The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 412 - The Libs Who Cried Wolf


Summary

On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show: Who Cried Wolf? The Democratic base is tired of being lied to. President Trump has fired his National Security Adviser John Bolton, and the media are covering it as if it were a big deal.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 An impeached Trump rally in Washington, D.C. draws a record crowd of zero people.
00:00:07.060 Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden collapses in early primary polls.
00:00:11.160 We examine what that means for the candidate at the party in 2020.
00:00:14.660 Then another Democratic candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, gets woke on borders and late-term abortion.
00:00:20.720 And finally, the New York Times gives us the single dumbest article on the Internet today.
00:00:27.400 And there was a lot of competition.
00:00:28.560 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:38.900 So much to get to today on this overarching topic of the Democrats who cried wolf.
00:00:47.140 Of what it seems to be from the presidential race, to the impeached Trump movement, to the mainstream media.
00:00:53.560 The Democratic base just seems to be tired of being lied to.
00:00:58.880 So we'll get to that in a second.
00:01:00.080 First, though, we've got some breaking news that just came out.
00:01:03.120 President Trump has fired his national security advisor, John Bolton.
00:01:08.540 He released the news on Twitter, of course.
00:01:10.580 Where else would he release it?
00:01:11.820 And President Trump tweeted, I quote,
00:01:13.320 This is a bad move for the administration.
00:01:36.160 John Bolton was one of the sharpest people in the White House with the greatest grasp on international politics.
00:01:46.500 He was despised by the left and many people on the right, which is how you know that he had done a pretty good job.
00:01:53.300 I would imagine the timing of this firing has something to do with the Taliban dust up.
00:02:00.920 There was going to be this Taliban meeting, secret negotiations at Camp David,
00:02:05.020 and it looked like the State Department under Mike Pompeo was pushing for that.
00:02:08.540 It looked like John Bolton, as a national security advisor, was pushing against that.
00:02:12.320 Then the meeting was put off.
00:02:14.660 Looks like John Bolton won that battle, but he may have lost the war because he is out.
00:02:19.200 It was always a little bit of a strange move for John Bolton to be picked as the national security advisor to President Trump.
00:02:27.460 And the reason for this is that President Trump ran in 2016 essentially as a dove.
00:02:32.660 He did say he wanted to destroy ISIS, so he had a little bit of that hawkish rhetoric,
00:02:37.340 but broadly he was an anti-war candidate.
00:02:40.080 And John Bolton has always favored a more aggressive foreign policy.
00:02:43.520 I think he wrote an op-ed in the New York Times when the Iran deal was being discussed
00:02:48.240 that said something to the effect of, to stop Iran's bomb, bomb Iran.
00:02:52.600 So it always seemed like a little bit of a strange match,
00:02:55.900 but I was glad that he was in the administration just because he's super smart.
00:02:59.820 Even if Bolton was an odd choice, it was healthy for Trump to have him there
00:03:03.060 because it gave some balance to the White House and because the guy's just so sharp and so experienced.
00:03:09.100 But I guess when I saw this news on Twitter, it occurred to me that today is just going to be
00:03:15.420 defend John Bolton against Species Attacks Day
00:03:18.140 because there is a popular narrative on the right that John Bolton is basically Bill Kristol with a mustache
00:03:24.960 or that John Bolton is a neocon warmonger or that John Bolton is some awful, terrible person.
00:03:31.560 And it's just ridiculous.
00:03:33.620 John Bolton, one of the lines that he brings up a lot in politics is that politics is complicated.
00:03:41.020 Geopolitics is complicated.
00:03:42.840 And to try to put him in one of these little categories as neocon or paleocon or something is ridiculous.
00:03:49.620 He isn't in any way easily categorized because he's an advanced and sophisticated mind.
00:03:57.640 The one way I think you could describe John Bolton's view of the world is to put American interests first.
00:04:05.240 I mean, you could describe him as an American first thinker.
00:04:09.260 And when John Bolton was the ambassador of the United Nations, this was very clear.
00:04:12.920 He was not confirmed.
00:04:14.800 President Bush had to appoint John Bolton as a recess appointment.
00:04:18.080 And earlier when Ambassador Bolton, I guess is how you would now refer to him,
00:04:24.260 earlier when Ambassador Bolton was speaking to the UN,
00:04:27.720 he made very clear his view of America's role in the world.
00:04:31.120 And it was a view that I think most Trump supporters would agree with,
00:04:34.940 which is that there is no such thing as the United Nations.
00:04:37.760 There is the interest of the United States,
00:04:39.900 which may or may not coincide with the preferences of the international community.
00:04:43.740 But regardless of what all those other countries want,
00:04:47.560 the U.S. will pursue her national interest.
00:04:51.380 That I want to leave with you in this very brief presentation is where I started.
00:04:56.460 There is no United Nations.
00:04:59.880 There is an international community that occasionally can be led
00:05:05.120 by the only real power left in the world, and that's the United States,
00:05:09.180 when it suits our interests, and when we can get others to go along.
00:05:14.560 The secretariat building in New York has 38 stories.
00:05:17.820 If you lost 10 stories today, it would make a bit of difference.
00:05:21.980 This kind of mindless creation of the United Nations as something different
00:05:29.220 than what it's in the United States' interest to do
00:05:32.100 isn't going to sell here or anywhere else.
00:05:34.940 The only question, the only question to the United States
00:05:38.300 is what's in our national interest.
00:05:40.260 And if you don't like that, I'm sorry, but that is the fact.
00:05:43.480 Love that guy.
00:05:44.420 The only way that I'll be okay with him leaving his NSA
00:05:46.660 is if they put him up to be the U.N. ambassador again.
00:05:50.160 That's my view on John Bolton.
00:05:52.380 But today's show is not about the Trump administration.
00:05:54.840 It's about the alternative.
00:05:56.780 It's about how the left seems to be collapsing,
00:05:59.940 and it seems to be collapsing rather quickly, all at once.
00:06:03.340 What's going on? We'll get to it in a second.
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00:08:00.460 Today's show is not about the Trump administration.
00:08:02.960 We'll have plenty of time
00:08:03.820 to talk about the Trump administration.
00:08:05.300 It's about the alternative,
00:08:06.680 because when I look around,
00:08:08.280 not just the rank and file left,
00:08:10.240 not just the presidential candidates,
00:08:11.840 not just the mainstream media,
00:08:13.060 I see it all collapsing at once.
00:08:17.160 You know, like Ernest Hemingway said,
00:08:18.780 gradually, then, suddenly.
00:08:21.560 There was an impeach Trump event yesterday in D.C.,
00:08:26.240 or at least there was supposed to be
00:08:27.520 an impeach Trump event yesterday in D.C.
00:08:30.180 It was going to be outside of the Capitol
00:08:31.980 where all the lawmakers are going to gather
00:08:34.580 because Congress is back in session
00:08:36.480 and they wanted to send a message
00:08:38.640 to impeach President Trump.
00:08:41.260 This was supported by some of the biggest organizations
00:08:43.540 on the left,
00:08:44.880 by Indivisible,
00:08:46.300 by MoveOn.org,
00:08:47.480 by Need to Impeach,
00:08:48.540 Stand Up America,
00:08:49.400 March of Truth,
00:08:50.300 By the People,
00:08:50.860 Common Cause,
00:08:51.500 Free Speech for People,
00:08:52.620 Democracy for America.
00:08:53.580 How many of these organizations
00:08:54.880 do these people have?
00:08:55.980 Progressive Democrats of America,
00:08:57.480 Credo,
00:08:58.120 and Democrats.com.
00:08:59.140 Here's what the website read
00:09:00.960 in advance of this event.
00:09:04.380 Quote,
00:09:05.480 The president, vice president,
00:09:06.880 and all civil officers
00:09:08.220 of the United States
00:09:09.340 shall be removed from office
00:09:11.160 on impeachment for
00:09:12.700 and conviction of
00:09:14.200 treason
00:09:14.840 by bribery
00:09:16.100 or other high crimes
00:09:17.920 and misdemeanors.
00:09:19.040 The charge of high crimes
00:09:20.080 and misdemeanors
00:09:20.720 covers allegations
00:09:21.580 of misconduct
00:09:22.300 by officials
00:09:23.340 such as perjury of oath,
00:09:25.680 abuse of authority,
00:09:27.120 bribery,
00:09:27.800 intimidation,
00:09:28.520 misuse of assets,
00:09:29.360 failure to supervise,
00:09:30.800 dereliction of duty.
00:09:31.600 They go on all these
00:09:32.460 awful terrible things
00:09:33.500 that Trump is alleged
00:09:34.800 to have done.
00:09:35.260 There was just one problem
00:09:38.040 with their event.
00:09:39.900 Nobody showed up.
00:09:42.280 Nobody showed up.
00:09:44.940 Zero people.
00:09:46.900 This was a big event
00:09:48.040 that had been promoted
00:09:49.020 by a lot of very big groups.
00:09:51.160 Why did nobody show up?
