The Matt Walsh Show - November 07, 2024


Kamala’s Final Moment: Election 2024


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 7 minutes

Words per Minute

192.24998

Word Count

24,603

Sentence Count

1,936

Misogynist Sentences

74

Hate Speech Sentences

53


Summary

Dennis Prager, Matt Walsh, and all the rest of the Daily Wire team react to the historic election victory for Donald Trump in the midterms. They discuss why this was such a big win, and what it means for the future of the country.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 We'll be right back.
00:00:30.000 We'll be right back.
00:01:00.020 He is Dennis Prager, followed perhaps by Matt Walsh.
00:01:02.820 The rest of us very moderately side.
00:01:05.580 Dennis, you would appreciate the showbiz of this joint.
00:01:08.160 We decided that we were going to make this video, right?
00:01:10.600 Where all the Daily Wire hosts in black and white sort of silhouetted lighting were going
00:01:14.900 to encourage people to go and vote.
00:01:17.720 It worked.
00:01:18.740 And so clearly it worked.
00:01:20.220 They lined us all up in front of the LED wall, and they framed up the picture, and then the
00:01:26.060 director came over and said, yeah, you're all too short except for Matt Walsh.
00:01:30.660 So we're going to make you stand on a box, and we're going to make you stand on a box,
00:01:34.500 and we're going to make you stand on a box.
00:01:35.840 I wish you had been there so that Matt would know the humiliating reality of being asked
00:01:41.040 to step onto an Apple box.
00:01:42.720 So guys, on a scale of one to ten, how good are you feeling right now?
00:01:46.100 Like really, can we, let's just like enjoy, right?
00:01:48.140 There's going to be so many more battles in the future.
00:01:49.640 There's going to be so much more to come.
00:01:50.900 The lesson's just going to go away.
00:01:51.940 I understand that it feels in the moment as though, you know, the thousand-year reign
00:01:55.240 has begun.
00:01:56.000 But in reality, there will be battles for tomorrow.
00:01:58.260 But let's just like, you know, take a moment to just bask in the awesomeness that is America
00:02:02.120 because this country just kicks royal ass.
00:02:03.920 I mean, seriously, the American people stood up on their hind legs, and they said, no, we
00:02:08.740 are tired of this.
00:02:09.760 You have been proclaiming that Donald Trump is not normal for eight years at this point.
00:02:14.940 For eight long years, you've been claiming that he's not normal.
00:02:17.260 And what you mean by that is that he acts kind of weird and says kind of funny things.
00:02:20.500 But the actual normal that we want is, you know, like to be able to live with our families
00:02:24.740 without you bothering us and telling us that our kids are members of the opposite sex and
00:02:27.820 that we ought to be able to keep the property, that we build wealth and actually create things
00:02:32.660 and then keep the products and exchange them.
00:02:34.940 And that we ought to be able to have a safe and secure border and that we ought to be able
00:02:37.940 to have a powerful America.
00:02:39.480 That's like normal.
00:02:40.360 Normal is what my parents wanted, what my grandparents wanted.
00:02:42.980 That's normal.
00:02:43.660 And you know what?
00:02:44.200 I don't care what Donald Trump says.
00:02:46.340 I care what Donald Trump does.
00:02:47.680 And what Donald Trump does is he brings back the normal.
00:02:50.080 And so the normies rose up yesterday and in a fit of righteous wrath, smote down the
00:02:56.300 non-believers in normiedom.
00:02:58.740 And it's damned wonderful.
00:03:01.200 It really is.
00:03:02.080 It just is great.
00:03:02.860 It's great.
00:03:03.440 It's, I mean, I feel great.
00:03:04.860 I feel like I'm on cloud nine.
00:03:08.060 That also could be slightly sleep deprivation because two hours, about 48 in the last 48
00:03:13.440 hours.
00:03:13.680 But to me, and I, you know, we talked about this last night, but what I keep coming back
00:03:18.740 to is that this, this really feels like just a, a total rejection of, of the leftist project
00:03:26.640 on, on pretty much every count, certainly on all the, on all the big counts.
00:03:31.200 Um, abortion, DEI, trans, uh, the, the economy, crime, immigration.
00:03:39.580 This was just a total rejection of the leftist position and all that.
00:03:42.540 Now you hesitate to say that because it makes it sound like, well, it's over.
00:03:45.180 We can all go home.
00:03:46.400 Uh, the fight's over.
00:03:47.320 Of course it's not, you know, the, the fight.
00:03:49.020 Now it's just a matter of, well, we know that, that we know we have a winning argument on
00:03:54.140 all of these things that we have the winning argument, but to translate the winning argument
00:03:58.880 into actual victory, you know, beyond this election, uh, legislative victories, policy
00:04:05.320 victories, that, that becomes the project.
00:04:06.720 Can I just say before everybody else jumps in, I want to give a special shout out to Matt
00:04:09.960 Walsh because I was talking with Jeremy and Dennis a little bit earlier.
00:04:13.540 Listen, everybody at this company has been working unbelievably hard to make things like
00:04:16.840 this happen.
00:04:17.300 And that's what we do here, which is why you should in fact, go subscribe and join
00:04:20.240 us 47% off with code Trump because he's the 47th president.
00:04:24.200 Thank God.
00:04:24.720 But Matt's three big sort of hits over the past course of the past three, four years.
00:04:30.400 What is a woman which made the trans issue absolutely toxic to the left and was used in
00:04:34.880 every single major campaign, this election cycle, the Budweiser boycott, which was the
00:04:39.600 American people saying you are not allowed to just leverage down on us a bunch of trash that
00:04:44.080 we don't want. And then combine that with what you just did with am I racist, where you
00:04:49.300 completely exposed DEI for the grift that it is. And you were knocking out the legs of
00:04:53.760 their stool. And, and those are all major, major components of what just happened to
00:04:58.700 the democratic party last night. So special shout out to Matt has worked hard. And of course
00:05:01.920 the entire company, which, I mean, let's be real about this. Only Jeremy boring would
00:05:05.840 have made those films and, and would, would have, would have produced those films. Only
00:05:09.660 I would have signed off at a very tangential level on those films and let everybody else
00:05:13.760 do the work and then, you know, reap the benefits, which is what I do here. And, uh, but that,
00:05:18.200 that's it. But Matt, like really spectacular job on that.
00:05:20.800 I'd like, if I may, I want to describe, I analyze my own self. So last night to my shock,
00:05:29.040 I, I didn't feel happiness. I've, I felt overwhelmingly shock and relief today. It's
00:05:39.240 all happiness, but I, I figured out why. And I gave this analogy on my radio show. If you
00:05:45.440 see a drunk driver just about to hurt a loved one, maybe kill them or certainly terribly injured
00:05:53.200 them at, at minimal. And then at the last moment, it hits a lamppost. The drunk driver hits a lamppost.
00:06:02.360 Then what do you feel? You don't feel elation at that moment. You feel shock and relief that the
00:06:10.680 drunk driver is the left. The lamppost is the American people. The analogy to me is perfect.
00:06:17.560 That's what happened. And that's why I understand my first reaction was not, wow, terrific.
00:06:22.580 You're, you're, you're beloved. My country is my beloved just as, as, as my family, believe it or
00:06:29.460 not. I mean, if, if I don't have my country, yes, it's wonderful to still have your family, but
00:06:34.800 people had their families in the Soviet union. It didn't, it didn't compensate for what they had
00:06:40.600 there. So that, that is my transition from relief to happiness, like the drunk driver.
00:06:48.800 I think that's beautiful. I think it is a perfect analogy. And when I, you know, every time that I've
00:06:55.400 been drunk and almost about to hit the lamppost, I have nowhere to go with that because like Matt
00:07:00.800 Walsh, I slept two hours, so I can't finish any joke. Instead, I'm going to kick this thing over
00:07:05.040 to our dear friend, host of the Megyn Kelly show. I think one of the most important shows that is not
00:07:09.820 on the Daily Wire. Uh, and always a pleasure to have here with us, Megyn Kelly. Hey guys,
00:07:15.840 how's it going? Did you feel relief or did you feel happiness? Joy, cometh in the morning.
00:07:24.260 Cometh in the morning. Uh, I felt both, uh, but I, I'm more in the happiness camp. I just feel like
00:07:30.980 the, the people who are chopping up our children and opening our border and allowing these illegals
00:07:37.260 to kill our young women are evil and must be stopped. They absolutely have to be fought and
00:07:43.560 defeated. We tried being nice. They didn't listen. And therefore it was hand to hand combat and we
00:07:50.100 won, we won. And so I feel incredibly gratified and hopeful about the fact that that nonsense is
00:07:57.220 going to stop and soon. And we finally have a powerful warrior in the top position and there's
00:08:02.660 actual real agenda items he can do to stop those things I just mentioned.
00:08:07.680 You know, Megyn, unlike the rest of us who are mostly partisan hacks, if I'm being honest,
00:08:11.780 you're, you're an actual journalist and yet you did something that I don't think you've ever done in
00:08:16.140 your career. And you came out and endorsed Donald Trump, spoke at his, his final rally, if I'm not
00:08:20.500 mistaken, right before on the eve of the election. Uh, what, what went into making that decision and what
00:08:25.400 was it like, you know, being in a friendly position with someone with whom you had so publicly
00:08:29.840 sparred in the past? Uh, yeah, we've had our ups and downs, Trump and I, um, but it's complicated,
00:08:35.880 as I always say, because I am not just a booster of his, you know, I am a journalist. And so when
00:08:41.000 he does stuff that I disagree with or that, you know, I, I feel an obligation to critique, I do it.
00:08:46.260 And for some reason I get under his skin, you know, he doesn't like it when I critique him.
00:08:50.460 Um, and that's fine. I understand it. That's part of my business. So it's been, you know, rocky at
00:08:55.360 times, including in the past year, but net net, he knows I'm a supporter of his and I know he's
00:09:02.120 going to do controversial things and attack me. If I quote attack him, that's how he sees it.
00:09:06.000 Nonetheless, none of that matters. You know, this is about the country, the future of our country.
00:09:10.100 And he, there's, there's just no question. He's the, he's the man for the job right now. Even,
00:09:14.420 even if they had a normal Democrat, I would have felt that very clearly he's, he's a fighter. And
00:09:18.800 that's exactly what we need. That bloodied in danger guy who stands up there with a fist is exactly
00:09:24.040 what we need to fight these people who are not just not withstanding what you heard this morning
00:09:28.560 on morning, Joe going to roll over on any of their radical agenda. They're not there. Their leftist
00:09:34.700 based base will not allow it. They're too beholden to them. I mean, I, I think Matt Walsh knows this
00:09:41.120 firsthand. They, these little darlings are really important to them. They are not going to let go of
00:09:45.960 the trans radical ideology. They are not going to let Rachel Levine go into the night and be forgotten.
00:09:51.000 And this stuff matters to them. So we need that guy. We need the guy who stood by Brett Kavanaugh.
00:09:55.840 We need the guy who got up when shot. And so if, for me, it was a no brainer ultimately when,
00:10:00.220 when asked like, do I show up there and support him on his last night with the message in particular
00:10:05.520 to women who might be gettable for Donald Trump, but on the fence about him still. And considering,
00:10:12.080 can I handle him for four more years? And I just felt like the second point is they'd been so
00:10:17.060 overwhelmed. They'd been deluged with information about how, if you're a good woman, if you care
00:10:22.420 about women's rights, there's only one clear choice and it's her. And I felt like being somebody who is
00:10:29.000 more, you know, middle of the road in her politics, I could speak to them. I could, I could speak their
00:10:33.700 language to convince them as to why there is only one clear choice and it, and it's him, not her.
00:10:40.140 Well, I'm glad that you were able to have that conversation. Obviously Trump actually managed to pick
00:10:44.380 up a few points with women in the election, which is sort of to everyone's great surprise. And I
00:10:48.440 don't think, uh, you, you obviously played some role in that. And I think it's very brave of you
00:10:52.980 to show your shoulders here now that the Reich has begun. Obviously it's all handmaid's tales from now
00:10:57.000 on. Megan, where's your bonnet? I don't see any bonnet on you. Megan, you know, I want to get your take
00:11:04.460 on, on sort of the left's reaction to this. So last night we were having a discussion as this all emerged
00:11:08.520 and we were experiencing the sheer joy and wonder of the evening, uh, as to how they were actually
00:11:14.160 going to react as who they were going to blame. My suggestion, because as always, I was wise and
00:11:18.480 brilliant was that they would blame the American people. Uh, and they, they promptly have, have been
00:11:22.400 doing just that. And it feels like this election has finally loosed the fetters upon them. And they
00:11:27.260 are now finally just going to say the thing they've always wanted to say about the American people,
00:11:30.700 which is that we're a bunch of rubes and hicks and horrible people. And it's not about social
00:11:34.740 media. It's not about the Russians. It's just about us. So it feels like they're just going
00:11:38.200 deeper into the crevasse. I mean, we've had so many examples of that this morning. They of course
00:11:44.180 have been railing about these damn Latinos who for years now they've been calling white adjacent
00:11:48.760 as they express their conservatism. And so they've got to be written off because they are a minority
00:11:53.700 group, but it's not okay because they're not pro Democrat. And you know, that can kick you out of
00:11:57.920 the cool club and suddenly you're white adjacent. And that means I guess you're going to get mocked on
00:12:02.420 the view every day. Then speaking of the view, you had Sonny Hostin come out today and, um,
00:12:07.320 rail on these damn uneducated people who are to blame for her loss. They're uneducated.
00:12:13.880 And of course, by that, what she means is non-college educated, which in her elite world,
00:12:19.240 she went to Harvard, her son's at Harvard. Uh, you're dumb.
00:12:23.220 What? Yeah.
00:12:24.300 I'm pretty sure she went to Harvard.
00:12:27.440 Yeah.
00:12:29.300 But her son is definitely at Harvard and her daughter's probably there. And she's railing today
00:12:33.820 about her daughters, how her daughter has less civil rights than she had. Why again? You live
00:12:39.180 in New York. You can get an abortion one day before birth. Well, I don't know what she's referring to,
00:12:44.960 but she's deeply concerned about the civil rights of her child and our country. And they are all
00:12:50.060 multimillionaires, including Sonny and her daughter. And they live in a state that looks like Mar-a-Lago,
00:12:55.080 but she wants to go out there and cry like a victim, just like we saw from Michelle Obama and
00:13:01.340 Beyonce and JLo and Oprah, who have been made billionaires in some cases from this country.
00:13:09.620 But when we don't do what they say, we have to be berated for our racism, our sexism,
00:13:15.740 our internalized misogyny. Take your pick.
00:13:18.140 I'm just glad that Michelle Obama will have exactly one single moment in her entire life
00:13:23.720 when she was proud of this country.
00:13:27.420 She can hold on to something.
00:13:30.340 Well, I mean, the celebrity factor was so annoying throughout the whole thing,
00:13:34.120 and it didn't work for them. And they don't learn. They did this with Hillary Clinton.
00:13:38.280 You know, who on the Democratic side didn't stop to say, who is Trump doing well with? Oh,
00:13:44.260 it's the working class across all races. Well, how can we reach them? Oh, I've got it.
00:13:50.160 Taylor Swift. She's going to be able to rule in these white working class guys,
00:13:54.320 these Hispanic guys who are feeling absolutely not. They didn't even try. They're just so drunk
00:13:59.080 on celebrity that they did the trick. They always do.
00:14:02.600 At least Taylor Swift is genuinely beloved and talented. I don't understand how we live in a time
00:14:07.560 where Cardi B can be invited by the sitting vice president of the United States to address her
00:14:14.220 supporters and give an endorsement. I mean, it's not. What does Cardi B famous for doing?
00:14:20.560 All my hilarious responses to that are unspeakable.
00:14:23.520 Yeah, I actually can't say.
00:14:24.960 She teaches English as a second language.
00:14:28.220 She literally tweeted out something like, what does pee taste like? And then she gets invited
00:14:34.160 to go speak for Kamala Harris.
00:14:36.460 I have a Kamala Harris joke here, but I cannot say it.
00:14:38.700 Yeah, you can't say it.
00:14:39.360 In the last two days of the campaign, Kamala also had, I believe it was Jennifer Lopez,
00:14:46.420 Christina Aguilera, and the rapper Fat Joe, which are really powerful celebrity endorsements
00:14:53.540 in the year 2002.
00:14:55.600 And that was kind of her closing argument.
00:14:58.960 Well, that was what happened.
00:15:01.240 Sorry, go on, Megan.
00:15:01.780 J-Lo was out there like, I want to speak to Latinos and how terrible what they said about
00:15:07.440 Puerto Rico was and going on. Meanwhile, that didn't move the needle at all. This is how out
00:15:11.900 of touch they are. And I think about the Oprah. Remember the Oprah round table?
00:15:15.180 I do wonder with J-Lo, I do wonder if people looked at her past judgments with men,
00:15:19.480 like P. Diddy, who she dated, and went, maybe she makes bad decisions about men kind of generally.
00:15:26.440 I mean, when you're just going through the white party list for your final reach out for the
00:15:29.660 campaign, it feels not like a great thing, probably.
00:15:32.720 Exactly right. I mean, not to mention, I don't like bringing people's kids into it,
00:15:36.360 but she's obviously got a kid who is having identity issues. She's got a stepkid who's having
00:15:42.200 identity issues. This is no accident. You know, they live in this world in which identity is
00:15:46.460 everything. It gets prized. It gets pushed. They get social rewards for having said kids.
