The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 316 - Is AOC An Actress？

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00:00:30.000 Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an actress?

00:00:33.660 That's the new conspiracy theory floating around the internet.

00:00:36.520 And it's entirely correct, but not for the reasons that many think.

00:00:39.840 We will investigate who is really pulling AOC's marionette strings.

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00:03:10.440 Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an actress?

00:03:14.700 This is a theory that cropped up from a YouTube account called Mr. Reagan.

00:03:18.820 And this guy goes through AOC's history, and he makes the claim that she's not really some motivated movement politician.

00:03:28.860 She was cast in a casting call from a group called the Justice Democrats.

00:03:33.700 They plucked this girl out of obscurity, and she is now just a mouthpiece.

00:03:39.420 She's a sort of Charlie McCarthy doll or a little marionette, and the strings are being pulled by a group called the Justice Democrats.

00:03:46.340 And he presents a lot of evidence for this theory, including AOC speaking about it herself, and the group, the Justice Democrats, speaking about it themselves.

00:03:56.960 There's a great video. It's like 20 minutes long.

00:03:59.140 Here's just a small clip of that to show you what he's talking about.

00:04:02.460 And at Flats, we became friends with one of the bartenders, who we call Sandy.

00:04:08.120 You all know her as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:04:12.900 But in the early days, she was just serving us margaritas and listening to us talk.

00:04:16.980 Back in 2016, we put out a call for nominations.

00:04:21.200 We got over 10,000 nominations.

00:04:23.520 Out of those 10,000 nominations, we found Alexandria.

00:04:26.920 My brother told me that he had sent my nomination in the summer, but I was like literally working out of a restaurant.

00:04:33.600 And I was like, there's no way.

00:04:35.340 Well, people that make $19,999 a year or less.

00:04:40.580 So people that make $20,000 a year or less make up right around 40% of Americans, right?

00:04:47.460 40% of Americans make less than $20,000.

00:04:50.420 Yeah, yeah.

00:04:51.160 It's like 60 million people make less than $20,000 a year.

00:04:56.200 200 million Americans make less than $20,000 a year.

00:05:01.140 That's 40% of this country.

00:05:02.880 40% of Americans make less than $20,000.

00:05:05.600 That's 40% of this country.

00:05:07.620 These guys are coaching her.

00:05:09.160 They're scripting everything she says.

00:05:11.300 You notice when she goes off script because she suddenly starts babbling incomprehensibly.

00:05:16.360 This is true.

00:05:16.940 Then it goes on.

00:05:17.600 It shows that video of her.

00:05:19.240 She goes off script and she says, I'm the boss.

00:05:21.540 I'm the boss.

00:05:22.320 You got to run.

00:05:23.120 I'm, catch me outside.

00:05:24.140 How about that?

00:05:24.720 You know, and she obviously goes off script. 1.00

00:05:26.640 A lot of other similarities too.

00:05:27.940 You see the founders of the Justice Democrats talking years and years ago about how we need

00:05:32.980 to mobilize to fight climate change as if it were World War II.

00:05:38.120 Then she, AOC speaking to Ta-Nehisi Coates says exactly the same thing almost verbatim.

00:05:43.660 Now what's funny is she keeps getting the lines somewhat wrong.

00:05:46.980 So how many people are in the country?

00:05:48.660 320 million, something like that.

00:05:50.500 She says in this country, 200 million people make less than 20,000.

00:05:56.560 That's 40% of the country.

00:05:58.120 So hold on, 200 over 320, carry the seven, multiply.

00:06:01.580 No, that's not 40%.

00:06:02.940 It's much higher.

00:06:03.720 But she gets these details wrong, but she is repeating the narrative.

00:06:08.540 And so then she'll say things like, it doesn't matter if you're factually correct as long as

00:06:12.620 you are morally correct.

00:06:14.320 Things like that.

00:06:16.420 Obviously she has a relationship. 0.85

00:06:18.020 She admits it herself early on.

00:06:19.880 She says, yeah, my brother submitted my nomination to this group, this political action committee.

00:06:25.460 And I remember this from the moment that she beat Joe Crowley when she won that primary

00:06:29.620 in New York.

00:06:30.360 This story came out that she was working as an obscure bartender and her brother submitted

00:06:34.700 her to a group to run for Congress and the group liked her and thought she was a good choice. 0.98

00:06:39.740 This is irrefutable.

00:06:41.180 This we know is the case.

00:06:43.260 The question is, is she an actress? 0.93

00:06:46.320 There's no question that she's ignorant.

00:06:48.540 We know that she's ignorant.

00:06:49.540 We know that she reads talking points, usually poorly.

00:06:53.320 And when she goes off script, she sounds even less intelligent and educated than when she's

00:06:58.140 on script.

00:06:58.840 We know that she was recruited by the Justice Democrats.

00:07:01.760 That's just a fact.

00:07:03.220 We know that she relies on the Justice Democrats for content.

00:07:08.120 The content is virtually identical between what they put out, what they've put out since

00:07:13.800 the 2016 race was over, and what they're still putting out.

00:07:17.840 We know that she works closely with them.

00:07:19.840 How do we know that she works closely with them?

00:07:21.640 Well, her top aides include the founders of the Justice Democrats, including one guy,

00:07:27.280 Saikot Chagrabarty.

00:07:29.360 There was that scandal that just came out last week that AOC is funneling money, a million

00:07:34.900 dollars into these shady groups and shady LLCs, which is ironic because, of course, the far

00:07:41.720 left Democrats, just like AOC, including AOC, are running on transparency, on getting soft

00:07:47.680 money out of politics.

00:07:48.780 Meanwhile, we find out she's taking campaign contributions and paying them to the tune of 0.98

00:07:53.320 a million dollars to consulting companies.

00:07:56.160 What do the consulting companies do?

00:07:58.500 Oh, they consult.

00:07:59.320 It's just a way of taking that money and just funneling it into other left-wing causes and

00:08:05.000 hiding how the money is being used.

00:08:07.180 So we know that this is true.

00:08:09.100 She's got Justice Democrats on her staff. 1.00

00:08:12.220 Would she be in Congress without them?

00:08:15.260 No.

00:08:15.740 She would still be slinging drinks in Union Square.

00:08:17.980 There is no way that this woman would be in Congress without them.

00:08:21.680 She admits as much.

00:08:22.560 She wasn't going to run until they backed her and said, we're going to put you in Congress. 1.00

00:08:27.880 So the question is, is she an actress or a politician?

00:08:32.800 And the answer is, what's the difference?

00:08:35.140 I don't mean that in a glib way.

00:08:37.740 It's kind of, you know, politics is show business for ugly people is the old line. 0.99

00:08:42.420 I mean this very sincerely.

00:08:44.140 What is the difference between an actress and a politician, especially a member of Congress? 1.00

00:08:52.560 She is an actress, but it doesn't make her much different from any other member of Congress.

00:08:58.380 First of all, politics and acting are very similar.

00:09:02.040 There is a negative side of this for bad politicians and bad actors.

00:09:06.840 This means that they lie all the time.

00:09:08.860 They're narcissistic.

00:09:09.860 They just want to be the center of attention, all of those sorts of things.

00:09:14.800 That's the negative version for bad politicians and bad actors.

