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The Battle Of Lilliput | Ep. 921

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	Pete Buttigieg finds himself under attack as the wine cave candidate.
	Joe Biden demonstrates durability.
	And Amy Klobuchar throws all of the binders.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
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	So, last night, big Democrat debate, and the first 45 minutes of the debate, nothing happened.
	The first 45 minutes of the debate, everybody sort of patted each other on the back, they had this group hug, and then things got a little spicy.
	So, here is the very, very short summary of how this thing went.
	Not a great night for Pete Buttigieg.
	Yeah, he had his moments, but not a great, probably the worst night for Pete Buttigieg he's had so far.
	Really bad night for Elizabeth Warren.
	So some people are giving Warren more credit than she deserves here.
	Warren had a bad night.
	Bernie Sanders is always Bernie Sanders.
	Joe Biden is always Joe Biden.
	And Amy Klobuchar forced everybody else to eat salad with a comb.
	So it was actually a pretty good night for Amy Klobuchar.
	So let's just jump right in to this debate, because the big winner, as always, whenever we have a Democratic internal debate, is President Trump.
	There's a swing state poll out today that shows that in the swing states, Biden is tied with Trump, that he leads, Trump does, every other Democratic candidate who was on that stage last night.
	There's a reason for this, and that is that Democrats continue to give President Trump campaign commercials.
	We haven't even seen Trump weaponize all of the content that Democrats have given him in the past Several months.
	And there's a lot of it.
	I mean, a lot of it.
	So this whole thing starts off, this whole debate starts off, and again, they were down to only seven candidates who were on the stage.
	Tom Steyer is not a real candidate.
	And Andrew Yang was provided his typical two minutes and 30 seconds to talk and say that he's going to give everybody $1,000 and all of this.
	But there are really five candidates on the stage, five serious candidates for the presidency.
	Amy Klobuchar is only considered a serious candidate, one, because she's a senator, and two, because she's running at about 7% in Iowa.
	So you could see the possibility of a late surge by Amy Klobuchar if, for example, she starts to draw away support from Pete Buttigieg, which is exactly why she went after Buttigieg last night.
	Buttigieg was by far the most attacked candidate on the stage.
	Joe Biden sort of stood off to the side, so did Bernie Sanders, and they watched the kids clock each other.
	And by kids, I mean a 70-year-old senator from Massachusetts And a 37-year-old newbie from South Bend, Indiana, and Amy Klobuchar, who, let's be honest, you wouldn't want to meet Amy Klobuchar in a dark alley, considering all of the stories that have been written about her and her apparently sadistic tendencies.
	In any case, this thing starts with everybody talking about impeachment, because impeachment is the order of the day.
	And don't worry, we'll get to impeachment a little bit later on in the show.
	Nancy Pelosi, by the way, has a new strategy on impeachment, and that is we're not going to give the charges to the Senate, which is the dumbest strategy of all time.
	In fact, One of the Democrats' key witnesses in their House Judiciary Committee hearing was a Harvard Law professor.
	And that Harvard Law professor, that same professor, has now suggested that if you do not actually submit the articles of impeachment to the Senate, then Trump has not been impeached, technically speaking.
	So Trump can continue to claim he has not been impeached until they actually submit the articles to the Senate.
	According to Noah Feldman, who is the Harvard Law professor Democrats called during their House Judiciary Committee hearing, so self-owned from Nancy Pelosi right there.
	In any case, this thing starts and everybody is talking impeachment.
	And the angles that the various candidates took on impeachment is indicative of their sort of angles in the campaign generally.
	So Joe Biden's angle on impeachment is that it's his job to restore integrity to the presidency.
	Here is Joe, slow old Joe, who looked a little bit livelier last night, has gyrotongue, was ready to go.
	You know, we need to restore the integrity of the presidency, of the office of the presidency.
	And it's about time we get that underway.
	My job, and I think the job of all of us up here, is to, in fact, well, that's not true.
	Some are going to be actually voting in the Senate.
	But my job is to just go out and make the case why he doesn't deserve to be president of the United States for another four years.
	Okay, so basically, I'm here, I'm Joe, you know me, right?
	His case for impeachment is really his case for being president, and that is that he is a tree stump.
	And wouldn't you like a tree stump as opposed to this wild orange man over here?
	That's always been Joe Biden's case for the presidency.
	It's a back-to-normalcy case.
	Then there was Bernie Sanders' case, and that is that Donald Trump, it's not that he is a wild, crazy person.
	It's really that he's not a socialist.
	So here's Bernie Sanders making his pitch for the presidency on the basis of impeachment.
	I believe, and I will personally be doing this in the coming weeks and months, is making the case that we have a president who has sold out the working families of this country, who wants to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid after he promised he would not do that, and who has documentedly lied thousands of times since he is president.
	So just wondering, has President Trump restructured Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid?
	Because I'm pretty sure that I would have noticed if he had.
	By the way, all of the talk about President Trump and selling out the working class, Jobs have increased under President Trump in every single state in America.
	According to new polling data from CNN, 76% of Americans say that current economic conditions are good.
	68% say that they are confident that economic conditions will be good a year from now, which would be after the election.
	So good luck with the whole the economy sucks case, because that ain't gonna fly.
	We're gonna get to more of the Democratic debate in just one minute.
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	Okay, back to this debate.
	So they're talking impeachment, and they are trying to Make the case for why they ought to be president based on impeachment.
	Elizabeth, so we've already heard from Biden and it's, I'm a tree stump.
	And Bernie, I'm a communist.
	And now we hear from Elizabeth Warren that she's an anti-corruption fighter, an anti-corruption fighter.
	Now, as we will see.
	She has the worst debate of anybody.
	Of the night.
	I mean, she's a terrible, terrible debate for Elizabeth Warren.
	I know conventional wisdom is that she sort of held steady.
	False.
	She completely collapsed.
	It was really, really bad for her.
	Because her entire shtick has been that she is fighting corruption.
	That is her entire deal, is that she is fighting corruption.
	Here she is making that case we'll see later on in the debate.
	Pete Buttigieg clocks her one good and she goes flying through the wall.
	Here's Elizabeth Warren.
	You know, this president has made corruption originally his argument that he would drain the swamp.
	And yet he came to Washington, broke that promise, and has done everything he can for the wealthy and the well-connected, from tax breaks to ambassadorships.
