Ep. 496 - Obama Didn’t Build That
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Barack Obama claims credit for President Trump s booming economy. Bernie Sanders loses his mic to topless vegans at a campaign rally. And Mike Bloomberg intends to win the presidency by telling Americans how stupid they are. We will examine why I m skipping Birmingham on this semester s campus speaking tour.
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Barack Obama claims credit for President Trump's booming economy.
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Bernie Sanders loses his mic to topless vegans at a campaign rally.
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And Mike Bloomberg intends to win the presidency by telling Americans how stupid they are.
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Then a Democratic Alabama legislator introduces a bill that would require men to get vasectomies.
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We will examine why I'm skipping Birmingham on this semester's campus speaking tour.
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All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Barack Obama claiming credit for President Trump's economy.
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To prepare for today's show, I spent some time watching old videos of Barack Obama, reading old stories about Barack Obama.
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I actually forgot what a terrible President Obama was.
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You've got to go back and just, we're in such a different moment right now where we've got this energetic president.
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We've got him being uncommonly honest with the American people for better or for worse.
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He's saying things and he's actually doing those things.
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A great example of this would be the embassy in Jerusalem.
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Every president for my lifetime has promised to follow American policy, move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
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Trump comes in because he's such a political novice.
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And then he tries to take credit for other people's success.
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Quote, 11 years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history.
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The historical record is pretty clear and Obama flopped on the economy.
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He signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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That was supposed to provide a little under $800 billion in stimulus, so-called stimulus money.
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And we were supposed to get shovel-ready jobs as a result of this stimulus package, except the shovel-ready jobs didn't materialize.
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For the first two years of Obama's presidency, the unemployment rate was about 10%.
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It's hard for us to imagine that now, to even remember our recent past, because we now have basically no unemployment.
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But it remained at about 10% for the first two years under Obama.
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But that doesn't even tell the whole story, because part of the reason that the rate ticked down is because Americans just gave up looking for work.
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So as the rate was ticking down after 2010, 2011, it started to go down a little bit, that was because 8 million Americans who could have been working were not working.
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And to be fair to Barack Obama, that number was going down already.
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So there were people who were leaving the workforce anyway, and that was expected to continue.
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But they were only expecting an additional 3 million Americans to leave the workforce.
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So you had about 5 million Americans who were of working age, who should have been working, who analysts predicted would be working under a good economy.
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5 million people in the prime of their life who should have been working, gone.
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So the unemployment rate dropped, sure, but that didn't even tell the story.
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So people who you would hope would be making a little bit more money were not.
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At the same time, 300,000 manufacturing jobs disappeared.
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It was actually a little more than 300,000 manufacturing jobs gone, sent overseas, or automated out of existence, or just disappeared because of the bad economy.
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Now, Barack Obama, what he tried to do is say, look, this is the result of inevitable technological change, and there's just nothing we can do about it.
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As late as 2016, so don't labor under the misimpression that this was in those terrible days of the recession, and they didn't know what was happening.
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This was as late as 2016, the year that President Trump was elected.
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Barack Obama said the manufacturing jobs, a lot of them just aren't going to come back, and there's nothing we can do about it.
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At a town hall in June of that year, he was asked by an Indiana steel worker what happened to all the jobs, and the answer he gave was to just throw up his hands.
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My name is Eric Cottenham, and I'm representing the Steelworkers Union, Local 1999, and I'm trying to find out what do we have left as far as all of our jobs are leaving.
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Some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back.
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And when somebody says, like the person you just mentioned, who I'm not going to advertise for, that he's going to bring all these jobs back, well, how exactly are you going to do that?
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He just says, well, I'm going to negotiate a better deal.
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Well, how exactly are you going to negotiate that?
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And usually the answer is, he doesn't have an answer.
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I don't know if he had a magic wand, but he did bring the jobs back.
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In the first two years of Donald Trump's administration, more than six times as many manufacturing jobs were created as were created during the last two years of the Obama administration.