00:09:52.680 You know,
00:09:53.020 Breitbart was the one
00:09:54.340 who figured out
00:09:55.740 that this event
00:09:56.980 was a total flop
00:09:58.240 and then the reporters
00:09:59.700 at Breitbart reached out
00:10:00.680 to some of the people
00:10:02.020 who were putting it together.
00:10:03.000 No response.
00:10:03.740 And then immediately after
00:10:05.340 this was reported on,
00:10:06.840 the website took down
00:10:07.800 the event.
00:10:08.520 They wanted to forget about it.
00:10:10.660 Why did nobody
00:10:11.400 show up to this event?
00:10:13.160 Is it because
00:10:13.820 all of a sudden
00:10:14.760 everybody loves Trump?
00:10:16.820 I don't think so.
00:10:18.400 Is it because
00:10:18.900 nobody in the country
00:10:19.840 wants to impeach Trump?
00:10:21.060 No, I don't think so.
00:10:22.480 I think it's because
00:10:23.740 even leftists
00:10:25.360 are tired
00:10:26.500 of being taken
00:10:27.480 for suckers.
00:10:29.640 And they're tired
00:10:30.560 of being taken
00:10:31.140 for suckers
00:10:31.820 by their own
00:10:33.220 alleged leaders.
00:10:35.260 You know,
00:10:35.520 the left has cried wolf
00:10:37.100 for three years,
00:10:39.800 more than three years.
00:10:41.500 This is the result
00:10:42.720 of that.
00:10:44.240 The left
00:10:45.280 put all their eggs
00:10:46.780 in one basket
00:10:48.060 and that basket
00:10:49.220 was the Russia
00:10:50.120 collusion narrative.
00:10:52.260 We're going to impeach
00:10:53.380 Trump
00:10:53.800 because he's a traitor,
00:10:55.260 because he colluded
00:10:56.080 with Russia,
00:10:57.320 and it just
00:10:58.980 didn't happen.
00:11:00.120 So then,
00:11:01.100 it was Stormy Daniels.
00:11:02.940 Trump slept
00:11:04.100 with a porn star,
00:11:05.340 and we're going to
00:11:06.000 take Trump down
00:11:06.660 for that.
00:11:07.700 Then it was his finances.
00:11:09.640 Then it was back
00:11:10.320 to Russia again.
00:11:11.380 Then it was racism.
00:11:13.120 Then he called
00:11:13.860 neo-Nazis
00:11:14.720 very fine people,
00:11:15.780 except then you look
00:11:16.460 at the tape
00:11:16.840 and he didn't call
00:11:17.400 neo-Nazis
00:11:17.920 very fine people.
00:11:18.840 He explicitly
00:11:19.480 condemned them.
00:11:20.400 And then,
00:11:21.100 and then,
00:11:21.900 and then,
00:11:22.820 and then,
00:11:23.860 there was never
00:11:26.140 any argument
00:11:27.220 for impeachment.
00:11:29.720 And the left
00:11:30.360 knows this,
00:11:31.100 and the rank
00:11:31.500 and file knows this,
00:11:32.440 and they're sick of it.
00:11:34.640 Why,
00:11:35.040 look,
00:11:35.380 it's not that the left
00:11:36.160 doesn't want to impeach
00:11:36.840 Trump,
00:11:37.140 it's just,
00:11:37.900 you know,
00:11:38.300 you got to put on
00:11:39.400 your pants in the morning,
00:11:40.280 you got to walk out the door,
00:11:41.180 you got to take the bus,
00:11:41.980 you got to go over
00:11:42.780 to the Capitol,
00:11:43.800 you got to hold up
00:11:44.300 the signs,
00:11:44.920 impeach Trump,
00:11:45.480 and they don't believe
00:11:46.260 it anymore
00:11:46.700 because it's not
00:11:47.340 going to happen.
00:11:48.580 It is not going to happen.
00:11:49.840 The anti-Trump rhetoric
00:11:50.900 from the mainstream media
00:11:51.980 and Democratic candidates
00:11:53.120 is still in a fever pitch,
00:11:55.000 but it doesn't correspond
00:11:57.040 to reality.
00:11:58.660 Compare the resistance,
00:12:00.240 the Trump resistance,
00:12:01.160 to the Tea Party.
00:12:02.340 Think about these two things.
00:12:04.060 Tea Party,
00:12:05.020 2010,
00:12:06.440 even a little bit
00:12:07.060 before that,
00:12:08.560 totally legitimate movement
00:12:10.140 rose up in opposition
00:12:11.800 to a massively unpopular law
00:12:14.380 called Obamacare
00:12:15.680 that tried to take over
00:12:17.020 a sixth of the economy
00:12:18.000 that took away
00:12:18.600 Americans' doctors,
00:12:19.680 that made prices go up,
00:12:21.180 made the quality of care
00:12:22.260 decrease,
00:12:23.480 that unconstitutional
00:12:24.960 and only forced Americans
00:12:25.900 to buy a private product
00:12:27.560 from the federal level.
00:12:30.280 Also,
00:12:30.720 the Tea Party
00:12:31.180 was running against
00:12:32.220 a terrible economy.
00:12:34.020 Barack Obama
00:12:34.600 comes in in a recession,
00:12:35.940 sure,
00:12:36.420 but then because of
00:12:37.580 his awful economic policies,
00:12:39.100 there was no recovery,
00:12:40.740 slowest recovery in history.
00:12:42.700 They also,
00:12:43.800 in the Tea Party,
00:12:44.560 were running against
00:12:45.240 a very unpopular
00:12:45.980 corporate bailout.
00:12:47.340 So,
00:12:48.000 the big banks,
00:12:49.400 I mean,
00:12:49.760 there were several bailouts,
00:12:51.380 but there was the bailout
00:12:52.020 of the banks,
00:12:52.500 and then there was
00:12:52.860 the unpopular stimulus plan.
00:12:54.960 The banks,
00:12:56.100 in part,
00:12:56.720 get us into this mess,
00:12:57.760 and then what do we do?
00:12:58.580 The federal government
00:12:59.180 uses our tax dollars
00:13:00.500 to bail them out.
00:13:02.780 There was this
00:13:03.700 slush fund
00:13:04.560 stimulus package
00:13:05.640 that didn't bring
00:13:06.240 with it any jobs.
00:13:07.560 They also were running
00:13:08.660 against expanded wars
00:13:10.140 in the Middle East.
00:13:10.960 Barack Obama
00:13:11.580 expanded wars
00:13:12.380 in the Middle East
00:13:12.980 almost immediately
00:13:14.320 after he got elected.
00:13:16.040 And what did the Tea Party do?
00:13:17.200 They had these
00:13:17.540 legitimate grievances.
00:13:18.640 They were very specific.
00:13:19.880 They were very particular.
00:13:21.260 They organized.
00:13:22.440 They rallied their candidates.
00:13:23.380 They won 1,000 seats
00:13:25.100 around the country.
00:13:27.240 That's impressive.
00:13:28.600 And the thing
00:13:29.120 I always noticed
00:13:29.660 about Tea Party rallies,
00:13:30.860 I went to a number of them.
00:13:33.720 You know,
00:13:34.140 all the campaigns.
00:13:35.180 I was working on campaigns
00:13:36.060 at the time.
00:13:36.480 They would all stop
00:13:37.000 by these Tea Party rallies.
00:13:38.700 The Tea Party,
00:13:39.460 they'd show up,
00:13:40.380 and they'd leave
00:13:41.540 their rallies,
00:13:42.440 and the place looked cleaner
00:13:43.460 than it did
00:13:43.900 before they got there.
00:13:44.820 You know,
00:13:45.020 they were very well behaved.
00:13:46.900 Say whatever you will
00:13:47.800 about the ideology
00:13:49.180 of the Tea Party,
00:13:50.760 which I think
00:13:51.140 was really positive
00:13:51.960 for the country,
00:13:53.060 but they were well behaved.
00:13:55.380 They were serious people.
00:13:56.980 Compare that
00:13:57.380 to the resistance.
00:13:58.240 The resistance
00:13:58.760 is a bunch of
00:13:59.500 aggrieved ex-hippies
00:14:00.740 and blue-haired feminists
00:14:02.320 who don't like
00:14:03.200 Trump's mean tweets.
00:14:04.840 That's it.
00:14:05.360 What are they running against?
00:14:06.380 Are they running against
00:14:07.080 some unpopular law?
00:14:08.180 What's the unpopular law?
00:14:09.900 Tax cuts?
00:14:11.460 Yeah,
00:14:11.900 we need to sweep the country
00:14:13.280 because Trump let us
00:14:14.240 keep more of our money.
00:14:15.720 I don't think so.
00:14:16.960 Is it the economy?
00:14:18.680 No,
00:14:18.800 the economy is doing great.
00:14:20.160 Is it wars
00:14:22.420 in the Middle East?
00:14:23.200 If anything,
00:14:23.920 President Trump
00:14:24.460 has curtailed
00:14:25.360 wars in the Middle East.
00:14:27.440 They're not running
00:14:28.440 against anything real.
00:14:31.320 It's not even that
00:14:32.000 the left doesn't want
00:14:32.960 to impeach Trump anymore.
