Ep. 627 - The Left Knows It’s Losing
Summary
The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are off to an incredible start, and by that I mean they have no credibility whatsoever. And the Democrats, incredibly, are making credibility the issue, beginning with one of the least credible members of the U.S. Senate, Democratic Sen. Dick Blumenthal.
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The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are off to an incredible start.
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And the Democrats, incredibly, are making credibility the issue.
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Beginning with one of the least credible members of the U.S. Senate, Democrat Dick Blumenthal.
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President Trump and the Republican Center are eroding, indeed destroying, that legitimacy.
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They've stripped the American people of their say in this process simply to confirm a justice who will strike down in court,
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legislate from the bench, what they can't repeal in Congress.
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Your participation, let me be very blunt, in any case involving Donald Trump's election would immediately do explosive, enduring harm to the court's legitimacy and to your own credibility.
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Danang Dick Blumenthal is warning Judge Amy Barrett about threats to her legitimacy.
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Dick Blumenthal very famously lied about his service in the Vietnam War.
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Dick Blumenthal very famously called our last Supreme Court nominee a gang rapist.
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Take a listen to what he said when Brett Kavanaugh was up for the court.
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This affidavit sworn under oath with immense detail and corroborating witnesses who will come forward.
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This woman, a survivor of vicious sexual attack, has everything to lose.
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Her livelihood depends on her security clearance.
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If she is found by the FBI to be lying, she loses her livelihood.
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If my Republican colleagues have any sense of morality, they will refuse to go forward on Friday.
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If Judge Kavanaugh is really serious about clearing his name, he should demand an FBI investigation of these detailed, precise, absolutely staggering allegations.
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Shortly after Danang Dick made those comments, by the way, the allegations completely fell apart.
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Those were the Julie Swetnick allegations, which had no basis in reality, no evidence at all.
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And the lawyer who pushed them is now serving hard time for fraud.
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Unfortunately for guys like Dick Blumenthal, who can push this all out there with a straight face, it's not even convincing their own colleagues.
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The Democrats know that they are losing here, and they're going to try to get through these hearings as quickly as possible.
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LeBron James cares so much about gender equality that the NBA now has the same ratings as the WNBA.
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You know, because we've just been talking about all the racial division the left is pushing, but you're right.
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That is on the level of sexual politics as well.
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There are now just as many people watching the NBA as the WNBA.
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Now we will move into something that is simply dumber, which is these confirmation hearings
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Even the left is admitting that this is not going well for them.
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And the reason they cut away, I don't think is because they're making some principled stand
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on the legitimacy of Trump nominating a judge during an election year.
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They're cutting away because there's no way this is a win for Democrats.
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They can viciously attack this woman and try to derail her nomination.
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But how is that going to look a few weeks before a presidential election?
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You've got this very attractive, both physically and on paper, sort of nice female candidate,
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part of the gentler sex with this big, beautiful family, totally unimpeachable.
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So you can have the last taste in voters' mouths of Democrats be them just destroying this very
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Or the Democrats don't derail her nomination and they look feckless on screen.
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And it looks like right now Democrats are trying to split the baby, as it were, very, very literally
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trying to split the baby by derailing Justice Barrett and trying to maintain Roe versus Wade.
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So they're trying to have it both ways and it's not working very well.
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Most of the hearing was just senators letting out the hot air that generally tends to fill
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But a few tried to make cogent arguments and it went nowhere.
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Kamala Harris was testifying remotely and she had a picture of RBG, this kind of silly RBG
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And she said, the reason we can't confirm Barrett is because Barrett will undermine Justice Ruth
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By replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with someone who will undo her legacy.
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President Trump is attempting to roll back Americans' rights for decades to come.
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Every American must understand that with this nomination, equal justice under law is at stake.
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The right to a safe and legal abortion is at stake.
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And holding corporations accountable is at stake.
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But I do give her credit for saying the two true things.
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She said a lot of silly things like our right to vote is at stake.
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I think we'll be able to vote even if there's another judge on the bench.
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She says things like corporations will finally be held to account.
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Corporate America supports the left overwhelmingly, okay?
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There's no threat being posed by a conservative judge to, you know, your consumer choice.
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Having a conservative judge on the bench will be a negative turn of events for corporate America
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and a positive thing for consumer protections and for smaller businesses.
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One, Justice Barrett could overturn Ruth Ginsburg's legacy.
