Joe Biden reveals his stunning historical ignorance, and I'll explain why I think we should all stop watching Disney films. Plus, a group of freshman Democrats have adopted the name The Squad, and it's just so corny and lame, I can't stand it.
00:00:58.240Okay, the group of freshman Democrats, Cortez, Omar, Tlaib, Presley, have somehow adopted this name, the squad.
00:01:07.740And the media is just going with it, of course.
00:01:10.200And putting it in headlines and news reports.
00:01:13.440And everyone's, even conservatives are going with it.
00:01:16.740We're just, okay, we're going to call them the squad now.
00:01:18.140It is just so corny and lame and bad and not good that I can't, I can't stand it.
00:01:27.440I mean, the squad sounds, it sounds like a pop group that would have tried out on the X Factor back in 2005 or something.
00:01:34.220It sounds like, or maybe more like a, like a girl group from 1998 that had one hit and then one, you know, kind of minor hit.
00:01:43.360And then they disappeared from the face of the earth.
00:01:45.720There are much cooler names that they could have chosen.
00:01:48.880How about something like the contingent or the faction or the coalition?
00:01:57.360You know, those are all corny too, but slightly less so.
00:02:00.360All I can say is if we're doing the squad thing, then I hope that a group of young Republicans get together and form a group called the clique.
00:02:12.920And then, of course, the clique and the squad will have breakdance competitions on a bimonthly basis.
00:02:20.840Okay, so there's, that's just at my, at my this point now, that's, that's my, that's my dream.
00:02:28.340I, I, this isn't really a breakdance competition, but I just saw that Joe Biden said today, or maybe it was yesterday, that if he is, if he's the nominee and he's challenged at a debate by Trump on his age and his mental agility, he will challenge Donald Trump on the spot to a pushup competition.
00:02:52.460And so this, I mean, I, I really hope that Biden is the nominee in that case, because I, I, I have no doubt that Biden actually would challenge Trump to a pushup competition.
00:03:03.500And I think if Trump is challenged to that, he's not going to be able to say no.
00:03:06.460So we're going to get the spectacle of two men in their seventies doing a pushup competition.
00:03:10.720Um, and so I'm, I'm, I'm on board for that.
00:03:17.640Um, there's something from yesterday that's getting a lot of attention and something else that's not getting as much attention, but I think it should be flipped.
00:03:26.580I think the thing that's not getting as much attention should be getting more than the other thing.
00:03:29.560So the first thing, the thing that everyone's focusing on, um, is the press conference that was held by the spice girls, uh, or sorry, that's the wrong girl group.
00:03:38.620The, uh, the, the, the squad, um, they, they held a press conference to respond to Trump's tweets, the tweets that we discussed at length yesterday on the show.
00:03:48.800They made a lot of accusations against Trump.
00:03:51.480Um, many of those accusations, especially the ones from Omar are, were false or misleading.
00:03:57.140She said, for example, among, among other false accusations, she said that Trump, she accused Trump of calling people from other countries, um, s-holes.
00:04:13.720He called the other countries s-holes and there, but there's a very clear difference between saying that about a country and saying it about a person from that country.
00:04:25.100So that's just one example of something that she lied about.
00:04:28.100And, uh, in fact, I've been told that I don't want to get into the tweets again, but, um, people have been telling me that you'll, you'll see that this is why Trump, this is why Trump tweeted that to begin with.
00:04:38.040That's why, this is why the tweet was a genius ploy on his part part, because he prompted them to get up at a press conference and, uh, tell a bunch of lies and embarrass themselves.
00:04:47.640So, you see, it all worked out for him.
00:04:50.820Well, I'm not sure that giving your enemies a forum to lie about you is really a win for you.
00:04:58.020Sure, to those of us who are already right wing, we're going to see a press conference with the Spice Girls, and we're going to think that it's embarrassing and everything.
00:05:07.300But not everybody is a committed right winger.
00:05:10.840My whole point that I was trying to make yesterday is that, you know, if Trump is focused just on appealing to the most committed and, uh, and sort of, uh, entrenched right wingers in the country, he's going to lose.
00:05:24.820There aren't enough of those, uh, to win.
00:05:27.780And there especially aren't enough of those in places like Pennsylvania and, and, and Michigan, those, those, those states that he really is going to need to win again.
