Ep. 275 - The Motherf＊＊＊er With The Hat
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Summary
What do Snoop Dogg and the incoming Democratic congressmen have in common? Too much, I'm sorry to say. We will analyze their vulgar minds, particularly as it relates to that mother effer with the hat. Then Hollywood loses at the Golden Globes and the Oscars beg Kevin Hart to re-agree to host. I offer my novel solution to the awards show problem.
Transcript
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What do Snoop Doggy Dogg and the incoming Democrat congressmen have in common?
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We will analyze their vulgar minds, particularly as it relates to that mother effer with the hat.
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Then Hollywood loses at the Golden Globes and the Oscars beg Kevin Hart to re-agree to host.
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I offer my novel solution to the awards show problem.
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RBG misses a day at court and the Vatican celebrates the Cuban Revolution.
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We will analyze what other popes have had to say about the scourge of socialism.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Now, we've talked about a lot of political analysts recently.
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We've talked about all the great journals of political thought, all of the talking heads, all of the pundits.
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We haven't, unfortunately, checked in yet with one of the great political, philosophic minds of our time, Snoop Diggity-Doo Dog, who has some thoughts on the government shutdown.
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All you people for the federal government that got not getting paid right now, ain't no f***ing way in the world y'all can vote for Donald Trump when he come back up again.
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If it is, if y'all do vote for him, y'all some stupid motherf***er.
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All you federal government people that's not being paid, that's being treated f***ing unfairly right now, not being paid.
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When the s*** get back on and y'all get y'all jobs back and it's time to vote, don't vote for that s***, please don't.
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Y'all honest, blue-collar, hard-working people and suffering.
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So if he don't care about y'all, he really don't give a f*** about us.
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I would say Snoop Dogg's take on the government shutdown.
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Because nobody speaks for honest, hard-working, blue-collar Americans.
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He got off on the drive-by shooting charge, on the murder charge.
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Although the jury was hung on his manslaughter charge.
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Nobody really speaks for those hard-working, blue-collar Americans.
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Quite like a guy who's wearing probably $50,000 worth of gold chains around his neck.
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Who gets paid to just swear and curse on songs.
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Because obviously if somebody likes Snoop Dogg running his mouth like that, he makes Donald Trump look polite.
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But you might say, Michael, you know, you're really being unfair here.
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This is an unfair comparison to compare the President of the United States to some stupid rapper.
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Some guy who runs his mouth and, you know, was involved with gangs and all.
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Let's compare what Snoop Dogg said to what the incoming Democrat Congressman Rashida Tlaib had to say.
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And when your son looks at you and says, Mama, look, you won.
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Because we're going to go in there and we're going to impeach the mother******.
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There is now no difference between profane rappers and members of Congress.
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And there actually is something of a symmetry here because I don't want to let Donald Trump off the hook entirely.
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Donald Trump is a product of the popular culture.
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And so what's going on, it's not just showing how tawdry and despicable the Democrats are, although that's part of it.
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What it's showing is the effect of culture on politics.
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So Donald Trump is a product of this popular culture and he's helped shape the popular culture.
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And by the way, he was a hip hop icon for decades as well.
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His name was referenced in hip hop songs all the time until he ran for president as a Republican.
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And so you've got him affecting that culture a little bit.
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He's he's had a little bit of a loose mouth, you might say, although he's been much less profane since he's been elected president, which is very nice.
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And now you see the culture following that and reacting to that, even though the culture caused that.
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And you see Democrat congressmen trying to follow suit.
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And what this really is, is a symptom of something that's grown for a long time, which is people trying to do Donald Trump who are not Donald Trump.
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A lot of people they see Donald Trump is this anomaly.
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And when he talks loose and he uses humor and he's a little flippant in his language, that really works for him.
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But they can't do it because they're not Donald Trump.
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Do you remember when little Marco tried to do it?
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Last night in the debate during one of the breaks, two of the breaks, he went backstage.
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First, he had this little makeup thing, applying like makeup around his mustache because he had one of those sweat mustaches.
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I don't know why, because the podium goes up to here, but he wanted a full length mirror.
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I actually kind of like Marco Rubio, but, but there he's little Marco when he's trying to be Donald Trump and failing.
