The Michael Knowles Show - December 04, 2018


Ep. 262 - Is The GOP The Party Of White Men？


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

189.79147

Word Count

9,059

Sentence Count

800

Misogynist Sentences

27

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

An MSNBC panel declares the GOP is the party of white men. You will be shocked to learn it turns out that MSNBC has gotten it exactly wrong. Then, two Democrat white men, Joe Biden and Michael Avenatti, disappoint the nation when they declare their intentions for the 2020 presidential election. College leftist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to fail at basic math.


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00:00:37.800 An MSNBC panel declares the GOP is the party of white men.
00:00:42.380 You will be shocked to learn it turns out that MSNBC has gotten it exactly wrong.
00:00:47.380 Then, two Democrat white men, Joe Biden and Michael Avenatti, disappoint the nation
00:00:51.640 when they declare their individual intentions for the 2020 presidential election.
00:00:55.620 The Princeton student newspaper accuses a Disney song of promoting rape and misogyny.
00:01:01.020 College leftists fake a hate crime.
00:01:03.080 And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to fail at basic math.
00:01:07.540 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:09.520 Is the GOP the party of white men?
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00:02:39.320 Is the GOP the party of white men?
00:02:42.200 This is what an MSNBC panel and A.B. Stoddard on that panel is insisting.
00:02:46.660 Here they are.
00:02:47.040 Current Republican Party, A.B., and you've been talking with folks since the midterms,
00:02:50.940 where they dropped a lot of seats.
00:02:53.060 There's no other way to put it.
00:02:54.220 But as Jonathan Martin writes in the New York Times this morning,
00:02:56.400 there's not a lot of signs of course correction inside the Republican Party moving forward.
00:03:00.720 Right.
00:03:01.220 What Jonathan points out and what these Republicans are talking about privately is a new delineation,
00:03:06.580 a realignment that makes them the party of white men.
00:03:09.660 This is a huge loss, the fact that women are so repelled by Trump in the suburbs and moderate voters and independent voters.
00:03:17.880 A majority is not made by your base alone.
00:03:20.360 And they took a beating across the board except for largely white men.
00:03:24.980 I love when people tell us about the course, how we need a course correction.
00:03:30.400 The GOP wins in 2010.
00:03:32.200 We take the House.
00:03:33.500 2014, we take the Senate.
00:03:35.300 Between that time, we take all of the state houses.
00:03:37.260 Then 2016, we win the presidency.
00:03:39.300 And then in the 2018 midterms, we don't lose by as much as previous presidents have,
00:03:44.740 by as much as Barack Obama, as much as Bill Clinton, as much as Ronald Reagan.
00:03:49.120 And now they tell us we need a course correction.
00:03:50.860 I think the course is going just fine.
00:03:52.660 It's going just fine.
00:03:53.860 It's true.
00:03:54.400 Republicans lost the House in 2018.
00:03:56.760 That was very frustrating.
00:03:58.420 It wasn't by 50 seats.
00:04:00.440 It wasn't by 63 seats like Barack Obama lost.
00:04:03.880 But yeah, we lost the House.
00:04:04.940 That's too bad.
00:04:05.320 We also picked up seats in the Senate.
00:04:06.840 We also held on to Florida.
00:04:08.760 We flipped a Senate seat in Florida.
00:04:10.540 And we took the governor's mansion in Florida.
00:04:13.960 Why do we need a course correction?
00:04:15.880 What they're trying to do, what the media are trying to do, is paint the GOP as the party of white men.
00:04:22.040 This was the whole line during the 2016 election about the alt-right, the alternative right.
00:04:27.560 I've talked about the alt-right.
00:04:28.700 I did a Prager video on the alt-right.
00:04:30.300 I've talked to the leaders of the alt-right.
00:04:31.860 The alt-right is like 20 people.
00:04:34.860 Are the alt-right concerned with race?
00:04:37.980 Are they racist people?
00:04:39.060 Yes.
00:04:39.760 Or is the alt-right concerned with white nationalism, white identity politics?
00:04:44.080 Yes.
00:04:44.600 How many of them are there?
00:04:45.540 Very, very few.
00:04:46.340 When they had their march in D.C., they mustered about 20 people there.
00:04:50.300 When they had their national conference, they always get 100 to 200 people.
00:04:53.600 They've gotten that for years.
00:04:54.560 That's still what they get.
00:04:55.340 That's their national conference.
00:04:56.680 In the whole country, those are the people that they find.
00:04:58.620 So what is it in the numbers?
00:05:01.380 Because the line from the midterm elections was that the GOP lost all the suburban people.
00:05:06.640 They won all those awful racist rural people, and they never had a chance at all those Democrat urban people.
00:05:12.960 But the suburbs, that's where the reasonable people are, and the GOP lost them.
00:05:17.040 Sure, the GOP did lose some suburban seats, but the numbers don't really bear that out.
00:05:21.520 First of all, in 2016, the majority of white women voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.
00:05:27.820 52% of white women voted for Trump over Hillary.
00:05:31.340 So that, at least, makes me think this isn't just the party of white men.
00:05:35.700 We've also got some white women.
00:05:37.300 How about on every other race and demographic?
00:05:39.860 When you compare Donald Trump to Mitt Romney, Donald Trump got a higher percentage of the vote of black men, black women, Latino women, about the same vote within one percentage point of Latino men, and Democrats have seen their numbers among those demographics decline.
00:05:58.100 So, Trump does better than Mitt Romney on virtually every minority demographic, and he does well with white women.
00:06:08.620 Just as A.B. Stoddard is saying this, just as MSNBC is saying this, Politico comes out with a piece called Democrats' Hispanic Problem.
00:06:15.400 Because Democrats do have a Hispanic problem.
00:06:17.380 You know, when Trump descends the elevator in 2015, he says, he launches his whole campaign by saying,
00:06:22.960 we've got awful people pouring across the border, they're murderers, they're rapists, some of them, I assume, are good people, but most of them are terrible.
00:06:30.840 We're told, oh, he's going to lose the whole Hispanic vote, and he does better, with Latino women at least, than Mitt Romney does, and he performs about the same as Mitt Romney.
00:06:39.720 So, what is that about?
00:06:41.480 It doesn't seem to me that the GOP is only focusing on white men.
00:06:45.920 But in 2018, in the midterm elections, Democrats got 54% of the Hispanic vote.
00:06:51.600 That's not a lot.
00:06:53.900 I mean, for Democrats, that's not a blowout majority, far from it.
00:06:57.740 But what about in 2016, when Donald Trump was on the ballot, Democrats got 62% of the Hispanic vote.