00:05:37.700Um, so no, I don't think that the press got, even though from my perspective, the press conference was a disaster for that, for them, that doesn't actually mean that it was in the, in the minds of the people that you need to appeal to.
00:05:50.280For me, as a, as a far left, far right, far left, as I am a far left, well, I criticize Trump.
00:05:57.280That makes me a far leftist Freudian slip there.
00:05:59.980Um, as a far right extremist myself, anytime Cortez or Omar or, or one of the Spice Girls says anything, I, to me, it's embarrassing because these people are, are so absurd.
00:06:15.700But what I have to realize is that I am seeing things through a lens that not everybody shares.
00:06:25.040So not everyone is looking at it like from the way that I am.
00:06:33.160There was a moment at, at the press conference where Omar was asked to respond to another Trump tweet, wherein he accused her of being pro Al Qaeda.
00:06:43.400And, uh, she refused to deny the charge.
00:06:47.080She, she, she said she wasn't going to dignify it with an answer.
00:06:49.660So she didn't say, no, I'm not pro Al Qaeda.
00:06:52.740She just said she was not going to dignify it with an answer.
00:06:54.880This again is a moment that conservatives are making a big deal about, um, uh, saying, well, look, she's, she's not denying it.
00:07:01.920But, and, and I agree that again, from my perspective, that's a very embarrassing moment for her and troubling one for the country.
00:07:10.000Um, but I don't think it's going to be a problem for Omar.
00:07:13.640I think she can get away with acting like it's such an absurd question and such an insulting question that she's not going to dignify it with an answer in the same way that if a, if a, if a reporter asked Trump, um, are you pro Nazi or are you pro KKK?
00:07:27.360I think that he could, and probably should answer, I'm not going to answer that question.
00:07:33.840I'm not going to dignify that with an answer.
00:07:35.760So I think that a lot of people are going to see it in, in the sort of the same vein.
00:07:39.600Um, the Al Qaeda moment, that's going to be a lot of play on Fox news and stuff, but I don't think it's going to make waves outside of right wing circles.
00:07:47.120And for the record, I think Omar obviously doesn't want to talk about Muslim violence.
00:07:53.900She doesn't want, she, she wants to minimize it as she did famously with, uh, some people did some things, which is how she described nine 11.
00:08:03.160And that is morally abominable on her part, but I don't think she's a Muslim fundamentalist herself.
00:08:10.520She herself is not a, you know, Sharia law loving, uh, Muslim.
00:08:16.500And I know that because she's a left wing radical.
00:08:26.800They're only similar in being extreme, but other than that, that's where the similarities end.
00:08:31.540Oh, and they, and, and, and in both cases, you're going to hate Christians.
00:08:34.700So, I mean, you have those two things in common, which I do think is why radical left leftists, um, do have some sympathy for Muslim fundamentalists, even though the Muslim fundamentalists would kill them, the radical leftists, but they have some sympathy because both of them, it's kind of enemy on my enemy, uh, sort of thing.
00:08:54.660So, uh, they do have that in common, but other than that, the ideologies are worlds apart, literally.
00:09:06.000I think this, this brings us, remember, uh, Omar is a radical left winger.
00:09:12.340Same for Cortez, same for Presley, same for Tlaib.
00:09:16.320And that brings us to the, to the moment, which I think is a much bigger deal.
00:09:20.940This wasn't at the press conference, but I guess it was walking from it or, um, going to it.
00:09:27.700Uh, the squad members were, were, I can't even say it without, I, I, the squad.
00:09:35.960Um, they were asked very directly if they condemn Antifa and especially if they condemned the terrorist attack carried out by an Antifa member at a government facility just this past weekend.
00:09:48.340Now, Omar can act like questions about Al-Qaeda, uh, are too absurd to answer.
00:09:54.520She can't do that with this because Antifa is a radical left-wing group.
00:12:50.180No, that's not what, this is a legitimate and fair question.
00:12:53.940Antifa, again, is a left-wing terror group, and they are now staging attacks on ICE facilities, which Cortez has described as concentration camps.
00:13:02.840So it is obviously important that AOC and the other members of the Spice Girls stand up and condemn this
00:13:11.240and, and urge their followers not to be a part of this kind of thing.
00:13:18.800Antifa also was out a few weeks ago, smashing people in the head with crowbars.
00:13:24.720As I said a few weeks ago, you can, and very pathetically, some liberals have tried to defend Antifa by saying,
00:13:31.740well, they haven't killed anybody yet, they haven't, let's compare the death toll, white nationalists versus Antifa.
