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00:01:49.000All right, so the Democrats are now realizing that they have gone too far.
00:01:53.000This is the pattern of this week's news.
00:01:55.000Democrats say crazy things because they're trying to appeal to their base and also because they have made a crucial category error.
00:02:02.000The category error they have made is that if people don't like President Trump, that means that people don't like anything President Trump agrees with.
00:02:25.000A lot of people may not like him, but that does not mean that the American people take the opposite position on all of the issues he espouses.
00:02:32.000In fact, there's a good case to be made that Trump's positions are significantly more popular than he is, which is why his approval ratings are generally higher than his personal approval ratings.
00:02:42.000Well, the fact is that Democrats seem not to be able to grasp this simple concept.
00:02:46.000And so they continue to maintain that anything that Trump is in favor of must be by nature terrible, and they go all the way to the other logical extreme.
00:02:55.000That is how they end up saying that we should get rid of all private health insurance in the company, as Senator Kamala Harris said earlier this week.
00:03:01.000That is why you are seeing states like New York and Virginia and Rhode Island now considering the full legalization of Termination of pregnancy, killing of the unborn, up to point of birth.
00:03:13.000Now, what's funny is that it does show the differential priorities of the two parties.
00:03:18.000The differential priorities of people in the United States.
00:03:21.000If you listen to folks on the left, they think that the grave threat to humanity lies in things like global warming.
00:03:27.000So Seth Meyers, last night, he was talking about President Trump and suggesting that President Trump, global warming, this is what was going to get all of us killed, Seth Meyers.
00:03:36.000Ahead of the expected polar vortex this week, President Trump tweeted last night, quote, what the hell is going on with global warming?
00:04:18.000And that's what's going to get us all killed.
00:04:20.000Okay, so the suggestion is that global warming is going to get us all killed.
00:04:22.000By the way, I should side note, make clear that the media are terrible when it comes to this distinction between weather and climate.
00:04:28.000So every time Republicans point out that there's been a real cold snap across the entire Midwest, and they say, ah, global warming, then people on the left correctly say, no, no, no, that's just weather.
00:04:47.000And then we on the right go, no, no, no, that's weather.
00:04:48.000If you want to look at climate, look at climate.
00:04:50.000They don't apply this rule consistently.
00:04:52.000But the main point here is that for Seth Meyers, what's going to get all of us killed, the grave moral crisis of our age, is that it is going to be a little warmer outside over the course of the next hundred years.
00:05:02.000And that that may shift sea levels over the course, again, of the next hundred years.
00:05:06.000The way the left talks about global warming is the same way that President Trump talks about the so-called border crisis, right?
00:05:11.000It's a slow-rolling problem that we're going to have to deal with.
00:05:14.000Folks on the left suggest, in the same way that President Trump says it's a national emergency, mobilize the military, folks on the left seem to think about global warming that it is going to be like the day after tomorrow, that suddenly the earth is going to heat up radically, 20 degrees, and there will be mass tsunamis swamping all of New York City, and Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal will be running through the wreckage.
00:05:34.000But in any case, the crisis that Democrats really see is a crisis of the weather, of the climate, a crisis that requires a complete destruction of the systems of human freedom, right?
00:05:46.000Those systems of human freedom of free trade and free markets and free enterprise.
00:05:49.000All that stuff has to stop because if we don't stop that stuff, then we are going to be destroyed by the weather.
00:05:54.000What folks on the left refuse to recognize is that the real crisis for humans typically has been made by people who do evil things.
00:06:04.000It is not evil to turn on your air conditioner.
00:06:06.000It is evil, however, to kill the unborn.
00:06:12.000Crises of the human heart are significantly more dangerous to other human beings than weather events that human beings have had trouble controlling for literally the entire history of humanity.
00:06:22.000So the left will put inordinate focus on climate change, but they will put no focus on the willful attempts to legalize the killing of babies fully formed in the womb who just have not gone through the birth canal.
00:07:06.000In the same way, and it's disgusting morally, in the same way, the vaginal canal does not define whether a person is a person or not.
00:07:13.000And yet, in Virginia, without any controversy, Democrats were attempting to push a bill that would have legalized abortion all the way to point of birth.
00:07:24.000Now, what's amazing about this is we're going to play a bunch of clips of Democrats talking about why it's good to be able to kill a baby Fully formed, during dilation.