00:09:17.940 For good politicians and good actors, though, this means two things.

00:09:23.560 It means, one, you are concerned with the truth.

00:09:28.280 So for good politicians, they are concerned with truth, political truth, cultural truth, and religious truth.

00:09:34.600 They are concerned with pursuing the truth.

00:09:37.520 They're concerned with pursuing the good.

00:09:39.200 They're concerned with pursuing policies that will help people, policies that are both efficient and that are moral and that are politically justified, right?

00:09:50.800 They are concerned with political philosophy.

00:09:53.400 They're not ignorant.

00:09:54.800 They don't rely on people to just give them all of their talking points, but they actually are interested themselves.

00:10:01.120 I think of people like Edmund Burke.

00:10:02.700 Edmund Burke, the great Irish statesman, was the founder of what we would call modern conservative thought, and he wasn't just sitting in a room writing philosophy all day.

00:10:14.080 He was active.

00:10:15.080 He was in politics.

00:10:16.220 He was an elected official, and he was one of the great philosophers of his age, really one of the great political philosophers of any age.

00:10:23.400 He had both of those things and a profound concern for truth.

00:10:26.300 Same thing with actors.

00:10:27.300 The good actors, real actors, are not faking it.

00:10:31.520 They're not pretending.

00:10:32.340 They're not just reciting lines.

00:10:34.000 They are living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

00:10:37.320 So they're taking imaginary circumstances, the circumstances of the set, of the time period, of the character, of all of these things, and they are living truthfully as people in those circumstances would live.

00:10:50.580 The other reason that politics and show business are very similar is because both politicians and actors, when they're really good, have to love people.

00:11:02.180 That you cannot be a misanthrope if you want to be a good actor or a good politician.

00:11:06.680 If you hate people, you are going to be so bad at politics, especially elected politics.

00:11:13.820 All politics is is going to the Lions Club and the VFW Hall and the PTA, showing up and going to spaghetti dinners and talking to people and meeting strangers and hearing what they have to say and caring what they have to say.

00:11:28.520 If you don't like meeting people, you don't care about what other people have to say, you don't like boots on the ground, you know, marching through small towns and campaigning and shaking hands and pressing the flesh.

00:11:40.420 If you don't like that, you're going to hate politics.

00:11:43.160 Get another job.

00:11:44.400 There are way easier ways to make money.

00:11:46.320 The same thing with actors.

00:11:48.360 If you hate people, get a new job.

00:11:51.380 Because if you're an actor, the thing you have to be most concerned with, most interested in, is people.

00:11:57.660 And not that you hate them or you, if you try to play a character, if you try to play a villain and you hate that villain and you're going in and you're just going to do the really bad guy, you're going to give a bad performance.

00:12:07.820 You have to, in some way, like the character that you're playing.

00:12:11.340 You have to be on your character's side.

00:12:13.320 You have to be interested in what makes people tick.

00:12:15.140 You craft characters.

00:12:17.140 You like the way that human nature works on people and the way that circumstances work on human nature.

00:12:23.420 Those are what make up a good politician and a good actor.

00:12:27.920 Now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is neither of those.

00:12:31.500 She might be effective. 0.97

00:12:32.560 She might be popular. 0.99

00:12:33.780 But she's not good in a moral sense.

00:12:37.300 She's not doing the good in politics. 0.99

00:12:39.120 She's not doing the good as a performer. 0.55

00:12:41.480 Still, doesn't make her very different than many congressmen.

00:12:44.700 And we'll see.

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00:12:47.240 She might not be turning in a great performance anyway.

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00:14:01.560 So, we should also be explicit about our terms.

00:14:05.420 When I say good and bad in this case, in the case of good actors and good politicians,

00:14:09.440 I'm speaking in a moral sense.

00:14:11.880 The ones who are doing good work, the ones who are putting on good performances,

00:14:15.800 the ones who are doing good art, and the ones who are doing good politics.

00:14:19.300 There's another sense of that, which is, are they effective at it?

00:14:23.380 Are they popular?

00:14:24.340 Can they win an election?

00:14:26.020 Plenty of unartistic, bad actors get big roles and are very, very famous.

00:14:33.100 Plenty of badly motivated, ignorant, uneducated politicians have made it very, very far in our

00:14:40.280 politics.

00:14:41.440 Look no further than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:14:44.700 However, the performance aspect of all this is basically universal.

00:14:49.440 Most congressmen are glorified press secretaries.

00:14:53.040 That's basically all they are.

00:14:54.940 Congressmen have very little power.

00:14:56.580 However, it's actually, in terms of their day, everything they do all day, which is raise money,

00:15:02.820 maybe go out and vote, possibly co-sponsor legislation every so often,

00:15:06.720 probably the most important thing they can do is go on television,

00:15:09.620 which is why you see a lot of congressmen go on TV all the time.

00:15:12.520 It's because that is an opportunity to get ideas out there,

00:15:15.700 either the ideas that they've come up with or the ideas that their

00:15:18.320 think tanks have come up with,

00:15:20.900 or the ideas that their backers or donors or whatever have come up with.

00:15:24.500 And so in a purely performance-based sense,

00:15:30.440 in the sense of just how effectively someone is getting their name out there,

00:15:35.120 AOC is very good at that.

00:15:37.980 I mean, that is why there's so much crossover between show business and politics.

00:15:42.800 Obviously, Ronald Reagan, obviously Donald Trump,

00:15:45.260 Sonny Bono, Jesse Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fred Thompson.

00:15:50.800 I mean, the list goes on and on and on of

00:15:52.880 actors and performers turned politicians.

00:15:57.540 So the question is, how is AOC doing at this?

00:16:00.660 And there is a huge contingent now that is saying that AOC is finished.

00:16:06.560 Why?

00:16:06.900 Because she's got killer favorables, very dramatically dropping favorable ratings

00:16:13.880 and increasing unfavorable ratings.

00:16:16.180 So since September, her unfavorables are up 15 points.

00:16:21.100 Her favorables, by the way, are also up 7 points.

00:16:25.060 That's the part of this that people are leaving out.

00:16:26.860 But overall, the net effect of that is 7 minus 15.

00:16:31.540 Her net favorables are down 8%.

00:16:34.520 Now, why are both favorables and unfavorables increasing at the same time?

00:16:40.280 It's because now everybody knows about her.

00:16:42.080 Her name recognition is also way, way up 21 points.

00:16:45.640 So as more and more people hear about her,

00:16:47.860 some people start to like her, some people start to dislike her.

00:16:50.500 More people are starting to dislike her than to like her.

00:16:53.860 So who is she down with?

00:16:55.560 Who is her popularity dropping among? 0.99

00:16:57.380 It's dropping among adults, Republicans, independents, men, women, whites, and every age group.

00:17:07.480 It's mostly dropping with older people, then with middle-aged people,

00:17:12.240 and then the least of all with young people.

00:17:14.180 But it's dropping across the board.

00:17:16.640 Okay, not good news for AOC.

00:17:19.180 Except her favorability rating is increasing among only two demographic groups.

00:17:25.640 It's increasing among Democrats, and it's increasing among non-whites. 0.53

00:17:31.840 So is this such a bad thing for AOC?

00:17:34.240 Who is her constituency? 1.00

00:17:35.600 Her constituency is not 85-year-old adult Republican men.

