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The Biggest Democrat Lie Of All | Ep. 1594
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We examine the question of just how far Democrats want to go if they retain power in the midterm elections.
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Well, there's a truism when it comes to politics, and that is that you run to your extremes during the primaries, then you run back to the middle during the general elections.
That's true for both right and left.
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Well, there's a truism when it comes to politics, and that is that you run to your extremes during the primaries, then you run back to the middle during the general elections.
It's true for both, both right and left.
But one problem emerges for political parties when it turns out that people don't believe you when you run back to the middle.
When you run so far to the extremes that everybody sees through the game of running back to the middle, you start to pay the price politically.
And increasingly these days, this is precisely what's been happening with the Democratic Party.
See, here is the thing.
For a very long time, the Democratic Party has relied on the rebuttal of what they call the slippery slope fallacy.
Republicans will say, you guys really want X. You're pushing something else.
What you really want is X. But Democrats will then say, no, no, no, no.
We don't actually want the endpoint that you're talking about.
That's a slippery slope fallacy.
If we say that we want civil unions and you say, no, no, no, you want gay marriage.
That's not true.
All we really want is civil unions.
If you say that what you want is not gay marriage, what you actually want is for my church to perform gay marriages.
That's not what we want.
We just want the gay marriage.
If you say, You want my church to perform a gay marriage.
What you actually want is to indoctrinate my children in your viewpoint.
Then you say, no, no, no, no.
I don't want to indoctrinate my children in your viewpoint.
That's a slippery slope fallacy.
But here's the thing about the slippery slope, quote unquote, fallacy.
It's not a fallacy.
It's a prediction.
Slippery slopes are a prediction.
And when it turns out that the slippery slope keeps happening over and over and over again, people stop trusting you when you say that you only want to go so far and no further.
That's particularly true when the arguments that you make are what we would call in law school arguments that prove too much.
When you make an argument that quote unquote proves too much, this is when you establish a principle that doesn't merely justify what you're doing now.
It justifies further action in the future.
So, for example, let's say that your argument is love is love.
All forms of sexual relationship are equally morally beneficial.
All of them are good.
And I said, well, that would eventually lead to you basically justifying every form of sexual arrangement up to and including pedophilia, right?
That argument itself, just that argument, not saying that you're doing it, but the argument itself, that all forms of sexual arrangement are perfectly fine.
That is going to justify pretty much everything from incest to pedophilia.
And you say, well, that's a slippery slope fallacy.
That's not a slippery slope fallacy.
The argument that you've established encompasses more things than you wish for it to encompass.
And when you refuse to make distinctions in your logic, it makes me believe that your end goal is not actually what you say it is.
It is something else.
And so there's a graphic that's become quite popular online, and it shows what the supposed slippery slope fallacy looks like in broad terms.
This is the slippery slope fallacy graphic that's become very popular on Twitter, and it's about right.
Basically, it shows a curve.
It's a downward curve, and it's kind of gradually curving down and then boom, it drops off a cliff.
And it has a bunch of arrows pointing to the gradually downslope curve saying you're overreacting, you're overreacting, you're overreacting.
And then we are here pointing to the bottom of the slippery slope.
And this is what keeps happening with Democrats on policy after policy after policy.
They keep saying you're overreacting.
We would never do that.
Not in a million years would we ever advocate for the most extreme formulation of the position that you're suggesting that we hold.
And then, inevitably, about five years later, we're at the bottom of that curve.
And this is a very big problem for Republicans, because Republicans keep believing this stuff.
You have a bunch of civility-oriented Republicans who will say, no, no, no, they don't actually.
Let's give them civil unions.
They'll never want the gay marriage.
We'll give them gay marriage.
They're never going to want to force you to do it in church.
OK, so they're trying to force a baker to bake a cake for a gay couple.
But does that really mean that they're going to come after you if you refuse to go along with their morality and how you teach your kids?
Well, sure, they're doing that with the schools, but you think they're actually going to come into your home?
