The Michael Knowles Show - June 28, 2024


Ep. 1521 - Trump Vs Biden Debate Summarized In 5 Mins


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Biden's performance on national television last night was so bad that some conservatives are now wondering if it was actually a deliberate ploy by Democrats to destroy Donald Trump in November. Plus, a new candle that smells like a Sicilian summer.

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00:00:37.700 That was bad, huh?
00:00:40.900 That was real, real bad for Joe Biden.
00:00:45.300 It was really good for Donald Trump and the Republicans.
00:00:48.540 I guess bad for America, except it was good for America in as much as it was bad for Biden and good for Trump and will help Trump win in November.
00:00:55.360 Last night's debate went so terribly for Joe Biden that some conservatives are now worried that it must have been some kind of a trap.
00:01:07.340 It was so bad for Biden that the conservatives went from being happy and then elated to being worried, crestfallen almost.
00:01:18.040 It was so shockingly, stunningly, scandalously bad.
00:01:24.380 It had to be a farce, right?
00:01:28.320 It had to be a trick.
00:01:29.280 It had to be a conspiracy.
00:01:31.380 Top Democrats are publicly admitting how bad it is.
00:01:34.360 Therefore, some Republicans are concluding this must have been some 5D chess move by Democrats to replace Biden and then to destroy Trump because they can get, I don't know, Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama or, I don't know, the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt or someone to beat Trump.
00:01:50.780 No one can believe that a political performance that terrible could have just happened.
00:01:59.580 But it did.
00:02:01.340 And we will get into how.
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00:02:03.520 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:04.380 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:24.560 As the president of the United States endured rigor mortis on national television last night,
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00:03:39.540 The two worst moments for Biden last night also happened to be the occasion for Donald Trump's best zingers.
00:03:51.940 All those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with.
00:04:13.240 Look, if we finally beat Medicare.
00:04:20.380 Thank you, President Biden.
00:04:21.720 President Trump?
00:04:23.300 He's right.
00:04:23.860 He did beat Medicare.
00:04:25.040 He beat it to death.
00:04:25.860 And he's destroying Medicare.
00:04:28.560 It's a great line from Trump.
00:04:30.640 Total zinger.
00:04:31.360 In a way, the zinger almost got buried because of Jake Tapper's response. 0.79
00:04:38.380 I didn't say something.
00:04:39.640 And we didn't.
00:04:41.540 COVID.
00:04:41.960 COVID was.
00:04:44.060 We beat Medicare.
00:04:46.660 He brought himself back to something that sounded like authoritative political rhetoric, but it didn't make a lot of sense.
00:04:53.560 We beat Medicare.
00:04:54.940 And you can hear in Jake Tapper's voice, once Biden thinks he lands the plane, you hear Tapper go, thank you, President Biden.
00:05:04.940 And then Trump right in there with the zinger.
00:05:07.860 Yeah, you beat it to death.
00:05:09.360 Let me tell you about my Medicare plan and what we've done and how great it was under my watch.
00:05:13.260 Now, why does this matter?
00:05:14.380 Trump's really good at the zingers.
00:05:15.560 We thought going into this debate we weren't going to get the zingers because the moderator said we're going to mute the microphones.
00:05:20.300 There's not going to be cross talk.
00:05:21.600 No opportunity for Trump to pull his, you know, yeah, Hillary, you'd be in jail in my country or yeah, only Rosie O'Donnell or all those little zingers that fire people up. 1.00
00:05:31.940 But but Trump was restrained and disciplined.
00:05:34.420 And so he just got the zinger in when it was his turn to speak.
00:05:37.300 And he really landed it.
00:05:38.980 And then maybe even more devastating than Biden just fumbling around to make some point about Medicare was was when Biden fumbled around to make some point that no one can even really say what it was.
00:05:54.540 I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers.
00:06:06.320 President Trump.
00:06:06.880 I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence.
00:06:09.840 I don't think he knows what he said either.
00:06:11.560 Oh, the zingers worked because of the restraint.
00:06:17.020 Just like a beautiful poem is is is beautiful and made all the more beautiful by the limits put on the poem by the meter, by the rhyme scheme, by the delicacy and nuance of the diction.
00:06:32.360 And that's what if it's just beyond all limits and bombastic, if the poem is slam poetry or something, it's going to be terrible.
00:06:39.500 But if it's controlled, if it's got limits, that's where the beauty lies.
00:06:42.440 And that's where the beauty was in in Trump's answers.
00:06:45.740 He gets a line in.
00:06:46.300 Yeah, you beat Medicare to death.
00:06:47.420 Let me tell you.
00:06:47.900 Let me now let me move on.
00:06:49.300 Little zinger.
00:06:49.960 Zoom, zoom.
00:06:50.360 There we go.
00:06:50.820 OK, now let me tell you about how much better things were under under my watch.
00:06:54.140 And let me speak an articulate English sentence.
00:06:57.760 That's going to be the biggest contrast of the night.
00:07:00.360 Even here, he could have said, Joe, you're a demented old doddering idiot.
00:07:04.180 But he didn't do that.
00:07:06.420 There was actual pathos in what Trump was saying when he said it seems so genuine.
00:07:12.620 It seems so sincere.
00:07:13.320 I don't I don't know what he was just saying.
00:07:17.040 I don't I'm not even going to respond to what Biden was just saying.
00:07:20.280 I don't know what he was saying.
00:07:22.180 And I don't think he knows either.
00:07:24.140 That zinger worked because it was it was it was tough.
00:07:28.200 It was mean.
00:07:28.800 It hit him.
00:07:29.280 But it seemed to have an aspect of compassion to it, too.
00:07:32.720 And and most of all, it was sincere.
00:07:35.140 Jake Tapper didn't know what he said.
00:07:36.680 Dan Abash didn't know what he said.
00:07:38.100 The viewers didn't know what what Biden was trying to say.
00:07:40.140 So the zingers worked as well as I've ever seen them work for Trump because it wasn't just that they were funny and quick.
00:07:46.540 They they just he just knew the room.
00:07:49.220 He read the room.
00:07:50.060 He's a great showbiz genius.
00:07:52.580 And he he knows how to play to 50,000 people in a stadium and he knows how to play to four people in a closed studio without a live audience being broadcast to 80 million people at home.
00:08:04.460 He just he just understood the medium.
00:08:07.820 He understood the moment.
00:08:08.680 He lived up to it.
00:08:09.720 Biden tried to get some zingers in as well.
00:08:13.400 It was really just one zinger and it was one zinger that he repeated throughout the entire night.
00:08:18.840 Namely, don't believe what that guy just said.
