Ep. 171 - Chesterton’s Fence Just Got 10 Feet Higher
Summary
On this episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel and her co-hosts discuss the latest immigration news breaking out in the mainstream media, and how fake Republican strategist Steve Schmidt is losing ground in the polls to fake Republican pundit Steve Schmidt. They also talk about the growing number of illegal alien shelters being set up across the country by the Obama administration, and why this is a big deal.
Transcript
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Democrats' fact-free demagoguery of illegal alien shelters is not working because the Obama administration,
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Democrats' fact-free demagoguery of illegal alien shelters is not working because the Obama administration,
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did exactly the same thing, did exactly the same thing, and nobody cared.
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CNN and MSNBC and fake Republican pundit strategists are...
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Now it is time for the Michael Knowles Show with Michael Knowles.
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Wow, that was a really powerful opening from Rachel Maddow.
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We're going to have to play that again in a second.
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This totally contrived immigration issue, by the way, is already having major ramifications for the Republican Party.
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The GOP has lost another fake Republican from the ranks, Steve Schmidt.
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Then we're going to talk about Chesterton's Fence and how Chesterton's Fence is getting 10 feet higher.
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He is the author of the new book, Outrage Incorporated, How the Liberal Media Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood.
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Okay, before we get to my doppelganger, look how hard I work for you.
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We're going to have to play Rachel again because it was so moving.
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This has just come out from the Associated Press.
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Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children.
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Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell where he is live in Brownsville, Texas.
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That is one of the worst performances I have ever seen as an actor.
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Listen, I've been in these indie movies and little things.
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I'm not saying that, you know, I've been in the great movies of all time or Citizen Kane.
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I mean, every performance I've done is Sidney Poitier compared to what she just did on MSNBC.
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She's at least willing to go out there and humiliate herself and pretend to cry over this totally contrived issue.
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Because they've really been ringing this one for all it's worth out there on the left, even though we present them with facts, don't we?
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Well, she wasn't shedding those tears when Barack Obama was doing exactly the same thing, was she?
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Unfortunately for the, you know, someone, I think it was Ann Coulter, said that the immigrant children are crisis actors.
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But Rachel Maddow definitely is a crisis actor because that just isn't true.
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She wasn't crying when Barack Obama was doing these things.
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Under the Obama administration, and we have the photos to prove it, folks, Barack Obama put these kids in shelters, twice as many kids as Donald Trump has.
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You saw all those photos of kids sleeping under sinks, packed, you know, a bunch of them in a room,
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wrapped up in those little tinfoil blankets that they give you on marathons that make you look like a twice-baked potato.
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You know, all of these kids piled on top of one another during the Obama administration.
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Luckily for us now, we've got the proper vessel, so when they start pouring, we can start sipping them, and they're all delicious.
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You would even see some photos under the Obama administration.
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So, just in case it wasn't clear, the Democrats tried to spin it.
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They even had some that said female juvenile holding cell, which is really the great outrage of the Obama administration because he was assuming people's gender.
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I mean, that's the worst crime of all, isn't it?
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I can't believe the intersectional left didn't raise a ruckus about that.
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Well, there was an immigrant, illegal alien, Nancy Luna, who sued for a wrongful death, sued the Obama administration in 2014 for the wrongful death of her husband because he had type 2 diabetes.
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He was being held by the Obama administration, wasn't given medical care.
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I don't remember Rachel shedding tears about that.
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She didn't recount that to us at our family reunion, did she?
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The Barack Obama administration admitted 16 admitted MS-13 members into the country.
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These were people who we knew had affiliation with MS-13.
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He placed over a dozen kids in the custody of human traffickers, known human traffickers.
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The Obama administration didn't perform a background check.
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So there have been a handful of cases in the Trump administration, relatively a handful of cases.
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We're talking about a couple thousand kids who are being held because what else are we going to do with them?
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We can't let them into the country unaccompanied and given amnesty or allowed to break our laws and flat our laws.
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Under Obama, there were over 100,000 cases between 2010 and 2016, immigrant cases that separated families.
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In 2014 alone, by the way, this is a really funny irony because now he's saying, these kids are coming in and they're holding them.
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They're encouraging kids to come in and they're going to be held.
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In 2014 alone, around 70,000 unaccompanied minors crossed into the United States illegally.
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And the left then, it's very hard to keep track of these things.
