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On today's show, Glenn and Stu discuss the Democratic Candidates for President in 2020 and debate whether or not stores should be open on Thanksgiving Day. They also debate the pros and cons of Black Friday opening earlier than usual.
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On a Black Friday special for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program today.
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We would love to see you there, and if you don't, you're a communist.
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On today's, speaking of communists, on today's program we go through the entire list of potential Democratic candidates for 2020.
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I feel like there's maybe 8 to 10 real candidates in there, if it's that high.
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But I think there's something like 40 on the list so far.
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They think it could be, honestly, some of those people won't run, but that list could be in the 20s.
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And we added a couple to their list, the list that was printed.
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But it's so strange to actually start breaking them down, and you think, wow, these people actually are going to be out in our face.
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So some of it's going to be fun, and some of it's going to be agonizing.
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I also kind of do a little rant on Black Friday and earlier, whether stores should be open on Thanksgiving or not.
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I was all for stores being closed and shutting everything down, but you convinced me.
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And we go through some of the strange stuff going on, including whether you should have a free pass in your marriage,
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whether you should be able to have a social credit system with the government
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and what they're going to do to limit what you do in your life,
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and whether terrorist threats at chicken restaurants are appropriate.
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It's called one that, I don't know, you, you, it's really gross.
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It is a gross reference, and, you know, really what you should do,
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Yes, it's the day for people who actually have the energy to get off their own couches
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You know, I'm always amazed by this because, first of all,
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this is very difficult for me to do, which is getting out of my house today
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and coming in and doing a radio show when I could be sleeping
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and eating more leftovers, and I barely have the energy to do this.
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But I'm amazed by people who are able to do that, and if that's you, more power to you,
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And I think a lot of people would disagree with that.
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They always say that this time of year shouldn't be about the gifts,
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and I guess that there are other things, right?
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There are other things other than stuffing your fat face and putting presents under the tree.
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There's nothing wrong with the wonder of the Thanksgiving dinner.
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However, one of the things that comes around this time of year, and it's popped its head up again,
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is the idea that stores are evil for opening on Thanksgiving.
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57% of people say they are opposed to stores being open on Thanksgiving,
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I like the fact that they're open on Thanksgiving.
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And I think that there's this thing where, you know, we kind of look at this,
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and, you know, politicians are now embracing this, trying to shut down stores.
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There's pressure groups assigned to pressure these, you know, retail outlets to make sure that they're closed.
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The latest one, there's 70 now, 70 big stores will be closed on Thanksgiving.
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And, you know, everything from American Girl to Lowe's to Costco, Crate and Barrel, Dillard's.
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Now, of course, they were all closed yesterday, so you didn't need to go there.
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Now you can go there, and now you can spend your money 24 hours later,
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and apparently that's going to make everything better.
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But, you know, if you're one of the people that look at this and say,
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this just sounds like an anti-capitalist argument, well, congratulations, you're right.
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Now, this argument comes almost exclusively from the left, although some people on the right kind of make it too.
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And you can tell it's BS, because when is the last time the left defended traditional family values?
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When is the last time the left became so incredibly passionate about your Thanksgiving gathering?
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Because they just couldn't get enough of those good old family values.
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Yes, sure, they just happen to be taking shots at capitalism.
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Sure, they just happen to be berating employers and small businesses around the country.
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Sure, they're doing that too, but the real motivation is they just love those mashed potatoes so much.
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The left is not suddenly for traditional values.
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This is just yet another argument against capitalism.
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And I think a lot of people would say, well, I don't think, I don't want to go out and go shopping on Thanksgiving.
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But that does not mean that that is good for everybody.
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And maybe I don't want to spend all day with them.
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Maybe I want to leave immediately and get to a store and it better be open because I can't just drive around in circles the whole day.
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And, you know, look, I happen to have a family I like, but a lot of people don't.
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A lot of people show up to Thanksgiving dinner and would love to have the excuse of I've got to go to Lowe's.