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But when he does that, he becomes little Marco.
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He degrades himself when he tries to do this rickle shtick that he can't do.
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Being able to be on camera, knowing how to work with television, knowing how to get a reaction from a live audience.
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These are the skills that show business teaches you.
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Donald Trump's been in it for a very long time.
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We know that when he speaks flippantly or he uses an insult.
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We know what that means and we know what that doesn't mean.
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We know that he's not some vicious murderer killer guy.
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We know he's not some, we just, he is what he is.
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He's, over the weekend I was at a friend's house.
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This is a board game that came out and it's like Monopoly but way shadier.
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And this game though, it didn't come out in 2016.
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Didn't come out in 2005 when The Apprentice was on the air.
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So at least as far back as 1989, there was a game with Donald Trump's face on it.
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This guy has been in the popular consciousness for so long.
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He kind of came up, what, five, seven, eight years ago maybe we started to hear about him.
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Rashida Tlaib, what do we know about Rashida Tlaib?
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We know that she has suggested that certain Jews have dual citizenship or dual loyalty and not full loyalty to their country.
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We know that she supports the BDS movement, boycott, divest, and sanction Israel.
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In her congressional office, she went to a map of the world.
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She took a sticky note, wrote the word Palestine on it, and covered up Israel.
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She actually, in a symbolic way, wiped Israel off of the map.
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So when she says things like this, when she uses words like mother effer or whatever, it's received very differently.
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When Trump does it, a guy that we've known for 40 years, we think, oh, that's kind of funny.
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All right, nothing's going to rock the boat, but that's, okay, oh, that's just Trump being Trump.
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When this random anti-Semite that we've just met, I mean, she just got into the popular consciousness, comes out and starts screaming mother effer about our president.
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That could be a dangerous thing, especially when she wants to wipe a U.S. ally off of the map.
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She's not the only one, by the way, who has been guilty of this.
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You know my good friend, my old neighbor, I call her, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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And I've got to tell you, she's been saying very stupid things.
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We will answer all of her very stupid and dangerous points.
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I've said for a long time she's a shrewd politician.
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She has accomplished zero in her life before getting elected to Congress.
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She was a community organizer and she was working as a bartender to pay the bills for a little bit before she ran for Congress.
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Voting records show that she was still living with her parents until 2016 up in northern Westchester.
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A woman of zero accomplishment has dominated the national and sometimes international news.
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And it's what makes her ignorance dangerous and it was what makes her ideology dangerous.
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Here is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking about how she's going to pay for her awful socialist programs to Anderson Cooper.
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No one asks how we're going to pay for this space force.
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No one asked how we paid for a $2 trillion tax cut.
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We only ask how we pay for it on issues of housing, health care, and education.
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With the same exact mechanisms that we pay for military increases, for the space force, for all of these ambitious policies.
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There are Democrats, obviously, who are worried about affecting the party.
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Democratic Senator Chris Coon said about left-leaning Democrats,
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If the next two years is just a race to offer increasingly unrealistic proposals,
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it'll be difficult for us to make a credible case we should be allowed to govern again.
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We pay more per capita in health care and education for lower outcomes than many other nations.
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And so for me, what's unrealistic is what we're living in right now.
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She talks about per capita health care spending with regard to advanced socialist economies like the United Kingdom.
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One thing we have to remember is that the entire rest of the world depends on American health care innovation.
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They are all free riders on our health care innovation.
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When that engine of innovation goes away, when all those drugs that we develop go away,
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their health care regimes see their costs skyrocket and they see the quality of care decrease.
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All of those other regimes also have much lower quality of care.
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That doesn't happen here in the United States or it doesn't need to happen here in the United States.
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And most jarringly for human dignity, you have the cases like little Alfie Evans,
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like other little babies that we've seen just in the United Kingdom who were sick,
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who had conditions where their parents wanted to take them out of the government hospital,
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take them to the United States, take them to Italy, take them elsewhere for treatment.
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There was one case where the parents wanted to take the baby out of the hospital and bring the baby.
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The Pope said the baby could come to a hospital next to the Vatican and they would arrange for Italian citizenship
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You have no right to try to save your baby's life.
