Ep. 1596 - Democrat Elites Are Playing A Giant Game Of “Cover Your A＊＊” And It’s Hilarious
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A new book reveals the shocking new details about Joe Biden s mental decline. Plus, David Hogg says that Democrats need to stop excommunicating men from the party. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Welch Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a new book reveals the shocking new details about Joe Biden's mental
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decline. Of course, these details are not, as it turns out, shocking or new at all.
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And Carmelo Anthony stabbed and killed a fellow student, but that apparently won't stop him from
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receiving his diploma next week. Plus, David Hogg says that Democrats need to stop excommunicating
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men from the party. The next day, he was excommunicated from the DNC. We'll talk
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about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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There are plenty of reasons why I've been reluctant to discuss the new book from Jake Tapper about how
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Joe Biden's staff tried to hide his mental decline during the presidential campaign. For one thing,
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it's old news. Joe Biden lost the election a long time ago. It's a bit like reading about how O.J.
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Simpson's lawyer secretly knew that he did it. By this point, no one cares, nor is anyone surprised by
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it. And for another thing, everyone knows that Jake Tapper, like the rest of the news media,
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was directly involved in covering up the slow motion transformation of Joe Biden's brain into
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applesauce. So there's no credibility to this book at all. And it is a transparent effort by Democrats
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to throw Joe Biden under the bus and absolve themselves of the 2024 election loss so they can
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retain a shred of credibility and remain in positions of power within the party. That's all it is.
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Now, all that said, I have to admit that despite my many reservations, it's actually worth talking
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about this book, at least a little bit. And that's not because Jake Tapper's reporting is believable
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or because Joe Biden is relevant. It's because when you read the self-serving narrative that these
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people are coming up with, it's actually kind of entertaining. And it's also an extremely good
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omen for the conservative movement because it's evidence that six months after Donald Trump beat
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Kamala Harris in every swing state, Democrats remain as delusional and narcissistic as they ever were.
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This is a party that is mired in a very steep decline. And Jake Tapper, for all his efforts to
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obscure that fact, instead makes it even more obvious. So here, for example, is how this new
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book explains why actor George Clooney decided to go nuclear on the Biden campaign back in the summer.
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You might remember that Clooney wrote a public op-ed about how Biden is incapable of serving as
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president. But the story doesn't begin with that op-ed. Instead, the story begins on a rainy Easter
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evening last year in the south of France, where George Clooney was lounging around in one of his
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mansions, as George Clooney is known to do. And suddenly, Clooney received a phone call from the
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Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, who asked Clooney to host a fundraiser for Biden in June.
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Now, it seemed like a reasonable request since Clooney and Biden had known each other for more than 15
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years. But the timing of the event put Clooney in a bind because Clooney was slated to be in Tuscany in
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June, shooting a new coming-of-age drama for Netflix that I'm sure was terrible. Now, in order
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for Clooney to attend the fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles without missing any days of
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filming, he determined that he would have to fly into Los Angeles from Tuscany, which is something
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like a 12-hour flight, host the fundraiser, then get on the plane for Rome that same night before
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the fundraiser had concluded. So this was a major inconvenience by any metric. But Clooney agreed to do it
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with a stipulation. And here's what he told Katzenberg, quote,
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I can do one night. Let's call Julia Roberts and see if she'll do it with me, close quote. Now,
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unfortunately, the book doesn't delve into specifics of why exactly George Clooney insisted on having
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Julia Roberts in attendance for his one-night jaunt to Los Angeles from Tuscany. We'll have to
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speculate on that point. But in any event, Clooney made it happen. He made it to the Peacock Theater
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on time with Julia Roberts in tow. And that's when everything fell apart. At a private reception at
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the theater prior to a public question and answer session, Joe Biden arrived with an aide, of course,
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guiding his hand to help him walk. And then Biden saw George Clooney. And here's how that conversation
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went. Quote, thank you for being here, Biden said to Clooney. And then an aide remarks, you know,
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George, attempting to prod Joe Biden's memory. But Biden didn't seem to get it. So he just keeps saying,
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thank you for being here. And how are you? And then Clooney tries to, you know, like, like,
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this is actually what I do anytime I'm at a social function and I'm talking to someone
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who I think I'm supposed to know or, or, but I, but, but I think I didn't just meet for the first
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time, but I'm not sure. So you just, that's what you do. Oh, how are you? Thanks for, thanks for
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being here. Good to, you know, you don't say good to meet you. You say good to see you. That's the
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move. So he's doing that to George Clooney. And then Clooney tries to make small talk and Biden
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keeps giving him these short one word answers. And then the aide clarifies to Biden that he's talking to
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George Clooney, you know, the famous actor who's organizing the entire fundraiser that he's at.
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And then Biden lights up and exclaims, oh yeah, hi, George. Now quoting from the book, quote,
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Clooney was shaken to his core. The president hadn't recognized him, a man he'd known for years.
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Clooney had expressed concern about Biden's health before. A White House aide had told him a few
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months before that they were working on getting the president to take longer steps when he walked.
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But obviously the problem went far beyond his gait. This was much graver, close quote.