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Some of us have family that say, isn't there something you could be doing?
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When you're a conservative, when you're a person who believes, who's an individualist, we don't make mass decisions for everybody.
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You're not losing anything by allowing people to make decisions on their own.
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If you don't want to go shop, don't go and shop.
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And this is, of course, you know, typical progressivism here where you're able to, you know, they're going to make decisions for you.
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Now, I think the argument goes because that's too easy, right?
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Like they know they're going to lose that argument.
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So the argument goes, well, what we're doing is we're just protecting the worker.
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You see what happens is someone goes, gets a job at Lowe's and they have to work and therefore are, you know, forced to go to work when they don't want to.
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They can't spend time with their family because these evil corporations, they want you to work, right?
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These evil profit seekers want to make sure they want to force the the average Joe to go work instead of instead of having a turkey dinner at home.
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And again, it's clear by the way they talk about it, it reveals it's just a shot against capitalism, right?
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I mean, like these evil corporations, this is the same standard crap you hear about the, you know, the minimum wage and the corporate income tax and every other.
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Well, what about the average Joe who is protected by those regulations?
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But it is important to realize that you have to look at this in multiple ways.
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First of all, if you have, if you are an employee who works at a place that is open on Thanksgiving, you do have a choice.
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Just like if you want free, free abortions covered by your work health care and free contraception covered by your work health care, you have a choice to go to another employer.
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The progressive argument on that fact is no, every employer has to offer these things, right?
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Conservatives believe the employer should have the choice.
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And if you decide you don't want to work for that employer, you go to another one.
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And you might say, well, you know, first of all, most employees work under an employer that is closed on Thanksgiving.
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Almost all businesses are closed on Thanksgiving.
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And that only gives you the choice of almost all employers when you're looking for a job.
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I know that we've had, in my family, we've had, there's always multiple Thanksgivings going on.
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You have one side of the family has Thanksgiving at one place.
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And a lot of people are bouncing back and forth.
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And we would adjust the times to make sure that those meals coincided when people were available.
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And they would say, well, I can be there after four.
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If you're important enough, if it's that important.
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Otherwise, it's like, yeah, with leftovers are in the kitchen.
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You learn a little bit about your standing in the family when they're like, yeah, well, the mashed potatoes,
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But the other side of this, too, is ask employees.
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Ask people who work in retail, who are not always the most highly compensated employees in America.
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When they're making $10 an hour working at a retail job, ask them if they want to make $20 an hour for one day.
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If they want to make time and a half or double time or, in some cases, triple time for working on Thanksgiving,
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we're going to take that choice away from the employees, the employees that are not the highest earning in our society.
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We're going to take that away from them because it makes us feel good about traditional family values,
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which there's no way the left or the media actually cares about at all.
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I mean, that's just, it's just, it's not even, it's not even a realistic point.
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But the other thing is, I love the idea that retail is the only thing we focus on.
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This is what my Thanksgiving day was when I was growing up.
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You'd get up in the morning and you'd flip on the parade.
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And you'd watch the big fat balloons go down in between the cities, blocks in New York.
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It's just a very, a bunch of slow moving balloons.
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What you're watching is tens of thousands of people working.
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This, this, you know, the Pokemon balloon didn't blow itself up and fly down Fifth Avenue.
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Oh, you can't keep me away from the turkey trot.
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Then you go and you're, okay, it's time to go off to grandma's house for Thanksgiving.
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And on the way there, well, we've got to stop for gas at a gas station where people are working.
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Maybe you stop for a quick coffee or soda at a McDonald's where people are working.
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Oh, we got to go out to the quick grocery store run.
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Let's make a quick grocery store run, you know, where people are working.
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You look outside and, wow, is it cold out there.
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Because heat is running from a corporation that is producing that heat.
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And there's a lot of employees there right now on Thanksgiving working.
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Isn't it fantastic that the lights are all on in here?
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There aren't magic elves in your wall running on hamster wheels to turn some magical power generation.
