Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, Matt Walsh, and Michael Knowles are joined by the newest member of the Daily Wire team, Candace Owens, who gives us the inside scoop on her Twitter feud with Cardi B and the ensuing lawsuit. We also talk about the Biden administration, cancel culture, and much, much more.
00:09:34.880What they used to be, the counterculture, the idea was we know the rules and we're going to fight the rules, but we at least acknowledge that the rules exist.
00:09:42.880Now it's, we're not just going to fight the rules.
00:10:54.200Even when you were arguing with Cardi B, I was thinking, aside from your association with us, you're an elegant, well-spoken, you know, intelligent young lady talking to this woman who's acting like an animal on stage.
00:11:06.180And the press is going like, ah, she really gave it to Candace.
00:11:09.580And I just love, like, just putting them together is sad.
00:11:14.180And the thing is, what you said, Candace, is exactly right.
00:11:16.880She's acting animalistic, but she's not an animal, and so she's degrading herself.
00:11:20.560And this is the part that's sad, is that people in our society are doing this, is that she's so much more than that, right?
00:11:24.960She's a soul, and she's a brain, and she's a mind, and she is all these things.
00:11:27.760And, I mean, beyond all the mockery and all the silliness, which she does bring on herself by seeking it out, because she wants the attention, she wants the money.
00:11:34.240There is something deeply sad about our society, which has decided to celebrate this sort of behavior.
00:11:39.060And it does rip away the humanity, the people who have participated in it, and the people who watch it, I think.
00:11:42.900Well, this is, you know, I don't say this just because you're my friend.
00:12:04.580If you're a woman, you've got to behave in a certain way.
00:12:06.440And I think this is why you, Candace, irritate her so much is because you're a woman, you're black, you, if you just looked at the two of you purely physically, you'd say, oh, these are very similar people.
00:12:20.000And yet, you have made totally opposite decisions in your life.
00:12:25.100And it just throws that whole ideology in the trash.
00:12:30.780I think that was one of the more remarkable elements is that obviously she did this performance and everybody reported on it because she wanted everybody to report on it because she was being disgusting.
00:12:38.720And yet it was specifically my 60-second response, right, that really got, it really got under her skin in a way that I thought was quite fascinating.
00:12:47.900It's like she could have picked any person talking about it online, and yet she was just so focused on me.
00:12:52.740So it's like there's something about me that bothers you.
00:12:55.120And I think, to be honest with you, in just seeing the spiral of her tweets and how she was trying to pull anything about me, right, she's like, you make your husband a sandwich, ah!
00:13:02.660And I was like, are we really doing this?
00:13:05.080Like, yes, I make my husband sit, caught me, you know?
00:13:12.840Yeah, I think at the end of the day, you can play pretend, but at night you have to go to sleep with you and your own thoughts, and that cannot feel good.
00:13:24.860I thought the sandwich line was especially revealing because she's rejecting, it's a very feminine thing to take care, to be a caretaker, to take care of your husband and your family.
00:13:35.100And then it's interesting because we see in the culture of just this week, really, we see two examples of what happens when prominent women reject their femininity.
00:13:42.800So you've got Cardi B rolling around on the stage, and it is very just sad to watch.
00:13:46.480That's maybe the primary emotion that I feel actually is sad when I watch.
00:13:49.740But can we agree as four men on the show that there was actually nothing sexy about the performance?
00:13:56.020I just want to cut you off for a second.
00:14:02.320There's nothing remotely sexy about it.
00:14:03.820That's why it's, being sad is not, you know, for me, that's not a turn on to be sad.
00:14:09.860Some people are into different things, though.
00:14:11.300But then you also have, at the same time, you've also got Elliot Page now and this picture on Time magazine.
00:14:21.320And I look at that and I think, this is really incredibly sad to look at that.
00:14:27.180This woman who was an attractive woman and now is a, you know, this kind of frail-looking man or a person trying to imitate a man, rejecting her femininity.
00:14:39.060And this is the two things that happen in this culture when you reject femininity.
00:14:59.740And then there's the Gnostic idea that my body has nothing to do with who I really am.
