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00:00:37.680 Joe Biden turns around a flailing presidential campaign with a massive showing on Super Tuesday.

00:00:44.320 Whereas last week Joe was dead both figuratively and literally, now he is only dead literally.

00:00:50.320 We will examine what the establishment comeback means for the Democratic primary and for the general election.

00:00:56.980 Then, the media are shocked that a Hispanic could possibly vote for President Trump.

00:01:02.700 Disgraced thruple congresswoman Katie Hill teaches us all a lesson on selfishness. 1.00

00:01:07.780 And Taylor Swift hates men. 1.00

00:01:09.520 All that and more.

00:01:10.200 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:11.980 What a night last night on Super Tuesday.

00:01:21.820 If you joined us for Daily Wire backstage coverage, we were there smoking stogies and drinking whiskey for about four and a half hours or so.

00:01:30.260 And the results were largely what we predicted would happen on this show yesterday, which was that going into Super Tuesday, before the establishment Democrats dropped out of the race, before Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden, it looked like Bernie was going to kill it.

00:01:49.240 He was going to not quite sweep Super Tuesday, but really have a blowout.

00:01:53.740 And then after those establishment candidates got out and you saw all of the Democratic usual suspects, Susan Rice, Harry Reid, those kind of people, after all of them coalesced within the course of about two days behind Joe Biden, when you just looked at the poll averages and you added on that extra establishment support, all of a sudden it completely flipped and looked like Joe was going to blow it out.

00:02:17.260 And that's basically what happened.

00:02:47.260 And that's basically what happened.

00:02:49.260 And that's basically what happened.

00:02:50.260 And that's basically what happened.

00:02:51.260 And that's basically what happened.

00:02:52.260 And that's basically what happened.

00:02:53.260 And it's probably going to be a race to the convention.

00:02:59.260 So Joe Biden won Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

00:03:11.260 Texas is a big win here because the two big prizes on Super Tuesday are Texas and California.

00:03:17.260 California, just in terms of population.

00:03:19.260 It looked a week ago like Bernie was going to win Texas.

00:03:22.260 Then Joe turned it around.

00:03:23.260 It was a very, very tight.

00:03:25.260 So it's not like each of these states was a blowout.

00:03:28.260 And I think the tightness of that is going to really matter at the convention, because the one thing that the Democrats do, they rig up the whole primary.

00:03:35.260 Right.

00:03:36.260 They've got a group of people called super delegates who are just these party elites who come in.

00:03:41.260 Doesn't matter what the voters vote for.

00:03:42.260 They're going to come in and choose whoever they want in a smoke filled back room at the convention. 0.97

00:03:47.260 And the super delegates account for about 16 percent of the total delegates who are going to decide who the nominee is.

00:03:53.260 But to offset that, what the Democrats do in their voting is proportional voting.

00:03:59.260 So it's not like they just come in and a winner takes all in the state.

00:04:03.260 And so, you know, if you win the state 51 to 49, all of a sudden you get 100 percent of the delegates.

00:04:09.260 Actually, it's proportional.

00:04:10.260 So if you win 51 percent of the state, you might get 51 percent of the delegates.

00:04:15.260 What that does is drag out the convention fight all the way, all the way until the DNC.

00:04:21.260 So if it were a normal candidate that was running against Joe Biden now, you might see as Joe Biden's lead begins to grow, you might see that candidate considered dropping out of the race.

00:04:33.260 But Bernie Sanders is not a normal candidate.

00:04:37.260 We we read Bernie Sanders's sex manifestos about the revolution from the late 1960s and early 70s.

00:04:45.260 This is not your run of the mill establishment.

00:04:47.260 Dem, he's not going to fall in line.

00:04:49.260 He's about 350 years old.

00:04:51.260 So it's not like he's going to get a whole lot more opportunities to run for president.

00:04:55.260 All he's done for his entire life is be a political activist and run for office.

00:04:59.260 So this is kind of it for him.

00:05:01.260 He is going to drag it out.

00:05:02.260 It's going to get very, very bloody.

00:05:04.260 And Bernie did get a big state win last night.

00:05:06.260 He got California.

00:05:08.260 And in addition to that, he got Colorado, Utah and Vermont.

00:05:12.260 And as of writing this show, Maine was still up in the air.

00:05:15.260 So the delegate count pretty, pretty clear now.

00:05:19.260 Joe Biden is up in the lead.

00:05:21.260 And boy, those Democrats dodged a bullet for now.

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00:06:34.260 Democrats dodged a real bullet here.

00:06:38.260 So, President Trump wants Bernie Sanders.

00:06:43.260 All right.

00:06:44.260 President Trump is hoping that Bernie gets the nomination.

00:06:47.260 He does, you know, President Trump, he just, he just tweeted this out.

00:06:51.260 I'll read the tweet straight, straight from his account.

00:06:55.260 He, President Trump, as this all comes out, he says, the Democrat establishment came together and crushed Bernie Sanders again.

00:07:04.260 Even the fact that Elizabeth Warren stayed in the race was devastating to Bernie and allowed sleepy Joe to unthinkably win Massachusetts.

00:07:13.260 It was a perfect storm with many good states remaining for Joe.

00:07:19.260 He keeps going.

00:07:20.260 So selfish for Elizabeth Warren to stay in the race.