	See, she's an anti-corruption fighter, and this is her schtick.
	There's only one problem.
	It's not true.
	It's not true.
	Every rule that she has set for herself as a candidate, she has already broken as a candidate in prior election cycles, and this is something Buttigieg is going to bring up.
	Okay, now, to Pete Buttigieg.
	He's been surging in Iowa.
	He's been surging in New Hampshire.
	He never had great national numbers, but that early state momentum has been very solid for Pete Buttigieg, and so his pitch has basically been, I'm Obama, but instead of being the first black president, I'd be the first gay president.
	Sure, I don't have any real qualifications to be the president of the United States.
	Sure, I've been like the mayor of a town with 8,000 votes.
	Remember, he won his election in South Bend, Indiana with 8,000 votes.
	This will come up later on in the debate as well.
	8,000 votes is fewer votes than I get in a typical Twitter poll.
	When I just put a poll on Twitter, I will get many more than 8,000 votes.
	It's amazing this person is considered a national candidate based on his record.
	He's very good at this.
	He's a talented politician.
	Here he is channeling Obama.
	Hope!
	Hope and change!
	Hope and change!
	Here's the good news.
	It's up to us.
	No matter what happens in the Senate, it is up to us in 2020.
	This is our chance to refuse to be taken in by the helplessness, to refuse and reject the cynicism.
	Okay, so again, channeling the Obama optimism.
	As it turns out, Pete Buttigieg, you can only fly above the fray for so long.
	The only good answer on impeachment, by the way, was given by my boy Andrew Yang.
	He had a moment later on in the debate I didn't like very much, but this was a very good moment for Andrew Yang, being a real human being, saying, listen, you keep talking about Trump, you keep talking about impeachment, the real problems of the country have nothing to do with Trump.
	The more we act like Donald Trump is the cause of all of our problems, the more Americans lose trust that we can actually see what's going on in our communities and solve those problems.
	What we have to do is we have to stop being obsessed over impeachment, which unfortunately strikes many Americans like a ballgame where you know what the score is going to be, and start actually digging in and solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place.
	Okay, this is an actual smart answer from Andrew Yang.
	The problem is, of course, Andrew Yang is not one of the top contenders.
	Okay, then they move on to the economy.
	And this is a real problem for the Democrats.
	It's a problem for the Democrats because, as I've said, the poll numbers on the economy are very, very strong for President Trump.
	So Joe Biden is asked by one of the moderators, so Americans kind of like this economy because the economy is real good.
	They may not like Trump, but what about people who say they don't love Trump, but they love the economy?
	And Biden says, well, no, no, I just refuse to accept that people like the economy.
	Yeah, good luck with this argument.
	Well, I don't think they really do like the economy.
	Go back and talk to the old neighbors in the middle-class neighborhood you grew up in.
	The middle class is getting killed.
	The middle class is getting crushed.
	And the working class has no way up as a consequence of that.
	And the idea that we're growing... Yeah, we don't have to listen to the rest of him spieling about this.
	We don't have to listen to the rest of him, because he says that, then Buttigieg says that, then Warren says that.
	It's always, the economy isn't really good.
	Sure, you feel like the economy is good, but it's because you don't know.
	In your heart, you know the economy is bad.
	Record stock market.
	Record low unemployment in the black community in the Hispanic community among women like everyone But apparently it's very very bad, and then you have Bernie Sanders who does his usual crazy routine He actually said and this is such a lie.
	He said this in like every debate, and it's always a lie He says today in America.
	We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth of Any major country on earth we have the highest rate of childhood poverty Has he heard of most of the world?
	Has he heard of like anywhere else other than the United States?
	Because that is bat bleep lunacy.
	That is just untrue.
	Okay, so the Democrats are completely disconnected on economics.
	How do you know they're completely disconnected on economics?
	Because you end up with Elizabeth Warren saying things like this.
	So Judy Woodruff asks Elizabeth Warren, how do you answer top economists that say that these taxes are not going to be good?
	Listen to Elizabeth Warren's crazy answer.
	How do you answer top economists who say taxes of this magnitude would stifle growth and investment?
	Oh, they're just wrong!
	Oh, well, if non-economist Elizabeth Warren says that huge, enormous taxes won't hurt the economy, I totally believe her.
	I totally believe her.
	We're just going to completely rewrite basic econ 101 because Elizabeth Warren says, oh, they're just wrong.
	They're just wrong.
	You know, like taking trillions of dollars out of the U.S.
	economy and pouring it down the rat hole that his government is not going to hurt the economy in any way because she says that that's wrong, that it's not true.
	Again, I don't think that most Americans believe this.
	And this is why Buttigieg... So basically, the story of Buttigieg's night is that he kept owning Elizabeth Warren over and over.
	He just kept destroying Elizabeth Warren over and over.
	And then Amy Klobuchar would come in from the wings, like Macho Man Randy Savage, and just pile-drive him.
	It was very amusing.
	Here was Pete Buttigieg, though, owning Elizabeth Warren on taxes.
	Yes, we must deliver big ideas.
	And yes, taxes on wealthy individuals and on corporations are going to have to go up.
	We can also be smart about the promises we're making.
	Make sure they're promises that we can keep without the kind of taxation that economists tell us could hurt the economy.
	On issue after issue, we've got to break out of the Washington mindset that measures the bigness of an idea by how many trillions of dollars it adds to the budget, or the boldness of an idea by how many fellow Americans it can antagonize.
	Okay, that is true.
	It's why Buttigieg is seeing an upswell.
	Okay, that one sentence where he says we've got to break out of the Washington mindset that measures the bigness of an idea by how many trillions of dollars it adds to the budget?
	That could come from a Republican debate.
	I mean, that could come from any Republican on any stage, anywhere.
	And he's the only person who will say that, remaining in the Democratic debate.
	And that is why he at least has some level of popularity.
	Pete Buttigieg, as we will see, he also, while clocking Elizabeth Warren, got absolutely destroyed, I mean, just wrecked by Amy Klobuchar.
	We'll get to that in just one moment.
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	Okay, so then the Democrats get into their wildest proposals.
	Their wildest proposals always come in the area of climate change.
	Joe Biden cuts an ad for Donald Trump in this debate that will be replayed 1,000 times if Joe Biden is the nominee.