00:07:34.000I've watched my wife in labor with both of our children.
00:07:51.000I have been bewildered for legitimately years.
00:07:53.000Go back and listen to all of my old material for...
00:07:57.000Well, in close to two decades now, I've been bewildered why Republicans don't simply hold up a picture of a baby minutes before birth and say, this is what Democrats think it is OK to kill, because it is obvious that this has been and is the standing Democratic position these days, which is sick.
00:08:14.000And Kathy Tran, who's a state senator in in a state assembly person, In the House of Representatives in Virginia, she full-scale defended that, as we talked about yesterday.
00:08:26.000To refresh your memory, here is what she said when she was specifically asked whether for mental health reasons, not to save the life of the mother, but for any health reason whatsoever, for a temporary convenience issue, a mother should be allowed to ask a doctor to lethally inject a fully formed child as it enters the birth canal.
00:08:44.000Late in the third trimester, could a physician perform an abortion if he indicated it would impair the mental health of the woman?
00:09:51.000There was a commentator named Damon Linker, and he was saying, why is the Right picking on this?
00:09:55.000You know, if the Right really believes that an abortion is morally as evil at eight weeks as it is at birth, then why are they picking on this?
00:10:02.000The reason that we're picking on this, the reason we're pointing this out, is that we do agree on the Right that an abortion at eight weeks, at ten weeks, is just as morally problematic, as morally evil, as an abortion at point of birth.
00:10:15.000But what the left is acknowledging is that they believe the same thing in reverse.
00:10:18.000They believe that it is just as morally unproblematic to kill a baby that is fully formed as it is to kill a baby at eight weeks.
00:10:26.000Which blows their entire argument to smithereens, because their argument has been, a baby is not a baby, that's why you can kill it.
00:10:31.000But now, they're looking at a full-grown baby in the womb, and they're going, no, no, no, that's okay, we can kill that too, because it's the same as an eight-week-old baby in the womb.
00:10:39.000And so the argument is not an argument that we're making.
00:10:41.000We are demonstrating by pointing out the partial birth abortion insanity of the left.
00:10:45.000We're pointing out that there are a lot of folks on the left who full-scale acknowledge that an eight-week-old fetus in the womb has the same moral value as a fully grown baby, namely none.
00:10:56.000Folks on the right say an eight-week-old baby in the womb, an eight-week-old fetus in the womb has the same moral value as a fully grown baby, therefore you shouldn't kill it.
00:11:03.000Folks on the left are now saying, a fully grown baby has the same moral value as an eight week old fetus in the womb, therefore you should kill it.
00:11:12.000A couple of weeks ago, there was a big controversy on this show because I suggested that pro-life people, that pro-life people are not for killing babies, even in circumstances where killing the baby theoretically would prevent a future harm.
00:11:25.000And I used the oft-cited internet example of killing baby Hitler, right?
00:11:29.000By the way, an example so commonly used on the internet that Tom Hanks commented on it in like 2015.
00:11:33.000There was an article in the New York Times about it in 2015.
00:11:36.000I said pro-life people would not kill baby Hitler because we don't kill babies.
00:11:40.000According to the left, every baby is potentially baby Hitler, so kill it.
00:11:43.000I mean, it's... Which one of these is morally more reprehensible?
00:11:49.000We're gonna play for you the clip of Ralph Northam again, because I think it is important to analyze what he says and whether he is lying or not about what he said in just a second.
00:11:57.000First, let's talk about you getting ready for work in the morning.
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00:13:03.000All right, so meanwhile, so you've got the Kathy Tran clip where she fully explains, baby, coming out the birth canal, Fine.
00:13:11.000And yesterday, we went through the actual legislation.
00:13:14.000The actual legislation dramatically weakens the restrictions on late-term abortion in the state of Virginia.
00:13:19.000There's proposed language in that piece of legislation that said that there would have to be substantial and irremediable harm to a woman in order to justify a late-term abortion, they stripped that language out.
00:13:30.000They said any harm at all, mental or physical, would justify a late-term abortion, even if it's temporary.
00:13:38.000Now, what the bill does say is the bill says that the conditions for late-term abortion, for legalization of late-term abortion, is that there must be life-saving measures that are available if the product of the abortion is born alive, and if there is evidence of viability of the fetus.
