Ep. 437 - The Ridiculous Whining Of Bernie Bros
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Summary
The Democratic primary results are in, and Bernie Sanders is the winner of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. But his supporters immediately start to complain that the election was rigged against him. Is it just another rigged election? Or is there something else going on here?
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Welcome to the show, everybody. What I'd really like to say at the top here of the show is just
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thank you. Thank you for your tireless, ceaseless support, because the big victory that I achieved
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last night is really your victory. This isn't about me. It's about you. It's about us. It's
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about what we've achieved together. And it's because of you that I can sit here right now
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today and say that despite very minimal campaigning on my part and despite spending no money and
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despite not even being in the race, frankly, I managed to win only 18 fewer delegates than
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Michael Bloomberg. That is just remarkable. And I spent 500 million fewer dollars to do it. So
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that's what this campaign is all about. It's one of the great underdog stories in the history of
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American politics, I think. So again, thank you. Thank you so much. We are really building a
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movement here now on the show today. Super Tuesday, of course, we'll discuss the results and the
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ridiculous whines from the Bernie bro horde now claiming that the whole thing was rigged. It's
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rigged. It's rigged against them because because he didn't do as well as they had hoped. Why is it
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these days that after every election, the loser always says that the election was rigged? Has it
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always been this way? Is this what people have always done? And are the elections actually rigged?
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Is that the case? We'll discuss. Also, we'll go through your five headlines. Plus, not to add
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insult to injury, but I do need to cancel Bloomberg today. The primary voters already canceled him,
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already took care of that. But I think I need to double down on the cancellation because of something
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that he did yesterday that is just, I'll play the footage for you if you haven't seen it. It is
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really shocking. In my opinion, I'm not even exaggerating or joking. It's the most shocking
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footage of a politician, certainly the most grotesque footage of a politician I've ever seen
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in my life. So we'll get to that as well. Now, last night, I don't think I need to go into
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recounting all of the vote totals and everything because, first of all, you've heard it already.
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Also, who cares? But very quickly, Joe Biden won big, picks up nine states, including Texas.
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Bernie won California and three other states. Bloomberg, with the most significant victory
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of the night, won American Samoa and still decided to suspend his campaign, even though he won American
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Samoa. You would think from there, you could build a nationwide campaign. Wasn't able to do it,
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unfortunately. So that puts the delegate count right now at 453 to 373 Biden over Bernie with the
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rest of the candidates, what few remain hanging out with a handful here and there. Tulsi has,
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I think, one delegate. Klobuchar got more than she did and she's not even in the race. Warren earned
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barely more than Buttigieg, even though Buttigieg also is not in the race. And the only possible
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reason for that, of course, for Warren's poor performance, the only possible reason can be sexism
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and racism against Native American women. But here's the point I want to make out at the outset.
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Today, as anyone could have predicted, Bernie's fans are on TV and they're on social media and
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saying that the election was rigged. It's all one big rigged game. They rigged it against Bernie.
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Hashtag rigged primary was trending number one on Twitter this morning. And this is how it always goes
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after every election now. This is what happens. Now, I feel like there was a time, maybe I'm wrong.
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I seem to remember a time many moons ago when you could have an election and the results would come
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in and nobody would scream that it was rigged. People would be mad or they would be sad or they'd be
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glad or they'd be defiant or they might even, you know, they'll complain about it in all different
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various ways. But there wasn't this perfunctory reaction, this automatic reflex of immediately
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claiming the whole thing was rigged. In fact, it used to be that to claim that an election is rigged
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was a really serious charge that you didn't take lightly. Because think about what you're saying.
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But now it's just, it's automatic. It's a rigged, rigged, rigged. And it cuts left and right. We do
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this. It's on both sides. Now, like I said, think about this for a minute. If you really think our
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elections are rigged and that it's all decided in some dark, smoky room and that our votes don't even
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matter at all, then first of all, you can never celebrate when your favored candidate wins.
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So even the Bernie bros, they're upset that he didn't win more states, but they're happy about
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California. He won California. He won the most delegates in a single state last night. They're
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celebrating that. Well, if it's rigged, then that was rigged too, right? So you're celebrating a rigged
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election because it went in your favor. Doesn't that make you a hypocrite? If you really believe that our
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elections are rigged, our elections are rigged, that we are no different from a banana republic. We're no
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different from a dictatorship. We're no different from North Korea. If that's really what you think,
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then what are you doing sitting around crying about it? Why aren't you taking to the streets
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an armed revolution? That's what our founding fathers certainly would have done.