If you keep going along over and over and over again with the lie that the slippery slope fallacy is in fact a fallacy and not a prediction, then you're going to end up at that bottom of the curve over and over and over again.
And this is why I think Democrats are having a particularly tough time these days.
They're having a particularly tough time because people can see that we are at the bottom of this curve.
People can see that over and over and over again when Democrats assure us that we're just at the top of the curve and that we're overreacting.
They don't actually want the things we say that they want.
We can see that they're fibbing.
And Joe Biden had an opportunity when he came into office to basically overthrow that idea, right?
Joe Biden was a figure of the status quo.
Joe Biden was a supposed moderate.
He was not somebody who's going to go along with the gradual lowering of that curve and then the drop off the cliff.
He was going to stand like a rock in the pathway of Democratic attempts to go radical.
Joe Biden was not Bernie Sanders.
Joe Biden was not Ibram X. Kendi.
Joe Biden was just, you know, a typical Democrat, middle-of-the-road Democrat, who was never going to allow American society to slip off that curve and all the way down to the bottom of the cliff, Wile E. Coyote style.
Except that Joe Biden did precisely that.
And what we see over and over and over again is that Democratic politicians seem patently incapable, really since the end of the Clinton era, to tell their own base no.
And to make the case to the American people that they should be believed when they take a moderate policy.
Because over and over and over again, Outlying members of the Democratic Party.
People who were considered crazy five years ago are now considered central members of the think centers of the Democratic Party.
Bernie Sanders was a nut for all of his Senate career.
He was a useless nut from Vermont.
He had somehow been elected because Vermont is a weird state filled with progressive people who live in conservative ways.
A very strange state, Vermont.
And so they elect Bernie Sanders in the whitest area of America.
They elect Bernie.
And Bernie, for 30 years, does nothing in the Senate.
He's a complete useless person.
He's a backbencher who shouts about why there should only be four types of deodorants on the shelves.
And then all of a sudden, he's a thought leader.
Because it turns out the Democratic Party, as always, falls off the cliff.
Or Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, when she first entered Congress.
The idea was, yeah, so fresh, so phased, but kind of extreme, right?
I mean, we're not actually going to follow her down the primrose path here.
And then she's on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
Over and over and over again, the Democratic Party demonstrates that they are willing to fall off that cliff.
They are eager to fall off that cliff.
They lie to you, they say that they're not, but they are willing and eager to fall off that cliff.
You know, there's been a lot of talk about polarization in American politics and what the left will call asymmetric polarization.
What they will suggest is that the right-wing Republican Party has moved further right.
That is not true.
You cannot name a position on which the Republican Party, except for perhaps immigration, has become more right-wing over the course of the last 20 years.
That position does not exist.
It doesn't exist.
I can name you half a dozen positions where the Democratic Party has moved significantly to the left, ranging from their tax policy, to their policing policy, to abortion.
To same-sex marriage?
To the transing of the children?
Over and over and over again, Democrats moved significantly to the left.
If there has been a polarization in terms of policy positions, you can say that the Republican Party has polarized in terms of its stylistic moves.
Donald Trump was stylistically different from Republicans of the past, were much more conciliatory and more civil.
And by the way, the reason that Donald Trump was elected was because he was not conciliatory and not civil and because so many Republicans were angry at the conciliatory civil Republican Party that it seemed to go along with the lie that we were going to remain on the top of that slippery slope curve.
And but Republican in terms of their positions, their policy positions, they have not moved to the right.
If you look at the Republican platform in 2004 and you look at the Republican platform in 2020, they're basically the same.
It may be to the left, actually.
You now have mainstream members of the Republican Party voting in favor of enshrining same-sex marriage at the federal level after Obergefell.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party has moved wildly to the left.
And so here is the problem for the Democrats.
No one believes them anymore when they say they are not pursuing utopia.
And so all Republicans have to do is point at the bottom of the slope.
Now, we're not there yet.
And Democrats will continue to argue that we'll never get to the bottom of the slope.
But here's the thing.
