Ep. 600 - Rewriting Reality At The DNC
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Andrew Cuomo is writing a book about leadership during the coronavirus pandemic, which doesn t make a whole lot of sense, but apparently that's just fine with the publishers. And Andrew Cuomo was one of the headliners of the Democratic National Convention last night.
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Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, is writing a book about leadership during the COVID-19
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Andrew Cuomo, whose policies are responsible for killing thousands of senior citizens,
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writing a book on how to lead during the coronavirus, which I will read just after I finish Harvey
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Weinstein's new book on relationships and Jeffrey Dahmer's book on nutrition.
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American Crisis Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic is hailed by its publisher
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as a remarkable portrait of leadership during crisis and a gritty story of gut-wrenching
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choices that point the way to a safer future for us all.
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Gut-wrenching choices like, hey, should we kill all of those elderly people or not kill
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And he, I don't know, I disagreed with the choice that Cuomo made, but apparently that's just
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Cuomo was one of the headliners of the Democratic National Convention last night.
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Cuomo genuinely was one of the best that they've got.
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That does not bode very well for the Democrats in November.
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My favorite comment from yesterday from John Egan.
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When AOC said, I have been thinking, well, we know that's a lie.
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Right off the top, you know, politicians are supposed to be able to persuade you.
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But when AOC opens a statement with, I have been thinking, we just know that anything that's
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Just staring reality in the face and then putting up that middle finger.
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That's what Andrew Cuomo is doing by publishing this book on leadership.
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The key theme to the Democratic National Convention has been trying to seem like they don't hate
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The Democrats have spent the last six months burning the American flag, burning America,
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burning the country to the ground, toppling statues of George Washington, talking about
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what a terrible country this is and always has been, publishing huge stories in the New
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York Times about how America is racist and terrible.
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Then you get to November and they say, oh gosh, maybe that's not, not a great way to win an
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So the theme of the convention is we, the people, as if they gave two cares in the world
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about the constitution and the, the theme has been patriotism.
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So Andrew Cuomo gets up there and he talks about just how much he loves America.
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Joe Biden is what I call America tough, tough in the best way, tough that is smart, united,
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Donald Trump, he's chased that soul away, but we got to restore the soul of America.
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Restore the soul of America sounds in a way like make America great again, doesn't it?
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America used to be great, used to have this wonderful quality.
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Now it's not there anymore, but we're going to bring it back.
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That's a very different tune than Andrew Cuomo was singing year, year and a half ago when
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he said explicitly, accidentally what he actually thinks, which is that America is a great
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We all knew that the democratic elites felt this way, right?
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Look at the curricula in schools and colleges for the last decades.
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Look at what they say when they're being honest on the campaign trail.
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But even that crowd that was there for Andy Cuomo, they cheered when he said America was
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And so the problem for the DNC right now is their base hates the country, but they need
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to convince middle America, you know, all those people in the center, the moderates, the suburban
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housewives that, that they don't hate America and it doesn't really work.
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So Cuomo pretends to love the country that we can play the old clips though, right?
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She is, uh, very opposed to, to much of what we cherish in this country.
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She's so radical, but the DNC did because they had to, because Linda Sarsour explained
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the central tension of the DNC for the past couple of nights.
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The democratic party is not perfect, um, but it is absolutely our party in this moment.
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Something tells me, first of all, what, who is, who is Linda Sarsour referring to as we?
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She's not referring to Democrats because she's making a distinction between her and the Democrats.
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If you have ever heard anything this woman's ever said, you realize she doesn't identify
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Frankly, I'm not even saying she's referring to Islamists or any of that.
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I think Linda Sarsour is essentially a far leftist.
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She once explained that she only put the hijab on because before she wore the hijab, she was
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just another white woman in New York, which gets into a whole other discussion about identity
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politics and how Arabs and Middle Easterners used to be considered white, but then tried
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to create this separate identity group, all, all presuming that there's such a thing as
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If there's such a thing as white privilege, why would you try to distinguish yourself from
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In any case, that's a discussion for another time.
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I'm sure they'll be having it at the DNC all night tonight.
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So does a lot of the country belong to the far left at this point.
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So the Democrats can't be that honest about it.