	Tim Alberta, who's one of the moderators, who apparently ran into Flack from PBS, Because he works at Politico now, but he once used to write for National Review, and this is very, very bad.
	Now, there are a bunch of top-line reporters who used to write for National Review.
	Like Eliana Johnson was a top-line reporter for, I believe, the Washington Post.
	Very nice gal.
	She used to work for National Review.
	Tim Alberta used to work for National Review.
	Apparently, this is very bad.
	He's the only person asking intelligent questions on the stage.
	He says to Joe Biden, so how many jobs are you willing to sacrifice on the altar of climate change here?
	And Joe Biden is like, all of them.
	As president, would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in the interest of transitioning to that greener economy?
	The answer is yes.
	The answer is yes, because the opportunity for those workers to transition to high-paying jobs, as Tom said, is real.
	We're the only country in the world that's ever taken great, great crises and turned them into enormous opportunities.
	Nothing says enormous opportunity like laying off hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers.
	I mean, that is one hell of a... You think that won't be in every commercial?
	That he will displace hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers?
	The answer is yes.
	Yee-yee-yee, Joe Biden.
	Not a great general election move.
	Now, it may help him in the primaries, but in that general, that is going to come back to harm him.
	Then, of course, you get Bernie Sanders just being a crazy person, because this is... The fact that Bernie Sanders is even a remotely leading candidate in the Democratic Party, It really says a lot about the current state of the Democratic Party.
	They have lost their minds.
	Here's Bernie Sanders explaining that we should take our entire defense budget and we should spend it on fighting the sun.
	Here's Bernie Sanders.
	The United States has got to lead the world.
	And maybe, just maybe, instead of spending 1.8 trillion a year globally on weapons of destruction, maybe an American president, i.e.
	Bernie Sanders, can lead the world Instead of spending money to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change.
	We're going to get the Chinese to stop spending money on their weaponry and instead spend money on climate change.
	We're going to get the Russians to abandon all of their military spending and instead we're going to spend it on climate change.
	How are we going to do that?
	You're going to elect me.
	I'm crazy.
	So crazy.
	I'm just gonna walk in to Xi Jinping and I'm gonna say, you want a piece of this?
	I'm a crazy man.
	Have you seen these hands?
	I'm nuts.
	These hands are deadly weapons.
	Look at them.
	They move without my own permission.
	Do you want to be on the wrong side of these hands?
	Okay, Bernie.
	Okay.
	One of my favorite climate change responses is from Elizabeth Warren.
	So she openly acknowledges that if you want to lower carbon emissions, you have to use nuclear power.
	And then she immediately announces that she will never build a new nuclear power plant.
	So she's utterly unserious about this, obviously.
	But that is Elizabeth Warren in a nutshell.
	Her dishonesty is rank.
	As we will see, it comes back to bite her.
	I know I'm previewing that a lot, but it really came back to bite her last night.
	Here's Elizabeth Warren explaining, sure, we need nuclear power, but I'm not building any of it.
	So I see right now is we've got to get the carbon.
	We've got to stop putting more carbon into the air.
	We've got to get the carbon out of the air and out of the water.
	And that means that we need to keep some of our nuclear in place.
	I will not build more nuclear.
	Oh, so you need nuclear because you need less carbon emissions, but also we're not going to build any more nuclear power plants.
	Very serious person, Elizabeth Warren.
	With many proposals and plans, I have been informed by reliable people.
	Okay, Joe Biden did have a couple of good moments.
	I thought that this was Biden's best debate by a fairly long shot.
	This was his best moment.
	So he was talking about, somebody asked him whether he was naive to believe that he could work across the aisle.
	Because Elizabeth Warren has said this.
	She said that he's just naive to believe he can work with Republicans.
	And here was Joe Biden's answer.
	This is actually quite a good answer.
	I refuse to accept the notion, as some on this stage do, that we can never, never get to a place where we have cooperation again.
	If that's the case, we're dead as a country.
	We need to be able to reach a consensus.
	And if anyone has reason to be angry with the Republicans and not want to cooperate, it's me.
	The way they've attacked me, my son, and my family.
	I have no, no, no love.
	But the fact is, we have to.
	We have to be able to get things done.
	And when we can't convince them, we go out and beat them like we did in the 2018 election in red states and in purple states.
	That was Biden's best answer because the other Democrats are on stage going, we're going to run Russia over these people.
	We're going to line them up against the wall.
	And then Biden's like, no, we got to work with them.
	And listen, I don't love them, but we got to work with them.
	This is actually Biden's best appeal.
	And many of the Democrats don't actually understand this appeal.
	The only candidates on stage making this appeal are three.
	Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar.
	Those are the only ones on stage who are making that appeal.
	And it's actually a fairly smart appeal.
	And then we get into the race section of the debate.
	And here's where all the intersectional glory of the Democrats comes out.
	Now, listen, you know I love my boy Andrew Yang.
	You know, Andrew, I think Andrew Yang is a good guy.
	I think he's a solid dude.
	I disagree with him on a lot of politics.
	But I think that he's an honest fellow.
	I thought that this answer last night from Andrew Yang was his first dishonest answer in the entire election cycle.
	So Andrew Yang is asked about the fact that he is the only person of minority status on the stage.
	I mean, Buttigieg is gay, but the only person of color on the stage is what Yang is asked.
	And here is Yang's answer.
	And I thought, again, the fact that this is sort of the requisite pandering on the Democratic stage says a lot about their view of America.
	Here is Andrew Yang explaining that he feels bad that he's the only minority on the stage.
	By the way, just a quick note, for the intersectional activists, Asians don't count as part of the intersectional coalition.
	They're too successful and too highly educated.
	Which is why they don't care that Asian students are being barred from Harvard University at a disproportionate level in order to make room for other quote-unquote less fortunate minorities.
	Here's Andrew Yang.
	It's both an honor and disappointment to be the lone candidate of color on the stage tonight.
	I miss Kamala, I miss Cory, though I think Cory will be back.
	Okay, that's just not true.
	Um, I'm sorry.
	Andrew Yang is not sitting around at night going, I miss my friends.
	It's not like empty tables at the end of Les Mis.
	He's not sitting around and being like, oh, where, where, Kamala, where are you?