00:07:23.260 She has zero chance of even coming close to winning, but hurts Bernie badly.

00:07:28.260 So much for their wonderful liberal friendship.

00:07:31.260 Will he ever speak to her again?

00:07:33.260 She cost him Massachusetts and came in third. 0.90

00:07:36.260 He shouldn't.

00:07:37.260 Oh, I love him so much.

00:07:42.260 So much.

00:07:43.260 This is one of Trump's superpowers, right?

00:07:45.260 Is that he's very, very good at television.

00:07:48.260 He understands how to create drama, tension, characters.

00:07:52.260 That's part of what the nicknaming is about is so that these politicians who seem kind of stiff or, or whatever, they then come to feel like television characters that you would know.

00:08:03.260 You turn on the TV and it's Archie Bunker or somebody, except instead of Archie Bunker, it's sleepy Joe. 0.85

00:08:08.260 I guess actually in that analogy, Trump is probably the more Archie Bunker like character, but you, you know, sleepy Joe, you know, crooked Hillary, you know, crazy Bernie.

00:08:17.260 And it's all about these personal relationships.

00:08:19.260 Trump is very, very good about having a relationship with the voters and about describing and pulling out the relationships between all of these other politicians.

00:08:28.260 Because, don't forget, the guy was the king of the reality TV.

00:08:33.260 So when he's trying to boost Bernie and go after Biden to create some chaos in the Democratic primary, he doesn't just say, socialism's bad.

00:08:43.260 Socialism is going to kill us all.

00:08:45.260 We're going to have red lines.

00:08:46.260 He doesn't do that.

00:08:47.260 No, I mean, that, maybe that works once or twice, but that, that falls flat eventually.

00:08:51.260 What people are interested in is the personal narrative, the personal story.

00:08:54.260 So instead he says, all those Democrats, they're conspiring to steal it from poor Bernie, right?

00:09:01.260 He's actually making Bernie into this kind of sympathetic figure.

00:09:04.260 And I thought Liz Warren was his friend.

00:09:06.260 That woman backstabbed her own friend. 1.00

00:09:09.260 He should never speak to her again.

00:09:11.260 What do you all think?

00:09:12.260 Do you think he's going to speak to her again?

00:09:13.260 All so personal.

00:09:15.260 And he has a point on Massachusetts.

00:09:17.260 Elizabeth Warren was the front runner in the Democratic Party. 0.99

00:09:22.260 What?

00:09:23.260 Two, three months ago.

00:09:25.260 Now she's nothing. 1.00

00:09:26.260 She's not winning anything.

00:09:28.260 Part of that is because she, we saw her.

00:09:31.260 When you see more of Elizabeth Warren, her support tends to go down, but she lost Massachusetts

00:09:36.260 and Joe Biden got it.

00:09:38.260 You know, same thing in Minnesota.

00:09:40.260 Minnesota is where Amy Klobuchar is from.

00:09:43.260 Amy Klobuchar was at the top of the pack in Minnesota until she dropped out of the race.

00:09:48.260 The second was Bernie Sanders.

00:09:50.260 So if Amy had maybe gotten out of the race much earlier, or if she'd stuck in it even,

00:09:57.260 Bernie Sanders would have had a better night there compared to Joe Biden.

00:10:01.260 Instead, Joe Biden picked that up too.

00:10:04.260 So President Trump, I think pretty clearly wants Bernie.

00:10:08.260 Republicans generally want Bernie.

00:10:11.260 There's a slight disagreement on this.

00:10:13.260 We had it last night on the backstage show, which is some Republicans, some conservatives,

00:10:18.260 like me, like Drew Klavan, they want Bernie because one, Trump is going to win 57 states,

00:10:27.260 plus Greenland, plus American Samoa, which is the only area that Mike Bloomberg won.

00:10:32.260 But he'll win everything if it's against Bernie.

00:10:36.260 I think the polling bears that out very well.

00:10:38.260 I think they've got an oppo file on him that's very, very long.

00:10:41.260 The other reason is it's an honest fight.

00:10:43.260 You know, Bernie actually stands for something.

00:10:45.260 He stands for socialism.

00:10:47.260 And Donald Trump is a symbol of American free enterprise.

00:10:51.260 And you're going to have that battle and it's going to be hilarious to watch.

00:10:54.260 So I'm all for that.

00:10:56.260 That is the sort of upside view, right?

00:10:59.260 You're looking at how great it'll be when Trump wins.

00:11:02.260 The other view, which, which Ben and Jeremy have, we were talking about it on backstage,

00:11:06.260 is the downside view.

00:11:07.260 They say, look, even if Trump is more likely to beat Bernie Sanders,

00:11:11.260 I still would rather Joe Biden be the nominee because I don't want the whole Democratic Party

00:11:16.260 to unify behind Bernie Sanders, an actual socialist, an old commie. 0.74

00:11:21.260 And I don't want to risk the chance that Bernie somehow becomes president.

00:11:26.260 Me, I'm not so afraid of the risk.

00:11:28.260 Bring on the risk.

00:11:29.260 I am, I'm not terribly risk averse.

00:11:31.260 I think it'd be great to have the honest conversation.

00:11:33.260 And I think it'll feel even better to win this time than it felt last time.

00:11:38.260 So you got Trump, you got most Republicans want Bernie.

