On January 30th, our president will speak to the nation in his second State of the Union address, a very exciting event, and you should watch it with us here at The Daily Wire, where you ll be there for every wild hand gesture, every off-the-pter remark, and, of course, the hilarious and ridiculous rebuttal from Democrats.
00:06:50.860What's sort of strange about this hamburger ad, you'll notice, is that it doesn't at any point try to sell hamburgers.
00:06:57.700Instead, it sells smug, glib attitudes toward political issues that have nothing whatsoever to do with its business or its product or really even its customers.
00:07:06.880It's trying to use government regulation of the Internet, so-called net neutrality, to make hamburgers more appealing.
00:08:25.860I think a lot of people remember it, too.
00:08:27.280But these days, they don't talk about the vanishing American and you have an American Indian looking all perplexed at the tiny little hamburger patty.
00:08:35.500These days, advertisements instead prattle on about obscure federal regulations.
00:08:40.920Of course, Burger King does not actually care about net neutrality.
00:08:44.760It didn't make any public statement in 2015 when the FCC imposed rules to regulate the Internet.
00:08:50.080Burger King does not currently lobby for government regulation of the Internet on Capitol Hill or at the FCC.
00:08:55.320CMO of Burger King, Fernando Machado, said,
00:08:59.060We believe the Internet should be like Burger King restaurants, a place that doesn't prioritize and welcomes everyone.
00:09:05.080That is why we created this experiment to call attention to the potential effects of net neutrality.
00:09:10.760That isn't true. They did it to call attention to their hamburgers.
00:09:13.900It was exactly the opposite of what he just said, but it worked.
00:09:16.720The mainstream media loved it. The Verge had a headline.
00:09:19.400Burger King made a surprisingly good ad about net neutrality.
00:09:22.560Reuters, Burger King tweaks U.S. regulator in new net neutrality advertisement.
00:09:27.200Entrepreneur, you want fries with that? Burger King explains net neutrality in less than three minutes.
00:09:32.600Fast company, Burger King uses the Whopper to teach a valuable lesson on net neutrality.
00:09:38.320Marketing land, Burger King Whopper splains net neutrality's repeal in new ad, Adweek.
00:09:45.140Burger King deviously explains net neutrality by making people wait longer for Whoppers.
00:09:51.000The thing is, it didn't deviously explain net neutrality.
00:09:56.400The explanation had all the subtlety of a hand grenade or a Trump tweet, but I repeat myself, it was not devious.
00:10:01.840What it did deviously was pretend to agitate for net neutrality.
00:10:06.700First of all, the analogy is total nonsense.
00:10:09.960We did a whole episode on net neutrality.
00:10:12.700A lot of people still don't understand it.
00:10:14.380There was an incredible infographic sent around by a Democrat candidate for Senate, Ro Khanna, a pro net neutrality Democrat running for Congress from Silicon Valley.
00:10:26.540So last November, Ro Khanna, this Democrat pro net neutrality in the heart of tech land, posted an infographic on the Internet comparing the cost of the Internet with government regulations, commonly called net neutrality, and without government regulations, no net neutrality.
00:10:41.840With the regulations, he showed you could get video, email, gaming, and social media all for one price, $54.99 per month.
00:10:49.980Without the regulations, he warned voters you would have to pay different prices for each.
00:10:54.660So that could be $17.99 per month for video, $8.99 a month for email, $14.99 for gaming, $12.99 for social media, and you could opt out of certain platforms and pay a little bit less.
00:11:07.800So maybe you only pay for Netflix video but not YouTube video, so it would be cheaper than all of video, so on and so forth.
00:11:13.760The trouble with Ro Khanna's argument here is that the net neutrality version without the customer choice cost $54.99 a month, and the no net neutrality version, the deregulated one, cost $54.96 a month.
00:11:42.620So you'll notice, by the way, that I'm stumbling on my words a little bit here, that I keep saying government regulation of the internet instead of net neutrality.
00:11:50.520That's because net neutrality is a meaningless euphemism that is bandied about by the left to sugarcoat the reality of it, which is giving the government more control over the internet, making the internet less free, taking away consumer choice, both as to how they use the internet and as to how they pay for the internet.
00:12:06.600But this is what the left always does.
00:12:08.100They rely on these euphemisms, these subtle little lies that most people think are not worth fighting about, so they just use them.