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To say nothing of the tax rates in some of these places.
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So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez points to some countries that have socialist health care regimes.
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There are some reasons why in some ways it does work there.
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But one reason is extraordinarily high tax rates.
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And now Alexandria is talking about raising the tax rates to 70 percent,
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effectively 82.7 percent on people in places like New York or California.
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She is going full socialist, full hog against the wall.
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We could spend, I suppose we should spend, full shows talking about why socialist health care doesn't work,
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why it's so bad for human dignity, why the economics don't work,
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why it especially wouldn't work if the United States were to enact it.
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But suffice it to say for now, I just want to point out this one trick that she is using,
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And Anderson Cooper says, how are you going to pay for this health care program,
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And she says, well, the same way we're going to pay for Space Force.
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Now, Space Force is this program Donald Trump talked about,
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a new branch of the military to deal with outer space.
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When people hear that, they say, okay, there's one government program, Space Force,
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and there's another government program, socialist health care.
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And if you can pay for one, you can pay for the other, right?
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The cost of Space Force is estimated to be $13 billion over five years.
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It's hard to predict out what health, or what costs will be,
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Let's just say that it's $26 billion over 10 years.
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You've got $26 billion over 10 years for Space Force,
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and you've got $40 trillion over 10 years for health care.
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You are talking about a difference of not just in order of magnitude,
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And yet, when people hear these numbers, it's all the same.
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If the number is bigger than 1,000, it's all the same.
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When you hear million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, z-z-zillion,
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you know intellectually that there's a difference.
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But in your mind, when you're visualizing it, you don't visualize the difference.
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And I don't know if Ocasio is extraordinarily ignorant.
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She might be, or if she's being obtuse here and being crafty and clever to try to ram through
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She thinks that you don't know the difference between a billion and a trillion.
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The difference between a billion and a trillion is a full order of magnitude.
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And so even just consider our annual budget for Syria.
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She says, where are we going to get the money for Space Force?
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Our military actions in Syria cost about $15 billion per year.
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Space Force will cost $13 billion over five years.
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So one year, pulling the troops out of Syria, which President Troop has said he's going to do,
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one year will more than pay for five years of Space Force.
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What would we have to do to pay for Ocasio's health care regime?
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We would have to double tax receipts to the federal government,
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which by the way isn't even as simple as doubling the income tax rate.
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Effectively, you could be paying over 40% in effective taxes when you factor in state and local and all the other stuff.
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But it's not even that simple because when you raise taxes that high,
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you disincentivize people working in the economy.
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So just to use an example that she keeps bringing up, if you raise the tax rate to 70% federal on someone even making $10 million,
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then you've got to take into effect state and local.
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Let's say it raises that to 82.7% if you live in New York.
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You would have no incentive to do it when you know that the vast majority of all that money will be confiscated.
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You can either hide the money, figure out some crafty way to get the money out of the country,
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or hide it in some sleight of hand on the accounting books, or you just don't do it.
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Why would I ever work 83% of the year for the federal government?
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So this is also what destroys socialist economies, is that you just have no incentive to be productive whatsoever.
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We are a wonderful engine of growth because Americans are productive.
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But if you start confiscating all our wealth, guess what?
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Now, when you point out these things, when you point out mathematical reality,
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to say nothing of moral realities, mathematical realities, political realities of socialism,
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this is Ocasio's best response that she can muster.
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The criticisms of you is that your math is fuzzy.
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The Washington Post recently awarded you four Pinocchios.
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For misstating some statistics about Pentagon spending.
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If people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there,
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I would argue that they're missing the forest for the trees.
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I think that there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely,
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factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.
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And whenever I make a mistake, I say, okay, this was clumsy.
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But it's not the same thing as the president lying about immigrants.
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Now, this is the second trick that socialists always use that Ocasio is using here,
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To be morally right requires that you be correct.
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She seems not to understand that the word semantics means meaning itself.
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To be right with regard to the meaning of real things.
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It's to be right with regard to the meaning of real things.
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and I think this comes actually out of her ideology and out of her culture,
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is she's speaking as though truth doesn't matter.
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I mean, there, she's literally saying truth doesn't matter.