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Now, if you zoom out a few hundred feet, you have to admit that Biden simply does not get credit for
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being anywhere near as entertaining as he was. Because according to this book, Biden looked George
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Clooney in the face at a lavish fundraiser that Clooney was hosting for him, having flown in from
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Tuscany with only the promise of seeing Julia Roberts to lure him there. And essentially said,
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you know, who the hell are you? Now, to be clear in Hollywood, this is the single greatest act
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of disrespect that a person can be guilty of. I mean, if Biden had robbed Clooney and then
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beaten him to death with a cane, it still would not have been anywhere near as disrespectful as this
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was. I mean, telling a famous actor like George Clooney that you have no idea who he is,
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that's not something that you do unless you want to go to war. Even if you're the president of the
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United States, you simply cannot come back from that. And indeed, Clooney did go to war. He wrote an op-ed
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that very shortly after that that gave other party elites the green light to torpedo Biden's
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candidacy. Now, in the book, this anecdote is supposed to come off as, you know, truly shocking
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to the reader. We're supposed to be amazed that Joe Biden was so far gone. But actually, it's just
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hilarious. I mean, two years before this fundraiser, Joe Biden was so lost and confused on the White House
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grounds that the Easter Bunny had to tell him what to do. He'd been falling asleep and freezing up
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during interviews again and again. It's not remotely surprising that he wasn't able to recognize George
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Clooney because many times over, he didn't appear to realize who he was or what he was doing in the
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White House. So nothing here is a revelation. What is new is that according to this book, it took a blow
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to George Clooney's ego in order for Democrats and their donors to tell the public about Joe Biden's
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condition. That was the red line for these people. You won't find a better way to summarize the modern
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Democrat Party. Joe Biden was free to run the country into the ground. He was free to stare
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into space, slack-jawed wherever he went, whether he was on television or attending the White House
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Easter egg hunt. But the one thing he wasn't free to do, the one thing that was intolerable to the
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elites, was failing to acknowledge their power over him. And of course, these elites lack all self-awareness
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even now to the point that they think a sob story about multimillionaire actor George Clooney flying
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in from Tuscany only to be snubbed by Joe Biden is going to make voters sympathetic to the party
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machine and the corporate press. But it's not going to work because we all remember how they attempted
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to spin this fundraiser at the Peacock Theater. This is the footage which everyone saw of Joe Biden
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freezing up on stage before Obama had to grab him by the hand and lead him away. We all remember this,
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but let's play it again. Okay, so he's being led away there. It was all there. Now, on MSNBC,
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they responded to this footage by attacking the people who posted it. And then they suggested that
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the footage was somehow misleading. They called it a cheap fake. Now, this is a term that they made up,
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by the way, instantaneously. And they all started using it because the memo went out.
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And they all started using this term cheap fake. They made up the whole term in a desperate bid to
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minimize the impact of this footage. And as the media made this claim and invented this new word,
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There's a growing and insidious trend in right-wing media, broadcast, print, and social media.
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It is to take highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly from
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Republican National Committee social media accounts, and then use those videos to spread
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messages virally to cast doubt on President Biden's fitness for office. Here is this headline from
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the New York Post. Quote, Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led offstage by Obama at Megabuck's LA
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fundraiser. The full video posted by Biden finance chair on Twitter shows something entirely different.
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Biden reacting to applause and then walking offstage with former President Obama.
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Insidious. Yes, it's insidious for us to notice a thing that's happening right in front of us.
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This is a common theme with the media, as you know. And even after Joe Biden participated in
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that disastrous debate with Donald Trump, the cover-up continued. Barack Obama put out this
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tweet saying Biden had just had a bad night. And you can see it there. In fact, Obama implies that
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in the past he's performed just as badly as Joe Biden did. And Obama said this with a straight face,
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even though no one actually watched, who actually watched the debate, even the most committed Obama
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hater on the planet, would agree with that statement. The term gaslighting is overused,
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but this obviously qualified. Meanwhile, Axios ran this report. They wanted you to know that Biden was
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suffering from a cold during the debate and that he strengthened as the night went on.
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What's amazing about this is that Alex Thompson, Jake Tapper's co-writer on the book,
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writes for Axios. So they've gone from participating in the cover-up to claiming to be outraged by it.
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Meanwhile, this is the headline the AP went with. Again, they ran this after the presidential debate,
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quote, Biden at 81, often sharp and focused, but sometimes confused and forgetful.
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This was the coverage from every mainstream outlet throughout all of last year. For his part,
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earlier in 2024, Joe Scarborough lashed out at his viewers saying that Joe Biden was more cogent
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than he'd ever been. He said, F you if you disagreed. And we've played that clip before. It's not worth
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revisiting just because it's actually painful to watch, but it's all over the Internet if you
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haven't seen it already. For his part, prior to writing this new book, Jake Tapper wasn't any
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better. Tom Elliott collected a lot of video footage of Tapper running interference for the
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Biden campaign. Here's just some of it. How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel
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when they see you make a comment like that? It's very clearly a cognitive decline.
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OK, that's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable. You are. You are. No.
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I can't. It's so amazing. It's so amazing to me that that try and figure out an answer.
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A cognitive decline. Biden embraces his stutter talking about it while Trump mocks it,
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exaggerates it, belittles it. He's sharp physically. I mean, mentally. Yeah, I think the question is
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physically. Right. Right. Or so. Right. Right. And the guy who's his chief opponent is only three
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or four years younger than him. I mean, you have questioned President Biden's age, mental fitness,
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ability to lead of those supporting Biden. You said, quote, shame on all of you pretending
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everything is OK. You're leading us and him into a disaster. Do you worry that you damaged him at all?
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I don't doubt that that you got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today and maybe even publicly
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some of them because they like you personally. But I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about
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you from your Democratic colleagues. I mean, just like, what is he thinking?
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Now, fast forward a few months and now Jake Tapper would like you to buy his book so that he can expose
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everyone other than Jake Tapper. But as far as I can tell, this book doesn't answer any of the
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actually interesting questions from the campaign. And here's the big one. Who told Joe Biden to debate
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Donald Trump in June? That was the earliest presidential debate in modern political history.
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They actually they usually take place in September, not June. And obviously everyone now agrees that
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Biden's inner circle understood that he was incapable of recognizing George Clooney, much less
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participating in a nationally televised debate. So why did they send him out there? In these excerpts
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from the book, there's a hint of an explanation. It's a paragraph that describes a conversation at a
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wedding that was being attended by Chuck Schumer, the Democrats leader in the Senate. Quote,
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another wedding guest who sat at Schumer's table recalled him saying, if things go south of the debate,
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me, Barack, Nancy and Hakeem have a plan B, close quote. In other words, Democrat Party leaders knew
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that the debate would be a disaster and they saw it as a latched last ditch way to replace a losing
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candidate who refused to step aside voluntarily. To all appearances, the debate was a setup and a very
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effective one. They wanted to remove Joe Biden and install a new candidate while they still had the
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time. And now that Kamala Harris crashed and burned, these people have another ready-made excuse.
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They're saying that Harris only lost because she had to run such a short campaign. Of course,
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everyone knows that Kamala Harris lost popularity with every day that she campaigned. The more people
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realized how vapid she was, the less support she had. But for the purposes of this book,
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we're supposed to pretend that voters didn't like Kamala Harris because they didn't see enough of her.
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And therefore, the narrative is clear. All of Democrats' problems are Joe Biden's fault.