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They've got to give these radicals a little bit of airtime here at the DNC because they
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know their base likes that and they're now beholden to the far left.
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And we've got our liar in chief over here, right back to Andrew Cuomo.
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The European virus infected the Northeast while the White House was still fixated on China.
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We can put our differences aside and find commonality.
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Government can tell the truth and can build trust.
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We can judge by content of character rather than color of skin.
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We can care for one another, that Americans can work together and forge community and a
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That of course we will wear masks because we are smart and because I care about you and
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Of course we will socially distance because staying away shows how close we actually are.
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Yes, we will set up testing and tracing and do whatever we need to do to mobilize to win
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And for all the pain and all the tears, our way worked.
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So until we get to that bit at the end, you know, America is the greatest country and all
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Until we get to that, that kind of boilerplate patriotism that Cuomo has been injecting all
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Talk about, you know, the left always hits the right for conspiracy theories, the Q people
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The Democratic Party broadcast in prime time that the virus that we know with 100% certainty
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came from Wuhan, China actually came from Europe.
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Well, because what he's saying is that it's racist.
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The Democrats have all been saying this, that it's racist to refer to the virus as the China
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You shouldn't refer to it with a geographic location, but you can refer to it as European.
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Because you can't be racist against white people is one thing that they would say.
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But then when it comes to affirmative action, they count Asians as white people.
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When you go down the road of identity politics, you don't know where you're going to end up
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and it's certainly not going to make a lot of sense.
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We're going to stay apart so that we can show how close we are.
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We're going to wear masks because we're smart and smart people.
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That's because of all that scientific evidence, you know?
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I'm Andrew Cuomo, great leader during coronavirus.
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The worst part of it, the worst part, sort of the saddest part of his whole oration is
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that he said, we, you know, we believe in the content of your character.
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He's hearkening back to Martin Luther King who says that, you know, one day he hopes that
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his black children can play with white kids and they'll, they'll be judged not by the
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color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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Right after he gets in this ridiculous jab about the China virus and the European virus.
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The phrase judge on the content of one's character doesn't have any meaning in a culture that
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In a culture that doesn't acknowledge objective virtue or the metaphysical soul or a moral
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standard or standards of behavior that we all have to follow in that, in this kind of
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culture that we have, the democratic culture of do, do what you want to do.
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And a man can be a woman and nothing is objective and nothing is true.
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And we have to deconstruct everything and, and, uh, overturn statues in that, in that culture
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where everything's up for grabs, you can't judge someone on the content of one's character
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because that presumes a common understanding of virtue that does not exist, that we do not
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have, and we don't have it because the Democrats destroyed it.
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You hear it, I'm sure the Republicans do it too, but the Democrats do it so much less convincingly.
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When politicians speak, they, they use a construction which is this, not that.
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So let's say like, you know, I like pancakes, not omelets.
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And the thing about it is when, when a hack politician is using this kind of construction,
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you always know the thing they say they're not doing is the thing they are doing.
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And then of course, our liar in chief, Andrew Cuomo with this precise construction.
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We will work to meet our extraordinary challenges because progress is made by the hopeful, not
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And we will do that work together because movements are built by the many, not the few.
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A leader who appeals to the best within us, not the worst.
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A leader who can bring us up, not tear us down.
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And of course, in all of these cases, the thing they're saying they're not doing and
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the things they say they are not are the things that they are and the things that they're doing.
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The, the, the future, you know, the political movement belongs to the hopeful, not the cynical.
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It's like, has there ever been a more cynical person than Tom Perez?
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The DNC is one of the most famously oligarchic organizations in America.
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We need a leader who will bring us together, not divide us.
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Name me a more divisive politician than Andrew Cuomo.
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We need someone who's going to lift us up, not bring us down.
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Andrew Cuomo has got thousands and thousands of senior citizens dead because of his stupid
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And I want to get into in a moment why they think they can lie to you, but just consider
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The Democratic National Convention believed that it was a good idea to send a member,
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a representative to the Native American caucus, the Native American working group.
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Do you know which prominent Democrat they sent to the Native American caucus?
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I, you know, I know that, you know, you know, that I know that, you know, take a listen.
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Well, she, this woman who had to drop out of the presidential race, who was crippled going
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into the presidential race in a way that she never recovered from because she lied about
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being Native American to get better jobs, to advance in her career.