00:15:51.520 They're conducting social experiments on their own children. Then they want to get out there and
00:15:55.640 lecture us about the future of the country. And I'm so thrilled that America saw right through this
00:16:02.040 BS. And not only did they see through it, it was definitely one of the issues that rose to the top
00:16:07.300 of this campaign, and it made people vote. Megyn Kelly, thank you very much for spending some time
00:16:11.720 with us on this joyous day. By the way, did I promise? Did I promise I would take a drink?
00:16:18.840 Yes. So is this the time to do that? It is. I was going to say yes. So I think people need to
00:16:24.860 understand the last time I had whiskey, I literally don't remember. I'm not opposed to it. I don't,
00:16:30.120 I love tobacco. You won't remember that either. Not with this whiskey. Dennis, I would get to make
00:16:34.900 you drink alone. I understand. So what are you giving me so I can tell people what I had?
00:16:40.580 A little Balvenie 12, double wood. Balvenie 12? Yeah. Oh, Balvenie. Sounds like a shampoo to me.
00:16:48.180 I don't understand. Balvenie 12. Is it a scotch? What is it? Do you like drinking? Oh, you don't
00:16:56.480 either? We were going to save this. Yeah, for what? Well, let's let the people at home see this great
00:17:03.240 moment from last night's show where we learned that Dennis had not had a drink in some of our
00:17:09.440 lifetimes. Here's my vow then. If Trump wins, I will drink anything you give me, which is more
00:17:20.220 than I have drunk in 50 years. I love tobacco. I don't like alcohol. I will drink. You will raise
00:17:26.960 a glass. There's no question about it. And so. Well, I'm really on tape here. Yeah. Okay. I give
00:17:35.900 you. You're a man of your word. I am a man of my word. So what, what, I do know this question. What
00:17:41.480 proof is it? It's a, that's 600 proof, I think. Oh, you know, you're a savior. That was cruel.
00:17:48.340 Oh, you'll find, you'll find out soon enough. This is, this is to make it masculine and official.
00:17:53.540 Mm-hmm. Wow. That is a form of Harrison. Oh, I get an umbrella. That is cool.
00:18:00.920 To join? Yes, that is correct. Yes. If I have to, if I have to drink, it's with you guys. I want
00:18:06.940 to do it. All right. You don't drink? I do, but I'm not a dissower. Not a dissower. Okay. By the way,
00:18:13.800 do you all love this? I'm just curious. I have no issue with that. Yeah. Okay. So. I basically
00:18:18.280 don't drink. You too? I basically don't drink, but I drink, I'll have a drink. Okay. Here we go.
00:18:23.500 And I drink for the two of us, actually, so it balances out. You take both glasses. I do. I can't
00:18:27.240 wait for Dennis to start speaking in cursive during Kamala's speech. It's tasty. It is tasty.
00:18:34.140 This is a letdown because the setup was you would drink anything we hand to you. Yeah. Oh,
00:18:39.060 where his mind went is really the man who exposes DEI. They are setting up. No, I'm not
00:18:51.820 joking. This, it's tasty. We just got him off the wagon for the first time in day. Dennis
00:18:57.780 is going to end up in a gutter now. So seriously, what is it known? Is it a scotch? Is it a what
00:19:03.600 is it? Single malt scotch. Single malt scotch. My son loves it. My father loved it. I,
00:19:08.960 I am the black sheep in my family. Dennis, if you drink any more, you'll be eligible to
00:19:12.400 run for president as the vice president. I can't believe I'm enjoying it. I can't
00:19:19.280 believe it. Well, and by the way, Dennis, you think your first glass is good? The third
00:19:23.360 and fourth glass. The seventh is the best one. Yeah. They're over at Howard University right
00:19:28.220 now. So the best is this with the cigar. Where's the story with the cigars? I put in an order
00:19:32.080 for cigars. I don't know. There will be cigars. Okay. Listen, this is what happens. This
00:19:37.140 is what happens when you want to surprise Dennis Prager with a little pink umbrella.
00:19:41.400 I specifically told the team to have all this ready for after the concession speech. We're
00:19:46.060 going to have a nice cigar. Oh, I blew it by mentioning. You blew it. I mean, it's fine.
00:19:50.700 I'm sorry. Well, you should have told me. That would help. I will say that while we did think
00:19:56.840 about funny things to make you drink, there's nothing. I who do not drink essential. I'm not
00:20:02.040 a teetotaler, but you can see teetotaling from where I am. But even I will say that on a day
00:20:06.920 like today, whiskey has never tasted better. Yes. That's right. Maybe that's a factor in why
00:20:12.000 I'm liking it. Although I am starting to feel a little swirl. In the celebratory spirit,
00:20:18.360 you might have noticed I'm wearing a sort of wide late 90s tie. That is because my mother gave me
00:20:23.940 this tie. And I think about 2003, I don't, I'm not bragging or nothing. It is a part of the official
00:20:31.480 Donald J. Trump tie collection. There you go. I don't know where she got it. It might have been
00:20:37.320 at TJ Maxx. It might have been at Macy's. I don't know. I have had it in my closet for about 20 years.
00:20:41.860 It's obviously held up very well, as has the president. And I figure if one does not wear the
00:20:47.080 DJ T tie today, because I actually feel real vindicated about this whole thing. You know,
00:20:54.700 many people tolerate Trump because they say, I don't like his tweets or whatever, but I like his
00:21:00.160 policy. I like the guy, especially being a New Yorker. I like the guy. And so I've thought he's
00:21:06.080 actually a pretty good candidate. And people say he's a terrible candidate, but, you know, he somehow
00:21:11.380 makes it across. I thought he was a pretty good candidate. And then 2020 happened. And I said, okay,
00:21:15.940 I don't know. Maybe we'll see. The fact that this guy won the Electoral College by a lot,
00:21:21.980 that he won the popular vote, that he assembled this coalition that is unlike a coalition that any
00:21:28.260 Republican has done in my lifetime, at least. I think we have to conclude he's a good candidate.
00:21:34.540 The guy, he did something. He's a political genius. He's a political genius. And he makes nice times.
00:21:39.900 It's just a weird form of genius. That's all. It's hard to, you know, I mean,
00:21:42.640 geniuses do things that you've never seen before and they break all the rules and sometimes they
00:21:46.520 get it. I don't think that 20, I don't believe that in 2016, Donald Trump did anything particularly
00:21:50.780 spectacular. I think that Hillary Clinton did something spectacular. She failed spectacular.
00:21:55.640 Being a terrible candidate. That's right. Which is why he was, as I've said before,
00:21:58.520 why he was able to win with fewer votes, say in Wisconsin than Mitt Romney lost Wisconsin with,
00:22:03.260 right? But what you cannot deny is someone then coming back and winning not only an overwhelming
00:22:12.140 majority in the electoral college, but also winning the popular vote. And what that tells
00:22:15.400 you is that while what Trump did in 2016 may or may not have been spectacular, what he did
00:22:20.560 in 2024 is a true feat of political. Indisputable.
00:22:25.040 Only the greatest politicians are able to accomplish what he just accomplished.
00:22:28.400 I shouldn't say he's a political genius. He has a genius that he can look at something.
00:22:32.860 He's like a guy who can look at the Rubik's Cube of life and solve it. You know, he just does it.
00:22:38.160 You, I've seen him do it again and again, and you can see him shift almost when he's talking.
00:22:42.540 You can see him, you read the field and all this stuff and he just figured it out. And I think,
00:22:46.660 by the way, I just want to add this, throw this out there. I think it's going to be a great
00:22:50.340 presidency. I think it's going to be the best second term we've ever seen because he has
00:22:54.560 actually taken four years. God has arranged it. So he's taken four years to learn what he needed,
00:22:59.680 what he did wrong and what he's going to do.
00:23:01.060 There's another thing to add there, which is in 2020, if he had won,
00:23:04.340 he would have been settled to the Democratic Congress. In 2024, he has an overwhelmingly
00:23:09.700 Republican Senate. The Republicans are going to take the house. He's actually going to have a
00:23:13.020 majority that he can work with. And if you want more good news, because, you know, I bear glad,
00:23:17.900 I bring glad tidings. The electoral college, I've mentioned this before, that they screwed up the
00:23:25.480 census in 2020. There are actual extra votes in the South that were not properly counted. I am calling
00:23:30.620 right now on the Congress of the United States, the President of the United States, to pass
00:23:34.680 legislation that allows for the recapitulation of the census figures sufficient so that in the
00:23:41.440 2028 election, those votes actually shift to the states where they belong, because that's where
00:23:45.920 those votes belong. People being disenfranchised right now in Florida, people being disenfranchised
00:23:50.280 right now in Texas, because the count is not correct. And then in 2030, there's going to be
00:23:54.520 another census. And if that census goes how people think that census is going to go,
00:23:58.000 12 electoral college votes are going to shift from blue states to deep red states. None of those
00:24:04.100 are in the Rust Belt. That's three to Florida. That's four to Texas. That's one to Arizona.
00:24:10.740 That's one to Idaho. That's, I believe, one to Georgia.
00:24:16.100 So what do you think the Democrats are going to try to do about that? Because there's no way they
00:24:24.420 can just sit and allow that to happen. So what's their move? I mean, I think they just lose,
00:24:30.300 frankly. I mean, I don't think their move was the open border. Right. And I think that I think that
00:24:35.120 they do not. Here's here's the thing. I don't see what their next move is, because the problem for
00:24:40.660 them is that Donald Trump occupied the other half of the agenda. Right. So if their agenda was
00:24:45.400 normally two things, right, one was the kind of woke, racialist, intersectional crap. And then one
00:24:50.080 of it was the sort of Bernie Sanders, socialistic redistributionist stuff. The truth is that there's
00:24:55.080 some crossover between the stuff that Trump has said about entitlements and where Bernie Sanders
00:24:58.500 is on entitlements. Like the most, the most robust arguments that have used, been used against
00:25:01.880 Republicans in my lifetime on the financial stuff where Paul Ryan shoving granny off the cliff and
00:25:05.740 all the rest of it. You can't use that on Trump and you're not going to be able to use it on vans
00:25:08.940 because the Republican party has basically said, all right, you guys want to ride across the cliff?
00:25:12.720 Like we can't stop you. So I guess that's the way it's going to go. And with that off the table,
00:25:17.280 that by the way, abortion is off the table too. I'm pointing this out right now.
00:25:20.740 Abortion is a live issue in this election. It will not be a live issue in 2028. And the reason it
00:25:24.500 will not be a live issue in 2028 is every state will have already picked the abortion regime
00:25:28.460 that it actually wants. And the Supreme court will have already spoken by 2028 and said there cannot
00:25:33.240 be widespread federal legislation on abortion, which means it will be relegated back to the states.
00:25:38.760 And by the way, you saw some of this last night, right? So for example, Missouri did pass a
00:25:41.840 referendum. That was a pro-abortion referendum in Missouri and Missouri went by 10 points to Donald Trump.
00:25:46.400 So people are already shifting away from thinking of their congressperson, senators,
00:25:50.640 and presidents as people with a fundamental task on abortion. They're thinking of their
00:25:53.920 governors and their state legislatures as the people with the fundamental task on abortion.
00:25:57.140 So you take abortion away from the Democrats on the federal level, you take entitlements away
00:26:00.180 from Democrats on the federal level. What precisely do they have? Higher taxes and weak foreign policy
00:26:04.740 and an open border? What's the agenda? Those are like the three least popular items.
00:26:08.880 I don't understand what you're missing about joy, brat, and vibe.
00:26:13.000 You know, another thing, if Trump had won in 2020, he still would have had COVID and they still would
00:26:20.160 have had COVID to beat him up with. It was right in the middle. And he would have had to deal with
00:26:25.080 inflation. It was spending that was being pushed by Democrats, but Republicans led it through or
00:26:30.740 didn't have the strength to stop it. Although Biden amped it up. Biden amped it up with the
00:26:33.820 inflation reduction. Increased inflation. My favorite name, yeah. But he would have been dealing
00:26:39.040 with a lot of economic challenges. Yeah. Well, part of the grace that's, obviously the country
00:26:43.360 received enormous mercy from God here, but so did Donald Trump because Donald Trump deserves a lot
00:26:50.760 of blame for what happened in 2020. You know, COVID isn't just a thing that happened to Donald Trump,
00:26:56.080 although certainly it was weaponized against Donald Trump by not just the domestic left,
00:27:00.740 but I think even the global left. But also the worst aspects of Donald Trump's presidency
00:27:05.420 were his handling of COVID. And in a way, God spared him from having to be the one who paid
00:27:10.860 the immediate price for those policies that he allowed to happen. I mean, he surrendered the
00:27:14.320 country to Anthony Fauci for months and months and months. You know, although you're right,
00:27:19.440 I think you're too hard on him since every other Western leader did the same thing except
00:27:24.680 Ron Sanders. Except Sweden. Eventually. But I don't think this is fair. I think that we should hold
00:27:30.100 Donald Trump to a high standard. I don't think we should hold him to no standard. Donald Trump,
00:27:33.980 hold on. Donald Trump doesn't purport to be like every other Western leader. He purports to be the
00:27:39.060 one of one, the wrecking ball, the guy who can't be pushed around, the guy who sees through the
00:27:43.160 bull crap, the guy who doesn't buy the conspiracies. And I would further say that when we point to the
00:27:48.380 way that the global Western leaders responded to COVID, I believe that a large portion of what
00:27:54.460 originally inspired their response was attempting to defeat Donald Trump, meaning that I even think
00:27:59.360 that the heads of states of other nations were engaged in some level in a try to defeat Donald
00:28:04.880 Trump because he had made them all crazy. And when Donald Trump gave his, we're going to reopen
00:28:09.560 on Easter Sunday speech, which was basically America will rise again on the day that Christ rose.
00:28:16.340 It was one of the great speeches, I believe, in American presidential history.
00:28:20.820 Had he done it, I would have voted four times for him.
00:28:23.920 No, I agree with you about that. I agree with you. I don't think he handled it well. I'm not sure.
00:28:29.180 Again, I just think you're being too hard on him. There was this thing. You know,
00:28:32.520 who would you listen to if a plague came through?
00:28:36.100 Literally last night, though, we were saying that maybe he shouldn't have gone to war in
00:28:39.420 Afghanistan when literally any president of the United States, left, right, center,
00:28:44.280 RFK Jr., Ron Paul, would have bombed Afghanistan over 9-11.
00:28:47.840 Not Ron Paul, but all the other ones.
00:28:49.560 First, I agree that Trump did the wrong thing, but also George W. Bush had a freedom agenda for
00:28:58.020 the Middle East, which was a big mistake. George W. Bush developed a freedom agenda for the Middle
00:29:03.200 East after 9-11 and the realization that we had to go to war in Afghanistan. That's what I'm saying.
00:29:08.280 But anyone would have gone to war in Afghanistan. Hold on. Donald Trump would go to war in Afghanistan
00:29:12.520 if they knocked down the 20th power. I think that you're arguing past each other just a little bit
00:29:16.280 in the sense that whether it's not a matter of blame. The reality is that bad decisions were
00:29:20.620 made during 2020 by President Trump, decisions that none of us liked. He got a reprieve by the
00:29:26.880 American people. The American people were giving Donald Trump a lot of credit. He deserves an
00:29:30.960 enormous amount of credit, right? I mean, I really think that, I mean, I read the famous Teddy
00:29:34.820 Roosevelt quote on the air today about the man in the arena, right? I mean, that really is Donald Trump.
00:29:39.220 He deserves an enormous amount of credit. The people who deserve the credit are the people who voted for
00:29:42.840 Donald Trump. The people who showed up in droves to vote for Donald Trump because they rejected
00:29:47.500 all the things that they were being told about themselves and about their country.
00:29:51.120 Now, there are a lot of people, I mentioned this before, but Sam Harris and I had this conversation
00:29:55.360 about Trump versus Kamala. And he was saying, ah, on character grounds, don't you care about the
00:29:59.440 character of the president? And said, you know what I really care about? I care about the character of
00:30:02.620 the American people. And I care less about the character of the president of the United States.
00:30:06.580 What I want from the president of the United States is to fix the toilet. I care a lot about the
00:30:09.940 character of the American people. And it says something deep and abidingly true about the
00:30:13.420 character of the American people. They were willing to stand up in the face of a tsunami of lies about
00:30:18.200 Donald Trump, a blizzard of lies, unlike anything I've ever seen in my lifetime. The last month of
00:30:22.700 this campaign alone was just lie after lie after lie. A tsunami of lies, you don't even need to add
00:30:27.620 about Donald Trump. They stood up against the tsunami of lies. This is what, I am convinced that
00:30:34.240 they're charged that Trump always lies. And the Washington Post, which is almost defunct,
00:30:40.600 listed 2,000 lies, allegedly. But name one lie of Donald Trump that compares to the Russian collusion
00:30:50.360 with the Trump campaign lie. Name one that compares to men give birth. The list of lies from the left
00:30:59.620 is so enormous. 51 heads of intelligence said that the, the, uh, the, um, Hunter Biden laptop was
00:31:08.000 Russian disinformation. But by the way, many of those were actively in the government, which is
00:31:14.260 treason. But this is sort of why I totally see your point, Ben, that, you know, in answer to a Sam
00:31:20.020 Harris of the world, you can say, look, I don't really care about the politicians as individuals. I care
00:31:24.340 about what they represent, the people who support them. But I also think we don't have to concede the
00:31:28.680 point. Donald Trump has much better character than Kamala Harris and then Joe Biden. That's right.
