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00:02:47.200 Guys, the last time we were all together, of course, it was election night, and it was disappointing,

00:02:53.420 not as disappointing as having to watch the State of the Union, of course.

00:02:56.380 And Steven Crowder was with us, which just goes to show that things happen really fast

00:03:00.780 in our business.

00:03:02.680 Again, not State of the Union speeches.

00:03:04.840 They're interminable.

00:03:06.480 And the Grammys had not come out as openly satanic.

00:03:09.280 It's true.

00:03:09.920 It's true.

00:03:10.380 Sponsored by Pfizer.

00:03:12.060 So on the nose.

00:03:13.200 I'm telling you, God is just, his writing is, it's really degraded over the past.

00:03:16.780 It has.

00:03:17.520 God's writing is so on the nose.

00:03:19.020 He's casting weird German Nazi-esque characters as the head of the World Economic Forum.

00:03:24.020 Yeah.

00:03:24.100 And he's got, like, and he's got the president's son being, like, a drug-addicted derelict who's

00:03:29.740 taking money from the Chinese, probably, and dad leaving classified documents next to the

00:03:34.500 Corvette.

00:03:34.960 And they already used that storyline already.

00:03:37.000 And, like, this is lazy, lazy writing.

00:03:39.320 Chinese spy balloons.

00:03:40.320 And now the Grammys going totally satanic.

00:03:43.300 I will say about the Grammys going satanic that I think it does say something a little bit deeper

00:03:48.000 about our culture that Jill Biden was there.

00:03:49.980 Right?

00:03:50.120 Like, there was a time when satanic imagery was at least fringe, right?

00:03:55.520 It was the counterculture.

00:03:56.380 And it was rebelling against the culture.

00:03:57.820 And now it's just the culture.

00:03:59.120 It's what we just call the culture.

00:04:01.020 And the reason for that, here, we're going to get into here.

00:04:03.660 John Milton's Satan is the villain of the piece in Paradise Lost, right?

00:04:07.240 His whole thing is that he's rebelling against God, not because he's doing anything good or

00:04:10.420 anything noble or anything true or beautiful, but because he would rather reign in hell than

00:04:14.340 serve in heaven.

00:04:15.560 And over the course of time, I think Western culture now sees Satan as the hero.

00:04:19.580 And Satan is the hero because Satan is narcissistic and into himself.

00:04:23.100 And that's exactly what you saw at the Grammys.

00:04:25.320 A bunch of people who are narcissistically prancing around calling themselves non-binary,

00:04:28.280 genderqueer, transgender people.

00:04:29.640 Who was it you said was there?

00:04:31.500 Jill Biden.

00:04:32.460 Dr. Jill Biden.

00:04:33.260 Oh, Dr. Jill Biden. 1.00

00:04:36.800 Damn it. 1.00

00:04:37.200 I always mess that up. 1.00

00:04:38.880 I always mess that up.

00:04:39.820 It's so frustrating because my life's a real doctor.

00:04:42.720 That's what people don't understand when we talk about how the left is satanic or a lot

00:04:46.880 of pop music is satanic.

00:04:48.380 And most of it is satanic, but it's not theologically satanic.

00:04:50.880 Like they're not literally worshiping the devil as far as they understand it.

00:04:54.780 They're worshiping with the devil worship, which is the self.

00:04:57.080 So it's kind of like a secular satanism. 0.77

00:04:59.800 At the same time, I think we should also recognize that there's this, you know, the left likes

00:05:02.560 to use the term gaslighting, which is all they do with things like this, because part

00:05:07.640 of the reason that they do it is they can have the satanic ritual being broadcast by CBS

00:05:12.440 and then conservatives react to it by saying, hey, look, there's a satanic ritual on TV.

00:05:17.280 And then the next day you get the headlines from like the Daily Beast and all those saying,

00:05:21.360 well, conservatives with their conspiracy theory that there was a satanic ritual in the Grammys.

00:05:24.700 Like it's what literally happened.

00:05:26.760 And we're just observing face tattoo syndrome, right?

00:05:30.020 It's like when you go into the Starbucks and the barista has a giant face tattoo and you're

00:05:34.020 like giving a weird look.

00:05:35.480 He's got a face tattoo.

00:05:36.300 And then he's like, what are you staring at?

00:05:37.340 Your face tattoo.

00:05:38.180 That's what I'm staring at.

00:05:38.960 But it brings up the point of the Jill Biden was that they are now the culture and we are

00:05:43.200 the counterculture.

00:05:44.060 We should stop reacting to them and just let them react to us because they do.

00:05:47.400 But they baited us intentionally.

00:05:48.680 But if they had gotten up, if we had gotten up and sung, Jesus loves me, this I know,

00:05:52.460 they'd have gone insane.

00:05:53.680 And we should do it that way.

00:05:55.440 I mean.

00:05:55.720 I would have gone insane too.

00:05:56.560 That song is terrible.

00:05:57.820 I would have had the problems.

00:06:00.340 But the one thing is though, when you say that they don't worship Satan per se, they actually

00:06:05.020 do worship.

00:06:06.860 They actually do worship something satanic.

00:06:08.880 I mean, there are only two ways to look at life.

00:06:10.880 One is that your body is your real you and your lust and your desire is your real you.

00:06:15.220 And the other is that your lust and desire are in the way of something even higher that

00:06:19.020 they, you know, they're part of your life, but there's something even higher that you're

00:06:22.880 striving for.

00:06:23.380 And what they're saying is no, they're not.

00:06:24.600 And unfortunately, as far as I'm concerned, that's what rock and roll has been saying

00:06:27.460 since it started, you know, so it's only coming to fruition.

00:06:30.500 And it's coming to fruition in dullness.

00:06:32.280 That number was so boring and so anodyne.

00:06:36.000 Well, do you know what's so sad about it?

00:06:37.340 With Sam Smith in particular, Sam Smith is actually, I think, a talented pop musician.

00:06:42.620 He's got the voice of an angel, now the voice of a demon.

00:06:45.540 And his songs are pretty good.

00:06:47.820 And what was amazing is his biggest hit, the one that I knew him from, was I Know I'm

00:06:52.460 Not the Only One.

00:06:53.380 You know, you say I'm crazy, but you don't think I know what you've done.

00:06:55.720 And it's about this marriage where the husband goes out and cheats and it's falling apart.

00:06:59.800 And it's presented as this terrible tragedy.

00:07:01.620 You like that song.

00:07:02.560 I do actually like that song.

00:07:03.820 I think there's a lot of things about it.

00:07:05.500 No, listen, I'm a pop culture maven, you know.

00:07:07.880 But it's sung beautifully.

00:07:10.060 It's got a lot of longing and tragedy to it.

00:07:12.440 This song was about the exact same topic.

00:07:15.920 In fact, it followed the exact same formula right down to the seconds of the time codes.

00:07:20.580 The difference is this was about how funny and hot and titillating it is when, you know,

00:07:25.180 daddy goes to the body shop and gets hoochie hoochie or whatever.

00:07:28.660 And so it's so sad because he had an instinct toward beauty.

00:07:32.980 Then he sells his soul to the devil and it didn't even work.

00:07:36.040 It was a crappy song and the ratings were in the gutter.

00:07:38.000 Michael, I really hate to tell you Santa's not real here, but all of his prior music,

00:07:42.080 which I absolutely adore.

00:07:43.340 I love the Catholic reimagining of it.

00:07:45.800 It was not about a marriage between a man and a woman. 0.97

00:07:48.320 It was about these gay affairs. 0.99

00:07:49.780 No, wait, he's a gay guy? 0.98

00:07:50.860 Yeah.

00:07:51.340 Sam Smith?

00:07:52.400 Yes, but it was music about love and about loss.

00:07:55.360 And his music was so beautiful.

00:07:56.900 And what's really happened, because I question this myself, it's you were so talented.

00:08:00.280 You had everything.

00:08:00.900 You made it.

00:08:01.340 People were listening to your music.

00:08:02.620 Why did you have to give yourself to this sort of demonic nature that we're seeing inside of him?

00:08:07.300 What happens when you get to Hollywood that they basically say,

00:08:09.720 okay, now you just have to do a demonic ritual to prove that you're really one of us?

00:08:13.160 The most bizarre part of the entire performance is a standing ovation at the end, by the way.

00:08:16.640 You can see a couple of faces, I think like J-Lo and Ben Affleck,

00:08:19.620 where maybe for a second, like, should we be clapping to this or are we actually at a satanic ritual?

00:08:24.500 But they got a standing ovation.

00:08:25.700 Like, no one in the room went, okay, this might be a little far.

00:08:28.240 And they keep moving the goalposts.

00:08:29.620 By the way, this is not the first time they went full satanic at the Grammys.

00:08:33.480 WAP.

00:08:33.900 Can we forget the WAP performance?

00:08:35.440 I cannot.

00:08:35.980 You're wholesome.

00:08:36.720 You cannot.

00:08:37.800 I will never be allowed to.

00:08:39.000 X-He will not?

00:08:39.520 No.

00:08:39.960 You will not be allowed to.

00:08:41.000 He's an expert on all matters WAP.

00:08:42.980 And, you know, it's been going, this treading in this direction for a very long time.

00:08:46.840 I think this time is the first time that they just were so in your face.

00:08:49.960 First, it's a conspiracy theory.

00:08:51.120 The left, you know, we always say it's satanic, it's demonic, Hollywood's evil.

00:08:54.420 And then they go, oh, no, we're not, no, we're not.

00:08:56.420 And then they do this.

00:08:57.600 And they acknowledged it, too.

00:08:58.740 So you saw CBS tweeted out, they said, in response to Sam Smith, said, we are ready to worship.

00:09:04.600 And it made me think, 1952, CBS would not allow I Love Lucy to use the word pregnant.

00:09:11.520 So scandalous was that word.

00:09:13.400 Now, CBS News is essentially saying, hail Satan.

00:09:16.420 And it cannot, you can't convince me that it's an accident that that was going into the break sponsored by Pfizer.

00:09:22.620 Of course it was intentional.

00:09:23.580 Of course it was intentional.

00:09:24.440 It was.

00:09:25.180 No, because, look, we're a conservative media company.

00:09:28.460 We sit around thinking, okay, how do we own the libs today, right?

00:09:31.840 I mean, that's one of the things we think about.

00:09:33.160 To drink their delicious tears.

00:09:34.140 Because it's so tasty and it fills the tumblers.

00:09:36.400 They think the same way.

00:09:38.160 They're a news network.

00:09:38.920 And if you think that it was an accident, it was a mere coincidence that Pfizer was the commercial right as the devil is walking off stage.

00:09:45.020 I got a bridge and broke.

00:09:45.900 There's something to what you were saying.

00:09:47.600 One high point, though, was that Ben Affleck's face, since you mentioned Ben Affleck, it did reflect how I feel about having to listen to the State of the Union.

00:09:54.760 I just want to point out that Matt Walsh's laryngitis voice is the sexiest voice on the panel tonight.

00:10:02.440 And for that reason, Matt, I think you should read the first ad.

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00:11:02.260 One other thing, by the way, is the, I think it's worth noting that the guy that was performing that song with Sam Smith, Kim Petras, right?

00:11:11.600 And they won, it was a big moment because it's two white males, one best pop duo because they both don't identify as white males. 0.59

00:11:20.840 But Kim Petras transitioned surgically to become a female at the age of 16. 1.00

00:11:27.620 And this is something we're told, of course, never happens.

00:11:30.220 That's, well, we don't do surgical transitions of minors.

00:11:33.540 And yet, like, one of the biggest pop stars in the world right now, that's literally what happened to him.

00:11:38.400 You know, I think also his real name is Tim, which is kind of clever to go from Tim to Kim.

00:11:43.540 And he goes up and he says, look, people say that this performance was religiously not cool.

00:11:50.500 Because you might say it's actually burning with the eternal fires of hell.

00:11:53.300 But, you know, it's not cool.

00:11:54.780 But, look, I've always been interested in religion, but religion doesn't want me because I'm trans.

00:12:01.460 And I thought, you know, look, religion is a habit of virtue and justice to render to God what he's due.

00:12:07.440 Religion wants you. 0.84

00:12:08.820 God wants you.

00:12:09.660 God loves you.

00:12:10.380 God wants you.

00:12:10.900 If you say that, well, the condition of my going to church or being religious is that you have to pretend that I'm a woman,

00:12:18.040 you're demanding that everybody affirm a lie.

00:12:21.440 And that's something that religion cannot do.

00:12:23.560 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:12:24.840 Shockingly, I know.

00:12:25.680 So it's like, don't, you know.

00:12:26.500 You ruin everything.

00:12:27.440 These guys always do this, though.

00:12:28.560 They say it's God's fault.

00:12:29.780 It's the church's fault.

00:12:31.020 They don't want me.

00:12:31.620 They don't want me.

00:12:32.600 There's a point to what Drew was saying earlier about how anodyne, the actual number was.

00:12:38.860 And it was.

00:12:39.560 I mean, it was almost bizarrely sexless.

00:12:41.760 Like, it's satanic.

00:12:42.940 But there's nothing sexy about it or interesting, really.

00:12:46.260 The same with the wall performance, by the way.

00:12:47.600 It wasn't actually sexy.

00:12:48.960 I tend to agree, obviously.

00:12:49.860 I mean, I think that one of the things that happens is that when the taboo becomes the culture,

00:12:53.960 there is no more forbidden for people to even be tempted by.

00:12:57.480 And this is one of the things that you're seeing in our culture is that, you know, by

00:13:00.760 every available poll, married people have better sex lives than people who are single 0.97

00:13:03.940 because what they're doing exists in the boundaries of love and also within the boundaries of

00:13:07.840 commitment.

00:13:08.500 But there's also something to the idea that the human being is constantly seeking the

00:13:12.340 new and the fresh or whatever it is.

00:13:14.360 But when nothing is new and nothing is fresh and you've made all the taboos just the mainstream

00:13:18.180 culture, there's nothing left to transgress. 0.90

00:13:20.160 So when Madonna was doing the, you know, kind of virgin slut routine back in 1980, and that's 0.97

00:13:24.960 what they call it. 0.90

00:13:25.600 It's not my term for it.

00:13:26.380 That's sort of the cultural term for it.

00:13:27.680 When she was doing the kind of taking advantage of the imagery of the Virgin Mary and then

00:13:32.060 subjecting that to, you know, very sexy movement, then the idea was that she was subverting 0.96

00:13:37.400 expectation.

00:13:37.880 But there was no expectation left for them to subvert.

00:13:41.140 And so how exactly do you transgress?

00:13:43.000 There's nothing, when there's nothing left to transgress, it becomes very difficult to

00:13:45.480 be transgressive other than ideologically transgressive.

00:13:47.660 Yeah, I would like to add, I talked about this on my podcast because I was very interested

00:13:50.040 in this.

00:13:50.360 Like, why is he doing this?

00:13:51.380 And I started talking about just the actual meaning of the word diabolical, and I played

00:13:55.260 a Catholic priest.

00:13:56.680 There we go.

00:13:57.520 Very proud of that.

00:13:59.120 Obviously, I control all of you.

00:14:01.100 The actual meaning of the word diabolical, where it comes from and what it means is to separate

00:14:04.040 and what they're actually aspiring to do.

00:14:06.080 You go, why put on this diabolical performance?

00:14:07.540 And really, when, you know, the serpent comes up to Adam and Eve, and one of the first things

00:14:14.040 that they recognize after they bite into the forbidden fruit is that they feel shame,

00:14:17.280 right?

00:14:17.660 Which means in order for Satan to assert dominance, he needs to remove people from their shame.

00:14:22.140 He needs to separate them from this wholesomeness and this goodness, right?

00:14:25.200 And to say, there's actually nothing wrong with you being naked.

00:14:27.240 Why do you even feel that?

00:14:28.600 So you see that Hollywood is kind of pushing for people not to think that there's anything

00:14:32.380 to be shameful for.

00:14:33.160 And the androgyny.

00:14:34.100 There was a story this week that actually made me want to move away from Earth.

00:14:38.600 You know how sometimes you think I want to get out of the country, but this made me want

00:14:41.000 to leave the planet.

00:14:42.160 Was this girl on the...

00:14:43.420 The newsroom.

00:14:43.840 Yeah, yeah.

00:14:44.400 Really.

00:14:44.700 For some of you.

00:14:45.720 But there was this girl on YouTube who does a show. 0.95

00:14:48.440 I think she's a gamer girl.

00:14:49.800 Twitch.

00:14:50.080 Called herself QT Cinderella.

00:14:51.500 Twitch.

00:14:51.820 On Switch, right.

00:14:53.200 That's right.

00:14:53.720 Switch, the gamer channel. 0.91

00:14:54.980 And somebody made a mock porn of her. 1.00

00:14:59.820 They put her into... 0.95

00:15:00.540 What's it called?

00:15:00.920 Deep fake.

00:15:01.500 Yeah. 0.99

00:15:01.700 A deep fake porn thing of her. 0.97

00:15:02.840 And she was shattered. 0.79

00:15:03.620 She went online.

