The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 443 - Liz Warren Thinks You’re An Idiot

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00:00:30.000 Big news in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary,

00:00:33.940 and I am not talking about Beto O'Rourke's dropping out

00:00:36.960 because nobody ever actually cared about Beto O'Rourke except for the mainstream media,

00:00:42.540 and they are wrong about everything.

00:00:44.160 I'm talking about actually consequential presidential campaign news.

00:00:49.180 Elizabeth Warren has released the details of her health care plan,

00:00:52.600 which costs roughly $50 bazillion.

00:00:56.260 We will get into the economics of it,

00:00:58.520 and we will examine the broader strategy of the Warren campaign. 1.00

00:01:02.980 She thinks you're all a bunch of idiots. 1.00

00:01:05.780 Then, a Democratic state representative says something horrifying about unborn babies. 1.00

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00:01:14.320 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:24.480 Huge news in the presidential race and the Beto thing.

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00:01:34.800 It's to make fun of somebody else who is a lot worse than Beto.

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00:03:17.720 Now, speaking of startup organizations that were not able to get past those initial challenges,

00:03:26.260 the Beto O'Rourke campaign is officially over.

00:03:29.420 Seems like it barely began, but it is officially over.

00:03:34.180 I am not going to gloat over O'Rourke's campaign being over.

00:03:39.180 I'm going to miss Beto O'Rourke.

00:03:40.720 He's hilarious.

00:03:42.080 He was the doofiest candidate in the entire race.

00:03:44.760 He was skateboarding around Whataburger parking lots.

00:03:48.660 He was filming his dental hygienist while she was poking around his teeth.

00:03:52.920 He was hilarious.

00:03:54.340 He was great.

00:03:55.200 He reminded me of every kind of whiny, liberal guy

00:03:59.180 who would hit on your girlfriend when you went out of town. 0.89

00:04:02.020 You know, he was just like the archetypal liberal, progressive guy.

00:04:07.380 Really sensitive guy, you know.

00:04:08.680 Now, he's out of the race now, which is a huge slap in the face, not to his campaign staffers

00:04:16.940 or his donors or even himself.

00:04:18.860 It's a huge slap in the face to the mainstream media.

00:04:22.180 The reason that Beto O'Rourke dropping out matters.

00:04:24.800 The only reason that it matters is because it highlights something that we talk about every

00:04:29.920 other day on this show, probably, which is you should not believe the press.

00:04:34.300 You should not believe the mainstream media.

00:04:35.920 The reason you should not believe the mainstream media is not because they're awful and terrible 0.96

00:04:40.320 and mean people.

00:04:40.980 It's because they're wrong all the time.

00:04:43.140 They lie through their teeth.

00:04:45.880 The mainstream media are dishonest. 0.99

00:04:48.580 The mainstream media are hacks who spread lies.

00:04:51.900 If you're, if you've ever found yourself, if you've ever had the privilege of finding yourself

00:04:55.800 as the target of mainstream media attacks, which has happened to me on occasion,

00:05:00.620 you, you, the first thing you realize is not, your first reaction is not, oh, this is awful.

00:05:08.360 How, this is, woe is me.

00:05:10.020 Why is everyone coming after me?

00:05:11.100 The first thing you realize is a, is a much more clear observation about the press, which

00:05:16.680 is they're wrong.

00:05:18.360 They spread lies.

00:05:20.500 I mean, imagine that, that Nick Sandman kid, the kid with the red hat, the MAGA hat in DC,

00:05:26.800 who was there on a class trip.

00:05:28.760 He was waiting for his bus. 0.97

00:05:29.940 And then these lunatics started approaching him. 0.99

00:05:32.980 Black supremacist group, the Hebrew Israelites, and this Native American leftist looney tune 0.99

00:05:38.520 who walks up to him and starts beating a drum in his face. 0.87

00:05:40.800 And there's this kid who does nothing, who just stands there like sort of half smiling,

00:05:47.500 unsure what to do.

00:05:49.020 And then the mainstream media, Washington Post, New York Times, all those guys, paint him like

00:05:55.300 he's a neo-Nazi, like he was attacking these people.

00:05:59.420 The mainstream media described the black Israelites who were screaming racial epithets at these kids, 0.73

00:06:06.360 who were calling them all sorts of names, who were provoking them, described them as civil

00:06:10.780 rights leaders.

00:06:12.500 They described this actually insane Native American leftist activist, Nathan Phillips,

00:06:18.480 banging a drum in the face of this 16-year-old kid for no reason, described him as a peaceful

00:06:23.400 combat veteran.

00:06:25.040 By the way, he wasn't a combat veteran.

00:06:27.200 Just made it up out of whole cloth.

00:06:29.300 And then described these kids who were there on a class trip doing nothing, standing still

00:06:34.780 on the National Mall, which I think they're still allowed to do, described them as hateful, 0.93

00:06:39.540 bigots. 0.95

00:06:41.060 Attack intimidating. 0.88

00:06:43.220 That's the mainstream media.

00:06:45.160 They do it time and time again.

00:06:46.520 They describe a 16-year-old kid in a MAGA hat as a threat, as an assailant, and they describe 0.95

00:06:51.940 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a rapist, murderer, terrorist, as an austere religious scholar. 0.80

00:06:57.580 That's what the Washington Post did last week. 0.99

00:06:59.220 That's the mainstream media for you.

00:07:00.740 And guess who the mainstream media's favorite presidential candidate was for months?

00:07:06.980 Beto O'Rourke.

00:07:08.880 Big, beautiful, glossy pictures in Vanity Fair.

00:07:13.000 Beto O'Rourke.

00:07:13.660 You know, Tucker Carlson over at Fox put together just a quick little montage of the press's

00:07:18.380 reaction when Beto got into the race.

00:07:20.440 I saw him for the first time just a month ago when he sat down with Oprah, and me and

00:07:24.540 the rest of the people in the audience thought, wow, this guy has this dynamic, positive energy.

00:07:30.340 Yeah, he has that raw talent.

00:07:32.620 He is very kind of Obama-esque indeed.

00:07:36.180 Women voted for him in the suburbs of Houston who hadn't voted Democrat before because they 0.99

00:07:40.140 had a kind of Beto crush going on.

00:07:41.920 You know, he's wholesome and he's earnest.

00:07:43.540 He's got that magic dust.

00:07:44.980 Of course his son is named Ulysses.

00:07:46.700 I love that that's his son's name.

00:07:48.620 He has that gleam in his eye.