00:15:05.420If Ellen Page says, you know, my biology is all woman, but I feel in my metaphysical deep, deep down that I'm a man, then I'm not even a combination.
00:17:13.720I mean, that's really the best way to say it.
00:17:15.440And then so I was so sure when I became a conservative and everything just got better by, you know, just believing in discipline, believing that this this all does mean something falling back into religion.
00:17:26.100Like, you know, I kind of abandoned Christianity for a while and kind of became an atheist in a way.
00:17:32.160And just I realized that my grandparents got something right.
00:17:35.080And and I was happy when I started living like that.
00:17:37.280But the second thing, and it's so, you know, people don't understand this.
00:17:40.440Kanye West genuinely inspired me when I decided that I was going to jump into politics.
00:29:31.380The Smithsonian Institute said a year ago that the nuclear family and the Protestant work ethic and objective truth are tools of white supremacy.
00:29:40.620Being on time is a tool of white supremacy.
00:29:42.260But what I want to know is this, especially with regard to this shooting in Atlanta at the massage parlor.
00:29:47.500The guy who's perpetrated it says, I am a sex addict and I gave into lust and that was the sin that drove me to this.
00:29:55.760And everyone said, well, no, you're a racist.
00:30:18.220There was an entire article today in the New York Times about how this guy had claimed that it was because he had a sex addiction and because he was addicted to sex.
00:30:26.520And, you know, his views are of no consequence.
00:30:28.500But if we're talking about societal trends that are a problem, you know, when you talk about sex addiction and pornography addiction, I mean, pornography addiction is a very real thing in our society for sure.
00:30:37.340But what the piece said, and this is the part that's hilarious, said experts doubt that sex addiction leads to this.
00:30:42.120I'm old enough to remember when Bill Clinton claimed that he was a sex addict, right?
00:30:49.520And the entire media went, oh, well, you know, that's a thing, right?
00:30:52.780That's probably, first of all, if you want to talk about a sex addict, that's just called a man.
00:30:57.440The best thing about sex addiction is that the 1-800 number to get help starts off with for a good time call.
00:31:04.300Yeah, I think one of the dangers here, to Drew's point, that, well, there's a question about why are all these women ending up in sex trafficking?
00:31:15.440Michael, you point out, well, sex addiction, why did that drive him to it?
00:31:19.860So because we're so focused on racism, we're neglecting every other societal problem.
00:31:25.700And there are a lot of really interesting and important questions that we should be asking and dealing with.
00:31:30.200And it's just like there was the awful case a week ago of the black teenagers breaking into a guy's house, a white man, mentally disabled, setting him on fire.
00:31:42.220These kids are 16 and 14 years old, and they break in, and we still don't know why.
00:31:46.760And this is hardly being reported by the media.
00:31:48.440And, of course, the races, if it is reported, the races are taken out of the story completely.
00:31:51.920But 16 and 14-year-old black kids go into a white man's house, set him on fire, watch him burn for a little bit, and then just leave, and he dies.
00:32:02.420And we should be asking the question, what is going on in this country that would lead a 14-year-old kid to set him, black or white, it doesn't matter his race, what is going on that would lead a 14-year-old kid to do that?
00:32:14.260But that's a question we're just not talking about because we can't talk about the issue at all.
00:32:20.500They want us to focus on race because they're destroying America, right?
00:32:23.900This is the easiest way to destroy America, right?
00:32:25.740So you're saying, look over here, look over here, but we're burning down all of these things.
00:32:30.100They don't want you to address the actual ill.
00:32:32.220But I have a theory about this that we have never talked about before, I think, which is I think the culpability of the church and the reason that the church is in such trouble in America.
00:32:41.660David French often talks about how the evangelical church has lost its way, as is evidenced by its support of Donald Trump.
00:32:51.260And he'll say, you know, if you go back to the late 90s during Clinton impeachment, mid-90s, you have, you know, I don't know what it's called, but all the pastors got together and signed, you know, the Frenchian accords where they said that it's very bad and character is destiny.
00:33:05.620And now we've forsaken that and the church has lost its way and now it's just an instrument of politics.
00:33:10.460And I've been thinking about that now for the last two years.
00:33:13.220And I believe that the church actually did lose its way.
