00:24:46.520So there's somebody standing off to the side, Monday morning quarterbacking it, which is always, I guess you're very used to that as a police officer.
00:24:54.440But that's how you're in a high-pressure situation, life or death struggle, and you've got somebody off on the side.
00:25:00.900No, I don't think I wouldn't have done it that way.
00:28:12.600Um, I don't know why I'm imagining like reporters from the 1950s that have their notepads and they're taking notes, but that's the way it would have went.
00:28:23.300And it's the way that it went for years until BLM demanded that all the cops wear body cams, which as I've said before, has proven to be one of the great political miscalculations of all time.
00:28:38.620It has been, I can't think of another example quite like this, where you have a movement, the BLM movement, um, that has, is calling for one specific thing, right?
00:28:53.860They wanted other things too, but the, the big thing was like, uh, body cams and they get the body cams and it kills the movement.
00:29:03.220I can't think of a, you get what you want and it kills your movement.
00:29:09.580Uh, because now with body cams, we can see clearly that basically every officer involved shooting is not only justified, but like extremely absurdly justified.
00:29:19.620That's, that's what you learn for body cams.
00:29:21.940You watch body cams and you go, oh, so, so every single time the cop shoots someone, it's justified almost every time.
00:29:31.460It's, it's not even like a close call.
00:29:37.620I remember, you know, you go back again to 2015 when the cop in Ferguson said that Michael Brown charged at him.
00:29:45.820And, um, and that, you know, that was the, after we got the ridiculous, he had his, he was on the ground with his hands up yelling, don't shoot.
00:29:55.300And he got shot, um, completely made up.
00:29:59.100I mean, the scenario I just painted of the cat in the tree with leukemia, that is not more absurd than what they did.
00:30:05.660They actually claimed in Ferguson that he had, he was giving himself up, right?
00:30:11.660He's on his knees, hands in the air, right up to the heavens.
00:30:15.820And the cop just comes up randomly and executes him in the street for no reason.
00:30:21.080Um, but after we got that lie, then we finally heard the version of the correct version of events from police, the police officer.
00:30:29.320And that version was that Michael Brown, um, after he just committed a strong armed robbery of the, of the, uh, convenience store that he charged at the police.
00:30:41.820And at the time, every leftist in the country said that the cop must be lying, that it can't possibly be true because nobody would just go charge at a police officer who was pointing a gun at them.
00:30:54.900And I can remember distinctly having this conversation with multiple people.
00:30:59.180And this was always the answer is, Oh, do you really expect me to believe what he did?
00:31:13.160And I remember at the time I was totally on the officer side the entire time I was completely opposed to the BLM narrative in Ferguson from day one.
00:31:24.140I didn't, I didn't buy the, the, the false narrative at all for even a second, but it was hard to sort of imagine a person charging full speed at someone who's pointing a gun at them because I believe that I mean, that's what the forensic showed.
00:31:36.940That was that the, the counter narrative to that was totally fantastical and incredible in the literal sense.
00:31:42.020It was incredible, but still it was hard because I'd never seen that.
00:31:45.160Like I, except, except in movies, I'd never actually seen a kid.
00:31:47.880It's like, you, why, who would do that?
00:31:51.900Unless you are actually completely insane, insane to the point where you're, you don't even function.
00:31:57.160You're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you don't, you can't function.
00:32:00.080You're in an insane asylum, but anybody else charging at a police officer at the point, I got you, who would ever do that?
00:32:06.940It's hard to imagine as a normal, sane person.
00:32:10.140You, you can't, you can't picture that.
00:32:14.640Well, now we have the body cams and like every other month, there's footage of someone doing exactly that.
00:33:04.820It's a skit by the black comedian Drewski.
00:33:08.600And I mentioned that he's black because the fact that he's black is, is, is relevant to the story.
00:33:12.360As we'll see, he has a million, you know, viral comedy skits that you see circulating on social media constantly.
00:33:19.100And, uh, some of his stuff is pretty funny, I think, but in this case, the premise of the skit, um, the caption that Drewski put on it says that guy, who's just proud to be American.
00:33:31.080And then in the skit, he's wearing not just white face, but white body.
00:33:36.740He's painted his whole body to look white.
00:42:08.380So, Ilhan Omar is yet another lawmaker who came into office as a humble working class champion, only to transform almost instantly into a multimillionaire.
00:42:16.980And this, by the way, is why I've never agreed with the idea that we need to have fewer rich people running for office.
