WEBVTT - Dr. Fauci Gets Held In CONTEMPT... And That's Not All 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.080 They know that that's not a great sell. So you 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.920 can't have Betty Crocker on there selling it like that 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:11.479 every night. So instead you reimagine it when it comes 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:16.400 to issues like this, man does it not land well 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:18.560 to get on the news and say it's an A 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:19.560 plus economy. 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:25.000 Now, the problem came when China released the sequence and 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:29.080 started warning about this new virus and showing propaganda films 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.680 and all sorts of things like that. Now Fauci had 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:32.320 a problem. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.519 So just quickly, because we have a bunch to get to. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.519 Michael Knowles is going to join us as we're going 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.000 to talk about affordability and infighting on the right. Jeffrey 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.279 Tucker is going to join us. We'll talk about more 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.040 about the Fauci stuff. He finished reading all that fauchery 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.639 Fauci diary notebooks that we're going to get to all 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.120 those things in the show. But I wanted to remind 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:55.840 you of something that we can never forget, and it's 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:57.000 easy to lose sight of this. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.000 I want to remind you. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.600 That the Communists, it's not just that he lies all 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:03.120 the time. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.559 It's not just that it's that his. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:11.240 Lies serve a purpose, a very important purpose. He's not 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.080 like one of these people who just lies for fun. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:15.880 You know, I used to know a guy like this. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:17.960 I used to work with a guy like this, and 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.080 he would whatever sport you were doing. You could be 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.760 shooting pool, and he would tell you he used to 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.640 play professionally. I'm not kidding. Told me one time that 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.880 he used to play professional corn hole. Like there's no 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.040 purpose for that. He's just just a liar. But communists 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.360 don't operate in that way. The reason they lie all 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:38.119 the time about everything is they have very evil plans 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.800 for you and your country and everything you care about. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.720 And what's more, they know these plans are evil. They 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:51.440 know these plans are destructive, and they know that you 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.880 don't want that. Who looks around and says, man, I 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.600 hope someone would come along and just burn all this 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.600 stuff down. People don't want it. So if people don't 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.800 want what you're selling, make yourself a sleazy used car salesman. 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.880 If people don't want that pontiac sitting there because they 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.240 think it's going to break down, and let's say you 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.680 don't have any morals at all, your only care is 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.840 the sale itself, what do you do? 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.960 You lie? Just lie? 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:28.000 Lies are required if you're a communist. Now how you 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.079 lie is important as wow. You see, they'll take the 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:37.000 most despicable things, horrible things in the world, and what 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.440 they'll do is they'll pull it, they'll focus group it, 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.440 they'll massage the words as much as possible to make 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.239 whatever demonic thing they're doing sounds not that bad or 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:52.240 almost almost nice. A great example of this is women's 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:53.360 reproductive rights. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.520 What are they talking about? Butchering on born babies? 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.000 That's what it is, butchering on moren babies, snipping off 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:01.960 their heads and killing unborn babies. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.280 But that's a tough cell, isn't it. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.240 How many people do you know want to talk about 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:07.520 snipping off a baby's head? 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:07.960 Not many? 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.040 But women's reproductive right? So that sounds good. I like 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:17.080 women's rights. One of the words that needs to set 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:22.239 off alarms in your head every single time you hear 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.080 it is when they use a term they love so much, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:31.560 and that term is reimagine, reimagine, reimagine. They're always reimagining something. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.800 We need to reimagine this and reimagine capitalism and reimagine this. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:42.240 All reimagine means is destroyed. Reimagine means destroyed. Period now 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.320 destroy is a hard cell. Reimagine and the love they 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:46.680 love it. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:53.880 Reimagining impact requires leaders who will reimagine and who will 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.680 be unafraid to do so. We need local communities to 0:03:57.840 --> 0:03:59.640 reimagine policing. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:05.080 We imagine what safety for all looks like. We have 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.120 got to in America reimagine how we are accomplishing public safety. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:15.200 This will be a moment to reimagine, reinvent, and recreate it. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.520 Right now, the mayor is carrying out trying to reimagine 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.880 public safety and get us out of this process of 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.839 just thinking police officers is what is needed as public safety, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.080 but thinking about the other pieces of it. In Minneapolis, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:32.559 I think is on the right track at the moment. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.560 What do we do to make life better for everybody? 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.720 We certainly have enough. I mean, we just created the 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.520 most number of billionaires in the history of the world. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.960 You know, we have enough. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.480 We could do this, but it's going to take some imagination, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:53.120 reimagining of what America is, what our economic system is, 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:58.840 because what's clear is it's not working and it's not sustainable. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:01.440 Isn't it wild? 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.880 How often they say and you'll hear it again and 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.400 the next time you hear it. You're going to sit 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.480 up in your chair now. Just remember this part before 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.120 we go to Michael. When they say reimagine, this is 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:12.640 what they mean. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:15.480 So we're gonna put up on the screen a few 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.359 of the things that are part of your platform, and 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:18.560 I want to ask you just give me sort of 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.680 a true false on these. Abolish the Senate. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:24.400 True okay. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.800 Replace the Presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:29.239 Yep. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:36.200 Abolish ice. Absolutely, abolish borders, and give amnesty to anyone 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.479 currently in the US illegally as a long term plan. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:40.800 Yep. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:47.560 Defund the Pentagon. Absolutely, abolish prisons, at least in large part. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:49.880 Yeah. 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.159 Again, that is part of a long term program. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.479 Yeah, okay, So no prisons, government or public ownership of 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.000 most large corporations. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:03.240 Yeah, that's what they mean. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.400 They know that that's not a great sell. So you 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.240 can't have Betty Crocker on there selling it like that 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:12.320 every night, so. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.560 Instead you reimagine it. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.320 All right, we're going to go talk to Michael about 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.440 all kinds of things. Affordability, what's the future primary look 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.160 like in twenty twenty eight, and more? 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Advance fat 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.680 shames a maga. 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:50.880 Ally in Bonker's meltdown. That sounds awesome. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.000 Joining me now, my friend Michael Knowles, of course, of 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:58.280 the wonderful Michael Knowles show. Michael, there's been all kinds 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.960 of a hubb eight hours on affordability. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.480 This an affordability that? 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.280 And is the country just hopelessly screwed and can't afford 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.000 anything anymore? Is it just that you're not pulling yourself 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:10.520 up by your bootstraps enough. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.480 I hand the whole thing over to you. What's your 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.600 take on all this? Well, thank you, sir. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.080 The entire conservative movement was at each other's throats yesterday 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.360 over a burrito. They were at each other's burritos, which 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.720 sounds evocative and kind of gross. But the reason for this, 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.520 it came out in that what you're there and there. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:29.040 There she is? 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.120 Yeah, right, that's I was at the burrito this morning too. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.199 The reason for this, as you alluded to with the 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.720 JD Vance Mark Tiesen fight, was because you had these 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.040 two camps of the conservative movement fighting all day. You 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:47.559 had Andrew Colvett versus who was a Joel Berry. You 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.720 had Ben Shapiro versus Matt Walsh, and it was essentially 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:56.200 the libertarian and the more neo Connie side versus the 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.280 populists and the more traditionalist side. And the question not 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.840 just about burritos. It was not just about the economy. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:07.680 It was how should we react when normal people complain 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.480 about the economy, and normal people are entirely banished from 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:16.559 political twitter and politics generally. So the more libertarian Neoconi 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.040 side said that the way we should react is by 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.559 calling them a bunch of stupid ingrades who should just 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.839 eat Ramen noodles, and the more populist traditionalist side said 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.640 the way that we should react is by I really 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.920 want to end the Iran war. So I think both 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.199 sides were kind of speaking past each other a little bit. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.960 I do have a lot of sympathy, though, for the 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.480 more trad and kind of populist side, which doesn't always 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.720 worship at the altar of the free market, likes free markets, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.839 but recognizes that markets serve people, and when people say 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.599 they're having trouble paying the bills, we should listen to 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.719 them because this is a democracy and you're supposed to 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.840 show respect to your constituents. And I go back to 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.880 my buddy Ben Shapiro, who you know. He's making all 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.440 these points about how grocery prices actually haven't risen all 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:00.839 that much in reason and years of the rose a 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.880 lot during COVID, and there are other bad economic indicators. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.800 But Ben loves to say facts don't care about your feelings, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.360 which is totally true. The problem is that politics exclusively 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.240 cares about your feelings. And so I think Vance made 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.800 a great point on Laura Ingram show, which is he said, look, 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.720 socialism is evil. We don't want socialism. A lot of 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.080 people are voting for socialists right now because the socialists 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.040 are talking about affordability. So if you want to avoid socialism, 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.360 the thing you have to do is talk about the 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.120 economic hardship that people are feeling and then channel it 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.160 in a good direction. And the main way that we 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.600 should do that is blame the immigrants, because it's basically 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:35.199 all their fault. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:39.880 Not necessarily wrong on that. 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.760 My problem with this with so much of this debate, Michael, 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.720 because there are great points on both sides, and like 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.520 you said, a lot of people just have agendas and 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.720 it's just monkeys too, and poop at each other. I'm 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.440 not worried about that, but there are good points to 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.320 be had. My problem, honestly, it comes clear from the top, Michael, 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.680 honestly with Donald Trump himself, is how we're messaging the 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.800 fact that people remember what it was like five six 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.960 years ago to afford more things. This is not fifty 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.680 years ago. Five or six years ago, you could afford 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.360 more than you can afford now. The American people hated 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.760 it with the fire of a thousand suns when Joe 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.880 Biden would go to the camera and tell them how 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.280 great they had it. It's great, economy's great if you 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.439 guys just starren't reporting on it. They hated it because 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.400 you don't kick dirt in someone's face when they're down 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.360 and tell them how great it is. I understand full 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.560 well that it is Donald Trump's way. Everything's the best ever, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.080 the best looking ever, the greatest ever, the golden I 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.080 understand that that's his way, and I like it. 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:34.840 I enjoy it. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.440 When it comes to issues like this, man does it 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.680 not land well to get on the news and say 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.240 it's an A plus economy, golden age, stock market's never 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.360 been higher. If you're sitting at home crying about your 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:51.240 grocery bill. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.160 That doesn't land. Well, no it doesn't. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.240 And so I think actually the administration has a pretty 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.440 good argument to make here, but they have to acknowledge 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.840 the problem because the socialists are making hay on it. 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.800 And what the Trump administration can say is, look, the 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.320 cost of groceries actually hasn't risen all that much over 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.560 the last two years. But it did rise a ton 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:12.200 during the Biden years. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:12.480 It did. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.679 The inflation was massive, and so you're feeling that it's 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.480 not it doesn't go in the other direction. The price 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.000 has never really come down. So we're working on that. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:24.280 But the biggest drivers of costs right now, it's not 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.040 actually the burritos. It's not exactly your groceries. So some 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.040 groceries are more expensive. The biggest driver of costs is housing. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.439 I mean, that's where you're really seeing housing jump from 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.360 I think it was twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:40.079 Housing jumped up like thirty percent in prices, but wages 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.679 only rose about nine percent. And so you know, that's 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.120 a huge delta that people are still dealing with. And 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.720 you know the biggest drivers of this are bad regulation. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.079 You know, you're seeing the housing prices and the grocery prices, 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.480 and the energy price is really jumping in those Democrat 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:57.040 cities and states. But the other big drivers here are 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.120 mass migration. You know, there was a study came out 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.559 last year showed that one hundred percent of the growth 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.920 in home prices in California and New York was due 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.840 to mass migration, and nationally it was sixty percent. So 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.120 this is something that the Trump administration is working to fix. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.240 They just booted three hundred and fifty thousand Haitians out 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.440 of the country today. That the argument to keep the 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.160 Haitians here, by the way, from the left was that 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.840 the Haitians owned homes and had mortgages. Well they shouldn't 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.960 own homes. They shouldn't have mortgages. American citizens should. So 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.560 you can make those arguments and say, look, a lot 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.000 of this is the left's fault. All of the prescriptions 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.120 they have for you, these socialist candidates are only going 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.440 to make the problem worse. And there is a problem 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.760 right now. We've done some good to fix it. We 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.319 got more good. That is, it's going to take a 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.560 little while to actually see the effects of that. And 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.080 they do have a weak point on the Iran war, 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.280 because the Iran War hasn't actually driven up energy costs 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.760 all that much, but it could over time, and it's 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.480 bad optics and people just kind of viscerally feel it, 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.840 so you have to acknowledge the problem. Yeah, it is 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.360 hard out there in the economy, man, and the reasons 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:01.120 are mass migration, over regulation, not building houses, not democrats 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.640 taking a long time to open up energy. And we're 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.200 fixing that right now. You've seen some good effects and 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.520 you've got more to come, but don't elect socialists in 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:09.040 the meantime. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.360 Let's flip it to the other side, because you mentioned 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.599 the more neocondio conservative types who kind of seem like 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.320 they're on the outs. That's probably inevitable. The American people 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.600 don't care about foreign policy anymore when they're a little 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.200 bit more hard up. There's just the way it goes. 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.640 But it's impossible not to notice that the ven diagram 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.200 of people who wave their pom poms as hard as 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.200 possible to go to war with Iran are the exact 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.760 same people who are telling everybody to shut up and 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.800 go make top ram and to all really just come 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.960 back to this, and honestly, I'm not even trying to 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.320 be insulting because some people have just different views of 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:46.200 the country. Does it come back to everything should be 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.960 messaged and packaged and talked about in such a way 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.240 that we can keep dropping bombs on Iran because that 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.520 is the most important thing in the world. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:56.640 That is the direction. 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.680 Everything that can go, and everything that encourages that should 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.920 be should be loudly champion and everything that might hurt 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:03.960 that cause. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.920 Should be slapped down immediately. Because that's how it seems. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.560 Mike, the Neocon side is just completely tone deaf here. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.160 And you know, you don't have to give up the 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.720 fact that America is a big empire. It's a global empire. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.000 A lot of our economy and our society is actually 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.000 dependent upon our maintaining the global order. But this is 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.200 an unpopular war. That was true from the beginning, and 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.440 it's true now. People just look at it and with 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.120 common sense they say, hold on, how come we can 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.680 afford all these missiles, but we can't afford to build 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.080 new housing in the United States. And I think the 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.480 Neocani side has made a huge error, which is to 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.160 preen and to come off as these sort of sneering 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.520 pedants to say, well, you just don't understand economics. You know, 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.720 why don't you just go make top ramen? Why don't 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.880 you pull yourself up by your bootstraps. But it's also 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:55.200 politically wrong. They actually misunderstand politics because while yes, we 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.280 encourage individuals to hustle and do the best they can 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.040 and make something of themselves, we're talking talking about politics here, 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.600 and so you can't just ignore political solutions. You know, 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.640 we're willing to talk about grand strategy and political systems 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.600 when it comes to bombing the Middle East, but all 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.840 of a sudden, when it comes to domestic strife, we say, 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.160 hands off, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. We're not 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.480 going to help you. That doesn't make sense. And there's 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.600 a deeply conservative insight that we get from Benjamin Disraeli 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.200 over in the UK, which is that the palace is 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.080 not safe when the cottage is unhappy. So you actually 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.480 do have to listen to the people. It is conservative 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.240 to be responsive to the people. Politics classically involves three parts, 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.880 the logical part, the theumatic spirited part, and the competitive part. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.280 That's why we our congressman get elected every two years. 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.800 They have to be very sensitive to what the people want. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.520 And here the people are saying, look, we have a 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.520 lot of economic hardship. The worst possible thing you can 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.920 say to them is no, you don't. It's actually great. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:54.960 Shut up, stop whining. You're a loser. It's political suicide. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.360 And it's just not true. Okay. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.600 You know, In fact, a lot of the reason why 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.240 Republicans have gotten elected in recas years is because we 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:05.119 have appealed to ordinary, common sense concerns of the American people. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.000 So to sell that now, you're going to see the 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.679 exact same effects that you saw the last time Republicans 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.920 did this in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.280 and that was Democrat rule for many years. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.520 This is part of my problem with those of us 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.080 tough me, everybody watching right now who get involved. And 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.320 I'm glad we're involved in knowledgeable and spend our time 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.000 online about political issues. We can obviously get way too 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.480 close to the forest to see the trees. Donald trumps 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.760 president again because of affordability and immigration. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:35.840 It's not because of Maha or my bad. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:37.679 It's not that didn't matter. It's not because of this 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.760 that issue. People couldn't afford stuff there matter. Democrats have 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:44.080 voted for Donald Trump, and there are certain inevitables. We 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.120 are going to get massacred at the mid terms. If 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.000 something is not done in the next few months, it 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.280 is inevitable. It can't be avoided. Another thing inevitable, it's 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.639 Jadi Vance. Donald Trump reporting out there today saying that JD. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.840 Vance is going to be his guy, and there'll be 0:17:57.880 --> 0:17:59.880 all this weeping and gnashing of teeth. And I don't 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.800 like coronations either, but JD. Vance just won the primary. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.160 If that's if he gets Trump's blessing, it's over. We'll 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.719 argue about it on Twitter and throw monkey poop at 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.720 each other. But again, this is one of those things 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.200 that's inevitable. There are things that are inevitable. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.720 Yes, And you know, even with this shadow fight over Vance, 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:20.160 you've seen this big public campaign against Vans in recent weeks. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.840 I think because some of the donor class, some of 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.240 the pundit kind of out of touch class, they don't 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.959 like JD. Vans for whatever reason. They think he's too 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.760 conservative or I don't know, he's not their kind of conservative. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:33.240 So they were trying to get Rubio to run. There 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.480 was no indication that Rubio wanted to run. They're trying 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.399 to create division between Vans and the President. But this 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.120 is really, in my mind, a replay of twenty sixteen. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.960 It's in most cases all the very same people who 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.600 in twenty sixteen were running the Never Trump movement making 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.080 all the same arguments that they made against Trump back 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.080 in twenty sixteen. They're making against Vance now that he's 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:59.080 betraying libertarian economics by leaning into economic populism, that he's 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:03.080 an isolation. They're insinuating that he harbors some kind of bigotry, 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.800 without any evidence really of that at all. They're suggesting 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.560 this as a betrayal of, you know, the sacred fusionist 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.520 Reagan coalition, which again I think that Trump and Bans 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:15.680 are really more heirs to the Reagan coalition than traders 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.439 to it. But in any case, you know, history repeats 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.280 itself first as a tragedy then as farce. We are 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.959 seeing those same dynamics play out. That was always going 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:26.879 to happen at the end of the Trump era. But 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.399 Trump took over the GOP and the GOP voters wanted 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.240 him to do that, and so whoever Trump picks is 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.440 going to be the nominee. Seems to me that JD. 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.080 Bans was the heir apparent from the minute he picked 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.320 him to be his running mate back in twenty twenty four. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.760 And I hope the GOP gets in line. I hope 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:44.800 they don't just try to take. 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:45.600 Their ball and go home. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.040 But we're relitigating the same battle that was fought in 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.359 twenty sixteen, and I think Trump won a decisive victory there. 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.119 So I think he gets to pick the nominee. 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.920 Let's which sides and start beating up on communists because 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.239 that's my favorite thing in the world. Chuck Schumer or 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.880 all these Democrats, really, they're all saying the same thing. 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:07.800