The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 455 - The Democrats Have Nothing

00:00:00.000 President Trump's support among black voters tops 34% in a new Emerson poll,

00:00:07.080 a shocking number that shockingly fits in among several other polls,

00:00:12.380 showing uncommonly high non-white support for the Republican president.

00:00:16.800 This is bad news for Democrats as impeachment hearings wind down,

00:00:20.980 liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg winds up in the hospital,

00:00:24.700 and even more Democratic candidates unbelievably enter the 2020 presidential race.

00:00:30.000 Despite the constant negative press, one thing seems clear going into 2020.

00:00:34.720 The Democrats have nothing.

00:00:37.760 Then Harvard and Yale students interrupt the big football game to protest climate change or something.

00:00:44.260 And Ta-Nehisi Coates writing in the New York Times about Colin Kaepernick 0.97

00:00:47.880 gives us the dumbest article on the Internet today. 0.90

00:00:51.120 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.97

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00:03:25.380 All right.

00:03:26.380 We've got a lot to get to here.

00:03:28.760 Big, big polling news.

00:03:33.500 And I think all of it combines the 30,000-foot takeaway.

00:03:38.860 The Democrats have nothing.

00:03:40.720 They've been blustering and blustering and blustering with impeachment, with the election,

00:03:45.480 with everything, with the polling, with the demographics, with the suburban, with all, right?

00:03:51.800 And it just appears that they have nothing.

00:03:55.960 I'm not saying that Democrats won't win in 2020.

00:03:58.360 They might.

00:03:59.680 But what I am saying is that the Democrats don't think that they're going to win in 2020.

00:04:04.720 Why?

00:04:05.400 Some really, really bad news came in yesterday for them.

00:04:09.960 Trump is doing historically well among non-white voters, according to polls.

00:04:15.460 Now, I want to remind you, some people said months and months ago, and now I guess years ago,

00:04:21.580 Trump is doing well among black voters and Hispanic voters.

00:04:25.240 I was one of those people.

00:04:26.620 Candace Owens was one of those people.

00:04:28.840 And the left and the independents and the really smart guys on TV in the jackets and ties who know

00:04:35.140 everything better than we all do, they said that's a joke.

00:04:38.080 That's a farce.

00:04:39.140 There's no way Trump is gaining any support among minority voters.

00:04:42.300 You're just imagining it.

00:04:43.600 It's wishful thinking.

00:04:44.460 And I kept an open mind.

00:04:45.680 I said, okay, I guess we'll see how plays out closer to the election.

00:04:48.020 Turns out, according to multiple polls, Trump's support among non-white voters is significant.

00:04:54.740 I mean, much, much higher than usual.

00:04:57.820 That's not to say he's even close to getting a majority of non-white support, because historically, that's just not what happens for Republicans.

00:05:03.920 But he's doing very well.

00:05:05.820 So according to this new poll from Emerson, Trump has 34.5% support among black registered voters.

00:05:13.340 During the Obama era, 90%, 92% voted for Barack Obama.

00:05:19.440 And historically speaking, it's upwards of 90% that vote for the Democratic candidate, 85% to 90%, and then maybe 10% votes for the Republicans.

00:05:30.940 This is in 2016.

00:05:34.300 Compared to 2016, we've got 8% black support for Trump.

00:05:38.200 Now it's up possibly to 34.5%.

00:05:41.100 You should take the poll a little bit with a grain of salt.

00:05:44.640 This was a poll of 1,092 registered voters, but it was taken just this month, November 17th to the 20th.

00:05:52.560 The same poll taken last month showed that Trump's support was 17.8% among blacks.

00:05:59.300 So it's increased pretty dramatically.

00:06:01.420 Why could that have happened?

00:06:02.620 Well, one, we've seen a lot of Trump in the impeachment hearings, and impeachment hasn't really shown any new information.

00:06:11.320 It's the same phone call.

00:06:12.640 You've got a lot of people, the key witnesses were brought in front of Congress, and they said that there was no quid pro quo.

00:06:18.060 Adam Schiff then interpreted that to mean that there was a quid pro quo.

00:06:21.100 So not a lot has changed other than showing there's no real there there.

00:06:26.700 Why else?

00:06:27.540 There have been a lot of Democratic candidates who have come across the stage.

00:06:30.960 We've had a number of debates, and they're pretty weak.

00:06:34.240 It's a weak field.

00:06:35.260 Don't take my word for it.

00:06:36.620 You've got other candidates now getting into the race this late in the game because of how weak the field is.

00:06:41.620 It is not just that I subjectively consider this Democratic field to be weak.

00:06:46.880 It is objectively weak, and the Democrats themselves are more or less admitting it.

00:06:52.240 On this poll, the margin of error is 8.3%.

00:06:55.680 Because if it's a poll of 1,000 or 1,100 registered voters, the subset of those voters who are black is much smaller.

00:07:01.580 It increases the margin of error.

00:07:03.100 Still, even, let's use the margin of error.

00:07:06.000 You've got a 34.5% black support.

00:07:09.000 Take 8 points away from that.

00:07:10.960 He's still doing incredibly well.

00:07:12.820 26.2%.

00:07:14.920 Historically very, very high, and more than three times what he got in 2016.

00:07:20.520 And it's not just black voters.

00:07:22.640 It's also Hispanic voters.

00:07:23.720 So this same poll showed that Trump is doing significantly higher among Hispanic voters than he was last month.

00:07:29.740 His support among Hispanic voters looks like it's 38.2% in November compared to 26.2% the month earlier.

00:07:38.920 Again, why could this be?

00:07:40.460 Why is it possible that Democrats who have been pandering to non-white racial identity politics for the past 50 years,

00:07:48.700 why would they be losing support?

00:07:51.980 Well, it's because their candidates are appealing to not just white people primarily,

00:07:56.540 but to an extraordinarily slim set of white people.

00:07:59.620 Look at the pitches being made by Elizabeth Warren, for instance.

00:08:02.460 Elizabeth Warren, the whitest woman ever there was, whiter than the newly driven snow,

00:08:07.640 and she pretended to be a Native American for her career, for professional advancement. 0.97

00:08:11.220 That's not going to play very well among even people who are typically receptive toward democratic racial identity politics, 0.98

00:08:19.240 because she's a race fraud and she's a race hustler. 1.00

00:08:21.780 But even what she's pushing for are policies that appeal primarily to white, college-educated, suburban, metropolitan voters. 0.98

00:08:31.860 So just her college plan, right, basically have everybody in the country subsidize the college education of the majority of Americans who go to college. 0.99

00:08:41.760 Only a third of Americans go to college, and the people who do go to college and graduate skew disproportionately white.