00:11:42.260 The Democrats pretty clearly want Biden.

00:11:45.260 Okay.

00:11:46.260 The reason they want Biden is because one, I think they know that Bernie is more likely

00:11:52.260 to get completely blown out of the race.

00:11:55.260 But two, I'm not sure that they want this guy, this socialist coming in and taking over

00:12:02.260 their party.

00:12:03.260 Don't forget Bernie Sanders isn't even a registered Democrat.

00:12:06.260 So Bernie has been an independent and he describes himself as a socialist.

00:12:11.260 Then in 2016, in order to run for the Democratic primary, he had to register as a Democrat,

00:12:17.260 which he did.

00:12:18.260 Then he lost that primary.

00:12:20.260 He re-registers as an independent.

00:12:22.260 This time around, so that his Bernie bro supporters didn't have a complete meltdown,

00:12:27.260 they allowed him to run as an independent.

00:12:30.260 But he's actually technically not even a Democrat.

00:12:32.260 So the party itself, the party apparatus really doesn't like the guy.

00:12:36.260 They keep trying to rob him.

00:12:38.260 They probably are successfully going to rob him again.

00:12:41.260 And Biden is in the lead, but Biden still faces challenges.

00:12:44.260 So last night, Biden is addressing his supporters.

00:12:47.260 He's so happy.

00:12:49.260 He's so excited.

00:12:50.260 Everyone's feeling great.

00:12:51.260 And he confuses his wife with his sister.

00:12:56.260 By the way, this is my little sister, Valerie, and I'm Jill's husband.

00:13:01.260 Oh, no.

00:13:02.260 Valerie switched on me. 0.81

00:13:03.260 This is my wife.

00:13:04.260 This is my sister.

00:13:05.260 They switched on me.

00:13:07.260 All right.

00:13:08.260 So this is actually a pretty funny moment, I think, for a guy who's been plagued on the

00:13:12.260 campaign trail by forgetting all sorts of things.

00:13:15.260 A couple of days ago, he forgot the name of God in the Declaration of Independence.

00:13:20.260 We hold these truths to be self-evident that all, you know, and you know the thing.

00:13:24.260 So he lost that.

00:13:26.260 He's messed up people's names.

00:13:28.260 He's done all of that.

00:13:29.260 I don't think that's what's really happening in this clip.

00:13:31.260 I think he's staring forward at the crowd.

00:13:33.260 He's got two women on either side of him. 0.99

00:13:35.260 He's not looking at either of them.

00:13:36.260 So he reaches for one.

00:13:37.260 He says, this is my sister.

00:13:38.260 Oh, wait a minute.

00:13:39.260 That's not my sister. 0.86

00:13:40.260 Hold on.

00:13:41.260 You guys turned around on me.

00:13:42.260 That was kind of a funny moment.

00:13:43.260 It showed he was a little more with it maybe than we had seen before.

00:13:48.260 The bigger challenge, I think, look, Joe Biden is nothing.

00:13:53.260 He is truly an empty suit.

00:13:54.260 He's the embodiment of nothing.

00:13:57.260 What's really going to happen now is, as it looks like Joe's walking away with a nomination,

00:14:02.260 these radical Democrats, and there are many of them, are going to create a lot of trouble for him.

00:14:08.260 They already did that last night.

00:14:09.260 Joe's big, happy victory speech was interrupted by activists, and not just any kind of activists.

00:14:17.260 They were activists protesting the horrible cruelty of milk.

00:14:22.260 others, as we come from the through. 1.00

00:14:23.260 Let Derry die! 1.00

00:14:25.260 Let Derry die! 1.00

00:14:29.260 Let Derry die! 1.00

00:14:44.260 Let Derry die! 1.00

00:14:49.260 Let Derry Die. That is an actual campaign. If you had taken this to an SNL screenwriter 0.99

00:14:57.900 five years ago, no one would have believed it, right? Nobody would have believed it.

00:15:04.640 But that's where we are now. I mean, this is that Joaquin Phoenix stuff. This is that

00:15:08.900 Joaquin Phoenix at the Oscars comes up. He goes, look, man, we've got to stop drinking milk. We

00:15:14.760 got to stop eating cheese. It's so cruel. It's so awful. By the way, all of these people support

00:15:18.880 abortion. They all support killing babies in the womb, but they don't want to drink milk because 0.99

00:15:23.520 somehow it's mean to the cow. I don't think Joe Biden is particularly worried about the dairy 0.90

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00:17:04.320 Uh, Bernie did not have a terrible night. He had an okay night. Uh, his supporters are going to say

00:17:13.420 that this whole thing is rigged. Uh, this time around, it doesn't seem like it's quite rigged.

00:17:17.540 It seems like it's strategic, right? It seems like the, the democratic party is making a choice here.

00:17:25.280 So the person who most underperformed is Warren. There's a fan question just came in from TZ. Who is

00:17:33.680 the next dropout? Funny you should ask that now. Very likely could be Warren. There are, it's either

00:17:40.520 Warren or Bloomberg, right? And so Warren had a terrible night. I mean, it was humiliating. She came

00:17:47.660 in third in her own state. So for Warren, the question is going to be, can she go to her donors

00:17:52.320 with a straight face and say, give me more of your money so that I can do what? Can't even win

00:18:00.960 Massachusetts? No, probably not. And Elizabeth Warren needs those donors because she's still 0.99

00:18:05.300 running. She's still an active politician. Mike Bloomberg doesn't need any of that money. He's

00:18:10.440 accountable to no one. And he's got his campaign staff on contract through November.

