Former interim DNC Chairman Donna Brazile has admitted that my crooked cousin Hillary Clinton rigged the 2016 Democratic Primary. This is really going to hurt Chelsea 2024. Then Candace Owens, Red Pill Black, Alicia Krauss, and Amber Athe join the panel of deplorables as Republicans release their tax plan. Kevin Spacey seeks treatment for sex addiction. And NFL popularity drops so low, it might destroy Papa John.
00:00:44.100This is a tough day for the Knowles-Rodham family.
00:00:47.360As you know, Hillary is my third cousin once removed.
00:00:49.660Donna Brazile, who took over the DNC chair after Debbie Wasserman Schultz was ousted, has publicly accused Hillary of rigging that primary.
00:01:14.640Basically what happened is that Hillary bought off the DNC in exchange for controlling the party's finances, strategy, and all of the money raised.
00:01:23.580They got to decide who the communications director was.
00:01:26.920They had a right of refusal on basically all of the staff hires.
00:01:31.240Hillary bought off the party before she even announced her campaign.
00:01:35.240The reason that Donna Brazile's crocodile tears and her new bombshell revelations in her new book are a little suspect is that I'm old enough to remember seven and a half months ago when Donna Brazile admitted to helping Hillary Clinton rig the election and rig the Democratic primaries.
00:01:52.980In March, in mid to late March, Donna Brazile actually admitted that from her post at CNN she fed Hillary Clinton debate questions before she was debating Bernie Sanders.
00:02:03.680So it's actually more interesting now that we know that because now Brazile is claiming ignorance, saying she called Bernie Sanders and cried.
00:02:15.160She's just as much of a Clinton hack as anybody except for now, not anymore.
00:02:20.900And what that means is that the Clintons are finally, after decades, toxic in the Democrat Party, and even longtime loyalists are running away from them.
00:02:30.560They probably won't be able to inflict Chelsea 2024 on us or some other Chelsea campaign.
00:02:48.160I guess I won't see you in any political positions.
00:02:51.640I won't see you hopefully on TV much longer.
00:02:54.220We'll just have to see each other at the family reunion.
00:02:56.560This is even more embarrassing for Democrats because just today they had to apologize for previously admitting that they would discriminate in their hiring practices.
00:03:08.580So the Democratic National Committee data services manager, Madeline Leder, said that she would discriminate against cisgender straight white males.
00:03:18.740There was this email that came out, and she said, send over job candidates, but no cisgender straight white males.
00:03:45.360Well, my eyes don't lie, buster, so sorry.
00:03:48.680Also, probably more important, but much less fun, the Republicans have unveiled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
00:03:56.180Here is Paul Ryan explaining the plan.
00:03:57.740This plan is for the middle-class families in this country who deserve a break.
00:04:02.720It is for the families who are out there living paycheck to paycheck who just keep getting squeezed.
00:04:08.360You know, about half the country today is living paycheck to paycheck, and a lot more people are about a paycheck away from living paycheck to paycheck in this country.
00:04:16.120And this is going to help give people relief.
00:04:19.220The Tax Cut and Jobs Act will deliver real relief for people in the middle, people who are also striving to get there.
00:04:25.400With this plan, the typical family of four will save $1,182 a year on their taxes.
00:04:35.500For many families, having an additional $1,182 more will make a real difference.
00:04:42.420That $1,182 more covers about a year's worth of gas for your car.
00:04:47.080It covers your family's phone bill for the year, depending on how much data, of course, your kids use.
00:04:51.900That $1,182 more, it can help you pay down your debt faster.
00:04:59.220It can help you start and renovate your home faster.
00:05:02.040That $1,182 more for the average family, that will help you put more money away for college.
00:05:42.780So it's an earnest presentation, but very much in the mold of sincerity and performing and earnestness.
00:05:49.820And, you know, he made a little joke about depending on how much data your children use.
00:05:54.480And that's the sort of joke you're allowed to make, is a completely inoffensive, innocuous joke that no one really thinks is funny, but you all sort of politely laugh at.
00:06:02.080And that was politics until this wrecking ball, this orange wrecking ball, just knocked all of that down.