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He was a pretty good rhetorician, meaning he was pretty good at using slick talking points to kind of get around his bad legacy and his bad record.
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So the, this big recession allowed Barack Obama to make excuses.
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All we ever heard for years and years was, this was the worst recession since the Great Depression.
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This country was heading off the cliff and we pulled it back from the cliff.
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Republicans drove this country, put their feet on the accelerator, driving right off the cliff, right?
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He just kept blaming everything on the economy that he inherited from George W. Bush.
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But he made this one fatal error, which was that he made predictions.
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And one of those predictions is the manufacturing jobs aren't coming back, like he just told that Indiana steel worker, except they did come back.
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And so when the predictions are proven wrong, then you begin to see that his grasp of the economy isn't so great.
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The best case that Barack Obama could make for his administration's handling of the economy was that he, quote, saved us from a Great Depression.
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That's what you heard all of his defenders say, too.
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The trouble is, that's an unfalsifiable historical hypothetical, right?
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There's no way for me to prove or disprove that Barack Obama saved us from a Great Depression because the Great Depression didn't happen.
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And so he got a lot of credit for these unfalsifiable claims about what would have happened if Barack Obama hadn't come along.
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And as a result of that, because he was wrong about such a key aspect of his economic policy, we begin to realize that his entire economic policy was that weak.
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We begin to realize that the claims he's making that are hypothetical about saving us from a Great Depression, there's no evidence for that either.
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President Trump responded to this yesterday because, of course, he did.
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Do you think there was going to be a tweet claiming credit for what he has done, a tweet from a former president that Trump is now going to respond to?
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And his response was really, really, really politically shrewd.
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Some people don't want to give him credit for it, but it was a really great response.
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Obama makes this claim, tries to take credit for the Trump economy.
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President Obama is now trying to take credit for the economic boom taking place under the Trump administration.
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He had the weakest recovery since the Great Depression, despite zero Fed rate and massive quantitative easing.
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So there were low interest rates and the government was printing money.
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Had to rebuild our military, which was totally depleted.
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If Dems won in 2016, the USA would be in big economic depression and military trouble right now.
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Now, it's hard to hear that because it's written in this kind of crazy looking syntax.
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But it's that third to last line here, which is the key.
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Now, if you read it without the parentheses, he says, if Dems won in 2016, the USA would be in big economic and military trouble right now.
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But then right after economic, he puts in parentheses depression.
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What he's doing is inverting the Obama hypothetical strategy.
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Because Obama's only claim for his legacy is I saved us from a Great Depression, which you can't prove or disprove because it's hypothetical.
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What Trump is doing is he's going right at that legacy claim and saying, if the Democrats had won in 2016, we might have a depression.
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Thank goodness we didn't have to find out, though.
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If Obama hadn't won in 2008, would we have gone into oppression?
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Trump is using the exact same thing, going right at their only claim.
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But lest you accuse me of saying the president is playing 4D chess here, I don't know what dimension of chess he is playing.
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He sees the tactic that the Democrats are using, and he just clobbers it right back on top of them.
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The mainstream media are noticing the economic boom, even the mainstream media, even the networks, even ABC News.
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And so Martha Raddatz on ABC just had Tom Steyer, who I guess is running for president.
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He's that billionaire climate change guy who, for some reason, is still on the Democratic debate stages.
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Martha Raddatz says 70% of Americans think the economy is doing well.
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How are you going to convince them that it's not?
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Mr. Steyer, you say that you can take on Donald Trump on the economy.
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But the latest Quinnipiac national poll, again, released just this week, says 70% of voters describe the nation's economy as excellent or good.
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So how do you convince them that a change is needed when they think they're doing so well under Donald Trump?
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I think if you take a look at what he says, everything he says superficially sounds right but is actually a lie.
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So when he says the economy is growing, I can show that, in fact, all the money is going to rich people.