00:07:49.620 Somebody, Evan Smith at the Texas Tribune said seeing him is like, it's like a Jesus Christ

00:07:55.020 superstar seeing this guy in front of people.

00:07:56.800 He's got that celebrity aura about him.

00:07:58.760 And in that moment, he was owning that.

00:08:01.240 None of that is true.

00:08:04.080 Not a single aspect of what they just said is true.

00:08:07.620 He's not terribly charismatic. 0.96

00:08:09.360 He's really awkward and weird and stiff and goofy. 0.92

00:08:14.780 He's not like a celebrity. 0.97

00:08:16.960 He doesn't make women swoon.

00:08:19.500 He's kind of a weird guy.

00:08:23.100 He's not Jesus Christ.

00:08:24.600 I know the press actually said he was Jesus Christ superstar.

00:08:29.260 He's not.

00:08:30.480 He's an ex-congressman who lost a Senate seat, who lost a presidential race, who skateboards

00:08:37.640 around a Whataburger parking lot.

00:08:39.320 He's also not that earnest.

00:08:40.920 I mean, he tries to affect an earnest persona.

00:08:43.840 He doesn't believe in anything.

00:08:45.460 He changes his views day to day.

00:08:47.540 At first he said, this was a few months ago.

00:08:49.640 He said, we will never take away your AR-15s.

00:08:51.880 We're not going to confiscate your guns.

00:08:53.420 Then like two months later, he said, hell yeah, we're going to confiscate your AR-15s.

00:08:58.060 Shortly after which he said, hell yeah, we're going to drop out of the presidential race

00:09:01.520 because he was going nowhere.

00:09:04.900 He didn't catch on with anybody.

00:09:06.420 He actually said in Iowa, he got onto a table because this was his shtick for a while.

00:09:11.000 He would stand on top of tables before crowds of 15, sometimes 20 people, and all of whom

00:09:16.880 were in the mainstream media, by the way, and he said, I want you to shape me into the

00:09:22.720 presidential candidate that you want.

00:09:26.160 That is not the campaign theme of somebody who's earnest, somebody with convictions, somebody

00:09:31.820 who's charismatic, somebody that people can fall head over heels for.

00:09:36.380 That is the presidential campaign theme of a hack who doesn't believe in anything, who's

00:09:41.920 just desperate for power, who says from the very first moments of his campaign, I was

00:09:46.420 born for this.

00:09:47.080 I was born to do this.

00:09:48.280 I'm in it to win it.

00:09:49.800 He's one of the first candidates out of the race.

00:09:51.860 So Beto's gone.

00:09:53.000 Adios, Beto.

00:09:54.840 Hasta la vista, hermano.

00:09:57.880 I don't, I don't know.

00:09:58.560 I don't know much Spanish, but I do know much more Spanish than Beto O'Rourke.

00:10:01.520 He's gone.

00:10:02.580 And I'm sorry for him, but I feel really great for the mainstream media because once again,

00:10:07.860 they are proven wrong.

00:10:09.560 There is actual news, however, in the presidential race.

00:10:12.920 The actual news is about Elizabeth Warren.

00:10:16.340 Elizabeth Warren has released the details of her health care plan.

00:10:20.140 That's not even the big deal.

00:10:21.880 I mean, we will examine the health care plan because it does tell us a lot about her campaign.

00:10:25.940 But the 30,000 foot view, the reason this matters in presidential politics broadly is

00:10:31.760 because it means Liz Warren has made her choice.

00:10:34.260 Liz Warren has been debating now for several weeks, for several months.

00:10:38.400 Is she going to take Joe Biden's voters or is she going to take Bernie Sanders' voters? 1.00

00:10:43.160 Is she going to be the moderate Harvard professor that she was for a lot of her career?

00:10:48.620 Circumspect, academic, serious, balanced.

00:10:51.980 Or is she going to be the radical workers, warrior, class conflict, Bernie Sanders, communist?

00:11:01.200 Those were the two choices.

00:11:02.520 And she's waffled.

00:11:03.240 She's vacillated between the two.

00:11:05.420 She's made her choice.

00:11:06.880 She is going full left wing, which means she believes that Biden is done for.

00:11:12.720 She believes Biden is over.

00:11:14.320 So she thinks that she needs to go left to win the nomination.

00:11:17.260 Why?

00:11:17.700 Because being a centrist didn't allow Joe Biden to win the nomination.

00:11:21.260 It actually hurt him.

00:11:22.380 And because she thinks he's so weak, he's not going to be a challenge.

00:11:25.480 So that she thinks his voters are just automatically going to go over to her.

00:11:29.320 And she thinks that she's now got to fight to win Bernie's voters. 0.91

00:11:31.720 The only way she's going to fight to win Bernie's voters is if she gets down hardcore on the leftist policies and if she uses real numbers and she puts forward plans. 1.00

00:11:41.860 So it doesn't just look like she stole Bernie's talking points, but she actually has her own real plans.

00:11:47.160 Elizabeth Warren is now endorsing a full government takeover of health care.

00:11:54.120 A lot of Democrats have been talking about this for the past several years.

00:11:57.980 Really, they've been talking about this in the fringes for 100 years.

00:12:00.960 And now Liz Warren, who is possibly the frontrunner, she's got all the momentum on her side, even if she's not number one in the polls, she is endorsing it head on.

00:12:11.380 No private health insurance.

00:12:13.080 She is going full Castro. 0.88

00:12:15.680 Fidel Castro, not Julian Castro.

00:12:17.720 She is going far left.

00:12:20.240 She's been quiet about her plans this whole time as she's been straddling that line.

00:12:24.800 Now she's admitting that she's on the left.

00:12:27.120 And the other reason she's been quiet is not just because she's had these two personas.

00:12:30.700 The other reason is even if she admits she's full left now, if she gives out the real numbers, then she's going to have to admit how she's going to pay for it.

00:12:39.840 And the only way to pay for it is to raise everybody's taxes.

00:12:43.020 So we have the price.

00:12:44.240 The price that even Liz Warren is admitting is $52 trillion.

00:12:50.340 The only advantage that Liz Warren has here is that nobody has any idea how much money $52 trillion is. 0.99

00:13:01.320 They don't.

00:13:01.600 If you told people, hey, I've got a million dollars here and a billion dollars here and $52 trillion here.

00:13:11.020 Okay, three.

00:13:12.500 I dug three holes and I poured in all that money.

00:13:15.420 A million, a billion, and $52 trillion.

00:13:18.120 Visualize that.

00:13:20.340 You would imagine like a slightly smaller amount in the first hole and then a slightly bigger amount in the second hole and then a slightly bigger amount, maybe even a significantly bigger amount in the third hole.