00:06:09.360And it's hard to watch a speech given with that sort of rhetoric, given in that mode, and not find it disingenuous.
00:06:16.380And I don't think Paul Ryan is disingenuous.
00:06:21.880But that manner of speaking that we saw certainly from every other candidate, from Mitt Romney, from John McCain, from, you know, on and on and on, is gone.
00:06:30.640It seems not dishonest, but it just doesn't ring as true now because you've got a guy like Donald Trump who doesn't put his language through this filter of politics, this filter of decades in Washington.
00:06:48.020It's an interesting linguistic change that I think we should probably thank Donald Trump for because it's much more interesting than, you know, just droning on about data usage from your children.
00:07:02.560That said, it's an excellent proposal.
00:07:05.060So we permanently lower the corporate tax rate to 20 percent.
00:07:09.200It consolidates tax brackets from 7 to 4.
00:07:12.520It eliminates a lot of exemptions and deductions.
00:07:14.720It expands the child tax credit, two new family tax credits.
00:07:19.560Now, one issue that's becoming – getting a lot of pushback on the left and the right is it repeals state and local tax deductions, but they compromise and they preserve a property tax break.
00:07:30.140The reason this is important, it's – you know, it might mean that your taxes go up, which is terrible and frustrating, not to the – only because you're not allowed to deduct state and local.
00:07:41.220But there is a good aspect of this, which is that if you can deduct state and local taxes, then it creates an incentive for your state and local governments to raise taxes because the taxpayer won't feel it on their bottom line.
00:07:54.440So it's a way for the – it's a way to raise taxes without being honest about it, without people realizing it.
00:08:00.040By removing those deductions, then all of a sudden the government is accountable.
00:08:06.960Obviously, we have a massive national debt.
00:08:08.980We've run a lot of deficits, you know, big deficits.
00:08:11.540At the early Obama years, trillion-dollar deficits.
00:08:13.980So it might be a way to address the fiscal problem and the debt problem in D.C. while also making your state and local governments more accountable.
00:08:21.800That said, I don't want my taxes to go up.
00:08:23.840It repeals the alternative minimum tax, which is very good.
00:08:26.720A lot of Republican campaigns even that I've been on and that we heard in 2012 and 2016 said we should have an alternative maximum tax.
00:08:33.520We shouldn't have these minimum taxes that you have to pay.
00:08:36.020And it repeals the death tax, which is very good because the death tax is income that has been taxed possibly three times.
00:08:42.260It's income that's been taxed on the – or rather, it's wealth that's been taxed on the income level and capital gains level.
00:08:48.080And then when you die, they won't even let you get out of this world without taking more money from you.
00:09:24.240Lowering the corporate tax rate is something that conservatives have been pushing for for a really long time.
00:09:28.840As Donald Trump has said repeatedly, we have the highest corporate tax rate among advanced economies.
00:09:34.880They're simplifying the tax code as well.
00:09:36.860They're actually reducing the number of brackets there are in the tax code.
00:09:40.660And there definitely is a conservative case, as you mentioned, for lowering or eliminating the state and local tax deductions because they do primarily benefit states that are willing to raise their taxes, like states like New York and California that have high taxes.
00:09:56.280And, you know, liberals can get on board with that, too, though, because it primarily benefits high-income earners who are primarily the ones that are itemizing their tax deductions to begin with.
00:10:09.760You mean it primarily hits high-income earners?
00:10:13.340Well, they're primarily the ones that are getting the state and local tax deductions.
00:21:48.320The NFL is now so unpopular that it might destroy Papa John.
00:22:03.800It might destroy both Papa John and Papa John's Pizza.
00:22:06.740The CEO of Papa John's, John Schnatter, is blaming his company's dip in share price and his personal loss within 24 hours of $70 million on these ignorant ingrates in the NFL and the leadership of the NFL who refuse to address the problem and allow it to fester and spread throughout the entire league.
00:22:27.420The take a knee protest, declining NFL viewership, Papa John's has been the official pizza of the NFL since 2010.
00:23:26.240The eyeballs that are looking at your commercial during an NFL game and going, hmm, pizza and beer sounds real good about now is definitely going to go down.