00:15:04.620 And it was absolutely heart-rending.

00:15:06.440 I mean, it was such a cruel, low, stinking thing to do.

00:15:10.320 And at the same time, she was sitting there going, you know, F the internet. 0.92

00:15:13.440 F everything.

00:15:14.120 And I thought, well, yeah, you know, like, it's not her fault that the culture fell apart.

00:15:18.740 But it did.

00:15:19.620 And she is part of it.

00:15:20.520 And she's in it.

00:15:21.160 And this is what people are doing to one another.

00:15:22.980 It was one of the most disgusting acts.

00:15:26.200 And conservatives were laughing at her for crying about it.

00:15:29.620 And I just thought, like, you know, it's like, taxi, could we go to Mars, please?

00:15:33.780 Because I think that this is, you know, the results of worshiping Satan are not good.

00:15:40.500 They're not fun. 0.98

00:15:41.120 They're bodies stacked in rows, women being abused, and people treating each other like garbage. 0.97

00:15:46.500 Part of the reason, not to take this into the direction of talking about porn again, 0.88

00:15:50.100 because I feel like that happens on every show now.

00:15:51.900 But the reason why, because I saw some of that, too.

00:15:54.560 Conservatives were laughing at the girls who were in the deep fakes. 0.94

00:15:57.560 And the reason they were laughing about it is because, you know, the conservative argument against porn

00:16:02.200 has always been this kind of, like, practical, well, porn feeds the sex trafficking industry, and it's bad.

00:16:08.000 It's like those kinds of arguments.

00:16:09.220 And then you do AI or deep fake, and then now those conservatives are out of arguments against porn

00:16:14.820 because there's not any actual person involved.

00:16:16.540 That's a great point, man.

00:16:18.380 But what they lost is, like, what does porn do to, like, what is it fundamentally?

00:16:24.120 What does it do to the person consuming it?

00:16:26.140 What does it do to the culture that allows it?

00:16:28.760 We never had those arguments.

00:16:29.820 And there's, well, you know, there's three kinds of beings.

00:16:32.940 We're just talking about demons, right?

00:16:34.440 And some beings are purely body.

00:16:37.540 They're corporeal beings.

00:16:38.800 And some beings are pure spirit.

00:16:40.600 That's angels and demons.

00:16:41.700 And then we are hylomorphic.

00:16:43.800 We're both body and spirit.

00:16:45.920 And the problem with porn is it just treats us like animals.

00:16:49.300 It treats us like we're pure meat.

00:16:51.200 And then when we see that, even people who have gotten accustomed to it in the culture,

00:16:55.660 when you see that, when someone violates you and puts your head on a body or I don't know,

00:16:59.340 whatever they did in the AI porn, you just think this is a violation not just of my body.

00:17:04.220 Obviously, it's not of my body.

00:17:05.280 It's a violation of my soul.

00:17:06.440 This is, I think, one of the broader points that ties back into what happened with the Grammys

00:17:09.980 and the reaction to it.

00:17:11.180 It's why the libertarian instinct, which is, well, if you don't like it, just turn it off.

00:17:14.220 The question is not whether people have the freedom to turn things on or turn things off.

00:17:19.700 The question is, what does it do to the common pool of culture in which we all live

00:17:23.260 when this sort of stuff is promulgated by the biggest institutions in our culture?

00:17:27.100 We shouldn't be arguing over whether someone has the right to do it or not have the right to.

00:17:30.180 That's actually a secondary question when the primary question is,

00:17:32.940 is this a good thing or a bad thing?

00:17:34.660 And people refuse to even have that argument.

00:17:36.900 They're so consumed with the secondary question of what we ought to do about it

00:17:40.880 that they completely allied the first question, which is,

00:17:43.660 as a society, can we agree that this stuff is just bad?

00:17:46.180 How about that?

00:17:46.920 Well, no, we can't.

00:17:48.220 And this actually goes, I mean, obviously,

00:17:51.300 the president of the United States' wife is there when it's in this performance.

00:17:54.840 Well, the president of the United States is there.

00:17:56.540 The effective president.

00:17:57.840 The de facto.

00:17:58.760 But I want to say that there's another piece of this that, Candace, you hit on,

00:18:02.880 which is that it was actually boring, that it was sexless, that it's anodyne,

00:18:05.740 that it's joyless.

00:18:07.080 And I've been thinking a lot about, you know, people love to call us grifters.

00:18:10.920 And they like to call us grifters because sometimes we say things

00:18:13.400 that our audience disagrees with, which I always think that's really funny.

00:18:17.080 So you mean that in order to be authentic,

00:18:19.600 I'm willing to say things that might risk some of our money going away.

00:18:24.660 That makes me a grifter.

00:18:25.620 But the greatest grift of all is the purity grift.

00:18:28.460 In politics, it's the political purity grift.

00:18:30.860 And the political purity grift says, whatever the, whatever moment we're in,

00:18:36.260 you must be so truly that moment that you can always stab anyone on your own side

00:18:40.920 who isn't perfectly, absolutely in line with this exact moment.

00:18:45.540 But of course, you can't actually apply that across any period of time

00:18:49.100 because human beings are messy, human circumstances are messy,

00:18:52.340 politics changes.

00:18:53.280 Like all the people who are right now, political purists, you know,

00:18:58.120 if you don't support Donald Trump, they all voted for Mitt Romney in 2012.

00:19:04.400 Every one of them voted for Mitt Romney in 2012.

00:19:06.900 And if you've reached a point of political purity where you're like,

00:19:09.440 Paul Ryan is the scourge of the earth.

00:19:12.460 Kanye may have had a point about the Jews, you know, 0.97

00:19:14.700 like you've reached a point where you're,

00:19:16.620 this political purity nonsense reveals itself as a grift.

00:19:19.740 And in a way, what I think you're watching at the Grammys

00:19:22.180 is just the left's version of the political purity grift.

00:19:26.100 Why does a guy who is so talented,

00:19:29.840 who can put together such beautiful music,

00:19:32.200 who can truly transcend politics, can transcend moments, can touch us all,

00:19:35.720 we've all, with all of our diverse points of view,

00:19:39.440 been just as enthralled with his music as anyone on the left has been enthralled.

00:19:42.680 Why is he putting out something that means,

00:19:45.040 that means not only nothing does, it means nothing to them

00:19:47.180 because it is a virtue signal.

00:19:48.780 It is a way of appeasing the political purity grift on his side.

00:19:53.180 And the political purity, the true grift in politics

00:19:56.280 is to never authentically be what you are or say what you believe

00:20:01.360 for fear that the dominant power of your tribe will reject you for it.

00:20:08.000 In their case, the devil.

00:20:09.120 Hence the standing ovation.

00:20:10.300 I'm like, none of you thought this was weird.

00:20:11.740 Because if you don't stand up, you're not pure.

00:20:14.320 You haven't survived the purity test.

00:20:15.040 That's right.

00:20:15.440 And that's the whole point of liberty,

00:20:17.120 is we should all be disagreeing with each other.

00:20:18.680 I mean, that is the great thing about this place.

00:20:20.900 We've all been fighting with each other since we started.

00:20:24.040 But our conservatism consists of being concerned about liberty

00:20:29.680 and the things that make liberty work.

00:20:31.600 I mean, I don't only think that it's bad

00:20:33.920 because people are going to do things that are bad if they're free.

00:20:36.620 I think that there comes a point when it's actually threatening

00:20:39.240 to the body politic of a free country to do certain things.

00:20:42.680 And I think that, look, there's plenty of things that you can do

00:20:44.640 in the privacy of your home that I might disapprove of

00:20:46.840 that aren't going to pick my pocket or break my leg

00:20:49.120 and aren't going to threaten the polity.

00:20:50.860 But some of this stuff, when you have the establishment,

00:20:55.200 the Dr. Jill Bidens of the world, 0.99

00:20:57.480 supporting this kind of garbage, 0.99

00:20:59.180 which is not just artistically bad, 1.00

00:21:01.120 but it's also morally bad,

00:21:02.980 something has gone terribly wrong.

00:21:04.840 By the way,

00:21:05.060 you've lost the authority to say no.

00:21:06.680 One of the things that we talk about all the time now

00:21:09.240 is the distinction between adults and children,

00:21:11.020 and we should allow adults to do things that children can't do.

00:21:13.440 Obviously, that's true,

00:21:14.540 although I would say that there are certain things

00:21:15.880 that adults should also not be allowed to do.

00:21:16.680 With plenty of limits, yeah.

00:21:17.500 But one of the things that we ought to say here

00:21:20.380 is that popular culture is designed for kids.

00:21:23.260 To pretend that the Grammys is not directed at kids is a lie.

00:21:25.920 To pretend that what was put on the Grammys

00:21:27.800 was designed for adults 18 and up,

00:21:29.560 it's just not true.

00:21:30.620 Because if you ask a 12-year-old

00:21:32.300 what exactly they are listening to,

00:21:33.560 they are listening to exactly the same thing

00:21:34.760 that a 15-year-old is listening to,

00:21:35.840 which is exactly the same thing

00:21:36.780 an 18-year-old is listening to,

00:21:37.840 particularly when it comes to music.

00:21:38.920 Music happens to be an area

00:21:40.620 where those boundaries are unbelievably permeable.

00:21:42.600 I'd say I watched the Grammys more as a child

00:21:44.240 than I did now because you're busier.

00:21:45.120 And what's the message that came out of that performance?

00:21:47.400 I got dinged by our publicists

00:21:48.960 over at Media Matters on this point,

00:21:50.540 but it's a true point, so I'll reiterate it.

00:21:53.640 Symbols have a purpose.

00:21:54.540 We live in a semiotic world.

00:21:56.300 Symbols are very, very important.

00:21:57.580 That's what makes the world intelligible.

00:21:59.740 And what was the performance?

00:22:02.040 At a physical level, 0.98

00:22:03.220 it was a bunch of transvestites. 1.00

00:22:05.740 Sam Smith calls himself a pansexual or something. 0.60

00:22:08.920 He's a non-binary pansexual.

00:22:11.080 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:22:12.040 I didn't want to be imprecise.

00:22:12.780 Please get that straight.

00:22:13.600 No, good point.

00:22:14.520 Don't get it straight.

00:22:15.120 Don't get it straight.

00:22:15.680 And get it very crooked, actually. 0.93

00:22:17.760 And the other one is a transgender, 0.99

00:22:19.760 and then the rest were a bunch of drag queens. 1.00

00:22:21.220 And you see this in a bunch of Sam Smith's videos, too.

00:22:23.440 It was a very pro-trans performance,

00:22:26.140 as we see everywhere.

00:22:27.100 And the symbol of that was the devil.

00:22:29.420 And I couldn't help but notice,

00:22:30.920 very often, artistic depictions of demons

00:22:33.440 and weird occult stuff is androgynous and trans and weird.

00:22:38.620 And I think the reason for this is...

00:22:39.920 Wasn't that Lil Nas X also?

00:22:41.060 Lil Nas X did the same thing.

00:22:42.760 The reason for this is,

00:22:43.920 at least the traditional Christian understanding,

00:22:45.820 is the devil hates human beings especially

00:22:48.180 because we have flesh. 0.98

00:22:49.940 And he doesn't want to bow down to some ape 1.00

00:22:51.740 that has flesh on him.

00:22:52.680 And that the fleshiness of this world

00:22:54.900 is very offensive to demons that are pure spirit.

00:22:57.240 And so, you know,

00:22:58.800 our publicists knocked me for making this connection.

00:23:02.320 I didn't make the connection.

00:23:04.020 Sam Smith is the one putting on the performance.

00:23:05.860 The fact that Lil Nas X made the connection,

00:23:08.220 the fact that this is the symbol they're all using,

00:23:10.280 should tell us something about this real political problem. 0.95

00:23:13.280 Transgenderism is really a mockery to creation itself. 1.00

00:23:15.920 I mean, it's the ultimate mockery to creation itself. 0.98

00:23:18.460 I gotta say, I did, after seeing some of the performance,

00:23:21.820 I did leave quite encouraged

00:23:23.700 for the reason we've all kind of outlined already,

00:23:25.880 which is that, like, these people are really out of ideas.

00:23:28.800 Yeah.

00:23:28.940 They've just totally run out of ideas.

00:23:30.380 I mean, you mentioned Lil Nas X.

00:23:31.540 This exact thing was already done.

00:23:33.900 And it was done in a more shocking way even then.

00:23:35.680 It was, he was like giving a lap dance to Satan.

00:23:38.340 Right.

00:23:38.740 But even then, at that time, you're like,

00:23:40.140 okay, I've seen this, this exact imagery

00:23:42.520 has been used so many times.

00:23:44.040 Well, but this is the thing, this is the thing.

00:23:45.840 Like, tribalism, cultural ubiquity, the purity grift,

00:23:53.120 it is boring.

00:23:54.580 Because you, the thing you actually can't do

00:23:57.380 in the transhumanist moment,

00:23:59.000 the thing you actually can't do is transgress

00:24:02.260 the popular opinion of your tribe right now.

00:24:05.460 Of course.

00:24:05.640 And so, to be a political purist

00:24:07.540 isn't to have the right ideas.

00:24:09.520 It's to see which ideas are the most in vogue

00:24:11.520 and then just emulate them.

00:24:13.500 Just repeat them back.

00:24:15.100 So, all that he did is he said,

00:24:17.780 oh, Lil Nas X did this and it worked. 0.70

00:24:19.500 I'll do it.

00:24:19.880 I mean, it's derivative for a reason.

00:24:22.520 It's derivative by design.

00:24:23.860 There's a reason that in dictatorships,

00:24:25.320 everybody dresses like the dictator.

00:24:26.860 There's a reason that communist countries

00:24:28.060 can't produce art.

00:24:29.840 It's this.

00:24:30.700 Because art is transgressive.

00:24:33.660 Because you're trying to make,

00:24:34.340 you're trying to make statements

00:24:35.580 that are not always in vogue.

00:24:37.220 You're trying to challenge an audience.

00:24:39.460 You're trying to...

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00:26:41.880 Oh.

00:26:44.740 It's so pretty.

00:26:47.320 Don't shoot it down.

00:26:50.140 Let it flow above my head.

00:26:55.000 What should we do?

00:26:56.720 What should we do?

00:26:58.400 No, no, no.

00:26:58.780 I just want to be clear

00:26:59.800 that I ordered them

00:27:01.840 not to do this joke,

00:27:03.000 but I was overruled

00:27:03.980 by my generals.

00:27:06.020 I heard somewhere

00:27:07.220 we have a $100 million

00:27:08.240 entertainment budget.

00:27:10.220 How much when...

00:27:12.600 10% for the big guy.

00:27:16.140 This is going to be there

00:27:17.080 the whole time now?

00:27:18.200 It's going to be here

00:27:18.880 for eight days, actually.

00:27:20.120 Yeah, it's going to fly over

00:27:21.460 all of our important installations

00:27:22.400 and then it'll...

00:27:23.520 I didn't know it was

00:27:24.700 an actual balloon.

00:27:25.980 That's surprising.

00:27:28.160 Sophisticated technology.

00:27:29.800 My hearing aid

00:27:31.660 and or Corvette.

00:27:33.800 Does it contain

00:27:34.700 classified documents?

00:27:37.660 What's in it?

00:27:39.040 No one knows.

00:27:40.900 The comedy on this show

00:27:42.100 has just been tremendous.

00:27:43.020 I was going to say,

00:27:43.520 this is the death.

00:27:44.400 We just lost 20,000 viewers

00:27:46.340 in my life.

00:27:47.660 There's no way.

00:27:48.960 We deserve to lose them.

00:27:50.300 Yeah.

00:27:51.140 What is he...

00:27:51.660 Oh my gosh.

00:27:52.420 Is he sniffing your hair?

00:27:53.360 Mr. President.

00:27:54.380 Not again, Mr. President.

00:27:56.680 This is the most fun

00:27:57.540 we're going to have

00:27:57.940 before he starts

00:27:58.400 actually speaking.

00:27:59.080 So let's bring it all out.

00:28:01.080 Today,

00:28:02.220 Jen Psaki said...

00:28:04.080 No, it's not Jen.

00:28:05.840 I'm a great storyteller.

00:28:06.760 I just want to tell you

00:28:07.580 a little story.

00:28:08.480 You're not even moving

00:28:09.200 the mouth while you're...

00:28:10.080 Would you like to do this?

00:28:14.720 No, Walsh.

00:28:16.420 No, I don't.

00:28:17.580 Dog-faced pony soldier.

00:28:21.360 My dad was standing with me

00:28:23.000 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

00:28:24.920 One day on the street.

00:28:26.320 Watching Sam Smith.

00:28:28.760 Two men.

00:28:29.780 And Mr. President,

00:28:30.380 you walked with MLK, right?

00:28:31.660 I did.

00:28:32.280 I did.

00:28:32.600 But let me finish my story.

00:28:35.100 It's funny when the mouth moves.

00:28:36.520 Okay.

00:28:37.280 Thank you.