00:17:41.300 Her constituency really isn't any of those people that her favorables are down with.

00:17:46.480 Her constituency is Democrats and non-whites.

00:17:50.100 She has played to far-left liberal Democrat policies,

00:17:54.260 and as a matter of cynical politics, she has played to racial identity.

00:18:00.900 This is what it's all about for her.

00:18:03.280 That's her bet.

00:18:04.500 That's what she's been betting on since November.

00:18:06.400 Really, since before November.

00:18:08.000 And it has worked.

00:18:09.860 She's pandering to the far left of the Democrat Party. 0.97

00:18:12.200 She's pandering on racial politics to non-whites. 1.00

00:18:14.440 It's worked on both counts.

00:18:16.200 Frankly, that seems like a positive for AOC.

00:18:18.540 AOC, this proves the political maxim, proven true again and again.

00:18:23.840 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

00:18:29.040 The idea that there's no such thing as bad press.

00:18:32.440 AOC almost exclusively gets bad press, including from left-wing outlets.

00:18:36.940 Why?

00:18:37.540 Because she doesn't know anything.

00:18:39.060 She's blithely ignorant.

00:18:40.220 She's proudly ignorant. 0.96

00:18:41.680 And she's always on TV.

00:18:45.200 She's always getting her face out there.

00:18:46.980 And the gamble that you have to take is, is it better to get some negative attention or to get no attention at all?

00:18:55.160 And we know this to be the case.

00:18:59.240 Getting your name out there is a win if you're a member of Congress.

00:19:02.800 This is why the congressmen are going on TV all the time.

00:19:05.280 This is why they're doing whatever they can to try to attract attention.

00:19:08.320 There's 400 of them.

00:19:09.300 There's no way that they're going to be able to get attention in a media landscape such as ours unless they go out there and put on a huge show, which is what she does. 1.00

00:19:21.360 So I think overall, I'm actually going to break with both the left and the right.

00:19:24.980 I mean, they're looking at numbers right now.

00:19:26.560 Now, AOC is currently less popular in her home state of New York, true blue New York, than Donald Trump is.

00:19:34.560 Donald Trump is doing better in terms of approval ratings than AOC is in New York.

00:19:39.760 Okay, that's a bad headline for her.

00:19:42.500 First of all, Donald Trump is a New York figure.

00:19:44.680 He's been in New York forever.

00:19:46.480 He is a New York staple.

00:19:48.160 And so that plays into it a little bit, too.

00:19:51.680 But also, maybe AOC or AOC's handlers, the people pulling the marionette strings, maybe they know a thing or two.

00:19:59.160 Maybe they know a thing or two on how to oust a long-term incumbent like Joe Crowley in a primary.

00:20:04.820 Maybe they know a thing or two on how to get a congressman to be on television, be the center of political discourse constantly.

00:20:10.600 Maybe they know a thing or two about which demographic groups they can afford to lose and which they can stand to benefit from if they lose those groups.

00:20:19.420 It seems like the strategy is working.

00:20:22.220 And even today, very few people are picking up on that.

00:20:25.500 But she seems to be doing very well.

00:20:27.460 I mean, she's caught in this major financial scandal now, basically getting no press.

00:20:33.280 They're still just, I mean, this is what they accused Donald Trump of doing.

00:20:36.220 They accused Donald Trump of having some nefarious dealings, Russian collusion, let's say.

00:20:42.680 No evidence of Russian collusion, of course, but that's what they accuse him of.

00:20:45.880 That's what they want to talk about.

00:20:47.460 And then Donald Trump sends out a tweet about how much he doesn't like John McCain.

00:20:51.680 Or he sends out a tweet about how Kellyanne Conway's husband is a total loser, which he did today.

00:20:56.480 And then everyone talks about that and no one talks about the scandal or the collusion or whatever.

00:21:03.380 And they say, Trump is distracting us.

00:21:06.220 AOC is doing that for real.

00:21:08.240 There is a scandal.

00:21:09.480 We know what the scandal is.

00:21:10.920 She funneled a million bucks to her cronies and her handlers during her campaign. 1.00

00:21:17.100 Nobody talks about it because she says ridiculous things about the environment. 0.61

00:21:20.660 And she puts out proposals to abolish automobiles.

00:21:24.140 And she puts out proposals to knock down every building in the country.

00:21:27.540 And she says it's going to cost $93 trillion.

00:21:30.040 And the way we're going to pay for it is abolish the entire energy industry and print money from the Federal Reserve.

00:21:34.740 And people say, this is crazy.

00:21:36.760 This is crazy.

00:21:37.280 They don't focus on the actual scandal.

00:21:39.560 Something tells me that the conspiracy theory is true.

00:21:45.820 AOC is an effective mouthpiece.

00:21:48.460 But look, political operators, political thinkers, political activists have always needed effective mouthpieces.

00:21:55.440 And very often, effective mouthpieces are not the smartest people in the world.

00:21:59.420 So they've got that.

00:22:00.600 But something tells me that her handlers are pretty sharp.

00:22:03.180 That guy, Chagrabarty, is that his name?

00:22:05.760 What is his actual name?

00:22:08.660 Yes, Saikot Chagrabarty.

00:22:11.360 He's a Harvard graduate.

00:22:13.900 Not always a recommendation of somebody.

00:22:16.180 Not always a testament to someone's intelligence.

00:22:19.160 Especially these days.

00:22:20.400 But he seems like a sharp guy.

00:22:23.120 He was a big guy on the Bernie Sanders campaign.

00:22:25.560 He's a major person pulling the strings here.

00:22:28.360 Maybe they know what they're doing.

00:22:29.860 And we'll have to see what the next step is for them.

00:22:31.600 Obviously, they can't let the favorables fall too much among everybody else.

00:22:35.200 But right now, it seems like they're walking a tightrope and doing it pretty well.

00:22:39.020 Another candidate who's performing a lot better than I think a lot of us thought he would is Beto O'Rourke.

00:22:45.460 Beto O'Rourke.

00:22:46.720 Robert Francis.

00:22:47.920 I'm Pedro Knowles.

00:22:49.140 He's Beto O'Rourke.

00:22:51.000 He rolls out his campaign.

00:22:52.720 A lot of people said the campaign rollout didn't work.

00:22:56.060 He seems like he's a privileged white guy.

00:23:00.640 He's kind of awkward.

00:23:02.620 He's moving his hand up and down a lot.

00:23:04.360 He doesn't seem to have much of a coherent message.

00:23:06.980 He's trying to play both sides of the Democrat Party, the centrists, and the far left.

00:23:12.000 And then he wouldn't release his 24-hour fundraising numbers.

00:23:15.440 And so the whole news media, even the left, said,

00:23:18.760 See, it's all fake.

00:23:20.700 It's all astroturf.

00:23:22.220 He's not going to raise any money.

00:23:24.820 Then a day later, total fakeout.

00:23:27.440 He releases his fundraising numbers.

00:23:29.300 He sets records.

00:23:30.100 $6.1 million in 24 hours.

00:23:32.380 Previously, we had been talking about how Bernie Sanders broke all these records.

00:23:38.080 He was raising, what did he raise?

00:23:39.520 $5.9 million.

00:23:40.740 Beto beat him.