00:13:56.000So, the idea there is that if you are in the process of an abortion of a baby, the baby comes out by accident while you're trying to kill the baby in the womb, and it comes out and it lives, if there's evidence of viability, then there shall be some sort of life-saving measures available to take care of the kids.
00:14:20.000So Governor Northam, we're going to play his clip and then we're going to talk about what he says he said and then we're going to talk about what he actually said and the distinction between the two.
00:14:30.000So Ralph Northam is the supposedly moderate governor of Virginia.
00:14:33.000Now let me remind folks that Ralph Northam ran against, I believe it was, was it Ed Gillespie in Virginia?
00:14:43.000And there were a lot of folks who were angry at Ed Gillespie because they felt that Ed Gillespie had been too loosey-goosey with the alt-right, and they said, well, vote for Ralph Northam.
00:14:52.000There were a lot of folks who said, oh, he's a moderate.
00:14:54.000I have long suggested that in cases where there are candidates who are morally unpraiseworthy in the Republican Party, I never made that case, by the way, there are a lot of folks who make the case that if there's a bad Republican, you should vote for the Democrat.
00:15:07.000You can't, in good conscience, vote for people who do things like this.
00:15:10.000Here is Ralph Northam yesterday, and we're going to play the full clip because he says he's being taken out of context.
00:15:14.000He's asked specifically about Kathy Tran's comments that you should be able to kill a baby all the way up to point of birth.
00:15:21.000You'll hear the questioner from WTOP Radio in Virginia.
00:15:24.000And she was pressed by a Republican delegate about whether her bill would permit an abortion, even as a woman is essentially dilating, ready to give birth.
00:15:33.000And she answered that it would permit an abortion at that stage of labor.
00:15:43.000Yeah, you know, I wasn't there, Julie, and I certainly can't speak for Delegate Tran, but I will tell you, one, first thing I would say, this is why decisions such as this should be made by providers, physicians, And the mothers and fathers that are involved.
00:16:04.000There are, you know, when we talk about third trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of obviously the mother, with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician, by the way.
00:16:18.000And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that's non-viable.
00:16:24.000So, in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.
00:16:31.000The infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated, if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
00:16:44.000So, I think this was really blown out of proportion.
00:16:47.000Okay, stop it there, because the rest of it he just goes on to talk about why women should be the ones who make these decisions and no one else.
00:16:52.000Okay, now, the way that Northam says this clip is being taken out of context.
00:16:55.000He says, I'm talking about cases in which a baby is born with, for example, an encelopathy.
00:17:01.000The baby's born with an open skull, for example.
00:17:03.000The baby's not going to survive, and so the late-term abortion has been provided because the baby is going to die anyway, and so what we're really talking about here is end-of-life care.
00:17:11.000The problem is that the bill doesn't talk about that.
00:17:14.000The bill does not talk about what happens if you give birth to a baby that has a severe deformity.
00:17:21.000The bill was designed to broaden the scope of abortion.
00:17:25.000Also, the way that Northam phrases that, he uses two independent clauses.
00:17:28.000He says, in cases where there is a severe deformity, in cases where the baby is non-viable.
00:17:33.000Now, you could read it as though he is saying that in cases where the baby is non-viable, then we have an end-of-life care discussion because, you know, do you have to use life-saving measures on a baby that is non-viable after it's born?
00:17:45.000But that's not what it sounds like he's saying here, right?
00:17:47.000He is talking about something different.
00:17:48.000He is talking about, because the bill goes beyond that, the bill says you should be able to have a late-term abortion for any reason that you could possibly want, basically.
00:17:57.000As long as you can get a doctor to attest that there's a health issue at all, any health issue, then you should be able to abort for any reason whatsoever.
00:18:04.000He is conflating that dishonestly with cases in which there is a severe abnormality to the point of non-viability.
00:18:13.000The vast majority of late-term abortions in the United States are not performed for reasons of non-viability of the fetus or to save the life of the mother, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which is a pro-abortion group.
00:18:51.000Even if you think that Ralph Northam is taking out of context, he's endorsing a bill that says that a fully formed healthy baby can be killed as long as it doesn't exit that birth canal.
00:19:18.000What if the baby is born without a leg, for example?
00:19:20.000Or let's say that the baby is born with some syndrome that really affects the face.
00:19:23.000Let's say there's a severe abnormality, the baby is born down syndrome.
00:19:27.000Is he talking about a eugenics program?