You shouldn't believe them.
You shouldn't believe them because they're saying out loud what they want.
Take, for example, Beto O'Rourke.
Beto over in Texas, right?
So the first time he runs for Senate against Ted Cruz, he campaigns as a moderate.
He's somewhat of a moderate Democrat running in a very red state, and he loses a close election to Ted Cruz.
Then he runs for president, and he says, we're going to take your AR-15s, and we are going to come after your religious institutions to remove their nonprofit status if they don't act in ways that I like with regard to social policy, particularly same-sex marriage.
This is all stuff that Beto O'Rourke said, and that was like a two-year gap between when he ran for Senate and lost to Ted Cruz, and when he ran for president.
That was maybe a one-and-a-half-year gap.
All the quiet parts, he started saying out loud.
It was the same thing, by the way, if you go all the way back to, say, 2011.
Barack Obama was against same-sex marriage in 2011.
By 2013, he was the greatest advocate of same-sex marriage.
So, was that because he actually shifted his position, or was it because he was lying in the first place, and he was lying to the American people?
The answer is he was lying to the American people.
He was always progressive on that issue.
He just had to lie to the American people because the American people didn't agree with him.
And you see this over and over again.
Well, you keep doing this over and over and people aren't going to believe you anymore.
So all Republicans have to do is point at what the end of that arc looks like.
What does the bottom of that slope look like?
Are Americans willing to go there?
Because while Democrats keep claiming they'll go this far and no further, we have no evidence to believe that this is the case.
Historically speaking, we have no evidence to believe that when given the opportunity, Democrats will not shove us over that cliff every single time.
So, for example, as you talked about on the show, there is a Virginia Democrat who has now introduced a bill to prosecute parents who refuse to treat children as members of the opposite sex.
According to Yahoo News, Virginia Democratic delegate Elizabeth Guzman is seeking to introduce legislation that would hold parents criminally liable for refusing to treat their children as a different sex from the one they were born into.
The legislation, which Guzman plans to introduce in Virginia's upcoming legislative session, would expand the definition of child abuse, so parents could be charged with a felony or misdemeanor for refusing to honor their child's request to be treated as the opposite sex.
Guzman said, if the child shares with those mandated reporters what they are going through, we are talking about not only physical abuse or mental abuse, but the job of that mandated reporter is to inform Child Protective Services.
Now, I've been warning about this for years, and there's going to come a time when Democrats, if given enough power, would sick Child Protective Services on any parent who refuses to go along with the lie that their boy is a girl.
The move came in response to Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's latest policy initiatives, which empowered parents to exercise control over whether and how children transition gender in school.
Which, of course, used to be called the status quo.
The status quo used to be called, your boy is a boy and your girl is a girl.
Glenn Youngkin took the moderate position that if your boy seeks to be treated as a girl in school, at least you gotta tell the parents.
And this is too much for the Democrats.
They say that that should now be considered child abuse.
Again, if you think the Democrats aren't moving in this direction, I question as to why you would think that.
What makes you think that Joe Biden, if freed of all of the burdens of governance, if freed of public opinion, would not do that?
He has said that health care requires that we trans the children.
Health care requires hormones for nine-year-olds who say they're a member of the opposite sex.
Gender-affirming health care requires that we carve fake vaginas into boys at the age of 16, 17, 18 years old.
This stuff is very important.
So why wouldn't it be considered child abuse if a parent refuses to go along with it?
Again, the end point of the slippery slope is there specifically because the principle being established by the Democratic Party encompasses all of that.
If you truly believe that it is child abuse to refuse to go along with the delusions of your child with regard to their own gender or sex, delusions promoted by a socially contagious media apparatus that virtues, that creates virtue in not believing that you are a member of your genetic sex.
If that's your principle, why wouldn't that extend to the notion that a parent is abusing their child for not going along with all of that?
I mean, we're already on the verge of that in California, right?
California, as we mentioned yesterday, has become the first sanctuary state for transgender youth seeking medical care.