	Why?
	He's not sitting around going, Cory Booker, I need, where's Mr. Potato Head and his angry eyes?
	I need them on the stage taking up time.
	I need them here.
	Where are they?
	He's not disappointed.
	He doesn't care, okay?
	No one cares.
	They're bad candidates.
	That's the reason they're not on the stage.
	Again, I'm amused and bemused by the fact that the Democratic Party seems to have forgotten that Barack Obama was president for eight years.
	Do they have to keep proving their bona fides every single election cycle?
	Well, you know, if we don't have enough minorities on this stage, clearly we've reverted to Jim Crow-style racism.
	Alternatively, Cory Booker is an awful candidate, and Kamala Harris is even worse.
	But the fact that they have to keep pandering is just ridiculous.
	Ridiculous.
	And pandering didn't stop there.
	You had Bernie Sanders doing the same routine, saying that if there aren't any of our African-American brothers and sisters up here to speak about an economy in which black people are exploited, And then you had Amy Klobuchar suggesting that she's going to stop gerrymandering and black people are being barred from voting.
	OK, all of that was nonsense, but that's the requisite part of the Democratic debate.
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	Okay, back to the Democratic debate.
	So, then the Democrats get into the foreign policy arena.
	And they start off with Israel.
	Bernie Sanders is so awful on Israel, it is almost impossible to overestimate how bad he is on Israel, because he will always surpass your expectations.
	So Bernie Sanders is asked about Israel, and he plays the I'm super pro Israel card.
	Yes, his entire campaign is staffed by people who hate Israel.
	He campaigns with Linda Sarsour.
	He's been endorsed by open anti-Semites, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
	But don't worry, guys, he loves Israel.
	Listen to this statement he makes about Israel.
	Apparently, Israel exists where there's no such thing as terrorism.
	Palestinian terrorist groups do not run the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
	And everything is hunky-dory.
	It's just those weird Jews, right?
	It's just those weird Israelis and their weird weirdness.
	Here's Bernie Sanders saying the real problem in the Middle East is Bibi Netanyahu.
	He may have neglected, you know, the intervening...
	60 years of Israeli existence where its neighbors attempted to destroy it before Benjamin Netanyahu became Prime Minister.
	He may be neglecting the fact that even Benjamin Netanyahu's political opponents actually agree with him on foreign policy.
	But it's very convenient for Bernie to blame everything on Israel because he is of course a far leftist who actually does not like Israel.
	He actually despises Israel.
	Israel has, and I say this as somebody who lived in Israel as a kid, proudly Jewish, Israel has the right not only to exist, but to exist in peace and security.
	But what U.S.
	foreign policy must be about is not just being pro-Israel, we must be pro-Palestinian as well.
	And whether, in my view, we must understand that right now in Israel we have leadership under Netanyahu, who has recently, as you know, been indicted for bribery, who in my view is a racist.
	What we need is a level playing field in terms of the Middle East, Which addresses the terrible crisis in Gaza, where 60 or 70% of the young people are unemployed.
	Yeah, that might be because a terrorist group runs the Gaza Strip, but his solution is that we should be dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the Gaza Strip so those terrorist groups can continue to conduct terror.
	By the way, the convenient Judaism of Bernie Sanders is something to behold.
	The man has nothing to say about Jewish identity for nearly his entire 80 years on planet Earth, but the moment it is convenient for him to cite his Jewish identity in order to bash the Jewish state, then he's all up in it, right?
	He is a perfect case of somebody who's only Jewish when convenient.
	He can stuff it with this whole, I'm Jewish, therefore I have capacity to speak on this.
	Nonsense.
	Nonsense.
	If the only reason that you're citing your Jewishness is so you can pretend to be a minority, or so that you can claim that Israel's very, very bad.
	You're going to have to name for me another time when Bernie Sanders has ever talked about Judaism in a serious way.
	Yeah, sure.
	And then you have Pete Buttigieg who sort of glossed over the question, and he ripped on Trump and suggested that Trump is actually an anti-Semite because he welcomes quote-unquote white nationalists into the White House.
	Yeah, that was just silly.
	And then you had Joe Biden.
	Biden at least is living in something resembling the real world.
	Like, he's wrong on Israel, but at least he recognizes you have to keep giving them physical aid so they can maintain their security.
	But it really is when you get to China, That it becomes obvious that the Democrats don't know what they are talking about.
	The only person who had a good answer on China is Andrew Yang.
	Andrew Yang actually understands a lot of the challenges that America is facing with regard to China.
	His take on China and their technological war on the United States is exactly right.
	Here's Andrew Yang.
	I have sat with our leading technologists and they say they cannot match the Chinese resources.
	China just produced its first major smartphone that does not have Google Apps and it is now trying to export its technology to the rest of the world.
	What we have to do is build an international coalition to set technology standards and then you can bring the Chinese to the table in a very real way because this is their top priority and this is where we need to out-compete them and win.
	Okay, so Yang is right about this.
	He's the only person who had anything credible to say about this.
	The rest of them were like, I'll be mean to China.
	Sure, okay.
	Yeah, right.
	Okay, so most of the debate so far has basically been everybody hugging each other, right?
	It was more of a town hall than a debate.
	But then came what we've all been waiting for, the Rock'em Sock'em Robots.
	The Rock'em Sock'em Robots.
	So we started getting questions about age and about qualification, and it got kind of fun.
	So this began with Tim Alberta asking Vice President Biden about his age.
	He says, let's face it, dude, you're old.
	Like, you're supes old.
	Really old.
	And Joe Biden proceeds to act kind of old.
	Just to follow up, Vice President Biden, if elected, if elected, you would turn 82 at the end of your first term.
	You'd be the oldest president in American history.
	Are you willing... President Churchill.
	Are you willing to commit... American history.
	Oh, American history.
	Yes.
	Are you willing to commit tonight to running for a second term if you're elected next November?
	No, I'm not willing to commit one way or another.
	Here's the deal.
	I'm not even elected one term yet, and let's see where we are.
	Let's see what happens.
	Okay, and everybody laughs at this because everybody recognizes that dude is real old.
	So, not a horrible moment for Biden, but it is kind of funny that he's trying to prove that he's not old and then he cites British history as opposed to American history.
	Okay, then we get to more, so let's get to the dicey exchanges.