00:14:34.140 It's just that many of them
00:14:35.040 are very tired
00:14:35.900 of having
00:14:36.900 their
00:14:37.700 time wasted.
00:14:39.580 And you see this
00:14:40.420 in the presidential polls.
00:14:41.800 You know,
00:14:41.960 you see this,
00:14:42.820 the Democratic frontrunner
00:14:43.980 right now
00:14:44.500 is collapsing.
00:14:45.940 Terrible polls
00:14:46.740 coming out for Joe Biden
00:14:47.740 out of Iowa
00:14:49.740 and New Hampshire
00:14:50.460 must win
00:14:51.460 early primary states.
00:14:52.920 We'll get to that
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00:16:32.280 Bad news for Joe Biden,
00:16:33.880 Democratic frontrunner.
00:16:35.620 According to new
00:16:36.600 CBS YouGov polls
00:16:38.260 out of Iowa
00:16:39.000 and New Hampshire
00:16:40.160 early primary states,
00:16:41.720 Biden's lead
00:16:42.840 has all
00:16:43.900 but vanished.
00:16:46.100 This is the new poll.
00:16:47.460 Biden,
00:16:48.180 29%
00:16:48.880 in Iowa.
00:16:50.760 Do you know
00:16:50.920 where Bernie Sanders is?
00:16:51.840 Number two,
00:16:52.420 26%.
00:16:53.380 3%
00:16:54.200 margin,
00:16:54.800 difference.
00:16:55.500 That is nothing.
00:16:56.420 That is zero.
00:16:57.440 How about
00:16:57.940 Elizabeth Warren?
00:16:58.780 She's down there
00:16:59.220 at 17%.
00:17:00.060 New Hampshire,
00:17:01.780 Warren is actually
00:17:02.640 leading now,
00:17:03.320 27%.
00:17:04.160 Biden is in second
00:17:05.320 place in New Hampshire,
00:17:06.240 26%.
00:17:07.060 Bernie at 25%.
00:17:08.360 So it's more or less
00:17:09.060 a three-way tie.
00:17:10.160 Nevada,
00:17:10.780 at least Biden's
00:17:11.380 going to win Nevada,
00:17:12.060 right?
00:17:12.360 No.
00:17:13.200 Sanders is up 29%.
00:17:14.500 Biden is second
00:17:15.280 at 27%.
00:17:16.140 Warren is down there
00:17:17.100 at 18%.
00:17:17.800 Only in South Carolina
00:17:19.320 does Biden
00:17:20.060 have a commanding lead,
00:17:21.600 43%.
00:17:22.440 Sanders is 18%.
00:17:23.680 Warren has 14%.
00:17:24.780 And
00:17:25.100 why is that?
00:17:27.220 The reason,
00:17:27.900 this is still
00:17:28.540 the one good news
00:17:29.940 for Biden,
00:17:30.940 is that the other candidates
00:17:31.880 have very little
00:17:32.780 black support.
00:17:34.360 Democratic Party,
00:17:35.280 you need black support
00:17:36.040 to win.
00:17:37.020 Biden still has
00:17:37.780 black support.
00:17:38.480 There are more
00:17:38.740 black voters
00:17:39.280 in South Carolina,
00:17:40.120 so he's doing better.
00:17:42.060 The bad news
00:17:43.000 for Biden
00:17:43.500 is that Democrats
00:17:44.440 are now rejecting
00:17:46.000 the electability
00:17:48.000 argument.
00:17:49.920 They're clearly
00:17:50.620 rejecting it.
00:17:52.900 Biden's only pitch
00:17:54.160 is vote for me,
00:17:55.660 I'm the best guy
00:17:56.680 to beat Trump.
00:17:57.780 Why am I the best
00:17:58.660 guy to beat Trump?
00:17:59.420 Is it because
00:17:59.840 my policies
00:18:00.760 are the most exciting?
00:18:01.720 No.
00:18:02.020 Is it because
00:18:02.320 my policies
00:18:02.840 are the most popular?
00:18:03.620 No.
00:18:04.060 Is it because
00:18:04.340 I've accomplished
00:18:04.840 the most?
00:18:05.280 No.
00:18:06.500 It's because
00:18:07.140 I'm the most
00:18:07.660 electable.
00:18:08.740 Okay.
00:18:09.260 The minute
00:18:09.700 that you fall
00:18:10.460 down in the polls,
00:18:11.280 the minute you
00:18:11.640 lose Iowa,
00:18:12.780 you're no longer
00:18:13.360 the most electable.
00:18:14.860 The minute you
00:18:15.560 lose Iowa
00:18:16.140 and New Hampshire,
00:18:17.100 you're definitely
00:18:17.480 not the most
00:18:18.020 electable.
00:18:18.440 it is a house
00:18:20.160 of cards
00:18:20.720 that Joe Biden
00:18:21.940 is standing
00:18:22.420 on right now.
00:18:25.040 I think
00:18:25.960 it is the same
00:18:27.200 reason.
00:18:27.780 I think
00:18:28.260 basically
00:18:28.900 Democrats
00:18:29.360 are sick.
00:18:30.640 The Democratic
00:18:31.280 base,
00:18:31.740 the left-wing
00:18:32.120 base,
00:18:33.220 they're sick
00:18:33.820 of being played
00:18:34.440 for suckers.
00:18:36.360 Could you imagine
00:18:37.060 being told
00:18:37.580 Joe Biden
00:18:38.080 is the most
00:18:38.520 electable?
00:18:39.200 Joe Biden
00:18:39.540 ran for president
00:18:40.200 in 88,
00:18:40.780 didn't get anywhere
00:18:41.340 because he lied
00:18:41.940 and plagiarized.
00:18:42.920 Then he ran
00:18:43.420 in 2008,
00:18:44.240 didn't get anywhere
00:18:44.960 because he's nobody,
00:18:45.980 because he's nothing.
00:18:47.240 And now you're
00:18:47.820 going to say
00:18:48.100 after two
00:18:48.660 different times
00:18:49.540 in the 80s,
00:18:50.860 in the 2000s,
00:18:52.180 now,
00:18:53.820 10 years later,
00:18:55.180 all of a sudden
00:18:55.820 Joe Biden
00:18:56.260 is the most
00:18:56.640 electable candidate?
00:18:58.120 People aren't
00:18:58.800 going to believe
00:18:59.340 that.
00:18:59.680 You can't,
00:19:00.760 you can't just
00:19:01.500 keep lying to them
00:19:02.420 all the time.
00:19:04.260 Same thing,
00:19:04.760 not just in the
00:19:05.260 presidential race.
00:19:06.300 This is true
00:19:06.720 at the governor's
00:19:07.300 level.
00:19:07.820 This is true
00:19:08.360 at the Senate level.
00:19:09.840 Stacey Abrams,
00:19:10.840 do you remember
00:19:11.160 Stacey Abrams?
00:19:12.000 Stacey Abrams
00:19:12.720 ran for governor
00:19:14.100 of Georgia.
00:19:14.720 She was like a
00:19:15.480 representative
00:19:16.940 in the Georgia
00:19:17.600 House of Representatives.
00:19:19.240 Stacey Abrams
00:19:19.800 runs for governor
00:19:20.440 of Georgia
00:19:20.840 against Brian Kemp
00:19:21.700 and she loses
00:19:22.620 in 2018.
00:19:24.480 She didn't even
00:19:25.080 lose by a little.
00:19:26.120 It's not like
00:19:26.540 it was 300 votes
00:19:27.600 that separated it.
00:19:28.660 She lost 50.2
00:19:30.220 to 48.8.
00:19:32.160 So, you know,
00:19:32.960 close election,
00:19:33.620 but not that close.
00:19:34.840 Didn't even trigger
00:19:35.820 an automatic recount.
00:19:37.400 If it had been closer,
00:19:38.420 it would have gotten
00:19:38.680 an automatic recount.
00:19:39.580 She was trying
00:19:39.980 to get the recounts
00:19:40.700 to get to the
00:19:41.260 automatic recount.
00:19:42.020 Then, after it
00:19:44.000 became clear
00:19:44.480 that she lost,
00:19:45.640 she wouldn't concede.
00:19:46.680 She still hasn't
00:19:47.580 really conceded.
00:19:48.760 She still pretends
00:19:49.620 that the election
00:19:50.160 was stolen from her
00:19:51.100 unfairly.
00:19:52.300 Now she's coming out
00:19:53.280 with a new book.
00:19:53.860 I kid you not.
00:19:54.860 Stacey Abrams,
00:19:56.880 Georgia House
00:19:57.820 of Representatives,
00:19:59.200 failed candidate
00:20:00.000 for governor.
00:20:00.660 This is her new book.
00:20:02.560 The Abrams Playbook,
00:20:04.600 The Strategy
00:20:05.320 and Path
00:20:06.020 to Victory
00:20:06.840 in 2020.
00:20:07.900 She better lawyer up
00:20:11.120 because I am going
00:20:12.600 to sue Stacey Abrams
00:20:14.020 for plagiarism
00:20:14.840 because I suspect
00:20:16.880 that the content
00:20:18.000 in her book
00:20:18.600 is exactly the same
00:20:19.700 as the content
00:20:20.540 in my best-selling
00:20:21.480 blank book,
00:20:22.540 Reasons to Vote
00:20:23.120 for Democrats,
00:20:23.760 A Comprehensive Guide.
