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00:06:30.000It was just really, really vulgar, which is what these roasts have become increasingly in recent years.
00:06:36.640So relative to the other comedians, he was kind of on the money.
00:06:39.760It was just a lot of that, basically, throughout the night.
00:06:42.640Now, Jeff Ross, who's kind of the grand poobah of these roasts, he had slightly elevated material, but even he got in trouble with the honoree.
00:06:53.580Tom Brady was the only time all night people had these vicious attacks, not mean-spirited attacks, but vicious jokes on Tom Brady all night.
00:10:40.000It was totally different from all the other performances at all the other roasts in recent years, up to and including this most recent one for Tom Brady.
00:10:50.800And that, I'm not just mentioning all of this because I like stand-up comedy and the roast jokes are funny.
00:10:56.100I'm mentioning all of this because it has real political implications.
00:11:02.340If you want to stand out in comedy, in show business, and in politics, you need to subvert expectations.
00:11:10.240If you just give the people exactly what they expect and you play within the perfectly well-defined rules that have been established for, I don't know, since the last time someone upended the rules, you're not going to do very much.
00:11:23.260You're not going to get the biggest laughs of the night.
00:11:26.260You're not going to leave any impression.
00:11:29.340You're not going to advance whatever your object is, be it in show business or politics, as you might like to.
00:11:39.680So how do we be shocking now in politics?
00:11:43.940How do we subvert expectations in politics?
00:11:48.080What does that mean politically today?
00:11:50.580To me, I think I have an answer to it because I don't think left and right quite works anymore.
00:11:58.980You're really seeing this with the protests, the campus intifada.
00:12:13.320There are some pro-Israel left-wingers.
00:12:15.800There are some radically anti-Israel right-wingers.
00:12:18.160It's kind of a fringe statistically, but especially when you get to the younger conservatives and leftists, it gets a little bit more jumbled up.
00:12:26.760I mean, that's one war and one political issue, but it's true across a lot of other things.
00:12:30.480You're seeing a lot of young conservatives upend Republican Party orthodoxy for the last two or three decades when it comes to things like trade, when it comes to things like drugs and porn and government regulation even.
00:13:27.480In the 20th century, the left loved Russia.
00:13:29.900Now the left hates Russia because the circumstances have changed.
00:13:33.240Now we talk about left versus right, but that's kind of breaking down too.
00:13:37.660Some people are saying Tucker Carlson's economics are left-wing.
00:13:40.520He's talking more like a leftist than a right-winger.
00:13:43.660Or, you know, the, I don't know, the integralists, the common good conservatives, the populists.
00:13:49.460I guess populism is a good term for this.
00:13:51.320You saw this especially in 2016 when the breakdown seemed to be the people versus the establishment.
00:13:58.120Or, I don't know, when you look at the campus intifada, I guess it's the Muslims versus the Jews.
00:14:03.200Or some people, on the extreme fringes of the left or on the right, they'd probably like it to be the Christians versus the Jews.
00:14:09.420Or something, I don't know, I don't think that one, that one's kind of been tried before.
00:14:12.460I don't know if that's going to totally, you know, the people versus the Jews.
00:14:15.800I don't know if that's totally going to work, but there are people calling for all sorts of a new split in a new political order.
00:14:27.860Even the, of all the ones I just mentioned, the closest that probably would have some cachet that might sell is the people versus the elites.
00:14:37.600You know, the establishment that's increasingly unresponsive to the people.
00:14:40.540But even that is limited because at a certain point, you hope that your side gets some political power, and then what?
00:14:48.080Then you become part of the establishment.
00:14:49.460You can't just be defined by your position outside of the political order because then it doesn't give you any room to gain power in the political order and do stuff.
00:14:57.880So you need something even beyond just the feeling of populism.
00:16:23.580I think the answer to where the political alignment goes that is shocking, that has cachet, that wins people over, that is a broad movement, you know, it doesn't have the narrowness of, I don't know, the very online right or the campus intifada or, I don't know, these kind of tiny things is another major topic of political debate these days in the commentary.
00:16:52.240And that is the trads, trad life, trad wives, that tradition, the trads versus the radicals.
00:17:02.640I think that, that is getting closer to where the real political divide is right now.
00:17:09.640Because what does it, what does it even mean to be trad?
00:17:12.720I don't, does it mean, you know, you, you go around LARPing, you know, does it mean that you, I don't know, you adopt some anachronistic costume or political?
00:17:25.380No, I think to be trad me, I mean, there are all sorts of implications.
00:17:29.420There are implications that are anthropological.
00:17:32.180You think that men and women are different rather than the same and rather than thinking men can become women.
00:17:38.580That would be one, that would be an anthropological aspect of being a traditional person.
00:17:42.660A, I guess, a generational aspect of it would be that you have children.
00:17:49.620You're not, you're not closed off to the possibility of life.
00:17:53.300A, I don't know, a financial aspect to it, it might be that you save your money.
00:17:59.060You don't just spend your money on total nonsense.