00:13:34.080 You could never visualize the difference in magnitude between a million dollars and a billion dollars and $52 trillion.

00:13:42.460 It's just, you can't hold all of that in your head.

00:13:45.580 And so what Liz Warren is banking on is that anything with Ilyon basically means the same to people when they hear it.

00:13:52.440 And so they won't realize how insanely expensive this plan is.

00:13:57.160 Even SNL spoofed this plan.

00:14:01.980 Saturday Night Live is in the tank for Liz Warren and they have been for months now. 0.90

00:14:05.920 They love Liz Warren.

00:14:06.840 She's the only candidate they don't really make fun of.

00:14:08.940 They make fun of all the other candidates, but they don't make fun of her because they like her.

00:14:13.520 All the attacks that they throw on her are sort of gentle attacks that actually make her look good.

00:14:18.380 Even they mocked Liz Warren for this feature of her health care plan, for the fact that she's banking on people not understanding how much money a trillion dollars is. 1.00

00:14:28.900 You said your plan would cost $20.5 trillion, but other economists have said it could cost $34 trillion.

00:14:36.140 Right, okay, let me stop you right there.

00:14:38.180 We're talking trillions.

00:14:40.140 You know, when the numbers are this big, they're just pretend.

00:14:44.940 There ain't no Scrooge McDuck vault.

00:14:47.900 You ready to get red-pilled?

00:14:50.140 Money doesn't exist.

00:14:52.520 It's just a promise from a computer.

00:14:54.500 You might as well say it costs $1.9 trillion over $12.10.

00:14:59.860 You know, same difference.

00:15:01.040 All right, next.

00:15:01.780 Who we got?

00:15:02.160 Sorry, Senator.

00:15:02.940 I'm going to need to see the math on that.

00:15:05.600 Oh, yeah.

00:15:06.380 Oh, you want to see the math?

00:15:07.360 Okay, I'll show you.

00:15:08.340 Look at this.

00:15:08.960 Here.

00:15:09.760 Yeah.

00:15:13.620 Do you understand this?

00:15:15.640 I do.

00:15:16.700 I could explain it to you, but you'd die.

00:15:19.340 Okay, so even here, they make the joke.

00:15:22.020 They say, look, look, the reason this health care doesn't matter because money's not real

00:15:26.460 and the numbers are so big, you can't even imagine what those numbers are.

00:15:30.480 And the questioner, who's apparently working for the Kamala Harris campaign, that's the 0.55

00:15:35.360 setup, she says, I need to see the math on that.

00:15:37.440 And then Liz Warren shows her the math and says, look, I'm so smart. 1.00

00:15:40.760 I understand this complicated math, but you don't because you're an idiot and I'm so much 1.00

00:15:44.680 smarter than you. 1.00

00:15:45.360 So even when they make a pretty accurate attack on her, they have to then couch it as a compliment

00:15:52.120 to her because Saturday Night Live can't just get the joke in. 0.91

00:15:56.360 They can't just follow the comedy.

00:15:57.580 They have to back their candidates.

00:15:59.000 Let's not forget when that same actress, Kate McKinnon, when she was playing Hillary Clinton 0.55

00:16:02.700 in the 2016 election cycle, and then Hillary Clinton lost, she played a sad song on a piano

00:16:09.540 very earnestly after the election while everyone was crying.

00:16:14.200 Saturday Night Live, that's the comedy.

00:16:16.940 But the joke they were trying to make, at least, is real.

00:16:20.020 The numbers are too big.

00:16:22.660 Let's drill down into those numbers to try to see if we can clarify how much money we're

00:16:26.480 talking about.

00:16:28.720 Previously, Elizabeth Warren said that only billionaires would pay for her health care plan. 0.99

00:16:35.460 She would raise the taxes on billionaires and then they would pay for the plan. 0.60

00:16:39.760 Here she is.

00:16:40.720 What is the income bracket that you used to buy her? 0.91

00:16:43.500 Here it's 100%.

00:16:44.780 It doesn't raise taxes on anybody but billionaires.

00:16:48.100 And you know what?

00:16:49.180 The billionaires can afford it and I don't call them middle class.

00:16:51.780 So billionaire, that's where it worked.

00:16:53.760 Anyone under a billion dollars that worked?

00:16:55.660 That's right.

00:16:56.040 It's not paying a penny more.

00:16:57.320 That's exactly right.

00:16:58.760 Okay, that's a complete lie.

00:17:00.320 But let's examine how gross a lie it really is.

00:17:06.460 The 400 richest Americans have a combined net worth of $2.96 trillion.

00:17:15.780 Okay, we're not talking about that's their income.

00:17:19.320 We're not talking about raising taxes on their income or anything like that.

00:17:22.880 That's all the money they have is $2.96 trillion.

00:17:25.560 There are an additional 221 billionaires in America.

00:17:31.100 Now, all of those billionaires have less than $2.1 billion.

00:17:35.480 Let's just assume for a moment that all of the other billionaires in America have $2.1 billion,

00:17:41.640 which they don't, by the way.

00:17:43.320 So the actual number of their wealth will be significantly smaller than this.

00:17:47.360 But let's, if we just assume that, then that brings the total wealth of every single billionaire

00:17:52.500 in America to $3.42 trillion.

00:17:57.860 It's actually probably closer to $3 trillion, but let's say $3.42.

00:18:01.220 All the billionaires in America have a combined net worth of $3 to $3.42 trillion.

00:18:06.900 If you confiscated not just 100% of their earnings, so you raise the tax rate on them to 100%,

00:18:15.000 which means they stop working so they're not going to make any money, but you raise, let's

00:18:18.220 say you raised it to 100%, then you showed up at their doors with guns, kicked in the doors

00:18:23.240 of their mansions, stole all of their property, including the clothing on their back.

00:18:27.740 If you did all of that, you could barely pay for 65% of even one year of Liz Warren's health

00:18:38.700 care plan.

00:18:39.880 Liz Warren's health care plan, $52 trillion estimate over 10 years.

00:18:43.280 Usually these plans are calculated in the 10 year run.

00:18:47.340 So let's say one year, $5.2 trillion.

00:18:50.360 You took all the wealth of every billionaire in America, took every single penny they have.

00:18:54.840 You couldn't pay for 65% of one year.

00:18:58.140 By the way, then what happens after one year?

00:19:01.340 So you've paid for now 65% of one year of Liz Warren's health care plan. 1.00

00:19:05.940 The billionaires don't have any more money.