00:08:21.460 We had by far the highest and now it's down in less than half because he's done all these great things that we did.
00:08:27.440 And I think he did it just because I approved it, which is crazy.
00:08:30.900 But he has killed so many people at our border by allowing all of these people to come in. 1.00
00:08:35.680 And it's a very sad day in America.
00:08:37.440 President Biden, you have the mic.
00:08:38.400 Every single thing he said is a lie.
00:08:40.440 Every single one.
00:08:42.680 So this was it.
00:08:43.840 This this was Biden's only comeback all night.
00:08:46.880 Trump had these kind of funny little comebacks.
00:08:48.980 Yeah, you beat Medicare to death.
00:08:50.980 Yeah.
00:08:51.400 I don't know what you just said.
00:08:52.900 Yeah.
00:08:53.720 You're you're not that good at golf, which we'll get to in a second.
00:08:56.360 That was a charming little one, too.
00:08:58.040 Yeah.
00:08:58.360 Yeah, actually, the Ukraine war, you know, disproves what you've just said.
00:09:04.040 Yeah, my performance in the economy or immigration disproves what you just said.
00:09:06.700 He had he had a he had substantive rebuttals.
00:09:09.180 All Biden had was that isn't true.
00:09:11.360 That's a lie.
00:09:12.260 It was the my cousin Vinny defense.
00:09:14.900 It was it was that moment in my cousin Vinny where Joe Pesci shows up wearing the 19th century crazy looking suit.
00:09:21.420 And he says this.
00:09:22.420 Everything that guy just says, bull.
00:09:30.540 Thank you.
00:09:31.460 That's pretty much it.
00:09:33.300 He didn't have quite the panache of a Joe Pesci and his wardrobe wasn't quite as ornate, but that was it.
00:09:39.480 Mr. Mr. Biden, what's your response to all of the charges leveled against you by former President Trump?
00:09:44.780 Everything that guy just said is bull.
00:09:48.600 The defense rests.
00:09:50.040 So the Trump obviously won on the zingers.
00:09:53.960 Even at the end, I just alluded to it.
00:09:56.960 There was this funny little exchange about how Biden challenged Trump to golf.
00:10:02.280 And Trump thought this was kind of funny.
00:10:06.940 Here is Trump just knocking him down.
00:10:10.940 You can see he is six foot five and only 223 pounds or 235 pounds.
00:10:17.360 Well, you said six, four, 200.
00:10:19.440 Well, anyway, just take a look at what he says he is and take a look at what he is.
00:10:26.040 Look, I'd be happy to have a driving contest with him.
00:10:28.900 I got my handicap, which when I was vice president, down to a six.
00:10:35.140 And by the way, I told you before, I'm happy to play golf if you carry your own bag.
00:10:40.600 Think you can do it?
00:10:41.460 That's the biggest lie.
00:10:43.380 He's a six handicap of all. 0.98
00:10:45.420 I was an eight handicap.
00:10:47.420 Eight.
00:10:48.580 Never.
00:10:49.300 But I have, you know how many?
00:10:50.520 I've seen you swing.
00:10:51.560 I know you swing.
00:10:52.620 Let's not act like children.
00:10:54.040 President Trump, we're going to turn.
00:10:55.420 Let's not act like children.
00:10:57.480 To a specific.
00:10:59.200 Let's.
00:10:59.680 Hey, come on. 0.77
00:11:00.380 Let's not act like children.
00:11:02.220 Masterful.
00:11:03.080 Masterful.
00:11:03.640 The whole bit beginning to end was masterful.
00:11:06.540 Biden starts it.
00:11:08.360 He says, Trump, you claimed on your physical that you're six foot five, 225 pounds.
00:11:13.380 Trump with his mic off.
00:11:15.540 So no one at home could really hear the answer.
00:11:17.480 He goes, that's not true.
00:11:18.340 I never said that.
00:11:19.740 Biden could have ignored what Trump was saying because the audience at home wasn't listening.
00:11:23.920 But Biden has lost his marbles.
00:11:25.560 So he didn't realize that he had that advantage.
00:11:28.080 That that debate rule that he, his team asked for, which is that shut up, shut up Trump's
00:11:32.620 mic so that he, he, he doesn't interfere with your lies and your narrative.
00:11:37.920 He didn't realize that he could, he could take advantage of that.
00:11:40.180 So instead he answers Trump because, well, what do you, you didn't say that?
00:11:43.180 Well, you, okay.
00:11:44.460 Then you didn't say six, five.
00:11:45.520 You said you were six, four.
00:11:46.780 I didn't say that either.
00:11:47.720 I, oh, okay.
00:11:49.880 All right.
00:11:50.480 Well, whatever he said, that's what he said.
00:11:52.540 But anyway, I want to play golf with you.
00:11:55.400 I'm a six over par handicap.
00:11:58.600 And then Trump takes the opportunity and makes a, a, a polite and respectable little joke is
00:12:04.600 biggest lie Joe's told all night.
00:12:07.000 He's not a six over handicap.
00:12:08.760 Uh, no way.
00:12:10.540 That's a, that's a, that's a gentleman's joke.
00:12:12.640 Okay.
00:12:13.080 That's not a, you've got an ugly face and your mother's a whore kind of joke, which is 1.00
00:12:17.200 sometimes the level of comedy that you, you could hear on the campaign trail, especially
00:12:22.780 Trump is a funny New York kind of guy, uh, that, that isn't it.
00:12:26.800 He was just, oh yeah, you're not as good at golf as, as you say you are.
00:12:30.460 Yeah.
00:12:30.760 I've seen your swing.
00:12:32.740 Even that it's, that's a gentlemanly kind of joke.
00:12:35.600 It, it plays well in Peoria, but it's still off-footed Biden.
00:12:40.020 And then Trump comes in just as it, the debate is reaching the point where people would say
00:12:45.740 Trump was taking cheap shots and making jokes and distracting.
00:12:49.400 Trump says, but let's not act like children.
00:12:51.860 Hey guys, I'm going to be the adult in the room.
00:12:54.700 Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, especially you, Joe Biden.
00:12:57.420 Can we please get back to the substantive issues?
00:13:00.060 He was masterful.
00:13:02.700 He did that all in about one minute, less than one minute, I think.
00:13:05.280 Absolutely masterful.
00:13:06.220 And then they did get into substantive issues.
00:13:08.700 And, and so put the zingers aside for a second on the substance, Trump slaughtered this guy.
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00:13:42.340 On the substance of the debate, what did Biden have to say?
00:13:46.400 We knew the issues he was going to bring up.
00:13:49.020 Forget about January 6th was the worst day ever.