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His handlers deceive the public, blame them and only them. Again, none of it's particularly
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compelling. There are other tidbits in here about how Joe Biden's advisors were supposedly planning
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to put him in a wheelchair after the election and how he couldn't remember the name of his own
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national security advisor, Jake Sullivan. Apparently, he kept calling the guy Steve over and over again
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in order to get him to come to the Oval Office. Then he also forgot the name of his spokeswoman,
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Kate Beddingfield. So he just called her Press instead of using her actual name. So we effectively had
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a caveman in the White House for several years, which again, is not actually something that makes
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Joe Biden exclusively look bad. Instead, it makes every single one of his enablers, including his
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wife, look like the criminals they are. Now, the important thing to understand is that this is how
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the Democrat Party operates, and it will continue to operate this way, even though Joe Biden is now
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long gone. In fact, they're currently running the same operation on John Fetterman. Remember how during
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his Senate campaign, Fetterman opened a debate by saying, hi, good night, everyone. And at the time,
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we were told that, you know, we were bigots if we suggested that he wasn't fit for office.
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But now the tone has changed. CNN is currently grilling Fetterman in his office about whether he is
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secretly bipolar. Watch. My reaction is it's a one source hit piece and involved maybe two or three
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anonymous disgruntled staffers saying just absolute false things. Have you been keeping up with that,
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taking your medication? I want to, my doctors, my doctors are like, John is, is great. And I am,
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I am on all of the plan that it's always been. And it's incredibly invasive. And why are people
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talking about anyone's personal medical things? So you've only been treated for depression,
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not for being bipolar? No, no, I haven't. I haven't. But I've been very front and center about
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my, with, with depression. Absolutely. None of these other things. And it's like, so someone that was
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trying to accumulate my medical records and, and leak those things, that's part of this weird grudge
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for this hit piece. You fully plan to serve your full term here in the Senate? Come on. Of course,
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that's obviously, obviously, everybody understands I, I was treated for depression.
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Now, this is a very different CNN from just a couple of years ago when they trotted out their
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chief brain surgery correspondent to inform us that John Fetterman was more than capable of serving the
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U.S. Senate. Yes, he needed a computer to conduct interview. And yes, he didn't make any sense when
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he talked, but all of his issues we were told had to do with processing his responses. He understood
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everything just fine. He was only having issues getting the words out. Watch. Not appear to have
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a problem with cognition. You know, he's responding quickly. He supposedly took a couple of tests where he
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performed well on those tests. We haven't seen the results of that. We haven't seen any of these
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medical records. But overall, you could hear his fluency of speech and things like that. So
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not to commingle cognition with functional deficit that people do recover from in the form of this
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stroke. So in terms of his ability to serve in the United States Senate, can he understand a tough
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national security issue before he cast a vote? Can he understand the complexities of a major health
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care bill if he had to cast a vote? Could he understand the major complexities of a tax bill if he
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had to conduct a vote? Can he read it as opposed to getting a briefing from the staff? Is that kind of the
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issue here? I think so. I think that's it. It does not appear to have a problem with understanding
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comprehension. It is a processing issue that seems to be the case. So they've gone from saying that
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he's totally fine without actually speaking to him to having a reporter hound him in his office and
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accuse him of being bipolar. And all that changed, of course, is that John Fetterman became very annoying
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to Democrats in the Senate. He didn't tow the party line to the extent that they wanted. So
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now they want to get rid of him. And they know that if they continue to betray him as mentally
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disturbed, then eventually he'll have no choice but to quit. Put it all together, and it's clear
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that the Democrat Party has not matured or improved in any way since their crushing defeat in the last
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election. They're still just as shameless as ever, just dishonest. They don't care about transparency or
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informing the public. They're only capable of running extremely transparent propaganda campaigns in which
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they'll say one thing in 2024 and then completely contradict themselves in 2025. Whatever Jake Tapper was
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helping to accomplish with this book, credit where it's due. He succeeded in doing one thing and one
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thing only. He made George Clooney, of all people, the face of the very self-absorbed and impotent
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Democrat elite. And it's true that Joe Biden can't recognize that face, even if it's standing right in
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front of him at his own fundraiser. But voters are a little more perceptive. And as a result, they
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understand that Democrats are far more concerned about their own self-image than anything else.
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Whatever damage was done to George Clooney's ego a year ago, the damage to Democrats as a direct
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result of this ongoing cover-up is much more substantial. And to put it another way, this is
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a party that very badly does not want to accept any amount of accountability. They're not interested
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in it. All they want is to find someone else to blame for their failures. That's their obsession.
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Yes, the man they're now blaming, the former president of the United States, has no idea who they are or who he
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is. But everyone else remembers what they were saying about him before this latest book tour.
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And the more they lie about it, and the more they run the same scheme against John Fetterman,
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the more we're reminded of who these people are and why they can never be trusted with power
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ever again. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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because it annoys me. That's the only reason. Not the biggest news on the planet, but the House
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GOP, the official ex-account of the House Republicans, made the baffling decision to post something
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yesterday in both English and Spanish. And the tweet itself is benign. You know, the tweet says,
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we'll put it up on the screen, House Republicans believe in every American's potential to thrive
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by embracing the power of work. And then right underneath it, they have the Spanish
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translation of that sentence, which I will not try to read. So you get the message,
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then the same message in Spanish. Why would they do this? If the Republicans wanted to find a way to
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tweet something that announces that they have no idea what time it is, they could not have done
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better than this. Of all the times to virtue signal with the bilingual tweet, this is the worst possible
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time. Nobody's in the mood for it. Nobody was ever really in the mood for it, especially not your own
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voter base. They're certainly not in the mood for it now. So why are you doing this? And it's funny,
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of course, because practically it's totally pointless. I mean, even if you felt that the House GOP
00:22:08.200
needs to, like a tweet from the House GOP needs to be accessible to foreign language speakers,
00:22:15.120
even if you felt that way, well, Twitter already translates for you. So if something is posted in
00:22:21.020
a foreign language, there's a little button that says translate. And so it already does that. So
00:22:26.320
practically it's pointless. That function is already there. But also, by the way, we shouldn't be worried
00:22:35.120
about making our political conversations accessible to foreigners. If you want to be part of it,
00:22:40.100
learn English. If you want to know what banal, useless crap the GOP is tweeting,
00:22:46.240
then yeah, learn English. It's a great incentive, actually. You need to learn English so that you can
00:22:53.160
read all the inane bumper sticker slogans that the Republicans are putting out about the power of work.