So if you and your spouse disagree on whether your boy is a boy or your boy is a girl, and you grab your kid and you go to California and you start transing the kid, California now says that you are immune from prosecution.
They'll do nothing about that.
It's questionable as to whether even if a minor decamped from their home in, say, Oklahoma to California and started receiving transgender care without the permission of their parents, that would be any sort of problem in the state of California.
The bottom of the slippery slope is there, and it is visible, and it is in sight.
It is not a mirage in the distance.
It is the vision of the bottom of the cliff as you are falling.
What Democrats keep telling you is that the 99- You jumped off a 100-story building.
95 stories down, everything's okay so far.
You haven't hit the ground.
But the ground's coming closer, and we are going to hit it.
And so if you wish to defeat the possibility of us hitting the bottom of that slippery slope, you actually have to put roadblocks in the way near the top of the slippery slope.
And Democrats are being very clear about what it is they want here.
It's not as though they're really hiding the ball.
I mean, they lie and they say, well, we don't want, we're not seeking to create a social contagion.
We're not seeking to take your kids away from you.
We're not saying that you can't raise your kids.
That's exactly what they're saying.
It's just a question of how long it takes for them to get to the logical endpoint of what it is they're already advocating.
This, of course, will involve overthrowing religious freedom.
House Democrats have already pushed the so-called Equality Act, which is an attempt to essentially destroy religious freedom in the United States.
The basic idea is that federally, there would now be a prohibition on quote-unquote discrimination on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity across multiple sectors of American life, including employment, housing, public education, and financing, as well as credit markets and jury service.
There would be no carve-out for religious freedom in this bill whatsoever.
And they're saying the quiet part out loud.
The slippery slope is not a fallacy.
It is quite real.
And this holds on literally every issue.
It holds with regard to abortion.
If Democrats had their druthers, they would not be taking a moderate position on abortion.
They would be legalizing abortion to birth.
And we don't have to speculate about this.
This is literally what they did in New York State.
If Democrats had their druthers, they would have no legal limits on abortion.
Katie Hobbs, the candidate for governor in Arizona, she said this out loud on CBS' Face the Nation.
What would the Hobbs administration's week limit be for abortion access?
If it's not 15 weeks, what is it?
Look, abortion is a very personal decision that belongs between a woman and her doctor.
The government and politicians don't belong in that decision.
We need to let doctors perform the care that they are trained and take an oath to perform.
So, if an Arizona voter were to conclude from your previous answer that you do not favor any specific weak limit on abortion, would they be correct?
I support leaving the decision between a woman and her doctor and leaving politicians entirely out of it.
There are no limits.
No limits.
And by the way, the corollary of this will be that doctors will be forced to perform abortions in democratic states, because after all, religious freedom would be you encroaching on somebody else's quote-unquote right to choose.
It's true on issues of crime, for example.
If Democrats had their brothers, as they do in many places like San Francisco, crime would essentially be allowed to flourish.
John Fetterman is running for Senate right now.
John Fetterman 11 different times called for releasing one-third of the inmates.
Literally one-third of inmates in Pennsylvania.
Here is John Fetterman talking about that.
Dr. Oz is spreading lies on TV about John Fetterman.
It's proven false.
We could release a third of our inmates and not make anyone less safe.
He said something remarkable that I agree with.
He said we could reduce our prison population by a third and not make anyone less safe.
You could release a third of our inmates and not make anyone less safe.
If we could reduce our prison population, we could return these individuals Back to their families, back to their communities, and everyone is safer or better off.
We don't want to defund the police.
We don't want to release criminals.
We kind of want to defund the police and release criminals.
This is what you're seeing in San Francisco, where the CEO of a company called Cotopaxi Which is a gear company.
They're abandoning San Francisco saying that they have no ability to run a shop over there.
Quote, our team is terrified.
They feel unsafe.
Security guards don't help because these theft rings know security guards won't and can't stop them.
It's impossible for a retail store to operate in these circumstances, especially when cities refuse to take any action.