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70% say the economy is good and they're doing well.
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Well, I'm just saying, here we are on a show and you're standing up for Mr. Trump's version of the economy.
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You know, every so often these news networks get one bit of unbiased journalism out there.
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And surely that's what we just saw from Martha Raddatz.
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That we actually had to edit out the awkward pauses because we don't have time.
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I mean, 70% of Americans, those aren't just the super rich.
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Uh, one of those Democrats who is in a bad situation is the current leading contender for president.
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Bernie Sanders was recently at a campaign rally.
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There's, there's, uh, I think five or six days left for the, uh, Nevada caucuses.
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But Bernie Sanders is out there giving a campaign rally and some radical environmental activists
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Some of whom were topless jumps on the stage, grabs his microphone and starts screaming about
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And I'm here to ask you to stop propping up the dairy industry and to stop propping up animal
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I believe in you, Bernie, but I don't believe in yogurt or cheese or milk.
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That woman was not topless, but there have been some activists.
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I don't really know what the relation of being nude to the dairy industry is.
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There's, there's some connection because they keep doing that.
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And that is certainly the case with this woman, right?
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This group of activists with the Animal Rights Network, Direct Action, everywhere are, are
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They're becoming hysterical over the cruelty of drinking milk, how awful that is to animals.
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Now, mind you, they're pretty quiet on the issue of abortion.
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Taking milk from a cow is the gravest cruelty and evil in the world.
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But killing an unborn baby, that's totally fine.
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Something tells me if they did talk about it, they would very likely be in support of it.
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The fact that Bernie Sanders' rallies attracts these kind of people tells you a lot about
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the candidate, tells you a lot about the people who go to the Bernie rallies.
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But people are saying this is not good for him.
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I think these videos, these incidents, these crazy activist moments actually help Bernie
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And if we get enough of them, he's going to win the nomination.
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Okay, Bernie's biggest advantage in this race is his lifelong impotence.
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He hasn't really shown specific political power.
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He, this is, this is why his career is taking off in his mid to late 70s.
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Why, why wasn't he a big success when he was a young man?
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The advantage he has here is he's cultivated this kind of hapless grandpa image.
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But the ideas that he's peddling are not harmless.
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This guy, in political ideology, is a stone cold commie thug.
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Okay, you, you, well, we've played the clips on this show many times.
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He has defended Fidel Castro long after the Cuban revolution.
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He said that American opposition to commies in Cuba made him want to puke.
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And he defended that thug, that, that animal, Fidel Castro, for his whole life.
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He defends the dictator of Venezuela right now.
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He defended some of the worst regimes in history.
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He sat shirtless, swilling vodka, singing commie folk songs with the Ruskies in the Soviet Union.
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Now, in a younger man, this would be very off-putting.
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In a man who seemed virile and potent and tough, this would be very scary.
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But because Bernie is this sort of lovable old coot, or at least he looks that way,
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If it were a young guy cheering on bread lines, bread lines are actually good.
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But if he, if he were a guy who seemed dangerous to us, we would reject it.
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But because he seems helpless, it's going to allow those ideas to go on.
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That's why Bernie Sanders should be praying that more people steal his microphone.
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It softens him and it, it like provides the sugar that will coat the, the poison that they're
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Now, we also have to get to the other old rich guy in the white democratic race.
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I have to sort of defend Mike Bloomberg a little bit.
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I'll attack him in a second, but I have to, I have to sort of defend him because I think
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there are some unfair attacks against Mike Bloomberg in that people are calling him a
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There are plenty of good reasons to attack Mike Bloomberg, which we'll get to in a second.
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His presidency, if it ever occurred, heaven forfend would be terrible, but I don't think
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So there's more footage has surfaced of Mike Bloomberg saying very un-PC things on the issue
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Here's the new video from years ago that's come up.
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Black and Latino males aged, let's say 16 to 25 that don't have jobs, don't have any
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prospects, don't know how to find jobs, don't know, uh, that they, what their skill sets
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are, don't know how to behave in the workplace where they have to work collaboratively.