00:08:49.220 So you're now talking to people who are disproportionately non-white, disproportionately lower income,

00:08:55.180 saying, hey, we're going to take your money and use that to pay for people who look like me.

00:08:59.700 Not like Native American me, but white me, Elizabeth Warren.

00:09:02.380 That doesn't play very well if you're playing the game of racial identity politics.

00:09:05.840 How about Pete Buttigieg?

00:09:06.840 I think his black support is about 0%.

00:09:09.420 Even Saturday Night Live made fun of this the other day.

00:09:12.240 They're appealing, even though they sort of position themselves,

00:09:17.120 the PR about the Democratic Party is that they're the party of racial diversity.

00:09:20.920 They're the party playing to non-white voters. 0.81

00:09:23.680 In the reality, at least this election season, they're not doing that.

00:09:26.820 Maybe that has something to do with these poll numbers.

00:09:28.940 Other polls, by the way, just to temper your expectations,

00:09:31.980 other polls say that Trump's support among non-white voters isn't that great.

00:09:35.780 So there's an Economist YouGov poll around the same time.

00:09:38.660 It said that his support among non-white voters is about 16%.

00:09:44.220 Morning Consult and Political say that it's about 18%.

00:09:48.880 Gallup showed it's about 21%.

00:09:52.260 So still not terrible numbers, but certainly not 34, 38%.

00:09:57.060 However, there are other polls that agree with the Emerson poll.

00:10:02.900 So according to an NPR, PBS NewsHour, Marist poll, this was in mid-November around the same exact time.

00:10:11.120 Trump had 33% approval among non-white adults.

00:10:16.420 That's completely in line with the Emerson poll.

00:10:19.020 How do you explain that?

00:10:19.820 Again, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Marist is not some conservative poll.

00:10:24.660 It's not some poll that skews disproportionately toward Republicans.

00:10:29.640 Something is going on.

00:10:30.780 There's another poll, Rasmussen, which generally does favor Republicans.

00:10:34.600 Rasmussen has the same number as Emerson and as NPR, PBS NewsHour, Marist.

00:10:40.240 Rasmussen has 34% support among likely black voters.

00:10:46.800 If the Democrats only pick up 65% of black voters, they're done.

00:10:54.920 They're done.

00:10:56.120 They need to have huge, outrageous, and almost exclusive control over the black vote 1.00

00:11:02.560 if they want to maintain anything near their current electoral dominance.

00:11:06.940 If Democrats lose their non-white voters, they're finished.

00:11:12.760 I hate to say I told you so.

00:11:14.920 I was in Kentucky giving a speech a couple weeks ago, and there was a group of young,

00:11:21.500 I guess right-wing, you know, ostensibly conservative.

00:11:24.300 They're not really conservative, but they're definitely right-wing.

00:11:26.660 Young right-wing activists who call themselves the Groypers, who follow this guy Nick Fuentes,

00:11:32.200 who, if you haven't been following yet, it's kind of a sordid internet-y saga,

00:11:37.080 but, you know, you can Google it, you can figure it out.

00:11:39.400 These are guys who engage in white identity politics, so especially the head of it, Nick Fuentes,

00:11:45.440 is engaging in white identitarianism and suggesting that a conservative movement needs to appeal to white voters

00:11:54.580 explicitly, primarily, if not exclusively, because of the demographics.

00:12:00.780 This is a line that one of the Groypers brought up to me in Kentucky, 1.00

00:12:04.620 which is that demographics are destiny,

00:12:08.120 meaning that you will be able to predict how someone votes on the basis of race.

00:12:14.420 And it doesn't just stop there, that one's voting patterns are ingrained in one's race.

00:12:20.900 There's no hope to possibly change that, and so you've got to look at politics primarily through a racial lens

00:12:26.660 rather than primarily through a philosophical or ideological lens.

00:12:30.300 And I said this isn't true, because while at any given moment you might be able to predict

00:12:36.020 how people vote based on any sort of group characteristics, including race,

00:12:40.260 this is not an eternal truth.

00:12:42.340 What are some examples of this?

00:12:43.980 In the 1930s, black people voted for Democrats and Republicans at about the same rate.

00:12:49.320 This pattern persisted until about the mid-1940s, and then around 1947, 1948,

00:12:54.860 right when President Truman, by the way, integrated the army,

00:12:58.160 then you saw this shift that begins to go toward the Democratic Party.

00:13:01.820 Then throughout the 1960s, when Democratic presidents, JFK and LBJ,

00:13:06.660 get credit for civil rights acts,

00:13:09.040 all of a sudden you see this real dominance on the Democratic Party.

00:13:13.620 Does that mean that black voters could just totally switch to become Republicans overnight?

00:13:19.280 Perhaps that would be unlikely.

00:13:20.740 What it does show you is that your voting habits are not ingrained in your race.

00:13:26.080 They're not racially determined.

00:13:28.560 Same thing is true of Hispanic voters.

00:13:30.140 So among Hispanic voters, the majority of them vote for Democrats,

00:13:34.420 but among the subset of Cuban voters, the majority vote for Republicans.

00:13:38.280 Why is this?

00:13:38.820 It's obviously because of the Cuban experience of communism under Fidel Castro.

00:13:43.160 Now, when they come to America, they identify as conservative, they vote for Republican.

00:13:46.560 This persists over successive generations.

00:13:50.560 The bad news is that over recent generations,

00:13:53.420 the children of these Cuban immigrants and the grandchildren have started to skew left.

00:13:58.340 Again, that's bad news, even though they still do vote for Republicans generally.

00:14:03.520 What does that tell us?

00:14:04.560 It tells us that voting habits are not racially determined,

00:14:07.260 and they're not even determined by immigrant status because of this irony among Cuban Americans,

00:14:12.960 where the grandchildren who were born in America, they're American citizens,

00:14:16.500 are more likely to vote left-wing than the immigrant grandfathers.

00:14:20.620 Same race, right? 0.81

00:14:22.220 So it's not racially determined, not even immigrant determined,

00:14:24.500 because the immigrants are more likely to be conservative.

00:14:26.960 This is not to deny group characteristics in voting at any given point in time,

00:14:32.160 but what it is showing you is that these things are not just in the DNA,

00:14:37.400 and we're seeing that in these polls.

00:14:39.300 President Trump has been making this pitch since 2016.

00:14:42.280 When he made an explicit appeal to black voters, he said,

00:14:46.220 what have you got to lose?