00:31:33.700 And then any of these Democrats. That's correct. I agree with that. But the point that I was making
00:31:37.080 is because I'm trying to argue in that case to the median voter who's looking at this and may have
00:31:41.300 problems with how Donald Trump acts on the public stage. Yeah. But I mean, I started that little,
00:31:45.700 that little speech right there by saying that he is the man in the arena. Yeah. Okay. The, the,
00:31:50.160 the thing is, as I said yesterday, I'll go back to it. The best biblical, the best biblical
00:31:55.460 analog to Donald Trump is not King David. It is Noah. He is a man for the time. He is a complete
00:32:01.580 man. He's, he's, he's, he's, he's, right? Like in his generation, he is a complete person in his
00:32:10.320 generation. Okay. It's a flood generation and flood generation. You need a man who builds an arc.
00:32:14.100 Donald Trump is a man who builds the arc and then the floodwaters recede. And then he goes out and
00:32:18.580 guess what? If you read the story of Noah, he does some pretty bad crap right after that. But the
00:32:21.880 reality is he was a ish tzaddik, tamim, complete, hayab adorotav, right? In his generation,
00:32:28.120 he's built for the, this is a time built for Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a man built for his time.
00:32:32.400 And, and this is, it's times that make great leaders. Okay. Abraham Lincoln in 1830 is not
00:32:36.500 a great leader. Right. And Winston Churchill in 1920 is not a great leader. I mean, he's out of
00:32:40.240 government by 1920 and, and Bibi Netanyahu five years ago is, is, you know, in trouble. And now he's a man
00:32:46.500 for his, like great leaders are made by the time in which they live. And this time demanded Donald Trump
00:32:51.360 rose to be the man for that time. We're moments away from vice president Kamala Harris walking
00:32:56.580 out to hopefully speed us some delicious leftist tears. In the meantime, we have Daily Wire's very
00:33:02.020 own Spencer Lindquist at Howard University, where the vice president is about to speak.
00:33:06.420 Spencer, how are things going over there? Oh, that's right. So last night in the early hours
00:33:11.880 of the night, it was very optimistic. There was music pumping. People were excited. And we saw that
00:33:17.200 start to die down, especially when North Carolina was called for Trump tonight really is nothing like
00:33:22.720 last night in those early hours. The crowd is probably have maybe I'd say 30 or 40% of the
00:33:27.620 people that were here last night are now here. We've got shots of virtually empty bleachers.
00:33:32.420 And I'm seeing, you know, very sad faces, people giving each other hugs and just patiently waiting
00:33:36.840 for Harris to take the stage. So has anything burned down yet? I mean, that's the real question.
00:33:42.420 When do they start burning stuff? Or are they, have they been so neutered by President Trump,
00:33:46.600 who has saved all the dogs and the cats in Springfield, by the way? Have they been so neutered
00:33:50.700 that it is no longer possible for them to, to them, for them to riot?
00:33:55.620 You know, we haven't seen any violence, any, any, really even any protesting. Last night,
00:33:59.660 afterwards, we went over to the White House to see if there would be people gathering outside,
00:34:02.840 if there'd be protesters, if there'd be rioters. And there was really nothing. It was, it was
00:34:07.680 basically dead quiet. And, you know, maybe they've just tired themselves out after a decade of going
00:34:13.100 up against this man, who, of course, has just been bouncing back from, from everything they've
00:34:16.920 laid against him. Spencer, do you know when Kate McKinnon plans to croak out a whining dirge of Leonard
00:34:25.440 Cohen's? Maya Rudolph, Maya Rudolph. It's Maya Rudolph. It's Maya Rudolph, right? You're right. You're
00:34:30.000 right. Oh, well, that'll be better then. Maya Rudolph, she's pretty good, actually. You know,
00:34:33.640 that'll, I'm still, I guess this Saturday is the answer. She's a real talent. Yeah.
00:34:38.560 Any predictions on what you'll say? Spencer, have you heard anything there? You know, I,
00:34:44.280 you know, we, we've talked to a couple people and really, you know, um, kind of the question
00:34:51.380 that's on my mind is why people are actually coming back. Because last night, you know, when that
00:34:56.420 co-chair came out, the, the co-chair of the campaign, the co-chair came out and said,
00:35:01.800 she's not going to be addressing you tonight. You've got to wait until tomorrow. And by that
00:35:05.000 point, we were already pretty certain on the outcome. A lot of people made the decision to
00:35:08.700 just not come back out. Some people came here, you know, it is a historical moment, um, with,
00:35:14.600 without a doubt. So some people are just here. It's definitely historic that Donald Trump
00:35:18.320 is defeating, vanquishing his second female opponent for president. His nickname is the
00:35:23.600 glass ceiling. That was the New York Times theory. That was their biggest single theory
00:35:28.080 that it was a woman. Yeah. Remember I asked last night, what are they going to say? Yeah. So
00:35:33.540 now, now they, they're blaming it on misogyny. Sure. No, that, that makes perfect sense.
00:35:38.820 That's why he got a two point bounce among women. Yeah. Women know what that. Those voters.
00:35:45.400 Tough eating women. I'm sorry, Spencer. I cut you off to make a joke. That's just how we do it
00:35:50.200 around here. Are people starting to take down their boards around the DC area?
00:35:58.440 You know, uh, the DC area right now, I mean, we were out kind of just walking the streets earlier
00:36:02.760 and it's pretty quiet. You know, this is a D plus, I mean, it's 80 or 90% Democrat really within the
00:36:08.680 district itself. So the mood is somber, even just on the streets of DC, but of course, specifically
00:36:14.980 here in this party, it is especially somber and I'm seeing people kind of, I saw one group sitting
00:36:20.000 in a circle kind of commiserating, um, and talking about what the next four years look like. Of
00:36:24.980 course, those are all Harris supporters. Uh, and they were there kind of reassuring each
00:36:29.700 other, hugging each other. Uh, uh, it looked like a little bit of a, uh, you know, a therapy
00:36:33.700 circle almost. Spencer, has anyone, is he here? Is he here? Yeah. Spencer, has anyone seen
00:36:40.020 you smiling? I think a couple people have caught me. I went up to, to, uh, to go up and
00:36:48.040 interview a few people. They saw the grin. Um, I don't think it worked. Laugh directly in their
00:36:53.880 faces. Get it on camera. Spencer Lindquist, thanks for being with us. If you insist. From
00:37:01.040 Howard University, where Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to take the stage any moment
00:37:05.780 to give her a concession. Can I say one thing about the speech? It, it does, she does have
00:37:10.480 the opportunity to actually give an important speech and, uh, she could actually say some
00:37:14.220 things that, uh, you know, to, to, in, to, in, in some way, if not unify the country, at least
00:37:20.660 assure her supporters that this guy is not actually Hitler. Matt, I have a question. It's not going
00:37:25.060 to happen. It will not happen. It will, it will not happen in a thousand years. I'm just pointing
00:37:29.380 out that like, this doesn't have to be a totally useless speech. She could do something. She could,
00:37:33.760 it could be, if she had any integrity at all, she could actually help the country with this speech,
00:37:38.220 but she won't. Why deal with counterfactuals? Totally throw Joe Biden under the bus.
00:37:42.700 Yeah, that would be entertaining. I mean, I think instead of saying what she should say,
00:37:45.560 let's say what we're rooting for her to say. So what I'm rooting for her to say is for her to
00:37:49.200 come out and be like, listen, we all knew old Joe had to go in 2022 and he didn't go in 2022.
00:37:54.520 Instead he stuck around and then he stuck me with his bag and I had to somehow run this thing
00:37:58.640 across the finish line. Don't blame me. Don't blame, don't blame me. It wasn't me.
00:38:02.180 It was Joe. And then somebody is going to have to come drag Doug Emhoff off the stage before he
00:38:07.900 spots a nanny. Wait, you think they're still married? I think Doug Emhoff is the happiest
00:38:12.540 man in America today. I think the idea that he wanted to be first gentleman is ridiculous on
00:38:16.220 its face. Like that is it. That is a dude, given his personal history, that is somebody who's very
00:38:20.920 happy to be going back to Beverly Hills. Yes. Yes. Isn't the only thing that she can blame
00:38:25.760 just that the Don Corleone lament, if only we had more time. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah.
00:38:32.740 You have to understand it was a last minute thing and we did, we did the best we could for that.
00:38:37.360 Yeah. Cause then it doesn't offend anybody. She doesn't have to take responsibility. It is
00:38:41.940 plausible. I mean, it was absurd that they swapped out their nominee at the last minute.
00:38:46.160 Well, you know, what I'm looking forward to is her next run.
00:38:48.840 That's really what I'm looking for. I think Kamala Harris 4.0 will be so much better than
00:38:55.020 Kamala Harris 3.0 ever was. Yes. I mean, each upgrade has been treated with just rapturous
00:39:00.320 joy by media. So I'm really, I can't imagine it's like the iPhone 16, just a new, a new reissue
00:39:06.120 that's just going to get better with every single update. The reason she gets better.
00:39:09.560 There is a way forward to Matt's point really, where the cooler heads in the Democrat parties
00:39:15.760 start to seize back the party from the, the, the, only rhetorically it will, it will be
00:39:20.860 pure rhetoric. Well, they always govern too far to the left. Okay. Just, that's very
00:39:24.680 important that, that everyone know that they will, they will veer toward the center. You
00:39:29.160 know, we really overdid it on X, Y, and Z. And then as soon as they have power, they will
00:39:34.080 go back to X, Y, and Z. Yeah, that's exactly right. That's probably true.
00:39:36.660 So here's a question from a daily wire member. If you're not a member, please consider joining
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00:39:45.360 is the 47th president and our members make it possible for us to do the work that we
00:39:49.600 do. Uh, is there any concern that the left won't give up power come January? No, not in
00:39:55.420 my mind. No. They just got clobbered. If it were close, then maybe, but they just got totally
00:39:59.480 creamed. Right. That's going to be fun though. Kamala gets to preside over the certification.
00:40:03.380 Yeah. The great loser, uh, a, one of the great losers is the New York times. Oh, this is
00:40:10.600 really important that people understand this. The New York times is no longer, I will never,
00:40:15.700 I was telling Ben early, I will never use the term mainstream media again. It is just
00:40:20.540 left-wing media. They are the outliers. We are now much more mainstream. Yeah. Prager,
00:40:27.240 you daily wire, all the, uh, you know, uh, Megan Kelly, Joe Rogan. I mean, all the whole gang,
00:40:33.860 we are now mainstream. They are left-wing media. The only people that read the New York times are
00:40:41.540 leftists. It is a fact. It's, it is, that is it. They had the, the New York times now realizes
00:40:48.340 to some extent, I don't think fully, they have no influence on the country. None to say to the
00:40:54.620 average American, you know, the New York times said you, you might as well say, well, Harvard said,
00:41:00.160 yeah, right. It is a tragedy because a, the New York times is the best digital media company in
00:41:07.160 the world, which is an amazing thing to say. Four years ago, they weren't a digital media company
00:41:11.020 at all. It's one of, they are blockbuster who became Netflix. It's the greatest transformation
00:41:17.220 I've ever seen of a company, maybe in, maybe in history. The other reason it's tragic is they still
00:41:23.840 do the best journalism of any publication in the world. It's no one on the right can yet field
00:41:29.980 a fraction of the actual investigative journalistic power that can be fielded by the New York times.
00:41:36.820 We can't field a fraction of the Washington Post. We can't field a fraction of the wall
00:41:40.840 street journal. And so to see that, well, just those three that I just named, they, they control
00:41:46.520 something like 80% of all the actual investigative firepower in the country. It is, it is a real loss
00:41:53.520 to the country that those institutions, which were always of the left have become leftist,
00:41:59.020 which is, which is different. They've become instruments of the Democrat. By the way, just
00:42:02.860 if you're talking though, about raw news, I know I read one of the only newspapers I read every day.
00:42:10.940 By the way, I do read the New York times physical edition, not just digital every day, just for the
00:42:15.560 record. But that's just to know what the left is saying, not to, not to really learn about the
00:42:20.040 world. The Telegraph in Britain, that is a magnificent newspaper. The Epoch Times is a
00:42:27.380 magnificent newspaper, in my opinion. We, the National Post in Canada, I mean, they, they, they're not,
00:42:35.600 they don't have the money to have reporters in Rwanda. Yeah. But, but there are new sources
00:42:42.660 worthy of noting. But it is, it is true. You're absolutely right that they have all that firepower,
00:42:47.440 but they have been, become kind of porn. I mean, I was thinking about on this morning that they
00:42:52.600 really have been relegated to porn. And by the way, the Daily Wire, you guys have a lot of news.
00:42:58.120 Yeah. I mean, I don't want to, I go to you for news. Yeah. But we don't have to record. The other
00:43:02.780 thing is that what, what they realized is that as their, as their margins began to shrink,
00:43:07.960 they became fan service. That's right. And the most ardent fans were left-wingers. And so they just
00:43:11.840 kept doubling down on their fan service. Audience capture is, it's a vicious circle. Audience capture is one of the,
00:43:16.580 the truly pernicious phenomena of, of the digital age. I mean, and you can tell because I think the
00:43:21.980 only person at the New York Times who voted for Trump in all likelihood is Ross Duthat, right? I
00:43:26.780 mean, Ross is the only one probably even considered that. At the Washington Post, there's literally no
00:43:30.880 one. Yeah. Right. The Washington Post, I think that now that Hugh Hewitt stepped away, right? Right.
00:43:35.420 Now that Hugh Hewitt, there's, there's literally no one there. Wait, Hugh Hewitt, I hadn't heard that.
00:43:39.460 Yeah. I get it. It's fantastic. But it's, but since, so, so every major newspaper,
00:43:45.640 the biggest newspapers in the country don't have anyone who's even writing for their editorial
00:43:49.020 page who can even say that they voted for a person the majority of Americans voted for in the last
00:43:53.980 election cycle. At the New York Times, the conservatives who do, who are allowed to contribute
00:43:59.120 to the editorial section, all voted for Kamala. Other than Ross Duthat. Right. But he's truly,
00:44:04.180 he's the one. Well, first of all, you say all. It's three. It's three. Yeah. And I'm still don't know,
00:44:09.440 I, I don't know. I know what's conservative about Brett Stevens. Obviously Ross Duthat. But
00:44:15.200 what is conservative about David French? Well, I think that David French is still
00:44:19.820 committed to most of the same values that he was committed to. Does it come through in his column?
00:44:25.320 I don't think it is. Well, no. There's no evidence. Ten years ago, he was a libertarian. And that's why
00:44:29.140 he gets the credit today. Because he is so outraged by Donald Trump that he's willing to side
00:44:35.060 against the people who want to advance the things that he writes in favor of. Well, it's a conservative
00:44:39.940 case. He's abandoned our values out of hatred of Trump. That's called derangement. Well, that is
00:44:45.380 true. Well, certainly I think it's, it is, it is derangement. No question about it. I don't think
00:44:50.220 that it's the same as him being a leftist. It is. Correct. Correct. The practical effect is the same.
00:44:54.540 Yes. That's, well, that's all that matters. The practical effect is right. He's become a
00:44:57.760 quizzling for the left in a bizarre belief that if he does so, eventually a right that he approves of
00:45:03.040 will emerge. That's right. You know, I was on, today I was on Piers Morgan's show with Joe Walsh,
00:45:07.780 who was a right-wing radio host and congressman who then, I think he ran for president, but you
00:45:11.740 know, he just supports Democrats now. And, and he said, we were arguing about something. He said,
00:45:15.520 but Michael, you don't understand. I'm, you know, I'm a, I'm a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. And I
00:45:19.620 thought, you know, I actually kind of liked the guy, but I thought, man, you can't, I think you get
00:45:23.480 like three election cycles. If you don't vote for a Republican, you're out. Okay. And it is true that
00:45:29.480 their derangement causes them to also not support any other Republicans. So when you have, right,
00:45:34.400 listen, I said last night, I think Jonah Goldberg is one of the greatest writers in the country.
00:45:39.100 And yet he can't even support a Ron DeSantis. They can't even just support a Ron DeSantis
00:45:42.940 because Trump has made them so mad that anything that isn't like Jeb Bush, they're going to oppose.
00:45:49.600 It's completely self-inflicted wounds because they, I had, Jonah Goldberg did a course for,
00:45:55.600 did a video for PragerU. Jonah Goldberg, I think liberal fascism is one of the most important books
00:46:01.560 of the last 50 years. And, and, and he, he, he has rendered himself less important. I don't know.
00:46:10.120 That's why the arrangement is, is not an, an invalid word.
00:46:14.880 Well, because I think that one of the things that that's been, it is happening on, on a lot of
00:46:18.780 sides of the aisle is we now have gotten to the point in American life where if people don't vote the
00:46:23.740 way you want, you're disappointed in the people. And you can't function in democracy where you're
00:46:30.180 constantly disappointed with the people. Makes it very difficult to actually believe in the country
00:46:34.920 when you're constantly disappointed. But Ben, what's the Mencken quote?
00:46:38.040 Democracy is the theory that the common people deserve, know what they want, deserve to get it good and hard.
00:46:43.920 Right. Yeah. And, and, and that's, and that's, that's true, but it also means that you have to
00:46:48.340 have faith that eventually they're going to make some good decisions and that if they make a decision
00:46:52.040 that you don't like, maybe there were some decent reasons. Especially to be disappointed with, to have
00:46:55.580 these commentators that are disappointed in the people. Well, your whole job, our whole job is to
00:47:00.400 convince the people. It's what we do for a living. And so if the people, uh, aren't agreeing with you,
00:47:05.720 then you can be disappointed in them or you can be disappointed in yourself. You didn't make the case.
