As Democrats burn down their 2020 presidential candidate, they give President Trump a major fundraising advantage, and they scare away independent voters, a serious question arises: Are Democrats trying to lose this thing? We will examine why the left can t get anything right, an Obama-appointed federal judge rules that Asians are not being discriminated against at Harvard, she rules that they just have terrible personalities, and we will take a look at that case if it's headed up to the Supreme Court. And finally, The Washington Post gives us the dumbest article on the internet.
00:22:31.240The first one is, he said he goes into the dentist and asked for the high beams.
00:22:34.600So he's saying, hey, Joe, you have dentures.
00:22:36.180You've got silly and ridiculous looking dentures.
00:22:38.220Then the next joke is really pretty cutting when you consider that it's coming from the liberal New York media class, which is, he's a man.
00:23:33.360They packed five jokes in there compared to one real joke against Bernie, which is that he ruined everything, compared to no actual jokes against Liz Warren.
00:23:58.440Now, one confounding factor in all this, and it's why they went a little bit, you know, they only got that one joke in on Bernie, then they moved on.
00:24:09.600I actually should note, even using that phrase, Bernie today had to cancel campaign activities in the near future because he does seem to be having something of a serious health problem.
00:24:27.100But all joking about the candidates aside, I do very much hope that Bernie Sanders recovers, mostly because I love him being in the race.
00:24:36.620I mean, he's also a child of God, and, you know, I hope he does well for himself and his family, but also because he's really, really funny to have in the race.
00:24:43.460And so I like him there, and I hope he stays there.
00:24:47.260That aside, the little health scare aside, and from all news reports, it looks like he's recovering well.
00:24:52.160His campaign is still doing quite well, and the media have been trying to take him out.
00:24:58.180Politico ran a piece just a few days ago about how his campaign was going nowhere.
00:27:20.440Basically saying that Liz Warren needs to get real about her progressive proposals.
00:27:26.360Because Warren has stolen all of Bernie's proposals, but she hasn't stolen his honesty about taxes.
00:27:32.180At least Bernie tells you we're going to have a lot of new services and we're going to raise taxes on just about everybody to pay for them.
00:27:39.740Liz Warren wants to promise all those new welfare services, but she doesn't want to admit that people have to pay for them.
00:29:00.380Bernie's talking about Liz Warren here.
00:29:02.760And it gets to the central Democrat problem, which is they are invariably, it seems, running to the left.
00:29:10.900Whether it's because Trump has just trolled them into madness or whether it's because they're finally just being honest about what they believe.
00:29:18.720This fight between Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren that is coming up, assuming Bernie gets better, assuming the campaign is still going on.
00:29:26.620If all of that happens, this fight coming up is going to bring the party even further to the left.
00:29:33.540Bernie has the correct idea here, which is they have to raise taxes to pay for their plans.
00:29:39.880He's going to make Liz Warren be honest about it.
00:29:41.880And that's a really bad pitch because we've just got a report that Americans are now spending more on taxes than they are on food, clothing, and health care combined.
00:29:54.280That's according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:30:06.860Then why one Obama-appointed federal judge thinks that Asians just have bad personalities.
00:30:11.320And finally, the dumbest article on the Internet today, which takes on that great problem, that scourge in the United States, the ethnic food aisle at the grocery store, which the Washington Post says is the last bastion of racism.
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00:31:52.320So Democrats are now going, eventually going to be running on, we are going to raise your taxes.
00:32:07.960Yes, we are going to raise your taxes.
00:32:09.420The more honest voices on the left are already saying this.
00:32:12.040They're going to force the more dishonest ones to say it too.
00:32:14.220But this comes as a new survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows Americans are way, way, way overtaxed.
00:32:23.580So Americans, on average, are spending more on taxes than they are on food, clothing, and health care combined.
00:32:35.560American consumer units spent, on average, $9,031.93 on federal income taxes.
00:32:44.220They spent a little over $5,000 on Social Security taxes, almost $2,300 on state and local income taxes, $2,200 on property taxes, and $78 on other taxes.
00:32:57.680Because they'll tax you coming and going.
00:33:00.900This brings, for the average American, $18,617.93 total in taxes.
00:33:07.960Now, the average American consumer unit, while they were paying these taxes, they were also spending nearly $8,000 on food, nearly $5,000 on health care, $1,866 on apparel and services.
00:33:35.320You know, the left and kind of the new right, new conservatives, and the center, they would always mock the conservative movement in the 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s for just all they cared about was low taxes.
00:33:47.700Low taxes, and people don't get all that excited about low taxes, and it's a little too wonkish and rationalist.
00:33:54.660Low taxes is about so much more than just taxes.
00:35:03.400He should watch it happen, and he should laugh.
00:35:05.320You know, there was a suggestion from Peter Schweitzer, who's very good, but he runs the Government Accountability Institute, I think it's called.
00:35:13.000And he just looks into corruption at the government level, and he writes excellent books.
00:35:17.260He has this suggestion right now that Trump needs to get really involved in all of this, that Trump actually should, I guess, through the Senate Republicans,
00:35:25.920use the subpoena power to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden, to get really active in areas of this campaign.
00:35:35.920I think if you get the White House to really get aggressive here, or if you get the Senate to start subpoenaing different people and really heavily investigating Joe and Hunter Biden,
00:35:49.040it creates a sort of moral equivalence between the House and the Senate, the House Democrats and the Senate Republicans.
00:35:54.400So right now the House is impeaching Trump.
00:36:59.740It would spell good news for conservatives in 2020, really bad news, and without really much good luck in sight, I think, for the Democrats.
00:37:08.440Now, moving on from 2020, looking at just the culture broadly, there's one case that we have been talking about for months and months now.