00:28:38.140 I can't do it all the time.

00:28:39.760 Not much.

00:28:40.300 And there were two men

00:28:43.040 going at it like jackhammers

00:28:45.320 on his feet.

00:28:46.800 My father said,

00:28:48.760 Joey,

00:28:49.300 Joey said,

00:28:50.220 that's what love looks like.

00:28:51.980 And I said,

00:28:52.960 thanks,

00:28:53.820 pop,

00:28:54.920 corn pop.

00:28:56.480 That's another story.

00:28:57.980 No,

00:28:58.240 no more stories.

00:28:59.760 Thank you,

00:29:00.240 Mr. President.

00:29:00.920 Thank you,

00:29:01.180 Mr. President.

00:29:02.080 Oh,

00:29:02.320 are we,

00:29:02.620 are we...

00:29:03.260 That's enough,

00:29:04.180 Mr. President.

00:29:04.260 The eyes are so realistic.

00:29:05.540 Now I'm looking forward

00:29:06.260 to the state of the union.

00:29:09.700 Yeah,

00:29:10.160 they say there's no great comedy

00:29:11.360 at the Daily Wire.

00:29:13.980 That was me,

00:29:14.760 I think.

00:29:14.920 Yeah.

00:29:17.020 What about this balloon guy?

00:29:19.360 Yeah,

00:29:19.860 we haven't talked about the balloon.

00:29:21.300 We probably should,

00:29:22.000 Mr. President.

00:29:23.260 I think we all got played

00:29:24.520 with this whole balloon story.

00:29:25.820 I agree.

00:29:26.440 I think the whole thing

00:29:27.200 is just a sham.

00:29:28.520 To get them out of having

00:29:29.260 to go have their meeting

00:29:30.120 with the chai comms,

00:29:31.760 right?

00:29:32.060 And to get us to stop

00:29:32.980 talking about Pfizer,

00:29:33.920 as far as I'm concerned.

00:29:35.200 Yeah.

00:29:35.340 It's amazing.

00:29:35.880 We finally,

00:29:36.380 there's a huge release

00:29:37.200 on all this information.

00:29:39.000 You get the guy

00:29:39.960 who was a year below me

00:29:40.920 in college,

00:29:41.480 oddly enough,

00:29:42.300 the Pfizer exec guy.

00:29:43.800 He's there.

00:29:44.740 He says,

00:29:45.360 yeah,

00:29:45.680 we're doing directed evolution,

00:29:47.160 gain of function research.

00:29:48.300 Yeah,

00:29:48.780 it definitely affects menstruation.

00:29:50.980 Yeah,

00:29:51.360 this,

00:29:51.560 that,

00:29:51.660 and the other thing.

00:29:52.380 And then what?

00:29:52.800 All of a sudden they say,

00:29:53.460 hey,

00:29:53.580 look,

00:29:53.740 a squirrel.

00:29:54.600 Look up there.

00:29:55.200 Hey,

00:29:55.400 look,

00:29:55.500 there's a shiny object

00:29:56.280 in the sky.

00:29:56.780 And then we all fall for it.

00:29:57.780 Do you really think

00:29:58.540 they were just trying

00:29:59.000 to get to the Chinese conference?

00:30:01.280 Yes.

00:30:01.940 Wow.

00:30:02.460 Why?

00:30:04.020 Why would you think that?

00:30:05.660 Because I think that

00:30:06.620 the Chinese are spying 1.00

00:30:07.840 on us all the time.

00:30:09.520 And why?

00:30:09.920 This is for Montana?

00:30:10.660 Yeah,

00:30:10.940 but this is a balloon.

00:30:11.880 This balloon was the size

00:30:12.780 of five greyhound buses.

00:30:14.780 They keep showing it

00:30:15.480 like as a thing

00:30:15.960 at a carnival.

00:30:16.720 It was enormous.

00:30:17.780 And it was like,

00:30:19.140 well,

00:30:19.320 you know,

00:30:19.640 you can't let them fly.

00:30:20.640 It was carrying the wizard.

00:30:21.480 I agree that you,

00:30:22.420 the wizard of Oz.

00:30:23.920 I agree that you shouldn't,

00:30:25.280 that we should oppose

00:30:25.980 Chinese spying,

00:30:26.620 but they didn't even stop.

00:30:27.580 They didn't even do that.

00:30:28.640 Yeah,

00:30:28.840 they didn't.

00:30:29.300 They just blew it up,

00:30:30.180 made a big news story,

00:30:31.380 drug it out for as long

00:30:32.400 as the news cycle

00:30:33.040 would allow for it to go.

00:30:33.940 Oh,

00:30:33.960 you're attributing cleverness.

00:30:35.180 Yeah.

00:30:36.180 Oh,

00:30:36.380 I look smart.

00:30:38.420 No,

00:30:38.920 what happened is that 1.00

00:30:39.860 he's an idiot. 1.00

00:30:40.980 And he was like, 1.00

00:30:42.440 oh,

00:30:42.800 look,

00:30:43.100 some of my generals told me

00:30:44.080 that there is a Chinese

00:30:44.840 spy balloon above American soil.

00:30:46.400 Perhaps no one will see it.

00:30:47.840 After all,

00:30:48.220 I cannot,

00:30:48.580 since I'm clinically blind,

00:30:49.920 and a bunch of people in Montana

00:30:51.140 looked up in the sky

00:30:51.920 and behold,

00:30:52.880 an enormous spy balloon.

00:30:54.720 And they said,

00:30:55.260 a spy balloon.

00:30:56.180 And Joe Biden said,

00:30:56.900 oh,

00:30:57.000 and nothing.

00:30:59.080 Donald Trump gazed

00:30:59.800 directly into the sun

00:31:00.780 looking for it.

00:31:02.000 And for eight days,

00:31:02.800 it floated above American soil,

00:31:04.520 moving slowly past

00:31:05.580 all American military installations.

00:31:08.140 And then,

00:31:08.800 I can tell you,

00:31:10.160 honestly,

00:31:10.980 like,

00:31:11.660 the proof is in the pudding.

00:31:13.200 The timeline is obvious.

00:31:14.840 This thing was crossing

00:31:15.920 American soil early last week.

00:31:18.240 On about Friday,

00:31:19.420 this started to become

00:31:19.920 a major issue for Joe Biden.

00:31:21.520 And everyone on the left

00:31:22.240 came out and said,

00:31:23.100 you can't shoot this thing down.

00:31:24.460 Why would we shoot this thing down?

00:31:25.300 We can never shoot it down.

00:31:26.000 If you question him

00:31:26.740 shooting the thing down,

00:31:27.400 it's because you just don't understand

00:31:28.360 foreign policy or politics.

00:31:29.740 Of course he's not going to

00:31:30.420 shoot it down.

00:31:31.100 They were fully in control.

00:31:32.160 And then Saturday morning, 1.00

00:31:33.360 the schmuck comes out. 1.00

00:31:34.240 And he's like, 1.00

00:31:35.160 well,

00:31:35.460 I said on Wednesday,

00:31:37.520 we should shoot it down.

00:31:39.060 And apparently,

00:31:39.640 everybody ignored him.

00:31:40.580 And then it floats

00:31:41.260 all the way to the ocean.

00:31:42.060 It's like,

00:31:42.340 it's over water now.

00:31:44.220 And then they send 0.99

00:31:46.080 the F-22 to kill it. 0.99

00:31:47.200 The whole thing 1.00

00:31:48.200 is ridiculous. 0.98

00:31:49.360 And the clearest attempt 0.99

00:31:50.520 that it was obvious

00:31:51.380 indicator that it was

00:31:52.880 an attempt to backfill

00:31:53.560 is that they sent out

00:31:54.780 anonymous Defense Department

00:31:55.920 officials who tried to claim

00:31:57.140 that this happened

00:31:57.900 during the Trump administration.

00:31:59.000 Unbelievable.

00:31:59.540 It's a lie.

00:32:00.240 It did not happen

00:32:00.820 during the Trump administration.

00:32:01.260 John Bolton said it wasn't true.

00:32:02.160 They were calling him

00:32:02.800 xenophobic Chinese people

00:32:04.260 and now they're like,

00:32:04.920 oh no,

00:32:05.240 he did let them float balloons.

00:32:06.380 I mean, 0.93

00:32:06.520 that was the most ridiculous part. 0.94

00:32:07.600 The PR maneuver 0.97

00:32:08.200 to try to blame Trump

00:32:09.060 was like,

00:32:09.760 wow.

00:32:10.120 And then you saw

00:32:10.600 the response

00:32:11.300 after all the officials,

00:32:12.900 not just pro-Trump ones,

00:32:13.920 but John Bolton,

00:32:14.600 you mentioned,

00:32:14.900 he said,

00:32:15.120 I've heard any of this.

00:32:16.320 They said,

00:32:16.600 oh,

00:32:16.780 well,

00:32:17.300 yeah,

00:32:17.560 we,

00:32:17.840 no,

00:32:18.040 they were there,

00:32:19.280 but we didn't see them.

00:32:20.440 We missed it.

00:32:21.140 Yeah,

00:32:21.620 but we definitely know

00:32:22.480 they happened.

00:32:22.700 That's totally the same thing

00:32:23.640 as a giant Chinese spy balloon

00:32:24.960 floating across the entire

00:32:25.960 continental United States

00:32:27.260 over the course of a week.

00:32:28.520 Can I just,

00:32:29.600 can I just,

00:32:29.620 can I just be up

00:32:29.800 to twist it into a dog?

00:32:31.720 Are you going to hold

00:32:34.600 that the whole time?

00:32:36.920 I think he has to.

00:32:37.940 How dare,

00:32:38.460 how dare you suggest

00:32:39.660 that the president 0.88

00:32:40.200 is a meat puppet 0.51

00:32:41.340 of other people

00:32:42.180 controlled by others,

00:32:43.900 outsiders.

00:32:44.680 The president

00:32:45.080 is his own paper bag.

00:32:46.760 How dare you, sir?

00:32:47.860 Is that what symbolism is?

00:32:49.080 I don't,

00:32:49.300 yeah,

00:32:49.580 I'm straight.

00:32:49.920 Well,

00:32:50.160 you're the one who said this.

00:32:50.780 Yeah,

00:32:51.020 hold on,

00:32:51.480 I'm seeing symbols.

00:32:52.340 Who's going to be

00:32:52.700 the most excited

00:32:53.400 when he comes in?

00:32:54.040 That's what you really wonder,

00:32:54.840 right?

00:32:55.000 Like when he walks in

00:32:55.800 and they do like,

00:32:56.560 they all pretend

00:32:57.220 to be excited

00:32:57.820 and like as if our world.

00:32:58.740 Oh,

00:32:58.860 did you see,

00:32:59.260 we have to talk about his guests.

00:33:00.720 So great to see you guys.

00:33:01.800 I invited Bono

00:33:03.160 because he's famous.

00:33:04.620 Like why is,

00:33:05.420 like why is Bono?

00:33:06.380 I hope they fly

00:33:08.600 the Ukrainian flag again

00:33:09.860 and Bono,

00:33:10.520 I mean,

00:33:10.760 this is crazy.

00:33:11.380 Literally,

00:33:11.720 what is he doing here?

00:33:12.300 I told you,

00:33:12.840 when I was a young man,

00:33:14.800 when I was an actor,

00:33:15.860 I had a job

00:33:16.620 as a fake sommelier

00:33:17.440 at George Soros' wedding.

00:33:18.960 It's one of my weirdest jobs

00:33:19.820 I ever had.

00:33:20.440 Do you know who was

00:33:20.940 at the wedding?

00:33:22.020 Bono.

00:33:23.000 He's at like every liberal event

00:33:24.260 in the world.

00:33:24.820 I love the excuses

00:33:24.940 they have for this.

00:33:25.460 So clearly they invited

00:33:26.420 Paul Pelosi

00:33:26.960 so that Joe Biden

00:33:28.140 can point up there

00:33:28.680 and be like,

00:33:29.060 and there were people,

00:33:30.080 there were people

00:33:30.920 in this room

00:33:31.580 who wanted him 0.98

00:33:32.900 to be hit in the head 1.00

00:33:33.840 by a weird naked man. 0.99

00:33:35.340 who he'd called 0.99

00:33:37.340 for the gay. 0.95

00:33:37.980 Right, exactly.

00:33:38.760 That is why

00:33:39.760 they're doing that.

00:33:40.620 Other people

00:33:41.100 are a bunch of cancer survivors

00:33:43.040 so that he can talk

00:33:43.600 about his cancer moonshot

00:33:44.480 because as we all know,

00:33:45.320 the thing that prohibits

00:33:46.020 science from solving cancer

00:33:47.100 is that we don't have

00:33:47.680 sufficient commitment

00:33:48.400 to solving cancer.

00:33:49.660 That's it.

00:33:50.140 If we just focus

00:33:50.760 on cancer more,

00:33:51.740 that will do it.

00:33:52.360 That's an exciting one.

00:33:53.500 And he's also having

00:33:54.000 the family of Tyree Nichols

00:33:54.960 who they didn't care

00:33:55.680 about five minutes ago

00:33:56.420 and will not care

00:33:56.980 about five minutes from now.

00:33:58.660 But Joe Biden can pretend

00:33:59.920 that he cares deeply

00:34:00.880 about the fate of...

00:34:01.940 Yeah, Ben,

00:34:02.400 you talked about this

00:34:03.080 on your show

00:34:03.600 last week

00:34:04.460 about how

00:34:05.040 disgusting it is 0.97

00:34:06.620 that politicians 0.96

00:34:07.380 show up at funerals

00:34:08.280 like that.

00:34:09.420 I'd never actually

00:34:10.260 thought about it.

00:34:10.840 It is genuinely disgusting.

00:34:12.540 You listen to the speeches

00:34:13.560 that Kamala Harris

00:34:15.220 and Al Sharpton

00:34:15.960 gave at that funeral

00:34:17.060 and it is just

00:34:18.060 a political stump. 0.92

00:34:19.180 It's gross

00:34:19.500 and they do it

00:34:19.960 all the time.

00:34:20.740 So you remember

00:34:21.320 the Paul Wellstone funeral

00:34:22.220 where they showed up

00:34:23.460 at the Paul Wellstone funeral.

00:34:24.420 Paul Wellstone

00:34:24.800 was a senator

00:34:25.520 from Minnesota.

00:34:26.180 He died in a plane crash

00:34:27.020 and they basically

00:34:27.540 held a political rally.

00:34:28.780 And then you remember

00:34:29.400 that there was

00:34:29.800 the Arizona shooting

00:34:30.420 and Barack Obama

00:34:31.000 showed up

00:34:31.620 at the memorial

00:34:32.960 for victims

00:34:33.420 of the Arizona shooting

00:34:34.040 and he did a whole

00:34:34.580 gun control pitch

00:34:35.500 and then he did

00:34:36.060 the same thing

00:34:36.420 in Dallas.

00:34:37.200 And people showing up

00:34:38.420 randomly at the funerals

00:34:39.400 of people they don't know

00:34:40.280 and then giving speeches 0.55

00:34:41.800 there is disgusting.

00:34:43.540 I'm sorry.

00:34:44.040 George Floyd's funeral,

00:34:44.900 the three-day funeral,

00:34:45.760 anything had been grosser

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00:36:07.740 My only wish

00:36:08.620 had hair for me to smell.

00:36:10.580 Don't let that stop you.

00:36:15.320 Can we talk about

00:36:16.240 the Paul Pelosi thing

00:36:17.040 for a second?

00:36:17.260 We just saw Paul Pelosi.

00:36:18.780 Can we talk about

00:36:19.300 the Paul Pelosi thing

00:36:19.920 for a second?

00:36:20.260 Because I think

00:36:21.020 it was a totally botched,

00:36:24.200 the conservatives botched

00:36:25.380 the whole story completely.

00:36:26.360 Of course.

00:36:27.120 By, you know,

00:36:28.360 and I don't blame people

00:36:29.340 for speculating

00:36:29.900 because they're being

00:36:30.500 weirdly secretive

00:36:31.520 about things

00:36:32.020 and they just released

00:36:32.700 a 911 tape.

00:36:33.680 Selective leaks.

00:36:34.680 Right, and then

00:36:35.120 we find out later

00:36:35.980 that they only didn't release it

00:36:36.940 because the 911 operator 0.99

00:36:38.160 completely makes a fool 0.98

00:36:39.760 of herself 1.00

00:36:40.120 and I think

00:36:40.680 that was the issue

00:36:41.800 with that.

00:36:42.560 But the real story

00:36:43.880 which I said

00:36:44.840 from the beginning

00:36:45.340 it's like

00:36:45.840 it's very plausible

00:36:47.900 that this really was

00:36:49.300 just a homeless drug addict

00:36:51.000 in San Francisco

00:36:51.500 that broke into the house.