00:22:58.400
And, you know, this may seem pedantic or whatever, but it's really not because we speak English in
00:23:07.080
this country. That is our language. We have a right to insist on it. That should be the message that
00:23:13.160
our alleged party is sending instead of counter-signaling with these totally pointless
00:23:21.360
bilingual virtue signals, which, of course, if it appeals to anyone, will only appeal to the kinds
00:23:29.000
of people who will never vote Republican anyway. And speaking of speaking English, there's a clip that
00:23:36.260
I just saw just a few moments ago. It's a clip that is so on the nose, so perfect, that perfect in the
00:23:50.460
worst kinds of ways. That I first, I wasn't sure if it was a skit. Like, it's, I'll put it this way.
00:23:55.800
If I were to script a 30-second skit that would demonstrate in 30 seconds everything wrong with
00:24:05.660
our approach to immigration in the Western world, it would be this clip. It would be this clip exactly.
00:24:11.740
If somebody submitted this script to me because they wanted to make a short little skit
00:24:16.560
that kind of makes the point about immigration, I'd have no notes for it. I would say this is
00:24:21.720
perfect. Everything about it is absolutely perfect. So I want to play this for you. This is not,
00:24:26.480
but this is not actually a skit, it turns out. This is a report, a news report on GB News in the UK,
00:24:31.340
and it's a conversation or an attempted conversation between a reporter and a third world migrant who just
00:24:37.960
arrived from somewhere in Africa and is now living in a tent. And apparently this reporter,
00:24:44.720
I guess, is embedded with these, with these migrants for a day, for 24 hours and is trying
00:24:51.320
to talk to them. And this, this migrant from Africa is not able to convey very much in English,
00:24:59.520
but he is able to get one thing across and one thing only. So let's watch this.
00:25:05.780
Why should English people pay for you to have a house?
00:25:12.780
Maybe they give me a house, they give me anything I can need, they give me.
00:25:26.780
Because it's people, because people, England is perfect.
00:25:30.780
Oh, so you think we're, so we're all, you think we're all,
00:25:36.580
I, like, like I said, I can't, I mean, I can't, I can't improve on it. That's, that, that's it.
00:25:43.180
Everything about that is the problem. Every part of it.
00:25:47.580
This is a guy that coming from Africa, living in a tent, can't speak English. The only words
00:26:00.080
he knows are give me. The only thing he can communicate is give me. And think about that
00:26:09.140
for a second. Think about what that means, right? Because it's like, if you were, if you're a tourist
00:26:16.400
and you're going to a foreign country where they speak a foreign language and you're talking to
00:26:20.800
someone who maybe has, has been in the country, that country before, or is from that country.
00:26:26.400
And you, you, you might ask them like, what are, you know, I don't know the language, but what are
00:26:30.680
some, they give you like some, some phrases that, yeah. So you're not gonna learn the whole language
00:26:35.260
before you go. Uh, but they want to give you, they'll give you a few phrases that you will help
00:26:39.280
you get around. Like, uh, so if you're going to Italy and you're going to spend a week there
00:26:43.840
and you don't know Italian, uh, so maybe you talk to Italian person, like, look, give me a few,
00:26:49.980
you know, just like a few, a few handy phrases that I would need, right? If I'm in Italy, like, uh,
00:26:54.600
whatever, uh, I'd like to order spaghetti, uh, whatever, you know, can I join the mafia? Like,
00:27:00.140
whatever, whatever it is you'd say when you're in Italy. Um, so for these, these African illegals,
00:27:08.360
uh, before they go to an English speaking country and they're talking amongst themselves
00:27:15.320
and they're saying, okay, what are, what's like, what are the main phrases I need when I go to this
00:27:20.460
place? And they've decided the only phrase they need is give me. Once you get there, all you need
00:27:26.920
to know is give me, just walk into the country and say, give me, give me, give me, uh, give me a
00:27:33.120
house. Give me, give me, give me food. Uh, it, I mean, you have to laugh because otherwise it's,
00:27:41.220
it's, otherwise you, you will scream in inarticulate rage, uh, because those are the only two options.
00:27:49.560
Why? I would like anyone on the left, and I know that this, this is, uh,
00:27:57.560
uh, totally fruitless. It's there. They can't, they won't do it. But I would love for anyone on
00:28:04.760
the left to try to explain why we would want that guy in our country. Okay. Whether it's that guy
00:28:17.180
who's going to the UK or that we have those guys coming to this country as well. Why do we want
00:28:23.680
that guy in our country? What is he bringing to the table aside from demands? I didn't say,
00:28:34.320
what is he taking from the table? There's a lot he wants to take from it. He'll take the food off
00:28:39.480
the table and he'll take the table and sell. He'll take everything. We know that, but what is he
00:28:44.460
bringing to it? Okay. The question that he was posed that he didn't understand because he doesn't know
00:28:49.300
English and you got these people coming to the country. They don't, they don't know English. They don't,
00:28:52.260
they don't care about the culture. They don't care about assimilating. They're not interested in it.
00:28:56.420
They won't, they'll make zero attempt to do it. They're only here, uh, to take. That's the only
00:29:01.780
reason they come. When these migrants come to the country, they are, they come to take. That's it.
00:29:08.660
That's why they're here. But the question he asked, he was asked, was a very fair question.
00:29:16.480
Why should, not only why should we let you here in the first place, but why should taxpayers pay for
00:29:25.480
you? Why? Give me a reason. Give me any reason why we should let you in here or, or, uh, even more so
00:29:37.000
pay for you. What are you bringing to the table? Well, he can't explain that because all he can say
00:29:46.540
is give me. He's bringing his neediness to the table. He's bringing his demands to the table.
00:29:55.080
But can anyone, can any, uh, uh, Democrat, anyone on the left who is able to speak at least, uh, a little
00:30:01.900
bit more English, can they explain why we want that guy in the country? So what you can't do is
00:30:09.660
you can't say, oh, well, because he's, he's, uh, he's really put upon and poor and all that. No,
00:30:14.620
no, that's why he wants to, I know why he wants to come to the country. I understand that.