00:23:42.160 He beat out Bernie.

00:23:42.940 It means Beto is a good campaigner.

00:23:45.880 He's also rich, something very few people talk about.

00:23:49.260 He's worth $9 million himself.

00:23:51.400 His wife is the heiress to a multi-billion dollar fortune.

00:23:55.260 This guy is loaded.

00:23:57.280 This guy has money coming out of his ears.

00:23:59.980 And that always helps in campaigns.

00:24:02.180 It always helps when you can self-fund.

00:24:03.640 Look at the current president of the United States.

00:24:06.340 He's a better campaigner than many of us expected.

00:24:09.500 Now, why are people saying he had a bad rollout?

00:24:11.800 Well, because he seems just like such a creep.

00:24:14.460 He's such a weird, creepy, feminist guy.

00:24:16.960 He's that weirdo that you would never let your girlfriend near in college.

00:24:21.480 He skateboards around Whataburger parking lots.

00:24:24.540 He moves his hand up and down like a parody of the 1940s.

00:24:29.280 He's getting skewered on late night comedy.

00:24:32.260 Here's Jimmy Fallon sending up Beto O'Rourke.

00:24:36.040 And now a message from Beto O'Rourke.

00:24:38.820 Hi, I'm Beto O'Rourke and I'm excited.

00:24:42.320 That's it.

00:24:43.400 I'm just excited.

00:24:44.300 Oh, yeah, I'm also running for president of the United States.

00:24:47.960 I love the United States.

00:24:49.520 And I love running.

00:24:50.580 In fact, I literally just ran eight miles to get here.

00:24:53.560 Folks often say to me,

00:24:54.780 We don't know much about you, Beto.

00:24:56.380 We know you ran against Ted Cruz in Texas.

00:24:58.420 We know you're hot.

00:24:59.400 And then usually the hot thing comes up again.

00:25:01.600 But who's the real Beto O'Rourke?

00:25:03.800 Well, I'm sort of like if a compassionate head nod turned into a person.

00:25:09.280 Because the truth is, I care.

00:25:11.580 I care so much.

00:25:12.820 When I eat salads, I thank every individual leaf for its sacrifice.

00:25:16.960 When I donate blood, I don't let them stop until the last possible second.

00:25:20.360 God, this country's great.

00:25:24.260 Anyway, the question I get most is, can you actually beat Donald Trump?

00:25:27.960 And the answer is, heck yeah.

00:25:29.900 I was born to do this.

00:25:31.520 I'm like if your friend's hot dad had the energy of a golden retriever.

00:25:34.960 Thanks, everyone.

00:25:37.460 God, I feel so passionate right now.

00:25:39.280 I love America.

00:25:40.560 I love democracy.

00:25:41.800 I love air.

00:25:45.420 The whole sketch is pretty good.

00:25:47.520 Fallon goes on like this for a while.

00:25:48.780 And then at the end of it, he says something to the effect of,

00:25:51.440 And hey, are there people who have better policy proposals than me?

00:25:55.260 Yeah.

00:25:56.820 And it kind of cuts out from there.

00:25:59.140 And so it is a send-up.

00:26:00.480 I mean, he's definitely making fun of Beto O'Rourke.

00:26:04.740 However, this is another instance of no press is bad press.

00:26:09.240 And the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

00:26:11.980 Because when you look at that send-up, sure, they are making fun of Beto.

00:26:16.340 What are they making fun of him for?

00:26:19.660 He's really enthusiastic.

00:26:23.000 Okay?

00:26:23.540 Is that a bad thing?

00:26:24.580 He's got a lot of energy.

00:26:27.500 Okay?

00:26:28.020 Is that a bad thing?

00:26:28.680 He's really positive.

00:26:30.520 Is that a bad thing?

00:26:31.760 He donates blood.

00:26:34.940 Is that a bad thing?

00:26:37.160 He's a little airy.

00:26:39.660 He's more enthusiastic than he is a policy wonk.

00:26:44.100 Okay.

00:26:45.180 When was the last time we had a policy wonk president?

00:26:48.300 Bill Clinton, I guess, was the last.

00:26:51.380 I mean, is that?

00:26:52.220 Okay.

00:26:53.640 George W. Bush wasn't a policy wonk.

00:26:55.540 Barack Obama's not a policy wonk.

00:26:56.880 Donald Trump's not a policy wonk.

00:26:58.680 Who cares?

00:27:00.600 So they ding him a little bit for not having really firm policies.

00:27:04.420 But they're basically making him to like a really nice, happy, excited, enthusiastic guy who wants to serve.

00:27:10.780 That's the best possible way you could possibly be mocked.

00:27:16.440 That's a win.

00:27:17.220 That's a win on a rollout.

00:27:19.400 Now, I still have my doubts about the Beto campaign.

00:27:22.740 Because he is weird and creepy.

00:27:24.780 And he is nothing.

00:27:26.260 He's trying to do Obama over again.

00:27:28.300 And you can't do Obama over again.

00:27:30.520 However, the one thing we have to focus on, the one thing we can't forget, he came within three points of turning Texas blue.

00:27:39.560 Well, he was running against Ted Cruz, who's a flawed candidate.

00:27:42.440 True.

00:27:42.980 He was running against Ted Cruz, who had a very famous spat with Donald Trump.

00:27:47.900 And Donald Trump didn't support him that much.

00:27:50.220 Sure.

00:27:51.580 Donald Trump would mop the floor with Beto.

00:27:53.200 Yeah, I think that's true.

00:27:54.060 Still, he came within three points of turning Texas blue.

00:27:57.760 And the question is not, can Beto turn Texas blue?

00:28:00.380 The question is, can Beto convince Democrats that there's a chance that he can turn Texas blue?

00:28:06.720 Duh.

00:28:07.400 Totally.

00:28:08.140 That's why they donated all that money to him, $80 million in 2018.

00:28:11.640 That's why he got so close in 2018.

00:28:14.520 And if he can convince Democrats that he could possibly turn Texas blue,

00:28:18.200 then he is saying to them, I can possibly bring 38 electoral votes that were guaranteed red.

00:28:24.980 I will end the election in one state.

00:28:28.520 That promise covers a multitude of sins.

00:28:30.940 That is a real possibility.

00:28:34.180 And so all of Beto being really excited, being like a golden retriever,

00:28:39.280 okay, it doesn't seem to hurt him that much.

00:28:44.280 Certain candidates are not having as successful a rollout.

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00:30:23.800 So what is Beto's appeal?

00:30:26.120 Why is he having a better rollout than some people thought he was?

00:30:29.240 He's appealing to the lowest common denominator.

00:30:33.740 That's what he's doing.

00:30:34.700 He is just pandering.

00:30:37.840 And that's the way that politics is moving, especially on the left.

00:30:41.260 Not exclusively on the left, but especially on the left.

00:30:43.960 He is, he was actually at a campaign stop in Iowa.

00:30:46.520 And he said he just wants to be a vessel for people's ideas.

00:30:50.880 He wants the voters to mold him into the candidate that they want.

00:30:55.120 Can you imagine that?

00:30:55.900 He basically goes up there and says,

00:30:58.220 Hey, guys, I stand for nothing.

00:30:59.960 I am nobody.

00:31:01.140 I have no core beliefs.