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And, yes, they probably have less people than normal.
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And you watch the traditional football game where, you know, you got to watch the Cowboys.
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By the way, completely in favor of the third game.
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But guess what you're seeing when you turn that on?
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You're seeing, first of all, two teams worth of players and coaches and everybody else.
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And you're seeing all sorts of things going on.
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And all of those people are in the stadium and at home and the home office working.
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And then you're seeing tons of people who parked all these cars, parking attendants, and people who are inside the stadium running the concessions.
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And it's like, well, this is, and of course, these are all, some of those are really important.
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You have to have electricity and heat, of course.
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And if you need to shop so badly, just shop online.
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This is going to be, I know the left is going to be shocked by this.
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Over at Amazon, there's a lot of people on Thanksgiving working.
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They're all working for your benefit on these days.
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These places, there are people out there doing their jobs every day.
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And because we ignore all these thousands and thousands of people, we only have to stop,
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you know, some retail outlet from actually opening up.
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Black Friday today is called that because, okay, well, this is the day that theoretically
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retailers get into the black for the year, right?
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Now, that's not actually true, but that's why it was called that.
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It's a lot harder for retailers to get in the black than it used to be.
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All these places, there's no more Toys R Us locations in the United States.
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It's hard for these companies to actually make it buy.
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We're going to take a giant shopping day away from them because the left tells us they
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Nostalgic for the days when nothing was open and you'd go.
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But that is not my decision to make for everybody else.
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And, by the way, it sounds good when you say, yeah, you know, I just don't want those
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And you run to a store where people are working.
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Think about this is a giant movement in the name of traditional family values that is basically
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But, like, when, you know, traditional retailers are already getting killed by places like Amazon
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and you're going to take one of the most profitable theoretical days of the year away from them
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because you think, you know, people should stay home with a family they may or may not like.
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It's quite presumptuous to tell everybody else what they need to do on Thanksgiving.
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I don't like the idea that governments are now getting involved in it.
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Somehow, Jeffy wanted to spend time with his family, too.
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I know they didn't want to spend time with him.
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Remember I used the example of, isn't there something you should be doing?
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So, let's take a minute here, like, and realize that just because I happen to like it
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and Jeffy happens to like staying home with our families, that doesn't mean everybody has to.
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They should be able to run away as much as you want.
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And by the way, those movies that everybody went to see and fell in love with over the weekend,
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amazingly, those don't just show up on the screen.
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If you made the choice to stay home with your family and run out the second.
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They're like, oh, we chair about traditional family values.
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If you happen to be in a deep, deep holiday depression today, keep this in mind.
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We are in the season of the 2020 election already.
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Because this time, we have a massive field of Democrats who are going to be beating each
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And that is going to be massively entertaining.
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But I will say that something happened in a college football game the other day that
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actually kind of reminds me of how I feel about just politics in general.
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Every time I think about Washington, I think just like this, this referee.
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After the play, unsportsmanlike conduct on all players from both teams.
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They'll be their first unsportsmanlike conduct style.
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I honestly did not know you could just call mass, like, collective penalties like that.
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Well, instead of, I mean, it's probably been done where they've called it on the team.
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And if that's how you feel about Washington, wait until this next year and a half.
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As you're driving and going out and you're doing your Black Friday shopping or you're
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more likely actually, you know, doing anything else if you're smart.
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Because I don't want to go anywhere near these stores today.
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We have a list of the potential candidates who are going to take on Donald Trump in 2020.
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Well, not only will this be fun to watch and fun to have, it'll be fun to hear who
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Now, as I'm scrolling through, the list is pretty expansive.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38.
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And by the way, there are already a couple of names that are not on this list that I think
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So if you notice any, Jeffy, if you think of any during the time that might be on the list,
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There's got to be, because some of these people cannot honestly believe that they have a shot.
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I think there are a lot of different reasons you run for president.
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Like, why do you keep your name in the running?
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Because you're relevant until you take it off the list.
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As soon as you say, I'm not running, and people believe you.