00:23:33.140Now, is it entirely because of the NFL's lack of being able to do business well and lack of understanding of who their audience is?
00:23:40.960There could be some other things going on, too, or, you know, that the shareholders are saying something when it comes to Papa John's.
00:23:46.680But I think that it could definitely play a role in how it's negatively affecting his business.
00:23:52.140It's probably negatively affecting a lot of advertisers.
00:23:54.840And that's why you see ESPN really having to shutter lots of their departments and lay off lots of people because advertisers aren't wanting to work with ESPN anymore
00:24:02.440because they're losing 15,000 customers a day.
00:28:47.780There's a good line from Dr. Johnson, which is that, depend upon it, sir, when you know that you're to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates the mind wonderfully.
00:28:55.320So hanging can concentrate the mind, and it might even be likely that you get a clearer view of yourself and eternity as you're about to hang.
00:29:08.100Is it wrong of me to use videos like your video on PragerU about the alt-right to substitute a personal deep dive into their ideology?
00:29:16.600With limited time, it seems that videos like yours or Ben's can sum up the same facts in 30 minutes that I could find reading an entire book.
00:29:30.200That's why we have people who comment on politics or religion or philosophy or whatever is because I don't have time to delve into everything to a deep degree that doesn't consume my profession or my top three interests, let's say.
00:29:44.960So I do it all the time with other things that I don't have time to investigate.
00:29:51.740If you ever have any evidence that I'm not giving a credible account or that my account is either uninformed or dishonest, then go read the books yourselves.
00:30:00.580We haven't seen that kind of blowback on my PragerU video, for instance, so I think it's pretty legit.
00:30:31.240I mean, evil is a big claim, but even that much, and certainly the art of very bad people, can be turned to great effect.
00:30:40.480Even the art of people who have a terrible view of the world, who have an incorrect view of the world, can be good if they're good enough artists.
00:30:46.220I think I got a lot of flack for this movie review I did on Mother, the Aronofsky film that came out a month or so ago, because Aronofsky seems to be kind of a Looney Tunes liberal, big environmentalist.
00:30:59.900He's given interpretations of his own movie, Mother, that are not the interpretation that I would give.
00:31:06.220And nevertheless, if artists are good enough, if they're talented enough, if they're faithful enough to narrative and story, then absolutely, then they're inevitably going to produce art that's worthwhile and beautiful and illuminates something and makes you see something about the world, despite themselves, despite their own best efforts.
00:31:25.220So a lot of times, people will knock on the right, they'll knock Judd Apatow's movies, because people smoke a lot of pot.
00:31:41.820But he's a good filmmaker, and he follows story very well.
00:31:45.040And so if the story shows a true view of the world, then you're going to get something out of it that is beautiful and artistic and probably more in line with how the right views the world than how ideologues view it.
00:32:41.240I always recommend the same books as sort of introductory baseline political philosophy books you should read.
00:32:47.800Burke, Oakeshott, Payne, those kind of people.
00:32:51.160That said, I would recommend one book in particular if a young conservative wants to get a total survey view of the American character.
00:33:01.500That's a book called What So Proudly We Hail, The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song.
00:33:07.600It's by Leon Kass and his late wife Amy Kass and Diana Schaub.
00:33:11.720They were all professors of mine at a think tank program in D.C. and a really illuminating book of political philosophy and literature and speeches that will give you, I think, a good view of the American character.
00:33:25.380You should also watch old Firing Line episodes.
00:33:47.520It's a good historical artifact, and you'll be educated by it too.
00:33:51.260And then constantly discuss issues and your premises and your first principles, not to win debates, not to smash a liberal or anything like that.
00:33:58.420But because if you do that with people on the left, you'll start to learn what is true about your beliefs, what is not quite correct about your beliefs, where you should go and pursue your own intellectual journey and academic journey.
00:34:11.900And we're very lucky as conservatives in this culture because while the entire culture is against us, we have to constantly defend what we think and amend possibly what we think and really hone it down to some reality.