	Let's get to the dicey exchanges.
	So, I've been pitching this one all day.
	The moment when it became clear to everyone that Elizabeth Warren is the worst.
	The worst.
	So Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg go at it.
	She starts off by attacking Pete Buttigieg for using bundlers and for fundraising from billionaires.
	And Pete Buttigieg is ready for this attack because Elizabeth Warren has been trotting this out on the campaign trail for weeks now.
	And Buttigieg is a person who does his homework, right?
	Buttigieg for all of his flaws as a candidate and all of his I would say nastiness as a religious person and all of this kind of stuff.
	For all of that, Pete Buttigieg is a man who does his homework.
	And so Elizabeth Warren comes after him and suggests that he is in the pocket of big donors.
	And Pete Buttigieg just knocks her through a wall.
	And it is phenomenal because she has had this coming for a long time politically.
	She has had this coming because she has been doing the, I'm on my high horse over here fighting corruption.
	And this is a lady who has violated every rule.
	Every rule that she currently says that she holds to, she has violated in the past.
	And Buttigieg calls her out on it, and it is quite ugly for her.
	Now, it's not scot-free for Buttigieg, because she does get one line on him, and that line was the most quoted line of the debate.
	You're gonna hear the phrase wine cave here.
	The reason that it's the most quoted is because, of course, most of us have never heard of a wine cave.
	What the hell's a wine cave?
	Is it like a place that back in caveman days they used to go and just like guzzle grapes?
	Apparently it's something that very, very wealthy people have.
	I'm not a wine drinker, so I don't know much about it.
	In any case, here is Warren and Buttigieg going at each other.
	Warren gets the most memorable line, but Buttigieg just finishes her on the stage.
	We can't have people who can put down $5,000 for a check drown out the voices of everyone else.
	The way we're going to win is to bring everybody to our side in this fight.
	If that means that you're a grad student digging deep to go online to PeteForAmerica.com and chip in $10, that's great.
	And if you can drop $1,000 without blinking, that's great too.
	We need everybody's help in this fight.
	So, the mayor just recently had a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900 a bottle of wine.
	Think about who comes to that.
	He had promised that every fundraiser he would do would be open door, but this one was closed door.
	We made the decision many years ago That rich people in smoke-filled rooms would not pick the next president of the United States.
	Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States.
	Mr. Mayor, your response?
	You know, according to Forrest Magazine, I am literally the only person on this stage who's not a millionaire or a billionaire.
	So if... This is important.
	This is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass.
	If I pledge...
	If I pledged never to be in the company of a progressive, democratic donor, I couldn't be up here.
	Senator, your net worth is 100 times mine.
	I do not sell access to my time.
	I don't do call time with millionaires and billionaires.
	I don't meet behind closed doors.
	With big dollar donors?
	Senator, your presidential campaign right now, as we speak, is funded in part by money you transferred, having raised it at those exact same big ticket fundraisers you now denounce.
	Did it corrupt you, Senator?
	Of course not!
	So to denounce the same kind of fundraising guidelines that President Obama went by, that Speaker Pelosi goes by, that you yourself went by until not long ago in order to build the Democratic Party and build a campaign ready for the fight of our lives.
	These purity tests shrink the stakes of the most important election.
	Okay, so that is Elizabeth Warren going up against the king, and you best not miss, and she missed.
	It was not a good look.
	Now, the wine case thing will stick, so it's not a complete miss.
	To be fair to Warren, it's not a complete miss.
	But it doesn't help her, because he clocked her there.
	For him to point out that she has taken billionaire money, and then she took that money, and then she immediately funneled it into her presidential campaign, all the leftovers from her Senate campaign, that is 100% true.
	It is 100% true.
	And the former governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, wrote an entire piece about this.
	Criticizing her for setting these sorts of false purity tests.
	So, frankly, good for Pete Buttigieg for fighting back on that particular score.
	Now, as we'll see, Buttigieg then ended up getting kicked around.
	So it didn't end up great for Buttigieg either, but at that moment, in that exchange, Warren got really hurt because she is deeply dishonest.
	And that is obvious to anyone who's been watching this campaign.
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	So he slaps Elizabeth Warren, and then, like, The Battle of the Lilliputians, the slapping between the...
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	So Buttigieg crushes Elizabeth Warren in that exchange by pointing out that she's dishonest.
	The beneficiary of that is Bernie Sanders.
	So Bernie Sanders immediately responds, and he sort of knocks Joe Biden, but he really goes after Buttigieg.
	And the difference between Bernie Sanders and Warren is that Bernie is an actual true believer.
	Bernie's not BSing this stuff.
	Like, he's full of it.
	And he's awful.
	And he believes terrible things.
	But Bernie is a true believer.
	I mean, that is a man who will set himself on fire for his cause.
	Or at least buy himself a third lake house for his cause.
	Here's Bernie Sanders explaining that Pete Buttigieg has in fact taken money from billionaires.
	My good friend, Joe, and he is a good friend.
	He's received contributions from 44 billionaires.
	Pete, on the other hand, is trailing, Pete.
	You only got 39 billionaires contributing.
	So, Pete, we look forward to you.
	I know you're an energetic guy and a competitive guy to see if you can take on Joe on that issue.
	Okay, so that is a brutal hit.
	By the way, Sanders had a good night because Sanders actually was more upbeat.
	I think he feels like he's doing well in the polls because he is.
	And he felt like he was in a good mood the entire night.
	He dropped a few jokes here and there.
	It was actually a good night for Sanders.
	If you're going to talk about the people who won the night, Biden won the night, Sanders won the night, Klobuchar had a good night.
	Why do I say Klobuchar had a good night?
	Because she laid the hardest hit on Mayor Pete.
	I mean, this is a brutal, Brutal hit on Mayor Pete.
	I'm talking here about clip 33.
	So Amy Klobuchar is talking about experience and she points out that there are a lot of people on the stage who have some experience and Pete Buttigieg is not one of those humans.
	Here's Amy Klobuchar.
	Buttigieg tries to get out of it.
	He's prepped for the answer.
	The problem is he was not prepped for the response because goodness gracious.
	I mean she just from the top rope Amy Klobuchar go!
	When we were in the last debate, Mayor, you basically mocked the hundred years of experience on the stage.