00:20:27.720 The Abrams Playbook,
00:20:29.360 The Strategy
00:20:29.820 and Path
00:20:30.180 to Victory
00:20:30.560 in 2020.
00:20:31.440 The O.J. Simpson Playbook,
00:20:33.200 The Strategy
00:20:33.720 and Path
00:20:34.200 to a Happy Marriage.
00:20:35.140 Absolutely
00:20:36.480 Absurd.
00:20:40.020 She lost.
00:20:41.700 She lost.
00:20:43.920 But every single time
00:20:45.920 the Democrats
00:20:46.440 go all in,
00:20:48.620 she didn't really lose.
00:20:49.840 Stacey,
00:20:50.360 this is it.
00:20:51.180 Okay,
00:20:51.440 we lost this race,
00:20:52.160 we lost that race.
00:20:52.920 We lost 2016,
00:20:54.100 we lost this one
00:20:55.720 after that,
00:20:56.180 this one after that,
00:20:56.760 this one after that.
00:20:57.100 But Abrams,
00:20:58.100 she's going to be the one.
00:20:59.800 Put all your money here.
00:21:00.940 Donate all your money here.
00:21:01.780 Go out.
00:21:02.220 This is it.
00:21:02.860 This is the turning point
00:21:04.000 in America.
00:21:04.580 And then she loses.
00:21:06.760 But they can't admit defeat.
00:21:08.220 They can't admit
00:21:08.800 that they failed.
00:21:09.380 So they say,
00:21:09.680 no,
00:21:09.860 she didn't really lose.
00:21:11.960 The base
00:21:12.820 is tired
00:21:14.500 of being lied to.
00:21:16.020 The Republican base
00:21:16.940 gets tired
00:21:17.580 of being lied to sometimes.
00:21:18.880 I think
00:21:19.100 that was a lot
00:21:21.060 of the frustration
00:21:21.680 that led to President Trump
00:21:23.020 is at least Trump
00:21:23.720 offered something different.
00:21:24.920 He offered different
00:21:25.560 policy proposals
00:21:26.440 no matter what
00:21:27.300 other people tell you.
00:21:28.980 Other people say
00:21:29.760 Trump only got elected
00:21:30.880 because,
00:21:31.760 you know,
00:21:32.380 he made jokes
00:21:32.960 on the campaign trail.
00:21:33.820 President Trump
00:21:34.680 offered
00:21:35.200 actually different policies
00:21:37.140 than other candidates
00:21:38.480 in that race
00:21:39.060 and than other candidates
00:21:39.780 in recent memory.
00:21:41.640 And they went for him
00:21:42.720 because
00:21:42.980 people on both sides
00:21:45.540 of the aisle
00:21:45.880 are tired
00:21:46.400 of being lied to.
00:21:47.620 And speaking of Georgia,
00:21:49.060 Democrats now have
00:21:49.820 a new Senate candidate
00:21:50.580 in Georgia.
00:21:51.460 And second verse
00:21:52.580 is the same
00:21:53.160 as the first.
00:21:54.100 The guy who's running
00:21:55.140 for Senate in Georgia,
00:21:57.300 now see if you remember
00:21:58.020 this name,
00:21:59.240 John Ossoff.
00:22:01.400 Do you remember that name?
00:22:02.140 I do.
00:22:03.000 I miss John Ossoff
00:22:03.920 because John Ossoff
00:22:05.000 in 2017,
00:22:06.600 he was the Democrats'
00:22:08.640 it boy.
00:22:09.500 He was Stacey Abrams
00:22:10.720 before Stacey Abrams.
00:22:11.880 He was Beto O'Rourke
00:22:13.080 before Beto O'Rourke.
00:22:14.940 John Ossoff was the guy.
00:22:16.040 He was running
00:22:16.480 in Georgia's
00:22:17.140 6th congressional district,
00:22:18.460 I think,
00:22:18.980 which had been
00:22:19.500 Tom Price's seat.
00:22:20.960 Tom Price had left it
00:22:22.360 to go serve
00:22:23.380 as HHS secretary.
00:22:24.840 Before that,
00:22:25.280 it was Newt Gingrich's seat.
00:22:26.520 This was a hot seat.
00:22:29.080 Democrats run this
00:22:29.880 nobody pretty boy
00:22:30.780 named John Ossoff.
00:22:32.440 For six months,
00:22:33.420 Ossoff was the biggest
00:22:34.400 name in town.
00:22:36.720 The race ends up being
00:22:38.300 the most expensive
00:22:39.820 House race
00:22:40.940 in U.S. history.
00:22:43.240 Costs 55 million dollars.
00:22:46.380 Democrats,
00:22:46.940 put all your money here.
00:22:47.960 Here's how you're
00:22:48.480 going to win.
00:22:49.200 This is it.
00:22:49.740 This is the referendum
00:22:50.540 on Trump.
00:22:51.440 Sure,
00:22:51.660 we lost in 2016,
00:22:52.960 but now,
00:22:53.720 the first election
00:22:54.340 after that,
00:22:54.880 we're going to win this
00:22:55.920 and accept,
00:22:56.520 they accept he lost.
00:22:58.120 He lost.
00:22:58.960 It was not the beginning
00:22:59.900 of the resistance.
00:23:00.640 He lost.
00:23:01.140 So now,
00:23:01.720 what?
00:23:01.920 He lost.
00:23:02.380 What's going to happen?
00:23:03.760 He's going to run again,
00:23:04.680 of course,
00:23:05.600 and this time,
00:23:06.460 he's running for Senate.
00:23:08.780 This time,
00:23:09.500 it'll be different, guys.
00:23:10.800 This is Beto O'Rourke syndrome.
00:23:12.340 This is Democrats failing up.
00:23:14.580 This is Democrats
00:23:15.660 relieving themselves
00:23:17.000 on your thigh
00:23:17.880 and telling you
00:23:18.800 that it's raining.
00:23:21.460 Remember,
00:23:21.860 Beto was going to be
00:23:22.560 the next big thing.
00:23:23.660 Dumped all that money
00:23:24.280 into Texas,
00:23:24.960 and then he's not.
00:23:25.520 Then he loses.
00:23:25.980 Beto loses
00:23:28.680 his Senate race
00:23:29.580 in Texas,
00:23:30.340 so he runs for president.
00:23:32.260 John Ossoff loses
00:23:33.120 his House race
00:23:33.940 in Georgia,
00:23:34.660 so he runs for the Senate.
00:23:36.320 They want their candidates
00:23:37.420 to fail up,
00:23:38.500 and the whole Ossoff campaign
00:23:39.980 was dishonest,
00:23:41.360 even right down
00:23:42.340 to his engagement.
00:23:44.200 John Ossoff
00:23:44.800 is this kind of weird,
00:23:45.980 single,
00:23:46.520 nothing guy,
00:23:47.560 and so as he's running,
00:23:48.800 he decides he's going
00:23:49.740 to get engaged
00:23:50.380 to his longtime girlfriend.
00:23:51.640 Okay,
00:23:51.900 that's good.
00:23:53.540 That was two years ago.
00:23:55.000 The guy's still not married.
00:23:56.040 It was all just a farce.
00:23:57.060 It was all just a fake.
00:23:58.480 He was just a total
00:23:59.340 empty suit.
00:24:00.880 Even that part of it
00:24:01.940 was a sham,
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00:24:04.180 to their credit,
00:24:05.320 are tired of being lied to.
00:24:07.040 You see this with one
00:24:07.720 of their presidential
00:24:08.340 candidates, actually.
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00:27:17.900 All right.
00:27:18.860 So we have got to get to
00:27:20.440 woke Tulsi Gabbard.
00:27:22.900 Tulsi Gabbard,
00:27:23.740 you'll remember,
00:27:24.660 she is, I think,
00:27:25.660 wanted for murdering
00:27:27.780 Kamala Harris
00:27:28.420 during that presidential debate
00:27:30.020 a few weeks ago.
00:27:31.060 She came out
00:27:31.780 and just absolutely went
00:27:33.020 for the jugular
00:27:33.700 on Kamala's career.
00:27:35.740 And Tulsi,
00:27:37.480 I think,
00:27:37.880 probably as a result of that
00:27:38.940 is being kept out
00:27:39.580 of the Democratic debates.
00:27:41.100 She's probably
00:27:42.060 the most interesting candidate
00:27:43.420 in that party right now.
00:27:45.120 Very dovish
00:27:46.740 on foreign policy.
00:27:48.180 Nearly isolationist,
00:27:49.280 you might say.
00:27:50.000 Though she has
00:27:50.640 military service herself,
00:27:51.980 so she's got
00:27:52.540 some sort of
00:27:53.380 personal credibility.
00:27:55.060 She went on
00:27:55.540 Dave Rubin's show.
00:27:57.420 As far as I can tell,
00:27:58.820 the only Democratic candidate
00:28:00.020 to do that.