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So this clip, which was taken a little bit out of context, but it's from an interview
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he gave years ago where Bloomberg describes people who are more at risk of committing
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In the same interview, he went on to say, a lot of statistics show that if the father is
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engaged, it gives the kids some understanding that he's heading down the wrong path.
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And then assign mentors to them on one-on-one basis so that there is somebody who has been
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successful, has a job, has a family, fits in society, and that they can go to, you know,
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a lot of these kids, it isn't that they're bad kids.
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It's that once they've made a mistake, it's very difficult to recover from that.
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But we have an obligation to them, if not for compassionate reasons, just for selfish
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reasons, three quarters of all kids in New York city that go to jail, serve a period
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Now, Bloomberg's critics, especially on the, on the left, I think these clips are all being
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They're saying that this is evidence of Bloomberg's racism.
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I mean, racism doesn't have to be this subjective thing that's based on our feelings.
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Is he making these categorical statements about race that are discriminatory and demeaning?
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And no, he's not saying that all black and Hispanic people are destined to a future of
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He's not making any categorical claims about people on the basis of their race.
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If we're talking about his categories, he's talking also about sex.
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He's talking also about family structure, right?
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It's specifically the age comments show that he's not making a racist or a sexist argument.
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If he's saying young, young people in this demographic from the age of 18 to 25 are very
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likely to commit crime, but not people at age 26, the people at age 26 are the same race
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So what he's saying is there are a lot of factors here.
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So it really pains me to defend him in any way.
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He would be a terrible president and there are many reasons to attack him.
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For one, he hates the constitution and he gaslights people who defend the constitution.
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Mike Bloomberg, when he was mayor and after he was mayor, started an organization called
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And this was his anti-Second Amendment group and he wants to get rid of the Second Amendment.
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Where's the group that's mayors for illegal guns?
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But he knew that if he actually named the group what he wanted to, which is Mayors Against
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Guns, he would be rightly accused of opposing our constitution, which he does.
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So he had to call it Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
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On a related note, actually, Mike Bloomberg has no regard for the rule of law.
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So Mike Bloomberg, when he ran for mayor the first time, right after Rudy Giuliani, remember
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this was right after 9-11, Giuliani suggested maybe we make a third term for mayor so that
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he, America's mayor, could get the city through that awful experience.
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You know, the worst crisis New York has ever faced probably.
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So Mike Bloomberg wins and then he immediately adds a third term.
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And then immediately after he wins the third term, says we got to get rid of the third term
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He's just flagrant, flagrantly violating the law or changing the law to suit his own preferences.
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He's also a nanny state liberal who wants to take away even the most trivial choices from
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So you saw this, especially in soda and cigarettes.
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And he made it illegal to buy big gulps at 7-11.
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You could buy two small cups of Mountain Dew, but not one large one.
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I'm saying that these kind of indulgences are a small comfort and consolation to people.
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He made it a top priority of his administration in New York.
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Proof of H.L. Mencken's assertion that puritanism is the haunting fear that someone somewhere might
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That's what a Bloomberg presidency would look like.
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On top of all that, Bloomberg seems to have zero connection to people.
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Okay, he wants to tell people what to do, but he doesn't seem to enjoy spending any time
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And you saw this in another clip that is actually worth going after Bloomberg for.
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You know, the clip where they pull up something from 20 years ago and he made some comment
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That's not why you should go after Bloomberg, all right?
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And I don't think it's evidence of racial bigotry.
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You should go after Bloomberg because he seems not really to respect people.
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You just saw this come out where he made the claim that farmers are just a bunch of idiots.
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Anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended, to be a farmer.
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You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.
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Then you have 300 years of the industrial society.
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You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow,
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1.98% of the world worked in agriculture today.
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And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing
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And the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze.
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You see, look, what you don't understand, you, you plebes, you peasants.
