Ep. 493 - How’d Our Elites Get So Dumb？
Summary
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can t even name the most prominent economist of the 20th century. She doesn t even know who John Maynard Keynes is, let alone that he was even a person who has ever existed.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who studied economics in college and writes economic policy in Congress,
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can't name the most prominent economist of the 20th century.
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MSNBC's Katie Turr doesn't know how senators get elected.
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And Joe Biden wants to ban guns that don't exist.
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The problem isn't that our alleged elites are ignorant.
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Then, Joe Biden collapses in the polls, Bloomberg surges, and Snoop Doggy Dogg gets the media to expose themselves.
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All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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AOC is out here educating all of us about economists that don't exist.
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First, we have to wonder how our elites got so profoundly ignorant.
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Sometimes when I'm watching our elites on air, I start to be lulled into sleep because of how mind-numbing it is.
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So you know AOC is always posting these videos on various social media platforms,
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just rambling about whatever thought popped into her head and comes out her mouth without very little filter in the middle.
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She did this the other day to talk about one of her favorite economists.
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And she was, I think, attempting to cite one of the most famous economists of the 20th century.
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Unfortunately, she named an economist who doesn't exist.
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It's funny you ask this because I was just reading today about how Milton Keynes, a famous economist back in the day,
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predicted that by 2030, U.S. GDP would grow six to eight times what it is,
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which would allow for everyday people to work 15 hours a week.
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Milton Keynes, as far as I know, is not a person who has ever existed.
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What I think she's trying to refer to is the economist John Maynard Keynes.
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And she's confusing John Maynard Keynes, who, she says, he was a very big economist back in the day.
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She doesn't even know when he lived and worked.
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He was an economist who was born at the end of the 19th century and lived until the mid-20th century.
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She's confusing John Maynard Keynes with Milton Friedman, who's the very famous right-wing economist.
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You know, there are all these videos of Milton Friedman from the 1970s and 1960s, giving lectures on economics.
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He was very influential during the Reagan administration, very influential for the conservative movement.
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She's confusing two economists who are pretty much on the opposite end of economics in the 20th century.
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And even more so, she's not even pronouncing the one guy's name correctly.
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John Maynard Keynes, she's calling him Keynes, like the steakhouse in New York.
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I don't really blame her for not knowing who John Maynard Keynes was.
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I mean, she was an economics major in college, and now she's writing economics policy in Congress.
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So it would be nice if she had even a passing familiarity with who the guy was.
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But my problem is not that she hasn't read the total work of Keynes, or that she hasn't read all the work of Milton Friedman, or that she's ignorant.
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My problem is the pomposity of just pontificating, of just running her mouth about things that she doesn't know anything about.
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It's this lack of awareness that she is profoundly ignorant.
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I think if you look at her affect, if you look at the way she speaks, she presents herself as very well-educated, very intelligent.
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She knows so much more than everybody else, and yet she doesn't.
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And this is true of so many of our so-called elites in politics, in the media, all around us.
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You know, people just throw around terms that they think make them sound smart, one of them being Keynesian.
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Keynesian refers to economic policies that follow the work of John Maynard Keynes,
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which is the guy that she's erroneously referring to as Milton or, yeah, Milton Keynes.
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People always refer to Rousseauian, if they want to sound very highfalutin and fancy, to refer to the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Even Marxist, when people refer to Marxist this or Marxian that, the vast majority of those people have never read Karl Marx.
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They just throw these terms around as though they can fake it till they make it, as though if they state these things with enough confidence,
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suddenly that will force knowledge to just spring up in their heads out of nothing.
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We pick on AOC a fair bit because she says a lot of ignorant things.
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I think Donald Trump now refers to that as MSDNC.
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She was conducting an interview and got the big NBC News backdrop behind her.
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And she's asking about these problems of our electoral system.
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And she wants to know if gerrymandering, the rewriting of different congressional districts, is to blame for certain Senate elections.
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In case you missed it, majority doesn't always rule in this country.
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48 senators voted to remove the president from office.
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But the 48 actually represent 12 million more voters than the senators who decided to keep Donald Trump in the White House.
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Is gerrymandering something that would help improve the situation?
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How does that sort of divide promote consensus in the Senate or even in the House?