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She says it doesn't matter if you are factually correct as long as you're morally right.
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Of course, that sentence doesn't mean anything.
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It's like saying blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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It's like saying you don't need to be correct as long as you're correct.
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It's all that Orwellian double talk that she has.
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But I think in her ideology, which is totally relativistic, this is true.
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You can just say things regardless of what they mean,
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regardless because as long as it has the intended political effect,
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She doesn't care how she's going to pay for $40 trillion.
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All she cares about is the political effect of her in government taking over health care.
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She wants to take more power for the government, power away from people,
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She has the faith and the zeal of a convert for her religion, which is socialism,
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that once the government has all that power, everything will be fine.
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As long as we don't have all that freedom out there for people to make their own choices,
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as long as we take that back, we'll work out everything in the end.
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You know, Ben often has that phrase, facts don't care about your feelings.
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She's saying, my feelings don't care about your facts.
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And of course, Anderson Cooper was the one who just sort of let her get away with it.
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He pushed back very slightly, but he let her get away with it.
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And we'll get to, in a minute, how the Vatican was celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Cuban
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It's not just even about taking away your health care choices or your employment choices
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It's about that quote that Democrats always say on the campaign trail.
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They quote Shaw when he says, some people see the world as it is and ask why.
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I dream things that never were and ask why not.
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They forget that those words that Shaw wrote were in the mouth of the serpent tempting Eve
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in the garden from a play called Back to Methuselah.
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Ocasio is completely right to talk about moral correctness.
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To say this is not just an issue of physical realities.
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This is an issue of moral and metaphysical realities.
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These systems of economies that we're talking about.
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It is a scourge and a pest and a plague on humanity.
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But we do have to cover more of the government shutdown because this is the big political question
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that nobody's talking about because nobody's feeling it.
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Dick Durbin, major Senate Democrat, points this out.
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From what you're describing, it doesn't sound like there is any progress.
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Well, I can't say that we're close because the president's made it clear he doesn't care.
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He's prepared to see a shutdown for months, and he even said years, and reaffirmed that before the cameras.
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It was stunning to hear a president of the United States say that about his own government,
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This government shutdown thus far has been a major win for Trump.
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There was a poll out from Rasmussen, which is a right-leaning polling firm,
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It showed that only 6% of Americans say that this shutdown has had a major impact on their lives.
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Now, of course, nobody watching this show or listening to this show,
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I bet 0% of people watching or listening say that the shutdown has had a major impact on your lives.
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Even if you work for the federal government, even if you're a federal employee who's not being paid right now,
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There's a little bit of a pinch in the short term, and everybody's really sorry for that.
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Nobody wants people who are working not to be paid.
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But everyone knows after every government shutdown, the workers get paid.
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They get paid for all the time that they weren't being paid.
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And actually, even employees who called in sick, which is happening to a slightly higher degree right now,
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So ultimately, workers end up actually usually getting more money because of the shutdown than they would otherwise.
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But so you see 6% who say that this shutdown has had a major impact on their lives.
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21% say they didn't even know that there's a shutdown going on right now.
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So more than three times that number of people aren't even aware that there is a shutdown
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Donald Trump has said that he'll let this thing go on for months or even years.
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And because he's pursued this madman strategy in office,
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because he's doing things that seem erratic, he's always keeping his opponents on their toes.
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As you approach tax season, you're going to see two arguments here.
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If the government, by some very slim chance, were still going, if the shutdown were still going on at that point,
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because you've got a lot of Americans who prepay their taxes and they'll get a refund at tax time.
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I refuse to give the government an advance on that money or much of an advance on the money that I'll owe them when tax time comes around.
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So actually, I'm all for it. Keep the IRS shut down. I'm going to owe them money.
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I don't want to pay them their money. Works for me.
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But what's going to happen, you've still got a lot of agencies funded for the next month, even for the next two months.
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You're already starting to see cracks among Democrats.
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Other Democrat reps are breaking with her and saying, well, it's not immoral.
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Democrats 10 years ago were voting for parts of the wall anyway.
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So I think you're starting to see a crack there.
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You're not really seeing a crack from the White House.