00:19:29.000A little clarity here would be useful because I don't know and you don't know.
00:19:32.000You know why I don't know and you don't know?
00:19:33.000Because it is very obvious that the Democratic Party across the country does not value the life of fully formed babies in the womb.
00:19:41.000So why would we assume that they suddenly value the lives of fully formed babies one minute after birth?
00:19:46.000I don't think that's a fair assumption.
00:19:48.000Peter Singer, by the way, doesn't, right?
00:19:49.000Peter Singer is a bioethicist, believe it or not, over at Princeton University, and he's made the case that there is no logical distinction between before birth and after birth, and therefore, you should be able to actually kill.
00:19:59.000You should be able to engage in infanticide.
00:20:01.000I think we're about five minutes away from the Democrats actually embracing that position.
00:20:06.000When I say maybe five, ten years, they're going to start actually embracing that position because that's how radical the Democratic Party has become.
00:20:27.000So all these other lies that they're telling you about how they are trying to save the lives of children, or they're trying to care for children, that's a kid.
00:20:36.000And again, the reason that we are bringing this up is because the left recognizes no distinction between a nine-month-old baby in the womb and a two-day-old embryo.
00:20:46.000They have the same moral values of the left.
00:20:48.000That is the destruction of the value of human life at a root level.
00:20:52.000Okay, in a second, I want to get to Howard Schultz, who is just being Hit with every club in the Democratic arsenal for the crime of not running as a Democrat and not paving the way for the SJW crowd to take over the Democratic Party in the country.
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00:22:16.000Howard Schultz being clocked up and down by the left, he cannot be tolerated.
00:22:21.000And he can't be tolerated because it turns out that his story is actually a pretty inspiring one.
00:22:25.000Howard Schultz grew up in the projects, and then he became captain of industry.
00:22:29.000He was the founder and creator of Starbucks, an $84 billion corporation.
00:22:34.000Well, Schultz has been ripped for being a billionaire, and it does demonstrate this communistic hatred on the left for anyone who makes it big and happens to be white.
00:22:43.000So, a friend of mine who has been, she was on my show on Fox News during the last election cycle, Bridget Phetasy, who's not on the right.
00:22:52.000She's a centrist, I think it's fair to say.
00:22:54.000Bridget tweeted out, I don't understand why it is that on the left, people like Howard Schultz are despised and reviled for their wealth, called evil billionaires.
00:24:24.000Because Howard Schultz is a white guy who is not running as a Democrat, this means that he is very bad and he has actually been a child of privilege.
00:24:31.000This is where the intersectional ideology that suggests that all human experience can be reduced to group identity completely falls flat.
00:24:39.000So for example, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez yesterday went after Howard Schultz and suggested, well, he's a billionaire.
00:24:46.000How would he know what it's like to bring himself up from nothing?
00:24:48.000Even though he legitimately brought himself up from nothing.
00:24:51.000Despite that fact, Howard Schultz is not seen as that because he is not, he was privileged not to be a member of any of these other victim groups.
00:25:00.000So if he's not a member of a victim group, it doesn't matter if he grew up as a victim of circumstance himself, he is not a member of a victim group that has historically been victimized in the United States.
00:25:10.000And therefore, he has to be, he has to be othered.
00:25:13.000Schultz was born... Schultz is Jewish, by the way.
00:25:16.000But, again, according to the left, Jews are just other... It's another form of white people, according to people on the left.
00:25:23.000According to people on the left, if you're a Jew, you're no longer a member of a minority group, because Jews are successful minorities.
00:25:28.000And just like on the left, Asians increasingly are being seen as quote-unquote white, because they are too successful fiscally, economically, and educationally, and so they can be quarantined out at places like Harvard University.
00:25:42.000So Schultz is being ripped up and down for his own background.
00:25:47.000And it's it is pretty amazing to watch.
00:25:49.000I mean, that is simply it's simply an element of how radical the Democratic Party has become.
00:26:33.000I will never know the trauma of feeling like I'm not born in the right body.
00:26:39.000And that is a privilege that I have no matter how poor my family was when I was born.
00:26:46.000Okay, now what's beautiful about this excuse-making, because that's really what it is, this excuse-making is that what it allows is people to simply rip on anyone who is successful as actually a beneficiary of privilege, rather than a beneficiary of the ultimate privilege, which is living in a free and open America.
00:27:02.000Howard Schultz was not a privileged kid.