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Now, it's the worst crime in the history of the country.
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If they really believed it, Rachel Maddow would have really been crying there.
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And more to the point, she would have cried in 2014 when Barack Obama was doing these exact same things.
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I want to get to what this speaks to because this is the essential aspect of our time, Chesterton's fence.
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The reformers who yell, do something, do something.
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Tear this down, change this, do something, right?
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Before we get to Chesterton's fence and make Chesterton's fence 10 feet higher, folks, we've got to bring on Derek.
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He has a book out that really is proper timing.
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The book is called Outrage Incorporated, How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood.
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Yeah, I couldn't have picked the timing any better, but I'm still jealous of your book.
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The research started from when I was a little boy.
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I've been researching that book all of my life.
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The timing there was very well, too, because it was something about early 2017 really made people understand the important thesis in my book,
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Reasons to Vote for Democrats, A Comprehensive Guide.
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But, you know, listen, I always knew you were a gentleman.
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This book talks about the outrage that we're seeing pouring out.
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I mean, my leftist years tumbler has been overflowing for the last few days.
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Well, there's always been an element of it on the fringe of the left.
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They've just been the angry left ready to take to the streets.
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But the main part of the party, the establishment of the party, kind of kept them at bay.
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So they've got a ready-made mob of unwashed mutants ready to march at a moment's notice.
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The day after Trump was inaugurated, they took to the streets.
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He hadn't done anything, but they knew he had to be opposed.
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He hadn't done anything, but they knew he was going to ruin everything.
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It is an amazing feat of marketing to sit there and tell somebody,
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But the reason behind it is if you keep people angry or you keep people scared, Michael,
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You've been mad at your remote control or you've stubbed your toe on your coffee table or something
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and you've cursed or thrown something in a fit of anger.
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But if you're angry or you're not thinking, and that is what the left has to do to keep
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their base motivated, because otherwise, what are they offering come November?
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Well, we've got basically full employment, so he's missed the boat on that.
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Well, we just found out that in 2026, that's going bankrupt.
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So if somebody's willing to give you a first-class ticket on the Titanic, you're still going
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So they've got to keep people from thinking rationally.
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I love the Democrats running down there saying Donald Trump is using these poor, sweet, nourishing
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children as human props while they're making sure that they're framed properly in front
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of these poor, sweet, nourishing children that they're using as human props.
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Well, I want to get to the doomsday cult and where this crazy outrage might spring
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I have a thesis on it based on what I read in your book.
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So, Derek, you know, on this outrage question, where it all came from, very early on in the
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book, you say this is first world problems, that there is a sociological function, that
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when people have it too good, they need something to complain about.
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And then you also talk about the doomsday cult of global warming.
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And I've always noticed the environmentalist movement really launched into full form after
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After the Cold War ended, after our actual existential threat ended, the left just made
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one up, it just invented one out of whole cloth.
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Is all of this outrage just an aspect and a consequence of our luxury and our decadent
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A large part of it is when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union went away, the left
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So they needed to come up with another way to oppose capitalism and individual liberty.
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And there was a ready-made one there with the environment.
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What better way to scare the crap out of somebody than to say, you're destroying the planet.
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We must now cede our liberty, our property to the government in order to save the entire
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And of course, if you remember the 90s and the early 2000s, Al Gore was running around
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going, it was 10 years, 10 years or it's too late.
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If we don't do something now, it'll be too late.
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The storms that we were promised didn't happen.
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So rather than what a normal human being would do when something like that goes wrong and
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reflect like, hey, maybe I was wrong about this, they decided smartly, from a diabolical
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You, Michael Knowles, if you predicted, come Friday, the world will end and you get a bunch
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of followers, Saturday morning, you're going to have some explaining to do.
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But if you decide, no, no, in 100 years, the world will end, well, you can't prove that.
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And now if you look at the climate change studies, they are 100-year predictions.
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They talk about the year 2100 because nobody will be around to recognize that they were full
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The answer is always now, whether it was global cooling in the 50s, which was, Brady Ferdinand
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was writing about it in the 50s, or global warming in the 80s and 90s, or just generic
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And the solution, ironically, was always the same.
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No matter what the problem was, the solution was the same, which would cause a normal person
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to go, that's weird, when the problem was the exact opposite.