00:19:07.820 They're not making any more money.

00:19:09.020 They have nothing.

00:19:10.360 So now what happens?

00:19:11.740 Once you get 65% of the way through the year, you need to start taking money from other people.

00:19:17.900 But you've taken by far the wealthiest Americans and robbed them of all of their money.

00:19:22.480 So now you're going to have to go for a whole lot more people, not just another 600 people,

00:19:26.360 not just a 6,000 people.

00:19:28.120 You're going to have to go for everybody.

00:19:30.980 $52 trillion over 10 years.

00:19:34.860 To put that in perspective, we won World War II for $4 trillion.

00:19:40.460 That's inflation adjusted.

00:19:41.620 In 2019 dollars, it cost us $4 trillion to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Germany and hold 0.55

00:19:50.020 off the Ruskies and secure the world order again. 1.00

00:19:53.620 Annualized, inflation adjusted, we paid less than one-fifth per year what Liz Warren wants 1.00

00:20:03.320 us to pay for health care to beat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.

00:20:09.440 Now, how is Liz Warren even saying this with a straight face? 0.98

00:20:12.720 The way she's saying this with a straight face is she's saying that she will offset all

00:20:17.080 of that money, $52 trillion in 10 years, by lumping in Medicare and Medicaid and the state

00:20:23.880 contributions to Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program and government health

00:20:28.080 care plans.

00:20:28.580 Because, she says, we're already going to have this government-enforced socialist medicine,

00:20:35.640 so you won't need all those other health care plans.

00:20:37.620 Okay, fair enough.

00:20:38.420 That still leaves $30 trillion in a budget gap.

00:20:46.980 The Wall Street Journal did a great editorial on this.

00:20:49.180 If you want to have a really quick, concise breakdown that you can read, go read their

00:20:52.860 editorial.

00:20:55.280 $20 trillion, $22 trillion just about, she's figured out how to take out of her health care 1.00

00:21:01.660 plan.

00:21:02.240 You've still got to account for $30 trillion here.

00:21:04.860 To put that number in perspective, the entire GDP of the United States is $20 trillion.

00:21:09.760 The whole U.S. economy, $20 trillion.

00:21:13.720 We could confiscate the entire economy of the United States for one year.

00:21:19.800 By the way, there wouldn't be a U.S. economy after that.

00:21:22.180 When you confiscate the entire economy of the United States, that's the end of the U.S.

00:21:25.080 economy.

00:21:25.640 You could confiscate that.

00:21:26.820 For one entire year, you would barely cover two-thirds of just the budget shortfall over

00:21:35.240 the 10-year period.

00:21:37.320 The plan is an economic joke.

00:21:41.420 It's a farce.

00:21:43.560 Nobody can take this plan seriously from an economic perspective.

00:21:47.000 But the nonsense economics is only one political liability.

00:21:53.420 So it's not even as though she puts out this health care plan and then says, okay, here it

00:21:57.980 is.

00:21:58.280 You're going to attack me for this, for all these crazy economics that don't make any

00:22:03.020 sense.

00:22:04.000 That's not, the plan is actually even worse than that.

00:22:06.620 The other political liability here is that Liz Warren's health care plan would take away 1.00

00:22:11.000 Americans' health care policies and they hate that. 0.98

00:22:13.380 Americans really don't like it when you take away their doctor and when you take away their 0.97

00:22:17.480 health insurance.

00:22:18.640 And especially when you tell them that if they like their doctor, they can keep their doctor

00:22:21.580 like Barack Obama did.

00:22:24.120 Barack Obama took away health care from a lot of people because of Obamacare, which was a

00:22:29.060 much more modest plan than Liz Warren is proposing.

00:22:33.800 He told Americans, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

00:22:37.980 That was not true.

00:22:39.940 Many Americans lost their health care.

00:22:41.440 Because of that single act, Barack Obama lost 1,000 seats over the next several years

00:22:50.580 in our government, federal, state, and local.

00:22:53.060 1,000 seats.

00:22:55.280 The state houses, the Congress, eventually the Senate.

00:22:59.280 He lost everything.

00:23:00.920 He got to hold on to the White House, but he lost just about everything else.

00:23:05.180 People really, really hate it when you take away their health care because they view it,

00:23:10.260 rightly, as a matter of life and death.

00:23:13.100 So if you are going to take away their doctor, who they really like, or if you're going to start

00:23:18.020 rationing health care, that's a big problem.

00:23:20.600 The Liz Warren health care plan would kick 170 million Americans off of private health insurance. 1.00

00:23:28.260 Bad enough.

00:23:29.200 You're kicking half the country off their private health care.

00:23:31.420 Also, it endorses rationing.

00:23:37.100 What is the rationing?

00:23:38.040 The rationing is what Sarah Palin referred to as the death panels, which the left mocked,

00:23:44.360 but they could never explain why they were mocking it because the death panels were real.

00:23:49.200 The death panels were the Independent Payment Advisory Board, IPAB.

00:23:53.980 These were put together by economists, the same economists who worked on the Liz Warren health

00:23:59.880 care plan.

00:24:00.240 That's why they're so similar.

00:24:01.620 So the reason you need rationing is because health care is a finite good.

00:24:07.060 Health care is not a human right.

00:24:08.940 It's not a natural right.

00:24:10.200 It's not something we are endowed with our creator to have.

00:24:14.380 It's a technology.

00:24:15.640 It's a commodity.

00:24:16.480 It's this thing that's only been around for 100 years in its modern form.

00:24:20.600 And it's always involved technology and other people's labor.

00:24:23.980 So you can't just say I have a natural right to health care because health care involves

00:24:26.940 other people's work.

00:24:28.360 It involves other people's time.

00:24:29.500 It involves other people's investments.

00:24:30.900 It involves other people's ingenuity.

00:24:33.920 So health care will always be a finite good.

00:24:37.940 It won't be an infinite good.

00:24:39.520 The way that health care is now doled out is we have health insurance that pays for it.

00:24:44.560 We have hospitals.

00:24:45.280 We have prices for health care that's usually covered by insurance, but sometimes people pay

00:24:49.760 out of pocket.

00:24:50.600 If you can't afford, you can go to a health, an emergency room rather, and you will get

00:24:55.020 health care.

00:24:55.400 You'll never be turned away, but it's not optimal, but it's, it's one way that we now

00:25:00.080 work out this problem of this finite good that everybody wants.

00:25:03.660 The Liz Warren plan would take away all of those smaller forces that, that somehow keep 1.00

00:25:10.480 this commodity in check.

