Ep. 239 - Running To Win vs. Running Not To Lose
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The blue wave is reforming as a tsunami of leftist tears as Democrats fall behind in key midterm election races. President Trump s approval rating hits an all-time high, and Republicans get the highest score on the economy ever. Meanwhile, former community organizer Barack Obama reappears on the campaign trail to remind us all what an insufferable, narcissistic, hypocritical, empty suit he is.
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The blue wave is reforming as a tsunami of leftist tears as Democrats fall behind in key midterm
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election races. President Trump's approval rating hits an all-time high, and Republicans get the
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highest score on the economy ever. Meanwhile, former community organizer Barack Obama reappears
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on the campaign trail to remind us all what an absolutely insufferable, narcissistic, hypocritical
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empty suit he is, all of which has the Democrats running safe and weak as the elections approach.
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We will examine the difference between running to win and running not to lose. Finally, why the left
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always seems to get Christianity wrong. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I can't wait to get to that at the end. John Fugel sang has inspired me to take on why the
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left always gets Christianity so wrong, or why it willfully misrepresents it. We got a lot of good
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news coming out on the midterm front. It is getting real, folks. Silly season is over. The elections
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are two weeks away, and things are really heating up. You've got to see the side-by-side of our
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Great news for the GOP. I'm waiting for a piano to fall out of the sky. I cannot imagine,
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I can't really fathom how much good news Republicans are getting as the midterms approach.
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Right now, President Trump's approval rating has hit an all-time high. That's 47 percent. And it's
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47 percent according to NBC, Wall Street Journal polls. You know, we've seen other polls that put
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him on daily presidential tracking polls from more right-leaning firms that say that he's, you know,
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he's doing even better. But 47 percent from NBC, Wall Street Journal is good. Crucially, it's better
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than Barack Obama's at this point in his presidency. It's tracking. He's tracking a lot better than
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Barack Obama. Now, this shouldn't make Republicans and conservatives too excited because if Barack
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Obama was trending 46, 47 at this time during the second year of his presidency, don't forget,
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he got absolutely clobbered in the midterms. He got destroyed in the midterms. That's the historical
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precedent. But right now, the GOP has more going for them than just Donald Trump's popularity. It's
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helpful because a lot of our local races now are just referenda on national figures. But also,
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the GOP has the highest economic approval ratings ever, ever recorded. The GOP has a 15-point
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margin on Democrats right now. It's unbelievable. I mean, it's 40-something, I think it's 48 to 23
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or something like that in terms of where voters place their trust for handling the economy.
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Republicans way outperforming them. You can tell that there's a feeling of exuberance on the right.
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There still is. It hasn't gone away yet. So people are running hard. The right is hard charging. The
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right seems to be running these elections to win. I don't think the left is running these elections to
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win. I actually think they're just trying to keep to their historical advantage and try to rely on
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that and be dependent. It isn't working for them. Just take a look at our two dueling presidents.
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President Trump hit the campaign trail out with Ted Cruz. You know, he had been a little harsh to Ted
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Cruz during the primary elections. Called him Lion Ted. Said some mean things about him. So a reporter
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asks him about this. Here's how Donald Trump handles it.
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What is he now? Beautiful Ted. Beautiful Ted. I call him Texas Ted. Ted Cruz. And I had a very,
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very nasty and tough campaign. It was a very competitive, it was a very tough campaign.
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Once it ended and we got together. And by the way, very late into the campaign, we lasted. People were
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shocked. I said, don't worry, it's only a question time. And then ultimately what happened? We
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fought it out. The outcome was obvious. And we have worked together very closely. I like him a lot.
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I actually like him a lot. And he's a very smart guy. He loves the people of Texas, which I do.
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Look at that turnaround. Is he still Lion Ted? No, he's beautiful Ted. What? Yeah, I call him Texas Ted.
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I thought you called him beautiful Ted. Yeah, I don't know what I call him. I like him.
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The point is he used to be bad and now he's good. I also love beautiful Ted because Donald Trump is
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very good at these nicknames. And beautiful Ted, one, it's not an answer to lying Ted. So I guess
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he could still be a liar, right? Now he's honest Ted. No, no, no. He's saying he's beautiful Ted also
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because Ted Cruz has many wonderful attributes. I love Cruz. I did a commercial for Cruz. I voted for
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Cruz. He's not, you know, Fabio. He's not the, he's not like going to ride in on the cover of a
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romance novel on a white stallion or something like that. So I just love the image. Oh, he's
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beautiful Ted. He's but what Donald Trump is doing here is pretty illustrative because we talk about
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the politics of personal destruction. These are the politics usually taken up by Democrats, but we've
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seen it from Republicans too. It's when things are really personal and nasty and brutal. This is
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something people are misunderstanding about Trump. Trump gets nasty. He's boorish. He's brutal.
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He's savage in his attacks, but it's actually not the politics of personal destruction.
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If it were the politics of personal destruction, he would take it more seriously, but he doesn't
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take it that seriously. He's going, he says, he's a liar. Cruz is a liar. He holds up his Bible and he
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lies, lies, lies. And then now Cruz is fine. He's come around and he says, yeah, look, it was a tough
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campaign. What do you want me to say? During tough campaigns, I say tough things and now he's good. I like it.
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Vote for him. It's very clear. He's saying that's just about politics. It's just politics. Don't worry.