The city recently announced a reduction of police presence in the neighborhood despite mass scale crime.
So is it a slippery slope?
Or is it just kind of what you guys want, and you want to obscure that fact?
Keep saying slippery slope fallacy as you continue to toboggan down the slippery slope.
This is true on environmental issues as well.
California has already made clear that they want to ban all sale of gas-powered cars by 2035.
Meanwhile, they're not increasing the amount of power available to their grid.
So they're going to prevent you from being able to drive the car that you want, and they're going to do so on the basis of a technology that's not ready, and on the basis of a grid that requires fossil fuels to run in the first place.
So herein lies the problem for Democrats.
Their base is more and more and more radical these days.
It is college-educated white women.
It is members of the media.
It is the blue checks on Twitter.
And they try to agglomerate all of that with low-income voters.
This is the Democratic coalition.
Well, that Democratic coalition is not in line with what most Americans want.
And the utopia the Democrats seek is also not in line with what most Americans want.
And so over and over and over again, they'll say that people are exaggerating.
This isn't really what they want.
This is not really what they are seeking.
Well, if this isn't really what you're seeking, then why is it that you say all of this stuff five years ago and then it materializes?
Why is it that every prediction made about where you guys would be five years from now Has come true.
Go back in history and look at what Republicans were saying Democrats would be doing circa 1995.
And we are so much further than Republicans even thought Democrats were going to be.
Then anyone could have imagined.
And here's here's the real problem with that with that slippery slope and in the slippery slope graph it shows again a very shallow sort of curve and then boom you drop off a cliff.
The problem is there is no end to the bottom of the cliff.
There's no end point.
As soon as you think we've reached the end points, you say they can't go any further.
They then proceed to go further.
And this is why Democrats are in a world of hurt right now.
All they had to do was not be crazy, but they also had to convince Americans they were not going to be crazy.
Instead, they decided to both be crazy and also to pursue incredibly crazy rhetoric that is going to lead Americans not to believe them when they then claim moderation in a general election.
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Well, the wages of all of this are becoming clear in the latest generic congressional ballot.
The RealClearPolitics polling average currently has Republicans up 2.8 points.
That is the biggest Republican lead since late June.
Now there are more polls.
Those polls are showing that gap continuing to increase.
The latest polls actually have that gap up to 3.3 points.
It looks like the hard break of a red wave, according to Dan McLaughlin, who does poll analysis over at National Review.
Monmouth has Republicans up on the generic ballot.
R plus 6.
Economist YouGov has an R plus one, but again, this doesn't take into account the sort of red shift, because one of the big problems here is that polls historically have undersampled Republicans.
So if it says R plus six in that Monmouth poll, it could easily be R plus eight.
An Economist YouGov poll that has Republicans up just one, that could easily be an R plus three.
There's a reason why 538 is now suggesting that the Democratic chances of taking the Senate are dropping like a stone.
Just a few days ago, those chances were in the 70s.
Today, it's a 59% chance.
By the end of next week, I'd guarantee that it's in the low 50s.
Democrats are falling apart, again, because of their radical attempts Now what this means for Republicans is when you take office, guys, do the popular stuff.
Stop the Democrats from doing what they're doing.
And then pursue popular policies that throw roadblocks in the way of the Democrats' radical agenda.
Don't go with your most radical members of Congress.
Don't do that.
Because then Democrats will use the slippery slope fallacy in reverse, right?
They'll say what Republicans actually want is they want to just dismantle the entire welfare state and they want to throw everybody on Social Security, off of their Social Security, all the rest of this kind of stuff.
Republicans have thus far, you can't find a single Republican in office who's advocated for any of that stuff, but Democrats will do that.
So put your best foot forward when you actually get into governing position.
With that said, Democrats are in serious trouble right now.
John Fetterman is now, according to the latest poll, in a dead heat with Dr. Oz.
And not to pat myself on the back, but I said probably six weeks ago that that race was going to get a lot closer, and I thought that I might take that race.