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Gerrymanders not can do anything because in the Senate we're talking about states, right?
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The only solution is for Democrats to appeal to voters in those states, right?
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And the guy who was being interviewed by her was courteous enough to try to just move right past her blatant error.
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But Katie Tur on MSNBC was asking if the rewriting of congressional districts, right?
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Congressional districts refer to the House of Representatives.
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If the congressional districts would affect the Senate race.
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But the Senate has nothing to do with the House of Representatives.
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The Senate, you had a zillion congressmen, right?
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You got a zillion people in the House of Representatives.
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So unless you're going to redraw the lines of different states, you're going to make Montana a little bit wider.
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Then gerrymandering isn't going to affect that at all.
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But Katie Tur is just throwing words out, buzzwords that you hear in politics.
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Yeah, you know, 48 senators voted to, to convict the president in his impeachment trial.
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Yeah, it sounds like Rousseauian, probably Keynesian as well.
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And so that's why the president was not thrown out.
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And the, the analyst was saying, what are you talking about?
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That has, gerrymandering has nothing to do with a Senate trial.
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And so then Katie Tur asks, well, how can we address this problem?
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Why aren't there more people in the Senate who hate Trump?
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And he says, well, if they want more people in the Senate who hate Trump,
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the Democrats will have to appeal to the voters.
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That's a, that's a guy who knows what gerrymandering is.
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This lack of curiosity, this ignorance, this, this confidence in saying things that simply aren't true.
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You see this in the presidential race with poor Joe Biden.
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Joe Biden is now making a bold new proposal on the campaign trail
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Because we're unwilling to have a rational policy.
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It says you cannot have 20, 30, 40, 50 clips in a weapon.
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A rational policy that says that you can't have 20, 40, 50 clips in a weapon.
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I guess in Joe's defense, it is a rational policy
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Right, it would be irrational to allow guns that are completely imaginary
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Although I don't know how rational it is just as a campaign matter to go out
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talking about policies that don't have any bearing to reality.
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Banning guns that have 20, 40, 50 clips per weapon.
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People confuse this, especially the people who want to take your guns.
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Magazine feeds ammunition into the chamber of a gun.
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Joe Biden could be forgiven, perhaps, this ignorance.
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He's obviously not a gun guy, doesn't know anything about guns,
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He likes having his armed security have a lot of guns.
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I notice he loves that, but he clearly doesn't like guns very much.
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That's true for virtually all of the Democratic candidates,
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There's this strange irony on the left and in politics
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And they're unwilling to listen to the people who do know.
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If you go to your average, perfectly common Walmart shopper,
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they will know more about guns than any of these Democratic candidates for president.
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These days, I don't know, now it's harder to buy a gun at Walmart.
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If you go to the average Joe on the street outside of New York, L.A., San Francisco,
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and depends on what neighborhood you're in in New York, L.A., or San Francisco,
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the person you meet on the street will know much, much more.
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Technically, they will just have more knowledge of guns than Joe Biden,
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Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, any of these guys.
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That's a weird thing that our so-called elites, guys,
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I mean, that's certainly true of the media, too.
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The people who run their mouths about guns on MSNBC or CNN
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The people who would have themselves be our elites
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and tell us what to do and write our laws and tell us what to think
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know significantly less just as a matter of pure information
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That's a strange situation to be in because your regular run-of-the-mill American
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has a lot more humility than those so-called elites.
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Joe Biden took it, made it even a little bit weirder on the campaign trail.
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Joe Biden was asked a question that he didn't want to answer,
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and he referred to the young girl who asked the question
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So you're arguably the candidate with the greatest advantage in this race.
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You weren't burdened down by the impeachment trials.
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and why should the voters believe that you can win the national election?
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You said you were, but now you've got to be honest.
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So this comment from Uncle Joe made people wonder if he's doing okay,
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People are saying that he's losing it, that he's becoming senile.
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Now, I don't think that's exactly what's happening.
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I don't, because his defense, Joe Biden's defense,
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So what the people are saying is Joe Biden is losing his mind,
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and Joe Biden's campaign defense is, no, no, no, he's just really, really old,
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So what he's saying is it refers to an old John Wayne movie.