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The point of conservative judges is to undermine the legacy of left-wing judges.
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The point of left-wing judges is to undermine the legacy of conservative judges.
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I don't know what Justice Barrett's really going to do.
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Conservative judges disappoint the people who appoint them all the time.
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So we're hoping, knock on wood, she undermines Ginsburg's legacy.
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She said that Ruth Ginsburg, or Amy Barrett, rather, could undermine a right, quote unquote,
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that Ruth Ginsburg protected, namely the right to abortion.
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I actually give Kamala Harris a little bit of credit because so often we just hear them
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Women's health, reproductive rights, which are not only imprecise, but in the case of
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reproductive rights, the opposite of what is true.
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Democrats are turning abortion into a sacrament.
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They're making this the central issue of their campaigns, which is pretty creepy.
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Next up was Amy Klobuchar, who was even less convincing than Kamala Harris, because Klobuchar
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She wasn't going to go after Barrett's religion.
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She wasn't going to issue in these sort of stupid platitudes about just broad issues like Kamala
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So Klobuchar decided to pivot back, get away from the court issues entirely, and for some
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The daughter of Hmong refugees whose parents fled Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand before
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arriving in Minnesota, Marnie and her seven siblings grew up in St. Paul.
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Someone who has left behind a mother and a father and seven siblings who loved her, and
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someone who undoubtedly would have made the world a better place.
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Instead, he's been reckless, packing people in without masks for your nomination party,
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The president himself ends up in the hospital, and when he leaves, Walter Reed's still contagious.
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He defiantly takes off his mask and walks into the White House, and then he lies and
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The truth matters, and the truth is America, that this judicial nominee has made her view so
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clear, and this president is trying to put her in a position of power to make decisions
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When she tries to bring it back there at the end to this, this president is trying to nominate
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a judge who will make decisions about your lives.
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You know, like all presidents who nominate judges, because that's what judges do.
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This president is trying to nominate a judge like the Constitution says he should.
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So she tries to bring it back there at the end, but why she's talking about coronavirus
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and these very sad stories about people who have died from coronavirus have nothing to
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do with Washington, D.C. or Trump or Barrett, and then it's Trump's fault that there is a
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virus from China or something, and then, and, but he's nominating a judge, and so that's
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This speech, I don't know what staffer wrote this speech, but whoever wrote it should be
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fired, this would not pass a freshman writing seminar, a freshman in high school writing
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This was pretty weak sauce, but she does it because they have nothing else.
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I felt Klobuchar's speech, speechifying yesterday was the clearest evidence that the Democrats
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The left know they are losing on this issue, and they just need to move past this hearing.
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They'll do the sort of perfunctory yelling and howling, but they'll just, they'll confirm
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her and then they'll move past it because there's no way that they gain politically
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Someone who was, was just as convinced as the, or just as confused rather as the rest
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of us over Amy Klobuchar's bizarre rant was Senator Ben Sasse.
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So Ben Sass, who has very nice hair, was just as confused as the rest of us.
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And so he took the opportunity to offer a civics lesson for our obviously degraded national conversation.
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Senator Klobuchar said a number of things about COVID that I agree with.
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She cited a bunch of really painful stories in Minnesota and similar stories could be told from across the country.
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I even agree with parts of her criticism of the mismanagement of COVID by Washington, D.C.
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I don't know what any of that has to do with what we're here to do today.
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Huge parts of what we're doing in this hearing would be really confusing to eighth graders.
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If civics classes across the country tuned into this hearing and tried to figure out what we're here to do,
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and they heard as much as they've heard about 2009 finance committee debates about what should be in a health care reform package,
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I'm blessed to sit not just on the judiciary committee, but also on the finance committee.
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And lots of the discussions we've had in here today fit better in a finance committee hearing than in a judiciary committee hearing.
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So I think it would be very useful for us to pause and remind ourselves and do some of our civic duty to eighth graders
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to help them realize what a president runs for, what a senator runs for,
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and on the other hand, why Judge Barrett is sitting before us today.
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This was an excellent skewering of what was going on.
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And actually, what Ben Sasse is doing here is exactly what senators should do.
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He's distilling this for eighth graders, and in there is a kind of not-so-subtle jibe at the Democrats,
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which is saying you guys are behaving not even as eighth graders would.
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You guys do not even possess the civic understanding of eighth graders.