00:27:17.000The second privilege we can all sort of control, and that is the system under which we live.
00:27:21.000But the problem is for the left, they don't want to acknowledge the ultimate privilege, which is living in a free and open system like the United States' system.
00:27:27.000So what they say is that your other privileges are the reason you're successful.
00:27:30.000So the reason Howard Schultz is successful is because he had privileges being white slash Jewish.
00:27:36.000And therefore, we can discount his story of rags to riches.
00:27:39.000Whereas for Oprah Winfrey, we can't discount her story of rags to riches because she didn't have that privilege.
00:27:44.000That's how they make the distinction between billionaires.
00:27:46.000Intersectionality allows you to destroy the accomplishments of other people based on supposed privilege that they experienced, even if you have no evidence of them experiencing that privilege.
00:27:56.000Which allows for you to draw a narrative line however you want to draw it.
00:27:59.000So AOC can point to herself as an example of somebody who pulled herself up by her bootstraps, and then she can point at Howard Schultz, a guy who went from poorer than AOC to much more successful than AOC, and say, well that wasn't him pulling him up by his bootstraps, that was his privilege in operation.
00:28:15.000This is how the left uses intersectionality and social justice warrior group identity in order to tear down individuals who succeed and avoid blame for individuals who make bad decisions.
00:28:26.000You can, it's a get-out-of-jail-free card.
00:28:28.000Intersectionality is too often used as a get-out-of-jail-free card.
00:28:31.000Now, is there an argument that people experience life differently based on the groups of which they are a part?
00:28:39.000In the absence of other information, maybe.
00:28:41.000But once we know about their individual life, you can't make that case.
00:28:44.000So if you were to put in front of me a black woman and say, did this person have a different experience than a white man in life?
00:28:51.000I would say, yeah, based on no other information, sure.
00:28:56.000Okay, but once I know who the person is, once we know who the individual is, if you are still using the group identity instead of your knowledge about the individual in order to make a judgment about the individual, now you're operating off of racism and sexism.
00:29:08.000So, if you just put Howard Schultz next to Oprah Winfrey and said, did these two people have different experiences, You'd say, yeah, I'm sure they did.
00:29:16.000Every person has different experiences, but based on their group identities, he's a white male, she's a black female, probably they had different life experiences.
00:29:23.000That's sort of the theory of intersectionality.
00:29:26.000But once we know Howard Schultz's personal story, you can't keep claiming that he is a privilege beneficiary when his story does not reek of privilege.
00:29:35.000And yet this is precisely what the left continues to do.
00:29:40.000This is why Schultz should certainly not run inside the Democratic Party.
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00:32:29.000So the problem that a lot of the folks have with Howard Schultz is that they want to pull the intersectional card.
00:32:41.000And Howard Schultz, but it doesn't work unless you actually buy into the intersectional identity politics of the Democratic Party.
00:32:47.000This is why Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, all at a severe disadvantage inside the Democratic Party.
00:32:52.000They also understand that if they were to move outside the Democratic Party, they'd end up in the Green Party, Looney Tunes land of Joe Stein.
00:32:58.000Well, Howard Schultz is, I think, I think he scares the daylights out of Democrats, frankly, and I think that he ought to scare the daylights out of Democrats.
00:33:05.000You can see how afraid they are by the way the media are reacting to Howard Schultz.
00:33:11.000Schultz is pointing out, guys, you know, the Democrats are moving towards socialism and it's not going to be pretty.
00:33:16.000A lot of people aren't interested in this.
00:33:17.000Here is Schultz saying this on CNN yesterday.
00:33:19.000If the Democrats are proposing anything close to a 70% level of income tax, how many core Democrats are going to be supportive of a move towards socialism?
00:33:36.000Okay, so that is a statement that scares the death out of the left, which wants to embrace, as I say, this full-scale, hardcore, far-left positioning.
00:33:45.000And Shultz is reminding them, guys, just because you don't like Trump doesn't mean that everybody is going to resonate to your cause.
00:33:50.000The left is going nuts over this, because they want to provide this stark dichotomy.
00:33:53.000They want you to have to choose between President Trump and socialism.
00:33:57.000And they hope that if you hate President Trump enough, you'll resonate to socialism.
00:34:00.000And suddenly, here's Shultz saying, you don't have to choose Trump, and you don't have to choose socialism.