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This is not what you're getting from Barack Obama. It's not what you're getting from any other
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politicians, really. You know, it really, these guys take it personally. They stick with it. Barack Obama
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has hit the campaign trail again to remind us all how extraordinarily annoying he is. He's theoretically
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stumping for Nevada senatorial candidate Jackie Rosen. He's really just stumping for himself. Here's a quick
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clip in case you missed it, which you did. First of all, I want you guys to give it up. You guys go
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ahead and take a seat. I got a lot to say. First of all, I have to say that I miss you too.
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I do. I'm not alone in saying I enjoy coming to Las Vegas. I was backstage. Fortunately,
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there were no cameras going when I was jamming. That I want. I want. I'm here. I can remember in
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my lifetime and that includes when I was on the ballot. When I walked into office 10 years ago,
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I do think it's interesting. I just hope people kind of notice folks like me by the time I left
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office and that's what I handed off to the next guy. Now I'd like to bring up George Harrison.
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All through the night. I mean mine. I mean mine. I mean mine. Even those tears. I mean mine. I mean
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mine. I mean mine. I mean me mine. I mean me. He just does. This clip goes on for two and a half
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minutes. I played you like 20 seconds of it. He just, it's all about me, me, me. And you're just,
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oh, good grief. Get over yourself. It reminds me that he's more narcissistic than Donald Trump.
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And the thing about Barack Obama is he was a BS artist par excellence, but he would always keep
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that serious face. And I think people really don't like that. You know, Donald Trump is also a BSer,
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you know, from New York, but he's honest about it. He says, oh yeah, I called him a liar. Yeah,
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that was because I didn't like him then, but now I like him. So he's not, he's beautiful now. He's
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Texas Ted. Vote for him. That's not what Obama does. Obama has to believe the lie because it's about
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him. He can't admit that he's just engaging in politics. It's so much more, uh, unctuous. It's
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so much more disgusting when they do it. He also doesn't talk about Rosen. He talks about I, me,
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mine, and he's rehashing all these old, when I was, when I was president, when I was, when we, I, I, I,
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but he's, he's fighting old fights and he's, he is gaslighting Republicans. He's, please go to every
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single state, Barack Obama, go to every state, go to every congressional district and remind us why we
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threw you and your entire party out of office. He, he's even rehashing these scandals of his
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administration and projecting them onto Trump and denying that he ever did them. Here he is.
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It is not a democratic or a Republican idea that we are not supposed to pressure the attorney general
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or the FBI to use the criminal justice system to try to punish political opponents. That's not how
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America works. That's how some tin pot dictatorship works. That's not supposed to be America.
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That's not supposed to be America. I mean, that's how my tin pot dictatorship worked.
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That's how my, when I used the IRS to target my opponents, he used these agencies to target his
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political opponents. First of all, we know that his executive agencies were spying on the Donald Trump
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campaign and we're getting more and more information about that day by day. We also know that he's
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selectively prosecuted his critics. He sent Dinesh D'Souza to live with criminals for months and
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months because he made a, an extra donation to a friend of his in New York who was never going to
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win. He broke a law that shouldn't be a law any in the first place and a law that is virtually never
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prosecuted or a crime rather that is virtually never prosecuted. And Obama's administration threw the
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book at him to send a message. Why? Because Dinesh D'Souza made a movie critical of Donald Trump.
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How about the IRS? I was a member of an organization that was targeted by the IRS. He used
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his IRS, his tax agency to intimidate his critics on the right, to intimidate the Tea Party, to
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intimidate Tea Party organizations. And he's doing that political voice. I can't stand that voice that
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I think we're all so sick of it. Donald Trump smashed that with his guttural screaming, you know,
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Twitter voice. He has smashed that political voice. You hear him and it's just so fake. It's so
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artificial. And this guy is such a failure. His administration failed. It failed on everything. And
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then President Trump took office. Well, first the Republicans took control of the House and Senate.
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Then Trump took office and everything got better. And that's just what happened. And now he's bitter.
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He's trying to reclaim a legacy. I actually forgot about him. I kid you not. I had not thought about
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this guy. And I don't know how long. Because his legacy doesn't matter. It's been dismantled. He
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systematically lost the entire country for his political party. Probably a thousand seats around
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the country. And now he's coming back stumping. Good on him. Please don't do it. It's this hypocritical
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sanctimony that people are so sick of. And he won't admit. He's just stone cold about it. Oh yeah,
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the DOJ. People shouldn't misuse the executive agencies. But what about, well, no, they shouldn't.
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Yeah, they shouldn't. It's outrageous. You know, talk about tinpot dictatorship. First of all,
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what happened to civility? Remember, they're always calling for civility when they're not,
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you know, throwing rocks through Republican congressmen's offices or harassing Mitch McConnell
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at dinner or harassing people at their houses or where their children sleep. They're always talking
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about civility then. He called our president, our sitting president, a tinpot dictator. And he was
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President Trump goes out in Texas. He's holding a rally. You got a thousand people sleeping overnight
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to get in. Barack Obama holds a rally. Many fewer people, not nearly as big. Orders of magnitude less
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big than the Trump rally. What does that tell us? I don't know. You know, President Trump is the
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sitting president. He's a much better showman than Barack Obama. We know the historic midterm
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advantage is pronounced. Barack Obama in 2010 lost 63 seats to the Republicans. That was in his first
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midterm after his election. Bill Clinton lost 54 seats in 1994 to the Republicans.
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That isn't nothing. You know, Democrats only need 24 seats to retake the House.
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Certainly history shows that they could do that. And yet, and yet, this is an uncommon election.