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Trouble is, there's no evidence that that line comes from a John Wayne movie at all.
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even the liberal outlet Vox.com did some research into this,
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said we don't see any evidence that that line came from a John Wayne movie.
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It may have come from the 1952 movie by Tyrone Power called Pony Soldier,
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the pony soldier speaks with a tongue of the snake that rattles.
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So I guess it does kind of allude to liars and people being dishonest.
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Even here, even in this weird clip that's going viral
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because people are saying Biden's lost his mind or he's senile,
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this is evidence, maybe of a little bit of those two things,
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but really evidence that Joe Biden is just saying things that he doesn't know anything about.
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oh yeah, it's from an old John Wayne movie, don't worry.
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Even that is not true and they don't particularly care if it's true.
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An ignorant electorate is not capable of self-government.
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That's the problem with these guys in our elite institutions, mostly on the left,
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just running their mouths ignorantly without knowing anything.
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a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it
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That's how you could describe the election of AOC.
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The election of AOC, a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both, he goes on.
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And a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.
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Now, what's interesting is you might think that this problem of ignorance spreading throughout a republic
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Because all those dumb people, you know, in that flyover country, they don't know anything.
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So if you expand the vote, you expand participation in the government,
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that's going to make the ignorance problem so much worse.
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Except the ignorance problem isn't among those, our fellow countrymen,
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who come from the less celebrated walks of life.
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The ignorance problem is from the people on TV and the people who are sitting in Congress.
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There was a study that came out in 2007 from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
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It was a study of all the big fancy brand name colleges and universities in the country.
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And they studied civic knowledge, politics, history, government.
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They studied it among incoming freshmen and graduating seniors.
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What they found is the graduating seniors knew less about their own country than the incoming freshmen.
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They actually became more ignorant over their time in college.
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They actually unlearned whatever little they already knew.
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And they were so much more confident about it because they walked out of there with a degree from Harvard or Princeton.
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What I say is the gospel truth just because I say it.
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Really, though, at its root, it's a problem of pride.
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Because these elite institutions, whether it's a top school or a media organization or Congress, right,
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Every dinner, every lunch, every convocation, you go in and they tell you, you're the leaders of the world.
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And what happens is you start to believe your own press releases.
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So you start to believe, yeah, wow, I really am.
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And so every dumb thought, every vague sentiment, feeling that pops into your head,
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These elites are kind of like teenagers, like young teenagers,
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who haven't yet realized that their parents know something.
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You know, you know, teenagers, before they mature, they're convinced that they know everything so
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Their parents have never thought or felt any of the really complicated stuff that these teenagers
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And then there's a moment when you mature and you realize, oh my gosh, my parents actually
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My parents actually have had the feelings that I have had.
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My parents have had thoughts and questions that I have had.
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Hmm, maybe I'm not the most special little thing that's ever walked the earth.
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Maybe I'm part of a grand tradition of people who've come before me and who will come after me.
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That's kind of how the elites are to the rest of the people, is the elites are always shocked
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to find out that the rest of their countrymen aren't complete idiots.
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That actually, believe it or not, the rest of their countrymen might know something that
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They might know a little bit more about gerrymandering than they do on, on television.
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They, frankly, they might know about, more about economics than an economics major from
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That, that is the problem that we're seeing among our elites.
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If you just got rid of the pride and you added a little humility, I think it would go a
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I've, I've, I've, I travel throughout the country almost all the time because I do these
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college tours and so I'll go to really small towns.
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And I'm, I remember the first time, it was right after the, the Republican tax bill was
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I got into an Uber somewhere in a small town in the middle of the country and it's, what
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And this very nice, unassuming woman who was driving my Uber proceeded to explain to
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me how very specific and technical provisions of the tax bill would affect her and her family.
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And I thought, I don't know anything about the technical provisions of the tax.
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I know the top line, but she actually possessed more technical knowledge of the tax bill than
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But she had such humility and made her so much wiser than certainly anybody you see on
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MSNBC or preaching to you from the halls of Congress.
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I don't mind how ignorant our friends on the left are, or even some people on the right.
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And a little, a little humility would solve that.
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The whole argument for his candidacy is that he's electable, except nobody's electing him.
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Yeah, maybe he's a little out of touch on the issues.