00:34:04.000That sounds pretty good to a lot of Americans.
00:34:07.000I know there are a lot of Trump supporters who listen to this show, but understand his popularity ratings are not all that high, right?
00:34:12.000There are a lot of folks who are not going to vote for President Trump in the next election cycle.
00:34:16.000The possibility that Shultz carves into that vote by saying, I don't like Trump and also I'm not a crazy person, Not an insignificant possibility.
00:34:23.000Listen to the panic from the media over this.
00:34:49.000He feels like Warren G. Harding in 1920.
00:34:50.000That was the Warren G. Harding campaign slogan in 1920.
00:34:55.000After the insanity of the Woodrow Wilson administration was return to normalcy.
00:34:59.000Howard Schultz should make that his slogan, honestly, because he feels like return to normalcy for a lot of folks.
00:35:04.000And this is scaring the death out of Democrats in the media who really want the AOC wing of the Democratic Party to be a Senate, the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party.
00:35:12.000So listen to MSNBC's Nicole Wallace freaking out, just losing her mind on Steve Schmidt, who's an advisor to Howard Schultz.
00:35:23.000And people are terrified that you, one of the most visible Trump critics, are now behind someone that they feel like could take away the Democrats' best chance of toppling Donald Trump.
00:35:51.000Explaining why Howard Schultz is the scariest person in the world.
00:35:54.000These two people, Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, on very different ends of the spectrum, are both thinking, yeah, we could both run in the Democratic primary and we'll just see if anyone likes our ideas.
00:36:04.000Howard Schultz thinks that he doesn't have to do that, that he gets to just run on his own as an independent and do it that way, even if it means hurting the Democratic candidate and helping to re-elect Trump.
00:36:13.000And that's just a f***ing awful thing to do.
00:36:16.000I mean, people should be restricted to running inside the Democratic Party, where we, the pod bros, can determine whether they ought to even receive the votes of the general public.
00:36:25.000I love that the people who suggest that Donald Trump is a force against democracy are suggesting that third-party candidates should now be banned.
00:36:32.000A third-party candidate is not a guarantee that Trump wins re-election.
00:36:35.000It's not even a guarantee that all of the votes for Howard Schultz come from the Democratic Party.
00:36:40.000It is quite possible that he draws away a bunch of suburban Republicans who would normally vote for Trump, and now they see Schultz as some sort of moderate.
00:36:48.000Schultz is relying on, apparently, some interior polling data, is what Josh Crashour over at National Journal was tweeting yesterday.
00:36:56.000He says, Schultz commissioned several ballot tests over the past few months.
00:37:00.000...and found that centrist Indy polls between 25 low to low 30s.
00:37:04.000Between 25 and low 30s, President Trump consistently at 29 to 30 percent, Elizabeth Warren between 26 and 30 percent.
00:37:12.000In other words, the vote splits exactly three ways.
00:37:14.000With Warren on the ballot, they found that about 24 percent of Democrats defected to the generic centrist independence alternative and 20 percent of Trump Republicans.
00:37:22.000Polling found that Trump's support was strong with Republicans around 70 percent.
00:37:27.000A generic centrist indie option would lead to a higher percentage than if any other candidate were named.
00:37:32.000Like, Schultz is not going to draw all of that.
00:37:35.000The centrist in the option carried about 40% of independence on average in the surveys that Schultz conducted.
00:37:39.000In reality, this probably, this probably, you know, he probably wins 10-15% of the vote.
00:37:44.000But there's no guarantee that that 10-15% of the vote comes universally from folks on the left.
00:37:49.000It is quite possible that folks in the Republican Party see somebody like Schultz as a return to normalcy also, which is presumably why President Trump was ripping on Schultz the other day.
00:38:01.000What's amazing is that for a group of people who are fully convinced that their ideas are so wildly popular, why are they so scared of Howard Schultz?
00:38:08.000I don't think Republicans should be scared of Howard Schultz, because I don't think that the Republican platform is loony.
00:38:13.000I think the Democratic platform is loony.
00:38:15.000I think the real hole for the Republicans has never been their platform with President Trump.
00:38:19.000It's been President Trump's personal foibles, which is why I think it's very good that President Trump today started tweeting out what should be his 2020 campaign.
00:39:02.000So, as we mentioned, intersectionality, this philosophy that everybody is a beneficiary of certain types of group privilege, And we can discount their personal experience on the basis of their group privilege.