00:28:00.600 Andrew Yang did as well.
00:28:02.680 And Tulsi,
00:28:03.360 goes on Dave Rubin's show.
00:28:05.800 She finally,
00:28:07.520 unlike every other candidate
00:28:08.640 on that stage,
00:28:09.800 decided to break
00:28:10.820 from the radical,
00:28:12.000 increasingly radical,
00:28:13.500 leftist orthodoxy.
00:28:15.460 Actually,
00:28:15.980 on a few different issues.
00:28:17.300 Beginning,
00:28:18.060 even with the central
00:28:19.640 anti-Trump
00:28:20.960 Democratic issue,
00:28:22.580 open borders.
00:28:23.760 She,
00:28:24.280 you know,
00:28:24.500 we've heard now
00:28:25.100 from a lot of people
00:28:25.840 on the left,
00:28:26.340 they'll say,
00:28:27.020 open borders isn't real.
00:28:29.100 It's a Republican
00:28:29.860 talking point.
00:28:30.800 It's propaganda.
00:28:31.740 Nobody really is calling
00:28:32.740 for open borders.
00:28:34.200 Now,
00:28:34.360 of course,
00:28:34.620 they are.
00:28:35.300 I mean,
00:28:35.540 they're openly calling
00:28:36.580 for the decriminalization
00:28:37.740 of border crossings.
00:28:38.840 They're calling
00:28:39.340 for massive amnesty.
00:28:40.720 They're calling
00:28:41.120 to halt deportation.
00:28:42.140 They're calling
00:28:42.860 to abolish immigration
00:28:43.980 and customs enforcement.
00:28:45.100 They are certainly
00:28:46.560 calling for open borders,
00:28:48.020 but so far,
00:28:49.360 the Democratic Party
00:28:50.000 has been in lockstep
00:28:50.900 denying this.
00:28:51.900 Tulsi Gabbard
00:28:52.500 comes right out
00:28:53.160 on the Rubin Show
00:28:53.860 and admits
00:28:55.100 the Democrats
00:28:55.980 are for open borders
00:28:56.840 and she's not.
00:28:58.140 I don't,
00:28:58.680 I don't support
00:28:59.320 open borders.
00:29:00.480 Without secure borders,
00:29:01.860 we don't really
00:29:02.200 have a country.
00:29:03.720 And while some
00:29:05.440 of the other
00:29:05.900 Democratic candidates
00:29:06.660 will say,
00:29:07.120 well,
00:29:07.200 open borders,
00:29:07.900 that's a conservative argument
00:29:09.120 and that's not really
00:29:10.360 what's being advocated for.
00:29:11.420 If you look at
00:29:11.820 the practical implications
00:29:12.880 of some of the things
00:29:13.640 they're pushing for,
00:29:14.840 it is essentially
00:29:15.800 open borders.
00:29:17.540 Absolutely right.
00:29:18.940 By the way,
00:29:19.720 just as a practical note
00:29:22.080 to the other
00:29:22.840 Democratic candidates,
00:29:24.340 we're not talking
00:29:25.580 about John Hickenlooper.
00:29:26.620 We're not talking
00:29:27.200 about Tim Ryan.
00:29:28.240 We're not talking
00:29:28.820 about Eric Swalwell.
00:29:29.880 I think he's out of the race.
00:29:30.860 We're not talking
00:29:31.480 about Jay Inslee.
00:29:33.160 We're not talking
00:29:33.880 about Amy Klobuchar.
00:29:36.700 We're just not talking
00:29:37.600 about these people
00:29:38.300 because they're not
00:29:38.960 serious candidates.
00:29:40.640 We are talking
00:29:41.740 about Tulsi Gabbard
00:29:42.700 who's also polling
00:29:44.380 very low.
00:29:46.020 Why?
00:29:47.740 Because while
00:29:48.940 all of those other
00:29:49.820 candidates are trying
00:29:50.580 to be the poor man's
00:29:51.440 Joe Biden
00:29:52.060 or the poor man's
00:29:53.300 Liz Warren
00:29:53.820 or the poor man's
00:29:54.660 Kamala Harris,
00:29:55.900 Tulsi Gabbard
00:29:56.700 is her own woman.
00:29:58.480 She is her own candidate.
00:29:59.680 I don't agree with her
00:30:00.480 on most things
00:30:01.340 but at least
00:30:02.480 she's offering
00:30:03.320 something different.
00:30:05.300 She's actually
00:30:06.260 giving voters
00:30:07.120 a choice,
00:30:08.620 not an echo,
00:30:09.460 what the conservative
00:30:10.160 activist Phyllis Schlafly
00:30:11.420 talked about
00:30:12.360 at the beginning
00:30:12.800 of the post-war
00:30:13.820 conservative movement.
00:30:15.920 Tulsi Gabbard
00:30:16.440 is offering something
00:30:17.340 different.
00:30:18.940 And I think
00:30:20.500 it makes her
00:30:20.920 much more interesting.
00:30:21.860 I think it's
00:30:22.360 her best shot.
00:30:23.380 I think a lot
00:30:24.040 of these other candidates
00:30:24.720 should try to break
00:30:25.360 lockstep if they
00:30:26.340 want to break out
00:30:27.040 as well.
00:30:27.940 And Tulsi Gabbard
00:30:28.720 didn't just touch
00:30:29.440 open borders
00:30:30.100 which is a major
00:30:31.700 democratic issue.
00:30:33.700 Third rail,
00:30:34.880 you know,
00:30:35.160 at least on the left
00:30:36.020 where you can't touch it
00:30:36.980 or you'll zap yourself.
00:30:38.640 She even went
00:30:39.300 after abortion
00:30:40.060 at a time
00:30:40.800 when the left
00:30:41.860 is moving
00:30:43.780 dramatically
00:30:44.740 into not just
00:30:46.460 they support abortion
00:30:47.680 or late term abortion
00:30:48.800 or abortion
00:30:49.660 at the point of birth
00:30:50.320 or post-birth abortion
00:30:51.800 in the case of
00:30:52.580 Ralph Northam,
00:30:53.560 governor of Virginia.
00:30:55.040 Abortion as babies
00:30:55.820 are being born
00:30:56.380 if you look at
00:30:56.960 Andy Cuomo,
00:30:57.740 governor of New York.
00:30:59.760 Tulsi Gabbard
00:31:00.380 comes out and says,
00:31:01.240 yeah,
00:31:01.380 I think that abortion
00:31:02.340 should really not
00:31:03.200 be permitted
00:31:03.680 in the third trimester.
00:31:06.500 A woman should have
00:31:07.560 the right to choose
00:31:08.240 and I will stand up
00:31:09.320 and fight to protect
00:31:10.380 her right to do so.
00:31:11.500 off point for that?
00:31:12.640 I think the third trimester,
00:31:14.140 unless a woman's life
00:31:16.260 or severe health consequences
00:31:19.580 is at risk,
00:31:21.180 then there shouldn't be
00:31:22.640 an abortion
00:31:23.060 in the third trimester.
00:31:25.340 This is obvious.
00:31:26.480 This is common sense.
00:31:27.580 You shouldn't kill babies
00:31:28.600 that obviously look like babies
00:31:30.900 that are in every way
00:31:32.100 recognizable as babies.
00:31:33.500 I mean,
00:31:34.460 people wouldn't have
00:31:36.120 really disagreed with this
00:31:37.360 years ago.
00:31:38.960 But now,
00:31:39.920 for her to say that
00:31:40.740 is radical.
00:31:42.480 I give her a lot of credit
00:31:43.340 for it
00:31:43.980 because
00:31:44.400 maybe it's not going
00:31:46.560 to do her favors
00:31:47.280 in terms of winning
00:31:48.420 the nomination,
00:31:49.460 but it makes her
00:31:50.700 her own person
00:31:51.500 and I hope it's really
00:31:52.720 what she believes.
00:31:53.860 Now,
00:31:54.200 the thing you've got
00:31:55.200 to remember though
00:31:56.080 while we're talking
00:31:56.860 about how great
00:31:57.500 woke Tulsi Gabbard is,
00:31:58.800 is she's still terrible.
00:32:01.020 She's still awful.
00:32:02.800 She's not someone
00:32:04.020 who should ever be
00:32:04.620 the president
00:32:05.000 of the United States.
00:32:06.360 Sometimes conservatives
00:32:07.320 fall into this trap.
00:32:08.800 We fall into
00:32:09.400 the strange new respect
00:32:10.380 trap.
00:32:11.200 The strange new respect
00:32:12.120 trap is that
00:32:12.800 you almost always
00:32:14.140 see this on the left,
00:32:15.260 which is that
00:32:16.000 the minute that
00:32:16.560 a Republican starts
00:32:17.600 criticizing other Republicans
00:32:19.500 or the minute
00:32:20.320 that a conservative
00:32:20.940 starts criticizing
00:32:21.700 other conservatives,
00:32:22.940 the left will say,
00:32:23.840 wow,
00:32:24.280 I have a strange
00:32:25.320 new respect
00:32:26.040 for John McCain.