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What you don't understand is that if you want to be a middle manager in the HR department of the
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widget factory, you need to use these really highly developed analytical skills.
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But if you want to make food grow out of the ground, if you want to manage seed, soil, climate,
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the, the changing weather, changing temperatures, if you want to manage all of that, well, you
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You don't need to, if you want to farm or if you want to raise animals, right?
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You just kind of walk out every day and say, duh, I think it's, it's warm today.
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Of course, it requires many, many more analytical skills.
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It requires a lot more gray matter to make something grow out of the ground or to raise
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animals or to manage the whole economy of agriculture than it does to be some pencil
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pusher in some random department of the widget factory.
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But that is the bias of Mike Bloomberg because Mike Bloomberg doesn't have a whole lot of
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respect for people, doesn't have a whole lot of respect for his fellow countrymen.
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That's why he's willing to deprive them of their basic civil rights under the constitution,
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And that's why he mocks farmers as not having a whole lot of gray matter.
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But these, taking these kind of cheap shots from the far left against him on crime or something,
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I don't think that's a particularly winning strategy.
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And we've also got to get to the other really, really old guy in the democratic race,
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Joe Biden, because he is, speaking of far leftism, he is now running as far to the left
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And this is not winning him left wingers, but this is turning off a lot of moderates.
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He made a claim that you hear the left make a lot about immigration.
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Then there is a failed democratic gubernatorial candidate who is now going to accept the vice
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Nobody's asked her, but she's going to accept it anyway.
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Of those three guys, Joe Biden may be saying the most radical thing of all of them right
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You got a guy who, who as mayor, all he wanted to do was steal people's Second Amendment civil
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liberties and steal their sodas and steal their cigarettes.
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And then you got Joe Biden, allegedly the moderate in this race, but he's running so far
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Polls are showing it's not winning him some massive new left-wing support.
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It's just killing his support among the moderates.
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The comment that, that Biden made, which I find so offensive, both intellectually and
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nationally offensive, is he said that illegal aliens who are here, who are young, they call
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Mind you, some of these guys are in their forties at this point, but they're still, we all are
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supposed to imagine these like five-year-olds looking up with these big cute eyes or something.
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Some of the, some of these people are fully grown adults.
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Joe Biden says that DACA dreamers, illegal aliens are more American than many Americans.
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These DACA students are more Americans than most Americans are.
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They're not people who are not Americans cannot be more American than Americans.
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People who are not Americans, people who do not have the quality of being American cannot
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This is one of these dumb talking points that comes up on the left a lot.
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And it, it, they're always of the, if you really think about it, variety, right?
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That's what they always, they'll say something that's just patently untrue and absurd.
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And then they'll say, but if you really think about it, actually, Joe Biden literally said
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He goes, these DACA students are more American than most Americans.
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Well, I have thought about it and that doesn't make any sense.
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Part of what's going on here is because just on a philosophical level, the left has lost
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its grasp of objective reality because the left now tells us that men are not really men
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And there's your truth and my truth, but no, the truth.
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Because of that, they will make absurd statements, but if they say them emphatically and repeatedly,
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then they think that that is enough to make those false statements true, which they're
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The other error they're falling into here is they're trying to make American-ness something
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Somebody responded when I pointed this out on Twitter, they said, oh, Michael, the question
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You know, is it just merely having American citizenship?
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There are, there are, there are things that are like Americans do or like Americans are.
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There are certain qualities that Americans have, right?
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Grit, determination, independence, religiosity, right?
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Those are all qualities of Americans, but those are not synonymous with being American.
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The only thing that makes you an American is being a citizen of America.
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There are plenty of non-Americans, there are plenty of foreigners, plenty of illegal aliens
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There are, there are also plenty of Americans who are rotten, no good people.
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American is not a synonym for perfect, wonderful.
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There, there are qualities that these things have, but American refers to Americans.