00:13:52.200 Forget about Donald Trump is a felon.
00:13:54.020 Forget about, he uses naughty words.
00:13:55.760 Forget about, he's a racist, sexist, misogynist, Nazi, this-ist, that-ist.
00:14:00.900 You know, you had all that.
00:14:02.480 But on the substance, we knew Biden was going to go after Trump on abortion.
00:14:06.620 Trump overruled Roe v. Wade.
00:14:08.580 He got the judges on the court to overrule Roe v. Wade.
00:14:10.580 He wants to ban abortions.
00:14:12.440 That's terrible.
00:14:13.400 Vote for me, Joe Biden.
00:14:14.520 I have the moderate popular position on abortion.
00:14:17.040 Here's Joe trying to make that argument.
00:14:19.020 I supported Roe v. Wade, which had three trimesters.
00:14:23.500 The first time is between the woman and the doctor.
00:14:26.160 The second time is between the doctor and an extreme situation.
00:14:30.160 The third time is between the doctor, I mean, between the woman and the state.
00:14:35.300 The idea that the politicians, that the founders want the politicians to be the ones making decisions about a woman's health is ridiculous.
00:14:43.440 That's the last.
00:14:44.120 No politician should be making that decision.
00:14:46.180 A doctor should be making those decisions. 0.99
00:14:48.060 That's how it should be run.
00:14:49.540 That's what you're going to do.
00:14:50.880 And if I'm elected, I'm going to restore Roe v. Wade. 0.96
00:14:53.240 So the one part that Biden said is true is that Roe v. Wade established a trimester system for determining when you can kill a baby.
00:15:01.500 That is true.
00:15:03.140 And the trimester system that Biden describes is not accurate.
00:15:07.980 What did he say there?
00:15:08.680 He said the first one, it's, you know, you can kill the baby.
00:15:11.240 And in the second one, it's between the mother and the, and the, and in the second one, it's between the mother and the state.
00:15:17.880 And, but we don't want politicians involved. 0.97
00:15:20.400 Hold on.
00:15:20.720 Wait, hold on.
00:15:21.120 You just, so you're telling me previously you, you said to Trump, no, Trump, that's not true.
00:15:27.280 We don't support late term abortions.
00:15:28.960 I support Roe v. Wade and Roe v. Wade is a trimester system. 0.95
00:15:32.560 So don't tell me that I support late abortions.
00:15:34.660 According to the trimester system, you can abort babies in the first trimester or the second trimester or the third trimester.
00:15:41.620 Wait, what?
00:15:42.760 But anyway, I'm trying to tell you that we don't support late term abortions, but then I just literally told you we do support late term abortions.
00:15:48.740 And I specifically claimed out of nowhere that the third trimester, what distinguishes it from the first two trimesters is that there, the decision of whether or not to kill a baby is between the mother and the state.
00:15:58.880 And that's why I don't think politicians should be involved in the issue of abortion.
00:16:03.680 Because the, I mean, I guess the, I guess the politicians are in the state, they work for the state and they, so the state is politics, but they, and that's the third trimester, which is the late term that you're actually bringing up Trump.
00:16:13.640 But anyway, I don't, I support Roe v. Wade. 0.60
00:16:16.740 And there's a further irony here.
00:16:18.860 Utah Senator Mike Lee posted a great clip.
00:16:21.560 I probably should have, should have pulled it.
00:16:22.980 There were so many clips coming in of, of Biden decades ago saying that, well, he supported the outcome of Roe v. Wade.
00:16:30.820 He supports abortion.
00:16:31.800 He supports killing babies willy-nilly.
00:16:35.060 He was mocking the constitutional reasoning behind Roe v. Wade.
00:16:38.960 He said, you know, no one really believes that the Roe v. Wade decision was a, was a great example of constitutional, reasonable jurisprudence.
00:16:46.500 No, the, the, the decision was a total mess.
00:16:48.660 And of course it was a total mess.
00:16:49.660 That's why the Supreme Court totally upended the, the logic of Roe v. Wade and the line of argumentation when it reaffirmed the conclusion of Roe v. Wade in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in the early 90s.
00:17:00.560 Before it was overruled in the Dobbs decision.
00:17:02.400 So the answer was just gobbledygook from the perspective of, of Roe v. Wade, of the actual decision, from the perspective of bioethics, from the perspective of the history of abortion in America, and from the perspective of Joe Biden's own position.
00:17:19.860 Decades ago and in the debate, he, he contradicted himself in the very same breath.
00:17:25.660 Here's Trump on Roe v. Wade.
00:17:27.040 He's willing to, as we say, rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month and kill the baby.
00:17:33.700 Nobody wants that to happen.
00:17:35.360 Democrat or Republican.
00:17:36.720 Nobody wants it to happen.
00:17:38.420 You're lying.
00:17:39.200 That is simply not true.
00:17:41.500 The Roe v. Wade does not provide for that.
00:17:43.900 That's not the circumstance.
00:17:45.320 Only a woman's life is in danger. 0.98
00:17:46.740 She's going to die.
00:17:47.720 That's the only circumstance when that can happen.
00:17:49.620 But we are not for late-term abortion, period, period, period.
00:17:54.340 Under Roe v. Wade, you have late-term abortion. 0.97
00:17:57.440 You can do whatever you want, depending on the state.
00:17:59.700 You can do whatever you want.
00:18:01.100 We don't think that's a good thing.
00:18:02.520 We think it's a radical thing.
00:18:04.040 We think the Democrats are the radicals, not the Republicans.
00:18:07.280 Perfect.
00:18:07.900 This is the answer.
00:18:09.100 Democrats are the radicals on abortion.
00:18:11.220 Whatever you think about abortion, I know people have all sorts of views on abortion, and a lot of them are incoherent views.
00:18:15.740 It's like, you know, you're fine with killing babies in the first four months, but not after four months, or once the baby moves, or whatever.
00:18:22.100 These are incoherent views from the perspective of morality and bioethics, but a lot of people think them.
00:18:28.900 And so Trump is just recognizing that political reality, saying, hey, all you need to know is Joe Biden supports killing babies in the third trimester, which he goes on to admit.
00:18:38.620 Joe Biden's Democrats broadly support killing babies in the fourth trimester, even after the baby's been born, as the governor of Virginia.
00:18:45.940 Whom Trump cites here admits.
00:18:48.440 And it's the Democrats who are the radicals on abortion, not the Republicans.
00:18:52.460 What Trump says here is absolutely correct.
00:18:54.120 When Joe Biden says, no, it's not true, you're not allowed, under Roe v. Wade, you're not allowed to have abortions in the third trimester only to save the life of the mother.