00:07:03.920 In 2015, Democrats got 58% of the Hispanic vote.
00:07:06.860 So, if you look at those two elections, in 2018, Republicans did better with Hispanics than the Democrats did.
00:07:14.120 In terms of momentum, not as a total percentage of the vote, but in terms of the momentum, the momentum is moving toward the GOP.
00:07:20.900 So, I don't know where they get this.
00:07:22.460 I sometimes think that the people who go on these panels all the time, I guess I go on these panels too, but so many of these people, especially the ones who live in D.C., they just live in a narrative.
00:07:31.780 They've concocted a narrative of how reality should be.
00:07:35.020 But the numbers don't bear that out.
00:07:36.720 We can test these things.
00:07:38.720 We know that that is the case.
00:07:40.140 And I'll tell you something.
00:07:40.840 I was walking down New York.
00:07:42.240 I was in New York this past weekend for a little bit.
00:07:44.060 I'm walking down the street, and there was this Hispanic guy who had a very thick accent.
00:07:49.040 Out of the blue, he turns to me.
00:07:51.060 I don't think he recognized me.
00:07:52.700 I think he was just talking.
00:07:53.720 He was kind of a boisterous New Yorker type.
00:07:55.620 And he said, I couldn't make out all of his words, but he said, you've got to vote for Donald Trump.
00:07:59.160 You've got to vote for Donald Trump.
00:08:00.680 He had the newspaper in his hand, so I guess there was something about Trump in the newspaper.
00:08:04.580 I said, oh, yeah, well, I rather like Donald Trump.
00:08:06.680 He said, you've got to vote.
00:08:07.460 What they're doing to him is so wrong.
00:08:08.980 It's so awful.
00:08:10.160 And we were walking on the street, so I didn't have time to ask him why he thought that.
00:08:14.460 But I talked to cab drivers.
00:08:15.780 I talked to people that I encounter just when I'm traveling.
00:08:18.640 I travel a lot.
00:08:19.740 And I find a lot of people, not just white men, a lot of people, Hispanic men, women, black men, women, say they like the guy.
00:08:29.100 And they say it in this.
00:08:30.100 I don't exactly know why, but they really like it.
00:08:33.160 And Kanye West, when he was talking about this, said he really liked the masculine energy of Donald Trump.
00:08:38.900 And I think there is something to be said for that.
00:08:41.400 There is something to be said that the soy boy culture, the soy boy, beta male, use whatever euphemism you want, a vegan, they call them herbivores in Japan, whatever that is.
00:08:56.140 That is a culture that is largely confined to overeducated coastal white guys.
00:09:01.240 That is the stereotype.
00:09:03.700 When you think of the stereotypical pajama boy, he looks like pajama boy.
00:09:07.520 He is the guy.
00:09:08.140 He's sitting there.
00:09:08.680 He's a little white kid with, you know, he's in his 20s, and he's sitting on the couch bundled up with a cup of cocoa.
00:09:14.100 That is the demographic that you think of.
00:09:16.980 So maybe people on the coasts think this.
00:09:19.200 Maybe people who go to cocktail parties who went to fancy schools.
00:09:22.320 But I don't think this is the case for the majority of Americans.
00:09:25.660 And when you just look at exit polling from recent elections, that bears that out.
00:09:29.780 And it's also very funny because in the same day that we're being told that the Republican Party is the party of white men, and even on that number, you know, we know that President Trump's support among black men has doubled during his presidency.
00:09:44.520 We see this.
00:09:45.340 Whenever President Trump is speaking, he's speaking about all Americans.
00:09:49.400 All Americans bleed the same blood of patriots.
00:09:52.140 It's all red, white, and blue.
00:09:53.740 Huzzah, huzzah.
00:09:54.400 So you don't see Trump speaking to it.
00:09:57.220 I don't see other Senate Republicans speaking to it or House Republicans.
00:10:00.380 I think this is just a fantasy cooked up by Democrats.
00:10:03.780 And we also know that Democrats project all of the time.
00:10:06.640 So whenever they have a worry about something, they project.
00:10:09.880 Democrats are the party of racism.
00:10:12.000 They're the party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow, the party that voted for civil rights at a lower rate than Republicans did,
00:10:17.220 the party that has one civil rights act compared to Republicans' six civil rights acts that we've passed as late as 1991.
00:10:23.260 And so they're projecting all the time.
00:10:25.380 And just this same day that they're talking about how Republicans are the party of white men,
00:10:30.240 you've got Michael Avenatti and Joe Biden both discussing whether or not they're going to run for president.
00:10:36.760 And this is really sad because in this case, the Democrats took one small step away from being the party of white men.
00:10:43.040 And Michael Avenatti, creepy porn lawyer, is not going to run for president in 2020.
00:10:48.300 When I saw this, I woke up this morning.
00:10:50.680 I was reading it on the news, tear just right down my face.
00:10:54.280 Elisa turns to me, Mac, what's wrong?
00:10:56.100 Oh, no, it's nothing.
00:10:58.260 We're going to miss out on a wonderful 2020 campaign.
00:11:00.720 And it was such a tease.
00:11:02.060 Michael Avenatti said just yesterday, he said, quote,
00:11:04.020 I think the field is shaping up to be even more advantageous for someone like me, not less.
00:11:09.060 I think my chances have only gone up, not down.
00:11:11.960 He was asked about this.
00:11:13.060 You know, Michael Avenatti was arrested for beating his girlfriend the other day.
00:11:15.840 And he said, I think I'm much more likely to get the Democrat nomination now.
00:11:18.880 And he's probably right.
00:11:19.980 To get the Democrat nomination, you have to abuse women and steal from charities.
00:11:24.000 And Michael Avenatti was accused of doing that just two weeks ago.
00:11:27.520 So I think he was right.
00:11:28.720 I think his chances went way up.
00:11:30.080 Today, he crushed all of our dreams.
00:11:31.780 As Michael Avenatti said, quote, after consultation with my family and at their request,
00:11:36.600 I have decided not to seek the presidency of the United States in 2020.
00:11:39.900 I do not make this decision lightly.
00:11:42.520 I make it out of respect for my family.
00:11:45.200 But for their concerns, I would run.
00:11:48.520 So what this really means is I don't want to be subject to the exposure of my terrible character
00:11:55.200 when I run for office.
00:11:56.540 Because when you run for office, there are whole staffs of people whose job it is to dig up
00:12:00.220 every awful thing you ever did and ruin your life.
00:12:03.160 And Michael Avenatti has done a lot of terrible things just in the last 48 hours.