00:33:18.060But it lost its way in the 90s, not now.
00:33:21.340In the 90s, the late 80s and the 90s, the church made a decision which culminated in the impeachment saga, which was that the church was going to go all in as a political instrument in the country.
00:33:31.060They did it in the name of being the moral majority and they carried, they carried freight for the Republican Party, who was having a hard time explaining the simple concept of, because we're so bad at media, Republicans, they couldn't explain the simple concept of perjury to the American people and make them care.
00:33:47.820And so the church said, well, don't worry, we've got it.
00:33:50.260We're going to say that it's about something that it actually isn't about, which is, you know, a man laid down with a woman and a cigar and we definitely need to kick him out of, I think they were.
00:33:59.160Love is love, love is love, love is love, yeah, right, right.
00:34:02.400But that whole idea of the church as a moral instrument as opposed to the church as a community of people seeking righteousness from God, righteousness is a distinct concept from morality.
00:34:14.560And when the church went all in on morality, which does have a massive cultural component, I think that they were sealing their fate because in the late 80s, the morals that the church cared the most about were like, don't say bad words, don't have sex before your marriage, before you're married, and don't smoke.
00:34:31.000And the morals of our country have changed, and the majority morals within the church now are, don't be racist, don't apologize for your whiteness, and I guess wear a mask.
00:34:45.820I take issue with part of this because I think, first of all, the original sin was in the Reagan era when they became the moral.
00:34:52.020That's when they became the moral majority, and it was a reaction to abortion.
00:34:55.020It was the idea that, oh, these people in Washington, you know, just Supreme Court judges, not elected officials, can suddenly say you can't make a law about abortion.
00:35:04.620And I think that woke a lot of evangelicals up to the fact that the culture was going south.
00:35:08.840The problem to me is not, you know, about morality or righteousness.
00:35:31.040I mean, I think John MacArthur talks about this all the time.
00:35:33.440They want to have an effect on the world instead of having an effect on people's souls.
00:35:36.860Now, yes, if people's souls are saved, I think that's going to make for a better world.
00:35:41.260But that is an actual secondary point.
00:35:44.560Once the church decided that it was going to be an engine for world change, for world betterment, they were lost because the world is actually a bad place.
00:35:54.080I don't think what we're saying is radically different.
00:36:14.320And his judgment isn't limited like ours is to just the things that we can measure and observe with our senses.
00:36:21.080Morality is the things that we can measure and observe with our senses.
00:36:24.660And so when the church goes in for morality, it's, I think it's the same thing.
00:36:28.880We're basically saying that the church was only interested in what it could measure and not in the actual substance that undergirds the things.
00:36:34.520There's something, I mean, there is, you know, when Jesus is asked, how will I be saved?
00:36:38.660He does reference six of the Ten Commandments.
00:37:01.240The problem is more, I know you don't like this term, but it seems to me the problem is more the church gave up on objective morality.
00:37:06.720You're talking about the church adopting the morality of the age and how it changes over time, which, of course, that's exactly the problem.
00:37:14.140And it's absurd that people are going and sitting down in pews and listening to sermons about the dangers of racism.
00:37:58.080Or as Romans says, now a righteousness made manifest apart from the moral law, apart from the law, the righteousness that's found through the faith of Jesus or in the faith of Jesus Christ.
00:38:06.640But he does say that the law will be written on your heart.
00:38:09.520But that's, again, now we're talking about the unmeasurable thing.
00:38:14.300We're talking about the heart of a man, which is where God lives, which is where righteousness lives.
00:38:17.780There is a sense, too, I think, on this distinction between objective morality and this kind of, like, culturally relativistic thing where it's always changing and we didn't smoke cigarettes in the 80s and now it's whatever, wear a mask.
00:38:29.500The traditional understanding of conscience, of your moral conscience, is that it is a judgment of reason where you can distinguish between good and evil.
00:38:39.360It's not just like my feels, man, and it's not like what Dr. Fauci tells me it is one day.
00:38:44.140It's like you can rely on your faculties of reason to, very imperfectly, but still with some reliability, measure the difference between good and bad.