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Yeah, you're sitting around sending hashtags, hashtag rigged election. That's how you're addressing the
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problem. If you, if you actually believe that, then this is, this is, uh, we don't have democratic
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system. This is not a republic. We live in, in absolute tyranny and oppression. We live essentially
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in a dictatorship. We have, we have no freedoms that that's, that's the implication. So again, I ask,
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what are you doing sitting around just whining? Is it because you don't really believe what you're
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saying? See, this, this is what happens. It's very easy. And the internet has made it even easier
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to sit back and make extraordinary charges and claims about the way things work,
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but you don't have to back it up. And most of the people saying it are anonymous anyway.
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So you don't have to do anything. You don't have to back up what you're saying. You don't have to act
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on it. You just, you just say it. And so everyone's just saying things.
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Uh, now I want to get to the real point here about this election rigging claim,
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because I think that, um, the, what, what ends up happening because of it is that you have the
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Now back to this rigging thing. Of course, you know, we know how it goes. The attitude of most people
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is that the election is rigged. If it goes against them, if it goes against my guy, if my guy loses,
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then it must be that, that it's rigged. Now, if he wins, then it was a pure and unimpeachable
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process. And the, uh, wishes of the American people were accurately reflected. That's how it
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goes. So this rigged, uh, election claim is nothing more than the blubberings of a, of a child.
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This, you know, screaming because his sister has more cereal than he does in his bowl. It's not fair.
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Everyone's against me. It's not fair. Shut up. Was the election rigged against Bernie? No, it
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wasn't. But what if, what if the establishment, that mysterious establishment, that shadowy force
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told Warren to stay in the race in order to siphon votes from Bernie? What if that happened? Because
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she certainly did siphon votes from Bernie. Bernie would have won Massachusetts, Maine, I think
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Minnesota, uh, would have picked up more delegates in other States if it wasn't for Warren. So Warren
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staying in the race served no purpose other than to, and I use this term, not totally literally
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sabotage her supposed ideological ally. What does that mean? Well, it means first of all,
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that Warren is a charlatan and a fraud and an egomaniac. And this was always just a vanity
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project on her part. Um, but does it mean that there was rigging? No, no, it doesn't. Because
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even if there was some kind of clandestine deal made to keep her in the race so that she could
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take votes from Bernie, so what? That's the way the game is played in politics.
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Voters still had to choose to go to the polls and throw their vote away by giving it to her.
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Her staying in the race doesn't mean that people are compelled to vote for her and throw their vote
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away that way. It just means that they can, if they want to, they have to choose that voters
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aren't sheep. Now they might act like it, but they aren't literally sheep. They aren't automatons.
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They're adults technically making choices. And as long as those choices are reflected accurately in
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the tally at the end of the night, then it's not rigged period. Did the establishment force people
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to vote for Warren? No, they could have been smart. They could have said, gee, I'm a far leftist.
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I have these ideological, uh, priorities. Warren is, isn't going to win. Bernie Sanders reflects
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those priorities. He's got the best chance. I'll vote for him. They could have done that. That's the
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smart thing to do, but they decided to do the stupid thing. They didn't have to do the stupid
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thing. They did because they're stupid people. The fact that stupid people can be manipulated
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doesn't mean that elections are rigged. Our whole election season is all about manipulating stupid
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people. I've got news for you. That's all it is. Every single ad you see for a politician on TV,
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that is always about manipulating stupid people because you have to be a stupid person to be
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influenced by a political ad. If you're even moderately intelligent, you've never seen a political
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ad that influence your vote one way or another, because it's an ad, you know, you're only getting
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one side of the story. Obviously it's, it's incredibly biased. Of course, that's what it's
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supposed to be. It's an ad for a candidate. You're not going to learn anything about this person from
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an advertisement yet. People spend millions, hundreds of Michael Bloomberg spent hundreds of
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millions on ad on ads, um, because they do influence people, stupid people. And there are a lot of
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stupid people in America. That doesn't mean the elections are rigged though. It just means we
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have a problem of stupidity. What about the possibility that the establishment convinced
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Buttigieg and Klobuchar or Klobuchar, how about that, to drop out before Super Tuesday? That's the
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other theory, conspiracy theory, that the establishment went to them and said, you got to drop out so we can
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get the votes to Biden and keep burning out. Now that very likely probably did happen. Is that rigging
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then? No, not even close. It's not even close to a rigged election because it does not remove the
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choice from people when they go to the polls. Yeah, they can't choose Buttigieg or Klobuchar
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anymore, but that doesn't mean they have to vote for Biden. They can still make whatever choice they
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want. Politicians are very good at predicting what stupid people will do and arranging things so that
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the predictable actions of stupid people will benefit them as politicians. But once again,
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that is not rigging an election, that's just playing the game. That's just politics.