00:31:02.660 All I've ever done in my entire life is be in the government.

00:31:05.800 I was on the El Paso City Council, then in Congress.

00:31:09.280 All I am is raw ambition.

00:31:11.160 I was born to be in it, man.

00:31:12.800 I just want to be in it.

00:31:14.360 Yeah.

00:31:14.780 All I care about is power and attention and getting my ego stroked.

00:31:19.760 So just tell me what to think and then I'll think it and it's no big deal.

00:31:23.020 Okay, cool.

00:31:23.900 Not the deal.

00:31:24.600 It's pure pandering.

00:31:26.460 But that's what all of the Democrat politicians are doing right now, other than Howard Schultz.

00:31:30.460 Howard Schultz is the one guy going up to Democrats and saying,

00:31:33.340 You're wrong.

00:31:34.240 Don't do this.

00:31:35.080 Don't embrace socialism.

00:31:36.420 And how is he being rewarded for that?

00:31:38.480 He is not even a consideration in the 2020 race so far.

00:31:42.840 Here is Kirsten Gillibrand, perfect mediocrity, doing exactly the same sort of pandering. 0.83

00:31:48.600 And the difference here is that she's a terrible politician. 1.00

00:31:52.620 Camille Paglia says that she is a perfect mediocrity of a candidate. 0.75

00:31:56.540 And she is.

00:31:57.440 I mean, she is nothing. 0.52

00:31:59.060 I was thinking the other night.

00:32:00.920 I was talking with some friends.

00:32:02.540 I said, Why is she even running? 0.99

00:32:04.520 Because why not?

00:32:05.860 I guess just to raise her name recognition for next time or something.

00:32:10.900 Or maybe run for vice president because every candidate is saying they have to pick a female VP. 1.00

00:32:16.040 Obviously, Beto O'Rourke said that would be his preference.

00:32:19.780 They all say they sort of need a female vice president. 1.00

00:32:23.020 Okay, maybe that's it.

00:32:24.600 Here is her pathetic pandering. 1.00

00:32:26.920 Immigration is not a security issue.

00:32:29.480 It is an economic and a humanitarian and a family issue.

00:32:32.520 So, there is no such thing as an illegal human.

00:32:46.660 Right.

00:32:47.580 Well, yeah.

00:32:48.900 There's no such thing as an illegal human.

00:32:51.560 Are there criminals, though?

00:32:54.500 There is no such thing as a criminal.

00:32:57.560 How about the guy in New Zealand?

00:32:58.620 Is he a criminal?

00:32:59.400 The guy who shot up that mosque? 0.99

00:33:00.520 Is that guy a criminal?

00:33:03.280 We should ask Kirsten Gillibrand this.

00:33:05.760 Something tells me she would say yes.

00:33:07.780 She would say, Okay.

00:33:08.700 So, then there are people who commit illegal acts and they're criminals.

00:33:12.020 And they need to be punished for their illegal acts.

00:33:14.240 We're at least granting that as a category.

00:33:16.640 Yeah, yeah.

00:33:17.060 I guess we grant that.

00:33:18.080 Okay.

00:33:18.560 So, then, for instance, people who invade a foreign country, 0.56

00:33:21.380 who cross the border illegally,

00:33:23.800 unvetted,

00:33:24.800 come in,

00:33:25.400 use welfare services,

00:33:27.900 commit crimes,

00:33:29.060 federal crimes at higher rates,

00:33:30.520 who do all of those things,

00:33:32.280 who break our laws,

00:33:33.300 some of our most fundamental laws.

00:33:35.540 Are they criminals?

00:33:36.940 Well,

00:33:37.680 okay.

00:33:39.040 So, then they're illegal aliens.

00:33:40.240 That's not a term of derision.

00:33:41.940 That's not a slur.

00:33:42.920 That's not an insult.

00:33:43.860 That is the most clinical term you can possibly use.

00:33:48.480 Dreamer?

00:33:49.020 Is that a more precise term?

00:33:50.400 I have dreams all the time.

00:33:52.160 Undocumented worker?

00:33:52.980 I was an undocumented worker when I was 14

00:33:55.080 at the Subway sandwich store.

00:33:57.260 Illegal immigrant?

00:33:58.560 They're not even really immigrants. 0.85

00:34:00.600 Immigrant sort of assumes that the country is taking you in. 0.99

00:34:03.380 We're not acquiescing to take them in.

00:34:06.280 They're illegal aliens. 0.88

00:34:07.500 They're foreign nationals here in this country illegally, 1.00

00:34:09.880 and they're supposed to not be.

00:34:11.140 They're supposed to be gone.

00:34:12.100 They're supposed to be deported.

00:34:12.900 That's a precise term.

00:34:16.120 Nobody,

00:34:17.340 no person is illegal.

00:34:19.560 Beep, beep, boop. 1.00

00:34:20.900 Beep, plug in to

00:34:22.000 talking point program.

00:34:24.900 No person is

00:34:26.360 beep, beep, beep, boop. 0.98

00:34:28.120 Obviously,

00:34:28.880 this is ridiculous pandering.

00:34:31.100 And to say that it's not a national security issue,

00:34:34.140 let me ask Kirsten Gillibrand a question.

00:34:36.020 How come every other country on earth

00:34:37.580 considers immigration a national security issue?

00:34:40.700 Why do they have armed guards along their borders?

00:34:43.400 Why do they have

00:34:44.080 very robust systems for customs and border protection?

00:34:47.920 Why do they build walls?

00:34:49.460 Why does every other country on earth do that except for us?

00:34:52.700 Is it that every other country on earth is wrong

00:34:54.880 and is viewing the issue in a wrong way?

00:34:56.540 Or are we viewing it?

00:34:57.960 Are you viewing it in the wrong way?

00:35:00.560 Of course it's a national security issue.

00:35:03.360 If you can't determine

00:35:04.880 who comes in and out of your country,

00:35:06.780 what security do you have?

00:35:09.540 Why do we have guys with guns on the border?

00:35:11.760 Why does everyone else have guys with guns on the border?

00:35:14.080 Because it's a security issue.

00:35:16.800 We know that people are taking in a ton of drugs every year.

00:35:20.360 We have a major opioid crisis.

00:35:21.940 The average life expectancy in the U.S.

00:35:23.500 is decreasing two years in a row.

00:35:25.920 That's not a security issue?

00:35:27.660 Of course it is.

00:35:29.540 So it's pure pandering.

00:35:30.860 She doesn't do it as effectively.

00:35:32.220 Beto's a lot better at this.

00:35:33.220 She needs to learn to skateboard or something. 1.00

00:35:34.880 But they're not the only ones pandering.

00:35:37.140 Now we have Elizabeth Warren

00:35:38.920 pledging to get rid of the Electoral College.

00:35:43.080 The Electoral College,

00:35:44.380 this is a big issue for Democrats now.

00:35:47.120 Why?

00:35:47.440 Because Democrats want pure democracy.

00:35:49.540 They want mob rule.

00:35:50.920 How do they want to push this?

00:35:52.820 They push this by basically obliterating

00:35:55.100 civics education in this country

00:35:57.000 so that people mistakenly believe

00:35:58.520 that the United States is a democracy.

00:36:01.000 We are not a democracy.