00:39:13.000This has taken over the Democratic Party, and it's leading them to misread the nature of the electorate.
00:39:18.000So the demographics of America are clearly changing in interesting ways.
00:39:23.000In 2020, there will be more Hispanic than black voters, and whites are declining to 66% of the vote.
00:39:28.000Now, a lot of folks on the right have said, well, this is scary for Republicans because as the Hispanic vote percentage increases, as minority vote percentage increases in the United States, that's obviously bad for Republicans.
00:40:00.000So here is AOC making that case yesterday, suggesting that The real driving force in the Democratic Party right now is minorities inside the Democratic Party.
00:40:10.000Colors are usually much further to the left than white liberals because racism, colonialism are, we understand through lived experience in a way that many don't understand, that these are issues that are part of a hyper-capitalist framework.
00:40:57.000A lot of the folks in minority communities who are on the left are actually not by nature particularly left when it comes to government policy.
00:41:04.000A lot of them are left because they have a false perception of Republicans as racially insensitive.
00:41:08.000And that's why Democrats run on the intersectionality stuff as opposed to running on the Bernie Sanders platform.
00:41:13.000The problem is that Democrats are now assuming the support of those groups.
00:41:17.000And that's a hell of an assumption to make.
00:41:19.000Assuming that all blacks and all Hispanics are going to vote for you because you have sufficiently cast Republicans as racist That's only going to last so long.
00:41:27.000This is why Bernie Sanders did not do well among minority groups in the Democratic primaries in 2016.
00:41:36.000Hillary Clinton was not popular among minority groups in 2008, because they actually had an intersectional candidate named Barack Obama on the ballot.
00:41:43.000But in 2016, Hillary Clinton overperformed with minority groups when compared to Bernie Sanders.
00:41:55.000The answer is a lot of Hispanics in this country are not, in fact, as left as mainstream white members of the Democratic Party who have skewed far to the left, which is why a centrist candidate who is not perceived in the way that Donald Trump is perceived could do some damage to the Democratic Party.
00:42:10.000All of this is, of course, I think really, really interesting.
00:42:13.000And frankly, I have always been a fan of the idea that there should be more than two parties in the country that are viable.
00:42:18.000I know that the system tends toward two-party dominance.
00:42:20.000It tends to, because it's first-past-the-post system, it's a majoritarian system, that means that, and there's no secondary voting, and there's no proportional representation, that tends toward well-organized two-party systems.
00:42:32.000But frankly, I like the idea of there being a lot of options on the ballot.
00:42:39.000And I think the Democrats trying to shut it down demonstrates they know that their own agenda is too radical for the American people.
00:42:45.000I mean, how radical is the agenda of the left?
00:42:50.000They've gone so far left that the Rules Committee for the Rules for the Committee on Natural Resources in the U.S.
00:42:56.000House of Representatives, Democrats were trying to propose that they actually remove from the oath of office, so help me God, that they should actually remove that.
00:43:05.000Now, it is not mandatory that you say so help me God, but it's pro forma.
00:43:09.000The reason being that Pretty much everyone in the United States, even people who are quasi-agnostic, believe in the existence of a higher power.
00:43:17.000The United States is a far more religious country, generally, than folks in Europe are.
00:43:28.000You think that agenda is in line with a lot of black folks in the United States?
00:43:31.000A lot of black church-going folks in the United States?
00:43:33.000There is an actual disconnect that Republicans have yet to exploit between the radical left socialist policies of people like Bernie Sanders, anti-religion, anti-family policies of people like Bernie Sanders, pro-abortion policies of people like Bernie Sanders, and religious communities, particularly minority religious communities.
00:43:51.000All those Catholics, all those Catholic Hispanics who are voting Democrat in the state of California because they have a perception of the Republican Party, they're still going to church where they're being preached to every week about the evils of abortion.
00:44:02.000Why Republicans aren't focusing on that, why they haven't reached out to minority communities, is beyond me, especially in an era where secular white Democrats rule the roost inside the Democratic Party.
00:44:12.000I mean, you're seeing the Democrats, like, the Democrats have to bank on minority candidates in order to demonstrate sympathy for minorities they hope will lead to electoral victory.
00:44:22.000But I'm not sure that if Bernie Sanders is the candidate, or Elizabeth Warren is the candidate, they can count on the kind of minority support that they are counting on.