00:25:12.100 And they would give all of that to the federal government.

00:25:13.820 So if U.S. health care spending exceeds GDP growth, how will Liz Warren pay for the program? 1.00

00:25:23.040 She says, quote, I will use available policy tools, which include global budgets, population-based

00:25:30.540 budgets, and automatic rate reductions to bring it back into line.

00:25:34.820 That's a whole lot of political gobbledygook to say, I will ration care.

00:25:40.920 This is what every socialist health care plan has to do.

00:25:45.300 They will ration care.

00:25:46.740 There will be very, very long wait times, in which case people who are waiting for surgery

00:25:51.600 very often will die while waiting for that surgery because there just aren't enough doctors.

00:25:55.540 There aren't enough beds.

00:25:56.180 The government just isn't that good at running health care systems.

00:26:00.560 Or you'll have a black market for health care. 0.97

00:26:03.200 I was in Cuba a few years ago.

00:26:05.440 I visit Cuba.

00:26:07.920 I am driving around and I'm walking around and I see Havana Hospital.

00:26:15.680 It's a famous hospital. 0.99

00:26:16.640 All the left-wing useful idiots will tell you health care, health care in Cuba is some of 0.99

00:26:20.860 the best in the world because Cuba basically cooks their numbers to make it seem this way. 1.00

00:26:26.180 So there's the Havana Hospital.

00:26:27.740 Anybody can walk into Havana Hospital, but you can't get medicine.

00:26:33.020 This is what people in Cuba told me.

00:26:35.720 You can walk in.

00:26:36.720 That's no problem.

00:26:38.700 But they won't have medicine.

00:26:40.100 They won't have towels.

00:26:41.380 They won't have pillows on the beds.

00:26:43.520 You got to bring your own band-aids.

00:26:44.680 You got to bring your own syringes.

00:26:45.880 You got to bring your own toilet paper.

00:26:47.440 You have to bring everything because the government has rationed care.

00:26:51.400 That's what Liz Warren is going to do. 0.99

00:26:52.820 She is going to run for president during a time of relatively great prosperity by saying,

00:26:59.200 we're going to have the same health care system as Cuba in principle.

00:27:02.460 It'll be better because we're richer and we're starting from a much better position.

00:27:06.380 But that's where we're headed.

00:27:08.600 It would also raise the corporate tax rate.

00:27:10.800 It would raise it back to 35% from 21%.

00:27:13.780 This is pretty radical.

00:27:16.280 I know corporate tax rates are a sort of minor campaign issue.

00:27:19.620 Barack Obama himself campaigned against the 35% tax rate.

00:27:23.300 It's just too high.

00:27:24.980 It's too high.

00:27:25.940 It makes America, it keeps America from being competitive around the world. 0.84

00:27:29.900 It ends up hurting American workers and everybody in the country.

00:27:34.580 And Liz Warren would raise even more taxes on top of the 1% by taxing, quote, unrealized capital gains. 1.00

00:27:42.180 So when you make an investment and then you cash out that investment, you make some money, you pay a capital gains tax.

00:27:48.100 What Liz Warren is going to do is just tax you even if you don't get the money yet. 1.00

00:27:52.060 So you've got an investment.

00:27:53.460 And then Liz Warren is just going to make you pay a fee to even have the investment. 1.00

00:27:58.600 As well as a 2% wealth tax on people who have more than $50 million, which is just going to send money overseas.

00:28:05.960 It's going to make people hide their money.

00:28:07.400 It's going to make people avoid the tax. 0.79

00:28:09.660 A complete train wreck of a plan.

00:28:13.920 And this is giving an opening to another Democratic candidate who is creeping up the polls because he's basically doing the opposite of what Liz Warren is doing. 0.59

00:28:22.380 We'll get to that in a second.

00:28:23.360 We will also get to a disgusting comment on unborn babies from a Pennsylvania Democratic state representative.

00:28:29.840 We will also get to the collapse of Joe Biden.

00:28:33.740 So much more.

00:28:35.300 But first, we have got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:28:38.620 $10 a month.

00:28:39.800 $100 for an annual membership.

00:28:41.620 You get me.

00:28:42.200 You get the Andrew Klavan show.

00:28:43.160 You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:28:44.420 You get the Matt Wall show.

00:28:45.220 You get to ask questions in the mailbag coming up on Thursday.

00:28:47.680 You get to ask questions backstage.

00:28:49.980 You get everything.

00:28:51.680 And you get the Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:28:54.560 You're going to need that Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:28:58.920 You're going to need it because as Willie Brown, famous Democratic politician from California, helped to begin Kamala Harris's career, let's just put it that way.

00:29:11.100 Willie Brown says that this Liz Warren health care plan has destroyed her chances at taking the White House.

00:29:17.020 We'll see if that's true.

00:29:17.800 We'll see if other candidates capitalize on it.

00:29:19.420 Drink up the Leftist Tears while you can.

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00:29:22.740 We'll be right back. 1.00

00:29:34.000 This Warren plan is a train wreck and she's just betting on you being too stupid to realize what a trillion dollars is, much less $52 trillion. 1.00

00:29:42.340 Pete Buttigieg sees an opening. 1.00

00:29:44.560 This is Pete Buttigieg's chance.

00:29:48.300 Pete Buttigieg, who has also vacillated in this race.

00:29:52.320 Is he going to be the moderate centrist?

00:29:53.900 Is he going to be the radical generational revolutionary candidate?

00:29:58.060 He's gone back and forth.

00:29:59.120 He started out as the moderate, nice Midwestern guy. 0.52

00:30:01.320 Then he became a radical who told every Christian in the country that they're terrible people.

00:30:04.980 And then now he's going back and being the moderate guy again because Liz Warren is taking the radical train, the track. 0.97

00:30:11.540 He now says, he was saying this on the political Showtime show, The Circus, that the race is going to become a two-way race between him and Liz Warren.

00:30:22.160 I think this is getting to be a two-way.

00:30:24.280 It's early to say it.

00:30:25.140 I'm not saying it is a two-way.

00:30:26.420 But I think...

00:30:27.000 But you see that.

00:30:27.920 You see it's coming into focus, you and Warren.

00:30:29.540 Yeah, and certainly a world where we're getting somewhere is that world, where it's coming down to the two of us.

00:30:34.920 Obviously, there's a lot of candidates and a lot of things can happen.

00:30:37.260 But I think that as that happens, the contrasts become clearer.

00:30:41.200 Look, the contrasts are real.

00:30:42.900 They're substantive, respectful policy contrasts, but they're real.