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But when you are convincing, and you take your name off the list, everyone forgets about you.
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It's a money grab for a lot of these people, or a power grab, right?
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Like, you're trying to raise your name up in the list so people will think that you're relevant.
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But heaven forbid they just stick to the job that we elected them to do in the first place as congressman or senator.
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And if you have anyone else you think is not on this list, feel free to call in.
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It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn today, who's still eating mashed potatoes.
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They're first on the list, and this is not in any particular order other than they've grouped them by, you know, the place they're coming from.
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Now, Cory Booker, to me, has no chance of being president.
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And I never, I know I should never say that because every time I say it, that person's president.
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I was like, this guy's been senator for two years.
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So, Cory Booker, we all know that he had his I am Spartacus moment.
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And this is why the big indication is he's going to run because he did everything he could to grandstand.
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The I am Spartacus thing was his way of saying, I am such an extreme opponent of a conservative justice.
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It's like a, it's a, it's a police officer pulling you over and going, by the way, you were not speeding.
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So, the incentives are, he was trying to signal a 2020 run, trying to get activists on his side.
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Again, I don't want to say that he's not going to do it because we have been wrong.
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Do they have any chance of being the Democratic nominee?
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And do they have any chance of beating Donald Trump if they are?
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I mean, I could see Cory maybe at the VP level.
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I think that's the only one he has a chance for is VP.
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And I think that would be a very bad decision by the Democrats.
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He just won an easy election in a state that is known as a swing state but is leaning red lately.
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What he's known for, of course, is the Democrat that keeps winning in Ohio.
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This is according to Politico, by the way, put together this list.
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He has, of course, been focusing on re-election for this last campaign.
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People are thinking he's kind of a left-wing populist in a somewhat red state that continues to win an important state for the election.
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I think there's a path there for Sherrod Brown.
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And I think the issue with him is he's not going to be seen as an extremist activist favorite.
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He's not going to get a lot of the left-left-left-wing love.
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As a VP runner, though, as VP, he brings you Ohio.
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And he's not known enough to where he could be.
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Because especially if you get a more left-wing candidate, more activist-level candidate running,
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It's kind of, you know, it's not a sexy pick, but you could see somebody picking him as a VP.
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I do not think he's – people like him against Trump on the Democratic side.
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The people who argue for him because he could pick off some of – that was the area that Trump won
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that previous Republicans like Romney didn't, right?
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I don't know that they know what they're up against.
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She's, of course, been big on the Me Too thing.
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She's kind of in the public face as far as senators go on the Me Too thing.
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She said that Bill Clinton should have resigned during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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She led the campaign to get Al Franken to resign as well.
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She's already visited New Hampshire and Nevada.
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And she's gone to – she's kind of been known as a – not a super far-left Democrat.
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But she's been trying to position herself as a little more moderate than the far-left people.
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She also, though, has now been lately moving left to try to attract those activists.
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She's saying she wants to abolish ICE, for example.
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I mean, these are multiple trillion-dollar policies that she's supporting.
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No, she could – I could see her definitely running.
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It's not impossible, I guess, but I don't think so.
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Again, you've got to understand, too, that the climate could be a little bit different than it is right now.
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If the economy goes south, almost anybody can beat Donald Trump.
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That economy has to stay together, and that is going to be very difficult.
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If it doesn't stay together, there's going to be a lot of trouble there in this campaign.
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Next up, Tim Kaine, the most forgettable VP candidate in history.
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Somebody – I bet 80% of Hillary Clinton voters could not name who they voted for in that VP ticket.
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I mean, again, you can always second-guess these things.
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But, like, people beat up on the McCain pick of Sarah Palin, and it's like, well, Palin at least energized the base for McCain.
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It was the only reason I voted for him, to be honest, for you.
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They were going to win Alaska anyway, but yes, okay.
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But, I mean, I think, too, you know, when you look at the exit polling, more people voted for the ticket because of Sarah Palin than voted against it because of Sarah Palin.