00:19:00.180 That's a lie.
00:19:00.860 That is not true.
00:19:02.340 And then he goes on to admit that when he tries and fails to explain the trimester system of Roe v. Wade.
00:19:09.320 Before we move on to the fallout here and what this means for Biden's nomination, is he going to be the nominee now?
00:19:16.980 Don't forget, this debate took place before the conventions.
00:19:19.660 That's a little bit unusual.
00:19:21.320 Some people are suggesting there's a conspiracy afoot among Democrats who wanted Biden to lose to replace him as the nominee.
00:19:27.140 There's just one little exchange in this debate that went largely unnoticed.
00:19:32.120 I haven't seen a lot of people talking about it, and to me, it sums up Biden's second biggest problem.
00:19:37.360 The first biggest problem is his brain doesn't work anymore, and it's probably got a lot of plaque on it.
00:19:40.540 But the second biggest problem is Joe Biden doesn't even understand the terms of the present debate, as we saw when he went after Trump for cutting Social Security.
00:19:51.620 He wants to get rid of Social Security.
00:19:53.540 He thinks there's plenty to cut in Social Security.
00:19:56.040 He's wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare both times.
00:19:59.000 And if you look at the program put forward by the House Republican caucus that he, I believe, supports, is, in fact, wanting to cut it as well.
00:20:08.660 The idea that we don't need to protect our seniors is ridiculous.
00:20:13.420 So this isn't true, but Biden says a lot of things aren't true.
00:20:17.380 What's amazing about this claim is it's not true, and it's actually the exact opposite of everything that Trump has said on the issue of Social Security and Medicare since he's been running for president, since he's been president.
00:20:30.760 And what Trump has said is actually contrary to what a lot of Republicans wanted to do 10 or 20 years ago.
00:20:41.680 One of the distinctive features of Trump as a Republican politician is, unlike a lot of other Republican politicians, he does not want to cut Social Security.
00:20:49.560 He does not want to cut Medicare.
00:20:50.580 He does not want to cut Medicaid.
00:20:51.540 That actually irritates a lot of people in the conservative movement.
00:20:54.720 But that's the Trump movement.
00:20:57.820 He says, I am not touching these entitlements.
00:21:01.080 I, Trump, have been consistent.
00:21:03.260 I will not touch this.
00:21:04.400 We'll get the savings cut somewhere else.
00:21:06.940 So then Biden almost maybe starts to realize this halfway through his answer.
00:21:10.220 He goes, he supports the House Republican plan to cut Social Security and Medicare.
00:21:14.620 He's talking about Paul Ryan's plan, the path to prosperity, which actually had a lot to recommend it, but it's a total political loser now.
00:21:22.280 He's talking about Paul Ryan's plan from like 2009.
00:21:27.280 Paul Ryan is not the Speaker of the House anymore.
00:21:31.100 He wasn't the Speaker even when he wrote that plan.
00:21:32.560 He was the Chairman of the Budget Committee.
00:21:33.960 He's not even in the House of Representatives anymore.
00:21:36.220 He hasn't been for years.
00:21:38.380 Biden is speaking.
00:21:40.080 He's lobbying this attack as though it's 15 years ago.
00:21:43.620 And you can see Biden, or Trump rather, he's looking kind of befuddled there.
00:21:48.320 He goes, huh?
00:21:50.100 I very famously will not cut any of those entitlements.
00:21:55.520 And I've taken political slings and arrows from my own side for saying that.
00:21:58.700 You don't even know the things you should be attacking about me.
00:22:04.760 Joe, you are living more than a decade in the past.
00:22:09.740 You don't even know who you're talking to.
00:22:12.080 So will Biden be the Democrat nominee?
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00:23:19.980 My favorite comment yesterday is from Roshinobi, who says,
00:23:24.820 You trespass into this country, you get amnesty and handouts.
00:23:28.340 You trespass into the U.S. Capitol, you rot in prison.
00:23:31.380 That's kind of odd.
00:23:32.960 You're a foreign national, maybe affiliated with a terrorist cell,
00:23:38.020 certainly at least affiliated with the criminal cartels.
00:23:40.540 You get handouts and money and a hotel room and amnesty and a path to citizenship and a voter registration form.
00:23:47.680 But if you are an American citizen who is peacefully protesting your government,
00:23:53.980 you're not, and you even consider going near the Capitol grounds,
00:23:57.440 you'll be thrown in solitary for years.
00:24:00.440 That's kind of weird, isn't it?
00:24:02.040 That's kind of weird.
00:24:04.080 Is Joe Biden going to be the nominee?
00:24:06.540 Democrats are starting to say, maybe not.
00:24:08.440 Claire McCaskill, who is a huge lib Democrat senator,
00:24:13.380 she went on MSNBC right after the debate,
00:24:16.560 and she said, maybe it's time to get rid of Joe.
00:24:20.860 I have been a surrogate for some presidential candidates in my time.
00:24:26.580 I know what the job is after a debate of a surrogate. 0.57
00:24:31.360 I've never wanted to be a surrogate more than I do right now.
00:24:34.800 Because when you're a surrogate, you have to focus on the positives.
00:24:41.080 But I have said very clearly and very plainly on this network,
00:24:45.380 and my job now is to be really honest.
00:24:49.400 Joe Biden had one thing he had to do tonight, and he didn't do it.
00:24:54.140 He had one thing he had to accomplish,
00:24:56.240 and that was reassure America that he was up to the job at his age.
00:25:02.180 And he failed at that tonight.
00:25:04.740 Now, does that mean that my phone blowing up with senators and campaign operatives
00:25:12.320 and donors, big donors from all over the country,
00:25:15.860 does that mean that Joe Biden is not going to be the candidate?
00:25:20.060 I don't know that.
00:25:21.280 I think we'll know a lot more in a few weeks.
00:25:24.900 Pretty shocking, especially coming from a former senator
00:25:27.240 who's supposed to be a Biden campaign surrogate who,
00:25:29.900 I mean, all these guys are supposed to, to some degree,
00:25:32.060 to be Biden campaign surrogates because Biden's the incumbent.
00:25:36.600 That was Claire McCaskill on MSNBC. 0.95
00:25:38.740 Here's Joy Reid, who's even more left-wing than McCaskill,
00:25:41.960 speaking to my doppelganger and some other woman on the decision desk.
00:25:47.580 She was even more beside herself.
00:25:49.620 The people who were texting with me were very concerned
00:25:55.280 about President Biden seeming extremely feeble, seeming extremely weak.
00:26:01.580 And, you know, I'll just reiterate what I said earlier.