00:18:14.300 So Mike Bloomberg doesn't cost him anything really to keep running. The guy's worth $60

00:18:19.180 billion. So even if he spends another 200 million, that doesn't really do all that much.

00:18:24.720 If Elizabeth Warren is smart for the rest of her career, she will drop out now and stop burning her, 1.00

00:18:30.200 her donor money. Mike Bloomberg doesn't have to worry. I hope he stays in a long time and pushes

00:18:36.240 for a brokered convention and buys off the whole rest of the party. So Elizabeth Warren's big problem. 1.00

00:18:43.880 Why did she flop? Her big problem was she didn't pick a lane. The lane was, do you go for Bernie's 0.89

00:18:49.920 voters or Biden's voters? All right, this is, this is a, a problem that rhinos have a lot,

00:18:56.100 the Republicans in name only, right? Is why would you vote for a liberal Republican when you can vote

00:19:04.200 for a Democrat? This was Elizabeth Warren's problem. She, when she initially, she was maybe going to go 1.00

00:19:10.260 for some of Biden's voters. Then she decided she was going to go radical, go for Bernie's voters.

00:19:14.000 And then when she was asked more or less, why should people vote for you over Bernie? She said, look,

00:19:18.900 I love Bernie's policies. I think they're great. Bernie's so terrific, but I'll be better at

00:19:24.760 implementing them. Nobody cares about that. Nobody is going to get behind that candidate. If you're

00:19:31.260 making the argument that you're just Bernie light, if Republicans make the argument that they're

00:19:37.020 Democrats light, then people are going to vote for the real thing. Why do I want this watered down,

00:19:42.780 watered down Bernie Sanders when I can get the real Bernie? Why would anybody vote for some weak

00:19:49.060 Republican who's half a Democrat when they can just vote for the Democrat themselves? Another lane that

00:19:56.340 she didn't pick, which is, people are not really talking about, is that there are two kinds of

00:20:04.320 politicians. There are conviction politicians and convenience politicians. I've been saying this

00:20:09.500 for a long time. Dennis Prager brought it up last night on the backstage. Those are the two,

00:20:14.320 the politicians who believe something, who run for office to do something, to enact a vision,

00:20:19.020 and politicians who just want to be politicians. Now, when you look at the two Democratic frontrunners,

00:20:25.080 it's pretty clear who is who. Bernie Sanders, got to give the guy credit where credit's due. He's had a

00:20:31.380 consistent vision. Joe Rogan called Bernie's vision insanely consistent. I would call it insane as

00:20:38.460 well. Joe Biden doesn't believe in anything. He's changed his opinion on virtually every issue. He

00:20:44.720 doesn't care. He is a cynical view of the world. He has no regard for the truth. He just wants to be

00:20:50.020 a politician. He just wants to be the president. He wants to sit in the Oval Office. So those are the

00:20:54.980 two. And you can pick, right? Actually, both kinds of politicians can be successful. Liz Warren's 1.00

00:20:59.860 trouble is she can't decide. Which is she going to be? She is cynical. She has no regard for the truth.

00:21:06.840 She lies about everything, her upbringing, her getting fired, her child school, all of that.

00:21:14.220 But is she going to be the progressive champion, the fighter power to the people? Or is she going to be 0.95

00:21:19.180 an establishmentarian DC type person who really knows how to work the system? She didn't choose

00:21:25.240 and it was too bad for her. Mike Bloomberg lost everything except for American Samoa.

00:21:32.720 The thing that matters is not Bloomberg's campaign because he's not going to be president.

00:21:36.840 The thing that matters is it shows you how empty a left-wing slogan is. The left is always telling you

00:21:43.160 that people are buying off the White House. They're buying political office in the United States.

00:21:49.180 Mike Bloomberg sure doesn't think so. Bloomberg's candidacy shows you money doesn't actually

00:21:56.280 determine politics in the United States. The guy has spent like $600 million so far.

00:22:02.300 He spent over half a billion dollars on this campaign and he's gotten nowhere other than

00:22:07.840 American Samoa, which he could have just purchased outright for the same amount of money.

00:22:12.320 The left is always prattling on about Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that allowed

00:22:17.440 people to donate to candidates, that allowed organizations to donate to candidates, as you

00:22:22.560 absolutely should be permitted to do. They said there's too much money in politics. 0.99

00:22:27.100 Even John McCain, when he teamed up with all the liberals, on one of the occasions that he teamed up

00:22:31.200 with all the liberals, he limited our First Amendment rights to donate to political campaigns.