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See, this is what I don't like about the election rigging claim. It infantilizes the voter. It makes
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the voter into a victim of his own decisions. And the whole thing is just another symptom of
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entitlement. It's another symptom of the problem we have in this country. Generally speaking, culturally,
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the voters go out, they make choices, and then they cry about the choices they made.
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They think they have some kind of God-given right for everything to work out exactly as they
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want it to, even if their own actions undermine their own goals. People go out and do things to
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undermine their own goals. They do things against their own interests. And then things don't work
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out in their interests. And they cry and say, everything is rigged. Everyone's against me.
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No, you're just an idiot who made a stupid decision.
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This is why the country is how it is. This is why we have the leaders that we do,
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because of this kind of petulant adolescent attitude. Our political class, all this whining
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people do about the elites and the political class, where do you think they come from?
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How do you think they got there? Every single politician, they are there because we put them
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there. They weren't dug out of the ground like orcs in Lord of the Rings. We put them there,
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every single one. And then we cry about it. We say, what are these people doing there?
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We march to the polls crying as we vote for the people we don't want. And then they do things
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that we don't like. And we say, how did this happen? I don't understand what's going on.
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And then we, you know, and then we just sit down and turn on the TV and binge Netflix for seven hours
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and forget about it. It's just, you know, let's take some responsibility for all this stuff.
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The fact is, Election Day, if most people vote for a certain person, that person's going to win,
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whether it's president or senator or whatever office it is. If most people vote for them,
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they're going to win. If they don't win, it's because most people didn't vote for them.
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I know that there are things that happen. There's voter fraud is an issue. It does happen. But
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it's not happening on such a scale that we end up with, you know, that presidents are elected on the
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basis of it. And I, you know, Trump, this is something you hear from a lot of Trump supporters,
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vote rigging. Well, Trump won in 2016. He won without even winning the popular vote, right?
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Well, that's the way the system is set up, Electoral College. So is that, was that rigged?
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You would say, well, no, that wasn't rigged. That's how it was supposed to be.
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If he loses, though, then it's rigged. Come on. No. If Trump wins in 2020, which I think at this
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point he will, if he wins, it's because most people voted for him, or at least
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the right people in the right states voted for him so he could win the Electoral College.
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If he doesn't win, it's because he lost, because people didn't want him. You know,
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and that's, maybe they should want him, maybe they shouldn't, but that's, people are just making
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choices. We're not victims of our choices. And I wish we could all just understand that. We make
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choices and they are our choices. We're not victims of them. We are not victims of any of these
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buffoons in Washington. And I can't stand almost all of them. Yet we did put them there.
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Okay, let's go to headlines. We've already covered, number one, the results of Super Tuesday. But I
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think the biggest moment happened during Joe Biden's speech, which, you know, having an elderly man
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who's already losing his mind give a speech at 11 o'clock at night when it's four hours past his
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bedtime, four hours past the time when everybody else's age is asleep, you know it's not going to
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work out very well, especially when it's Joe Biden we're talking about. And yeah, it kind of went off
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the rails almost immediately. By the way, this is my little sister, Valerie, and I'm Jill's husband.
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Oh, no, thank you. Oh, you switched on me. This is my wife. This is my sister. They switched on me.
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Oh, geez, Joe. Joe, Joe, Joe. As I said last night, it seems that by calling his sister his wife,
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Joe Biden is, you might say, is making a bold play for Ilhan Omar supporters. So maybe there was some
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political calculation there. And he did win Minnesota, which is Omar's state. So who knows?
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Maybe there's a connection there. Number two, David Frum, editor of The Atlantic, got himself
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into trouble last night while offering his analysis about the results and about Bernie supporters versus
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Joe Biden supporters. Here's what he said. Joe Biden appeals to people who pay their cable
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bills on the day it arrives. Bernie Sanders appeals to people who may forget to pay the cable bill
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entirely. And the first group, they're both morally, equally morally worthy, but the first
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group are more reliable. Let me just say that is outrageous. It is outrageous and offensive. It's not
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true. These kinds of stereotypes, I'm not going to stand for them. It's not true that Bernie Sanders
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supporters don't pay their cable bills on time. Not true at all. In fact, Bernie Sanders supporters
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make sure that their parents pay for all their bills on time. And they're, I know this about them.