00:34:28.600They are told that whatever they think is right, and the left dominates the universities and dominates Hollywood and dominates so much of our corporate culture.
00:34:36.420So they don't get that, and you have an opportunity, so you should use it.
00:35:54.020Be in awe of God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
00:35:58.960And the reason I recommend awe to you as a compliment to giving glory to God is the world is just, it's the best.
00:36:07.160It is when you are in awe, when you have a moment that Lewis would call the numinous, an experience of a glimmer, of a hint of a reflection of God,
00:36:17.120then it illuminates the entire world and puts your own life in perspective and everything around you in better perspective.
00:36:39.900Well, I'm sorry, she doesn't, but her first cousin that married into my grandfather's mother's family, they go to the reunions.
00:36:45.680And so I really like the idea of the Clintonian privilege because it's analogous to white privilege in that it used to exist, but it doesn't exist anymore.
00:36:55.920So there used to be white privilege in this country.
00:38:21.120Thank you for watching and for observing that.
00:38:23.920I'll just bring up a couple verses that I think throw into light some of this faith versus works pseudo-debate that was happening.
00:38:38.640Jesus said to them, this is from Matthew, I believe.
00:38:40.680Jesus said to them, verily I tell you, very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
00:38:50.460Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
00:38:56.200For my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink.
00:39:00.220Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
00:39:04.740Now, it seems hard to understand this verse without a sacramental view, without realizing that he's describing a sacrament.
00:39:14.760But even if you don't, he is describing you doing something.
00:39:17.580He is describing a work in a certain sense.
00:39:20.200You have to eat of the flesh of him to have life in you.
00:39:23.320You have to drink of his blood to have life in you.
00:39:26.740Another point on this is the Acts of the Apostles.
00:39:30.020That book in the New Testament is not called the Ideas of the Apostles, or the Abstractions of the Apostles, or the Thoughts of the Apostles, or even the Faith of the Apostles.
00:40:06.380And this, I think, gets to a problem in politics, too.
00:40:10.540So I'll expand this beyond just Christianity.
00:40:12.580Our age, because our politics and our country was born in such a great degree out of the Enlightenment, the temptation is to be rationalist about it, as Oakeshott describes rationalism in politics.
00:40:26.960So for the rationalist, Oakeshott says he's always standing.
00:40:58.000It's a neurochemical mechanism that transports ideas and changes ideas.
00:41:02.540So you cannot escape your space and time.
00:41:06.900To do so is to deny a fundamental reality that you are in.
00:41:11.720And so both in our understanding of God and our relationship with God and with the incarnate God, the incarnation of the divine logos, as well as in our politics, you've got to remember you're a person in time and space.
00:41:25.160And when you abstract too much and you stand valiantly, you're not really doing that much.
00:41:33.220I am planning to go to Cuba sometime in January with my cousin and was wondering where you stayed and spent most of your time while you were there.
00:42:00.500I mean, the embargo obviously hampers their economy.
00:42:03.780But for years, the communist thug mafia Castro regime has blamed this trade embargo for all of their woes.
00:42:10.800Well, that doesn't really work for all of the other socialist and communist countries around the world who also have destroyed their own countries, which is what the Castros have done.
00:42:19.140So I suppose it's been an excuse for them, but no one really buys it.
00:42:22.880I was able to see some people in Cuba.
00:42:25.700Obviously, you've got to be a little touchy about this because they live in a totalitarian regime where people can be offed just for speaking ill of the one party.
00:42:35.940So the Cuban people universally hate their government.
00:42:40.900And you don't see Che Guevara t-shirts down there.
00:43:25.600Any way you can give money to the Cuban people or to the Cuban black market rather than the government is a good idea.
00:43:33.160And, you know, I would try to talk to people if you can.
00:43:37.940There's not a lot of English spoken down there, so I don't speak Spanish at all.
00:43:42.120I can sort of understand it because I have Italian and some French.
00:43:44.960But if you really want to speak to people, you'll have to speak Spanish.
00:43:49.340And it'll take a little while before they'll speak ill of their government because the totalitarian regime there is so brutal and so awful that there are real consequences of it.
00:43:59.980So you'll have to be a little patient with that.