00:30:20.000
We all understand his motivations. We understand what he gets out of it. What I'm saying is what do
00:30:25.360
we get out of it? And, uh, but you can't answer that question because the answer is nothing. We do
00:30:35.580
not benefit at all in the slightest bit from having a guy like that in the country. There is zero benefit
00:30:42.360
to the country. And, um, we all know it. Okay. The NBC affiliate in Dallas has, uh, a story, an update
00:30:54.280
on, uh, the story that of course we followed closely of, uh, Carmelo Anthony who stabbed and killed
00:31:02.400
Austin Metcalf at, uh, uh, a track, uh, track meet several weeks ago. Well, they're both high school
00:31:10.440
students or, uh, you know, Austin Metcalf was a high school student until he was murdered. Carmelo
00:31:14.800
Anthony, Carmelo Anthony, you, you would, you would think we would say was a high school student because
00:31:20.080
you would think he was expelled and that was it. But, uh, there's an interesting update.
00:31:24.280
Let's watch. The young man charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a Frisco
00:31:29.540
student will receive his diploma. According to the next generation action network, Frisco
00:31:34.600
ISD reached an agreement that allows Carmelo Anthony to graduate, but not participate in
00:31:39.920
senior graduation activities. The teenager has the necessary credits for graduation and
00:31:44.740
a 3.7 GPA. He is out on bond awaiting trial in the death of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco district
00:31:51.920
track me. Okay. So he stabbed another student and he can still graduate. He stabbed a student
00:31:58.540
at a school event and he can graduate. Now, you know, the, the, the fact that it sounds like
00:32:04.180
he won't be walking across the stage, but that doesn't matter. You, you should not be able
00:32:09.820
to receive your diploma after stabbing and killing another student. I mean, that shouldn't need to be
00:32:19.800
said. So to review Carmelo Anthony, after stabbing another student to death, and by the way, I'm not
00:32:26.920
going to say allegedly in front of that, like a lot of people do allegedly stabbed. No, he stabbed him.
00:32:30.820
I mean, there's like zero, zero question about that. He definitely stabbed him. He admitted it. So
00:32:37.520
there's not any kind of, uh, so after, after definitely stabbing another student to death
00:32:43.360
has now received over half a million dollars and he'll get his diploma.
00:32:49.320
And we all know that, of course, there's just no way this happens. If the races are reversed,
00:32:55.000
uh, neither of the million dollars nor the graduation would happen or should happen.
00:33:00.480
By the way, you know, a lot of people are, are fretting that conservatives,
00:33:06.180
some conservatives have become radicalized quote unquote on, uh,
00:33:12.220
on in general, but in particular on race issues. And the Shiloh Hendricks case is supposed to be an
00:33:20.820
example of that. There are a lot of people claiming that I personally have become radicalized.
00:33:27.400
There's a, there's, if you go on X, you'll see a lot of conversation about that all the time.
00:33:32.980
And, uh, as for that claim, you know, about me personally, I'm not saying anything that I haven't
00:33:39.140
already been saying for years. And you, if you watch the show, you know, that everything I say
00:33:44.980
about these issues, I've been saying for a long time. You've heard me say it too many times, in
00:33:49.960
fact, but on, on X, this is a thing. Every time I post anything, there are people declaring that
00:33:56.960
depending on their perspective, they're declaring either that I've suddenly become based or, or that
00:34:03.040
I become a radical right-wing racist, you know, again, depending on their perspective on it,
00:34:07.380
but whatever label you put on, I mean, I don't care what labels you use. All these labels are
00:34:12.840
meaningless. Uh, I I've been here for a long time. I have not changed, but putting me aside,
00:34:19.180
has there been a kind of general radicalization? Well, again, I don't, I don't know that I'd,
00:34:25.340
I'd put it that way. What has happened is that more and more people are waking up to the situation
00:34:31.960
that we're in. Maybe we're in a radical situation. There is in fact a war on whiteness. There has been
00:34:39.860
for a long time. The left has long since declared that whiteness is a, is a disease, that it's
00:34:45.340
something that needs to be abolished. It needs to be cured. Um, they've long since set up policies
00:34:52.820
specifically to exclude or disadvantage white men. There has long since been a cultural standard
00:34:58.340
established that says that it can be justified to assault, accost, even kill a white person.
00:35:04.200
Uh, at the very least, if it's a crime at all, it won't be as bad a crime as it would have been in
00:35:08.420
the reverse. So all this, that's all just true. That's like, that's the culture that we've been
00:35:15.100
living in. And so if there's been any radicalization on the right, it's only been the radicalization of
00:35:20.080
noticing what's happening and pointing it out. You know, it's like if someone says,
00:35:25.080
as we talked about yesterday, again, uh, if someone says there's a great replacement,
00:35:31.180
there's a plan to make America less white, they'll be called a radical right winger.
00:35:36.780
And the more that the great replacement is talked about on the right, the more we hear these
00:35:40.140
lamentations on the left and among some people who would still call themselves conservatives,
00:35:44.700
these, these lamentations about, Oh, it's radicalism. It's radicalism.
00:35:48.640
Again, I, you can use that label. I don't care, but also it's just true. There is a replacement
00:35:57.840
happening. It's, it's actually just true. It's a thing that is happening. That's a true thing that
00:36:02.720
is happening. And the people doing it will admit it. All of this stuff they'll admit. When we say
00:36:09.940
there's a war on whiteness, they want to abolish whiteness. I'm not, that's not some radical conspiracy
00:36:15.640
theory. They've been saying that it's directly. I mean, you can look it up, look up the phrase
00:36:22.540
abolish whiteness in quotes on Google. See how many hits you get. You'll get hundreds of hits
00:36:27.840
because they've been talking about this explicitly forever. And if anything is, if anything is changing
00:36:36.560
on the right, it's just that there are more and more people who are looking at that and say,
00:36:40.080
Oh, look at what they're doing. Oh, they want to abolish whiteness. They hate white people.
00:36:43.220
They want to abolish them. Look, here's what they're saying. So these kind of calls to moderate.
00:36:55.540
Well, they want us to moderate by not noticing and not objecting to the things that they're doing.
00:37:02.060
That's when the left talks about moderating. They want it. They want moderation. That's always what
00:37:05.920
it means. It always means don't notice and don't object to what we're doing. Those are the moderates
00:37:13.140
that they like. Those are the moderate conservatives that they will pat on the head and give you a
00:37:18.220
cookie. It's because you're refusing to notice or object, much less do anything about their agenda.