Well, yesterday, Joe Biden arrived in Pennsylvania for what has to be one of the most awkward campaign stops in recent memory.
So, John Fetterman, who had a stroke and cannot process auditory information correctly, was meeting with Joe Biden, who cannot speak out of his face hole.
So, that was weird.
It was also weird to see John Fetterman.
He showed up in a suit.
And he kind of looks like Mr. Dirtily Dirtle from that Dana Carvey movie.
His head does not fit his body.
It's less clear when he wears the Carhartt sweatshirts and the oversized baggy shorts, but when he's wearing a suit, he kind of looks like a thumb sticking out of his suit a little bit.
And that's awkward.
So John Fetterman did wear a suit.
He's capable of wearing a suit.
And then Joe Biden made things even more awkward.
So during his speech, he told John Fetterman's wife that she would be excellent in the Senate, which saying the quiet part out loud there, dude, John Fetterman's wife has suddenly become a campaign issue because she keeps going out there and saying that members of the press should apologize to John Fetterman for noticing that he is no longer with it and all the rest of this.
So John Fetterman, his wife, Joe Biden, said your wife will be amazing in the Senate.
I mean, just like Joe Biden is an amazing president, actually.
So here is Joe Biden.
And John, thank you very much for running.
I really do appreciate it.
And Zell, you're going to be a great lady in the Senate.
You're going to be a great lady in the Senate.
I'm so glad, John, that you're running and your wife will make an excellent senator.
Good job there, Joe.
Also, we got the usual Joe Biden inability to speak the English language.
So he tried to explain that he had made a once-in-a-lifetime investment in America, and he doesn't know how numbers work.
It's infrastructure decade.
A headline on my watch.
With the help of your members of Congress here today, I signed into law a once-in-a-generation investment in roads, highways, bridges, railroads, ports, airports, and so much more.
Over a trillion two hundred billion dollars.
Over a billion, 200 billion, billion trillion, McPhillian.
Joe Biden.
Then he got lost again.
So how many videos are there of Joe Biden just getting lost in the woods?
And here's Joe Biden getting lost in the woods.
It's like a horror movie.
So he stops at the microphone.
I I love when they bring in the music and he just gets confused.
He's like, where am I going?
I don't, I don't know.
Oh, where?
Oh, this way, that way, this way, that way.
Turn all around.
Hokey pokey.
I'm going to hustle off the stage.
Try not to fall down those stairs.
Yeah.
Joe Biden, he's definitely with it.
Meanwhile, John Fetterman's wife, who will make an excellent senator, says, we're not doing interviews, which is always the best sign of a great candidate is when your wife is jumping in going, he's not answering questions.
So there is John Fetterman looking very much like Uncle Fester, accompanied by his wife, who says that he will not be answering questions.
Mr. Fetterman, are you satisfied with the progress of the bridge?
He's not going to be answering questions.
He's just going to stand here.
It's going to be great, guys.
Well, that visit went so well that people are wondering why Joe Biden isn't going to other Senate races.
The answer is no one wants him there.
Nobody wants Joe Biden anywhere near a Senate race.
But the White House has to deny this.
They have to pretend that Joe Biden is wildly popular despite his 40% approval rating.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the world's worst press secretary, she says that Joe Biden still plans to visit the battleground states, which left Mark Kelly screaming into his pillow last night.
Is the president going to go to Georgia or Nevada in the next 19 days?
I don't have any travel to preview for you at this time.
As you know, we're going to be in Pittsburgh and Philly today, and the president's truly excited about that.
Oh, well, no travel to preview.
He'll be back in Rehoboth Beach getting into that crap.
Because nobody actually wants him in these Senate races.
Joe Biden was asked directly about this, and he got irritable, which always happens when he's not eating ice cream.
Here he was explaining that it's not true Democrats don't want him to campaign.
Learn to count, man!
They're all campaigning with me!
is going to appear in Pennsylvania.
But there haven't been that many candidates campaigning with you.
Why are more true?
There's a 15 count.
Good count.
OK, and are there going to be even more?