00:13:39.240Yes, they haven't killed anybody, but it's not for lack of trying.
00:13:42.500They have tried to, they just haven't successfully done it yet.
00:13:45.280When you hit somebody in the head with a crowbar, you're trying to kill them.
00:13:48.320If they survive, it's only because you are such an effeminate weakling that you can't even,
00:13:53.900you could hit somebody with a crowbar and still, all they end up with is a, is a bump in that.
00:13:58.480I mean, you know, you give a four-year-old a crowbar and give them a couple swings at someone's head,
00:16:00.580One is, and both are very troubling and disturbing.
00:16:05.620One is, they know that a large section of their base consists of radical leftists who are either in Antifa or are very sympathetic to Antifa.
00:16:28.400From their perspective, if you disagree with them, then you're a bigot, you're a racist, you're a homophobe, you're a Nazi, you're a fascist, you're KKK.
00:16:36.820You're all of those things rolled up into one.
00:16:40.340I mean, you have no right to anything.
00:16:43.740You are utter scum and your life is meaningless.
00:16:47.280That's the perspective that these people have.
00:16:49.880And you would have to have that perspective if you're at all hesitant to stand up and say, listen, I disagree with the people who are being attacked by Antifa, but no, of course you shouldn't smash them in the head with a crowbar.
00:17:05.560If you're at all hesitant or reluctant to say that, then that means that you must agree, that you must think that these people deserve to be smashed with crowbars or to be shot at.
00:17:19.420It's very, it's, it's, I mean, it's, it's horrifying.
00:17:22.120And it may, I mean, just imagine if and when these people control the country, again, if they get somebody in the White House, one of their, one of their own in the White House, given their opinion about us, those who disagree with them, given that they feel that we deserve to be hit in the head with crowbars and to be shot at and to be killed.
00:17:48.860And, I mean, you could just imagine what happens when they're in control.
00:19:25.740These were all things that he explicitly said.
00:19:28.300Now, so you're telling me that that's less racist than any tweet that Trump is?
00:19:32.820Show me a Trump tweet that's more racist than that.
00:19:35.240And that's just what, I mean, really, any president for the first, you know, 100 plus years of American history was certainly extremely racist.
00:19:54.020Meanwhile, as I said yesterday, even though I think Trump's tweet was stupid, I don't think that he's racist.
00:20:02.760I think that he just is, he says whatever's going to get him attention, and he, you know, if you criticize him, then he hates your guts.
00:20:11.960If you compliment him, he loves you, and that's what he decides.
00:20:53.740This is a cartoon remake of a cartoon.
00:20:56.120It's just a slightly more realistic looking cartoon because, of course, the original Lion King was great, but the one thing holding it back from being really, really great and from you really enjoying it is that the singing warthog didn't look enough like a real warthog, right?
00:21:09.360Isn't that, when you're watching the, when you watch the original Lion King, isn't that what you always think to yourself?
00:21:14.340Oh, you know, this Pumbaa character, I mean, if only he looked more realistic, I think I'd really be able to enjoy this more.
00:21:20.920Now, I'm sure the movie, this movie, the new Lion King is going to make 15 quadrillion movies, dollars at the box office because these movies always do.
00:21:30.300But the reviews have been actually lukewarm, which is good, I think, but surprising.
00:21:36.060Good because these lifeless, charmless, pointless, redundant cash grabs should be recognized as such, but kind of, and condemned as such, in my view.
00:21:46.860But kind of surprising because usually critics don't recognize when something is a redundant, pointless, charmless, lifeless cash grab.
00:21:55.300But that's why, you know, almost every Marvel superhero movie that comes out gets glowing reviews.
00:22:01.700They all get like 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
00:22:04.900Even though they're all exactly the same, nothing new or interesting has been done with a superhero movie since The Dark Knight, you know, back, whatever it was, 10 years ago.
00:22:14.180And for a decade, there's just been nothing interesting or new, just the same thing over and over and over again.
00:23:41.180I mean, the Lion King even hired some of the original voice actors to play the same cartoon again, which makes you wonder, why even do that?
00:23:50.380Why not just take the original dialogue from the original movie?
00:23:56.620How about a remake where it's just literally the same movie again?
00:24:01.260Nothing has changed at all, not even the animation.