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Okay. I know these people. They're, they're very strict about it with their parents. If their parents
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forget to pay the cable bill or, or the, you know, electric bill or anything, they're going to be on the
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horn with mom saying, mom, what's going on? They're going to hold her feet to the fire. So they are,
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they're on top of it. These are very responsible people. Number three, you may think, and I wouldn't
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blame you for thinking that ESPN cannot possibly embarrass itself any more than it already has
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over the, uh, over recent years, but you would be wrong. I'm afraid yesterday. ESPN managed somehow
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to sync to a new level of cringe or maybe rise to a new level of cringe, depending on how you feel
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about cringe. I'm a big fan of cringe, which is why my favorite episode of the office is the dinner
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party. But, uh, in any case on, on ESPN, um, the show, uh, first take on ESPN with professional
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yeller, Stephen A. Smith, they did a whole lengthy segment with, with, uh, Spike Lee, film director,
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Spike Lee. Now, Spike Lee, as you'll see in a moment is a ridiculous person, also a bad filmmaker.
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The latter isn't really relevant here. The fact that he's a ridiculous person is relevant and
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you'll see why. Now it seems that Spike Lee, who's a big New York's, New York Knicks fan for some
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reason, went to Madison square garden a few nights ago to watch the Knicks. And, uh, he tried to go in
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the employee entrance, even though he's not an employee. And he was told by security that, well,
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you can't go in that entrance because you're not an employee. Seems pretty reasonable. You don't work
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here. So you can't go in that entrance. They told him that they had a special VIP entrance for him
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because he's a famous guy. And so he gets special stuff and they say, can you go to the VIP entrance?
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And, uh, and, uh, and this altercation, this minor inconvenience caused Spike Lee to have a
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temper tantrum, a meltdown, like the spoiled rich baby that he is. ESPN then brought him on the air
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to complain about not being able to use the employee entrance at Madison square garden.
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And they expect us. It's not just that they brought him on the air to talk about it so they
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could laugh at him. I'd understand that. No, it's that they, they expect us to be outraged.
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Stephen A. Smith was outraged about this. He was ranting about it on Twitter too. He wants us to be
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really upset that Spike Lee was not able to use the employee entrance at Madison square garden.
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Here is Spike Lee talking about this great tragedy that he suffered.
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I've been using the same entrance for 28 plus years. The employee's entrance on 33rd street.
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Yesterday, last night, I go in, my ticket gets scanned. I'm in. I want, you know, the elevator,
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go in the elevator and elevator. And also people having that ticket scan also.
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And elevator is not moving. And the security guy comes to me and says, we need to get off the
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elevator. I said, for what? So we were, we could speak about it now. I said, I'm not getting out
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of the elevator. So it was another five minutes. Then they finally sent the elevator up because
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they know I'm not getting out of the elevator. Get on the elevator. As you know, people don't know
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the garden floor is on the fifth floor. Elephant goes to five and security is waiting for me like
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And they said, you, this guy, security guy, they're all, this comes from the top. He says,
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Mr. Lee, you have to leave Madison Square Garden. They wanted me to leave the garden,
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walk outside that out the 33rd street employer is where I came from, walk outside and come back
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on 31st street. Oh, you had, you had to come in on 31st street. Really? That, oh, oh, that's,
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that's, oh no. 31st street. You had to walk outside and go around to a different entrance.
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Oh my gosh. Spike Lee, nobody has ever suffered like you have. This is, this is an injustice of
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historic proportion. They will build monuments to this moment. People will come from, from miles
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around, from, from countries across the world to mourn and weep and remember this tragedy.
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Let the world never forget, lest we ever forget what happened at Madison Square Garden that night.
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The night that a celebrity was, was, was, was, was, was forced to use the celebrity entrance rather
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than the employee entrance. He had to get off an elevator. They wanted him to get off an elevator.
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Unbelievable. But I'm trying, sorry, Spike. I'm trying, I'm trying to muster the outrage and I'm
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pretty good at mustering outrage. It's what I do for a living, but I, I it's, I'm having a tough time
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with this. And of course we all know if this was a rich white man crying that he couldn't use the
00:26:40.200
employee entrance to access Madison Square Garden to get to his private suite. Um, do you think ESPN
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would have given him the time of day? You think anybody would be interested in hearing that? No,
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of course not. Number four, reading from a report in the daily wire says a new study on climate
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anxiety, uh, found that famed child activist Greta Thunberg is not the only young person who has
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suffered from severe stress as a result of taking dire predictions about the climate, the planet by
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climate alarmists to heart. Um, the BBC news round report says climate anxiety survey for BBC news
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round shows children losing sleep over climate change and the environment. This is a survey of
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eight to 16 year olds. Um, young people news round explains are frustrated and anxious about what's
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happening. A majority, 58% of 2000 children interviewed said they were worried about the impact of global
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warming. About one out of every five said that they had nightmares about it, but the same percentage,
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17% said they're sleeping and eating habits have been affected by their fears about climate change.