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We no longer have it in schools. ISI, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
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did a survey of elite university students, so the top-ranked schools in the country.
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Turned out that graduating seniors knew less about civics than incoming freshmen.
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So it's important to have that civics education.
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But this is also what senators should be doing.
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You know, most of our government is just run by bureaucrats.
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It's not actually run by the elected president or the senators or even the judges, more so the judges,
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but certainly not these elected guys in Congress or the Senate.
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Much of what the Senate and the House of Representatives exist to do is to communicate politics to people.
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It's kind of a sad state of affairs because they actually have significantly less lawmaking power than they used to.
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Most of that has been sent away to the administrative state.
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So the one thing they can do is communicate and bring people in on what is happening in their government.
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And that has a little bit of accountability, therefore, to their constituents.
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We could all use a good civics lesson, most especially the Democrats sitting in that chamber.
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Now, he opened up by kind of poking fun at what Amy Klobuchar was demagoguing about, this COVID narrative and these COVID stories as a way to distract from what they were actually supposed to be doing.
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It is important to note that the Democrats' narrative on coronavirus right now is completely falling apart.
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Initially, we were told by the experts, by the Surgeon General, by Dr. Fauci, the exalted Dr. Fauci, peace be upon him, by elected Democrats like Eric Swalwell.
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Then we were told you have to wear masks all the time.
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If you even suggest that masks are not used perfectly all the time, then you're going to be kicked off of the Internet.
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Then we heard from, for instance, epidemiologists at Columbia who said this to NPR, that the masks fail in studies, but not because the masks are no good.
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It's because people don't use them correctly, which I suppose makes sense, right?
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Guess which percentage, what is the percentage of people who are infected with coronavirus, according to the CDC study, who wore their masks all the time or often?
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Because, you know, they're so good at protecting you from the virus.
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Two percent, three percent are wearing their masks all the time or often and still get the virus?
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Eighty-five percent, according to this recent CDC study.
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Seventy-point-six percent of respondents report that they always wear a mask.
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An additional 14.4 percent say that they often wear a mask, which means 85 percent of people who have been infected with coronavirus, according to this study, habitually wear the mask.
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Remember, what percentage of people, according to the CDC study, report never wearing the mask, who then go on to get coronavirus?
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So for me, you know my behaviors on these sorts of things.
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I want to do whatever the experts tell me to do.
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And it seems from the CDC study that some of what we've been told about these precautions is not correct.
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And now, as we learn more about the way these things work, it would seem that it's even more confusing.
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After this CDC study, though, there's another survey that came out of Chicago, which gives us a little hint on how this coronavirus is going to be spreading throughout the populations.
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So, the CDC study shows the overwhelming majority of people who are getting infected with coronavirus are wearing the masks always or often.
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Again, that's not saying anything about the masks per se, just telling you how this virus is actually spreading in reality.
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Right now, they did a survey in Chicago of how many residents who sent blood spot samples to Northwestern University researchers tested positive for COVID antibodies.
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So, they had people sort of send in these samples and they're going to see not even just how many people have the virus currently,
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but how many people have the antibodies so they had the virus in the past.
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Do you know how many Chicagoans have had coronavirus according to this survey?
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One in five, a full 20% of Chicagoans who sent in these samples have had coronavirus.
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This was my point when we were talking earlier.
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I've been reiterating this almost once a week now.
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The liberals think that conservatives oppose all of their kind of crazy measures to stop the spread of coronavirus
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because we think we're never going to get coronavirus.
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Well, one, because there is some dispute over the efficacy of some of these measures.
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Two, now in the case of the lockdowns, the World Health Organization is actively saying,
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But disputes about the efficacy of these things aside,
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the reason that we are not indulging this sort of thing and clamoring to throw the world into a global economy
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or into a global economic depression over the coronavirus measures
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is because not that we think we won't get it, but because we know COVID's here to stay.
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WHO came out the other day and said one in 10 people on earth has gotten coronavirus.
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10% of the entire world population has gotten this virus in the nine or 10 months that it has existed.
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I know you think that you can protect yourself from that forever
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some matter of social engineering that's going to protect you from germs,
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that now we're on a political crusade to defeat germs.
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This is not only as foolish as, say, the war on poverty, you know,
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You can develop vaccines that have certain efficacy.
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which is what I think our utopian friends on the progressive left think that they're going to do.
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And notice, by the way, our utopian friends, they always change the rules.