00:39:02.540We all have to acknowledge that the basis that we are using our reason upon is revelation because reason unmoored ends with the catastrophes of the 19th and 20th centuries.
00:39:13.180And so what we're watching right now is that happen when churches, synagogues, when they refuse to speak in religious terminology, when they refuse to talk about the inerrant word of God, and instead when they start talking about kind of broad moral terminology without that underpinning, this is why you end with this bizarre situation where the Pope reaffirms 2,000 years of teaching about same-sex marriage.
00:39:36.880And breaking news, the Pope didn't cave to modern standards of same-sex marriage and transgenderism.
00:39:45.380And the only reason that society expects him to do so is because they believe that the church is so engaged with the world that it's up to the world to change the church, not the other way around.
00:39:51.980Well, I love this point because in a sane culture, the shocking breaking news would be if the pontiff presiding over the most enduring institution in the entire civilization just changed the views overnight.
00:40:06.540But in this world where we're so absolutely imbibing progressivism all the time, we're so intoxicated on it, the shock is that he doesn't do it over.
00:40:16.300But this is one of the reasons why, on a deeper level, our politics is fundamentally broken because we don't share the same framework.
00:40:23.580We're not even speaking within the same framework.
00:40:25.680It's funny because I would then add that I actually think one of the biggest issues, and obviously this is, I think what underpins everything we're discussing though, and it goes back to reason, is that people just don't think critically because we are actually producing people not to think.
00:40:39.000I mean, how many people do you think that go to church have ever even actually read the Bible?
00:40:43.560I walk around D.C., my husband and I live in D.C., and literally I see LGBT flags on the churches, Black Lives Matter flags on the churches.
00:40:55.160Like this is actually, they have become political institutions.
00:40:57.880When you fly a pride flag of any kind, maybe read page three.
00:41:09.180And it's like, you know, trying to find a church, when we were trying to find a good church in D.C., it was incredible.
00:41:15.740I mean, it was just, I'm really going, we've just gotten so far, and then you couple that with the education system where they're actually teaching kids to suspend critical thinking.
00:41:23.520Just remember what we're telling you, right?
00:41:25.720So they wouldn't even be able to reason.
00:42:24.060And your job to make them happy is to teach them about the nature of the world and the realities of the world and how they can adapt to living within that world, right?
00:42:35.840And you don't want them to violate the laws of nature because then they will be cutting against their own nature and the reality that surrounds them.
00:42:41.520Well, in the early 18th century, well, mid-18th century, there's this move away from individuals are defined by reference to their institutions and how they adapt to those institutions to individuals are defined by what they are inside.
00:42:55.240It is a very Rousseau move where your individual happiness is now reliant on your ability to define yourself however you see fit.
00:43:01.060Now, he didn't feel that was super dangerous because he was still living inside a set of rules and boundaries that he took for granted.
00:43:06.740But then those rules and boundaries went away.
00:43:08.940I mean, this is Nietzsche's point, right?
00:43:09.960Once you get rid of the rules and boundaries, then without God, with God being dead, who's defined any of these rules and boundaries?
00:43:15.580And so now the only thing left that matters in this world is how you define yourself on the inside, right?
00:43:20.240Because all of the rules and boundaries, those are actually impediments to how you define yourself.
00:43:24.520So the point that Carl Schreiber makes, and he brings this forward to transgenderism, is that religious people, traditionally conservative people, they look at this and they go, this makes no sense.
00:43:32.260How can you say that I identify as something that I obviously am not?
00:43:35.060And how can it be that when I say you're obviously not that, this makes me a bigot?
00:43:37.820And also if I say biology says you are not this, how does that make me a bigot?
00:43:47.580So there is no thinking, there is no reasoning.
00:43:49.940How are they going to define themselves?
00:43:51.980But what really, the point that Truman is making is that because self-definition has now been defined as happiness, as opposed to adapting to the circumstances around you in accordance with reason, right?
00:44:03.480Because we got rid of virtue, the basic idea of happiness is whatever floats my boat, but the rest of the world has to adapt to the flotation of my boat, right?
00:44:11.200I mean, if the rest of the world puts a hole in my boat, the rest of the world has imposed on me.