00:22:35.900 And he said there's too much money in politics. Guess what? Money in politics doesn't go very far,

00:22:39.580 does it? Mike Bloomberg completely flopped. Guy's got all the money in the world. Actually,

00:22:43.660 we've seen this before. We saw this in the 1992 election with Ross Perot. Ross Perot was an

00:22:50.360 independent billionaire who came out, spent a lot, a lot of money, didn't do anything, didn't go very

00:22:54.900 far at all. The enduring image from the day, from the Bloomberg campaign comes out. It is Mike Bloomberg

00:23:02.220 at a table of snacks, reaching and grabbing the snacks, then licking all of his fingers, then reaching

00:23:08.140 back into the snacks. You see this? He looks just like a, he looks like an old retired billionaire,

00:23:14.180 really. He's wearing a sweater, kind of hunched over, doing whatever he wants, licking his fingers

00:23:18.900 like a total psycho, then leaning, then back in, he's touching the coffee thing. Look, man, we got 0.93

00:23:24.400 coronavirus over here. This is not terribly sanitary and it doesn't look good. It doesn't make you look

00:23:29.340 like a leader. So the Super Tuesday leaves Democrats in relatively good shape. With Biden, they have a

00:23:36.340 chance, however small, to beat President Trump. So that's good. I guess they're probably breathing

00:23:42.520 a sigh of relief there. Downside is it's now more likely to be a very, very bloody primary all the

00:23:49.240 way to the convention. Whereas if it were Bernie, it might not have been so bloody because if Bernie

00:23:54.460 actually made it through, he probably would have run away with the thing. Maybe more important than

00:24:01.520 the number of delegates that each candidate got is the number of voters who actually showed up.

00:24:07.880 I think this is going to predict a little bit more than even the horse race of who's winning.

00:24:13.280 Democratic turnout so far in this primary is down. It's down from 2018, which was a midterm election.

00:24:21.700 We were told every, all the Democrats are fired up. They're going to show up. They're going to go out

00:24:26.280 there. Young voters fired up. Young voters barely turned out. NBC was reporting from exit polls,

00:24:31.020 13% of the voters were young. I thought young voters were going to make up the majority. That's

00:24:35.880 what they all told us. Virginia turnout was pretty high. Most other places, very low. At the same time,

00:24:41.320 President Trump is seeing record high turnout for an incumbent. So in New Hampshire, just to use that

00:24:46.100 example, Trump got about 130,000 votes in the Republican 2020 primary. Most people don't even know

00:24:52.900 that there are people running against Donald Trump in the Republican primary, but there are. One guy's

00:24:57.980 name is Bill Weld, a couple other wackos. And Trump, Trump got the voters out. He crushed them,

00:25:04.580 got 130,000 votes. That's more than double what Obama got in 2012 when he was running for re-election

00:25:10.460 and what George Bush got in 2004 when he was running for re-election. The media can't understand this.

00:25:17.580 Okay. They can't understand why Democrats would not be totally fired up, ready to go to the polls

00:25:22.140 for the ouster of President Trump and why anybody would still go vote for Trump.

00:25:28.000 So there was this great moment. It happened on MSNBC where one of the reporters asked a Hispanic

00:25:33.740 man who he was voting for, who his family was voting for, and she didn't get the answer that

00:25:37.840 she liked. We will get to that in a second. But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and

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00:25:54.480 They're really terrific. I've had the privilege of narrating them from the beginning. So season

00:26:00.080 one, we started three years ago. We did it up in Drew's attic, and then it jumped up, became one of

00:26:04.660 the top arts podcasts in the world. Then we got our second and third season out of it. I'm also

00:26:09.520 narrating the audio book, so we're going to go into the studio for that next week. The second

00:26:13.080 book is great. It's called The Nightmare Feast, and this trilogy is really weird in the sense that

00:26:18.960 the first one is good, very popular, sold a lot of copies. People really liked it. The second one

00:26:23.900 is better. The third one is the best of all, but you can't read the third until you read the second

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00:27:04.200 All right. So the media are shocked. They can't imagine that enthusiasm might be a little lower

00:27:09.520 for Democrats. It might actually be pretty high for Republicans. So on Katie Turr's show

00:27:13.860 on MSNBC, she goes in with an interpreter to talk to a man at a Hispanic market, and they

00:27:20.400 ask who they're voting for, who the family's voting for. She gets an answer she doesn't

00:27:24.620 like. You don't see that too much, but it's fascinating. You know, and you know, it's a lot of

00:27:31.620 people. You don't see that too much, but it's fascinating. You know, in Latino community,

00:27:38.620 you're seeing that there's still kind of the stubborn 10 to 15 percent of the population

00:27:45.620 that is going to that continuously polls in favor of Donald Trump. Why do you think that

00:27:50.620 is? You know, at least in my family, I don't know, some folks who are going to vote for

00:27:54.620 law enforcement. Some folks, you know, just really focus on the economy. I don't know what

00:28:18.620 the exact reasons are, but there tends to be that certain conservative slang within the Latino

00:28:25.460 community. I love this. I love his, he's embarrassed. He's embarrassed for his own

00:28:30.080 community. He says, yeah, there's just this really stubborn 15 percent that had votes for

00:28:37.020 Trump and Republicans. I don't get it, right? He asks the guy, he says, wait, who's your daughter

00:28:43.320 voting for? I says, oh, for Trump, for Donald, for Donald. Listen to that familiarity, that first

00:28:49.800 name. And so he said, why? And she goes, she likes him. I don't know. She likes him and the economy is

00:28:57.080 good and whatever. And then this guy, he says, wait, hold on. There's this stubborn group of

00:29:02.580 Hispanics who, I don't know, maybe they work in law enforcement. Maybe they like it when there are laws 1.00

00:29:07.580 and there's, they're a stable country and I guess they like the economy. What a bunch of weirdos. 0.99

00:29:11.660 They don't even understand about the 56 genders. They don't even care about gender theory and 0.99

00:29:17.460 killing babies. They don't, it's like so weird, right? It doesn't make sense. They can't figure 0.94

00:29:21.200 it out. I think most Americans have figured it out. Let's get to a listener question from MJ.