00:30:45.480 First of all, it's interesting you say that, right?

00:30:46.860 So you accept the notion right now that it's kind of Warren against the field, really.

00:30:50.740 Someone's trying to become the alternative to Warren right now, right?

00:30:54.020 Yeah, I think it's shaping up that way.

00:30:55.860 And so the former vice president of the United States is, like, in your mind at this point, already, like, gone?

00:31:00.880 I would say this.

00:31:01.800 Either he is the unstoppable frontrunner and we can all go home, or he's not.

00:31:06.320 And anybody who's in this race is here on the assumption that he's not.

00:31:11.700 First of all, you've got to love these guys.

00:31:13.140 The questioner says, so the vice president of the United States, he's over.

00:31:17.940 Joe Biden is not the vice president of the United States.

00:31:21.200 He was the vice president of the United States.

00:31:23.920 Now he's a guy.

00:31:25.840 This is a sort of minor point, but it does tell you something.

00:31:30.300 When the left just refers to President Obama, they always refer to President Obama.

00:31:34.740 They're saying he's the real president, you know, or Vice President Joe Biden.

00:31:38.060 He's a real vice president.

00:31:39.320 It's very quietly, very subtly dismissing the current administration.

00:31:44.740 But even beyond that, even when they don't do that, because very frequently people on both sides will refer to the president or the vice president, even if they've already left office.

00:31:53.960 But you'll hear the right frequently will not do that.

00:31:57.660 Now, the reason shows two different views of government.

00:32:01.140 One is a government in which the president and the vice president are these unbelievable sort of imperial figures that keep their titles forever.

00:32:11.100 And the other is a much more American view, which is once you leave office, you lose your title.

00:32:15.420 The one exception to this is senators.

00:32:17.780 Senators style themselves senator for life because there are so many senators.

00:32:21.340 But you're really not supposed to refer to ex-governors, ex-presidents, ex-vice presidents as governor, president, vice president.

00:32:28.760 People do it sometimes to be polite, but you're really not supposed to.

00:32:31.500 There's only one president.

00:32:32.500 There's only one vice president.

00:32:33.440 There's only one governor.

00:32:35.280 Of course, the left-wingers in these political shows don't want to deal with that.

00:32:38.380 But regardless, Pete Buttigieg is writing off former vice president Joe Biden.

00:32:44.800 He is writing off Bernie Sanders.

00:32:46.840 Why?

00:32:47.920 Part of this is wishful thinking.

00:32:49.660 He wants to get them out of the way because then it really is a two-way race between him and Warren.

00:32:53.640 So long as Kamala keeps collapsing, it will be a two-way race.

00:32:57.040 Part of it is backed up by facts.

00:32:59.940 Bernie Sanders' health is now a major campaign issue.

00:33:03.300 There's a new poll from ABC Washington Post as a poll of Democrats and Democrat-leading independents.

00:33:08.860 Younger adults who are among Bernie's strongest supporters are most apt to think that he is in decent enough health to serve.

00:33:19.040 Six in ten of them, 18 to 39-year-olds, say that he's in okay health.

00:33:23.760 Six in ten.

00:33:24.900 Forty percent of even the young voters who are far and away most likely to support Bernie Sanders believe he's too unhealthy to serve as president.

00:33:32.780 And 60 percent of older voters, meaning 40 and above, think that Bernie is too unhealthy to serve as president.

00:33:43.240 That's a big shift.

00:33:44.560 He bounced back after that heart attack.

00:33:46.900 Within a week and a half, he was on that Democratic debate stage.

00:33:49.440 And he was looking more energetic and healthy than Joe Biden.

00:33:52.660 Doesn't matter.

00:33:53.440 He was already running as an extraordinarily old candidate by the standards of presidential politics.

00:34:01.380 That heart attack is really going to hurt him.

00:34:04.080 How about Joe Biden?

00:34:04.900 Joe Biden continues to lead in most polls.

00:34:07.420 The polls are falling, though.

00:34:08.680 And he's losing ground in the early states except for South Carolina.

00:34:11.920 So it creates this problem.

00:34:13.120 If he loses Iowa, loses New Hampshire.

00:34:14.560 He has no momentum going into South Carolina, especially the electability argument is all gone.

00:34:20.500 Biden is losing ground because he appears senile.

00:34:23.460 That's true. 0.98

00:34:24.120 He also appears corrupt.

00:34:25.600 This is much harder for Joe Biden to get past.

00:34:28.020 The hardest person hit by impeachment is not Donald Trump.

00:34:32.020 It's Joe Biden.

00:34:34.200 The impeachment vote that they took last week was a party line vote.

00:34:38.480 It was a vote, by the way, it wasn't a vote to impeach.

00:34:40.240 It was a vote to begin an impeachment inquiry, which they'd already begun.

00:34:42.960 That was a party line vote.

00:34:45.360 No Republicans voted for it.

00:34:46.880 So it just shows people the same thing they've already known since the Russia hoax and since

00:34:52.200 Stormy Daniels and since taxes and now Ukraine.

00:34:55.080 They're just trying to get Donald Trump out because they don't like him.

00:34:59.180 That's what Al Green said, the first Democrat to file an impeachment motion against Trump.

00:35:03.080 They said, if we don't impeach Trump, then he's going to get reelected.

00:35:06.500 So it's just a replay of this.

00:35:09.120 Nobody's changing their minds on this.

00:35:10.740 But the more that Ukraine is in the news, the more that people are going to hear about

00:35:15.000 the corrupt dealings of Joe Biden, not just in Ukraine, but all over the world.

00:35:18.300 Yet again, this weekend, Joe Biden with a straight face, just lied to voters and said

00:35:24.980 that he had no knowledge that his son was on that board in Ukraine.

00:35:29.220 Back to the Ukraine controversy, your son, Hunter, you've been asked a lot of questions

00:35:34.240 about this.

00:35:35.280 But my question is, both of you have said you would not, as president, have your children,

00:35:40.420 have him or your children involved with foreign countries.

00:35:44.160 My question is, if it's not appropriate if Joe Biden is president, why was it appropriate

00:35:49.160 when you were vice president?

00:35:50.760 Well, number one, no one's established that he did anything wrong or that I've done anything

00:35:56.600 wrong, period.

00:35:59.040 I carried out the policy of the United States of America, our allies, the International Monetary

00:36:05.760 Fund, the EU, in dealing with a corrupt prosecutor, period.

00:36:10.420 Number one, I did not know he was on the board of that company.