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It didn't wind up working, and I think, you know, McCain second-guessed it before his death.
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But he was – but, I mean, I don't know how you argue in McCain's favor here.
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He had a chance in the spotlight and did nothing with it.
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He's not going to be the nominee, and there's no way he could beat Trump.
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Amy Klobuchar, she is the senator from Minnesota.
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She is, you know, talked about in Democratic circles as a centrist.
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She is – I don't necessarily believe that, of course, but that's the way she's talked about.
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She is a Democrat in a state that leans blue but was pretty close in 2016.
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There are now two female – I think, too, the female advantage here is important.
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I would be – I would not be – I would be stunned if one of the two places on that ticket are not a woman.
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This is a party that is obsessed with identity.
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And so I think Klobuchar, absolute VP candidate as a possibility.
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But she's not particularly well-known outside of her state.
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I think there's a path for almost every woman on this list that hasn't shown themselves to be particularly awful.
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You know, that's going to be – that's going to be tough one.
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You've got to have a fighter in that role, I think.
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And they have to have someone that can – you know, someone that can take up – a fighter.
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They've got to be able to take those punches and punch back.
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And I think it was probably her biggest downfall as far as that election went.
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But the people who could have voted for Hillary and decided instead to vote for Trump, I think, just saw her as just incapable.
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She couldn't deal – if she can't deal with the pressure there, can she deal with, you know, the Vladimir Putins of the world?
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Look, she was Secretary of State in a period that wasn't exactly successful, in my estimation.
00:31:45.940
He is the only U.S. senator to endorse Bernie Sanders in 2016.
00:31:54.640
Big – I wouldn't call him a climate extremist in my mind, but he's a big climate guy.
00:32:00.140
He has been open about the possibility of running.
00:32:04.140
He's reportedly hired staffers in Iowa and Nevada with a PAC there.
00:32:13.480
I do not think he's a serious contender for the nomination or –
00:32:18.240
You know, someone's going to grab that Bernie Sanders mantle there.
00:32:31.560
I mean, the only way I could see that happening is if you had a –
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someone who was really considered to be a centrist Democrat somehow won,
00:32:40.780
and they wanted to pull someone over to get the left wing on their side.
00:32:44.300
That says it all about Jeff Merkley because I actually looked him up.
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Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
00:32:56.280
We're going through the 2020 candidates for president of the United States.
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And we have – we're down to Elizabeth Warren.
00:33:03.880
Now, when I talked just a moment ago about how you need to have someone,
00:33:07.640
they're going to have to pick somebody who can fight and hang
00:33:09.640
and deal with the pressure of the sort of stuff he brings, right?
00:33:18.040
She is the ultimate example of somebody who is –
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if they name her the nominee, if she gets that gig,
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And look, obviously, I don't want Elizabeth Warren to be president,
00:33:30.000
so go ahead and name her because she's going to lose.
00:33:32.600
But stranger things have happened in the world,
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and so I do not want her being president of the United States.
00:33:41.760
I will say I think she destroyed her chances with this whole –
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I went to 23andMe.com, and they said I was 1,000th Native American.
00:33:53.420
So poorly that I think, unfortunately, Democrats got the idea,
00:33:58.640
whoa, she's going to be a disaster if she's the nominee.
00:34:04.480
FiveThirtyEight did a podcast going through a bunch of the nominees as well
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a couple weeks ago, and the crowd is very Democratic.
00:34:10.160
They're cheering Amy Klobuchar, and they're inside politics people, right?
00:34:14.220
So listen to the crowd reaction, however, to Elizabeth Warren.
00:34:18.560
So, Claire, who is the number one overall choice in our 2020 Democratic primary draft?
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I am sticking with my last first-round choice of Elizabeth Warren.
00:34:32.700
I mean, that is not – it's not an endorsement.
00:34:41.140
She's not – I mean, I think she's going to run,
00:34:43.140
but I do not think she has a chance of winning.