00:29:26.780 Michael, do you think the closer the race is, the more it hurts Biden in the general election

00:29:31.440 because all the Bernie bros will stay home on election day feeling they got cheated? Yes,

00:29:36.160 it's very possible. It's very possible that they will not show up. You know, usually what happens,

00:29:41.560 in bruising primaries is the party comes together, they unite, it's fine. Don't worry about it.

00:29:49.480 The thing that's different about Bernie Sanders, thing that might've been different about Donald

00:29:53.580 Trump too, is they're not regular members of their own parties. I mean, Bernie Sanders is literally not

00:30:01.320 a Democrat and Donald Trump was not a Republican for much of his life. So he got different voters in

00:30:08.980 that usually, you know, the Republicans wouldn't get for Bernie that usually the Democrats wouldn't

00:30:13.040 get. And they just want Bernie. They don't want Biden. They hate Biden. If you look at the vitriol

00:30:18.480 that the, that the Bernie bros have sent at Biden, at Buttigieg, even at Elizabeth Warren,

00:30:23.180 these kind of neoliberal establishment types, I think they'd probably prefer Donald Trump. And I

00:30:28.560 think that's what Trump is thinking. Trump is thinking, yeah, I could win over some of those Bernie

00:30:31.980 guys. And even if I can't win them all over, I can demoralize them enough, or rather Joe Biden is

00:30:37.920 going to demoralize them enough that they'll stay home because they don't hate me all that much more

00:30:42.880 than they hate Joe Biden. In some cases they, they probably prefer him. So you've got this

00:30:50.040 bruising primary that's going on. And that's really what I think the Republicans are hoping for.

00:30:55.840 They're hoping for like the Iran-Iraq war. You don't care who wins. You just want, 0.98

00:30:59.860 you just want mass casualties. Some Democrats have gone from perplexed at this to furious.

00:31:07.560 And one of them is the former head of the Democratic Party, Donna Brazile, who's a contributor

00:31:12.440 on Fox News. She was interviewed on Fox News and she was on with Ronna McDaniel, who's the head of the

00:31:18.280 Republican Party currently. I just did an event with her at CPAC and Ronna is kind of laughing and

00:31:23.740 having a great time at this crazy Democratic primary. And Donna Brazile gets so heated and 1.00

00:31:29.280 she tells the RNC chairwoman to go to hell. First of all, I want to talk to my Republicans. First of 0.94

00:31:36.540 all, stay the hell out of our race. Stay the hell out of our race. I get sick and tired, Ed and Sandra,

00:31:44.040 of listening to Republicans tell me and the Democrats about our process. First of all, they don't have a

00:31:50.300 process. They're canceling primaries. They have winner take all. They don't have the kind of

00:31:56.560 democracy that we see on the Democratic side. And for people to use Russian talking points to sow 0.86

00:32:02.140 division among Americans, that is stupid. So, Ronna, go to hell. This is not about, no, go to hell. 1.00

00:32:09.920 I'm tired of it, Ed. We're not, we're not trying to prevent anyone from becoming the nominee. I know

00:32:17.000 the process. Ronna knows the process. But to infer that we're trying to prevent one candidate over

00:32:24.000 another, that's not happening. Okay. First of all, that's not what infer means. I know there are other

00:32:30.500 big aspects of this, this interview, but this is the first thing that jumped out at me. She means

00:32:36.140 imply. Imply is when you are saying something and that has an insinuation. And infer is when you are

00:32:42.820 deducing something from what you've heard. Just a minor point to show you that Donna Brazile doesn't 1.00

00:32:47.720 know what she's talking about on a whole host of things because she's being very dishonest in this 0.93

00:32:52.680 clip. She, she says that the Democrats are not trying to steal this election from anybody.

00:33:00.000 They are. They don't want Bernie to be the nominee. That's why they all coalesced

00:33:05.560 behind Joe Biden after South Carolina. That's why they didn't even wait until Super Tuesday.

00:33:12.240 But it's not just that they're trying to steal it from him now. The way that I know that Donna

00:33:15.680 Brazile is lying about this is she personally tried to steal the election, the nomination from 0.95

00:33:23.420 Bernie Sanders in 2016. Personally, there was a democratic debate and Donna Brazile passed debate

00:33:30.640 questions along to Hillary Clinton. Down in Brazil, head of the DNC, goes on cable news a lot,

00:33:39.300 hands it to the candidate. So yes, she is certainly stealing it from them. And then just think about

00:33:45.240 how rude it is. Think about how unseemly it is to go out there and say, hey, you go to hell. This is 0.99

00:33:52.680 dumb. This is stupid. This is right. They criticize Trump for being mean and for being crass and for being 1.00

00:33:58.080 vulgar. That's very vulgar behavior. That's just as bad as anything that Donald Trump has done.

00:34:04.540 But the left is always projecting onto others what they themselves do. And then when occasionally

00:34:09.140 Trump actually fights fire with fire, gives them a taste of their own medicine, they're shocked.