00:36:53.220 There's no reason

00:36:53.820 to get into any theories

00:36:55.020 about gay lovers

00:36:56.640 and all that kind of stuff. 1.00

00:36:57.620 Damn. 0.99

00:36:57.860 So the real story 1.00

00:36:59.400 is that

00:36:59.940 the crime problem

00:37:01.600 in San Francisco

00:37:02.420 is so bad

00:37:04.120 that even Nancy Pelosi's

00:37:05.360 house isn't safe

00:37:06.340 and that should have

00:37:07.940 always been the point

00:37:09.560 but instead we went

00:37:10.420 into this whole thing 1.00

00:37:11.000 about gay hookers 1.00

00:37:12.380 and all the rest of it. 0.99

00:37:12.880 I do think one thing

00:37:13.600 that is true though

00:37:14.140 is that when these incidents

00:37:15.640 tend to happen to her

00:37:16.340 they keep it very hush-hush.

00:37:17.560 Let's just give you

00:37:18.000 an example on the right.

00:37:18.800 Brad Parscale

00:37:19.460 when he got arrested

00:37:20.400 that tape was out

00:37:21.520 before he made it

00:37:22.220 into the cruiser.

00:37:22.900 It was like circulating

00:37:23.480 on Twitter.

00:37:24.000 It was unbelievable

00:37:24.340 how quickly it was released.

00:37:25.820 And for whatever reason

00:37:26.440 when it involves her husband

00:37:27.300 it's so hush-hush

00:37:28.080 they go through everything

00:37:29.360 not to give the public

00:37:30.460 any information.

00:37:31.200 In this situation actually

00:37:32.400 when it actually was revealed

00:37:33.780 I thought this would have

00:37:34.480 helped them.

00:37:35.360 It actually would have put to bed

00:37:36.420 a lot of the conspiracies.

00:37:37.240 When I saw it

00:37:37.960 as much as I detest

00:37:39.360 Nancy Pelosi

00:37:39.920 you can't see an 80-year-old

00:37:41.420 get hit like that

00:37:42.060 and not feel a tremendous

00:37:43.000 I mean like I was like

00:37:44.540 wow I feel really bad

00:37:46.380 that he actually went through this.

00:37:47.200 This is an old man 0.70

00:37:48.160 that's getting beat up

00:37:48.960 in his own house

00:37:49.580 and you hear the call

00:37:50.600 and it's like he's in such pain

00:37:51.940 for the dispatcher

00:37:53.240 to understand

00:37:53.900 no this is a hostage situation.

00:37:55.400 He's not being subtle.

00:37:55.960 I need you to just

00:37:56.760 you know have

00:37:57.520 a basic level like you here

00:37:59.220 to understand.

00:37:59.540 She's like okay bye

00:38:00.460 he's like no no no no no 0.74

00:38:01.620 no not bye.

00:38:02.880 Remember how they originally

00:38:03.700 played it that she did

00:38:04.400 an amazing job?

00:38:05.380 Yeah.

00:38:05.560 She saw the subtleties

00:38:06.160 they did for like weeks

00:38:07.000 it was

00:38:07.240 she saw the subtleties

00:38:08.300 of what he was saying

00:38:09.080 and she could see

00:38:09.720 his coded language

00:38:10.620 it really was

00:38:12.040 an amazing thing.

00:38:12.840 And they took down

00:38:13.380 that reporter on NBC

00:38:14.420 and he actually

00:38:15.180 factually stated

00:38:16.300 so there was a lot of

00:38:17.120 room for conspiracy

00:38:17.760 because they were being

00:38:18.660 too much hushed up.

00:38:18.740 What I said at the time

00:38:19.940 I said at the time

00:38:20.980 it is perfectly plausible

00:38:22.620 that this was exactly

00:38:24.520 as it has been

00:38:25.160 described to us

00:38:25.960 but the problem is

00:38:28.360 they've created

00:38:29.100 an environment

00:38:29.680 where it is also plausible

00:38:31.260 that if Paul Pelosi 0.59

00:38:32.580 were hit in the head 1.00

00:38:33.280 by a gay naked lover 1.00

00:38:35.660 they also wouldn't tell us. 0.98

00:38:37.760 The media is now

00:38:39.120 so uninvested

00:38:40.600 in ever scrutinizing

00:38:41.680 anything that could have

00:38:43.060 any negative consequence

00:38:43.940 for the Democrats

00:38:44.560 that we're ready for

00:38:45.940 the conspiracy is happening

00:38:47.140 all the time

00:38:47.620 right there in the open

00:38:48.160 so we're ready to not believe

00:38:49.760 or believe anything

00:38:50.700 on that basis.

00:38:51.460 We were all asking

00:38:52.240 who's lying

00:38:53.280 and who's covering up

00:38:53.960 is it the Democrats

00:38:54.960 or the Republicans

00:38:56.140 what everybody

00:38:57.780 seemed to miss here

00:38:58.760 is there was a third party

00:39:00.300 that could have been lying

00:39:01.260 and trying to hush stuff up

00:39:02.420 and it was the cops

00:39:03.700 who released the information

00:39:05.900 to the press

00:39:06.600 that oh actually

00:39:07.840 he referred to the invader

00:39:09.120 as a friend

00:39:09.860 on the phone call

00:39:10.820 who released to the press

00:39:11.760 oh he was in his underwear

00:39:13.080 oh he had a drink

00:39:14.400 oh he had this

00:39:14.980 it was the cops

00:39:16.340 who were releasing that

00:39:17.200 to fuel the conspiracy theories

00:39:18.840 to cover their own derrieres

00:39:20.500 because they were incompetent. 0.64

00:39:21.680 Can we talk for a second

00:39:22.420 about like

00:39:23.080 what the political situation

00:39:24.000 is for Joe Biden

00:39:24.860 going into the state

00:39:25.500 of the union

00:39:25.900 because I know

00:39:26.860 I know

00:39:27.140 if we have to

00:39:27.700 I hate the state

00:39:28.320 of the union

00:39:28.640 more than any of you

00:39:29.600 probably all of you

00:39:30.320 combined with the fiery

00:39:31.180 passionate hatred

00:39:32.160 of a thousand sons

00:39:33.160 I mean I despise it

00:39:35.200 I think it's a monarchic

00:39:36.000 institution that elevates

00:39:37.220 the article 2 branch

00:39:38.540 of government

00:39:38.820 above the article 1

00:39:39.560 branch of government

00:39:40.120 but what's the problem

00:39:40.680 those are references

00:39:40.980 to articles

00:39:41.500 that Joe Biden's judges

00:39:42.560 don't know about 0.96

00:39:43.060 and the pathetic spectacle 1.00

00:39:45.840 of a doddering old fool 1.00

00:39:47.660 walking down the aisle 1.00

00:39:48.620 to the throngs 1.00

00:39:49.440 of cheering morons 1.00

00:39:50.480 pretending that they like him 1.00

00:39:51.940 and care about him

00:39:52.640 while we all sit here

00:39:54.000 for 60 minutes

00:39:55.060 and watch him

00:39:55.800 read a canned speech

00:39:57.280 from a teleprompter

00:39:58.280 in which he pledges

00:39:58.960 to do a bunch of things

00:39:59.800 that he will not do

00:40:00.600 and lies a bunch

00:40:01.240 is the worst thing

00:40:02.220 in the world

00:40:02.480 but what exactly

00:40:03.920 is he trying to do

00:40:04.720 is this as they say

00:40:05.760 the launch of his

00:40:07.140 of his second

00:40:07.840 successful

00:40:09.260 I was going to say

00:40:10.940 his second presidential campaign

00:40:11.760 then I had to correct myself

00:40:12.540 because he's run for president

00:40:13.200 like 1 million times

00:40:14.180 so presumably

00:40:15.740 he's running again

00:40:17.180 or at least being

00:40:18.120 ambulatorially wheeled

00:40:19.920 again toward the presidency

00:40:21.760 what does he have to do here

00:40:22.660 well I think that

00:40:23.880 the one thing

00:40:24.520 that always gets me

00:40:25.380 about Joe Biden

00:40:26.240 is after four years

00:40:28.000 of listening to how

00:40:28.760 Donald Trump lied

00:40:29.740 about this

00:40:30.180 and lied about that

00:40:30.740 no one's going to defend

00:40:32.080 Donald Trump

00:40:32.600 as the icon of truth

00:40:33.580 he was kind of a

00:40:34.220 carny barker

00:40:34.920 exaggerated things

00:40:35.960 this guy lies

00:40:37.920 with such aggression

00:40:39.180 oh yeah

00:40:39.740 that it's offensive

00:40:40.900 it is offensive

00:40:41.780 to be told

00:40:42.440 that you can afford bread

00:40:43.840 when you can't

00:40:44.880 it's offensive

00:40:45.320 to be told

00:40:45.780 that everything

00:40:46.220 is tickety-boo

00:40:46.940 when everything

00:40:47.680 is going down

00:40:48.560 the crapper

00:40:49.220 this immediate moment

00:40:51.900 he has had this

00:40:53.040 jobs report

00:40:53.840 which I'm suspicious of

00:40:56.460 I'm not sure

00:40:57.300 I believe this

00:40:58.820 jobs report

00:41:00.000 which has cut

00:41:00.800 the unemployment rate

00:41:02.080 to something like

00:41:03.180 this lowest level

00:41:04.680 which by the way

00:41:06.100 is actually bad

00:41:07.020 for inflation

00:41:07.520 which is our real problem

00:41:08.560 right now

00:41:10.040 we have this

00:41:10.700 tremendous problem

00:41:11.580 that ordinary people

00:41:12.500 are having a hard time

00:41:13.440 buying the staples

00:41:14.500 that is the state of play

00:41:16.680 would you like me

00:41:16.960 to explain the jobs report

00:41:17.600 by the way

00:41:17.880 the reason the jobs report

00:41:18.740 came in hot

00:41:19.220 at 500,000

00:41:20.040 is because they

00:41:20.880 underestimated the jobs

00:41:21.760 growth in November

00:41:22.360 or December

00:41:22.740 and so when you

00:41:23.400 average it all out

00:41:24.160 it doesn't look nearly

00:41:24.920 as good

00:41:25.160 right exactly

00:41:25.720 so you tend to get

00:41:26.520 these kind of like

00:41:27.080 weird snake

00:41:28.260 ate the rabbit

00:41:29.000 kind of bumps

00:41:29.440 sometimes in the

00:41:30.100 employment markets

00:41:30.760 but the real problem

00:41:31.540 is that there's only

00:41:32.840 one chart that matters

00:41:33.480 and that is the line

00:41:34.400 of employment

00:41:34.840 before the pandemic

00:41:35.580 versus after the pandemic

00:41:36.560 right

00:41:36.820 so if you look

00:41:37.420 at the line of employment

00:41:38.080 before the pandemic

00:41:38.660 it looks like this

00:41:39.360 the pandemic hits

00:41:40.360 if that line were to

00:41:41.320 continue

00:41:41.580 it would be in this

00:41:42.020 trajectory

00:41:42.400 there is a

00:41:43.220 the pandemic hits

00:41:44.340 the jobs market

00:41:45.000 goes boom

00:41:45.500 plummets

00:41:46.120 when it starts to recover

00:41:47.360 under Trump

00:41:48.120 it takes a v-shape

00:41:49.600 it goes like

00:41:50.200 directly straight up

00:41:51.120 back toward that line

00:41:51.920 that original line

00:41:52.520 and then Joe Biden

00:41:53.280 takes office

00:41:53.720 and it levels off

00:41:54.420 and so it's been trailing

00:41:55.260 almost in parallel

00:41:56.500 what the line should be

00:41:57.460 except there's all

00:41:58.520 these missing jobs

00:41:59.240 so all those missing jobs

00:42:00.120 are missing

00:42:00.320 so we've regained the jobs

00:42:01.320 that we lost during the pandemic

00:42:02.160 but we should be well ahead of that

00:42:04.560 considering that we're now

00:42:05.300 two years out of the pandemic

00:42:06.220 but the important thing

00:42:06.940 is you have polls

00:42:07.900 showing more people

00:42:09.220 than ever saying

00:42:10.220 they're unhappy

00:42:11.460 with the government

00:42:12.120 that the government

00:42:12.520 A the government

00:42:13.260 is the biggest problem

00:42:14.400 we're facing

00:42:14.840 that's the largest

00:42:15.660 problem

00:42:16.520 according to the polls

00:42:17.320 B people say 0.99

00:42:18.560 they're worse off

00:42:19.220 than they were

00:42:19.620 two years ago

00:42:20.380 a record number

00:42:22.560 of people say

00:42:23.260 that they are doing

00:42:24.300 worse than they were doing

00:42:25.740 two years ago

00:42:26.580 and a record number

00:42:27.100 of people are saying

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00:42:28.200 is going in the wrong direction

00:42:29.260 to have this guy

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00:44:18.600 yeah I think that