00:34:49.140
We're going through – I think there's 40 of these, by the way.
00:35:04.100
I mean, that's – look, Elizabeth Warren has that issue too.
00:35:06.920
I mean, everybody wants to think of her as a little young spring chicken senator,
00:35:16.440
But I think, like, that's a smart thing for the Democrats to do
00:35:19.340
is probably pick somebody who can make that point, right?
00:35:23.500
If you've got a 50-year-old candidate, you can say,
00:35:25.540
look, I mean, Donald Trump's the old policy of the past.
00:35:29.720
Bernie Sanders will be, I'm the future, the future of Marxism.
00:35:34.080
I'm going to dive into the future there, Bernie.
00:35:42.000
I think they can get the same policies from somebody in a better package.
00:35:47.080
Because when Bernie came out the first time, people were like,
00:35:49.280
oh, well, there's a lot of socialists in the Democratic Party.
00:35:54.200
And Bernie, one of the things that Bernie does is that, you know,
00:35:57.760
despite disliking him and he's old, he's actually, you know, he's not dumb.
00:36:05.540
And where you have, what's-her-face from New York,
00:36:10.340
Ocasio-Cortez, what you're talking about, yeah.
00:36:11.700
Well, luckily, she's at least seven years away from having a chance to run for president.
00:36:21.060
Bernie, I don't think it's going to happen for Bernie here.
00:36:28.840
And whenever you get to a one-on-one, you know, one-on-one,
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a lot of it has to do with what's happening at the time, you know, a major world event.
00:36:38.420
I mean, no one could have beaten Barack Obama in 2008 because of the financial collapse, right?
00:36:47.280
We were in the middle of a massive recession, no matter who the Democrats trotted out there.
00:36:50.980
And if they had a socialist, we would have elected one.
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And now Barack Obama was pretty close in many ways to a socialist.
00:36:56.720
But let me give you the determination, the difference here.
00:36:59.580
Bernie Sanders in 2013 came out with a proposal for Medicare for everyone, universal health care.
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Now almost everyone on this list of senators I just gave you has openly supported that bill.
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That's how far we've come in a very short time.
00:37:16.840
But again, remember, we're talking about Democrats voting for this.
00:37:24.100
Yeah, I think Kamala Harris is in the top tier.
00:37:28.280
Mark Warner from Virginia, I don't know, right?
00:37:34.120
A lot of them are going to get more and more obscure.
00:37:37.520
I mean, we all know the most important person from Virginia is Jim Gilmore.
00:37:44.960
If you have one that we want to expand on, you can stop me.
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But I think we're going to go through some of these and just say, you know, no.
00:37:59.280
Now, Tulsi Gabbard, I've never heard her name before.
00:38:06.140
She was apparently a major in the Army National Guard and Hawaii representative.
00:38:10.460
She is actually, I've seen her speak a couple of times.
00:38:19.300
Now, this opens us up to a different level of running for president.
00:38:23.100
You don't always run for president to be president.
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Sometimes you run for president to be a vice presidential possibility.
00:38:32.500
Get your name from 0% understanding to 30, 40%.
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So next time when you want to run, you have a chance.
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Her approach to foreign policy, including a visit with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, put her outside many in the Democratic mainstream.
00:38:55.140
I don't know if that's true, but that would be an interesting thing to talk about.
00:38:58.820
But she has gone to early states, and apparently, again, I don't, it doesn't seem like this time would be the time for her, but it's someone to consider long term.
00:39:08.340
If she runs, it's because she wants people to know who she is, and she needs to do that.
00:39:12.940
Again, Hawaii's not a great state to come from.
00:39:15.880
However, obviously, we've seen someone born in Hawaii become president.
00:39:18.560
Also, I would argue the main one here is the potential is VP here.
00:39:24.320
There's not, if you have a 80, like if you have a Bernie Sanders actually wins, you could see someone like this being named as a VP candidate.
00:39:34.100
Joe Kennedy, representative from Massachusetts.