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And then it turned out she's the whitest woman that's ever walked the earth.
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She said, I might be one 1,024th Native American.
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She sent this to the Boston Globe as though that exonerated her.
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That's how much they think they can hoodwink you.
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Now, part of the reason they sent Liz Warren in the Democrats' defense is,
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Name me a prominent Native American Democratic politician at the national level.
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And frankly, the whole Democratic left-wing argument on Native Americans is they're a
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They shouldn't participate in colonial American politics.
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So they're setting themselves up from the beginning, not damn any prominent Native American
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Also, when you divvy up the electorate and you make your entire base, your whole coalition,
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just about ever more narrow identity victim groups, well, then you have egg on your face
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when you don't have a representative for that victim group.
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I mean, you know, the victim groups divide and divide and divide.
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So eventually they're going to run out of people to represent them.
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And then maybe, I don't know, maybe the most egregious lie, the most patently absurd one
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came from a little bit of a blast from the past.
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Bill Clinton, the first president that I remember, you know, going back to some of our childhoods,
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Bill Clinton, who just had photos released yesterday of him receiving a neck massage
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Bill Clinton has a bit of a colorful history when it comes to his personal behavior.
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Went out and lectured Donald Trump about how to comport himself in the Oval Office.
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At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command center.
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His determination to deny responsibility and shift the blame.
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If somebody knows about bucking in the Oval Office, it's me.
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We all know that Bill Clinton got up to no good in the Oval Office.
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When I think of coming into watching the news, you know, for the first time following politics,
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Bill Clinton's personal behavior in the Oval Office would probably be at the top of the list.
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But he can do it, just like he did it in the 90s.
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I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
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And then like five minutes later, he has to go back on TV, stare at the same TV camera.
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He goes, all right, I might have had some sexual relations with that woman.
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The Clintons, probably the most famous shameless liars in the country.
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And they defined the Democratic Party for decades.
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Does Bill Clinton really define the Democratic Party anymore?
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They may have wanted to have a voice of relative moderation.
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It's unbelievable when you think of Bill Clinton's personal behavior that he is a voice of moderation.
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But he is in today's Democratic Party, which has shifted so far to the left.
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It is certainly no longer the party of Bill Clinton.
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And they're trying to cobble together this coalition of people who all share a similar kind of ideology.
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They do have a hard time holding their coalition together.
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The Democrats feel they can lie because no one holds them to account.
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Sure, the Republican Party is going to call them out.
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Shows such as this one are going to call out the lies and point out what they're saying that just isn't true.
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But more broadly in the culture, they're not going to get called out by Hollywood.
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Speaking of Bill Clinton, you ever see the movie The American President by Aaron Sorkin?
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It takes the story of Bill Clinton, a degenerate adulterer who doesn't believe a damn thing, who blows in the wind and all he wants is vanity and power.
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Bill Clinton turns him into the most wonderful man, caring, unfairly targeted by the right, rewrites aspects of his bio.
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There are all these kind of things to make him seem sympathetic.
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Obviously, the press are behind him, lower education, higher education, big tech, everybody.
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Big tech seemed like they were suppressing that photo of Bill Clinton yesterday until it got so ridiculous they had to let it come up on social media.
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They lie because there is no institution in this country that holds them to account with any success.
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The one chance we have is occasionally Republicans win elections.
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Very rarely that matters so that they can do things in there.
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And sometimes a conservative commentator will get a word out before the censors come in.
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And so they're going to lie to you and they're going to gaslight you.
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I mentioned earlier that the phrase content of your character doesn't have any meaning in this culture.
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Part of that is because we don't have an objective standard of virtue.
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Part of that is we don't have an objective standard of communication.
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When you communicate with somebody, that presumes that there is objective truth outside of the two of you.
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And that you are using words and letters and symbols to refer to that objective truth.
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So even though you might have different perspectives, you're still at least talking about the same thing so you can have a conversation.
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At a philosophical level, they don't believe in that.
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They believe in forcing your vision of America through tyranny of the will.
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They believe in intersectionality, where the only reality is my lived experience and my oppression.
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That's why you always hear them say, you can't talk about that.
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You can't describe the black experience in America if you're white.