00:14:47.280 You've been voting for Democrats for 50 years.

00:14:49.140 What's it gotten you?

00:14:50.320 Vote for me.

00:14:51.080 Give it a try.

00:14:51.780 What have you got to lose?

00:14:53.060 He was mocked for this.

00:14:54.540 He was called all sorts of names for this,

00:14:56.960 and it would appear from at least these multiple polls that it's working.

00:15:01.560 Will that last into 2020?

00:15:03.080 I guess we'll have to wait and see.

00:15:04.400 I think the Democrats are worried that it's going to last into 2020

00:15:06.880 because they are scurrying now to find a new candidate.

00:15:09.960 Their current candidates are insufficient.

00:15:12.200 They are inadequate.

00:15:13.040 I think you could nominate any of these candidates that they have up there today.

00:15:16.700 Joe Biden, Liz Warren, Pete Buttigieg,

00:15:19.820 and I think Donald Trump would win 57 states.

00:15:22.040 I think it would be, he would win Greenland, okay?

00:15:25.580 So they're worried about this.

00:15:27.480 You've got new candidates who are maybe going to get into the race.

00:15:30.620 We'll get to that in a second.

00:15:31.980 Even Saturday Night Live, which is as left wing and establishment as it gets,

00:15:39.500 is willing to admit at this point that the candidates aren't that great.

00:15:42.660 There was a pretty funny send-up that they did,

00:15:44.820 and SNL doesn't do very funny stuff these days,

00:15:46.820 but it was pretty funny.

00:15:47.900 It was pretty fair.

00:15:48.540 Here is the SNL take on Buttigieg and Bernie.

00:15:51.980 Mayor Pete, you're looking adorable tonight in your little suit.

00:15:55.820 Thank you.

00:15:56.860 Thank you.

00:15:57.980 Yes, it's from my first communion.

00:16:00.560 You're polling at zero with black voters.

00:16:03.000 Any idea why?

00:16:04.580 Maybe just because of, like, this.

00:16:08.360 I did have a heart attack, act, act, act, act.

00:16:12.180 But you want to know by now,

00:16:13.980 I'm doing better than ever.

00:16:16.040 And I'm very proud of the fact that I was the first heart attack patient

00:16:21.260 to show up to the emergency room in a city bus.

00:16:25.820 All right, so what are the two weaknesses that SNL's identifying in their own candidates, right?

00:16:32.080 We're talking about their own left wing candidates.

00:16:33.800 Pete Buttigieg looks like he's five years old and he has no black support.

00:16:36.880 So this isn't a devastating attack from them.

00:16:41.220 It's not like they hate Pete Buttigieg and they want to wreck his candidacy like they would for some other candidates.

00:16:47.180 But it is acknowledging this guy's a little bit weak.

00:16:49.960 And it's acknowledging, actually, that racial issue,

00:16:52.100 which we were talking about with regard to Trump not five minutes ago.

00:16:56.140 They're recognizing that as a major weakness.

00:16:58.380 So they're not trying to kill him.

00:17:00.160 They're not saying he's an evil candidate or he's a bad, bad candidate. 0.96

00:17:03.940 We got to get rid of him. 0.73

00:17:04.720 But they are saying he's weak.

00:17:06.280 He's young.

00:17:07.340 He's probably not going to make it over the finish line.

00:17:09.780 What are they making fun of with Bernie Sanders?

00:17:12.040 They're making fun of the fact that Bernie Sanders is extremely old and just had a heart attack.

00:17:16.240 But he's still a hardcore leftist.

00:17:17.820 OK, pretty mild attacks.

00:17:19.720 Then they move on to Kamala Harris and Cory Booker.

00:17:24.680 Here they are.

00:17:25.600 Tonight, I'm not going to worry about the polling numbers.

00:17:29.340 I'm just going to have fun and see if I can get some viral moments.

00:17:33.700 Mama needs a gif. 1.00

00:17:35.840 Going to tell my kids this was Michelle Obama.

00:17:41.400 What I want you to know is you should be scared because I'm always one second away from calling Cory Booker,

00:17:48.560 Barack, Barack, OK, I'd like to respond.

00:17:52.820 But first, because this is the only time I'll be talking, I just want to say black church, barbershop, greens, beans, tomatoes, potatoes.

00:18:03.580 Especially the Booker hit.

00:18:05.160 It's pretty, pretty tough, a little tougher than they were going on the other candidates.

00:18:09.020 So Kamala Harris, they're basically discarding. 0.89

00:18:11.240 They're saying she's not a serious candidate.

00:18:12.740 She needs a gif to break away. 1.00

00:18:14.460 She needs a viral loan. 1.00

00:18:15.480 Otherwise, she's going nowhere.

00:18:16.460 Then Joe Biden, they say he's just kind of losing his marbles and he's saying things that are considered offensive.

00:18:23.100 He's old.

00:18:23.760 He's past his prime, not just in terms of his age, but also ideologically.

00:18:27.740 Cory Booker, same thing.

00:18:28.780 Cory Booker is this sort of race pandering candidate who is trying a little too hard.

00:18:34.880 He's always bringing up black churches.

00:18:36.700 He's always, he's really trying to harp on that aspect of his candidacy, but it's not really playing well.

00:18:42.100 It's coming off as disingenuous.

00:18:43.820 He's not at his heart of hearts an identity politics candidate.

00:18:48.220 He, if he were really running to be the, the sort of candidate that would give him the best chance of becoming a nominee, it would be more unifying.

00:18:56.800 It would be more moderate.

00:18:58.620 It would be more honest.

00:19:01.380 It would be more earnest.

00:19:02.220 Then they get to Joe Biden and Tulsi Gabbard.

00:19:05.580 The attacks get even harsher.

00:19:07.580 I was with a buddy of mine who got so whacked on the sticky-ish, icky kush. 1.00

00:19:12.720 He says, I have a great idea.

00:19:14.820 We ought to go to White Castle.

00:19:16.440 Next thing you know, Kumar and I are driving around.

00:19:20.620 Highest kites with Neil Patrick Harris. 0.97

00:19:22.780 And that's before he was gay. 0.86

00:19:24.600 And let's introduce underdog candidate and tonight's villain, Tulsi Gabbard. 1.00

00:19:31.460 Thank you, Rachel.

00:19:33.040 What an honor it is to be on this stage with my fellow candidates.

00:19:37.260 I want you to know that I smell your fear and it makes me stronger.

00:19:41.540 All right.

00:19:42.060 So with Joe Biden, they're, they're going after him harder than they have in the past.