00:44:15.280If biology puts a hole in my boat, biology has imposed on me, because I am this thing on the inside that defines itself.
00:44:22.220And all of nature, all of humanity has to adapt itself to my whim.
00:44:28.440And that's why when people say, you're harming me because you're denying my existence, I'm not denying, I see you right there, you're a person, I just disagree with you.
00:44:35.160No, you're denying their existence because as soon as you deny their ability to express themselves and to identify as they see fit, it's the only thing in the entire world that matters.
00:44:42.040And so it is not enough to say, do whatever you want in the privacy of your own home or your nidalgo gets whatever surgeries you want.
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00:47:01.520Yeah, just jumping on that book, which I only just started reading it, but what I found attractive about it is that Truman is taking transgenderism as the starting point, as this obviously incredibly significant fact about our civilization.
00:47:19.740Maybe the most significant fact right now is transgenderism because it speaks to our idea of the self.
00:47:26.320And this goes to, like, another problem we have is that conservatives often are very slow to understand and react to what's happening in the culture.
00:47:34.740So I can remember five years ago talking about transgenderism and the response that I would always get from conservatives, even now sometimes, but certainly five years ago, was, why are you talking about this?
00:47:49.480And my point then and now is, no, no, no, no, no.
00:47:51.780This is, the fact that this makes sense to so many people speaks to, they have an idea of fundamental reality, which is absolutely divorced from me.
00:48:02.860And it's an almost unbridgeable divide.
00:48:05.580And if we get to a point where half of the country, 80% of the country has that idea of the self as a self that you can simply make yourself based on your own emotions and your own whims, then we just, we don't.
00:48:44.100But this grows out of, I was talking to Matt about this before the show started.
00:48:48.000This grows out of one of Rousseau's children, who is Foucault.
00:48:51.740And I read Foucault and Derrida when they first started coming out.
00:48:55.120But then I decide to go back and I'm rereading one of Foucault's major, major books called The Nature of Things, The Order of Things.
00:49:01.300And he's a grifter, which didn't occur to me the first time I read it because I thought this was kind of interesting philosophy.
00:49:08.380But he makes the point that natural science is a complete invention because all of biology is one thing and it's only us imposing this order on it.
00:49:16.780And my first thought was that's interesting until a turkey tries to mate with a coyote and then you realize, no, there actually is an order of things.
00:49:24.640And this idea, his idea is basically that power constructs all identity.
00:49:29.660This is right. So if that's true, everything you are is created by me, is created by the powerful people around you who impose that on you.
00:49:37.560And so we have that power to change you. And so if you say you're a woman and I say, no, you're not, I'm doing an act of violence to you.
00:49:43.940I'm actually because my power is a threat to you. The fact that none of this is true, it doesn't seem to bother.
00:49:50.540Well, he's French. That's what the French do. What the French do is they say false things beautifully.
00:49:55.160What a great sentence, but totally untrue.
00:49:57.860You know, the Germans say true things incomprehensibly, but the French.
00:50:01.140I think that because the power dynamics of the society were perceived to have shifted over the past 10 years, that's why all this stuff is coming to the floor right now.
00:50:08.680Meaning that when, if you said power, power decides the fate of societies back when the left felt it was not in control.
00:50:15.800Then that's a dangerous thing to say. Right. Because then the right says, oh, OK, you're saying power decides the fate of societies.
00:50:20.720Well, we have some ideas about what we can do with that power.
00:50:22.520It was only during, I think, probably Barack Obama's second term when the left thought they were never going to lose another election.
00:50:28.100It's why it's why Trump came as such a shock to them, because they thought literally they had created the unbreakable coalition.
00:50:32.660It was they were never going to lose another election. They were the coalition of the ascendant.
00:50:36.000They I mean, there were so many articles about the browning of America having to find because demographics was destiny.
00:50:41.180And unshakably, Democrats were going to continue to win for all time.
00:50:44.340And all of that was false. And all that was nonsense.
00:50:45.940But it was at that point they started to say, you know what, everything in life is defined by power.
00:50:50.060But now we wield the power. And because we wield the power, we can reshape all of these institutions.
00:50:54.720And that has never let up the desire to reshape all the institution.
