Alexandria Ocasio-cortez and her fellow Bolsheviks have finally released the draft text of the so-called Green New Deal, and it turns out that the GreenNew Deal is communism. We will analyze the proposal line by line. Then, another prominent Democrat wears blackface. Is there going to be any Democrat left in America who has not worn blackface? President Trump addresses the National Prayer Breakfast. And finally, the mailbag.
00:13:24.280The plan for a Green New Deal and the draft legislation shall recognize that a national, industrial, economic mobilization of this scope and scale is an historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the United States and to make prosperity, wealth, and economic security available to everyone participating in this transformation.
00:13:48.340This reads like the Bill of Rights of some banana republic, some tin pot dictatorship, some ridiculous utopian scheme dreamed up either by a Latin American dictator or by a freshman in college after like four too many hits on the bong.
00:14:06.760What has happened just in the course of history, even the course of American history, when we have tried to eliminate poverty, how has that worked out?
00:14:15.220People have tried it since the dawn of time.
00:14:20.760To quote Ronald Reagan, we fought a war on poverty and poverty won.
00:14:24.820The poor will always be with us, as a wise man said.
00:14:29.260So that's, when you look down into even just part B, you say, okay, we've been talking about energy, crazy plans for renewable energy and the environment, but okay.
00:14:41.180But now, what does this have to do with the environment?
00:15:10.800And actually, this plan goes all the way to communism.
00:15:13.660Number one, provide all members of our society, across all regions and all communities, the opportunity, training, and education to be a full participant in the transition, including through a job guarantee program to assure a living wage to every person who wants one.
00:15:32.920So, a job guarantee program, okay, now, this is a little tricky.
00:15:39.560Bums, I guess, don't want jobs, or the retired don't want a job, or kids, little kids don't want jobs.
00:15:44.360The job guarantee program is the great example of a government that is big enough to give you everything you want being big enough to take away everything that you have.
00:15:56.780Because part of the job guarantee program, this has been touted in a lot of different places by proponents of the Green New Deal, is that it does away with the need to have an unemployment insurance.
00:16:22.580That line is only implicit in this legislation, though it is implicit.
00:16:27.260But why would you have unemployment insurance when the government is your final backstop?
00:16:32.680Okay, maybe that sounds good, but then what does that mean?
00:16:35.140It means that the government, just from part one of the legislation, the government is going to go in and take jobs away from almost six million Americans.
00:16:42.240And then they're going to take away their unemployment insurance, too.
00:17:33.960Diversify local and regional communities with a particular focus on communities where the fossil fuel industry holds significant control over the labor market.
00:17:44.560Diversify local and regional economies?
00:18:17.540Because I, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, know much better how to run industry than the people who run those industries and work in those industries and have family in different places and have different economic incentives to move different places.
00:18:30.620I, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I studied economics at Boston University.
00:19:06.760Ensure a just transition for all workers, low-income communities, communities of color, indigenous communities, rural and urban communities, and the frontline communities most affected by climate change.
00:19:33.900Ensure a just transition for all workers.
00:19:37.880And then it names all of these specific victim groups, so-called victim groups, intersectionality groups, low-income communities of color, indigenous communities.
00:19:47.040Are the indigenous communities not communities of color?
00:27:40.100She got that statistic from the Yale's Program for Climate Change Communication study, which is true.
00:27:47.260Those numbers are true from that study.
00:27:48.780The trouble with that study is that, I think the number is 82% of people, yes, 82% of respondents to that study had never heard of the Green New Deal before they asked the question.
00:27:59.620So, the way they asked the question is this.
00:28:01.220They said, quote, some members of Congress are proposing a Green New Deal.
00:28:04.700They say the Green New Deal will produce jobs and strengthen America's economy by accelerating the transition from fossil fuels.
00:28:10.340The deal would generate 100% of the nation's electricity from clean renewable resources within the next 10 years.
00:29:13.220The Leftist Tears Tumblr is very important.
00:29:14.880You're going to have to keep this and save all of your Leftist Tears because once they push through the Green New Deal and we're all starving, the only thing that you will be able to sustain yourself on are the Leftist Tears from how great our politics is at the moment.
00:29:31.760It could all turn to trash if these people ever get power, but for right now it's really good.
00:29:37.520So store up your Leftist Tears for tomorrow for a rainy day or for a dry day, I guess, and come on back in one second.