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Now, for some reason, we, the Democrats, can explain everyone's experience.
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But in that framework, there's no conversation to be had.
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We talked yesterday about ways the left is trying to steal the election.
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This is much less a fine debate in your garden or a gentlemanly election than it is a bare-knuckle brawl.
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That's what the Democrats were signaling yesterday at the DNC.
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Beyond the political realm, beyond the DNC, which I can't believe I've got to watch for
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another night tonight, what I do for you people.
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It was a slide from a Goodyear Tires employee presentation.
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Here is what the slide lists as acceptable expression.
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Black Lives Matter or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender pride.
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Those are the two things listed under acceptable.
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MAGA attire or politically affiliated slogans or material.
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Anything even remotely patriotic or conservative, unacceptable.
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I mean, just these blue, you can't say that you support cops.
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You can't even support the expression, make America great again.
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Or you got to say America was never that great.
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Just like Andy Cuomo said when he was being slightly more honest.
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I think conservatives are finally waking up to something that they did not understand for decades.
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For decades, conservatives in the Republican Party carried water for corporate America.
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They shilled for giant transnational corporations with no loyalty to their own country, no sense of honor or virtue.
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They bought into this BS kind of silly Ayn Rand argument from the 1980s that all that matters is money and we've got to worship money and any sense of solidarity as our country, any sense of respect for our founding ideals and our founding fathers and for the common good is somehow un-American.
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Go back and read the writings of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, go back and George Washington, go James Madison, I mean we can list all the founders, go read Abraham Lincoln.
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The common good, virtue, loyalty, patriotism, solidarity with our fellow citizens.
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When you go back and read the founding fathers, it doesn't read like an Ayn Rand novel.
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It doesn't read like some bad Russian novelist, okay?
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We've got to come back to a sense of what this country is.
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That doesn't mean we have to throw out capitalism.
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That doesn't mean we have to hate businesses all of a sudden.
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But it does mean that we've got to get our priorities in order.
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We have to, we have a right, we the people, to assert ourselves in politics.
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And if you're not going to do that and you're a corporation, I don't want anything to do with you, okay?
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Goodyear, by the way, has not confirmed that this was them.
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Seems to me like if this weren't their slide, they would have denied it right away.
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On this point, I think there are some people, there have been some kind of more libertarian Republicans
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who are afraid that the moment we start talking about patriotism or the common good or national borders
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or anything like that, that we're going to throw capitalism out the window.
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The thing that is most imperiled, capitalism, private property, is our lack of patriotism,
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our lack of a sense of the common good, our lack of going back to our founding fathers.
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The Democrats are telling that to you, not just in private conversations.
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DNC panelists are explaining to the Youth Council of the Democratic National Committee
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Ditching capitalism, ditching private property goes hand in hand with ditching a sense of our common good
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and our common tradition and our common political founding.
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Democrats used to mock Republicans for saying things like that as hysterical or some crazy fever dream.
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At this Youth Council of the Democratic National Committee, which is all being live streamed now,
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the future we all want, that we're trying to build, involves the destruction of capitalism and a lot of other things.
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We understand that this future that we all want, that we're all trying to build, really is about the destruction of colonization, white supremacy, and capitalism.
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We must really move away from these systems and these frameworks if we really want to live in a future that does have a regenerative economy and does enable liberation and equity for our communities.
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And this is definitely something that we all want to push forward.
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And so our hope and our dream is that we do push forward Green New Deal.
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And then they list all the other nonsense they want.
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Well, first of all, it shows us that the Green New Deal really is about destroying capitalism, right?
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Again, AOC denied this when we pointed it out when she first proposed the Green New Deal.
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It's the key into understanding what they mean.
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Because she says, we want to get rid of colonization and white supremacy and capitalism.
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Now, I think some people who aren't paying very close attention, they say, well, okay, I don't particularly care for colonization.
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I'd be happy to give that back to Spain so that Democrats don't make it a state and steal the Senate.
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What they mean by colonization is America itself.
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They refer to this as occupied land all the time.
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They say America stole the land, which isn't true.
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They say that America has no right to be on this land.
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Are the Comanche going to give it back to the Apache that they stole it from?
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When they say we're anti-colonization, what they mean is they're anti the American nation state.