00:50:57.660And Biden now, with his victory, feels that he gets to reshape all the institutions.
00:51:00.940I mean, the notions of Ibram Kendi have now entered. I mean, talk about a grifter.
00:51:05.260The notions of Ibram Kendi have entered every aspect of American government from top to bottom.
00:51:10.100It's insanity. I mean, the State Department declared today that they were going to redo how they staffed the State Department on the basis of equity.
00:51:16.240And they were going to achieve racial balance in the State Department.
00:51:19.340I just thought I said I was going to hire all white people. And I got like 20 lawsuits.
00:51:25.640Does anybody else feel, though, that we're living in an illusion in the sense that we're actually at the end of something?
00:51:32.300We're not at the beginning of something. They think that they're at the beginning of leftist paradise.
00:51:36.160But I can't help noticing that even what even though Biden is doing some things that are radical, that really all he's doing is he's stealing your grandchildren's money to prop up things that have already failed, like pensions and Obamacare and all these socialist ideas that have just failed.
00:51:52.940I can't help feeling that we're at the end of an epoch.
00:51:57.760Well, of course we are. That's why our presidents keep getting older, older and older and older.
00:52:01.180We've had three presidents who were born in 1946.
00:52:03.400And now we have one who was born in, what, 45 or 45 or 44.
00:52:08.160It's a very bad sign for society when you can't make generational change in your chief executive.
00:52:15.440You know, there is, too, this, like, just, it's pure will, right?
00:52:20.280It's this imposition of will to Ben's point.
00:52:23.000Once you have unfettered self-definition, it's all just whatever I want, I'm going to get.
00:52:27.900And it gets to your point, Candace, which is you can't think and they won't let you think.
00:52:32.940I know that references to George Orwell, like references to Hitler and the fall of Rome, are usually tedious and overdone.
00:52:40.580But here's one that I think really matters.
00:52:42.780In 1984, Orwell says they control the public through the new speak, you know, through this kind of PC jargon and through surveillance and all these things.
00:52:52.400But most of all, through doublethink, through getting you to think mutually contradictory ideas at the same time, like materialism and Gnostic transgenderism or whatever.
00:53:05.220Because they can't allow you to think.
00:53:06.600And this idea that these boomers are just holding on to power and the presidents are getting older and they're going to steal from the young and the unborn and they're going to give it.
00:53:30.780This is the reason the Democrats need President Houseplant.
00:53:34.020They need him there because he's hiding that stain on the rug, right?
00:53:37.720And right now, if something were to happen to him, God forbid, because you don't want anything to happen to anybody.
00:53:42.480But if something happens to Biden, God forbid, and Kamala Harris becomes president, and then you see this break out in the open.
00:53:47.380Because Biden is just a moderate face on extraordinarily radical ideas and policy.
00:53:51.240And he's been able to avoid every question from the media because they are in league with all of these ideas.
00:53:55.720And most Americans don't find him threatening because who finds this old coot shuffling around can't string together a sentence threatening?
00:54:09.180I actually genuinely, like, I have declined to make fun of him because there's something really wrong about the fact that every single person in the world knows that this is a man in decline.
00:54:17.560Every single person understands that he's senile.
00:55:15.680At least 75, 80 million Americans passionately hate the Democrats.
00:55:19.040So I think they're actually feeling apprehensive right now in this moment, which is why they're rushing through these policies of censorship, censorship, safety, safety.
00:55:58.760And there are so many other conservative books out there, many of them way more aggressive and objectionable from the left standards than this.
00:56:05.820But but I think they're starting here because they know that, number one, this is this is a crucial, fundamental issue.
00:56:10.860And also they simply have no response to that at all.
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00:57:44.940But it is I think of the show as part of our entertainment play at the Daily Wire because it transcends the sort of normal boundaries that people would put on a political show.
00:57:54.280I think the audience is going to love it.
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01:00:28.320Because they had this problem under Obama, the Obama-Biden administration.
01:00:32.660And by the way, the policies that were being criticized went back even further.
01:00:36.720They went back to the Clinton administration.
01:00:38.480And so it was always a disingenuous attack against Trump.
01:00:41.480Jen Psaki, I thought, had a great line the other day.