00:12:07.080 You know, I mean, we're not even going back that far.
00:12:09.600 I love when he talks about his family that we'll get into.
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00:13:37.820 he's got a lot of skeletons in his closet.
00:13:39.800 But I couldn't get over him saying, I've got to look out for my family.
00:13:43.940 This guy has been twice married, twice divorced.
00:13:46.380 He was arrested last week for beating a girlfriend.
00:13:50.660 Talk about your family.
00:13:52.020 This is what people say.
00:13:53.000 You know, I tried to get Mitch Daniels to run for president in 2012.
00:13:57.320 We did a student draft movement.
00:13:59.040 We had 70 chapters across the country.
00:14:01.040 I thought he was a great candidate.
00:14:02.140 Social conservative, excellent, fiscally brilliant governor, best governor in the country.
00:14:07.920 And he didn't run for president because of his family.
00:14:11.240 He'd had this issue in his family where his wife had basically taken up and abandoned the family,
00:14:17.500 gone off to California somewhere.
00:14:18.900 Eventually, she came back.
00:14:20.700 They got back together and continued to raise their kids.
00:14:23.860 So he always said, if you like happy endings, you'll love our story.
00:14:26.720 And that worked for me.
00:14:27.900 But he didn't want to subject his wife and his family to the awful scrutiny of Barbara Walters sitting there across,
00:14:35.320 asking his family why they broke up for a period of time.
00:14:38.580 And I get it.
00:14:39.420 I totally understand that.
00:14:40.860 And that's what Avenatti is saying here, except with Avenatti, he's not trying to cover up for what his wife did.
00:14:46.600 He's trying to cover up what he is doing.
00:14:48.460 He is obviously not able to withstand that kind of pressure.
00:14:53.400 Avenatti and Trump, in many ways, are parallel people.
00:14:56.280 They're boisterous New York types, rough and tumble, married multiple times, you know.
00:15:01.740 But the thing is, Donald Trump is always basically willing to take the bullets for his past transgressions.
00:15:08.740 He's always willing to do it.
00:15:10.360 He's not going to shrink away from a public duty because he was a playboy for the last 30 years.
00:15:16.380 Michael Avenatti seems to be doing that.
00:15:18.000 It's really sad.
00:15:19.060 He would have just been an amazing, amazing candidate in 2020.
00:15:24.120 This, you know, the ratings would have gone 10% higher.
00:15:27.620 It's like the wall.
00:15:28.280 It would have really only gone, it would have been such a great addition to this reality show.
00:15:32.460 But we're not going to get him.
00:15:33.600 On the flip side, we are going to get another white male to run for the Democrat Party.
00:15:38.780 This is almost certain.
00:15:40.760 Joe Biden, the former vice president of the United States, longtime senator from Delaware.
00:15:45.800 Joe Biden says, without a doubt, he is the most qualified person to become president.
00:15:51.940 Now, for those of you who are unfamiliar with Joe Biden, Paul Joseph Watson put together just a little compilation of some highlights from Joe Biden's career you might remember.
00:16:00.520 Here is a creepy Joe Biden leaching on every young girl that he can possibly see.
00:16:05.140 Biden leans uncomfortably close to a 13-year-old girl, whispers something in her ear, then tries to kiss her as she instinctively jerks away.
00:16:14.220 Thank you.
00:16:15.280 Thank you.
00:16:24.360 Thank you.
00:16:26.520 He then asks for a picture with the girl alone.
00:16:29.180 Senator Jim Risch then says, dad's going to stand pretty close.
00:16:37.760 Biden appears to tell the girl, quote, if I was young.
00:16:41.880 By the way, if I was young, I had my kids parties.
00:16:48.820 In this clip, Biden kisses a young girl three times as she squirms uncomfortably, while he says, don't tell anybody.
00:16:56.180 Don't tell anybody.
00:16:57.180 The title.
00:16:58.600 The title.
00:16:59.200 This is a long band while I'm walking in the middle of the country.
00:17:02.600 Okay.
00:17:03.100 Let's drive in by.
00:17:03.920 Allie, you got them?
00:17:05.140 Don't tell anybody.
00:17:06.520 Okay.
00:17:08.600 Don't tell anybody.
00:17:10.220 You know, right now the left is all upset about the song Baby It's Cold Outside.
00:17:16.560 They're all upset about Kiss the Girl from Disney.
00:17:18.820 They say this promotes a culture of, you know, rape culture and no consent.
00:17:24.260 Look at that clip.
00:17:25.400 Because we all remember these.
00:17:27.040 We saw a little clip of Creepy Uncle Joe.
00:17:29.880 And I think it's very easy to just write it off as he's a kind of doddering old man and kind of a straight.
00:17:35.200 It is really creepy when you actually watch.
00:17:37.920 The Paul Joseph Watson video goes on for like 10 minutes or something.
00:17:41.280 He's leaning in, kissing these little girls on the neck.
00:17:44.400 All the fathers are saying basically, no, get away from my daughter.
00:17:47.720 I'm going to stand close.
00:17:48.680 It is very weird.
00:17:49.900 So anyway, that'll be fun to look forward to.
00:17:51.420 I'm very excited about that.
00:17:52.560 If we don't get Michael Avenatti, if the Democrats don't nominate an alleged girlfriend beating charity embezzling dirtbag from New York,
00:18:02.360 at least we'll get Joe Biden, whose other claims to fame are being a plagiarist,
00:18:08.140 having to drop out of the Democrat nomination race 30 years ago because he was caught plagiarizing.
00:18:13.520 And of referring to Barack Obama as the first clean and articulate African-American candidate.
00:18:19.700 If you don't remember, nobody remembers this because Joe Biden and Obama are BFFs now, aren't they?
00:18:24.980 There are books about this.
00:18:26.480 There was actually a novel written, this fiction about how Barack Obama and Joe Biden, they're so close, they solve crimes together.
00:18:33.540 I had to read it because Drew Klavan is a sadist and decided to subject me to that.
00:18:38.440 But when they were running, Joe Biden referred to Barack Obama as clean and articulate.
00:18:43.920 Here he is.
00:18:44.680 I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.
00:18:57.600 I mean, that's a storybook, man.
00:18:59.800 He's the first one.
00:19:00.840 We've never had any of those before, have we?
00:19:02.780 Any clean, articulate, bright African-Americans?
00:19:05.840 Can you imagine this guy said this?
00:19:07.360 He's the vice president for the Democrats for Barack Obama.
00:19:10.860 Imagine if a Republican said anything even resembling that.