00:37:28.660
That's always what it comes down to. Okay. Here's a fun story about an execution. So let's lighten the
00:37:42.480
mood a little bit by talking about this. Let's lighten it up and talk about something lighthearted
00:37:49.320
and fun. The media is very upset about a botched execution that happened last week.
00:37:54.900
And there's a lot of headlines about this last week. Here's the New York Post. A South Carolina
00:38:00.460
firing squad tried to shoot a convicted cop killer in the heart and missed in a botched execution that
00:38:05.100
left him in excruciating pain as he bled out, according to an autopsy and experts.
00:38:10.880
Mikhail Mahdi, 42, who murdered a South Carolina police officer during a crime street in 2004,
00:38:15.440
was shot to death by a three-person firing squad on April 11th. But an autopsy later revealed that
00:38:20.940
none of the bullets hit his heart directly and that his chest showed only two bullet wounds instead
00:38:24.620
of three. The bullets that struck him injured his liver and other internal organs and allowed his
00:38:28.900
heart to keep beating as he remained alive for roughly a minute. Mr. Mahdi did experience excruciating
00:38:33.560
conscious pain for about 30 to 60 seconds after he was shot. Pathologist Dr. Jonathan Arden wrote in
00:38:39.600
his analysis of the state autopsy. In July 2004, Mahdi went on a multi-state crime spree,
00:38:46.280
committing carjacking, firearm robbery, and three murders, including that of 56-year-old
00:38:51.180
off-duty police officer James Myers, who was shot at least eight times, and then his body was burned.
00:38:58.380
And then finally, 20 years later, he's being put to death, and apparently, according to these
00:39:02.680
experts, so-called experts, he experienced pain because they shot him and they all missed his heart,
00:39:08.660
and so he bled out. Okay, so they say it was, like I said, a light-hearted story. So they say it
00:39:15.120
was botched, but first of all, it doesn't seem botched to me. I mean, he's dead. So like when
00:39:20.720
you hear about botched execution, someone says, well, we botched the execution. Oh, you mean he's
00:39:26.900
still alive? No, he's dead. Okay, well, I guess, I mean, you didn't botch it. It succeeded. You did kill
00:39:30.860
him. But they say that it was botched because he may have experienced some pain for like a minute or
00:39:35.720
two. And this is a major outrage, apparently. Like I said, there are a lot of headlines about
00:39:38.640
it. And listen, I know this is one of my darker opinions. It's not exactly, maybe not exactly a
00:39:48.780
crowd pleaser, but it's just, it's like, it's absurd. This kind of outrage is absurd. I mean,
00:39:59.160
it's, if you have a very, very, very morbid jet black sense of humor, you almost have to laugh at
00:40:10.120
the, at the reaction to a story like this because of the absurdity of it. It's almost like a far side
00:40:16.580
cartoon or something where the executioner is standing over the guy who was just executed saying,
00:40:21.300
oh, geez, I hope he didn't feel any pain. I mean, that would be, that would be a little bit more of a
00:40:26.660
macabre far side cartoon than what you would normally get. But it is totally ridiculous.
00:40:33.880
I mean, it's, it's just ridiculous. You're killing the guy. You're shooting a person and killing him.
00:40:40.500
By what logic have we arrived at the conclusion that it's moral to strap a guy to a chair and shoot
00:40:48.760
and kill him. But it's a great moral evil. If he experiences physical discomfort,
00:40:55.640
you're strapping him to a chair and shooting him.
00:41:01.860
So you can shoot him, but he can't feel it. What it's, it is absurd. And by the way, this,
00:41:07.380
I'm not making an argument against the death penalty. I'm not saying we shouldn't kill the guy.
00:41:11.940
He murdered three people. He went on a crime spree that included killing brutally three people. He
00:41:19.500
punched his ticket. He earned that seat. He earned his trip, you know, to the, to the afterlife. There
00:41:25.920
are, there are things a person can do where they announce that they no longer wish to be a part of
00:41:32.480
human society. And this is one of those things. And put more simply, if you murder three people,
00:41:38.900
you deserve to die. You just deserve it. You just simply like, why is it okay to the execution?
00:41:46.420
Okay. Because you deserve it because you killed three people. It doesn't even make any sense for
00:41:51.120
the, no, I don't deserve this. What do you mean you don't deserve it? You murdered three people.
00:41:54.740
Of course you deserve it. Uh, it is justice. The punishment you deserve, the punishment is owed to
00:42:01.980
you. You earned it. And so you're going to get it. And that's what justice is. But if you deserve to die,
00:42:08.900
then you also deserve pain. Like I said, I know this is not, uh, this is like maybe one of the most
00:42:15.140
unpopular things you could say. It just, it just totally flies in the face of, uh, of the kind of
00:42:20.920
modern approach to this, to, to justice. Uh, the idea of like intentionally inflicting pain is, is it,
00:42:27.820
it just, it's the, it's the most, we don't like how that feels. We don't, we don't want to, we,
00:42:34.580
we, we, we don't like to think of justice in those terms, but that's what justice is.
00:42:40.940
That's actually what it is. It is inflicting suffering to some extent on someone intentionally
00:42:47.100
as a punishment. That's what justice is. Sending someone to prison is that.
00:42:53.720
Okay. So we're not talking about necessarily torture, like direct strapping them down to the
00:42:58.920
rack, medieval torture, but I'm necessarily talking about that. But putting somebody in prison
00:43:03.240
is inflicting a lot of, of suffering. There's an immense amount of suffering involved in going to
00:43:08.380
prison. And we're doing that on purpose. And yeah, part of the point is it's the suffering is not
00:43:14.140
incidental. Yeah. You're supposed to suffer. That is justice. That is what is owed to you. That is what
00:43:21.560
is due to you because of what you've done. Uh, so this should not be a controversial statement.