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You hear Democrats sometimes say, make America Mexico again, talking about the land that used to be Spanish that we then took.
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The land that maybe they used to be French that we then bought.
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They're referring to the borders of our country, American sovereignty.
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When they say we don't want colonization, what they mean is we want open borders and no American right to rule.
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And to totally overturn the idea that we the people have the right to rule ourselves in this country.
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Well, according to the left, everything is white supremacist.
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According to the left, you've just seen this come out from major left-wing institutions.
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The idea that now Western art is white supremacist.
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The idea that Western literature is white supremacist.
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You've got to decolonize the English departments, according to campaigns at major American universities.
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According to the left in recent days, critical thinking is white supremacist.
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They've been releasing flyers about this sort of thing.
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What they're referring to is our civilization, which is not exclusively white, right?
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Western civilization is the only civilization in the world that hasn't defined itself primarily racially.
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I don't think that Eastern civilizations are particularly multicultural, but the West has embraced multiculturalism in its kind of desiccated modern form for many decades now.
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And in a truer form from the very beginning, because there is neither Jew nor Greek nor bond nor free, but all are one in Christ Jesus.
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To them, that's what they mean by white supremacy.
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Sean King, a BLM activist, said it the other day.
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Said, yeah, we've got to smash statues of Jesus because it's white supremacy.
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They want to destroy the American nation state.
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They want to destroy Christian, Christendom, Western civilization.
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By capitalism, they mean private property rights.
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Capitalism, the word is frankly a sort of Marxist creation.
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But what it's referring to in this broad sense they're using it as is private property.
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Now, that's not a great pitch to the American people, is it?
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You see this reflected in some of the poll numbers.
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Most incredibly, Joe Biden's poll numbers are going down, even during a convention.
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The whole point of the convention is so your poll numbers go up.
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But I've got a secret poll number, a secret data point that I haven't mentioned before on this show.
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You know that a few years ago, three years ago now, I did this blank book called Reasons to Vote for Democrats, a Comprehensive Guide.
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This was initially blurbed by our own Ben Shapiro, who referred to it as Thoreau.
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It was then blurbed by the President of the United States, who referred to it as a great book for your reading enjoyment.
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It's got an extensive bibliography, and then it's got completely blank pages.
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I sold a lot of copies when this thing came out.
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I still sell a lot of copies of that book because the Democrats keep doing crazy things.
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So I usually sell about 100, 200 copies a week.
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Do you know how many copies of this book sold last week?
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Over 3,100 copies, which is a high number even for a brand new book that's selling well.
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We're not running ads, really, or anything like that.
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Andrew Cuomo and AOC and Elizabeth Warren and Tom Perez and the Democratic National Convention.
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Because you can order the book secretly, right?
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Maybe you give it to a friend or something like that.
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I'm very skeptical of the polls going into this election.
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Because if you got a phone call right now from some stranger and said,
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Hey, are you a white supremacist, bigot, Nazi, who's voting for orange Hitler and mango Mussolini?
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Any of the nonsense you're saying doesn't bother me.
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If at Goodyear, you are at risk of losing your job if you wear anything even vaguely supportive of the president
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or say anything even vaguely supportive of the president, you're probably going to keep your mouth shut, right?
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But what about the only poll that counts in November?
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I think, I mean, I use the book kind of as a funny example of this.
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But I think there are hidden data points here that show you where the country is really, really moving.
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I don't think the Democrats are helping themselves at all during this DNC.
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And so in order to reach across the aisle, in order to try to grab some of those moderates, some of those suburban housewives,
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they had a handful of squishy Republicans, some of whom, most of whom no one even remembers.
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Because you've got to ask yourself, has Trump lost any votes?
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And a lot of people were skeptical of him then.
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The never, never Trump movement has completely collapsed.
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What people are saying is it's the suburban housewives.
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So you want to appeal to these more middle of the road Republicans.
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First up, Meg Whitman, former CEO of HP, who ran unsuccessfully for some political offices.
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A woman that basically nobody remembers at this point.
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Here is Meg Whitman's message to the convention.
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And let me tell you, Donald Trump has no clue how to run a business, let alone an economy.