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I think as it stands right now, there's a good chance we win this battle.
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It won't be the end of the line because with $5 billion, you're not going to be able to build the whole wall.
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You're only going to be able to build a part of it.
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But it looks like it's moving in our direction.
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All of the polling shows it's still going well.
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I hope President Trump doesn't miss this opportunity here.
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At a certain point, those poll numbers are going to reverse.
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Now, I know, I know that you're all waiting with bated breath to hear what I think about the Golden Globes.
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And I've got a novel solution for the awards show problem.
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We'll also talk about the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
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And Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who for the first time is missing court oral arguments because of a medical problem.
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You know at all times, Ben is waiting outside the door, waiting to hand me my pink slip.
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If we don't make money from the subscribers and viewers, don't give him the satisfaction.
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It's $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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You get to ask questions in the mailbag coming up on Thursday.
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You get to ask questions in backstage, which is happening a lot now.
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You know, I'm not good at talking like a leftist.
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And you'll be really enthusiastic about your leftist tears tumbler.
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Because if we build this wall, oh, you're going to need, if we build this wall, we're
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And you're going to need the leftist tears tumbler to fill it up and float on top of it.
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But I actually do care for what it means about the culture.
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Obviously, no one's watched most of these movies.
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No one cares what these celebrities think about anything.
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And it showed you just how far our popular culture has fallen.
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Now, some of you may be wondering why the two of us are hosting together.
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And the reason is we're the only two people left in Hollywood who haven't gotten in trouble
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You know what race of people really gets under my skin?
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Because it messes up all the traffic, you know?
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Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh, the two nicest people in showbiz, this thing's going to be
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Because you fools are all about to get roasted.
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Hope you're wearing your flip-flops, Hollywood, because we're about to scorch some earth.
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You, as a director, lifetime fan, can't wait to see what you do next.
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They go on, the whole joke being here that they can't say anything mean or offensive because
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He's a little hit or miss, but he does have a real comic skill.
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But what's interesting about this shtick is it's obviously, they're kind of joking about
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how intense the Hollywood PC culture has gotten, that they can only say nice things.
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So, if they had joked about that, and then there were some break, there were some turn,
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there were some challenge to that PC culture, which is so unfunny, then I think it would have
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But they just kept saying nice things, which was the most cowardly thing they could have
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They actually had to hide their cowardliness in a joke about how cowardly they were, but
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If they only had one presenter, that's too big a target.
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If they had two men, well, you couldn't do that.
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If it were two white people, you couldn't possibly do that.
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And then the most pathetic part of all of it was they actually turned it, they made an
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And Sandra Oh gave an impassioned, earnest political speech about what I have no idea.
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I said yes to the fear of being on this stage tonight because, because I wanted to be here
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to look out into this audience and witness this moment of change.
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Because they don't, I mean, this whole shtick that Sandra Oh is doing is so poorly performed.
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I mean, it's so ridiculous and over the top and obviously disingenuous that even the audience
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there, all of whom have been indoctrinated in the PC culture, they all know how to perform.
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They all know that they're supposed to abide by certain PC orthodoxies.
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You hear those, she goes, and I know it's real.
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She's mustering all that fake, all those fake tears.
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You never see the tears run down her face, obviously, because she's not a very good actress.
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She goes, and I know it's real because I see you.
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And so a couple people, more than a couple people in the audience, start laughing.
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But then they cut it off really quickly because, no, she is performing.
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They muster up this, like, fake crying emotional thing.
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Is she referring to the sexual assault stuff, how every one of these Hollywood degenerates
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But there's change now because we're wearing buttons on our lapels.
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And there's change because we have bracelets on our wrist about time's up.
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Or is she referring to racial questions, that certain races weren't being cast a lot in
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Hollywood, and now they're being cast a little more?
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Watching this, all I could think of was one of the greatest PSAs that has ever been aired.
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I've always wanted to be part of something bigger than myself.
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You go through life and you see all this injustice, but you never really do anything about it.
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I have two little kids, so I'm always thinking about their future.
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Every solution begins with just one person stepping up and taking responsibility.
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I'm taking the pledge because I care about my community.
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And not just my future, but the future of everyone.