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Yeah, maybe he can't finish an English sentence because he's lost some of his spark.
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Yeah, maybe he's a white male, which is very unpopular in the Democratic Party today,
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especially straight white males, especially old straight white males.
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He'll do well against Trump, except he can't win any elections.
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Right now, there's a poll out from WBZ, Boston Globe, Suffolk University.
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It puts Joe in New Hampshire, not in first place, not in second place, not in third place,
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So he finished, I mean, who knows what happened in Iowa, but he finished toward the bottom
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He's very likely to finish toward the bottom of the pack in New Hampshire.
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Nevada also is a caucus state and nobody knows if they're even going to be able to count the
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There are now Democrats in Nevada saying they are unclear how they are, it is unclear how
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Rudy Giuliani famously in 2008, he was going to skip the early states and go straight to
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But by the time he got to Florida, it was too late.
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There is a study or a survey out from Emerson College in Suffolk University putting Joe Biden
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So the question now we have to ask is, is, is Joe Biden Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush?
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Is he the weak front runner that nobody wants, that nobody really wants to vote for except
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somehow he's just going to outlast everyone else and get the nomination and then probably
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Or is he Jeb Bush, the guy that the whole establishment thought was going to be the big
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one, all the big money donors were behind going in and then he barely wins a single vote.
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You know, to Mitt Romney's credit, at least he won early states in, or got close to early
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You know, Iowa, people thought Mitt Romney won Iowa in 2012.
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He actually slightly lost it when they finished counting the votes.
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So Rick Santorum ended up winning it, but Mitt Romney got all the advantage of having won
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Mitt Romney was competing in all of these states.
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And now there's a report that some polls are showing Joe Biden losing as much as half of
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The argument from electability for Joe Biden, in particular, focuses on his ability to win
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The Democratic candidate needs to win black voters, not just a simple majority of them,
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a vast majority of them needs to win 85, 90% of black voters to be competitive in a general.
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Joe Biden is thus far the only candidate who's shown that he can do that, except he might not
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be able to do that, which is pretty, pretty sad.
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The Iowa Democratic Party is officially awarding the most delegates to Buttigieg.
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Pete Buttigieg, Mayor, Mayor Cheat from South Bend, Indiana.
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If I were Bernie Sanders right now, I would send a team of lawyers to re-canvas Iowa because I think,
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I don't want to deal in conspiracy theories, but it looks like there are some hijinks here.
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What, what some people are trying to say is that the Iowa counting problem, that was just
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a random accident that happened to be caused by a shady app produced by Shadow Incorporated,
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which just happened to take some money from Pete Buttigieg, which just happens to be connected
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to the Buttigieg campaign, which just happens to have, have a connection to the old Hillary
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Clinton campaign and the Democratic establishment.
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But look, it's all just a bunch of crazy coincidences and it was pure incompetence, just a coding error.
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Adding on top of that, that the Democratic Party stole the election from Bernie Sanders
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I think Bernie Sanders would be a true disaster for the country and possibly constitute a fundamental
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break with our political tradition if he ever got anywhere near the ultimate levers of power.
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Pete Buttigieg, who named himself the winner in Iowa when 0% of the votes were in, also looks
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Right now, Bernie Sanders is crushing it in New Hampshire.
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Buttigieg, if he wins New Hampshire, you're going to see a bloody knockdown drag out where the
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Bernie supporters are even more convinced that the whole thing is rigged.
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This is always what the pundits are talking about if you have a convention where there's
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So instead of just counting up all the votes from the primaries and the caucuses, you go in
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and you go to smoke-filled back rooms and you wheel and deal and you try to figure
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But we're in a position where that possibly could happen because Bernie Sanders has a lot
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of momentum and the party elites really hate him and they've stolen it from him before.
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You could get to a place where the DNC is going to be brokered and bitter and absolutely
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In terms of official votes, we have an official vote in from New Hampshire.
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That's going to happen throughout the rest of the day.
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But there is one town in New Hampshire called Dixville Notch that votes at midnight on primary
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And Dixville Notch only has about 12 registered voters, very small, small number of voters.
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And so all the camera crews show up to ask every voter when they leave the polls, who did
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you vote for to try to get a sense of who's going to win the state?