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So first, obviously, with the masks, it was so obvious because they said,
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don't wear the masks, and then they said, do wear the masks.
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But even with the social distancing, one of the creepiest phrases I've ever heard,
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They say, okay, if you're six feet apart, you're totally fine.
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If you're six feet, at one point they told us, if you're six feet apart, you don't need a mask.
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Then we were told by some people, if you're six feet apart, you do need a mask.
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So the chief of staff at the White House, Mark Meadows, comes down, he's speaking to reporters,
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He pulls the microphone back, 10 feet away, so that he doesn't get them all upset.
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And then he takes his mask off to speak to them.
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And then, that way I can take this off to talk.
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I'm not, well, I'm not going to talk through a mask.
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I am not going to perform whatever liturgy of liberalism you were trying to foist on me
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with no scientific basis that you're even trying to present.
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Even if there were a scientific basis, we would still have to debate whether or not we
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want to engage in that sort of thing as a matter of politics and ethics.
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But you're not even, what scientist is saying that if I'm standing 10 feet away, I have to
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wear this cloth mask or else we're all going to die.
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So he says, okay, you, what, you, oh, you just want to muzzle me.
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Some people say, well, Mr. Meadows, why not do it?
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Even if you're standing 10 feet away, even if when you start giving your press conference,
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you're going to sound like that teacher from the Peanuts cartoons.
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I should be clear from how it sounds why he shouldn't do that.
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But more broadly to this point of why don't you just do it?
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What if the reporters said to Mark Meadows, hey, Mark Meadows, it would make us all feel
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Mr. Meadows, we want you to put a donut on your head.
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I don't think there's any evidence that having a donut on my head is going to help you all
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Maybe there's not, maybe there's not evidence, but it would make us feel better.
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So put the donut on your head, put the donut on your head right now.
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What this has become is now it would seem very, very separate from a scientific conversation.
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This is an exercise in imposing one's political will.
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The World Health Organization came out and said, do not do the lockdowns.
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Because power hungry demagogues want to flex their political power and their political
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It doesn't even have to have a point, a specific point to the flex.
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And that is what the press corps was trying to do to Mark Meadows yesterday.
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I'm very glad that he did not take the bait on this.
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Now, some in the press are trying to reel this kind of stuff back.
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They realize it doesn't play particularly well.
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They're actually trying to moderate in the past few days.
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Now you have this, this woman on this anchor on CNN who is talking to Senator Mazie Hirono,
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one of the least impressive members of the Senate.
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You haven't seen facts really rise to the top of the conversation.
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Though if you do want facts to rise to the top of the conversation, you've got to check
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Either way though, you know, look, Jeremy's got a lot of wisdom.
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You know, we had these very briefly, very limited run just for all access members and
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The inventory is limited though, so you've got to text baseball, B-A-S-E-B-A-L-L, to
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CNN actually just fact-checked a Democratic senator on the air.
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Maisie Hirono was throwing around the phrase court packing, which specifically means adding
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justices to the court by increasing the number of justices, right?
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It does not mean filling vacancies, which is not only a constitutional right, it's a constitutional
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Court packing is a different thing when you increase the number of justices.
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And CNN very gently, very secretly, corrected her on the air.
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I mean, obviously, just filling a vacancy right now is not what is normally referred to as
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But I think that you've said that you're open to that as well.
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There are a number of things that we can talk about to reform the courts, including, by the
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way, you know, we should apply strict ethics standards to Supreme Court justices.
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So there are any number of things that we can talk about to make sure that the Supreme Court
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is not an ideologically determinative body, which, by the way, if you look at their recent
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decisions, many, many five to four decisions that are very much partisan and ideologically
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based, that is not what we want the Supreme Court to be.
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In fact, that is not how we want our entire judiciary to be.
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They should be objective, independent, not filled, as I said, with people who have an
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We don't want people on the court who have an ideological agenda.
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And that's why we've got to keep all the conservatives off and put all the leftists on.
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Macy Hirono can't take the hint from this woman on CNN who's saying like, hey, Macy, maybe
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We're all on the same team here, Macy, but you're not doing this very well.
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It's funny, too, because when she's talking about the ideological conformity of the court,
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let's not forget the leftist judges almost 100 percent of the time vote together, even
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on cases that are constitutionally preposterous, whereas the conservative judges often split
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I'm not even making a point about how the conservatives are right and the leftists are wrong.