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Uh, this is now, now here, here is a reason for authentic outrage that this is what's, what's happening to
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our kids. And it's understandable that kids would be losing sleep about it because kids don't know
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anything about science, obviously. And if you tell them that the world is coming to an end in just a
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few years, and we're all going to drown when the ice caps melt and all this kind of stuff, uh, they're
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going to believe you. And of course they're going to be scared about that, which is why climate alarmism
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is, is child abuse when you keep it on a kid like this. And you, you, you give the child these
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existential fears that they now have to live with that are completely gratuitous
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because no credible scientist actually thinks that the world is coming to an end anytime soon
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because of climate change. This is something from politicians and they have no problem putting this
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on kids and manipulating kids as a means of manipulating adults as well. And because they know
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that those kids are going to be adults and voters one day. And so if you can make them, um, paranoid
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climate alarmists from a young age, then they're going to be easy to manipulate, speaking of
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manipulating voters, and you're going to be able to get what you want out of them if you're a, if
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you're a, you know, a leftist politician. So it's just, it's, it's pretty infuriating. Number five,
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they're making another reboot of Cinderella because we have to have a reboot of Cinderella once every
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nine months, approximately. Uh, this is just a, this is a story apparently that it, it just an
00:29:20.420
infinite fountain of, uh, of, of, of reboots. It never gets old, I guess. Now I think it does get
00:29:28.260
old at a certain point. Okay. We get it. We've heard the Cinderella story. It's a good story. Don't
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get me wrong. I don't know if we need 6,000 versions of it. I think maybe just 5,000 versions. We could
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probably, uh, um, would probably suffice, but in this version, um, apparently the actor Billy Porter,
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who is the attention starved dude who shows up to award shows in ugly dresses. That's his thing.
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You've probably seen him online. Well, anyway, he says he's going to play a genderless, uh, version
00:30:01.140
of the fairy godmother. He's going to, he's going to play the fairy godmother in this woke remake,
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and it's going to be a genderless, even though he himself is not genderless. And of course the word
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fairy godmother would seem to indicate gender. So is it going to be the fairy god thing?
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Well, I guess that's what Joe Biden would call it. The thing now. Okay. Here's an idea. Now I'm
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brainstorming a, a version of Cinderella where the fairy godmother is replaced with the thing
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from the movie, the thing. Now that's, that is a remake I'd like to see. And if that's what we're
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talking about here, then I'm all on board for it. But you have to love this, don't you? Because
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what we have now are men stealing roles from women in the name of progress. This is progress now
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for men to take roles from women. So that's great. All right, moving on. Um, let's go to your daily
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cancellation. Uh, I mentioned shocking footage about, of, of, of Bloomberg. I do feel a little
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bad adding insult to injury. Um, but I, I, I just feel like we, we can't allow this one to go
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unremarked upon. Um, so I'm going to play this footage for you in a second. If you haven't seen it,
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what it shows is, is Bloomberg at a campaign stop a few days ago in Virginia, grabbing a slice of
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pizza from a box, ripping off a piece, putting it in his mouth, licking his fingers, putting his hand
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back in the box, extracting a clump of cheese from another piece, licking each finger methodically
00:31:39.140
like a serial killer, and then placing his hand directly on a large carton of coffee.
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The mere sight of this spectacle is enough to give PTSD to germaphobes like myself, even a mild
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germaphobe, I think would be, would be traumatized by this. We cannot lose sight of the irony here.
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Bloomberg engaged in this act of, uh, of, of biological terrorism less than 24 hours after he gave a speech
00:32:04.780
where he was pretending to be the president and talking about the coronavirus. And that speech was,
00:32:10.460
was already pathetic, but now that he's dropped out of the race and by the way, endorsed Joe Biden,
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um, it just makes it all, all the sadder anyway, but, but he gives that speech
00:32:20.000
about the coronavirus and then he turns around and does this. Apparently his way of, of battling the,
00:32:27.880
the coronavirus is to sprinkle whatever ancient and mysterious communicable diseases are bouncing
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around his 78 year old body, sprinkle them all over the pizza, like Parmesan cheese. So
00:32:41.640
should this video alone disqualify him from the presidency? Well, well, he's already disqualified
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himself, but of course it should, it should disqualify anybody. Uh, should it disqualify him
00:32:52.420
from citizenship? Should he, should he have his citizenship revoked? I think obviously yes.