00:32:28.600 See,
00:32:28.800 they hated him before
00:32:29.760 when he posed
00:32:30.220 a threat to them,
00:32:30.960 but now that he's
00:32:31.680 being useful to them,
00:32:33.260 they will praise him.
00:32:35.280 Oh,
00:32:35.780 yeah,
00:32:36.220 I called Bill Kristol
00:32:37.780 a Nazi warmonger
00:32:39.200 a few years ago,
00:32:39.960 but now I have
00:32:40.700 a strange new respect
00:32:41.900 for Bill Kristol.
00:32:43.000 And sometimes people
00:32:44.060 on the right can do this too.
00:32:45.320 We shouldn't fall
00:32:45.940 into that trap.
00:32:47.400 Tulsi Gabbard says,
00:32:48.340 yeah,
00:32:48.440 we shouldn't kill babies
00:32:49.480 like as they're being born.
00:32:50.960 And we say,
00:32:51.360 wow,
00:32:51.740 great job,
00:32:52.440 Tulsi.
00:32:52.860 Oh my gosh,
00:32:53.680 wonderful.
00:32:54.300 Yeah,
00:32:54.480 I think a nation
00:32:55.080 should have borders.
00:32:55.820 Oh my God,
00:32:56.520 it's stellar,
00:32:57.220 amazing.
00:32:57.720 No,
00:32:58.060 she's still a radical
00:32:59.340 left winger
00:33:00.100 and she still supports
00:33:02.200 abortions up until
00:33:03.400 the very end,
00:33:05.260 you know,
00:33:05.500 up until the third trimester.
00:33:07.060 She still doesn't think
00:33:08.720 that we should
00:33:09.320 do anything seriously
00:33:12.160 to reduce the number
00:33:13.340 of foreign nationals
00:33:14.120 in our country
00:33:14.640 or seriously
00:33:15.440 to secure our borders.
00:33:17.520 She hasn't made
00:33:17.920 any hard proposals.
00:33:19.240 She's opposed the wall.
00:33:20.980 So she isn't that great
00:33:21.980 and she makes this clear
00:33:23.020 when she's talking
00:33:23.600 about abortion
00:33:24.200 because she kind of
00:33:26.060 gives away
00:33:26.780 the whole argument.
00:33:28.940 She doesn't
00:33:30.320 speak about the baby,
00:33:31.780 really.
00:33:32.020 She just talks
00:33:33.220 about the mother
00:33:33.700 and if the baby's
00:33:34.320 got to die,
00:33:34.740 the baby's got to die.
00:33:36.120 What would you say
00:33:36.560 to the people
00:33:36.900 that would say,
00:33:37.420 well,
00:33:37.540 wait a minute,
00:33:37.940 the government's
00:33:38.480 supposed to protect
00:33:39.040 life,
00:33:39.460 liberty,
00:33:40.040 and the pursuit
00:33:40.600 of happiness.
00:33:41.120 What about the life
00:33:41.700 of the fetus?
00:33:42.480 You're just having
00:33:43.480 that supersede.
00:33:44.860 You're having the woman's
00:33:45.640 rights just supersede.
00:33:46.540 A woman is the one
00:33:48.880 who's got to live
00:33:49.520 with whatever decision
00:33:50.640 that she makes
00:33:51.780 and that's where
00:33:52.840 I draw the line
00:33:53.440 and say that the government
00:33:54.260 should not be
00:33:55.040 in the position
00:33:55.600 of telling that woman
00:33:56.620 what choice
00:33:57.980 she must make.
00:33:59.560 The woman is the only one
00:34:00.800 who's got to live
00:34:01.540 if she kills her child.
00:34:03.300 Right.
00:34:05.120 If the mother
00:34:05.800 doesn't kill her child,
00:34:07.020 then both of them
00:34:07.740 got to live.
00:34:09.500 It's an amazing
00:34:10.440 little Freudian slip
00:34:12.520 that Tulsi Gabbard
00:34:13.360 has there.
00:34:14.860 Look,
00:34:15.240 yeah,
00:34:15.420 of course I support
00:34:16.220 a mother's right
00:34:16.780 to kill her own child
00:34:17.720 because the mother's
00:34:18.420 the one who's
00:34:19.000 got to live with it.
00:34:21.780 She's only the only one
00:34:24.000 who's got to live with it
00:34:24.800 if she kills the other
00:34:25.540 person involved.
00:34:27.720 Even to use the phrase
00:34:28.820 who has to live with it,
00:34:30.380 what you're saying is
00:34:31.240 the baby doesn't have
00:34:32.200 to live with it
00:34:32.700 because the baby
00:34:33.140 doesn't get to live
00:34:33.860 because the baby
00:34:34.380 is being killed.
00:34:35.340 So Gabbard's still,
00:34:36.660 you know,
00:34:36.960 terrible candidate,
00:34:37.720 should never be president.
00:34:38.740 But I do give her credit here.
00:34:40.180 And I give her credit,
00:34:40.900 it's worth watching
00:34:41.620 this whole interview.
00:34:42.380 I mean,
00:34:42.540 Dave does such a good job
00:34:43.500 with these.
00:34:44.240 But she came out
00:34:45.740 against identity politics.
00:34:47.180 She said identity politics
00:34:48.260 was a big problem.
00:34:49.360 She came out against
00:34:50.260 her rivals speaking Spanish
00:34:51.840 on the debate stage.
00:34:53.060 She kind of made fun
00:34:53.680 of them for that.
00:34:54.240 I think that's great.
00:34:55.760 I encourage
00:34:56.540 a little more diversity
00:34:57.800 in the Democratic Party.
00:34:59.260 Certainly wouldn't be
00:34:59.900 my preference
00:35:00.440 to have any of them
00:35:01.120 in office.
00:35:02.040 But at least,
00:35:03.300 you know,
00:35:03.640 if there's some debate
00:35:04.440 it means that there's
00:35:05.140 an intellectual life there.
00:35:06.840 They're not just hacks.
00:35:08.360 They're not just living
00:35:09.560 in a world disconnected
00:35:10.960 from reality.
00:35:12.100 They're actually grappling
00:35:13.280 with real issues
00:35:14.380 in real time
00:35:15.000 and real people.
00:35:15.920 And this is the reality of it.
00:35:19.460 I mean,
00:35:19.640 this is what Tulsi Gabbard
00:35:20.860 is speaking to.
00:35:21.820 The vast majority
00:35:22.960 of people in this country
00:35:24.260 oppose open borders.
00:35:27.120 They think there should be
00:35:28.100 some restrictions
00:35:28.720 on abortion.
00:35:29.640 They think people
00:35:30.800 should speak English
00:35:31.640 when they're running
00:35:32.240 for president.
00:35:33.240 They don't like
00:35:34.020 being pandered to.
00:35:35.340 Okay?
00:35:36.480 That's the vast majority
00:35:37.880 of people.
00:35:38.840 Left, right, and center.
00:35:41.180 The vast majority
00:35:42.460 of people in this country
00:35:43.340 also don't think
00:35:44.360 Trump is Hitler.
00:35:46.140 I know that the
00:35:47.120 impeach Trump crowd,
00:35:48.400 they say that
00:35:48.860 Trump is Hitler.
00:35:50.340 Most people
00:35:51.060 don't think that.
00:35:51.700 They don't think that
00:35:52.640 even about most Republicans,
00:35:54.840 but Donald Trump
00:35:55.720 is a A-list celebrity.
00:35:58.400 We've known him
00:35:59.000 for 40 years.
00:36:00.240 He's been in the tabloids
00:36:01.420 since at least the 80s.
00:36:04.320 People don't think
00:36:05.200 that guy is Hitler.
00:36:06.100 You're not fooling anybody.
00:36:09.340 And people don't like
00:36:10.580 being lied to.
00:36:11.440 Look,
00:36:11.700 the Democratic Party
00:36:12.560 is always going to try
00:36:13.180 to lie to me
00:36:13.740 or about me.
00:36:14.680 The left is always
00:36:15.540 going to try to lie to
00:36:16.460 or about me.
00:36:17.160 But they're losing
00:36:19.680 their own supporters,
00:36:20.880 I think.
00:36:22.920 You know,
00:36:23.260 people might not
00:36:24.700 like Donald Trump.
00:36:25.940 People might prefer
00:36:27.080 other candidates
00:36:27.860 to Donald Trump,
00:36:28.740 but they don't think
00:36:29.800 he's Hitler.
00:36:30.260 They don't think
00:36:30.640 he's a Russian stooge.
00:36:31.520 And if you're going
00:36:31.960 to be the hack
00:36:32.580 who keeps pushing
00:36:34.020 that narrative,
00:36:35.020 you are not going
00:36:35.820 to have any credibility.
00:36:36.840 You've got to run
00:36:37.980 on reality.
00:36:40.200 And if Democrats
00:36:41.120 can't get that message,
00:36:42.140 they're going to have
00:36:42.480 a bad time in 2020
00:36:43.540 because in the long run,
00:36:45.040 reality wins.
00:36:46.400 And if Democrats
00:36:47.440 don't get that message,
00:36:48.860 then President Trump
00:36:49.580 will win re-election.