00:39:50.180
Seth Moulton, he is a U.S. representative from Massachusetts, was in the Marine Corps, known for pushing hard to get more veterans to run for office.
00:40:06.120
I mean, again, probably in the outside picture for a VP, that's about it.
00:40:10.980
Beto O'Rourke, as you have to consider probably at this point oddly a top-tier candidate.
00:40:17.720
Famously lost to Ted Cruz by less than three points.
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But when it comes to a mainstream Democrat right now-
00:40:47.520
Again, I think that it depends on what happens with the economy.
00:40:50.280
I don't know how he would react to that sort of pressure.
00:40:53.180
Cruz is not the guy who brings it like Trump does.
00:41:02.920
Tim Ryan from Ohio, a state senator that's there, now a U.S. representative.
00:41:15.000
Eric Swalwell does look like he's going to run.
00:41:21.180
Most famously recently, he talked about nuking the United States in case people had guns.
00:41:31.140
But, again, I don't think he's a yes on any of our questions above that, though.
00:41:37.240
I mean, Trump will just spend the entire time beating him up for wanting to nuke the Second Amendment.
00:41:45.540
Again, when you're on Twitter making ridiculous comments like that, you're saying Swalwell is the perfect example of what I was talking about.
00:41:51.240
A guy who is not known nationally, wants to be known nationally, and is using a run for the presidency as his opportunity to get known that way.
00:42:03.060
Maybe this leads to him running for Senate or governor of California at some point.
00:42:10.540
You're not trying to become president as a 37-year-old congressman running with his profile.
00:42:15.460
That's just – it's not even what he's attempting.
00:42:16.680
He does anything he wants in California if he wants to nuke gun owners.
00:42:24.800
He is a red state Democrat, and that's a profile that a lot of people on the left are looking for and saying, hey, if we pick a crazy liberal, we're going to lose again.
00:42:33.840
Instead, we need to pick someone who comes from a red state who can talk to the middle of the country a little bit, who can say, hey, I understand that maybe not all gun owners are terrorists.
00:42:44.080
Do you think – I mean, he's visited the early states.
00:42:50.580
A VP candidate is probably in the picture for him.
00:42:54.280
Again, though, the profile probably not high enough.
00:42:59.300
I think Cuomo's got a lot of corruption issues he's going to have to deal with.
00:43:05.360
And nobody loves Andrew Cuomo than Andrew Cuomo.
00:43:08.320
But I don't think there's a legitimate chance he could – I don't think there's – he could run.
00:43:16.220
I don't think he could be VP or nominee or any of that.
00:43:19.840
Again, how many freaking New York people do we have to run?
00:43:26.080
Both parties are running New York people all the time.
00:43:28.660
I was born in the state, and I don't want another New York president.
00:43:36.660
When he decides to leave office and that's over, let's go to another state.
00:43:52.980
Like if 24 had a season where the president, his last name was Hickenlooper, it would not
00:44:06.520
No, Hickenlooper is a grocery store in Illinois somewhere.
00:44:10.420
Now what Politico, Hickenlooper would be a great place to get chicken cutler.
00:44:15.340
You get those at Hickenlooper's, they're the best ever.
00:44:20.300
You walk into Hickenlooper's, they've got great produce.
00:44:25.000
What Politico says he's known for is he's a centrist.
00:44:28.900
He's a business-oriented governor, but he led the way on gun control.
00:44:33.380
And I do remember him from the gun control debate.
00:44:39.660
He is big friends, by the way, with John Kasich.
00:44:46.040
But, I mean, look, you think he's at least exploring a run.
00:44:50.200
If he can justify a run, he will do it against Trump.
00:44:55.380
Yeah, he said he was looking at an independent or a third party.
00:45:03.980
But also is, the thought here, though, is Kasich Hickenlooper or Hickenlooper Kasich running as a unity candidate.
00:45:16.460
The bigger question is, do you get your stakes at Kasich's or Hickenlooper's?
00:45:27.140
Currently the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.