00:19:46.660 That he's not just losing it, that he's not just past his prime ideologically and physically, 0.97

00:19:52.000 but that he's also a liar too. 1.00

00:19:54.220 He's a liar. 1.00

00:19:54.820 He's making up stories. 0.99

00:19:56.040 He made up the story about Corn Pop and the way that they're satirizing this is by saying

00:20:00.300 that he's, he's one half of Harold and Kumar going to White Castle.

00:20:04.580 Now, it's not a, it's not a fatal attack.

00:20:07.960 It's not a devastating attack because they still make him likable while he's telling the story.

00:20:11.520 They're kind of hedging their bets on whether or not Joe Biden's going to get the nomination.

00:20:14.720 Frankly, I am too.

00:20:15.640 They reserve their real twist the knife attack for Tulsi Gabbard.

00:20:19.300 They're saying explicitly, she's a villain.

00:20:21.320 She was a bad person.

00:20:22.900 She's, she gains strength on the weakness and fear of her victims.

00:20:27.360 So they really don't like Tulsi Gabbard.

00:20:29.500 Okay.

00:20:30.700 Other than the Tulsi hit, they're all sort of light little jabs, but they're not exalting 0.74

00:20:37.300 any of the left-wing candidates as they have done in the past.

00:20:40.740 Just SNL historically picks a candidate and doesn't get any real attack in on them.

00:20:47.120 I mean, think about how they, how they satirized Hillary Clinton in 2016.

00:20:51.920 The only thing even nearing an attack they made on her was that she should have endorsed

00:20:57.560 redefining marriage earlier.

00:20:59.720 Other than that, it was all really light stuff.

00:21:02.940 And then when she lost, Kate McKinnon, who played Hillary Clinton, cried at a piano.

00:21:08.400 I think she was playing hallelujah. 0.99

00:21:10.220 It's just like, it's just so sad and so pathetic. 0.96

00:21:12.580 But what's strange in this election cycle is they're now starting to tell jokes about all 0.97

00:21:19.500 of the candidates.

00:21:20.200 Early on, the candidate, they really weren't going after, they were exalting her in almost

00:21:25.120 exactly the same way that they did to Hillary Clinton was Elizabeth Warren. 1.00

00:21:29.280 But after Elizabeth Warren's debate performance, they actually got in the real hit on her. 0.86

00:21:36.720 They made a joke about how she lied about her Native American ancestry.

00:21:41.900 Here it is.

00:21:42.820 I want to start the debate with the question on everyone's mind.

00:21:46.520 Who can beat Donald Trump?

00:21:48.160 Oh, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

00:21:49.360 My hand went up first.

00:21:51.220 That's not how it works, but go ahead.

00:21:53.840 Look, I know in past debates I've been accused of being overambitious, right?

00:21:58.420 I got mom hosting Thanksgiving energy.

00:22:02.180 I'm a little overwhelmed because I thought 10 people were coming and now there's 30 million.

00:22:06.700 I promise dinner will be ready if you just get out of the kitchen and stop asking questions.

00:22:14.660 This Thanksgiving, I'll be cooking my specialty, maybe don't say it, the food of my ancestors.

00:22:21.220 Should I say it?

00:22:21.840 I'm going to say maize.

00:22:22.700 Maize.

00:22:26.820 Okay.

00:22:28.580 This hit still has a lot of the elements of the typical Saturday Night Live's favorite candidate hit,

00:22:35.800 but it's got a little twist at the end.

00:22:37.840 So before the maize comment, before the Native American comment, what are they making fun of her for?

00:22:43.340 They're making fun of her for being overambitious. 1.00

00:22:46.980 Oh, yeah, that's a good one.

00:22:48.440 They're making fun of her for being too prepared.

00:22:51.160 Yeah, okay, that's a good one.

00:22:52.460 They're making fun of her for being kind of like mom at Thanksgiving.

00:22:56.060 She's kind of like mom.

00:22:57.320 That's supposed to be an attack.

00:22:58.980 I mean, it's like in a job interview when you go in and they say, what's your biggest weakness?

00:23:03.400 And you say, I work too hard as though that's a weakness.

00:23:06.340 I'm too dedicated to my job.

00:23:08.480 Yeah, that's a weakness.

00:23:08.920 So that's how SNL typically attacks their favorite candidate.

00:23:12.880 They say, she's too good. 1.00

00:23:14.140 She's too smart. 0.96

00:23:15.300 She's too prepared.

00:23:15.980 And they are still doing that because Liz Warren is still their favorite candidate. 0.91

00:23:19.480 But now they're willing to actually make the joke.

00:23:22.720 Sort of. 1.00

00:23:23.600 The joke is she's a total race hustling liar. 1.00

00:23:26.360 The whitest woman on planet Earth who's pretending to be Satchmo. 1.00

00:23:29.920 Not Satchmo.

00:23:31.680 Different kind of race hustling that would be.

00:23:33.600 She's pretending to be Squanto. 0.95

00:23:35.240 And she's not.

00:23:36.340 She's obviously not.

00:23:38.140 How do they get the attack in?

00:23:39.500 They get the attack in because they set up the Thanksgiving joke.

00:23:44.500 They are so uncomfortable to make this attack that she says, I'm going to make my old Native 0.92

00:23:50.280 American ancestry.

00:23:51.580 Should I say it?

00:23:52.500 I don't want to say it.

00:23:53.660 Should I say it?

00:23:54.740 Maize.

00:23:55.500 Maize being a traditional Native American food.

00:23:58.280 If they really wanted to make the attack, they would have used the phrase powwow chow, which

00:24:04.940 is an actual recipe that Elizabeth Warren actually submitted to an actual Native American cookbook.

00:24:12.920 I know it sounds like it isn't.

00:24:14.680 I know it sounds like a joke that would be on SNL, but she actually did that because she 1.00

00:24:19.680 is a shameless race hustling liar. 0.99

00:24:23.220 They didn't go for that joke. 1.00

00:24:24.940 That would be a little too real.

00:24:26.160 That would be a little too hard.

00:24:27.160 So they said maize.

00:24:28.260 Okay.

00:24:28.700 What's funny is that the SNL joke is actually much more staid.

00:24:33.840 It's much more reserved and much more believable than the actual recipe that she submitted to

00:24:41.040 the Native American cookbook.

00:24:44.340 However, all of that said, Elizabeth Warren is losing some steam. 0.72

00:24:50.040 She's been the candidate with all of the momentum for the last month at least.

00:24:55.180 She's starting to lose some steam. 0.89

00:24:57.160 Why?