00:12:15.120And in so doing that, they can see the whole premises.
00:12:27.240Why is a fast food burger company suddenly agitating on behalf of rules governing consumer choice on the internet a month and a half after the regulations were repealed and two and a half years after the rules were instituted to begin with?
00:12:40.480A fast food burger company, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the issue of internet regulation,
00:12:45.860It's because of a sad and tedious fact about our culture.
00:12:49.040This stunt from Burger King was exactly that, right?
00:12:51.220It was a marketing gimmick and it was geared toward a specific demographic, millennials.
00:12:55.620For years, millennials have been turning away from fast food, leaving chains like Burger King or McDonald's or whatever scrambling.
00:13:02.400According to a 2014 survey by Brand Keys, baby boomers are reporting an 18% drop in fast food visits and an 11% drop among Gen Xers.
00:13:30.460That said, most of my fellow millennials hate it.
00:13:32.720According to the 2014 survey, 89% of millennials prefer fast casual chains like Chipotle, even if those places cost more, which is absolutely insane.
00:13:43.980Arby's, Wendy's, McDonald's are about 7 million times better than Chipotle or whatever frou-frou rice and beans faux-sophisticant millennials are willing to pay for.
00:14:09.160You see this, you see the same thing on the coasts and in the country.
00:14:13.060It's people who prefer Dunkin' Donuts to Starbucks because Starbucks is supposedly too fancy or expensive.
00:14:18.900And Dunkin' Donuts, that's for the American Joe.
00:14:20.900But the two places cost the same amount of money, actually.
00:14:23.500So Starbucks just makes stronger coffee and has, you know, 12-year-olds drinking milkshakes and a bunch of wannabe screenwriters on laptops and stuff.
00:14:32.560Dunkin' Donuts has more construction workers and donuts and things.
00:14:50.520So facing an existential threat from millennials not eating in their restaurants, not able to manipulate them on the basis of price or really even food.
00:14:59.460You know, it's going to take a lot to turn a place that has boasted for 50 years, the bigger the burger, the better the burger, the burger is bigger at Burger King, into some artisanal bespoke salad restaurant.
00:15:08.640So they tried to make the king look like a Brooklyn hipster with the big beard and the jewelry and the curls and everything.
00:16:12.880A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think about his digestion.
00:16:19.620To ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for one as for the other.
00:16:23.440But if either comes to regard it as the natural food of the mind, if either forgets that we think of such things only in order to be able to think of something else,
00:16:33.260then what was undertaken for the sake of health has become itself a new and deadly disease.
00:16:38.680Our society is without question sick, and so we have to think a lot about politics.
00:16:45.040But we're only thinking about politics so that we can think about culture and art and philosophy and building things and eternal questions and our nature and our creator, among other things.
00:16:55.360But advertisers have rightly determined that millennials are obsessed with politics, shallow politics at that, not as a means but as an end.
00:17:02.700And I think it's because they're using politics as a stand-in for something else.
00:17:08.340They're trying to place all of their identity and all of their hopes in politics.
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00:19:09.520Before Bowling Branch, I would only buy bedding that was in, like, the discount rack on the side of the highway.
00:19:15.580And I would just buy the cheapest sheets I ever possibly could.
00:19:19.500And I never understood why you would buy expensive sheets.
00:33:18.380There are not great numbers on this, but there are lots of cultural indicators that millennials are both less monogamous and that they have less sex.
00:33:26.780One study showed millennials having significantly less sex than Gen Xers.
00:33:30.640That said, millennials watch a ton of porn.
00:33:32.880Pornhub.com, which is just one porn site, reported an audience that watched 4.4 billion, with a B, hours of pornography in 2015, with 60% of its audience comprising millennials.
00:33:44.280Jacob, what does all of this say about millennials, hooked on porn, bizarrely open attitudes towards sex, and yet not having very much of it?
00:33:52.600To me, it shows that they're buying the feminist narrative about what sex means.
00:34:00.300Because as far as third wave feminists are concerned, women are just, they see sex the same way as men.
00:36:49.620I guess it could be a bubble, but I just see it a little bit.
00:36:53.500I've always lived in pretty liberal places on the coasts and at universities.
00:36:57.240And I do wonder if the smartest people in the world right now are talking about God and the future generations are talking about what was lost when we pretended to ourselves that God is dead
00:37:10.460and what we threw away with modernity.