Learn to count, man.
They're all campaigning with me in my imagination.
Mark Kelly was literally asked on national TV if he wanted Joe Biden to come and he's like, no, Tim Ryan was asked in Ohio, do you want Joe Biden to show up?
Nobody wants this guy anywhere near them.
There's a reason for that.
CBS interviewed some Arizonans about the upcoming election between Mark Kelly and Blake Masters.
Blake Masters was trailing pretty significantly in the latest polls.
Blake Masters has been making up some significant ground.
It is possible.
Joe Biden's the worst president ever, man.
Why?
First of all, look at gas, the economy, the border.
We got fentanyl.
He doesn't care about it.
He doesn't care about Americans.
Trump could run again.
Partially because Carrie Lake is running a very strong top of the ticket race.
She's very Trumpy, she also happens to be tremendous on television.
In any case, here's some Arizona voters talking about why they don't like Mark Kelly, and the answer is Joe Biden.
Joe Biden's the worst president ever, man.
Why?
First of all, look at gas, the economy, the border.
We got fentanyl.
He doesn't care about it.
He doesn't care about Americans.
Trump could run again.
All he has to do is say, are you better off now than you were four years ago when I was in office?
And he's not going to change that.
He's not going to change that.
years ago when I was in office.
And the answer would be a resounding no!
Hello Phoenix!
Okay, so great job there by Joe Biden.
No wonder people are running away from him.
So, what is the fallout going to be here?
The fallout is going to be everybody is holding back on Joe Biden right now.
They're holding back, but the passion of the Democratic Party base and the Blue Checks is not with Joe Biden.
The passion of the Democratic Party base and the Blue Checks is with a more radical figure than Joe Biden.
Now, they've been using Joe Biden as a sort of empty vessel in order to achieve victory over Donald Trump.
The problem is if Joe Biden completely shatters on impact, as it appears he's going to, he's now, I've fallen and I can't get up.
If that happens in the midterms, the knives are gonna come out for him so unbelievably quickly.
Jim Clyburn, I think, who really sponsored his run, right?
James Clyburn in South Carolina.
He was the guy who really put him over the top in the primaries against Bernie Sanders.
He had an interview last night on MSNBC.
And first he tried to kind of walk his way through the idea that Democrats might still win the election.
And then afterward, he sort of gave up the ghost.
And I don't know of anybody who will say I would rather pay $10 or even 10 cents or even 20 cents less per gallon.
And allow you to take my rights away, my voting rights away, and these other things that we know the other party is doing to suppress votes.
That's a fool's choice that we will not make.
But why ask people to make that choice?
Okay, so that was Jim Clyburn trying to explain they're going to win the midterms because people care more about abortion than $10 gas.
Uh, no, no, that's that's not true.
And then James Clyburn is asked the real question.
And the question is, would he support Joe Biden in 2024?
in 2024. He's like, maybe, possibly, maybe.
Joe Biden has given us a great recovery.
The largest infrastructure since Eisenhower, the largest progressive program since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
This is nothing to sneeze at.
And the American people recognize that.
And I resent people who feel that we would much rather not have jobs and education so long as we can pay 10 cents less for a gallon of gasoline.
Mwah!
So Congressman, if he runs again, will you again support him?
I suspect I will.
I don't see why I would not.
I don't see why.
Maybe, probably, no.
Yeah, no, the long knives are going to come out for Joe Biden if, in fact, his team goes down to flaming defeat.
And counterintuitively, what's going to end up happening is they're not going to moderate their positions.
They're going to elect somebody for the nomination who is significantly more progressive than Joe Biden.
Because again, Democrats can't help themselves.
They keep fibbing about whether we end up at the bottom of that slippery slope.
But increasingly, they're just taking Crisco and slathering it all over the slippery slope.
We're going to end up there sooner rather than later if Democrats are, in fact, elected.
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Again, we've been having some pretty amazing guests on the Sunday special of late.
A lot of world leaders.
That's been happening recently.