00:24:57.640 Well, in part, it's because she's not doing terribly well among minority voters, especially

00:25:01.860 among black voters on whom the Democrats have relied for decades.

00:25:06.940 Two, and I think this is even more decisive. 0.98

00:25:10.000 It's because she released her ridiculous health care plan. 1.00

00:25:13.360 She released that health care plan, the details of it. 0.99

00:25:15.900 And people laughed in her face because it's absurd.

00:25:20.080 She said she's going to pay for her health care plan by making those billionaires pay just,

00:25:24.500 you know, two cents more.

00:25:26.280 The health care plan costs $52 trillion.

00:25:28.100 The combined wealth of every billionaire in America is about $3.7 trillion.

00:25:34.260 So you get about 65% of the way through the first year of her health care plan.

00:25:38.180 Even if you rob every billionaire of every penny he's got, you still have nothing left 65% into the first year of that health care plan.

00:25:47.660 What do you do then?

00:25:48.420 It's completely unserious.

00:25:49.800 And you've now got more, more serious Democrats looking at her and saying, nope, she's not the one. 0.96

00:25:56.660 That's the donor class.

00:25:57.820 That's the operative class.

00:25:58.980 That's the big boss class. 1.00

00:26:00.180 Because don't forget, the Democratic Party is controlled by party bosses.

00:26:04.640 That was true back in the days of boss tweet in Tammany Hall.

00:26:07.680 And it's true now in the day of superdelegates.

00:26:10.580 So her star is beginning to fade.

00:26:12.640 You're seeing that reflected on Saturday Night Live.

00:26:14.280 And in all of this, you have the answer to a question that nobody was asking.

00:26:18.500 Mike Bloomberg officially declaring that he is running for president as a Democrat.

00:26:23.640 That's what the Democrats want.

00:26:25.680 A billionaire ex-politician who hasn't been in politics for years and years,

00:26:32.300 who is absolutely moderate compared to this field.

00:26:36.040 That's what the Democrats want.

00:26:37.640 I don't think so. 0.98

00:26:38.400 We'll go through his pathetic announcement video. 0.94

00:26:41.340 And then we will get to some news from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the game, the Harvard-Yale football game. 0.52

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00:27:55.760 It's like that meme that goes around on Twitter.

00:28:09.540 You say, nobody says nothing.

00:28:14.280 Literally nobody says nothing.

00:28:17.160 Mike Bloomberg says, I'm running for president as a Democrat,

00:28:20.480 is the answer to the question no one was asking.

00:28:23.120 It's actually not quite fair.

00:28:24.360 There is a question right now of, is there a Democrat that can beat President Trump?

00:28:30.360 Because this entire field of what was once about 25 candidates

00:28:33.280 has not been able to rise to that challenge.

00:28:36.280 Now, of course, Mike Bloomberg cannot beat Donald Trump for president.

00:28:42.780 Mike Bloomberg, I'm not sure that he would win any states if he somehow,

00:28:48.180 I mean, I guess he would win New York or something.

00:28:50.620 I don't know.

00:28:51.200 It depends how this race shakes out.

00:28:52.440 It would be very hard to imagine a world in which Mike Bloomberg is elected president of the United States.

00:28:58.160 He's wanted to run for decades.

00:29:00.220 He's been trying to run since 2008, at least.

00:29:03.400 He's now officially doing it.

00:29:05.720 He'd made moves to try to do it, to register in certain states.

00:29:08.940 He has now announced his campaign.

00:29:10.460 I think he's probably the least appealing candidate in the race, but you've got to see how he's pitching his candidacy.

00:29:17.680 Because what his campaign pitch shows is that the Democrats, the left, are even more disconnected from the reality of politics in the Trump era than we thought.

00:29:29.920 Because at first, we've just been seeing this insane leftward lurch among the Democratic candidates, which is likely to doom them in the general election.

00:29:39.080 That's been the sort of fantasy of politics that they've been engaging in so far.

00:29:42.880 But what we see here in the Mike Bloomberg campaign pitch is that they're diluting themselves in an entirely different way.

00:29:51.780 Here's Bloomberg.

00:29:52.300 Mike Bloomberg started as a middle-class kid who had to work his way through college, then built a business from a single room to a global entity, creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs along the way.

00:30:04.820 He could have stopped there.

00:30:06.080 But when New York suffered the terrible tragedy of 9-11, he took charge, becoming a three-term mayor who brought a city back from the ashes and brought back jobs and hope with it.

00:30:18.020 Okay.

00:30:19.460 Huge mistake right off the bat.

00:30:21.040 First of all, Mike Bloomberg's a very impressive guy.

00:30:24.140 I mean, he built his business up from nothing to become a dominant force in both media and finance.

00:30:30.940 He's a very sharp, very impressive guy.

00:30:33.880 He was an okay mayor of New York.

00:30:35.920 I mean, I'm a New Yorker.

00:30:37.320 Was in New York when he was mayor.

00:30:40.260 Giuliani was much, much better.

00:30:42.080 Giuliani is probably the greatest mayor in the history of New York.

00:30:46.000 Maybe one or two exceptions. 0.98

00:30:47.460 Mike Bloomberg lived off the fumes of Giuliani's New York and then he added a bunch of stupid nanny state regulations like you can't drink sodas, you can't drink big gulps, and you can't smoke in public. 0.99

00:30:59.260 And so it was kind of annoying. 0.99

00:31:00.620 Can't smoke in bars.

00:31:01.860 He was a kind of annoying mayor of New York, but he was fine.

00:31:04.000 He managed it well enough.

00:31:05.040 He's much better than the Bolshevik currently in Gracie Manchin in New York. 0.93

00:31:09.940 Now, the mistake he made is describing his political career, which at this point was centered around 2001, 2002.

00:31:20.920 It's 18 years ago.

00:31:22.260 What it's reminding voters is that he's old.

00:31:24.860 And he's not going to convince voters that he got New York through 9-11.

00:31:27.600 He didn't.

00:31:28.020 Everyone knows that Rudy Giuliani got New York through 9-11.

00:31:30.760 That's how he became America's mayor.

00:31:32.520 And guess what?

00:31:33.460 That strategy didn't work for Giuliani 12 years ago.

00:31:36.220 Remember?

00:31:36.800 Giuliani ran for president in 2008.

00:31:39.320 So he's got his campaign going in 2007.

00:31:42.380 And his whole campaign was, I was mayor during 9-11.

00:31:45.660 Joe Biden made fun of him.

00:31:47.200 Joe Biden said that a Rudy Giuliani sentence includes a noun, a verb, and 9-11.