00:43:27.940
There is, there's no justice without suffering and not giving an evil man the suffering that he is due
00:43:33.080
is unjust. Just as it's unjust to not give a starving man some food. Now, the thing that we're
00:43:40.720
morally obliged to do and to provide is very different in those two scenarios. But in both
00:43:45.800
cases, it is justice because justice is giving to someone what they are due. And, uh, and in the case of a,
00:43:53.640
um, of a, of a, of a mass murderer, what they are due is their own death and also suffering. Uh, so I
00:44:07.260
think, but the way that we want to approach this, we want to, we want to approach justice. We want to
00:44:12.280
sanitize it as much as possible. And we don't want to face what we're actually doing. I also think
00:44:20.700
in some ways it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's also in some ways disrespectful to the, to the
00:44:29.140
condemned man to, for us to not face what we're doing. There's, there's, there's not, there's no
00:44:35.480
dignity in that. You know, that's, that's one of my, I have no issue with capital punishment. I think
00:44:41.380
capital punishment is right. I don't like the way we approach it though, because there's, there,
00:44:47.140
there's no dignity in it. There could be, but there isn't. I don't like it. Number one,
00:44:52.940
because it shouldn't be happening 20 years later. That's insane. Why are we waiting 20 years?
00:45:00.700
And number two, the most dignified thing is to, is for us as a society to face what we're doing.
00:45:08.220
Yeah. You've done this horrible thing. We're going to kill you now. And it's going to be, it's,
00:45:13.240
it's horrible. It's gonna be horrible. It's gonna be a horrible experience. It's going to,
00:45:16.360
it's going to, you're going to feel it. It's going to be painful, but you, you must feel this
00:45:21.540
because, because of what you've done. This is your punishment. And we don't like, we, we, we don't
00:45:30.160
enjoy it. Okay. We're not, we, it's, we shouldn't enjoy it. That's sadistic to take pleasure in someone
00:45:35.780
else's pain is sadistic. So we shouldn't take pleasure in it, but we also shouldn't hide from
00:45:43.360
what we're doing. Trying to sanitize it, trying to almost medicalize it. That's what the lethal
00:45:49.320
injection is all about. Put them on a, like a, what looks like a hospital bed and give them the
00:45:53.780
injection. Why are we doing that? It's only, it is simply to, so that we as a society can try to hide
00:46:02.300
from what we're doing and try to sanitize, try to lie to ourselves about this, this thing.
00:46:07.200
And this thing, which is ugly, like execution's an ugly thing, but it's also necessary. And in order
00:46:14.620
to have a civilized society and in order to have justice in society, there, it requires a certain
00:46:20.520
amount of ugliness. There are ugly things that you have to do. And this is one of them. And I think
00:46:26.460
it's, it is more honest and also in a way more respectful and more dignified for the condemned
00:46:34.580
person if we just face it and we're honest about it. Um, which means that when we hear that, okay,
00:46:41.360
well, we, we, a guy was put in front of the firing squad and he suffered for a few, for like 30 seconds.
00:46:46.000
What we should say is, well, I mean, yeah, that, and you know what it's, so he got to experience a
00:46:53.180
small measure of the suffering that he inflicted on somebody else. And, um, we're not necessarily happy
00:46:58.760
about it. We don't take pleasure in it. We don't delight in it, but, uh, but we should say, well,
00:47:03.440
that's justice. And, um, you know, hopefully the next person before they go off and kill three
00:47:11.340
people, maybe they can look at that. They can look at the, what happened to this guy and the
00:47:15.920
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00:47:22.000
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On Monday, the Democratic National Committee voted to void the election of David Hogg as their vice
00:49:27.900
chair. In a 13 to 2 vote, they decided that Hogg's election to his position was not legitimate.
00:49:33.800
And this was obviously devastating news for Hogg as it wiped away the one single achievement of his life,
00:49:38.460
as sad as that achievement was. Becoming the vice chair of the DNC is, in the world of national
00:49:43.660
politics, essentially the equivalent of a participation trophy. And now Hogg is losing
00:49:48.160
even his participation trophy. It's a sad day in the Hogg household. Then again, every day is a sad
00:49:53.280
day in the Hogg household. Nonetheless, his family must be devastated. And by family, of course, I mean
00:49:58.660
his cats. Now the DNC came up with some procedural reason for ousting David Hogg. But whatever the
00:50:05.260
pretense, you cannot help but notice the timing. That he was kicked to the curb just a day or two after
00:50:10.680
he appeared on Bill Maher's show and made the argument that the Democrat Party should do more
00:50:15.280
to appeal to men. Hogg said that Democrats should stop alienating men. And the Democrats responded by
00:50:22.880
immediately excommunicating him. Not exactly subtle. But even if the DNC isn't willing to listen to Hogg's
00:50:28.340
entreaties, we will hear him out on this show. Now, admittedly, it's hard to take a 27-pound
00:50:33.280
progressive male seriously when he talks about masculinity. But we'll try not to hold that against
00:50:37.900
him. Yes, he looks and sounds like the before picture in a commercial for testosterone therapy.
00:50:42.980
But again, we won't focus on that. So here is David Hogg with Bill Maher. Watch.
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Right now, what I think happened last election is younger men, they would rather vote for somebody
00:50:54.440
who feels, who even if they don't completely agree with, they don't feel judged by, than somebody who
00:50:59.060
they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because
00:51:02.840
they're going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated. And what's interesting about this
00:51:07.460
moment is it feels like the two parties in some senses have flipped where, you know, Republicans
00:51:11.200
used to be the judgmental in many ways. And since many Democrats, despite us, I would say for most
00:51:17.780
of us coming from the right place of wanting to do the right thing, we've created a culture where we
00:51:22.580
say, well, if you say the wrong thing, you're excommunicated. And that's just not how human
00:51:25.920
beings work. Nobody is perfect. But ultimately, what we have to do here is figure out how to bring
00:51:30.640
people back in and work towards the bigger goal of advancing the future of this country and helping
00:51:34.500
young people especially get by so that they're able to focus on their lives and, you know,
00:51:39.260
getting with a young woman or something like that, instead of how are they going to pay their rent,
00:51:42.960
for example, or how are they working their two jobs? Young people should be able to focus on what
00:51:46.880
young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun.