00:47:08.740 That is absolutely true. And it's the people's country. Ultimately they get to choose how they
00:47:15.280 want to live. And this is exactly my point last night of, I didn't want Donald Trump to be the
00:47:19.080 nominee. I didn't vote for him in the primary. That's what primaries are for. The majority of
00:47:24.380 Republican primary voters disagreed with me. They win. Now Donald Trump is the nominee. The question
00:47:29.620 before me isn't who the question before me in, in November of 2024, isn't who would I like to see
00:47:36.280 be the Republican nominee for president? Right. That is, that question is settled. Yes. There is
00:47:41.680 one. Perfect. That's right. And you know, on this point of people kind of coming together, the
00:47:46.980 Republicans did unify here in the general and, and the election was conducted efficiently and with
00:47:52.480 sufficient margin that we, Hey, we found out on election. I remember when we used to do that.
00:47:55.700 And so I think it gave people, and this, this actually is important for the Democrats,
00:48:00.860 even if they won't admit it now, it gave people a confidence that the system still holds.
00:48:06.000 And that the people's choices are still reflected. It's another reason it's a big
00:48:10.320 evening. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I'd said before the election that the worst case scenario,
00:48:15.120 the worst case was Kamala narrow, right? That if I had to have like order of what was good for the
00:48:19.120 country, Trump big, Trump narrow, Kamala big, Kamala narrow. If you're looking at like things that
00:48:24.440 are, cause the worst case scenario that would have been terrible for the country is Kamala sneaking it
00:48:28.440 out at 3 AM by a margin of two votes in Wisconsin. It would have been awful for the country at every
00:48:33.000 possible level. So we got the best possible scenario because God has shined upon this country
00:48:37.660 once again, but you know, it is, it is a very good thing. That's why I think you're not seeing
00:48:41.820 because it was a clear cut victory. I think that that's, that, that is a good thing. And again,
00:48:47.040 Democrats are going to have to go back to the drawing board and they're going to have to think
00:48:49.440 to themselves about what they have done wrong. You're going to have to go back to the corner.
00:48:52.700 You're going to have to read your homework. You're going to have to figure out exactly what it was
00:48:56.200 that went wrong. Because if you think about Barack Obama as a singular figure who was elected for a
00:49:00.820 host of reasons that really had very little to do with his policy, which is actually what he was,
00:49:04.800 right? I mean, he was a singular figure in himself. He's a great speaker, obviously his
00:49:08.580 personal characteristics, his race, all of that kind of stuff. The last successful national
00:49:13.000 democratic politician, truly successful as Bill Clinton, who today would be characterized as a
00:49:17.280 moderate Republican by his agenda. How do you run on a left-wing agenda that the American people
00:49:22.600 do not like without the signal power of a Barack Obama? And so the question is, they're either
00:49:28.460 going to have to find another cult figure, which is what Obama was. They're going to find a celebrity
00:49:31.460 cult figure like Barack Obama, or they're going to have to start re-examining the agenda of, say,
00:49:36.420 James Carville and Bill Clinton, and maybe start looking at the blue dog Democrats once again.
00:49:41.980 I think that that's right. And I think that they're actually, look, the only sane reaction to a defeat
00:49:46.200 like this is to say, where have we gone wrong? And if you come up with the idea that it's messaging,
00:49:51.080 which is what they usually do, then you're never going to get anywhere. Because that's what
00:49:54.360 Dennis was saying before. That's right. Thank you. That's exactly it. It's just going to be a
00:49:58.740 rhetorical change. I can't think of a single major left-wing figure who will say, gee, maybe I really
00:50:08.840 am wrong on a person being able to change sex. It's inconceivable to me. They're in there in the rank
00:50:16.840 and file. There are actually some of them in there in the media. The question is whether they can yank
00:50:21.240 back the party from... Who's they? The people who are going to be sane about this do exist on the
00:50:27.600 left. Can you name a name? No, no, I'm not giving you a hard time. I can't think of anyone.
00:50:32.020 Believe it or not, on the gender issue, Van Jones. So actually, there are Democrats of color who are
00:50:36.960 more likely to be the people who yank them back on those issues than the white Democrats. The white
00:50:41.360 Democrats are the nudges of the Democrats. Or even Don Lemon when he's being candid. He also tends to
00:50:46.580 track a little more toward the middle when he's not being pushed by CNN. Look at Cuomo now, Chris Cuomo.
00:50:51.060 Will any of them say, you know, maybe America was not founded in 1619? I'm not kidding. That's a
00:50:58.820 biggie. That's as big as men give birth. America was founded in 1619. I was giving you the list of
00:51:04.200 lies. There's an enormous one. That's right. Well, here's an idea. What if we just keep
00:51:08.140 beating them until they do learn the lesson? Michael, here's a question from a DailyWire.com
00:51:12.560 subscriber. Again, if you're not a subscriber, DailyWire.com slash subscribe for 47% off
00:51:16.780 promo code Trump. Will the truth of all the corruption finally come out now? Will leftists
00:51:22.140 see the lies that they swallowed? There are people in our lives that bought all the lies and they still
00:51:26.680 think we're the bad guys. Will they be able to see the truth once Trump takes office? No, those are
00:51:33.040 two separate questions. The first, will all the corruption come out? No. Everyone is broadly aware
00:51:38.540 of the great corruption in our government and our culture. Both sides of the aisle are aware of it and
00:51:42.720 they disagree a little bit over the nature of it, but they're aware of it. And some of that will
00:51:46.080 come out and I think Trump will clean house to as great a degree as he can in the federal bureaucracy
00:51:50.580 in particular. And that will be difficult and it will be unsatisfying, but I think he can get
00:51:54.460 somewhere. In terms of will Democrats see the error of their ways? No, I don't think so. I think it's
00:52:00.200 going to take them a little while longer to do that because they've really bought in and they've
00:52:04.860 accepted their views not so much as a matter of practical political conciliation or,
00:52:11.700 you know, just, you know, resignation, but rather as a matter of deep religious faith.
00:52:18.060 And so they- I want to know in light of what you're saying, I'm waiting to see the left-wing
00:52:23.480 source because it was almost universal that says, wow, America elected Hitler. Will, why don't they
00:52:30.980 own up to the staggering horror of calling him Hitler? So say the new republic had a picture of Hitler
00:52:39.180 in the face of Donald Trump. Will the new republic now say America elected Hitler? And if they think
00:52:46.260 that, why are they staying? Jews started to leave Germany when Hitler was elected.
00:52:53.860 Well, Richard Deere did say that he's going to Spain. We have Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, now
00:52:58.240 entering the arena here. It's not a arena, I suppose.
00:53:00.920 Giant. This is another giant. Giant among men. Weirdly, he still looks happy and no one knows
00:53:06.260 why. Now, he's just kind of being weird. I do want to say, Dennis, you're a very large,
00:53:13.540 perhaps the largest on earth Jewish man. How many times have you been to Israel in your life?
00:53:17.720 25. Yeah. Tim Walz, Israel is an American ally. It's the ancestral homeland of your people. It's
00:53:26.520 the center of your religion. And Tim Walz has been 30 times to China, a country with, a country
00:53:36.400 that is not his ancestral homeland, that is not the center of his religion, and that currently has
00:53:44.760 hundreds of nuclear weapons pointed at us. And we've been engaged in a Cold War for 50 years.
00:53:50.100 Yeah, that's pretty devastating. It's a remarkable one.
00:53:53.600 Vice President Kamala Harris walking to the podium. We'll rejoin you as soon as the
00:53:57.820 Vice President's remarks are concluded.
00:54:00.220 Thank you.
00:54:14.760 Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone.
00:54:44.760 Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you all. Thank you, thank you. Thank you.
00:55:00.640 Thank you. So let me say, and I love you back. And I love you back. So let me say, my heart is full
00:55:13.220 today. My heart is full today, full of gratitude for the trust you have placed in me, full of love
00:55:24.000 for our country, and full of resolve. The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we
00:55:34.300 fought for, not what we voted for. But hear me when I say, hear me when I say, the light of America's promise
00:55:47.020 will always burn bright. As long as we never give up, and as long as we keep fighting.
00:56:01.940 To my beloved Doug and our family, I love you so very much.
00:56:12.720 To President Biden and Dr. Biden, thank you for your faith and support. To Governor Walz and the
00:56:25.940 Walz family, I know your service to our nation will continue. And to my extraordinary team,
00:56:36.880 to the volunteers who gave so much of themselves, to the poll workers and the local election officials,
00:56:48.660 I thank you. I thank you all. Look, I am so proud of the race we ran and the way we ran it.
00:56:58.960 And the way we ran it. Over the 107 days of this campaign, we have been intentional about building
00:57:10.240 community and building coalitions, bringing people together from every walk of life and background,
00:57:19.820 united by love of country with enthusiasm and joy in our fight for America's future.
00:57:28.120 And we did it with the knowledge that we all have so much more in common than what separates us.
00:57:41.380 Now, I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now. I get it.
00:57:51.040 But we must accept the results of this election. Earlier today,
00:57:56.340 I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him
00:58:02.880 that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful
00:58:10.620 transfer of power.
00:58:12.020 A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results.
00:58:26.560 That principle, as much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny.
00:58:34.340 And anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it. At the same time, in our nation, we owe loyalty
00:58:47.060 not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States.
00:58:53.280 And loyalty to our conscience and to our God. My allegiance to all three is why I am here
00:59:08.720 to say, while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign.
00:59:18.600 The fight, the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people.
00:59:35.140 A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation. The ideals that reflect America at our best.
00:59:44.920 That is a fight I will never give up.
00:59:53.700 I will never give up the fight for a future where Americans can pursue their dreams, ambitions,
01:00:01.820 and aspirations. Where the women of America have the freedom to make decisions about their own body
01:00:09.400 and not have their government telling them what to do.
01:00:14.180 We will never give up the fight to protect our schools and our streets from gun violence.
01:00:22.180 And America, we will never give up the fight for our democracy, for the rule of law, for equal justice,
01:00:35.960 and for the sacred idea that every one of us, no matter who we are or where we start out,
01:00:45.000 has certain fundamental rights and freedoms that must be respected and upheld.
01:00:52.080 And we will continue to wage this fight in the voting booth, in the courts, and in the public square.
01:01:06.080 And we will also wage it in quieter ways, in how we live our lives.
01:01:13.860 By treating one another with kindness and respect.
01:01:19.020 By looking in the face of a stranger and seeing a neighbor.
01:01:25.420 By always using our strength to lift people up, to fight for the dignity that all people deserve.
01:01:38.480 The fight for our freedom will take hard work.
01:01:43.540 But like I always say, we like hard work.
01:01:47.520 Hard work is good work.
01:01:50.160 Hard work can be joyful work.
01:01:52.520 Hard work can be joyful work, and the fight for our country is always worth it.
01:01:57.740 It is always worth it.
01:02:07.280 To the young people who are watching, it is...
01:02:11.200 I love you now.
01:02:14.120 To the young people who are watching, it is okay to feel sad and disappointed.
01:02:24.760 But please know it's going to be okay.
01:02:27.460 On the campaign, I would often say, when we fight, we win.
01:02:32.760 But here's the thing, here's the thing.
01:02:35.400 Sometimes the fight takes a while.
01:02:38.200 That doesn't mean we won't win.
01:02:40.340 That doesn't mean we won't win.
01:02:44.560 The important thing is don't ever give up.
01:02:48.480 Don't ever give up.
01:02:50.180 Don't ever stop trying to make the world a better place.
01:02:55.900 You have power.
01:02:57.920 You have power.
01:02:59.880 And don't you ever listen.
01:03:01.680 When anyone tells you something is impossible because it has never been done before.
01:03:14.900 You have the capacity to do extraordinary good in the world.
01:03:21.020 And so to everyone who is watching, do not despair.
01:03:26.980 This is not a time to throw up our hands.
01:03:30.340 This is a time to roll up our sleeves.
01:03:32.240 This is a time to organize, to mobilize, and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice
01:03:47.680 and the future that we all know we can build together.
01:03:53.300 Look, many of you know I started out as a prosecutor, and throughout my career,
01:03:57.300 I saw people at some of the worst times in their lives, people who had suffered great harm
01:04:03.620 and great pain, and yet found within themselves the strength and the courage and the resolve
01:04:15.000 to take the stand to take a stand, to fight for justice, to fight for themselves, to fight for others.
01:04:29.640 So let their courage be our inspiration.
01:04:35.440 Let their determination be our charge.
01:04:39.860 And I'll close with this.
01:04:43.580 There's an adage an historian once called a law of history, true of every society across the ages.
01:04:54.700 The adage is, only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
01:05:04.180 I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time.
01:05:08.640 But for the benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case.
01:05:15.240 But here's the thing.
01:05:16.420 America, if it is, let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, brilliant billion of stars.
01:05:26.140 The light, the light of optimism, of faith, of truth, and service.
01:05:39.240 And may that work guide us even in the face of setbacks toward the extraordinary promise of the United States of America.
01:06:07.940 I thank you all.
01:06:09.420 May God bless you.
01:06:10.980 And may God bless the United States of America.
01:06:14.900 I thank you all.
01:06:16.540 I thank you.
01:06:17.580 I thank you.
01:06:18.380 Well, folks, that is Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States.
01:06:28.160 She's just given her concession address.
01:06:31.480 She is headed out.
01:06:32.460 And, lady, don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
01:06:35.920 I got to say, she was a little more naturalistic than usual.
01:06:40.000 Obviously, she's a permanent resident of the Uncanny Valley, so she could only take short trips outside the Uncanny Valley.
01:06:45.540 She seemed to make it almost to the border of the Uncanny Valley that time.
01:06:48.520 But, unfortunately, she was then dragged screaming back to the center of the Uncanny Valley for the finale of the speech,
01:06:53.520 where she talked about how there would be a billion points of light, not just a thousand, a billion, yay, perhaps a trillion, perhaps a trillion, trillion.
01:07:01.420 So many points of light because, you know, when it gets real dark, you can see the stars outside.
01:07:05.860 And that means that now that it's really dark, you can be a star, too, just like J-Lo or something.
01:07:11.280 Here's the thing about Kamala Harris.
01:07:12.620 She was a big nothing burger.
01:07:14.240 Her candidacy was a big nothing burger.
01:07:15.880 She has always been a big nothing burger.
01:07:17.220 And that little concession speech was also a big nothing burger.
01:07:19.780 So there are a few things she could have said that would have been useful, like, for example, you remember that time I said that my opponent's Hitler?
01:07:25.340 Yeah, you're going to be fine.
01:07:26.320 She said you're going to be fine, but it's very hard to square that with my opponent is Hitler and you need to vote to stop him.
01:07:32.720 And everyone around him is also Hitlerian.
01:07:35.340 That's a very difficult thing to square.
01:07:37.300 It is very difficult to square all the things that she said on the campaign trail about the threats to America.
01:07:42.340 There will be giant internment camps, what Democrats were saying, that every woman in America was going to be put under the gun,
01:07:49.000 that essentially all rights would be stripped from you with the sort of inspirational rhetoric she was using right there.
01:07:55.640 And here's the thing.
01:07:56.440 If she had campaigned as this Kamala Harris, maybe she would have had a better shot.
01:07:59.160 If she hadn't tried the scare tactic of claiming that Donald Trump was Hitler with seven mustaches and more orange,
01:08:04.700 if she hadn't tried that, maybe people would have taken her more seriously, or maybe they wouldn't,
01:08:08.420 because it turns out that was just a bunch of platitudinous nonsense.
01:08:10.920 Again, in the end, the thing about Kamala Harris is nothing, because she is nothing.
01:08:15.840 She's a stand-in for a party machine.
01:08:17.900 That speech could have been given by 1,000 different Democrats, nay, a billion stars of Democrats.
01:08:23.740 It could have been any Democrat in the United States who gave that list of platitudes and bumper stickers
01:08:28.080 that mean absolutely nothing when ripped out of any sort of context or any sort of meaning.
01:08:32.700 And because that is the case, what you have to do is look behind the facade that is Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party.
01:08:38.540 And that's the reason she lost.
01:08:39.740 She didn't lose.
01:08:40.320 Honestly, I would feel bad for her if I thought that she actually were a real human being.
01:08:44.220 But the fact that she is an NPC and that she effectively is just a stand-in for a party,
01:08:50.780 don't feel bad for the party that she represents, because that party is lying to you.
01:08:54.520 They put up these platitudes and these bumper stickers so you don't look through the veil.
01:08:58.820 They don't want you to see the actual policies they pursue.
01:09:01.340 This lady who says that she was a prosecutor, this same person suggested on a questionnaire from the ACLU
01:09:06.660 that taxpayers should fund the transition of illegal immigrant prisoners.
01:09:10.560 This same person who is talking about how to be friendly to the stranger who you just meet on the street,
01:09:15.940 that same person was personally attempting to bail rioters out of prison during the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis.
01:09:22.660 The same person who is telling you that young people, you ought to have hope in the future,
01:09:26.360 was also telling young people that they effectively don't have any hope in the future
01:09:29.340 unless they're having their student loan debt relieved by the grace of government.
01:09:34.300 The agenda does not match the rhetoric.
01:09:35.900 It never matched the rhetoric.
01:09:36.820 The rhetoric is completely empty because Kamala Harris is completely empty,
01:09:40.380 and that's why she deserved to lose.
01:09:41.540 It's why no one, I noticed that for all the talk in the media about how she was brat and joy
01:09:45.380 and a wonderful candidate, joy reads that she ran a flawless, flawless campaign.
01:09:50.220 That for all of that, ain't nobody talking about her running again in 2028.
01:09:53.700 Weird.