00:19:14.700 If a Republican used even one of those adjectives to describe Barack Obama,
00:19:20.580 he would be thrown in Guantanamo Bay for hate crimes.
00:19:24.280 He would be banned from every social media platform.
00:19:27.240 Joe Biden gets away with it.
00:19:28.640 They let him get away with it.
00:19:29.460 And this is what he said at this event on his tour.
00:19:31.860 He said, quote, I'll be as straight with you as I can.
00:19:35.180 I think I'm the most qualified person in the country to be president.
00:19:39.020 This was at the University of Montana.
00:19:40.720 The issues that we face as a country are the issues that have been in my wheelhouse that I've worked on my whole life.
00:19:48.960 Michael Avenatti is more qualified to be president than Joe Biden.
00:19:52.740 That is not an exaggeration.
00:19:54.740 What has Joe Biden ever accomplished?
00:19:57.820 What has he ever done?
00:19:58.640 It's true he's been in public life forever.
00:20:00.300 He's been a sort of sympathetic figure, a likable figure.
00:20:03.800 He's obviously a talented politician.
00:20:05.880 He's managed to stick around a long time.
00:20:07.920 What has he done?
00:20:09.200 What's the Biden accomplishment?
00:20:11.840 Can you name any?
00:20:13.600 I don't know.
00:20:14.240 Name the Trump accomplishment.
00:20:16.160 He put the embassy in Israel in Jerusalem.
00:20:18.840 He reformed taxes.
00:20:20.660 He lowered taxes.
00:20:22.100 He renegotiated trade deals.
00:20:24.140 He hopefully will build the wall.
00:20:25.620 He hasn't done that one yet.
00:20:26.440 We're working on it.
00:20:27.140 He reinstituted pro-life policies.
00:20:30.640 He defunded certain agencies and certain aspects of the United Nations and foreign aid.
00:20:38.860 Okay, this is all very good stuff.
00:20:40.580 There are a lot more.
00:20:41.280 What are, even among other senators, Teddy Kennedy, what did Teddy Kennedy do?
00:20:47.180 He got a major immigration bill through.
00:20:49.200 It was a terrible immigration bill, but he got it through.
00:20:50.860 At least that's an accomplishment.
00:20:52.000 What did Joe Biden ever do other than run for president and sit on the Judiciary Committee
00:20:57.720 and look very uncomfortable during the Clarence Thomas hearings?
00:21:01.920 During the Clarence Thomas hearings, he's there.
00:21:03.620 He's giving Clarence Thomas a hard time.
00:21:05.220 And then Clarence Thomas uses the phrase high-tech lynching and Biden puts his head down.
00:21:09.240 He doesn't want to be seen on camera.
00:21:10.660 What has he ever done in politics other than just be there?
00:21:14.920 Not very much.
00:21:15.580 That's why he's not a great candidate for president.
00:21:17.960 That's why he's never been president.
00:21:18.980 That's why he's never going to be the president.
00:21:21.340 And also, they say he's got blue-collar appeal.
00:21:23.700 I'll believe it when I see it.
00:21:25.020 I understand that, theoretically, Joe Biden has blue-collar appeal.
00:21:28.760 Let's see.
00:21:29.300 Let's put those two guys on stage together.
00:21:31.680 Because what happens in this day and age, in the social media age, the reality TV age of politics,
00:21:37.320 is that authenticity is rewarded and artificiality is not rewarded.
00:21:42.640 And this has often been true in politics, but now more than ever.
00:21:46.040 Because our screens are all in 4K.
00:21:48.200 We're constantly communicating with people on Twitter.
00:21:50.900 There's a 24-hour news cycle.
00:21:52.520 So authenticity really is recorded and rewarded, rather.
00:21:57.160 And Joe Biden is one of the most disingenuous people in politics.
00:22:00.900 He's so unctuous.
00:22:02.360 He's so greasy.
00:22:03.580 He plays a blue-collar guy on TV.
00:22:06.360 But does he really relate to them?
00:22:08.400 Donald Trump is a billionaire, but I think he relates to them a lot more.
00:22:11.600 Especially when he's sitting on his private jet and all he ever wants to do is drink Diet Coke and eat KFC.
00:22:17.380 He loves fast food.
00:22:19.000 He talks about money in the way that we all talk about money, but not in the way that sophisticates talk about money,
00:22:27.680 that the elite talk about money.
00:22:29.180 I think he's much more relatable.
00:22:30.620 You put those two guys together on stage somewhere in the Rust Belt, Pennsylvania, wherever,
00:22:35.240 I think 100% Donald Trump would blow that guy out of the water.
00:22:39.540 Because Joe Biden is like the poor man's Donald Trump.
00:22:42.900 I don't think he can put that through.
00:22:45.280 So he thinks that he's going to run.
00:22:47.500 Bruce Springsteen, who is a Democrat, he's a yellow dog Democrat, as Democrat as they come.
00:22:52.360 He says nobody out there at the moment can beat Donald Trump.
00:22:55.240 And I tend to agree with him.
00:22:56.760 He says, quote, I don't see anyone out there at the moment, the man who can beat Trump or the woman who can beat Trump.
00:23:01.880 You need someone who can speak some of the same language as Trump.
00:23:04.680 And the Democrats don't have an obvious, effective presidential candidate.
00:23:09.480 Actually, the guy who can speak the same language as Trump is Michael Avenatti.
00:23:13.000 He is the guy.
00:23:13.800 He speaks like a New Yorker.
00:23:15.000 He's tough.
00:23:15.700 He uses Italian words.
00:23:18.260 He only knows like four Italian words, but he uses them, you know, basta, these sort of things.
00:23:22.600 And he punches really hard.
00:23:25.120 He is apparently shameless.
00:23:27.760 He's got a little bit of shame now, which is why I guess he's not going to run.
00:23:30.940 But he broadly is shameless.
00:23:32.780 He represents porn stars, steals their money, beats women.
00:23:35.720 He's a shameless guy.
00:23:36.940 He really probably does have that oomph.
00:23:40.060 And he's taken the fight to the president unsuccessfully, but at least he's tried.
00:23:44.520 Other than that, who else is going to do it?
00:23:46.220 Who else is going to beat Trump?
00:23:47.780 So Avenatti's out.
00:23:48.760 I guess there's Cory Booker.
00:23:51.040 Never going to happen.
00:23:52.000 Never, ever going to happen.
00:23:53.800 He's so, the tears of rage in Spartacus doesn't play.
00:23:57.080 And the issue, Harvey Mansfield talks about the issue that Cory Booker is facing right now,
00:24:02.400 which is that he wrote this book called Manliness, and he said that people like feminine women.