00:36:51.460 And what are the
00:36:51.900 Democrats going to do?
00:36:52.960 They're going to pretend
00:36:54.400 that they did win.
00:36:56.440 They're going to pretend
00:36:57.040 that Trump didn't win.
00:36:58.120 They're going to pretend
00:36:58.860 all of those things
00:36:59.680 on the fantasy pages
00:37:01.160 of the New York Times.
00:37:02.740 Speaking of which,
00:37:04.240 this gets us to
00:37:05.160 the dumbest article
00:37:05.860 on the internet today,
00:37:06.640 which I have got
00:37:07.600 to get to
00:37:08.440 because this was
00:37:09.060 a very stiff competition
00:37:10.320 today.
00:37:11.120 There was an article
00:37:11.940 in Vox.com
00:37:12.980 about how we should
00:37:14.520 lower the voting age
00:37:15.440 to zero.
00:37:16.640 That was out today.
00:37:18.500 There were a lot
00:37:19.560 of articles
00:37:19.980 on the internet
00:37:20.480 that could have won,
00:37:21.140 but the one
00:37:21.580 that takes the cake
00:37:22.360 was from the old
00:37:23.780 great lady,
00:37:24.740 the New York Times.
00:37:26.280 This is the article.
00:37:28.620 What draws atheists,
00:37:31.000 Jews, and Catholics
00:37:31.940 to a Presbyterian church?
00:37:34.040 That was the headline
00:37:35.040 on the internet.
00:37:36.360 The headline
00:37:37.060 in the print edition
00:37:37.700 was,
00:37:38.680 United by Cause,
00:37:39.940 if not by Faith.
00:37:41.080 And this article
00:37:42.720 is about a church,
00:37:44.540 put it in quotes,
00:37:45.600 in a sense it's a church,
00:37:47.200 in Manhattan it says
00:37:48.240 it's a Presbyterian church
00:37:49.480 that doesn't really
00:37:53.800 talk about God.
00:37:55.240 You don't really need
00:37:55.860 to even believe in God,
00:37:57.300 much less Presbyterianism.
00:37:59.020 You just need to believe
00:38:00.140 in leftism.
00:38:02.180 And it's amazing
00:38:03.460 because it shows you
00:38:05.680 the state of religion today
00:38:07.200 and the state of politics today.
00:38:09.420 Politics is religion
00:38:10.440 for the left.
00:38:12.940 And real religion
00:38:14.300 has been dismissed.
00:38:16.240 This is the article.
00:38:17.500 At Rutgers Presbyterian church
00:38:18.880 in Manhattan,
00:38:19.660 social justice
00:38:20.540 and environmental issues
00:38:21.940 unite the congregation.
00:38:23.560 There's Bible stuff too.
00:38:25.660 That's good.
00:38:26.960 Observant Presbyterians
00:38:28.220 are always part of gatherings
00:38:29.600 at Rutgers Presbyterian church,
00:38:31.400 but much of the time
00:38:32.360 so are Roman Catholics
00:38:33.540 and Jews,
00:38:34.280 as well as a smattering
00:38:35.340 of people who consider
00:38:36.260 themselves vaguely
00:38:37.120 spiritual.
00:38:38.300 Valerie Oltarsh McCarthy,
00:38:40.360 of course she's got
00:38:41.140 a hyphenated last name,
00:38:42.340 of course,
00:38:43.000 it goes without saying,
00:38:44.640 who sat among
00:38:45.400 the congregation
00:38:46.140 listening to a Sunday sermon
00:38:47.420 on the perils
00:38:48.040 of genetically modified
00:38:49.440 vegetables
00:38:50.040 is in fact
00:38:51.300 an atheist.
00:38:53.400 A few points
00:38:54.020 of correction here.
00:38:55.700 Observant Catholics
00:38:56.840 do not go to this church
00:38:58.180 because observant Catholics
00:39:00.660 cannot participate
00:39:01.820 in other religious practices.
00:39:04.800 They cannot go to
00:39:05.780 other churches
00:39:06.360 that are not Catholic.
00:39:07.120 So by definition,
00:39:08.660 if a Catholic
00:39:09.020 is going and participating
00:39:10.040 in these services,
00:39:11.740 they are not
00:39:12.280 observant Catholics.
00:39:13.240 I simply don't have
00:39:14.480 the expertise on Jews.
00:39:15.540 You'd have to ask
00:39:16.100 our yarmulke-wearing
00:39:17.640 colleague over here,
00:39:18.680 but something tells me
00:39:19.660 a similar thing
00:39:20.560 could be said
00:39:21.040 there as well.
00:39:22.180 These other congregations,
00:39:24.020 these other denominations
00:39:25.080 that are coming in
00:39:26.160 to this quote-unquote
00:39:27.260 church
00:39:27.660 are not
00:39:28.780 actually Catholics
00:39:31.200 or actually
00:39:32.420 practicing Jews.
00:39:34.580 They are practicing
00:39:35.800 a religion,
00:39:36.580 but it's not
00:39:37.300 the religion
00:39:37.800 they're pretending
00:39:38.420 to practice.
00:39:39.620 I mean,
00:39:39.780 imagine this,
00:39:40.400 a Sunday sermon
00:39:41.080 on the perils
00:39:42.040 of genetically modified
00:39:43.040 vegetables.
00:39:43.740 Back in the old
00:39:44.460 and bad days,
00:39:45.540 we used to have sermons
00:39:46.880 on the existence
00:39:49.380 of evil in the world,
00:39:50.820 on pride,
00:39:52.040 on the virtues
00:39:52.540 and on the vices,
00:39:53.700 on how we can live
00:39:54.620 in holiness,
00:39:55.540 on man's fallen nature,
00:39:57.000 on our salvation,
00:39:58.560 on the profound
00:40:00.060 and eternal questions.
00:40:01.380 What is justice?
00:40:03.200 What is fairness?
00:40:05.240 What is our life?
00:40:06.520 Who am I?
00:40:07.580 And what is my relation
00:40:08.740 to the great I am?
00:40:10.340 Which is how God
00:40:11.080 describes himself.
00:40:12.200 I am that I am.
00:40:13.320 Those were
00:40:13.900 in the olden,
00:40:15.340 bad,
00:40:16.340 stupid days.
00:40:17.240 You know,
00:40:17.520 those silly days
00:40:18.640 when people believed
00:40:19.340 in religion.
00:40:20.160 Now we can talk
00:40:21.020 about profound things
00:40:22.000 like genetically
00:40:24.220 modified vegetables.
00:40:25.960 Finally,
00:40:26.560 now we can get
00:40:27.100 to some real deep
00:40:27.840 conversation.
00:40:28.900 The article goes on.
00:40:29.760 Typically,
00:40:31.760 the connective tissue
00:40:32.600 of any congregation
00:40:33.420 is an embrace
00:40:34.380 of a shared faith.
00:40:36.080 Yet Rutgers Church,
00:40:37.800 a relatively small church
00:40:39.060 on the Upper West Side
00:40:39.920 of Manhattan,
00:40:40.900 has rejected that.
00:40:43.800 Eh,
00:40:44.160 not quite.
00:40:45.440 They say they've rejected
00:40:46.880 their shared faith
00:40:47.720 because some say
00:40:49.660 they're Jews,
00:40:50.200 some say they're Christians,
00:40:51.120 some say they're atheists,
00:40:51.960 some say.
00:40:53.180 They do have
00:40:53.920 a shared faith.
00:40:54.540 We'll see what that is.
00:40:56.640 Sharing a belief in God,
00:40:58.060 any God at all,
00:40:58.940 isn't necessary.
00:41:01.380 Instead,
00:41:01.940 the community there
00:41:02.680 has been cobbled together
00:41:03.740 by a different code
00:41:04.820 of convictions,
00:41:05.840 pulled in by
00:41:06.340 social justice efforts,
00:41:07.820 activism against
00:41:08.600 climate change,
00:41:09.860 meal programs
00:41:10.600 for the homeless,
00:41:11.280 and a task force
00:41:12.000 to help refugee families.
00:41:15.100 They are brought together
00:41:16.420 by a shared faith.
00:41:18.080 It's the shared faith
00:41:19.260 in leftism.
00:41:20.620 What you have seen,
00:41:21.320 we talk about how
00:41:21.940 the left goes in
00:41:22.620 and hollows out
00:41:23.280 institutions from the inside.
00:41:25.020 So they go into Harvard
00:41:25.980 and they just,
00:41:27.160 like a bunch of termites,
00:41:28.820 they hollow out
00:41:29.520 the inside of Harvard.
00:41:30.600 So from the outside,
00:41:31.480 it still looks like Harvard,
00:41:32.680 but the inside,
00:41:33.480 it's not.
00:41:33.980 It's been eaten away
00:41:35.040 by the left.
00:41:36.860 That's what they've done
00:41:37.560 to this church.
00:41:38.460 So from the outside,
00:41:39.260 I guess it looks like a church,
00:41:41.120 Presbyterian church,
00:41:42.240 but it's not.