00:36:02.320 We've never been a democracy.

00:36:04.080 The Founding Fathers feared democracy tremendously.

00:36:07.140 That's why they set up the Electoral College. 0.94

00:36:10.240 The Electoral College

00:36:11.460 is a very good institution.

00:36:15.240 Now some people ask,

00:36:16.340 they say,

00:36:16.680 look,

00:36:17.080 I don't understand why we have the Electoral College.

00:36:19.480 Let's just get rid of it.

00:36:21.840 Right.

00:36:22.380 That's the problem.

00:36:23.040 You are the last person

00:36:24.440 who should have any say over our government

00:36:26.180 if you say,

00:36:27.520 I don't know why this exists.

00:36:29.040 Let's get rid of it.

00:36:30.340 This is Chesterton's fence.

00:36:33.480 Only when you can tell me

00:36:35.140 the purpose of the Electoral College,

00:36:37.600 why it exists,

00:36:39.220 what it has done throughout history,

00:36:41.440 why it has persisted,

00:36:43.080 only then am I willing

00:36:44.680 to even have a conversation with you

00:36:46.380 about whether or not

00:36:47.440 we should get rid of the Electoral College. 0.69

00:36:49.000 Here's one example

00:36:49.960 of how great the Electoral College is.

00:36:51.440 This is one,

00:36:53.020 anytime someone brings up

00:36:54.360 this stupid idea to you, 0.84

00:36:56.060 answer them with this.

00:36:57.800 The Electoral College

00:36:58.840 is responsible for ending slavery.

00:37:02.260 Without the Electoral College,

00:37:04.020 we would not have ended slavery

00:37:05.240 when we did.

00:37:06.260 Why is that?

00:37:07.100 Because in the 1860 presidential election,

00:37:09.740 Abraham Lincoln

00:37:10.480 did not win the popular vote.

00:37:12.900 Abraham Lincoln

00:37:13.520 not only didn't get the popular vote,

00:37:15.400 he didn't get 40% of the popular vote.

00:37:17.580 He got a little less than 40%

00:37:19.580 of the popular vote.

00:37:21.440 But he won

00:37:23.880 in the Electoral College.

00:37:25.960 Then we had a civil war

00:37:27.460 and then slavery was abolished

00:37:29.020 five years later.

00:37:31.780 That's pretty good.

00:37:32.900 That's a good record.

00:37:34.680 Now why?

00:37:35.400 Why does the Electoral College

00:37:36.500 function this way?

00:37:37.360 Why?

00:37:37.720 Because the Electoral College

00:37:38.920 functions

00:37:39.860 as a

00:37:41.480 safety measure

00:37:43.020 for direct democracy,

00:37:45.060 for mob rule.

00:37:46.640 Why is pure democracy

00:37:48.400 supposed to be a good thing?

00:37:50.060 Because it prevents tyranny?

00:37:52.480 Pure mob rule

00:37:53.320 is the worst tyranny

00:37:54.160 I've ever heard of.

00:37:55.340 At least when you talk

00:37:56.300 about actual tyrants,

00:37:57.380 actual dictators,

00:37:58.640 actual bad monarchs.

00:38:00.680 At least there's a chance

00:38:01.860 those people were educated.

00:38:03.160 At least there's a chance

00:38:04.100 they have some higher sense.

00:38:05.860 At least there's a chance

00:38:06.520 they have some practice

00:38:07.560 at governing.

00:38:08.720 The mob?

00:38:09.360 What is the mob?

00:38:10.000 The mob is

00:38:10.580 given away

00:38:11.780 to its passions.

00:38:13.000 We say facts

00:38:13.660 don't care about

00:38:14.240 your feelings.

00:38:14.940 Mobs are pure feeling. 1.00

00:38:16.280 The lynch mob

00:38:16.900 is pure feeling.

00:38:19.100 And that's what

00:38:19.720 direct democracy

00:38:20.700 very frequently

00:38:21.900 turns into

00:38:22.600 is a lynch mob.

00:38:24.740 And that's what

00:38:25.440 they're calling for

00:38:26.200 because they want

00:38:27.140 to be able

00:38:27.700 to play on the passions

00:38:29.220 of voters.

00:38:30.460 They want to play

00:38:30.860 on their emotions.

00:38:31.880 That's why they always

00:38:32.400 want greater direct election.

00:38:34.660 Direct election of senators.

00:38:35.980 Direct election

00:38:36.540 of the president.

00:38:39.700 Nancy Pelosi

00:38:40.500 is calling for this.

00:38:41.520 She wants to expand 0.91

00:38:42.240 democracy so much

00:38:43.160 not just to get rid

00:38:44.380 of the electoral college.

00:38:45.260 She wants to lower 0.97

00:38:46.040 the voting age

00:38:46.820 now to 16.

00:38:49.020 I myself

00:38:49.840 personally

00:38:51.140 am not speaking

00:38:51.700 for my caucus.

00:38:52.960 I myself

00:38:53.460 have always been

00:38:54.140 for lowering

00:38:54.560 the voting age

00:38:55.680 to 16.

00:38:56.560 I think it's really

00:38:57.460 important to capture

00:38:58.420 kids when they're

00:38:59.440 in high school

00:39:00.040 when they're interested

00:39:01.080 in all of this

00:39:02.240 when they're learning

00:39:02.980 about government

00:39:03.860 to be able to vote.

00:39:05.840 That is

00:39:06.140 not necessary

00:39:07.940 you know

00:39:08.340 in other words

00:39:08.780 some of the priorities

00:39:09.660 in this bill

00:39:10.360 about transparency

00:39:12.640 and openness

00:39:13.540 and accessibility

00:39:14.360 and the rest.

00:39:16.160 That's a subject

00:39:17.060 of debate

00:39:17.800 but my view

00:39:18.920 is that

00:39:19.560 I would welcome that.

00:39:21.320 First of all

00:39:21.900 she is speaking

00:39:22.700 for her caucus.

00:39:23.580 She said look

00:39:23.860 it's just my view

00:39:24.560 I'm not speaking for all.

00:39:25.520 Of course the Democrats

00:39:26.340 want to lower the age 0.60

00:39:27.080 to 16.

00:39:28.880 That's their

00:39:29.280 children

00:39:29.800 is their constituency.

00:39:31.640 If we lower

00:39:32.340 the voting age

00:39:32.940 to 16

00:39:33.460 Democrats would win 0.99

00:39:34.300 many many many

00:39:34.980 more elections.

00:39:36.040 And listen to

00:39:36.800 what she says

00:39:37.480 her language

00:39:38.040 it's important

00:39:39.260 that we capture

00:39:40.080 these

00:39:40.580 whoops

00:39:41.480 did I say that?

00:39:42.440 That's what she means

00:39:43.100 they want to capture them

00:39:43.960 when they're still

00:39:45.000 being indoctrinated

00:39:46.080 in public school.

00:39:47.420 While they're still there

00:39:48.400 being told only one side

00:39:49.560 of the story

00:39:50.140 while they're still

00:39:51.580 uneducated

00:39:52.460 she wants to grab them

00:39:54.180 and get them

00:39:54.620 voting Democrat.

00:39:56.340 Because once you start

00:39:57.000 voting a certain way

00:39:57.920 you're more likely

00:39:58.680 to stick around that way.