01:09:54.320 If she's that great a candidate, they should be talking about that.
01:09:56.760 Nobody's talking about that.
01:09:57.760 So I think we can all bid a fond farewell to Kamala Harris from the public scene.
01:10:01.700 We can bid a fond farewell to Tim Walls, who will be as memorable as Tim Kaine,
01:10:06.500 meaning that in about six months' time, you won't remember who he is,
01:10:09.020 except he sort of reminded one of Don Rickles in some sort of bizarre way.
01:10:13.000 It's a cross between Don Rickles and Gumby.
01:10:15.060 And that's going to be the last you hear of Kamala Harris.
01:10:18.720 So once again, goodbye to Kamala Harris.
01:10:21.040 Raise a glass at your exit.
01:10:22.920 Can I say, I'm disappointed that she did not announce her re-election bid during that speech.
01:10:28.060 That's what I was hoping for out of the speech, and we didn't get it.
01:10:31.560 But maybe they'll run, like, they're just running progressively more unpleasant women with each election.
01:10:38.440 So we'll see what they do next time.
01:10:39.640 You know, Kim Buttigieg is next.
01:10:41.400 She did a relatively good job on the speech, but I think she did a good job because it's relatively easy for her to be gracious.
01:10:49.520 She had no business being the nominee in the first place.
01:10:52.580 She didn't really work for it.
01:10:54.000 She's already made it so much further in politics than she ever deserved.
01:10:57.260 So for her, I guess she can think, all right, well, you know, on this fluke, I almost became president.
01:11:01.880 I made it to be VP when I really had no business doing that.
01:11:04.740 And, okay, now it's over.
01:11:06.620 Joy Cometh in the morning.
01:11:07.520 It's not just the bizarre policies that those speeches cover up.
01:11:11.500 It's the open policy, the central policies, things like price controls, which is a Soviet idea,
01:11:17.060 the taxing the money that you've made on your house but haven't realized yet, which is pure robbery,
01:11:22.560 the misinformation idea that they are going to decide what misinformation is,
01:11:26.860 the government is going to decide.
01:11:28.200 Those are central ideas to the Democrat Party, and they're completely anti-American and unconstitutional.
01:11:34.700 And it's, you know, we pick on these things, and we should, we pick on these things like, you know,
01:11:39.280 funding trans operations for people in federal prison.
01:11:43.080 But their open policies, their central policies are absolutely disastrous.
01:11:47.500 So I agree that the election was a repudiation of leftism, which is basically Matt's point at the top of the show.
01:11:54.760 And I agree with Ben that in many ways Kamala wasn't even a person running for president so much as she was a position,
01:12:01.440 you know, she occupied a space on behalf of the machine itself.
01:12:05.500 They needed something that looked approximately like a human to carry forth their ideas.
01:12:10.760 But people do matter in politics.
01:12:14.020 And had the person we just watched for the last 12 or 15 minutes run for president the last 120 days,
01:12:20.780 it's not clear to me that Donald Trump would have emerged victorious.
01:12:23.860 Because even though the speech was, even though the speech.
01:12:26.000 I don't know.
01:12:26.640 I'm with you in the rules.
01:12:28.160 I know that you guys granted Donald Trump immense superpowers.
01:12:31.240 But that person we just watched on stage was credible.
01:12:36.620 Yes, the speech was platitudinous.
01:12:38.040 Yes, it said nothing.
01:12:38.840 But the American people don't always, I mean,
01:12:41.700 they flip wildly between election and election on different policies.
01:12:45.280 I have never seen the person who just stood at that podium.
01:12:47.800 I, as a follower of American politics, much more closely than most, one might say,
01:12:52.440 I've never even met the person who just walked out to that podium.
01:12:55.180 She gave a cogent speech.
01:12:56.920 She gave an articulate speech.
01:12:58.240 She gave a speech that sounded very human.
01:13:01.720 She gave a gracious speech.
01:13:03.320 She gave a speech that had a sort of political rabble-rousing kind of spirit,
01:13:08.580 but didn't actually say anything particularly divisive or particularly offensive.
01:13:13.700 I mean, certainly her Valium dealer either died last night, ran out of stock.
01:13:19.680 I don't know.
01:13:20.600 But that person we've never seen before.
01:13:22.420 And that person might could have made a run for president.
01:13:23.760 That's true in a lot of concession speeches.
01:13:25.060 A lot of people give their best speeches in concession because the pressure's off
01:13:28.540 and it's all over.
01:13:29.600 And I don't grant Donald Trump superpowers, but he did get shot in the head and fight back.
01:13:33.980 I think, you know, just saying, just saying.
01:13:37.000 Listen, I voted for Donald Trump.
01:13:38.480 I think Donald Trump does a lot of good things.
01:13:39.860 I become the most anti-Trump that I ever am when I'm sitting here hearing all the supernatural
01:13:45.420 elements of Donald Trump.
01:13:47.100 He walked, he once walked on water.
01:13:48.580 The thing is, the reason that that wouldn't have worked is because at the beginning she
01:13:53.340 kind of tried it and it's not sustainable.
01:13:55.340 No.
01:13:55.500 It's not sustainable.
01:13:56.540 She is as opaque as a pane of glass.
01:14:00.060 You can see right through her.
01:14:02.780 Yeah.
01:14:03.080 You can see right through her.
01:14:04.180 You can see all the gears moving.
01:14:05.660 You can see all the tricks that are being played.
01:14:07.480 You can see the agenda that's behind it.
01:14:09.120 And so this whole attempt to portray herself as a sort of, you know, just family woman who
01:14:15.080 cares about the normie life, that doesn't work for more than five seconds at a time.
01:14:19.660 And the minute that you think about it, it really, really doesn't work.
01:14:22.840 And so, you know, again, I think it's sort of offensive when people play act at it.
01:14:26.240 You know, normality is actually my life.
01:14:28.840 My culture is not your costume.
01:14:30.760 Yeah.
01:14:31.120 My culture is not your costume.
01:14:33.680 You know, the one where I'm married and I have four kids and I live in a stable household
01:14:36.620 and I have a stable community.
01:14:38.020 And I come home from a job and I take care of my kids.
01:14:41.120 Like, that's my normie life.
01:14:42.500 And I like my normie life.
01:14:43.540 Don't pretend that you're a member of my normie community while you're out partying a drag
01:14:47.760 queen story hour with your weird husband, Doug.
01:14:51.060 Like, come on.
01:14:51.560 In fact, to offer up something actually kind about Donald Trump, I actually think that
01:14:56.120 part of his unique charm is that he never plays like a normie.
01:14:59.900 So when he goes to drive the garbage truck, he doesn't take off his $3,000 shirt and tie
01:15:06.120 when he goes to work at McDonald's.
01:15:08.900 When he goes to work at McDonald's, he is the famous, wealthy, self-aware, self-deprecating
01:15:14.400 billionaire serving you French fries.
01:15:16.900 Yes.
01:15:17.160 It's not, he doesn't put on the costume of normalcy.
01:15:20.000 No.
01:15:20.360 He's not saying, I'm one of you.
01:15:22.340 He's saying, I am not one of you.
01:15:24.460 But I like you.
01:15:24.900 But I like you.
01:15:25.720 Yes, that's right.
01:15:26.480 That is what's different about him.
01:15:27.560 When I was down in the Rio Grande Valley with Cruz, the fact is, Jill Biden had visited
01:15:32.380 that same community.
01:15:33.200 And that's the community where she made the famous breakfast tacos speech.
01:15:36.320 Where you're all, you had the wide variety of humanity, just like the wide variety of
01:15:40.660 breakfast tacos.
01:15:41.900 Remember that.
01:15:42.520 And they're still laughing about that.
01:15:43.880 They're still like, what the, what in the, like, what the, meanwhile, Donald Trump would
01:15:49.320 be like, Cinco de Mayo, here's my taco bowl, love it.
01:15:53.400 They're better than any of your tacos.
01:15:54.800 And they don't feel disrespected by that because guess what?
01:15:57.020 Donald Trump isn't pretending to be Mexican and he's not pretending that he knows anything
01:16:00.280 about breakfast tacos.
01:16:01.100 He's like, yeah, I went down to the local restaurant.
01:16:02.740 I picked up a breakfast taco.
01:16:03.660 It was delicious.
01:16:04.200 I liked eating it.
01:16:04.820 Okay, cool.
01:16:05.780 After that, after the garbage truck stunt, he goes to a rally and he spends five minutes
01:16:10.840 telling a hilarious off-the-cuff story about how ridiculous the whole thing was.
01:16:15.240 Right.
01:16:15.660 And how he was, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to get up the, get up into the truck
01:16:19.720 because it's too big and he's old.
01:16:21.020 And then he, but he keeps the vest on because it's slimming and he's fat.
01:16:24.020 You know, it's like, and you watch it, it's hilarious.
01:16:26.980 And you realize that, I mean, this is the difference.
01:16:29.860 There's so many differences between him and Kamala, but this especially, that Kamala is
01:16:33.340 totally incapable of that, both speaking off the cuff and being funny for five minutes
01:16:37.420 or for even one minute, but also to be self-deprecating in that way.
01:16:41.120 That's just very, here's an interesting question.
01:16:43.600 That is a bone that Trump grew.
01:16:44.800 You want to talk about Trump growing?
01:16:45.660 That is a bone he grew.
01:16:46.720 Okay.
01:16:46.880 When, when Trump first stepped on the scene in 2015, 2016, he did not do self-deprecating.
01:16:50.760 That's right.
01:16:51.060 That is something that you actually saw.
01:16:52.240 He had that great line, that great line where he said, I'm supposed to do self-deprecating
01:16:55.500 humor, but I've, I've got nothing.
01:16:57.020 Remember what the, but he also, he also had that moment.
01:17:00.620 He had that moment on the other podcast, the name of which escapes me, where he said, where
01:17:05.820 he said, when you invent an ugly name to call somebody, it's got to be like, phew, phew.
01:17:10.760 You know?
01:17:11.060 And I just thought like, that's, that is brilliant because he's actually telling you he's a character.
01:17:15.640 You know, he's playing the character to some degree and he's, he's happy to let you know
01:17:19.220 it, you know?
01:17:19.680 Here's a question that is worth posing to people in your life that loathed him and loved
01:17:26.820 her or loathed him and were okay with her.
01:17:31.920 And it just occurred to me now, ask them, do you think you know Donald Trump?
01:17:37.620 They will all say yes.
01:17:39.740 Do you think you know Kamala Harris?
01:17:42.680 Yeah.
01:17:43.220 No one thinks they know Kamala Harris.
01:17:44.780 See, this is a great point, Dennis, because we're, we're, we're saying she did a good job
01:17:48.300 on this speech, let, let's not confuse her with Pericles here.
01:17:51.280 We're saying she did a good job because she didn't sound deranged or drugged up or comatose.
01:17:56.020 You know, she still didn't offer anything.
01:17:58.260 And so I, I agree with your point, Jeremy, that she would have done better for sure.
01:18:02.100 If we saw that candidate, I think she would have done better to like 235 electoral votes.
01:18:07.980 You know, I don't think, I don't, I think she's getting a little bump out of that, but she
01:18:11.040 still didn't offer anything to your point, Ben.
01:18:13.500 She tried this at the beginning of the, of the campaign.
01:18:16.560 It doesn't work.
01:18:17.540 It's not sustainable.
01:18:18.480 One thing that might've helped her in the campaign is if people could have pinned her
01:18:22.120 down on a policy position or an achievement ever once, even in her life.
01:18:27.380 But, but she tried to be all things to all people and without any actual convictions,
01:18:31.900 it just totally flopped.
01:18:33.260 And I think the other thing that that happened is that when, even when she would tell stories
01:18:36.320 about herself, they would betray nothing about her.
01:18:38.740 Yeah.
01:18:39.340 Right.
01:18:39.520 She'd say she, she, she obviously relished in telling the story about how Joe Biden
01:18:43.520 called her and said that he was dropping out and how she said, are you okay, Joe?
01:18:48.080 Are you, that was her first, are you okay, Joe?
01:18:49.680 But she said, she was doing an interview and she's like, you want to know a detail that
01:18:52.620 was happening then?
01:18:53.580 I was making breakfast for, for my nieces.
01:18:56.800 That was the detail.
01:18:57.860 Like, well, that was riveting.
01:18:59.440 Thank you.
01:18:59.860 Thank you for that insight.
01:19:01.140 And she also, she loves Doritos.
01:19:03.140 Yes.
01:19:03.520 She loves Doritos.
01:19:04.280 That came up many times on the campaign show.
01:19:06.360 And you know, something that you know about Donald Trump, you know why, for example,
01:19:09.560 he doesn't drink or do drugs.
01:19:11.260 Yeah.
01:19:11.600 Because he has actually told us why he doesn't drink or do drugs because of his brother.
01:19:15.180 Yeah.
01:19:15.560 Right.
01:19:15.760 And so like, like these are things that if you're talking about like personal, authentic
01:19:18.900 details, these are actual things that do matter.
01:19:21.800 I do want to raise a glass to the person who's even happier than we are today.
01:19:25.380 And that of course is Dr. Joe Biden, the greatest doctor in America.
01:19:29.460 Dr.
01:19:29.980 Jill, if you're watching this, a tribute to you, madam, because let me just say you and your
01:19:34.840 husband did an excellent job of just putting that knife directly between Kamala Harris and
01:19:39.020 shoulder blades in the late stages of this campaign.
01:19:41.740 Twisting it.
01:19:42.560 Wait.
01:19:42.820 You and Donald J. Trump, you will meet on a beach in Zihuataneo after, where you will
01:19:49.000 be friends, lifelong friends one day, because it is, it is, I have to say, Jill hates Kamala,
01:19:55.040 like hates Kamala Harris.
01:19:56.520 And Joe hates Kamala Harris.
01:19:58.620 And the happiest person today, I'm not sure is President Trump.
01:20:01.960 The happiest person today might in fact be Joseph Robinette Biden.
01:20:05.200 Yes.
01:20:05.620 I, I think I just solved the election.
01:20:10.020 Kamala Harris, not the brightest bulb, is introduced to Dr. Jill Biden.
01:20:17.900 Dr. Jill Biden writes a prescription on a napkin to Kamala Harris.
01:20:23.920 Kamala Harris doesn't know that Dr. Jill Biden isn't a doctor.
01:20:28.620 Kamala Harris goes and gets that prescription filled.
01:20:31.900 She is stoned for 118 straight days, can't form a cogent sentence, drifts through her
01:20:39.080 campaign.
01:20:39.500 Jeremy, I've noticed a sort of light motif to your commentary on this.
01:20:42.560 On the, on the day after losing, the prescription runs out.
01:20:46.920 She walks out on stage, not even sure how she came to be here.
01:20:50.120 Suddenly she's cogent and coherent, not still not smart, still thinks that Dr. Jill Biden is
01:20:56.000 a doctor, but I don't know.
01:20:57.580 Just not doped up.
01:20:58.820 Just not doped up.
01:20:59.540 You know, I will say as insulting as the narrative that the media ran out, that Joe Biden was
01:21:04.620 mentally competent, which was the most insulting narrative.
01:21:06.900 And I think it really did have a market effect on this campaign.
01:21:09.080 Like if Joe Biden had been the campaign since, if, if Kamala Harris had been the candidate
01:21:12.940 since 2022 or 2023, this is a very different looking race.
01:21:16.220 I think the fact that Joe Biden did stick around that long and that that lie was promulgated
01:21:20.020 for full on years.
01:21:21.240 And that she, and that she contributed to that.
01:21:22.760 And that she contributed and maintained that lie till today.
01:21:24.920 We'll still say that behind closed doors, man's doing back handsprings and such that,
01:21:28.520 that, that, that the other lie that I can't, there, there's so many lies about Kamala
01:21:33.100 Harris and her, and her entire campaign that I cannot abide.
01:21:35.500 And obviously the one personally that I cannot abide is Doug Emhoff Jew.
01:21:39.100 Like if I have to hear Doug Emhoff as an emissary of the Jewish people one more time, I'm going
01:21:43.760 to, my head will turn 360 like Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
01:21:47.260 Tikkun olah.
01:21:48.100 Vomiting in all directions.
01:21:49.020 But the, the real lie that they kept saying is they kept telling us how qualified and
01:21:52.580 intelligent she was.
01:21:53.960 I'm sorry.
01:21:55.140 She isn't.
01:21:56.260 She isn't.
01:21:57.300 The proof is in front of you.
01:21:58.720 She is not a particularly bright person.
01:22:00.600 And I know Donald Trump got ripped up and down for saying that she was a low IQ person.
01:22:03.720 She is not a particularly bright person.
01:22:06.820 Okay.
01:22:06.960 She's not an ADIQ person, but this is not a person who's two standard deviations above
01:22:10.860 the American average.
01:22:11.980 Okay.
01:22:12.100 You watch her speak and she's doing an impression of what a middle brow person thinks a very
01:22:17.340 smart person sounds like.
01:22:18.380 And it's a bad impersonation.
01:22:19.600 And that lie was so transparent and so obvious.
01:22:22.440 And they kept saying that she was intellectually outclassing him.
01:22:25.020 And all you got was just this, just like pap and pap and memorized pap.
01:22:31.120 And like that, that's not intelligence.
01:22:32.740 Donald Trump, for all of his flaws, the man has an innate grasp of important things.
01:22:38.880 And it turns out that an innate grasp of important things is significantly more important than
01:22:43.220 your ability to regurgitate platitudes that you memorized in the back room before a debate.
01:22:48.360 Yeah.