00:26:04.780 President Biden had one job tonight, and it was one primary job.
00:26:09.840 And yes, it was to litigate Donald Trump's, you know, criminality and all of those things,
00:26:14.960 but he had to settle his own party.
00:26:17.240 He needed to settle Democrats.
00:26:19.560 Democrats, you know, they always talk about Democrats are bedwetters,
00:26:21.820 and Democrats are always panicking.
00:26:23.200 Yes, Democrats are always panicking.
00:26:24.620 They're always scared, right?
00:26:25.980 They're always thinking they're going to lose.
00:26:27.440 Like, Democrats are very pessimistic.
00:26:29.060 This is just who they are.
00:26:30.560 They're neurotic.
00:26:31.620 But Joe Biden's job was to reassure them tonight.
00:26:34.320 His job was to calm his party, to make them feel that, yes, I can do this.
00:26:41.360 I have four more years in me.
00:26:43.100 I have the ability and the stamina and the strength to do four more years.
00:26:48.300 He did not do that.
00:26:49.680 He did the opposite of that.
00:26:51.480 So don't take my word for it.
00:26:52.800 You can hear it from Joy Reid.
00:26:53.760 You can hear it from Claire McCaskill.
00:26:54.880 You can hear it from Politico.
00:26:55.860 You can hear it from CNN commentators.
00:26:57.700 You can hear it from NBC and everyone.
00:27:00.520 You can hear it from everyone on the left, which is raising people's alarm bells.
00:27:04.720 They're saying, wow, was this a plan?
00:27:07.020 Was this a secret plan by the Democrats?
00:27:09.580 Oh, it all makes sense now.
00:27:10.880 They're going to hold the debate before the convention so they can reveal to the world
00:27:15.360 that Biden is really senile, and that way they can push him out and install some new nominee
00:27:21.040 who actually has a chance to beat Trump.
00:27:23.040 Because right now, if you look at the polls, Biden is losing to Trump.
00:27:26.340 So, haha, wow, they actually pulled one over on the Republicans.
00:27:30.200 Stop celebrating, conservatives.
00:27:32.420 I don't buy it, guys.
00:27:34.140 I don't buy it.
00:27:35.040 I understand that there is such a thing as conspiracy.
00:27:38.420 In some ways, conspiracies make the world go around.
00:27:40.360 Every business, every political campaign is its own little conspiracy.
00:27:43.240 I understand that.
00:27:45.360 I just don't see how this one would have worked, because the Democrats would have had to fool
00:27:50.320 Biden, and even if Biden's lost his marbles, would have had to fool Jill Biden, would have
00:27:54.600 had to fool Hunter Biden, who is a degenerate, but he's at least intelligent, would have had
00:27:59.160 to fool the whatever advisors remain loyal to Joe Biden, because Biden proposed these terms
00:28:06.760 for the debate.
00:28:08.980 So, what is it?
00:28:11.000 And then, okay, let's say you've just shown that your nominee is doddering and incapable
00:28:17.160 of forming an English sentence, and he's obviously in much deeper throes of senility
00:28:21.360 than even I had previously imagined.
00:28:23.960 So, then you're going to nominate Kamala.
00:28:26.900 Kamala loses to Trump.
00:28:28.380 So, then you're going to nominate Michelle Obama.
00:28:30.080 She doesn't really want it.
00:28:31.000 And I think Michelle Obama loses to Trump, by the way.
00:28:33.220 I know people believe, because Michelle Obama has made herself a dime store Oprah, that
00:28:39.300 everyone really likes her, and she's popular. 0.98
00:28:41.100 I don't think she's actually all that popular, and I think she loses to Trump if she's installed
00:28:44.460 at this late stage.
00:28:45.740 So, then, what?
00:28:46.520 Gavin Newsom, you could tell he was absolutely salivating in that spin room yesterday.
00:28:52.000 Gavin, are you going to be the nominee?
00:28:53.020 Oh, no, please stop asking me that.
00:28:55.400 I'm in the money.
00:28:56.420 But, no, probably he's not going to be the nominee, because you have the structural problem
00:29:00.800 then of a white guy, like the whitest guy ever, the whitest guy-est guy ever, overtaking 0.62
00:29:07.680 the first black woman vice president.
00:29:10.100 I don't see that really happening.
00:29:12.900 I just don't think it works.
00:29:15.540 Joe Biden's wanted to be president since he was in the womb.
00:29:18.280 I don't think he's going to give it up willingly.
00:29:20.200 They'd probably have to invoke the 25th Amendment if they wanted to drag Biden out of there.
00:29:23.940 And even then, they'd probably have to drag him out cold on a stretcher.
00:29:28.820 So, I think this was just bad for them.
00:29:32.220 And I think Biden has risen to the occasion on some occasions.
00:29:36.120 I was at the State of the Union.
00:29:37.020 That was only a few months ago.
00:29:38.440 I was in the room at the State of the Union, and Biden sounded like he was on drugs, but
00:29:42.000 he sounded fine in the sense that he was screaming the whole time, and at least seemed
00:29:45.320 to have a lot of energy.
00:29:46.380 After the debate, Joe Biden actually sounded pretty good when he was talking to the crowd.
00:29:50.620 So, ironically, I think the Biden campaign thought if we get rid of the audience for
00:29:58.240 the debate, and we agree to this in-studio thing at CNN, that that'll stop Donald Trump,
00:30:03.380 the demagogue, from whipping up the crowd, and that'll help Biden.
00:30:06.120 But no, I think Biden feeds off of people.
00:30:09.920 Maybe he literally feeds off of them like he sucks their blood, and that's what keeps him
00:30:12.420 going.
00:30:12.680 But at least metaphorically, he feeds off of people because he's a back-slapping, simpering 0.84
00:30:17.180 politician.
00:30:17.960 That's been his whole career.
00:30:18.940 That's been 60 years he's been doing that.
00:30:21.700 So, he doesn't have any really, any beliefs of his own.
00:30:24.120 He doesn't really have any principles, but he's good with the crowd.
00:30:28.120 You got to give the guy that, at least.
00:30:29.940 And he can come alive with the crowd, just like, you know, your grandparent who's suffering
00:30:34.220 from some kind of dementia.
00:30:35.480 Sometimes when you bring the grandkids over, your grandparent perks up again.
00:30:39.840 So, for all of those reasons and many others, I just think all the political nerds are saying,
00:30:46.340 oh, what are the machinations?
00:30:47.800 What's going to happen?
00:30:48.720 No, I think it was just a bad night for Democrats, and I think Biden's the nominee.