00:51:51.640
You know, David, we noticed how you said that Democrats should stop excommunicating men. Well,
00:52:08.700
for that, you're excommunicated. That was the DNC's response, basically. But even if the DNC isn't ready
00:52:16.140
to hear it, Hogg does have a point, obviously. Democrat Party has gone out of its way to alienate
00:52:21.140
and ostracize men at every opportunity. They've sent the message loud and clear that they don't
00:52:25.580
like or respect men, in particular straight white men. And what happens as a result? Well,
00:52:32.060
straight white men won't vote for you. It turns out that I hate you guys, now vote for me,
00:52:37.280
is not exactly the most compelling pitch. Now, Hogg may be broadly correct about the grand overarching point
00:52:43.820
to an extent, but his analysis is hindered by the fact that he is very much a part of the problem
00:52:49.520
that he's pointing to. He's just not capable of grasping the full scope of the issue or the finer
00:52:54.460
details because he's infected by the same mental and spiritual disease as the Democrats he's
00:52:59.140
criticizing. So let's go through the points that Hogg is missing. He says that Democrats have become the
00:53:05.940
judgmental a-holes, and that's correct. But the problem isn't merely with being judgmental or being an
00:53:13.200
a-hole. The problem is, first of all, and this is the big one, that the judgments are wrong.
00:53:22.520
Okay? It's one thing to be judgmental against bad degenerate behavior. It's another thing to be
00:53:29.280
judgmental against healthy normal behavior. The problem is not that judgments are being made. The
00:53:35.160
problem is that the judgments are deranged. So a conservative like myself may be accused, as I have
00:53:43.300
been a time or two, of being judgmental towards certain lifestyle choices. And then a leftist may
00:53:50.260
also be accused of being judgmental towards certain lifestyle choices. But I'm judgmental about, for
00:53:55.620
example, the lifestyle choices of, let's say, a man who announces that he's actually a woman and then
00:54:01.020
leaves his wife and kids and starts wearing dresses and makeup in public. That's an example of the kind
00:54:05.740
of lifestyle that I might harshly judge, that I might be judgmental towards. Yes, absolutely.
00:54:11.680
A leftist, on the other hand, will harshly judge a normal, straight, heterosexual man who has a wife
00:54:17.220
and kids and goes to work every day to provide for them and then comes home every night and eats dinner
00:54:21.200
with his wife that she prepared and then says prayers with his children before bed. Okay? Now, both choices
00:54:27.520
may be harshly judged by the two groups. But the very, very significant difference is that the latter
00:54:36.280
lifestyle choice is, well, rather, in this case, the latter lifestyle choice is healthy and good and
00:54:44.940
wonderful, right? The man who's with his wife and is faithful to her and they have a good family and
00:54:51.780
they pray and they eat dinner together. Like, that's a good thing. And the former lifestyle choice
00:54:57.620
is bad and destructive and maladjusted and harmful and disturbed. So, the problem is not
00:55:06.820
simply in the fact that judgments are being passed. The problem is that the judgment,
00:55:13.440
judgment, in the latter case, is totally deranged and psychotic. Okay? Now, so it's the substance
00:55:21.200
of the judgment that is the issue. But there is also an issue with style. Now, the Democrat Party
00:55:27.400
is mostly run by and exclusively caters to women and gay men. And that means that when they scold
00:55:36.320
straight men, they scold them like nagging shrews. And men hate being nagged. This is universal. If
00:55:43.880
you were to ask every man in the world to make a list of the top five things he hates, nagging would
00:55:50.440
make the list for every man. All four billion men, nagging would be on the list. Probably in the top
00:55:55.480
three. Maybe at the top. Maybe even number one. On the other hand, when conservatives call men out,
00:56:02.340
which we do, it tends to be done the way that men do it. See, men don't have a problem being called
00:56:09.720
out, necessarily. They just don't like being nagged. So, when the left lectures men, it sounds
00:56:15.000
like this. It sounds like, you know, that's really problematic. I can't believe you do that. I'm so
00:56:19.840
offended. How many times have I told you to stop that? I shouldn't have to keep telling you this.
00:56:26.180
You need to apologize. That's how the left lectures men. Now, if a conservative feels
00:56:32.220
a need to call men out, it's more like this. Hey, get your ass together. Like, man up. You
00:56:37.840
win. Stop. Nobody cares. Now, the first approach is guaranteed to be tuned out. Every time.
00:56:45.580
Guaranteed. No man wants to hear that. Once you get the finger wagging and this and that,
00:56:50.440
and I've told you so many times, we're not listening. I don't care what you're saying.
00:56:53.720
We're not listening. No man wants to be constantly lectured, regardless of the tone or style. But if you
00:56:59.740
need to admonish him for something, he much prefers the second option. Now, as men, if we need to slap
00:57:06.780
some sense into a friend, that's how we do it. We don't do that. I've told you so many. I'm so
00:57:13.120
offended. We don't do that. We say, dude, what are you doing? Like, get your ass together. Come on.
00:57:17.460
Get it together, man. That's how we do it. Now, Democrats can't speak to men that way. And if they do,
00:57:26.220
it sounds phony. It sounds like play acting. You know, it sounds like Tim Walz, right? Like, you're
00:57:33.640
trying to say the lines, but it's not natural to you. But generally, they can't even, even in a fake
00:57:40.380
way, they can't communicate with men that way because they are a party and a movement dominated by
00:57:45.600
ill-tempered, man-hating feminists. Democrats hate men too much to actually understand them or
00:57:52.080
communicate with them. And that's why David Hogg's great insight, you know, in the end is that young
00:57:58.740
men just want to get laid and have fun. And Bill Maher, like, can't get enough of that. He's, he's
00:58:03.880
thought that was the greatest thing that he's ever heard. He gets standing ovation for that incredible
00:58:08.700
insight. And this is what counts as, you know, profound wisdom coming from a mouthpiece of the
00:58:15.040
Democrat party or a former mouthpiece, I guess. But it is extremely superficial and ultimately insulting
00:58:22.240
because actually young men want a lot more than that out of life. They want success. They want
00:58:31.040
respect. They want not just to get laid. They want companionship. They want a wife. They want children.
00:58:37.980
They want a legacy. Every man likes having fun, but any person likes having fun. But no man is driven
00:58:47.240
by that desire at the deepest level of his soul. He's driven to pursue greatness. That is, unless he's
00:58:55.400
demoralized and defeated and just gives up, which a lot of men have. And that's the problem that we need
00:59:02.080
to fix. But it's a problem that guys like David Hogg can't do anything about and can't understand.
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And that's why David Hogg and his former cohorts at the DNC are all today canceled. That'll do the show
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today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.