01:22:48.720 The other lie is that there's one thing that I'm the only person in American public life
01:22:53.520 who I heard talk about the reality of how our enemies perceived us elevating a woman of
01:22:59.340 no merit to run the world's sole global superpower.
01:23:02.520 It's amazing to me that we just ran this race and no one talked about what it would mean for
01:23:07.460 our national security to do such a thing.
01:23:09.620 There's another unique point of view that I heard during this race.
01:23:12.340 And it came from Matt Walsh, who is the only person I've heard have the audacity to point
01:23:17.700 out that she is not a parent, that she gave speech after speech after speech, talking about
01:23:24.260 how one of the hardest things she's done in her life was parent children, which she never
01:23:29.560 did.
01:23:30.420 She married a man with a 20-year-old, which is an adult, and a 15-year-old, which I know
01:23:36.740 the world's a little different now than it used to be.
01:23:38.400 See, my parents cannot tell you what I did from the ages of 14 to today, right?
01:23:45.540 So she did not parent a 15-year-old.
01:23:47.860 I'm not saying she had no responsibilities.
01:23:50.040 I'm not trying to take away any contributions that she may have made in their lives.
01:23:53.800 But when you tell someone that parenting is the hardest thing you'll ever do, that is
01:23:57.300 not what they have in mind.
01:23:58.580 Also, J.D. Vance was right about this.
01:24:00.600 He was right about the lonesome cat ladies.
01:24:02.320 He was also, he wouldn't have said this, but it's also true that women grow wise raising
01:24:08.440 children in the same way men grow wise working.
01:24:11.200 And that is really what, where women, why older women, you talk to them and they don't
01:24:16.060 have to have the highest IQ.
01:24:17.420 They don't have to think in the same way men do.
01:24:18.920 And they say things and you go like, oh yeah, that's right.
01:24:20.940 That actually is telling me something I didn't see before.
01:24:23.080 And she doesn't have that.
01:24:24.160 And I think, you know, it matters.
01:24:25.800 It does matter.
01:24:26.640 It doesn't matter that you have a leader with no children.
01:24:29.460 It matters if you have too many leaders with no children.
01:24:31.480 I mean, this is what makes, this is what invests you and gives you flesh in the future.
01:24:35.360 And I think that that, that actually is an important fact about her.
01:24:38.040 There's something empty and missing about her.
01:24:40.900 And I'm not saying it is because of, she doesn't have children, but it's because she
01:24:44.240 doesn't have children.
01:24:45.700 She didn't have that experience.
01:24:47.120 Yeah.
01:24:47.280 Yeah.
01:24:47.460 I'm not saying also though, though I do think the left makes a point when they say her sex
01:24:52.620 was a factor here.
01:24:53.640 I think it was a factor among women.
01:24:54.860 I know plenty of women who wouldn't vote for a woman to be president.
01:24:58.040 Okay.
01:24:58.340 And it's politically incorrect to say so, but there are plenty of women who feel that
01:25:01.920 way and plenty of men who feel that way too.
01:25:03.680 Because they think men and women are different.
01:25:05.700 Yeah.
01:25:06.120 This is, this is my point.
01:25:07.840 There are women who can be incredible.
01:25:10.740 Thatcher is a PM or I don't know, Empress Maria Teresia or Queen Elizabeth, you know,
01:25:15.500 so it really, and, and women possessing, you know.
01:25:18.100 Although Queen Elizabeth wasn't actually a head of state.
01:25:20.660 The first, not the second.
01:25:21.820 Yes, thank you.
01:25:22.120 The second was, yeah.
01:25:23.280 She was a head of state.
01:25:24.320 She didn't actually run a group.
01:25:25.060 But also grant the Thatcher exception, grant the Maria Teresia exception, grant, those are
01:25:29.960 exceptions, you know, and she ain't, Kamala ain't no Margaret Thatcher.
01:25:33.840 I'll grant you a Hillary Clinton exception.
01:25:35.460 Yes, yes.
01:25:35.960 At least, at least when our enemies around the world who have no respect whatsoever for
01:25:39.680 women, who do not believe that women can be strong.
01:25:43.280 The Chinese don't believe that a female president is going to be a credible threat against them.
01:25:47.900 Vladimir Putin doesn't believe that a female president can be a credible threat against
01:25:50.780 them.
01:25:51.160 The Iranians don't believe that a female president can be a credible threat against them.
01:25:54.660 At least when they look at Hillary Clinton, who did stare them down as secretary of state,
01:25:58.880 whose husband had been president and deployed the United States military, who was kind of
01:26:02.240 a tough old battle axe by the time.
01:26:03.560 Yeah, no, there's no question.
01:26:05.140 At least when they looked at her, there was, it was possible, they would at least have to
01:26:08.800 think, well, I don't know, what if I'm wrong?
01:26:10.520 Yeah.
01:26:10.660 They don't look at Kamala Harris and feel any of that.
01:26:13.400 No way.
01:26:13.680 And I'm sorry, the world doesn't work based on American values, on very, by the way,
01:26:18.980 novel Western values.
01:26:20.440 By the way, and this is-
01:26:20.940 The world works on strength and is run by bad men.
01:26:24.600 And bad men don't look at Kamala Harris and think, oh, I wouldn't test her.
01:26:28.300 Yeah.
01:26:28.580 They look at Kamala Harris and think, I am taking Taiwan.
01:26:31.680 Yes.
01:26:32.500 And by the way, she doesn't understand the thing you're saying, right?
01:26:36.240 One of the reports that came out like a week and a half before the election was that
01:26:40.260 report in the New York Times that said that very early on she started receiving intelligence
01:26:43.920 briefings.
01:26:44.680 And one of the first things she did when she read the intelligence briefings is she thought
01:26:48.360 that the intelligence briefers were using gendered language to describe female leaders
01:26:52.680 of foreign countries.
01:26:53.540 And so she literally called up the members of the intelligence community and asked them
01:26:58.180 why they were using sexist language to describe female leaders of foreign countries.
01:27:02.540 And this led to the formation of a DEI committee in the intelligence community in order to
01:27:07.260 go through and check-
01:27:07.960 It turned out, by the way, they weren't using gendered language.
01:27:09.720 It didn't matter.
01:27:10.320 They still built up an actual structure inside the intelligence community to make sure the
01:27:16.140 intelligence briefings did not contain sexist language.
01:27:18.640 Oh my goodness.
01:27:18.980 You're wondering why Vladimir Putin might test her a little or Xi Jinping?
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01:30:12.380 I would like to ask the group a question.
01:30:14.360 I pulled a Dennis Prager-like experiment this morning.
01:30:18.040 I have a friend in New York who is a devout Jew who is as shattered by October 7th as
01:30:25.060 Ben, who was, I would say, he was shattered by October 7th.
01:30:28.600 That's fair.
01:30:29.020 And should well be.
01:30:30.540 And she's a Democrat.
01:30:32.560 And I've discussed with her-
01:30:33.960 I don't believe you.
01:30:34.940 No, it is absolutely true.
01:30:36.520 I still don't believe you.
01:30:37.220 But go ahead.
01:30:37.880 But it's true.
01:30:38.680 Continue.
01:30:38.940 So I've told her what I think in very mild mannered terms.
01:30:43.900 And she doesn't believe me because she's got that Democrat thing.
01:30:47.700 So I said to her today, this is going to be a great presidency.
01:30:53.500 Watch what this president does, not what the media says he does.
01:30:57.660 Watch what he does, not what he says.
01:30:59.440 And just tell me if he's not better for the things that you care deeply about.
01:31:04.420 She's almost been all Israel since this has happened.
01:31:07.900 And she said, okay, I will.
01:31:10.760 Any chance that's going to work?
01:31:12.700 If it hasn't worked already, I have doubts that it's going to work in the future.
01:31:16.260 Again, the reason I don't believe you is not because you are innately non-credible,
01:31:22.280 although that is one reason.
01:31:23.180 Of course.
01:31:23.960 I work at that.
01:31:24.920 The real reason I have trouble believing that is if somebody is truly shattered by October
01:31:28.340 7th and truly shattered by what happened.
01:31:31.460 Changed your entire personality.
01:31:32.440 If it changed your entire personality, I don't know how you can look yourself in the mirror
01:31:36.500 and look at what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have done to the state of Israel in the middle
01:31:40.460 of an existential war on seven fronts, and then say that Donald Trump, the most pro-Israel
01:31:44.860 president in American history, bar none, there are no close competitors, that you are so
01:31:51.120 bewildered and befuddled by Donald Trump that you have to vote for Kamala Harris, who couldn't
01:31:54.720 bring herself to even say that Israel was not coming a genocide when people were protesting
01:31:58.580 her rallies.
01:31:59.240 I can explain it to you.
01:31:59.900 Okay, please.
01:32:00.200 Yeah, she gets all her news from places like the New York Times, and so she thinks, oh,
01:32:05.920 he's for Israel.
01:32:06.820 And the New York Times was not shattered by October 7th, so she gets her news from something
01:32:11.540 that has no empathy with her own reactions.
01:32:15.060 It's a farce.
01:32:16.100 But that's the part I find bewildering, because I don't know how you could read the New York
01:32:18.900 Times, which runs stories that, shall we say, are mildly non-credible about things like
01:32:24.880 Israeli soldiers shooting children in the head for sport, right?
01:32:28.540 They ran a front page story suggesting that's what Israeli soldiers were doing.
01:32:31.340 And then they ran x-rays that were clearly not credible x-rays, along with that story.
01:32:35.500 And she still believes the New York Times.
01:32:37.860 Every Orthodox Jew that I know canceled the New York Times in 1997.
01:32:41.020 I'm not even kidding you, okay?
01:32:42.960 Because that was the year that they ran on the front page of the New York Times a photo
01:32:47.540 showing an Israeli soldier who was defending a kid who was having the crap kicked out of
01:32:53.020 him by Palestinians.
01:32:54.200 And they ran the story, there's a bleeding kid, soldier, and they ran the caption underneath
01:32:59.640 the picture suggesting that it was an Israeli soldier beating a Palestinian child.
01:33:03.520 They ran it on the front page of the New York Times.
01:33:05.780 And every single Jew that I know, except for Dennis, who has to read it for informational
01:33:08.940 purposes, every single Jew that I know canceled the New York Times if they cared about that.
01:33:13.460 The New York Times has been a laughingstock in the Orthodox Jewish community.
01:33:15.700 But she's not getting that she's not that into news.
01:33:18.380 By the way, I should point out that Donald Trump did great with the Jews this election.
01:33:22.920 Yes, yes.
01:33:23.440 Did great.
01:33:24.060 He won districts in New Jersey.
01:33:25.680 He has not come close to winning.
01:33:26.980 He won in excess of 43% of the vote in New York.
01:33:30.600 One third of New York City went for Donald, New York City went for Donald Trump in this
01:33:34.780 election cycle.
01:33:35.740 There were trucks that were broadcasting songs in Yiddish about voting.
01:33:39.420 I showed one to Knowles before the actual, but it was amazing.
01:33:42.300 They're going through Lakewood, New Jersey with a school bus blasting out in Yiddish.
01:33:46.700 Vote for Donald Trump.
01:33:47.700 I want to say that this is a place where I think you have a little bit of a blind spot then.
01:33:53.840 And it's because you have a very high expectation of people generally, and particularly have a
01:34:02.220 very high expectation of your fellow Jews, the truth is most people are only beginning
01:34:09.140 to wake up to the fact that the media is not credible.
01:34:12.400 That's fair.
01:34:12.760 That's what I'm saying.
01:34:14.300 That's fair.
01:34:14.920 And it is incredibly hard to change your priors.
01:34:18.780 I mean, it's almost impossible for a person to change their priors.
01:34:22.200 It requires the one thing that humans are the most loathe to do, which is admit that they
01:34:27.980 are wrong.
01:34:28.520 And I'm not exaggerating when I say people literally take their own lives because that
01:34:33.900 is easier.
01:34:34.660 I agree with you.
01:34:35.160 Than changing their view of themselves and their view of the world.
01:34:37.460 Absolutely.
01:34:37.840 Than changing their mind.
01:34:38.440 And we have friends.
01:34:40.320 We've talked about them on the show.
01:34:41.540 I don't think it does that much good to name them because we have had relationships with
01:34:45.540 them in the past, but we have friends who act today as though Donald Trump were never president
01:34:53.600 of the United States.
01:34:54.660 All of them.
01:34:55.220 All of them have done that.
01:34:56.360 There is no, there is, they are not impacted at all by the actual record of the man being
01:35:02.440 president.
01:35:03.060 They're, they're still reacting to him as though it were the year 2016 because they came to
01:35:08.200 a conclusion in 2016.
01:35:09.260 By the way, I came to that same conclusion in 2016.
01:35:11.920 I wrote a series of letters to my friend Dennis Prager in 2016.
01:35:15.540 Some of the things I said came true.
01:35:17.240 Some of the things that I said did not.
01:35:19.200 The presidency of Donald Trump was the test of the theories that I put forward in 2016.
01:35:23.200 And now I can tell you which parts came true.
01:35:25.160 I can tell you which parts didn't.
01:35:26.420 And I can tell you how that's impacted how I see Donald Trump.
01:35:29.180 But they don't do that.
01:35:30.400 I want to react to your point about people not giving up what they have held, which is,
01:35:35.460 that's the great book, The God That Failed, about people who believed in communism and
01:35:40.300 then saw that it was the greatest mass murder movement in the history of humanity.
01:35:44.940 Wonderful book.
01:35:45.540 So, uh, what people need to understand, and I, this is the central message of my, of my
01:35:53.020 life's work has been the consequences of secularism.
01:35:56.940 What happens in a post-Judeo-Christian world?
01:35:59.840 That's been the most constant theme of all of my work.
01:36:03.820 And the answer is that people do not stop being religious.
01:36:08.560 They just change religions.
01:36:10.540 Secular religions simply substitute for Judaism and Christianity.
01:36:16.020 Environmentalism is a religion.
01:36:18.020 Feminism is a religion.
01:36:20.100 Communism is a religion.
01:36:21.560 Socialism is a religion.
01:36:22.680 All of the, all of these are religions.
01:36:25.560 And, uh, a, a, a, a, an environmentalist is as likely to give up the belief that the world
01:36:32.700 is about to implode from global warming as a Christian is going to give up belief in Christ.
01:36:39.560 That, that is what we need to understand.
01:36:43.160 They have adopted religion.
01:36:45.160 The great quote is not from me.
01:36:47.580 I don't, they say it's from GK Chesterton, but we have no proof that he said it, but he
01:36:51.460 probably did because he was just so bright.
01:36:53.800 But whoever said it, when people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing.
01:36:59.720 They believe in anything.
01:37:02.180 And it's only secular people who say men give birth.
01:37:06.600 Not all secular people say it, but only secular people say it.
01:37:11.380 Why that alone doesn't keep people or convince people that God is necessary, even if you don't
01:37:19.260 believe, you don't know there's a God, I don't care.
01:37:21.440 I want you to understand what Douglas Murray, who was an agnostic, understands the end of
01:37:26.760 religion in the West is the end of the West.
01:37:29.380 You know, the thing that I'll say also to you, Jeremy, is you're right.
01:37:33.320 I do hold religious people and my fellow Orthodox Jews to a higher standard.
01:37:38.240 And that's because they're supposedly holding themselves to a higher standard.
01:37:41.660 So there is a higher burden on you if you're a religious person to hold up the facts of the
01:37:47.100 world against the religious values that you claim to hold central to you.
01:37:50.240 You know, the thing as a religious person that you are called upon to do is to place aside
01:37:56.360 your personal valuation of particular situations in favor of the values that are actually eternal.
01:38:02.720 And so if you are having such a hard time giving up your perception that the New York
01:38:05.980 Times is a solid and wonderful newspaper, they are unwilling to see through that because
01:38:10.380 for some reason that holds an identity to you in some way.
01:38:14.860 No matter how many times your fellow Orthodox Jews are saying to you, for example, look at what
01:38:19.580 he's actually doing, just look at it, then that betrays a lack of, it does betray a lack of principle
01:38:25.480 in some way.
01:38:26.060 But most people read just the headlines.
01:38:27.720 I understand.
01:38:28.480 So listen, ignorance is a defense, but at a certain point, ignorance is no longer a defense, right?
01:38:32.620 Of course, I'm defending Drew's friend whom I do not know or know anything about only because
01:38:40.380 I'm a Zionist shill and I assume that at some point, at some point I'll be paid for my defense
01:38:46.240 effort.
01:38:47.420 In shekels.
01:38:48.080 You always get that in shekels.
01:38:48.920 But no, all I'm saying is that the very fact that she said to Drew today, okay, I'll do
01:38:56.740 that, means that in this one individual case, there's some hope.
01:39:00.720 I don't think that we can say that this is a person for whom we can conclude that ignorance
01:39:04.720 is no longer a defense.
01:39:05.780 I think this is a person who possibly is in the process of waking up to their ignorance
01:39:10.320 and it's difficult particularly, I bring this up sometimes on the show, right?
01:39:15.560 It's difficult for people like us who spend our time advocating for values.
01:39:20.940 And when you advocate for values, you're necessarily advocating for black and white.
01:39:27.880 You're necessarily advocating for absolutes.
01:39:31.080 But no humans live within the realm of absolutes.
01:39:33.620 Humans live in the very, very messy thing called reality.
01:39:36.800 And in the messy place called reality, when we say, I only say this for the audience, you
01:39:41.580 know my argument because you've heard it.
01:39:42.780 But when we say, for example, you know, if you want to have a successful life, it's
01:39:47.260 easy.
01:39:47.540 There's really only three things you need to know.