00:31:51.540 And even then, what it showed voters was, this guy's kind of old news.

00:31:56.660 Because even in 2008, 9-11 was seven years prior.

00:32:00.260 They said, okay, that's kind of an amazing thing that he did, but that was just one data point, and it's kind of old.

00:32:08.540 Now, we're so many years later, not a good strategy.

00:32:11.600 If it didn't work for Giuliani, it's not going to work for Bloomberg.

00:32:13.700 And it reminds people that he's old and he's washed up, politically speaking.

00:32:17.380 You've got to remember, Mike Bloomberg is 77 years old.

00:32:20.140 He's nine months older than Joe Biden.

00:32:23.120 He is an old man. 0.97

00:32:24.200 He seems much more with it than Joe Biden, that's for sure.

00:32:26.340 But, again, it's sort of damning with faint praise.

00:32:30.260 Bill Weld, who was running for president against Donald Trump in the Republican primary.

00:32:37.440 I don't know that he's still in it.

00:32:38.520 He might be if he is or he isn't.

00:32:39.940 It doesn't really matter.

00:32:41.160 Bill Weld launched his campaign by saying,

00:32:44.080 Bill Weld was the governor of Massachusetts in, like, the 1840s.

00:32:49.100 So, you know, he was governor of Massachusetts in the early 90s.

00:32:51.880 And you see that, and first of all, you see in the pictures that this guy is so much older than he was when he was governor.

00:32:58.260 And you also think he's so past his prime.

00:33:01.840 The political issues we're talking about today are completely different from the issues that we were talking about then.

00:33:07.740 Not a good start.

00:33:09.480 Bloomberg then goes on to make the pitch on his policy platform.

00:33:13.260 Creating tens of thousands of affordable housing units so families could have a decent place to live.

00:33:19.500 Raising teachers' salaries and kids' graduation rates.

00:33:22.620 And creating a more open and livable city for the millions who call it home.

00:33:27.320 Open and livable city.

00:33:28.500 And when he's saying that, he's holding a gay pride flag, walking in ostensibly a gay pride parade.

00:33:32.980 This raises the question, who is Mike Bloomberg's constituency?

00:33:37.060 He's making the same mistake that all billionaires make.

00:33:40.460 For some reason, I've had the privilege of meeting a few billionaires over the years.

00:33:47.000 And one thing I've noticed about the majority of them is they believe, not all of them, but at least the ones I know from New York.

00:33:57.280 They believe that what America's really yearning for is a candidate who's fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

00:34:06.260 He doesn't get hung up on all those silly social issues like killing a million babies a year or redefining marriage, the bedrock of civilization.

00:34:14.420 He doesn't get hung up on that stuff. 0.64

00:34:16.260 Liberals can have that. 0.97

00:34:17.740 He realized that what Americans really want is lower taxes.

00:34:23.220 All right.

00:34:23.500 And polls show that statistically nobody wants that policy platform.

00:34:29.380 People who want a presidential candidate who's fiscally conservative and social liberal, in other words, a greedy Democrat, is about 4.5%.

00:34:36.960 Like nobody.

00:34:39.320 And I think most of those 4.5% are extraordinarily wealthy people in New York.

00:34:44.680 So he's making this pitch to fiscal conservative social liberals.

00:34:49.060 That's nobody.

00:34:49.880 That's not going to work.

00:34:50.600 It's also the pride flag is not a great idea to get in there because it's going to turn off a lot of people after the LGBTQ movement has become the symbol of what you would call oppressive liberalism. 0.96

00:35:01.300 I mean the drag queen story hour and sex education teaching your kids about disgusting things when they're in kindergarten and confusing people on sex and gender. 1.00

00:35:09.540 It's just not a good look.

00:35:11.760 The whole argument for a Bloomberg candidacy is that these Democrats are too left wing to win in the general.

00:35:17.460 I'm a more moderate guy and I'm pragmatic and I've accomplished a lot.

00:35:21.380 Vote for me.

00:35:22.200 And he's just not able to really make that argument because he is quite liberal on social issues.

00:35:27.400 He's not going to win over conservatives because he created jobs.

00:35:31.200 If you want a job creating conservative president, you got Donald Trump.

00:35:34.080 But he's not going to win over liberals by campaigning on economic pragmatism.

00:35:38.960 Liberals don't want economic pragmatism.

00:35:40.620 The majority of millennials are identifying as socialists.

00:35:43.840 That's the majority of millennials overall of all political stripes, certainly among Democratic primary voters.

00:35:49.500 So he's just, he's giving himself a constituency of nobody.

00:35:53.540 Then he makes the pitch from the pragmatic managerial experience that only King Michael Bloomberg can give you.

00:36:02.080 He could have stopped there, but when he witnessed the terrible toll of gun violence, he put his money where his heart is,

00:36:08.120 helping to create a movement to take on the NRA and the politicians they own to protect families across this country and help turn the tide.

00:36:16.540 Andy's funded college educations for thousands of deserving low-income and middle-class kids and supported life-saving medical research

00:36:24.020 and stood up to the coal lobby and the outright denial of this administration to protect the only home we have from the growing menace of climate change.

00:36:32.900 King Michael, King Michael Bloomberg, only he can do it.

00:36:36.860 He has donated his own money out of the goodness of his heart to push all of these sort of oppressive, often unconstitutional programs on the American people.

00:36:46.300 He's able to do it because of his largesse and because he's got a lot of confidence and a big ego and a lot of institutional power.

00:36:53.060 That's right, folks.

00:36:55.160 We need to defeat Donald Trump.

00:36:57.920 And that's why the only way we can do it is by electing an egomaniac billionaire from New York. 1.00

00:37:04.200 What kind of bitch is that? 1.00

00:37:06.160 Hey, hey, do you hate Donald Trump? 1.00

00:37:08.700 Well, vote for me.

00:37:09.740 The poor man's Donald Trump.

00:37:10.900 Hey, do you guys, give me a break.

00:37:16.080 And then you get the final pitch of this, which is actually on the ideological plane, this is where it all falls apart.

00:37:26.480 Here's the final, here's the last thrust.

00:37:28.720 If Bloomberg didn't win you over so far, maybe he didn't.

00:37:31.160 Here it is.

00:37:31.740 Now you're not going to be able to resist voting for him.

00:37:34.920 Now he sees a different kind of menace coming from Washington.

00:37:38.080 So there's no stopping here.

00:37:40.900 Because there's an America waiting to be rebuilt.

00:37:43.880 Where everyone without health insurance is guaranteed to get it.

00:37:47.200 And everyone who likes theirs can go ahead and keep it.