	I just think you should respect our experience when you look at how you evaluate someone who can get things done.
	You actually did denigrate my experience, Senator, and it was before the break and I was going to let it go because we've got bigger fish to fry here.
	I don't think we have bigger fish to fry than picking a President of the United States.
	We should have someone heading up this ticket that has actually won and been able to show that they can gather the support that you talk about of moderate Republicans and independents, as well as a fired up Democratic base.
	And not just done it once, I have done it three times.
	I gotta respond to that.
	Senator, I know that if you just go by vote totals, maybe what goes on in my city seems small to you.
	If you want to talk about the capacity to win, try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office with 80% of the vote as a gay dude in Mike Pence's Indiana.
	Again, I would... Mayor, if you... If you had won in Indiana, that would be one thing.
	You tried, and you lost by 20 points.
	Let's talk about how we... Excuse me.
	So Buttigieg, when he's cornered, he finally plays the... Mike Pence is a bigot!
	He's a bigot!
	This is always Buttigieg's move of desperation.
	So every candidate has a move of desperation.
	Every candidate has the go-to-the-well move.
	For Elizabeth Warren, it's, I'm not corrupt like you!
	I'm not corrupt like you!
	And for Bernie Sanders, it's, those billionaires are the worst people!
	They're just the worst people!
	And for Joe Biden, it's, malarkey!
	Malarkey!
	And for Pete Buttigieg, it's, Mike Pence is the worst.
	Now, I don't know what it, like, did Mike Pence, like, hide under his bed once with a butcher knife or something?
	Like, Mike Pence, by all available public records, has been nothing but genteel to Pete Buttigieg.
	When Buttigieg came out of the closet, Mike Pence was, like, happy for him.
	Hope he leads a happy life.
	When Buttigieg joined the military, Mike Pence personally called him up on the telephone to thank him for his service.
	And yet Pete Buttigieg has set this whole thing up like, Mike Pence, vicious anti-gay bigot, standing outside my house burning crosses?
	Yeah, Mike Pence.
	And so, Klobuchar's like, well, you've never won anything, right?
	You won 8,000 votes in South Bend, Indiana, which again, like, I'm at an event down here in South Florida, there'd be like 5,000 people just at this event.
	8,000 votes is nothing.
	It's a rounding error when you talk about national politics.
	You're talking about a national election that is going to involve, at minimum, 130 million voters.
	And you're saying that because you once won 8,000 votes in South Bend, Indiana, a historically blue city, that you are somehow qualified to win?
	And Klobuchar points that out, and Buttigieg goes to that safe and happy place, which is, I'm gay, and Mike Pence hates gay people.
	And Klobuchar's like, well, if you're going to say that you built a coalition as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, you might want to remember that, like, we're going to ignore this, but you ran for state treasurer in Indiana.
	So you tried to run statewide in Indiana and you got cleaned like a fish.
	You got gutted.
	By the way, he didn't lose by 20 in Indiana, Pete Buttigieg.
	He didn't lose by 20 in that state treasurer race.
	He lost by 25.
	to Richard Murdoch, who went on to sit in Senate and then lose to a Democrat.
	So it wasn't even like he was losing to the best candidates.
	It's just that Pete Buttigieg's actual agenda, when looked at by people in the middle of the country, is not anything like what he is campaigning nationally as.
	And Klobuchar just finishes him right there.
	I mean, that's a bad look.
	And Klobuchar, by the way, has a level of support in Iowa.
	It's not tremendous, but you are going to see a bump for Amy Klobuchar in the aftermath of this debate.
	She had a good, aggressive debate.
	Finally, when the stage was cleared off of all the riffraff, and by that I just mean, like, everybody who was getting 2% or less, once the stage was cleared off and you had, you know, people who are actually getting 5% or more in any state poll, Then you could actually see the contrast between the candidates.
	And you see that Klobuchar actually has the record that Pete Buttigieg pretends that he has.
	That Amy Klobuchar has the positions that Pete Buttigieg presents that he has.
	And so I would not be surprised to see Buttigieg start to wane now.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	Like people are saying, I don't know how much the debate is going to matter.
	It's going to matter some.
	And I think that the image of Pete Buttigieg as fresh-faced, that only lasts so long as people fail to recognize that Pete Buttigieg has never won an election that is larger than a thimble.
	He was elected class president in third grade, basically, in terms of national politics.
	That's not a rip on South Bend.
	That's a statistical reality.
	And Klobuchar pointing that out, it's not going to help him.
	The wine cave thing is not going to help him.
	It's going to look like he is a grasping person who's attempting to grab as much wealth as he can from a variety of people because he doesn't actually have a base outside of upper-class white establishmentarian types.
	So while he hurt Warren, and he did, because she is incredibly dishonest, she's already hurting, right?
	She was already on the downslope.
	Buttigieg was on the upslope.
	I think you're going to see that stall out now.
	I think at the very least you're going to see him even out.
	I think that you may see him start to decline.
	And I think you're going to see a little bit of a bump for Amy Klobuchar, specifically because of all of this.
	Now, the finest moments of the debate in terms of just wild leftism, and this is where President Trump makes his money, right?
	President Trump makes his hay where the Democrats' radicalism lives.
	The best part is when you get to transgender politics.
	So again, the panda bear just is the imaginary spirit animal of every Democrat.
	And so you ended up with the bizarre spectacle of Bernie Sanders explaining that he is going to wipe out discrimination against transgender communities apparently by waving his hands wildly and yelling.
	We need a president Who will do everything humanly possible to end all forms of discrimination against the transgender community, against the African-American community, against the Latino community, and against all minorities in this country.
	I like how he adds that little blanket statement on the end.
	All minorities- because he started running out of- he's afraid he's gonna miss somebody.
	It's like an Oscar speech where you miss your agent.
	I have to name every minority I can think of right now.
	So, gay people?
	Transgender people, bisexual little people, African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, not Jews, they're not intersectional, not Asians, they're not intersectional, and the other minority that I missed, all of them, like all the minorities.
	But Sanders pales in comparison to Elizabeth Warren.
	Again, so dishonest, so awful.
	Here's Elizabeth Warren.
	I mean, you wanna, she is, there's diehard and then there's panderhard.
	I mean, this is pander hard with a vengeance.