00:34:13.240 They clutch their pearls. The fury that you're seeing from Donna Brazile there is genuine, I think. I think

00:34:19.860 it is representative of what the Democratic Party is feeling right now. I think they feel lost because

00:34:25.860 even though they dodged a bullet with Bernie last night, he didn't run away with Super Tuesday,

00:34:29.900 they're in for a very bruising primary process. And their front runner, Joe Biden,

00:34:35.460 is simply past his prime. Okay, Joe Biden is in his late 70s. He was not always quick on his feet,

00:34:43.180 even in his 40s or 50s. He's been in the government for about 50 years. That's not a great look when you

00:34:50.880 look at somebody like President Trump. If you're trying to beat the president, this is a guy who

00:34:56.060 he jokes. He says, do I think Joe's too old? I don't know, but I'm young and vibrant. I've got

00:35:00.620 a lot of energy. I mean, Trump has the energy of a guy who's half of his age and Joe Biden does not.

00:35:05.620 He's got the energy of a guy who's double his age. So I think they're really furious.

00:35:09.080 The cream of the crop candidates did not show up in 2020. That might be because they're writing off the

00:35:13.760 year and they're going to try to regroup for 2024. In any case, a fine night for Democrats,

00:35:20.940 but a finer primary season for Republicans. Speaking of corrupt Democrats, misunderstanding

00:35:28.040 the world, there is a little reported on story here that I thought was so indicative

00:35:33.780 of the kind of left-wing worldview. So you remember Katie Hill. Katie Hill is that 0.83

00:35:38.920 Democratic congresswoman who had the thruple. She was the one who was married, but then she was 1.00

00:35:44.440 taking weird nude photos with her staffer and combing her hair. And it was just like yucky. 0.74

00:35:49.680 It's just not cool. And then she was, she had relationships with other staffers and it was

00:35:53.060 just very, very creepy and weird. So, so Katie Hill does all of this. Then it's found out,

00:36:00.100 right, that she's sleeping with her staff and doing sort of things that if a Republican did it, 1.00

00:36:04.480 they'd be run out of town and probably prosecuted. But Katie Hill does it. She's a Democrat. 1.00

00:36:08.560 And the media conspire to paint her as a victim somehow. She's sexually harassing all of her 1.00

00:36:14.600 staff, but she's the victim. And there's a lot of evidence that they were actually planning this

00:36:19.980 all out together, the media and Katie Hill. So there is now a piece trying to rehabilitate her

00:36:24.500 image. This piece is out in the cut, you know, so left-wing outlet. And it gets to, I don't even

00:36:34.240 really care that much about Katie Hill. She can have whatever career she wants. It gets to a problem 0.99

00:36:38.260 with the way the left views life and views the world. This is how it goes.

00:36:43.000 By mid-2019, Hill was thriving in her new role in Congress. She'd begun a romantic relationship with

00:36:49.120 Alex Thomas, a political writer she met in DC. In August, they went on a beach vacation together.

00:36:56.060 There was this overwhelming sense then that like, this is perfect, she said. I feel so happy and I

00:37:02.480 feel like I've accomplished so much and I'm doing this important work. And like, it can't really get

00:37:07.920 better than this. And maybe this is the point that I should just check out, right? Check out meaning

00:37:14.400 kill herself. She's married, by the way, and she's on this vacation with a guy who's not her husband. 0.99

00:37:20.040 Goes on. She said she stared at the ocean and thought of The Awakening by Kate Chopin,

00:37:25.120 a feminist novel from the turn of the 20th century in which a dissatisfied wife and mother

00:37:31.440 commits suicide by drowning. Wow, very romantic, dramatic scene.

00:37:39.200 Katie Hill contemplated suicide. Very sad sort of thing. I hope she doesn't do that. I hope she

00:37:46.100 comes to her senses. What's most disturbing about this though is not even that she contemplated suicide.

00:37:52.280 It's that she didn't contemplate suicide when things were going really, really poorly.

00:37:58.440 She contemplated suicide when things were going really, really well. She said, she writes,

00:38:04.800 I just felt so happy. I feel like I've accomplished so much. I'm doing this important work.

00:38:09.860 So it can't really get better than this. So maybe this is the point I should just kill myself. 0.99

00:38:15.260 She thinks of suicide as a way to celebrate how well things are going. 0.91

00:38:20.340 And look at this important, she said, I'm doing all this important work. But if you're doing all

00:38:25.240 this important work, this work that you think is really important, why would you kill yourself?

00:38:28.820 That would prevent you from doing the work. Well, we see here that Katie Hill, and I think a lot of 1.00

00:38:36.460 leftists view their work this way. What's important about the work is not the effect it might have on

00:38:42.320 other people. What's important to her about the work is how it makes her feel. It's all just about her.

00:38:48.480 The work makes me feel so good. And pleasure is all that I want. This is what happens to a mind that

00:38:55.020 is warped by selfishness, is pleasure becomes the most important thing to attain. And if you look at

00:39:02.840 the personal scandals Katie Hill has had, you see that she's clearly lived her life that way. 1.00

00:39:07.920 Pleasure is the most important thing, and you have to sacrifice everything, including your own life,

00:39:13.860 on the altar of pleasure. She said, I just want to feel good. I just write, I mean, if you look at

00:39:21.880 this in the sort of sexual realm, you say, oh good, I've got this one sexual partner, that's good. Maybe

00:39:26.520 two would be better. Maybe three would be even better than that. And if you look at this in the

00:39:31.940 span of a lifetime, you say, gosh, I never want to suffer. I never want to go through pain. I never want

00:39:36.980 to complete the work that I'm saying is so important. Because if I complete the work, I will risk

00:39:41.020 discomfort. And that would be unthinkable, unimaginable to possibly suffer at all.