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But there was a real surprise winner here because do you know who won the Democratic primary
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Mike Bloomberg, a candidate that we have not quite talked about yet, but who is surging in
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Do you know who won the Republican primary vote in New Hampshire?
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Because Trump is going to be the Republican nominee, but they still have these primaries
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Do you know who won the Republican primary vote?
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It doesn't mean he won this huge number, but if you get a couple of votes in Dixville Notch,
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Mike Bloomberg, who has variously been a Democrat and a Republican, he was elected as the Republican
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mayor of New York because it was easier to win the Republican mayorship after Rudy Giuliani
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It's pretty interesting because New Hampshire is live free or die.
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New Hampshire is pretty into keeping their constitutional rights, especially their gun
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rights, and yet the gun-grabbing candidate won.
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What it shows you is Mike Bloomberg is in it to win it.
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He has already spent, I think, like over $300 million on this campaign.
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He made the maximum donation to the Democratic Party that he could right before he got in
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so that they would change the rules of the debate, which means he's going to qualify for
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Now, he would have been a laughable candidate when Joe Biden was a viable candidate.
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But if Joe Biden is really out of this thing and it increasingly looks like it is, all of a
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After that last debate that nobody watched other than me, I watched it for you because
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I care about you, Pete Buttigieg, who was trying to get into that moderate lane again, he was
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Then we have a new poll, New Hampshire at Suffolk University in Boston.
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Globe showed that post-debate Sanders was up three points.
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So it means that Bernie Sanders is still the front runner in this race.
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Mike Bloomberg, the guy got into the race very late, former Republican, billionaire from
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You think you're going to beat a billionaire from New York with another billionaire from New
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Now, before Democrats get too excited about having their savior in Michael Bloomberg, never
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thought they would think that, the campaign to attack Bloomberg is just getting started.
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One of the big issues he's going to have is on racial issues because Mike Bloomberg pushed
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a policy which was very effective in New York called stop and frisk, where you would
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send cops into minority neighborhoods, you know, mostly minority neighborhoods to reduce
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But the left hated this because the left hates reducing crime and they hated what they perceived
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He's got a lot of audio and video out there of him saying things that is not exactly politically
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Here's Bloomberg on the issue of racial disparities in policing.
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95% of your murders and murderers and murder victims fit in one in a month.
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You can just take the description and Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops.
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You've got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that get killed.
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So you've got to spend the money, put a lot of cops in the street, put those cops where
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the crime is, which means in a minority neighborhood.
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So this is one of the unintended consequences is people say, oh my God, you are arresting kids
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Because we put all the cops in the minority neighborhoods.
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And the way you get the guns out of the kids' hands is to throw them against the wall and
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And then they start, they say, oh, I don't want to get caught.
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They still have a gun, but they leave it at home.
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Now, the left, when they find out about this, when they really start paying attention, they
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And some opportunistic conservatives are going after Mike Bloomberg for this clip.
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Certainly, it was inartfully said if you're trying to run for the Democratic nomination.
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But the actual policy that he's defending, stop and frisk, was a perfectly defensible
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Mike Bloomberg was actually an okay mayor of New York.
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He was, he did a decent job of, of maintaining the prosperity that Rudy Giuliani actually
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He did some dumb policies like banning big mountain dues and not letting me smoke in the
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You'd send the cops in to neighborhoods that were mostly minority.
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Now, what Bloomberg doesn't say in the audio, what the critics of stop and frisk don't say,
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even what some of the defenders don't tell you, is yes, the cops were sent into minority
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But the people who were calling in these crimes were also racial minorities.
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And the cops who were going to the neighborhoods were also more likely than not racial minorities.
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So this was not some example of, of the evil white supremacy going into these poor downtrodden
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It was actually a case of the people calling in the crimes, mostly minorities, the victims
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of the crimes, mostly minorities, the cops going in to solve the crimes, mostly minorities,
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and also the people perpetrating the crimes, mostly racial minorities.
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That's not going to matter in the democratic primary.
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You're already seeing Buttigieg getting attacked for alleged police brutality or racial disparity
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Bloomberg is going to get that times a million.
