The revolution comes to an end as Bernie Sanders drops out of the race. Or has he? We examine the strange and unconvincing way Bernie suspended his presidential campaign, and try to figure out whether or not there is a future for the Sanders campaign.
00:06:51.280But he's dropping out without really dropping out.
00:06:53.740He's dropping out while still trying to have a lot of influence at the convention.
00:06:58.480In any case, no matter what Bernie's designs are, it does seem as though his campaign ultimately is over.
00:07:07.380You know, it's headed for destruction.
00:07:09.360Does look as though Bernie's come to the end of the line of his career in American politics, which has now spanned five decades.
00:07:15.920And assuming all of that is true, I would just like to say Bernie Sanders is an anti-American old communist who has campaigned his entire life for an evil ideology that should be rejected by every decent human being.
00:07:31.200Everything Bernie has ever contributed to politics is evil.
00:07:34.600And we are all better off now that his career is over.
00:07:38.360And if I could spit on the grave of his campaign, I would do it.
00:10:16.800You know, he just doesn't really have any principles at all.
00:10:19.080For all of that, it's worth pointing out he's been wrong on just about everything for his also five decade career in politics.
00:10:27.160And a great recent example of this, because you can go all the way back to the 70s and find things he was wrong on.
00:10:33.400But a great recent example is in 2011.
00:10:38.180In 2011, Joe Biden was talking about the rise of China as one of the great geopolitical phenomenons of our lifetime.
00:10:45.580And now, during coronavirus, during the trade war that we just recently had, the role of China is more important than any other role in foreign affairs.
00:11:09.140There was a debate here in the United States and, quite frankly, throughout most of the West, is whether a rising China was in the interest of the United States and the wider world.
00:11:19.420As a young member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I wrote and I said, and I believed then what I believe now, that a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China, but for America and the world writ large.
00:11:34.180Is it possible that Joe Biden could have been more wrong about that?
00:11:40.140Now, he's not the only one who said this.
00:11:41.660A lot of people on the left said this.
00:11:43.400Some people on the right even said that.
00:12:23.900He's been a China first politician in some ways, or at least China on an equal par with everybody else, because a rising China is good for everybody, including the United States.
00:12:35.860This is Joe Biden, by the way, who fancies himself a foreign policy expert.
00:12:39.820We'll get to some additional problems with that in just a second.
00:12:43.000First, I've got to thank our friends over at Wondery.
00:12:46.120You know, now is a great time to be listening to podcasts.
00:12:48.180And one that I really love, I love hearing about the stories of some of America's greatest companies competing against one another.
00:12:56.040And that's why I want to tell you about a weekly podcast from Wondery called Business Wars.
00:13:00.500Each season digs deep into some of the greatest corporate rivalries of all time.
00:13:05.920Think Facebook versus Snapchat or Nike versus Adidas.
00:13:09.580On each episode, you will get an inside look at what has inspired entrepreneurs to take risks that drove their companies to new heights or into the ground.
00:13:19.480And at the end of today's show, after the credits, we're going to play a brief clip from Business Wars season, Starbucks versus Dunkin'.
00:13:28.440In this clip, they will follow these two Java giants in a war that started brewing in the 1950s and is now hotter than ever.
00:13:37.100Coffee is a hundred billion dollar plus global industry with these two duking it out at the top.
00:13:41.720But their battle is about more than coffee.
00:13:43.760So stick around after the show and take a listen to that.
00:13:58.960Joe Biden, dead wrong on just about everything, including his own name, including where he is.
00:14:03.040But don't forget, I mean, I think it's easy to say now, the biggest problem with Joe's campaign is that he's senile and he's not the man he was 10 years ago.
00:14:12.140Even if he were the man he was 10 years ago, he is not the man for this moment.
00:14:29.160They've now infiltrated four of the largest international organizations on earth.
00:14:33.800No other country has come to dominate even more than one of them.
00:14:38.300And so China's made a big effort this way.
00:14:40.240One of the organizations that China has taken over is the World Health Organization.
00:14:44.940They've taken over the World Health Organization by installing one of their puppets to run the place.
00:14:51.460And that puppet is now paying off because that puppet is accusing, not so implicitly, Donald Trump of causing more body bags in the coronavirus pandemic.