00:39:46.420 So instead, I'm going to just find the exact moment when my pleasure levels are exactly at the

00:39:51.700 highest, and then end it. That's really perverse. I mean, suicide is a purely selfish act. And

00:40:01.040 that's true even if you're in great pain and you commit suicide. That's a purely selfish act.

00:40:07.020 But think about how much more disturbing it is. How much more perverted your worldview has

00:40:12.080 to be. How much more selfish you have to be to contemplate that because things are going 0.91

00:40:18.300 too good and you don't want them to get any worse. Really perverse stuff, but that's what

00:40:24.040 happens when your worldview just goes off kilter. Before we go, speaking of worldviews going off

00:40:28.740 kilter, I've got to get to the T-Swift music video. The news cycle's been so insane, we haven't

00:40:33.280 had any time to get to it. But Taylor Swift has a new video out. It's called The Man,

00:40:39.000 I think. And in it, Taylor Swift very disturbingly puts on all these prosthetics and looks like

00:40:43.760 a man and then sings about how terrible men are and how it would be so much cooler if she

00:40:50.280 were a man. I would be complex. I would be cool. They'd say I played the field before I found

00:40:57.860 someone to commit to. So she's got the suit on. She's being a big jerk. She's ripping 1.00

00:41:04.320 up things in the office. So then she's sitting on the subway dressed like a man with her legs 0.96

00:41:24.000 spread smoking a cigar, which is actually the way that I ride the subway. If I were a man,

00:41:35.600 then I'd be the man. That's the, that's the thesis. And at one point, she, he is urinating

00:41:43.480 on the wall of a subway. They're right. This guy's a real jerk, huh? This guy's a real jerk. There are

00:41:49.700 so many problems with the logic of this video. First, the first one has to do with the thesis.

00:41:54.960 If I were a man, then I'd be the man. Because that doesn't paint, paint a very flattering portrait

00:42:02.540 of Taylor Swift. She's saying, if I were a man, then I would be the man. She's saying all these

00:42:08.160 terrible qualities associated with this guy that I'm describing, I have all of those qualities,

00:42:13.620 but because I'm a woman, they reflect really poorly on me. But if I were a man, they would reflect

00:42:18.860 really good on me, right? If I were a man, I'd be the man. So she's saying she's promiscuous and a 1.00

00:42:23.020 jerk because that's how she's depicting the man in this video. And of course, in reality, that's, 1.00

00:42:27.780 that's not the way it's worked out. In reality, Taylor Swift is portrayed in a very flattering way.

00:42:32.840 And the man in this video, the stereotypical man in that video is portrayed in a very negative way,

00:42:37.480 including by Taylor Swift. The second problem here, she undercuts her whole thesis by showing

00:42:45.320 that she wouldn't be the man, right? The whole thing is if I were a man, people would love me

00:42:52.620 for being a big jerk and urinating on subways and smoking cigars and, and opening, and smoking cigars 1.00

00:42:57.940 in people's faces and opening my legs and just being a yelling at people. But she's showing she 1.00

00:43:03.940 wouldn't, she wouldn't be the man then because people don't like those things. And the way we know

00:43:07.620 they don't like those things is she's using all of them to create a negative portrait,

00:43:13.240 an unflattering portrait. So she wouldn't be the man. The third problem with the logic of this video

00:43:19.300 is my favorite one, which is that by the logic of the left, she could be a man. She, maybe she is a

00:43:27.320 man. I like by the, by the current gender theory logic that is embraced by the mainstream left.

00:43:33.540 If you are a woman and you want to be a man, you just can be, or then you are. If you put on a suit 1.00

00:43:40.140 and you know, you put on a tie. Yeah. Then you're a man. If you say you're a man,

00:43:46.200 then you are a man. So why not just be a man? The video is undercutting, of course, this whole logic

00:43:52.980 of gender theory, which is that there's no such thing as gender. And of course, if you're going

00:43:57.620 to make a commentary on men or women, then you can't really go along with the gender theory that

00:44:01.720 there's no such thing as men or women, or that men can be women and vice versa.

00:44:04.720 Not a very logical video. What it is, is an emotional cry. It's an emotional temper tantrum.

00:44:14.340 And it comes from a place of selfishness. It's Taylor Swift saying, life's not fair to me. I'm

00:44:19.060 a woman. Taylor Swift is incredibly wealthy, incredibly hot, incredibly successful. She can 1.00

00:44:26.640 do whatever she wants in life. She has had, she's got one of the most privileged lives on earth,

00:44:32.780 but it's not enough. You got to complain. That's what happens in a culture where everyone is just

00:44:38.780 whining for more, more, more and me, me, me, whether it's a T Swift or Katie Hill or, or the

00:44:44.920 fury that we're seeing in the democratic primary. That's our show. We got a whole lot more, but we'll

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Ep. 505 - Joe-mentum

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