00:37:14.440Obviously, it is the case that religious parents are going to tell their kids one thing and the feminists are going to tell their kids another.
00:37:20.600But I wonder if maybe the children of the religious will be less turned off than the children of the feminists if we haven't hit a snag in the road.
00:38:17.100Look, keeping Chuck Schumer up at night is almost enough for me to offer them full amnesty.
00:38:22.740But on a larger point, it's so disrespectful of American law, of the American government, of a country that has been so good to these people,
00:38:29.520giving them free education, handouts, health care.
00:38:32.160Why don't we just round up all of the rabble-rousing ones and send them back to whatever godforsaken country they fled from in the first place?
00:39:07.140I think, first off, we've got to get the border secured, and then we can say, okay, is this person worth giving a citizenship test?
00:39:17.240Or is this person a criminal deviant that we should send back?
00:39:21.340Either way, it's going to be a struggle as far as policy goes, especially as long as the media keep giving them headlines, you know, these children.
00:39:30.580That's right, the 30- or 40-year-old children.
00:39:32.620And on that best and brightest point, the data that we have, what the mainstream media would have you believe is it's all six-year-olds with seven degrees from MIT
00:39:40.520who are really grateful and love their country, and they're just the most all-around apple pie people in the world.
00:39:45.580But the data we have is that 25% of them are illiterate.
00:39:50.720In demonstrations like these, we see deep ingratitude and entitlement from a country that's been very good to them.
00:39:56.280Benji, if Schumer won't give Trump the wall and an end to chain migration, will we just let DACA expire and start shipping these people home?
00:40:07.680Well, I think, I'll answer that question in a different way.
00:40:10.460I think that conservatives need to embrace the dreamers who are here and doing good things.
00:40:16.960Now, there are people who are here doing bad things, but that can be said about any population.
00:40:21.420The fact of the matter is that a lot of these dreamers had no control over whether or not they got here,
00:40:26.760and they're just trying to live their lives in peace.
00:40:29.000And I don't think that that protesting group kind of showcases what the entire population is like.
00:40:35.500So that being said, there is a population like the people who are protesting Chuck Schumer,
00:40:40.780which I think that you made a really interesting point talking about how Chuck Schumer is kind of the biggest advocate of these folks.
00:40:46.460And, you know, when Black Lives Matter or the dreamers protest basically everyone and alienate everyone,
00:40:53.260that's not going to get anything beneficial done, and it's fairly frustrating, and it makes their case look a lot weaker.
00:40:59.760And I think that that's unfortunate because there are a lot of good dreamers here who didn't have a choice to come here
00:41:04.920and should, you know, should be given the opportunity to succeed and be successful, and it's not their fault that they're here.
00:41:11.380So I think that conservatives need to differentiate, and this is something that a Republican congresswoman said the other day,
00:41:18.040was that you have to differentiate between the dreamers, who could be very good people who had no intention of coming here whatsoever
00:41:24.220and are just trying to live their lives, and the illegal aliens who are crossing the border.
00:41:28.300I think that there's an important distinction there, and you shouldn't lump them in on both.
00:41:32.540I worry that it's a distinction without a difference because they use this term, they use the most loaded term imaginable, dreamer.
00:41:39.120What on earth does dreaming have to do with the essence of this issue, which is illegal aliens, resident illegal people?
00:41:49.020What does that have to do? They seem to be ossified in time, as Victor Davis Hanson wrote eloquently a couple days ago.
00:41:56.040So we're talking about a group of people from only this period to this period who were brought over below the age of 18.
00:42:02.860Now some of these people are almost 40 years old.
00:42:05.200As I had mentioned earlier, half of them don't speak English, a quarter of them are illiterate.
00:42:11.340Does the category of the dreamer, as the Democrats call it, I will not use that terminology because it's such a deceptive, insidious euphemism.
00:42:21.440But of this category of people, the DACA people, the Democrats admitted this in a memorandum two weeks ago that they're relying on these people for their electoral strategy because they know that if they're granted amnesty, they will trend overwhelmingly to vote for Democrats.
00:42:37.620So should Republicans embrace a group of people who don't share a lot of, as a category, don't hold together very coherently and who don't appear to have any advantages over other immigrant groups or other immigrant groups from Latin America who have come here legally and who are going to legalize a million new Democrat voters?