01:39:49.520 Don't have sex before you, or don't.
01:39:52.420 No childbearing before marriage.
01:39:55.360 Get a job, finish high school.
01:39:56.420 Get a job, finish high school.
01:39:57.000 And get married.
01:39:58.580 But Ben has cited this study many times that the three most determinative things, don't
01:40:02.980 have a child before you're married.
01:40:05.020 Finish high school.
01:40:05.660 Finish high school, get a job.
01:40:06.540 But most people to whom we're speaking, if they're not already living the life that we're
01:40:12.160 trying to call them to, have already failed at one or two or three of those things.
01:40:16.620 And so we have to make sure that while we're advocating for our set of values, we leave
01:40:20.320 room for people to live in the messy world and draw near to, because by the way, we also
01:40:27.380 don't perfectly embody our values.
01:40:28.760 At best, we're trying to draw near to God.
01:40:31.520 And we have maybe different points of view about exactly how that's accomplished.
01:40:33.920 But that's the only place where I'm pushing back.
01:40:37.880 And pushing back in particular, because I know that I think that you, in some ways,
01:40:43.020 because of your superpowers, in some ways, because of them, it can be hard for you sometimes
01:40:48.200 to see that mere mortals sometimes are striving towards something, because...
01:40:52.280 No, I get that.
01:40:53.120 But I will say that I think particularly because the last year has been what the last year
01:40:56.980 has been.
01:40:57.600 Of course.
01:40:58.180 It is an angering thing that people have not woken up earlier.
01:41:01.680 Right?
01:41:02.200 It sure is.
01:41:03.160 I mean, again, I hope that your friend really holds by that.
01:41:07.860 I hope that your friend does reconsider.
01:41:09.760 I hope that the whole American people take this opportunity, frankly, to reconsider the
01:41:13.860 inevitability and the reality of Donald Trump's second presidency and stop looking at it through
01:41:18.280 the prism of MSNBC's linguistic inability to understand Donald Trump and start looking
01:41:23.660 at it as, is your life better?
01:41:25.280 Because I think 51% of the population in the United States already concluded their life was
01:41:28.540 better than Donald Trump.
01:41:29.100 And they did what you said.
01:41:30.440 They did pay attention.
01:41:31.560 A lot of people, even on the left, have said that voters paid attention to the fact that
01:41:35.840 life was better under Trump.
01:41:37.300 And I hope that your friend will make the check payable to Jeremy D.
01:41:40.480 Boring.
01:41:42.100 We'll talk after.
01:41:43.120 We'll talk after.
01:41:44.060 Matt?
01:41:44.240 Yeah, we also just can't underestimate the extent to which most anti-Trump, maybe not
01:41:48.520 your friend, but the extent to which many anti-Trump people have just organized their
01:41:53.560 whole identity around the simple fact of being anti-Trump.
01:41:57.580 Yeah.
01:41:57.720 And, you know, we talk about the cult of personality around Trump, but there's this, like, there's
01:42:05.320 this, on the other side, there's a strange sort of answer to that where, which I'm not
01:42:12.460 sure we've ever seen that before, around a particular person where you've got millions
01:42:16.940 of people who find their identity in hating that one individual person.
01:42:21.280 Well, there is a deep religious phenomenon going on, which is, like so much of liberalism,
01:42:26.480 just an ape and an inversion of Christianity, which is in Christianity, especially drawing
01:42:31.200 from the Neoplatonic tradition that comes up through the scholastics in Christianity,
01:42:35.660 going back to St. Augustine even, there's this notion that existence is good.
01:42:40.720 So there is good, and good exists.
01:42:42.540 We're not living in a Manichean dualist world where there's the good force and the bad force
01:42:46.320 and they're ever at odds.
01:42:47.800 There's just good.
01:42:48.600 God is just good.
01:42:49.380 And evil, in the Christian view, is the privation of the good.
01:42:53.460 In modern liberal ideology, there really is no absolute good.
01:42:58.860 There's just absolute evil.
01:43:01.000 There is the pure incarnation of evil in Hitler, where you could say even Hitler is not Hitler,
01:43:06.520 or now in Trump.
01:43:08.040 When they say Trump is Hitler, they're saying evil is evil.
01:43:10.860 Trump is evil.
01:43:11.580 He's the, he's the, but that is, that is an inversion of the Christian view.
01:43:15.360 There have been three major horror movies that came out in the last year in which there was
01:43:20.600 a demon, but there was no God.
01:43:22.760 I'd never, I'd never seen, even one of them was a sequel to The Exorcist.
01:43:25.820 There was, they were possessed, but there was no God.
01:43:28.520 It was only if you believed something.
01:43:30.460 And you could bring in all these other religious traditions to exercise them.
01:43:33.200 Yes, any religious tradition was as good as any other.
01:43:35.860 I've never seen that in a horror movie before, where the evil is pure and the evil exists.
01:43:40.400 Yes.
01:43:40.840 But, but there's no.
01:43:42.360 It's a great example of this.
01:43:44.040 Evil, from the point of view of a nihilist.
01:43:46.640 I'm going to ask three questions from dailywire.com members.
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01:44:12.140 Trump is our 47th president.
01:44:13.740 It'll never, I'll never get tired of saying it.
01:44:15.420 It's pretty fun.
01:44:16.120 And there'll never be a 48th, so this promo code will last for a thousand years.
01:44:21.300 He lied to me.
01:44:23.280 He promised me that we would win so much, I'd be tired of winning.
01:44:27.000 Yeah.
01:44:27.340 And I'm not tired of winning.
01:44:29.040 I slept for two hours last night.
01:44:30.420 I'm tired from winning.
01:44:31.700 I'm not tired of winning.
01:44:33.140 I want more.
01:44:33.720 I want more winning.
01:44:34.480 Yeah.
01:44:34.560 So, as a preamble to this first question, I want to tell you about the most moving moment
01:44:39.740 of the night last night.
01:44:41.080 And two people experienced it.
01:44:42.820 Actually, Caleb experienced it, and then independently, I experienced it.
01:44:45.860 I think Caleb experienced the actual moment of it, and I experienced a version of it a few
01:44:50.960 minutes later.
01:44:51.820 But even for me, it was moving.
01:44:55.080 The celebration had happened.
01:44:56.560 I think this happened to me as well.
01:44:57.400 I think this happened to me too.
01:44:59.340 Yeah.
01:44:59.660 Because I think it was a profound moment.
01:45:01.060 It was profound.
01:45:01.560 It was the only time I choked up.
01:45:03.280 Because, so we probably all had a moment of this.
01:45:06.460 The whole thing was happening, and our dear friend, Siaka, Black Jeremy, walked up and
01:45:13.000 said, he put his arms around me, and he said, I'm not going to prison.
01:45:17.500 I just wrote about this, yeah.
01:45:18.660 Unbelievable.
01:45:19.120 And Siaka was there on January 6th.
01:45:21.580 Siaka did not engage in any violence on January 6th, but he was there.
01:45:26.020 He had his home raided by the FBI in Southern California two years ago.
01:45:31.360 Day after a movie premiere?
01:45:33.240 No, no, no, no, no.
01:45:33.960 He had his home raided two years ago in Southern California, and then an entire year after having
01:45:40.620 his home raided by armed agents, he flew out here for the premiere of Lady Ballers, which
01:45:45.120 he had played a small and very, very funny role in.
01:45:48.260 And when he flew home, they pulled him out of line at the airport in LA and arrested him.
01:45:53.720 They had had years, three years to have done this.
01:45:58.520 In fact, they had raided his home and still not, and they arrested him at that moment.
01:46:01.920 And so here was Siaka realizing, and I say this to say, there are genuine, genuine consequences
01:46:08.580 of elections.
01:46:09.740 And here was a man realizing in real time what this means for him as a person.
01:46:15.540 And the question from the member is, do you think Trump will pardon everyone from January
01:46:20.020 6th and the people that were jailed for praying in front of the abortion clinics?
01:46:23.880 I think he, if he doesn't, that would be the worst possible sign that, that he's not going
01:46:31.200 to use this opportunity to advance his agenda in any, in any meaningful way.
01:46:35.740 But I think he will.
01:46:36.660 I mean, he must, he must.
01:46:38.360 And I absolutely think he will.
01:46:39.700 I would be shocked if he did.
01:46:40.820 He might not, pardon every single, there may have been people who actually committed acts
01:46:44.020 of violence.
01:46:44.500 There were people, there were people on January 6th who deserve to be in jail.
01:46:47.240 And there's an important point to make, looking down the barrel that we have a Republican
01:46:53.840 White House, Senate, and probably House, when the member asked this question about people
01:47:00.420 who are jailed for praying in front of abortion clinics, they're talking about a law called
01:47:04.840 the FACE Act, which was passed in the 90s, it was under Bill Clinton, it was a dishonest
01:47:09.340 law from the start, because it said it was going to protect access to abortion clinics
01:47:13.380 on one end, and places of worship on the other.
01:47:15.820 And that second part was completely fake, it was contrived to get the law through, that
01:47:20.560 is not what the law is used for, the law is used to punish pro-lifers.
01:47:24.000 And pregnancy, pregnancy centers too, it's supposed to protect.
01:47:26.540 It's supposed to, it's never used to do that.
01:47:27.840 And they've been burned down and nothing has been done.
01:47:29.100 Of course, and never, it is only used to go after pro-lifers who demonstrate peacefully
01:47:34.000 at baby killing mills.
01:47:35.780 And I am calling on Republican lawmakers in the House and in the Senate, and on President
01:47:41.160 Trump, who's the most pro-life president we've ever had, please put all your political capital
01:47:46.660 that you got behind repealing the FACE Act, which is one of the most unjust laws in the
01:47:51.860 United States.
01:47:52.380 It's beautiful, innocent people, 75-year-old women, who all they do is pray peacefully in
01:47:58.260 front of abortion clinics, are sitting in prison right now, in nasty, dangerous prisons, because
01:48:03.480 of this disgusting law.
01:48:04.620 It's one of the gravest injustices in the country.
01:48:07.220 Every Republican lawmaker, get up when you're sworn into office and repeal the FACE Act,
01:48:13.240 finally.
01:48:13.680 Absolutely, but before that is repealed and that needs to happen, Trump also just needs
01:48:19.100 to pardon them.
01:48:19.820 And also pardon them.
01:48:21.200 There are old women who are right now going to federal prison for praying in front of abortion
01:48:25.840 clinic.
01:48:26.240 And so that's something that, and I truly believe he'll do this almost right away.
01:48:29.680 He must do it, and I think he will do it.
01:48:31.100 How do you think, I love asking questions, how do you think Merrick Garland will be regarded
01:48:37.200 to the extent that he's ever remembered?
01:48:39.880 I mean, it's a serious question.
01:48:41.380 Yeah, well, he's your brother, Drew.
01:48:43.400 He turned out to be a very bad human being, and that was, the portrayal of him when he
01:48:52.060 was nominated for the Supreme Court was angelic, and he turned out to be diabolic.
01:48:57.780 Well, it may even be the case that he was a better man.
01:49:01.240 People are broken by the circumstances.
01:49:03.040 Some people rise to circumstances.
01:49:04.780 I think he's corrupted.
01:49:05.780 Some people are defeated by circumstances.
01:49:06.660 That's an interesting answer.
01:49:07.400 And we talked last night about John McCain.
01:49:09.360 Again, John McCain patriot, John McCain hero.
01:49:12.120 That example.
01:49:12.860 And he gave in to his hatred of Trump.
01:49:15.460 Yes.
01:49:15.620 And it seems to me that Merrick Garland gave in to this hatred.
01:49:18.940 Right.
01:49:19.680 So it's one of these great philosophic questions to which there may be an answer.
01:49:26.360 Can you know anyone, including yourself, until you're tested?
01:49:32.460 Until they have power.
01:49:33.520 It's a very, very tough question to answer.
01:49:36.320 Yes, and it goes to my fundamental problem, as we've been discussing this of late, too,
01:49:41.320 with Christians in America in particular, with evangelicals who abstain from the political
01:49:47.680 process to maintain their vision of their own purity.
01:49:50.860 That God disciplines those whom he loves.
01:49:54.880 That doesn't mean that God punishes those whom he loves.
01:49:57.740 It doesn't mean that God breaks those whom he loves.
01:49:59.940 In fact, you know, it's in the Bible.
01:50:02.880 I think it's a New Testament idea, but that a bruised reed he will not break.
01:50:07.020 But discipline is different.
01:50:08.300 God does discipline those whom he loves.
01:50:10.500 And you are disciplined through trial.
01:50:13.180 You're disciplined through testing.
01:50:14.820 So I think that, no, you cannot know yourself until you are tested.
01:50:18.360 And I believe that it is the responsibility of a man to go out into the world where the
01:50:23.300 tests await.
01:50:24.740 And if you abstain from life to maintain your idyllic view of yourself, what you're actually
01:50:30.720 doing is saying, I would rather not be tested and see myself as good than be tested and find
01:50:37.940 out, or probably more accurately, it's not be tested and find out.
01:50:42.200 It's be tested and be made better.
01:50:44.660 You know, it's an interesting paradox that, as Jordan said last night, and this is absolutely
01:50:49.020 true, the left looks at every relationship in terms of power.
01:50:51.900 The power is the only reality they believe in.
01:50:53.940 And yet they never question what it's going to do to people to have the power, for instance,
01:50:58.080 to redistribute wealth, which is, to me, the great flaw in Marxism is that there's this
01:51:02.480 entity, the state that is going to do all these things, but nobody's going to have any
01:51:05.840 power.
01:51:06.180 And, you know, the minute you give people that power, they become corrupt.
01:51:09.480 Power is incredibly corrupt.
01:51:11.100 So in terms of tests, I'd like to share something that I addressed to Christians about, yeah,
01:51:17.500 a year ago, after October 7th, when a certain eruption, I don't want to overstate how much,
01:51:23.500 but a certain eruption of anti-Semitism took place in the most pro-Jewish, non-Jewish country
01:51:27.940 in the history of the world since perhaps Darius's Persia.
01:51:31.100 And what I'd said was, a lot of, not a lot, but I'm reading reports of Jews taking down
01:51:39.120 the mezuzah from their doorpost.
01:51:40.980 The mezuzah is this little box containing a little part of the Torah, love God with all
01:51:47.700 your heart, and the credo of Judaism, hero Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
01:51:51.620 And I said, instead of Jews taking it down, why don't Christians put up a mezuzah on their
01:51:58.700 doorpost?
01:52:00.240 And I want to just say, and I'm almost holding back tears, the number of Christians who sent
01:52:07.460 me pictures of themselves standing in front of their door with a mezuzah, and this is a
01:52:13.220 perfect, the Daily Wire is a perfect vehicle for that project.
01:52:18.280 This, this, you're not defying the Gestapo, you're not risking your life or limb, but you
01:52:25.620 are doing something heroic, just putting that little box on your doorpost.
01:52:30.800 I know several people who started wearing Jewish stars, which-
01:52:33.500 Patty Heaton did it.
01:52:34.080 Patty Heaton did it.
01:52:34.680 Patty's great.
01:52:35.360 Yeah.
01:52:35.960 Patty, an incredibly devout Catholic and actress and Nashville resident and longtime friend
01:52:41.300 of all of ours, I think, really took up that, yep, took up that cause.
01:52:45.160 It was, it's basically, it's not in any way for a Christian a violation of anything.
01:52:49.980 No, no.
01:52:50.260 That verse is in our Bible.
01:52:51.640 Exactly.
01:52:52.800 Love God and love your neighbor, the two great principles.
01:52:55.180 This begins with the love God.
01:52:56.660 Dennis, what do you think about this option?
01:52:58.340 Instead of putting the mezuzah up, could I just wear a giant strimal?
01:53:01.820 Because I think those look really cool.
01:53:03.160 You're wearing the furry ones.
01:53:04.200 The fur ones.
01:53:04.940 Yeah.
01:53:05.120 Wait, wait, wait.
01:53:05.560 They're expensive.
01:53:05.940 Wait, oh, just wear one.
01:53:07.060 Just wear it in general.
01:53:08.460 Or put a picture of you wearing one instead of the mezuzah.
01:53:10.780 It could be my new headshot.
01:53:13.900 What concess, this is actually, this is my favorite question of all the questions asked
01:53:17.440 by dailywire.com members during the broadcast today.
01:53:20.620 What concessions should be made by Republicans to keep this level of participation and support
01:53:25.820 from the center and center left?
01:53:27.840 Essentially, Donald Trump picked up enormous gains among non-traditionally conservative voters.
01:53:34.460 The question is obviously a controversial one.
01:53:37.740 It's what continued compromises should be made to keep that coalition.
01:53:40.560 You don't have to.
01:53:41.980 Trump didn't give up much.
01:53:43.540 He spoke in a somewhat mealy-mouthed way on abortion, which was the one issue the Democrats
01:53:47.220 were getting some traction on.
01:53:48.940 Other than that, and I don't think he conceded much, if anything, in principle.
01:53:54.060 Bobby Kennedy was scandalized by his own party.
01:53:57.400 Elon Musk was scandalized by his own party.
01:53:59.200 The people on the left were just, the left had gone too far.
01:54:04.180 And so they started to make this turn of their heads and their minds to the right.
01:54:08.760 That's an opening and an opportunity for us.
01:54:10.900 Just as, I don't know, when I was younger, I was less conservative.
01:54:13.540 I was always kind of conservative, but I've become deeper in my conservatism over time.
01:54:17.700 Well, good.
01:54:18.340 Let's welcome Kennedy or Elon, wherever they are.
01:54:21.240 But let's invite them to come a little deeper into conservatism.