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They, they want to confuse this issue because what the left really wants to say is there's
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That's why they, they use these, they went from illegal alien, which is the precise term,
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to illegal immigrant, to undocumented immigrant, to future American.
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As though the, the only distinction between Americans and non-Americans is some documents.
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No, it's whether, it's a specific document, namely if you are a, are a citizen or not.
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The only difference between illegal aliens and Americans is Americans are current Americans
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No, they're not entitled to American citizenship.
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Just like I'm not entitled to Danish citizenship or Chinese citizenship.
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American, I'm an American, I'm something different, okay?
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This substitution of, of American for just goodness is very tempting to conservatives
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because we love our country and we know that we have a very good country.
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We got to be very, very precise about our language because the way that the left wins the culture,
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But the way that the left wins the culture is by using vague language, using tempting
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American, yeah, American just means good and some of these illegal aliens are good.
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No, be very specific because what they would have us do by using that kind of vague, tempting
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language is totally subvert the country, undermine any kind of American identity.
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I mean, what they're saying is that a country has nothing to do with the people of that country.
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They've already said that country has nothing to do with borders, right?
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But now they're saying that even the people of the country have nothing to do with the
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In other words, if you, how many million Americans, 320 million just about, that if you took all
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320 million Americans, removed them from the country and then replaced them with foreigners
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who share these abstract, vague qualities of American-ness, that you would have the same
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No country in the history of the world has ever believed that.
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And I don't think America believes that currently, which is why Joe Biden is collapsing and why
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Got to pay attention to that though, because when the Democrats, when the left has no mooring
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and that objective reality, when they're just putting up these kind of spineless, flattering,
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oily politicians like Joe Biden, then all of a sudden the most moderate guy in the race,
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all of a sudden can become one of the most radical.
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Speaking of radical Democratic candidates, speaking of having no regard for truth, Stacey
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Abrams, failed candidate for governor of Georgia, has accepted the vice presidential nomination
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She hasn't been offered it, but she's accepted it.
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For those of you who don't remember Stacey Abrams, which I suspect is most of you, Stacey
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Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018 and she lost.
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Then she claimed without any evidence whatsoever that the election was stolen.
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So it is no surprise that in a recent appearance on The View, Abrams said that she would accept
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vice presidential nomination, which she of course has not received.
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The first time I was on here, I got the question about running as VP during the primary and
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I very apparently famously said, no, because you don't run for second in a primary.
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However, because that conversation started, I'm now getting the question a lot from folks
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and the answer is, of course, I would be honored to run for vice president with the nominee.
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And I mean, it's a bit disconcerting because it seems really obnoxious for me to say that
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out loud since I'm not, you know, no one's asked me.
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But what I want people to understand is that in the media.
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The issue is as a woman of color, especially as a black woman, this is an unusual position
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to be in for someone to be considered possibly the next vice president.
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It's just unimaginable that anyone would say that a woman or a person of color or a black
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person could ever be the vice president, right?
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There's no, except the very last Democratic nominee for president was a woman.
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And the, uh, a couple of times ago, the vice presidential nominee for the Republicans was
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a woman and the last president himself, the very last president was a black guy.
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What is unimaginable is that somebody who is a virtual unknown in American politics who
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ran for a race in Georgia and lost would then try to fail upward by elevating herself to
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Stacey Abrams is doing this thing that Democrats keep doing.
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They can't, you see it all the way back to Barack Obama trying to take credit for the economy.
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They can't point to anything concrete that they've done.
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I wonder if this is a result of the self-esteem movement.
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I wonder if this is a result of participation trophies that, that these candidates, these
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politicians just cannot fathom that they lost, that they failed, that they didn't do something.
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Even if president Trump won the trophy on his economy, even if your opponent in the Georgia
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governor election won, you got to take the trophy yourself.
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You have to win as well, but that isn't the case.
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When people see Obama trying to take credit for Trump's economy, they laugh.