00:32:57.460
Uh, should there be, uh, should there be even harsher penalties than that? Um, I think again,
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clearly, you know, it goes without saying under my regime, uh, finger lickers, people would chew with
00:33:10.540
their mouth open, double dippers, uh, all of those, you know, uh, we're going to start with,
00:33:17.880
with imprisonment at a minimum. Um, and then, and then we'll go from there. And, you know, of course,
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because I'm a merciful and just person, I would take it on a case by case basis.
00:33:28.140
I would assess moral culpability and all those kinds of things in the worst cases, you know,
00:33:33.200
we would be looking at execution. Of course, let's consider some of the particulars here though,
00:33:38.000
with this, with this video, first of all, before we even get to the part where he's slobbering all
00:33:42.840
over everybody in the room, who, who serves coffee with pizza, who puts coffee and pizza in the same
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spread. Coffee is a diuretic. Pizza is congealed grease in the form of food. You don't combine
00:33:58.660
those two things in the same bowels. That's like throwing a whole pack of Mentos into a two liter
00:34:03.640
of, uh, of Coke. It's just, it's, it's not a good thing to combine. Also just taste wise,
00:34:07.940
it doesn't work. Everyone knows you're having a pizza party, beer and soda. Now beer is a diuretic
00:34:12.240
too, but you know, it's beer, so it's okay. Second thing, people who lick their fingers in general
00:34:17.880
are, and no offense intended, degenerate freaks. Um, God made napkins for a reason.
00:34:25.680
Nobody wants to see or hear you slurping the food particles off of your, off of your own limbs,
00:34:33.720
like some sort of animal. And then when you consider all the bacteria that you have under
00:34:38.780
your fingernails, you ever look that up? It's a cornucopia of bacteria under your fingernails.
00:34:45.160
And, and, and you're slurping that off your finger. So it's, you might as well eat oatmeal
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out of a urinal. It's, it's the same thing as far as the germs go. Um, but at least the average
00:34:57.080
finger sucker has the decency to wash their hands after they do it before touching anything. At least
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I tell myself they, they wash their hands because I have to tell myself that to keep myself from
00:35:07.200
stabbing them. But Bloomberg not only didn't wash his hands, but seemingly made a point of touching
00:35:13.660
all the food products in the vicinity, like a, like a feral cat marking his territory. And here's
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the thing that is just about the only thing that actually would salvage Bloomberg's decency or
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whatever's left of it. If he were to, to, to say, to, to offer the excuse that he licked his fingers
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and then touched the pizza in order to stop other people from eating the pizza so that he could eat
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it and have it all to himself, then I would say, well, that is selfish and rude, but it's also shrewd
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from a strategic perspective. I would respect it. Um, I would respect the game, even if I'm repulsed by
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it. But I think that this was not a tactile move, uh, a tactical move from, on Bloomberg's part. I think
00:35:59.460
he had no intention of eating all the pizza. I think all he wanted was that one little clump of
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cheese. He just didn't care if he shared his slobber with the entire room. And that makes him
00:36:12.480
a psychopath, a terrorist, unfit for some civilized society. And we can add it to all of the many
00:36:19.200
reasons to be glad that he has now dropped out of the race and is canceled, canceled twice over.
00:36:26.460
All right, let's go to emails. Uh, mattwallshowatgmail.com, mattwallshowatgmail.com. This
00:36:31.120
is from Ruben says, hi, I just subscribed to the daily wire this past November and feel a little
00:36:34.820
late to the party. I thoroughly enjoy most of the shows, but particularly appreciate that Matt doesn't
00:36:39.220
cover the exact same topics as the other guys. Ben gives a fair account of political events and
00:36:43.420
provides his conservative take. Michael and Andrew are deep in the tank for the right, but they're
00:36:46.620
entertaining and open about it. So I appreciate that. Then there's Mr. Walsh who tackles the moral
00:36:50.780
issues and threats confronting our culture. It's a paradoxical breath of fresh air during the day to turn
00:36:55.200
from the constant undermining of our country by the left to the attack on our morality
00:36:58.920
by the left. But who is Matt Walsh? Why is he never on backstage? Why isn't he in the studio
00:37:03.860
with the rest of the guys? I'm completely lost on why he seems to be just a guy with a mic that
00:37:08.240
they allow to use their platform with the daily wire. Is there something that I should know or am
00:37:12.020
missing? Any clarification would be great. Thanks. Well, Ruben, you ask who is Matt Walsh?