01:00:43.640When liberal journalists finally started asking or saying, hold on, you're separating kids from their parents or whatever the adult was that was bringing them.
01:00:51.940You're putting them in cages at way higher numbers than Trump ever did.
01:01:08.700There weren't a lot of options during the Trump administration, too.
01:01:11.800And the problem here is that you've got horrible incentives being pushed by the Biden administration where he says on the campaign trail, come, surge the border, get on over here.
01:01:22.040You're still hearing this from the secretary of DHS.
01:01:53.300He wants to know, because the left's vision of identity politics, whatever happened to Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of judging someone, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character?
01:02:03.600Seems like such a famous quote from such a well-known civil rights activist has been forgotten or ignored today.
01:02:49.640Because if they did know, if they were actually educated about these people and they weren't just, you know, one-liners to put on your Twitter, they'd all be conservative and they'd all be Republican and they'd be on our side.
01:03:00.360So, you know, what happened to his dream is it became a nightmare and it became a nightmare because of the Democrats who were always the racists in this country, who have always seen, you know, the power that they can gain from race.
01:03:39.260You're actually training them up to be failures, to be noncompetitive, so that you can keep propagating this problem of black people having,
01:03:46.540them as the victims and saying, oh, look at you.
01:03:48.760It's been a lot of years and you're still living like this.
01:03:51.080Well, it's because we know nothing but outrage.
01:03:53.340And I will say this because I'm so passionate about this.
01:05:10.460And also, on MLK, if I'm to, just on that note of MLK, if I was to prophesy a little bit, like five years in the future, maybe earlier than that,
01:05:19.320I'd say for certain he's getting canceled.
01:05:22.200And those monuments are going to come down.
01:05:24.360And it seems shocking now, but that will happen.
01:06:55.080And you have to read what he writes about democratic socialism to understand what that means.
01:06:59.420But he says, all of my writing that I've ever undertaken is to promote democratic socialism as I understand it.
01:07:07.060As I understand it is doing a lot of work there because he was part of this movement of intellectuals at the time that were turning against Stalin.
01:07:13.520And, you know, everyone likes to overstate the distinction between Stalin and Trotsky and all that.
01:07:19.200You know, it's sort of the right wing does this, too.
01:07:36.740So here's a question for me from MGM, which is one of the better studios.
01:07:41.460I am a subscriber from Switzerland, and due to the cultural reach of the U.S., many habits and norms often tend to gain a foothold in Europe after they have sprung up in the States.
01:07:52.840What advice would you give to our continent or a single inhabitant, assuming that we are probably six months to one year behind you in these matters?
01:08:26.960Drew and I actually toured the Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas together one time.
01:08:31.980And I remember one of your observations when we were looking at these old wagons and farm implements and ranch implements from the late 1800s.
01:08:41.540And, you know, these grainy photographs of what the landscape looked like and what people were enduring at that time.
01:08:47.680You said, for God's sakes, Europe had Dickens at this time.
01:11:36.780And we have the doors open and we're saying everybody come in and we're saying culture is wrong and everything needs to coexist.
01:11:41.300And we know that it fundamentally cannot.
01:11:42.740And not just people who don't know what it is, people who are funded by zillions of dollars from the biggest institutions saying that we hate this culture and you should hate it, too.
01:12:12.740It says a lot about my career, I suppose.
01:12:14.520But, yeah, this is the actual Irish embassy responded to a trolling tweet from me where I was where I was saying that if you're not part if you're not a person of Irish descent, PID, PID, which is what I am.
01:12:29.460And if you add us with the marginalized groups, we are PID, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, all that together.
01:13:22.720And that's so tragic that they only illustrate the point I was making your own people.
01:13:26.580Yeah, my own people turned up internalized Irish phobia is what they were saying.
01:13:33.260Because I totally see this point on appreciation, appropriation.
01:13:36.580But if if you're not allowed to appropriate any other culture, let's say you're a white guy and you're not allowed to appropriate any other culture.
01:13:42.140But also you have to abolish your own culture.
01:13:46.100What what culture are you permitted to have?
01:13:49.900One other thing about this appropriation thing, because, of course, one of the ironies with St.