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It's an uncommon president. It's certainly uncommon times. Economically speaking, we have virtually no
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joblessness. The economy is screaming right now. The thing that you also got to remember is that,
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what was it, two years ago, almost to the day, the New York Times predicted with 92% certainty that
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former future president Hillary Clinton would be elected. 92 Hillary, 8% Donald Trump. What happened?
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It was a Trump blowout. It was a Trump blowout in the election. So these things can change. The one
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reason that I, obviously, some of these candidates, because they've gotten angry and they've gotten
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mad and they've gotten stupid, certain races that Democrats should have won are now almost certainly
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going to go to Republicans. I'm thinking especially of Heidi Heitkamp up in North Dakota. But the reason
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I suspect Democrats don't really believe that they've got this huge advantage right now is they're not
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talking like they're running to win. They're talking like they're just trying to keep whatever
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advantage they have and just play it really, really safe. And that's not how you win. Here's
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Nancy Pelosi explaining this to CNN. If the election were held today, the Democrats would
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handily win the House. I could only speak in the present tense because you never know in another
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couple of weeks. Look how she's hedging. I mean, they learned a lesson after 2016. You remember the New
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York Times predicted 92% Hillary would win. The New York Times had to apologize because they got that
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election so wrong. They actually had to apologize to their readers. Nancy Pelosi isn't making
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predictions because she wants to hedge her bets. I mean, this by, by all political patterns, this
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should be a blowout for Democrats, but it's not looking like a blowout for Democrats. Also, I'm not
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convinced if the elections were held today that the Democrats would win. I suspect if the elections were
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held today, Republicans might hold control of the House. We'll see. You know, she's on the trail right
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now. I mean, she is the leader of the House Democrats and she's not using winning rhetoric.
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There are these two differences. When you're playing to win, you are going hard. You are breaking
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things. You are, you don't want to come in second. You don't have anything to lose. You have everything
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to gain. The great example of this is the Trump 2016 campaign. He was breaking all sorts of taboos.
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He was running hard on immigration, which conservatives had been mealy mouthed on. He was running hard
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on issues of foreign policy, on issues of foreign trade, things that seemed a little taboo. And he
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was going after them. He was going after political correctness and he wasn't speaking in a politically
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correct way. The, the example of playing not to lose, the idea of just playing as safe as you
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possibly can is Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney's, well, listen, do, do, do, and I, and he's talking in all
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these long things that are very boring and he's constantly apologizing. He won't go after the
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moderator. Do you remember Candy Crowley lied? The debate moderator, Candy Crowley lied during
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the Romney Obama debate, interrupted the debate, lied on behalf of Barack Obama to millions of
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people watching. And what did Romney do? He said, well, well, I, but, but, and Obama's laughing.
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He's sitting there all go on, go on, Candy, go on governor. And she's in there just lying. And you
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know, if Donald Trump had been there, can you imagine what would have happened? I, he would have blown
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the roof off the building if she had tried to do something like that. Um, that's the difference.
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And, you know, playing not to lose is not a great strategy. One, cause I don't think it works very
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well, especially now in our age of 4k televisions and social media, authenticity is really, really
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important. Uh, also, uh, I don't, I don't think she can really rely on these advantages right now.
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I don't, I don't really see that advantage playing out in the races where people are really drilling
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down. And since Brett Kavanaugh, all of the momentum has been with, uh, with the Republicans.
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So what are they running on now? All they're running on is rhetoric and civility, rhetoric
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and civility. This is ironic. There's a Democrat congressional candidate in Pennsylvania. He was
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having a debate in a synagogue with, uh, uh, Scott, or rather with a GOP congressman, Brian Fitzpatrick.
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And this guy, Scott Wallace told the Republican congressman to F off in the sanctuary of a
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synagogue, but he said, Oh no, but civility, you know, civility, rhetoric, civility, rhetoric.
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They can't even run on civility. They actually can't run on civility. Do you remember here is
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Jim Acosta trying to pretend that, uh, the, the Republicans are the violent ones.
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I have to tell you, Don, when the president made that joke about Greg Gianforte assaulting Ben
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Jacobs, I looked over to the crowd. There was one gentleman, a Trump supporter in the crowd who was
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doing pro wrestling moves, doing body slam type gestures in the crowd. So the crowd was
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obviously eating this stuff up and people wonder whether or not there's a cause and effect, whether
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or not the president's rhetoric, uh, you know, plant seeds of violence in his, in his own supporters,
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You don't need the president's rhetoric to plant seeds of violence. You don't see seeds of violence
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in the conservative side. You see, uh, two, uh, presumably left-wing vandals throwing a gigantic
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rock through a GOP congressional leader, Kevin McCarthy's office window. That just happened.
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That story just broke. You saw that hysterical man, baby screeching at Mitch McConnell in the
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restaurants. Like, well, get out of the country. Get out of the hole. Please stop it. Uh, you see
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Maxine Waters calling on Democrats. She's an elected Democrat calling on her supporters to assault,
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harass Republicans in the street at restaurants where they live, where their children sleep.
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Eric Holder did the same thing. Hillary Clinton did the same thing. Jim Acosta doesn't talk about
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that though, does he? So they can't even run on civility. They can't even run on that.