00:36:15.180 And in fact, no one's asserted on the board that it was illegal for being on the board or

00:36:19.040 he did anything wrong.

00:36:20.760 So the two major claims that Joe Biden is making here, that Hunter didn't do anything

00:36:27.160 wrong and that he didn't know that Hunter was on the board, are just completely and demonstrably

00:36:31.520 false.

00:36:32.620 People have suggested that what Hunter Biden did was wrong, namely Hunter Biden, who just

00:36:38.620 recently resigned from the board.

00:36:40.100 It's like saying, I did nothing wrong.

00:36:41.540 And by the way, I'm sorry, and I'll never do it again.

00:36:44.480 Also, Joe Biden did know that his son was on the board.

00:36:47.640 How do we know that?

00:36:48.320 Because Hunter Biden told us in an interview on Good Morning America just a couple weeks

00:36:53.220 ago.

00:36:53.460 Did you and your father ever discuss Ukraine?

00:36:57.460 No.

00:36:58.260 As I said, the only time was after a news account.

00:37:01.900 It wasn't a discussion in any way.

00:37:03.280 There's no but to this.

00:37:04.340 No, we never did.

00:37:05.260 Your dad said, I hope you know what you're doing.

00:37:07.020 I hope you know what you're doing.

00:37:07.860 I do.

00:37:08.140 And I said, I do.

00:37:09.560 And that was literally the end of our discussion.

00:37:11.760 Okay.

00:37:12.080 Look, I never talked to my dad about Ukraine.

00:37:14.780 I mean, the only time we talked about it was when we were, we weren't really talking about

00:37:18.660 it.

00:37:19.100 We were, uh, and it wasn't about, he didn't know.

00:37:22.200 It's just, he told me, I better know what I was doing by joining that Ukrainian board.

00:37:25.540 So we, but we talked about it.

00:37:26.560 Okay.

00:37:26.700 We talked about it once.

00:37:27.460 We didn't really, I wouldn't say we talked about it and we're never going to do it again.

00:37:30.440 We did.

00:37:32.860 They had a conversation about it.

00:37:34.280 Joe Biden told the, or Hunter Biden rather told this to the New Yorker magazine back in

00:37:37.880 July.

00:37:39.140 When Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma, his father found out about it and said, you

00:37:45.040 better know what you're doing because he obviously knew that it looks pretty shady and looked pretty

00:37:50.220 dodgy. 0.89

00:37:50.620 And Hunter Biden, who's a complete degenerate, had no business being on this board in Ukraine 0.98

00:37:55.160 other than peddling his father's influence because his father was vice president. 0.65

00:37:58.440 Joe Biden did know about this, but the biggest sign, the biggest sign here that Joe Biden

00:38:07.040 is in trouble is not that he's flailing.

00:38:08.580 It's not that he's lying.

00:38:09.540 It's that he's tied with a candidate who isn't even in the race.

00:38:12.500 He's tied with one of the worst candidates in American history.

00:38:16.120 Joe Biden is now tied, according to one poll, with Hillary Clinton.

00:38:20.960 I kid you not.

00:38:22.460 Harvard Harris poll comes out, said if Hillary Clinton, Mike Bloomberg, and John Kerry decided

00:38:27.540 to enter the race, who would you support as a candidate for president?

00:38:30.920 Joe Biden got 19%, so he's still leading the pack.

00:38:34.860 This is among Democrats.

00:38:36.880 Hillary Clinton was in a close second, statistically tied, 18%.

00:38:40.920 Liz Warren, distant third at 13%, Kerry at eight, Bloomberg at six.

00:38:46.460 Now, with the races it is today, 33% of Democrats, according to the same poll, would support Biden

00:38:53.480 and Bernie's in second place at 18%.

00:38:56.420 But Hillary getting in totally changes that. 1.00

00:38:58.720 What that means is Democrats are very unsatisfied with the field that they have.

00:39:04.640 They would even choose Hillary Clinton, historically one of the worst candidates in American history, 0.98

00:39:10.200 over Joe Biden.

00:39:11.220 Before that we say it's Buttigieg, who's going to get it?

00:39:15.960 Before we even say that Buttigieg has a chance, you have to remember, Buttigieg has big problems too.

00:39:21.040 Black voters make up 20% of the Democratic primary base.

00:39:24.560 Pete Buttigieg is polling at about 0% with black voters.

00:39:28.180 The rosiest polls show he has 4% black support.

00:39:31.240 Most of them say he has 0%, 1%, or 2%.

00:39:33.660 Which means Buttigieg has this incredibly difficult opstool to get over.

00:39:40.140 If he can't get his numbers among black voters up, he's nothing.

00:39:42.960 It doesn't matter if he wins Iowa. 0.95

00:39:44.180 It doesn't matter at all.

00:39:45.740 So there's still a chance that Joe Biden ekes this out.

00:39:48.620 If he does, he will be the weakest frontrunner in my lifetime of either party.

00:39:55.460 And this is a very, very weak field.

00:39:57.120 What the Democrats are banking on is that because they have such a weak field and because I strongly suspect there's going to be a lot of evidence of their wrongdoing in the 2016 election when we get the report from the inspector general and the investigation from John Durham, which are kind of on the back burner of politics right now.

00:40:14.460 What they're hoping is that impeachment will be a defensive measure or an early offense to attack Trump and mitigate the damage from the IG report and John Durham.

00:40:27.240 It's a bad idea.

00:40:29.360 Attention helps candidates.

00:40:30.820 If they're just going to make this race about Donald Trump, guess who's going to win?

00:40:33.480 Donald Trump.

00:40:34.900 Attention helps candidates.

00:40:36.700 Politics is about getting attention in so many ways.

00:40:40.300 Now, if the race is just a referendum on Donald Trump, he's going to do very, very well.

00:40:50.660 That's a huge miscalculation.

00:40:52.720 Politicians can get bad sort of attention and that sort of attention can hurt them sometimes.

00:40:58.460 But when it's in a race, when you're not showing an alternative, it goes to the guy who gets the attention.

00:41:04.620 Some bad attention the politicians are getting came over in Pennsylvania with a state representative, Wendy Ullman.

00:41:09.820 Wendy Ullman, the state rep in PA, was asked a question about the handling of fetal remains.

00:41:15.940 There was this bill on the table about whether after an abortion, for instance, fetal remains should be thrown out like the trash or if they should be sold to the highest bidder like Planned Parenthood does and were caught on video doing.

00:41:30.080 Or if they should be buried or cremated like anybody else's body.

00:41:33.840 Even for people who don't care much about abortion, this is a fundamental question for society.