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I'm just saying as a matter of ideological conformity, which is what Macy Hirono is talking
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about, the left is purely ideological, ideologically unified, and the right breaks up and has
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disagreements and someone's an originalist and someone's a textualist and the textualist
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I mean, just in this recent Supreme Court term, you had huge disagreement on the right.
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So if Macy wants intellectual diversity on the court, I guess she's got to go for the
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conservatives, but she's going to, she's probably not going to do that.
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She probably doesn't even understand the point.
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The reason I think that CNN is willing to play this a little softer now, the reason
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that CNN is even willing to maybe gently correct a Democratic senator is not because they've
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had some wake up call, not because they understand that the left is harming the country.
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It's because they understand that the left is losing.
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And maybe it doesn't seem like that because the media is putting on a good show.
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Maybe it doesn't seem like that because who knows how the presidential election is going
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But broadly speaking, on this argument, on the court argument, on the Amy Coney Barrett
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argument, on the radicalism argument, the left is losing.
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We've been reading some of the polls all the time.
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Here's an important one that doesn't even mention the phrase Trump or Biden, but it tells
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And I suspect it might have something to do with the election.
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Gallup asks people, are you better off now than you were four years ago?
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This was Ronald Reagan's famous line in a presidential debate.
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He goes, you've got to ask yourself one simple question.
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Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
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Because that's the, that's the, that's what you have to know.
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If you're, if, if you're running against an incumbent, you say, are you better off now
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And the answer is no, then you've got to vote for the alternative.
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And if you are the incumbent, are you better off now than you were four years ago?
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The answer for this incumbent, President Trump, is yes.
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56% of people in a survey taken September 14th through the 28th,
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which obviously is way into the coronavirus lockdowns, right?
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This is not while the economy was still booming.
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And still, even with the country shut down, the economy, tons of people out of work.
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Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
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They are better off even in a pandemic under Trump than they were under Obama.
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That's compared to just under a third, 32% who say that they are not better off than they were
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Obviously, we have BLM burning down the country.
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But even on some of these, these wacky sexual issues, they divide us on race.
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On the sexual issues, I don't think this is playing well in Peoria.
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There's a book review out in the New York Times called,
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Are Straight People Okay?, and other questions about love and sexuality based on some book
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In examining the pressure to partner with the opposite gender, we find the extortions
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of capitalism, the misogyny of violence against women, the racist and xenophobic erasure of
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non-white families, and the homophobic hatreds that pervade so much of everyday life.
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This is what you see broadcast during these crazy rallies.
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This is even what you see on presidential debate stages among the Democratic Party.
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You remember when Julian Castro, when he was still running for president, he said, we need
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to support abortion rights, we need to support abortion justice, not just for women, but for
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trans women, meaning men who put on dresses, who I guess can have abortions.
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This kind of gobbledygook of leftist jargon, the misogyny of violence against women, racist,
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And I think a lot of Americans who are not steeped in this kind of radical ideology look
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at that and say, huh, I got one guy telling me make America great again.
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I got one guy talking to me about the erasure of the cis, trans, non-binary, non-white, misogynistic,
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The one who I can understand, you know, the one who's speaking simple English, who says
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Yeah, I think that guy, that guy is more persuasive.
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This is how President Trump, who has many personal foibles, was able to win in 2016.
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A lot of the never Trump right never understood this.
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They thought that President Trump won because he's got this mean personality.
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And he won in spite of the policy offerings and his kind of basic view of the country.
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Ann Coulter wrote a great book about this with a very funny title, In Trump We Trust,
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But it actually was a pretty, pretty solid book and it made a very good argument, which is
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people voted for Trump often in spite of his personality because of his policies, because
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He took that from Ronald Reagan, but Trump has a good ear.
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He has a good ear for the culture and he realizes that that, that idea resonates.
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Trump might be talking about Mika Brzezinski's face and maybe that's a little distasteful,
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but he hugs the American flag and he says he's going to protect manufacturing jobs.
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Other Republicans were not going to protect manufacturing jobs.
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He loves the country and he says, you know, we all bleed the same blood of patriots and
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we should have no racial division, but also we should have a national border.
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Other Republicans were not really saying that as much.
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That kind of common sense rings a lot truer, I think.
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You know, on this, on this issue of the crazy sexual politics, there is a truly disturbing
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There was a little girl in Iowa whose parents were ne'er-do-wells and so she was going to
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So her great-grandparents had to apply to the state just to make sure this paperwork worked
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because the kid's parents were not able to take care of her.