00:44:20.640 it's true

00:44:21.660 Donald Trump's lies

00:44:22.800 were so offensive

00:44:23.780 because of the way

00:44:25.200 in which he lied

00:44:25.840 and when I say

00:44:26.280 they were offensive

00:44:26.800 you mean hilarious

00:44:28.180 people will get angry with me

00:44:29.420 they were hilarious

00:44:31.760 people get angry

00:44:32.560 but they were offensive

00:44:33.580 they offended our sensibilities

00:44:35.120 because we were used to

00:44:36.120 being lied to

00:44:36.760 the other way

00:44:37.440 all of our sensibilities

00:44:39.380 were sort of formed

00:44:40.160 to embrace political lies

00:44:41.580 and then he came along

00:44:42.600 and offended those sensibilities

00:44:43.900 and in some ways

00:44:44.940 that was his superpower

00:44:45.660 when he did it for the good

00:44:46.700 when he did it 0.70

00:44:48.140 to cover his own rear end 0.52

00:44:49.680 when he was doing bad things

00:44:50.740 when he was not being

00:44:51.680 fully honest

00:44:52.320 it was a bad thing

00:44:54.220 Trump was a mixed bag

00:44:56.380 and he's extreme

00:44:57.720 in both directions

00:44:58.400 extremely good

00:44:59.240 you didn't take his lies

00:44:59.260 in the same way

00:44:59.880 because he did that

00:45:00.600 but they offended

00:45:01.540 they did offend

00:45:02.620 the political sensibility

00:45:03.500 and this is why the left

00:45:04.380 really thought he was Hitler

00:45:05.280 this is why people

00:45:06.200 were weeping in the streets

00:45:07.340 and all this crazy stuff

00:45:08.420 that I mean

00:45:08.940 people lost their minds

00:45:10.240 the strange thing

00:45:12.020 about politics

00:45:12.740 is that Joe Biden's lies

00:45:14.620 are so much more

00:45:16.260 consequential

00:45:17.560 they're so much more damning

00:45:19.420 they're so much

00:45:19.980 they're planned

00:45:20.580 they're so much more planned

00:45:21.760 yeah yeah

00:45:22.100 he is a

00:45:22.580 he is a

00:45:23.280 truly one of the most 0.99

00:45:25.060 corrupt people 0.63

00:45:25.880 in American public life

00:45:27.660 in our lifetimes

00:45:28.540 but his lies

00:45:30.020 do not offend

00:45:30.800 the sensibilities

00:45:31.720 of the public

00:45:32.240 and so

00:45:32.900 people at home

00:45:33.880 can't afford eggs

00:45:34.760 and he's going to

00:45:35.260 get up there

00:45:35.580 and say that

00:45:36.000 we have a great economy

00:45:36.820 and people will

00:45:37.600 fill the fence

00:45:38.200 but they'll look around

00:45:39.060 and there won't be

00:45:40.100 anybody screaming

00:45:40.720 in the streets

00:45:41.280 and there won't be

00:45:42.080 any journalists

00:45:42.780 fainting

00:45:43.300 and there won't be

00:45:44.020 any celebrities

00:45:44.640 threatening to leave

00:45:45.640 the country

00:45:46.100 and so they go

00:45:46.900 they'll be defending

00:45:47.540 the lies

00:45:47.880 but that's the press

00:45:48.960 doing that

00:45:49.400 they create that

00:45:50.080 atmosphere

00:45:50.440 I don't believe that

00:45:51.040 I understand that

00:45:51.660 that's what it is

00:45:52.300 people at home

00:45:53.060 are like

00:45:53.780 the Democrat people

00:45:54.820 that I know

00:45:55.560 and I'm friends with

00:45:56.200 and that are in my family

00:45:56.880 actually they are offended

00:45:58.380 and I think that

00:45:59.880 we don't believe so

00:46:00.740 because the press

00:46:01.540 pretends not to be offended

00:46:02.440 and we take that

00:46:03.340 yeah

00:46:03.980 the press is telling us

00:46:05.260 oh it's not a big deal

00:46:05.980 and they keep moving on

00:46:06.660 but the average American

00:46:07.560 I think is suffering enough

00:46:08.740 they understand

00:46:09.440 that they're being lied to

00:46:10.280 they're not happy

00:46:10.960 with the entire

00:46:11.700 balloon gate

00:46:12.740 Chinese balloon gate

00:46:13.720 and so I do think

00:46:15.340 that there is

00:46:16.220 this disparity

00:46:16.940 between what the press says

00:46:18.220 and what the people

00:46:18.680 actually feel

00:46:19.160 and I think that's shown

00:46:20.140 by CNN suffering

00:46:21.880 their numbers

00:46:22.400 and things of that nature

00:46:23.060 because they're no longer

00:46:23.780 seeing their viewpoints

00:46:24.580 reflected in what they're watching

00:46:25.720 numbers is a kind word

00:46:27.060 to use about their audience

00:46:27.920 and also to answer

00:46:28.820 the original

00:46:29.600 to answer the original question

00:46:31.620 what does he need to do

00:46:32.480 tonight politically

00:46:33.400 yes

00:46:34.160 the answer of course

00:46:38.500 talk to the bag

00:46:38.900 no I refuse

00:46:39.960 talk to the camera

00:46:42.600 the answer of course

00:46:43.920 is that it really

00:46:44.360 doesn't matter at all

00:46:45.180 what he says

00:46:45.560 on the state of union

00:46:46.000 like the state of union

00:46:46.640 has zero political impact

00:46:47.820 whatsoever

00:46:48.200 I don't think

00:46:48.940 there's any evidence

00:46:49.620 that it affects the polls

00:46:51.180 you know

00:46:51.680 in any kind of

00:46:52.720 long standing way at all

00:46:54.380 you know

00:46:54.840 I don't think

00:46:55.160 so it just

00:46:55.660 not in a year

00:46:56.540 before an election year

00:46:57.980 yeah

00:46:58.300 people

00:46:59.300 whatever happens tonight

00:47:00.260 everyone has forgotten it

00:47:01.740 by Thursday at the latest

00:47:03.940 Matt

00:47:04.360 would you like some ice cream

00:47:05.860 Donald Trump

00:47:08.160 has already forgotten

00:47:08.900 I'm sorry

00:47:09.440 Joe Biden

00:47:10.520 has already forgotten

00:47:11.220 did you see the

00:47:11.780 Washington Post column

00:47:12.860 today

00:47:13.420 saying

00:47:14.380 the headline

00:47:15.280 I'm not getting it verbatim

00:47:16.320 but it's pretty close

00:47:16.960 eggs are not really

00:47:18.860 that expensive

00:47:19.660 I love that

00:47:20.340 when you really

00:47:21.060 the thesis was

00:47:22.140 when you really think

00:47:23.120 about it

00:47:23.500 you know

00:47:23.760 when you really think

00:47:24.480 I know you're paying

00:47:25.340 five, six, ten, fifteen dollars

00:47:27.460 when you can get them

00:47:28.860 they were sold out

00:47:29.480 the other day

00:47:29.860 at my grocery store

00:47:30.540 oh yeah

00:47:30.960 they're not

00:47:31.660 it's really actually

00:47:32.640 these are not the droids

00:47:34.060 you're looking for

00:47:34.560 they're actually

00:47:35.120 these are not

00:47:35.740 very expensive eggs

00:47:36.540 I was a chicken farmer once

00:47:37.980 no you were not

00:47:39.560 were you Mr. President

00:47:40.340 is there going to be

00:47:41.700 a party who blows into the bag

00:47:42.940 and just smacks it 0.98

00:47:43.860 yeah

00:47:44.160 this is

00:47:46.440 this is the thing though

00:47:47.440 that when

00:47:47.900 when there is no social proof

00:47:50.980 to reinforce your

00:47:51.880 the thing that you're feeling inside

00:47:53.720 you tend to second guess yourself

00:47:55.740 and I think this is part of

00:47:57.080 what explains

00:47:57.740 the poor showing

00:47:58.980 that we had on election night

00:48:00.080 it also

00:48:01.440 why did Barack Obama

00:48:03.100 Barack Obama won re-election

00:48:04.560 with the worst

00:48:05.880 sort of economic indicators

00:48:07.200 of any president

00:48:07.820 who'd won re-election

00:48:08.640 in modern life

00:48:09.680 but there was no social proof

00:48:11.380 to validate the way

00:48:12.820 that people felt

00:48:13.420 this is the power

00:48:14.180 that the media had

00:48:14.880 if we get that Obama

00:48:15.980 had the advantage

00:48:16.980 of that 2008 crash

00:48:19.060 so even though

00:48:20.080 his economic numbers

00:48:21.320 we knew his economic numbers

00:48:22.780 were bad

00:48:23.300 but they were better

00:48:24.060 than when he took office

00:48:25.020 he lost a ton of votes

00:48:26.180 press corps

00:48:26.840 with him

00:48:27.760 and so they kept saying

00:48:28.740 oh there was

00:48:29.100 so much better

00:48:29.780 such an improvement

00:48:30.640 so great

00:48:31.080 I mean there was a

00:48:31.800 there was a piece

00:48:32.420 in the New York Times

00:48:33.640 today I think it was

00:48:34.680 in the op-ed page

00:48:35.600 or knucklehead row

00:48:36.720 as I call it

00:48:37.340 where Michelle Goldberg

00:48:38.440 she's a wonderful columnist

00:48:41.940 because she sees

00:48:42.860 like a sort of shadow

00:48:43.920 she sees the truth

00:48:44.900 but she's not allowed 0.96

00:48:45.700 to think outside

00:48:46.540 of the New York Times

00:48:47.360 philosophy

00:48:48.120 so she can't quite

00:48:49.440 grasp what it is

00:48:50.380 so she wrote this thing

00:48:51.480 saying this is a great president

00:48:52.840 this is a great great president

00:48:54.660 it was like listening

00:48:56.920 to somebody

00:48:57.500 he missed the second sentence

00:48:59.060 he's a great president

00:49:00.040 but he shouldn't run again

00:49:00.960 but he shouldn't run again

00:49:01.620 which is the first time

00:49:02.420 which by the way

00:49:03.200 is kind of the subtle

00:49:04.060 undertones

00:49:04.800 to a lot of what

00:49:05.340 the problem for the Democrats

00:49:06.480 of course

00:49:06.840 is that the people

00:49:07.220 backing her up

00:49:07.980 are Kamala Harris

00:49:08.840 the least talented human being

00:49:10.100 maybe ever to walk the earth

00:49:11.500 I mean it is

00:49:12.460 it is truly astonishing

00:49:13.820 the levels of talent

00:49:14.740 that she does not have

00:49:16.160 they are nearly infinite

00:49:17.540 it's like an infinite

00:49:18.200 regress of talentlessness

00:49:19.400 with Kamala Harris

00:49:21.180 and so

00:49:23.180 they kind of are wedded to her

00:49:25.180 and every so often

00:49:25.640 you'll see a hit piece

00:49:26.140 come out about Kamala

00:49:26.780 and it's like

00:49:27.140 okay Pete Buttigieg

00:49:28.020 in the study with the wrench

00:49:28.980 because you know

00:49:29.940 that he's setting

00:49:32.200 all of those up

00:49:32.980 the truth is

00:49:33.680 I think that the best ally

00:49:34.540 that Biden has

00:49:35.120 is not even the media

00:49:35.760 the best ally that he has 0.99

00:49:36.940 is that he is a dead person

00:49:38.020 I'm not kidding you

00:49:39.580 it is that he is

00:49:40.560 an empty bag

00:49:41.720 indeed

00:49:42.500 because he's

00:49:43.620 he's a deeply

00:49:44.580 unthreatening

00:49:45.460 human being

00:49:46.480 like he's a

00:49:47.620 he's a very threatening

00:49:48.620 person in terms of

00:49:49.360 his actual politics

00:49:50.120 and the stuff that he wants

00:49:51.140 for the country

00:49:51.620 is actually genuinely terrible

00:49:53.320 and in some cases

00:49:54.180 even evil

00:49:54.620 but

00:49:55.700 he is also

00:49:56.860 non-threatening

00:49:57.680 because you look at him

00:49:58.620 you're like

00:49:58.860 he's such a non-entity

00:49:59.960 like can you get

00:50:00.700 like he's walking

00:50:01.580 the president's walking

00:50:02.740 into the joint

00:50:04.260 well he's walking

00:50:05.280 it's a miracle

00:50:06.020 it's a miracle

00:50:06.980 and you just look at him

00:50:07.780 and he

00:50:08.100 he does look so harmless

00:50:10.340 right

00:50:10.620 he's an old man 0.61

00:50:12.440 whose eyes have closed

00:50:13.600 because he's got so much

00:50:14.480 Botox in his forehead

00:50:15.320 this is a guy

00:50:16.180 this is a guy

00:50:16.640 who pooped his pants

00:50:17.700 in front of the Pope

00:50:18.320 so how exactly

00:50:20.320 I wondered how

00:50:20.920 I wondered when you'd get it

00:50:21.820 he's a weighing all show

00:50:23.300 for that one

00:50:23.720 the question though

00:50:24.980 is how do you feel

00:50:25.940 how do you generate

00:50:26.940 a sense of threat

00:50:27.660 around a person

00:50:28.460 who is like that

00:50:29.540 you can try to generate

00:50:30.240 a sense of threat

00:50:30.720 around his agenda

00:50:31.320 but he doesn't have

00:50:32.320 the same sort of

00:50:33.260 threatening talent

00:50:34.720 to me

00:50:34.960 it takes talent

00:50:35.520 to be threatening

00:50:36.000 Barack Obama

00:50:36.700 was a threatening 0.58

00:50:37.160 president

00:50:37.920 specifically because

00:50:39.000 he was charismatic

00:50:39.980 and talented

00:50:40.580 but I keep imagining

00:50:41.460 what a textbook

00:50:42.160 is going to look like

00:50:42.900 500 years from now

00:50:43.880 when they show us

00:50:44.320 the last president

00:50:45.020 of the republic

00:50:45.540 and he's just

00:50:46.140 doddering old man

00:50:47.180 like this was the man

00:50:48.040 they thought was going to

00:50:48.800 it's threatening

00:50:50.060 in a different kind of way

00:50:51.100 I understand that he's not

00:50:52.060 evil looking

00:50:52.920 but he looks like

00:50:54.100 the end of the republic

00:50:54.740 it doesn't say something

00:50:55.380 about him

00:50:55.760 and that's the problem

00:50:56.920 is that the American people

00:50:57.660 generally don't like

00:50:58.300 to look directly in the mirror

00:50:59.200 when we look at the

00:51:00.580 problems that the country

00:51:02.060 faces

00:51:02.460 the reality is

00:51:03.380 we can blame our politicians

00:51:04.320 all we want

00:51:04.920 a lot of this is just

00:51:06.540 generated by the American public

00:51:07.540 I mean this is a

00:51:08.260 democratic republic

00:51:08.940 and the fact is

00:51:09.580 we keep electing 0.98

00:51:10.220 these dolts 0.80

00:51:11.540 over and over 0.60

00:51:12.760 and over again

00:51:13.680 and that's why

00:51:14.720 the Chinese feel

00:51:15.440 so just sanguine

00:51:17.000 about floating

00:51:17.980 into nearly every

00:51:19.100 arena of American life

00:51:20.560 and just

00:51:20.860 and just being

00:51:21.660 what's

00:51:23.220 what's happening

00:51:24.040 right now

00:51:24.760 Xi Jinping

00:51:25.460 is sending us messages

00:51:26.720 I'm feeling threatened

00:51:28.920 Andrew Klavan

00:51:29.740 would you like 0.99

00:51:30.100 to shoot that 0.99

00:51:30.540 I was thinking 0.97

00:51:31.240 do you mind

00:51:31.940 I was looking

00:51:32.140 for something sharper

00:51:32.800 I don't

00:51:33.020 is Sputnik

00:51:35.020 flying overhead

00:51:35.700 the flamethrower

00:51:36.260 Michael

00:51:36.540 the flamethrower

00:51:37.220 where did the flamethrower go

00:51:38.740 no no

00:51:39.980 Andrew almost got it

00:51:41.500 this is the most amusing

00:51:42.560 things we'll get all night

00:51:43.360 an old man 0.70

00:51:44.020 trying to prod a balloon

00:51:45.120 with a cigar

00:51:45.600 yes we have reached

00:51:46.800 that point in the broadcast

00:51:47.540 and we haven't even begun

00:51:48.500 actually that's a great metaphor

00:51:49.680 for the State of the Union

00:51:51.460 no no

00:51:52.440 oh my god

00:51:53.140 it wasn't lit enough

00:51:55.180 these Chinese are amazing

00:51:56.500 that's true

00:51:57.800 that one was made in America

00:51:58.780 so now here's

00:52:01.740 the President of the United States

00:52:04.120 or the husband of the

00:52:04.960 President of the United States

00:52:05.980 wandering through the room

00:52:07.800 shaking hands

00:52:08.620 with a bunch of

00:52:09.800 Supreme Court justices

00:52:11.440 and past Supreme Court justices

00:52:12.780 it looks like

00:52:13.340 and you have just

00:52:15.700 Kevin McCarthy standing there

00:52:17.240 and Kamala Harris standing there 1.00

00:52:18.260 and they clap like automatons

00:52:19.760 and we all pretend

00:52:20.340 that we like the President

00:52:21.040 which is always

00:52:21.480 that's always one of my favorite things

00:52:22.620 about the State of the Union

00:52:23.280 is where the President walks in

00:52:24.720 and everybody on both sides

00:52:25.760 of the aisle pretends they like him

00:52:26.580 like for that brief moment

00:52:27.580 before they start sharing

00:52:28.360 or they do not with Trump

00:52:29.040 I want to know if Kevin McCarthy

00:52:30.220 is going to tear up the speech

00:52:31.660 I hope so

00:52:32.280 I hope he makes it