00:18:01.600A liturgical aspect of it might be that you go to church, first of all, and that you go to churches that are more traditional, that have more liturgy to it, that have a little more smells and bells.
00:18:14.120I mean, and you're, the reason I think this plays is because all these things are happening.
00:18:20.700You're seeing younger people having less sex outside of marriage.
00:18:24.600You're seeing younger people returning to, not only to religion, but to more traditional forms of religion.
00:18:35.500A lot of people are converting to Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy to some degree.
00:18:39.400And even among non-Christians, you're seeing Jews who had been largely secular for many, many decades.
00:18:45.080They're becoming a little bit more orthodox, more conservative, and a little bit more orthodox.
00:18:50.460Even people who were total atheists, they're at least beginning to accept that God exists.
00:18:56.440You're kind of seeing those movements.
00:18:58.180People recognize that family kinds of matters.
00:19:00.500A new awareness that maybe we need to start having kids.
00:19:05.840I mean, the fact that trad wives have become a kind of internet meme, that the trad life is even a topic of discussion now, really matters.
00:19:15.100So we can go through all this highfalutin, you know, kind of abstract discussion about what it means to be trad.
00:19:23.560But the reason I think this plays politically has nothing to do with any of that, which is maybe interesting for the commentators and academics and people who are nerds.
00:19:35.000But the reason it plays politically is because what it pretty much all boils down to, this trad life, is just being normal.
00:19:42.600Just being a normal person and not chopping yourself up and dyeing your hair all sorts of crazy colors and shrieking at your dad and living in a communist polycule and, you know, choosing not to have children and all the stuff that modern people do that's really weird and disordered.
00:19:59.300It's kind of just being normal and being normal is really attractive and it's really great.
00:20:05.760I'll just speak from personal experience here.
00:20:08.600Not that, you know, we're all a little eccentric, a little quirky.
00:24:43.640Now, speaking of people who don't want to be normal at all, the leftists who protest me when I go to universities, sometimes I'm able to sit down with them after the speech, as occurred at the University of Utah, which is the subject of our latest episode of Crossing the Line.
00:25:01.980Is it a safe place for your conservative students?
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00:27:15.360Some people are not content with the rise of trad life.
00:28:18.460I remember having to knock on the neighbor's door on rainy nights because he'd get upset and drive off without unlocking the house.
00:28:23.900It was very strange to go from being this public figure on stage with people clapping to the girl crying, knocking on someone's door with no home to get into, being abandoned with a baby.
00:28:32.340But as she tells it, the nightmare began in earnest when he was offered a work opportunity in his home country of Australia, a few weeks after the birth of their baby.
00:28:41.520She did not want to leave her support networks behind, but he used the political and religious importance she placed on lifelong marriage as a lever to force her to agree.
00:28:50.060Whenever I wouldn't do something, he would say, I'm going to divorce you.
00:28:52.320So feeling she had no other option, she assented.
00:29:55.840Or, you know, he'd leave, go away for days at a time.
00:29:58.540I mean, that's not, so what, so then you got to be a little bit more specific.
00:30:02.120I mean, probably the weirdos at the university campuses wearing the keffias calling for, you know, a Palestinian state or something, they might appeal to tradition.
00:30:13.160Hamas, in a way, appeals to a kind of tradition.
00:30:39.860I mean, you can write a book about it, but that won't encapsulate everything.
00:30:42.500One of the great, more traditionalist political philosophers who did write a book on this subject, Michael Oakeshott, points this out in Rationalism and Politics.
00:30:51.080That an exaltation of tradition is kind of an anti-ideology.
00:30:59.200You don't write it in three bullet points on the back of a napkin.
00:31:01.620There's some things you learn from book learning.
00:31:03.520There's some things you learn just by doing them.
00:31:06.120And so, you've got to put it into your whole body.
00:31:25.880It goes back to the animating spirit of our culture, which is Christianity, which did not spring up 300 or 400 years ago.
00:31:32.580It sprung up 2,000 years ago when our Lord walked the earth and instituted a visible church with, you know, secular history redeemed in it and visible successors.
00:31:43.060And how does that express itself in different particular places?
00:31:46.660You've got to, it's about real people.
00:31:49.420I mean, even the fact, Lauren writes here that she married some foreigner.
00:31:52.580Well, yeah, then it's hard to live the trad life when you're married to a foreign person who then takes you to a foreign country and largely a foreign tradition.
00:32:06.480I mean, I really feel for all the stuff she went through.
00:32:08.620But it's just a reminder, I think this is why this view of politics in life is really catching on now, at least among young people, why it's attractive to a lot of people, because it's shocking.
00:32:22.020It's like Norm Macdonald going up at the Bob Saget roast and doing old Dean Martin jokes.
00:32:25.400It's just, it's totally different from the current left-right divide or Republican-Democrat or communist-capitalist or whatever people.
00:32:35.800It's different and it's attractive and ultimately I think it's more durable.
00:32:39.860Now, speaking of tradition, there's a great economic story out that shows that online shopping, which we were once told was going to destroy brick-and-mortar shops, all the mom and pops, and even the big corporate shops.