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And so they're, they're running vaguely on rhetoric. They're basically just running against
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the tweets. They're running because they don't like Trump. And I'm telling you, I have been on
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campaigns that have tried to run against the other guy. I've been on campaigns that have just
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offered a negative vision. They don't go anywhere. They don't win. Even if the candidate's better than
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the other guy, they don't win. You have to offer a positive message. You can ding them too. You can go
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negative. You can hit people, but you have to offer them something. If you're just running against the
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other guy, the other guy is going to win because the show is about him. Everybody is talking about
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him. No press is bad press. If you're just running because he's a bad guy, who are you? Why should I
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give you my vote? You're always, you're just voting for him. So they're making a huge mistake there.
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The rhetoric thing is the last refuge of desperate politicians. It's playing it safe. It's,
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it's playing not to lose. Say Nancy Pelosi, why should we elect you, you and the Democrats to
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take control of the Congress? Well, because you have to, historically speaking, we're expecting you
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to. And I'm sorry you asked that question. That's, that's her answer. She doesn't have an answer
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because if you give an answer, you're taking a risk. If you're, if you give an answer, you have to
00:22:46.780
stand for something, but she doesn't want to. I think, you know, Mitt Romney tried to run the 2012
00:22:51.020
campaign on not being Barack Obama. He was trying to run it on Obama's economy is bad. I'm,
00:22:55.920
I'm the other guy. Elect me. Doesn't work. You've got to run for something. They're not doing that.
00:23:01.420
Even these minor Democrat candidates, these Democrat candidates that we haven't been talking about
00:23:05.520
are terrible on their rhetoric. If you want to talk rhetoric, the, the Georgia gubernatorial
00:23:09.700
candidate for the Democrats, Stacey Abrams, uh, they're just, she's, they're just about to have a
00:23:14.140
debate down there. They released a photo today of her burning the Georgia state flag. They got a photo of her.
00:23:20.800
I think she was in college and she's burning the Georgia state flag. And I, what is this with the
00:23:26.540
Democrats now of candidates running against their states? You saw this with Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona.
00:23:34.720
She's running, you know, all those videos popped over saying, yeah, I hate Arizona, man. I hope your
00:23:39.580
states don't turn out like Arizona. And that's why I want to represent you, Arizona in the U S Senate,
00:23:43.860
not a great, uh, campaign. So, uh, I don't know. I mean, a Democrat, uh, political operative should,
00:23:51.740
should take these candidates aside and shake them a little bit because we couldn't ask for more.
00:23:55.760
It's like when you get a gubernatorial candidate running who burned the state flag and you got a
00:24:01.500
photo of it, it's like she might as well take out a gun and start shooting apple pies and the American
00:24:07.240
flag. I mean, it's, it's insane. And they didn't learn their lesson. This flag issue really matters.
00:24:11.180
People are very offended by this. This is why people don't watch the NFL anymore. This was a
00:24:15.600
major issue. Another one, by the way, that President Kofefe got right, which is, it's,
00:24:20.920
it seems like a trivial issue to the people who are, you know, the people who are telling you to
00:24:25.840
stop caring are the ones who say it's a trivial issue. Well, if it's a trivial issue, why do you
00:24:30.280
care so much? Stop doing it. Well, if it's a trivial, it's not, it's a really important issue. And so
00:24:35.140
it's really hitting her. And then, then she comes out with this, this wasn't 20 years ago. This
00:24:40.280
wasn't 25 years ago. This was just on this campaign. Listen to Georgia governor candidate,
00:24:45.240
Stacey Abram talking about, uh, who her voter coalition is going to be.
00:24:51.020
But the thing of it is the blue wave is African American.
00:24:56.160
It's white, it's Latino, it's Asian Pacific Islander. It is disabled. It is differently
00:25:03.060
abled. It is LGBTQ. It is law enforcement. It is veterans. It is made up of those who've been
00:25:12.100
told that they are not worthy of being here. It is comprised of those who are documented and
00:25:17.340
undocumented. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, wait, what? Wait, what was the last one? You know, LGBT? No,
00:25:24.960
yeah, no. After that one, uh, documented people. No, yeah, no. Before that one,
00:25:30.120
you're saying that your electoral blue wave is comprising illegal aliens. You know, that thing
00:25:37.840
that we've been accusing you guys of doing for decades now, and you say it's ridiculous and
00:25:42.360
insane. Your Georgia governor candidate just admitted it that, yeah, we're going to round up
00:25:47.020
all those illegal aliens, all the ones that Trump hasn't deported, and we're going to get them to
00:25:51.060
illegally vote for us and put them in the government. Yeah, we, yeah, is that great?
00:25:56.060
Woo, yeah. I mean, those guys, they would applaud for anything in, in her, uh, her campaign office,
00:26:00.920
but it's really incredible. A Freudian slip, I think, where you say one thing and mean your mother
00:26:05.480
because she's probably caught herself here and say, oh no, I misspoke or something. That's what they
00:26:10.020
really mean. And, and voter fraud is an issue. Don't let anybody tell you it isn't an issue. There's a
00:26:14.880
great book out by Eric Eggers on this called Fraud, which you should read all the ways that the
00:26:19.580
left tries to steal elections. So I don't know what this is. Is this ignorance or is this lawlessness
00:26:24.340
or is this both? Either way, you've got a major Democrat candidate running on, uh, on some
00:26:31.240
combination of ignorance and lawlessness. No surprise. And they're projecting. I noticed this
00:26:36.380
at Politicon. I know, you know, all the time at Politicon, uh, you would see these, these left-wing
00:26:43.000
guys. I was on this one panel with a couple left-wingers and they would interrupt us, the right-wing
00:26:49.560
when we were speaking, they would constantly interrupt, mock, you know, cut in, interject.
