10.000But again, at least we can enjoy a little bit of the schadenfreude of watching people who have been doing the cancelling in the past being cancelled.
01:05:18.000One of these, Lauren Wolf, was an editor over at the New York Times.
01:05:22.000By the way, I don't think she should have been cancelled for this.
01:05:23.000I don't think she should have lost her editorial job.
01:05:25.000I think the New York Times should just own it.
01:05:26.000She tweeted out something about how she had chills, how she had chills when Joe Biden landed in Air Force One.
01:05:33.000Just a few months ago, she tweeted, it's hilarious, this refrain of cancel culture, as if it is actually anything.
01:05:38.000Then she was fired, apparently, over that tweet about Trump.
01:05:41.000And then she's like, you know, when people talk about canceling, they forget that I'm a real person with a real life and a real job who now has to make the bills.