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Taking the pledge is about standing up for what matters and what's right.
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It doesn't matter if you're black, white, Muslim, Christian, Jewish.
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I got my brother to take the pledge, and he got his friend to do it.
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I got everyone in my school to take the pledge.
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You get her to take the pledge, and she gets someone else who gets someone else, and on and on and on.
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And suddenly, we've got something much bigger than any one of us.
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This isn't just bad for comedy when they try to do this earnestly.
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This is also, I mean, this leads to terrible leftist politics.
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It points out something that I try to, I notice this about the particularly hipster millennials, but this is true of the left broadly.
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There is a culture now that's taken over comedy for the last 30 years, probably, which is irony.
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Before, it wasn't centered around irony, and specifically ironic apathy, that we're all just, everything's just to be debunked and deconstructed, and everything's really lame and really super cool, and I don't care, and I don't mind.
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I don't need to be excited, and it doesn't matter.
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I'm just apathetic, and everything's totally ironic.
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That culture of comedy has been around since, at least, Letterman.
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And he sort of heralded that change, and sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's not, but the thing with irony, if you live your life entirely, ironically, hipsters getting stupid tattoos because they look stupid, ironically getting certain tattoos, the thing with irony is that if you live your life entirely, ironically, then there's no such thing as irony.
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If you tell these jokes, the jokes about how we have to only say nice things about everyone at the Golden Globes, and then that's all you do.
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You're doing it earnestly, and this is true even of these, you know, every award show has awful political speeches nowadays over the last 15 years, and Christian Bale gave a truly ridiculous one last night.
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He said, I've got to find somebody who can be absolutely charisma-free and reviled by everybody, so he went, that's got to be Bale in it.
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You know, thank you, and for all the competition, I will be cornering the market on charisma-free.
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What do you think? Mitch McConnell, next? That could be good, wouldn't it?
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Thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration on how to play this role.
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Some people are confused hearing that because we never hear Christian Bale with his actual accent.
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He was raised in Wales to English parents, and so that's his real accent.
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And he's talking about playing Dick Cheney in the movie Vice, and he's calling him a charisma-free blankety-blank, and he thanks Satan for giving him inspiration to play the role.
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In awards shows, when you won an Oscar or a Golden Globe, you used to thank God.
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You used to get up there, and I want to thank my friends and my family and my directors, and I want to thank God for being there and sustaining me and inspiring me.
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And you might say, well, he was telling a joke.
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If you live, ironically, 100% of the time, then the irony isn't irony anymore.
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And this guy is actually getting up there and thanking Satan.
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You know something has gone seriously wrong with these awards shows when you get up there and thank Satan.
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By the way, just a little point on Christian Bale.
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Christian Bale was arrested in 2008 for domestic violence against his mother and sister.
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And he's going after Dick Cheney as this charisma-free blankety-blank who's inspired by Satan.
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Maybe Mr. Bale should pluck the plank out of his own eye before looking at the speck in his neighbor's eye.
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But unsurprisingly, in early ratings right now, this Golden Globe show was down to a four-year low, maybe a decade low.
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The ratings are plummeting for these awards shows, and they're plummeting especially for the Oscars.
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They chose Kevin Hart, the comedian, to host the Oscars.
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Then they found that he made a gay joke ten years ago.
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So there was this big fake faux outrage uproar, a huge non-troversy.
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And the Academy basically sold him out, and Kevin Hart decided he wasn't going to host the Oscars anymore.
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Now they're in a bind because there's no one to host the Oscars.
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If the new standard is that if you've ever told a gay joke you can't host the Oscars, then no comedian ever can host the Oscars.
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And beyond that, no human being walking on this earth can host the Oscars.
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Ellen DeGeneres, I am certain, has told many gay jokes in her life.
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And she had Kevin Hart on to basically ask him on behalf of the Academy to come back and host the Oscars.
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So I called the Academy today because I really want you to host the Oscars.
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I think that I was so excited when I heard that they asked you.
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I knew how important it was and how it was a dream.
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I have no idea if he wants to come back and host.
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And they were like, oh, my God, we want him to host.
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We feel like that maybe he misunderstood or it was handled wrong or maybe we said the wrong thing.