00:37:17.900It's this case brought by Asian students and Asian parents who had kids apply to Harvard, and they were rejected, or there were students at Harvard, but they found this problem in the admissions policy, which is that Harvard is systematically discriminating against Asian applicants on the basis of race.
00:38:05.600And you just take the test and you report your SAT score, unless your mother's Aunt Becky, in which case you cheat on the test and get into college.
00:38:11.940You got the SAT score, you've got your GPA.
00:38:45.740Obviously, very subjective, highly vulnerable to abuse.
00:38:50.600What this survey showed of the Asian applicants is that Asians had the highest scores in academic and extracurricular rankings, but they had by far the lowest personality rankings.
00:39:08.160Either you believe that Asians just have absolutely terrible personalities across the board, or you realize that the personality score is just a way to discriminate against Asians on the basis of race.
00:39:22.900Because these universities have done this for so long, which is they don't want too many Asians, or they don't want too many Jews, or they don't want whatever race they don't want there.
00:39:33.680And so they find a way to keep that number suppressed.
00:39:36.100First, this lawsuit brought, showed that statistical experts looking at the applications saw an Asian American male applicant had a 25% chance of admission.
00:39:53.320Or if he had a 25% chance of admission, he would have a 32% chance of admission if he were white.
00:39:58.940He would have a 77% chance of admission if he were Hispanic.
00:40:01.860He would have a 95% chance of admission if he were black.
00:40:05.260That's if he's beginning with all of his other scores starting at 25%.
00:40:08.940He would get a huge advantage if he were a different race, and he was being disadvantaged because of his own race.
00:40:14.340So anyway, this federal judge today, this Obama appointee, Allison Burroughs, says that Harvard can keep discriminating.
00:40:21.640And her reasoning was, this is a direct quote,
00:40:24.180So what she's saying is, she found out that Harvard, she discovered, she concluded, Harvard is not discriminating against Asians on the basis of race because Harvard told her that they're not discriminating against Asians on the basis of race.
00:40:48.680And, you know, why would Harvard lie about something like that?
00:40:51.320I mean, you're not calling them liars, are you?
00:40:55.600I guess Asians just have bad personalities, is what this Obama appointed judge is saying.
00:41:01.300This is, first of all, it shows you how bizarre and incoherent racial politics can be.
00:41:06.260I mean, it's not as though, broadly as a demographic group, Asian immigrants and second-generation Asians are so incredibly well-off in America.
00:43:31.420The sting occurs whenever they walk down the ethnic food aisle, the section of the supermarket that to some plays out like a remnant of the Jim Crow era.
00:43:41.120So, according to the Washington Post, there's an aisle at the supermarket where you can buy certain Asian spices and oyster sauce.
00:44:11.420to the shoppers they seemingly target as de facto segregation, another kind of separate but equal policy that marginalized African-Americans for generations.
00:44:19.980Because supermarkets are stocking up on very niche food products that, generally speaking, a small number of people like.
00:44:28.300Does walking down a separate aisle for yum-yum sauce and adobo make you feel like you are being reserved and refused, rather, service at the Woolworth's lunch counter?
00:44:57.200So, I just want to point out, I am willing to accept the premise, okay?
00:45:02.720I'm willing to accept that ethnic food aisles are racist and whatever.
00:45:10.000If we admit that it's the last bastion of racism and we get rid of ethnic food aisles, then the left has to agree to stop yapping about racism.
00:45:21.400Because you just said it's the last bastion of racism.
00:45:24.300I don't think it's a bastion of racism, but you think it.
00:45:27.320You think it's the last bastion, and you're always trying to divide people based on race and identity politics.
00:45:33.480So, okay, right, last bastion, let's pass a law, we get rid of the ethnic food aisle, then that's it.
00:45:38.360No more race hustling, no more identity politics.
00:45:41.280Something tells me they're not going to take that deal.
00:45:43.420He complains, he goes on, he complains that olive oil is in the main food aisles, but, you know, yum-yum sauce is in its own separate aisle.
00:45:51.180First of all, everyone uses olive oil.
00:45:53.220People don't use oyster sauce and rice vinegar that much.
00:45:55.600But also, that's not some vile bigotry, because the products are available.
00:46:03.500You get to just go to the aisle and buy them.
00:46:08.260The ongoing segregation of these foods isn't about acceptance among the mainstream.
00:46:13.460Asian and Latino cuisines have long been embraced by Americans of every stripe.
00:46:17.560And you can sometimes even see this play out in supermarkets.
00:46:20.300Instant ramen and tortilla soups may sit right next to boxes of chicken noodle and cream of chicken soups.
00:46:25.140Those standards of mid-century America.
00:46:26.960So he actually admits that some of the foods are in the regular aisle, the ones that are more mainstream.
00:46:32.640Because people eat instant ramen noodles because people are poor college students sometimes.
00:46:37.280But they don't always go eat yum-yum sauce.
00:46:40.520Then he complains that very, very niche specialty products like coconut milk and stir-fry sauces and curry paste are in the separate aisle.
00:46:52.200Mainstream media are so incredibly separated from mainstream America, they don't realize how different their tastes are than the vast majority of this country.
00:47:02.640Second thing is, this grievance carries social currency.
00:47:37.680I also don't think that this is really being pushed by people who are actually terribly offended by this.
00:47:43.860I think, generally speaking, this is pushed by white liberals, like, for instance, the people who tend to publish and read the Washington Post.
00:47:51.580That's going to be the topic of my speech tonight as I defend George Washington from mostly white liberals who want to destroy him.
00:47:59.700So head on over to George Washington if you're in town.
00:48:02.520Otherwise, catch it on the live stream, and I'll see you, in any case, tomorrow.