And meanwhile, things are going amazingly well over in New York City.
So the crime wave in New York City continues apace.
Yesterday, police began a search for a man who struck a stranger on a sword with a sword sheath on a New York subway train.
Not just a sword, a sword sheath.
So apparently, one of the outcasts from Highlander arrived on the subway station on the platform in New York City and just grabbed a sheath and smacked somebody with it.
According to ABC7 New York, multiple reports came in about a man with a knife, sword, or machete who attacked a stranger on a northbound A train at the Chambers Street station, according to police.
A witness who saw the scene unfold said the suspect shoved his way past a woman onto the train, and then stood between the train cars before crashing through the other car door.
Out of nowhere, he just sort of like forcefully opened the two doors to the other train car behind it, said Rebecca Strasberg, and just whipped out what looked like a sword.
Something gigantic.
The rest was a bit hard to see.
You could see everybody from the other train cars was moving as far as they could.
Apparently, there was some sort of combat that took place in the car next door.
The only word I could think of was cliché, Strasburg said.
It was like a cliché and almost cinematic the way he whipped it out.
I felt like I was in a fever dream.
One man was hit on the head with a sword cover and sustained a slash on the forehead.
He was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
The suspect was described as wearing all black with a black hat with a Marvel logo on it.
So apparently they're now in filming.
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on the New York subway system.
The good news is that Eric Adams is partying it up.
So Chris Wallace asked Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, you know, remember that time he was elected in order to supposedly lower the crime rate and then the crime rates didn't get lower, they actually got worse, remember that time?
He was super pro-police until the time he wasn't.
So anyway, he was asked about why you're partying it up every night.
And Eric Adams was like, why shouldn't I party it up every night, man?
I'm mayor of New York.
You got a migrant emergency when the city is facing like the rest of the country, an economic downturn.
when you've got a crime issue.
Any thought of toning it down?
Well, think about what you just said.
You said we have an economic issue.
My nightlife is a multi-billion dollar industry.
People are afraid to go back out to restaurants.
Now they see their mayor going out saying, come back out to our city.
Oh!
He's doing it for public purposes, you see.
He's partying it up, he's enjoying the New York City nightlife to encourage New Yorkers to go back out there and enjoy their lives.
You know what would actually encourage New Yorkers to go back out there and enjoy their lives?
People not getting hit with sword sheaths on the subway.
Or randomly pushed in front of the trains.
Like one of the cops from Superman 1 by the Lex Luthor door.
Excellent, excellent governance happening right there.
By the way, there is a good piece by Mark Thiessen pointing out the obvious here.
So you've heard Republicans talking about crime over the past few months in advance of the election, and Democrats in the media responding by saying, well, you know, red states have higher murder rates than blue states.
Well, I mean, that's true, but you know where all the murder's happening?
In the blue areas of the red states.
This is the point that Mark Thiessen makes.
He says, in most of these red states, the high murder rates are driven by the lethal violence in their blue cities.
Take Missouri.
It voted for Trump.
It's also home to two of the most dangerous U.S.
cities, St.
Louis and Kansas City, both of which are run by Democrats.
Earlier this year, CBS News did an analysis of deadliest U.S.
cities using the latest FBI and other crime data.
In 2019, it found St.
Louis had the highest murder rate in the nation, with 64.54 murders per 100,000 residents.
That's an extraordinary rate.
Kansas City, meanwhile, had the eighth highest murder rate, with almost 30 murders per 100,000.
The same is true for Louisiana.
It's a red state, but Baton Rouge has the 6th highest murder rate in the nation.
New Orleans has the 7th highest murder rate in the nation.
Same thing for Tennessee.
Memphis ranks 9th in the country, also powering the state's murder rate.
Chattanooga, which was led by Democrats.
And Democratic-run Nashville.
And Democratic-run Knoxville.
In other words, it's all the blue areas that are making the red states have high murder rates.
So just well done as always.
But at least Eric Adams is able to go out and party.
And to me, that's really the priority that we should be focused in on like a laser beam.
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