00:15:02.780And he's saying that if you at all raise any political questions about the World Health Organization, you too are going to be culpable for more death.
00:16:50.740The World Health Organization, which is now a mouthpiece for China, they don't want us to point fingers.
00:16:54.960Come on, we need honest leadership from the U.S. and China, too.
00:16:58.180But really, the U.S., they're being so dishonest.
00:17:00.360Most important thing to understand this statement from the World Health Organization director is that that punk is a propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party.
00:17:12.800Okay, his name is Tedros Adhanom Gebrezius.
00:17:16.560I'm totally mispronouncing that, but whatever.
00:17:20.240He's the World Health Organization director general.
00:17:22.680China worked tirelessly behind the scenes, to quote news reports at the time, to have that guy installed.
00:17:29.440That guy worked before he went to the WHO.
00:17:32.380He worked in the government of the Marxist Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.
00:17:36.960That regime was a notorious regime, notorious for torture, repression, and stealing elections.
00:17:44.120And while this man was the health minister over there, he was responsible for covering up three cholera outbreaks.
00:21:01.200And now WHO says don't politicize the virus.
00:21:04.180They're accusing Trump of filling up body bags because he would have the audacity to question our vaunted Marxist leaders at the WHO and in China.
00:23:35.180It's a very funny joke, right, because I haven't changed my clothes in 10 days, and everyone in here is gay.
00:23:39.900But the point she's making is true as well.
00:23:43.040The point was a setup for a joke, so she should get leeway anyway, but the point she's making is true, which is in part why the joke is funny.
00:24:03.360Okay, and I think the critics of Ellen right now are confused because they think that the defining feature of jail is how nice the beds are,
00:24:10.260or, you know, how big the windows are.
00:24:13.560That's not the defining feature of jail.
00:24:15.080The defining feature of jail is whether or not you're allowed to leave.
00:24:18.920Okay, and increasingly, we are not allowed to leave our homes.
00:24:22.900In L.A., they've just said if you leave your home without a face mask on, you're going to be in trouble with the government.
00:24:28.520In Hamilton County, Ohio, we talked about this one yesterday, there is a prosecutor out there who is charging people with felonious assault if they leave their homes.
00:24:38.220We are, for all intents and purposes, in certain parts of this country, in jail right now.
00:24:43.680And we might be in jail with golden handcuffs.
00:24:46.520We might be in jail with nice, you know, amenities and luxury.
00:24:51.200But it doesn't matter how much luxury you've got if you're not free to leave.
00:24:55.180And so it's a very good point made by Ellen and a pretty funny joke as well.
00:24:59.840And, you know, I think people should just lay off her.
00:25:01.780I think she's saying the right things when a lot of people around here are saying the wrong things.
00:25:07.840Now we've got to get back to Joe Biden because another television personality, Whoopi Goldberg, has made a major faux pas.
00:25:14.560And it just shows you what to expect for the next several months as we plot our way to November.
00:25:20.080However, the fawning, the praise, the absolute ignorance is not just true of Whoopi.
00:25:28.520It's typical of a lot of people on the left.
00:25:31.760Whoopi Goldberg has an idea for the Biden administration.
00:25:34.080The Biden administration, he'll pick his vice president and his cabinet.
00:25:38.060But the surgeon general obviously should be none other than Dr. Jill Biden.
00:25:42.420The word doctor is right there in her name.
00:25:44.240I'm hoping Dr. Jill becomes a surgeon general.
00:29:48.040There were many other people who were skeptical of these models that had us all shut down the entire government.
00:29:53.580And one thing that's worth pointing out here, because what you're going to hear from now until eternity is nobody taking any responsibility here.
00:30:15.440OK, perhaps not the initial models, but all the models we've seen after that were taking into account the measures that the United States was taking.
00:30:23.900The social distancing, the shutdown, the handwashing, the stupid masks.
00:30:27.900It was taking into account all of that.
00:30:29.780OK, and the models were still outrageously hyperbolic.
00:30:34.260Somebody ought to be held responsible for this.
00:30:36.340And I don't even mean to hold the experts responsible.
00:30:38.440The experts are just doing what experts do, which is get things wrong.
00:30:42.260OK, the epidemiologists were just doing what epidemiologists,
00:35:05.360Why can't we have the Green New Deal today?