01:13:54.840Patrick's Day is that it's not even, you know, St.
01:14:10.700Yeah, dreadlocks did not originate with black people.
01:14:14.000Kendall Jenner was accused of appropriating tequila.
01:14:17.560Well, tequila was not invented by native Mexicans.
01:14:19.600It was invented by a by a Spanish aristocrat.
01:14:21.500And so, you know, that's one of the ironies is that so often the culture that supposedly owns this thing like the Vikings, they have no answer for that.
01:14:27.600You're not allowed to wear your hair and braids or your culture appropriating from Africans.
01:14:30.260I guarantee you, the Vikings had no access to the continent of Africa.
01:14:33.580They weren't just like, oh, look at this braid down here.
01:15:25.800How is she doing and how does she compare to previous press secretary?
01:15:29.960Well, it is the worst job on earth because you probably take it thinking you're going to communicate the wonderful vision of the president you believe in.
01:15:50.740I just think that it's sad to watch somebody devolve into just a constant liar.
01:15:57.280The smallness, you know, I saw this during the Trump administration with Melania, like a lovely woman who did a good job as first lady, couldn't get on a magazine cover.
01:16:08.560An actual model couldn't get on a magazine cover.
01:16:12.300And I find that now with the Biden administration refusing to give any credit to Trump and his Operation Warp Speed, which really did help these vaccines get out there.
01:16:23.940And basically this pretense that the board today or yesterday, she actually said, oh, you know, the border thing, we were stuck with Trump's border policies.
01:16:36.260I think Trump's border policies were like keeping people out and stopping them on the other side of the border so they didn't come over.
01:18:11.400I mean, you're right that the empathy is a little bit misplaced because, again, when you just crap all over the last administration and you act like it was the peak of dishonesty.
01:18:18.900And then you're going out there and you're lying every single day.
01:20:55.840And so it's a very subtle thing, but by Fannie and Freddie saying they're not going to purchase nearly as many,
01:21:01.840dramatically fewer second, third, fourth mortgages, it instantly drove up the interest rate for second homes by two and a quarter, two and a half percent.
01:21:14.520Like all left-wing plans, of course, this means renters will have to pay more because it's much more expensive for people to buy homes.
01:21:22.260But this is the thing about the left, every trick that they use to interfere with the economy actually has a compounding effect on-
01:21:30.260So the other thing about the left is the left believes that gravity doesn't always apply.
01:21:35.060You can violate every rule and then if you violate every rule, then sooner or later you'll violate a rule and there'll be no consequences to having violated the rule.
01:21:41.800And so they just keep violating rules.
01:21:43.020Whether you're talking about the rules of marriage, whether you're talking about the rules of gender-
01:21:46.440If you're talking about the rules of economics, the same thing applies, right?
01:21:48.440They believe deeply in modern monetary theory, which is the idea that we can just continue to blow out the spending.
01:21:53.240And because other economies are not as robust as the American economy, people will continue to buy our bonds endlessly.
01:21:57.840Well, that's only true so long as the American economy is growing robustly.
01:22:00.840The big problem here for Republicans on the economy is because the natural recovery is going to be so unbelievably strong over the course of this year and next year,
01:22:08.220by the time things start to cool off, it's already going to be 2024, basically.
01:22:12.400And there is a delayed effect to a lot of the policies that are getting kicked in right now.
01:22:16.720So you're going to see the economy start to slow.
01:22:18.380Pretty much everybody agrees with this, like 2024.
01:22:20.980By 2025, you could start to see the economy really start to enter into some dark territory.
01:22:25.620And we'll have no ability to take up more debt to actually prop up the stimulus.
01:22:29.420I would say that it's going to take five to six years to feel the impact of what we're seeing right now.
01:22:33.960And and like, you know, anything else in the economy, everything's good until it ain't.
01:22:40.020Yeah, it's not like it just gradually.
01:22:41.780At my age, these predictions are very encouraging because I've reached the point where people say long term effects.
01:22:47.700I go, yeah, yeah, the Keynesian in the long run.
01:22:52.460That has become for you very, very immediate.
01:22:56.480Gentlemen, Candace, Michael, we're we've been here damn near forever.