00:30:53.480 And barring, you know, an actual catastrophic health event, you know, barring some stroke
00:31:00.600 or his death, I think he's going to continue to be the nominee.
00:31:03.960 And I think Democrats are just sincerely really upset about that.
00:31:07.300 And the reason that they're mimicking each other's talking points on television is because
00:31:10.920 they're unoriginal and they don't have all that much to say.
00:31:14.180 And so, yeah, sure, they copy each other and their silly little rhetoric.
00:31:18.740 But I think the desperation is probably genuine.
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00:32:01.680 Before we move on to the mailbag, I don't want to just harp on Biden the whole time.
00:32:04.440 His whole administration is the problem.
00:32:05.960 His whole administration looks ridiculous.
00:32:07.400 Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State, has just gone out and claimed that spreading LGBTism,
00:32:14.240 spreading sodomy and transvestitism, is somehow in America's national security interests. 0.97
00:32:20.120 It's in our national security interest to stand up for LGBTI plus persons around the world.
00:32:27.040 When nations came together 75 years ago, they affirmed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
00:32:33.760 respect for the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family.
00:32:39.740 That's the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world.
00:32:44.240 And we see that here at the State Department every single day.
00:32:48.540 Countries that respect the rights of every individual tend to be more stable, more healthy,
00:32:54.440 more democratic, more prosperous.
00:32:58.080 Those that discriminate against LGBTI plus persons tend to be less free and tend to be less equal.
00:33:05.320 The correlation is as clear as day.
00:33:09.640 64 countries currently criminalize consensual sex, same-sex conduct between adults.
00:33:15.440 In 11 of them, having same-sex relations is punishable by death.
00:33:20.680 Okay, and that is why it's in America's national security interest to spread the rainbow flag.
00:33:26.440 I could understand if you were making some argument as to why he feels from his personal liberal view of morality
00:33:33.360 that it's really important to encourage weird sex stuff.
00:33:36.700 But it seems to me he fails to make the argument as to how this is in America's national security interest.
00:33:42.680 I think he even fails to make the argument as to how spreading the rainbow flag domestically helps us.
00:33:49.200 He uses all these words, you know, freedom, prosperity, the countries that do all the gay stuff are freer and more prosperous. 0.99
00:33:58.160 America was much freer and more prosperous, and prosperous rather, before we started pushing all the weird gay stuff. 1.00
00:34:06.480 Don't forget, we've been pushing all the weird gay stuff in a relatively short number of years. 1.00
00:34:11.800 It's been relatively recent that we've been waving the rainbow flag.
00:34:15.700 The Bostock decision that redefined sex as gender and really advanced transgender ideology, that was 2020.
00:34:23.020 That was four years ago.
00:34:24.760 The Obergefell decision, which radically redefined marriage, that was less than 10 years ago.
00:34:30.540 Before that, everybody agreed marriage is a union between a man and a woman.
00:34:33.640 There was no such thing as gay marriage.
00:34:36.480 Certainly not at the federal level.
00:34:38.940 Nine years ago.
00:34:40.580 Even Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court case that said that there's some constitutional right to homosexual sodomy.
00:34:48.580 Probably news to, you know, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and the authors of The Federalist and the framers of the Constitution.
00:34:55.280 That case was 2003.
00:34:57.700 So that was just a little over 20 years ago.
00:34:59.760 Do you think America has become freer and more prosperous since we started pushing all the weird gay stuff? 1.00
00:35:07.960 I'm not saying that the cause of our increasing servitude and lack of prosperity, you know, poverty, both spiritual and financial, is caused by all the weird gay stuff. 1.00
00:35:22.860 I'm really not suggesting that.
00:35:24.720 But he's trying to draw some argument of causation here.
00:35:29.900 And I just don't really see it.
00:35:31.240 We were freer and more prosperous before we started pushing the rainbow flag. 0.95
00:35:35.200 Probably our freedom and prosperity peaked somewhere around the middle of the 20th century as the American empire was really on the rise.
00:35:42.780 But even if you don't think that, even if you hate the 1950s for some reason, I think it's hard to argue that we're freer and more prosperous today than we were before 9-11.
00:35:51.380 No way.
00:35:53.260 We're certainly not more secure today than we were before 9-11, are we?
00:35:56.840 It doesn't feel that way.
00:35:57.740 It seems like there's terror events popping off all over the country and all over the world all the time.
00:36:03.380 We just caught eight terrorists in America, ISIS terrorists, that were welcomed in by Biden's administration.
00:36:09.340 This is the kind of stuff they're focusing on.
00:36:11.960 So yeah, Biden is a doddering old senile man.
00:36:15.320 Okay, what's Blinken's excuse?
00:36:18.940 What's Buttigieg's excuse?
00:36:20.420 What's Kamala Harris's excuse? 1.00
00:36:22.540 What's the excuse of the rest?
00:36:24.200 What's Mayorkas's excuse? 1.00
00:36:25.860 The rest of the administration that, in practice, is just as bad off as Biden.
00:36:30.780 There's so much more to say.
00:36:31.940 First, though, go to freedomforschool.com.
00:36:36.360 We all know that the public schools have gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:36:40.960 A lot of the private schools have, too.
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00:36:45.900 The stuff the schools are pushing is horrifying.
00:36:48.020 Vladimir Lenin once said, give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
00:36:54.480 Forty percent of 17-year-olds do not have the math skills.
00:36:57.420 Sixty percent lack the reading skills to hold down a production job at a manufacturing company.
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00:37:46.740 Also, if you've not heard, Jeremy Boring has held a live town hall last week where he announced an exciting partnership with Angel Studios to bring you a new film called Sound of Hope, The Story of Possum Trot, coming to theaters on July 4th.
00:38:04.180 You might know Angel Studios from their movie Sound of Freedom, which made a profound impact last year by shining a powerful light on the child trafficking crisis.
00:38:11.340 Now, Angel Studios is back, continuing their fight for kids, and Daily Wire is joining with them.
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00:38:23.320 We have a trailer so you can see what this movie is all about.
00:38:28.680 Are you sure these people want us?
00:38:31.180 I know they do.
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00:38:37.540 Oh, Lord.
00:38:39.600 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:38:44.160 If we wrap our arms around the most vulnerable, then what do we have?
00:38:47.480 Noise!
00:38:48.540 And the children can't take the noise anymore.
00:38:52.820 This is something that we must do.
00:38:59.300 22 families want to adopt.
00:39:01.440 Whole town wants kids now. 0.99
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00:39:05.820 What's happening with Possum Trot could mean a huge change for the system.
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00:39:35.680 It's a call to action.