00:37:50.380 Where the wealthy will pay more in taxes and the struggling middle class will get their fair share. 0.55

00:37:56.240 And jobs that just allow you to get by will become jobs that let you get ahead.

00:38:01.880 Mike Bloomberg for president.

00:38:03.920 Jobs creator.

00:38:05.260 Leader.

00:38:06.140 Problem solver.

00:38:07.040 It's going to take all three to build back a country.

00:38:10.900 This is so lame.

00:38:15.280 It's so lame.

00:38:17.240 Because on the ideological front, what this pitch is to the American people is the same as saying,

00:38:25.880 hey, vote for Mike Bloomberg because he's going to give you the exact status quo, but you'll get a little bit more money.

00:38:34.680 Vote for the status quo with slightly lower taxes and a little bit more money.

00:38:40.000 And the billionaires, they'll pay like a little bit more in taxes.

00:38:42.740 Not too much, but a little bit.

00:38:44.780 Vote for Mike Bloomberg and nothing will change.

00:38:47.980 So, he just doesn't understand that on both the left and the right, right now, I think people are realizing that the status quo that we've had for now, what, 30, 40 years, is coming to an end.

00:39:05.280 The status quo, you could call it whatever you want, call it neoliberalism, call it the post-war consensus, call it the post-cold war consensus, call it whatever you want.

00:39:15.380 That's coming to an end because it's created some new, it was great, worked out for a long time, and now it has created some new problems that a new generation of politicians are going to have to address.

00:39:27.760 Problems caused by mass migration.

00:39:30.880 Problems, if you're on the left, that you would call wealth inequality or climate change or whatever, right?

00:39:36.720 These problems, whether they're real or imaginary, these are the problems that are the result of the very politics that Mike Bloomberg is trying to preserve.

00:39:46.680 And nobody is going to go to the polls because Mike Bloomberg says that wealthy people are going to pay a little bit more in taxes.

00:39:54.260 Nobody is going to go to the polls because Bloomberg says you're going to get a little bit of a raise in your same job that you don't really like.

00:40:01.700 You're going to get a $2 raise or something.

00:40:04.620 That is not going to convince anybody.

00:40:08.080 But Democrats have nothing else.

00:40:09.740 That's all they can think of because their radical politics are extraordinarily unpopular.

00:40:13.840 Whereas President Trump's radical politics are pretty popular.

00:40:16.860 He's talking about issues that people care about.

00:40:19.540 The negative effects of mass migration.

00:40:22.600 The negative effects of unfettered free trade and mortgaging our country out to China, giving them all of our manufacturing and having them buy up all of our debt. 0.93

00:40:30.040 He's addressing real problems with relatively more popular solutions.

00:40:36.120 Puts the left in a bad position.

00:40:37.860 I mean, just look at the hysteria over the weekend because Ruth Bader Ginsburg was in the hospital.

00:40:44.500 Justice Ginsburg, who is, you know, a little, little long in the tooth.

00:40:48.620 She's a woman of a certain age, we will say.

00:40:50.620 And she's had a good life and a good career.

00:40:53.220 The left is pinning all of their hopes on her.

00:40:55.920 So when she was admitted to the hospital for fever and chills, they lost their minds.

00:41:01.000 She was trending on Twitter.

00:41:02.580 If your entire political program hinges on an elderly Supreme Court justice and you've got pretty much no other hope and nothing else to offer the American people, you are in serious trouble.

00:41:14.560 And it was so ghoulish.

00:41:15.560 It was so ghastly.

00:41:16.480 Because think about what they're really saying.

00:41:18.680 The whole trend about Ginsburg can't die.

00:41:20.840 She can't die before Trump leaves office.

00:41:22.820 She's got to stay there.

00:41:23.740 Please put her on life support. 0.97

00:41:25.040 The whole point of that is so that the left can keep killing a million babies a year. 0.86

00:41:32.340 That's it. 0.97

00:41:33.120 That's what it's all about.

00:41:34.020 It's only about Roe versus Wade.

00:41:35.720 We see this throughout every Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

00:41:38.560 All they care about is still being allowed through a completely fictional constitutional right to kill one million babies per year.

00:41:48.900 One woman must live so that many others may die. 1.00

00:41:52.420 That is such a dead program.

00:41:56.480 I mean, that is such a, I guess, pun not intended, actually.

00:42:00.140 But it's such a hollow, desiccated political agenda.

00:42:04.480 Everything else, we have three branches of government, we've got federal, we've got state government, we've got local government, we've got all of these institutions of our government.

00:42:14.640 And because the left has just completely lost the narrative, they've completely lost the point, they're now pinning all of their hopes, and their hopes are really, really ghoulish, on this one elderly Supreme Court justice who was appointed by Bill Clinton.

00:42:27.320 I mean, it's just, it's a whole political movement now about nothing other than a couple of these little interests that are pretty repugnant to people.

00:42:38.600 I mean, just look, just look at the Harvard-Yale football game.

00:42:41.020 The Harvard-Yale football game was over the weekend.

00:42:43.200 I did not attend.

00:42:44.360 It's actually usually a pretty fun game because the tailgating gets pretty raucous, and then nobody actually watches the football game, and then everybody leaves and goes home.

00:42:52.920 And this year, I'm sorry I missed it this year, not because of the football, I mean, Yale won, good job, way to go, guys.

00:42:59.720 But because in the middle of the game, the whole game was interrupted by a protest of climate change, sort of.

00:43:10.000 Over 150 Yale and Harvard students, alumni and faculty, stormed the field to demand divestment from fossil fuels to stop climate change.

00:43:19.080 You showed them, guys, you showed climate change by protesting Harvard and Yale.

00:43:25.680 And then, bizarrely, the protest of climate change became a protest of Puerto Rican debt.

00:43:34.000 I kid you not, here, here it is.

00:43:36.160 Cancel the debt, cancel the debt.

00:43:39.000 Cancel the debt, cancel the debt, cancel the debt, cancel the debt.

00:43:46.360 Cancel the debt, Puerto Rican debt, because what they wanted was for the Yale and Harvard investment offices. 0.52

00:43:53.840 You've got to remember, Yale and Harvard have tens of billions of dollars in their endowments.

00:43:58.040 I mean, these are hedge funds.

00:44:00.000 These are, like, sizable hedge funds, too.

00:44:02.140 And so what these Yale and Harvard students are saying is that most of whom, I bet, are on financial aid, like I was.

00:44:09.500 So they're actually there very likely because of the results of the investment office.