00:24:09.620 And people can sort of like masculine women, too.
00:24:12.020 That's not really a big problem.
00:24:13.840 And people like masculine men, and nobody likes womanish men.
00:24:18.880 They don't like men who are crying all the time.
00:24:21.800 Not womanly, womanish.
00:24:23.540 All these bad stereotypes, crying, being really emotional, being all this.
00:24:27.640 People don't like that, and that's what Cory Booker is doing.
00:24:30.560 He's falling into this, he's believing the left's press releases about what we want men to be.
00:24:36.860 He's believing that we want men to be the sensitive man, the vegan, you know, the guy who doesn't ever stand up and exude some chivalry,
00:24:47.160 and be a gentleman, and be a tough guy.
00:24:49.520 He's buying that false narrative.
00:24:52.640 And so he goes at the Senate Judiciary Committee, or wherever, he goes at any Senate testimony, rather,
00:24:58.220 and he just whines, and he cries, and he says he cries tears of rage, and he pretends to be Spartacus.
00:25:03.600 That doesn't play with anybody.
00:25:05.280 Nobody likes that.
00:25:06.480 Women don't like that.
00:25:07.600 Men don't like that.
00:25:08.720 Mansfield, in his book, said that men who behave like men, or at least to accept the standards of how men are supposed to behave,
00:25:17.180 despise that sort of activity.
00:25:19.900 It's a natural repulsion, and I think that's what we're seeing in Cory Booker.
00:25:24.360 So he's not going anywhere.
00:25:26.000 Kamala Harris maybe has a chance, because we don't know that much about her.
00:25:28.840 She's very smart.
00:25:29.940 She checks a lot of intersectional boxes, so maybe she's got some chance somewhere, but she's basically untested,
00:25:36.240 so we're going to have to see how she is as a candidate.
00:25:38.280 Liz Warren, I think, is, for all intents and purposes, done.
00:25:41.280 Liawatha ain't going very far.
00:25:43.540 Kirsten Gillibrand is the senator from New York.
00:25:45.780 Democrat, people, some people are insisting that she's the sleeper candidate.
00:25:50.700 She's not going anywhere.
00:25:52.060 The people who think that Gillibrand is going to go somewhere are the people who were sure that Jeb Bush was going to win the nomination.
00:25:57.840 They're these out-of-touch, urban professional people.
00:26:01.180 Gillibrand, I don't really see going anywhere.
00:26:04.460 Well, there are some sleeper candidates, Sherrod Brown, Amy Klobuchar, who knows?
00:26:09.200 We'll see, but probably Bruce Springsteen is right.
00:26:11.060 Right now, Donald Trump, for all of his flaws and for all of the media spotlight that we've got on his flaws, real and imagined,
00:26:18.860 right now he's the guy who's leading the race.
00:26:21.780 That's a very good thing, and we're going to keep seeing that because the left is only going to move further to the left.
00:26:26.360 I think they're going to double down on this.
00:26:27.720 If they were smart, they'd try to tack a little bit to the center, get rid of some of the identity politics, and try to take the fight to Donald Trump.
00:26:35.360 Instead, they're doubling down on this insanity.
00:26:37.900 There was a great piece today, a great piece in the Daily Princetonian or something, whatever the newspaper is at Princeton.
00:26:45.520 And I bring this up, one, because these Ivy League college newspapers can write insane things, and that's kind of funny.
00:26:52.000 But in this case, it's representative of what the left broadly is talking about.
00:26:56.860 The piece in the Daily Princetonian says that the song Kiss the Girl in the Disney movie The Little Mermaid is sexist, misogynist, and promotes rape culture.
00:27:07.360 I kid you not.
00:27:08.320 The title of it is, Dear Tiger Tones, Please Stop Singing Kiss the Girl.
00:27:13.500 I guess Tiger Tones is the a cappella singing group at Princeton.
00:27:16.520 She says, quote,
00:27:17.540 Even when gently crooned by an animated crab, the song Kiss the Girl from the Disney hit The Little Mermaid is more misogynistic and dismissive of consent than cute.
00:27:27.840 By performing the song multiple times each semester, the Tiger Tones elevate it to an offensive and violating ritual.
00:27:34.760 No matter how great the tradition, this canonical Tiger Tones tune should be struck from their repertoire.
00:27:39.960 Its lyrics raise some serious issues.
00:27:42.280 The premise of the song, originally sung in The Little Mermaid, is that the male Prince Eric, on a date with the beautiful female Ariel, should kiss her without asking for a single word to affirm her consent.
00:27:53.860 The horror!
00:27:55.140 Oh, the enormity in the horror.
00:27:56.800 If you don't remember the movie, I haven't seen it since I was five, probably.
00:28:00.020 Here's the song.
00:28:00.940 You wanna kiss the girl?
00:28:02.960 Did you hear something?
00:28:05.620 Yes, you wanna turn.
00:28:08.160 Look at how you know you do.
00:28:10.160 Possible she wants you to.
00:28:13.640 There is one way to ask her.
00:28:17.760 It don't take a word, not a single word.
00:28:21.420 Go on and kiss the girl.
00:28:23.960 Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la.
00:28:25.360 I guess we're gonna cut the song.
00:28:26.660 That's the song.
00:28:27.480 Kiss the Girl, you know.
00:28:28.400 That's how you find out if she likes you, is you try to kiss the girl and we'll see what happens.
00:28:32.460 So, lovely song.
00:28:35.020 Cute little number.
00:28:35.720 And this article is obviously an example of what happens when some 18 or 19-year-old person who doesn't know anything takes a gender studies class or these days really any class at a university and is really examining all of the problematic, unconscious, subconscious, awful enormities in our society and then makes up problems that don't exist.
00:28:59.120 But what is this girl suggesting?
00:29:01.940 What is the left suggesting?
00:29:03.220 The left is saying, baby, it's cold outside is a terrible song.
00:29:06.460 It's being taken off of radio stations.
00:29:08.380 It isn't just sophomores at Ivy League universities doing this.
00:29:10.920 It's the whole left wing in the country.
00:29:13.320 What is she suggesting?
00:29:14.520 What she's suggesting is before a guy kisses a girl, he needs to ask her permission.
00:29:19.120 And I don't want to be too mean about this, but for any of the guys who are at Princeton reading this article and find themselves agreeing with it, you know 100% they have never kissed a girl.
00:29:34.400 You know, maybe they've asked.
00:29:35.780 They might have asked and they've gotten a lot of no's.
00:29:37.700 That's what I think they've gotten.
00:29:38.820 That isn't how it works.