	Here is Elizabeth Warren explaining what she's going to do for the transgender community.
	And this is just, I mean, she, you know what she is?
	There was talk about President Trump back in 2016 that he spoke conservatism as a foreign language, that he sort of approximated where he thought conservatives were.
	And that's why he ended up saying things like, we want to put women who have abortions in jail.
	And everybody who's pro-life was like, what?
	Not so much.
	It's because Trump was sort of estimating where he thought the constituents were.
	Elizabeth Warren treats the base of the Democratic Party like they're idiots.
	She treats them like they're idiots.
	And so listen to her pandering to transgender Americans.
	The way that she does this is so overt and blatant and stupid, it boggles the mind.
	Here's Elizabeth Warren.
	Here's a promise I make.
	I will go to the Rose Garden once every year to read the names of transgender women, of people of color who have been killed in the past year.
	I will make sure that we read their names so that as a nation We are forced to address the particular vulnerability on homelessness.
	I will change the rules now that put people in prison based on their birth sex identification rather than their current identification.
	I will do everything I can to make sure that we are in America that leaves no one behind.
	So, you know what she's gonna do for you transgender people?
	If you get murdered, she's gonna mention your name in a rose garden speech.
	Aren't you excited?
	Aren't you pumped?
	She's not pandering.
	That's how deeply she feels things.
	Just like she feels abortion so deeply, she's gonna wear a scarf!
	A scarf.
	Ooh.
	How this lady rose to near the top of the Democratic Party is beyond me.
	So it is a weak field.
	There was one good moment for Joe Biden that I think is going to be a memorable moment for Joe Biden.
	Joe Biden was talking about how he helped stuttering kids on the campaign trail.
	This became a particularly memorable moment for Joe Biden specifically because Sarah Huckabee Sanders promptly stepped directly on a rake because she doesn't understand that Joe Biden was once a kid who stuttered and has struggled with that.
	Here was Joe Biden saying this.
	Sarah Huckabee Sanders then tweeted something nasty out about it and Biden Really smacked her and that was a good moment for Biden politically speaking.
	Here's Biden talking about this.
	My wife and I have a call list of somewhere between 20 and 100 people that we call at least every week or every month to tell them I'm here.
	I give them my private phone number.
	They keep in touch with me.
	The little kid who says, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I can't, I can't talk.
	What do I do?
	I have scores of these young women and men who I keep in contact with.
	And Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn't understand what he was talking about there, and so she tried to make fun of him.
	She said, I have absolutely no idea what Biden is talking about, and he immediately tweeted back at her, and he said, I've worked my whole life to overcome a stutter.
	It's my great honor to mentor kids who have experienced the same.
	It's called empathy.
	Look it up.
	Huckabee Sanders then deleted the tweet and apologized, obviously, because she said, I actually didn't know that about you.
	That's commendable.
	I apologize.
	Should have made my point respectfully.
	That's a good moment for Biden because anytime you do something, I mean, that's a clear win for him.
	Okay, so final analysis.
	Biden is fine.
	He's durable.
	Sanders has that durable base.
	Buttigieg got hurt last night.
	Klobuchar got a leg up on some people last night.
	And Elizabeth Warren, I think, is done.
	I think Elizabeth Warren is on a serious downslope right here, and it's only going to continue.
	Okay.
	Time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
	So it is a rare day when I think that Trevor Noah is right about something.
	So Trevor Noah on Comedy Central, he was pointing out that every Democrat on stage does this routine where they're like, I'm not rich.
	I'm not rich.
	As though this is some sort of qualifier to be president of the United States.
	And Noah drops a pretty funny line here.
	Here he is.
	Senator, your net worth is 100 times mine.
	Ooh.
	Pete Buttigieg just called Elizabeth Warren a wealthy person.
	You realize, for progressive white people, that's like being called the N-word.
	They're like, how dare you call me wealthy?
	I'm living comfortably, okay?
	And you can see Elizabeth Warren wasn't liking that, because she did that thing that white women do when someone fights with them, they just face forward like, I'm not hearing anything.
	See, Trevor Noah can be funny when he decides not to be a partisan hack.
	It's true, it's so true, and it's been one of my pet peeves in this whole shebang, is how it is that booty judges are like, my qualification is that I'm poor.
	Guess what?
	There are, like, millions of other people who have not earned a lot of money in American society.
	Also, you're 37, and let's be real about this, dude.
	You went into politics after working at McKinsey.
	You're gonna be rich.
	Okay?
	If anybody thinks that Pete Buttigieg, by the time he's 50, is not gonna be worth millions of dollars, it's because you're an idiot.
	Pete Buttigieg will be worth plenty of money.
	Even Bernie Sanders, a lifelong useless person, is worth a million dollars.
	Because he's 80.
	Okay, so, like, come on.
	Come on.
	Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
	Okay, so this is an insane story.
	Are you prepared for a story rife with insanity?
	Here you go.
	This is a story about a woman named Maya Forstater.
	It made a lot of news yesterday because J.K.
	Rowling got involved.
	We'll get to that in a second.
	So, Maya Forstater is a researcher on taxes.
	She's a tax expert.
	She works for something called the Center for Global Development, or rather, she did.
	It's a think tank based in London and Washington that campaigns against poverty, according to the UK Independent.
	She was accused of using offensive and exclusionary language on Twitter.
	What did she say that was so offensive and exclusionary?
	This is a direct quote.
	Men cannot change into women.
	Offensive and exclusionary.
	To point out, men cannot magically change into women.
	Now I know, you and I think about this and we're like, right.
	Okay, so.
	But in Britain, this is basically illegal.
	She said men cannot change into women.
	She was fired.
	And then she sued.
	She said that she was protected under the 2010 Equality Act because there are protected philosophical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act you can't be fired for politics, for example.
	So what did the judge decide?
	So the judge at the Central London Employment Tribunal, which is, whenever you use tribunal here, it just sounds like something out of the Spanish Inquisition.
	And it turns out it is, except the leftist, secularist Spanish Inquisition.
	Judge James Taylor, not the singer, decided that Forstater's view was quote, incompatible with human dignity and fundamental rights of others.
	So men cannot magically become women, is incompatible with human dignity and the fundamental rights of others.
	See, it seems to me that a fundamental right of another person would be to speak freely.