00:26:55.140
And then the minute that you questioned something that they were saying, they would say, don't
00:26:58.880
interrupt. Stop interrupting. We need to be civil. But you just, you were just the whole, no, no,
00:27:04.420
now we got to be, come on, come on. We got to be civil. They project and they gaslight. I mean,
00:27:09.160
it really is gaslighting. When I, when I saw Barack Obama, I started to get a little PTSD almost,
00:27:14.340
you know, a little, a little PPTSD, political post-traumatic stress disorder. I just thought,
00:27:19.300
oh, that, uh, it's not one that really like affects your emotions. You're just kind of like,
00:27:23.300
oh, gross. Uh, gosh, can we move on from that? I thought that era was over. Um, and when Barack
00:27:30.300
Obama says that they're politicizing government agencies, you just think you did it. And he looks
00:27:35.740
at you stone cold gaslights. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. No, we didn't. What are you talking,
00:27:40.420
who are you going to believe me or your lion eyes? Who are you going to believe here? Dick Durbin
00:27:44.700
is doing exactly this. Dick Durbin, a Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee. Here's Dick
00:27:50.160
Durbin talking to Chuck Todd. Why don't you go after Republican leaders the way Republicans go
00:27:56.300
after democratic leaders? I don't think it's a message that really carries the day. Voters are
00:28:03.420
listening for both political parties to say something other than a political squabbles underway in
00:28:08.640
Washington. Is that, is that right? Dick Durbin is that they don't want personal attacks. They
00:28:15.000
don't want political squabbles in Washington. Dick Durbin helped lead the character assassination
00:28:20.820
into Brett Kavanaugh. Judiciary committee, Senate Democrat helped lead it. He was a leading voice,
00:28:28.480
unprecedented character assassination, petty, disgusting, baseless slander. And he's going
00:28:35.540
there. He says, we got, they got to stop attacking people. You know, we got to stop these petty
00:28:39.100
squabbles. It's so, this is actually the only thing that they do that genuinely infuriates me
00:28:45.540
because I hate it. You know, don't boof on my leg and tell me it's windy. Don't do it, man. Don't tell
00:28:51.980
me it's raining. You know, they, I understand they have stupid policy ideas. They have some confusion
00:28:58.820
about first principle, whatever. That's fine. I get it. I get the ignorance. I even get the lawlessness.
00:29:03.700
It's just that look in me in the eyes. It's so disrespectful when they do this. And I think,
00:29:09.800
I think voters do it too. You know, they're living in a fantasy right now. They're living in a fantasy
00:29:15.020
that they're conning people anymore. It isn't happening. Talk about living in a delusion.
00:29:19.380
Hillary Clinton was at an event. She was introduced as, uh, uh, you know, former secretary of state and
00:29:27.980
The second, who needs no introduction, is former secretary of state and presidential candidate,
00:29:43.720
She has become that meme of herself. The one where she's in a straight jacket, kind of looking all
00:29:54.800
wild eyed. And she says, I'm the president. I'm the real president. And the guards say, oh yeah,
00:29:59.520
sure you are Hillary. Yep. No, come with us. Come with us. That's what she's become. They say,
00:30:03.320
you know, she is the real president. Now a normal, civilized, sane person who actually cares about
00:30:08.700
our Republic would say, no, I'm not. I'm not the real president. I lost the election. I wish I
00:30:14.140
didn't lose, but I lost. I'm not the president. What does Hillary Clinton do to say? She's the
00:30:19.160
real president. She goes, ah, yeah, she takes off on her, on her, you know, broomstick. Uh, this is a
00:30:28.440
fantasy world they're living in and voters don't reward fantasies. They don't, not for long. You know,
00:30:33.760
to quote George W. Bush, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice. The point is you're not going to
00:30:38.400
fool me again. Uh, they're not, they don't reward, uh, fantasies. They can sit there and Hillary can
00:30:44.380
say, I'm the real president. And, uh, Chuck Schumer can say, I'm the real majority leader.
00:30:49.460
And they can say, they can say that all day. It isn't true. It doesn't make it so. Even if,
00:30:54.360
even if the Democrats retake the house, even if they get their historical advantage,
00:30:58.180
they need to grapple with reality. If they want to rebuild as a party, this is a mission of mercy.
00:31:02.500
I'm giving them free advice. Um, president Trump radically reshaped politics. He really did. At
00:31:07.940
least the political media, at least political communication. He, he went in and he grappled
00:31:13.620
with reality. Part of that is admitting that you're wrong in the moment. Not that you were
00:31:19.120
wrong 30 years ago, but now you got it right. Admitting that you were wrong in the moment.
00:31:24.080
Donald Trump did this and it actually irked a lot of conservatives because he said, oh,
00:31:27.400
you were wrong about this. You were wrong about this trade deal. You were wrong about this war.
00:31:31.040
You were wrong about this. It was pretty radical. It actually was a real shaking up
00:31:34.960
and voters rewarded that. They rewarded a guy speaking bluntly and speaking directly and not
00:31:40.720
trying to, uh, just make excuses for things that haven't worked out. The Democrats won't do that.