00:41:40.040 The question is, who do we think that we are?

00:41:43.200 What do we think that we are?

00:41:45.700 Representative Ullman made very clear.

00:41:47.460 She thinks that we are nothing but a mess on a napkin.

00:41:51.080 It refers specifically to the product of conception after fertilization, which covers an awful lot of territory.

00:42:00.120 I think we all understand the concept of the loss of a fetus.

00:42:04.320 But we're also talking about a woman who comes into a facility and is having cramps and not to be concrete, an early miscarriage is just some mess on a napkin.

00:42:27.400 And I'm not sure people would agree that this is something that we want to take to the point of ritual, either cremation or internment.

00:42:38.500 Yikes.

00:42:39.180 You got Madame Defarge over here. 1.00

00:42:41.020 You got a real old battle axe in the PA statehouse saying that babies are nothing but a mess on a napkin.

00:42:47.320 And yet in her defense, in her defense, by the premises of leftist politics, she's right.

00:42:58.760 Another question. 0.54

00:42:59.820 Why are all the crazy abortion activist state politicians named Wendy? 1.00

00:43:03.860 You have this woman, Wendy Ellman. 0.84

00:43:05.080 You have Wendy Davis, who was abortion Barbie down in Texas. 0.97

00:43:08.280 It's kind of a strange coincidence.

00:43:10.280 Regardless, by the premises of leftism, this woman is right. 0.75

00:43:15.320 But the premise is that it's just a clump of cells.

00:43:19.240 Baby's just a clump of cells. 1.00

00:43:21.700 The other premise of leftism is that we're just a clump of cells.

00:43:25.180 You see this in so many issues.

00:43:27.840 In terms of the moral order, what the left tells us is if it feels good, do it.

00:43:31.520 Why?

00:43:31.800 Because we're just a combination of cells that have certain sense perceptions.

00:43:36.860 And if you can activate the pleasure sensors enough, that's a good thing.

00:43:40.460 And when you activate the pain sensors, that's a bad thing.

00:43:42.780 And the transgender issue, what the left tells us is that we're just a clump of cells.

00:43:48.240 And if we can change the appearance of those cells, then we will have actually changed our identity.

00:43:55.880 We're not something deeper.

00:43:59.500 You know, what the traditional view for all of human history has been is that human beings are soul and body.

00:44:05.320 We know that we're body.

00:44:06.480 Our body has really something to do with us.

00:44:08.080 Actually, ironically, the transgender movement is, in the one hand, totally exalting the body as all that we are. 1.00

00:44:15.160 We're just material.

00:44:16.220 And then on the other hand, it's a total denial of the body.

00:44:18.360 Because it's actually saying what our body is right now has nothing to do with who we are.

00:44:23.460 My body, if I look like a man, but I say that I'm not a man, then I'm not really a man.

00:44:29.220 I have to deny the physical.

00:44:30.540 And then I'll just change the way my body looks.

00:44:32.020 And then I'll become a woman. 0.69

00:44:32.800 And then my body does define who I am.

00:44:34.780 It's a very, very confused idea.

00:44:37.080 Because it's beginning with these very, very confused premises.

00:44:41.240 In which case, I mean, even just think of the premise of abortion. 0.98

00:44:44.800 Women have a right to kill their own babies. 1.00

00:44:47.760 Because women have this natural right given to them by whatever creator spirit they believe in. 1.00

00:44:54.400 Or whatever supernatural spirit they believe in.

00:44:56.300 We have this right because we are dignified people.

00:44:58.580 We have human dignity.

00:44:59.480 We deserve this right to kill a baby because we don't actually have any dignity or any rights at all. 0.95

00:45:05.460 And we're actually just a clump of cells. 0.88

00:45:07.940 In the abortion question, you see the opposite arguments being made.

00:45:12.720 We have rights.

00:45:13.780 We have dignity.

00:45:14.640 We're worthy of great respect.

00:45:17.760 We're endowed with certain rights by our creator.

00:45:20.740 To deprive all those rights of someone else because people actually aren't anything other than meat and flesh. 0.63

00:45:25.960 It's a totally bizarre, completely contradictory ideology.

00:45:31.020 And you can see this woman is struggling with it.

00:45:32.880 In the moment, she says, look, I know this sounds bad.

00:45:35.840 How can I make myself say this?

00:45:37.340 But I have to say this because my ideology says so.

00:45:39.620 Babies are just a mess on a napkin. 1.00

00:45:41.760 You see, she's obviously tortured by this because it doesn't make any sense.

00:45:46.180 I like that she's being honest.

00:45:47.840 I like that we can show honestly the total craziness of leftism. 1.00

00:45:51.720 I like that we can show honestly that the left thinks you're an idiot. 1.00

00:45:55.140 You know, that they think that they can tell you that people are nothing but a mess on a napkin. 1.00

00:45:58.460 We don't really believe that.

00:45:59.860 They don't really believe that.

00:46:01.240 They think they can force it down your throats.

00:46:03.340 Finally, before we go, I just have to give a nod to Chuck Schumer for the greatest tweet of the weekend.

00:46:08.360 He tweeted out, based on the news that Trump is now moving officially to Florida.

00:46:13.440 His primary residence was in New York.

00:46:15.120 Now he's moving to Florida.

00:46:16.280 He's moving to Florida because the taxes are much lower.

00:46:19.960 A lot of people are leaving New York anyway.

00:46:22.160 I think 300 people move out of New York area per day because of the high tax rates.

00:46:28.220 And people are moving largely down to South Florida.

00:46:30.140 So Trump is going to do this for tax purposes.

00:46:32.440 Schumer tweets out, New York, New York.

00:46:34.520 If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

00:46:37.420 Trump can't.

00:46:39.720 Trump.

00:46:41.460 Billionaire real estate developer who's been a household name around the world for 40 years.

00:46:45.980 Who ran and starred in the biggest show on network television for 15 years.

00:46:49.960 And who became the leader of the free world on his first run for political office.

00:46:55.020 He just can't make it.

00:46:56.620 You know, according to Chuck Schumer. 1.00

00:46:58.600 They think you're idiots. 1.00

00:47:00.920 They think you're total idiots. 1.00

00:47:03.540 What they don't realize is that people are actually pretty smart. 1.00

00:47:06.580 People can see reality.

00:47:08.160 People know when they're being lied to.

00:47:09.980 They don't like it very much.

00:47:11.280 I think it's why the left is getting so nervous.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 04, 2019

Ep. 443 - Liz Warren Thinks You’re An Idiot

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