00:29:40.040 You don't.
00:29:40.160 So, what feminism wants to do is eliminate love.
00:29:47.580 That sounds like an outrageous statement.
00:29:49.860 Major second wave feminists have said this very fact.
00:29:54.060 Shulamith Firestone, one of the most influential second wave feminists in 1960s and 70s, called that, called one of the most influential by Naomi Wolf, another later very important feminist.
00:30:04.320 She said that love, even more than childbirth, is the greatest impediment to women's liberation.
00:30:10.540 The love of men for women, the love of women for men.
00:30:13.500 This is the old line.
00:30:15.140 They say there will never be a gender war because everybody's sleeping with the enemy.
00:30:18.380 Or almost everybody's sleeping with the enemy.
00:30:20.860 And that's what they want to do.
00:30:22.660 They want to eliminate love because what they want is for the interactions between the sexes to just be a transaction, like a business transaction.
00:30:31.080 You sign the consent form, you get it notarized, you know, you file it with your lawyer, and then you know, okay, good, now we can, okay, and can I kiss you on your cheek?
00:30:40.780 And can I kiss you on your neck?
00:30:41.960 But, of course, that isn't how it happens.
00:30:43.860 It isn't clinical.
00:30:45.020 It isn't this cold, sterile interaction.
00:30:48.820 Usually, you're having a drink.
00:30:50.460 You're going out.
00:30:51.480 You're at a bar or a club or something.
00:30:53.940 Maybe you're at dinner.
00:30:54.920 And there's chemistry that is going on.
00:30:57.120 You lean in, and just you're leaning in there with your date, and just before you're about to make the move, you say, excuse me, is it okay if I kiss you, ma'am?
00:31:06.000 Not anymore, it's not.
00:31:07.300 It was about five seconds ago, but now it's not.
00:31:10.780 And this is what they want.
00:31:12.760 I mean, they want this cold, sterile interaction between the two.
00:31:16.800 George Will wrote about this a while ago, probably 10 years ago.
00:31:19.640 He said, Cole Porter didn't write, let's do it.
00:31:22.620 Let's be in a relationship.
00:31:24.540 He didn't.
00:31:24.820 He said, let's do it.
00:31:25.680 Let's fall in love.
00:31:27.620 And you know this is not true of reality because of all of the rape allegations on campus, because of the hookup culture.
00:31:34.960 There was a major expose of the hookup culture, and one student said, the reason that we hook up, we get blackout drunk and hook up, is because we don't have social skills.
00:31:43.380 And so they can't, they're not interacting in a normal way that men and women should interact.
00:31:47.320 So they get blackout drunk to take away any accountability for their actions.
00:31:51.080 And then they go and hook up because men and women are going to go do that.
00:31:53.660 And then they might regret it the next day.
00:31:55.740 And they might say, oh, I shouldn't have done that.
00:31:58.320 This stems necessarily from that culture.
00:32:01.160 And that culture is also born of this bizarre idea of the relationship between men and women.
00:32:06.560 And we know that in reality, people are not going, right before they kiss you, they're not saying, excuse me, can I kiss you?
00:32:12.380 No, that isn't how it works.
00:32:13.740 That isn't how it's supposed to work.
00:32:15.160 The flip side of that is you need to respect people.
00:32:18.820 You need to have social graces with people.
00:32:21.360 You need to read the room.
00:32:22.420 And if you lean in to a girl and you try to kiss her and then she doesn't want to kiss you, she'll turn away and you'll get a cheek and too bad.
00:32:29.340 Then you go try again.
00:32:30.480 And then you've gotten your answer.
00:32:31.720 There's one way to find out.
00:32:32.600 You kiss the girl, she turns away or she gives you a slap or something.
00:32:35.900 Too bad.
00:32:36.260 You can't kiss her next time.
00:32:37.960 I don't see this problem getting better.
00:32:41.000 I don't see this moving away.
00:32:43.460 Because what's happening is our discourse is being divided and separated more and more from the reality of the behavior.
00:32:52.360 And so we're living in these lies and we're all giving lip service to these lies.
00:32:57.920 But that isn't the reality.
00:32:59.160 That doesn't help anybody because if you're going to track these lies long enough, you won't be able to sustain that fantasy.
00:33:05.900 And there are very bad results for that.
00:33:07.820 And we're seeing that in the sexual culture on campuses around the country.
00:33:11.220 There are bad results for the men.
00:33:12.480 There are bad results for the women.
00:33:14.020 But there are many other good things to talk about.
00:33:16.300 There are many other good results.
00:33:18.840 But this isn't, you know, we've got to obviously talk about Ocasio-Cortez.
00:33:22.500 That's the best thing we've got to talk about.
00:33:24.220 There are always these good things.
00:33:25.880 But even, you know, talking about the campus sexual culture, this is true even of race incidents.
00:33:31.560 There are a lot of other hate crime hoaxes that have been going around.
00:33:34.400 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:33:59.080 They're very good.
00:34:00.400 This is the Avenatti brew.
00:34:01.760 I mean, this is, so it's a little saltier, a little spicier.
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00:34:15.840 We'll be right back.
00:34:16.560 This idea of the language that we're all using, the fantasies, the speech, the lies
00:34:33.680 that we're living in, and the reality on campuses, even just looking at campuses, you see this
00:34:38.980 even in hate crimes, in so-called hate crimes.
00:34:42.260 We are told that there is an epidemic of racial hatred and bigotry spreading throughout the
00:34:47.300 country.
00:34:47.660 It's awful.
00:34:48.040 We live in this terrible, racist, bigoted place, and the reality is we don't.
00:34:52.980 We live in the most equitable, fair, just, free society in human history, but because we're
00:35:00.300 saying that, because we're paying lip service to this lie, to this fantasy, there is a cognitive
00:35:05.260 dissonance there, and people on the Left have to go in and try to make the reality, the
00:35:10.200 good reality, they're trying to make that fit, the terrible fantasy, so they're trying
00:35:13.640 to make the reality works.
00:35:14.620 This just came out today, Finn Ajani Arthur, 21-year-old from Brunswick, Maine, was arrested
00:35:21.920 at 6 p.m. a couple days ago on the Townsend campus and charged with two counts of malicious
00:35:26.800 destruction of property, according to Baltimore County Police.
00:35:30.260 The malicious destruction of property was that they found swastikas and the word KKK spray-painted
00:35:37.640 with the names of four black students, spray-painted on the building.
00:35:42.600 So four black students had their names, swastika, KKK.
00:35:47.500 One of the students' names spray-painted was Finn Ajani Arthur.