00:35:08.120The reason why they're saying $6 trillion is that you remember that $2 trillion that we've just passed was actually $6 trillion because the Federal Reserve put in another $4 trillion that they don't have.
00:36:08.860And I mean, this ties in more broadly with the popularity of socialism because there was this very scary study came out about a year ago, which said that over half of young Americans now identify as socialists.
00:40:04.080Do you think this nasty Chinese virus originated from eating bats or from a Wuhan lab from which it accidentally or not accidentally escaped?
00:40:11.860I think that it's very possible the virus began in nature, but I think that there are a lot of ties linking the virus to that laboratory in Wuhan.
00:40:23.620There are a lot of questions about how the bats that were infected could even have gotten to the Wuhan wet market.
00:40:30.280I suspect that the Chinese government played a much larger role in this than people are letting on.
00:40:44.220These days, there's a lot of talk about how, on top of our individual sins, we bear a portion of the collective or systemic sins of our societies,
00:40:51.220like the collective sin of slavery or racism.
00:40:53.700I personally reject this notion, and I think it comes from cultural Marxism.
00:41:16.720But the sins that we commit are our own problems.
00:41:19.540This idea of corporate sin, this idea that, you know, look, I don't need to worry so much about my sins,
00:41:23.940but I am responsible for my great-great-great-great-granddaddy's friend who owned a slave.
00:41:28.760That is, I think, actually another form of pride.
00:41:32.460It's a way of saying, I don't need to focus on my own sins.
00:41:34.720I need to worry about somebody else's sins a long time ago who wasn't me, but I'm such a good person that I'll bear some responsibility for that.
00:41:42.900That's an inversion of the reality of our relationship to sin, and we should focus on the man in the mirror.
00:41:48.880From Jay, most esteemed and knowledgeable knowles, I was raised as a non-believer and became virulently anti-theist.
00:41:55.180But eventually, listening to all of you, as well as other apologists, I came to believe I had been wrong.
00:42:00.500I now consider myself a Christian, but I have not yet chosen a church.
00:42:03.620I hope to choose between the big three, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy.
00:42:07.680What pulled you toward the Catholic Church?
00:42:09.480Was it solely family background, or was there more to it for you?
00:42:12.640No, it was not solely family background.
00:42:14.400I was a cradle Catholic, and then I fell away for 10 years.
00:42:17.620Actually, when I reverted to the church, I was initially attracted by Protestants, by evangelicals, and by Calvinists even,
00:42:25.780and by versions and denominations of Christianity that I don't really agree with anymore, but they helped to bring me in.
00:42:35.080And then I arrived back at the Catholic Church because I think the historical claims of the Catholic Church are true.
00:42:40.220And I found it to be a little strange that virtually every Christian for all of history believed basically the exact same thing until about the 16th century.
00:42:52.680And then even around that time, all the major Protestant thinkers, Martin Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Wesley,
00:43:00.620these guys believed many things that would now be called almost exclusively Catholic.
00:43:05.080For instance, in the perpetual virginity of Mary, which all of them believed.
00:43:10.200And Calvin said there wasn't enough evidence on either side of the question, but they all accepted as possible, if not probable, even back then.
00:45:50.740How does the early embryo mortality and the fact that the design of our bodies seems to not value a fertilized egg fit in with what I believe,
00:45:58.900which is that life begins at conception when a unique set of DNA is formed.
00:46:12.500That doesn't mean it's okay to murder people.
00:46:15.080Because you could just reframe the question and say, you know, I was looking around and I found out that everybody dies.
00:46:19.720So, how do I reconcile my belief that it's bad to murder people with the obvious point that nature doesn't care about that because everybody dies?
00:46:38.160So, there's a difference between the natural fact of our death and decay and the moral question of whether I will hasten that decay and I will attack somebody else.
00:46:49.480I also love that Bill Nye says, he singles out white men for some reason.
00:46:53.380He says a lot of European, men of European descent are passing these laws.
00:46:57.600First of all, 50% of pro-life people are women.
00:47:00.280But Bill Nye is a man of European descent and he's passing, he's saying a lot of things that are coming from ignorance as well.
00:47:08.980So, I would just point out that the facts of the natural world are not prescriptive necessarily in the moral order.