01:54:24.900 I think, you know, they're on our team now, and team politics is important.
01:54:28.820 So let's bring them in.
01:54:29.760 So that's very idealistic, and I think almost totally wrong.
01:54:32.760 So I think the reason I say that is because Donald Trump went through the Republican national
01:54:37.960 platform and stripped three quarters of the policy out of it.
01:54:40.840 And he forcibly dissociated from Project 2025 and then said publicly a week before the
01:54:47.500 election, anyone whose name was in Project 2025 could not be part of the administration.
01:54:51.860 So the idea that he didn't make concessions in order to win a broader coalition is not
01:54:55.180 true.
01:54:55.600 Now, I think the answer to the question is, it's situational.
01:54:59.160 Okay, so one of the things that I think is really important, particularly in our line
01:55:02.040 of work, is to separate the principled from the pragmatic.
01:55:05.780 These are not exactly the same thing.
01:55:07.380 And when you are in the practice of politics, the principle has to be tempered by pragmatism.
01:55:12.300 So it's our job to say how far politicians are straying from principle.
01:55:15.860 And then it's their job to try and get 80% of the pie.
01:55:19.260 And so the question is, how much do you have to give up in order to continue to receive
01:55:22.960 51% of the vote?
01:55:24.460 And I think, I mean, let's be real.
01:55:26.600 It was a landslide in the terms that we use for presidential elections.
01:55:29.700 It's not a landslide.
01:55:30.680 I mean, like, normally, if you say 51-48, that's now considered a presidential landslide.
01:55:35.140 But in any other area of American life, if you said that you had a room of
01:55:37.360 100 people and 51 voted one way and 48 voted the other, you wouldn't go, my God, that's
01:55:40.560 a blowout.
01:55:41.060 You'd say, that's pretty close.
01:55:42.200 In other words, this is a very, very tightly divided country still, clearly, right?
01:55:46.740 We've had three consecutive, incredibly tight elections.
01:55:49.540 And if you go back before Barack Obama, you had a very tight election in 2004 and a very
01:55:53.440 tight election in 2000.
01:55:54.320 This is a very closely divided country.
01:55:56.060 What that means is William F. Buckley, who is now widely derided for reasons that escape
01:56:01.360 my understanding?
01:56:03.980 William F. Buckley once said that the purpose of a primary is to select the most plausible
01:56:08.200 conservative candidate who could win, right?
01:56:10.680 The most conservative candidate who can win.
01:56:12.520 And that is the same answer today.
01:56:14.660 Who is the, what is the most conservative thing that you can push and still win?
01:56:18.540 And still win.
01:56:19.140 It sounds like ugly to us because we're in the business of principle.
01:56:21.920 And it should sound ugly because pragmatism is dirtying.
01:56:25.240 It's what you said about, you know, religious people getting involved in politics.
01:56:27.800 It means that you have to make concessions and bargains with things that you don't like.
01:56:31.300 Listen, as you say, I'm, I'm, Jeremy and I are exactly the same on the pro-life issue.
01:56:35.120 I'd love a candidate who came out and tomorrow said constitutional amendment banning all abortion
01:56:38.520 in the United States.
01:56:39.200 Like, that'd be great.
01:56:40.040 Also, that is a great way to alienate Elon Musk and alienate Joe Rogan and all the people
01:56:45.460 who voted for, if, if, if Donald Trump had run on a platform that we all approve of socially,
01:56:50.720 right?
01:56:51.000 Like traditional marriage, for example, traditional, let's say he went back to like the 2004 Republican
01:56:55.300 platform, traditional marriage, no abortion.
01:56:57.800 Even up to, even if you took the George W. Bush position with exceptions for rape and incest,
01:57:01.760 it would have been too much for them.
01:57:02.700 Those positions, Rogan's not on board.
01:57:05.140 Elon's not on board.
01:57:06.020 Okay.
01:57:06.160 That's the reality.
01:57:07.360 The, the entire, the Republican party just jettisoned two thirds of its economic program
01:57:11.420 in terms of spending.
01:57:12.620 I'm old enough to remember the Tea Party.
01:57:13.960 Well, not long ago.
01:57:14.640 The Tea Party was all about government spending in national debt.
01:57:17.260 Donald Trump spent the most money of any president in history up until Joe Biden.
01:57:21.380 And, and so that was jettisoned in order to win votes.
01:57:24.440 Pretending that didn't happen doesn't make the thing go away.
01:57:26.620 And I think, and I also think it's dangerous to pretend that it did because then you actually
01:57:30.360 are sacrificing the principle, but you didn't change the principle.
01:57:33.300 The principle is in fact being negotiated in order to achieve the thing.
01:57:37.160 That's not a sin.
01:57:38.380 That's not, that's just called politics.
01:57:39.840 That is how you get to the political majority.
01:57:41.360 I think though, there's a little idealism in this view of things too, though, because
01:57:44.820 we, we all remember the halcyon days of the Tea Party, the Tea Party in office did not accomplish
01:57:50.440 very much.
01:57:51.380 Republicans have not cut spending since Calvin Coolidge, by my, by my calculation.
01:57:56.280 So, you know, the point I'm making is that the revealed preferences of the American people
01:57:59.480 tend to actually be pretty consistent.
01:58:01.600 Okay.
01:58:01.720 Here's where the American people are by pretty much every poll statistic.
01:58:04.280 Okay.
01:58:04.500 And regardless, this is not about what we want.
01:58:06.140 This is what the American people keep showing.
01:58:07.520 The American people on abortion restrictions.
01:58:09.700 If you were to take like a national average, okay, because we're doing national elections,
01:58:12.480 not in each state, right?
01:58:13.620 Florida's going to ban abortion.
01:58:14.860 New York's going to have abortions till they're nine.
01:58:16.740 But like on the average, the American people are somewhere between 12 and 15 weeks on abortion
01:58:20.840 bans.
01:58:21.360 If you're looking at, if you're looking at entitlement spending, the American people
01:58:25.460 are fine with entitlement spending.
01:58:26.780 They don't want the entitlements touched.
01:58:28.260 They want that maintained and they get very, very scared.
01:58:30.640 Anytime anyone talks about a serious entitlement reform, including smart ones, like the one
01:58:33.920 that should have been done in 2005, when George W. Bush essentially recommended, you know,
01:58:38.040 for all the hatred we have, his proposal on social security would have made this country
01:58:41.560 so much richer.
01:58:42.320 It's not even imaginable.
01:58:43.800 Okay.
01:58:43.960 He suggested that we just take what you were putting into social security and put in a private
01:58:46.980 savings account that would have been invested in the stock market.
01:58:49.840 Can you imagine if they had done that?
01:58:51.460 The stock market is currently riding at 43,000, the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
01:58:55.100 I don't remember what it was riding at in 2005.
01:58:57.480 I promise you it was a fraction of that.
01:58:59.080 So all that's been jettisoned.
01:59:01.040 Okay.
01:59:01.280 And the American people don't care about that.
01:59:03.820 They also don't want high taxes.
01:59:05.100 They want low taxes.
01:59:05.820 They want high spending.
01:59:06.740 They want some abortion restrictions, but not tons of abortion restrictions.
01:59:10.460 They don't seem to care too much about gay marriage anymore.
01:59:12.280 Right?
01:59:12.620 Like this is where the American people are.
01:59:14.180 They want school choice and they want the border closed.
01:59:16.140 Right.
01:59:16.380 They want school choice.
01:59:17.020 And then on our side, they want school choice.
01:59:18.720 They want the border closed.
01:59:19.000 No, no, no, no.
01:59:19.520 Not just on our side.
01:59:20.760 No, no.
01:59:21.260 Plurality on both sides.
01:59:22.540 I mean that on an issue.
01:59:23.500 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:59:24.260 They want school choice.
01:59:25.460 They want the border closed.
01:59:26.320 They want a strong American military that deters war and prevents foreign actors from doing bad
01:59:31.800 things to us.
01:59:32.500 They want strong policing.
01:59:33.960 Right?
01:59:33.980 They want mass deportations.
01:59:35.660 I mean, yes.
01:59:36.780 That's a majority view.
01:59:38.520 That's a majority view.
01:59:39.280 I mean, and it'll be interesting to see, by the way, I do wonder when it comes to mass
01:59:42.760 deportations, whether the revealed preference of the American people will be different from
01:59:46.220 the thing that they're saying right now.
01:59:48.100 Because I think when most people think mass deportations, they're thinking of the Venezuelan
01:59:51.260 gang members who are taking over apartment buildings in Colorado.
01:59:53.740 They're not thinking of, you know, the gardeners in Los Angeles.
01:59:57.700 Trump knows that.
01:59:58.680 I know he knows that.
01:59:59.300 That's why he's not going to do it, by the way.
02:00:00.360 The other thing we're really fortunate about is we need some structural changes that nobody
02:00:04.880 is going to really be thinking about.
02:00:06.480 You know, the whole thing about the bureaucracy, about Chevron, those are huge, huge deals.
02:00:11.080 Because they, you know, I think of Trump, you know, before the running back, I hate to
02:00:15.040 use a football metaphor, but I love the game.
02:00:16.960 Before the running back can take off, some 300-pound guy has got to knock the lineman out
02:00:22.120 of his way.
02:00:22.860 That's the way I think of Donald Trump.
02:00:24.120 I think he is setting, setting...
02:00:26.920 You know, you should teach this stuff to Tim Walton.
02:00:28.620 He might have won if you know this.
02:00:29.820 You know, when you're running a pick six play...
02:00:31.920 No, I think this is the moment when the future of conservatism, the structure of the future
02:00:38.640 of conservatism will be built.
02:00:40.060 It's not when conservatism will be built.
02:00:42.060 So I would like to read...
02:00:43.160 It's when it will become possible.
02:00:44.160 I would like to read one thing to everyone and then ask Dennis Prager a question before
02:00:48.640 we part.
02:00:49.540 And here's what I would like to read you.
02:00:50.920 I have not read this in advance.
02:00:53.240 So you're experiencing it as I do.
02:00:55.100 But I suspect you should grab your leftist here's tumblers.
02:00:59.340 From the official Barack Obama Twitter account, here is our official statement on the results
02:01:05.160 of the 2024 presidential election.
02:01:07.300 A statement by President and Mrs...
02:01:08.740 This is the actual header.
02:01:10.540 Statement by President and Mrs. Obama on the 2024 presidential election.
02:01:14.600 They've decided to put out a written statement because, as we know, they're very camera shy.
02:01:18.260 Over the last few weeks and through Election Day, millions of Americans cast their votes,
02:01:26.020 not just for president, but for leaders at every level.
02:01:28.780 Now the results are in, and we want to congratulate President Trump and Senator Vance on their victory.
02:01:33.740 This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements
02:01:37.480 with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues.
02:01:39.840 But living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won't always win out
02:01:43.700 and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.
02:01:46.960 Michelle and I couldn't be prouder of Vice President Harris and Governor Walz
02:01:49.980 to extraordinary public servants who ran a remarkable campaign.
02:01:54.340 And we will always be grateful to the staff and volunteers who poured their heart and soul
02:01:58.140 into electing public servants they truly believed in.
02:02:02.160 Including Hitler.
02:02:02.740 As I said on the campaign trail, America has been through a lot over the last few years,
02:02:08.960 from an historic pandemic and price hikes resulting from that pandemic to rapid change
02:02:13.220 and the feeling a lot of folks have that no matter how hard they work,
02:02:16.120 treading water is the best they can do.
02:02:18.000 Those conditions have created headwinds for Democratic incumbents around the world,
02:02:21.740 and last night showed that America is not immune.
02:02:24.160 The good news is these problems are solvable, but only if we listen to each other,
02:02:27.460 and only if we abide by the core constitutional principles and democratic norms that made this
02:02:32.480 country great.
02:02:33.500 In a country as big and diverse as ours, we won't always see eye to eye on everything,
02:02:37.340 but progress requires us to extend good faith and grace, even to people with whom we deeply
02:02:41.740 disagree.
02:02:42.680 That's how we've come this far, and it's how we'll keep building a country that is more
02:02:46.080 fair and more just and more equal and more free.
02:02:50.060 Wow.
02:02:50.760 What about the existential threat, though?
02:02:52.620 I want to say that this is a very gracious statement,
02:02:55.620 much like her very gracious statement, probably written by the same person,
02:02:59.740 and it is obvious that they are setting up their next move.
02:03:05.260 They're saying, we believe in the peaceful transfer of power, which is obviously a repudiation
02:03:09.540 of Trump, and they're saying that we have to abide by the Constitution.
02:03:13.300 They're talking about democratic norms.
02:03:14.820 They are obviously prepping to shift toward a full assault against Donald Trump for being
02:03:20.380 violative of the constitutional norms.
02:03:22.660 If it's not the first time they've trotted out this particular play, I don't think it
02:03:28.120 works again.
02:03:29.500 No.
02:03:29.820 I think you can only impeach the guy twice.
02:03:31.680 I know that's not in the Constitution, but practically twice as in it.
02:03:35.200 Well, the biggest problem that they've got is that what are the things that he's going
02:03:38.680 to do that they're going to claim are anti-democratic?
02:03:40.620 Schedule F employment in the executive branch?
02:03:43.100 Maybe.
02:03:43.800 If that's your best shot, my dude, I don't think that's going anywhere.
02:03:48.100 I mean, these are people who wanted to kill the filibuster five seconds ago and pack the
02:03:51.160 Supreme Court.
02:03:52.300 Now it's holy writ.
02:03:53.660 Right, exactly.
02:03:54.360 Now they're not going to want to touch the filibuster for the rest of time.
02:03:57.180 Should we pack the Supreme Court, by the way?
02:03:58.840 This is our opportunity, right?
02:04:00.260 And kill the filibuster?
02:04:01.200 I mean, like, why not?
02:04:01.820 Let's go, baby.
02:04:02.480 Let's have a ride.
02:04:03.180 Ride and die, baby.
02:04:04.220 And pass a national abortion ban and reinstitute Project 2025.
02:04:08.020 It's obviously the right thing to do.
02:04:09.180 Dennis, before we part company, you promised Ben and I a story about your sons.
02:04:14.020 Oh, thank you.
02:04:14.920 Yes.
02:04:15.140 So here we go.
02:04:17.300 So it's perfect.
02:04:18.700 I set you up all last night.
02:04:20.680 I told you that during our sessions that I had said publicly that the happiest day in
02:04:30.160 my life was in 2016 when Donald Trump won.
02:04:36.120 And that includes, I would add in my speeches, the day my two sons were born.
02:04:41.560 So the first question anyone asks me is, have your kids, have your sons heard you say that?
02:04:49.620 To which I say, yes, absolutely.
02:04:52.060 I now have proof.
02:04:54.340 This is what I got unsolicited from my two sons.
02:04:58.580 I have to find this for you.
02:05:00.180 I didn't know if we would, I didn't want to interrupt with my personal, but it is so precious.
02:05:05.120 And if I just can't, I probably can't, if I, there are so many texts here.
02:05:09.780 Okay.
02:05:10.060 So basically, first I get a text from my older son.
02:05:15.680 Okay.
02:05:16.220 And it's basically, I wish I had word for word.
02:05:18.880 They're both awry at my sons.
02:05:20.500 So my older son says, now, the day your two sons were born is your third happiest day in your life.
02:05:33.660 I read it in my hotel room.
02:05:36.480 When you start laughing when you're alone, you know something is really funny.
02:05:41.720 So that, that was, so for those who wonder how my kids reacted, then my younger son texts,
02:05:47.900 his, last night was happier than the day I was born.
02:05:56.940 I think we can all raise a glass to that.
02:05:59.500 Happy days and happy days.
02:06:01.360 Right.
02:06:01.720 Happy days are here again.
02:06:03.180 Yes, indeed.
02:06:04.780 Dennis, thanks for spending this time with you.
02:06:06.600 You got it.
02:06:07.080 I love you guys.
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02:06:12.800 What an amazing election cycle.
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02:06:28.380 There's never been a better time to be in the fight.
02:06:31.140 Who knows?
02:06:32.140 Maybe we'll just keep drinking and clinking glasses forever.
02:06:34.640 But only if you help us.
02:06:35.960 Only if you join the fight.
02:06:37.280 That's right.
02:06:37.880 Here's a little glance at how we ended the night last night.
02:06:40.220 Oh, my gosh.
02:06:45.240 We have made America great again.
02:06:46.800 Let's go.
02:06:47.740 Oh, my goodness.
02:06:48.860 10-8.
02:06:49.320 I told you.
02:06:49.960 It's a 10-8 round, baby.
02:06:51.400 Trump all day.
02:06:52.360 Dude, I, like, want to cry right now.
02:06:53.640 This is absolutely insane.
02:06:55.080 America is back.
02:06:56.380 We're not a socialist country.
02:06:58.120 Yes.
02:06:59.140 47.
02:06:59.940 Let's go, baby.
02:07:00.880 My heart was beating out of my chest.
02:07:02.320 I haven't had that, like, ever.
02:07:04.280 This feeling is unbelievable.
02:07:06.140 I am so excited.
02:07:07.380 America showed up and said that we don't want that cringe win.
02:07:11.060 A full circle moment for Trump, definitely.
02:07:13.880 This isn't a win for Republicans.
02:07:15.280 This isn't a win for Americans.
02:07:16.480 This is a win for the entire world.
02:07:18.000 What a historic moment and no better place to be than the Daily Wire, baby.
02:07:21.940 Everybody wants to know what would have happened if we didn't win.
02:07:26.520 I guess we'll never know.
02:07:28.460 I guess we'll never know.