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So, again, they have to scare the hell out of you, or something like that, a question
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The earth is getting too cold, therefore we need socialism.
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The earth is getting too warm, therefore we need socialism.
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The earth is either changing or staying the same, therefore we need socialism.
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It's always, big government has failed, what we need is bigger government.
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It's insane, but if you're not a thinking person, it makes sense.
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You know, and that is, this is the Chesterton's fence thing.
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We're going to be talking about that later in the show.
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In 350 million years, the earth is going to have two degrees higher temperatures, therefore
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The big promoters of this hysteria, the big outrage vendors are the journalists, quote
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Are the journalists, I think there are three options.
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I guess they're not all mutually exclusive, but do they really believe what they're selling?
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It's impossible to get into somebody's head, no matter how much room there is in there.
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There's a lot of empty space in these journalists' heads, but I would say it's a little from all
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When you're rolling in the circles, I live in Washington, D.C., when you're rolling in
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those circles and you're at the cocktail parties, there is no dissent.
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It is like having a sea of bobbleheads on the dashboard of your car going down a dirt
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They're all just going up and down like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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So when you go to someplace, and look, every four years they go to Iowa.
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All these journalists, they pat themselves on the back as heroes because they went to
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a diner in Iowa and had a talk with a real human being.
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Then they immediately go back to New York or D.C., take a Silkwood shower, delouse, and
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then live for four years telling everybody about their trip to the zoo in Iowa, visiting real
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To the elite on the coast, the country in the middle of the country is nothing but the place
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their chemical toilets jettisoned on their private jets as they go out to L.A.
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It's a good metaphor for what they do in their commentary and punditry.
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They believe they are the smartest and the best and the brightest because they have a
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little badge that hangs on their lapel with their picture on it that gets them into places
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So having worked in that business, I can tell you, you don't have to be a genius.
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You don't have to be a rocket scientist to get a media credential.
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It doesn't imbue you with any special knowledge.
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And as we see every, I mean, last night, Rachel Maddow crying on television.
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I wonder how many onions they had to cut to make that happen.
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I take some offense because I am her, but you're absolutely right.
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She has a total, she had two settings, off and sarcastic.
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And suddenly they upgraded her to 3.0 and they added tears.
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You're so right too about that, talking about it for the next three or four years.
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They say, I was in Ohio, they write about it like Thomas Friedman, every single Thomas
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Friedman column, you know, I was on a bus in Beirut and I talked to somebody.
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They come back and they publish their journals like they've cured cancer when all they did
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was talk to a real human being who doesn't have an advanced degree in 1940s bisexual polar
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Real people with real jobs who get dirt under their nails, you know, and don't have a manicurist
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Now, do you cite in the book, later on in the book, you cite Lindsay Stone.
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She was that girl at Arlington Cemetery and she took a picture in front of the unknown
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soldier and it said, please be quiet or don't yell or something.
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And she was flipping the bird and pretending to yell.
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You know, this picture, it went on Facebook, people got a little angry.
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They said, oh, there's outrage, even though there was only outrage after they posted the
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She got death threats, rape threats, all of this.
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I mean, you really feel bad for the girl by the end of the episode.
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Like people are just out to get each other and there's no grace and there's no forgiveness.
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Do you see our culture turning a corner or is it only going to get worse?
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I think it's only going to get worse because I don't know how to dial it back.
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For it to be turned down on the left, we saw yesterday the secretary of Homeland Security
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chased out of a restaurant because of who she is.
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An angry mob came in and chanted her out of it.
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It would take Democratic leadership not tolerating that from their base.
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But with an election around the corner, there's no way they can't not tolerate that from their
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On a slow news day, an average person can be destroyed by an angry journalist bored and
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On a regular news day, they all suffer from Trump Tourette's.
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They mention the president's name and Nazi Hitler.
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The man's been dead for a decade, more than a decade, been out of the White House almost
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30 years, and they will go off as if he had just run over their dog in their driveway.
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And when you're dead, they're still going to come after you if you make the only sin
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in liberaldom, and that is thinking wrong and disagreeing with them.
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I've taken up enough of your time, but it's such a good point.
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The earth will be destroyed in 3,000 years if you don't buy this book today.
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How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science Journalism in Hollywood by Derek Hunter.
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So that actually is the perfect segue because it is the question of do something.