00:31:46.340
They haven't done that. What they're starting to do is, uh, they're conveniently, uh, admitting that
00:31:52.300
they were wrong about certain things. So they'll say, oh, well, yeah, the Clintons, maybe they weren't
00:31:56.480
that great when it's only convenient for them. I will give you the answer as to how the Democrats
00:32:01.320
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00:32:15.040
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00:32:21.480
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00:32:25.720
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00:32:41.520
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00:32:46.400
but you get this, this is to prepare for the blue wave, the blue tsunami. This, you know,
00:32:52.260
we have the leftist years tumbler. It's always getting blue waves. There are always blue ripples,
00:32:56.400
salty blue ripples going through it. And as what we were told was going to be the Democrat takeover
00:33:01.240
of the entire government, as polling shows that it's going to be more of a trickle, if anything
00:33:05.940
at all, get yours now, because we're going to run out and then don't come knocking on our door.
00:33:11.320
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00:33:14.800
They've got to grapple with reality. They've got to admit that they are wrong right now. What one,
00:33:31.980
what, what they're doing is this, uh, this fake posturing. I saw it today in the Washington Post
00:33:38.120
by, uh, Richard Cohen. He wrote this piece. He said, I thought Juanita Broderick wasn't credible.
00:33:43.460
I was wrong. Okay. Juanita Broderick, you know, Juanita Broderick, we've had her on the show.
00:33:47.940
She says that Bill Clinton raped her. I've talked to her. I read her book. If you want to talk about
00:33:53.080
credibility, this woman's got it. She's, she's got people at the time that she told about this.
00:33:59.440
Her story has never changed. Even NBC news admits her story has never changed. She just seems credible.
00:34:06.760
She doesn't seem kooky. She hasn't lied publicly about major things. Uh, she did, uh,
00:34:11.780
only one time. The only sort of hole in her story is she once said under oath that it didn't happen
00:34:18.840
when she wanted it to go away. Then once the story leaked, she admitted it happened. But that's the
00:34:22.840
only thing close to it. She's never changed her story since, but Democrats wouldn't talk about
00:34:27.080
her, wouldn't accept it. Uh, now all of a sudden we've got Cohen saying, Oh yeah, maybe I believe
00:34:32.920
her now. He says, quote, I remember refusing to deal with Broderick's allegation because I simply
00:34:37.620
chose to believe Clinton was not a rapist. Clinton, after all, was one of us college educated, modern,
00:34:43.560
urbane, and not some hooded monster preying on strangers. Men like that do not rape. My position
00:34:49.960
has proved naive. Violence can be in the sexual repertoire of any man. Sure. He goes on. I am no
00:34:56.860
longer certain that Clinton did not rape Juanita Broderick. Well, good job. Good job, Mr. Cohen
00:35:03.620
and Washington Post. Now that the Clintons are not only politically useless to you, to the party and
00:35:10.460
to the left more broadly, but actually now that the Clintons are a liability, now you're willing to
00:35:16.540
stand up and say, Oh yeah, maybe that guy did it. After decades of flying cover for these people,
00:35:22.860
after just two years ago, trying to put this man back in the White House and put this woman in the
00:35:29.320
Oval Office, the woman who smeared all of Clinton's accusers and victims as bimbos, after just doing
00:35:35.340
that, wasn't 20 years ago that you did that. That was two years ago that you all were doing that.
00:35:40.260
Now you say, Oh, you know, I'm starting to believe her. Great. Oh, great. Congrats. Let's throw him a
00:35:45.800
party. Wow. That now you must be super serious. No way. No way, Buster. I hear these things all the
00:35:52.060
time. People will ask, How can we unite the country? How can we be civil? How can we come together and
00:35:57.900
unite and agree on this and this and this? They got to come to the table. The left has to come to
00:36:01.780
the table. You know, we don't kick their speakers out of college campuses. We don't scream at them.
00:36:07.320
We don't even call them racist, even though many of their policies in fact are quite racist. We don't
00:36:12.360
call them evil. We don't call them wicked. We don't throw rocks into their houses. We don't harass them
00:36:17.120
in public. You got to come to the table guys. And if you're going to offer something, which is now a
00:36:24.460
political convenience for you from actions that happened 25 years ago, give me a break. Put up
00:36:30.380
or shut up. And don't, don't boof on my leg and tell me it's windy. You know, don't lie to my face.
00:36:36.160
Don't gaslight me. Give me something real. Until then, I don't believe it. It's just not believable.
00:36:42.220
You know, speaking of Politicon, I got to meet John Fugel Sang there. And I rather liked John Fugel Sang.
00:36:48.100
He's this lefty actor comedian guy, but he seems like kind of a nice guy. He's dead wrong about many
00:36:53.560
things. And this gave me the privilege or misfortune of coming across John Fugel Sang's
00:37:00.060
take down viral Occupy Democrats video about how Republicans are fake Christians. They're not real
00:37:08.960
Christians because Jesus was a left wing hippie. Don't you know? And I, I, it occurs to me that the
00:37:16.760
left always gets Christianity wrong, always misrepresents Christianity. Take a look at
00:37:20.960
this. We'll go through it point by point. I thought, wouldn't it be great if we could find a way to get
00:37:25.920
Jesus of Nazareth to come back and run for president on the GOP ticket? They can't pick a front runner
00:37:30.840
anyway. So wouldn't the GOP love to get behind a guy who was a peaceful, radical, nonviolent
00:37:35.820
revolutionary who hung around with lepers, hookers, and criminals who never spoke English, was not an
00:37:40.940
American citizen. A man who was anti-capitalism, anti-wealth, anti-public prayer. Yes, he was.