00:39:36.400 There are over 100,000 kids in foster care that need homes.
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00:40:05.560 Howdy, Michael.
00:40:06.680 Congrats on baby boy number three.
00:40:08.580 We also just had our third boy and hope to build a baseball team someday.
00:40:13.280 I currently work, but the plan is for me to stay at home
00:40:15.820 after working another year or so to meet some financial goals.
00:40:19.860 However, I have some difficulty with my husband.
00:40:23.020 I want to do all the things a traditional wife does at home, 1.00
00:40:25.880 like cook and clean, but my husband insists on doing them.
00:40:29.600 It wouldn't be an issue if he was a great cook and cleaner,
00:40:32.200 but he is a mediocre chef at best,
00:40:34.820 and let's just say we have different sanitary standards.
00:40:38.640 I've tried to talk to him multiple times,
00:40:40.440 and we have gotten into a lot of fights over these two topics.
00:40:43.420 Do you have any advice on how to convince him
00:40:45.460 to let me fulfill my duties as a wife?
00:40:47.120 Thanks, and God bless.
00:40:50.280 That's so great.
00:40:51.960 What a great, what a beautiful,
00:40:53.840 can we say, I want to save this mailbag question.
00:40:57.040 Such a beautiful mailbag question.
00:40:59.480 I want to come back to this 10 years from now on the show,
00:41:02.760 or I don't know, I guess we'll all be probably living in the matrix at that point,
00:41:05.280 and the show will just be kind of coming into us with rosmosis,
00:41:07.860 but however we do it, I want to save this.
00:41:10.280 It's very important, and I hope the husband listens here.
00:41:12.560 Let your wife be a wife. 1.00
00:41:16.640 We should all strive, if you're a man, to be a good husband,
00:41:21.980 and if you're the woman, to be a good wife.
00:41:23.780 Even sometimes when we don't want to fulfill those roles,
00:41:26.340 we should still strive to do it, to do our duty.
00:41:29.340 But when you want to do it, when you're trying to,
00:41:31.820 and here the husband is being a feminist, 0.99
00:41:33.800 and he demands that you live like a liberal feminist, no. 1.00
00:41:38.820 Then in that case, one of your wifely duties 1.00
00:41:40.980 is to remind your husband that he's a husband.
00:41:43.760 Because you're so right.
00:41:45.940 It's not even just that, I don't know,
00:41:47.660 you get a thrill out of putting on a dress and baking a pie.
00:41:50.840 What you're saying is, he's not good at cleaning.
00:41:53.460 I'm not good at cleaning.
00:41:54.720 He's not really that good at cooking.
00:41:56.400 I'm actually okay at cooking as a child of the Messagiorno, 0.92
00:41:59.540 but I'm not nearly as good as my wife is.
00:42:01.960 My wife's a way better cook than I am. 1.00
00:42:04.200 Yeah, people are just, when it comes to the kids,
00:42:06.920 the kids want to see me when they want to run around the house
00:42:09.020 or play ukulele or go hit a baseball.
00:42:11.300 But they want to see mama a lot more of the time
00:42:14.240 and for a lot of very different reasons.
00:42:15.900 And especially when they're younger,
00:42:16.840 they want to spend more time with mama.
00:42:19.180 That's how it goes.
00:42:20.820 You got to explain that to him.
00:42:22.060 You got to say, hey, husband,
00:42:23.680 I'm saying this to you in full respect.
00:42:25.540 You know, I recognize you're the head of the household.
00:42:27.700 You got to act like it.
00:42:29.340 It's that, you know what you got to tell him to watch?
00:42:32.080 You got to tell him to watch that scene
00:42:33.960 when Don Corleone is talking to Johnny Fontaine.
00:42:36.620 Johnny Fontaine is crying,
00:42:37.740 but I don't know what to do.
00:42:38.560 I don't know what to do.
00:42:39.700 And Don Corleone grabs him,
00:42:41.100 shakes him, smacks him in the face and says,
00:42:42.460 you're going to act like a man.
00:42:44.240 What's the matter with you?
00:42:45.780 That's what he's got to do.
00:42:47.580 Because it doesn't,
00:42:48.240 he shouldn't feel guilty about it.
00:42:49.420 It's not that he should go sit on the couch
00:42:51.020 and eat potato chips.
00:42:51.860 He should go work harder.
00:42:53.960 If he's going to do work around the house,
00:42:55.640 he can go power wash the deck.
00:42:57.160 I don't know.
00:42:57.620 Or he can spend an hour later at work.
00:43:00.100 Or he can run around with the kids
00:43:02.300 and Tucker them out.
00:43:03.040 Or he can do a dad thing.
00:43:05.240 He should go do a dad.
00:43:06.060 He should stop doing a wife thing poorly 1.00
00:43:08.120 and spend all of that time
00:43:10.420 doing a dad thing,
00:43:12.040 a husband thing well.
00:43:14.580 Next question.
00:43:15.920 Hey, Michael.
00:43:16.880 So I wanted to clarify my last mailbag
00:43:19.040 about conservative populism.
00:43:20.680 My main problem isn't about
00:43:22.000 fiscal versus social or cultural issues,
00:43:24.280 but with the fact that the populist movement
00:43:25.860 isn't really offering any coherent agenda.
00:43:28.740 All I ever hear from them
00:43:30.140 is that they want to beat the Democrats
00:43:32.000 and about how bad Biden is,
00:43:33.560 but that tells me nothing about
00:43:34.880 what they want to do to fix things.
00:43:37.200 And given how they behave in Congress,
00:43:38.900 it feels like they're here
00:43:39.840 to complain about everything
00:43:41.020 and solve nothing,
00:43:42.360 despite the 2016 promise
00:43:44.080 for promises made, promises kept.
00:43:47.260 My focus, first and foremost,
00:43:48.880 is about doing what is in the best interest
00:43:50.680 of the country,
00:43:51.660 not about beating Democrats.
00:43:53.500 So I was hoping you could clarify
00:43:55.300 what exactly the current populist movement
00:43:57.060 is doing that's actually serving American interests
00:43:59.520 and getting things done
00:44:00.880 since all I really see
00:44:02.600 are people who are willing
00:44:03.680 to talk a lot on TV
00:44:05.460 and act as demagogues,
00:44:07.220 but I'm not really seeing any action
00:44:08.840 or clear messaging.
00:44:10.100 Even campaign emails only say,
00:44:12.620 vote for me to stop the Dems. 0.75
00:44:14.160 I just feel like we've lost sight of our goals.
00:44:16.960 Thanks.
00:44:17.920 Okay, it's a good question,
00:44:19.440 though you shouldn't really divorce the two.