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Okay, if Donald Trump has no clue how to run a business or an economy, how come we've all heard of him, we all know him, he's the most powerful man in the world, and very few people remember you?
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If he, last time I checked, the Trump organization is doing better these days, is much more prominent in the public imagination than Hewlett Packard.
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I don't even know the name of this company that she currently runs.
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She's a lifelong staunch Republican who's in favor of open borders, who's against marriage, and who's pro-abortion.
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Not like the real conservatives, like open borders, anti-marriage, pro-abortion Meg Whitman, right?
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Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey a thousand years ago.
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Here's Christine Todd Whitman's invective against President Trump.
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My parents were introduced at a Republican National Convention by their parents.
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A person decent enough, stable enough, strong enough to get our economy back on track.
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A person who could work with everyone, Democrats and Republicans, to get things done.
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I've been a Republican so long, my grandparents were Republicans.
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And they introduced my parents who are Republicans.
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Oh yeah, against marriage, pro-abortion, and pro-partial birth abortion.
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This monster, this, this woman supports a policy that would allow you to partially give birth and then kill the infant.
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But in 1999, Whitman, when she was, when she was governor, vetoed a bill that outlawed partial birth abortion.
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So if you're a Republican who's going to vote for Joe Biden, you're siding with those principled conservatives like the ones who support partial birth abortion.
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John Kasich, whose father was a mailman, if, in case you had forgotten.
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He was a somewhat prominent 2016 contender for president on the Republican side.
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A choice we make as individuals and as a nation.
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About which path we want to take when we've come to challenging times.
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If you just took John Kasich by himself, that would be very lame.
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But John Kasich referring to crossroads while standing at a crossroad.
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I was waiting for him to say, America's come to a fork in the road.
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Or he just got there and he just started turning himself around.
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You know, I'm not going to subject you to listening to the rest of his ridiculous oration.
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All it boils down to is Donald Trump was mean to me.
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Because for these people, even Kasich, Kasich is the worst one.
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Because Kasich actually had a pretty good record in his early political career.
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But somewhere along the way, he got to a, he got to a fork in the road and he took, he took the wrong path.
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You know what happens at crossroads, by the way?
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I don't know if any of you are blues music aficionados.
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You know, people meet, people tend to meet the devil at crossroads, okay?
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And that would, that would seem to be what's happening here.
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Because for these people, I mean, maybe John Kasich used to be about something real.
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Politics is not about supporting our cherished institutions.
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Politics is not about rolling back this awful tide of leftism.
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It's not about pushing back against this anti-constitutional administrative bureaucracy that's taking our political power away from we the people.
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It's just about being the governor, being the congressman, being the president.
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There are some people who have the audacity to refer to themselves as principled conservatives.
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Who are siding with these hacks because they say Trump's not a real conservative.
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Trump is the most conservative politician of my lifetime.
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Not in any traditional, you know, not, not in any, you know, past 30, 40 years since.
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But in what he's doing in his political vision.
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Much more conservative than any of these hacks.
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I don't think they're going to convince anybody though.
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I don't think they're going to get, get anybody to actually go over because Christine Todd Whitman told them to.
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They, they drag these people in front and say, I'm a lifelong rock-ribbed Republican.
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They'll have Andrew Cuomo come out there and say, we love America.
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They're going to push these lies on you just like they've been pushing a lot of lies, especially for the last five months.
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The only question of this election is going to be, do we let them get away with it?
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I don't think this election is going to be about persuading people or convincing anybody, which is what elections should be about.
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I think this is going to be a bare knuckle brawl over tactics.
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One, can they hoodwink you because they own the, the mainstream media, because they own the, the apparatuses and the institutions.
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And then are they going to be able to steal it at the mailbox, which is, which is the big political operation that's currently underway.
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I hope that the RNC goes out, does a live convention or at least a partially live convention.
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It might be too late for that, but they should.
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But this infomercial DNC thing is such trash, it's so pathetic, that if we went out there, showed a little life, I think that could rev up the base.
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But then on the operational front, you've got to make sure that you don't let what, what Drew Klavan would call the empire of lies.
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You don't let this, this desiccated, dishonest edifice that gaslights you at every turn get power again.
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Because if they're shameless now, when they're sort of out of power, imagine what it'll be if they take power back again in November.
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