00:52:33.200 into like some sort of

00:52:34.720 origami thing

00:52:35.720 maybe just into a swan

00:52:36.940 or something

00:52:37.300 you know

00:52:37.680 what's amazing about this setting

00:52:39.060 though

00:52:39.280 I'm probably the most

00:52:40.560 pro-State of the Union person here

00:52:42.340 not this

00:52:42.900 I mean this is going to be

00:52:43.520 interminable and terrible

00:52:44.380 because you're a monarchist

00:52:45.900 that's right

00:52:46.360 you know I'm Catholic, Italian

00:52:47.680 exactly

00:52:48.140 but I like

00:52:49.560 the looks of it

00:52:50.660 are so majestic

00:52:51.900 and the

00:52:53.280 idea that we're all

00:52:55.740 coming together

00:52:56.220 and we actually have

00:52:56.700 something in common

00:52:57.300 and both houses of Congress

00:52:58.800 are meeting in the same place

00:53:00.040 and both parties

00:53:00.840 it's a nice fiction

00:53:01.740 yeah no

00:53:02.460 the idea of it

00:53:03.320 I mean it might be

00:53:03.860 a noble fiction

00:53:04.580 but you know

00:53:05.260 I like it in theory

00:53:07.580 and then it always makes me think

00:53:09.860 why does the opposition party

00:53:12.060 feel the need

00:53:13.420 to give the response

00:53:14.760 to the State of the Union

00:53:15.600 when you're doing it

00:53:16.880 from some random room somewhere

00:53:18.320 with Rubio grabbing

00:53:19.600 for a bottle of water

00:53:20.640 and it cannot look good

00:53:22.600 I was so sorry to see

00:53:23.760 that Sarah Sanders

00:53:24.520 is giving the response

00:53:25.660 because I like Sarah Sanders

00:53:27.040 I think she's very talented

00:53:28.260 she's the only Republican

00:53:29.120 who probably won't run

00:53:30.040 for president

00:53:30.580 yeah that's true

00:53:31.760 you're right

00:53:32.160 in 2024

00:53:32.960 but I just think

00:53:34.460 let them 0.55

00:53:35.040 has there ever been

00:53:35.860 a good response

00:53:36.860 no there never

00:53:37.860 there cannot be

00:53:38.900 for all the reasons

00:53:39.560 that Michael was saying

00:53:40.320 I'm sorry

00:53:40.680 the president looks so addled

00:53:41.780 look at him

00:53:42.240 he doesn't

00:53:42.820 he's not with us

00:53:44.960 he's just not with us

00:53:46.160 and he's

00:53:47.360 you know this is going to be bad

00:53:49.940 you know this is going to be bad

00:53:50.900 because the New York Times

00:53:51.820 before it even began

00:53:52.560 ran a piece about

00:53:53.220 how he's overcoming his stammer

00:53:54.720 they did

00:53:55.520 and it's like

00:53:55.900 he's been in public life

00:53:56.780 for longer than I've been alive

00:53:57.780 by a factor of like

00:53:58.780 it took him 80 years

00:54:00.140 all right

00:54:00.640 the president of the United States

00:54:01.660 about to start

00:54:02.320 he's handing his speech

00:54:03.460 to Kevin McCarthy

00:54:04.840 we'll be back with you

00:54:06.140 at the conclusion of the speech

00:54:07.320 to tell you how bad it was

00:54:09.460 we'll see you then

00:54:10.440 wow

00:54:19.380 I was in on this pile of horse

00:54:21.240 huh

00:54:21.620 Franklin Roosevelt

00:54:24.060 see you're for fear

00:54:25.100 instead of hope

00:54:25.880 you're for darkness

00:54:26.880 you know what

00:54:27.640 screw light

00:54:28.080 what you don't understand Ben

00:54:29.720 is that Franklin Roosevelt

00:54:30.980 defeated Nazi Germany

00:54:32.920 and Ronald Reagan

00:54:34.660 defeated the Soviet Union

00:54:36.700 and Joseph Robinette Biden

00:54:39.520 defeated resort fees

00:54:41.420 that he said tonight

00:54:44.900 I'm so moved

00:54:46.280 he was very concerned

00:54:47.580 about ticket fees

00:54:48.200 at the airport

00:54:48.600 like significantly more

00:54:49.420 concerned about that

00:54:50.120 than China

00:54:50.620 and it came much later

00:54:52.080 in the speech

00:54:52.560 that was actually

00:54:53.240 the part where he was

00:54:54.040 just listing stuff

00:54:54.920 he was annoyed by

00:54:55.640 and saying he'll ban them

00:54:56.600 that's exactly how

00:54:57.780 I would handle

00:54:58.340 a state of the

00:54:58.800 most relatable

00:55:01.620 he's ever been on

00:55:02.280 yeah I know

00:55:02.940 that'll get him elected

00:55:03.740 so I have a few

00:55:05.420 personal favorites

00:55:06.120 you know

00:55:06.380 we're gonna play

00:55:06.700 the hits a little bit here

00:55:07.360 yeah let's do it

00:55:08.060 one of my personal favorites

00:55:09.420 was the part

00:55:10.420 where he said

00:55:11.100 you know I approached

00:55:12.100 all these oil companies

00:55:13.860 and I told them

00:55:15.000 they need to start drilling

00:55:15.860 and they said to me

00:55:16.660 well how we can build

00:55:18.060 new refineries

00:55:18.800 when you're trying

00:55:19.640 to transition away

00:55:20.400 from oil

00:55:20.880 and I say

00:55:21.380 well we're gonna

00:55:22.160 we're gonna need oil

00:55:22.920 for at least

00:55:23.420 about 10 years

00:55:24.660 and people broke out laughing

00:55:27.280 people broke out laughing

00:55:28.200 because um

00:55:29.100 you're making their case

00:55:30.220 because you're a sad 0.99

00:55:31.200 screamy old 0.94

00:55:31.760 yeah because you couldn't

00:55:32.780 build a

00:55:33.220 you couldn't get

00:55:33.860 the EPA approval

00:55:35.100 to even start digging

00:55:36.860 to build the refinery

00:55:38.500 in 10 years

00:55:39.020 that's the actual truth

00:55:39.960 it is

00:55:40.920 you know that was

00:55:41.660 that was serious

00:55:42.680 I don't even have

00:55:43.320 anything to say

00:55:44.240 on the specifics

00:55:45.340 of that speech

00:55:46.040 because I felt

00:55:46.520 the entire thing

00:55:47.200 was like standing

00:55:47.880 in a bar

00:55:48.540 where the guy next to you

00:55:49.580 is drunk

00:55:50.000 and won't leave you alone

00:55:50.960 and he's just

00:55:51.780 like we're acting

00:55:52.800 in this

00:55:53.400 look it up

00:55:54.180 look it up

00:55:55.760 tremendously gaslit

00:55:56.880 this is like slurring words

00:55:58.400 tremendously gaslit

00:55:59.000 throughout all of that

00:55:59.940 I mean

00:56:00.180 people have a lot

00:56:01.520 of conspiracy theories

00:56:02.180 about watching the COVID

00:56:02.880 shots you better hope

00:56:03.620 it's a healthy bout

00:56:04.240 of amnesia

00:56:04.820 because he's pretending

00:56:05.960 that he is going

00:56:07.320 to be the person

00:56:08.120 that is fighting

00:56:08.840 against big pharma

00:56:09.520 as if he wasn't

00:56:10.300 the same person

00:56:11.100 that we all just

00:56:11.880 had to fight

00:56:12.380 at the Daily Wire

00:56:13.260 because OSHA

00:56:14.320 tried to mandate

00:56:16.820 Joe Biden

00:56:17.320 tried to mandate

00:56:18.300 via OSHA

00:56:19.020 the vaccine

00:56:19.800 to everybody's arm

00:56:20.600 they're applauding

00:56:22.120 as if he's the person

00:56:23.380 now that's fighting

00:56:24.160 I don't understand it

00:56:25.160 the insulin move

00:56:26.180 with big pharma

00:56:26.820 he stopped Trump

00:56:28.420 Trump already did this

00:56:29.320 lowered the prices

00:56:29.820 for insulin

00:56:30.280 he blocked it

00:56:31.420 and now he's

00:56:32.040 reintroducing

00:56:32.620 what Trump did

00:56:33.140 so I think

00:56:34.180 people's memories

00:56:35.080 must be going

00:56:35.700 this comment

00:56:36.400 that we pay more

00:56:37.440 for drugs

00:56:38.220 than other countries

00:56:39.240 is because

00:56:40.080 they have

00:56:41.000 single payer health care

00:56:43.360 so the drug companies

00:56:44.600 have no one

00:56:45.220 to bargain with

00:56:46.320 except the government

00:56:47.060 and when they come

00:56:48.180 to us

00:56:48.560 they have to bargain

00:56:49.200 with various

00:56:50.000 different people

00:56:50.780 if they're not

00:56:51.520 making profits

00:56:52.260 off us

00:56:52.780 they're not making

00:56:53.320 profits off anybody

00:56:54.120 if they're not

00:56:54.560 making profits

00:56:55.180 off anybody

00:56:55.720 20 years from now

00:56:57.220 when cancer

00:56:58.040 might be cured

00:56:59.080 when some cancer

00:56:59.780 might be cured

00:57:00.120 it won't be

00:57:00.960 you won't even

00:57:01.700 know what you missed

00:57:02.620 you will not even

00:57:03.740 know what they

00:57:04.220 took away from you

00:57:04.860 I like the part

00:57:05.580 where

00:57:05.800 so which one of you

00:57:07.120 guys hit Paul Pelosi

00:57:07.840 in the head 0.86

00:57:08.080 with a hammer guys 0.94

00:57:08.700 I think it was all of us

00:57:11.460 it was all of us

00:57:12.900 really it was all of us

00:57:13.920 who wasn't

00:57:14.580 hitting Paul Pelosi

00:57:15.300 in the head 0.99

00:57:15.560 with a hammer 1.00

00:57:16.000 while half naked 0.71

00:57:17.340 and stoned out of her mind 0.99

00:57:18.360 it was really

00:57:19.280 because you know

00:57:20.200 the big lie

00:57:20.860 and January 6th

00:57:22.100 and Trump

00:57:22.580 so that's why

00:57:23.720 Paul Pelosi got hit

00:57:24.500 in the head

00:57:24.780 with a hammer 0.98

00:57:25.240 and also unity

00:57:25.920 but like

00:57:26.780 really a lot of unity

00:57:27.860 and Joe Biden

00:57:28.640 wants to be like

00:57:29.340 he's standing up

00:57:29.980 for all of us

00:57:30.440 especially the people

00:57:31.240 who hit Paul Pelosi

00:57:32.360 in the head

00:57:32.800 with a hammer 0.99

00:57:33.800 I thought that part

00:57:34.560 was really profound

00:57:35.260 and speaking of

00:57:36.380 gaslighting

00:57:37.640 he brings Tyree Nichols

00:57:39.020 family on

00:57:39.980 and then transitions

00:57:41.280 immediately to a

00:57:42.000 discussion about

00:57:42.800 racist police officers

00:57:43.840 when it was of course 0.98

00:57:45.380 black police officers 0.99

00:57:46.160 that killed him 0.98

00:57:46.600 and then also

00:57:47.240 can I also say

00:57:47.640 this whole thing

00:57:48.280 about the talk

00:57:49.140 well white families 0.72

00:57:51.380 never have to have

00:57:52.000 the talk

00:57:52.560 with their kids 0.72

00:57:53.880 this is such nonsense

00:57:55.080 when I started driving

00:57:56.900 my dad explained to me

00:57:58.400 that son

00:57:59.280 if you ever get

00:57:59.680 pulled over

00:58:00.260 be respectful

00:58:00.960 to the police officer

00:58:01.720 if you don't agree

00:58:02.420 with the ticket

00:58:02.900 fight it in court

00:58:04.640 and by the way

00:58:05.640 10 and 2

00:58:06.240 doesn't literally

00:58:09.020 every parent

00:58:09.760 have that talk

00:58:10.380 with kids

00:58:11.580 when they start driving

00:58:12.300 and as someone

00:58:13.160 who gets stopped

00:58:13.740 quite often

00:58:14.260 because I drive

00:58:14.960 too fast

00:58:16.180 I turn on my lights

00:58:17.600 I put my hands

00:58:19.060 on the thing

00:58:19.620 I say officer

00:58:21.160 it's almost the first

00:58:21.980 word out of my mouth

00:58:22.640 because the minute

00:58:23.260 they hear officer

00:58:23.980 they know that

00:58:24.880 you respect them

00:58:25.660 I roll down the window

00:58:27.000 and say

00:58:27.380 I'm white

00:58:28.460 I cannot stress

00:58:31.440 this is a huge mistake

00:58:32.740 look at my face

00:58:34.220 cannot stress this enough

00:58:37.920 officer

00:58:39.220 I'll start using officer 1.00

00:58:40.680 the officer's good

00:58:41.480 how did you like

00:58:42.600 the random screaming

00:58:43.320 random screaming Joe

00:58:44.800 is one of the best

00:58:45.560 screaming whisper 0.88

00:58:46.180 is the

00:58:46.680 when he goes really quickly

00:58:47.540 this is the

00:58:49.540 this was an historic

00:58:51.760 state of the union

00:58:52.520 and I'm not actually joking

00:58:54.080 it was the first time

00:58:55.060 that an octogenarian

00:58:55.980 has ever addressed

00:58:58.000 the country

00:58:59.260 as president of the United States

00:59:00.260 congratulations to us

00:59:01.060 man this is a great country

00:59:02.060 literally anyone

00:59:03.320 can be president

00:59:03.940 and it was an old man's speech

00:59:07.620 it was incoherent

00:59:09.140 it was rambling

00:59:09.800 it was shouting

00:59:10.620 it was all of his

00:59:11.220 personal peaks

00:59:12.040 the real giveaway too

00:59:14.260 was because he's

00:59:15.720 accomplished nothing

00:59:16.460 and he's only failed

00:59:17.860 the whole speech

00:59:19.000 was just about

00:59:19.680 the stuff

00:59:20.240 that he's definitely

00:59:21.020 going to get to

00:59:21.640 really soon

00:59:22.320 and by the way

00:59:23.620 the stuff he's going

00:59:24.160 to get to really soon

00:59:24.840 was fixing the luggage

00:59:26.180 fees

00:59:26.500 it wasn't even ambitious

00:59:27.560 I don't agree

00:59:28.020 that he's failed

00:59:28.660 I think he's passed

00:59:29.700 a lot of stuff

00:59:30.580 I mean the

00:59:31.120 whatever the hell

00:59:32.460 they call it

00:59:32.880 the inflation reduction

00:59:33.460 the global warming

00:59:34.140 the fact that it's bad

00:59:35.680 is different

00:59:36.840 than the fact

00:59:37.280 but it hasn't fixed

00:59:38.260 anything

00:59:38.460 he didn't do

00:59:38.840 the thing he wanted

00:59:39.460 to do

00:59:39.680 but I just mean

00:59:41.080 he can't come out

00:59:42.260 and say

00:59:42.720 inflation is really great

00:59:44.160 he tried to a little bit

00:59:45.200 but it didn't work

00:59:45.760 his stuff hasn't worked

00:59:47.380 not yet

00:59:48.260 now we're going to get

00:59:49.120 the whole routine

00:59:49.640 from the media

00:59:50.080 about the Republicans

00:59:50.820 were so mean to him

00:59:51.440 guys

00:59:51.680 they were so mean to him

00:59:52.500 because they kept

00:59:52.880 yelling at him

00:59:53.520 during the speech

00:59:54.080 you can't yell at him

00:59:54.800 I thought that was

00:59:55.280 I've never seen

00:59:56.380 has there ever been

00:59:56.900 a State of the Union

00:59:57.320 address where twice

00:59:58.840 the president

00:59:59.500 makes a claim

01:00:00.700 and then walks it

01:00:01.480 back in real time

01:00:02.480 and yelled at him

01:00:03.580 because we have

01:00:05.000 the transcript

01:00:05.460 of what the White House

01:00:06.260 releases beforehand

01:00:07.240 and he literally

01:00:08.200 had to align

01:00:08.780 full paragraphs

01:00:09.380 of his speech

01:00:09.980 because he said

01:00:10.760 the Republicans

01:00:11.480 want our

01:00:11.860 Social Security

01:00:12.900 and Medicare

01:00:13.440 and the Republicans

01:00:14.700 are like

01:00:15.140 no no

01:00:15.940 and he's like

01:00:16.560 no one wants

01:00:17.400 to take

01:00:17.700 your Social Security

01:00:18.400 and Medicare

01:00:18.980 isn't that great

01:00:19.880 and they're like

01:00:20.720 yes

01:00:21.160 and then he just

01:00:22.140 had to cut out

01:00:22.620 like two paragraphs

01:00:23.260 of his campaign

01:00:23.960 stump speech

01:00:24.780 you're right

01:00:25.060 he walked that one

01:00:26.040 back

01:00:26.200 I did like the part

01:00:27.020 where he was

01:00:27.300 shouting about

01:00:27.680 how no one

01:00:28.020 wants to switch

01:00:28.520 places with

01:00:29.120 Xi Jinping

01:00:29.860 which I have

01:00:31.840 some news for him

01:00:33.320 there are a lot

01:00:34.680 of all of them

01:00:35.460 Thomas Friedman

01:00:36.320 you know

01:00:38.760 we're ignoring

01:00:39.480 the real issue

01:00:40.180 though

01:00:40.440 and this was

01:00:41.180 an issue

01:00:41.540 that Matt

01:00:41.920 pointed out

01:00:42.380 to me

01:00:42.600 at the very

01:00:42.940 top of the

01:00:43.500 speech

01:00:43.820 can we talk

01:00:45.140 about the weird

01:00:45.900 kiss between

01:00:46.660 Dr. Jill

01:00:47.400 and Kamala's

01:00:48.060 husband

01:00:48.360 the weird

01:00:49.200 make out

01:00:49.860 session

01:00:50.160 it was weird

01:00:51.700 it was weird

01:00:52.260 I'm going to

01:00:53.040 personal matter

01:00:53.780 I'm going to

01:00:54.600 what they do

01:00:55.500 in the public

01:00:56.040 form isn't a

01:00:56.580 do in the

01:00:58.020 Capitol

01:00:58.340 I'm actually

01:00:59.540 going to

01:00:59.980 push back

01:01:00.640 on this

01:01:00.980 and say

01:01:01.380 that it