00:24:03.380You just re-release it and call it a remake, because that's what this is.
00:24:08.420The original, okay, the original movies, what we consider to be the original movies, those are the remakes.
00:24:18.120All of these stories, of course, already existed.
00:24:20.960Most of them are based on old fairy tales.
00:24:22.860Lion King is kind of a Hamlet and Bambi mashup.
00:24:26.300Of course, The Beauty and the Beast is an old story.
00:24:28.840These are remakes in the sense, the 90s versions are remakes, in the sense that they took existing stories, existing ideas, and they kind of did their own thing with them.
00:24:39.640Oftentimes taking darker, more mature stories and making them into kind of funny, kid-friendly musicals, which is cool.
00:24:46.720Beauty and the Beast was originally written in the 18th century, I believe.
00:24:50.300It's an 18th century French fairy tale.
00:24:55.280The Beauty and the Beast from Disney in the 90s takes this old, dense, mature French tale and turns it into this beautifully animated, whimsical family movie.
00:25:06.480Now, that's what a remake is because that takes imagination and wit and creativity where you're taking the original thing.
00:25:14.700You're just basing your version on this version.
00:25:18.320You're inspired by it and then you do your own thing with sort of the elements of the story.
00:25:23.620These new things, though, they just attach themselves to the 90s versions parasitically and try to profit off them without doing anything new or interesting whatsoever.
00:25:34.840It's just for the profit and no other reason.
00:25:40.140I resent even more that people still go and mindlessly consume this garbage that Disney is just shoveling into your mouth because they have no respect for you as a viewer.
00:25:50.720I went into a whole thing last week about how I think the boycotts are stupid.
00:26:16.880I mean, when they have so little respect for their viewers that they're going to just give you the exact same movie again with the only difference is it's just it's less whimsical and less creative.
00:26:30.880We shouldn't go out and give them a billion dollars in return.
00:26:33.940It's just self-respect is what I'm talking about here.
00:26:37.640Think about what they could have done with this latest round of movies.
00:26:40.580They could do what they did the first time, not literally exactly what they did the first time, which is what they're doing now, but they could take the stories and just do another variation, another take.
00:26:53.480I mean, even the original Beauty and the Beast, the real original, the one from the 18th century, even that isn't really original because at its core, right, it's a story about a beautiful person learning to love an ugly person and that love bringing out the beauty in that ugly person.
00:27:12.460It's a story about the elevating, edifying power of love.
00:27:15.920G.K. Chesterton, I believe it was, who said that the lesson of Beauty and the Beast is that a thing must be loved in order to be lovable.
00:27:22.660The point is that love lifts us up, brings us up.
00:27:26.480Okay, so that's what the Beauty and the Beast, the story, is about.
00:27:30.980The latest, and there's hundreds of stories out there that all center around that truth, and many of the stories are great, whether it's a book or a movie.
00:27:40.040I mean, you can tell that basic story a million times in a million different ways, and it could be compelling every single time.
00:27:47.580It's just that you can't tell in exactly the same way that it's already been told.
00:27:51.240You should do your own thing, because there are a million different ways of telling that basic truth.
00:27:56.200The latest Beauty and the Beast could have told that story, could have focused on that truth in a different way.
00:29:46.800But one—so I—over the weekend with my kids, I watched—just because—I mean, I feel like I can watch a preview and I can read a description of a movie.
00:30:00.760And nine times out of ten, I already know if it's good or not.
00:30:50.880And there was one—there's one scene in the—in the new Beauty and the Beast, because there are a few different.
00:30:59.820They do make a few changes, but the changes that they make in these live-action things, the changes are usually just—it's not creative changes.
00:31:08.300It's not that they're improving or they're doing their own thing.
00:31:10.380It's just that they have to—they have to do certain things to compensate for the fact that it's not a cartoon anymore.
00:31:15.140So there's one scene that I think perfectly encapsulates the problem with these live-action reenactments.
00:31:23.200There's a scene in the 90s Beauty and the Beast where Gaston goes to propose to Belle, right, in the beginning of the movie.
00:31:37.180She was pretty rude about it, frankly.
00:31:38.400And then she basically shoves him out the door, and he falls into a big puddle of mud, and then somehow there's a pig that ends up on top of his head.
00:31:46.560And he brought his little henchman along with him, whatever his name is, and also a marching band, because he expected he would go in, propose.