	Also, compatibility with human dignity seems to be like not firing people for saying basic biological truths.
	But no, according to this judge, it is incompatible with human dignity and the fundamental rights of others to say a biological fact.
	According to the judge, he says the tax expert was not entitled to ignore the legal rights of transgender people and quotes the enormous pain that can be caused by misgendering a person.
	So you're not entitled to say a biological fact if it hurts someone's feelings in Britain.
	If you do that, you can be fired from your job in Britain.
	And by the way, this will move into the realm of hate speech and pretty soon you'll be able to be prosecuted in Britain for quote-unquote misgendering people.
	Already in New York City, by the way, the New York City Human Rights Commission ruled like four years ago that if a business regularly quote-unquote misgenders people, you can be fined like a quarter million dollars for each incident, which is total insanity.
	So if a man comes into your bar and you're like, hey dude, and he's like, I'm a woman, And you're like, are you though?
	He can sue you, and the Human Rights Commission of New York will fine you a quarter million dollars.
	This is where we stand in cities in the United- I mean, by the way, it's a brute, basic violation of the First Amendment, but in Britain, it's even worse.
	This judge's ruling is fully insane.
	You ready for this?
	He concluded, quote, If a person has transitioned from male to female and has a gender recognition certificate, that person is legally a woman.
	That is not something Ms.
	Forstater is entitled to ignore.
	Ms.
	Forstater's position is that even if a trans woman has a GRC, she cannot honestly describe herself as a woman.
	That belief is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.
	That belief is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.
	I mean, the utter unbelievable gall to say that it is not worthy of respect in a democratic society to say that a document from the government does not magically change you from one sex into the other.
	This is utter, absolute bat bleep lunacy.
	It's utter lunacy.
	Totally crazy.
	I mean, that is, are you kidding me?
	So according to the government, this is what happens when government gets too big and too audacious and believes it can do magic.
	So according to this judge, the government issues a certificate.
	It says you are now a woman.
	This means that everyone is now legally obligated to call you a woman because the government said so.
	Do you have any idea how nuts that is?
	You talk about legal positivism.
	This is legal positivism taken to its extreme.
	Legal positivism is the philosophy that rights and realities don't exist absent the government stating them.
	This is basically like suggesting that, you know, for hundreds of years, black people were considered property in the United States.
	The government legally considered them property.
	So if you said that black person is a person, that presumably, because the government had already weighed in on it, the belief would not be worthy of respect in the democratic society.
	Very offensive to slaveholders.
	This is nuts.
	The judge says, even paying due regard to the qualified right to freedom of expression, people cannot expect to be protected if their core belief involves violating others' dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment for them.
	Due regard to the qualified freedom of expression?
	You haven't paid any regard to the qualified right to freedom of expression.
	It doesn't matter to you.
	You cannot expect to be protected if your core belief, not even the expression, the belief, involves violating other people's dignity.
	By the way, we disagree with each other all the time.
	In public life, we do it all the time.
	And in private life, we disagree with each other all the time.
	Is every disagreement about the nature of the world somehow a violation of others' dignity?
	Because if so, the government is violating this lady's dignity by saying she can be fired for believing a biological fact.
	Okay, so why does this become such a major issue?
	One, it's a major issue on its own.
	Two, J.K.
	Rowling weighs in.
	Now, J.K.
	Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter series.
	She is way on the left.
	I mean, so much on the left that every so often she retcons a character.
	Suddenly Dumbledore just becomes gay for no reason.
	It's a children's book, but you know Dumbledore, he was always into the lads.
	That was always Dumbledore's thing.
	Like ten years after the books are written.
	Okay, sure.
	Why not?
	Okay.
	Well now, she tweeted out in favor of this, right?
	Right.
	She said, dress however you please.
	Call yourself whatever you like.
	Sleep with any consenting adults will have you.
	OK, so far we are in pure leftist progressive territory.
	Live your best life in peace and security.
	But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real.
	Hashtag I stand with Maya.
	Hashtag this is not a drill.
	This led to the world collapsing in on J.K. Reuters.
	Rowling.
	She'll comfort herself with her 500 million books sold.
	Vox.com headlined, I kid you not, J.K.
	Rowling's latest tweet, seems like transphobic BS.
	Her fans are heartbroken.
	Are heartbroken.
	J.K.
	Rowling just ruined Harry Potter.
	Merry Christmas.
	Did I miss the part where Harry Potter was like a transgender tract?
	Also, if a muggle declares himself a wizard, are they a wizard or are they still a muggle?
	I'm confused.
	It was not just the idiots at Vox and their explanatory journalism.
	It was also the Washington Post.
	J.K.
	Rowling is from Internet Culture Analysis by Sonia Rao and Abby Ohlheiser.
	They put two of their finest on this over at the Washington Post.
	J.K.
	Rowling tried to make her work more inclusive.
	Then she tweeted support for an anti-trans researcher.
	Oh, there goes the inclusivity!
	There it goes!
	That's terrible and evil and wrong!
	Absolute stupidity.
	Absolute stupidity.
	Elena Darcy, a Harry Potter who for five years wrote for the website MuggleNet and co-produced a podcast on Rowling's Fantastic Beasts series, told the post via email, Until this moment, I was in a sort of denial.
	I'm so heartbroken.
	This is who she is choosing to be.
	The Harry Potter Alliance, a fan-led nonprofit, distanced itself from Rowling's tweet.
	We know that trans women are women.
	Trans men are men.
	Non-binary people are non-binary.
	Also, men are women.
	Women are men.
	And non-binary people have no gender.
	That affirming and respecting people's gender is kind, loving, and literally saving lives.
	This is utterly crazy.
	Utterly crazy.
	Well, it seems to me that J.K.
	Rowling only has one way out of this, and she has to declare Dobby a transsexual.
	It's the only way.
	Dobby is now a transgender elf.
	Dobby used to be female, but now is male.
	Dobby could be non-binary, you don't know.
	Dobby's never self-identified.
	So we could just do this.
	Maybe Harry's a female.
	Have you ever thought about that?
	Maybe this series is so woke that Harry is actually a female.
	Have that ever occurred to you?
	It could happen.
	Just wait until next week when J.K.
	Rowling has to walk this thing back and says she retcons a transgender character into one of her books.
	All of this is insane and stupid, but that is our society.
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