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But I will say just in Bloomberg's defense, not that a whole lot of, of far left-wing democratic
00:39:17.740
primary voters are listening to this show, but for the few that are, Bloomberg was much
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better on this issue for everybody, racial minorities included, than the current mayor of
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You know, the current mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, the Bolshevik in, in the mayor's
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office, has recently admitted that his stupid prison reform bills are damaging the safety
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So de Blasio passed something, I guess it was actually the New York state government passed
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something, but, but with the support of Democrats in the city, passed something called bail reform.
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Right, de Blasio, big proponent of bail reform.
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And what bail reform does, more or less, is lets criminals off the hook.
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You get arrested and then you just basically get left off, let off the hook and they go
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We had for six years steady decreases in crime across the board.
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There's not a whole lot of other environmental things that have changed recently.
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It sort of stands out like a sore thumb that this, bail reform, is the single biggest new
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thing in question and we saw an extraordinary jump.
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The weak, weak crime policies of Bill de Blasio are making everybody less safe.
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And this is especially true in particularly crime-ridden neighborhoods and the particularly
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crime-ridden neighborhoods in New York, at least, happen to be mostly constituted of
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Mike Bloomberg uniquely could run on this and defend it if he wants to.
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I mean, it would be a pretty bold campaign, but that's going to be a major issue for him.
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It might be disqualifying even though now it looks like he's surging.
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Speaking of racial issues, before we go, I got to get to Snoop Doggy Dog and an interviewer
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So, this interviewer on CBS, Gayle King, was recently conducting an interview in the wake of
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Kobe Bryant's death, and she brought up the question of Kobe Bryant's rape allegations
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It's been said that his legacy is complicated because of the sexual assault charge, which
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Is it complicated for you as a woman, as a WNBA player?
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By the way, she points out, you know, the charge was dropped in 2003, 2004, so it's not like
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Kobe is exonerated, but there were these questions at the time.
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For some reason, Snoop Doggy Dog was just really, really offended that Gayle King would ask this
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question, and he went after her in a vicious and actually threatening way.
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You ain't coming after Harvey Weinstein asking them dumb questions.
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How dare you try to torness my mother homeboy's reputation.
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How dare you tarnish the good reputation of my friends as I threaten you, threaten to come
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Or at least, I don't know what he's threatening.
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There was a left-wing journalist on Twitter, Yashar Ali.
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He was incensed by this video, as most people were.
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He tweeted out, quote, seeing very few people defending Gail, I know that if she were a white
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Yashar Ali and Snoop Doggy Dogg both made this racial.
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Yashar in his comment, Snoop in his video, right?
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He says, come on, why are you coming after our people?
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Susan Rice, Obama's former foreign affairs propagandist, was defending Gail King explicitly.
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But two, very few people are going after Snoop Dogg.
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But really, the issue here is what Snoop Dogg said.
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But nobody's really going after him, including Yashar Ali.
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Yashar had this nine-tweet thread about how awful it is that no one's defending Gail King.
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The way to defend Gail King is to go after Snoop Dogg.
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But something tells me, if it were Harry Connick Jr. who said this instead of Snoop Dogg-y-Dawg,
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Or Michael Buble or any of these other sort of singers, right?
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The question is, is it okay to ask a question about Kobe Bryant's past?
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Innocent until proven guilty in this country, but surely journalists are allowed to ask questions,
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but they both racialize it where there's no racial basis for it.
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And in Yashar's case, he's raising the prospect of white racism, anti-black racism,
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I don't think Snoop Dogg is a white supremacist.
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This is another unfortunate example of ignorance among our elites, not just Yashar Ali.
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He was doing a show one day and he had CNN's Areva Martin come on.
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And CNN's Areva Martin accused him of having an invalid opinion because of his white privilege.
00:45:34.760
Those of you who know David Webb will also laugh at this because David Webb is very much a black man.
00:45:42.420
Now, Areva Martin, in this case, didn't accuse David Webb of this kind of racism, of this white privilege,
00:45:50.860
because it was a good argument and she even sincerely thought it.
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She was ignorant of the question of white privilege and of who David Webb is.
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There's nothing lazier than crying racism where none exists because it requires no thought.
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And increasingly, that's what you see from the left.
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Now, the answer begins with pride and you don't see that going away anytime soon.
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