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And this is Chesterton's fence getting 10 feet higher under the Barack Obama administration
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They say they see these kids at the border, even though they've been coming through for
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Now the Trump administration is actually following the law, enforcing the law that was supported
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And they say just whatever, do something other than this.
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And do something is what people who don't know what to do say.
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That's, that's, you remember that kid from Broward County, David Hogg.
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It's hard to forget because he's on CNN every 15 minutes.
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Uh, this is right now, Donald Trump is talking about a possible executive order to stop these
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Do you think the Democrats will say, okay, good job, Trump?
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No, they're going to yell at him for violating the law.
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They're like, there is no, uh, dealing with these people.
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Rachel Maddow wasn't crying when Obama did far worse to these same people than Donald
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It is all just a scheme and people shouldn't fall in for it.
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On the doing something, Chesterton's fence, GK Chesterton, the great writer who we reference
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on the show all the time, he, he put this very well.
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He said, quote, in the matter of reforming things as distinct from deforming them, there
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is one plain and simple principle, a principle which will probably be called a paradox.
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There exists in such a case a certain institution or law.
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Let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road, the more modern
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type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, I don't see the use of this.
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To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer.
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If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away.
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Then when you come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy
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People who go up, they say, this must be crazy.
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Well, if you don't, then I'm certainly not going to let you change it because you don't
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I'll only let you change it if you can tell me why it exists and why it should be changed
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This is the issue of this policy because the alternative is putting kids in jail.
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Would you rather put kids in jail with their parents, but they're in jail indefinitely,
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little toddlers in jail indefinitely, or would you rather have them in facilities that
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are run by HHS and have their parents in jail, just like in America, when a parent goes
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to jail for committing any crime in America, the kids are somewhere else.
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Or the alternative, which the Democrats want, is to just let the kids go free and let the
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parents go free with them and stop prosecuting parents.
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Donald Trump, President Trump did sign the order to end family separation.
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We're going to have to parse how exactly that went.
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But it's not a smart move to play into the Democrats' demands here.
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I will have to parse and see exactly what this executive order does because there are
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only going to be more problems down the road if this violates the law, which it is hard
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But there are, beyond the executive order, that's not really the main issue here.
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Beyond the executive order, there are three bills being proposed, three pieces of legislation
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to address this issue because the executive order is just a patch, right?
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They'll say, okay, we're going to stop enforcing the law.
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Then you're going to jail kids or you're going to let the parents go.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, Paul Ryan, and Ted Cruz.
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Two Senate bills, one from Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.
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The Feinstein bill bans the separation of families.
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It's a violation of the law, possibly like this executive order.
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This was articulated very well by a congressional intern the other day as President Trump was
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That's one of the most articulate Democrats I've heard from Congress.
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That's a congressional intern yelling as the president walked through the Capitol.
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That's basically what Dianne Feinstein's bill means.
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Then the Paul Ryan bill allows the kids to be jailed for more than 20 days, so they won't
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The Cruz bill is pretty good because the Cruz bill addresses the immigration issue.
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It expedites deportation so that it won't be an issue to separate the kids because it'll
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all be done before the statutory minimum or the statutory maximum of how long kids can
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Of course, Senate Democrats are going to say no because they don't actually want to fix
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There's really, I don't know how the GOP is going to get past this.
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Because of this big issue, the GOP has lost a fake Republican.
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He was the head of the McCain campaign for president.
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Here is what GOP strategist Steve Schmidt has to say.
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I certainly don't feel guilty about being a Republican.
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I voted for Dwight Eisenhower the first time I ever voted.
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But when we come to Senator Goldwater, now it seems to me we're up against a very different
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A friend of mine has said to me, listen, just because a man sounds a little irresponsible
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during a campaign doesn't mean he's going to act irresponsibly.
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You know that theory that the White House makes the man.
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I mean, when the head of the Ku Klux Klan, when all these weird groups come out in favor of
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the candidate of my party, either they're not Republicans or I'm not, I've thought about just
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not voting in this election, just staying home.
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But you can't do that because that's saying you don't care who wins.
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I think my party made a bad mistake in San Francisco.
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And I'm going to have to vote against that mistake on the 3rd of November.
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That was the same trick that Democrats have been playing on Republicans forever, including
00:31:59.860
We have just lost the chief strategist for the McCain for President campaign.