00:42:22.620You know, this idea that we just want, like, you know, you want, it's better to have, we don't want the rich people.
00:42:29.200We want people who are more middle income.
00:42:32.680Well, I would rather that someone be rich coming into office than that they get rich while they're in office.
00:42:42.900Because those really are, unfortunately, the only two options, with rare exceptions.
00:42:46.960But generally speaking, either someone gets rich while they're in office or they're already rich when they run.
00:42:53.920I prefer the latter, really, if I had to choose.
00:42:57.900Now, of course, rich people often get richer while they're in office.
00:43:01.040So, you have this problem no matter what.
00:43:03.100Donald Trump is the only guy whose net worth dropped as a consequence of achieving political power.
00:43:10.300But it would be very easy to clean this up.
00:43:12.420You know, you could pass all kinds of laws limiting the ability of lawmakers to enrich themselves in office.
00:43:18.240You could have radical transparency, disclosures, and so on.
00:43:21.340You could require that lawmakers, you could require, you could pass a law that requires that lawmakers stand up in Congress once a year
00:43:30.360and announce how much their net worth has increased or decreased over the previous year.
00:43:36.580Right, we could require that once a year, you've got to, I'm Representative Ilhan Omar and my net worth has increased by 3,000% over the past 12 months.
00:43:51.420That alone would be enough to put a stop to a lot of this nonsense.
00:43:54.540The political cost of having to publicly acknowledge your financial gain would not be worth the financial gain itself in many cases.
00:44:02.200So, you could do all of that, but the problem, of course, is that it would require the lawmakers themselves to put those laws and policies in place, which is never going to happen.
00:44:17.220So, the moral of the story is, we're screwed.
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00:46:08.320Actually, you probably don't remember him.
00:46:09.680The most memorable thing about Tim Kaine is that he is not memorable at all.
00:46:12.980He is a generic white male Democrat, which is why Hillary Clinton chose him as a running mate in 2016, because she was looking for a generic white male Democrat.
00:46:21.780His job was to be completely unremarkable and forgettable, and that is one task that he was able to accomplish exceptionally well.
00:46:29.480Tim's great political skill is making everyone forget that he exists.
00:46:47.100He's more like Ikea furniture, something so bland and generic that you hardly notice its presence in the room.
00:46:53.640He's like an Ikea side table that you put next to the bed in your guest room and then forget that it's there.
00:46:58.260That's how Tim Kaine has survived politically.
00:47:00.580Everyone just forgets that he's there.
00:47:02.780This is why it was such a grave mistake this week when Tim decided to open his mouth and speak.
00:47:08.000Not only did he speak, but he said something truly incredible, so incredible that it may even make you remember Tim Kaine, or at least it will become the new reference point for him.
00:47:19.160So six years from now, when he briefly flickers on the radar screen again, you'll say, Tim Kaine, who's oh, yeah, he's the guy who said that thing, isn't he?
00:47:26.340During a hearing, Senator Kaine got into a brief debate about the concept of rights.
00:47:32.360And this subject came up because this was a nomination hearing for Riley Barnes, who has been nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
00:47:42.720And during his opening remarks, Barnes made mention of the fact that human rights, which are now part of his job title, apparently, come to us from our creator, from God.
00:47:52.880Tim Kaine took exception to that idea.
00:47:56.380The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the creator, that's what the Iranian government believes.
00:48:06.320It's a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Baha'is, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities.
00:48:17.200And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their creator.
00:48:23.480So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.
00:48:43.540I mean, who can forget that famous line from the founding document of the Iranian government, that line that said, quote,
00:48:50.800We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:48:59.040I believe it was Ayatollah Khamenei who wrote those words.
00:49:29.900He wrote in the Declaration of Independence, which is the founding document of the country, of our country, of the United States, not Iran.
00:49:37.320Yes, the idea that our rights come from the creator is literally the core foundational principle that our nation was built on.
00:49:45.300Our entire system of government, the country itself, rests fundamentally on the idea that our rights come from God.
00:49:51.720It is the reason our country exists in the first place.
00:49:55.720Tim Kaine, a United States senator, has declared himself extremely troubled by the founding principle of the nation that he was elected to serve.
00:50:03.760He is extremely troubled by an idea that every single one of our founding fathers affirmed.
00:50:08.240Indeed, they not only affirmed it and built our nation upon it, but found it to be so incredibly obvious as to be, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, self-evident.
00:50:17.080And now Tim is extremely troubled by this self-evident foundational truth.