00:31:03.400Megyn Kelly was kicked off of NBC News for asking the question as to whether or not it's maybe acceptable to wear a Diana Ross costume because you really admire the singer.
00:31:18.820And to dress up basically exactly like Joy Behar did there.
00:31:23.240She was immediately removed from NBC News, dragged throughout the press.
00:31:28.640Joy Behar still gets to be on The View.
00:31:32.620Ralph Northam, Democrat governor of Indiana, he's still the governor.
00:32:31.240You can't even eat a taco bowl if you are a white person.
00:32:34.320Okay, well, if we're going to have one rule for everybody, how come the Democrats always get to break the rule?
00:32:41.220Basically, every single prominent Democrat in the country within the last week has admitted or is about to admit that they wore blackface in the 1980s.
00:32:49.960If it were Republicans, they would probably be being tortured at Guantanamo Bay right now.
00:33:17.560I need to, ooh, now I'm culturally appropriating Rachel Maddow again.
00:33:20.720From Dylan, why do people on the left crave illegal immigration from Central and South America, in which most people are religious Christians, yet they think Christians are backwards?
00:33:31.820What you're asking is the question of intersectionality.
00:33:34.800How is it that devout, even extreme Muslims and gay rights activists can both unite together in the intersectionality pyramid of oppression to oppose Big Daddy America or something,
00:33:54.760when in many Muslim countries you see people throwing gay people off of roofs?
00:34:36.020So the greatest embodiment of that today is the United States of America.
00:34:42.040And I think where they get their racism from is they picture like an old white guy as the face of America.
00:34:48.900If you look around America today, I don't think that's really fair to say, but that's what they see.
00:34:54.680So they always go after the image of the perceived oppressor as the representative of the Western tradition.
00:35:01.040And if that means importing a bunch of devout Christians into America, they'll do it because they don't care exactly about those contradictions.
00:35:09.460They just want to attack their perceived oppressor.
00:35:12.400From Amanda, dear Mr. Knowles, in a nutshell, what is the difference between Catholicism and Christian orthodoxy?
00:35:20.360Can you play devil's advocate and explain why orthodoxy is better?
00:35:36.200I view the West and the East as the two lungs of Christianity.
00:35:40.400There are some theological differences.
00:35:43.380One that gets a lot of plays, the Filioque, the Nicene Creed reads that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
00:35:54.140The Holy Spirit is the bond of love between the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
00:36:00.940Christ will send this advocate to you.
00:36:04.020And the Eastern Orthodox Church, as I understand it, believes that the Holy Spirit proceeds only from the Father.
00:36:10.260And this has a lot of other theological implications.
00:36:12.380There are relatively minor theological differences between the West and the East.
00:36:18.320Now, I am Catholic because I believe in the institution of the Catholic Church.
00:36:23.360I believe it's divinely instituted by Christ.
00:36:25.820I believe in the line of succession from Peter, who he appoints to be his rock, and on which he builds his church.
00:36:32.820And so I believe that the Catholic Church is the Catholic Church.
00:36:35.800And I think the evidence clearly shows that.
00:36:38.780However, the Eastern Orthodox Church has a lot going for it.
00:36:41.940Liturgically speaking, almost in all places today, in the United States at least, the Eastern Orthodox Church has a much finer liturgy, a much more beautiful liturgy.
00:41:43.500From Benjamin, dear master of the inkless pen, as a Christian, I struggle with what my posture toward abortion doctors and those that have had or encouraged someone to have an abortion should be.
00:41:55.940To me, they seem no different than hit men and those who have put a hit out on someone.
00:42:55.380Came for Shapiro, Clavin, and Knowles.
00:42:57.220Stayed for Shapiro, Clavin, and Knowles, but also listened to Walsh.
00:43:00.000Yes, this is the great, would you allow for abortion in the case of rape or a threat to the life of the mother?
00:43:08.700I'll give you my philosophic answer first and then my practical answer next.
00:43:14.140It's a baby regardless of how it was conceived, whether it was conceived in a way that created a risk to the life of the mother or whether it was conceived through rape.
00:43:25.260It's still a baby and so killing it is still killing it.
00:43:29.920It's still ending an innocent human life.
00:43:31.880Now, as for the life of the mother, this is greatly exaggerated.
00:43:37.180There is, as far as I know, no medical condition that requires directly abortion.
00:43:45.900Some treatments of medical conditions would, as a side effect, kill the baby.