00:32:54.120Online shopping is actually saving the brick-and-mortar store.
00:32:57.800We're not yet all just going to live in our pods and plug our brainstems into a computer and live in the metaverse.
00:33:03.820That actually people are going back into brick-and-mortar shops in real communities, on real streets, in real buildings.
00:33:12.320According to this big piece, store owners once viewed e-commerce as a mounting threat to their survival.
00:33:19.460Now, more brick-and-mortar stores are thriving after integrating their properties with the online shopping experience.
00:33:24.600So, it's not that the brick-and-mortars are opposed to online shopping.
00:33:28.220The brick-and-mortars are becoming a part of online shopping and online shopping is relying increasingly on brick-and-mortars.
00:33:33.220Shoppers browse in person to see, touch, or try on items before ordering them online.
00:33:38.680They're picking up or returning purchases in stores, and retailers are increasingly relying on their shops as fulfillment hubs, shipping items ordered online from store stock rooms in addition to warehouses.
00:33:50.280So, for instance, I could go in, let's say I want some nice new, you know, super trad, sigma, giga, alpha male kind of sport coat or something.
00:34:01.000And I go in, and I want to try the fit.
00:34:03.000They don't have the exact sport coat I want, but I want to see how their suits are cut, right?
00:34:22.180According to these data, nearly 42% of e-commerce orders last year involved physical stores, which is up from 27% in 2015.
00:34:31.040So, brick and mortars are exploding, even after COVID, even after we were all locked in and had Amazon deliver everything we wanted to our doors.
00:34:39.300Managing Director at Global Data, which is the research firm here, says there was a narrative that as online grew, stores would become less relevant.
00:45:34.780If I ever, God forbid, am shot, like bullets all through me, like I'm Swiss cheese, and I am taken semi-conscious, or maybe I'm totally out, to an operating room somewhere.
00:45:48.660And one of those rapping women comes out to operate on me.
00:45:53.000I'm asking Ben Davies here, or Professor Jacob, or any of my production team, please drive me to another hospital.
00:46:01.480I know you're going to say, Michael, you're pouring blood.
00:46:03.920You've got, I'd rather take the chance.
00:46:07.760Drive me to the bad hospital across town, where maybe the doctors didn't go to Harvard Medical School, but they also, they don't rap like this.
00:46:17.080Because I don't, I wouldn't try, I don't know about you, I would not trust those people to operate on me.
00:46:23.420Maybe they got good scores on their tests.
00:46:27.600I mean, at least for undergraduate, Yale and maybe Harvard stopped looking at the SAT for a few years.
00:46:34.580I think they've recently reinstituted it because a bunch of, you know, let's say unqualified candidates made it in.
00:46:42.140But I don't know, do they, even if these kids did well on their tests, the thing that's really cringe about this and off-putting,
00:46:51.480not only politically, but even as a matter of patients looking at prospective doctors, is how self-satisfied these people are.
00:47:01.420This is the biggest problem with these schools.
00:47:04.320Biggest problem with the Ivy League schools, and especially the trade schools, the professional schools, like the medical schools and the law schools, but the undergraduates too.
00:47:14.500They think that because you were the valedictorian at your high school, and you got a perfect score on your SAT, or a relatively high score on your SAT, or you were just an affirmative action case or something,
00:47:24.160and because you, I don't know, you were the class president or something, that because of that, you're done.
00:47:29.860You've won the lottery of life, and you're the greatest thing ever, and you never have to work again.
00:48:21.400I like that there are people who are smarter than me.
00:48:24.680The world would not be very well off if I were the smartest person in the world.
00:48:30.240I like if I were the most knowledgeable person in the world, if I were the most capable person in the world, you know, the society would crumble in two seconds, okay?
00:48:44.180The left says we need to all be totally egalitarian and bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator, and we're all living as Harrison Bergeron, like we're in a Kurt Vonnegut story or something.
00:49:02.720The problem is these people are not good at it.
00:49:05.460The problem is that our elites are not that smart, and they're not that educated, and they're not very competent, and they don't seem to have our best interests at heart a lot of the time.
00:49:14.160They don't give a damn about the common good a lot of the time, even as a matter of their own ideologies, and they're just bad at it, and they're so self-satisfied.
00:49:21.740I am quite confident that there were absolute divine right monarchs in Western history who were much less self-confident than these people are, because at least the absolute divine right monarchs knew they had to answer to God.
00:49:38.180These people, half the time, more than half the time probably, they don't even believe in God.
00:49:42.540They view themselves as gods, which is always an undeserved and foolish view of oneself.
00:49:48.760But especially now, when our elites know much, much less and possess many fewer practical skills than their forebears, whom they regularly denigrate.
00:50:00.500Now, speaking of bad education, there's a Girl Scout troop in St. Louis.
00:50:05.020I think they've now broken away from the formal organization.
00:50:07.740It might be an independent Girl Scout troop, but they're learning new chants.
00:50:13.980So, they're out there, they're protesting.