00:37:18.900
I am just a man with hopes and dreams, um, and a plan to enslave mankind and carry out mass
00:37:27.000
executions of everybody who annoys me. Uh, that's, and that's really what this show is about as you've
00:37:31.820
already been able to tell. And that's what I'm about as a person. Um, and I think that gets to
00:37:38.340
the core of who I am. So I hope that answers your question. I also hope it explains why they keep me
00:37:44.080
in a cave 3000 miles away. Let's go to John says, Hey, Matt, first of all, big fan of the show.
00:37:50.440
Listen to your show almost every day. My buddy and I love listening to your takes on logical thinking
00:37:54.200
when it comes to cultural political issues. My question pertains to the relationship between
00:37:58.100
politics and the church growing up in a conservative Christian household raised by my
00:38:02.680
conservative Christian parents. I've always been surrounded by this idea of living a moral life
00:38:06.900
and finding purpose through the Christian faith as admirable as, uh, all this sounds. Do you think
00:38:12.940
that Christians of the church have any responsibility or moral culpability when it comes to tackling
00:38:16.960
polarizing and divisive cultural and political issues? I haven't read your book church of cowards
00:38:21.340
yet, but the very premise of the book seems to point to a larger problem and symptoms within
00:38:25.660
Christian and conservative circles. I very much agree with you that conservatives and Christians
00:38:29.160
need to be more combative and maybe more aggressive when discussing these things. Um, an old,
00:38:34.220
but timeless quote from Ralph Nader, uh, back in the day has stuck with me when thinking about
00:38:38.960
the subject, turn on the politics or politics will turn on you. I'd love to hear your thoughts,
00:38:45.420
John. Well, John, thanks for the email. And also thanks for the chance that you gave me to hawk my
00:38:50.660
book church of cowards, which is in stores now, wherever books are sold, go to Amazon and buy it.
00:38:56.920
Obviously I agree with what you said here. And this is a big part of why I wrote the book church of
00:39:00.660
cowards. Um, and what I address in the book. Yes, the church has a profound responsibility to engage with,
00:39:07.180
show leadership on, lend clarity to the cultural and social issues of the day. I've often said,
00:39:16.020
you know, as I say also in the book that entering into a church should be entering into something
00:39:23.820
sacred, something set apart, something elevated. Um, but that doesn't mean that it should be something
00:39:31.320
irrelevant to your daily life, precisely the opposite. The problem is that so many churches
00:39:40.000
have tried hard to make the church experience reflect on the surface anyway, superficially
00:39:46.880
the culture. And so that you walk into a church and, and everything from the architecture to the
00:39:52.040
music, to, to the message, everything, you can hardly even tell that you're in a church.
00:39:55.780
That's what so many churches have done. Um, but then when it comes to that message,
00:40:01.980
it's completely irrelevant. It's, it's, uh, it doesn't speak to the experiences of the people
00:40:09.480
in the congregation. It doesn't speak to the moral and spiritual battles they face face. It doesn't
00:40:15.020
speak to the anxieties and fears and longings they have living in modern culture, raising children
00:40:21.100
in modern culture. So this is entirely backwards. The reality is whether we like it or not, and I
00:40:27.500
certainly don't like it. We live in a world where children are exploited and murdered, where the
00:40:33.580
family is under attack, marriage is under attack, basic moral truths are undermined, faith is maligned
00:40:39.740
and on and on and on. If the church will not address that, will not speak boldly to that and about
00:40:48.080
that giving people direction and how to navigate it and encouragement in, in, in, in their battles
00:40:57.520
out there on the battlefield of, of, of, of, of modern culture, then people are going to start
00:41:03.180
saying, what do I even need you for? What do I need any of this for? What's the point of this?
00:41:09.400
Um, and I think that's, what's increasingly happen happening, um, where the church and church leaders
00:41:18.380
in their cowardice, and they're not wanting to overturn the apple cart or upset people. They have,
00:41:24.500
um, made faith seem irrelevant, even though it isn't, they made it seem irrelevant to people
00:41:30.380
and people say this is useless. What, uh, you know, it's, what's the point of this?
00:41:38.160
Um, and that's just a tragedy and that's the tragedy I talk about the book. Finally, this is
00:41:43.140
from Heather. Um, as we find out why I'm wrong, here's your, uh, why I'm wrong email of the day
00:41:49.000
from Heather says, Matt, you're wrong about sexual harassment. It's true that women do flirt with men.