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The United States district judge reversed this decision to allow the great-grandparents to
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take care of her, holding that the state regular, so, so I'm sorry, let me rewind.
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You've got the kid who's going to the state, the foster system.
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The great-great, the great-grandparents try to adopt the kid.
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Then the state comes in and says, no, you can't adopt the kid because you have oppressive
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Here are some of the questions that they had to answer according to the political correct
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orthodoxy if they wanted to adopt their great-granddaughter.
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How would we react if the daughter was a lesbian?
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Would we allow the daughter to have a girl spend the night at our home as our girl's romantic
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If at 15 years old, this little girl wanted to undergo hormone therapy to change her sexual
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appearance, would we support that decision and transport her for those treatments?
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If as a teenager, this little girl wanted to dress as a boy and be called a boy's name,
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would we accept her decision and allow her to act in that manner?
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If you don't say that you are willing to let your adopted daughter have her lesbian girlfriend
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come and sleep over at age 15, if you don't say that you will allow your adopted daughter
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to inject hormones into herself to appear cosmetically more like a boy, now, according
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to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, you're not allowed to adopt that daughter.
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Thankfully, as I mentioned, another government agency came in, namely the judiciary actually
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came in and reversed that decision for now, for now.
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How long before this is replicated all over the country?
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Idaho, I thought, was a pretty conservative place.
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I mean, imagine, you know, when I was a kid, if I was 15 and I said, hey, mom, I want my
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I think people are looking at some of those stories and saying, this is not the country
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And I don't care what Donald Trump tweets and I don't care how nice good old Joe looks.
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If those are the two visions of America, I want to go with make America great again.
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That's what people are showing Joe Biden on the campaign trail.
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Joe Biden was just doing an event in Toledo, Ohio.
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And Trump supporters chanted four more years in the background.
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Well, all kidding aside, Tony, thank you for hosting us.
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In fact, it's a little hard to hear because it's off my groin here.
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And some leftists are getting irritated by this.
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You're seeing the radical left trying to push all this crazy gobbledygook about how you've got to trans your kid and how you've got to, you know, do all of these extraordinary radical measures.
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And then you've got the more moderate wing, like Allison, I think it was Allison Camerota, whoever it was on CNN saying, hey, come on, stop saying that stuff, Maisie.
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Noam Chomsky, who's a radical leftist and public intellectual for the last 700 years.
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He just got into a bit of a debate about this sort of issue with a radical leftist from the Bernie Sanders campaign.
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And Chomsky actually played the role of the moderate here because Chomsky understands in politics, you don't win by losing.
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What you're saying, if you think it through, is we should help Trump win because maybe in the long run, that'll affect the Democratic Party.
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Helping Trump win, as you're proposing, would mean four more years of destruction of the environment, getting possibly to tipping points, which would be irreversible, certainly making any effort to deal with it very difficult.
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It would mean stacking the judiciary with young, ultra-right lawyers, top to bottom, so that nothing would be possibly done for a generation.
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I don't think that's a wise choice, just on the hope that maybe sometime in the long term, the Democratic Party will pay attention to the fact that you're part of the 50% of non-voters.
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So a great point, and the woman that he was speaking with pushed back, said, no, the time is now.
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We've got to take a stand and kill our chances of winning in this election, and then later maybe we'll win.
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The never-Trump-right made the same argument in 2016.
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The appeal is, okay, things aren't going the way I want them to, so the best thing to do is to lose.
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It's better to lose and then regroup, and then in four years or eight years, then we can win.
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I like the idea that people who can't win now are going to tell us how to win in four years or eight years.
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The way you win is by winning, and when you lose, you can't predict what's going to happen next.
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That's why the smarter people in the Democratic Party realize we've really got to win this thing.
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We can't just count on what happens after this aberration of a politician, Donald Trump, goes away.
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That's why I think they're going to hang back on the Amy Barrett hearings.
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I don't think it's going to be a particularly vicious hearing, at least compared to, say, Breit Kavanaugh.
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I think they know they've lost this thing, and they don't really care about this seat all that much.
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They want to keep their eyes on the prize on November 3rd, and the judiciary might play a role in that if they challenge it in court.
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So in any case, we're headed for a mess, and I don't think any side is going to throw up their hands and say,
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