00:35:51.200 They said that this was a hate crime.
00:35:53.360 They were going to find the culprit.
00:35:54.220 Who's the culprit?
00:35:55.000 It's the kid himself.
00:35:56.340 He was framing himself because he wanted attention, because he wanted to call attention to the hate
00:36:01.820 crimes and the racial bigotry that simply doesn't exist.
00:36:04.980 Because he knows, he knows that this country is so racist, it's so awful, it's so terrible.
00:36:13.120 You say, well, show me evidence of that.
00:36:14.240 He says, I can't show you evidence because this isn't good.
00:36:16.560 And he's going to make up his own evidence.
00:36:18.340 Rachel Dahl is always doing this.
00:36:19.780 The fake black woman, the woman who pretended to be black and darkened her skin.
00:36:23.280 She would send hate mail and threatening letters to herself as the head of her local NAACP chapter.
00:36:31.500 These people are insane, obviously, but it's not just that.
00:36:35.120 It's not just that they're mentally unbalanced.
00:36:37.060 It's not just that they want attention.
00:36:38.900 It's that they are buying into a narrative and they are frustrated every single day that the narrative isn't true.
00:36:45.700 So they are going to make the narrative true.
00:36:47.420 They are going to bring racial prejudice, even if it's just a fiction, even if it's just a fantasy.
00:36:52.440 And we see these all the time.
00:36:53.580 A while ago, there was a black cadet at the Air Force Academy who said he found a racist message written in his dorm.
00:36:59.380 Guess who wrote the message?
00:37:00.560 He wrote the message.
00:37:01.600 There was obviously with the rape hoax at UVA, Jackie Coakley, I think it was, who said that she was gang raped at this fraternity at UVA.
00:37:09.760 Turned out it was totally false.
00:37:11.080 She made it all up.
00:37:12.160 A ton of other sexual assault hoaxes.
00:37:14.580 At the University of Michigan, a student faked an attack.
00:37:17.040 At a Minnesota school, they shut down classes for a day because of a fake attack.
00:37:20.980 This is not just an isolated incident.
00:37:23.120 It's happening because people can't believe that the reality doesn't match their sick fantasy.
00:37:28.900 And it's much easier to not dislodge your wrong idea.
00:37:33.560 It's much easier to just force reality to more closely resemble the idea.
00:37:39.500 You see this in transgenderism.
00:37:40.940 This is another aspect of this leftist ideology where we know that the man who thinks he's a woman is a man.
00:37:47.780 But rather than change his mind and say he really is a man, he wants to change the reality to appear more like the fantasy.
00:37:54.400 This is true always of the left.
00:37:56.460 They are so insisting on that.
00:37:58.160 You see this in all of the utopian communist revolts.
00:38:02.400 They say, well, human nature isn't behaving in the way that you're saying it should behave.
00:38:05.980 They'll say, well, we're going to liquidate a few million more people.
00:38:08.860 Well, we're going to kill a few more people, break a few more eggs to make the omelet.
00:38:12.180 But reality will kneel to my fantasies.
00:38:15.280 This is the line quoted by Democrats.
00:38:17.360 RFK said this.
00:38:18.700 He said, George Bernard Shaw, the playwright George Bernard Shaw said,
00:38:23.680 some people see things that are and ask why.
00:38:26.220 I dream things that never were and ask why not.
00:38:28.800 And the line he's quoting from Shaw is from a play called Back to Methuselah,
00:38:32.480 and the line is actually in the mouth of the serpent tempting Eve.
00:38:36.560 It's the words of the devil who insist that we morph reality to fit our own incorrect fantasies.
00:38:43.120 That's what we're getting from the left, and we should mock them for it.
00:38:46.080 We should mock these kids constantly.
00:38:48.740 Finn Ajani Arthur, 21-year-old, pretending that the white people in his area are horrible, racist, bigot criminals.
00:38:58.800 Would-be criminals.
00:39:00.700 Mock him relentlessly for being wrong, for being a vandal, for trying to paint his neighbors to be as sick and demented as he is.
00:39:11.420 Mock that. It's crazy.
00:39:13.000 It's a very good thing that their fantasies are wrong, because their fantasies are scary and awful and bad.
00:39:17.880 It's a very good thing that reality is as it is, and we should embrace that.
00:39:22.280 Speaking of fantasy and reality, we couldn't get through one show without talking about the latest gaffe from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:39:32.940 Alexandria Occasional Cortex, as Steve Hayward describes.
00:39:36.680 Ocasio-Cortez tweeted this out.
00:39:39.100 She just tweeted out, I think, today or yesterday.
00:39:40.980 Quote, 21 trillion dollars of Pentagon financial transactions could not be traced, documented, or explained.
00:39:50.160 21 trillion dollars in Pentagon accounting errors.
00:39:54.020 Medicare for all costs around 32 trillion dollars.
00:39:57.980 That means 66% of Medicare for all could have been funded already by the Pentagon, and that's before our premiums.
00:40:04.980 So, you probably know this already, because I told you that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said it.
00:40:11.540 That isn't true.
00:40:12.860 That isn't true at all.
00:40:14.700 So, what they're talking about, 21 trillion dollars gone missing from the Pentagon.
00:40:17.880 There are reports about this, that over many, many years, they've lost track of some money.
00:40:22.280 21 trillion dollars.
00:40:23.220 But, it doesn't really mean that they lost 21 trillion dollars.
00:40:25.760 It means that the sum total of all these little transactions, if you couldn't account for a little bit here, a little bit there,
00:40:31.980 or maybe you're double counting money, or whatever, adds up to 21 trillion dollars.
00:40:37.120 It doesn't mean that the money was wasted either.
00:40:38.660 It just means it's not accounted for.
00:40:40.260 They don't know where it is, but it could have been used on anything.
00:40:43.120 And that number could be much higher than the number that was actually lost because of double counting.
00:40:48.220 But, it's not like the Pentagon is funded for 21 trillion dollars.
00:40:52.260 You know, the left really benefits, because people can't really visualize the difference between a million and a billion and a trillion.
00:40:59.800 Obviously, they're orders of magnitude different.
00:41:02.840 But, when we hear a million and a billion and a trillion, what do you picture?
00:41:06.760 You picture a really big number.
00:41:08.460 You picture an unimaginably big number.
00:41:10.200 So, really, numbers over a thousand, we just sort of lose track of them.
00:41:13.720 The actual budget of the Pentagon is less than 700 billion dollars a year.
00:41:19.520 681.1 billion, I believe, per year.
00:41:22.400 So, the defense spending for the next 10 years is estimated around 7 trillion dollars.