00:44:29.000Hillary Clinton made that mistake in 2016, by the way.
00:44:31.000She thought she was going to perform the same with minorities as Barack Obama did, and she didn't.
00:44:36.000She didn't, which proves that it ain't the Democratic platform drawing minorities, really.
00:44:42.000And that's why the Democrats have to use intersectional politics in order to excise people like Howard Schultz, in order to excise people like Bernie Sanders and even Elizabeth Warren.
00:44:50.000It's why Kamala Harris has significant advantage in the primaries.
00:44:53.000It's why if the Democratic Party superstructure is smart, They want somebody like Kamala Harris because if they can signal sympathy via the race of the candidate, then they don't actually have to determine what it is that a lot of minority voters might want in terms of policy.
00:45:08.000Those minority voters may be more sympathetic to Democratic policies than Republican policies, that's certainly possible, but not to the extent that they embrace Bernie Sanders crazy at a higher rate than the normal white Democrat does.
00:45:21.000Okay, in just a second I want to get to some things I like and then we'll get to some things that I hate.
00:45:26.000So my wife and I have jumped into a new show on Netflix.
00:45:28.000It is called Travelers and it's kind of a fun show.
00:45:31.000The basic premise of the show is that sometime in the future, hundreds of years in the future, There's been some horrible environmental disaster caused by an asteroid hitting the earth.
00:45:40.000And now they've discovered in the future a way for people from the future to basically inhabit the bodies of people in the present.
00:45:46.000So what they do is they wait until somebody is about to die so that they're not actually killing anyone.
00:45:50.000And then in the moment where they're about to die, because they know the history, they can inhabit the bodies of those people and try and prevent future catastrophe.
00:45:58.000The show's fun and the show's interesting.
00:47:03.000Well, this led Dr. Nina M. Rosano, who I guess is a queer studies professor i believe that's her biography so she tweeted out ben shapiro espouses hate speech and is linked to numerous hate groups okay i'd challenge her name a hate group i am linked to like one not not numerous like one as an lmu professor i will be organizing protests and alerting the media of lmu's decision to support hate speech which is completely antithetical to our university mission i would note that i believe angela davis spoke there
00:47:30.000She's like an actual former wanted terrorist by the FBI.
00:47:33.000She says, you know, that's completely antithetical to our university mission, as opposed to, it's a Jesuit school, you know, as opposed to the radical left social agenda, which is apparently not antithetical to LMU's Jesuit mission, I guess.
00:48:39.000What we do know is that Jussie Smollett, whose original story you'll recall, is that he was walking on the streets of Chicago At 2 a.m., and he was accosted by two white guys, is what his people told TMZ.
00:48:49.000He was accosted by two white guys, who tossed a noose around his neck, poured bleach on him, and shouted, this is MAGA country, in the middle of Chicago, at 2 a.m., in 60 under windchill.
00:49:00.000And then, they broke his ribs, supposedly, and for some reason, the police were not called to the scene.
00:49:06.000He walked back into his lobby, past the doorman, still 40 minutes later, wearing the noose around his neck, apparently.
00:49:14.000There's tape of him at the subway, leaving the subway, and then there's tape of him entering the lobby, now with the noose around his neck that he was still wearing and was wearing when the police arrived.
00:49:23.000His agent, I guess, said that they were on the phone together when this happened, so he heard all of this.
00:49:27.000But then Jussie Smollett says he would not turn his phone over to the police so they could even verify that that is the reality.
00:49:33.000So he refuses to allow Chicago detectives to access his phone in order to independently verify his manager's claim that he heard the MAGA country attack while they were talking.
00:49:43.000So we will see whether any of this ends up, like, what exactly happened here, but suffice it to say, it is not ridiculous to have your doubts about this story.
00:49:53.000The story itself is one of those stories where, for a certain segment of the population pushing a particular narrative about Trump supporters, it's too good to be true, so everybody jumps on it.
00:50:01.000But we can wait for all the facts to come out and then we can talk about it, or we can do what the media seems to have done and forget about covering this thing.
00:50:10.000All the way until it's debunked, at which point they go, oh, I guess we screwed that one up.
00:50:13.000So they'll cover the initial accusation, nothing in between, and then if it is debunked eventually, if it turns out to be a hoax, then there'll be like a couple of stories about how, oh, I guess it was a hoax, oops.