01:01:02.120 was bad

01:01:02.580 optics

01:01:03.040 at a

01:01:03.280 political

01:01:03.620 speech

01:01:04.080 and I

01:01:05.480 will enjoy

01:01:06.040 for the

01:01:06.340 next 10

01:01:06.740 years

01:01:06.940 of American

01:01:07.360 public

01:01:07.660 life

01:01:08.060 tweeting

01:01:09.380 out the

01:01:09.820 photo

01:01:10.260 with funny

01:01:11.860 quips

01:01:12.320 but if you

01:01:13.220 actually

01:01:13.580 watch the

01:01:14.080 video of

01:01:14.540 it

01:01:14.660 it's a

01:01:16.580 slightly

01:01:16.900 out of

01:01:17.780 touch

01:01:18.080 thing

01:01:18.320 for them

01:01:18.580 to do

01:01:18.780 in a

01:01:18.940 political

01:01:19.180 environment

01:01:19.660 if they

01:01:20.280 did the

01:01:20.560 exact same

01:01:21.100 thing

01:01:21.440 at the

01:01:21.840 Grammys

01:01:22.380 or

01:01:22.640 at one

01:01:23.100 of the

01:01:23.260 eyes wide

01:01:23.620 shut

01:01:23.820 parties

01:01:24.320 my point

01:01:26.800 is that

01:01:31.120 if we

01:01:31.440 had seen

01:01:31.900 them do

01:01:32.400 that at

01:01:33.020 an Oscars

01:01:33.820 after party

01:01:34.460 no one

01:01:34.760 would think

01:01:35.060 anything

01:01:35.240 oh they're

01:01:35.500 having an

01:01:35.940 affair

01:01:36.200 let's

01:01:36.460 play

01:01:36.700 I just

01:01:38.000 want to

01:01:38.460 make this

01:01:38.940 declarative

01:01:39.420 statement

01:01:39.720 all right

01:01:40.660 all right

01:01:41.160 the media

01:01:43.240 are already

01:01:43.520 going nuts

01:01:43.880 over people

01:01:44.520 yelling at

01:01:45.100 Biden

01:01:45.360 can you

01:01:46.240 just get

01:01:46.520 over

01:01:46.620 Biden

01:01:46.800 was yelling

01:01:47.260 at us

01:01:47.680 that was

01:01:47.920 the whole 0.99

01:01:48.200 damn 1.00

01:01:48.440 speech 1.00

01:01:48.780 I'm super

01:01:50.200 tired of this

01:01:50.760 whole nonsense

01:01:51.560 where a

01:01:52.220 politician

01:01:52.620 who gives

01:01:53.420 a speech

01:01:53.700 like this

01:01:54.080 no one

01:01:54.360 can yell

01:01:54.760 back at

01:01:55.480 him

01:01:55.580 I remember

01:01:55.960 they did

01:01:56.200 this with

01:01:56.400 Joe Wilson

01:01:56.800 also

01:01:57.080 remember the

01:01:57.480 you lie

01:01:57.840 moment

01:01:58.220 it was like

01:01:58.900 the biggest

01:01:59.220 deal in the

01:01:59.680 world

01:01:59.840 do you lie

01:02:00.560 first of all

01:02:01.440 you guys

01:02:01.680 claim that

01:02:02.040 Donald Trump

01:02:02.400 was a Russian

01:02:02.740 plan for like

01:02:03.200 four years

01:02:04.120 for four years

01:02:05.160 and you spent

01:02:05.440 tens of millions

01:02:05.960 and you ripped 0.85

01:02:06.520 up his speech

01:02:07.200 can we drop 1.00

01:02:08.180 all this garbage 0.99

01:02:08.840 about how 0.99

01:02:09.460 civility must

01:02:10.680 dominate

01:02:11.100 no one can

01:02:11.640 ever say to

01:02:12.080 the president

01:02:12.420 you're wrong

01:02:12.840 when he's

01:02:13.120 clearly lying

01:02:13.700 about you

01:02:14.040 have you ever

01:02:14.680 seen British

01:02:15.080 parliament

01:02:15.380 it's the best

01:02:16.880 thing

01:02:17.100 we should do

01:02:17.640 like British 0.99

01:02:17.940 parliament

01:02:22.620 this is nonsense

01:02:23.180 or our own

01:02:23.740 congress

01:02:24.060 historically

01:02:24.560 when they're

01:02:24.860 beating each

01:02:25.320 other over the

01:02:25.700 heads

01:02:25.860 even when

01:02:29.180 the king

01:02:30.100 now king

01:02:32.060 previously queen

01:02:33.120 for all of our

01:02:33.640 lifetimes

01:02:34.000 opens the

01:02:35.680 government

01:02:36.020 in the UK

01:02:37.320 and they

01:02:38.700 summons the

01:02:39.560 commoners

01:02:40.320 the house of

01:02:40.780 commons

01:02:41.180 over to the

01:02:42.040 house of

01:02:42.400 lords

01:02:42.740 for the

01:02:43.920 inaugural speech

01:02:45.480 to open the

01:02:46.020 government

01:02:46.280 they actually

01:02:47.300 go through

01:02:47.580 this kind of

01:02:48.100 pantomime

01:02:48.800 as they

01:02:49.680 cross through

01:02:50.980 Westminster

01:02:51.960 Palace

01:02:52.420 of talking

01:02:54.400 loudly

01:02:55.060 and you

01:02:56.340 know

01:02:56.420 kind of

01:02:56.720 stomping

01:02:57.240 over there

01:02:57.660 as a way

01:02:58.180 of saying

01:02:58.800 we don't

01:02:59.620 have to

01:02:59.920 show respect

01:03:00.420 to the

01:03:00.680 king

01:03:00.900 so even

01:03:01.660 in a

01:03:01.980 true

01:03:02.260 monarchy

01:03:02.760 when they

01:03:04.620 have a

01:03:05.000 truly

01:03:05.380 monarchial

01:03:05.960 speech

01:03:06.240 by the

01:03:06.620 monarch

01:03:06.920 they don't

01:03:07.880 have this

01:03:08.220 idea

01:03:08.520 this faux

01:03:08.940 dignity

01:03:09.320 kind of

01:03:10.020 concept

01:03:10.320 that we

01:03:10.620 have

01:03:10.760 what Ben

01:03:11.240 says is

01:03:11.540 true

01:03:11.740 this question

01:03:12.280 time

01:03:12.600 where they

01:03:12.860 beat the

01:03:13.460 living

01:03:14.040 daylights

01:03:14.740 out of the

01:03:15.140 prime

01:03:15.400 minister

01:03:15.720 is because

01:03:16.600 they have 0.99

01:03:17.120 this useless 1.00

01:03:18.320 king 1.00

01:03:18.780 that they

01:03:19.720 can put

01:03:20.140 their

01:03:20.420 they can

01:03:21.020 project their

01:03:21.760 country onto

01:03:22.520 they can

01:03:23.300 then go

01:03:23.840 after their

01:03:24.260 politicians

01:03:24.760 as what

01:03:25.160 they are

01:03:25.480 which is a

01:03:26.040 line

01:03:26.360 Did you see

01:03:27.520 the biggest

01:03:27.980 applause line

01:03:28.600 of the night

01:03:29.000 by the way

01:03:29.460 this was

01:03:30.340 actually truly

01:03:31.200 sad

01:03:31.580 they love

01:03:32.120 abortion

01:03:32.480 right

01:03:32.740 the abortion

01:03:33.260 one when he

01:03:33.720 said well I'm

01:03:34.320 going to get up

01:03:34.820 there I devout

01:03:35.680 catholic Joe

01:03:36.380 Biden I'm

01:03:36.960 going to get

01:03:37.240 I'm going to

01:03:38.100 codify the 0.77

01:03:39.300 killing of many

01:03:40.100 more babies 0.99

01:03:40.760 into federal

01:03:41.240 law and it

01:03:42.020 was it was

01:03:42.520 the most

01:03:43.000 enthusiasm

01:03:43.400 clapping all

01:03:46.300 the catholics

01:03:46.960 one of my

01:03:48.580 favorite parts

01:03:49.000 of these

01:03:49.440 speeches is

01:03:49.960 where the

01:03:50.420 president of

01:03:50.840 the opposing

01:03:51.180 party pledges

01:03:51.780 to veto

01:03:52.000 legislation that

01:03:52.640 will never

01:03:52.860 even come

01:03:53.180 close to

01:03:53.480 his desk

01:03:53.780 the republicans

01:03:55.400 don't control

01:03:55.820 the senate

01:03:56.100 they ain't

01:03:56.540 passing a

01:03:57.140 national abortion

01:03:57.800 ban it's not

01:03:58.820 going to happen

01:03:59.260 I'll protect

01:04:00.120 you from this

01:04:00.660 thing that's

01:04:00.980 never ever

01:04:01.520 going to happen

01:04:02.280 can we talk

01:04:03.400 about just

01:04:04.080 his the gap

01:04:05.180 between who

01:04:06.420 he is and

01:04:07.200 the policies

01:04:07.560 he's pushing

01:04:07.920 are going to

01:04:08.220 be a real

01:04:08.480 dilemma for the

01:04:08.960 democrats because

01:04:10.040 he is in fact

01:04:10.780 as Drew says

01:04:11.240 a vehicle for

01:04:12.060 all of their

01:04:12.480 cherished hopes

01:04:12.980 and dreams

01:04:13.300 he's spending

01:04:13.660 more money

01:04:14.100 than has ever

01:04:14.540 been seen in

01:04:15.140 the history of

01:04:15.800 mankind

01:04:16.220 he's pushing

01:04:16.980 all their most

01:04:17.480 valuable and

01:04:18.180 cherished goals

01:04:18.820 from transing

01:04:19.680 of the children

01:04:20.220 to completely

01:04:21.080 restructuring the

01:04:21.720 american economy

01:04:22.340 he's doing all

01:04:23.120 of those things

01:04:23.560 but also he's

01:04:24.640 an incoherent old 1.00

01:04:25.360 fool who's yelling 1.00

01:04:25.920 at the clouds 1.00

01:04:26.420 yeah and so

01:04:27.000 that that is a

01:04:27.660 very odd combo

01:04:28.640 yeah and this

01:04:30.540 is one of the

01:04:31.080 reasons they are

01:04:31.560 begging for

01:04:31.980 republicans to

01:04:32.540 run a bad

01:04:32.920 candidate in

01:04:33.380 2024 yeah

01:04:34.260 they're begging

01:04:34.680 for it because

01:04:35.160 anybody could

01:04:35.700 tear this guy

01:04:36.100 apart on stage

01:04:36.680 who at least

01:04:37.000 has a sentient

01:04:37.540 bone in his

01:04:37.920 body

01:04:38.160 biden is trying

01:04:39.020 to trans the

01:04:39.660 kids you know

01:04:40.100 who else is

01:04:40.480 trying to

01:04:40.720 trans the kids 0.91

01:04:41.200 there are

01:04:41.700 actually razor

01:04:42.520 companies that

01:04:43.280 are advocating

01:04:43.860 that he trans

01:04:44.480 the kids

01:04:44.920 but there's

01:04:45.480 one razor

01:04:45.980 company that's

01:04:46.900 not you know

01:04:47.380 what that razor

01:04:47.820 company is

01:04:48.340 tell us

01:04:48.740 that would be

01:04:49.320 jeremy's razor

01:04:50.440 hello ladies 1.00

01:04:51.200 wow

01:04:51.740 look at your

01:04:52.420 man

01:04:52.880 now back to

01:04:53.980 me

01:04:54.220 now back at

01:04:55.260 your man

01:04:55.740 now back to

01:04:56.760 me

01:04:57.040 does he have

01:04:57.940 a coif as

01:04:58.760 healthy and

01:04:59.280 hydrated and

01:05:00.000 magnificent as

01:05:00.900 you see here

01:05:01.460 of course not

01:05:02.580 and how could

01:05:03.460 he when he's

01:05:04.260 using chemical

01:05:04.940 laced products

01:05:05.580 from so-called

01:05:06.500 men's grooming

01:05:07.420 companies that

01:05:08.040 hate him and

01:05:09.120 his masculinity 0.98

01:05:09.820 this valentine's

01:05:10.940 day get him a

01:05:11.860 gift that says

01:05:12.540 i don't hate

01:05:13.520 you get him a

01:05:14.800 jeremy's razors

01:05:15.480 30 off hair body

01:05:16.940 or shave bundle

01:05:18.040 unlike mr clavin

01:05:19.260 over there i use

01:05:20.500 jeremy's tea tree

01:05:21.400 and argon oil

01:05:22.400 shampoo and

01:05:22.940 conditioner and

01:05:24.000 the results speak

01:05:24.980 for themselves

01:05:25.680 stop it aoc i will

01:05:28.800 not date you 0.99

01:05:29.520 ladies your man 0.94

01:05:31.140 isn't toxic he

01:05:32.300 just needs a

01:05:32.880 shower but order

01:05:34.120 tonight to make

01:05:35.340 sure it arrives by

01:05:36.180 the 14th get your

01:05:37.140 valentine's bundle for

01:05:38.200 30 off just go to

01:05:39.880 jeremy's razors dot

01:05:41.760 com and there are

01:05:42.560 people out there who

01:05:43.520 think that i can

01:05:44.140 troll you guys i 0.93

01:05:45.520 wrote every word of 0.91

01:05:46.880 that why don't we

01:05:48.080 put all of our

01:05:48.620 worst bits into the

01:05:49.720 same

01:05:50.000 it's like a greatest

01:05:53.480 hits in real time

01:05:55.120 somebody on twitter

01:05:56.360 said ben is a

01:05:57.360 better joe than

01:05:58.580 ben

01:05:58.880 i thought that is

01:06:00.540 fair

01:06:00.800 put the bag away

01:06:02.360 put the bag

01:06:03.540 joe come back 0.92

01:06:04.900 oh no

01:06:05.660 joe's back 0.64

01:06:08.160 oh good

01:06:09.500 usually

01:06:10.480 right now i'm

01:06:11.640 controlling him but

01:06:12.340 usually it's the 1.00

01:06:12.840 media whore up his 1.00

01:06:13.800 ass 1.00

01:06:14.080 it's a sad story

01:06:18.400 i do think that

01:06:19.280 he cringes in shame

01:06:20.860 he crinkles in shame

01:06:21.680 we are literally

01:06:22.980 paid political

01:06:24.220 commentators

01:06:24.860 our only job in

01:06:26.720 life is to watch

01:06:27.340 the speech

01:06:27.820 and sitting here

01:06:29.460 with you guys for

01:06:29.880 the last almost 90

01:06:31.300 minutes we didn't

01:06:32.980 we could not watch

01:06:34.080 the speech we were

01:06:34.760 all sitting here

01:06:35.440 we have i think

01:06:36.520 they just came and

01:06:37.000 took it before the

01:06:37.540 cameras rolled they

01:06:38.520 had to print for us

01:06:39.320 printed copies of it

01:06:40.700 because it was so

01:06:41.960 incomprehensible in

01:06:43.100 real time

01:06:43.700 yeah he is it it is

01:06:46.340 interesting to me how

01:06:47.300 bad he is and some

01:06:49.060 people say oh there's

01:06:49.660 no way he could run

01:06:50.440 again but i do believe

01:06:51.600 it's a feature not a

01:06:52.600 bug i believe his

01:06:54.100 his age you know we

01:06:56.900 were talking as he

01:06:57.540 entered the chamber

01:06:58.080 that in some ways his

01:06:59.260 sort of harmless

01:07:00.040 uh uh aesthetic

01:07:02.560 but it's not just his

01:07:04.160 harmless aesthetic i

01:07:05.240 think it actually is

01:07:06.240 his sort of

01:07:06.900 disconnectedness and

01:07:08.900 his uh mental

01:07:10.200 slippage all of that

01:07:11.260 works to their

01:07:12.040 advantage because it

01:07:13.740 makes it makes him

01:07:14.900 this sort of trojan

01:07:15.640 horse in whom they

01:07:16.320 can plant all of

01:07:17.040 their ideas i mean he

01:07:18.240 really is more than

01:07:19.160 more than any

01:07:20.040 you know everybody

01:07:20.680 everybody used to 1.00

01:07:21.480 say that uh dick 0.94

01:07:22.600 cheney really controlled 0.89

01:07:23.600 george w bush and my

01:07:24.540 argument is always

01:07:25.300 listen that's nonsense

01:07:26.600 the president is the

01:07:27.820 president in the

01:07:28.800 president is vested

01:07:29.800 the power of the

01:07:31.120 presidency but it

01:07:32.660 never occurred to me

01:07:33.540 what happens when you

01:07:34.860 have a president who 0.97

01:07:35.540 is actually mentally 0.99

01:07:36.620 incapable but but

01:07:38.060 this is his strength

01:07:39.260 as you point out

01:07:40.080 jeremy is joe biden

01:07:41.480 first entered national

01:07:42.540 politics more than

01:07:44.060 50 years ago that's

01:07:45.280 right and so it

01:07:46.140 doesn't matter if he

01:07:46.860 mumbles and slurs his

01:07:47.860 words and screams and

01:07:48.960 is totally divorced from

01:07:49.960 reality people are very

01:07:51.780 comfortable with him

01:07:52.760 you feel bad for any

01:07:54.920 person that poops their 0.99

01:07:55.680 pants

01:07:56.000 in front of the pope

01:07:57.020 old or young you just

01:07:58.240 go this person can't

01:07:59.380 hold their bows and if

01:08:00.040 they do it in front of

01:08:00.540 the pope it's hard to be

01:08:01.580 like i really really hate

01:08:03.720 this person because he 0.95

01:08:04.540 pooped his pants and

01:08:05.280 that's what you're trying

01:08:05.900 to say using a lot of

01:08:06.520 nice words yes what you're

01:08:07.540 trying to say is real bad

01:08:08.760 for any person that

01:08:10.100 poops their pants in front 1.00

01:08:10.760 of the pope and that is 0.76

01:08:11.680 true i do you are

01:08:12.740 correctly he can run

01:08:13.740 again i don't think he

01:08:14.660 will it feels to me like

01:08:16.040 the media is turning on

01:08:16.940 him i think it's

01:08:17.620 purposeful suddenly they're

01:08:18.940 willing to cover the

01:08:19.680 hutton biden laptop

01:08:20.500 they're willing to talk

01:08:21.080 about his corruption

01:08:21.640 they're willing to find the

01:08:22.540 classified documents they

01:08:23.580 knew that they were there 0.99

01:08:24.280 forever they're not idiots 0.99

01:08:25.360 and it seems to me like 0.99

01:08:26.600 they're kind of gently

01:08:27.320 kind of trying to back

01:08:28.420 away from this and i do

01:08:29.700 think tucker carlson had

01:08:30.660 done a segment on this

01:08:31.320 few weeks ago um that

01:08:32.840 they they may be priming

01:08:34.040 michelle obama for a run

01:08:35.160 and and by the way that's

01:08:37.540 a serious run oh yeah

01:08:38.600 that's not and i said

01:08:39.340 on a show that's not

01:08:40.180 something to mock michelle

01:08:41.200 obama is not something to

01:08:41.980 mock no michelle obama does

01:08:43.260 not run for president and

01:08:44.200 not become president i just

01:08:45.420 i have to push back i have