00:50:21.840Now, it goes without saying that this man should be immediately removed from office.
00:50:27.120Anyone who rejects our nation's core principles is not fit to serve in the United States Senate or in any other capacity.
00:50:32.560He swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, and yet he is extremely troubled by the philosophy upon which it was based.
00:50:37.660And that means he cannot possibly fulfill his oath.
00:51:21.120They have no meaning outside of that framework.
00:51:24.580A godless worldview can't account for rights.
00:51:27.480Rights, in that case, are just whatever the God and power says they are.
00:51:30.480There's no higher power or inherent right to appeal to.
00:51:33.980So whenever somebody talks about rights, they're making a religious claim, whether they know it or not.
00:51:39.260Our nation is founded on this explicitly religious claim, endowed by the Creator, etc.
00:51:44.640This is what makes most of our political debates in this country so pointless and fruitless.
00:51:49.540Most of the people running around, or many of them crying about their rights, have never once actually considered what a right even is, or how they know they have them, or from where or whom these rights come.
00:52:00.120We have an entire political party that rejects the existence of God, but still claims the rights that originate from him.
00:52:07.680And rights can only originate from him.
00:52:09.660The government can, should, recognize and protect these rights, but they do not create the rights.
00:52:16.120The government is supposed to be a steward of our rights, not their author.
00:52:20.020Tim, here's the problem with saying that rights come from the government.
00:52:26.440You are correct that if rights don't come from the government, the government, if rights don't come from God, then the government is the only other place they could come from.
00:52:34.160But if they come from the government, then our rights are whatever the government says they are.
00:52:38.980If the government came along tomorrow and said that we no longer have the right to free speech, well, then we would no longer have the right to free speech.
00:52:45.480It's just that simple. Rights come from the government. If the government takes them away, that's it. They don't exist.
00:52:52.280You wouldn't be able to say, oh, you're infringing on my rights. Well, what do you mean?
00:52:56.080How could they infringe on something that doesn't exist? You cannot appeal to any authority higher than them.
00:53:01.940That's the end of the line, according to you. And as a member of the government yourself, I can see why you would find that idea so appealing.
00:53:07.180But this is how you get Iranian-style tyranny, through the notion that the government originates rights.
00:53:15.480Now, I know that you understand this at some level, Tim, and I can prove that.
00:53:20.920Let's just try this thought experiment.
00:53:23.620So imagine that the Supreme Court announced next week that they were overturning Obergefell.
00:53:29.860And now imagine that, empowered by that decision, Congress passed and Donald Trump signed a law banning gay marriage nationwide.
00:53:39.220How would you react, Tim? What would you say?
00:53:42.500Now, if you're consistent, if you actually believe what you just said about rights coming from the government,
00:53:46.920then you would have no choice but to simply accept this sequence of events.
00:53:51.200The right to gay marriage no longer exists.
00:53:53.920And if somebody said, I have a right to get married, you would say, well, no, you don't.
00:53:58.180The government said you don't have it, so you don't have it.
00:57:06.760Now you believe the same about the right to an abortion.
00:57:10.780In fact, on our website, on your website right now, you have an entire section entitled protecting reproductive rights.
00:57:17.700And the first paragraph says this right now, women are facing threats to reproductive freedom around the country with new draconian abortion restrictions and extremist legislators plotting to rip away even more reproductive rights following the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
00:57:29.640After an extreme majority on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Tim got to work to protect reproductive rights and introduce the Reproductive Freedom for All Act.
00:58:15.880Now, once again, in reality, there is no right to an abortion.
00:58:18.380God does not endow women with the right to kill their children.
00:58:20.940In fact, he does exactly the opposite.
00:58:22.100He endows women and men with the inextricable responsibility to care for and love their children.
00:58:27.160But my point, again, is that you think the right to abortion exists at a level higher than the government.
00:58:34.600You say you are troubled by the concept of God-given rights.
00:58:37.700And yet you, in fact, do think that God gives women the right to kill their babies and men the right to marry other men.
00:58:43.980You and your ideological cohorts reject the idea of inherent human rights, only to go and invent a whole series of new inherent human rights.
00:58:52.920And those rights are all perverse and horrifying.
00:58:56.340Because you, Tim, are a perverse and horrifying person.
00:59:00.140Even if you are also boring and forgettable.
00:59:04.020And that is why Tim Kaine is today canceled.
00:59:07.920That'll do it for the show today and this week.