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There are some hard partisans who buy anything that they say, but most people, I think they
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Most people, when they see this failed governor candidate go on television and say, okay,
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Then he thought he could run for president because it's not possible for the Democrats
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Reality is not binding on the left, except eventually it is.
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Russell Kirk, who wrote a great book, The Conservative Mind, said that one of the great
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conservative consolations is that reality eventually reasserts itself.
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And so you can go off in fantasy for a little while, but eventually reality comes crashing
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It's one of the reasons why conservatives don't get totally routed.
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Initially, that book was going to be called The Conservative Route.
00:42:26.960
The conservatives just keep losing everything, except every so often they come back because
00:42:33.420
It's reasserting itself on Stacey Abrams, reasserting itself on Joe Biden, it's reasserting
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And I can't wait until reality reasserts itself in Alabama.
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Actually, speaking of The View, you see another clip on this same topic from Joy Behar on The
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There is a new bill in Alabama, in the Alabama legislature that would require men to get
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This is seriously making me rethink my plans to retire to Mobile, Alabama someday.
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And now it's looking a little less appealing if that law goes through.
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State Representative Rolanda Hillis, Democrat from Birmingham, filed a bill last Thursday that
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would mandate every Alabama man to undergo a vasectomy.
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Snip, snip, snip, within one month of his 50th birthday or the birth of his third biological
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These Democrats really, really don't like babies.
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Uh, this, this is, uh, HB 314 that this, this woman is responding to.
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So this is basically to say you can't kill babies in the womb.
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Now this woman is going to respond and say, okay, well, men have to get vasectomies.
00:43:57.680
She says, under existing law, there are no restrictions on the reproductive rights of
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And you know, we've heard this before from the left.
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Joy Behar on The View made the same dumb point.
00:44:12.980
What are the, gee, what do they have in common?
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Well, I think there were, weren't there four women?
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Maybe it should make up a law that they should all be required to get a vasectomy.
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And we're talking about abortion, which is what this whole thing is about.
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They're not really going to mandate vasectomies in Alabama.
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Should we be allowed to kill the baby or a million babies a year without any legal protection?
00:45:06.720
It would seem that the evidence that the baby is a baby is pretty strong.
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The point of an abortion is to take the baby from alive to dead.
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The baby, if left alone, will grow up to be a toddler and then an adult and then an old person, right?
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It has nothing to do with the reproductive rights of women.
00:45:36.860
It's saying mothers shouldn't be able to kill their kids.
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And the left wants to avoid that issue and say, you're just trying to control women's ovaries.
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That's why, by the way, conservatives are always arguing with ourselves.
00:46:00.940
You'll notice there are always these fights on the right.
00:46:04.660
The libertarians versus the traditionalists versus the neocons versus the religious right versus right there.
00:46:10.300
You could go on and on and on between all these segments.
00:46:12.560
And they're always arguing about each other, trying to get to the heart of the issue.
00:46:20.160
There are the progressives and also the progressives.
00:46:27.160
For many reasons, but the left can't form these arguments.
00:46:30.220
The left doesn't understand what arguments are being made.
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And the left, most importantly, has divorced itself from objective reality.
00:46:37.720
It's your truth and his truth, but not the truth.
00:46:40.220
The left is saying that you can't say that a man is a man or a woman is a woman.
00:46:44.360
It's all just a bunch of different interest groups.
00:46:46.380
I mean, literally, if you accept that premise, it's not capable of argument.
00:46:53.660
That's why the right reigns itself in through that kind of argumentation.
00:46:56.940
That's why you see the left claiming credit for things it never did, accepting vice presidential
00:47:00.460
nominations that it never got, making claims that are just philosophically impossible.
00:47:07.000
That's why you see it spinning off into absurdity.
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That's why you see the right grounded in reality.
00:47:12.080
Now, absurdity and fantasy wins for a while, but the reality reasserts itself in the end.
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And that's a nice consolation for those of us who are right and who are on the right.
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