00:37:46.720
Matthew 6, 5. Anti-death penalty, but never once remotely anti-gay. Didn't mention abortion. Didn't
00:37:53.300
mention premarital sex. A man who never justified torture. Who never called the poor lazy. Who never
00:37:59.280
asked a leper for a co-pay. Who never fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes. And was a
00:38:04.740
long-haired, brown-skinned, that's in Revelations, homeless Middle Eastern Jew. Of course, that's only
00:38:11.860
if you believe what's actually in the Bible. Boom! Fugle sang out. Boom! Mic drop. Got you,
00:38:20.540
Christians. Got you 2,000 years of the Catholic Church. Boom! Except it just isn't true. So let's
00:38:26.080
go through point by point. He starts out, he says, Jesus was a peaceful, radical, nonviolent
00:38:30.520
revolutionary. He's probably referring to turning the other cheek. Jesus says to turn the other
00:38:36.340
cheek when somebody slaps you and offends you. What we see there is a personal humility and a
00:38:42.360
spiritual defiance. When somebody offends you, you will not let them control you. You will not let
00:38:47.660
them degrade you. And you will not retaliate in some irate revenge. You will have personal humility
00:38:54.580
and spiritual defiance. He is not talking about pacifism in a national sense. He was living in
00:39:01.600
an occupied country. The idea of abandoning one's right to self-defense, one's national right to
00:39:09.800
self-defense, or one's political right to self-defense, would have never even entered the
00:39:14.640
political lexicon of the times. He also told his apostles to sell their cloaks and to buy a sword
00:39:21.460
in only certain places. When you're like John Fugel sang and you just point to certain places
00:39:25.800
of the gospel, you can twist it and pervert it and make it look like a, you know, like you're
00:39:31.540
looking at the Bible into a shallow well and all you see is your own reflection in it. But when you
00:39:35.640
look in other places, Jesus says, sell your cloak and buy a sword. Jesus also says that he comes not to
00:39:41.320
bring peace, but a sword. How about being a radical? You know, Jesus is radical in salvation,
00:39:48.000
absolutely. But he's not radical in religion. He explicitly says he's not radical in religion. He
00:39:54.040
says, I have not come to abolish the law. I have come to fulfill the law that we will not change one
00:40:00.220
jot or tittle until the end of the ages. Okay. Then Fugel sang says, well, you know, Jesus hung around
00:40:06.180
lepers and hookers and criminals. Absolutely right. You're right. He, Jesus never once condemned
00:40:11.380
individuals as deplorable and irredeemable. Great point. What he did was save them. He also told
00:40:17.880
them to sin no more. So he hung around all of these people, but he didn't indulge in sin. He
00:40:23.140
didn't say, oh, you're, you're perfect just the way that you are. Stay exactly the same and keep
00:40:27.380
on sinning. He, he tells people what they sin. He doesn't condemn them for it. He saves them, but he
00:40:32.180
tells them to sin no more. He never spoke English and he's not an American citizen. That's true. He was
00:40:38.220
a citizen of his own country that was controlled by the Romans. And actually Jesus was born in Bethlehem
00:40:44.540
because, uh, his mother was on the road to go register with the government. That is a point
00:40:50.380
that I think Mr. Fugel sang missed. And it seems like the opposite of the point that he was trying
00:40:54.240
to make, but you're right. He didn't speak English and was not an American citizen, which I don't think
00:40:58.420
anybody has ever suggested. Um, everybody knows he was Italian anyway, right? Isn't that true? Uh,
00:41:03.520
Fugel sang says that he was anti-capitalism and anti-wealth. Um, Jesus doesn't talk very much about
00:41:10.420
capitalism. One reason for that is that modern capitalism didn't develop for 1900 years after
00:41:16.040
the incarnation of Christ. Uh, he's not anti-wealth though. He's not anti-wealth. People mistake this
00:41:21.240
all the time. Uh, money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil.
00:41:27.000
Being possessed by wealth, being possessed by your own possessions, that is evil. That is a danger.
00:41:32.960
That will make it harder, uh, to get into heaven than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a
00:41:37.860
needle. Absolutely. But he doesn't tell everybody that he meets to sell all of their possessions.
00:41:43.300
He tells certain people who are possessed by their possessions. Some other people, he says,
00:41:47.520
go out and buy something. Go out, go to that fish and put, you know, go pull a coin out of a fish.
00:41:52.640
Um, and this also brings me to my, one of my favorite parables, the parable of the talents,
00:41:56.880
also the parable of the hedge fund manager, which is when, uh, the master goes out and he gives three
00:42:01.800
servants some money and then he goes away and he comes back after a time. And the one servant turned his,
00:42:07.860
his money into a lot of money. He invested it. He got a good return on his investment.