00:42:57.980I just don't see what the advantage is for the Republican Party to say, yes, we need to grant amnesty to them.
00:43:05.140The vast majority of the country doesn't want to give them amnesty, and 56 percent of Democrats don't even want to give them amnesty.
00:43:11.840I think this is a total game being played by Democrats.
00:43:16.840They're trying to fool us, and I wouldn't do it at all.
00:43:20.100I'm more than happy to keep people in the country who will benefit the country and who really are little children or really don't have any means to support themselves.
00:43:32.100But some 40-year-old who's out there screaming at Chuck Schumer because we haven't given him enough, absolutely not.
00:43:37.920Send those people back, especially, and this is the most important thing, if they're going to vote for Democrats.
00:43:43.560If the so-called, if the DACA people will agree to vote for Republicans for 25 consecutive elections, give them blanket amnesty.
00:43:51.140I think we've reached a grand compromise.
00:43:52.840If I may, though, I think the Republicans, just speaking as a conservative, have really dropped the ball on outreach to Latina families because they have this fake perception by the fake news media that, oh, the Republican Party is the party of old white men.
00:44:14.960But Republicans have been very bad at sending out that messaging because, really, if you talk to Latin American families, they have a lot of values.
00:44:26.220They are hardworking people who have good work ethics, and they can and will benefit society.
00:44:33.720So I think that if the Dreamers or DACA recipients, as you call them, if they were to change and switch sides and say, hey, we're not going to vote for Democrats.
00:44:42.960We're going to vote for Democrats, and we're going to show you how we can be a benefit to American society, I think that they could see a turnaround as far as that goes.
00:44:54.220But I think that Republicans need to be better at messaging to that particular community.
00:45:20.740Politics, as Aristotle defines it, it's how men interact with one another in cities.
00:45:26.100To me, I care more about these people's lives than I care about who they vote for.
00:45:29.780But I think it's up to Republicans to reach these people through our ideologies that can click with their personalities.
00:45:37.260And I think that that's incredibly key, and I think it's an important point that was just made, that Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to these folks and not making the differentiation between dreamers and illegal aliens,
00:45:48.340and also lumping all the people who, you know, all the dreamers into the category of the protesters outside Chuck Schumer's house.
00:45:55.540I also just don't think that that's fair.
00:45:57.260So I think that there's a few key distinctions to be made there.
00:46:06.480Some of the illegal aliens are wonderful people who are patriotic and like America and work hard and go to church.
00:46:11.760And we should keep those people, especially if they vote Republican.
00:46:15.020And some people are awful and they're gangsters and they commit crime and they're a net drag on the population and they won't assimilate and they won't learn to read English and they won't learn to speak English.
00:46:24.700And to lump those people in with good patriotic people who came here through no choice of their own and who love their country and are dedicated to it, that we shouldn't lump those two people together.
00:46:38.880On the final point here, speaking of our government and how we the people relate to it, a new poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports shows that half of likely U.S. voters believe a special prosecutor should be named to investigate whether senior FBI officials handled the investigation of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a legal and unbiased fashion.
00:47:19.220And, you know, all those text messages went missing.
00:47:22.140There is a lot of strange stuff going on at the Bureau.
00:47:25.080Jacob, are we at the point now where we have to investigate the FBI either as a defensive measure, if the FBI really has been politicized by Democrats, or just to route out corruption generally in the federal government?
00:48:19.060And so we need to be, so if there is corruption within the agency, which there could be, there could be corruption anywhere where there's a little bit of power, then let's root it out.
00:48:26.840But as far as an investigation into the investigation of this investigation, no, that's absolutely ridiculous.
00:48:32.280But I will say, yes, we should investigate Hillary.
00:48:43.820If we are in a position now where a lot of evidence shows that all of the investigations
00:48:48.580into Donald Trump were intended at the highest levels of the FBI to subvert a democratic process, to subvert this presidential election, to undo it, to weaken this president, to weaken the choice of the American people,
00:49:04.840then I think we might have to just flex our muscles on that and make sure that we aren't being taken for a ride by our self-appointed benevolent bettors in D.C. who think they can run the country better than we can ourselves.
00:49:17.080Gentlemen, this has been a lovely discussion.
00:49:20.360This is one of my favorite panels we've had in a while, and I never say that about all-male panels.