01:08:46.880 to push back on this idea

01:08:47.940 though that that this is a

01:08:49.220 superpower of his that he

01:08:50.700 is incomprehensible and

01:08:52.280 unthreatening it's only it is

01:08:55.740 a superpower if the

01:08:57.540 republicans don't run

01:08:58.640 someone against him who is

01:08:59.880 a statesman with a point

01:09:01.260 of view i i think that

01:09:02.800 listen i think i i know

01:09:04.700 that's all i just thought

01:09:05.740 of something i know i'm

01:09:06.380 sorry unrelated no but i

01:09:07.940 mean i think i i think that

01:09:09.300 like trump was an amazing

01:09:10.660 moment in history when

01:09:12.480 things shifted as they had

01:09:14.600 to shift they were shifting

01:09:16.000 already they they changed

01:09:17.980 under cover of trump so

01:09:19.920 that the republicans are now

01:09:21.500 the party of the working

01:09:22.380 class they are now the

01:09:23.620 party of the ordinary man

01:09:24.900 which they weren't before

01:09:26.000 and the democrats are the

01:09:28.040 party of the elite and i

01:09:29.480 think that if somebody

01:09:30.360 who stands up who is an 0.99

01:09:31.520 actual statesman i'm not

01:09:34.300 going to say it's governor

01:09:35.400 de santis but it's governor

01:09:36.600 de santis who stands up

01:09:38.160 and says i i can do the

01:09:39.680 things that you need me to

01:09:40.660 do in a statesman like way

01:09:42.380 like the president of the

01:09:43.400 united states i think you

01:09:44.520 will wipe even michelle

01:09:45.840 obama off the map i do

01:09:47.440 not think what's that

01:09:48.880 you're a real optimist i

01:09:49.900 do not think that i do

01:09:51.580 not think another

01:09:52.420 television personality

01:09:53.540 which is what michelle

01:09:54.840 obama is let's face it

01:09:56.240 is going to win against

01:09:58.020 an actual person who

01:09:59.700 stands for something

01:10:00.440 but but that's very rare

01:10:02.260 you know i will say that

01:10:03.520 there's there's something

01:10:04.260 that that was interesting

01:10:05.480 believe it or not in

01:10:06.340 what biden was trying to

01:10:07.220 do strategically with the

01:10:08.120 speech and you can see it

01:10:09.240 in how he backloaded all

01:10:10.200 the controversial material

01:10:11.120 so he actually back he

01:10:12.540 knew everybody's going to

01:10:13.120 tune out in the first 20

01:10:13.980 minutes so he backloaded

01:10:15.200 everything that had to do

01:10:16.100 with the equity agenda

01:10:17.440 that was all backloaded

01:10:18.340 right the the policing

01:10:19.060 stuff was all backloaded

01:10:20.040 uh the stuff about

01:10:21.220 transiting the kids all 1.00

01:10:22.500 backloaded uh even some

01:10:24.100 of the environmental stuff

01:10:24.960 tended to be more

01:10:25.520 backloaded he was focusing

01:10:26.580 a lot on what he sees as

01:10:28.740 the blue collar base he's

01:10:29.700 trying to wrest back away

01:10:31.000 some of those trump voters

01:10:31.900 and so he's focusing a lot

01:10:32.820 on protectionist economic

01:10:33.840 policy on subsidies for

01:10:35.580 various types of industry

01:10:36.860 for on unions right he

01:10:38.480 thinks that he's going to

01:10:39.240 run sort of the the tim

01:10:40.380 ryan ohio campaign that

01:10:42.100 this is going to stand him

01:10:43.500 in good stead i don't think

01:10:44.660 that his party is going to

01:10:45.900 allow that to be the center

01:10:47.140 of the i don't think the

01:10:48.380 media just ask senator

01:10:50.020 ryan when he said when he

01:10:52.220 said we need fossil fuels

01:10:53.920 for 10 more years there was

01:10:55.480 like dead silence from the

01:10:56.500 democrats right i think that

01:10:57.420 i think he's going to have

01:10:58.080 trouble squaring that

01:10:58.640 circle we can see he's

01:10:59.380 trying to make that move he

01:11:00.480 understands that in order

01:11:01.360 for his coalition to be

01:11:02.240 durable he does need to

01:11:03.460 expand it and win back a

01:11:05.060 certain base that the

01:11:06.380 democrats have lost i don't

01:11:07.760 think the rest of his

01:11:08.220 party understands that it's

01:11:09.080 a real problem on the

01:11:09.640 point of wedges though we

01:11:10.900 were knocking him because

01:11:11.700 it was a horrible speech

01:11:12.420 there is one really clever

01:11:13.540 thing he did though and

01:11:14.240 it was right at the top

01:11:14.920 which is yeah he got

01:11:16.640 those two lines in about

01:11:18.340 kevin mccarthy and about

01:11:20.060 mitch mcconnell and there

01:11:21.440 were lines to say i'm

01:11:22.760 actually looking forward to

01:11:23.540 working with you kevin i

01:11:24.920 hope i don't hurt your

01:11:25.780 career here by saying that

01:11:26.760 but i think kevin i think

01:11:27.580 you're great and mitch you

01:11:28.760 know it's gonna be great

01:11:29.320 to work with you too mitch

01:11:30.320 and that's obviously a dig

01:11:31.720 at maga but it's really a

01:11:32.780 dig at both those guys

01:11:33.660 because uh he knows

01:11:35.100 we can see them in the

01:11:35.720 eyes of maga of course

01:11:36.820 yeah and that was after

01:11:37.740 the most contentious house

01:11:39.020 battle in what 150 years i

01:11:41.140 think it was

01:11:41.700 house leadership it wasn't

01:11:43.880 his idea but it was smart

01:11:44.900 i did like the part where

01:11:46.400 he's gonna fight inflation

01:11:47.300 by giving everybody a

01:11:48.700 thousand dollars back on an

01:11:49.600 electric car and building

01:11:50.240 five hundred thousand

01:11:50.880 that'll work that'll pay for

01:11:53.340 my tesla

01:11:53.780 it won't by the way the

01:11:56.020 tesla is expensive it's a

01:11:57.220 great car but it was

01:11:57.760 expensive

01:11:58.080 it is true what it is

01:11:59.820 peculiar that all of the

01:12:01.020 democrat social policy now

01:12:02.540 is aimed at helping well

01:12:04.640 off people yeah from your

01:12:06.520 no we're gonna pay for your

01:12:07.760 college uh no we're gonna

01:12:09.540 pay for your electric car

01:12:10.680 yeah no we're gonna pay

01:12:11.660 for your housekeeper no

01:12:12.580 we're gonna pay for your

01:12:13.440 even the uh the stuff

01:12:15.920 about the non-compete

01:12:16.880 clause they're gonna want

01:12:18.780 to get rid of non-compete

01:12:19.620 clauses he pretends that

01:12:20.540 this is about helping uh

01:12:21.900 fast food employees which

01:12:23.260 like apparently maybe there

01:12:24.180 are a few that are on

01:12:25.160 non-compete clauses which i

01:12:26.560 can't imagine but i never

01:12:27.840 had one when i was the

01:12:28.600 vast majority of that is not

01:12:30.120 uh yes tech sector right

01:12:32.020 it's it's high income resort

01:12:34.180 fees yeah no one who no one

01:12:37.000 worrying about how they're

01:12:38.060 gonna pay for eggs at home 0.92

01:12:39.300 today is like yeah finally

01:12:41.600 resort this actually this

01:12:43.600 actually is a great point is

01:12:44.540 that he was talking about

01:12:45.560 how like very specific ways

01:12:47.140 he was going to reduce very

01:12:48.200 specific bills right i'm

01:12:49.300 going to i'm going to

01:12:50.160 mandate that there are no

01:12:51.120 more resort fees i'm going

01:12:51.960 to make sure there are no

01:12:52.540 baggage fees i'm going to

01:12:53.520 make sure that you can get

01:12:54.420 a refund on your airline

01:12:55.400 ticket and meanwhile the

01:12:56.620 elephant in the room is

01:12:57.280 that inflation which he

01:12:58.380 says is quote unquote down

01:12:59.240 is currently running at

01:13:00.040 6.5 percent which is three

01:13:01.540 and a half which is which is

01:13:02.860 more than three times like

01:13:04.220 325 percent what they're

01:13:06.120 aiming at right normally

01:13:07.100 you're aiming at a two

01:13:07.780 percent inflation rate

01:13:08.540 it's running at 6.5 percent

01:13:09.700 that's down right so he's

01:13:11.340 avoiding that like the like

01:13:12.420 the plague and instead

01:13:13.320 proclaiming that he's going

01:13:14.220 to lower your costs in this

01:13:16.060 way and that way and just

01:13:16.820 hoping that you ignore the

01:13:17.720 the elephant in the room

01:13:18.820 there's so many sort of

01:13:19.800 tacit lies that he was

01:13:20.880 telling his whole inflation

01:13:22.080 reduction nonsense yeah

01:13:23.420 oh yeah donald trump blew

01:13:24.620 out the blew out the the

01:13:26.280 numbers on on the deficit

01:13:27.920 and i'm bringing the deficit

01:13:28.800 down no it's just that the

01:13:31.220 programs under trump

01:13:32.560 sunsetted and so therefore

01:13:34.180 less money was spent under

01:13:35.280 those programs those were

01:13:36.320 unanimously passed by the

01:13:37.560 republicans and the

01:13:38.380 democrats because of covid

01:13:39.360 i love how he blamed

01:13:40.780 covid simultaneously for

01:13:42.440 the crime increase as well

01:13:44.480 as for inflation right and

01:13:46.340 then and then he said you

01:13:47.280 know covid just kind of

01:13:48.020 magically shut covid shut

01:13:49.300 down our educational system

01:13:50.220 no no you shut down our

01:13:51.880 educational system he kept

01:13:53.120 blaming extraneous

01:13:54.260 factors for all of his

01:13:55.120 problems well of course he

01:13:55.880 gets the personal credit for

01:13:56.900 all the way teachers are all

01:13:57.640 going to get a raise so

01:13:58.480 there's that he said it's

01:13:59.760 such an amazing job not

01:14:00.540 so amazing yeah exactly

01:14:01.820 they didn't teach her in

01:14:02.500 covid they didn't want to

01:14:03.060 go back to work also we

01:14:04.420 have students that are

01:14:05.280 suffering but people can't

01:14:06.860 pass basic reading exams

01:14:08.000 literacy exams are the lowest

01:14:09.160 they've ever been in this

01:14:09.700 country we know we're gonna

01:14:10.680 do let's give teachers a

01:14:11.540 raise that will definitely

01:14:12.220 help the problem yeah oh

01:14:13.980 yeah because we need yeah

01:14:14.860 let's extend it to daycare it

01:14:16.300 shouldn't just be 12 years

01:14:17.460 they said they need we need

01:14:18.720 more years and that

01:14:20.480 obviously is something that

01:14:21.900 parents should be really

01:14:22.820 paying attention to that's

01:14:23.620 also something that he

01:14:24.600 backloaded go on that's a

01:14:26.220 that's how you fix the

01:14:27.400 education system is by putting

01:14:28.280 more money into it but if you

01:14:29.640 want to fix law enforcement

01:14:30.880 you take money out of it

01:14:31.780 yes perfectly sound

01:14:34.420 argument one thing that

01:14:35.480 matt said that i think is

01:14:36.300 absolutely true is this is

01:14:37.560 not going to be a political

01:14:38.600 event at all that that

01:14:40.000 usually the state of the

01:14:41.500 union has a lip afterwards

01:14:43.020 it lasts like two days and

01:14:44.840 it's going to go away and

01:14:45.640 this i think is going to be

01:14:47.020 it already but the only but

01:14:49.340 the only thing about this is

01:14:50.400 that you know it's

01:14:51.720 interesting to us because

01:14:52.560 we're political types and we

01:14:53.800 like political stories and it

01:14:56.200 is a political story it does

01:14:57.220 tell us how the government is

01:14:58.480 how the strategy of the

01:14:59.880 democrats is playing out but

01:15:01.580 aside from that it's not

01:15:02.780 actually a political event

01:15:04.140 the only thing about it that

01:15:05.380 i think helps biden is that

01:15:06.880 there keep being kind of

01:15:07.980 rumors of his demise and

01:15:09.140 they are they are greatly

01:15:10.260 exaggerated inside of his own

01:15:11.740 party not physically he's

01:15:13.180 dead but but metaphysically

01:15:15.840 they prop him on a horse

01:15:16.540 like el said and they're just

01:15:17.360 riding him around but the

01:15:19.140 the thing about what what

01:15:20.740 keeps happening is that they

01:15:21.680 proclaim that he was dead

01:15:22.540 before the midterms and then

01:15:23.920 the democrats slightly

01:15:24.680 overperformed it it's back

01:15:26.340 it's back go ahead come on

01:15:29.100 oh my oh

01:15:31.100 oh wow you didn't break it

01:15:34.140 you did what biden didn't do

01:15:35.320 in nine days

01:15:36.080 wow amazing

01:15:37.060 we call him uh

01:15:38.940 america

01:15:39.560 after eight days the balloon

01:15:45.700 has been

01:15:46.220 finally finally

01:15:46.840 yes what a success we took

01:15:48.200 care of that thing right away

01:15:49.380 oh no

01:15:49.860 no

01:15:50.320 tell us how you did it

01:15:51.200 tell us how you did it mr

01:15:52.260 president

01:15:52.580 it was all me

01:15:53.240 i was here the whole time

01:15:55.840 i didn't see you anywhere

01:15:56.840 it was part of my plan

01:15:58.380 i

01:15:59.000 i actually only notice now

01:16:02.500 that it's an ice cream cone

01:16:03.500 in his hand

01:16:04.000 that's

01:16:04.660 that's a nice touch

01:16:05.860 that's a nice little touch

01:16:07.620 hi

01:16:08.840 leave that poor woman alone 1.00

01:16:11.520 no no no mr president

01:16:12.780 not again

01:16:13.980 is a country

01:16:19.840 if you want to spend even

01:16:20.920 more time with us you're

01:16:22.140 welcome to come over to

01:16:23.040 daily wire plus

01:16:24.000 yeah i can't imagine

01:16:25.700 but we're going to do our

01:16:26.760 members block here in a few

01:16:27.600 minutes and it's still there's

01:16:28.840 still a little bit of time to

01:16:29.500 get your questions in uh we're

01:16:31.280 going to be taking only

01:16:32.440 questions from members at the

01:16:33.580 members block that's why we

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01:16:35.640 become a member daily wire

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01:16:44.520 we mean by our president is

01:16:46.020 for sale well we literally

01:16:47.760 mean

01:16:48.300 china owns the president of the 0.98

01:16:51.720 united states of america it's a

01:16:54.240 subtle it's a subtle love now i get

01:16:56.540 it

01:16:56.680 it's a rental

01:17:00.120 this is the worst show ever can you

01:17:05.980 promise me a member block that

01:17:07.700 paper bag joe biden's not going to

01:17:10.100 be there

01:17:10.400 yeah so i agree nothing's going to

01:17:17.020 come of this

01:17:17.560 it was uh it was over before before

01:17:20.300 the speech was over like the

01:17:21.380 political impact you know he he

01:17:23.880 almost went out of his way not to

01:17:25.940 dream big i mean you could say that

01:17:27.120 the cancer thing is big except there

01:17:28.900 was literally a plot line on uh the

01:17:31.540 west wing

01:17:32.180 almost 20 years ago whether or not to

01:17:35.460 announce the cure that we could cure

01:17:36.840 cancer at a state of the union you

01:17:38.320 know what they concluded you can't

01:17:40.220 no you can't actually say he's

01:17:41.640 also been doing this shtick for

01:17:42.840 like seven or eight years that's

01:17:44.020 right cancer moonshot yeah just one

01:17:45.760 more year guys i think he's gonna do

01:17:47.260 it

01:17:47.400 i hate

01:17:50.900 bold statement

01:17:55.960 maybe someone who doesn't want to be

01:17:58.980 season date

01:17:59.620 no please take it all the way off

01:18:05.200 it's a good run joe

01:18:09.100 yeah

01:18:13.600 can we go home

01:18:14.440 no we have no we can't go home but

01:18:17.300 we can go to our members block head

01:18:18.860 over to dailywireplus.com right now

01:18:21.780 for the rest of you uh we're going to

01:18:23.480 catch back up with you on the other

01:18:24.980 side

01:18:25.380 there are plenty more horrible

01:18:26.700 political events coming this year

01:18:28.000 and we will be here to cover each and

01:18:30.500 every one of them

01:18:31.680 suffer them all we will suffer them

01:18:33.160 all together thanks for being with us 0.93

01:18:34.540 you

The Michael Knowles Show - February 08, 2023

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