00:45:32.060
I don't think climate's a path to the White House, though.
00:45:36.360
But, you know, Gore had to run two terms as a VP to even get in the picture to be president.
00:45:43.340
And I just don't think, you can't be a one issue guy on climate.
00:45:54.860
Well, no, he tried to run a little bit towards.
00:45:56.660
I don't remember him being as bad as he became.
00:45:58.740
In fact, I remember going back and looking at his old books.
00:46:01.260
And that's where a lot of the stuff you found, the really crazy stuff.
00:46:03.900
It's like, oh, he wants to get rid of all cars.
00:46:06.100
You're like, wait, all right, I don't think this is.
00:46:22.480
This is essentially running a male Hillary Clinton.
00:46:24.640
And I can't imagine that's a good idea for the Democrats.
00:46:27.220
And I don't think they're going to go that way.
00:46:36.500
I would say the Clintons make the Democratic Party untouchable.
00:46:39.720
We're talking about the Democratic nominees, a big list of them.
00:46:47.040
I mean, he's not, he couldn't even win last time when there was three candidates.
00:46:51.240
Deval Patrick, I don't think has done a good enough job as the governor of Massachusetts.
00:46:57.700
He's, you know, also with Bain Capital and he's done all sorts of stuff.
00:47:07.320
He's, it's, it's not, it's not out of the question, but I think, I still think unlikely.
00:47:11.640
Those are, we still have, we're halfway through.
00:47:14.200
We still have people, a bunch of big names left here in the Democratic docket.
00:47:25.040
I mean, this is a big list, but it's a bad list.
00:47:31.360
There's a lot of people who want to run, not a lot of people who should.
00:47:49.680
Another specifically curated story for Jeffy, because I'm so nice to you.
00:47:56.760
There was a terrorist threat that happened at a chicken place.
00:48:02.380
I mean, why is the terrorist is starting to affect chicken places?
00:48:12.020
He was booked on charges in connection to a bomb threat.
00:48:23.920
People heard him talking about blowing up the restaurant, or at least part of it, at the
00:48:35.260
I mean, I understand if he's threatening to blow up the place.
00:48:38.940
Like what if they didn't give you enough chicken?
00:48:45.520
According to the warrant, the restaurant's manager said a man, later identified as Posey,
00:48:51.440
went into the restaurant and approached the food preparation area, then asked her what
00:48:56.440
She told the man she did not know when the restaurant closed, the manager told police.
00:48:59.500
The manager stated the man, who wore a green hat, blue jacket, and carried a white bag,
00:49:03.080
said, y'all about to close right now because I'm going to get a bomb and blow this place
00:49:14.340
The manager told police she took the threat very seriously, as I think most people would.
00:49:20.040
Notified the general manager, who instructed her to call police, and they did, and they
00:49:25.980
Now, his excuse, I think, was very interesting, and this is why I brought the story up, because
00:49:33.860
Posey claimed to the officer, when he was confronted about this, that he told a male employee he
00:49:39.940
was going to blow the bathroom up in reference to a bowel movement.
00:49:44.340
Okay, A. How does a girl not know what time the restaurant...
00:49:53.400
The girl does not know what time the restaurant closes.
00:49:57.280
But she's still employed there by calling the bosses, saying somebody's claiming to...
00:50:06.760
Although, I've been pulled over by New Orleans police before in my life.
00:50:16.380
I can understand how they would arrest someone making the...
00:50:23.900
Not to mention, what a repulsive thing to say inside of a restaurant to somebody.
00:50:34.180
But to say it, you know, in a restaurant line...
00:50:43.660
They think he actually did make a terrorist threat, and his cover story is the bathroom thing.
00:50:48.780
Did he have explosive devices and stuff on him in the bag or anything?
00:50:52.160
It does not appear that he actually was going to bomb the thing.
00:50:54.400
But you can make a bomb threat and get him in trouble for it without actually bombing somebody.
00:51:03.880
So, that is, I guess, what they're saying he did.