00:44:21.680 Doing good for the country
00:44:22.680 and beating the Democrats.
00:44:23.720 Beating the Democrats is good for the country,
00:44:25.400 and you can't do good for the country
00:44:26.680 without beating the Democrats.
00:44:27.720 So you don't want beating the Democrats
00:44:29.360 to be your entire raison d'etre,
00:44:31.820 to your point,
00:44:32.900 but you don't want to divorce those two things
00:44:35.920 because beating the Democrats
00:44:37.200 seems kind of mean and icky,
00:44:38.440 and doing good for the country
00:44:39.500 is as though that were somehow pure.
00:44:41.800 In politics,
00:44:42.740 you've got to beat your opponent
00:44:43.980 in order to do stuff.
00:44:44.940 So I'm glad that some Republicans
00:44:46.640 are focused on beating the Democrats.
00:44:48.900 What is the agenda of the populist movement?
00:44:50.960 Well, the term populism
00:44:52.140 usually is just a term of derision,
00:44:54.420 and very few people would actually say,
00:44:56.500 I am a populist.
00:44:57.720 So it's usually just a way of attacking someone.
00:45:01.040 But in as much as there is a populist movement,
00:45:03.500 or what is meant by that populist movement,
00:45:05.380 probably that means the Trump movement,
00:45:06.640 the MAGA movement,
00:45:08.020 and Trump's most vocal supporters in Congress
00:45:10.600 or in the state houses,
00:45:11.740 what do they want?
00:45:12.760 What's the agenda?
00:45:13.660 And what about their agenda
00:45:15.200 is different from the establishment Republican movement?
00:45:18.780 I suppose restoring the traditional American way of life
00:45:25.760 is the broad goal of the populist movement.
00:45:31.300 Restoring the traditional American way of life.
00:45:34.240 And so that means restricting immigration,
00:45:37.260 because to quote Caccia Guida in the 15th,
00:45:40.780 or somewhere in the middle to later cantos
00:45:43.800 of Paradise by Dante,
00:45:46.080 immigration ruins cities. 1.00
00:45:48.260 If you have too much immigration, 1.00
00:45:49.700 it creates a big problem.
00:45:50.460 So restricting immigration.
00:45:52.160 The Republican Party either wants open borders,
00:45:54.520 the real business side of the Republican Party,
00:45:56.860 or the more moderate side wants a ton of legal immigration,
00:46:01.040 more legal immigration than ever,
00:46:02.380 but less illegal immigration or something.
00:46:04.960 The populists want immigration restriction.
00:46:07.720 The populists want a more active protection of industry,
00:46:12.500 because while we can sometimes get cheaper goods
00:46:15.680 by sending all manufacturing over to China,
00:46:18.100 that endangers our national security,
00:46:20.060 that endangers our companies,
00:46:21.460 because Chinese don't really have any respect 1.00
00:46:24.600 for intellectual property,
00:46:25.720 and so they steal all of our stuff.
00:46:26.980 That's actually not good for our corporations.
00:46:29.280 And it's not good for our industrial base,
00:46:31.800 and it's not good for,
00:46:33.520 which ties international security,
00:46:34.900 and it's not good for American families,
00:46:36.700 when especially lower-wage workers
00:46:38.240 just lose all their jobs and they're outsourced.
00:46:39.720 So that would be one distinction
00:46:41.220 in the populist movement.
00:46:43.120 What's another one?
00:46:45.200 Greater reluctance to engage in adventurism overseas.
00:46:48.100 The establishment GOP wants to go topple a bunch of countries
00:46:53.200 and be involved in every war around the world.
00:46:54.760 The populist movement is a little more hesitant
00:46:57.900 to just get involved.
00:46:59.380 They follow George Washington's advice
00:47:01.780 to avoid entangling alliances, for instance.
00:47:04.460 And so that's deeply conservative.
00:47:06.540 That's actually much more traditionally conservative
00:47:08.360 than the modern Republicans.
00:47:10.380 The list goes on and on.
00:47:11.880 I think what it comes down to is,
00:47:14.200 we want to restore the traditional American way of life,
00:47:16.980 and we don't want to put the cart before the horse.
00:47:20.020 Sometimes, with the establishment Republicans,
00:47:22.080 it seems like the body politic
00:47:25.740 is here to serve the economy.
00:47:27.600 Uh-uh.
00:47:27.960 That's putting the cart before the horse. 0.59
00:47:29.020 We want the economy to serve us.
00:47:30.520 And that means maybe sometimes
00:47:31.660 you've got to have the government intervene a little bit,
00:47:33.520 and that's going to irritate the doctrinaire libertarians.
00:47:36.320 Maybe that's going to irritate big business
00:47:38.860 or the Chamber of Commerce, but too bad.
00:47:42.320 That is what they're after.
00:47:43.920 They're after fixing the birth rate problem,
00:47:46.400 which ties into mass migration.
00:47:47.900 We've been a dying population since 1971,
00:47:50.300 so greater support for families,
00:47:51.940 greater financial and political incentives
00:47:53.800 to have kids and to get married.
00:47:55.580 That would be a part of it.
00:47:57.660 Yeah.
00:47:58.360 Stopping dudes from going into the girls' bathroom.
00:48:00.040 I mean, the list goes on and on and on
00:48:01.740 of items that distinguish conservative populism
00:48:05.420 from the establishment GOP.
00:48:07.340 And a lot of times in the establishment GOP,
00:48:10.100 the Chamber of Commerce,
00:48:10.740 they're going to say,
00:48:11.280 oh, those are culture war issues.
00:48:13.000 Oh, those don't really matter.
00:48:14.080 Or, oh, it's crazy to intervene in the economy.
00:48:16.300 Or, oh, tariffs don't work
00:48:17.520 because they learned the word mercantilism in seventh grade
00:48:20.160 and they think they know everything about the economy.
00:48:22.480 Or, you know, foreign policy, don't get me started.
00:48:26.440 But there is an agenda.
00:48:28.340 You know, I mean, there are things that we want.
00:48:30.080 That's what makes the movement.
00:48:33.360 So do they showboat sometimes?
00:48:34.860 Yeah, they showboat sometimes
00:48:35.720 because they don't really have a ton of political power.
00:48:37.640 And so to do anything at all,
00:48:40.320 you've got to beat the Democrats.
00:48:41.460 It might seem icky, but that's what you've got to do.
00:48:42.940 Okay, there's a lot more,
00:48:44.060 because I've been windy on my mailbag answers,
00:48:45.540 there's a lot more voice mailbag to get to.
00:48:47.260 There's some written mailbag to get to.
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