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I mean, this, we have just lost one of the worst GOP strategists ever who ran a campaign
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that literally suspended itself just for no reason.
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That campaign that made it an important point to say nice things about Barack Obama, the
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opponent, that, that campaign, that guy, how, what is the GOP going to do?
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How are we ever going to keep losing elections if we don't have Steve Schmidt?
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Now we're going to have to start winning elections.
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That'll cut against this, this squishy strategy that the GOP has embraced at various times.
00:32:36.560
He, uh, he would frequently invoke that, that phrase country over party, which is a meaningless
00:32:41.200
phrase, by the way, they always say that when people want to attack their own political
00:32:44.980
party, it's usually just Republicans who do this.
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They say country over party as if that's an actual dichotomy.
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The reason I'm a Republican is because the Republican agenda is better for the country,
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There is no world in which you have a dichotomy between your party and your country.
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It just means you're not a member of that party.
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I'm a Republican as country over the party that I'm not in.
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So Steve Schmidt, uh, I mean, you actually could trace his tweet storm leaving the GOP point
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by point to that video that LBJ put out, the Democrat campaign for president.
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He, he follows it almost point by point, uh, Steve, Steve Schmidt, by the way, Steve Schmidt
00:33:35.280
He's such a squish that he actually wrote an, uh, amicus brief to the Supreme court on the
00:33:41.760
gay marriage issue because he wanted the Supreme court by judicial fiat to radically redefine
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But he came out and he tweeted, quote, 29 years and nine months ago, I registered to vote
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and became a member of the Republican party founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for
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It is corrupt, indecent, and immoral with the exception of a few governors like Baker, Hogan,
00:34:14.340
It is filled with feckless cowards who disgrace and honor the legacies of the party's greatest
00:34:19.060
The child's separation policy, which was signed under president Bush and which Barack Obama enforced
00:34:25.880
and you never talked about it then, is connected to the worst abuses of humanity in our history.
00:34:30.840
It's connected by the same evil that separated families during slavery and dislocated tribes
00:34:50.820
The first step to a season of renewal in our land is the absolute and utter repudiation
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of Trump and his vile enablers by electing Democratic majorities.
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This has been building for a very long time for Steve Schmidt.
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He's just been waiting for the opportunity to just publicly endorse a bunch of Democrats.
00:35:17.640
They've disgraced our country, blah, blah, blah.
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He even used, I do want to point out, he uses the word fidelitous.
00:35:24.580
He says, this independent voter will be aligned with the only party left in America that stands
00:35:28.560
for what is right and decent and renames fidelitous to our republic.
00:35:32.860
He could have said faithful, which is like the right word to use there.
00:35:42.820
I hope this is going to be really frustrating if we have to start winning campaigns now instead
00:35:47.140
of losing them all the time and apologizing to our opponents.
00:35:56.280
I will explain, by the way, exactly the answer you need to give whenever Democrats or squishy
00:36:02.760
Republicans say stuff like this or they accuse Trump of being a Nazi or whatever.
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00:36:53.220
We'll be right back with the answer to all of those Nazi accusers.
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Okay, so we saw Steve Schmidt's little temper tantrum.
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It's all the Republicans who go on MSNBC, and all they do is either lose campaigns or
00:37:17.780
no one's ever heard of them until they went on MSNBC, like Anna Navarro.
00:37:21.380
You know, Anna Navarro has never done anything to help the Republican Party ever, but then
00:37:26.580
she goes on MSNBC, and she's the Republican strategist, which is, Republican strategist
00:37:31.780
is another way of saying somebody who was here who would come on the show.
00:37:40.880
So you've heard the hysteria ginned up like crazy, especially over this immigration thing.
00:37:45.660
They say Trump is a Nazi, and this is what Nazis do.
00:37:52.700
Jeff Sessions tries to beat back Nazi comparisons, gets literally everything wrong.
00:37:58.600
From The Guardian, Melania Trump's former immigration lawyer compares border crisis to
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ICE director uses Nazi defense to claim border policy is not like Hitler regime.
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Okay, I get the sense that all these people, these major outlets, these are not fringe people,
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They're all comparing Donald Trump and his administration to Hitler and the Nazis.
00:38:30.280
This raises a serious question because there are only two options here.
00:38:34.060
One, these people are being hysterical and disingenuous, and nobody actually thinks that
00:38:39.680
Donald Trump is Hitler or his administration are Nazis.