00:42:13.080
The second servant made a little bit of money. You know, he got a decent return. And the third
00:42:16.920
servant buried it underground because he was afraid of the master and, uh, didn't want to risk losing
00:42:22.160
the money. And what did the master do? He took the wealth from the poor servant and the unprofitable
00:42:28.800
servant and gave it to the rich servant because for he who has much more will be given. And from he who
00:42:35.160
has a little, even that little, which he has will be taken away. And then the master casts the
00:42:39.660
unprofitable servant into hell where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. I am not suggesting
00:42:44.860
that this is a diatribe on modern economics. I'm just pointing out that John Fuglesang is
00:42:50.140
misreading the Bible and selectively quoting it to suit his own political purposes. Uh, he says that
00:42:55.160
Jesus is anti-public prayer. This is because Christ in the gospel says, do not be as the hypocrites
00:43:01.840
making a show of yourself and praying for the applause of men. Go into your closet when you
00:43:06.740
pray. Go into your closet, the closet of your closet and hide yourself and pray to God. Sure,
00:43:11.400
that's all true. You shouldn't be like the hypocrites. This doesn't mean that you can't
00:43:14.360
pray in public. In fact, Jesus prays in public many times through the gospel narratives. One wonders
00:43:20.420
if John Fuglesang has read them or if he's just misrepresenting them. And then he says he's
00:43:24.200
anti-death penalty. I assure you, Jesus is not anti-death penalty. Death, the death penalty
00:43:30.500
was the mechanism of salvation. Jesus came in the world to suffer the death penalty and on that cross
00:43:37.920
conquered death and redeemed mankind. This is the central joy of the world. The happy fall redeemed
00:43:44.760
in the resurrection of Christ. Uh, he, he later foretold Peter's death on the cross. Uh, he also
00:43:51.820
said, render to Caesar what is Caesar. And we have St. Paul writing extensively about how the civil
00:43:56.760
government has the authority of the sword. It has the authority of capital punishment in scripture,
00:44:02.180
which is inerrant. This has been affirmed time and time again by the greatest doctors of the church
00:44:07.340
for 2000 years. And John Fuglesang has no idea what he's talking about. Not scripturally,
00:44:12.980
not theologically, and, uh, not as a matter of the writings of the doctors of the church. Uh,
00:44:18.600
then Fuglesang says that Jesus was never anti-gay. Yeah, sure. Who is anti-gay? Who is anti-gay?
00:44:24.200
Point to someone who's anti-gay. I, uh, Muslim terrorists who throw gay guys off of buildings
00:44:29.060
in the Middle East, they would be anti-gay. I think that counts as anti-gay. Uh, Christ,
00:44:34.480
he comes, he hangs around with sinners. He redeems mankind. Now, what I think John Fuglesang probably
00:44:40.800
is attacking Republicans for is defending marriage, defending traditional marriage against redefinition
00:44:46.880
to include same-sex unions. You know, Christ speaks explicitly on very few, uh, pressing tangible
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issues in the Gospels. There are a few things where he speaks explicitly, clearly, and one of those
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things is marriage. He says it very clearly. A man and woman were created. They are meant to leave
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their families, come together, and become one flesh. And what God has joined, no man can separate.
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He defines marriage perfectly, and there's nothing hateful or unchristian about the way that Christ
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defines it. Uh, he, then, uh, Fuglesang says, he doesn't mention abortion or premarital sex.
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Uh, he does. He actually does do that. He says, whosoever shall offend one of these little ones,
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it would be better for that man to have a millstone hung around his neck and for him to be cast
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into the sea. And throughout the Gospels, or throughout the Bible, rather, we hear a God talking about,
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uh, knowing people before they were even formed in the womb, knowing about them before, before they
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were born, before they were formed in the womb. St. Paul writes about this, about being, uh, called
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by grace, uh, while he was being formed in the womb. This is throughout scripture. And just in case
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Mr. Fuglesang says, well, Jesus didn't say that thing from the Old Testament directly. Jesus is God.
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The Trinity, I, I certainly am incapable of explaining the Trinity, uh, here or elsewhere, but God is three
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persons in one divine unity. So he who, as it says in the Gospel, as Christ says, he who has seen me
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has seen the Father. Uh, then he says he never justified torture. Again, torture justifies us.
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The torture of the cross justifies we human beings and redeems us and saves us. Uh, he gets it entirely
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backwards. Who would justify torture? He uses the cross to justify us. Uh, he then says that Christ never
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called the poor lazy. Nobody calls the poor lazy. Nobody does. Some people on the right call lazy
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people lazy. They certainly do that. Or they call timid people timid or scared people scared.
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Absolutely. So does Christ. Christ was offended when the Gospels couldn't stay awake while he was
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praying in the garden. He's constantly is speaking of endurance. He's saying you have to endure until
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the end. Can't be lazy. Don't be lazy. Christ speaks against laziness, uh, countless times. And, uh,
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again, he, he casts that poor unprofitable servant into the fire where there is wailing and gnashing
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of teeth. Uh, Fugel Sang says that Christ never asked a leper for a copay. Right. Christ also never
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demanded that Caesar render unto lepers the labor of others. He certainly never, uh, suggested that
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anywhere. Neither did the apostles. Neither have the church fathers. It's absurd. And it's ridiculous to
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make a shallow political point from that. Um, uh, he says that Christ never fought for tax cuts.
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That's true, but Christ paid the minimum tax. He paid the minimum tax he possibly could. He was asked
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to try to entrap him. They said, will you pay the tax? And he said, whose name is it on the coin?
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Render to Caesar what Caesar's render to God, what is God? Plucks the tax out of a fish. And he also
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didn't fight for tax hikes. And finally, he said that he was homeless. Uh, Christ was never homeless.
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Uh, Christ was, uh, in this world to save mankind. Um, but he, his kingdom is of another world and we're
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not homeless. We're pilgrims. And that distinction makes all the difference. And it really tells me
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a lot of how the left, like John Fugel saying, misunderstand Christianity and misrepresent it
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constantly. And there's this irony. They're always telling us, you know, at Christianity is a bunch
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of fables and old, uh, tall tales told to shepherds thousands of years ago. And also, uh, you get it
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wrong and here's what it really means. And I knew everything about it. And Jesus was a great guy.
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Which one is it guys? Pick a lane, but the Democrats can't pick a lane. We got a lot more
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to talk about, but I'm running too late. So we'll get to it tomorrow. In the meantime,
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