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I mean, so I mean, the Academy is saying, what can we do to make this happen?
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Yeah, I bet they are because now they're up a certain creek without a paddle and they've got no one that they can possibly use.
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I have a novel bit of advice for this award show problem.
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The Oscars ratings were at a 44-year low last year, and that was a 20% drop over the previous year.
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The reason it is dead is not because it had to die, but because those awful people in the Academy have made it die.
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They've made it all about leftist politics, and also because the movie business is dead.
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The movies that win awards at the Oscars, nobody has ever seen.
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The movies that people go and see, the three movies a year, all of which are superhero movies, are not winning Oscars, and they don't deserve to win Oscars because they're not very good movies.
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Stop trying to resuscitate the zombie of Oscar.
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The American film industry was glorious in its day, and now it's dead, and you killed it.
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You should look in the mirror and feel deep shame about that, and then move on because it's over.
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It's the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, and the Vatican, of all places, the Vatican News Service honored that Cuban Revolution.
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It sent out a post that said, quote, the Cuban Revolution celebrated its 60th anniversary this January 1st, 2019.
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On the island, the historic anniversary was celebrated with a ceremony in Santiago de Cuba in the cemetery of Santa Iphigenia, where Fidel Castro is buried, who died November 25th, 2016.
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To the main national forces, the dictator Fulgencio Batista fled on 26 months of guerrilla war led by brothers Fidel and Raul Castro.
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Fidel Castro proclaimed the beginning of the revolution, the victory of the counterculture.
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The Vatican News Service, speaking for the Vatican, is celebrating the Cuban Revolution.
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The church needs to stop playing footsie with socialists.
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This is a major break with the spirit of Christianity.
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Broadly, Protestant churches as well need to stop doing this.
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There is a sense now, pushed by hippie, dippy left-wingers, that Jesus was just a really nice hippie socialist.
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And we've all perverted his message because he was such a socialist.
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Just a few statistics on the Cuban Revolution 60 years later.
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In the last 10 years, there have been at least 18,000 political prisoners in Cuba.
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It's hard to get accurate numbers, obviously, because it's a totalitarian regime.
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Two million Cubans live outside of Cuba because of the hell that the Castros inflicted.
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They wear American flags sewn onto their clothing and on their bicycles when they can afford them.
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That is the protest because they want freedom and they hate communism because communism is slavery and it has truly destroyed that people.
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We know that the Castro regime death toll is estimated between 35,000 and 141,000 people.
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We know 5,000 people were executed immediately after the Castro takeover to say nothing of the fact that the communist regime in Cuba almost blew up the entire world during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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By the way, as the Vatican applauds and celebrates the Cuban Revolution, don't forget that the Cuban Revolution specifically attacked Christianity.
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A lot of Catholics, including a bishop, were permanently exiled from the country.
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This after the Vatican and Pope Francis has asked earlier in the year two underground Chinese bishops to step down in favor of government Communist Party apparatchik bishops.
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We know that the Pope has regularly attacked capitalism and free markets.
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We finally must counter this as it affects, in this case, specifically the Catholic Church, but Protestant churches as well.
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Socialism is wicked and terrible, and it must be opposed vigorously.
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In his encyclical Centesimus Annus, he wrote, quote,
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It would appear that on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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A pope before him, Leo XIII, also wrote even more clearly about socialism.
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He referred to socialists as a wicked confederacy.
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He said socialists steal the very gospel itself with a view to deceive more easily the unwary.
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That's what we should call it when we talk about the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
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That's how we should talk about it when we respond to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another young, attractive, very likable woman who's trying to push this plague and this pest and this wicked, evil growth on humanity again.
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This old, decrepit, awful idea that we'll not die.
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We need to fight it in the strongest terms, and we should give no quarter to people who are trying constantly to resuscitate that awful zombie plague.
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The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Robert Sterling.
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The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.
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Over on The Matt Wall Show today, we'll be talking about Christian.
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Bale thanking Satan at the Golden Globes yesterday.
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I think it was the most honest moment in the history of Hollywood award shows.
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Also, Ellen DeGeneres, a lesbian woman, came out in defense of Kevin Hart, and she's being attacked by the left.