00:39:59.980 The question for Nancy Pelosi

00:40:01.160 is why 16?

00:40:02.260 Why stop there?

00:40:03.800 Why not 15?

00:40:04.800 15 year olds

00:40:07.680 are in high school

00:40:08.320 are 15 year olds

00:40:09.740 really stupider

00:40:10.480 and less educated

00:40:11.180 than 16 year olds?

00:40:12.360 No.

00:40:13.520 Why not 14?

00:40:14.660 14 year olds

00:40:15.340 are in high school.

00:40:16.460 If this is about rights

00:40:18.180 if this is about

00:40:20.000 the right to vote

00:40:21.040 if this is about

00:40:21.680 representation

00:40:22.540 more representation

00:40:23.540 this is about

00:40:24.600 capturing kids even

00:40:25.760 why not lower it

00:40:27.340 to 14?

00:40:29.840 Unless the vote

00:40:31.000 is about something else

00:40:32.260 unless our electoral

00:40:34.040 system is about

00:40:34.820 something else

00:40:35.360 this is where

00:40:35.920 we put the cart

00:40:36.700 before the horse

00:40:37.760 this is where

00:40:39.100 the tail wags

00:40:39.920 the dog

00:40:40.420 there is nothing

00:40:42.120 intrinsically wonderful

00:40:43.840 about voting

00:40:45.360 there's nothing

00:40:47.020 about the act

00:40:47.720 of voting

00:40:48.120 that is so

00:40:48.660 intrinsically good

00:40:50.160 and virtuous

00:40:50.820 and moral

00:40:51.460 and terrific

00:40:52.060 voting

00:40:53.800 suffrage

00:40:54.900 our electoral system

00:40:56.280 is a mechanism

00:40:57.660 for good governance

00:40:59.520 and that has a lot

00:41:00.700 of moral qualities

00:41:01.400 to it

00:41:01.780 but voting

00:41:03.460 itself

00:41:03.960 who cares

00:41:04.540 the purpose

00:41:07.180 of voting

00:41:08.260 is to have

00:41:09.400 a good government

00:41:10.480 the purpose

00:41:11.740 of our government

00:41:12.440 is not to make

00:41:13.220 more people vote

00:41:13.920 and democrats

00:41:15.400 seem to be saying

00:41:16.120 that these days

00:41:16.760 oh we need

00:41:17.840 to extend

00:41:18.420 suffrage

00:41:18.940 to everybody

00:41:20.220 to two year olds

00:41:21.120 the ones that we

00:41:21.660 didn't kill

00:41:22.080 we're going to

00:41:22.420 make them vote

00:41:23.020 and they're all

00:41:23.660 going to vote

00:41:23.940 for democrats

00:41:24.600 why

00:41:27.560 maybe the purpose

00:41:29.060 of voting

00:41:29.540 is a little different

00:41:30.340 maybe there are

00:41:31.560 moral hazards

00:41:32.220 to having 15 year olds

00:41:33.440 vote

00:41:33.680 or 12 year olds

00:41:34.420 vote

00:41:34.720 maybe that's not

00:41:35.920 a great idea

00:41:36.580 and this is ultimately

00:41:38.500 a sort of selfishness

00:41:39.620 I mean this is

00:41:40.180 what a self-obsessed

00:41:41.440 age gets to

00:41:43.160 which is

00:41:44.040 it's all about

00:41:45.580 me me me

00:41:46.060 it's all about

00:41:46.480 me voting

00:41:46.940 I want to get

00:41:47.440 the little sticker

00:41:48.000 that says

00:41:48.340 I voted

00:41:48.840 and yeah

00:41:49.320 and vote or die

00:41:50.480 and it's me me me

00:41:51.420 look how great I am

00:41:52.180 I'm going to take

00:41:52.560 a picture

00:41:52.860 no

00:41:53.200 it's not about you

00:41:54.480 if I were told

00:41:56.360 today

00:41:56.760 that we could have

00:41:58.540 a much better

00:41:59.060 government

00:41:59.440 if I didn't vote

00:42:00.560 I would not vote

00:42:01.740 I would never

00:42:02.140 vote again

00:42:02.620 now if I were told

00:42:04.580 we would get a

00:42:06.100 worse government

00:42:08.640 if I don't

00:42:09.160 then I'll vote

00:42:09.640 okay

00:42:09.920 then I want to vote

00:42:10.680 but I don't

00:42:13.020 actually care about

00:42:13.940 the act itself

00:42:15.000 for me

00:42:15.560 let's not forget

00:42:18.420 with this specific

00:42:19.160 example that kids

00:42:20.160 are idiots

00:42:20.800 here is a prime

00:42:22.300 example from down

00:42:23.220 under

00:42:23.480 a lot of things

00:42:24.480 happen

00:42:24.820 when people

00:42:26.760 are getting

00:42:27.080 attacked

00:42:27.620 in their own

00:42:28.400 first of all

00:42:36.200 totally Australian

00:42:37.140 move

00:42:37.640 TAM

00:42:38.540 where

00:42:39.500 the kid

00:42:40.700 if you couldn't

00:42:41.120 see it

00:42:41.520 this teenage kid

00:42:43.100 goes up to an

00:42:44.160 Australian senator

00:42:45.000 with his camera

00:42:46.500 out

00:42:46.860 and an egg

00:42:47.480 in his hand

00:42:48.240 and smacks

00:42:49.520 the egg

00:42:50.000 on the senator's

00:42:50.800 face

00:42:51.100 and the senator

00:42:52.000 turns around

00:42:52.660 it's being reported

00:42:53.280 that he punched

00:42:53.800 the kid in the face

00:42:54.500 which he actually

00:42:55.160 didn't

00:42:55.420 he slapped the kid

00:42:56.540 on the face

00:42:57.080 as the kid

00:42:58.000 deserves

00:42:58.540 if that kid's

00:42:59.280 parents had slapped

00:43:00.000 him in the face

00:43:00.500 he wouldn't behave

00:43:01.080 like that

00:43:01.500 and then the kid

00:43:03.160 gets tackled to the

00:43:03.920 ground

00:43:04.140 which of course

00:43:04.680 he should

00:43:05.060 this is a senator

00:43:06.220 this is a major

00:43:06.920 politician

00:43:07.480 some kid goes up

00:43:08.500 and physically

00:43:09.060 assaults him

00:43:09.760 yeah that kid's

00:43:10.780 going to have

00:43:11.040 some trouble

00:43:11.540 and by the way

00:43:12.380 for people

00:43:12.760 defending the kid

00:43:13.640 because the senator

00:43:14.520 made controversial

00:43:15.980 comments

00:43:16.520 for those

00:43:17.940 defending the kid

00:43:18.780 the kid

00:43:20.000 didn't just go up

00:43:20.740 there were a lot

00:43:21.100 of news cameras

00:43:21.720 the kid didn't

00:43:22.180 just go up

00:43:22.620 and take an egg

00:43:23.240 and throw it at him 0.75

00:43:24.460 before the kid

00:43:25.980 picked up the egg

00:43:26.720 he picked up

00:43:27.540 his cell phone