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Or, they actually think that these guys are Nazis, and in order to fight against the Nazis,
00:38:50.140
they're perfectly willing to tweet a little bit and wear pink hats.
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If you thought that Hitler had just taken power in the country, and then you didn't do anything
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about it, and then you just thought, you actually thought that there was a regime in power now
00:39:08.560
that's about to start murdering millions and millions of people, overtaking our neighbors,
00:39:13.540
invading Canada and Mexico and Poland, I don't know, and deporting, you know, people and
00:39:19.140
murdering people and genocide and all of these awful, horrendous, evil things.
00:39:24.820
And then you said, in response to that, I'm going to tweet and nothing else.
00:39:31.680
Those people would be worse than Hitler, right?
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They would be people, what's the line they say?
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All that it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
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They're people who are doing less than nothing.
00:39:45.600
You know the thought experiment, if you could kill baby Hitler, would you kill him?
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He's like walking right by them, like, hey, look, baby Hitler.
00:39:53.340
But that, I mean, it's so, so obviously they're disingenuous.
00:39:58.840
But you should point out to them, if you actually think he's Hitler, you're abetting Nazis.
00:40:03.780
You're allowing, you're just standing idly by while the Nazis wreak havoc and destruction
00:40:13.440
People are being totally disingenuous and nobody actually thinks that, which is why people
00:40:19.220
In the few minutes before we have to go here, I'll just, I will just point that out.
00:40:27.280
Even, you know, I feel like this could be a daily segment, things that are getting better
00:40:30.660
today, because every day there's something new.
00:40:33.500
We have out now, millennials are finally moving out of their parents' house.
00:40:39.100
So during the Obama era, they just kept living with their parents at greater and greater
00:40:43.260
In 2017, that number finally started to tick down.
00:40:46.220
So 31.5% of millennials are currently living with their parents.
00:40:52.160
I think the standard number of people in that age group living with parents is about 28%.
00:40:56.840
So that number is pretty high, but it finally ticked down from 32%.
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I don't know, because the country is getting better and people are making more money and
00:41:09.280
We have more open jobs than people looking for jobs.
00:41:13.080
And by the way, in defense of the millennials, they do have a trillion and a half dollars
00:41:17.660
of student loan debt, and they got basically nothing for it.
00:41:25.580
You know, they got these degrees, but they didn't learn anything in college and certainly
00:41:28.940
no useful skills and not even serious liberal arts or liberal education.
00:41:33.880
For the millennials, too, the wages that they're earning are lower than their parents were
00:41:39.020
They're actually significantly lower, like 20% lower.
00:41:42.020
In 2013, the average millennial earnings were about $40,000, a little bit more.
00:41:48.280
Boomers, their parents, earned inflation-adjusted over $50,000 at that same age.
00:41:54.680
But finally, after the Obama malaise, the economy is doing better, and they're moving out of
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Millennials are the largest generation in the workforce right now, 35%.
00:42:03.760
So we should hope that they can afford their own apartment.
00:42:07.080
Right now, it just came out from the National Association of Manufacturers.
00:42:11.180
Over 95% of manufacturers are optimistic about the future.
00:42:15.840
They say things are going well and things are getting better.
00:42:17.980
That is the highest number ever recorded from that association.
00:42:28.440
Because when the economy's bad, all of a sudden, people start to get disabled.
00:42:32.860
You know, you say, oh, gosh, how did that economy come crashing down on you and broke
00:42:37.200
And people file these bogus disability claims, and they start getting on the government dole
00:42:41.520
because they can't get any work, and they don't really want to work, and everything's
00:42:45.680
Two years ago, from the Social Security Disability Fund, analysts said that that fund would run out
00:42:52.440
by 2023, which is coming up pretty close, because there were so many people on it during
00:43:01.240
They're saying it won't be depleted until 2032, and actually, we might have more good
00:43:05.320
It might be even later, because people aren't using it because they're getting work.
00:43:14.320
Is she crying about the kids being detained because their parents, their criminal parents,
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entered the country illegally and subjected them to this horrible situation?
00:43:23.060
No, she's not crying about that, because then she would have been crying about it when
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Rachel Maddow is crying because things are going so, so well, and her side is losing because
00:43:36.520
Because her side offered nothing but failure and malaise and division, and America has
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