The Matt Walsh Show - Kamala’s Final Moment： Election 2024

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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 0.99

00:02:02.120 because this country just kicks royal ass. 0.99

00:02:03.920 I mean, seriously, the American people stood up on their hind legs, and they said, no, we 1.00

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. 0.98

00:02:58.740 And it's damned wonderful. 0.95

00:03:01.200 It really is. 0.95

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. 1.00

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 1.00

00:04:34.880 every single major campaign, this election cycle, the Budweiser boycott, which was the 0.99

00:04:39.600 American people saying you are not allowed to just leverage down on us a bunch of trash that 0.97

00:04:44.080 we don't want. And then combine that with what you just did with am I racist, where you 0.98

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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 1.00

00:07:37.260 to kill our young women are evil and must be stopped. They absolutely have to be fought and 0.98

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 0.90

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, 0.99

00:11:30.700 which is that we're a bunch of rubes and hicks and horrible people. And it's not about social 0.98

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 1.00

00:11:48.760 as they express their conservatism. And so they've got to be written off because they are a minority 1.00

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 0.93

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

00:12:23.220 What? Yeah. 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

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, 1.00

00:13:54.320 these Hispanic guys who are feeling absolutely not. They didn't even try. They're just so drunk 1.00

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, 1.00

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. 0.90

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 0.99

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 0.99

00:25:24.500 will not be a live issue in 2028 is every state will have already picked the abortion regime 0.98

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 0.53

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 0.97

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 0.96

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 0.71

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. 0.88

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 0.96

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.82

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. 1.00

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 0.98

00:38:16.220 its face. Like that is it. That is a dude, given his personal history, that is somebody who's very 0.95

00:38:20.920 happy to be going back to Beverly Hills. Yes. Yes. Isn't the only thing that she can blame 0.84

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 0.99

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. 0.99

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

00:39:41.040 us at dailywire.com slash subscribe. If you use promo code Trump, you get 47% off because he

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. 1.00

00:40:03.380 Yeah. The great loser, uh, a, one of the great losers is the New York times. Oh, this is 0.97

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 1.00

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. 0.66

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 1.00

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 0.98

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 0.98

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 0.96

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 1.00

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. 0.82

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. 1.00

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. 0.99

01:07:12.620 She was a big nothing burger. 1.00

01:07:14.240 Her candidacy was a big nothing burger. 0.93

01:07:15.880 She has always been a big nothing burger. 1.00

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. 0.83

01:07:32.720 And everyone around him is also Hitlerian. 0.90

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, 1.00

01:07:49.000 that essentially all rights would be stripped from you with the sort of inspirational rhetoric she was using right there. 0.96

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. 1.00

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, 0.96

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. 1.00

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 1.00

01:09:45.380 and a wonderful candidate, joy reads that she ran a flawless, flawless campaign. 0.83

01:09:50.220 That for all of that, ain't nobody talking about her running again in 2028. 0.87

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

01:10:54.000 She's already made it so much further in politics than she ever deserved. 0.87

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. 0.98

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. 0.92

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. 0.55

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. 1.00

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 0.51

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. 1.00

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 0.95

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 1.00

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. 0.99

01:19:03.140 Yes.

01:19:03.520 She loves Doritos. 1.00

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

01:20:28.620 Kamala Harris goes and gets that prescription filled. 0.97

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 0.61

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. 1.00

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 0.57

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. 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.90

01:24:52.620 was a factor here.

01:24:53.640 I think it was a factor among women. 1.00

01:24:54.860 I know plenty of women who wouldn't vote for a woman to be president. 1.00

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 0.96

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. 1.00

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. 0.96

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. 0.57

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. 1.00

01:25:33.840 I'll grant you a Hillary Clinton exception. 0.89

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. 1.00

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. 0.98

01:25:54.660 At least when they look at Hillary Clinton, who did stare them down as secretary of state, 0.93

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 1.00

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. 0.95

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. 0.99

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 0.71

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. 0.98

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 0.98

01:32:47.540 showing an Israeli soldier who was defending a kid who was having the crap kicked out of 0.98

01:32:53.020 him by Palestinians. 0.97

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 0.98

01:33:08.940 purposes, every single Jew that I know canceled the New York Times if they cared about that. 0.98

01:33:13.460 The New York Times has been a laughingstock in the Orthodox Jewish community. 1.00

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. 0.94

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. 0.96

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? 0.97

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. 0.99

01:36:10.540 Secular religions simply substitute for Judaism and Christianity. 0.91

01:36:16.020 Environmentalism is a religion.

01:36:18.020 Feminism is a religion. 1.00

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. 0.89

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 0.98

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. 0.99

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. 0.90

01:39:52.420 No childbearing before marriage. 0.78

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 0.92

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, 0.91

01:43:06.520 or now in Trump.

01:43:08.040 When they say Trump is Hitler, they're saying evil is evil. 1.00

01:43:10.860 Trump is evil. 0.99

01:43:11.580 He's the, he's the, but that is, that is an inversion of the Christian view. 0.99

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.

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01:44:15.420 It's pretty fun.

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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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.98

01:52:34.080 Patty Heaton did it. 0.98

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? 0.98

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 0.93

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. 1.00

01:58:14.860 New York's going to have abortions till they're nine. 1.00

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 0.78

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. 0.83

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? 0.96

02:04:01.820 Let's go, baby.

02:04:02.480 Let's have a ride. 1.00

02:04:03.180 Ride and die, baby.

02:04:04.220 And pass a national abortion ban and reinstitute Project 2025. 0.95

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.

02:06:07.440 And to our Daily Wire subscribers, thank you and everybody watching at home.

02:06:10.940 What an amazing last two days.

02:06:12.800 What an amazing election cycle.

02:06:14.580 And we look forward to seeing you down the road.

02:06:15.780 Remember, get a subscription, guys.

02:06:17.300 I mean, come on.

02:06:18.000 Yeah.

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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. 0.97

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.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 07, 2024

Kamala’s Final Moment： Election 2024

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