00:43:28.140 what the kid

00:43:29.480 was trying to do

00:43:30.140 was get insta famous

00:43:31.320 so he goes up

00:43:32.580 he takes the cell phone

00:43:33.460 he's going to have

00:43:33.840 a really good insta post

00:43:35.040 and then he hits

00:43:36.120 the senator

00:43:36.860 with the egg

00:43:38.000 now in America

00:43:39.040 because we're

00:43:39.700 sort of

00:43:40.480 more put together

00:43:42.200 polite people here

00:43:43.300 the version of this

00:43:44.740 that we just saw

00:43:45.240 was Dianne Feinstein

00:43:46.240 telling off those kids

00:43:47.660 who were trying to

00:43:48.160 tell her how to

00:43:48.660 do her job

00:43:49.240 the Australian version

00:43:50.500 obviously is you

00:43:51.040 smack somebody 1.00

00:43:51.740 in the face

00:43:52.300 because Australia

00:43:53.140 was founded

00:43:53.620 as a penal colony

00:43:54.500 and they're

00:43:55.020 you know

00:43:55.340 they're a little

00:43:56.520 more aggressive

00:43:57.120 down there

00:43:57.600 you see this

00:43:58.580 with Russell Crowe

00:43:59.460 you see this

00:43:59.940 with Mel Gibson

00:44:00.760 you see a lot

00:44:01.400 of Australian people

00:44:02.340 very famously

00:44:03.160 the

00:44:04.820 actual takeaway

00:44:07.840 from this

00:44:08.380 is not

00:44:08.920 did the bodyguards

00:44:09.940 react too strongly

00:44:10.920 to the kid

00:44:11.440 maybe they did

00:44:12.120 maybe they didn't

00:44:12.760 I don't know

00:44:13.180 the reaction

00:44:14.200 is well

00:44:14.880 the senator

00:44:15.380 made

00:44:15.820 offensive remarks

00:44:16.980 about the shooting

00:44:17.600 in New Zealand

00:44:18.340 yeah

00:44:19.280 I guess

00:44:20.460 sure

00:44:20.840 the

00:44:23.220 the actual

00:44:24.000 takeaway

00:44:24.360 from this

00:44:25.300 act itself

00:44:26.340 is that

00:44:27.560 kids are

00:44:27.960 kids

00:44:28.340 kids do

00:44:28.960 stupid 0.75

00:44:29.240 things

00:44:29.660 kids are

00:44:30.060 not

00:44:30.200 mature

00:44:30.580 this is a

00:44:31.360 truism

00:44:31.840 they're not

00:44:33.200 they're immature

00:44:33.940 they're juvenile

00:44:34.780 they're kids

00:44:35.560 we don't want

00:44:37.400 our country

00:44:37.880 run by little

00:44:38.700 kids

00:44:39.020 we basically

00:44:41.680 already have it

00:44:42.360 they're just

00:44:42.680 overgrown

00:44:43.280 little kids

00:44:43.720 we don't

00:44:44.100 need to

00:44:44.340 make

00:44:44.540 that

00:44:45.040 problem

00:44:45.440 worse

00:44:45.740 but the

00:44:46.100 the issue

00:44:46.580 of pandering

00:44:47.140 is going

00:44:47.500 to get

00:44:47.780 worse

00:44:48.060 this is

00:44:48.920 the natural

00:44:49.500 temptation

00:44:49.980 of democracy

00:44:50.700 this is

00:44:51.340 what happens

00:44:51.820 as democracy

00:44:52.520 expands

00:44:53.240 is you get

00:44:54.000 more and more

00:44:54.780 pandering

00:44:55.260 more and more

00:44:56.020 pandering to the

00:44:57.100 lowest common

00:44:57.820 denominator

00:44:58.460 and that

00:44:59.180 accelerates on

00:44:59.980 itself

00:45:00.280 because the

00:45:00.600 more pandering

00:45:01.120 you get

00:45:01.540 the broader

00:45:02.700 you make

00:45:03.200 democracy

00:45:03.720 so you start

00:45:04.220 abolishing

00:45:04.720 good institutions

00:45:05.540 the electoral

00:45:06.080 college

00:45:06.540 you start

00:45:07.180 saying we need

00:45:07.560 to lower

00:45:07.800 the voting

00:45:08.140 age to

00:45:08.500 16

00:45:08.920 pretty soon

00:45:09.440 it'll be

00:45:09.680 lower the

00:45:10.000 voting age

00:45:10.420 to 14

00:45:10.900 that is

00:45:13.320 a really

00:45:14.120 difficult

00:45:14.680 aspect of

00:45:15.320 democracy

00:45:15.760 the way to

00:45:16.160 fight that

00:45:16.660 is to

00:45:17.100 reinstate

00:45:17.660 civics

00:45:18.120 education

00:45:18.660 to say it

00:45:19.600 proclaim it

00:45:20.060 from the

00:45:20.340 rooftops

00:45:20.760 we are not

00:45:21.400 a democracy

00:45:22.040 we are a

00:45:22.940 democratic

00:45:23.420 republic

00:45:24.140 we have

00:45:24.840 a constitution

00:45:25.680 we have

00:45:26.300 traditional

00:45:26.700 institutions

00:45:27.340 that are

00:45:27.720 safeguards

00:45:28.380 against

00:45:29.220 this sort

00:45:30.380 of

00:45:30.600 mob

00:45:31.240 rule

00:45:31.800 all simple

00:45:32.940 government

00:45:33.360 is bad

00:45:34.440 all shallows

00:45:35.900 are clear

00:45:36.640 we need

00:45:37.060 to

00:45:37.400 really

00:45:38.440 really

00:45:39.320 shout that

00:45:40.080 from the

00:45:40.400 rooftops

00:45:40.900 because

00:45:41.460 they've

00:45:42.020 got the

00:45:42.340 megaphone

00:45:42.760 they've

00:45:43.040 got the

00:45:43.340 bullhorn

00:45:43.800 they are

00:45:45.000 trying to

00:45:46.320 promote this

00:45:46.960 not just

00:45:47.560 through 2020

00:45:48.200 not just

00:45:48.940 through one

00:45:49.280 election

00:45:49.620 but through

00:45:50.200 so many

00:45:50.600 future

00:45:50.980 elections

00:45:51.420 and the

00:45:52.640 combination

00:45:54.000 with the

00:45:55.000 association

00:45:55.360 between this

00:45:56.020 issue

00:45:56.320 and the

00:45:57.300 education

00:45:57.800 scandal

00:45:58.440 that we

00:45:58.680 were talking

00:45:59.040 about last

00:45:59.520 week

00:45:59.740 is very

00:46:00.620 clear

00:46:01.040 when we

00:46:01.640 lose

00:46:02.220 the liberal

00:46:02.960 arts

00:46:03.240 when we

00:46:03.540 lose

00:46:03.880 education

00:46:04.480 we lose

00:46:05.540 our

00:46:05.700 capacity

00:46:06.160 for freedom

00:46:07.160 watching it

00:46:07.860 play out

00:46:08.200 in real

00:46:08.700 time

00:46:09.140 got a lot

00:46:10.000 more to

00:46:10.220 get to

00:46:10.480 we'll do

00:46:10.700 it

00:46:10.800 tomorrow

00:46:11.060 in the

00:46:11.280 meantime

00:46:11.480 I'm

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