00:44:14.560 But they're now criticizing the investment office and saying you can't invest in fossil fuels or Puerto Rican debt.

00:44:20.760 You can't invest in companies that hold Puerto Rican debt.

00:44:23.800 Puerto Rico, a very corrupt island which has mismanaged a lot of its funds and mismanaged its hurricane recovery funds.

00:44:29.600 And so they've got a lot of debt, and then companies are buying up that debt to allow Puerto Rico to continue to exist, and you've got to divest from that.

00:44:36.560 They've got nothing.

00:44:38.460 The left has got nothing.

00:44:41.040 They don't even know what they're protesting.

00:44:44.120 What are they angry about?

00:44:46.280 It's just, it's not an intellectual argument that the left is making, whether it's at the Democratic debates or in the impeachment hearings or at the Harvard-Yale football game.

00:44:55.860 It's not an intellectual argument.

00:44:57.300 It's just random ideological spasms.

00:45:01.000 Climate change.

00:45:02.340 Puerto Rican debt.

00:45:04.100 Just words.

00:45:05.360 They're just saying words that don't have any meaning in any context of an argument.

00:45:10.700 They're just saying random things because the left has nothing. 0.95

00:45:17.820 And actually, just to put one final point on it before we go, I've got to get to the dumbest article on the Internet today. 0.67

00:45:23.640 Ta-Nehisi Coates in the New York Times, the cancellation of Colin Kaepernick. 0.69

00:45:29.660 The long and short of it is Ta-Nehisi Coates, a MacArthur genius, the guy who wrote about why we need to give the descendants of black slaves reparations in America.

00:45:41.100 That guy is saying that Colin Kaepernick has been a victim of cancel culture, and this is a terrible, awful thing, and it doesn't make any sense.

00:45:52.620 Here's the essence of his argument.

00:45:55.020 Cancel culture is not new.

00:45:56.660 Any sober assessment of the history of America must conclude that the present objections to cancel culture are not so much concerned with the weapon as the kind of people who now seek to wield it.

00:46:10.640 Quote, until recently, cancellation flowed exclusively downward from the powerful to the powerless.

00:46:16.680 But now in this era of fallen gatekeepers, where anyone with a Twitter handle or Facebook account can be a publisher, banishment has been ostensibly democratized.

00:46:26.360 This doesn't make any sense just on its face, but it's the same kind of gripes about oppression and the powerful and the powerless.

00:46:35.340 By definition, cancel culture will flow from the powerful to the powerless, whether it's flowing from a corporate executive or from the democratic social media mob.

00:46:46.140 The people who get canceled are, by definition, become the powerless, and the people who are able to do the canceling are the powerful.

00:46:53.660 This is not just a matter of class or money or race or any other way you want to play identity politics.

00:46:59.340 It's in the act itself.

00:47:00.860 But then he gets to the heart of the NFL's problem.

00:47:03.980 He says, the NFL is revered in this country as a paragon of patriotism and chivalry, a sacred trust controlled by some of the wealthiest men and women in America.

00:47:11.620 For the past three years, this sacred trust has executed with brutal efficiency the cancellation of Colin Kaepernick.

00:47:18.080 This is curious given the NFL's moral libertinism.

00:47:21.560 The league has, at various points, been a home for domestic abusers, child abusers, and open racists.

00:47:27.660 Fair enough. That's all true.

00:47:28.780 There are a lot of derelicts that have played in the NFL.

00:47:31.380 And yet it seems Mr. Kaepernick's sin, refusing to stand for the national anthem, offends the NFL's suddenly delicate sensibilities.

00:47:38.880 And while the influence of hashtags should not be underestimated, the NFL has a different power at its fingertips.

00:47:45.560 The power of monopoly.

00:47:47.100 Kaepernick's cancellation bars him from making a living at a skill he has been honing since childhood.

00:47:51.480 Cry me a river for Colin Kaepernick.

00:47:53.340 That's not what happened at all.

00:47:54.820 Here's what happened.

00:47:57.040 Colin Kaepernick disrespected not just some aspect of America, but the whole country itself.

00:48:02.580 By disrespecting the national anthem, which is called the Star Spangled Banner, which is the flag, which is the symbol of the whole country.

00:48:10.200 And then, guess what?

00:48:10.880 It turns out the people who watch America's new favorite pastime, who tune in to watch sporting events, which have always had a patriotic aspect to them, but especially football in this day and age.

00:48:20.920 The people who tuned in and watched that didn't like it.

00:48:23.540 They don't like it when you disrespect their whole country.

00:48:25.820 And so, they didn't want to watch him, and Colin Kaepernick lost that job.

00:48:30.080 And then he made millions of dollars with Nike, pitching sneakers, and trying to get Betsy Ross canceled.

00:48:35.420 That is not an aspect of cancel culture.

00:48:39.640 It is actually a demonstration of the cause of so much of our social strife, which is you've got multi, multi-millionaire Colin Kaepernick, who played in one of the most elite professions you can possibly be employed in.

00:48:53.880 Being the subject of writing by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a man who has lived an unbelievably luxurious elite life, won the MacArthur Genius Grant, writing in the New York Times, best-selling author.

00:49:07.440 And all these two guys can do is complain and pretend to be victims.

00:49:11.200 Yale and Harvard students, at one of the most elite sporting events in the world, the Yale-Harvard football game, all they can do is complain and pretend to be victims.

00:49:18.960 Those candidates up on the Democratic stage, all they can do is pretend that, woe is me, everybody's a victim, everybody's being oppressed.

00:49:26.880 It's just BS.

00:49:29.040 People know that that isn't true.

00:49:32.120 Even the New York Times comment section was making fun of Ta-Nehisi Coates for this column. 0.98

00:49:37.380 It's just BS.

00:49:38.400 They've lost the narrative.

00:49:39.720 They've got nothing.

00:49:40.820 They're huffing and puffing.

00:49:42.140 Even through impeachment, they've got nothing.

00:49:44.140 What argument will they make going into 2020?

00:49:47.640 I suspect the left won't have an argument to make.

00:49:50.320 It will be more shrill, sighs, shrieks, and hysteria.

00:49:55.360 And in the meantime, we can keep making serious arguments to the American people.

00:50:01.100 I think we've lost a lot of reason as a culture.

00:50:04.420 We've lost a lot of civility.

00:50:05.460 But I think that between a reasonable argument to the voters' interests and huffing and puffing and screeching about surreality, I think the great conservative consolation will hold.

00:50:16.380 I think reality will win.

00:50:18.220 That's our show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 25, 2019

Ep. 455 - The Democrats Have Nothing

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