00:41:53.940
You're right about that. But the difference is that women don't have the same physical power and
00:41:57.420
ability to force themselves on others. Sexual harassment is a more serious problem for men,
00:42:02.100
even if it isn't more common from men, that's what you're missing. Well, thanks Heather. First
00:42:08.060
of all, keep in mind, even if I agreed with you, and I do agree with some of what you're saying,
00:42:14.240
my point yesterday is that by the standards of the culture, according to what is said about men and
00:42:18.700
women, that argument doesn't fly. So the same people who are on this witch hunt against sexual
00:42:24.340
harassment are, are largely the people who would say that men and women are basically the same
00:42:29.680
and, and aren't really different. And, and men aren't necessarily stronger than, uh, than women
00:42:35.160
anyway. So they can't use the argument that you just presented, which is why they, by their own
00:42:41.440
standard must take male and female harassment equally as serious. I mean, don't tell me in one breath
00:42:48.400
that women can be on the front lines of combat because they're capable of being just as menacing
00:42:54.920
and lethal as men. And then in the next breath, tell me that it doesn't matter when they harass men
00:43:00.540
because they're just petite little flowers that could never harm a fly. Those two things don't work.
00:43:06.340
Now, putting that aside back in reality, where we realize that men and women are different,
00:43:10.800
I still say there's a double standard. Yes, men are more capable of forcing themselves on women,
00:43:16.100
but that shouldn't lead to, and does not justify a dichotomy where women are almost never called
00:43:22.320
out for sexual harassment and men are called out for it. Even when they do something as, you know,
00:43:27.000
as, as, as innocuous as complimenting a woman on her appearance, this kind of situation can't be
00:43:33.960
rationalized, uh, on the sole basis that men are stronger. Yeah. That might make their harassment
00:43:41.320
in some circumstances, uh, more serious in some circumstances, but if harassment is wrong,
00:43:51.280
then it's wrong. And if complimenting somebody on their appearance is harassment,
00:43:57.220
then it's harassment and it's harassment when women do it too. Now, I don't think it is harassment,
00:44:02.460
but if that's your, your, your, your take on it, if that's what you think,
00:44:06.140
then you have to say it about women. Um, same for flirting, same for sexual comments that are made.
00:44:13.820
Women do all of that. Now, when it comes to something like initiating a flirtatious exchange,
00:44:22.980
I don't buy for a second that men are more likely to do that or do it more often or do it in more
00:44:30.780
inappropriate circumstances. I don't think that's true at all. I think at a minimum, it's equal. If,
00:44:36.700
if anything, maybe women are more guilty, but, uh, but, but you certainly can't say, I just,
00:44:41.820
I don't think there's any basis to say that men are more guilty of that than women are.
00:44:46.460
Now, some of this stuff, depending on the situation, some of this stuff can be sexual harassment,
00:44:53.060
but it, it, it, it, it, it would also be that when women do it yet, they're almost never called out
00:45:00.840
for it. They're almost never condemned for it. Nobody takes it seriously. And even when you go
00:45:07.680
into things that are much more serious than mere sexual harassment, we talk about sexual activity,
00:45:13.060
talk about an adult having sex with a, with a, with a minor, for example, um, like all of these
00:45:18.640
female teachers who are, you know, having sex with, with 12 and 13 or 14 year old boys,
00:45:23.520
which is, which is actually an epidemic across the country. As I have tried to call attention to
00:45:29.440
for, for many years now, the sexual abuse problem in the public school system, not just among female
00:45:34.940
teachers, but male teachers too. Um, but the sexual abuse problem in, in this public school system is an
00:45:41.080
epidemic. It is, it is, it's tens of thousands of kids are being sexually abused in the public school
00:45:45.560
system. Nobody talks about it. Um, we especially don't, well, when it comes to the women doing it,
00:45:52.000
we may talk about it, but we talk about it in this kind of joking way that we would never, ever,
00:46:00.060
ever do if the genders are reversed again, double standard. Um, and that's what I'm, that's what I'm
00:46:09.680
calling attention to. I I'm, I'm saying that there should be one standard. We can get into assessing,
00:46:14.440
uh, you know, seriousness of this and that thing. But, but if sexual harassment is wrong,
00:46:21.140
which it is, it's wrong when anyone does it. If complimenting someone is, is harassment,
00:46:26.880
which it isn't, but if it is, if you're arguing that it is, then it, then it's,
00:46:30.980
it, that's the case for men and women. And that's my point. All right, we'll leave it there.
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Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks for listening. Uh, have a great day. Godspeed.
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