00:41:29.760 That means that if you defunded the entire military for a decade, that would only yield one-fifth of the cost of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's socialist healthcare scheme.
00:41:42.560 She's saying, you're going to fund the vast majority of socialist healthcare by defunding the Pentagon.
00:41:49.160 You would have to defund the Pentagon five times over to fund this socialist healthcare scheme.
00:41:55.320 And, of course, you wouldn't even fund it at that point because the costs would increase dramatically.
00:41:59.740 The trouble with socialist healthcare is the costs are just going to keep going up.
00:42:02.800 There's no incentive to keep costs down at all.
00:42:05.060 Right?
00:42:05.620 It's hard enough in our current mixed system to keep costs down with so many flaws in our healthcare system.
00:42:10.980 But once you've got single payer, once you've got socialist healthcare, you're going to have a huge decrease in innovation.
00:42:17.340 You're going to have long wait lines.
00:42:19.000 You're going to have people abusing the system just like government employees always abuse the system because there isn't much incentive not to.
00:42:26.280 So, just consider those numbers.
00:42:28.420 You've got to defund the entire Pentagon five times over.
00:42:32.240 And does anybody want to do that?
00:42:34.540 Do we think that that's a good idea for the last superpower on earth to not have a military or to have intelligence services or to have any of that?
00:42:40.660 Of course not.
00:42:41.620 She keeps tweeting.
00:42:42.600 It's funny because I thought her Twitter account was now being run by the staff because she stopped saying things that were extraordinarily ignorant and they were only mostly ignorant.
00:42:51.940 But maybe she hops on every once in a while.
00:42:53.840 Or maybe her staff doesn't know very much.
00:42:55.640 Imagine the kind of person who decides to work for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:43:00.920 Imagine the kind of person who thinks this is who I will follow into battle.
00:43:05.120 This is who I think should be leading our country.
00:43:07.740 That's the kind of person sending out those tweets.
00:43:09.400 But it's just wrong.
00:43:10.660 And I'm sure we're going to call Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez out on this.
00:43:13.700 She still hasn't deleted the tweet.
00:43:15.200 And she's going to say, well, we'll just pay for it.
00:43:17.100 Stop catcalling me.
00:43:18.740 Stop catcalling.
00:43:19.200 Okay, that's fine.
00:43:20.500 But it's just one more time showing you the people who are begging for socialist health care can't explain how we're going to get it.
00:43:27.880 Because they say, you know, it's so outrageous.
00:43:29.700 They say, I'm for good things for everybody.
00:43:32.860 I want to give good things to everybody.
00:43:34.960 That's my position.
00:43:35.880 And the mean old conservatives don't want good things for everybody.
00:43:39.320 We say, well, no, we want good things for people.
00:43:42.040 How are you going to pay for those good things?
00:43:43.760 They say, stop asking me those questions.
00:43:45.360 You can't get the political benefit of saying, I want to get all the good things and then not deal with the reality of it.
00:43:53.180 It's such demagoguery.
00:43:54.620 It's so ignorant.
00:43:56.500 But this is the future of the Democrat Party.
00:44:00.580 Before we go, I do want to point out one other aspect where the left is constantly getting things wrong.
00:44:06.640 Tumblr.
00:44:07.220 Do you know Tumblr?
00:44:07.860 Tumblr is this blogging site where it's a lot of mostly pictures and people put their art there.
00:44:15.600 And a lot of people put porn on there.
00:44:17.560 Tumblr was purchased by Yahoo, I believe, a little while ago.
00:44:21.140 And Tumblr announced yesterday they were going to take all the pornography off of their website.
00:44:25.080 And the left was furious about this.
00:44:27.560 They said, how dare you take away this expression?
00:44:30.520 Apparently, one-fifth of Tumblr users at least go on the site looking for porn.
00:44:34.480 So it's really going to hit their stock and hit their company.
00:44:36.520 So this is awful.
00:44:37.700 This is terrible for people.
00:44:39.980 The reason that Tumblr had to do this is apparently there's a lot of child pornography on their website.
00:44:44.580 And nobody is policing it.
00:44:46.420 And this is obviously a huge criminal matter.
00:44:48.600 It doesn't look great for business.
00:44:49.960 Really bad for kids.
00:44:51.220 So they're saying, okay, we're going to take all adult material off there.
00:44:54.480 This is a really tough spot.
00:44:56.280 It's another wedge issue for the left.
00:44:57.900 Which is, they've got a neo-puritanism when it comes to sex and an absurd libertinism.
00:45:04.960 They've got both of those at the same time.
00:45:06.700 So they're the people who say, we need to host sex week at all these universities.
00:45:11.180 We need to legalize polygamy.
00:45:13.500 We need all love is love.
00:45:15.020 And anything you want to do sexually is good and wonderful and should be celebrated.
00:45:18.760 If it feels good, do it.
00:45:19.960 You should slap people around and engage in whatever sort of weird, kinky desires you have and engage in those.
00:45:27.600 And that's perfectly fine.
00:45:29.000 Also, if a man tries to kiss a woman, it's rape.
00:45:33.140 Also, which one is it?
00:45:35.780 Which is the, what is it?
00:45:37.460 We, oh, we should have, if they say we should have a ton of porn on these websites.
00:45:42.140 We should have, even if that means that some child porn is going to slip through there.
00:45:45.800 But also, if a man kisses a woman, it's rape and misogyny.
00:45:49.580 Which is it?
00:45:50.260 They're really torn on this because the natural conclusion of a totally free pornographic website without any oversight whatsoever is you're going to get illegal pornography on there.
00:46:01.200 Child pornography, other illegal pornography.
00:46:04.540 And nobody wants that.
00:46:06.900 So they're torn because they want to be able to have the licentiousness, but they don't want to have to deal with the downside of the licentiousness.
00:46:13.520 They want to hook up culture because it seems so independent and people get to do whatever they want.
00:46:18.260 But then they don't want to deal with sexual regret on the other side.
00:46:21.140 And they're losing their minds.
00:46:22.240 It's making them crazy.
00:46:23.380 If they only realized that if you have a middle ground, you hold things in balance, you deal with things in a mature way, they probably would be able to split this.
00:46:31.680 But in the meantime, they're just going to keep suffering from cognitive dissonance.
00:46:34.720 And you're going to have lefties on Twitter defending Tumblr's child pornography.
00:46:39.740 That is the logical conclusion of that.
00:46:41.800 That's our show for the day.
00:46:42.600 We've got a lot more to get to, but we'll have to do it tomorrow.
00:46:45.080 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
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