00:41:44.960 And it's not the case
00:41:45.980 that they're not united
00:41:46.680 by a shared faith.
00:41:47.500 They are.
00:41:47.820 It's the shared faith
00:41:49.280 in leftist politics.
00:41:52.360 They go on.
00:41:53.740 They say,
00:41:56.440 to address shrinking congregations,
00:41:58.560 some pastors are searching
00:42:00.080 for new ways
00:42:00.760 to use their churches
00:42:01.680 and redefine
00:42:02.920 what fellowship means.
00:42:04.660 Churches have the space
00:42:05.560 and the goodwill,
00:42:06.320 after all,
00:42:06.620 to commit to community works,
00:42:08.300 social justice or arts,
00:42:09.500 and educational products.
00:42:10.900 And opening their doors
00:42:11.780 in this way
00:42:12.340 can bring in those
00:42:13.240 looking for more
00:42:13.960 than a Bible study class.
00:42:16.820 Yeah,
00:42:17.380 it'll bring in people
00:42:18.220 explicitly who aren't
00:42:19.100 looking for a Bible study class.
00:42:20.320 They're trying to address
00:42:21.620 shrinking congregations.
00:42:23.140 Talk about mission drift.
00:42:24.940 They're just trying to sell
00:42:26.840 whatever they can.
00:42:28.500 They're trying to redefine
00:42:29.480 what fellowship means,
00:42:30.480 but churches are not there
00:42:31.660 for fellowship.
00:42:33.140 Church is to worship God.
00:42:35.440 The mass is the highest form
00:42:37.440 of prayer.
00:42:39.240 The mass existed uninterrupted
00:42:41.480 in an uninterrupted form
00:42:42.700 for at least 15 centuries.
00:42:46.340 It then has existed
00:42:48.140 in a few different forms.
00:42:50.320 Or has had some changes to it
00:42:52.840 and some breakaways
00:42:54.940 and some dissent to it
00:42:56.120 for another 500 years after that.
00:42:58.960 That's what it's about.
00:42:59.820 It's about worship.
00:43:01.980 You know,
00:43:02.120 this is for Catholics.
00:43:04.280 This is one of the big problems
00:43:05.760 we have with some of the changes
00:43:06.880 of the Second Vatican Council.
00:43:08.600 Is they took this beautiful mass
00:43:10.120 and they made it just about us.
00:43:13.060 So for instance,
00:43:13.780 in the old days,
00:43:14.760 the priest used to face away
00:43:16.240 from everyone else in the church.
00:43:18.000 He would face away
00:43:19.240 because he's not there
00:43:20.400 to entertain us.
00:43:21.280 He's not there
00:43:21.640 to do a little soft shoe
00:43:22.600 and sing a little song.
00:43:24.340 He's not there
00:43:24.960 to make us laugh or clap.
00:43:26.680 He's there to lead us
00:43:28.280 in the person of Christ
00:43:29.760 in worship.
00:43:32.120 He is there
00:43:32.860 to lead us
00:43:34.480 to the sacrament.
00:43:36.320 We're actually
00:43:37.200 doing something.
00:43:38.940 But when the church
00:43:39.760 just becomes about you
00:43:40.960 feeling good about yourself,
00:43:42.380 well then you get
00:43:43.920 to redefining
00:43:45.000 what fellowship means.
00:43:46.500 Then you say,
00:43:46.940 why do we need
00:43:47.240 all this God stuff
00:43:48.160 when we can just commit
00:43:49.280 to community works
00:43:50.260 or arts
00:43:51.420 or educational products
00:43:52.900 or educational projects rather.
00:43:55.820 The pastor,
00:43:57.340 I put that in quotes
00:43:58.200 of this church,
00:43:59.020 says you just welcome
00:44:00.020 those who are seekers.
00:44:01.560 Seekers of what?
00:44:03.860 You know,
00:44:04.220 burglars are seekers
00:44:05.160 of jewels and money.
00:44:06.280 Do you welcome them?
00:44:07.660 You've got to be
00:44:08.200 seeking something.
00:44:09.340 To seek
00:44:09.800 means you have an object.
00:44:10.920 And in this case,
00:44:12.520 what we're seeing
00:44:13.060 in the traditional church
00:44:14.460 versus the church
00:44:16.020 of leftism
00:44:16.660 is we're seeing
00:44:17.240 those who seek God
00:44:18.200 versus those who seek
00:44:19.540 simply themselves
00:44:21.320 and their own
00:44:22.820 little political preferences.
00:44:24.560 So it goes on,
00:44:25.180 a large Black Lives Matter
00:44:26.480 banner hangs
00:44:27.300 from the front
00:44:27.860 of the church.
00:44:30.140 Okay,
00:44:30.860 that's why,
00:44:31.960 if you're going to have
00:44:32.600 these political statements,
00:44:33.580 why not all these
00:44:34.100 different political statements?
00:44:35.640 Don't all lives matter
00:44:36.860 to a church?
00:44:38.040 Nearby are colorful
00:44:39.080 Tibetan prayer flags.
00:44:40.420 Oh,
00:44:40.760 I thought it was
00:44:41.020 a Presbyterian church.
00:44:42.600 But the Presbyterian church
00:44:43.580 has Tibetan prayer flags
00:44:44.600 because the Presbyterian church
00:44:46.000 doesn't really believe
00:44:46.840 in the Presbyterian church.
00:44:50.040 But if the Presbyterian church
00:44:51.380 is going to have
00:44:51.780 Tibetan prayer flags,
00:44:52.640 why isn't it just
00:44:53.380 a Tibetan church?
00:44:55.160 Inside,
00:44:55.700 there are buttons
00:44:56.100 for worshipers
00:44:56.820 to declare their gender identity.
00:44:58.600 He,
00:44:58.860 him,
00:44:59.160 she,
00:44:59.440 her,
00:44:59.680 they,
00:44:59.920 them,
00:45:00.260 really gives new meaning
00:45:01.340 to the phrase,
00:45:02.380 in the beginning,
00:45:03.100 God created man,
00:45:03.980 both male and female,
00:45:04.900 he created them.
00:45:05.940 I guess he created them
00:45:06.780 as both male and female
00:45:07.780 all at once.
00:45:08.820 They're exactly the same.
00:45:11.280 This is a contradiction.
00:45:12.920 If you're going to have
00:45:13.300 56 genders,
00:45:14.540 that is a contradiction
00:45:15.480 of the book of Genesis.
00:45:17.020 During services,
00:45:17.780 worshipers recite
00:45:18.540 alternatives to the Lord's Prayer.
00:45:20.780 The Lord's Prayer.
00:45:22.020 The one prayer
00:45:22.820 that Jesus actually gives
00:45:24.500 himself verbatim.
00:45:27.060 They recite alternatives
00:45:27.960 to the Lord's Prayer
00:45:28.660 that use more
00:45:29.680 inclusive language.
00:45:31.880 And then you get
00:45:32.780 to the punchline.
00:45:33.500 one of the congregants
00:45:36.100 there says,
00:45:37.440 I'm more into
00:45:38.900 the social aspect.
00:45:40.840 I care a lot.
00:45:42.220 I care about
00:45:43.160 a lot of the people
00:45:44.140 and they care about me.
00:45:46.760 Me, me, me.
00:45:47.540 The church of the self.
00:45:48.580 And that is what you see.
00:45:50.220 Of course,
00:45:50.640 the New York Times
00:45:51.200 loves this.
00:45:51.880 They love changing
00:45:53.320 the church,
00:45:54.660 which is essentially
00:45:56.640 about selflessness.
00:45:58.140 I wish to dissolve,
00:45:59.360 as St. Paul said,
00:46:00.440 giving yourself away,
00:46:01.940 committing yourself to God
00:46:02.960 and worshiping God,
00:46:03.740 to the church of the self.
00:46:06.340 We know from
00:46:06.960 St. Andrew Breitbart,
00:46:08.100 politics is down from culture,
00:46:09.300 culture is down from religion.
00:46:10.580 No wonder
00:46:11.020 the New York Times
00:46:11.800 as a cultural institution
00:46:13.340 is celebrating
00:46:14.040 this major religious shift
00:46:15.640 because it has big,
00:46:16.580 big effects
00:46:17.700 on our politics.
00:46:20.020 Politics where I think
00:46:21.160 everyone is,
00:46:23.520 regardless of what
00:46:24.400 the New York Times says,
00:46:25.640 regardless of what
00:46:26.400 a few aging hippies
00:46:27.360 on the Upper West Side say,
00:46:29.840 I think people are tired
00:46:31.540 of being lied to.
00:46:34.380 That's true in religion,
00:46:35.540 that's true in culture,
00:46:36.320 that's true in politics.
00:46:37.260 That's good news for us,
00:46:38.180 that's bad news for the left.
00:46:39.440 That's our show.
00:46:40.140 No show tomorrow,
00:46:40.920 by the way,
00:46:41.420 but we will be back Friday
00:46:42.560 because we have to cover
00:46:43.860 that wonderful
00:46:44.880 Democratic presidential debate,
00:46:46.640 which should be a lot of fun.
00:46:47.780 In the meantime,
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